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Social Facilitation, Affiliation, and Dominance in the Social Life of Spotted Hyenas a

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are social carnivores, living in multifemale, multimale ‘‘clans. ’ ’ ‘ s 2 With female philopatry and male dispersal, separate female and male dominance hierarchies, and female matrilines that constitute the fundamental social core of the clan, the social organization of spotted hyenas approximates that of many common old world monkeys in the broad outline of their ~ociali ty. ~. ~ Membership in the clan enables hyenas to hunt prey as large as zebra and is essential to defense of kills against lions and of hunting territories against other groups of hyenas. Spotted hyenas also display some rather unique characteristics. Adult females and their juvenile, or subadult, offspring dominate adult immigrant males in virtually all social interactions. “ In addition, hyenas often spend their days alone at solitary dens, typically reassembling in the late afternoon and socializing at the communal den before forming smaller hunting parties. For many hyenas there is a daily transition from a solitary existence to the intense, highly differentiated social interactions of life within the clan. ’ All social carnivores display a delicate balance between cooperation and competition. In spotted hyenas, competition may simply be evinced by speed-of-eating at a kill. That is, with a group of hyenas feeding at a dead wildebeest and reducing it to a small pile of horns and hooves in less than 30 minutes, the individual that can eat most rapidly will have an advantage over colleagues that eat more slowly. Overt aggression and the formation of dominance hierarchies also play a role in access to resources, and dominance rank is directly related to ultimate reproductive success? The present paper focuses on the integration of cooperation and competition, and correlated behavioral mechanisms of aggression, dominance, and affiliation, within the social life of the spotted hyena. Towards that end, we focus on three themes that have emerged from our studies of these animals: (1) the emergence of individually differentiated systems underlying cooperation and competition from a more general tendency of hyenas to do-what-other-hyenas-are-doing; (2) the role of ‘ ‘meeting
Combination of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for patients with Personality Disorders: recent findings.

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The Problems and Perils of Bootstrapping Privacy and Data into an Antitrust Framework

Increasingly, people use the internet to connect with one another, access information, and purchase products and services. Along with the growth in the online marketplace have come concerns, as well, particularly regarding both the privacy of personal information as well as competition issues surrounding this and other data. While concerns about privacy and data are not unique to the internet ecosystem, they are in some ways heightened due to the ubiquitous nature of information sharing online. While much of the sharing is voluntary, a group of scholars and activists have argued that several powerful online companies have overstepped their bounds in gathering and using data from internet users. These privacy advocates have pushed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC�? ) and regulators in Europe to incorporate privacy concerns into antitrust analysis. Here, we focus on the two most-developed theories of data-related antitrust harm: first, that privacy should be considered in mergers and other antitrust contexts as a non-price factor of competition; and second, that the collection and use of data can be used to facilitate anticompetitive price discrimination. In addition, we analyze the underlying conception of data as a barrier to entry that is a necessary precondition for supporting either proposed theory of harm. We argue that there are no plausible harms to competition arising from either non-price effects or price discrimination due to data collection online and that there is no data barrier to entry preventing effective competition.
Hydrolysis of the soluble pentosans of wheat flour and Rhodymenia pa'mata by ruminal micro-organisms.

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LaharOLAP : Supporting OLAP Queries on Markovian Streams April 13 ,

A huge amount of the world’s data, is both sequential and low-level; many applications consume higher-level information (e.g., words and sentences) that is inferred from these low-level sequences (e.g., raw audio signals) using a model (e.g., a hidden Markov model). This inference process is typically statistical, resulting in high-level streams that are imprecise. Common queries on this data include sequence-finding event queries and OLAP-style aggregates of these event queries (e.g. “How many times do 2008 NPR podcasts use the phrase ’Barack Obama’? ”). These queries are difficult to support efficiently because of the large data volumes and rich semantics of imprecise data. In this work, we introduce LaharOLAP, a warehousing system for a common type of imprecise, sequential model called a Markovian stream. As part of LaharOLAP, we propose semantics for OLAP-style event queries on Markovian streams and algorithms for processing these queries. To address performance, we study and exploit a variety of lossy compression techniques, noting that the applications that consume Markovian stream data are already accustomed to imprecision. Through experiments on real data collected from our building-wide RFID deployment, we find that, in practice, lossy compression techniques can yield significant performance gains with only a small loss in accuracy.
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A 0.3-V CMOS Biofuel-Cell-Powered Wireless Glucose/Lactate Biosensing System

