Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning Entrepreneurs: Learning and Innovation in Small Companies

This article concerns agricultural entrepreneurs involved in organising their learning so as to develop innovative and learning enterprises. In hi-tech sectors, such as Dutch agriculture, this learning and innovative capacity is particularly essential for economic survival. Reviewing the literature, we conclude that innovation can be seen as informal learning processes, in which social networks play an important role. Workers learn by sharing knowledge in the working team and employers learn by creating networks of colleagues and advisers. The results of two research projects suggest that interactive learning and innovation should be analysed from a perspective of uncertainty. Learning skills for interactive innovation, as part of the entrepreneurial craft, should comprise the capability of selecting impulses and combining newly selected impulses with existing skills and routines. Paradoxically, they need new impulses from weak, unknown networks to be continuously innovative. Innovative learning involves balancing the chaos of uncertainty with the old grooves of experience. Knowing how to escape this paradox forms the core competence of innovative entrepreneurship.
Life is pretty meaningful.

The human experience of meaning in life is widely viewed as a cornerstone of well-being and a central human motivation. Self-reports of meaning in life relate to a host of important functional outcomes. Psychologists have portrayed meaning in life as simultaneously chronically lacking in human life as well as playing an important role in survival. Examining the growing literature on meaning in life, we address the question "How meaningful is life, in general? " We review possible answers from various psychological sources, some of which anticipate that meaning in life should be low and others that it should be high. Summaries of epidemiological data and research using two self-report measures of meaning in life suggest that life is pretty meaningful. Diverse samples rate themselves significantly above the midpoint on self-reports of meaning in life. We suggest that if meaning in life plays a role in adaptation, it must be commonplace, as our analysis suggests.
Supervisory predictive control based on least square support vector machine and improved particle swarm optimization

Least square support vector machine is a kind of thought to solve structural risk minimization method, which is used for system identification, nonlinear control, and fault diagnosis, and has important research value. Based on the identification function of least square support vector machine, according to the identified parameters, which are used in supervisory predictive control algorithm, and for function optimization problems, particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to solve the dynamic setpoint optimization problems. Simulation results show that least square support vector machine algorithm learns fast, has good nonlinear modeling and generalization ability, and the supervisory predictive control algorithm based on least square support vector machine and the particle swarm optimization has better control performance.
Enzyme activities and activity profiles in muscle fibers of dystrophic, immature‐normal, and adult‐normal BL6 mice

Enzyme activities of energy metabolism were determined in both homogenates and single fibers of immature‐normal (IN), adult‐normal (AN), and adult‐dystrophic (AD) tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of BL6 mice. Mitochondrial enzyme activities were similar in AN and AD, whereas lower activities were found in IN. Creatine kinase, glycogenolytic, and glycolytic enzyme activities were reduced but glucose 6‐phosphate dehydrogenase was elevated in AD and IN as compared to AN. IN and AD both showed an increase in the H‐subunit of lactate dehydrogenase. Microphotometric measurements of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) revealed large fiber differences in AN whereas smaller scattering was observed both in IN and AD. Although similarities exist between enzyme and isozyme patterns of anaerobic metabolism in AD and IN, this does not hold for mitochondrial enzymes.
Usefulness and validity of post-traumatic stress disorder as a psychiatric category

