Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scale development and construct clarification of change recipient proactivity

The purpose of this paper is to develop a standardized, psychometrically sound instrument for the emerging construct of change recipient proactivity (CRP), using a deductive approach. ,Using a systematic item-development framework as a guide (i.e. item generation, questionnaire administration, item reduction and scale evaluation) and based on a sample of 414 white-collar employees, this paper discusses the development and validation of an instrument that can be used to measure change recipient’s proactive behavioral responses to planned change efforts. ,Results suggest that our proposed CRP scale is internally consistent (reliable) and valid in that it is conceptually distinct from, yet empirically correlated with neighboring constructs such as affective commitment to change, readiness for change and proactive personality. ,The findings illustrate that change recipients can demonstrate proactive behaviors in response to change efforts. However, this study’s contribution is only a first step, requiring further theoretical and methodological refinement of the scale in different contexts. ,The deductive nature of our study resulted in a comprehensive and domain-specific scale assessing recipients’ proactive responses to organizational change efforts. This opens doors to empirical studies on examining the conditions under which change recipients “may” step outside the boundaries of passivity to respond positively and proactivity to organizational change efforts.
Theories of reasoning and focal point play with a non-student sample

We present a coordination game experiment testing the robustness of the predictive power of level-k reasoning and team reasoning in a sample of Chinese tax administrators. We show how the incidence of coordination game play is virtually identical between Chinese tax administrators and university students, which in turn is comparable with that found in research with a Western university student sample. However, relatively to non-students, students are comparatively more attracted by the focal point under team reasoning when this has equal payoffs and the other outcomes do not.
Classification methods performance on human activity recognition

There are around 650 million people from all over the world who lived with disabilities. One of the fundamental rights of people with disabilities is the existence of a companion to supervise his activity. Meanwhile, the use of mobile phones for monitoring the activities of people with disabilities has been widely carried out. The human activity monitoring mobile application requires human activity recognition methods that provide high accuracy, precision, and recall to reduce the error rate of the activity estimation. Some researches use machine learning algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbour (k-NN) algorithm, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest for human activity recognition methods. However, the results of these studies have not been compared apples to apples. Therefore, this study presents a performance comparison of SVM, KNN, and Random Forest machine learning methods. Based on our findings, the SVM method with Support Vector Classifier (SVC) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernels can achieve the highest precision and recall, 87% and 85% respectively. The fastest processing time is obtained using the SVM method with the Stochastic Gradient Descent. However, in general, the best performance is shown by Random Forest. The Random Forest method with a depth of 100 and 300 trees can reach an accuracy of 96% within 0.45 minutes.
Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago, Parts 1 and 2: A Discussion

Wolbach et al. published two papers on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)—the paleoenvironmental effects of a purported cosmic impact at the beginning of the Younger Dryas Chronozone (YDC). Part 1 includes a selective summary of previous discussions of the YDIH but leaves out key reviews, uncritically accepts previous interpretations of purported impact, and fails to take into account abundant criticisms and contradictory data. A discussion of icecore evidence focuses only on the beginning of the YDCrather thanona longer interval thatwouldallow the context of claimed impact indicators to be evaluated. The exceptionalism claimed for many of the key data points is the result of exaggerations, and the graphical analyses themselves are not reproducible. Part 2 presents data from sedimentary records. The authors assume that impacts triggered widespread fires, but the evidence for such a link between extraterrestrial impacts and wildfires is weak. The presence of charcoal at the beginning of the YDC (YDB) fails to unambiguously support the hypothesis of impact-related fires because there is also a large peak at the end of the YDC. Stratigraphic markers used to argue for widespread burning, such as the Usselo soil of northwest Europe and the blackmat of the southwesternUnited States,were shownby their original investigators to have no plausible link to an impact event. Human population decline in North America is not supported by abundant published
New Technologies in Orthodontics: A Digital Workflow to Enhance Treatment Plan and Photobiomodulation to Expedite Clinical Outcomes

Background: The transversal maxillary deficiency represents one of the most frequent skeletal discrepancies of the craniofacial region. The analysis of morphological characteristics of the maxilla can be detrimental for a correct diagnosis and treatment plan. Methods: This paper shows a user-friendly digital workflow involving mirroring, superimposition, and the deviation analysis of 3D models of the maxilla in order to identify the presence of symmetry/asymmetry of the palatal vault. Such information can be helpful to clinicians in order to design an appropriate orthodontic appliance for the treatment of transversal maxillary deficiency. We also describe a case report of a seven-year-old female affected by mild transversal maxillary deficiency associated with anterior openbite. The appliance is designed after a comprehensive evaluation of the morphology of the maxilla performed by using the presented diagnostic digital workflow. Additionally, the orthodontic treatment is assisted by photobiomodulation sessions that expedite the achievement of clinical outcomes.
Next generation 3D pharmacophore modeling

