Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Origen y destino de la teoría de la mente: su afectación en trastornos distintos del espectro autista

La disfuncion de la habilidad para adscribir estados mentales a otros, esto es, la posesion de una teoria de la mente, ha sido propuesta por Frith como condicion necesaria, suficiente y especifica de la esquizofrenia. Este articulo revisa los datos a favor y en contra de tal asuncion, teniendo en cuenta su relacion hipotetica con otras variables cognitivas, si la falta de una teoria de la mente es un marcador de rasgo o de estado y si su rol causal implica el trastorno psicotico basico o solo algunos sintomas psicoticos. Igualmente se considera si los recientes hallazgos de disfuncion de la teoria de la mente en el trastorno bipolar y en la demencia frontotemporal podrian modificar las asunciones teoricas basicas sobre la teoria de la mente, la esquizofrenia y los trastornos relacionados.
Good parallel software development practices . Apache Spark case

Recently, Spark as data processing engine, gained huge popularity because of better performance in terms of the speed. Developers of Spark claim that it may outperform Hadoop MapReduce in 100 times in memory and 10 times on disk [1]. This paper outlines which innovations improved speed and how. In order to investigate improvements, I analysed technical documentation, which is available, since both projects are opensource, and tested performance by myself. Indeed, not only the ability of Spark to run in-memory influences the speed, but also Spark enhanced architecture, so set of MapReduce overheads were eliminated.
The Gratia Polyvalent Staphylococcal Bacteriophage

Summary Lytic spectra of the Gratia staphylococcal bacteriophage have been determined both against the standard international typing strains of Staphylococcus aureus and against “wild” strains. The broad range of lytic capability of the Gratia phage is remarkable. The substrain of Gratia phage propagated on Serotype I lysed more than half of the standard typing strains and 31% of 279 “wild” strains. Inhibition of lytic activity by pooled human serum was not complete in the majority of instances even in 80% serum. These data we believe to be compatible with the supposition that direct lysis of infecting staphylococci may be a factor in the therapeutic efficacy of the staphylococcal bateriophage lysate under appropriate conditions.
Behavioural problems in children with urge incontinence and voiding postponement: a comparison of a paediatric and child psychiatric sample.

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE; To analyse prospectively the incidence of behavioural disorders and the subjective views of children with urge incontinence (defined by detrusor instability, sudden urge symptoms and frequent micturitions) and voiding postponement (characterized by delayed micturition in typical situations and a low voiding frequency) according to an identical protocol in a paediatric and a child psychiatric unit. PATIENTS AND METHOD Ninety-four consecutive or randomly selected children aged 5.0-10.9 years with either voiding postponement (52) or urge incontinence (42) were examined prospectively using an intelligence test (CFT1 or CFT20), the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL 4/18), the ICD-10 child psychiatric diagnoses and a structured interview. RESULTS In the groups from both centres combined, those postponing voiding had a significantly higher incidence of externalizing behavioural symptoms (31% vs. 8%; P < 0.01) and total problems (37% vs. 13%; P < 0.05) in the clinical range (CBCL), and a higher rate of at least one ICD-10 child psychiatric diagnosis (54% vs. 29% P < 0.05) and of expansive disorders (31% vs. 5%; P < 0.01). The incidence of children with behavioural symptoms was lower in the paediatric centre, being exceptionally low among urge incontinent children (only 6%, CBCL). In contrast, from the children's subjective appraisal, there were no significant differences in concepts, explanations and implications of wetting; 79% of urge incontinent children and 64% of those postponing voiding suffered emotionally from the adverse effects of wetting. Only a minority (3% vs. 6%) saw any advantages at all. CONCLUSION Children with voiding postponement had a significantly higher incidence of behavioural problems, especially expansive/externalizing behaviour, 3-4 times higher than in the normal population. Children with urge incontinence had a significantly lower incidence of behavioural problems, mainly emotional/ internalizing behaviour, that was only slightly higher (1-2 times) than that in the normal population. Because of selection, similar trends but lower incidences were found in the paediatric setting, with very few problems among urge incontinent children. In contrast, the children's subjective views did not differ; disadvantages associated with emotional suffering were reported by all children.
Benchmarking-Ansätze für betriebliche Informationssysteme