This paper presents a self-powered wireless physiochemical sensing system for monitoring of glucose or lactate in bodily fluids. The biosensor chip consists of a duty-cycled biofuel cell (BFC) maximum power point tracker analog front end, a passive <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Delta \! \Sigma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> analog-to-digital converter (ADC), an RF power oscillator transmitter using a 1-cm external loop antenna, digital data storage, and timing and clock generation circuitries, all designed to operate from the dynamic 0.3-V BFC output voltage. The biosensor chip, implemented in 65-nm CMOS and exclusively powered via an enzymatic BFC, can successfully detect changes in glucose/lactate concentration between 2.5 and 15 mM, for the first demonstration of an integrated self-powered chemical biosensing system with digital wireless readout. The biosensor consumes an average power of 1.15 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.
Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large‐Scale Text Corpora

Abstract Applying machine learning algorithms to automatically infer relationships between concepts from large‐scale collections of documents presents a unique opportunity to investigate at scale how human semantic knowledge is organized, how people use it to make fundamental judgments (“How similar are cats and bears? ”), and how these judgments depend on the features that describe concepts (e.g., size, furriness). However, efforts to date have exhibited a substantial discrepancy between algorithm predictions and human empirical judgments. Here, we introduce a novel approach to generating embeddings for this purpose motivated by the idea that semantic context plays a critical role in human judgment. We leverage this idea by constraining the topic or domain from which documents used for generating embeddings are drawn (e.g., referring to the natural world vs. transportation apparatus). Specifically, we trained state‐of‐the‐art machine learning algorithms using contextually‐constrained text corpora (domain‐specific subsets of Wikipedia articles, 50+ million words each) and showed that this procedure greatly improved predictions of empirical similarity judgments and feature ratings of contextually relevant concepts. Furthermore, we describe a novel, computationally tractable method for improving predictions of contextually‐unconstrained embedding models based on dimensionality reduction of their internal representation to a small number of contextually relevant semantic features. By improving the correspondence between predictions derived automatically by machine learning methods using vast amounts of data and more limited, but direct empirical measurements of human judgments, our approach may help leverage the availability of online corpora to better understand the structure of human semantic representations and how people make judgments based on those.
Single-Layer Series-Fed Planar Array With Controlled Aperture Distribution for Circularly Polarized Radiation

We propose a compact circularly polarized series-fed patch array with enhanced radiation performance at <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band. To our best knowledge, no similar single-layer structure has been designed, measured, and reported in the literature with equivalent radiation performances in terms of reduced sidelobe level (SLL) and aperture efficiency as well as compactness and simplicity. The planar array consists of a 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> microstrip single feed point, offering uniform and efficient excitation of all its elements that enable a broadside beam with high-gain and low sidelobes. A feeding network for such aperture control is designed and optimized to provide good impedance matching with a two-point excitation per radiating element, which is based on 0° and 90° meander lines to enable circularly polarized radiation. A structure made by a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\! \! \times \! \! 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> arrangement of square patches is simulated, optimized, and manufactured, providing a realized gain of about 10 dBic and an SLL below −15 dB. Very good axial ratios and high efficiencies are obtained. The proposed antenna may be of interest for next-generation far-field wireless power transmission systems and other applications including target tracking, radar, and internet of things technologies requiring efficient circularly polarized radiation.
Multi-port Active Load Pulling for mm-Wave 5G Power Amplifiers: Bandwidth, Back-Off Efficiency, and VSWR Tolerance

