Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EventAction

People use recommender systems to improve their decisions; for example, item recommender systems help them find films to watch or books to buy. Despite the ubiquity of item recommender systems, they can be improved by giving users greater transparency and control. This article develops and assesses interactive strategies for transparency and control, as applied to event sequence recommender systems, which provide guidance in critical life choices such as medical treatments, careers decisions, and educational course selections. This article’s main contribution is the use of both record attributes and temporal event information as features to identify similar records and provide appropriate recommendations. While traditional item recommendations are based on choices by people with similar attributes, such as those who looked at this product or watched this movie, our event sequence recommendation approach allows users to select records that share similar attribute values and start with a similar event sequence. Then users see how different choices of actions and the orders and times between them might lead to users’ desired outcomes. This paper applies a visual analytics approach to present and explain recommendations of event sequences. It presents a workflow for event sequence recommendation that is implemented in EventAction and reports on three case studies in two domains to illustrate the use of generating event sequence recommendations based on personal histories. It also offers design guidelines for the construction of user interfaces for event sequence recommendation and discusses ethical issues in dealing with personal histories. A demo video of EventAction is available at https://hcil.umd. edu/eventaction.
Development of Midwifery Learning Model with Spiritual Approach in the Midwifery Concept Course

This study resulted in acquiring knowledge about learning models of spiritual midwifery services with ideal methods of assessment and labor. The research methodology implemented includes research and development. There were 10 steps used as a basis for developing a model in research and development by Borg and Gall. Before using the instrument, validation is carried out by competent experts. The product testing phase begins with the validation of several material, design and media experts. Furthermore, the product will support one to one learners for the overall average score of 4.33 or 86.6%, the small group trials get an average value of 4.37 or 87.5%, while the large group trials get an average score of 4.48, or 89.65%. The results of the learning process indicate an average level of 3.84 which correlates with what has been agreed.
Long-term field measurements of charged and neutral clusters using Neutral cluster and Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS)

To understand the very fi rst steps of atmospheric particle formation and growth, measurements at the size where atmospheric nucleation occurs are crucially needed. We present number size distributions of > 0.8 nm ions and > 1.8 nm particles measured with the Neutral cluster and Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS) at a boreal forest site in Hyytiälä, Finland, during 2006–2007. Pools of neutral and charged clusters seem to be present all the time below 3 nm. The total concentration of 1.8–3.0 nm clusters was ~1000 cm, ranging from 50 to 6000 cm, whereas the concentrations of charged clusters in this size range remained below 50 cm. On average, both neutral and charged clusters seem to have different diurnal cycles on particle formation event and non-event days. We also compared the NAISderived concentrations with those obtained from other concurrent air ion and particle instruments and found that the NAIS concentrations are in agreement with concentrations determined with these other instruments.
sta-Dietary protein intake and urinary excretion of calcium: a cross-sectional study in a healthy Japanese population 1–3

To evaluate whether habitual excess protein intake is a significant risk factor for calcium loss, we studied the relation between urinary excretion of calcium and protein intakes, in 349 male and 406 female Japanese aged 20–79 y. The subjects were apparently healthy, free-living, and consuming diets of their own choosing. We divided the subjects into two groups: those aged 20–49 y and those aged 50–79 y. In each group, we observed a significant positive correlation between daily urinary excretion of calcium and protein intake. Calcium excretion also correlated positively with daily urinary excretion of urea. Multivariate analyses revealed that in each age group the relation between calcium excretion and urea excretion remained significant even after sex, age, body weight, urinary sodium excretion, and calcium intake were adjusted for. The correlation of calcium excretion with animal protein intake was significantly positive in both sexes and in each age group whereas that with plant protein was not. We observed a significant positive correlation between daily calcium excretion and daily urinary excretion of sulfate. The correlation in 50–79-y old subjects remained significant even after sex, age, body weight, sodium excretion, and calcium intake were adjusted for. Our findings suggest that excess protein, especially that rich in sulfur-containing amino acids, in habitual diets may augment calcium excretion in the urine, at least in the elderly. Am J
Effects of Exercise Domain and Intensity on Sleep in Women and Men with Overweight and Obesity

