Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On Middle English she, sho: A refurbished narrative

Abstract We offer a radical reinterpretation of the first step in the development of OE [h] in hēo towards PDE [ʃ] in she. This solves outstanding difficulties in accounting for the vocalism in ME [ʃe:], precursor of PDE [ʃi:]. The background is the etymology of she created for the Corpus of Narrative Etymologies, and its accompanying Corpus of Changes. The database for CoNE is The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, with 36 different spellings for she across 71 texts. First, we present the OE etymology of she, tracking the changes that gave rise to all the attested OE variants. Second, using Britton’s (1991) paper as a starting point, we give a new explanation for initial [hj], allowing a straightforward account for all three attested ME vocalisms: [e:], [o:] and [ø:]. Third, we unpack the changes underlying the complex of variants attested in LAEME.
Safety App: Crime Prediction Using GIS

Crime in Mumbai has always been a concern for both the government authorities as well as the citizens of Mumbai. With the increase in the population, the crime rate has also been on an increase which in turn increases the risk factor for the safety of the citizens of Mumbai. To deal with this, the citizens should not only rely on the government authorities to cater the needs but at the same time, the citizens should also understand and adapt with the applications of technology in this very era of technology, to help provide better safety for all the citizens residing in the dynamic city of Mumbai. Safety while traveling can be considered as the major need in Mumbai, as Mumbai is regarded as the city that never sleeps. There have been several at-tempts made by the government authorities as well as individuals to help provide a model for better safety while traveling but still it has never been completely automated. This research pro-poses a model that works in synergy with various steps that include crime data collection, and then analysis on that data to predict the crimehotspots which are specifically targeted to help citizens to distinguish between safe and unsafeareas while traveling.
Protocols for Bounded-Concurrent Secure Two-Party Computation

Until recently, most research on the topic of secure computation focused on the stand-alone model, where a single protocol execution takes place. In this paper, we construct protocols for the setting of bounded-concurrent self-composition, where a (single) secure protocol is run many times concurrently, and there is a predetermined bound on the number of concurrent executions. In short, we show that any two-party functionality can be securely computed under boundedconcurrent self-composition, in the plain model (where the only setup assumption made is that the parties communicate via authenticated channels). Our protocol provides the first feasibility result for general two-party computation in the plain model, for any model of concurrency. All previous protocols assumed a trusted setup phase in order to obtain a common reference string. On the downside, the number of rounds of communication in our protocol is super-linear in the bound on the number of concurrent executions. Subsequent to this work, constant-round protocols and protocols for the multiparty case were presented by Pass and Rosen (FOCS 2003) and by Pass (STOC 2004). We remark that this paper contains the full version of the upperbound portion of the extended abstract presented by the author at STOC 2003 [29] (the lower bound from [29] appears in [33] together with other lower bounds from [32]).
Augmented Imaged Based Visual Servoing controller for a 6 DOF manipulator using acceleration command

This paper presents a new imaged based visual servoing controller called Augmented Imaged Based Visual Servoing (AIBVS) for a 6DOF manipulator. A proportional derivative (PD) controller is developed considering acceleration as the controlling command of the robot. This controller can achieve smooth and linear feature trajectory in image space and decrease the risk of features leaving the field of view. The developed control method also enhances the camera trajectory in 3D space. The stability of proposed method is fully investigated by using Lyapunov method and the perturbed systems theory. Being an IBVS method, this method also shows the robustness with respect to some camera calibration errors. Simulation results on a 6 DOF robotic systems validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
RNA recognition by a Staufen double‐stranded RNA‐binding domain

