cssi/SciSciGPT-SciSciNet huggingface dataset:
Global market segmentation for logistics services

While logistics services have become a significant source of competitive differentiation between firms, significant challenges exist relative to developing logistics service offerings for global business customers. Diverse regulations across borders, longer lead times, and increased transportation costs all add to the difficulty of managing logistics services internationally. As a service offering, logistics is often characterized by intensive customer contact, extensive customization requirements, and a reliance on extrinsic cues for service performance. Because of these qualities, logistics services are also subject to cultural influences that exist in cross-border trade. In this article, we argue that logistics service quality (LSQ) components can be used to identify global, horizontal, and vertical segments of logistics services customers, and that cultural and organizational characteristics may modify the LSQ–customer satisfaction relationship. By identifying specific customer segments, some which may transcend national borders, logistics managers can benefit from reduced costs, enhanced revenue, and the ability to differentiate their offering from the highly competitive marketplace.
Compulsory Voting and the Turnout Decision Calculus

By altering the turnout decision calculus, compulsory voting should alter the character of the voting population. Employing survey data across countries and Swiss cantons, I examine how the turnout decision calculus varies across voluntary and compulsory voting systems. Results indicate that many of the demographic, socio-economic and political factors known to correlate with turnout play a relatively weak role in motivating electoral participation where voting is mandatory. Thus, voting populations should be more reflective of the entire electorate in countries with compulsory voting. I conclude with a discussion of the potential implications of my findings.
Generalizations of graphical parameters

Graph theoretic parameters are often defined for a finite graph G with the aid of certain subsets of the vertex set V(G) or of the edge set E(G). One usually restricts attention to those subsets having maximum or minimum cardinality. Examples include the parameters associated with covering sets, matching sets, and separating sets. However, it may be desirable to consider a wider range of values, and we indicate how this can be accomplished for the vertex and edge versions of the parameters just mentioned.
The casino and the OODA loop: why our protocols always eventually fail

Security protocols are almost always part of an iterated game, but existing abstractions don't model this behavior. Models for such systems have been developed in other contexts, and we propose the use of one, John Boyd's Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) Loop, as appropriate for the security context.
Adaptive Fuzzy Prediction for Automotive Applications Usage

Modern automobiles are increasingly complicated machines with an ever-increasing number of features. Understanding how these features work, when to use them, and in general how to make the best use of your vehicle is not a simple task. This research presents an evolving fuzzy system that personalizes the fuzzy membership functions based on individual driving habits. The system was successfully applied to estimate the likelihood of a driver using cruise control based on past usage preferences, current context, and recent driving history. Experimental results show that the proposed fuzzy system can learn the membership functions adaptively according to the driving behavior, and predicts the cruise control usage with high confidence.
A New Programming Model to Simulate Wireless Sensor Networks : Finding The Best Routing Path

Sensor networks provide a number of extensive programming challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) application programmers. Application developers have proposed various WSN s programming models to avoid these challenges and make WSN programming much easier. In this paper we proposed a new programming model to find the best routing path in WSNs and work on the coding of actual sensor nodes to perform the desired tasks. Then we describe the initial design and the implementation of our proposed model and compare the results when applied in different network topologies with multiple routing algorithms. Finally, we present an evaluation of our model in term s of cost and accuracy.
Growth effects of desoxycorticosterone and cortisone with special reference to compensatory renal hypertrophy.

Summary1. In a dosage of 2 mg/day cortisone completely halted body growth and produced adrenal atrophy and slight cardiac hypertrophy. Kidney size in intact cortisone-treated rats increased by 25% which, since it occurred in the absence of an increase in body weight, resulted in kidneys which were disproportionately large in relation to body size. 2. Doca in the same dosage was without effect on body weight or heart weight. Slight adrenal atrophy and moderate enlargement of the kidneys in intact animals was observed. 3. Compensatory renal hypertrophy was greatest in controls and diminished to the same extent by either Doca or cortisone. It was suppressed to the greatest extent, but not completely prevented, by a restriction of food intake to a level permitting only maintenance of a static body weight.
Conservative total hip arthroplasty.

SUMMARY Surface replacement arthroplasty of the hip is a relatively new procedure by orthopedic standards. The test of time is not yet far enough along to allow sound conclusions to be made, but the early results have been encouraging. Most of our failures occurred early in our experience, and our results have been steadily improving as our knowledge grows. Significant improvements have been made in surgical technique and prosthetic design. Refinements continue, and we are confident that surface replacement will withstand the test of time and prove to be a useful procedure, especially in younger patients suffering from severe cox arthrosis.
Cyclic biochemical changes in the human endometrium, with special reference to the fibrinolytic enzyme.