Inadequate sleep is associated with cardiometabolic risk and adiposity. Exercise has been suggested as an efficient strategy to improve sleep; however, the effects of different types of exercise on sleep in individuals with overweight and obesity are not well understood. We examined effects of active commuting and leisure-time exercise on sleep in individuals with overweight or obesity. 130 physically inactive adults (20–45 years) with overweight or class 1 obesity (body mass index: 25–35 kg/m2) were randomized to 6 months of habitual lifestyle (CON, n = 18), active commuting by bike (BIKE, n = 35), or leisure-time exercise of moderate intensity (MOD, 50% VO2peak-reserve, n = 39) or vigorous intensity (VIG, 70% VO2peak-reserve, n = 38), 5 days/week. Sleep was assessed from 7-day/night accelerometry and questionnaires at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. 92 participants were included in a per protocol analysis. At 3 months, sleep duration was longer in VIG (29 min/night [3; 55] (mean [95% CI]), p=0.03) but not in BIKE and MOD (p ≥ 0.11) compared with CON and was not different between groups at 6 months (p ≥ 0.36 vs. CON). At 6 months, sleep duration variability was lower in MOD (−31% [−50; −3], p=0.03) and numerically lower in VIG (−28% [−49; 1], p=0.06) relative to CON but was unchanged in BIKE (p=0.17 vs. CON). The effects were, however, primarily attributable to shorter and more irregular sleep in CON over time. Our findings suggest that effects of exercise on sleep in individuals with overweight and obesity may be restricted to leisure-time exercise with a short-term effect on sleep duration after vigorous intensity exercise (3 months) but a more regular sleep pattern after 6 months of moderate and vigorous intensity exercise compared with physically inactive controls. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov with ID NCT01962259.
In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree Assessment System: A Field Experiment in a Retail Chain

We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based on high-powered incentives linked to financial results, to behave according to the organization's long term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial performance dimensions linked to long term goals. We integrate our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals' message and providing support for their attainment. We also show more favorable effects for stores with tenured managers and higher availability of inventory (a proxy for support). Our findings highlight important factors for successful implementations of 360-degree systems as complements to explicit incentives. Finally, we share some lessons learned with respect to performing field experiments.
A fork() in the road

The received wisdom suggests that Unix's unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork is a terrible abstraction for the modern programmer to use, describe how it compromises OS implementations, and propose alternatives. As the designers and implementers of operating systems, we should acknowledge that fork's continued existence as a first-class OS primitive holds back systems research, and deprecate it. As educators, we should teach fork as a historical artifact, and not the first process creation mechanism students encounter.
Synthetic gauge potential and effective magnetic field in a Raman medium undergoing molecular modulation

We theoretically demonstrate non-trivial topological effects for a probe field in a Raman medium undergoing molecular modulation processes. The medium is driven by two non-collinear pump beams. We show that the angle between the pumps is related to an effective gauge potential and an effective magnetic field for the probe field in the synthetic space consisting of a synthetic frequency dimension and a spatial dimension. As a result of such effective magnetic field, the probe field can exhibit topologically-protected one-way edge state in the synthetic space, as well as Landau levels which manifests as suppression of both diffraction and sideband generation. Our work identifies a previously unexplored route towards creating topological photonics effects, and highlights an important connection between topological photonics and nonlinear optics.
Classification d ’ attitude dans des paires adjacentes à l ’ aide de champs aléatoires conditionnels cachés

In this paper, the main goal is to classify, in a human-agent interaction, the attitude of the user using hidden conditional random fields. This model allows us to capture the dynamics of the interaction in the pairs of speech turns (adjacency pairs) analyzed by our system. High level linguistic features are computed at word level. The features include syntactic features, a statistical word embedding model and subjectivity lexicons. The proposed system is evaluated on the SEMAINE corpus. We obtain a F1-score of 0.80, labeling using the most probable sequence of hidden states.
Non-physiological expression of UhpT does not lead to uncontrolled leakage of sugar phosphates out of Escherichia coli cells

De-regulated expression of uhpT under control of the tuc promoter, by increasing concentrations of isopropyl-thio-P-B galactoside, progressively inhibited the growth rate of Escherichia coli cells, to such an extent that growth was fully inhibited at 1 mM of the inducer. Significantly, addition of glucose 6-phosphate to the growth medium of the cells did not protect against this inhibition. Furthermore, efflux of sugar phosphates from the cells did not take place under these conditions, unless protonophoric uncouplers were added. We therefore conclude that the regulation of uhpT expression, i.e. via extracellular induction through a two-component system, did not evolve in order to prevent loss of essential metabolites from the cytoplasm under conditions when extracellular sugar phosphates are not available.
Mobile Cloud Services as Catalysts for Pedagogical Change