Post-traumatic stress disorder has attracted controversy and scepticism since its first appearance in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in the 1980s.1 Over the years the diagnostic criteria have been refined and revised, but the causal relation between the diagnosis and an external trauma has remained fundamentally unchanged. Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with clinically important distress that transcends ordinary misery and unhappiness as well as with disruption and impairment of daily functioning. We argue that the diagnosis is valid and important for both patients and doctors. #### Summary points Post-traumatic stress disorder is a valid and useful diagnosis but is not the only psychiatric response to trauma Prevalence in the general population is estimated between 1% and 7.8% The disorder is associated with high rates of psychiatric comorbidity and impairment in social and occupational functioning Post-traumatic stress disorder can be differentiated from other psychiatric diagnoses by biochemical, neuroanatomical, and phenomenological characteristics Concerns about the diagnosis in victims of chronic and lifelong trauma could be resolved by further refinement of the diagnostic criteria One of the main criticisms of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder is that it has been constructed out of sociopolitical ideas rather than psychiatric ones.2 However, most psychiatric conditions reflect changes in human thinking over time.3 For example, changes in the political climate and fashion were more influential than advances in medical research in altering the categorisation of homosexuality as a disease. Social factors such as poverty also contribute to mental illness, stress, suicide, family integration, and substance misuse.4 Sociocultural factors may determine whether the person is able to cope with the potentially traumatising experiences that set the stage for the development of post-traumatic stress disorder.5 The diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder was developed partly as …
Attention Speeds Binocular Rivalry

During binocular rivalry, incompatible images presented dichoptically compete for perceptual dominance. It has long been debated whether binocular rivalry can be controlled by attention. Most studies have shown that voluntary control over binocular rivalry is limited. We sought to remove attention from binocular rivalry by presenting a concurrent task. Diverting attention slowed the rivalry alternation rate, and did so in proportion to the difficulty of the concurrent task. Even a very demanding distractor task, however, did not arrest rivalry alternations completely. Given that diverting attention was equivalent to lowering the contrast of the rival stimuli, the ability of attention to speed binocular rivalry is most likely due to an increase in the effective contrast of the stimuli through boosting the gain of the cortical response. This increase in effective contrast will ultimately lead to a perceptual switch, thereby limiting voluntary control. Thus, attention speeds rivalry alternations, but has no inherent control over the rivalry process.
Smart Grid ICT Research Lines out of the European Project INTEGRIS

The Smart Grid is at the same time a part of the Internet of Things and an example of a cyber-physical system where the physical power grid is surrounded by many intelligent and communication devices that allow for an enhanced management of the power network itself. The Smart Grid may bring great performance benefits to the society in terms of enabling the massive introduction of renewable energy sources in the power grid, the reduction of carbon emissions and improved sustainability among others. However, it may also bring big computer networking challenges to achieve the needed high reliability and low latency and even risks in terms of cybersecurity since it opens the power system to at least the same threats faced by the Internet. In fact, it is reasonable to think that the vulnerabilities will be still larger, considering the novel, heterogeneous and distributed nature of the Smart Grid. Furthermore, cybersecurity in Smart Grids is essential for the survival and feasibility of this electricity concept, thus making the risks still more relevant. Such ICT systems and computer networks supporting the Smart Grid concept need to be very efficient and to comply with very stringent requirements, at least for some of the services to be provided. They also need to efficiently integrate and manage in a single network a vast array of technologies among which diverse link layer technologies, meshed and non-meshed Ethernet networks, different cybersecurity protocols, networking at different layers, cognitive systems and storage and replication of data. The objective is to provide a system capable of providing adequate service to the wide array of applications foreseen for the Smart Grid but the complexity of the problem is really impressive and it is not possible to focus all of its aspects in a single paper or even project. The present paper presents these requirements, the solutions and results developed and tested in the FP7 European Project INTEGRIS as well as the future challenges and research lines identified as a result of the project and some prospective solutions.
Cord blood molecular biomarkers of eosinophilopoiesis: Kinetic analysis of GATA‐1, MBP1 and IL‐5Rα mRNA expression

Ellis AK, Ackerman SJ, Crawford L, Du J, Bedi R, Denburg JA. Cord blood molecular biomarkers of eosinophilopoiesis: Kinetic analysis of GATA‐1, MBP1 and IL‐5Rα mRNA expression. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2010: 21: 640–648. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S
Setting Overweight Adults in Motion: The Role of Health Beliefs

