Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Physiological Relationship of Sleep Duration with Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Reaction Time

This experiment examined the relationship between sleep duration and systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial blood pressure, heart rate, and reaction time. We hypothesized that students who averaged fewer hours of sleep per night would have higher systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial blood pressure, faster heart rate, and slower reaction time than students who averaged more hours of sleep per night. In addition, we hypothesized that when the participants’ average length of sleep varied from what they estimated getting on the first day of the study, their blood pressures, heart rates, and reaction times would be impacted. Finally, we hypothesized that external factors such as eating, exercising, consuming caffeine, and feeling hydrated would have no direct impact on reaction time. Participants’ blood pressures, heart rates, and reaction times were measured on the first and the eighth day of the study, while a Google survey was used to record the self reports participants submitted, which indicated how many hours of sleep they slept each night. Results of the study demonstrated a significant correlation between the difference in sleep and change in systolic blood pressure. There was also a significant relationship recorded between day eight reaction time and perceived hydration.
Nels Anderson: mannen i marginalen

Syftet med artikeln ar att redogora for hur Nels Andersons (1889–1986) karva hobouppvaxt hangde samman skapandet av hans klassiska studie Hobon: En sociologisk studie av den hemlose mannen (2008 [1923]) och hans marginaliserade position inom den akademiska varlden. Fokus ligger pa Andersons uppvaxt, studien Hobon och hans marginella position i samhallet i relation till pionjartiden i Chicagoskolan. Baserat pa texter om och av Anderson och till viss del arkivdokument, binder artikeln samman olika delar fran Andersons liv med Robert E. Parks och Everett V. Stonequists begrepp the marginal man. Andersons sociala arv som en kringresande arbetare gjorde a ena sidan att doktorandkollegor vid University of Chicago antog att han var lika opalitlig som de hemlosa mannen han hade studerat, a andra sidan gjorde det honom sarskilt lampad att gora den studie som kanske mer an nagon annan har blivit ansedd som en etnografisk klassiker i Chicagoskolans tradition.
Anytime Solving by Solution Refinement Time Profile of Refinement Using A* over Several Puzzle Sizes. . . . . . . 25 Time Profile of Refinement Using A* and Wa* (w=1.5) over Several Blocks

Date ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Completing a thesis is impossible to achieve without support. I would like to thank Professor Wheeler Ruml, my thesis advisor, for his guidance and support through the process. His influence in instruction, group research, and personal research is invaluable. I would like to give a special thanks to Ethan Burns who provided the thoughtfully crafted search framework that I used in my code implementations. For their ideas and comradery, I would like to thank the entire UNH AI group, both past and present. Finally, I would like to thank my lovely wife, Madeleine, who has supported me and put up with my absence throughout my time as a graduate student. 4-3 Time profile of sliding tile refinement using iterative window sizes. 35 4-4 Time profile of blocks world refinement using iterative window sizes. 36 vi Solving problems with large state spaces is a difficult task to undertake. For most problems that scale in size, there is a scale at which state of the art optimal solving fails. There are many suboptimal methods that provide solutions at the expense of solution length, but these also have an eventual point of failure. This thesis investigates problems at a size at which even the most popular suboptimal solvers fail. Domains often have domain-specific constructive heuristics that quickly provide poor solutions, even for large problems. We present solution refinement over constructed solutions as a method of improving a poor quality but quickly obtained solution by searching in the solution path for shortcuts. These shortcuts are found incrementally, leading to improved solutions on problems where traditional suboptimal algorithms fail to find any solution. Several improvements to solution refinement will be presented in order to improve the quality of solutions found and the speed at which they are obtained. Suboptimal search will be used to allow search to find shortcuts between nodes more distant. Next, incremen-tally changing the search distance will provide quality solutions faster than statically set distances. Finally, offset search will provide a more complete coverage of the search space in order to maximize the number of shortcuts found.
Hypertensive Patients and Their Management in Dentistry

Hypertension is a common disease encountered in dental setting. Its wide spreading, terrible consequences, and life-long treatment require an attentive approach by dentists. Hypertension management in dental office includes disease recognition and correct measurement, knowledge of its treatment and oral adverse effects, and risk assessment for dental treatment. Dentist role in screening undiagnosed and undertreated hypertension is very important since this may lead to improved monitoring and treatment.
Robust PIM-SM Multicasting Using Anycast RP in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Due to its bandwidth efficiency, multicast makes a group-centric communication more viable in wireless ad hoc networks with limited radio resources. PIM-SM, a de facto standard multicast protocol known for its high scalability, is a good fit for a large-scale ad hoc network. However, it does not provide a robust multicast communication under RP outage and host mobility. In this paper, we propose a robust way of configuring PIM-SM using Anycast RP in wireless ad hoc networks. We analyze the impact of cardinality and locations of anycast RPs on the network performance under node mobility. Based on these observations, we find metrics for near-optimal cardinality of anycast RPs and propose a novel RP selection scheme. The proposed scheme is proven to make PIM-SM robust against mobility while satisfying QoS requirements and maintaining the scalability of PIM-SM.
E-buhonero: a proposal to alleviate the problem of people selling goods on the Venezuelan streets