This chapter explores the potential of mobile cloud services to act as catalysts of pedagogical change in tertiary education. Mobile computing has emerged as a significant platform, with worldwide uptake dwarfing traditional desktop and laptop computing. According to the International Telecommunication Union (Acharya & Teltscher, 2010), at the end of 2010, 76% of the world’s population is now own mobile phones (116% in developed countries [by subscription], and 68% in developing countries), and mobile broadband subscriptions to the Internet (940 million) outnumbered fixed broadband connections (555 million). The advent of the iPhone, the iPad, and Android based smartphones have driven the explosion of mobile application development, numbering over 650,000 mobile apps across four main platforms (GSMArena, 2011; Perez, 2011), with many of these apps providing access and interaction with cloud services. Harnessing the potential of these two new computing behemoths within education is still at early stages of development and research. This chapter provides research-informed examples of the impact of mobile cloud services on teaching practice and learner experiences.
Robust Control and Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Actuator Constraints

This chapter proposes a robust control approach for the class of chaotic systems subject to magnitude and rate actuator constraints. The approach consists of decomposing the chaotic system into a linear part plus a nonlinear part to form an augmented system comprising the system itself and the integral of the output error. The resulting system is posteriorly seen as a linear system plus a bounded disturbance, and two robust controllers are applied: first, a controller based on a generalization of the Lyapunov function, then a Linear-Quadratic Regulator (LQR) with a prescribed degree of stability. Numerical simulations are performed to validate the approach applying it to the Lorenz chaotic system and to a chaotic aeroelastic system, and parameter uncertainties are also considered to prove its robustness. The results confirm the effectiveness of the approach, and the constraints are guaranteed as opposed to other control techniques which do not consider any kind of constraints.
Effects of Imidacloprid and Gestational Age on Biodistribution and Maternal Toxicity in Pregnant Mice Compared to Non- Pregnant

Imidacloprid (IMI) i s a systemic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects. It was the most widely used insecticide in the world. However, currently there are limited information regarding the impact of pregnancy on their biodistribution and toxicity. In this study, the biodistribution and potential toxic effects of IMI in pregnant and non–pregnant mice at different critical gestational ages (Gds 8,10,12, and 14) administrated one day treatment of 10, 15, and 20 mg/kg/d IMI by gavage were determined. Also, the effects of IMI on the biodistribution were recorded on pregnant mice administrated repeated doses of 10, 15, and 20 mg/kg/d IMI on different critical gestational days (6- 15, 8- 15, 10-15, 12- 15, and 14- 15) compared to non- pregnant at the corresponding age. No significant biodistribution changes were observed between non-pregnant and pregnant mice treated on 8, 10, 12, and 14 Gds on all the treated groups of 10, 15, and 20 mg/kg. Apparent toxic effects (e.g., signs of toxicity, reduction in body weights and weight gains at all difference gestational days) were observed by repeated dose of 20mg/kg comparable to controls and non-pregnant. Also, there was a positive relationship between the accumulation of IMI at different gestational ages and maternal toxic effects. These results indicated that the maternal biodistribution patterns of IMI in pregnant mice dependent on dose, exposure length, and gestational ages.
Gamma-ray burst afterglows from transrelativistic blast wave simulations

We present a study of the intermediate regime between ultrarelativistic and non-relativistic flow for gamma-ray burst afterglows. The hydrodynamics of spherically symmetric blast waves is numerically calculated using the amrvac adaptive mesh refinement code. Spectra and light curves are calculated using a separate radiation code that, for the first time, links a parametrization of the microphysics of shock acceleration, synchrotron self-absorption and electron cooling to a high-performance hydrodynamic simulation. For the dynamics, we find that the transition to the non-relativistic regime generally occurs later than expected, the Sedov-Taylor solution overpredicts the late-time blast wave radius and the analytical formula for the blast wave velocity from Huang, Dai & Lu overpredicts the late-time velocity by a factor of 4/3. Also, we find that the lab frame density directly behind the shock front divided by the fluid Lorentz factor squared remains very close to four times the unshocked density, while the effective adiabatic index of the shock changes from relativistic to non-relativistic. For the radiation, we find that the flux may differ up to an order of magnitude depending on the equation of state that is used for the fluid and that the counterjet leads to a clear rebrightening at late times for hard-edged jets. Simulating GRB 030329 using predictions for its physical parameters from the literature leads to spectra and light curves that may differ significantly from the actual data, emphasizing the need for very accurate modelling. Predicted light curves at low radio frequencies for a hard-edged jet model of GRB 030329 with opening angle 22 degrees show typically two distinct peaks, due to the combined effect of jet break, non-relativistic break and counterjet. Spatially resolved afterglow images show a ring-like structure.
Effects of PPAR c and Combined Agonists on the Urinary Tract of Rats and Other Species

