Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Informational Role of Ownership Networks in Bank Lending

We study the informational role of interfirm ownership networks in loan monitoring. Using comprehensive data on monthly internal rating changes of individual corporate loans in China, we directly measure banks’ soft information by tracing whether banks downgrade ratings before delinquency. We find that banks can predict delinquency events more accurately when borrowers are connected via ownership networks to banks’ local customers. This informational role of the network is enhanced when formal bank monitoring costs are high due to increased lender-borrower geographic distance. Moreover, the network is more important for the information transmission of small firms.
Chasing the Genetics of Ascites in Broilers using Whole Genome Resequencing

We are using whole genome resequencing to identify chromosomal regions associated with resistance or susceptibility to ascites, a form of pulmonary hypertension syndrome, meat-type chickens. Previous Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) have identified regions on chromosomes 2, 9 and Z. Despite several GWAS and further genotyping, there are no reliable or potential markers for ascites phenotype. We have completed screening of Copy Number Variations (CNVs) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in ascites resistant and susceptible birds from the relaxed, REL, line derived from a commercial elite broiler line. DNA samples from resistant and susceptible birds were purified, quantified and pooled in two pools of 10 DNAs from each phenotype for both genders. Eight pools (2 pools x 2 phenotypes x 2 genders) were generated. Each pool was submitted for bar-coded library generation, and 2x125 paired end reads on Illumina HiSeq 2500 and with 66X genome coverage. The sequence reads were mapped onto Galgal5 using Bowtie for initial CNV mapping cn.mops (R package). Further mapping to chromosomes were done using NGen and ArrayStar (DNAStar ver 13). So far, we have identified two potential regions for CNVs and 31 regions for SNPs with potential association with ascites phenotype. CPQ gene on chromosome 2 and LRRTM4 gene on chromosome 22 have been validated for containing ascites QTLs. However, their exact role in ascites is yet to be discovered. Further, we screened the regions from REL line in DNAs from an unrelated commercial broiler line using WGR. ©2019 by Alia Parveen All Rights Reserved
Empathic and Numerate Giving: The Joint Effects of Victim Images and Charity Evaluations

Helping behaviors are often driven by emotional reactions to the suffering of particular individuals, but these behaviors do not seem to be upregulated when many people need help. In this article, we consider if these reactions are also “innumerate” to information about how charities spend their money. Across six experiments, we examined how images of identified victims interact with information about charity efficiency (money toward program) and effectiveness (program outcome). We further examined if the images primarily get people to donate (yes/no), while efficiency/effectiveness might provide a tuning mechanism for how much to give. Results showed that images influenced the propensity to donate and induced participants donate their full bonuses, indicating heuristic effects. Efficiency and effectiveness information had no effects on donations.
What Do We Know about Social Media in Nonprofits? A Review

The increasing use of social media in nonprofits has attracted significant attention from researchers in various fields. As this body of literature expands, no comprehensive review integrates and discusses the extent of social media use in nonprofits. This paper reviews, analyses and presents findings of the literature on social media in nonprofits, particularly, its functions, enablers, and inhibitors. The paper discusses the findings of 84 research articles on social media in nonprofits published between January 2010 and March 2018. Overall, our study identifies seven (7) functions of social media in nonprofits including relationships, information exchange, conversation and interaction, co-creation and innovation, community building, collective action, and reputation and legitimacy. This paper also discusses the enablers and inhibitors of social media in nonprofits. The extant literature presented in this paper offers an extended look into social media use while providing direction for future research.
Respiration Tracking for People Counting and Recognition

Wireless detection of respiration rates is crucial for many applications. Most of the state-of-the-art solutions estimate breathing rates with the prior knowledge of crowd numbers as well as assuming the distinct breathing rates of different users, which is neither natural nor realistic. However, few of them can leverage the estimated breathing rates to recognize human subjects (also known as identity matching). In this article, using the channel state information (CSI) of a single pair of commercial WiFi devices, a novel system is proposed to continuously track the breathing rates of multiple persons without such impractical assumptions. The proposed solution includes an adaptive subcarrier combination method that boosts the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of breathing signals, and iterative dynamic programming and a trace concatenating algorithm that continuously tracks the breathing rates of multiple users. By leveraging both the spectrum and time diversity of the CSI, our system can correctly extract the breathing rate traces even if some of them merge together for a short time period. Furthermore, by utilizing the breathing traces obtained, our system can do people counting and recognition simultaneously. Extensive experiments are conducted in two environments (an on-campus lab and a car). The results show that 86% of average accuracy can be achieved for people counting up to four people for both cases. For 97.9% out of all the testing cases, the absolute error of crowd number estimates is within 1. The system achieves an average accuracy of 85.78% for people recognition in a smart home case.
Sparse Coding with Gated Learned ISTA

