Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ÖĞRETİM MATERYALİ OLARAK DİJİTAL HİKÂYE GELİŞTİRME AŞAMALARININ VE ARAÇLARININ İNCELENMESİ

Dijital hikâye, geleneksel hikâye anlatimi ile coklu ortam teknolojilerinin birlesimi olarak gorulmektedir (Norman, 2011). Metin, ses, resim, video ve animasyon gibi bilesenler cesitli yazilimlar araciligi ile bir araya getirilerek web uzerinden, tablet bilgisayardan veya akilli telefonlardan erisim saglanabilmektedir. Dijital hikâye gelistirme sureci genel olarak yazma, senaryolastirma, hikâye tahtasi olusturma, coklu ortam araclarinin kullanimi, dijital hikâyeyi olusturma ve paylasma asamalarindan olusmaktadir. Dijital hikâyelemenin yedi onemli bileseni ise bakis acisi, dramatik bir soru, duygusal icerik, seslendirme kabiliyeti, hikâye muziginin gucu, sade icerik / tasarruf ve ilerleme hizi olarak siralanabilir. Bu calismanin amaci dijital hikâye gelistirme asamalarini konu ile ilgili alanyazinda one cikan arastirmalar ve surecte kullanilabilecek yazilim ve araclar cercevesinde ayrintili olarak ele almaktir. Calismada uygulamaya donuk fayda saglamak amaciyla surecler ve bilesenler ozetlenmis ve kullanilabilecek yazilimlar karsilastirmali olarak tanitilmistir. Ayrica bir ornek uzerinden dijital hikâye gelistirme sureci somutlastirilarak ogretmen ve icerik gelistiricilere yol gosterilmesi amaclanmistir.
Influence of Culture Media on Biofilm Formation by Candida Species and Response of Sessile Cells to Antifungals and Oxidative Stress

The aims of the study were to evaluate the influence of culture media on biofilm formation by C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. krusei, and C. parapsilosis and to investigate the responses of sessile cells to antifungals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) as compared to planktonic cells. For biofilm formation, the Candida species were grown at different periods of time in YP or YNB media supplemented or not with 0.2 or 2% glucose. Sessile and planktonic cells were exposed to increasing concentrations of antifungals, H2O2, menadione or silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Biofilms were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and quantified by the XTT assay. C. albicans formed biofilms preferentially in YPD containing 2% glucose (YPD/2%), C. glabrata in glucose-free YNB or supplemented with 0.2% glucose (YNB/0.2%), while C. krusei and C. parapsilosis preferred YP, YPD/0.2%, and YPD/2%. Interestingly, only C. albicans produced an exopolymeric matrix. This is the first report dealing with the in vitro effect of the culture medium and glucose on the formation of biofilms in four Candida species as well as the resistance of sessile cells to antifungals, AgNPs, and ROS. Our results suggest that candidiasis in vivo is a multifactorial and complex process where the nutritional conditions, the human immune system, and the adaptability of the pathogen should be considered altogether to provide an effective treatment of the patient.
Effect of ketamine pretreatment for anaesthesia in patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty with continuous remifentanil infusion

BACKGROUND An appropriate level of sedation and pharmacological assist are essential during percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTA). Ketamine provides good analgesia while preserving airway patency, ventilation, and cardiovascular stability with an opioid sparing effect suggesting that it would be ideal in combination with remifentanil and midazolam in spontaneously breathing patients. We evaluated the effect of a small dose of ketamine added to midazolam and remifentanil on analgesia/sedation for PTA procedures. METHODS Sixty-four patients receiving PTA were enrolled. The Control group received midazolam 1.0 mg i.v. and continuous infusion of remifentanil 0.05 µg/kg/min. The Ketamine group received, in addition, an intravenous bolus of 0.5 mg/kg ketamine. Patients' haemodynamic data were monitored before remifentanil infusion, 5 min after remifentanil infusion, at 1, 3, 5, 30 min after incision, and at admission to the recovery room. Verbal numerical rating scales (VNRS) and sedation [OAA/S (Observer's Assessment of Alertness/Sedation)] scores were also recorded. RESULTS The VNRS values at 1, 3, and 5 min after incision and OAA/S scores at 5 min after remifentanil infusion, and 1, 3, and 5 min after incision were lower in the Ketamine group than in the Control group. In the Control group, the VNRS value at 1 min after incision significantly increased and OAA/S values at 3, 5, and 30 min after incision significantly decreased compared to baseline values, while there were no significant changes in the ketamine group. CONCLUSIONS A small dose of ketamine as an adjunct sedative to the combination of midazolam and remifentanil produced a better quality of sedation and analgesia than without ketamine and provided stable respiration without cardiopulmonary deterioration.
An Efficient, Generic Approach to Extracting Multi-Word Expressions from Dependency Trees

