Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating LSTMs for Joint Extraction of Opinion Entities and Relations

We investigate the use of deep bi-directional LSTMs for joint extraction of opinion entities and the IS - FROM and IS - ABOUT relations that connect them — the ﬁrst such attempt using a deep learning approach. Perhaps surprisingly, we ﬁnd that standard LSTMs are not competitive with a state-of-the-art CRF+ILP joint inference approach (Yang and Cardie, 2013) to opinion entities extraction, performing below even the standalone sequence-tagging CRF. Incorporating sentence-level and a novel relation-level optimization, however, allows the LSTM to identify opinion relations and to perform within 1– 3% of the state-of-the-art joint model for opinion entities and the IS - FROM relation; and to perform as well as the state-of-the-art for the IS - ABOUT relation — all without access to opinion lexicons, parsers and other preprocessing components required for the feature-rich CRF+ILP approach.
Incivility as a Barrier to Embeddedness Among Engineering Students: Does Gender Matter?

INCIVILITY AS A BARRIER TO EMBEDDEDNESS AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS: DOES GENDER MATTER? Katelyn R. Reynoldson Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Debra A. Major To meet the current demand for engineers, research has focused on how to attract and retain qualified candidates in the field, especially those that are underrepresented (e.g., women; NSB, 2016). The present study investigates incivility and embeddedness, which have been found to be antecedents of retention in both the workplace (Cortina, Magley, Williams, & Langhout, 2001; Mitchell, Holtom, Lee, Sablynski, & Erez, 2001) and the collegiate setting (Caza & Cortina, 2007; Major et al., 2015). To extend previous research, both constructs were examined simultaneously among undergraduate engineering students. Undergraduate, first-year engineers completed an online survey indicating the extent to which they experienced incivility in engineering, the primary source of the uncivil treatment, and their level of embeddedness in engineering. A comparison of means and three hierarchical moderated regressions were used to test the proposed hypotheses. Results indicated that men and women experienced similar levels of incivility in engineering. In addition, incivility significantly predicted two of the three dimensions of embeddedness: fit and links. Gender moderated the relationship between incivility and engineering fit such that men who experienced incivility experienced lower engineering fit while incivility did not influence engineering fit for women. Gender did not moderate the relationship between incivility and engineering links or sacrifice. Future research should examine persistence in relation to these variables to determine if embeddedness mediates the relationship between incivility and persistence in one's engineering major.
Neuromuscular Evaluation With Single-Leg Squat Test at 6 Months After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Background: Criteria for return to unrestricted activity after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction varies, with some using time after surgery as the sole criterion—most often at 6 months. Patients may have residual neuromuscular deficits, which may increase the risk of ACL injury. A single-leg squat test (SLST) can dynamically assess for many of these deficits prior to return to unrestricted activity. Hypothesis: A significant number of patients will continue to exhibit neuromuscular deficits with SLST at 6 months after ACL reconstruction. Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: Patients using a standardized accelerated rehabilitation protocol at their 6-month follow-up after primary ACL reconstruction were enrolled. Evaluation included bilateral SLST, single-leg hop distance, hip abduction strength, and the subjective International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) score. Results: Thirty-three patients were enrolled. Poor performance of the operative leg SLST was found in 15 of 33 patients (45%). Of those 15 patients, 7 (45%) had concomitant poor performance of the nonoperative leg compared with 2 of 18 patients (11%) in those who demonstrated good performance in the operative leg. The poor performers were significantly older (33.6 years) than the good performers (24.2 years) (P = .007). Those with poor performance demonstrated decreased hip abduction strength (17.6 kg operative leg vs 20.5 kg nonoperative leg) (P = .024), decreased single-leg hop distance (83.3 cm operative leg vs 112.3 cm nonoperative leg) (P = .036), and lower IKDC scores (67.9 vs 82.3) (P = .001). Conclusion: Nearly half of patients demonstrated persistent neuromuscular deficits on SLST at 6 months, which is when many patients return to unrestricted activity. Those with poor performance were of a significantly older age, decreased hip abduction strength, decreased single-leg hop distance, and lower IKDC subjective scores. Clinical Relevance: The SLST can be used to identify neuromuscular risk factors for ACL rupture. Many patients at 6 months have persistent neuromuscular deficits on SLST. Caution should be used when using time alone to determine when patients can return to unrestricted activity.
A code-matched interleaver design for turbo codes

A code-matched interleaver design for turbo codes in which a particular interleaver is constructed to match the code weight distribution is proposed. The design method is based on the code distance spectrum. The low weight paths in the code trellis which give large contributions to the error probability in the signal-to-noise ratio region of interest for practical communication systems are eliminated so that they do not appear in the overall code trellis after interleaving. The proposed interleaver improves the code error performance at moderate to high signal-to-noise ratio and considerably increases the asymptotic slope of the error probability curves.
Foreign Direct Investment and LDC Exports: Evidence from the MENA Region