3D pharmacophore models are three‐dimensional ensembles of chemically defined interactions of a ligand in its bioactive conformation. They represent an elegant way to decipher chemically encoded ligand information and have therefore become a valuable tool in drug design. In this review, we provide an overview on the basic concept of this method and summarize key studies for applying 3D pharmacophore models in virtual screening and mechanistic studies for protein functionality. Moreover, we discuss recent developments in the field. The combination of 3D pharmacophore models with molecular dynamics simulations could be a quantum leap forward since these approaches consider macromolecule–ligand interactions as dynamic and therefore show a physiologically relevant interaction pattern. Other trends include the efficient usage of 3D pharmacophore information in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications or freely accessible web servers for 3D pharmacophore modeling. The recent developments show that 3D pharmacophore modeling is a vibrant field with various applications in drug discovery and beyond.
Diffusion of innovative technology in US oil and gas industry: an empirical study

This paper presents survey results validating the theory of diffusion of innovation (DoI) (Rogers, 1962, 2003). We find that complexity, trialability, and observability exhibited correlation with innovation diffusion while the others do not. Innovation and technology have been long considered important drivers of organisational success. They are examined in the US Oil and Gas (O&G) industry. Rogers' (1962, 2003) theory of DoI is used in identifying and operationalising key variables that affect DoI. It broadens understanding of how the industry has responded to the presence of multiple, important new technologies and how the diffusion of these technologies can be explained by the application of the DoI model. Using primary data, the current study empirically tests DoI in the context of today's US O&G industry. The contribution of the current study to both researchers and practitioners, limitations, as well as suggestions for future studies are also provided.
AN ONLINE FRAMEWORK FOR CIVIL UNREST PREDICTION USING TWEET STREAM BASED ON TWEET WEIGHT AND EVENT DIFFUSION

Twitter is one of most popular Internet-based social networking platform to share feelings, views, and opinions. In recent years, many researchers have utilized the social dynamic property of posted messages or tweets to predict civil unrest in advance. However, existing frameworks fail to describe the low granularity level of tweets and how they work in offline mode. Moreover, most of them do not deal with cases where enough tweet information is not available. To overcome these limitations, this article proposes an online framework for analyzing tweet stream inpredicting future civil unrest events. The framework filters tweet stream and classifies tweets using linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. After that, the weight of the tweet is measured and distributed among extracted locations to update the overall weight in each location in a day in a fully online manner. The weight history is then used to predict the status of civil unrest in a location. The significant contributions of this article are (i) A new keyword dictionary with keyword score to quantify sentiment in extracting the low granularity level of knowledge (ii) A new diffusion model for extracting locations of interest and distributing the sentiment among the locations utilizing the concept of information diffusion and location graph to handle locations with insufficient information (iii) Estimating the probability of civil unrest and determining the stages of unrest in upcoming days. The performance of the proposed framework has been measured and compared with existing logistic regression based predictive framework. The results showed that the proposed framework outperformed the existing framework in terms of F1 score, accuracy, balanced accuracy, false acceptance rate, false rejection rate, and Matthews correlation coefficient.
Is the incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax associated with climacteric conditions

Background: Spontaneous pneumothorax may be primary, occurring in patients without lung disease, or secondary, occurring in patients with lung disease. Several studies have tried to demonstrate the link between meteorological conditions and spontaneous pneumothorax, but there are no studies in our region with our particular meteorological conditions. Aims and objectives: This study analyzes the link between meteorological conditions and spontaneous pneumothorax, trying to prove that the incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with the higher temperatures. Methods: We studied the primary spontaneous pneumothorax, in the last 15 years (2000-2015) at our hospital. We split the year in 2 semesters, May to October being the hottest semester and November to April the coldest one, using the information of the average temperatures from the national meteorologic institute. In the hottest months the average high temperature went from 28,4oC in July to 18,9oC in October. During the coldest months, temperature went from 9,4oC in January to 16,4oC in April. The SPSS version 23 was used for the statistical analysis. Results: 77 cases of spontaneous pneumothorax were registered in our hospital in the last 15 years. 48 cases occurred in the period May-October and 29 in November-April. We applied the chi square test and obtained a p value of 0,030. Spontaneous pneumothorax is most prevalent in man (85,7% ; p value 0,000) and in smokers (67,5%; p value 0,002). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that there is a statistically significant link between spontaneous pneumothorax and higher temperatures, which could be related with the influence of the temperature in the atmospheric pressure.
Investigating parenting stress and neurodevelopment in infants with congenital heart defects during the first year of life

