Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MENS USE OF PARENTAL LEAVES AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD CARE IN EUROPE

Resumen En la última década los poderes públicos han fomentado el uso de los permisos parentales por parte de los hombres como un nuevo mecanismo para fomentar la igualdad de género y la no discriminación por razón de maternidad. En este trabajo se analiza a partir de la encuesta europea de condiciones de trabajo de 2005, recurriendo a la submuestra correspondiente a padres de hijos menores de 8 años, si efectivamente el uso de los permisos parentales por los hombres se traduce en una mayor implicación en el cuidado de sus hijos y en el trabajo doméstico. A partir de un análisis de regresión logística en el que se controla por distintas características del trabajo, la situación familiar y el nivel educativo, los resultados confirman que los hombres que han hecho uso del permiso parental en el año previo a la encuesta están más frecuentemente implicados en el cuidado diario de los niños y en la realización del trabajo doméstico que quienes no han hecho uso de esta posibilidad. El uso por los hombres del permiso parental se evidencia así como un mecanismo que promueve su socialización en las tareas de cuidado no remunerado.
High-dose antipsychotic medication

We audited the use of high-dose antipsychotic drugs in patients admitted to a special (intensive) care unit over two periods. Five out of 57 patients in the first sample and three out of 62 in the second were treated with a single antipsychotic drug above the British National Formulary maximum dose. The proportion of patients treated with antipsychotic drugs such that the total dose in chlorpromazine equivalents was greater than 1000 mg, fell. The audit showed improvements in clinical practice, particularly with respect to the onset of, indication for and outcome of high-dose treatment and in monitoring the patients9 physical status.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescent Girls, 2007-2012, and Postlicensure Vaccine Safety Monitoring, 2006-2013 — United States

of Main Points Data from the 2012 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) show that no progress has been made in HPV vaccination coverage in girls since last year. Between 2007 and 2011, vaccination coverage significantly increased each year for all doses, though rates lagged behind those of other recommended vaccines for teens. From 2011 and 2012, there were no statistically significant changes in coverage. The percentage of girls initiating the HPV vaccine series did not improve. The number of girls receiving all three recommended doses of HPV vaccine failed to improve as well.
Interim report for Industrial organisation in China: Theory building and analysis of new dimensions, IDE-JETRO, Fiscal year 2016

Many indigenous Chinese firms have become outward looking for further growth. It is known that the productivities of internationalizing firms are higher on average than those of their non-internationalizing counterparts. As predicted, Chinese firms with increasing technological capabilities also have been accelerating overseas operations. The formation of technological capabilities is, however, different among firms. In this case study, we analyse the formation of technological capabilities in China’s home appliance and electronics industry, focusing on the technological gaps between foreign and Chinese firms. We show that when technological gaps are smaller, firms have possibilities to increase technological capabilities by acquiring businesses of firms in developed countries. However, in the telecommunication equipment industry, wherein bigger gaps exist, it is still difficult to buy major competitors because they retain competitiveness. Moreover, since business opportunities in new markets are increasing and the hurdles for starting businesses are decreasing, even startups from developing countries have opportunities to seize first-mover advantages.
A penalty method for PDE-constrained optimization

We present a method for solving PDE constrained optimization problems based on a penalty formulation. This method aims to combine advantages of both full-space and reduced methods by exploiting a large searchspace (consisting of both control and state variables) while allowing for an efficient implementation that avoids storing and updating the state-variables. This leads to a method that has roughly the same per-iteration complexity as conventional reduced approaches while defining an objective that is less non-linear in the control variable by implicitly relaxing the constraint. We apply the method to a seismic inverse problem where it leads to a particularly efficient implementation when compared to a conventional reduced approach as it avoids the use of adjoint state-variables. Numerical examples illustrate the approach and suggest that the proposed formulation can indeed mitigate some of the well-known problems with local minima in the seismic inverse problem. Released to public domain under Creative Commons license type BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Copyright (c) 2013 SLIM group @ The University of British Columbia.
The problem with problem‐based medical education: Promises not kept