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on manufacturing exports in four Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. The sensitivity of merchandise exports, manufacturing exports, and the share of manufacturing exports in total merchandise exports to two measures of FDI activity is tested using panel data spanning 1975-2003. The findings suggest that FDI activity positively affects the host country's merchandise and manufacturing exports. Nevertheless, FDI activity is still short of generating any increase in the share of manufacturing exports in merchandise exports.
GENDER AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREDICTORS OF TOURISM FACULTY STUDENTS’ CAREER ADAPTABILITY

Defining individual and cognitive factors that determine the career adaptability of university students and developing these factors through education, will positively affect the students’ career success. The aim of this study is to empirically test the influence of demographic factors and emotional intelligence, which are regarded as influential factors, on the career adaptability of university students. The study sample consists of students at Akdeniz University Tourism Faculty, which is located in the city of Antalya, Turkey. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed among 341 students, selected by random sampling method and these were analysed by CHAID method, which is a decision tree application. Findings of the study reveal the effects of gender and emotional intelligence on various significance levels in classifying the students' career adaptability as high and low. Findings indicate that emotional intelligence and gender are significant variables that can be used to differentiate the career adaptability. It is concluded that women with a high emotional intelligence level tend to have high career adaptability. According to the findings of the study, it is observed that female students with high emotional intelligence are more likely to deal with the challenges of today's business world in a better way.
Approximation of Sequences of Symmetric Matrices with the Symmetric Rank-One Algorithm and Applications

The symmetric rank-one update method is well known in optimization for its applications in quasi-Newton algorithms. In particular, Conn, Gould, and Toint proved in 1991 that the matrix sequence resulting from this method approximates the Hessian of the minimized function under a suitable linear-independence assumption. Extending their idea, we prove that symmetric rank-one updates can be used to approximate any sequence of symmetric invertible matrices, which has applications to more general problems, such as the computation of constrained geodesics in shape analysis imaging problems. We also provide numerical simulations for the method and some of these applications.
Consequence of Bisphosphonate on Dental Implant Success in Osteoporotic Females

Objective: To evaluate the effect of Bisphosphonate on Dental Implant failure rate in osteoporotic female patients. Patients and Method: Fifteen osteoporotic female patients underwent surgery to place 72 fixtures, in upper jaw, loaded completely within 4 months. Patients take Alendronate tablet 10 mg once daily for 8 months, 2 months preoperative and 6 months postoperative. Compares with healthy females underwent implant surgery too. Results: Six dental implants were failed at the time of second step surgery (Gingival Former Step), with no other complication faced by the patients whether related to drug used or to surgery. Three fixtures were failed in healthy females. Statistically no significant differences in the effect of bisphosphonate on dental implant failure. Discussion: Patients who take oral Bisphosphonate are no more at risk of implant failure than normal patients with no drug use. *Corresponding author: Rawaa Y Al-Rawee BDS, MSc, MOMSRCPS Glasgow (Ph.D.MaxFacs) Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Al-Salam Teaching Hospital Al-Sukar, Mosul, Iraq Tel: 009647726438648 E-mail: dr.rawarawi@yahoo.com Citation: Al-Rawee RY, Saeed AM, Tawfeeq BAG. Consequence of Bisphosphonate on Dental Implant Success in Osteoporotic Females. J Dents Dent Med. 2019 Mar;2(1):127 Copyright: © 2019 Al-Rawee RY, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Al-Salam Teaching Hospital, Mosul, Iraq 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Al-Gemhoory Teaching Hospital, Mosul, Iraq Rawaa Y Al-Rawee1* Ali Mohammad Saeed2 Bashar Abdul-Ghani Tawfeeq1
A Compact Eighteen-Port Antenna Cube for MIMO Systems

An 18-port compact antenna cube is proposed in this paper. The cube, which has a volume of 0.76 × 0.76 × 0.76 λ03, provides 18 individual channels and is ideal for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications. On each of the total six faces of the cube, a three-port tri-polarization antenna is installed. All antennas adopt a metal backing configuration, so the ground of all antennas forms a well shield Faraday cage, in which other functional circuits can be installed. Experimental measurements were carried out to evaluate the performance of the antenna cube in different MIMO scenarios. The results show that MIMO systems with the proposed compact antenna cube outperform those with dipole antennas which occupy the same number of RF channels but with much larger space. When a vertical 3-dipole array, a horizontal 3-dipole array and a dual polarization antenna are used in the user end (UE), respectively, the capacity of the global selected MIMO systems with antenna cube is about 2.7, 4.6, and 2.9 bits/s/Hz more than the full MIMO systems with a vertical 3-dipole array as the access point (AP) antennas. It is 1.9, 3.9, and 2.0 bits/s/Hz more than the full MIMO systems with a vertical 5-dipole array as AP antennas. The performance differences between the MIMO systems using global and simplified selection circuits are small.
Uncertainty in Prerelease Advertising

