Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Web-based language modelling for automatic lecture transcription

Universities have long relied on written text to share knowledge. As more lectures are made available on-line, these must be accompanied by textual transcripts in order to provide the same access to information as textbooks. While Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a cost-effective method to deliver transcriptions, its accuracy for lectures is not yet satisfactory. One approach for improving lecture ASR is to build smaller, topic-dependent Language Models (LMs) and combine them (through LM interpolation or hypothesis space combination) with general-purpose, large-vocabulary LMs. In this paper, we propose a simple solution for lecture ASR with similar or better Word Error Rate reductions (as well as topic-speciﬁc keyword identiﬁcation accuracies) than combination-based approaches. Our method eliminates the need for two types of LMs by exploiting the lecture slides to collect a web corpus appropriate for modelling both the conversational and the topic-speciﬁc styles of lectures.
PENGARUH PENDAPATAN DAN KECERDASAN SPIRITUAL TERHADAP PERSEPSI ETIS MAHASISWA DENGAN LOVE OF MONEY SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING

This study aimed to analyze the influence of income, gender on love of money. and the influence of spiritual intelligence, sex, love of money on ethical perception of students. This research was conducted at the Faculty of Economics, Accounting Department, State University of Surabaya. This type of research is quantitative descriptive. The sampling technique used in this research is proportional random sampling. The number of samples used were 146 respondents. Data analysis Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that there was no significant relationship between the income of the love of money. There is a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence of students to the ethical perception of students. and there is significant influence between the love of money against the ethical perception of students
Lower Levels of Resistance to Change (but not Opposition to Equality) Is Related to Analytic Cognitive Style

In recent years, there has been increasing research attention to cognitive style differences between liberals and conservatives. While some studies have found a negative relation between conservatism and analytic thinking tendency, others have not observed such a relation. None of these studies has measured the core motives underlying conservative ideology and investigated their relation with analytic cognitive style (ACS). We predicted that ACS is related to only one of the core motives underlying conservatism (resistance to change), but not the other (opposition to equality). This hypothesis was supported in three non-Western samples (total n = 1,552). This finding may clarify why some studies found a relation between cognitive style and conservatism, while others did not.
Exact Enumeration of 1342-avoiding Permutations a Close Link with Labeled Trees and Planar Maps

Solving the rst nonmonotonic, longer-than-three instance of a classic enumeration problem, we obtain the generating function H(x) of all 1342-avoiding permutations of length n as well as an exact formula for their number S n (1342). While achieving this, we bijectively prove that the number of indecomposable 1342-avoiding permutations of length n equals that of labeled plane trees of a certain type on n vertices recently enumerated by Cori, Jacquard and Schaeeer, which is in turn known to be equal to the number of rooted bicubic maps enumerated by Tutte in 1963. Moreover, H(x) turns out to be algebraic, proving the rst nonmonotonic, longer-than-three instance of a conjecture of Zeilberger and Noonan. We also prove that n p S n (1342) converges to 8, so in particular, lim n! 1 (S n (1342)=S n (1234)) = 0.
A Combined Approach to Women’s Health Is Associated With a Greater Likelihood of Repeat Mammography in a Population of Financially Disadvantaged Women

Introduction Integrating one or more public health programs may improve the ability of programs to achieve common goals. Expanding knowledge on how program integration occurs, how it benefits each individual program, and how it contributes to the achievement of common goals is an important area of inquiry in public health. Methods The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) and the Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) program combined data from 10 of their overlapping state or tribal programs to calculate prevalence estimates of repeat mammography at 18 months. The data were stratified by whether women attended the combined program or only the NBCCEDP. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to identify factors that were thought to independently contribute to a greater likelihood of a woman receiving a repeat mammogram. Results Women who participated in both programs were 1.5 to 5.1 times as likely to be rescreened, depending on program location, as women who participated only in the NBCCEDP. WISEWOMAN participants who received a follow-up WISEWOMAN screening for chronic disease risk factors within a year of their initial WISEWOMAN screening were 5 times more likely to return for a follow-up mammogram through the NBCCEDP than were WISEWOMAN participants who did not. Discussion Participation in both the NBCCEDP and the WISEWOMAN program is associated with a greater likelihood of a woman returning for a follow-up mammogram within 18 months of her initial examination. Collecting more in-depth information on motivational factors and on the association between receipt of multiple services and a woman's engagement in a health program should be the subject of future research.
Generating and Inferring Interface Properties for Static Analysis