The Varro toolkit offers an intuitive mechanism for extracting syntactically motivated multi-word expressions (MWEs) from dependency treebanks by looking for recurring connected subtrees instead of subsequences in strings. This approach can find MWEs that are in varying orders and have words inserted into their components. This paper also proposes description length gain as a statistical correlation measure well-suited to tree structures.
Improving distributed memory applications testing by message perturbation

We present initial work on perturbation techniques that cause the manifestation of timing-related bugs in distributed memory Message Passing Interface (MPI)-based applications. These techniques improve the coverage of possible message orderings in MPI applications that rely on nondeterministic point-to-point communication and work with small processor counts to alleviate the need to test at larger scales. Using carefully designed model problems,we show that these techniques aid testing for problems that are often not easily reproduced when running on small fractions of the machine.Our perturbation layer, JITTERBUG builds on PN MPI an extension of the MPI profiling interface that supports multiple layers of profiling libraries. We discuss how JITTERBUG complements existing MPI checking tools through the PN MPI framework.We present opportunities to build additional tools that statically analyze and directly transform the source code to support testing and debugging MPI applications at reduced scale.
Parents' role constructions for facilitating physical activity‐related behaviours in their young children

Abstract Background The research explored parents' role constructions for themselves and other caregivers in promoting physical activity, limiting screen time, and ensuring their young child is not sedentary or restrained for extended periods. Method Using a qualitative social constructionist epistemological position, 10 mothers and 10 fathers (aged 22–49-years) from different households in South East Queensland, Australia, were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Results Thirteen themes emerged in parents' descriptions of their role, aligning with three of the four key influences on parents' role constructions for involvement in their child's behaviour: beliefs about desired child outcomes, beliefs about who is responsible for the outcomes, and parental behaviours related to the beliefs and expectations. Conclusions Current findings indicate that parents commonly describe active manifestations of parent role constructions that are conducive to facilitating childhood physical activity‐related behaviours. Because many young Australian children are still not sufficiently active, future interventions should seek to target processes influencing parents' ability to fulfil their constructed roles and translate them into actions, including knowledge and skills, self‐efficacy for helping their child, and developing the ability to manage the mix of demands on their time.
Trust inference in online social networks

We study the problem of trust inference in signed social networks, in which, in addition to rating items, users can also indicate their disposition towards each other through directional signed links. We explore the problem in a semi-supervised setting, where given a small fraction of signed edges we classify the remaining edges by leveraging contextual information (i.e. the users' ratings). In order to model user behavior, we use deep learning algorithms i.e. a variation of Restricted Boltzmann machine and Autoencoders for user encoding and edge classification respectively. We evaluate our approach on a large-scale real-world dataset and show that it outperforms state-of-the art methods.
Host plant genotype determines bottom‐up effects in an aphid‐parasitoid‐predator system

