Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ADHD Malingering In A College Setting

An increase in the number of adults seeking ADHD evaluations as college students in recent years raises concerns of malingered or exaggerated attentional impairments. Some students may falsely report ADHD symptoms in an attempt to obtain academic accommodations as well as prescriptions for stimulant medications. Meanwhile, little attention has been given to the development of either self-reported measures or performance-based tests that can ensure the validity of reported or exhibited attentional symptoms. In 2015, Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS) released an improved version of a continuous performance test, the Conners Continuous Performance 3 Edition (Conners CPT 3), which may have improved ability to differentiate genuine from feigned attentional deficit. At this time, no prior studies are known to have investigated the ability of the Conners CPT 3 to distinguish between individuals with ADHD and those mimicking attentional symptoms, and to delineate how they differ. In this study, college students with no history or diagnosis of ADHD were asked to mimic symptoms of attentional impairment while completing Conners CPT 3 assessment. Though this study is limited by small sample size and is lacking in sample diversity, significant differences were found for many variables with a few showing non-overlapping confidence intervals. The results indicate that students exaggerated the presumed ADHD symptoms, on Conners CPT 3 variables such as Detectability, Omissions, Hit Reaction Time, and Hit Reaction Time Standard Deviation. This suggests that when subjects with no history of attentional impairment attempt to present ADHD symptoms, they generally make more mistakes than clinical samples with attentional dysfunction; frequently by reacting to stimuli discriminatively while responding less to target stimuli. In addition, simulators were seen to produce slower responses, with more variability than individuals with ADHD. These results offer initial evidence that standard neuropsychological measures of sustained attention and vigilance to task may be useful in identifying those feigning or exaggerating attentional impairment. Implications for clinical practice, assessment, and future research are described. ADHD Malingering in a College Setting A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Department of Psychology Abilene Christian University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science By Peerasin Chatchawarat
THE SOURCE OF LIST STRENGTH EFFECT WITHIN THE RETRIEVING EFFECTIVELY FROM MEMORY FRAMEWORK: THE LEVEL OF COMPETITION

To study episodic memory in a laboratory, we study interference within a list of stimuli. With list strength paradigm, we study how such interference is affected by how well stimuli are encoded, and the encoding strength of other items in the list. A stimulus can be weak or strong, and it can be in a pure list, composed of all weak or all strong stimuli, or a mixed list, composed of both weak and strong stimuli. A list strength effect (LSE) refers to the interaction between stimulus strength and list type. In free recall, where the cue used at test is only context, we have consistently observed a LSE. Yet, in cued recall, where the cue is made of item, we have consistently observed a null LSE. Thus, we attributed the source of LSE to the type of cue used at retrieval. Based on REM, this framing is potentially misleading. It is not the type of cue (context or item) that is critical, but the level of competition. Typical experiments have confounded these two factors because they have manipulated item to create a low level of competition within a list, while context to create a high level of competition. Therefore, in this study, we manipulated the level of competition (between-subject) and the type of cue (withinsubject) simultaneously on the list strength paradigm. Data shows LSE was determined by the level of competition, not the type of cue probing memory at test. Fitting REM to the data confirms this statement. Nevertheless, whether memory was cued with context or item affected recall performance differently. THE SOURCE OF LIST STRENGTH EFFECT WITHIN THE RETRIEVING EFFECTIVELY FROM MEMORY FRAMEWORK: THE LEVEL OF COMPETITION
Licensing Conditions and Event Structure of Resultatives *-A Comparative Study between Korean and German

In sentence (1a), the clause Mary painted the door denotes the causing action and the predicate flat, termed a resultative predicate, denotes the result state of the affected object door. In other words, the sentence (1a) semantically entails that the door became black as a result of the painting. In Korean and German, various syntactic formations are employed to express the cause-result relation. Consider the following examples (J.B. Kim (1999), Wechsler/Noh (2001)):
Fig . 1 Progress Continues in Si CMOS Implanted MESFETs-Still Going Strong

GaAs MESFETs have traditionally been the preferred technology for most RFIC applications. The past few years have seen a change, as other GaAs and Si technologies have competed for market share in various areas. This paper reviews that phenomenon and shows that while there are some RF and telecommunication circuits better done in other technologies, MESFETs still have significant advantages in a number of important market segments.
A Leptosphaeria biglobosa ' canadensis ' isolate induced resistance in Brassica juncea L . and Brassica napus L . against Leptosphaeria maculans ( Desm . ) Ces

