Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Patient and Therapist Perceptions of a Publicly Funded Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (iCBT) Program for Ontario Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study

Background To address the anticipated rise in mental health symptoms experienced at the population level during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario government provided 2 therapist-assisted internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) programs to adults free of charge at the point of service. Objective The study aims to explore the facilitators of and barriers to implementing iCBT at the population level in Ontario, Canada, from the perspective of patients and therapists to better understand how therapist-assisted iCBT programs can be effectively implemented at the population level and inform strategies for enhancing service delivery and integration into the health care system. Methods Using a convenience sampling methodology, semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 therapists who delivered iCBT and 20 patients who received iCBT through either of the publicly funded programs to explore their perspectives of the program. Interview data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis to generate themes. Results Six salient themes were identified. Facilitators included the therapist-assisted nature of the program; the ease of registration and the lack of cost; and the feasibility of completing the psychoeducational modules given the online and self-paced nature of the program. Barriers included challenges with the online remote modality for developing the therapeutic alliance; the program’s generalized nature, which limited customization to individual needs; and a lack of formal integration between the iCBT program and the health care system. Conclusions Although the program was generally well-received by patients and therapists due to its accessibility and feasibility, the digital format of the program presented both benefits and unique challenges. Strategies for improving the quality of service delivery include opportunities for synchronous communication between therapists and patients, options for increased customization, and the formal integration of iCBT into a broader stepped-care model that centralizes patient referrals between care providers and promotes continuity of care.
Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism

Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critical analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.
Validation of reanalysis upper‐level winds in the Arctic with independent rawinsonde data

Reanalysis products from meteorological forecast centers perform well in areas where conventional data are dense, but the realism of their fields in data‐sparse regions, such as the Arctic Ocean, is less certain. Upper‐level winds from two reanalysis data sets, the NCEP/NCAR (National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research) and the ECMWF (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting) Reanalyses are evaluated in this study. Rawinsonde data from two Arctic field programs that were not assimilated by the models are compared to reanalysis wind products for five layers between 1000 and 300 hPa. Both reanalysis products exhibit large biases and are significantly too westerly and too northerly. Total wind speeds are too strong by 25 to 65% relative to rawinsonde values. Root‐mean‐square errors in u‐ and v‐component winds are substantially larger than the mean values. Possible sources and ramifications of these discrepancies are discussed.
KI 2017: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 40th Annual German Conference on AI

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Best practice guidelines for the prevention and mitigation of conflict between humans and great apes

One of the challenges facing great ape conservation is the rising level of interaction between humans and great apes, and the resulting conflicts that emerge. It is essential that we develop a comprehensive understanding of existing and potential conflict situations, and their current or future impacts on both great apes and humans. This will require the integration of quantitative and qualitative data on multiple aspects of human and great ape behaviour and ecology, along with a good understanding of local peoples perceptions of the situation. Such knowledge can then be used to develop effective, locally-adapted, management strategies to prevent or mitigate human-great ape conflicts, whilst respecting both conservation objectives and socio-cultural-economic contexts. These guidelines outline a sequence of logical steps that should be considered prior to any form of human-great ape conflict intervention, and propose possible counter-measures to be used in the management of human-great ape conflicts.
Combining ocean numerical model and SAR imagery to investigate the occurrence of oil pollution, a case study for the Java Sea

IndoNACE is an abbreviation of Indo nesian Seas N umerical A ssessment of the C oastal E nvironment, a pilot study between Indonesia and Germany that combining analysis of oil spills from SAR images and numerical tracer studies from 3-D numerical model. Aim of this study is to understand the observed seasonal variations in marine oil pollution. Within this study, a visual inspection of all available SAR images is performed in order to generate maps of oil pollution occurrence in the Java Sea. Afterward, a set of numerical models is applied to trace back the origin of oil pollution. Our results showed that by analysing 706 ENVISAT ASAR images, the highest number of oil spills occurrence in the Java Sea was found during the transition monsoons, i.e. March to May and September to November. Assuming Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Seribu Islands as the end position of oil trajectory, we found that the origins of oil pollutions in that area were mostly from north and east.
bHLH-regulated routes in anther development in rice and Arabidopsis