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on bacterial bio fi lm : An universal cause of contamination

Biofilms contain cluster of microorganisms that are found to be associated with the biotic and abiotic surfaces. Biofilm formation is a dynamic process and different mechanisms are involved in their attachment and growth. The formation of microbial biofilms is an important reason for failure of antimicrobial therapy. Biofilm-associated infections represent one of the major threats of modern medicine. Consequently, various preventive and control strategies like mechanical, physical and chemical methods can be appropriately applied for controlling biofilm formation or eradicate mature biofilm. The present review will focus on describing the effective bio control and removal of biofilms. These newer bio control strategies are considered as ecofriendly and cost effective method in terms of therapeutic. & 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Surfaces of constant mean curvature 1 in ³ and algebraic curves on a quadric

We show that there exists a natural correspondence between holomorphic curves in PSL(2, C) that are null with respect to the Cartan-Killing metric, and holomorphic curves on PI x PI . This correspondence derives from classical osculation duality between curves in P3 and its dual, P*. Thus, via Bryant's correspondence, surfaces of constant mean curvature 1 in the 3dimensional hyperbolic space of curvature -1, are studied in terms of complex geometry: in particular, 'Weierstrass representation formulae' for such surfaces are derived.
Mise au point Les glycoprotéines placentaires chez les mammifères Placental glycoproteins in the mammals

Placental glycoproteins in the mammals É. Clerget a, N.M. de Sousa a, A. Bella a, G. Maghuin-Rogister b, J.-F. Beckers a,∗ a Laboratoire d’endocrinologie et de reproduction animale, faculté de médecine vétérinaire, université de Liège, 20, boulevard de Colonster, B41, P71, 4000 Liège, Belgique b Analyse des denrées alimentaires, faculté de médecine vétérinaire, université de Liège, 20, boulevard de Colonster, 4000 Liège, Belgique
Incoherent Neutron Scattering and the Dynamics of Thin Film Photoresist Polymers

Elastic incoherent neutron scattering is employed to parameterize changes in the atomic/molecular mobility in lithographic polymers as a function of film thickness. Changes in the 200 MHz and faster dynamics are estimated in terms of a harmonic oscillator model and the corresponding Debye–Waller factor mean-square atomic displacement 〈u2〉. We generally observe that relatively large 〈u2〉 values in the glassy state lead to a strong suppression of 〈u2〉 when the polymer is confined to exceedingly thin films. In contrast, this thin film suppression is diminished or even absent if 〈u2〉 in the glass is relatively small. We further demonstrate that highly localized side group or segmental dynamics of hydrogen-rich moieties, such as methyl groups, dominate 〈u2〉 and that thin film confinement apparently retards these motions. With respect to photolithography, we demonstrate that a reduced 〈u2〉 in exceedingly thin model resist films corresponds to a decrease in the reaction front propagation kinetics.
Periodic-solutions of Some Lienard Equations With Singularities

We consider the forced Liénard equation u" +f(u)u +g(t, u) = h(l) together with the boundary conditions u(0) = u(T), u'(0) = u'(T), where g is continuous on R x (0, +oo) and becomes infinite at u = 0. We consider classical solutions as well as generalized solutions that can go into the singularity u = 0 . The method of approach uses upper and lower solutions and degree theory.
Integration of Biometrics and Steganography: A Comprehensive Review

The use of an individual’s biometric characteristics to advance authentication and verification technology beyond the current dependence on passwords has been the subject of extensive research for some time. Since such physical characteristics cannot be hidden from the public eye, the security of digitised biometric data becomes paramount to avoid the risk of substitution or replay attacks. Biometric systems have readily embraced cryptography to encrypt the data extracted from the scanning of anatomical features. Significant amounts of research have also gone into the integration of biometrics with steganography to add a layer to the defence-in-depth security model, and this has the potential to augment both access control parameters and the secure transmission of sensitive biometric data. However, despite these efforts, the amalgamation of biometric and steganographic methods has failed to transition from the research lab into real-world applications. In light of this review of both academic and industry literature, we suggest that future research should focus on identifying an acceptable level steganographic embedding for biometric applications, securing exchange of steganography keys, identifying and address legal implications, and developing industry standards.