Blackleg disease severity of Brassica napus (canola) was reduced when canola plants were artificially inoculated with a non-aggressive Leptosphaeria biglobosa ‘canadensis’ isolate prior to inoculation with an aggressive L. maculans isolate. The reduction in blackleg severity by inoculating plants with a non-aggressive Leptosphaeria isolate consistently occurred for both B. napus and B. juncea cultivars. The only cultivars that were not protected were the susceptible control cvs. Karoo and Q2. Inoculation of plants with the L. biglobosa ‘canadensis’ isolate 48 hours after inoculation with the aggressive L. maculans isolate was less effective, with internal infection severity not significantly reduced compared to inoculation with just the L. maculans isolate alone. The use of L. biglobosa ‘canadensis’ as a biological control offers a potential management practice that could complement host resistance.
A New Model and Improved Cable Function for representing The Activating Peripheral Nerves by a Transverse Electric Field during Magnetic Stimulation

The classical cable equation can not predict the excitation of peripheral nerves to transverse field induced by pulse magnetic field. In this paper, a new model, based on tow-stage process, is advanced to represent the response of peripheral nerves to transverse field. The model demonstrates that the excitation results from the net inward current drove by the external field. A modified cable equation is presented which contains both the gradient of longitudinal field and the intensity of transverse field. Using this modified cable equation, the excitation threshold of peripheral nerves in transverse field during MS is obtained. This modified cable equation can be used to represent the response of peripheral nerves to arbitrary electric field
HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE OF AN ORTHORHOMBIC TI-22 AL-25 NB INTERMETALLIC ALLOY

An evaluation of fatigue behavior of the orthorhombic Ti-22Al-25Nb intermetallic alloy with the duplex microstructure has been carried out with high cycle rotary bending fatigue testing at room temperature (RT), 650 and 750 with a test frequency of 50Hz. The testing results show that the fatigue strengths (σ-1) are up to 530MPa at RT, 600MPa at 650 at or more than 1×10cycles, and 500MPa at 750 at 8.34×10cycles. Damage mechanisms at crack initiation sites and crack propagation were investigated with the use of scanning electron microscopy. The fatigue failure mechanisms of the duplex microstructure of the present alloy are simply discussed.
Perfectionism among Adolescents : A Qualitative Study

In this post-millennial era, different generations have different values and ways of living. Millennials most notably tend to work less than older generations do. This degradation that happens in the millennial age motivated the researchers to acquire in-depth portrayal about how academic perfectionism works within the millennial age, particularly among adolescents. This study used the qualitative methodology and phenomenological approach. The study began with the distribution of standardized Hewitt and Flett‟s Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS) questionnaire to several high schools in Malang. The number of subjects was shortlisted and invited to participate in the further in-depth interview were two students who obtained the highest MPS scores and were aligned with the researchers' criteria. Prior to the interview, the researchers compiled several questions based on the Hewitt and Flett‟s (1991) perfectionism theory, which consists of three dimensions: Self-Oriented, Socially-Prescribed, and Other-Oriented. The researchers analyzed the data through Miles and Huberman data analysis procedures.
Typed $\lambda$-calculi with one binder

Type theory was invented at the beginning of the twentieth century with the aim of avoiding the paradoxes which result from the self-application of functions. $\lambda$-calculus was developed in the early 1930s as a theory of functions. In 1940, Church added type theory to his $\lambda$-calculus giving us the influential simply typed $\lambda$-calculus where types were simple and never created by binders (or abstractors). However, realising the limitations of the simply typed $\lambda$-calculus, in the second half of the twentieth century we saw the birth of new more powerful typed $\lambda$-calculi where types are indeed created by abstraction. Most of these calculi use two binders $\lambda$ and $\Pi$ to distinguish between functions (created by $\lambda$-abstraction) and types (created by $\Pi$-abstraction). Moreover, these calculi allow $\beta$-reduction but not $\Pi$-reduction. That is, $(\pi_{x:A}.B)C \rightarrow B[x:=C]$ is only allowed when $\pi$ is $\lambda$ but not when it is $\Pi$. This means that, modern systems do not allow types to have the same instantiation right as functions. In particular, when $b$ has type $B$, the type of $(\lambda_{x:A}.b)C$ is taken immediately to be $B[x:=C]$ instead of $(\Pi_{x:A}.B)C$. Extensions of modern type systems with both $\Pi$-reduction and type instantiation have appeared in (Kamareddine, Bloo and Nederpelt, 1999; Kamareddine and Nederpelt, 1996; Peyton-Jones and Meijer, 1997). This makes the $\lambda$ and $\Pi$ very similar and hence leads to the obvious question: why not use a unique binder instead of the $\lambda$ and $\Pi$? This makes more sense since already, versions of de Bruijn's Automath unified $\lambda$ and $\Pi$ giving more elegant systems. This paper studies the main properties of type systems with unified $\lambda$ and $\Pi$.
A Differential Cytolocalization Assay for Analysis of Macromolecular Assemblies in the Eukaryotic Cytoplasm*S