Software robustness and security are critical to dependable operations of computer systems. Robustness and security of software systems are governed by various temporal properties. Static verification has been shown to be effective in checking temporal properties. But manually specifying these properties is cumbersome and requires knowledge of the system and source code. Furthermore, many system-specific correctness properties that govern the robust and secure operation of software systems are often not documented by the developers. We design and implement a novel framework to effectively generate a large number of concrete interface robustnes s properties for static verification from a few generic, high-level user specified robustness rules for exception handling. These generic rules are free from any system or interface details, which are automatically mined from the source code. We report our experience of applying this framework to test robustness of POSIX-APIs in Redhat-9.0 open source packages. Security properties that dictate the ordering of certain system calls are usually inter-procedural unlike robustness properties. In this paper, we present our ongoing research that infers these properties directly from the program source code by applying statistical analysis on model checking traces. We are implementing our ideas in an existing static analyzer that employs pushdown model checking and thegcc compiler.
The study of sentiment analysis on Chinese comment texts

As known to all, a word's implication could differ in different domain, even the same word in the same domain may indicate diverse polarity with respect to different aspects. Due to the domain-dependent characteristic of some words, it is difficult to build a generally used sentiment lexicon. At the same time, there are a large amount of terms whose polarity is always definite. For example, “excellent” and “bad” respectively represent determinate polarity of “positive” and “negative”. In this paper, we construct a sentiment lexicon making use of both the context-dependent and the context-independent features. The traits of the semi-structured product reviews offered by users are also used in the construction process. At last, we put forward a method of combining the domain-specific lexicon and the existing sentiment wordlist such as “Hownet” for sentiment analysis.
Scientific contributions of A. V. Hill: exercise physiology pioneer.

Beginning in 1910, A. V. Hill performed careful experiments on the time course of heat production in isolated frog muscle. His research paralleled that of the German biochemist Otto Meyerhof, who measured the changes in muscle glycogen and lactate during contractions and recovery. For their work in discovering the distinction between aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, Hill and Meyerhof were jointly awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Because of Hill's interest in athletics, he sought to apply the concepts discovered in isolated frog muscle to the exercising human. Hill and his colleagues made measurements of O(2) consumption on themselves and other subjects running around an 85-m grass track. In the process of this work, they defined the terms "maximum O(2) intake," "O(2) requirement," and "steady state of exercise. " Other contributions of Hill include his discoveries of heat production in nerve, the series elastic component, and the force-velocity equation in muscle. Around the time of World War II, Hill was a leading figure in the Academic Assistance Council, which helped Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany to relocate in the West. He served as a member of the British Parliament from 1940 to 1945 and as a scientific advisor to India. Hill's vision and enthusiasm attracted many scientists to the field of exercise physiology, and he pointed the way toward many of the physiological adaptations that occur with physical training.
Functional connectivity changes during a working memory task in rat via NMF analysis

Working memory (WM) is necessary in higher cognition. The brain as a complex network is formed by interconnections among neurons. Connectivity results in neural dynamics to support cognition. The first aim is to investigate connectivity dynamics in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) networks during WM. As brain neural activity is sparse, the second aim is to find the intrinsic connectivity property in a feature space. Using multi-channel electrode recording techniques, spikes were simultaneously obtained from mPFC of rats that performed a Y-maze WM task. Continuous time series converted from spikes were embedded in a low-dimensional space by non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). mPFC network in original space was constructed by measuring connections among neurons. And the same network in NMF space was constructed by computing connectivity values between the extracted NMF components. Causal density (Cd) and global efficiency (E) were estimated to present the network property. The results showed that Cd and E significantly peaked in the interval right before the maze choice point in correct trials. However, the increase did not emerge in error trials. Additionally, Cd and E in two spaces displayed similar trends in correct trials. The difference was that the measures in NMF space were significantly greater than those in original space. Our findings indicated that the anticipatory changes in mPFC networks may have an effect on future WM behavioral choices. Moreover, the NMF analysis achieves a better characterization for a brain network.
Feature extraction using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Neural Networks: A case study on movie synopses