Background: Parents of infants with CHD, the most prevalent group of congenital anomalies, experience increased parenting stress levels. These can potentially interfere with the normal parenting process, and with establishing a healthy parent-child relationship, which are important for proper development during infancy. Neurodevelopmental delays are among the major morbidities of children with CHD. The changes in stress over the critical period of infancy (first year of life), and how the stress affects infant development, however, have yet to be studied. Aims: To describe and compare parenting stress levels and changes over time between parents of infants with CHD and parents of healthy infants, during the first year of infants’ life; and to examine associations between parenting stress and infant neurodevelopmental outcomes in these populations. Methods: A secondary analysis of data a larger prospective cohort study (N=241), performed during 2003-2007 at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, included mixed-effects and general linear regression modeling. Findings: Parents of infants with CHD had higher parenting stress than parents of healthy infants on the Child and Parent Domains at three months of age. The stress remained higher on the Demandingness subscale throughout the first year of infants’ life. The change in parenting stress over time significantly differed in parents of infants with CHD and in parents of healthy infants on the Child and Parent Domains, and on the Life Stress. Parents of CHD infants demonstrated decrease in stress over time, and parents of healthy infants generally experienced increase in stress with time. As for the associations between stress and development, findings demonstrate cross-sectional relationships between stress and development, as well as temporal relationships between early stress and later development in both subjects and controls. Conclusions: Findings highlight stressful periods, which may be risky for parents of infants with CHD, and introduce psychosocial/ familial aspects as additional contributors to infant development. Family systems intervention may promote parental adaptive coping and productive parenting practices in this population. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Nursing First Advisor Barbara MEDOFF COOPER
Algebraic logic and topoi; a philosophical holistic approach

We take a magical tour in algebraic logic and its most novel applications. In algebraic logic we start from classical results on neat embeddings due to Andreḱa, Henkin, Németi, Monk and Tarski, all the way to recent results in algebraic logic using so–called rainbow constructions. Highlighting the connections with graph theory, model theory, finite combinatorics, and in the last decade with the theory of general relativity and hypercomputation, this article aspires to present topics of broad interest in a way that is hopefully accessible to a large audience. Other topics deallt with include the interaction of algebraic and modal logic, the so–called (central still active) finitizability problem, Gödels’s incompleteness Theorem in guarded fragments, counting the number of subvarieties of RCAω which is reminiscent of Shelah’s stability theory and the interaction of algebraic logic and descriptive set theory as means to approach Vaught’s conjecture in model theory. The interconections between algebraic geometry and cylindric algebra theory is surveyed and elaborated upon as a Sheaf theoretc duality. This article is not purely expository; far from it. It contains new results and new approaches to old paradigms. Furthermore, various scattered results in the literature are presented from a holistic perspective highlighting similarities between seemingly remote areas in the literature. For example topoi and category theory are approached as means to unify apparently scattered results in the literature. Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C30, 03B45, 03C0f, 83C05, 81805 44 Tarek Sayed Ahmed
Effects of multidisciplinary team working on breast cancer survival: retrospective, comparative, interventional cohort study of 13 722 women

Objectives To describe the effect of multidisciplinary care on survival in women treated for breast cancer. Design Retrospective, comparative, non-randomised, interventional cohort study. Setting NHS hospitals, health boards in the west of Scotland, UK. Participants 14 358 patients diagnosed with symptomatic invasive breast cancer between 1990 and 2000, residing in health board areas in the west of Scotland. 13 722 (95.6%) patients were eligible (excluding 16 diagnoses of inflammatory cancers and 620 diagnoses of breast cancer at death). Intervention In 1995, multidisciplinary team working was introduced in hospitals throughout one health board area (Greater Glasgow; intervention area), but not in other health board areas in the west of Scotland (non-intervention area). Main outcome measures Breast cancer specific mortality and all cause mortality. Results Before the introduction of multidisciplinary care (analysed time period January 1990 to September 1995), breast cancer mortality was 11% higher in the intervention area than in the non-intervention area (hazard ratio adjusted for year of incidence, age at diagnosis, and deprivation, 1.11; 95% confidence interval 1.00 to 1.20). After multidisciplinary care was introduced (time period October 1995 to December 2000), breast cancer mortality was 18% lower in the intervention area than in the non-intervention area (0.82, 0.74 to 0.91). All cause mortality did not differ significantly between populations in the earlier period, but was 11% lower in the intervention area than in the non-interventional area in the later period (0.89, 0.82 to 0.97). Interrupted time series analyses showed a significant improvement in breast cancer survival in the intervention area in 1996, compared with the expected survival in the same year had the pre-intervention trend continued (P=0.004). This improvement was maintained after the intervention was introduced. Conclusion Introduction of multidisciplinary care was associated with improved survival and reduced variation in survival among hospitals. Further analysis of clinical audit data for multidisciplinary care could identify which aspects of care are most associated with survival benefits.
Sorafenib, gamma-secretase inhibitor, and bortezomib as potential therapeutic agents for hepatoblastoma.