Plant genotypes are known to affect performance of insect herbivores and the community structure of both herbivores and higher trophic levels. Still, only a limited number of studies demonstrate differences in the performance of predators and parasitoids because of plant genotypic effects and most of these focus on gall formers. We designed a greenhouse experiment to investigate the effects of host plant genotype on fitness components in a grass‐aphid‐carnivore system. We used clones of quackgrass [Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski (Poaceae)], the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), the parasitoid wasp Aphidius colemani (Viereck) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and the predatory lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). The number of aphid offspring differed considerably among plant genotypes. These differences were only in part because of differences in the production of biomass among host genotypes. Therefore, genotypes may differ in their nutritional value for phytophages. The number of aphids attacked by the parasitoid also differed among genotypes and aphid numbers only partly accounted for this effect. Moreover, pupal development time of female parasitoids was affected by plant genotype. We found no differences in mortality, body size, or sex ratio of hatching wasps between genotypes of quackgrass. Development time of the larvae and larval weight of the predatory lacewings differed among genotypes, but not weight of pupae and adults. Generally, the proportion of the total variance explained by the plant genotype was smaller for parasitoids and predators than for aphids. Overall, our experiments indicated that the plant genotype affects tri‐trophic interactions, but also that the strength of these effects decreases along the food chain.
Picroside II protects myocardium from ischemia/reperfusion-induced injury through inhibition of the inflammatory response

The inflammatory response is important in the pathogenesis of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Picroside II, the primary active constituent of Picrorhizae, has been reported to protect the myocardium from I/R-induced injury, however, the exact mechanism underlying these protective effects remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanism underlying the protective effects of picroside II on I/R-induced myocardial injury. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent 1 h left coronary artery occlusion followed by 3 h reperfusion. Picroside II was administered (10 mg/kg) via the tail vein 30 min prior to left coronary artery occlusion. The results revealed that pretreatment of picroside II could significantly alleviate I/R-induced myocardial injury concomitantly with a decrease in inflammatory factor production. In addition, picroside II was also able to decrease high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) expression, and release and downregulate the expression of the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE), toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 and TLR-4. Furthermore, picroside II was able to inhibit nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activation. The results indicated that the protective effect of picroside II on I/R-induced myocardial injury was associated, at least partly, with inhibition of the inflammatory response by suppressing the HMGB1-RAGE/TLR-2/TLR-4-NF-κB signaling pathway.
Irish Travellers’ views on Cant: what folk criteria of languageness tell us about the community†

ABSTRACT This article argues that Irish Travellers’ ideologies of languageness and their definition of Cant are closely linked to their perceptions of social reality. Cant is a communicative code which Travellers use beside English in Traveller-specific situations. Based on the analysis of focus groups, I take a folk-linguistic and anthropological approach and examine instances of metacommunication in which languageness and the status of Cant are negotiated among speakers, and explore what they suggest about the community and the local social setting. The analysis uncovers the criteria of ‘ownership’, ‘activity’, ‘understanding’ and ‘privacy’ as essential in the participants’ definitions of languageness. I argue that these criteria are strongly linked to the community's understanding of themselves and relationships with Irish society. Further, I analyse speakers of different age groups’ evaluations of Cant according to the above criteria, and show how what is considered as ‘authentic’ Cant is linked to life trajectories and perceptions of linguistic and social reality.
Flight simulator evaluation of an integrated synthetic and enhanced vision system for terrain avoidance

This paper describes a flight simulator study that was conducted during 2004 and 2005 at the Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) at the University of Iowa. This particular study focused on low-level terrain following and terrain avoidance (TF/TA) missions as they may apply to special operation forces flying aircraft such as the MC-130H Talon II. Ten military pilots who were familiar with those types of mission profiles participated in this study. They each flew four training sorties and eight data collection sorties. The variables of interest included the use of a head-up display (HUD, with/without), the use of forward looking infrared (FLIR, with/without), the use of synthetic vision terrain (with/without), and the use of a guidance pathway vs. a flight director (FD). The missions were flown at an altitude of 600 ft AGL and for a planned ground speed of 240 kts. These parameters were chosen in line with the subsequent FAA William I Huges Technical Center's Boeing 727-100 flight tests that were flown in the Spring of 2005. The dependent variables included lateral and vertical flight technical errors (FTEs), workload scores (AFFTC/AWRES), and Situation Awareness Rating Technique (SART) scores.
The area graph-based mobility model and its impact on data dissemination