In this paper, we study the learned iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm (LISTA) for solving sparse coding problems. Following assumptions made by prior works, we first discover that the code components in its estimations may be lower than expected, i.e., require gains, and to address this problem, a gated mechanism amenable to theoretical analysis is then introduced. Specific design of the gates is inspired by convergence analyses of the mechanism and hence its effectiveness can be formally guaranteed. In addition to the gain gates, we further introduce overshoot gates for compensating insufficient step size in LISTA. Extensive empirical results confirm our theoretical findings and verify the effectiveness of our method.
Oldest Immiscible Silica‐rich Melt on the Moon Recorded in a ~4.38 Ga Zircon

The temporal duration of lunar‐evolved magmatism is still poorly constrained. In lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 10049, a melt inclusion‐bearing zircon fragment provides a new tool to understand the composition and age of the melts from which zircon directly crystallized. The studied zircon‐hosted melt inclusions are silica rich and iron poor (e.g., ~80–90 wt% SiO2; <0.5 wt% FeO), compositionally similar with immiscible silica‐rich melts found in Apollo rocks. Nano‐SIMS U–Pb analyses of the zircon yielded a minimum crystallization age of 4,382 ± 40 Ma, older than the ages for Apollo highly evolved alkali suite lithologies (~3.8–4.33 Ga). Our study shows that the melt inclusion‐bearing zircon in NWA 10049 is the oldest microscale evidence for documenting immiscible silica‐rich melts in lunar samples, suggesting that lunar‐evolved silica‐rich melts were prevalent as early as ~4.38 Ga. This work implies that there would be a prolonged silicic magmatism occurred on the Moon.
Strategies to support shared decision making in breast cancer

Shared decision making is a key component of patient-centred and evidence-based healthcare. Its integration into routine care is of interest to healthcare providers, consumers and policymakers who want to improve the quality of healthcare. The process of shared decision making enables healthcare providers and a patient with a condition that has more than one available clinically appropriate management strategy, to make a joint health decision. The decision takes into account the best available evidence, in conjunction with the patient's values and preferences and understanding of the benefits and harms of available options. There is unequivocal evidence that shared decision making improves the quality of healthcare decisions, reduces unwarranted variation in care, and improves patient outcomes. Despite these benefits, shared decision making has not been systematically adopted in clinical practice in Australia. Strategies exist that can help healthcare professionals who treat patients with breast cancer incorporate shared decision making into their practice. We review these strategies, including patient decision aids, patient navigators, decision coaches, and online risk calculators.
Clinico-pathological prognosticators in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Despite diagnostic and therapeutic advancements, mortality and morbidity rates in the patients diagnosed with oral cancer remain static. Hence, an understanding of the factors that predict the progression of oral cancer appears to be useful in deciding on the most appropriate therapy, thereby improving survival. To do so in practice, a critical knowledge of prognostic markers that have high sensitivity is essential. Though recent research has introduced newer molecular markers, challenging the conventional prognostic assessment methods their universal application is yet to be determined. In practice, clinical and histopathological parameters are widely used for the selection of treatment strategies and for the determination of prognosis in oral cancer patients. A literature search yielded a multitude of parameters to be involved in the determination of prognosis of a patient. Based on published evidence, factors of significance were pTNM, tumour volume, depth of invasion, surgical margin status, tumour budding, vascular and perineural invasion, medullary bone invasion, extracapsular spread and the presence of distant metastasis.
Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping using Deep Learning for Frame Coordinate Transform

Coordinate Frame Transformation, or Reference Frame Transformation, is a process that is used to effectively locate a target, detected in a robot's field of view, in three-dimensional Cartesian space. Being able to evaluate the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates of a target object helps eliminate the usage of error based proximity detection of the robotic arm, in relation to the target. This greatly reduces the grasp time, which in-turn reduces the overall time for completion of a complex task involving multiple grasps. Here, the grasp approach mechanism begins with detecting, and isolating the target object within the task frame, which is a subset of the field of view of the robot's camera. Post the detection of the target by the robot, the coordinates of the centroid of the target are now fed into a trained Deep Learning model, which effectively outputs the corresponding three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates of this target in the robot's own frame of reference. Subsequently, the usage of an Inverse Kinematics solver, on the calculated Cartesian coordinates, directs the motion of the robot arm towards the target, effectively attempting a grasp. This mechanism attempts a grasp without the usage of dynamic calibration of the robotic arm, during the traversal, which leads to significant reduction in latency between planning and the grasp action itself. Dynamic trajectory planning can sometimes lead the robot arm to take a very convoluted path from its initial position, to ultimately reach the target object. Alternate approaches, that use external cameras equipped with depth sensors, extend the dependence of the robot beyond its own resources. The presented Frame Transform model can reduce this dependence, by using only the robot's resources, and Deep Learning to bridge the gap created by the absence of advanced features(in this case, lack of depth sensors on the built-in head Camera), in the hardware present on the Baxter Robot. The goal of the experiment is to determine the extent to which a Deep Learning Model can be used to replace a more conventional semi-analytical multi-stage pipeline for location estimation. We aim to explore the capabilities of Deeper Models and their ability to learn complex relations which would otherwise be concluded by means of a multi-stage pipeline of execution. While this experiment is constrained to a sample Cartesian Plane in the Baxter's frame of reference, it is intended to be a starting point to using Deep Learning to locate targets in Baxter's proximity efficiently.
Relationship Between Maximum Aerobic Speed Performance and Volleyball Game Motor Power-Explosive Abilities