Feature extraction has gained increasing attention in the field of machine learning, as in order to detect patterns, extract information, or predict future observations from big data, the urge of informative features is crucial. The process of extracting features is highly linked to dimensionality reduction as it implies the transformation of the data from a sparse highdimensional space, to higher level meaningful abstractions. This dissertation employs Neural Networks for distributed paragraph representations, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation to capture higher level features of paragraph vectors. Although Neural Networks for distributed paragraph representations are considered the state of the art for extracting paragraph vectors, we show that a quick topic analysis model such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation can provide meaningful features too. We evaluate the two methods on the CMU Movie Summary Corpus, a collection of 25,203 movie plot summaries extracted from Wikipedia. Finally, for both approaches, we use K-Nearest Neighbors to discover similar movies, and plot the projected representations using T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding to depict the context similarities. These similarities, expressed as movie distances, can be used for movies recommendation. The recommended movies of this approach are compared with the recommended movies from IMDB, which use a collaborative filtering recommendation approach, to show that our two models could constitute either an alternative or a supplementary recommendation approach.
Visual Rhetorical Figures in Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior: The Impact of Moderating Factors in a Spanish Language Context

ABSTRACT This article is set within today's globalized market, where monocultural studies are no longer informative enough. It is built upon, among others, Phillips and McQuarrie's exhaustive taxonomy of the visual, which tangentially refers to the existence of moderating factors with an impact on (mis)comprehension. The article focuses precisely on the role of these factors when they affect a population of cross-cultural subjects, who are prone to be exposed to “globally received” advertising. The data discussed here point to the fact that in cross-cultural advertising, (mis)comprehension is affected not only by the complexity or richness of figuration, but also (and mainly) by the schema component. Results also shows that verbal anchoring plays an essential role in the interpretation of visual figures.
Nuclear envelope insertion of spindle pole bodies and nuclear pore complexes

The defining feature of eukaryotic cells is the double lipid bilayer of the nuclear envelope (NE) that serves as a physical barrier separating the genome from the cytosol. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are embedded in the NE to facilitate transport of proteins and other macromolecules into and out of the nucleus. In fungi and early embryos where the NE does not completely breakdown during mitosis, microtubule-organizing centers such as the spindle pole body (SPB) must also be inserted into the NE to facilitate organization of the mitotic spindle. Several recent papers have shed light on the mechanism by which SPB complexes are inserted into the NE. An unexpected link between the SPB and NPCs suggests that assembly of these NE complexes is tightly coordinated. We review the findings of these reports in light of our current knowledge of SPB, NPC and NE structure, assembly and function.
Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Performance in Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial Specimens

Establishing a cancer screening biomarker's intended performance requires “phase III” specimens obtained in asymptomatic individuals before clinical diagnosis rather than “phase II” specimens obtained from symptomatic individuals at diagnosis. We used specimens from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial to evaluate ovarian cancer biomarkers previously assessed in phase II sets. Phase II specimens from 180 ovarian cancer cases and 660 benign disease or general population controls were assembled from four Early Detection Research Network or Ovarian Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence sites and used to rank 49 biomarkers. Thirty-five markers, including 6 additional markers from a fifth site, were then evaluated in PLCO proximate specimens from 118 women with ovarian cancer and 474 matched controls. Top markers in phase II specimens included CA125, HE4, transthyretin, CA15.3, and CA72.4 with sensitivity at 95% specificity ranging from 0.73 to 0.40. Except for transthyretin, these markers had similar or better sensitivity when moving to phase III specimens that had been drawn within 6 months of the clinical diagnosis. Performance of all markers declined in phase III specimens more remote than 6 months from diagnosis. Despite many promising new markers for ovarian cancer, CA125 remains the single-best biomarker in the phase II and phase III specimens tested in this study. Cancer Prev Res; 4(3); 365–74. ©2011 AACR.
Susceptibility to Advertising and Perceived Friend Norms: A Meta-Analysis of Materialism in Youths “Meta-Analysis of Materialism in Youths”

