Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploitation of Similarity and Pattern Matching in XML Technologies ( Technical Report )

As XML technologies have undoubtedly become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to provide efficient implementations of W3C recommendations. A possible optimization of particular types of techniques can be found in exploitation of similarity of XML data and/or matching of XML patterns. In this paper we provide an overview and classification of such techniques from various points of view. We also briefly describe the best known representatives of particular ideas and we discuss their key advantages and disadvantages. The text should serve as a good starting point for proposing an appropriate similarity-based optimization.
Nano Size Related Piezoelectric Efficiency in a Large ZnO Thin Film,Potential for Self-Powered Medical Device Application

Large-area piezoelectric ZnO films with different gran size has been synthesized by sol-gel technique using different annealing temperatures from 550 to 700°C. The piezoelectric efficiency (PE) of those deposited films is characterized by Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM). All synthesized films exhibit a crystal structure. The width of the rock curve of [0002] characterized by x-ray diffraction decreases with the annealing temperature, suggesting a better c-axis orientated ZnO film formed at higher annealing temperature. The grain size of the grown films are found to continuously increase from 20 to 60 nm when the annealing temperatures increase from 550 to 700°C. The piezoelectric efficiency (PE, d33) of the films exhibit strong grain size dependence, i.e., the PE initially increase with the annealing temperature and then decreasing with a further annealing temperature increased. The maximum PE value appears in the film annealed at 650°C. The peculiar piezoelectric properties (d33) can be explained by the competing between the crystalline, which favors a larger d33 due to the enhanced dipole polarization, and the grain size, which results in a piezoforce release at large grain size due to domain wall size and motion.
Designing A Multimodal Spoken Component of the Australian National Corpus

Spoken language and interaction lie at the core of human experience. The primary medium of communication is speech, with some estimating the ratio of spoken-written language to be as high as 90%-10% (Cermak, 2009, p. 115). Yet they have remained poor cousins in the building of corpora to date. Not only are spoken corpora much smaller than written corpora (Xiao, 2008), the overwhelming focus in the analysis of spoken corpora has been on textual transcriptions of audio recordings, with the original recordings themselves generally not being widely available (Wichmann, 2008, p. 189). In the most comprehensive, large-scale national corpus to have included a spoken component to date, the British National Corpus, for instance, the ratio of spoken to written language is inversely proportionate to that estimated to reflect actual communicative practice. Moreover, as the original sound recordings are not (widely) available, researchers are limited to analysing textual representations of spoken interaction. As a result of these constraints, work on spoken corpora has largely focused on the analysis of lexical and grammatical features of spoken language (Wichmann, 2008, p. 189). However, as Adolphs and Carter (2007) have recently argued “while current corpora allow us to explore multimillion word databases, they fail to represent language and communication beyond the word. This is problematic as social interactions are in fact multimodal, combining both verbal and non-verbal elements” (p.133). The increasing recognition that language needs to be studied in situ necessitates the building of multimodal corpora that allow such analyses to be undertaken (Allwood, 2008, p. 223). Yet while building large spoken corpora that are (at least partially) multimodal appears to be a way forward in redressing the relative neglect of spoken language in corpora to date, such endeavours are likely to be enormously time-consuming and expensive if the myriad of challenges facing those who wish to build such corpora are not carefully unpacked in the initial stages of design. The aim of this paper is thus to consider some of the main challenges involved in designing an Australian National Corpus (AusNC) that is multimodal. The paper begins by outlining what constitutes a multimodal corpus, and drawing a distinction between multimodal text corpora and multimodal spoken corpora, the latter of which is the primary focus in this paper. The case for why a multimodal spoken component of the AusNC is to be favoured over traditional approaches to spoken corpora is then outlined. Some of the key challenges that arise in designing a multimodal spoken corpus are next explored. In light of such a complex array of challenges, it is concluded that the principles outlined in Agile Corpus Creation theory (Voorman & Gut, 2008) constitute the most pragmatic way forward in designing and building a multimodal spoken component of the AusNC.
Circulating human hepcidin-25 concentrations display a diurnal rhythm, increase with prolonged fasting, and are reduced by growth hormone administration.