Buhonero is a Spanish word which refers to a person who sells goods on the streets (i.e. a peddler). In the last years, the number of peddlers has increased in Venezuela causing problems such as traffic jams, frequently assaults and robberies and a lot of garbage leaving on the streets close to peddler stands. In the last months, local governments are trying to solve the problem by prohibiting them to be on some public places. On the other hand, e-commerce provides an option to people sell goods on line. In Venezuela, there are more than a hundred of public communication centers and many others which are private. This situation provides an acceptable scenario to intend to alleviate the problem of people selling goods on Venezuelan streets by developing an e-commerce-based solution, called e-buhonero. This paper describes e-buhonero together with the design issues and presents an initial web-based interface.
Effects of butylparaben on the male reproductive system in rats

Parabens are a group of compounds widely used as preservatives in foodstuffs, cosmetics, toiletries and pharmaceuticals. These compounds are known to exert a weak estrogenic activity, with butylparaben showing the most potent activity among methyl-, ethyl- and propyl esters in in vitro recombinant yeast assay and in in vivo uterotrophic assay. To account for potential reproductive effects in male animals, butylparaben was administered to 3-week- old Wistar rats divided in groups of eight subjects, at doses of 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.10% and 1.00% with the animal’s diet. After 8 weeks, the rats were killed by decapitation and the weights of the testes, epididymides, prostates, seminal vesicles and preputial glands were recorded. The absolute and relative weights of epididymides were decreased in a dose-dependent manner and the decrease was statistically significant at 0.10% and above. The cauda epididymal sperm reserve of all treated groups was significantly decreased. The sperm count of the group receiving the highest dose was 58.2% of control values. The daily sperm production (DSP) in the testis was also significantly lower in all treated groups when compared to controls. Serum testosterone concentration was lowered dose-dependently and was significant at 0.1% or more. The daily intake of butylparaben that caused these disruptions is similar to the lower level of acceptable daily intake (ADI) for parabens in the European Community (EC) and in Japan. The results of the present experiments show for the first time that exposure of a postweaning mammal to butylparaben had an adverse effect on the secretion of testosterone and in the functions of the male reproductive system.
A 10b resistor-resistor-string DAC with current compensation for compact LCD driver ICs

Achieving a higher color depth for LCD drivers requires a higher DAC resolution and a larger circuit die area. Due to the stringent requirement on uniformity, a resistor-string DAC (RDAC) is predominantly used for LCD column drivers. However, the area of the RDAC and related routing lines are prohibitively large for a high-resolution data converter, making it impractical for column-driver ICs in high color depth displays [1].
Subcellular Localization and Structural Function of Endogenous Phosphorylated Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase (PI4K92)*

Anti-phosphopeptide antibodies were raised against phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4K92) phosphorylation sites (Suer, S., Sickmann, A., Meyer, H. E., Herberg, F. W., and Heilmeyer, L. M. Jr. (2001) Eur. J. Biochem. 268, 2099–2106). Characterization proved three of them (anti-pSer-294, anti-pSer-496, and anti-pThr-504 antibody) to be highly specific, recognizing solely PI4K92 phosphorylated at these sites, respectively. Indirect immunofluorescence reveals that PI4K92 phosphorylated on Ser-294 localizes exclusively at the Golgi. The enzyme phosphorylated on Ser-496 and Thr-504 is detected in nuclear speckles. Phosphorylation of Ser-294 on PI4K92 increases the lipid kinase activity and thus serves better in maintaining Golgi function and morphology (compare Hausser, A., Storz, P., Martens, S., Link, G., Toker, A., and Pfizenmaier, K. (2005) Nat. Cell Biol. 7, 880–886). Microinjection of anti-pSer-496, but not of anti-pSer-294 or anti-pThr-504 antibody, into the cytoplasm or into the nucleus of HS68 cells leads to development of hotspots, probably representing aggregated PI4K92, and in later stages, cells become apoptotic and finally die. The association of phosphorylated PI4K92 with nuclear speckles is dynamic and follows the morphological alteration of speckles upon inhibition of mRNA transcription with α-amanitin. Overexpressed PI4K92 phosphorylated on Ser-294 is not transported to the nucleus, and that phosphorylated on Ser-496 is found in the nucleus and mislocalized at the Golgi complex. We conclude that nuclear phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, and consequently, synthesis of polyphosphoinositides are required for a correct nuclear function.
A Primer on Stochastic Differential Geometry for Signal Processing