Abstract Anther development is a complex process essential for plant reproduction and crop yields. In recent years, significant progress has been made in the identification and characterization of the bHLH transcription factor family involved in anther regulation in rice and Arabidopsis, two extensively studied model plants. Research on bHLH transcription factors has unveiled their crucial function in controlling tapetum development, pollen wall formation, and other anther-specific processes. By exploring deeper into regulatory mechanisms governing anther development and bHLH transcription factors, we can gain important insights into plant reproduction, thereby accelerating crop yield improvement and the development of new plant breeding strategies. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge on anther development in rice and Arabidopsis, emphasizing the critical roles played by bHLH transcription factors in this process. Recent advances in gene expression analysis and functional studies are highlighted, as they have significantly enhanced our understanding of the regulatory networks involved in anther development.
AlphaFind: Discover structure similarity across the entire known proteome

AlphaFind is a web-based search engine that provides fast structure-based retrieval in the entire set of AlphaFold DB structures. Unlike other protein processing tools, AlphaFind is focused entirely on tertiary structure, automatically extracting the main 3D features of each protein chain and using a machine learning model to find the most similar structures. This indexing approach and the 3D feature extraction method used by AlphaFind have both demonstrated remarkable scalability to large datasets as well as to large protein structures. The web application itself has been designed with a focus on clarity and ease of use. The searcher accepts any valid Uniprot ID, PDB ID or gene symbol as input, and returns a set of similar protein chains from AlphaFold DB, including various similarity metrics between the query and each of the retrieved results. In addition to the main search functionality, the application provides 3D visualizations of protein structure superpositions in order to allow researchers to instantly analyze the structural similarity of the retrieved results. The AlphaFind web application is available online for free and without any registration at https://alphafind.fi. muni.cz. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
YY1 mutations disrupt corticogenesis through a cell-type specific rewiring of cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous transcriptional programs

Germline mutations of YY1 cause Gabriele-de Vries syndrome (GADEVS), a neurodevelopmental disorder featuring intellectual disability and a wide range of systemic manifestations. To dissect the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying GADEVS, we combined large-scale imaging, single-cell multiomics and gene regulatory network reconstruction in 2D and 3D patient-derived physiopathologically relevant cell lineages. YY1 haploinsufficiency causes a pervasive alteration of cell type specific transcriptional networks, disrupting corticogenesis at the level of neural progenitors and terminally differentiated neurons, including cytoarchitectural defects reminiscent of GADEVS clinical features. Transcriptional alterations in neurons propagated to neighboring astrocytes through a major non-cell autonomous pro-inflammatory effect that grounds the rationale for modulatory interventions. Together, neurodevelopmental trajectories, synaptic formation and neuronal-astrocyte cross talk emerged as salient domains of YY1 dosage-dependent vulnerability. Mechanistically, cell-type resolved reconstruction of gene regulatory networks uncovered the regulatory interplay between YY1, NEUROG2 and ETV5 and its aberrant rewiring in GADEVS. Our findings underscore the reach of advanced in vitro models in capturing developmental antecedents of clinical features and exposing their underlying mechanisms to guide the search for targeted interventions.
Experimental evolution for improved post-infection survival selects for increased disease resistance in Drosophila melanogaster

Disease resistance (defined as the host capacity to limit systemic infection intensity) and disease tolerance (defined as the host capacity to limit infection-induced damage) are two complementary defense strategies that help the hosts maximize their survival and fitness when infected with pathogens and parasites. In addition to the underlying physiological mechanisms, existing theory postulates that these two strategies differ in terms of the conditions under which each strategy evolves in host populations, their evolutionary dynamics, and the ecological and epidemiological consequences of their evolution. Here we explored if one or both of these strategies evolve when host populations are subjected to selection for increased post-infection survival. We experimentally evolved Drosophila melanogaster populations, selecting for the flies that survived an infection with the entomopathogen Enterococcus faecalis, and found that the host populations evolved increased disease resistance in response. This was despite the physiological costs associated with increased resistance. We did not find evidence of any change in disease tolerance in the host populations. We have therefore demonstrated that in an experimental evolution set-up, where insect hosts must survive an infection with a pathogenic bacterium, the hosts evolve improved disease resistance but not disease tolerance.
Fertilization by short-term stored sperm alters DNA methylation patterns in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) embryos at single-base resolution