Abstract The biochemical changes occurring in the human endometrium during a menstrual cycle have been reviewed and classified into four patterns. The amount of beta-glucuronidase parallels the estrogen curve, whereas the content of protease is greatest during the regressive phase of estrogen withdrawal. The intracellular concentration of fat and of glycogen follows the progresterone pattern, while the amount of ribonucleic acid and alkaline phosphatase present in the endometrium increases under the influence of estrogen, then declines with the addition of progesterone. A method for measuring the concentration of fibrinolytic enzyme in tissue is described. When applied to human endometrial samples, it was found that the fibrinolytic activity increased in the latter part of the menstrual cycle, regardless of progesterone influence, and was highest during the bleeding phase. The stimulative influence of estrogens and of estrogen withdrawal upon the fibrinolytic activity of uterine extracts was confirmed in rabbits. Increased activity following estrogen administration is due to an increase in total enzyme concentration and not to a reduction of antifibrinolysin. Endometrial fibrinolysin bears a relation to the fluidity of menstrual blood and might be concerned with the process of endometrial disintegration and shedding.
Judging Inappropriateness in Actions Expressing Emotion: A Feminist Perspective

Actions expressing strong emotions such as anger can be appropriate responses when an agent judges a serious injustice to have been committed. Certainly, a woman can experience these conditions and express herself through actions such as gesturing aggressively, gritting her teeth, or lashing out verbally. If she is consequently labeled “crazy,” “hysterical,” or “a bitch,” what has gone awry? This paper offers an analysis of the common charge of inappropriateness in the case of women’s actions expressing emotion. To begin, I will present core normative distinctions that define appropriate emotional expression. Following this, the “double-bind” of women’s actions expressing emotion will be explored with reference to the conflicting normative practices outlined in the first section of the paper. Put briefly, when a female agent surpasses gendered behavioral expectations, she is seen as having failed what can be called the first test of social coping . The perception of this failure shuts down further avenues for interpreting her behavior. Instead, the social inappropriateness of her emotion is used as further proof of irrationality. The arguments of the second section leave no doubt that gendered norms in the case of actions expressing emotions must be rejected both on epistemological and moral grounds. The final section of the paper explores epistemically and ethically viable alternatives for deciding the rational appropriateness of actions expressing emotion.
Paleoecological analysis of molluscan assemblages from the middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington

Molluscan assemblages from upper middle Eocene deposits of southwestern Washington represent a regional biotic system that provides independent evidence of a range of depositional environments in a delta. Four marine molluscan assemblages reflect a subtropical fauna that inhabited an inner neritic to upper bathyal gradient down the prodelta slope. Comparisons with Recent molluscan taxa indicate changing trophic structures from dominantly infaunal filter feeding in the shallow, coarser-grained substrate to dominantly infaunal deposit feeding in the fine-grained mud. A very high diversity of carnivorous gastropods indicates that the biocenosis included a wide array of predominantly errant, soft-bodied invertebrate prey. The most shallow marine assemblages show evidence of dense Turritella patches within infaunal bivalve-dominated associations, indicating mosaics of distribution across a soft-sediment substrate. Low diversity marginal-marine and freshwater assemblages show faunal links with each other. They indicate interdistributary bay and marsh environments that are commonly part of a river-dominated delta.
Syndromteste bei Funktionspsychosen

Unter Funktionspsychosen seien alle reversiblen korperlich begrundbaren Psychosen verstanden, also alle Psychosen, die durch interne Grundprozesse oder primare organische Erkrankungen des Gehirns verursacht werden. Wir wissen seit den Arbeiten Bonhoeffers, das das Erscheinungsbild dieser Psychosen atiologisch unspezifisch ist, d. h. das die verschiedensten Grundprozesse gleiche klinische Krankheitsbilder hervorrufen. In der von Wieck stammenden Konzeption von den „funktionspsychosen“ wird der Begriff „psychose“ nicht auf die klassischen Manifestationstypen wie z.B. Delir, Dammerzustand und Halluzinose beschrankt, sondern er umfast in Form der Durchgangssyndrome auch die leichten Auspragungsgrade, die man oft recht unbeholfen mit „schwerbesinnlichkeit“, „hirnleistungsschwache“, „somnolenz“ und anderen Symptomnennungen zu beschreiben sucht.
The Octave Fuzzy Logic Toolkit

The Octave Fuzzy Logic Toolkit is an open-source toolkit for Octave that provides a large MATLAB compatible subset of the functionality of the MATLAB Fuzzy Logic Toolbox as well as many extensions. The toolkit includes functions that enable the user to build, modify, and evaluate Fuzzy Inference Systems (FISs) from the command line and from Octave scripts, read/write FISs to/from files, and produce graphical output of both the membership functions and the FIS outputs. Future work will focus on implementing advanced fuzzy inference techniques and GUI tools. The Octave Fuzzy Logic Toolkit is available for download on Octave-Forge and SourceForge.
Associations between emotion regulation difficulties, eating disorder symptoms, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide attempts in a heterogeneous eating disorder sample