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Die Bewertung und Auswahl von Plattformen für betriebliche Informationssysteme wird zunehmend komplexer. Einer der wesentlichen Aspekte ist die Beurteilung der Leistung eines Systems. Heute verwendet man zur Entscheidungsunterstützung Benchmarks, die Aufschluss über die richtige Technologiebasis und über die Dimensionierung der Serversysteme geben sollen. Der Vergleich unterschiedlichster Technologien und Produkte gestaltet sich aber schwierig. In diesem Artikel sollen vorhandene Benchmarking-Ansätze eingeführt und daraus Anforderungen für ein generisches Benchmarking betrieblicher Informationssysteme abgeleitet werden.
Las voces de los investigadores y su proyección en el horizonte de los sistemas de información documental

Los Sistemas de Informacion Documental (SID) tienen una funcion mediadora en los procesos de ensenanza y de aprendizaje en la educacion, con esta idea se presentan los resultados de la investigacion documental en la que se analizaron, comprendieron e interpretaron, desde un enfoque hermeneutico, los aportes de diferentes investigadores que abordaron la tematica relacionada con la didactica y la bibliotecologia, con el fin de poder elaborar un referente teorico y metodologico en torno al diseno de una estrategia didactica para ensenar a los profesores a usar los SID en el espacio aulico, de manera que se supere la memorizacion y repeticion de contenidos y logren transformar la informacion que se expone y discute en el aula en conocimiento, objetivo central de esta tesis doctoral. Para ello se organizaron categorias que permitieron realizar el analisis de los contenidos de las fuentes documentales seleccionadas y asi observar el estado actual de la tematica planteada, al igual que las tendencias de la misma. Categorias como problema y pregunta de investigacion, objetivos, hipotesis, tipo de investigacion, marco conceptual, los conceptos que surgen, al igual que los resultados de las investigaciones, fueron el marco que permitio determinar la necesidad de esta tesis doctoral.
Phenotypic characterisation of cell populations in the brains of horses experimentally infected with West Nile virus

BACKGROUND West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito borne member of the Flaviviridae, is one of the most commonly diagnosed agents of viral encephalitis in horses and people worldwide. OBJECTIVES A cassette of markers for formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue and an archive of tissues from experimental infections in the horse were used to investigate the equine neuroimmune response to WNV meningoencephalomyelitis to phenotype the early response to WNV infection in the horse. STUDY DESIGN Quantitative analysis using archived tissue from experimentally infected horses. METHODS The thalamus and hindbrain from 2 groups of 6 horses were compared and consisted of a culture positive tissues from WNV experimentally horses, in the other, normal horses. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue from the thalamus and hindbrain were immunolabeled for microglia, astrocytes, B cells, macrophages/neutrophils, CD3+ T cells. Fresh frozen tissues were immunolabeled for CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocyte cell markers. Cell counts were obtained using a computer software program. Differences, after meeting assumptions of abnormality, were computed using a general linear model with a Tukey test (P<0.05) for pairwise comparisons. RESULTS In WNV-challenged horses, Iba-1+ microglia, CD3+ T lymphocyte and MAC387+ macrophage staining were significantly increased. The T cell response for the WNV-challenged horses was mixed, composed of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes. A limited astrocyte response was also observed in WNV-challenged horses, and MAC387+ and B cells were the least abundant cell populations. MAIN LIMITATIONS The results of this study were limited by a single collection time post-infection. Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of cellular phenotypes is needed for naturally infected horses. Unfortunately, in clinical horses, there is high variability of sampling in terms of days post-infection and tissue handling. CONCLUSIONS The data show that WNV-challenged horses recruit a mixed T cell population at the onset of neurologic disease.
LDRD report : parallel repartitioning for optimal solver performance.