Objective: Health beliefs of overweight adults who did and did not enter an exercise program were compared to identify possible factors that hamper people to enter such a program. Method: Participants (n = 116, 78 women and 38 men) were overweight adults without comorbidities. Self-report instruments examined the burden of suffering, beliefs related to physical exercise and obesity, somatic complaints, and obesity-related quality of life of new participants of exercise programs versus sedentary non-exercisers. Results: The mean BMI of exercisers and non-exercisers was 34.6 ± 7.0 and 32.8 ± 5.8 kg/m2, respectively. Fear of injury was higher and perceived health benefits of exercise were lower in the non-exercisers who also more often believed their overweight to be irreversible and attributed overweight to physical causes. The burden of suffering, somatic complaints, and quality of life of the groups were not significantly different. Fear of injury remained a significant predictor of belonging to the non-exercise group after controlling for other variables and multiple testing. Conclusion: Research is needed to examine whether the inflow of overweight people in exercise groups increases when health beliefs are recognized, considered, and discussed both in interventions and in public health campaigns promoting physical exercise in sedentary, overweight people.
Low voltage operated piezoelectric RF MEMS switches for advanced handset applications

In this paper, fully integrated piezoelectrically actuated RF MEMS switches have been designed, fabricated, and characterized by using silicon bulk micromachining technology for advanced mobile communication systems with multi-bandlmode operatioa The proposed RF MEMS dccontact switches are comprised of four piezoelectric cantilever actuators, a contact metal pad, and a suspended CPW signal transmission line above the silicon substrate. The measured operation de bias voltages are ranged from 2.5 to 3 volts by varying the thickness of the cantilever piezoelectric actuators, which are well agreed with the simulation results. The measured isolation and insertion loss of the fabricated RFMEMS switch with a suspended CPW transmission line are 43dB and -0.23dB at a frequency of 2 GHz and an actuation voltage of 3 volts, respectively. It also has escellent RF performance characteristics at ultra-mde frequency bands. The switchlng on/off time of the fabricated switch is 4 psec at rising and 20 psec at falling actuation, respectively.
Rodent malaria parasites suffer from the presence of conspecific clones in three-clone Plasmodium chabaudi infections

We studied infection dynamics of Plasmodium chabaudi in mice infected with 3 genetically distinct clones – 1 less virulent than the other 2 – either on their own or in mixtures. During the acute phase of infection, total numbers of asexual parasites in mixed-clone infections were equal to those produced by the 3 clones alone, suggesting strong in-host competition among clones. During the chronic phase of the infection, mixed-clone infections produced more asexual parasites than single-clone infections, suggesting lower levels of competition than during the acute phase, and indicating that a genetically diverse infection is harder to control by the host immune system. Transmission potential over the whole course of infection was lower from mixed-clone infections than from the average of the 3 single-clone infections. These results suggest that in-host competition reduces both growth rate and probability of transmission for individual parasite clones.
Embolie pulmonaire aiguë : apport pronostique à court terme de l’angioscanner thoracique

Introduction : l’embolie pulmonaire (EP) est une maladie frequente, et grave. La stratification de son risque pronostique est importante, dans le cadre d’une organisation optimale des soins, afin d’ameliorer la qualite de vie des patients et d’economiser les ressources sanitaires. L’angioscanner thoracique fait partie integrante de la strategie diagnostique, mais il a ete montre qu’il avait egalement un role pronostique dans l’EP. Cependant, les etudes divergent sur les marqueurs pronostiques scanographiques les plus pertinents. L’objectif de l’etude est de mettre en evidence un ou plusieurs marqueurs scanographiques predictifs de la gravite hemodynamique de l’EP, chez les patients consultants aux urgences. Materiel et Methodes : 113 patients consultants aux urgences ont ete inclus dans l’etude. Six criteres scanographiques ont ete releves pour etudier leur impact pronostique : l’indice d’obstruction vasculaire de Qanadli, le rapport des diametres en petit axe VD/VG, la deviation du septum interventriculaire, la presence d’un reflux de produit de contraste dans la veine cave inferieure, la dilatation du tronc de l’artere pulmonaire, et la presence d’un infarctus pulmonaire. Le critere de jugement principal etait la gravite hemodynamique de l’EP, definie par la presence d’une EP massive. Resultats : 10,6% des patients presentaient une EP massive. Seuls trois criteres etaient fortement correles a la gravite hemodynamique de l’EP : l’index de Qanadli, le rapport VD/VG et la deviation septale. Conclusion : le rapport VD/VG, la deviation du septum interventriculaire et l’indice de Qanadli sont de bons marqueurs de la gravite hemodynamique de l’EP au scanner.
Static Aeroelastic Model Validation of Membrane Micro Air Vehicle Wings