Abstract Background This study examined the associations between specific dimensions of emotion dysregulation and eating disorder (ED) symptoms and behaviors, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and suicide attempts in a heterogeneous ED sample. Methods Participants (N=110) completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), and self-reported the presence of lifetime NSSI and a lifetime suicide attempt. Results The EDE-Q global score, a primarily cognitive measure of ED symptoms, was significantly positively correlated with DERS strategies, clarity, and awareness subscale scores and DERS total score ( p s ps >0.01). Frequency of purging was significantly, positively associated with DERS impulse subscale score and total score ( p ps >0.01). Conclusions Findings indicate that in a heterogeneous ED sample, emotion regulation deficits are more strongly associated with cognitively-oriented symptoms of EDs than behavioral symptoms such as a binge eating, purging, driven exercise, NSSI, or suicide attempts.
Intelligent and automatic in vivo detection and quantification of transplanted cells in MRI.

Purpose Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based cell tracking has emerged as a useful tool for identifying the location of transplanted cells, and even their migration. Magnetically labeled cells appear as dark contrast in T2*-weighted MRI, with sensitivities of individual cells. One key hurdle to the widespread use of MRI-based cell tracking is the inability to determine the number of transplanted cells based on this contrast feature. In the case of single cell detection, manual enumeration of spots in three-dimensional (3D) MRI in principle is possible; however, it is a tedious and time-consuming task that is prone to subjectivity and inaccuracy on a large scale. This research presents the first comprehensive study on how a computer-based intelligent, automatic, and accurate cell quantification approach can be designed for spot detection in MRI scans. Methods Magnetically labeled mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were transplanted into rats using an intracardiac injection, accomplishing single cell seeding in the brain. T2*-weighted MRI of these rat brains were performed where labeled MSCs appeared as spots. Using machine learning and computer vision paradigms, approaches were designed to systematically explore the possibility of automatic detection of these spots in MRI. Experiments were validated against known in vitro scenarios. Results Using the proposed deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, an in vivo accuracy up to 97.3% and in vitro accuracy of up to 99.8% was achieved for automated spot detection in MRI data. Conclusion The proposed approach for automatic quantification of MRI-based cell tracking will facilitate the use of MRI in large-scale cell therapy studies. Magn Reson Med, 2016. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Sociocultural Perspectives on Visual Communication

AbstractThis article discusses four sources of socio-cultural reference in visual communication studies - art history, film studies, the psychology of art and visual representation, and the anthropology of visual communication - and suggeststhat socio-culturally nested analyses of visual textsstill offer the greatestpromisefor illuminating the nature of pictorial communication and the particular role of visualform in media production, reception, interpretation and use. The article specifically calls for a re-invigorated use of socialsemiotics: analyses of cultural texts within the concrete social contexts of visual media production and reception, and with a heightened awareness of the impactof shifting technology,industrial synergy, and trans-cultural media activity.
Associations Between Personality and Drinking Motives Among Abstinent Adult Alcoholic Men and Women.

Aims Men and women differ in personality characteristics and may be motivated to use alcohol for different reasons. The goals of the present study were to characterize personality and drinking motives by gender and alcoholism status in adults, and to determine how alcoholism history and gender are related to the associations between personality traits and drinking motivation. Methods Personality characteristics were assessed with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, which includes Extraversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism and Lie (Social Conforming) scales. To evaluate drinking motivation, we asked abstinent long-term alcoholic men and women, and demographically similar nonalcoholic participants to complete the Drinking Motives Questionnaire, which includes Conformity, Coping, Social and Enhancement scales. Results Patterns of personality scale scores and drinking motives differed by alcoholism status, with alcoholics showing higher psychopathology and stronger motives for drinking compared with controls. Divergent gender-specific relationships between personality and drinking motives also were identified, which differed for alcoholics and controls. Conclusion Alcoholic and control men and women differed with respect to the associations between personality traits and motives for drinking. A better understanding of how different personality traits affect drinking motivations for alcoholic men and women can inform individualized relapse prevention strategies. Short Summary Men and women differed in their personality traits and their motivations for drinking, and these relationships differed for abstinent alcoholic and control groups. Additionally, alcoholics scored higher on Neuroticism and Psychoticism personality traits, and had lower Enhancement and Social Conformity drinking motives than nonalcoholic controls.
Avoiding resonance capture in multi-planet extrasolar systems