BACKGROUND Hepcidin-25 reduces iron absorption by binding to the intestinal iron transporter ferroportin and causing its degradation. Currently, little is known about the basal regulation of circulating hepcidin-25. In addition, although erythropoietin administration has been reported to decrease the circulating hepcidin concentration, information is limited regarding how other stimulators of erythropoiesis, such as growth hormone (GH), might alter hepcidin-25 concentrations. METHODS We used a sensitive and specific hepcidin-25 dual-monoclonal antibody sandwich immunoassay to measure hepcidin-25 in healthy human volunteers at various time points throughout the day and during 3 days of fasting and subsequent refeeding. We also measured hepcidin-25 concentrations in healthy volunteers after GH administration. RESULTS In healthy individuals, hepcidin-25 concentrations displayed a diurnal variation, with concentrations being lowest in the early morning and steadily increasing throughout the day before declining during the evening hours, a pattern that was not influenced by food intake. Prolonged fasting produced statistically significant increases in hepcidin-25 concentrations. Refeeding reversed this process, and GH administration markedly decreased hepcidin-25 concentrations. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that in humans, hepcidin-25 exhibits diurnal changes that can be altered by prolonged fasting, which increases hepcidin-25 concentrations approximately 3-fold after 3 days of fasting, possibly owing to a suppression of erythropoiesis that may occur during the fasting state to preserve tissue iron concentrations. In contrast, GH administration decreased hepcidin-25 concentrations by approximately 65%, presumably by stimulating erythropoiesis. These results indicate that circulating hepcidin-25 concentrations display much more dynamic and rapid variation than might have been anticipated previously.
Investigating the link between liking versus wanting self-esteem and depression in a nationally representative sample of American adults.

The self-esteem movement has been around since the 1970s, and may have influenced how much value people place on self-esteem. We predicted a negative relationship between age and the amount of value placed on self-esteem boosts. We also investigated the correlates of liking versus wanting self-esteem boosts (and other pleasant rewards) on depression. A nationally representative sample of American adults (N = 867) indicated how much they liked and wanted several pleasant rewards (i.e., sex, food, alcohol, money, friendship, self-esteem boost). They also completed a standardized measure of depressive symptoms. As expected, there was a negative relationship between age and valuing self-esteem boosts, sex, and alcohol. People with depressive symptoms wanted self-esteem boosts, even though they did not like them very much. Similar effects were obtained for depressive symptoms and alcohol and friendship. This is the first research to show that self-esteem boosts are more valued among a nationally representative sample of younger American adults. It also is the first research to explore the association between depression and the motivation to boost self-esteem. People with depressive symptoms want self-esteem, and may pursue it, but this pursuit may feel unrewarding because they do not derive pleasure from it.
Partition-Based Trapdoor Ciphers

This paper deals with block ciphers embedding a trapdoor which consists in mapping a partition of the plaintext space to a partition of the ciphertext space. In a ﬁrst part, this issue is reduced to the study of the S-boxes of the cipher satisfying a few criteria. Then, diﬀerential and linear properties of such S-boxes are assessed and an algorithm to build optimal S-boxes is provided. Finally, these primitives are used to design a small trapdoor cipher resistant to both linear and diﬀerential cryptanalysis. This trapdoor makes it possible to recover the κ -bit master key with only one plaintext/ciphertext pair and an eﬀort of 2 κ 2 encryptions.
Uncluttered Single-Image Visualization of Vascular Structures Using GPU and Integer Programming

Direct projection of 3D branching structures, such as networks of cables, blood vessels, or neurons onto a 2D image creates the illusion of intersecting structural parts and creates challenges for understanding and communication. We present a method for visualizing such structures, and demonstrate its utility in visualizing the abdominal aorta and its branches, whose tomographic images might be obtained by computed tomography or magnetic resonance angiography, in a single 2D stylistic image, without overlaps among branches. The visualization method, termed uncluttered single-image visualization (USIV), involves optimization of geometry. This paper proposes a novel optimization technique that utilizes an interesting connection of the optimization problem regarding USIV to the protein structure prediction problem. Adopting the integer linear programming-based formulation for the protein structure prediction problem, we tested the proposed technique using 30 visualizations produced from five patient scans with representative anatomical variants in the abdominal aortic vessel tree. The novel technique can exploit commodity-level parallelism, enabling use of general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) technology that yields a significant speedup. Comparison of the results with the other optimization technique previously reported elsewhere suggests that, in most aspects, the quality of the visualization is comparable to that of the previous one, with a significant gain in the computation time of the algorithm.
Hall–Higman‐type theorems for semisimple elements of finite classical groups