More than a decade after a student‐centered, problem‐based learning (PBL) was implemented at many medical schools in the United States and other countries world wide, the debate about the merits of PBL medical education continues to embroil its proponents and those who favor the more traditional lecture‐based approach to learning. The author, while believing that the premise of PBL medical education is still valid, is disappointed that poor implementation of PBL has compromised its potential. Several reasons that may explain why PBL has failed to live up to its promises and expectations include: first, inadequate support of the curriculum from basic scientists who either do not support the concept itself or who place much greater value on research than on teaching; second, poor oversight and inadequate assessment of the PBL curriculum on the part of administrators and faculty charged with its implementation; and third, excessive reliance on insufficiently knowledgeable or motivated clinician educators to teach basic science information and principles in the latter years of the curriculum. This essay is intended to stimulate discussion and analysis of the extent to which PBL medical education has failed to deliver on its promises.
Prediction of marital instability: Couple intimacy and relational maintenance strategy

The aim of present study was to Prediction of marital instability based on couple intimacy and relational maintenance strategy in married men and women. This research is a descriptivecorrelation. 170 married education teachers in gonbad kavous (70 men and 100women) were selected by stratified random sampling method and completed Marital Instability Index, intimacy scale and Relational Maintenance Strategy Measure. Data analysis was performed through Pearson correlative coefficient and multiple regressions. The results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between couple intimacy and relational maintenance strategy with marital instability and couple intimacy and relational maintenance strategy can predict marital instability. According to these finding, it can be concluded that couple intimacy and relational maintenance strategy have an effective role in marital instability.
Item Analysis and Teachers’ Factors in Designing a Test

Abstract—Generally, a test is administered to measure students' performance in certain skills and/or topics. Specifically, in formal school, semester tests are conducted as a review to discover students' achievement after learning for six months. This study aimed to analyze the tests constructed by teachers at Junior High Schools in one of the regions in Riau. The focus of this study was item analysis and teachers' factors which affect the effectiveness of the test items. Evaluation research was conducted in order to answer the research questions. The data were taken from four semester tests designed by four different teachers of eight grade of junior high school in the region. Furthermore, an interview was also conducted to the teachers to know teachers' factors that influence the effectiveness of the test items. The results of this study reveal that the test was dominated by moderate items and those items are functioned well. However, most of the items cannot discriminate between high and low students. In addition, it is found that the first teachers' factor significantly affecting the effectiveness of the test items is training on test construction, then followed by teachers' experience in constructing a test. It is expected that the authority could select more experienced teachers to design the tests and frequently facilitate the teachers with training on test construction to enhance teachers' competence in designing tests.
Double-layer graphene on photonic crystal waveguide electro-absorption modulator with 12 GHz bandwidth

Abstract Graphene has been widely used in silicon-based optical modulators for its ultra-broadband light absorption and ultrafast optoelectronic response. By incorporating graphene and slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguide (PhCW), here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a unique double-layer graphene electro-absorption modulator in telecommunication applications. The modulator exhibits a modulation depth of 0.5 dB/μm with a bandwidth of 13.6 GHz, while graphene coverage length is only 1.2 μm in simulations. We also fabricated the graphene modulator on silicon platform, and the device achieved a modulation bandwidth at 12 GHz. The proposed graphene-PhCW modulator may have potentials in the applications of on-chip interconnections.
User Experience Using Physiological Measurements

Objectives: Cued-recall debrief has been used to successfully re-immerse test participants in past experiences, with the intention of removing memory biases such as the peak-end effect. We explore the relationship of physiological responses during system interaction and re-immersion, and the effects of intermediate time delays and stimuli. Method: Test participants usability tested an email client with seeded usability problems. During system interaction and re-immersion, physiological responses were recorded using EEG, EDA, and HR sensors. Between system interaction and re-immersion, each participant was subjected to intermediate time delays and stimuli in the form of imagery. Results: The data was synchronized using recorded video material, and temporally re-aligned using dynamic time warping. Following, the data was analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation and ANOVA. We found statistically significant correlations between system interaction and re-immersion on the EEG and EDA sensors. Furthermore, we found a statistically significant decrease in correlations over time on the EEG sensor. No significant correlations were found for exposure to stimuli. Conclusion: We found that re-immersion during CRD is detectable on a physiological level using EEG and EDA sensors. Furthermore, we found a decrease in correlation over time for the EEG sensors, while subjection to stimuli showed no significant changes correlations, indicating that intermediate time delay has a larger impact than intermediate stimuli. ACM Classification
Reusing a Compound-Based Infrastructure for Searching and Annotating Video Stories