Short-term storage of sperm in vitro is widely used for artificial fertilization in aquaculture. It has been shown that short-term storage affects sperm motility characteristics, resulting in diminished fertility. However, the detrimental effects of short-term sperm storage on embryos development have remained largely unexplored in single-base methylome resolution. The main aim of the present study was to investigate DNA methylation in the offspring of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) derived from short-term stored sperm. Sperm were stored in artificial seminal plasma on ice (0-2°C) for 0, 3 and 6 days in vitro, fertilization was performed using oocytes from a single female, and embryos were collected at the mid-blastula stage. Sperm and embryo DNA was extracted, analysed by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS). DNA methylation was then assessed. Sperm storage showed negative effects on motility, viability and DNA integrity, but had no effect on global DNA methylation of spermatozoa and resulting embryos. Results from the WGBS showed that methylation of 3313 genes was affected in the embryos fertilized with the 6-day-stored sperm, and the differentially methylated regions (DMRs) identified were mainly involved in cell adhesion, calcium, mitogen-activated protein kinase and adrenergic signalling, melanogenesis, metabolism and RNA transport. Such results suggest that prolongation of storage time may have certain impacts on embryonic development. These initial results provide valuable information for future consideration of the DNA methylome in embryos generated from short-term stored sperm, which is widely used for genetic management of broodstock in aquaculture.
An Initial Study of Budgeted Steiner Networks

Given a set of terminals, the network with the shortest total length connecting all terminals is a Steiner tree. At the other extreme, with a sufficient total length budget, every terminal can be connected to every other terminal via a straight line, yielding a complete graph over all terminals that connects every terminal pair with a shortest path. In this work, we study a generalization of Steiner trees, asking what happens between these two extremes. For a given total length budget, we seek a network structure that minimizes the sum of the weighted distances between pairs of terminals. Focusing on three terminals with equal pairwise path weights, we characterize the full evolution pathway between the Steiner tree and the complete graph, which contains interesting intermediate structures. Our initial study of such structures, which we call budgeted Steiner networks , opens up many interesting directions for further investigation.
Intelligent Canvas: Enabling Design-Like Exploratory Visual Data Analysis with Generative AI through Rapid Prototyping, Iteration and Curation

Complex data analysis inherently seeks unexpected insights through exploratory visual analysis methods, transcending logical, step-by-step processing. However, existing interfaces such as notebooks and dashboards have limitations in exploration and comparison for visual data analysis. Addressing these limitations, we introduce a"design-like"intelligent canvas environment integrating generative AI into data analysis, offering rapid prototyping, iteration, and comparative visualization management. Our dual contributions include the integration of generative AI components into a canvas interface, and empirical findings from a user study (N=10) evaluating the effectiveness of the canvas interface.
SimpleFT: A Simple Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus

Although having been popular for a long time, Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus under the partially-synchronous network is denounced to be inefficient or even infeasible in recent years, which calls for a more robust asynchronous consensus. On the other hand, almost all the existing asynchronous consensus are too complicated to understand and even suffer from the termination problem. Motivated by the above problems, we propose SimpleFT in this paper, which is a simple asynchronous consensus and is mainly inspired by the simplicity of the Bitcoin protocol. With a re-understanding of the Bitcoin protocol, we disassemble the life cycle of a block into three phases, namely proposal, dissemination, and confirmation. Corresponding to these phases, we devise or introduce the sortition algorithm, reliable broadcast algorithm, and quorum certificate mechanism in SimpleFT, respectively. To make full use of the network resources and improve the system throughput, we further introduce the layered architecture to SimpleFT, which enables multiple blocks to be confirmed at the same height. Comprehensive analysis is made to validate the correctness of SimpleFT and various experiments are conducted to demonstrate its efficient performance.
Broadcast Encryption using Sum-Product decomposition of Boolean functions

The problem of Broadcast Encryption (BE) consists in broadcasting an encrypted message to a large number of users or receiving devices in such a way that the emitter of the message can control which of the users can or cannot decrypt it. Since the early 1990’s, the design of BE schemes has received significant interest and many different concepts were proposed. A major breakthrough was achieved by Naor, Naor and Lotspiech (CRYPTO 2001) by partitioning cleverly the set of authorized users and associating a symmetric key to each subset. Since then, while there have been many advances in public-key based BE schemes, mostly based on bilinear maps, little was made on symmetric cryptography. In this paper, we design a new symmetric-based BE scheme, named ΣΠBE, that relies on logic optimization and consensual security assumptions. It is competitive with the work of Naor et al. and provides a different tradeoff: the bandwidth requirement is significantly lowered at the cost of an increase in the key storage.
Patrones de consumo alimentario y exceso de peso infantil; encuesta de la situación nutricional en Colombia, 2010 Food consumption patterns and excess childhood weight; a survey of the nutritional situation in Colombia, 2010