Minimum polynomials of semisimple elements of prime power order pa of finite classical groups in (nontrivial) irreducible cross‐characteristic representations are studied. In particular, an analogue of the Hall–Higman theorem is established, which shows that the degree of such a polynomial is at least pa−1(p−1), with a few explicit exceptions.
A low power scheduling scheme with resources operating at multiple voltages

This paper presents a new resource constrained and latency constrained scheduling scheme that minimizes power consumption for the case when the resources operate at multiple voltages. The scheduling scheme is list based. In each control cycle, the ready nodes are assigned depending on the number of available resources and the difference between the actual number of cycles left and an estimate of the number of cycles required to schedule the remaining nodes. The switching activity of the nodes as well as the priority (which is related to the capacitance) of the nodes is taken into account. We assume that the resources can be operated at 5 V, 3.3 V, 2.4 V and 1.5 V. Moreover, we assume that the resources (multipliers and adders) have different voltage-delay curves. Experiments with some HLS benchmark examples show that the proposed scheme achieves significant power reduction. For instance, when the latency constraint is 1.5 times the tight latency constraint, the average reduction is 59.1%.
Innovative Semi-Automatic Methodology to Annotate Emotional Corpora

Detecting depression or personality traits, tutoring and student behaviour systems, or identifying cases of cyber-bulling are a few of the wide range of the applications, in which the automatic detection of emotion is a crucial element. Emotion detection has the potential of high impact by contributing the benefit of business, society, politics or education. Given this context, the main objective of our research is to contribute to the resolution of one of the most important challenges in textual emotion detection task: the problems of emotional corpora annotation. This will be tackled by proposing of a new semi-automatic methodology. Our innovative methodology consists in two main phases: (1) an automatic process to pre-annotate the unlabelled sentences with a reduced number of emotional categories; and (2) a refinement manual process where human annotators will determine which is the predominant emotion between the emotional categories selected in the phase 1. Our proposal in this paper is to show and evaluate the pre-annotation process to analyse the feasibility and the benefits by the methodology proposed. The results obtained are promising and allow obtaining a substantial improvement of annotation time and cost and confirm the usefulness of our pre-annotation process to improve the annotation task.
Turkey from the Perspective of the Refugee Children

Migration can be described as a movement of people from the location they are in to elsewhere due to economic, social, political, and cultural reasons. Turkey is in a position that both allows immigrants and creates an area of transition for immigrants. With the concept of refuge, many social problems also entered the world’s agenda. One of these problems, of course, involve refugee children. The aim of this study is to reveal the perception of Turkey of the refugee children who live in the city of Aksaray, in the context of their problems and needs. The students who participated in the study were determined with convenience sampling, a method included in purposeful sampling. The study was conducted with the approach of phenomenology, a qualitative data collection pattern. The data was collected with an interview form that consisted of open-ended questions, between March and June in 2016. The data was analyzed through content analysis. The findings were evaluated according to demographic information such as gender, age, number of siblings, the accommodation unit the family immigrated (village, town, county, city), socio-economic level, and whether the family had experienced migration before.
Luminosity and Mass Limits for the Progenitor of the Type Ic Supernova 2004gt in NGC 4038

We report on our attempts to locate the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova SN 2004gt in NGC 4038. We use high-resolution HST ACS images of SN 2004gt and have compared them with deep pre-explosion HST WFPC2 F336W, F439W, F555W, and F814W images. We identify the SN location on the pre-explosion frames with an accuracy of 5 mas. We show that the progenitor is below the detection thresholds of all the pre-explosion images. These detection limits are used to place luminosity and mass limits on the progenitor. The progenitor of SN 2004gt seems to be restricted to a low-luminosity high-temperature star, either a single WC star with an initial mass of >40 M☉ or a low-mass star in a binary. The pre-explosion data cannot distinguish between the two scenarios.
Affective Reactions and Context-Dependent Processing of Negations

Three experiments demonstrate how the processing of negations is contingent on the evaluation context in which the negative information is presented. In addition, the strategy used to process the negations induced different affective reactions toward the stimuli, leading to inconsistency of preference. Participants were presented with stimuli described by either stating the presence of positive features (explicitly positive alternative) or negating the presence of negative features (non-negative alternative). Alternatives were presented for either joint (JE) or separate evaluation (SE). Experiment 1 showed that the non-negative stimuli were judged less attractive than the positive ones in JE but not in SE. Experiment 2 revealed that the non-negative stimuli induced a less clear and less positive feeling when they were paired with explicitly positive stimuli rather than evaluated separately. Non-negative options were also found less easy to judge than the positive ones in JE but not in SE. Finally, Experiment 3 showed that people process negations using two different models depending on the evaluation mode. Through a memory task, we found that in JE people process the non-negative attributes as negations of negative features, whereas in SE they directly process the non-negative attributes as positive features.
Environmental Knowledge and Attitude among Students in Sabah