The double‐stranded RNA‐binding domain (dsRBD) is a common RNA‐binding motif found in many proteins involved in RNA maturation and localization. To determine how this domain recognizes RNA, we have studied the third dsRBD from Drosophila Staufen. The domain binds optimally to RNA stem–loops containing 12 uninterrupted base pairs, and we have identified the amino acids required for this interaction. By mutating these residues in a staufen transgene, we show that the RNA‐binding activity of dsRBD3 is required in vivo for Staufen‐dependent localization of bicoid and oskar mRNAs. Using high‐resolution NMR, we have determined the structure of the complex between dsRBD3 and an RNA stem–loop. The dsRBD recognizes the shape of A‐form dsRNA through interactions between conserved residues within loop 2 and the minor groove, and between loop 4 and the phosphodiester backbone across the adjacent major groove. In addition, helix α1 interacts with the single‐stranded loop that caps the RNA helix. Interactions between helix α1 and single‐stranded RNA may be important determinants of the specificity of dsRBD proteins.
Facial Affect Scoring Technique: A First Validity Study

In 1862 Duchenne published his Mecanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse electro-physiologique de Γ expression des passions, in which he used "the electrical currents for contraction of the muscles of the face to make them speak the language of passions". In this atlas of the anatomy of emotion, Duchenne delineated many of the muscles whose contractions together contributed to the production of each specific emotional expression of the human face. Although Duchenne was the father of modern kinesiology, of whose work Darwin (1872) had written, "no one has more carefully studied the contractions of each separate muscle and the consequent furrows produced on the skin", later investigators virtually ignored his contributions. Rather than continuing the study of the particular facial muscles which distinguished one from another emotion, the past five decades of psychological research on the face in relation to emotion instead have been devoted primarily to determining what emotion observers can judge from the face (whether their judgments are accurate, what categories of emotion can be judged, etc.). Comparatively few investigators have actually looked at the face itself, applying some measurement procedure
Secuenciación en una máquina de la vida real con tiempos de preparación dependientes de la secuencia

Este trabajo considera el problema de la programacion de la produccion en una maquina de la vida real, donde los tiempos de preparacion estan separados de los tiempos de procesamiento, y son dependientes de la secuencia, con el objetivo de minimizar el retraso total. El objetivo fue desarrollar y evaluar el comportamiento de las metaheuristicas Recocido Simulado, Busqueda Tabu, GRASP y Algoritmos Geneticos para el problema planteado, mediante una investigacion no experimental del tipo exploratoria y evaluativa. Los algoritmos propuestos se codifi caron en lenguaje Visual Basic 6.0. La experimentacion computacional se realizo con una coleccion de datos reales de una empresa venezolana del sector metal. Los datos que se tomaron correspondieron a las fechas de vencimientos de los pedidos, los tiempos de preparacion de la maquina, los tiempos de procesamiento de los pedidos, la cantidad de pedidos y las familias de los pedidos. Los resultados computacionales revelan que la Busqueda Tabu es un procedimiento que puede proporcionar buenas soluciones para el problema especifi co estudiado cuando se considera como objetivo el retraso total con tiempos de preparacion dependientes de la secuencia.
Differential regulation of glial cell line–derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) expression in human neuroblastoma and glioblastoma cell lines

Human SK‐N‐AS neuroblastoma and U‐87MG glioblastoma cell lines were found to secrete relatively high levels of glial cell line–derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF). In response to growth factors, cytokines, and pharmacophores, the two cell lines differentially regulated GDNF release. A 24‐hr exposure to tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNFα; 10 ng/ml) or interleukin‐1β (IL‐1β; 10 ng/ml) induced GDNF release in U‐87MG cells, but repressed GDNF release from SK‐N‐AS cells. Fibroblast growth factors (FGF)‐1, ‐2, and ‐9 (50 ng/ml), the prostaglandins PGA2, PGE2, and PGI2 (10 μM), phorbol 12,13‐didecanoate (PDD; 10 nM), okadaic acid (10 nM), dexamethasone (1 μM), and vitamin D3 (1 μm) also differentially effected GDNF release from U‐87MG and SK‐N‐AS cells. A result shared by both cell lines, was a two‐ to threefold increase in GDNF release by db‐cAMP (1 mM), or forskolin (10 μM). In general, analysis of steady‐state GDNF mRNA levels correlated with changes in extracellular GDNF levels in U‐87MG cells but remained static in SK‐N‐AS cells. The data suggest that human GDNF synthesis/release can be regulated by numerous facto, signaling through multiple and diverse secondary messenger systems. Furthermore, we provide evidence of differential regulation of human GDNF synthesis/release in cells of glial (U‐87MG) and neuronal (SK‐N‐AS) origin. J. Neurosci. Res. 55:187–197, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
[Initiation of ecstasy use in Québec senior high school adolescents: distal and proximal predictors].