9550 Background: Older children with hepatoblastoma (HB) as well as liver tumors with features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often have more aggressive features and are resistant to the conventional agents used in the treatment of hepatoblastoma. These aggressive tumors have been classified as “transitional cell liver tumors” (TCLT). We undertook an in-vitro analysis of the effect of the following three agents: sorafenib, bortezomib and the gamma-secretase inhibitors (GSI), Compound E, using cell lines derived from aggressive pediatric liver tumors. Though these agents have been shown to be effective in other malignancies, however, their use in pediatric liver tumors has not yet been explored. Methods: Two cell lines were utilized: HepG2 and Hep293TT. HepG2 was derived from a 16-year-old and although previously thought to be HCC, has recently been shown to have features of HB. Hep293TT is derived from a 5-year-old child with an aggressive HB exhibiting TCLT features. HepG2 and Hep293TT cells were incu.
Increasing the density in Wendelstein 7-X: benefits and limitations

In stellarators, increasing the density is beneficial for the energy confinement. While there is no single reason for this observation, it is still very robust across different devices and this is reflected in the empirical energy confinement time scaling for stellarators, ISS04. In order to study whether this is also true for Wendelstein 7-X, the density scaling of the energy confinement time is analyzed and compared to ISS04 for the first divertor experiments. When the density is increased beyond a critical density, however, radiative collapses are frequently observed. Existing analytical models for the critical density are revisited to assess whether they can predict the accessible density range. Furthermore, since close to the collapse the radiation losses increase substantially, the impact on the global energy confinement is investigated. It is found that in plasmas with high radiation the density scaling of the energy confinement time becomes weaker, the reason for this observation is not yet clear. In the second half of the first divertor campaign, boronization was applied to W7-X for the first time. This broadened the operational window, allowing for operation at higher density and, hence, higher stored energy.
Porting Rodinia Applications to OmpSs@FPGA

La computacio heterogenia amb FPGAs es una alternativa de baix consum a altres sistemes usats frequentment, com la computacio amb CPU multi-nucli i la computacio heterogenia amb GPUs. No obstant, degut a que les FPGAs funcionen d'una manera totalment diferent a altres dispositius fets servir en computacio, son bastant dificils de comparar. La Rodinia Benchmark Suite esta formada per aplicacions que poden usar-se per comparar sistemes de computacio heterogenis. La suite ha adaptat les aplicacions per computacio amb CPU multi-nucli i computacio amb GPU (fent servir les llibreries OpenMP, Cuda, OpenCL). L'objectiu del projecte es adaptar un cert nombre d'aquestes aplicacions per OmpSs@FPGA, un sistema de computacio heterogeni amb dispositius FPGA de Xilinx. Algunes d'aquestes aplicacions tambe seran optimitzades fent servir eines de OmpSs i de Xilinx (Vivado HLS). Tot i que al principi la idea era adaptar i provar les aplicacions en el dispositiu FPGA fisic, la absencia del hardware durant la primera part de la fase d'adaptacio va incentivar el desenvolupament d'un entorn de simulacio de dispositius FPGA. Tal cosa va implicar modificar el runtime per fer que es comuniques amb un programa software enlloc d'intentar accedir al hardware real. Aquesta tasca va afegir una carrega de treball considerable en el projecte que no estava prevista. Tot i aixi, degut a que aquest entorn de simulacio va fer molt mes rapida l'adaptacio de les aplicacions, la quantitat d'hores amb les que es va desenvolupar l'entorn i es van adaptar les aplicacions va coincidir amb les hores previstes inicialment nomes per l'adaptacio. Es van adaptar un total de 7 aplicacions, 6 de les quals es van optimitzar fins a cert punt. Tambe es van analitzar totes les optimitzacions parcials acumulatives fent servir traces d'execucio visualitzades amb el software Paraver. Un cop fets els analisis, es va fer un informe de sostenibilitat per avaluar l'impacte del projecte en els aspectes ambiental, economic i social. Finalment, s'arriba a la conclusio que s'ha completat l'objectiu inicial del projecte satisfactoriament.
Face-to-Face Communication as A Tool to Support Second-Hand Fashion Sales: A Field Experiment at Fashion Week in Berlin

We conducted a random allocation experiment at fashion week in Berlin in 2017, testing how face-to-face (f2f) communication affects sales of a fashion start-up focusing on second-hand. The experiment revealed that 11% of guests of an f2f event afterwards turned paying customers with an average basket size 11.8% higher than the overall sales event average. We add insights to research on entrepreneurial practice as well as on offline operations in the context of circular consumption in fashion, exposing the leveraging effect of f2f communication for customer acquisition and revenue of start-ups in the field of sustainable fashion.