We have developed a differential cytolocalization assay (DCLA) that allows the observation of cytoplasmic protein/protein interactions in vivo. In the DCLA, interactions are visualized as a relocalization of a green fluorescent protein-tagged “prey” by a membrane-bound “bait. ” This assay was tested and utilized in Caenorhabditis elegans to probe interactions among proteins involved in RNA interference (RNAi) and nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathways. Several previously documented interactions were confirmed with DCLA, whereas uniformly negative results were obtained in several controls in which no interaction was expected. Novel interactions were also observed, including the association of SMG-5, a protein required for NMD, to several components of the RNAi pathway. The DCLA can be readily carried out under diverse conditions, allowing a dynamic assessment of protein interactions in vivo. We used this property to test a subset of the RNAi and NMD interactions in animals in which proteins central to each mechanism were mutated; several key associations in each machinery that can occur in vivo in the absence of a functional process were identified.
A novel mass-spring model with triangle meshes for modeling membranes

Mass-Spring Models (MSM) are wildly used to simulate the mechanical behavior of deformable bodies because of their simplicity and computational e ciency. However, the major di culty in using MSMs lies on the spring sti ness estimation since the parameters are typically determined through trial-and-error. Only a few contributions are made to establish the analytical relation between the spring parameters and elastic material properties. In this paper, a novel MSM with three additional nodes (MSMTN) for the membrane is presented based on continuum mechanics of deformable objects. The spring parameters of the MSMTN in triangle elements have analytical expressions suited to arbitrary isotropic material parameters and element shapes without any limitation. The proposed MSMTN can achieve same element sti ness matrix with the one in nite element model (FEM) for triangle membrane element, thereby the MSMTN can reach the similar computational accuracy with FEM. This feature of MSMTN makes up the weakness in computation accuracy of classical MSMs e ectively. Numerical simulations of tensile membranes show that the MSMTN and improved deformation algorithm have satisfactory accuracy and good generality.
Cochlear mechanics: nonlinear behavior in two-tone responses as reflected in cochlear-nerve-fiber responses and in ear-canal sound pressure.

Over the last five years, we have studied spatial distributions of cochlear responses to single‐ and two‐tone stimuli by recording sequentially from as many as 418 cochlear nerve fibers in each cat and obtaining plots of amplitude and phase of response components at primary and distortion frequencies. We have observed: (1) that such responses to two‐tone stimuli of sound pressure levels (SPL) as low as 34 dB re 20 μN/m2 rms show noticeable deviations from linear behavior; (2) that two major forms of nonlinear behavior in responses to two‐tone stimuli are distortion products and two‐tone suppression; (3) that the spatial distributions of amplitude and phase of (2f1‐f2) and (f2‐f1) components in response to two‐tone stimuli are similar, in the region near and apical to the distortion‐frequency place, to those of the fs component in response to a single‐tone stimulus whose frequency fs is equal to the particular distortion frequency, and dissimilar in the more basal region; and (4) that each of the f1 and f2.
Action Recognition Based on Depth Motion Map and Hybrid Classifier

In order to efficiently extract and encode 3D information of human action from depth images, we present a feature extraction and recognition method based on depth video sequences. First, depth images are projected continuously onto three planes of Cartesian coordinate system, and differential images of the respective projection surfaces are accumulated to obtain the complete 3D information of the depthmotionmaps (DMMs). Then, discriminative completed LBP (disCLBP) encodes depthmotionmaps to extract effective human action information. A hybrid classifier combined with Extreme LearningMachine (ELM) and collaborative representation classification (CRC) is employed to reduce the computational complexity while reducing the impact of noise. The proposed method is tested on the MSR-Action3D database; the experimental results show that it achieves 96.0% accuracy and well performs better robustness comparing to other popular approaches.
Deliberation after Consensus: Introduction to the Symposium

This editorial introduction presents an overview of the themes explored in the symposium on Deliberation after Consensus. For all the talk of its obsolescence and irrelevance, the concept of consensus still remains centrally contested through generations of deliberative democracy scholarship. In face of criticism for being neither empirically feasible nor normatively desirable, some deliberative theorists have moved away from consensus-oriented teleology and argued in favor of other legitimate outcomes of deliberations. Other theorists have resisted this move, claiming that the aim of deliberation implies that consensus should remain as a regulative ideal for deliberative outcomes. Engaging with these debates about the role of consensus in theories of deliberative democracy, this symposium brings together a selection of innovative, original research articles that raise novel questions about the role consensus could and should play in democratic deliberation and in a deliberative democracy. This introduction offers an overview of the debate over consensus drawing on the notion of successive generations of deliberative democracy research. Our aim is to demonstrate that the view of consensus has changed during generations of deliberative scholarships, but also that some scholars still defend the normative importance of the meaning of consensus once developed by the first generation. Consequently, there are tendencies of both change and continuity in the debate over consensus in deliberative theory. We conclude this introduction by providing a brief synopsis of each paper.
Icarus: Towards a multistore database system