OBJECTIVE To identify distal and proximal predictors of ecstasy use initiation during adolescence. METHOD The sample included 2162 adolescents from Québec disadvantaged community high schools, with an annual follow-up for 5 years. Path analysis was used to predict ecstasy use initiation in secondary 5 (aged 16 to 17 years) from predictors in secondary 1 and 2 (aged 12 to 14 years) and in secondary 4 (aged 15 to 16 years). RESULTS Secondary 5 adolescents initiating ecstasy use showed a higher risk on multiple factors, compared with nonusers. Initiation was mainly predicted by proximal risk factors related to individual use as well as peer use and deviance. Nevertheless, many proximal factors developed consistently with their corresponding distal factor (indirect link). Marijuana use was the strongest predictor of ecstasy use initiation. All things being equal, relative risk was 2.04 times higher in adolescents having used marijuana in the past year (secondary 4). CONCLUSIONS Ecstasy use initiation in secondary 5 seems to be globally related to an externalized, rather than internalized, profile. This ecstasy use was strongly associated with other substance use and likely shares many risk factors with other substance use, specifically marijuana use.
Redes neuronales: Optimización Multiobjetivo de la Estructura de una Silla utilizando un Híbrido de Redes Neuronales Artificiales y NSGA-II

Resumen Se presenta un hibrido de redes neuronales artificiales y NSGA-II para la optimizacion multiobjetivo del diseno de una silla estandar con respecto a medidas estructurales. Los objetivos a optimizarse son la deformacion y peso de la silla. Se realizan simulaciones por computadoras para obtener ambas respuesta de interes. Las variables de diseno se establecen en base a optimizacion de dimensiones. Redes neuronales artificiales son empleadas para mapear la relacion entre las variables de diseno y los variables de salida. Despues, NSGA-II es usado para encontrar el conjunto de soluciones optimas de Pareto. Los resultados muestran que la metodologia empleada brinda al disenador versatilidad y robustez de escoger diferentes escenarios de acuerdo con las necesidades actuales de diseno en terminos de estructura de la silla.
Plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor-I and lung cancer risk: a case-control analysis.

BACKGROUND Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), in particular IGF-I and IGF-II, strongly stimulate the proliferation of a variety of cancer cells, including those from lung cancer. To examine the possible causal role of IGFs in lung cancer development, we compared plasma levels of IGF-I, IGF-II, and an IGF-binding protein (IGFBP-3) in patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer and in control subjects. METHODS From an ongoing hospital-based, case-control study, we selected 204 consecutive patients with histologically confirmed, primary lung cancer and 218 control subjects who were matched to the case patients by age, sex, race, and smoking status. IGF-I, IGF-II, and IGFBP-3 plasma levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and then divided into quartiles, based on their distribution in the control subjects. Associations between the IGF variables and lung cancer risk were estimated by use of odds ratios (ORs). Reported P values are two-sided. RESULTS IGF and IGFBP-3 levels were positively correlated (all r>.27; all P<.001). High plasma levels of IGF-I were associated with an increased risk of lung cancer (OR = 2.06; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.19-3.56; P = .01), and this association was dose dependent in both univariate and multivariate analyses. Plasma IGFBP-3 showed no association with lung cancer risk unless adjusted for IGF-I level; when both of these variables were analyzed together, high plasma levels of IGFBP-3 were associated with reduced risk of lung cancer (OR = 0.48; 95% CI = 0.25-0.92; P = .03). IGF-II was not associated with lung cancer risk. CONCLUSIONS Plasma levels of IGF-I are higher and plasma levels of IGFBP-3 are lower in patients with lung cancer than in control subjects. If these findings can be confirmed in prospective studies, measuring levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in blood may prove useful in assessing lung cancer risk.
CIRCADIAN PACEMAKER FUNCTION AND ENTRAINMENT DURING MATURATION OF TRANSGENIC HYPERTENSIVE TGR(mREN2)27 AND SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS

TGR(mREN2)27 (TGR) transgenic rats develop hypertension due to the mouse mRen-2 gene inserted in their genome. At 5 weeks of age, the blood pressure of TGR rats starts rising, until a maximum is reached at 10 weeks of age. Adult TGR rats show peak values of blood pressure (BP) during the light phase, while heart rate (HR) and motor activity (MA) peak at night. In the present experiment, we evaluated the evolution of circadian rhythms in motor activity, heart rate, and blood pressure of TGR and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats under 12h light-dark cycles (LD 12:12). Results confirmed that the blood pressure of TGR rats starts to increase at 5 weeks of age, reaching a plateau by the 11th week. Parallel to the increase in blood pressure levels, there was a decrease in the period length of the blood pressure rhythm, a delay in the onset of the alpha phase of the blood pressure rhythm with respect to that of motor activity and heart rate, and a decrease in heart rate levels. In all of the variables studied, the alpha phase of SD rats always started before darkness, whereas that of TGR rats started after lights off. In general, heart rate and motor activity levels of TGR rats were higher than those of SD rats. The amplitude of the circadian rhythms studied was greater in TGR rats than in SD rats. The present results suggest that the different evolution of circadian rhythms in TGR and SD rats might be due to differences in the functioning of the entrainment pathway or the circadian clock itself, which can be detected in young rats and that are probably caused by the expression of the mouse transgene. (Chronobiology International, 18(4), 627–640, 2001)
Parental narratives on genetic testing for children with hearing loss: A qualitative inquiry

Studies on parental attitudes towards genetic testing for hearing loss have surveyed parents of newborns with hearing loss as well as deaf and hearing adults. Although research indicates that most people have positive attitudes about genetic testing, few studies examine parental narratives about the personal implications of genetic hearing loss in their children. In this qualitative study we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 24 parents whose children had been referred for, but had not yet undergone, genetic testing for hearing loss. The parents were recruited to represent a diverse range of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Genetics and genetic testing for hearing loss were poorly understood topics. Beyond supporting or opposing genetic testing for hearing loss, parents' construction of meaning included struggles to locate responsibility (metaphysical attributions, ascription or alleviation of parental responsibility) as well as questions about the usefulness and implications of genetic testing for hearing loss in their child. Based on the themes that emerged from this study, we highlight the need for healthcare professionals to be aware and sensitized to parents' narratives, personal meanings and socio‐cultural context when referring them for genetic testing for hearing loss. Listening attentively to parental narratives can help minimize prevailing misconceptions among parents and enable appropriate medical care and education. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Research on Learning Evidence Improvement for kNN Based Classification Algorithm

Text classification (TC) is a classic research topic in computer applications. In this paper, we firstly explore the widely used distance metrics (such as Euclidean) in TC problems, and we find that these metrics may not be appropriate for highly skewed dataset like text categorization. Therefore, a novel method of learning evidence from multiple distance metric is proposed. Based on DS theory, the evidences learnt from these distance metric are combined for improving the effectiveness of kNN based text classifier. Because the computed neighbors for the given query pattern may be from heterogeneous neighborhood sources and usually have different influence on predicting the class label. The ensemble of distance metric is tested on three standard benchmark data sets. Finally, we demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach by a series of experiments.
Culture and the Process of Person Perception: Evidence for Automaticity among East Asians in Correcting for Situational Influences on Behavior

The authors evaluate three models of the cognitive processes underlying person perception (i.e., the processes perceivers use to judge whether an actor’s behavior reflects a personal disposition), each of which implies a different way in which culturally instilled lay theories of behavior affect attributions. The models make distinctive predictions concerning how cognitive busyness will affect dispositional inference among members of different cultures. To test the models, the authors compared attributions of U.S. and Hong Kong perceivers for an expressive act under conditions of high and low cognitive busyness. Whereas cognitive busyness increased dispositionism among U.S. participants, it did not for Hong Kong participants. Findings from numerous measures combine to support the automatized situational correction model, which posits that holders of a situation-based lay theory of behavior (such as members of Chinese culture) have automatized the ability to correct attributions to personal dispositions to take into account situational influences.
O ULTRA-SOM NO TRATAMENTO DE LESÃO MUSCULAR