Purpose. This study aims to estimate the relevant maximum aerobic speed performance and its relationship with volleyball game motor power-explosive abilities. Shown in rugby and soccer science literature, maximal aerobic speed is considered as a critical factor for improving the athlete’s ability to recover from high-intensity and fatiguing actions. Materials and methods. To achieve this goal, we categorised the motor abilities (vertical jump, spike approach, block jump, 20-meter sprint, T-Test (agility) and standing triple jump) results of 60 elite male players (age 23 ± 1.56 with playing experience up to 5 years in the Oran elite leagues). We based ourselves on their MAS results in two levels (+ or – 4 m/s) in 1200 m Shuttle Test as a valuable test to measure player maximal aerobic speed profile. Results. Our results approved the performance level of maximal aerobic speed archived at up to 4 (m/s) as the enhanced level directly related to notable levels of players’ motor abilities studied in the present study. Conclusions. Our protocol of maximum aerobic speed performance confirmed level 4 (m/s) as the relevant MAS level positively related to motor abilities components such as agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction, and speed, contrary to its lows.
A VARIAÇÃO MORFÉMICA EM CICOPI: UM PASSEIO PELA MARCA DE NEGAÇÃO

__________ RESUMO : Em Mocambique as linguas bantu coabitam com outras como o Portugues e outras linguas europeias e asiaticas. Para o presente estudo propomo-nos analisar umas das linguas bantu faladas no Sul de Mocambique, concretamente nas provincias de Gaza e Inhambane. Falamos do Cicopi, que e codificada como S63 na classificacao de Guthrie (1967-71). Neste estudo, propomo-nos analisar a morfologia da marca de negacao em Cicopi, olhando especificamente para: o morfema que marca a negacao; a variacao morfemica que ocorre na marca de negacao nos diferentes tempos verbais (passado, presente e futuro) e a posicao que o morfema de negacao toma na estrutura morfologica do verbo em Cicopi. Socorrendo-nos da teoria de morfologia e fonologia lexical analisaremos construcoes recolhidas de estudantes de ensino de linguas bantu da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane atraves da combinacao de metodos introspectivo, entrevista e filologico. Palavras-Chave: Morfemas; Negacao; Tempo verbal. _____________________________________ ABSTRACT : In Mozambique there are many bantu languages cohabiting with another like Portuguese e other Europeans and Asiatic languages. For the present paper we propose to analyze one of the bantu languages spoken in South of Mozambique, exactly in Gaza and Inhambane’s provinces. We are talking about Cicopi, which is encoded as S63, according to Guthrie’s classification (1967-71). In this paper, we propose to analyze the morphology of the negation’s mark in Cicopi, where the specific objectives are: to identify de negation mark; to verify the morphemic variation that occur in the negation mark, in different verbal times, past, present and future. Based on morphology and lexical phonology theory, we propose to analyze sentences collected from students of Eduardo Mondlane University. Key woards : Morphemes; Negation; Verbal Times.
Integration and Segmentation Conflict during Ensemble Coding of Aspect Ratio