We have developed infrastructure, utilities and partitioning methods to improve data partitioning in linear solvers and preconditioners. Our efforts included incorporation of data repartitioning capabilities from the Zoltan toolkit into the Trilinos solver framework, (allowing dynamic repartitioning of Trilinos matrices); implementation of efficient distributed data directories and unstructured communication utilities in Zoltan and Trilinos; development of a new multi-constraint geometric partitioning algorithm (which can generate one decomposition that is good with respect to multiple criteria); and research into hypergraph partitioning algorithms (which provide up to 56% reduction of communication volume compared to graph partitioning for a number of emerging applications). This report includes descriptions of the infrastructure and algorithms developed, along with results demonstrating the effectiveness of our approaches.
Challenging Photon Mass: from Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics to String Theory

A massless photon, originated already through the Maxwell theory of electromagnetism, is one of the basic paradigms of modern physics, ideally supported throughout both the quantum electrodynamics and the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking which lays the foundations of the Standard Model of elementary particles and fundamental interactions. Nevertheless, the physical interpretation of the optical experimental data, such like observations of total internal reflection of the beam shift in the Goos–H¨anchen effect, concludes a photon mass. Is, therefore, light diversified onto two independent species - gauge photons and optical photons? Can such a state of affairs be consistently described through a unique theoretical model? In this paper, two models of a photon mass, arising from the scalar quantum electrodynamics with the Higgs potential, are discussed. The first scenario leads to a neutral scalar mass estimable throughout the experimental limits on a photon mass. In the modified mechanism, a neutral scalar mass in not affected throughout a photon mass and is determinable through the experimental data, while a massless dilaton is present and a non-kinetic massive vector field effectively results in the string theory of non-interacting invariant both a free photon and a neutral scalar, and the Aharonov–Bohm effect is considered. The Markov hypothesis on maximality of the Planck mass is applied.
Zero-based budgeting: Pathway to sustainable budget implementation in Nigeria

This paper investigates the application of Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) system to budget implementation by the Federal Government of Nigeria by ascertaining among others, the relationship between ZBB approach and budget performance indices in Nigeria. To achieve the above, primary data were obtained through questionnaires that were specifically designed for this study. The data obtained were analysed with the SPSS version 21. The statistical tools employed were Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Pearson Correlation Coefficiant (PCC). The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test was used to test the internal consistency/reliability of the instrument used for the study. On the basis of the analysis, we found that there is significant difference in the effectiveness of ZBB in terms of budget implementation compared to the Traditional Budgeting System (TBS). It was also found that the application of ZBB tend to be performance-driven and is able to detect the redundant programmes/projects and staff, thereby recommending either realignment, discharge, transfer or redeployment of projects or resources. The study therefore, recommends among others that ZBB should be encouraged as a good means of budget implementation and also close monitoring of budget execution should be enshrined in work ethics at every stage of budget preparation and implementation in the country. This is believed would go a long way to strengthen measures aimed at mitigating poor budget implementation in the country.
Inhibition of binding of [3H]batrachotoxinin A 20-alpha-benzoate to sodium channels by local anesthetics.