This primer explains how continuous-time stochastic processes (precisely, Brownian motion and other Itô diffusions) can be defined and studied on manifolds. No knowledge is assumed of either differential geometry or continuous-time processes. The arguably dry approach is avoided of first introducing differential geometry and only then introducing stochastic processes; both areas are motivated and developed jointly.
Future-Minded: The Psychology of Agency and Control

1. Agency and Control: Psychological Tools for Making the Future 2. Agency: Claiming Future Events as Our Own 3. Control: Achieving and Maintaining a Desirable Future 4. Causality and Coincidence: Joining the Past to the Present and the Future 5. Consciousness: Mental Episodes of the Past, Present and Future 6. Illusion of Control and Illusion of Chaos: Mistaking Future Consequences 7. Goals and Values: Ways of Anchoring the Future 8. Understanding Human Behaviour from the Point of View of the Future is the Future of Psychological Research
Tap-Wave-Rub: Lightweight Human Interaction Approach to Curb Emerging Smartphone Malware

Malware is a burgeoning threat for smartphones and continuing advancing. Traditional defenses to malware, however, are not suitable for smartphones due to their resource intensive nature. This necessitates the design of novel mechanisms that can consider the specifics of the smartphone malware and smartphones themselves. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight permission enforcement approach-Tap-Wave-Rub (TWR)-for smartphone malware prevention. TWR is based on simple cyber-physical human interactions, i.e., human gestures, that are very quick and intuitive but less likely to be exhibited in users' daily activities. Presence or absence of such gestures, prior to accessing an application, can effectively inform the OS whether the access request is benign or malicious. In particular, we present the design of two mechanisms: 1) acceleration-based phone tapping detection and 2) proximity-based finger tapping, rubbing, or hand waving detection. The first mechanism is geared for near field communication applications, which usually require the user to tap her phone with another device. The second mechanism involves very simple gestures, i.e., tapping or rubbing a finger near the top of phone's screen or waving a hand close to the phone, and broadly appeals to many applications (e.g., SMS). In addition, we present the TWR-enhanced Android permission model, the prototypes implementing the underlying gesture recognition mechanisms, and a variety of novel experiments to evaluate these mechanisms. Our results suggest the proposed approach could be very effective for malware detection/prevention, with quite low false positives and false negatives, while imposing little to no additional burden on the users.
Smart Health Solution Integrating IoT and Cloud: A Case Study of Voice Pathology Monitoring

The integration of the IoT and cloud technology is very important to have a better solution for an uninterrupted, secured, seamless, and ubiquitous framework. The complementary nature of the IoT and the could in terms of storage, processing, accessibility, security, service sharing, and components makes the convergence suitable for many applications. The advancement of mobile technologies adds a degree of flexibility to this solution. The health industry is one of the venues that can benefit from IoT–Cloud technology, because of the scarcity of specialized doctors and the physical movement restrictions of patients, among other factors. In this article, as a case study, we discuss the feasibility of and propose a solution for voice pathology monitoring of people using IoT–cloud. More specifically, a voice pathology detection system is proposed inside the monitoring framework using a local binary pattern on a Mel-spectrum representation of the voice signal, and an extreme learning machine classifier to detect the pathology. The proposed monitoring framework can achieve high accuracy of detection, and it is easy to use.
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices

Series Editor's Introduction - Alan E. Kazdin Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Typical Sexual Differentiation General Terminology Sexual Differentiation Development of Gender Identity and Gender Role 2. Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence Benefit of Historical and Cross-Cultural Data for Clinical Practice Cross-Cultural and Historical References (Adults) Cross-Cultural and Historical References (Children and Adolescents) 3. Atypical Sexual Differentiation Introduction Chromosomal/Gonadal Conditions Female Pseudohermaphroditism Male Pseudohermaphroditism Other Conditions 4. Atypical Development of Gender Identity and Gender Role Specific Terminology Clinical Picture Correspondence Between Childhood Gender Identity Disorder and Transsexualism Prevalence and Sex Ratio of GID Theories About Atypical Gender Development 5. Clinical Management of Intersex Conditions Importance of Parent Counseling Importance of Child Counseling Neonatal Approach Information and Support Criticism of Clinical Policy 6. Clinical Management of Gender Problems in Children Introduction Diagnosis Interventions 7. Clinical Management of Gender Problems in Adolescents Diagnosis Interventions Effects of Sex Reassignment 8. Legal Issues of Intersexuality and Transsexualism Legal Sex Assignment of Intersexes Legal Implications of Transsexualism in Adults Legal Issues of GID in Childhood and Adolescence References Name Index Subject Index About the Authors
Social Influences on the Food Preferences of House Mice (Mus Musculus)

