nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Surveying the Impact of Inferential Organizational Justice on Innovative Work Behavior
Year: 2014

This is correlational descriptive analytical study in which we are investigating effect of inferential organizational justice on innovative job behavior. Therefore, independent variable is employees' perception from organizational justice and dependent variable is innovative job behavior. Data are cross sectional and quantitative. Standard questionnaires were used for gathering data. In order to determine validity and reliability the questionnaire was distributed among 30 employees. Findings showed that questionnaire is valid (0.855) Asghrnejad et.al (2006) had implemented this scale on 344 graduate students in Shahid Beheshti University. They used factor analysis and criteria validity (0.0001) which both had high validity (Khushkalam, 2010) Descriptive statistics (frequency, percent, mean and standard deviation) were used for summing data and inferential statistics was used to study relationships between variables including Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression modeling. Statistical population was all Social Security Organization employees in Ardabil (500) and sample was 217. Simple random sampling was used for selecting research samples. Results of hypotheses testing show that all six hypotheses are confirmed.
Adaptive Acceleration Data Center TCP
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers
Year: 2015

Providing deadline sensitive services is a challenge in data centers. Because of the conservativeness in additive increase congestion avoidance, current transmission control protocols are inefficient in utilizing the super high bandwidth of data centers. This may cause many deadline sensitive flows to miss their deadlines before achieving their available bandwidths. We propose an Adaptive Acceleration Data Center TCP, A2DTCP, which takes into account both network congestion and latency requirement of application service. By using congestion avoidance with an adaptive increase rate that varies between additive and multiplicative, A2DTCP accelerates bandwidth detection thus achieving high bandwidth utilization efficiency. At scale simulations and real testbed implementations show that A2DTCP significantly reduces the missed deadline ratio compared to D2TCP and DCTCP. In addition, A2DTCP can co exist with conventional TCP as well without requiring more changes in switch hardware than D2TCP and DCTCP.
A Comparative Study of Interconnect Circuit Techniques for Energy Efficient On Chip Interconnects
Year: 2015

The aggressive technology scaling in VLSI leads to decrease the size of chip. Such continual miniaturization of VLSI devices has strong impact on interconnects in several ways. Interconnects in high speed applications suffer from crosstalk, signal delay and ground noise, causing degradation of system performance. Thus interconnects are becoming a limiting factor in determining circuit performance. This paper presents a comparative study on different interconnect circuit techniques for on chip interconnects. We have compared different circuit structure by placing on RC and RLC interconnects. In this delay benefit for current sensing increases with an increase in wire width. Unlike repeaters, current sensing does not require placement of buffers along the wire and it eliminates any placement constraints. Out of all these techniques a differential RLC current mode signaling circuit insertion has offered the less amount of energy. All the circuits are simulated and compared different parameters such as power, delay and energy by using micro wind in 45nm technology.
An adaptive deep Q learning strategy for handwritten digit recognition
Venue: Neural Networks
Year: 2018

Handwritten digits recognition is a challenging problem in recent years. Although many deep learning based classification algorithms are studied for handwritten digits recognition, the recognition accuracy and running time still need to be further improved. In this paper, an adaptive deep Q learning strategy is proposed to improve accuracy and shorten running time for handwritten digit recognition. The adaptive deep Q learning strategy combines the feature extracting capability of deep learning and the decision making of reinforcement learning to form an adaptive Q learning deep belief network (Q ADBN) First, Q ADBN extracts the features of original images using an adaptive deep auto encoder (ADAE) and the extracted features are considered as the current states of Q learning algorithm. Second, Q ADBN receives Q function (reward signal) during recognition of the current states, and the final handwritten digits recognition is implemented by maximizing the Q function using Q learning algorithm. Finally, experimental results from the well known MNIST dataset show that the proposed Q ADBN has a superiority to other similar methods in terms of accuracy and running time.
Anxiety disorders, gender nonconformity, bullying and self esteem in sexual minority adolescents: prospective birth cohort study
Venue: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
Year: 2017