Firms frequently advertise products and services before they are launched. Yet how to best design such advertisements is not well understood. The current article investigates how consumers respond to uncertainty in prerelease advertisements. Across five studies, including both field and lab studies, we first provide evidence for the positive effect of uncertain prerelease advertisements using real consumer behavior on Facebook and YouTube and at the box office. Next, we uncover the mechanism underlying this effect (i.e., inflated outcome expectancies), outline a managerially relevant boundary condition (i.e., the positive effect reverses when a preorder opportunity is offered), and demonstrate that the effect of uncertainty on consumer response differs in prerelease versus postrelease advertisements depending on consumers’ perceived risk. Finally, we discuss implications for marketing research as well as for the design of prerelease advertisements for stimulating prerelease buzz and word of mouth.
Toward an Agent-Based Framework for Better Access to Open Data by Using Ontology Mappings and their Underlying Semantics

In this paper, we present a set of software frameworks and tools to make open data accesses efficient and easy, based on our ontology mapping-based query transformation approaches on agent-based programming techniques. The implemented techniques aim to easier and more efficient accesses to open data despite the use of indirect access from mapped ontologies, as well as efficient and easier retrieval of open data sources that could be used for an application.
A study of language choices in the linguistic landscape of Macao’s heritage and gaming tourism

ABSTRACT Language choices in the economic field of late capitalist societies are shaped by a combination of local, national, and global forces as well as historical, political, and economic factors. This study conducts an analysis of language choices in the linguistic landscape of Macao’s heritage tourism (i.e. signposts of tourist attractions) and gaming tourism (i.e. casino promotional brochures). The findings show similarities and differences in the two sectors in terms of language choices and some tensions emerging behind such language choices in constructing Macao with different voices. Unlike previous studies which find the commodification of one national or ethnic language for profit, the case of Macao illustrates the commodification of multilingualism for profit. Despite the similarities and differences, language choices in both signposts and brochures feature reductive translingualism under the neoliberal ideology which values the instrumental function of language for profit-making purposes.
Modeling the excitation of acoustic modes in α Centauri A

From different seismic observations we infer the energy supplied per unit of time by turbulent convection to the acoustic modes of α Centauri A (HD 128620), a star that is similar but not identical to the Sun. The inferred rates of energy supplied to the modes (i.e. mode excitation rates) are found to be significantly higher than in the Sun. They are compared with those computed with an excitation model that includes two sources of driving, the Reynolds stress contribution and the advection of entropy fluctuations. The model also uses a closure model, the Closure Model with Plumes (CMP hereafter), that takes the asymmetry between the up- and down-flows (i.e. the granules and plumes, respectively) into account. Different prescriptions for the eddy-time correlation function are also compared to observational data. Calculations based on a Gaussian eddy-time correlation underestimate excitation rates compared with the values derived from observations for α Centauri A. On the other hand, calculations based on a Lorentzian eddy-time correlation lie within the observational error bars. This confirms results in the solar case. Compared to the helioseismic data, those obtained for α Centauri A constitute an additional support for our model of excitation. We show that mode masses must be computed taking turbulent pressure into account. Finally, we emphasize the need for more accurate seismic measurements in order to distinguish between the CMP closure model and the quasi-normal approximation in the case of α Centauri A, as well as to confirm or not the need to include the excitation by the entropy fluctuations.
Eye localization: a survey

In this survey we first discuss the importance of eye localization as the initialization step for many face processing techniques, then we further show the influence of the localization precision on the rate achieved by some baseline face recognition techniques. To do so, we give the definition of the objective error measures already known in literature. A brief review of some state-of-the-art eye localization methods is subsequently given, focusing on those articles that tackle the problem of precise localization and that use some objective criterion for performance evaluation. Finally their localization results are compared on a number of different datasets.
“Getting physical”: the management of neuropsychiatric disorders using novel physical treatments