The last years have seen a vast diversification on the database market. In contrast to the “one-size-fits-all” paradigm according to which systems have been designed in the past, today's database management systems (DBMS) are tuned for particular workloads. This has led to DBMSs optimized for high performance, high throughput read/write workloads in online transaction processing (OLTP) and systems optimized for complex analytical queries (OLAP). However, this approach reaches a limit when systems have to deal with mixed workloads that are neither pure OLAP nor pure OLTP workloads. In such cases, multistores are increasingly gaining popularity. Rather than supporting one single database paradigm and addressing one particular workload, multistores encompass several DBMSs that store data in different schemas and allow to route requests on a per-query level to the most appropriate system. In this paper, we introduce the multistore ICARUS. In our evaluation based on a workload that combines OLTP and OLAP elements, we show that ICARUS is able to speed-up queries up to a factor of three by properly routing queries to the best underlying DBMS.
Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus with Ribosomal Mutations Conferring Resistance to Macrolides

ABSTRACT Six strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cystic fibrosis patients after treatment with azithromycin were cross-resistant to azithromycin and erythromycin. None of the isolates contained erm or msr(A) genes, but they all carried either A2058G/U or A2059G mutations within the rrl genes, with a majority of the rRNA copies bearing the mutation. One strain displayed an additional mutation in the rplV gene, encoding the L22 ribosomal protein.
CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING ACTIVITIES OF BACTERIAL ENDOPHYTES AND THEIR ANTIBACTERIAL POTENTIAL ISOLATED FROM CITRUS

In this study screening of novel bacterial endophytes isolated from the leaves of citrus were performed for plant growth promoting activities which include Indole Acetic Acid (IAA), Siderophores and phosphate Solubilization. Isolated bacterial endophytes were also tested for the screening of cell wall hydrolyzing enzymes production such as cellulase, chitinase, protease, pectinase and lipase as well as antibacterial activity. Thirteen genera of different bacteria were isolated and characterized from twelve different varieties of citrus on the basis of morphological, biochemical and molecular 16S rRNA. Neighbor joining phylogenetic dandrogram showed that all the isolates have genetic relatedness among them. According to results 75-80% of the strains were positive for plant growth promoting (PGP) and enzymatic activities of test strains except few of them. However antibacterial activity were found positive in 68.75% of test cultures while five isolates Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumonia, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus cereus did not show any antibacterial activity against any of the targeted bacterial strains. The data presented in this article is unique and this type of work on these bacterial species has not been reported from citrus. The findings will be helpful for the use of these endophytes to enhance the plant growth and yield. On the other hand, the study will be equally beneficial to the scientist and farmers community.
In vitro vitellogenin synthesis in primary cultures of tilapia hepatocytes

Primary cultures of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) hepatocytes were developed and effects of several hormones on in vitro production of female-specific proteins (vitellogenin; VTG) were investigated. The hepatocytes were maintained for more than 2 weeks in Leibovitz-15 medium without the addition of any serum components. Absence of insulin in the culture media did not affect either cell attachment or monolayer formation. When VTG levels in the culture media were measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using antibody against tilapia egg homogenate (a-E), VTG was detected in the medium for at least 8 days from hepatocytes isolated from a vitellogenic female but not from a male fish. However, the addition of estradiol-17b (E2) to the media of hepatocyte cultures from the male tilapia resulted in the elevation of VTG. Insulin and ovine growth hormone treatments did not have a significant effect on VTG induction. These results suggest that E2 is a major steroid hormone to induce VTG synthesis in the tilapia hepatocytes and that involvement of other hormones in the vitellogenic process is different among teleost species.
Instantaneous Symbol Error Outage Probability over Fading Channels with Imperfect Channel State Information

We propose to use the probability of instantaneous symbol error outage (ISEO) as a performance measure for digital communication over wireless channels. It is defined as the probability that the instantaneous symbol error probability (ISEP) exceeds an ISEP threshold. We analyze the impact of imperfect channel state information (CSI) on the ISEO probability over Rayleigh fading channels. A simple, but tight, closed-form upper bound on the ISEO probability is obtained as a function of the channel estimation mean square error (MSE). It is shown that the ISEO performance improves rapidly with decreasing MSE, when MSE drops below a certain value, which is determined partly by the ISEP threshold chosen. As CSI is commonly obtained by pilot-symbol-assisted channel estimation in packet transmission, we obtain the optimum allocation of pilot and data energy in a frame that minimizes the ISEO probability, which also minimizes the instantaneous packet error outage probability.