When analyzing dissemination protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks the underlying mobility model is an important factor because it strongly influences the performance of these protocols. So far most of the research only deals with homogeneous mobility models like the very common random waypoint mobility model and the random walk mobility model. In this paper we introduce a new model, the area graph-based mobility model, which considers the major characteristics of realistic scenarios such as their heterogeneity. By analyzing the results of experiments using different broadcast protocols we examine the characteristics of the area graph-based mobility model. Furthermore, we show that in heterogeneous scenarios it is necessary to use adaptive broadcast protocols, otherwise an efficient dissemination in areas with differing topologies and densities is not possible.
Risk of perforation after colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy: a population-based study.

BACKGROUND Although the risk of bowel perforation is often cited as a major factor in the choice between colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy for colorectal screening, good estimates of the absolute and relative risks of perforation are lacking. METHODS We used a large population-based cohort that consisted of a random sample of 5% of Medicare beneficiaries living in regions of the United States covered by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program registries to determine rates of perforation in people aged 65 years and older. We identified individuals who were cancer-free and had undergone colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy between 1991 and 1998, calculated both the incidence and risk of perforation within 7 days of the procedure, and explored the impact on incidence and risk of perforation of age, race/ethnicity, sex, comorbidities, and indication for the procedure. We also estimated the risk of death after perforation. Risks were calculated with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS There were 77 perforations after 39 286 colonoscopies (incidence = 1.96/1000 procedures) and 31 perforations after 35 298 sigmoidoscopies (incidence = 0.88/1000 procedures). After adjustment, the OR for perforation from colonoscopy relative to perforation from sigmoidoscopy was 1.8 (95% CI = 1.2 to 2.8). Risk of perforation from either procedure increased in association with increasing age (P(trend)<. 001 for both procedures) and the presence of two or more comorbidities (P(trend)<. 001 for colonoscopy and P(trend) =. 03 for sigmoidoscopy). Compared with those who were endoscopied and did not have a perforation, the risk of death was statistically significantly increased for those who had a perforation after either colonoscopy (OR = 9.0, 95% CI = 3.0 to 27.3) or sigmoidoscopy (OR = 8.8, 95% CI = 1.6 to 48.5). The risk of perforation after colonoscopy, especially for screening procedures, declined during the 8-year study period. CONCLUSIONS The risk of perforation after colonoscopy is approximately double that after sigmoidoscopy, but this difference appears to be decreasing. These observations should be useful to clinicians making screening and diagnostic decisions for individual patients and to policy officials setting guidelines for colorectal cancer screening programs.
Victimization of Children Left Behind in Rural China

Objectives: Examine the relationship between parental rural-to-urban migration, caretaking arrangement, and left-behind children’s self-reported victimization in rural China. The direct effect of parental migration on children’s victimization as well as the indirect effect through positive caretaking and children’s delinquent/problem behavior involvement is explored. Methods: The study uses data from the Parental Migration and Children’s Well-being Survey, which collected information on parental migration and children’s experience of victimization from a probability sample of 800 middle school students in southern China. Structural equation modeling is used to evaluate hypothesized models by simultaneously assessing direct and indirect effects. Results: Compared with children living with both parents in rural China, children left behind by their fathers have an elevated level of victimization. In addition, the chronic absence of fathers leads to a higher level of delinquent and problem behavior among left-behind children, which in turn leads to further victimization. Conclusion: Left-behind children living with mothers, grandparents, or other relatives are an “at-risk” population for victimization. Local programs such as parenting lessons for left-behind parents and grandparents are needed. In addition, the importance of father’s chronic absence on left-behind children’s healthy physical and mental development needs to be further examined.
Topic Modelling Used to Improve Arabic Web Pages Clustering