A low-aspect-ratio, low-Reynolds-number membrane wing has been identified as a viable platform for micro air vehicle applications. Desirable flying qualities include high lift and larger stability margins. Several challenges are associated with the numerical modeling of such a wing, including highly three-dimensional flows, separation bubbles, and nonlinear membrane behavior. A thorough model validation and system identification effort is therefore required. A novel experimental setup integrates a wind tunnel with a visual image correlation system for simultaneous measurement of wing displacements, strains, and aerodynamic loads. These three metrics are used for a direct comparison of numerical and experimental data for both pre- and poststall angles of attack. Suitable correspondence is demonstrated for moderate angles of attack; methods for increasing the model fidelity can be made for angles with poor predictive capability. Computed flow structures reveal further information concerning the aeroelastic behavior of membrane wings.
Endothelial Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease: Critical Target for Cell -Based Therapies

This review briefly summarizes how cell -based therapeutic interventions are being developed and applied to treat endothelial dysfunction (ED) as a critical clinical target. ED directly contributes to the onset and prognosis for all of the major forms of cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, pulmonary artery hypertension, peripheral hypertension, stroke, myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. Current pharmacological therapies used to t reat ED are discussed and compared with newer strategies employing endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and other stem cells for tissue repair/regeneration therapies. Cell -based therapies to treat ED are still largely experimental but they are emerging in tand represent a promising avenue for new interventional options to combat cardiovascular disease and improve patient outcomes.
Early Trauma and Subsequent Antisocial Behavior in Adults

This study describes the prevalence of childhood trauma and maltreatment antecedents among 111 criminal offenders referred for forensic and mental health counseling. Sixtynine percent reported such antecedents. Seventy percent had Axis 1 mental health disorders including anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substancerelated disorders. Many were comorbid. The implications of developmental psychopathology arising from childhood trauma and maltreatment for counselors who treat forensic clients are addressed. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 8:294–303 (2009)]
Investigating Substitutability of Food Items in Consumption Data

Food based dietary guidelines are insufficiently followed by consumers. One of the principal explanations of this failure is that they are too general and do not take into account eating habits. Providing personalized dietary recommendations via nutrition recommender system can hence help people improve their eating habits. Understanding eating habits is a keystone in order to build a context aware recommender system that delivers personalized dietary recommendations. As a first step towards this goal, we explore food relationships on real-world data using the INCA 2 dataset, a French consumption survey. We particularly focus on extracting food substitutions , i.e food items that can replace each other. We consider that two food items can be substituted if they are consumed during similar contexts. We define the context in the nutrition field and we introduce a measure of substitutability between food items based on consumption data that encodes the context.
Análisis textual: generación y aplicaciones