The fast evolution of technology has led to a growing demand for multimedia data, increasing the amount of research into efficient systems to manage those materials. Significant in those efforts is the work being done by the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) community in processing and retrieving images, along with their further combination with annotations. Nowadays, images play a key role in digital applications. Contextual integration of images with different sources is vital – it involves reusing and aggregating a large amount of information with other media types. In particular, if we consider video data, annotations can be used to summarize textual descriptions and metadata, while images can be used to summarize videos into storyboards, providing an easy way to navigate and to browse large video collections. This has been the goal of a rapidly evolving research area known as video summarization. In this paper, we present a novel approach to reuse a CBIR infrastructure for searching, annotating and publishing video stories, taking advantage of the complex object (CO) concept to integrate resources. Our approach relies on a specific component technology (Digital Content Component DCC) to encapsulate the CBIR-annotation related tasks and integrate them with video summarization techniques. Such a strategy provides an effective way to reuse, compose, and aggregate both content and processing software. KeywordsComplex Object; CBIR; Video Stories; Annotation; Reuse
GIST: Gesture-free Interaction by the Status of Thumb; an interaction technique for Virtual Environments

User interface has special importance in immersive virtual environments. Interactions based on the simple and conceivable gestures of a hand may enhance immersivity of a Virtual Environment (VE). However, due to the structural issues like small size and complex shape of human hand, recognition of hand gestures are more challenging. This work introduces a novel interaction technique to perform the basic interaction tasks by the simple movement of hand instead of distinct gestures. With an ordinary camera, the fist posture of hand is segmented out from the image stream using the optimal segmentation model. Like pressing a button with a thumb, the status of thumb is traced for the activation or deactivation of the interactions. After the activation of interaction, the trajectory of hand is followed to manipulate a virtual object about an arbitrary axis. Without training and comparison of gestures, the basic interactions required in a VE are performed by the perceptive movement of a hand. By incorporating image processing in the realm of VE, the technique is implemented in a case-study project; FIRST (Feasible Interaction by Recognizing the Status of Thumb). A group of 12 users evaluated the system in a moderate lighting condition. Outcomes of the evaluation revealed that the technique is suitable for Virtual Reality (VR) applications.
Rehabilitation programs and return to work outcomes

Rehabilitation programs are becoming an increasingly important component in the management of workers' compensation cases involving permanent or temporary disability. In this paper we report the results of an empirical investigation based on 3,211 clients of rehabilitation providers in Western Australia. The issues addressed include investigation into variation in the cost of rehabilitation services, and the source of referrals to rehabilitation providers. These matters are linked to an analysis of return to work rates, where we seek to identify potentially important determinants of a successful transition back into the workforce. In connection with this last important issue, we find systematic variation between return to work rates and the extent of disability, migrant status, age and rehabilitation status.
Stochastic proximal splitting algorithm for stochastic composite minimization

Supported by the recent contributions in multiple branches, the first-order splitting algorithms became central for structured nonsmooth optimization. In the large-scale or noisy contexts, when only stochastic information on the smooth part of the objective function is available, the extension of proximal gradient schemes to stochastic oracles is based on proximal tractability of the nonsmooth component and it has been deeply analyzed in the literature. However, there remained gaps illustrated by composite models where the nonsmooth term is not proximally tractable anymore. In this note we tackle composite optimization problems, where the access only to stochastic information on both smooth and nonsmooth components is assumed, using a stochastic proximal first-order scheme with stochastic proximal updates. We provide the iteration complexity (in expectation) under the strong convexity assumption on the objective function.
The role of leptin and adiponectin in chronic liver diseases

SUMMARY Adipose tissue is currently considered to be a metabolically active organ that secretes hormones which regulate energy balance. Leptin and adiponectin are its main metabolic products and have been implicated in a wide spectrum of human diseases including liver diseases. These two hormones have been initially studied in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is considered to be part of the metabolic syndrome. Leptin seems to have fibrogenic potential and serum leptin levels have been found to be higher in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) than in controls. On the other hand, serum adiponectin levels have been found to be inversely related to the presence of NASH. As steatosis is a common histopathological finding of chronic hepatitis C, serum leptin and adiponectin levels were measured in such patients and found to be significantly higher and lower compared to healthy controls, respectively. However, it is not yet clear whether they are just markers of liver steatosis and fibrosis or whether they have a direct pathogenic or protective role. Therefore, the associations between leptin-adiponectin and liver steatosis and/or fibrosis should be evaluated further in prospectively designed studies including larger cohorts of NASH and chronic hepatitis C patients with detailed assessment of metabolic and several potential confounding factors. Moreover, their measurement in other liver diseases, which are considered to be infrequently associated with steatosis, such as chronic hepatitis B, would clarify if their action is mediated by or is independent of steatosis.
On normalizers of maximal tori in classical Lie groups