A commonly noted feature of the population of multi-planet extrasolar systems is the rarity of planet pairs in low-order mean-motion resonances. We revisit the physics of resonance capture via convergent disk-driven migration. We point out that for planet spacings typical of stable configurations for Kepler systems, the planets can routinely maintain a small but nonzero eccentricity due to gravitational perturbations from their neighbors. Together with the upper limit on the migration rate needed for capture, the finite eccentricity can make resonance capture difficult or impossible in Sun-like systems for planets smaller than ~Neptune-sized. This mass limit on efficient capture is broadly consistent with observed exoplanet pairs that have mass determinations: of pairs with the heavier planet exterior to the lighter planet -- which would have been undergoing convergent migration in their disks -- those in or nearly in resonance are much more likely to have total mass greater than two Neptune masses than to have smaller masses. The agreement suggests that the observed paucity of resonant pairs around sun-like stars may simply arise from a small resonance capture probability for lower-mass planets. Planet pairs that thereby avoid resonance capture are much less likely to collide in an eventual close approach than to simply migrate past one another to become a divergently migrating pair with the lighter planet exterior. For systems around M stars we expect resonant pairs to be much more common, since there the minimum mass threshhold for efficient capture is about an Earth mass.
datanet: a Stata routine for organising a dataset for network analysis purposes

This paper presents and applies a new user-written Stata program, datanet, which facilitates the dataset organisation for network analysis purposes. Given a fixed number of units (or nodes) belonging to the same group (there will be a variable denoting group membership), possibly connected one each other or possibly not, this routine creates a new dataset containing all their possible couplings to then be easily exploited using Stata network analysis commands. So far, to our knowledge, no routine has been developed in Stata which executes this type of procedure.
“The Horror” of Structural Racism: Helping Students Take a Critical Stance Using Classic Literature

The goal of this piece is to provide educators with the knowledge and practical application needed to build critical literacy within their students using a traditional text that might not be considered multicultural. This essay challenges the idea that “outdated” literary works have no place in today's multicultural classroom, as it connects critical literacy concepts to classic works and explores how such concepts are inherent in our society based on the ideas presented in the literature. Using Heart of Darkness, this work connects structural racism to Conrad's novella and explores how students can examine how structural racism is inherent in our society.
The agenda-setting function of mass media1,2

In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality. Readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position. In reflecting what candidates are saying during a campaign, the mass media may well determine the important issues – that is, the media may set the "agenda" of the campaign.
Experimental study of corona jet produced from a circular tube fitted with a nozzle

Abstract The flow characteristics of a corona jet, which is produced from a single needle electrode positioned at the centerline of a circular tube fitted with a grounded stainless-steel nozzle at one end of the tube, is experimentally evaluated. Six nozzles with two diameter ratios and three taper angles are evaluated for their effectiveness in accelerating the jet produced by corona discharge with positive polarity. To determine the maximum jet velocity and volume flow rate, experiments have been conducted at a voltage ranging from corona onset (5 kV) to sparkover (approximately 12.5 kV) at an increment of 2.5 kV. The results show that the jet velocity increases with the applied voltage. The maximum velocity occurs at the center line but its value decreases as the jet expands downstream. In addition, the results show that a nozzle with a smaller diameter ratio does not always perform the best in accelerating the flow or producing the maximum volume flow rate. The nozzle's taper angle further accentuates the result produced by the diameter ratio. The implications from the present results for actual applications are provided.
Contradictions between Brazilian and U.S. Organizations

Conceptions of excellence, the quality of work life, value patterns, power relationships, stress factors, and so on have been found to differ among cultures throughout the world. The manner in which individuals perceive their own realities differs significantly among different cultures as individuals process cognitive cues in culturally homogeneous ways (Haire, Ghiselli, & Porter 1963; Hofstede, 1984). Similarly, the organizational behaviors arising from these unique cultural perspectives may also differ in important ways in different countries, and the theories of organizational functioning that arise from observation of that behavior may, therefore, reflect cultural bias.
An Electrochemical Investigation of Surface Reactions of Coal- and Mineral-Pyrite in Aqueous Solutions

Oxidation and reduction processes occurring on polished and freshly fractured coal- and mineral-pyrite have been studied using electrochemical techniques with the aim of understanding the reactions that control its hydrophobicity and flotation. Ring-disc studies show that 1) the kinetics of oxygen reduction on pyrite depends on its source; 2) two distinct soluble reduction products (ferrous hydroxide and HS-) are generated on pyrite in alkaline solutions (pH 9.2) during cathodic sweeps; and (3) one distinct soluble oxidation product (also ferrous hydroxide) is produced during anodic sweeps (pH 9.2). The voltammetry behavior of polished pyrite at moderate overpotentials is dominated by the oxidation and reduction of ferrous and ferric hydroxides, respectively, and not by the oxidation and reduction of pyrite. To study the initial oxidation processes occurring on pyrite itself, fresh surfaces were created by fracturing electrodes under the electrolyte. This procedure avoided complications from the iron oxides and hydroxides present on polished electrodes. Chronoamperometry immediately after fracture and subsequent cyclic voltammetry were used to elucidate the initial oxidation reaction producing hydrophobic sulfur species on pyrite.
Pressure Control Ventilation