Sexual minority adolescents (i.e. youth not exclusively heterosexual) report more anxiety than heterosexual youth on symptom questionnaires but no research has used standardised diagnostic tools to investigate anxiety disorder risk. This study uses a UK birth cohort to investigate the risk of anxiety disorders in sexual minority and heterosexual youth using a computerised structured clinical interview and explores the influence of gender nonconformity, bullying and self esteem.  Participants were 4,564 adolescents (2,567 girls and 1,996 boys) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate the association between sexual orientation at 15.5 years and the presence of an anxiety disorder at 17.5 years. Covariates including maternal occupation, ethnicity, mother reported childhood gender nonconformity at 30, 42 and 57 months, child reported gender nonconformity at 8 years, child reported bullying between 12 and 16 years and self esteem at 17.5 years were added sequentially to regression models.  Sexual minority adolescents (i.e. those not exclusively heterosexual) had higher early childhood gender nonconformity (CGN) lower self esteem and reported more bullying than adolescents identifying as 100% heterosexual. Minority sexual orientation at 15.5 years was associated with increased risk of an anxiety disorder at 17.5 years for girls (OR 2.55, CI 1.85 3.52) and boys (OR 2.48, CI 1.40 4.39) Adjusting for ethnicity, maternal occupation, mother reported and child reported CGN had minimal impact on this association. Adjusting for bullying between 12 and 16 years and self esteem at 17.5 years reduced the strength of the associations, although the overall association remained significant for both sexes (girls OR 2.14 and boys OR 1.93) CONCLUSIONS Sexual minority youth are at increased risk of anxiety disorders relative to heterosexual youth at 17.5 years. Bullying between 12 16 years and lower self esteem may contribute to this risk.
Transformation of Shangai at the beginning of the New China. Observations from two sino soviet coproductions: La transformacion de Shanghai al inicio de la nueva China: observaciones de dos coproducciones sino sovieticas
Year: 2018

Since the Second Opium War, Shanghai was designated as a trading port, and because of its coastal location, the city became an isolated island. Its different from the backwardness of China's semi colonial and semi feudal society. Shanghai's <capitalization> is more serious, and social culture is very special. It is a difficult point for a new regime to be supported in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This article examines the publicity screenings of the two documentaries in 1950, <The Victory of the Chinese People> (Zhong Guo Ren Min De Sheng Li and <The Liberated China> (Jie Fang Liao De Zhong Guo and analyzes how the two Sino Soviet documentaries have attracted widespread attention. How did the new regime deploy the film industry's work, talks about the direction of the <film maker> and the <imager> identification mechanism, from the expression of the phenomenon level viewing to explore Shanghai people's political identity facing the new China. 1 Yang Xi es graduada de la Academia de Cine de Shanghai en la Universidad de Shanghai. Estudia la maestria en Estudios Cinematograficos. Su principal campo de investigacion es la historia del cine y la comunicacion chinos. En su etapa actual de investigacion, se centra en la revivificacion a traves del analisis historico detallado del desarrollo de las peliculas chinas. Desde el Sur Volumen 10, numero 2, Lima; pp. 363 376 DOI: 10.21142/DES 1002 2018 363 376
A High Throughput List Decoder Architecture for Polar Codes
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Year: 2016

While long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary input discrete memoryless channels when decoded by a low complexity successive cancellation (SC) algorithm, the error performance of the SC algorithm is inferior for polar codes with finite block lengths. The cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided SC list (SCL) decoding algorithm has better error performance than the SC algorithm. However, current CRC aided SCL decoders still suffer from long decoding latency and limited throughput. In this paper, a reduced latency list decoding (RLLD) algorithm for polar codes is proposed. Our RLLD algorithm performs the list decoding on a binary tree, whose leaves correspond to the bits of a polar code. In existing SCL decoding algorithms, all the nodes in the tree are traversed, and all possibilities of the information bits are considered. Instead, our RLLD algorithm visits much fewer nodes in the tree and considers fewer possibilities of the information bits. When configured properly, our RLLD algorithm significantly reduces the decoding latency and, hence, improves throughput, while introducing little performance degradation. Based on our RLLD algorithm, we also propose a high throughput list decoder architecture, which is suitable for larger block lengths due to its scalable partial sum computation unit. Our decoder architecture has been implemented for different block lengths and list sizes using the TSMC 90 nm CMOS technology. The implementation results demonstrate that our decoders achieve significant latency reduction and area efficiency improvement compared with the other list polar decoders in the literature.
Photon efficient super resolution laser radar
Venue: Optical Engineering Applications
Year: 2017

The resolution achieved in photon efficient active optical range imaging systems can be low due to non idealities such as propagation through a diffuse scattering medium. We propose a constrained optimization based frame work to address extremes in scarcity of photons and blurring by a forward imaging kernel. We provide two algorithms for the resulting inverse problem: a greedy algorithm, inspired by sparse pursuit algorithms; and a convex optimization heuristic that incorporates image total variation regularization. We demonstrate that our framework outperforms existing deconvolution imaging techniques in terms of peak signal to noise ratio. Since our proposed method is able to super resolve depth features using small numbers of photon counts, it can be useful for observing fine scale phenomena in remote sensing through a scattering medium and through the skin biomedical imaging applications.
Identification and Antibacterial Activity Test of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Fermented Shrimp (Cincalok) Against Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes
Year: 2019