As lesoes musculo-esqueleticas frequentemente ocorrem em esportes profissionais e recreacionais ou em atividades diarias. A maior incidencia dessas lesoes musculares e observada na pratica desportiva, decorrente de trauma direto ou indireto, gerando uma resposta inflamatoria local. A lesao muscular envolve uma serie de processos no tecido. O processo cicatricial e descrito em tres fases: na primeira, ocorre inflamacao; apos alguns dias, inicia-se a fase de proliferacao; a terceira e ultima fase e a de maturacao ou remodelagem, que pode continuar por meses ou ate anos apos a ocorrencia da fase proliferativa do reparo. O ultra-som terapeutico e uma modalidade geralmente usada por fisioterapeutas no tratamento de lesoes de tecidos moles. Varios estudos sugerem que o uso do ultrasom reduz a inflamacao, enquanto outros relatam que o ultra-som aumenta a cicatrizacao tecidual. Este estudo objetivou reunir informacoes sobre a lesao tecidual e a utilizacao do ultra-som terapeutico na cicatrizacao das lesoes, levando em conta as etapas que compoem a cicatrizacao tecidual.
Digital Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Based Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Analysis

2 A review of PLL theory 3 2.1 PLL components . 3 2.1. 1 Reference frequency . 3 2.1. 2 Phase detectors (and charge pumps) . 4 2.1. 3 Loop filters . 5 2.1. 4 Voltage controlled oscillators . 6 2.1. 5 Feedback counters . 6 2.2 PLL loop analysis . 6 2.3 PLL phase noise (jitter) . 8 2.4 PLL and loop filter order and type . 11 2.5 Loop filter design . 11 2.6 PLL response analysis . 13 2.6. 1 Second order PLL analysis . 14 2.6. 2 Second order PLL design procedure . 17 2.6. 3 Third order PLL analysis . 19 2.6. 4 Third order PLL design procedure . 20
Ecological niche modelling requires real presence data and appropriate study regions: a comment on Medone et al. (2015)

Medone et al. [[1][1]] used ecological niche modelling (ENM) analyses to assess the climatic suitability expected by the year 2050 in Venezuela and Argentina for two vectors of Chagas disease, the kissing bugs Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma infestans . Based on these analyses, and on epidemiological
Inhibition of growth of Erlich tumors in Swiss mice by diphtheria toxin.

The effect of diphtheria toxin on tumor cells was studied in mice with transplanted Ehrlich ascites or solid tumor. For ascites tumor, the results were assessed on the bases of the trend in body weight, the incidence of ascites on the 13th day after transplantation, and the survival time. For solid tumor, the results were assessed on the basis of the weights of the dissected tumors. The results obtained demonstrate inhibition of both ascites and solid tumors. Inhibition of ascites tumor was dose dependent but the higher doses were toxic. The treatment was most effective after i.p. administration and weakest after s.c. administration. The i.p. route permitted a highly significant increase in survival time. The effectiveness of s.c. administration was improved when a given amount of diphtheria toxin was divided over several administrations, one per day, rather than administered in a single dose. Inhibition of solid tumor by i.p., i.m. , and s.c. treatment was approximately 70%. Some possible explanations for the difference in sensitivity between normal and cancer cells are discussed.
Determining if Two Documents are by the Same Author

Almost any conceivable authorship attribution problem is reducible to one fundamental problem: was a pair of (possibly short) documents written by the same author. In this paper, we offer an (almost) unsupervised method for solving this problem with surprisingly high accuracy. The main idea is to use repeated feature sub-sampling methods to determine if one document of the pair allows us to select the other from among a background set of “impostors” in a sufficiently robust manner.