A. Pressure control (PC) was developed in the 1980s for the treatment of ARDS. It is now included in many neonatal ventilators. B. Mechanical breaths are delivered at a preset peak inspiratory pressure, with a fi xed or variable inspiratory time and variable inspiratory fl ow, which distinguishes PC from traditional time-cycled, pressure-limited ventilation. C. It may be applied as IMV, SIMV (with or without pressure support), or A/C.
Continuous-Flow LVAD Support Causes a Distinct Form of Intestinal Angiodysplasia.

Rationale: The objective of this autopsy study was to determine whether gastrointestinal angiodysplasia develops during continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. Objective: LVAD support causes pathologic degradation of von Willebrand factor (vWF) and bleeding from gastrointestinal angiodysplasia at an alarming rate. It has been speculated that LVAD support itself may cause angiodysplasia. The relationship to abnormal vWF metabolism is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that abnormal gastrointestinal vascularity develops during continuous-flow LVAD support. Methods and Results: Small bowel was obtained from deceased humans, cows, and sheep supported with a continuous-flow LVAD (n=9 LVAD, n=11 control). Transmural sections of jejunum were stained with fluorescein isothiocyanate–conjugated isolectin-B4 for endothelium to demarcate vascular structures and quantify intestinal vascularity. Paired plasma samples were obtained from humans before LVAD implantation and during LVAD support (n=41). vWF multimers and degradation fragments were quantified with agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting. Abnormal vascular architecture was observed in the submucosa of the jejunum of human patients, cows, and sheep supported with a continuous-flow LVAD. Intestinal vascularity was significantly higher after LVAD support versus controls (5.2±1.0% versus 2.1±0.4%, P =0.004). LVAD support caused significant degradation of high–molecular-weight vWF multimers (–9±1%, P P P Conclusions: Abnormal intestinal vascular architecture and LVAD-associated vWF degradation were consistent findings in multiple species supported with a continuous-flow LVAD. These are the first direct evidence that LVAD support causes gastrointestinal angiodysplasia. Pathologic vWF metabolism may be a mechanistic link between LVAD support, abnormal angiogenesis, gastrointestinal angiodysplasia, and bleeding.
Critical Workload Deployment in Public Clouds with Guaranteed Security Levels and Optimized Resource Usage and Energy Cost

It is a common practice that public clouds adopt Virtual Machine (VM) multiplexing to improve resource usage and energy consumption. However, packing multiple VMs of different security requirements into a single hypervisor gives rise to major cybersecurity issues, such as VM to VM Interdependency-based cybersecurity (ICS) risks. For example, the chances of successfully compromising a secure Critical VM (CVM) are very high when an attacker compromises the hosting hypervisor after a successful attack on one of its less secure, non-critical VMs (NVMs). In this paper, we study how to securely and efficiently collocate CVMs with NVMs in public cloud clusters. Specifically, we model and analyze the ICS risks imposed on CVMs by NVMs using noncooperative game models involving two players, i.e., an attacker and a cloud provider. We then introduce a novel approach that can judiciously determine the allocation of VMs so that the ICS risks imposed on critical VMs are guaranteed to be minimized. Our experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can judiciously optimize the provider’s overall resource usage, energy consumption, and operational expense while minimizing the potential security loss given a successful attack on any VM.
Research on Short-Circuit Currents Calculation Method Considering Dynamic Reactive Power Support of Renewable Energy Systems

Due to the renewable generation target and the continuously increasing electrical demand, a large number of wind farms and solar photovoltaic (PV)plants are being planned in China. As the electricity fault characteristics of inverter-interfaced renewable energy sources are different from the traditional synchronous generators. The fault circuit contributions are getting more and more attention from engineers. In this paper, the short-circuit calculation method considering dynamic reactive power support of renewable energy systems is proposed. Through a large number of calculations, the factors affecting short-circuit currents and trends of short-circuit current under different voltage drop depths are discussed. The results presented by this paper provide the reference for future research on control and protection of power systems with high penetration of renewable energies.
Real-time and Robust Driver Yawning Detection with Deep Neural Networks