The normalizer $N_G(H_G)$ of a maximal torus $H_G$ in a semisimple complex Lie group $G$ does not in general allow a presentation as a semidirect product of $H_G$ and the corresponding Weyl group $W_G$. Meanwhile, splitting holds for classical groups corresponding to the root systems $A_\ell$, $B_\ell$, $D_\ell$. For the remaining classical groups corresponding to the root systems $C_\ell$ there still exists an embedding of the Tits extension of $W_G$ into normalizer $N_G(H_G)$. We provide explicit unified construction of the lifts of the Weyl groups into normalizers of maximal tori for classical Lie groups corresponding to the root systems $A_\ell$, $B_\ell$, $D_\ell$ using embeddings into general linear Lie groups. For symplectic series of classical Lie groups we provide an explanation of impossibility of embedding of the Weyl group into the symplectic group. The explicit formula for adjoint action of the lifts of the Weyl groups on $\mathfrak{g}={\rm Lie}(G)$ are given. Finally some examples of the groups closely associated with classical Lie groups are considered.
ALFRED: A Benchmark for Interpreting Grounded Instructions for Everyday Tasks

We present ALFRED (Action Learning From Realistic Environments and Directives), a benchmark for learning a mapping from natural language instructions and egocentric vision to sequences of actions for household tasks. ALFRED includes long, compositional tasks with non-reversible state changes to shrink the gap between research benchmarks and real-world applications. ALFRED consists of expert demonstrations in interactive visual environments for 25k natural language directives. These directives contain both high-level goals like “Rinse off a mug and place it in the coffee maker. ” and low-level language instructions like “Walk to the coffee maker on the right. ” ALFRED tasks are more complex in terms of sequence length, action space, and language than existing vision- and-language task datasets. We show that a baseline model based on recent embodied vision-and-language tasks performs poorly on ALFRED, suggesting that there is significant room for developing innovative grounded visual language understanding models with this benchmark.
Unambiguous Formulation for Heat and Work in Arbitrary Quantum Evolution

Given a trajectory described by a time-dependent density matrix of an arbitrary open quantum system, we formulate a general and unambiguous method to separate the internal energy change of the system into one part which entails pure entropy change and another part with no entropy change. We identify these parts as heat and work, respectively. Using a universal dynamical equation for a trajectory, we specify a dissipative part of the energy change of work type, which contains a counterdibatic drive term naturally arising from the dynamics along the given trajectory. This enables us to attribute heat and work, respectively, to dissipative and coherent parts of the universal dynamical equation. We illustrate our formalism with an example.
Research on dynamic target detection and tracking system of hexapod robot

Dynamic target detection and target tracking are hot issues in the field of image. In order to explore its application value in the field of mobile robot, a dynamic target detection and tracking system is designed based on hexapod robot. Firstly, the dynamic target detection method is introduced with region merging and adaptive external point filtering based on motion compensation method. This method achieves the accurate compensation of the moving background through symmetric matching and adaptive external point filtering, and achieves complete detection of non-rigid objects by region merging. Secondly, the application of target tracking algorithm based on KCF in hexapod robot platform is studied, and the Angle tracking of moving target is realized by adaptive adjustment of tracking speed. The last, the architecture of robot monitoring system is designed, which consists of operator, processor, hexapod robot and vision sensor, and the moving object detection and tracking algorithm proposed in this paper is applied to the system. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm can effectively detect and track the moving target when applied to the system of the mobile hexapod robot.
A Study of Terms, Concepts, and Survey Questions

This study was conducted for Save the Children US / Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) to provide information for use in the formulation of survey questions about giving birth immediate newborn care practices and postnatal care. The overall study objective was to provide guidance on what questions can be reasonably asked in a newborn care module prepared for use in large sample surveys. Of greatest interest were the events that followed delivery and that involved newborn care and postnatal care for the mother and the newborn. The research considered whether or not the events asked about were usually recalled by women whether or not the terms used were clear to respondents and whether the answers provided could be easily and unambiguously coded. We also reflected on how well respondents understood the questions about a ‘health check’ for themselves and the baby and on challenges in interpreting survey data collected on health checkups.