2 Abstract: Environmental awareness among students is highly influenced by their background, knowledge, attitude and sensitivity towards the environment. The objectives of this study are to identify level of knowledge on environmental literacy and attitude towards environmental issues that are occurring in Malaysia presently among students in Sabah, Malaysia. Multi-stage stratified sampling was used to select the samples. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire which was developed by expert panel which consisted of lecturers and teachers through two sessions of focus group discussions (FGD). The items developed for the questionnaires took into consideration the environmental problems which have existed locally as well as cultural sensitivities of local community. Pilot test among 50 form four secondary school students show moderate level of internal l consistency of knowledge (Cronbach Alpha -0.68) and attitude (Cronbach alpha 0.72) domains. 1106 (95%) of 1200 sample responded the study. The result show that in general, students in Sabah particularly from Form 4 level have high level of environmental knowledge except for several items which measure the current environmental issues in Malaysia such as Carbon dioxide and climate change. Their attitudes are influenced by the level of knowledge that they have concerning the environment.
Opportunities for Analog Coding in Emerging Memory Systems

The exponential growth in data generation and large-scale data analysis creates an unprecedented need for inexpensive, low-latency, and high-density information storage. This need has motivated significant research into multi-level memory systems that can store multiple bits of information per device. Although both the memory state of these devices and much of the data they store are intrinsically analog-valued, both are quantized for use with digital systems and discrete error correcting codes. Using phase change memory as a prototypical multi-level storage technology, we herein demonstrate that analog-valued devices can achieve higher capacities when paired with analog codes. Further, we find that storing analog signals directly through joint-coding can achieve low distortion with reduced coding complexity. By jointly optimizing for signal statistics, device statistics, and a distortion metric, finite-length analog encodings can perform comparable to digital systems with asymptotically infinite large encodings. These results show that end-to-end analog memory systems have not only the potential to reach higher storage capacities than discrete systems, but also to significantly lower coding complexity, leading to faster and more energy efficient storage.
The research of the level of social media addiction of university students

Nowadays, social media has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Although there are many useful applications of social media, the excessive use of this medium led to live personal, social and occupational problems. With these problems, it began to lead social media addiction which describes as a new kind of addiction. in this regard, the survey will be applied 350 students who study at communication faculty of inonu university through social media selected via simple random sampling online via social media to measure social media addiction. The aim of the study is to identify whether there is a statistically significant differentiation between social media addiction levels of users; according to gender, age and educational situation, daily social media use time and tool used to connect to social media.
Factors affecting the effectiveness of print media in the dissemination of agricultural information

Pakistan is predominantly an agricultural country; its development is mainly dependent on this sector. However, despite accelerated government efforts which are under way for a rapid breakthrough in agricultural productivity, average per hectare yield of various crops in the country is still much lower than that obtained in many other countries of the world. It may mainly be attributed to poor farm management by farmers. This situation demands proper education of farmers about latest agricultural technology, which can be achieved through non-formal education by extension agencies. Extension teaching methods used for this purpose are classified into three categorizes: individual, group and mass contacts. Individual and group methods cannot reach every one who might need and use the information. So mass media (electronic and print) are used to reach large number of people quickly. Among mass media, print media are the important means to convey the latest agricultural information to the farmers. Presently a lot of printed material is being published by public and private organizations for the dissemination of agricultural information. However, it has been observed that the print media are not playing their expected role. Keeping in view the importance of print media, the present study was designed to determine the factors affecting their effectiveness in the dissemination of agricultural information among farmers in the Punjab. The population for the study was the subscribers of the top three agricultural magazines (with respect to their circulation). A sampling frame was constructed by listing all the subscribers of the selected agricultural magazines. A sample of 361 respondents was selected from the entire population. The data were collected in July-Dec. 2008 with the help of a pre-tested and validated questionnaire designed for this purpose and was analyzed by using computer software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that the print media were major sources of information of the farmers. Some important factors which affected their effectiveness were quality of information, newness, farmers’ interest, in time publication, easy access to print media, relevance of information, literacy level of farmers, comprehensiveness, and cost of print media.