Yawning is an important indicator of drivers’ drowsiness or fatigue. Techniques for automatic detection of driver’s yawning have been developed for use as a component of driver fatigue monitoring system. However, detecting driver’s yawning event accurately in real-time is still a challenging task, in particular in applications such as driver fatigue detection, illumination conditions vary in a broad range, driver facial features vary in size, shape, texture and degrees of distortion. In this paper, we present a deep neural network model built using transfer learning and sequential learning from yawning video clips as well as augmented images for yawning detection. As a result, unlike many other methods that follow a sequence of processes such as face ROI detection, eye/nose/mouth positioning and mouth open/close determination, the proposed yawning detection system detect yawning events directly from video images without requiring any facial part positions. The system is robust to variations in object scales, positions and subject view angles. The system has been evaluated on publicly available yawning data sets, YawDD and NTHU-DDD, as well as a data set containing challenging yawning videos. The experimental results show that the proposed yawning detection system has the capability of detecting yawning events in high precision even when face turns away from camera up to 70 degrees, while exhibiting capability of being scale- and spatial-invariant. In addition, the model demonstrates the capability of discriminating yawning events very well from the actions involving mouth opening-closing motions such as talking and laughing.
Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating in mukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Mukbang is a Korean livestream where a host eats while interacting with viewers. The eater ‘speaks’ to the viewers while eating and the viewers ‘type’ to each other and to the eater through a live chat room. Using interactional sociolinguistics along with insights from conversation analysis (CA) studies, the present study examines how sociable eating is jointly and multimodally achieved in mukbang. Analyzing sixty-seven mukbang clips, I find that mukbang participants coordinate their actions through speech, written text, and embodied acts, and that this coordination creates involvement and, by extension, establishes both community and social agency. Specifically, recruitments are the basic joint action of eating, as participants, who are taking turns, assume footings of the recruit and the recruiter. The host embodies viewers’ text recruitments through embodied animating and puppeteering. As in street performance, the viewers often offer voluntary donations, and the host shows entertaining gratitude in response. (Mukbang, footing, recruitments, agency, involvement, constructed action, multimodal interaction, computer-mediated discourse)*
Wafer-Level Adaptive V min Calibration Seed Forecasting

To combat the effects of process variation in modern, high-performance integrated Circuits (ICs), various post-manufacturing calibrations are typically performed. These calibrations aim to bring each device within its specification limits and ensure that it abides by current technology standards. Moreover, with the increasing popularity of mobile devices that usually depend on finite energy sources, power consumption has been introduced as an additional constraint. As a result, post-silicon calibration is often performed to identify the optimal operating voltage (V min ) of a given Integrated Circuit. This calibration is time-consuming, as it requires the device to be tested in a wide range of voltage inputs across a large number of tests. In this work, we propose a machine learning-based methodology for reducing the cost of performing the V min calibration search, by identifying the optimal wafer-level search parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated on an industrial dataset.
Broken SU(3)×SU(3) Symmetry

We discuss, in detail, the meaning of a proposed unitary transformation which exhibits an inherent ambiguity of the broken $\mathrm{SU}(3)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{SU}(3)$ symmetry. It is suggested that invariance under this transformation be imposed upon the Hamiltonian of the hadrons. A model consistent with this requirement is proposed. We also discuss some interesting consequences of such a model.
Maximizing Rewards, Minimizing Clothes: Examining Consumers’ Motivations for Building a #capsulewardrobe

The findings of this study exhibit consumers’ diverse intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for participating in the capsule wardrobe movement via Instagram. Our findings suggest that consumers participate in the capsule wardrobe movement initially driven by intrinsic motivations. As they engage digitally in social connections through Instagram, their extrinsic motivations become evident. In line with Gagne and Deci (2005), social presence and connection with other like-minded consumers reinforces their internalization of extrinsic motivations, develops their autonomous motivation of having control, and regulates their fashion consumption behavior based on their strong sustainable values. Jung and Jin’s study (2016) revealed that corporate-focused factors such as firms’ supply chain issues (e.g., fair trade, working conditions), manufacturing process (e.g., craftsmanship, handcrafts), product functionality, and local support do not determine consumers’ perceived value of slow fashion, which leads to behavioral intention when consumers buy a new apparel product. In contrast, our study demonstrates the effectiveness of the capsule wardrobe movement in which consumers endeavor to develop a sustainable behavior in the use of apparel products in their daily lives. Furthermore, the findings of this study suggest that consumers can become more sustainable without having to purchase slow fashion.
Androgen receptor signaling in the lungs mitigates inflammation and improves the outcome of influenza in mice