The effects of several local anesthetics on the binding of ligands to receptors associated with voltage-sensitive sodium channels in rat brain synaptosomes have been examined. In the presence of 0.3 microM scorpion toxin, the 13 local anesthetics tested inhibited the specific binding of [3H]batrachotoxinin A 20 alpha-benzoate [( 3H]BTX-B), a ligand which binds to a receptor site responsible for the activation of sodium channel ion flux, in a dose-dependent fashion, with KD values ranging from 1.2 microM for tetracaine to 1.58 mM for benzocaine. A plot of log KD from these binding experiments against log K0.5 for inhibition of sodium currents by local anesthetics from electrophysiological experiments yielded a regression line with a slope of 0.84 and a correlation coefficient, r, of 0.86, demonstrating that the inhibition of [3H]BTX-B binding by local anesthetics occurs within a concentration range of physiological relevance. Tetracaine had little effect on basal 125I-labeled scorpion toxin binding to synaptosomes in the absence of batrachotoxin. However, in the presence of batrachotoxin, tetracaine inhibited the batrachotoxin-dependent increase in scorpion toxin binding (KD = 2.0 microM) in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that inhibition of [3H]BTX-B binding by local anesthetics does not occur through binding at the scorpion toxin binding site. The inhibition of [3H]BTX-B binding by lidocaine was reversible within 30 min when samples were diluted from 10(-3)M to 10(-4) M lidocaine. Scatchard analysis of [3H]BTX-B binding to synaptosomes showed that bupivacaine and tetracaine reduced receptor affinity without decreasing maximal binding capacity. This reduction in receptor affinity in the presence of local anesthetics appears to be due, at least in part, to an increased rate of ligand dissociation from the receptor-ligand complex, suggesting an indirect allosteric mechanism for the inhibition of [3H]BTX-B binding by local anesthetics. Analysis of the effects of local anesthetics in terms of an allosteric model of drug action showed that they bind to inactive states of sodium channels with at least a 10-fold higher affinity than active states. A 7-fold difference in KD for inhibition of [3H]BTX-B binding between the local anesthetic stereoisomers RAC 109 I and RAC 109 II was observed. Similarly, the dissociation rate constant for the [3H]BTX-B/receptor complex was increased 9.3-fold in the presence of RAC 109 II and 4.3-fold in the presence of a comparable concentration of RAC 109 I. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Discovering visual-concepts of online images from associational image patches

With the advance of networking technologies, the widespread use of handheld devices not only enables instant access of required information but also shortens the distance among acquaintances. Nowadays one can easily share their photos on the Internet right after the photos are taken. With an increasing amount of images, a challenging problem for computer algorithms is to discover the visual-concept embedded within an image. Instead of modeling this problem as a classification process which attempts to categorize images into different pre-defined classes, we propose in this work to start with identifying similar image patches. Specifically, we adopt the technique of mining association rules to construct evident relationships among image patches so as to discover identical visual-concepts from online images.
Early- and Late-Light Embryonic Stimulation Modulates Similarly Chicks' Ability to Filter out Distractors

Chicks (Gallus gallus) learned to run from a starting box to a target located at the end of a runway. At test, colourful and bright distractors were placed just outside the starting box. Dark incubated chicks (maintained in darkness from fertilization to hatching) stopped significantly more often, assessing more the left-side distractor than chicks hatched after late (for 42 h during the last three days before hatching) or early (for 42 h after fertilization) exposure to light. The results show that early embryonic light stimulation can modulate this particular behavioural lateralization comparably to the late application of it, though via a different route.
A comparative study of four forms of psychotherapy.

Four forms of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy involving experienced therapists and psychiatric outpatients were compared in an outcome investigation. Patients received either individual therapy or group therapy that lasted either 6 months or 24 months. A comprehensive set of outcome scores provided by patients, therapists, and an independent assessor was monitored each 6 months including a 6-month follow-up assessment. Therapy outcome, therapy process as viewed by the therapists, and cost-effectiveness were examined. What emerged as important was the particular form of therapy received, not the general type of therapy or the general duration of therapy when considered as independent dimensions. The results favored long-term group therapy and short-term individual therapy over long-term individual therapy and short-term group therapy. Advantages and difficulties associated with each form of therapy are discussed.
Myeloid lineage specificity and high sensitivity of monoclonal antibody GM 58/8 proves its usefulness as a diagnostic reagent in acute leukemia