Topic modelling main purpose is to have machine-understandable and semantic annotation to textual contents of Web.It aim to extract knowledge rather than unrelated information. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of using topic model (which intended to represent the documents like a combination of topics where each topic is a mix of vectors) in improving documents clustering results. We have compared the results of clustering using PLSA or LSA. The experiments performed on a set of common newspaper websites that have highly dimensional data and we use Purity, Mean intra-cluster distance (MICD) and Davies-Bouldin index (DBI) for clustering evaluation. Thus, we acquired favorable clustering results, especially in the context of the Arabic language as PLSA were effective in minimizing MICD, expanding purity and bringing down DBI.
Minoritätenstress und soziale Unterstützung: Eine Online-Untersuchung zum Wohlbefinden von Trans*Personen in der Schweiz

Übersicht Trans*Personen sind in unserer Gesellschaft in einem bedeutenden Ausmaß von Stigmatisierung und Ablehnung betroffen. Das Minoritätenstressmodell sagt vorher, dass Nicht-Akzeptanz der Geschlechtsidentität durch andere Menschen sowie internalisierte Transphobie bei Trans*Personen mit vermindertem psychischen Wohlbefinden zusammenhängen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie wurden 90 Trans*Personen in der Schweiz zu erlebter Nicht-Akzeptanz der Geschlechtsidentität, internalisierter Transphobie, Lebenszufriedenheit und psychischer Belastung befragt. Zusätzlich wurde die soziale Unterstützung als Resilienzfaktor erhoben. Wie erwartet, zeigte sich neben einer hohen Prävalenz an psychischer Belastung eine starke negative Korrelation zwischen Minoritätenstress und Wohlbefinden. Internalisierte Transphobie mediierte zudem den Zusammenhang zwischen der Nicht-Akzeptanz der Geschlechtsidentität und dem Wohlbefinden. Ebenfalls konnten Moderationsanalysen aufzeigen, dass soziale Unterstützung den negativen Zusammenhang zwischen internalisierter Transphobie und Zufriedenheit teilweise abschwächt. Die Ergebnisse stützen das Minoritätenstressmodell. Offene Forschungsfragen speziell zum Minderheitenstress unterschiedlicher Teilgruppen von Trans*Personen werden angesprochen.
UBIU: A Language-Independent System for Coreference Resolution

We present UBIU, a language independent system for detecting full coreference chains, composed of named entities, pronouns, and full noun phrases which makes use of memory based learning and a feature model following Rahman and Ng (2009). UBIU is evaluated on the task "Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages" (SemEval Task 1 (Recasens et al., 2010)) in the context of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation.
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Messenger RNA Expression Level Is Preserved in Liver Metastases Compared with Corresponding Primary Colorectal Cancer

Purpose: Increased vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression is associated with colorectal cancer liver metastases. It is reasonable to expect that measurement of VEGF in liver metastases would provide the best prediction of therapy benefit for VEGF-targeted drugs, such as bevacizumab (Avastin). In this study, we evaluated how VEGF mRNA level in primary colorectal cancer was related to that in corresponding liver metastases. Thirty-one pairs of primary colorectal cancer and corresponding liver metastases were analyzed. Experimental Design: Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor specimens were dissected by using laser-captured microdissection. RNA was extracted and cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription. Quantitation of VEGF and internal reference gene (β-actin) was done using real-time PCR (Taqman PCR). Results: There was no difference between median VEGF mRNA levels of primary colorectal cancer and liver metastases (median value 3.79 versus 3.97: P = 0.989). On an individual basis, there was a significant correlation in VEGF mRNA expression between primary colorectal cancer and corresponding liver metastases (rs = 0.6627, P < 0.0001). In addition, the VEGF mRNA levels of the patients who had two or more liver metastatic tumors were significantly higher than those of the patient who had solitary liver metastatic tumor in both primary cancer (5.02 versus 3.34: P = 0.0483) and liver metastases (4.38 versus 3.25: P = 0.0358). Conclusion: Good prediction of VEGF mRNA levels in liver metastases can be obtained by measuring those of primary colorectal cancer. The risk of multiple liver metastatic tumors might be predictable by measuring VEGF mRNA expression in primary colorectal cancer. Further study is required to confirm these preliminary results.