The opening of spectral bands in the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) spectrum from 26 GHz and extending up to the E-band poses new challenges to the power amplifier (PA) design for spectrally agile radios. They are expected to operate with high energy efficiency at peak and back-off levels to process signals with high peak-to-average power ratio (~10 dB), while being able to maintain their performance across a wide range of 5G bands. In addition, the PAs can experience strong load impedance mismatch conditions in a user equipment (UE) that pose additional challenges in handling strong voltage-standing-wave-ratio (VSWR) events. In this article, we present a systematic approach to exploit active load pulling in a multi-port network that synthesizes optimal impedance conditions for 1) broadband peak and back-off operation and 2) mitigating VSWR events at peak power. As proofs of concept, we present two PAs in 65-nm bulk CMOS process. The first chip demonstrates <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$P_{\text {sat}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> between 16.3 and 19.3 dBm across 37–73 GHz, with an improvement in the output drain efficiency (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\eta _{\text {out}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of up to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.2\times \! \! /5.8\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 6-/9.6-dB power back-off (PBO) across the frequency range compared to class-A operation. The second chip achieves 26–42-GHz <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$P_{\text {sat},\, -1 \, {\text{dB}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> bandwidth with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$P_{\text {sat}} > 19$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dBm and PAE<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\text {peak}}> 20$ </tex-math></inline-formula>% across all 28–40-GHz bands and with up to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.35\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4.84\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> enhancement in PAE at the PBO levels of 6 and 9.6 dB over class-A operation, respectively. The PA also demonstrates strong tolerance to VSWR events with only 2 dB degradation over a VSWR 4:1 load circle at a frequency of 33 GHz.
Advances in market-oriented approaches for legume breeding in eastern Africa

Cite as: Kimani, P.M. and Anthony, V.M. 2019. Advances in marketoriented approaches for legume breeding in eastern Africa. African Journal of Rural Development 4 (3): 305-322. Received: 24 June 2019 Accepted: 03 September 2019 Published: 30 September 2019 ABSTRACT The overall objective of plant breeding is genetic improvement of whole plants or specific parts or traits to increase their economic value and meet needs of end-users. In eastern Africa, several approaches have been used in legume breeding ranging from classical to molecular. However, emphasis has been genetic and agronomic improvement with limited attention given to the business side. This has contributed to low adoption and utilisation of improved varieties in Africa (38%) compared to 60-80% reported in other regions of the world. Before 1985, breeding programmes were monolithic focusing on yield and disease resistance with little consideration of farmer and consumer preferences. Farmer participatory and on-farm approaches developed in the early 1990s, focused on household food security resulted in slightly improved adoption. Market-led strategy was developed in 2000, and implemented in bean breeding programmemore than 20 African countries, further improved adoption but only to modest rate of 36%. Between 2014 and 2017, a demand-led breeding strategy was developed by a consortium of institutions. Unlike previous breeding approaches, demand-led breeding is business oriented, and is based on six cardinal principles: client preferences, value chain analysis, market research, market trends and drivers, integration of public and private sector expertise, and a multidisciplinary approach in variety design and solution development. Case studies of breeding pigeonpea, dry and canning beans indicate that application of this approach requires breeders to learn new skills, working with non-traditional partners and understanding market dynamics.
Functional and Mutational Analysis of Kinase Domain of the Giant Protein Titin

The giant filamentous muscle protein titin spans half of the sarcomere. Through its tight association with the thick filament, its elastic elements at the I-band, its connection to the cytoskeleton components, and its anchorage at the Z-disc and M-line, the protein is proposed to participate in the mechanosensation and -transduction, to provide mechanical stability to the sarcomere as well as to possibly serve as a “molecular ruler,
A Fast Lock for Explicit Message Passing Architectures

Synchronization is a crucial issue for multi-threaded programs. Mutex locks are widely used in legacy programs and are still popular for the intuition semantics. The SW26010 architecture, deployed on the supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight, introduces a hardware-supported inter-core message passing mechanism and exposes explicit interfaces for developers to use its fast on-chip network. This emerging architectural feature brings both opportunities and challenges for mutex lock implementation. However, there is still no general lock mechanism, especially designed and optimized for architectures with this new feature. In this article, we propose mLock, a fast lock designed and optimized for architectures that support Explicit inter-core Message Passing (EMP). mLock uses partial cores as lock servers and leverages the fast on-chip network to implement high-performance mutual exclusive locks. In this article, we propose a series of novel techniques to improve the performance of EMP locks. First, we propose the concepts of <italic>chaining lock</italic> and <italic>hierarchical lock</italic> to reduce message count and mitigate network congestion. Second, we propose a <italic>fair lock</italic> approach to improve the fairness of EMP locks. Third, <italic>server reusing</italic> is introduced to reduce the number of lock servers. We implement and evaluate mLock on an SW26010 processor. Experimental results show that our proposed techniques can improve the performance of EMP locks by up to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16.2\times$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>16</mml:mn><mml:mo>. </mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>×</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="tang-ieq1-3015727.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> over a basic design.