ABSTRACT This study presents a meta-analysis assessing the antecedents that are associated with the influence that advertising and friends' behaviours have on the formation of materialistic behaviours in youth. We carried out a systematic review in which we identified an initial 217 studies. Of these, 32 were ultimately included in the analysis. Our results revealed significant relationships for the constructs associated directly with susceptibility to advertising (advertising viewing attitudes, attention to advertising, celebrity endorsements in advertising, advertising exposure and TV viewing frequency) and for perceived friends' norms (friends' attitudes, social comparisons with friends and communication with friends) with materialism in youth.
Tips and tricks for characterizing shape memory alloy wire: Part 2—fundamental isothermal responses

This is the second in a series of articles to introduce phenomena and experimental subtleties that can lead to difficulties in testing shape memory alloy (SMA) wire. Our aims were to acquaint uninitiated engineers with SMA testing and to highlight pitfalls in technique and interpreting test results. In the previous article (Part 1),1 thermomechanical experiments were presented on two commercial Nitinol alloys: a shape memory (SM) wire, having an austenite finish temperature, A f, above room temperature, and a superelastic (SE) wire, having an Af below room temperature. Both SM and SE behavior were demonstrated for each in different temperature regimes along with a description of the underlying microstructural mechanisms responsible for these unusual behaviors. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermograms were provided for each alloy as a first step to quantify their transformation temperatures, specific heats, and latent heats of transformation. In this article (Part 2), we discuss techniques and good practice for temperature control and strain measurement. The characterization of the same two alloys is continued through a series of isothermal experiments to show the dramatic range of tensile responses in a temperature window spanning the respective stress-free transformation temperatures. Characteristic transformation stresses and strains are mapped to quantify the thermomechanical sensitivities in the material. Last, material instabilities, strain localization, and propagating transformation fronts are discussed along with their implications on measured responses.
Factors influencing physical activity in older adults

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which Korean seniors report employing different motivational and social cognitive strategies related to physical activity, and to evaluate which motivational and social cognitive strategies were related to physical activity, and which motivational and social cognitive strategies differentiate between high active and low-active Korean seniors. Community-dwelling older adults (N = 187) participated in the study and completed questionnaires assessing self-reported physical activity and a range of motivational and social cognitive variables. The results showed that physical activity was predicted by quality goal-setting practices, self-efficacy, social support from family and physical activity self-regulation subscales of social support and exercise planning and scheduling. Between the groups of highly physically active and low-active participants, we observed differences in satisfaction with life, self-efficacy, quality goal-setting practices, and self-regulatory strategies related to self-monitoring, goal-setting, social support and time management. In conclusion, these findings indicate that physical activity promotion efforts among Korean older adults should focus on enhancing self-efficacy, social support, and self-regulation skills.
Demonstration of resistance against methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas in the primary autochthonous host.

Summary Host resistance against methylcholanthrene (MC)-induced sarcomas, demonstrated by previous authors after transplantation to isologous recipients, could also be shown to occur in the primary autochthonous host, whose tumor had been operatively removed. The autochthonous mice, together with groups of isologous animals, were pretreated with irradiated sarcoma cells and subsequently challenged with increasing doses of viable cells, also inoculated into untreated isologous controls. An increased resistance could be demonstrated with twelve out of sixteen tumors in the autochthonous and nineteen out of 22 tumors in the isologous host. Resistance was relative rather than absolute and broke down when the dose of viable cells was progressively increased. It was usually stronger in isologous than in autochthonous mice, but this was not a general rule. Isologous mice pretreated with irradiated normal tissues and subsequently challenged with viable sarcoma cells showed either no increase in resistance or a slight increase that exceeded the control level but did not reach the level found in isologous hosts pretreated with irradiated cells of the same sarcoma. Isologous, untreated mice that had received total-body irradiation before being challenged with viable sarcoma cells supported the growth of small viable inocula better than did unirradiated isologous hosts. In the cases tested, resistance against a given sarcoma did not lead to cross-resistance against a different sarcoma, induced in the same genotype by MC. Serial treatment with homologous, MC-induced sarcoma tissue did not reduce the yield of primary sarcomas obtained after application of MC. Lymph node cells, but not serum, of isologous mice pretreated with heavily irradiated sarcoma cells, could neutralize the sarcoma cells wholly or partially upon incubation in vitro. Lymph node cells of untreated animals and preimmunized lymph node cells killed by freezing and thawing had no effect.