Indonesia is a maritime country which has richness of sea products like fish, shrimp, squid, crab, and oyster. Nevertheless, all of those sea products can easily be contaminated by foodborne disease pathogenic bacterias such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes. Those two pathogenic bacterias can cause serious illnesses in gastrointestinal tract such as diarhea vomiting, and stomach cramp. The contamination of pathogenic bacteria can be prevented by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) metabolite compounds such as bacteriocin, organic acid, hydrogen peroxide, and diacetyl. Lactic acid bacteria was isolated from Indonesian traditional fermented shrimp called cincalok. The aim of this research is to do moleculary identify LAB isolates and antibacterial activity test in order to determine the species of LAB and to know the ability of LAB against pathogenic bacteria. Lactic acid bacteria from cincalok was identified by amplifying gen 16S rRNA through PCR colony method using primer LABFw and primer R16SRDNA 1492bac. Lactic acid bacteria from cincalok identified as Enterococcus sp. FTBUAJY01, Enterococcus sp. FTBUAJY02, Enterococcus sp. FTBUAJY03, Enterococcus durans strain FTBUAJY 01 dan Enterococcus durans strain FTBUAJY 02. Antibacterial activity test was conducted by agar well difusion method. It showed that the greatest inhibition ability of LAB from cincalok showed by Enterococcus sp. FTBUAJY02 against V. parahaemolyticus 0,529 0,082 cm 2 and Enterococcus durans strain FTBUAJY 02 against L. monocytogenes 0,655 0,090 cm 2
Polyanionic (phosphates, silicates, sulfates) frameworks as electrode materials for rechargeable Li (or Na) batteries.
Venue: Chemical reviews
Year: 2013

For more than 20 years, most of the technological achievements for the realization of positive electrodes for practical rechargeable Li battery systems have been devoted to transition metal oxides such as LixMO2 (M Co, Ni, Mn) LixMn2O4, LixV2O5, or LixV3O8. The first two classes of materials built on close packed oxygen stacking adopt bidimensional and tridimensional crystal structures, respectively  from which lithium ions may be easily intercalated or extracted in a reversible manner. These oxides are reasonably good ionic and electronic conductors, and lithium insertion/extraction proceeds while operating on the M4+/M3+ redox couple, located between 4 and 5 V versus Li+/Li.
Economic Linkages Inferred from News Stories and the Predictability of Stock Returns
Year: 2015

We show that news stories contain information about economic linkages between firms and document that information diffuses slowly across linked stocks. Specifically, we identify linked stocks from co mentions in news stories and find that linked stocks cross predict one another's returns in the future. Our results indicate that information can flow from smaller to larger stocks and across industries. Content analysis of common news stories reveals many types of firm linkages that have not been previously studied. We find that the cross predictability in returns remains even after firm pairs with customer supplier ties are removed. Results show that both limited attention and slow processing of complex information contribute to slow information diffusion.
La Banque Centrale Europeenne face aux cryptomonnaies, defis et opportunite? (The European Central Bank Facing Cryptocurrencies: Challenges and Opportunity?
Year: 2019

<b>French Abstract:/b> La presente contribution etudie, dans une perspective avant tout juridique, les defais que les crypto monnaies sont susceptibles de poser a la Banque Centrale Europeenne dans l'accomplissement de son mandat. Elle souleve egalement la question si l'emission d'une monnaie digitale par la B.C.E. pourrait etre une reponse adequate au developpement des crypto monnaies.<br>Tout commentaire critique est apprecie.<br><br><b>English Abstract:/b> This paper explores, essentially from a legal perspective, the challenges which cryptocurrencies raise for fulfilment by the European Central Bank of its mandate and briefly addresses the question whether the issuance of a digital euro by the ECB would be an appropriate response to the potential rise of cryptocurrencies. <br>
Hydrogen rich syngas production by liquid phase pulsed electrodeless discharge
Year: 2021

Hydrogen rich syngas produced from ethanol/water mixtures by pulsed electrodeless discharge is studied in this work. A plate pinhole plate device is used to achieve electrodeless discharge that positive and negative discharge can simultaneously generate in both sides of the pinhole. The study find that the gas production efficiency is higher when both sides are spark discharge. Among the produced gas, H2, CO are the main components, which account for about 99% Meanwhile, in order to acquire hydrogen rich syngas with high yield, both high peak voltage and appropriate electrode distance are important. The reaction process is also researched by the spectral diagnosis. The results show that the generation of *H is the key for syngas production by pulsed electrodeless discharge that *H is not only the important substance for hydrogen production, but also affects the generation of *CH and *C2 thereby determining the CO production.
Privacy and the Media
Year: 2008

The phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the Murdoch Empire in Britain has added a new dimension to the debate about the right to privacy. We see on the news images of celebrities emerging with their lawyers from the Royal Courts of Justice in London following the reading of an apology in open Court by a Murdoch lawyer and after being paid some compensation for their legal claim. All great theatre. But what legal claim have they just settled? And who created the legal rights that they pursued to the doors of the Court? The answer to the second question is judges, dare I say it, activist judges, doing what judges have done in our thousand year legal tradition of judge made law.
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics. Ed. Katherine Pence and Paul Betts. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. vi, 378 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. $70.00, hard bound.
Venue: Slavic Review
Year: 2009