In a series of studies undertaken to determine the conditions under which naive house mice (observers) develop preferences for foods eaten by recently-fed conspecifics (demonstrators), we found that observer mice exhibited enhanced preference for a food following interaction with either a healthy or an ill recently-fed demonstrator that had eaten that food. We also found that house mice developed an enhanced preference for a food after exposure to an anesthetized conspecific demonstrator powdered with that food, but not after exposure to a cotton-batting, conspecific-sized surrogate powdered with the same food. Results of other studies have indicated that, for both rats and mice, the presence in a food of carbon disulfide (a substance found on the breath of rats) increases preference for a carbon-disulfide-contaminated food. taken together, the parallels between Norway rats and house mice in social learning processes suggest homologous rather than analogous systems of communication about distant foods in these two murid rodents.
Defining Australian Indigenous Wellbeing: Do we Really Want the Answer? Implications for Policy and Practice

Indigenous wellbeing is a current priority for the Australian Government. Given this prioritisation one might be tempted to conclude that a readily accessible and consensual definition of Indigenous wellbeing would be available. Such a definition would be important, for example, in the design and delivery of programmes of psychotherapy that aim to improve wellbeing. A literature review was undertaken to locate such a definition. In particular, the relevance of definitions to Indigenous Australians living in remote communities was of interest. While a small number of definitions are frequently cited in the literature, there is not unanimity in their acceptance. It became obvious that the terms “health” and “wellbeing” are often confused. Sometimes health is included as a component of wellbeing, sometimes wellbeing is included as a subset of health, sometimes the terms are used jointly as in “health and wellbeing”, and sometimes persuasive arguments are made that health and wellbeing are different. The politics of wellbeing is a potent theme in the literature. It seems that the indices of wellbeing that are important to the Government may not always be important to Indigenous Australians. Current Australian Government policy could be seen to be more focused on gently steering Indigenous Australians to adopt a Western style of living rather than providing opportunities for them to live lives of personal meaning and value. This tension may well be a fundamental issue in addressing Indigenous wellbeing. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Characterization of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Recruitment and Dynamics in Drosophila Stress Granules

The RNA-binding protein Fragile X Mental Retardation (FMRP) is an evolutionarily conserved protein that is particularly abundant in the brain due to its high expression in neurons. FMRP deficiency causes fragile X mental retardation syndrome. In neurons, FMRP controls the translation of target mRNAs in part by promoting dynamic transport in and out neuronal RNA granules. We and others have previously shown that upon stress, mammalian FMRP dissociates from translating polysomes to localize into neuronal-like granules termed stress granules (SG). This localization of FMRP in SG is conserved in Drosophila. Whether FMRP plays a key role in SG formation, how FMRP is recruited into SG, and whether its association with SG is dynamic are currently unknown. In contrast with mammalian FMRP, which has two paralog proteins, Drosophila FMR1 (dFMRP) is encoded by a single gene that has no paralog. Using this genetically simple model, we assessed the role of dFMRP in SG formation and defined the determinants required for its recruitment in SG as well as its dynamics in SG. We show that dFMRP is dispensable for SG formation in vitro and ex vivo. FRAP experiments showed that dFMRP shuttles in and out SG. The shuttling activity of dFMRP is mediated by a protein-protein interaction domain located at the N-terminus of the protein. This domain is, however, dispensable for the localization of dFMRP in SG. This localization of dFMRP in SG requires the KH and RGG motifs which are known to mediate RNA binding, as well as the C-terminal glutamine/asparagine rich domain. Our studies thus suggest that the mechanisms controlling the recruitment of FMRP into SG and those that promote its shuttling between granules and the cytosol are uncoupled. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the regulated shuttling activity of a SG component between RNA granules and the cytosol.
An empirically-based criterion for determining the success of an open-source project

In order to determine a success criterion for open-source software projects, we analyzed 122,205 projects in the SourceForge database. There were 80,597 projects with no downloads at all. We restricted our analysis to the 41,608 projects that together were downloaded 704,897,520 times. Contrary to what we had expected, the distribution of the number of downloads of each project is not Zipf-like; only a portion of the log-log plot of the number of downloads and their rank appears to be a straight line. We performed least-squares analysis (utilizing the Bayesian information criterion) to divide the plot into three segments. On the basis of the shapes of the corresponding curves and the locations of their boundary points, we categorized the projects as follows: 85 superprojects (highly successful projects with more than 1.1 million downloads); just over 10,000 successful projects (with more than 1680 downloads each); and struggling projects (with 1680 downloads or fewer). In terms of our criterion, only a quarter of the projects that have one or more downloads can be deemed to be successful.