Monclonal antibody (MoAb) GM 58/8 was earlier reported to be directed against an antigen expressed by myeloid progenitors (CFU‐GM), myeloid precursors, granulocytes, and monocytes [5]. Immunophenotyping of 216 cases of acute leukemia [acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) = 147 and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) = 69] and 18 cases of chronic granulocytic leukemia in blast crisis (CGLBC) with this antibody showed that GM 58/8 reacted with 92% of AML cases (M1‐M5) and 100% of myeloblastic crisis in CGL cases. All cases of ALL, lymphoblastic crisis in CGL, erythroleukemia, and erythroblastic crisis in CGL were unreactive with GM 58/8. The antibody revealed the myeloid phenotype in an additional 15 cases of otherwise unclassifiable acute leukemia and six cases of CGLBC. Eleven cases of acute “mixed lineage” leukemia were also diagnosed with the help of GM 58/8. The high specificity (100%) and sensitivity (92%) of MoAb GM 58/8 for myeloblastic leukemia is unmatched by almost all previously described myeloid MoAb and proves its usefulness as a single diagnostic reagent for AML and myeloblastic crisis in CGL.
Thinking at Cross Purposes with Kant: Reason, Finitude and Truth in the Cassirer—Heidegger Debate

Etude des themes fondamentaux de la philosophie transcendantale a la lumiere du debat opposant Cassirer et Heidegger sur la reception de l'epistemologie kantienne: 1) la finitude humaine, 2) le statut de la science moderne, 3) la verite et les principes de la raison, 4) la liberte et la metaphysique de l'avenir
Comparative Physiological and Molecular Analyses of Two Contrasting Flue-Cured Tobacco Genotypes under Progressive Drought Stress

Drought is a major environmental factor that limits crop growth and productivity. Flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is one of the most important commercial crops worldwide and its productivity is vulnerable to drought. However, comparative analyses of physiological, biochemical and gene expression changes in flue-cured tobacco varieties differing in drought tolerance under long-term drought stress are scarce. In this study, drought stress responses of two flue-cured tobacco varieties, LJ851 and JX6007, were comparatively studied at the physiological and transcriptional levels. After exposing to progressive drought stress, the drought-tolerant LJ851 showed less growth inhibition and chlorophyll reduction than the drought-sensitive JX6007. Moreover, higher antioxidant enzyme activities and lower levels of H2O2, Malondialdehyde (MDA), and electrolyte leakage after drought stress were found in LJ851 when compared with JX6007. Further analysis showed that LJ851 plants had much less reductions than the JX6007 in the net photosynthesis rate and stomatal conductance during drought stress; indicating that LJ851 had better photosynthetic performance than JX6007 during drought. In addition, transcriptional expression analysis revealed that LJ851 exhibited significantly increased transcripts of several categories of drought-responsive genes in leaves and roots under drought conditions. Together, these results indicated that LJ851 was more drought-tolerant than JX6007 as evidenced by better photosynthetic performance, more powerful antioxidant system, and higher expression of stress defense genes during drought stress. This study will be valuable for the development of novel flue-cured tobacco varieties with improved drought tolerance by exploitation of natural genetic variations in the future.
Cliticization as prosodic integration: The case of Dutch

L'A. defend l'hypothese selon laquelle la part phonologique de la cliticisation est une question d'integration prosodique a un mot prosodique adjacent. Ceci implique que la categorie prosodique speciale appelee groupe clitique n'est pas necessaire. En outre, le comportement des clitiques hollandais suggere que la forme d'integration prosodique des proclitiques differe de celle des enclitiques et que cette difference est exactement parallele aux differences prosodiques existant entre prefixes et suffixes
A Survey on Botnet Analysis and Detection Divyang Rahevar

--Botnets are the network of the computers that are compromised and controlled by the Botmaster or an attacker. Botnets are used for the spamming, phishing, stealing private information, click fraud and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on computer networks. Different types of Botnets are used for the different purposes. The number of new Botnets in the network creates the challenge for the AV companies to detect them. This paper focuses on different types of Botnets and analysis and detection techniques.
Sequential LSTM-based Encoder for NLI

The ability to perform inference from natural language sentences is a central problem in Natural Language Understanding. For many downstream applications it is important to know that from some birds fly we can infer that some animals fly. Deep neural networks are achieving extraordinary results in this task with the large Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus. In this project under guidance of Ignacio Cases, we investigate ways to improve sequential architectures with attention, which are yielding very strong results on SNLI despite their relative simplicity when compared with more complex models.