The prevalence of overweight and its relation to food consumption patterns in 10 187 Colombian children between 5-17 years was assessed by factor analysis: Three consumption patterns were identified: Protein/Fiber, Snack and Traditional/Starch. By calculating Prevalence Ratios (RP), associations between food consumption patterns and overweight were established. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 12.7% and obesity 2.8%. After adjusting for age, sex and level of wealth, Protein/ Fiber and Traditional/Starch patterns are associated with excess weight (test for linear trend for quartiles of adherence, p = 0.018 and p <0.0001 respectively). The excess weight is more prevalent than the delay for height. The dietary transition that experiences Colombia has negative effects on nutritional status.
Revisiting the Slot-to-Coefficient Transformation for BGV and BFV

Numerous algorithms in homomorphic encryption require an operation that moves the slots of a ciphertext to the coefficients of a different ciphertext. We describe an FFT-like method for decomposing this slot-to-coefficient transformation (and its inverse) for BGV and BFV. The proposed method is specific to power-of-two cyclotomic rings and can handle both fully and sparsely packed slots. Previously, such a method was only known for non-power-of-two cyclotomic rings. Our algorithm admits more freedom in the complexity-depth trade-off than prior works. Moreover, it brings down the computational complexity of the slot-to-coefficient transformation from a linear to a logarithmic number of FHE operations in the best case, which is shown via a detailed complexity analysis. We also provide a proof-of-concept implementation in the Magma bootstrapping library.
Edge Sparsification for Geometric Tour Problems

We study a variety of sparsification approaches for a spectrum of geometric optimization problems related to tour problems, such as the Angular TSP, the Minimum Perimeter Problem, and the Minimum/Maximum Area Polygon Problem. To this end, we conduct a thorough study that compares the solution quality and runtime achieved by integer programming solvers on geometrically reduced edge sets to the exact solution on the full edge set; considered sparsification techniques include a variety of triangulations (Delaunay, Greedy, Minimum Weight), Theta and Yao graphs, Well-Separated Pair Decomposition
Foundations of Anonymous Signatures: Formal Definitions, Simplified Requirements, and a Construction Based on General Assumptions

In today’s systems, privacy is often at odds with utility: users that reveal little information about themselves get restricted functionality, and service providers mistrust them. In practice, systems tip to either full anonymity (e.g. Monero), or full utility (e.g. Bitcoin). Well-known cryptographic primitives for bridging this gap exist: anonymous credentials (AC) let users disclose a subset of their credentials’ attributes, revealing to service providers “just what they need”; group signatures (GS) allow users to authenticate anonymously, to be de-anonymized “just when deemed necessary”. However, these primitives are hard to deploy. Current AC and GS variants reach specific points in the privacy-utility tradeoff, which we point as counter-productive engineering-wise, as it requires full and error-prone re-engineering to adjust the tradeoff. Also, so far, GS and AC have been studied separately by theoretical research. We take the first steps toward unifying and generalizing both domains, with the goal of bringing their benefits to practice, in a flexible way. We give a common model capturing their core properties, and use functional placeholders to subsume intermediate instantiations of the privacy-utility tradeoff under the same model. To prove its flexibility, we show how concrete variants of GS, AC (and others, like ring signatures) can be seen as special cases of our scheme – to which we refer as universal anonymous signatures (UAS). In practice, this means that instantiations following our construction can be configured to behave as variant X of a GS scheme, or as variant Y of an AC scheme, by tweaking a few functions.
Preliminary list of the herpetofauna of the Phong NHA - Ke Bang area in Quang Binh province, Vietnam

Une premiere liste des amphibiens et reptiles du futur Parc National Phong Nha - Ke Bang situe dans la province de Quang Binh, Vietnam est donnee ici. La liste de l'herpetofaune de cette grande aire forestiere karstique est basee sur deux rapports de projetss vietnamiens difficiles d'acces, mais aussi sur les resultats de missions de prospection effectuees par les auteurs. Cette liste pourra servir de base a des futurs projets de recherche et de conservation. Pres de 100 especes d'amphibiens et de reptiles ont ete signalees dans cette region, dont 20% figurent dans le Red Data Book pour le Vietnam. Quelques notes de terrain concernant la region s'ajoutent a des commentaires taxinomiques et chorologiques pour quelques taxons choisis.