The purpose of this fine multidisciplinary anthology is to move away from an interpretation of the East German regime that sees it, not just as Germany's "second dictatorship" equating it with Nazism, but also as a highly centralized, homogenous society. To rescue the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from this "dustbin of history," the editors turn to everyday life a move clearly indebted to the ethnographic and microhistorical research on state socialism hallmarked by Sheila Fitzpatrick's revisionist account of Stalinism. What is novel here is the effort to combine this revisionism with a reclassification of East German society as modern. That state socialism was a certain incarnation of modernity is not a new proposition in itself either, and the editors provide a sketchy survey of that theoretical tradition in their introduction. What is true, however, though this is not a critique made by the contributors, is that this ethnographic, from below sensibility often implied that beneath the Kafkaesque party state, social relationships were more traditional than modern. For example, many scholars pointed to the enduring significance of personalized economic transactions, of kin networks and barter, to the relative lack of social and cultural differentiation, and to the entanglement of the public and private realms all elements of premodern social formations. Demonstrating that not just the state but society and individuals themselves were modern is therefore a welcome correction, and I see this as the main theoretical contribution of the volume.
Erythropoietin in traumatic brain injury (EPO TBI) a double blind randomised controlled trial
Venue: The Lancet
Year: 2016

Erythropoietin might have neurocytoprotective effects. In this trial, we studied its effect on neurological recovery, mortality, and venous thrombotic events in patients with traumatic brain injury.  Erythropoietin in Traumatic Brain Injury (EPO TBI) was a double blind, placebo controlled trial undertaken in 29 centres (all university affiliated teaching hospitals) in seven countries (Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia) Within 24 h of brain injury, 606 patients were randomly assigned by a concealed web based computer generated randomisation schedule to erythropoietin (40,000 units subcutaneously) or placebo (0*9% sodium chloride subcutaneously) once per week for a maximum of three doses. Randomisation was stratified by severity of traumatic brain injury (moderate vs severe) and participating site. With the exception of designated site pharmacists, the site dosing nurses at all sites, and the pharmacists at the central pharmacy in France, all study personnel, patients, and patients' relatives were masked to treatment assignment. The primary outcome, assessed at 6 months by modified intention to treat analysis, was improvement in the patients' neurological status, summarised as a reduction in the proportion of patients with an Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS E) of 1 4 (death, vegetative state, and severe disability) Two equally spaced preplanned interim analyses were done (after 202 and 404 participants were enrolled) This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00987454.  Between May 3, 2010, and Nov 1, 2014, 606 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to erythropoietin (n=308) or placebo (n=298) Ten of these patients (six in the erythropoietin group and four in the placebo group) were lost to follow up at 6 months; therefore, data for the primary outcome analysis was available for 596 patients (302 in the erythropoietin group and 294 in the placebo group) Compared with placebo, erythropoietin did not reduce the proportion of patients with a GOS E level of 1 4 (134 [44% of 302 patients in the erythropoietin group vs 132 [45% of 294 in the placebo group; relative risk [RR] 0*99 [95% CI 0*83 1*18] p=0*90) In terms of safety, erythropoietin did not significantly affect 6 month mortality versus placebo (32 [11% of 305 patients had died at 6 months in the erythropoietin group vs 46 [16% of 297 [16% in the placebo group; RR 0*68 [95% CI 0*44 1*03] p=0*07) or increase the occurrence of deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs (48 [16% of 305 vs 54 [18% of 298; RR 0*87 [95% CI 0*61 1*24] p=0*44) INTERPRETATION Following moderate or severe traumatic brain injury, erythropoietin did not reduce the number of patients with severe neurological dysfunction (GOS E level 1 4) or increase the incidence of deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs. The effect of erythropoietin on mortality remains uncertain.
The complement system in COVID 19: friend and foe?
Venue: JCI insight
Year: 2020

COVID 19, the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) has resulted in a global pandemic and a disruptive health crisis. COVID 19 related morbidity and mortality has been attributed to an exaggerated immune response. The role of complement activation and its contribution to illness severity is being increasingly recognized. Here, we summarize current knowledge about the interaction of coronaviruses with the complement system. We posit that: (a) coronaviruses activate multiple complement pathways; (b) severe COVID 19 clinical features often resemble complementopathies; (c) the combined effects of complement activation, dysregulated neutrophilia, endothelial injury, and hypercoagulability appear to be intertwined to drive the severe features of COVID 19; (d) a subset of patients with COVID 19 may have a genetic predisposition associated with complement dysregulation; and (e) these observations create a basis for clinical trials of complement inhibitors in life threatening illness.