The visual system often integrates information that “goes together”. Once information has been integrated, summary information (e.g., average emotion or average size) can be extracted; this occurs during ensemble coding. Integration thus allows for fast and efficient generalizations about sets to be made. In contrast, the visual system sometimes segments input that does not go together. For example, the perception of objects can be exaggerated away from natural category boundaries (e.g., a perfect circle is a category boundary; it is neither “flat” nor “tall”). Segmentation allows the visual system to make quick categorical distinctions. Much of the time, integration and segmentation work in parallel, and they have most often been studied in isolation. However, investigating how these two processes operate together, and potentially even conflict, was the purpose of this dissertation. I examined the ensemble coding of aspect ratio, which is a visual feature roughly equivalent to “tallness/flatness”. Aspect ratio has a category boundary (e.g., a circle or square), and the perception of aspect ratio tends to be exaggerated—segmented—away from that boundary. Thus, I predicted that observers’ ability to integrate aspect ratio information that spanned the category boundary would be disrupted, since in those instances, integration and segmentation would be at odds. To test this prediction, observers were asked about the average aspect ratio of a set of ellipses. In two experiments, observers were less sensitive to the mean of sets that included both tall and flat ellipses, compared to sets that only included tall or flat ellipses. A third iii experiment confirmed that segmentation perceptually distorted the appearance of ellipses near the category boundary away from that boundary; shapes were perceived to be more extreme than they actually were. Segmentation thus made sets that included both flat and tall ellipses appear more heterogeneous than they really were, which disrupted ensemble coding. In general, these experiments provide a deeper understanding of how the visual system summarizes large sets of information, by investigating how integration interacts with, and even conflicts with, segmentation.
Vanilloid Reseptör 1 (VR1) (Capsaicin Reseptörü)

Vanilloid Reseptor-1, capsaicin ve capsaicine benzer etki olusturabilen, isi ve asit ile aktive olan bir iyon kanal reseptorudur. Vanilloidlerin baglandigi reseptorlere vanilloid reseptor denir. Vanilloidler ekzojen ve endojen olarak ikiye ayrilir. TRPV1 (Transient receptor potential vanilloid receptor-1) ilk olarak dorsal root, trigeminal ve nodos gangliyonlarda eksprese edilmis, secici olmayan iyon kanal proteinidir. Capsaicin’in spesifik olarak baglandigi reseptore capsaicin reseptoru ya da vanilloid reseptor 1 (TRPV1 ya da VR1) adi verilmistir. VR1, 426 aminoasit iceren ve ~ 95 kDa agirliginda bir proteindir. VR1, 430C’nin uzerindeki sicaklikta ve dusuk pH’da (pH≤5) olusan membran depolarizasyonu ve iyon kanallarinin acilmasi sonucu capsaicin tarafindan aktive edilir. VR1 ilk olarak santral sinir sistemindeki noyronlarda ortaya konulmustur. Ancak son zamanlarda yapilan calismalar VR1’in mast hucreleri, derideki keratinositler ve idrar kesesi epitel hucreleri gibi noyron icermeyen cesitli hucrelerde de bulundugunu gostermistir
Structure of the emission field of ensemble of ultra-wideband chaotic sources

The structure of the emission field of ensemble of independent ultra-wideband chaotic sources in collective emission mode is investigated analytically and numerically, including power density, directivity, and far zone border. The waves emitted by independent individual sources are incoherent; hence in the reception point the created incoherent fields are summed by power, and this summation gives no additional directivity to the ensemble emission pattern. If all the individual antennas are equal, emission pattern of the entire ensemble is the same as the emission pattern of any of the individual emitters.
Failing adaptation in island contexts: the growing need for transformational change

Many islands are being visibly impacted by climate change to which they are disproportionately exposed. This situation requires a shift away from reactive shortterm responses to longer-term transformational adaptation. For this to be effective, the singularity of island environments and societies should be acknowledged and optimal ways of management and engagement identified. There is considerable potential to learn from past intervention failures in island contexts. The importance of aligning adaptation needs with interventions underpins such transformational change, which on islands principally involves the relocation of vulnerable (coastal) communities and infrastructure to less-vulnerable (inland) places, as well as other transformations such as changing livelihoods and qualityof-life improvements. Successful transformational adaptation also requires that all actors involved change their current attitudes and re-evaluate how they can contribute to adaptation that is effective and sustainable in island contexts.
Integrating Early Childhood Screening in Pediatrics: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Barriers and Facilitators

Pediatric settings are increasingly called upon to implement early childhood developmental and behavioral health screening as an early identification and health promotion strategy. Understanding the dynamic barriers and facilitators of implementation at various stages will help implementers plan for and address these factors in support of high quality implementation. Our research supported this goal by analyzing longitudinal, qualitative data. There were 128 semistructured interviews conducted with pediatric clinic and implementation providers across four years. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and synthesized using rigorous qualitative methods. Results were produced using an iterative process to summarize, analyze, and consolidate themes about screening implementation over time. Barriers and facilitators of implementation included characteristics of screening implementation as well as contextual characteristics of the pediatric primary care setting. Some implementation themes were stable over time whereas others demonstrated shifts. Results are discussed in terms of lessons learned for successfully integrating this critical preventive practice within pediatric clinics.