Objective To summarize and review the utility of physical interventions in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Methods A systematic review of the literature pertaining to novel physical interventions, namely, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and neurosurgery, was conducted using MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PSYCHLIT. Bibliographies of papers were scrutinized for further relevant references along with literature known to the authors. Results Currently available physical interventions worldwide are reviewed with respect to efficacy, applications, and putative indications. Physical interventions have experienced a resurgence of interest for both the investigation of brain function and the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. The widespread availability of neuroimaging technology has advanced our understanding of brain function and allowed closer examination of the effects of physical treatments. Clinically, transcranial magnetic stimulation seems likely to have a role in the management of depression, and its use in other neuropsychiatric disorders appears promising. Following on from its success in the management of intractable epilepsy, vagus nerve stimulation is undergoing evaluation in the treatment of depression with some success in refractory cases. Deep brain stimulation has improved mood in patients with Parkinson’s disease and may also relieve symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neurosurgery has re-invented itself by way of increased technical sophistication, and although further assessment of its efficacy and clinical utility is still needed, its widespread practice reflects its increasing acceptance as a viable treatment of last resort. Conclusion It is clear that physical treatments are here to stay and “getting physical” offers a useful addition to the neuropsychiatrist’s therapeutic armamentarium. However, like all new treatments these interventions need to remain under rigorous scientific scrutiny to determine accurately their immediate and long-term effects.
mDiabetes initiative using text messages to improve lifestyle and health-seeking behaviour in India

Background Data on the use of mobile technology in public health are sparse. Text messaging is cost-effective in disseminating information to large communities. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, initiated and executed this mDiabetes programme. Objectives The main objective of this commissioned study was to test the feasibility of using mobile technology to reach a large number of people to improve their lifestyle and health-seeking behaviour. Participants’ interest, acceptability and scope for improvement were assessed. Methods This mDiabetes observational study was done in India between 2016 and 2017. Text messages inviting registrations were sent to 130 million people in the country, mostly to the working class. Respondents (n=107 548) were registered by dialling a given phone number (missed phone call) or through a website. Based on the response, participants were grouped into six categories: persons with diabetes, pregnant/lactating women, high-risk individuals, healthcare professionals, elderly and normal population. They received 90 messages on healthy living during the 6 months. The impact of intervention was assessed at the third and sixth months by feedback messages. Telephonic interviews were conducted at 1 year in a subpopulation (n=855). Results The registered respondents, 31 725, were grouped into six categories. 21.4% had diabetes and 5.3% had multiple risk factors. 15.6% responded to feedback messages. Among them, 57.2% followed a healthy diet, 72.3% practised advice on physical activity, 51.9% screened for diabetes and 67.3% checked their glycaemic status. The telephonic interviews showed that the programme was feasible and acceptable. The participants suggested use of interactive voice response system for registration and motivation. Discussion and conclusion The study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of mHealth in a large population to disseminate knowledge regarding diabetes and healthy lifestyle, and to improve health-seeking behaviour. It helped to identify the limitations and scope for future improvements.
Adolescent Male Sports Participation and Violence in Emerging Adulthood: Examining Variation by Gender-Typed Behavior

ABSTRACT Research on the association between sports participation and violence is mixed. Moreover, most studies that recognize some sport subcultures equate masculinity with violence have not included indicators of adherence to gender-typed behaviors. The current study used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to investigate the association between male adolescent sports participation and violence in young adulthood, as well as the degree to which this relationship varied by adherence to gender-typed behaviors. Analyses revealed that male adolescent sports participation was positively associated with violence during emerging adulthood, particularly for those who displayed gender-atypical (i.e., more feminine) behaviors.
Adenoviruses Using the Cancer Marker EphA2 as a Receptor In Vitro and In Vivo by Genetic Ligand Insertion into Different Capsid Scaffolds

Adenoviral gene therapy and oncolysis would critically benefit from targeted cell entry by genetically modified capsids. This requires both the ablation of native adenovirus tropism and the identification of ligands that remain functional in virus context. Here, we establish cell type-specific entry of HAdV-5-based vectors by genetic ligand insertion into a chimeric fiber with shaft and knob domains of the short HAdV-41 fiber (Ad5T/41sSK). This fiber format was reported to ablate transduction in vitro and biodistribution to the liver in vivo. We show that the YSA peptide, binding to the pan-cancer marker EphA2, can be inserted into three positions of the chimeric fiber, resulting in strong transduction of EphA2-positive but not EphA2-negative cells of human melanoma biopsies and of tumor xenografts after intratumoral injection. Transduction was blocked by soluble YSA peptide and restored for EphA2-negative cells after recombinant EphA2 expression. The YSA peptide could also be inserted into three positions of a CAR binding-ablated HAdV-5 fiber enabling specific transduction; however, the Ad5T/41sSK format was superior in vivo. In conclusion, we establish an adenovirus capsid facilitating functional insertion of targeting peptides and a novel adenovirus using the tumor marker EphA2 as receptor with high potential for cancer gene therapy and viral oncolysis.