Circulating androgens can modulate immune cell activity, but the impact of androgens on viral pathogenesis remains unclear. Previous data demonstrate that testosterone reduces the severity of influenza A virus (IAV) infection in male mice by mitigating pulmonary inflammation rather than by affecting viral replication. To examine the immune responses mediated by testosterone to mitigate IAV-induced inflammation, adult male mice remained gonadally intact or were gonadectomized and treated with either placebo or androgen-filled (i.e., testosterone or dihydrotestosterone) capsules prior to sublethal IAV infection. Like intact males, treatment of gonadectomized males with androgens improved the outcome of IAV infection, which was not mediated by changes in the control of virus replication or pulmonary cytokine activity. Instead, androgens accelerated pulmonary leukocyte contraction to limit inflammation. To identify which immune cells were contracting in response to androgens, the composition of pulmonary cellular infiltrates was analyzed and revealed that androgens specifically accelerated the contraction of total pulmonary inflammatory monocytes during peak disease, as well as CD8+ T cells, IAV-specific CD8+ T numbers, cytokine production and degranulation by IAV-specific CD8+ T cells, and the influx of eosinophils into the lungs following clearance of IAV. Neither depletion of eosinophils nor adoptive transfer of CD8+ T cells could reverse the ability of testosterone to protect males against IAV suggesting these were secondary immunologic effects. The effects of testosterone on the contraction of immune cell numbers and activity were blocked by co-administration of the androgen receptor antagonist flutamide and mimicked by treatment with dihydrotestosterone, which was also able to reduce the severity of IAV in female mice. These data suggest that androgen receptor signaling creates a local pulmonary environment that promotes downregulation of detrimental inflammatory immune responses to protect against prolonged influenza disease.
Inpatient Telehealth Tools to Enhance Communication and Decrease Personal Protective Equipment Consumption during Disaster Situations: A Case Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic exerts unprecedented stress on hospitals, health care systems have quickly deployed innovative technology solutions to decrease personal protective equipment (PPE) use and augment patient care capabilities. Telehealth technology use is established in the ambulatory setting, but not yet widely deployed at scale for inpatient care. Objectives This article presents and describes our experience with evaluating and implementing inpatient telehealth technologies in a large health care system with the goals of reducing use of PPE while enhancing communication for health care workers and patients. Methods We discovered use cases for inpatient telehealth revealed as a result of an immense patient surge requiring large volumes of PPE. In response, we assessed various consumer products to address the use cases for our health system. Results We identified 13 use cases and eight device options. During device setup and implementation, challenges and solutions were identified in five areas: security/privacy, device availability and setup, device functionality, physical setup, and workflow and device usage. This enabled deployment of more than 1,800 devices for inpatient telehealth across seven hospitals with positive feedback from health care staff. Conclusion Large-scale setup and distribution of consumer devices is feasible for inpatient telehealth use cases. Our experience highlights operational barriers and potential solutions for health systems looking to preserve PPE and enhance vital communication.
Sprucing up Supersenses: Untangling the Semantic Clusters of Accompaniment and Purpose

We reevaluate an existing adpositional annotation scheme with respect to two thorny semantic domains: accompaniment and purpose. ‘Accompaniment’ broadly speaking includes two entities situated together or participating in the same event, while ‘purpose’ broadly speaking covers the desired outcome of an action, the intended use or evaluated use of an entity, and more. We argue the policy in the SNACS scheme for English should be recalibrated with respect to these clusters of interrelated meanings without adding complexity to the overall scheme. Our analysis highlights tradeoffs in lumping vs. splitting decisions as well as the flexibility afforded by the construal analysis.
A Dynamic Model of Employees’ Transition to Entrepreneur: A Cognitive Mapping Approach:

Employees’ transition to an entrepreneurial career has been explained by two major driving forces: push and pull factors. The push-pull dichotomy, however, has been the center of debate on whether ...
Instituting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Training and Documentation to Increase Inclusivity at a Pediatric Health System

In this mixed-methods quality improvement project, we implemented and evaluated sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) form rollout in the electronic medical record. Families in our gender d...
Numerical Evaluation of Integrals

In your calculus text, you have seen that the concept of derivative arises from the simple idea of average rate of change of one quantity with respect to another. The calculation and application of derivatives to problems of maxima and minima, curve sketching, rectilinear motion in gravitational fields, etc., provide powerful tools for analyzing and solving many physical problems. The concept of the integral arises from the simple idea of area. The extension of the concept of area from the rectangle to a variety of regions having curvilinear borders provides another powerful tool for scientists. Also, both the concept of the derivative and that of the integral have uses far beyond those noted here.
Diabetes and Atherosclerosis

Macrovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetes. The study of factors that may uniquely contribute to the accelerated development of atherosclerosis in diabetes has been an ongoing process for several years. However, the concepts behind both the pathogenic mechanisms of atherosclerosis and the trigger mechanisms that lead to acute clinical events have drastically changed in the last two decades. It is now fully accepted that arteriosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory process and not a degenerative process that inevitably progresses with age. Also accepted is the fact that plaque rupture or erosion not the degree of vessel obstruction is responsible for the majority of acute cardiovascular events. Diabetes most likely contributes to and enhances the chronic inflammatory process characteristic of arteriosclerosis and supporting this concept are the studies showing that atherectomy specimens from diabetic patients undergoing coronary atherectomy for symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD) have a larger content of macrophages than specimens from patients without diabetes (1). In recent years, mechanisms that lead to plaque formation and to plaque erosion or rupture and the key event that precedes both, endothelial dysfunction, are being actively studied (Fig. 1).
Modeling misregistration and related effects on multispectral classification