El presente trabajo surge como comentario al articulo de Elena Abascal y M. de los Angeles Franco titulado “Analisis textual de encuestas: aplicacion al estudio de las motivaciones de los estudiantes en la eleccion de su titulacion”. Este articulo presenta una sintesis muy interesante del analisis estadistico textual aplicado al caso de respuestas libres a cuestiones abiertas dentro de un cuestionario. En las investigaciones mediante encuestas se plantean, cada vez mas a menudo, este tipo de cuestiones junto con las cerradas entre las que se encuentran las referidas a las caracteristicas de los encuestados. Estas ultimas juegan un papel importante debido a la relacion que puede establecerse entre los dos tipos de cuestiones. La sintesis efectuada en el articulo constituye un claro ejemplo de integracion de los aspectos lexicales y estadisticos. Asi, en cuanto a la metodologia de encuestas, las autoras combinan de manera fructifera, metodos de estadistica descriptiva multivariante con aspectos lexicales de terminos, segmentos repetidos, formas.y sus contextos. En esta nota, vamos a introducir una serie de comentarios, de tipo historico, sobre el desarrollo del analisis textual dentro de la escuela francesa de analisis de datos, incidiendo, al mismo tiempo, en ciertos aspectos tecnicos resenables de la metodologia estadistica subyacente, para finalizar con una vision sucinta del panorama actual dentro de los analisis estadisticos textuales.
Phycoerythrins of the Red Alga Callithamnion: VARIATION IN PHYCOERYTHROBILIN AND PHYCOUROBILIN CONTENT.

Phycoerythrins of several species of the higher red alga Callithamnion show virtually identical spectra, typical of R-phycoerythrins, with absorption maxima at 565, 539, and 497 nanometers. One species, Callithamnion roseum, produces a phycoerythrin lacking the peak at 539 nanometers. Comparison of a "typical" R-phycoerythrin from Callithamnion byssoides with the "atypical" phycoerythrin of C. roseum shows that both proteins carry 35 bilins per native molecule of 240,000 daltons; however, C. byssoides phycoerythrin carries 27.6 phycoerythrobilin and 7.3 phycourobilin groups, whereas C. roseum phycoerythrin carries 24.1 phycoerythrobilin and 10.9 phycourobilin groups. These differences in the relative amounts of the bilin prosthetic groups account in large measure for the differences between the absorption spectra of the native proteins. The ratio of phycoerythrobilin to phycourobilin in C. roseum phycoerythrin can be modulated by varying the light intensity during growth.Data on the physical, immunological and spectroscopic properties of Callithamnion phycoerythrins indicate that the variation in the relative number of the two bilin prosthetic groups does not affect significantly the conformation of the biliprotein.
Understanding DNA replication by the bacteriophage T4 replisome

The T4 replisome has provided a unique opportunity to investigate the intricacies of DNA replication. We present a comprehensive review of this system focusing on the following: its 8-protein composition, their individual and synergistic activities, and assembly in vitro and in vivo into a replisome capable of coordinated leading/lagging strand DNA synthesis. We conclude with a brief comparison with other replisomes with emphasis on how coordinated DNA replication is achieved.
Stabilization of soliton instabilities by higher-order dispersion: Fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger-type equations.

Stability of the soliton solutions to the fourth-order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with arbitrary power nonlinearities in different space dimensions is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions of the stability with respect to small perturbations are found. The results obtained represent also necessary conditions of the stabilization of self-focusing and collapse by high-order dispersion.
Fatty acids and cardiac disease: fuel carrying a message

From the viewpoint of the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden, there has been a continuous interest in the detrimental effects of the Western‐type high‐fat diet for more than half a century. More recently, this general view has been subject to change as epidemiological studies showed that replacing fat by carbohydrate may even be worse and that various polyunsaturated fatty acids (FA) have beneficial rather than detrimental effects on CVD outcome. At the same time, advances in lipid biology have provided insight into the mechanisms by which the different lipid components of the Western diet affect the cardiovascular system. In fact, this still is a rapidly growing field of research and in recent years novel FA derivatives and FA receptors have been discovered. This includes fish‐oil derived FA‐derivatives with anti‐inflammatory properties, the so‐called resolvins, and various G‐protein‐coupled receptors that recognize FA as ligands. In the present review, we will extensively discuss the role of FA and their metabolites on cardiac disease, with special emphasis on the role of the different saturated and polyunsaturated FA and their respective metabolites in cellular signal transduction and the possible implications for the development of cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac failure.