Any noise in measurements (due to the scene, sensor, or the analog to digital process) causes a finite fraction of measurements to fall outside of the classification limits. For field boundaries, where the misregistration effects are felt, the misregistration causes the border in a given (set of) band(s) to be closer than expected to a given pixel, so that the mixed materials in the pixels cause additional pixels to fall outside of the class limits. Considerations of the transient distance involved in the difference in brightness between adjacent fields, when scaled to "per pixel", allow the estimation of the width of the border zones. The entire problem is then scaled to field sizes to allow estimation of the global effects. This approach allows the estimation of the accuracy of multispectral classification which might be expected for field interiors, the useful number of quantization bits, and one set of criteria for an unbiased classifier.
Compartmentalization of Ca2+ signaling and Ca2+ pools in pancreatic acini. Implications for the quantal behavior of Ca2+ release

Streptolysin O-permeabilized pancreatic acini were used to study compartmentalization of Ca2+ signaling and Ca2+ pools. In these cells, the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-dependent Ca2+ channels could be activated by a number of agonists (carbachol, cholecystokinin, or bombesin) or by activation of the entire cellular phospholipase C pool with GTP gamma S. Surprisingly, each of the antagonists interacting with acinar cells inactivated the channels after stimulation with GTP gamma S. In addition, when permeabilized cells were stimulated with more than one agonist, any antagonist to the specific agonists employed inactivated the channels. The aberrant behavior of the antagonists in permeable cells was not related to a loss of specificity since (a) when added before GTP gamma S, the antagonists had no effect on Ca2+ release and (b) when cells were stimulated with a single agonist, the antagonists prevented only the effect of their specific agonist. The differential behavior of the antagonists in intact and permeable cells suggests a compartmentalization of Ca2+ signaling into separate, agonist-specific units that is modified by cell permeabilization. Further evidence for compartmentalization of signaling was obtained by showing that the partial agonist (the CCK octapeptide analogue JMV-180) can access and release only 50% of the cholecystokinin- or IP3-mobilizable Ca2+ pool in intact and permeable cells. Kinetic measurements revealed a multiphasic time course of agonist-evoked Ca2+ release in permeable cells. At high agonist concentrations, all phases were fast and merged into an apparent single event of Ca2+ release. The phases were separated by three independent protocols: reduction in agonist concentrations, addition of heparin, or addition of guanosine-5'-O-(thio)diphosphate. Since all protocols that caused phase separation reduce IP3-mediated Ca2+ release, these findings demonstrate heterogeneity in the affinity for IP3 of channels present in compartmentalized Ca2+ pools of the same cells. Compartmentalization of signaling and the heterogeneity in the affinity for IP3 resulted in a quantal agonist-evoked Ca2+ release. The overall findings are discussed in the context of an integrated model of compartmentalization of signaling complexes, Ca2+ pools, and IP3-activated Ca2+ channels.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Homology in Bacterial Taxonomy: Effect of Incubation Temperature on Reaction Specificity

Parameters affecting deoxyribonucleic acid duplex (DNA-DNA) formation on membrane filters were evaluated. The reference strains used were Cytophaga succinicans strain 8, which has a guanine plus cytosine (GC) content of 38%, and Myxococcus xanthus strain FB, which has a GC content of 70%. Both organisms are gliding bacteria classified among the myxobacteria. Among the parameters evaluated, the incubation temperature used during duplex formation was found to be the most important in terms of the physical nature of the reaction product. When an incubation temperature 25 C below the melting point (Tm) of the native DNA was used, homologous duplexes exhibited a thermal stability similar to that of native DNA. At 35 C below the Tm, a considerable proportion of the duplexes were of much lower stability; at 40 C below the Tm, most of the duplexes were of much lower stability. Similar duplexes of low stability were also formed between DNA molecules from morphologically and nutritionally diverse organisms, provided the GC percentages of the DNA preparations were similar. Competition between unlabeled and labeled DNA fragments for binding sites on immobilized DNA was also greatly influenced by the incubation temperature. Heterologous DNA-DNA complexes exhibited thermal stabilities which correlated with measurements of DNA homology in experiments involving competition. In addition, the difference in thermal stabilities of heterologous and homologous DNA complexes (ΔT′m) may provide a measure of divergence in nucleotide sequences.