Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Kyoto University Cross-Lingual Pronoun Translation System

In this paper we describe our system we designed and implemented for the crosslingual pronoun prediction task as a part of WMT 2016. The majority of the paper will be dedicated to the system whose outputs we submitted wherein we describe the simplified mathematical model, the details of the components and the working by means of an architecture diagram which also serves as a flowchart. We then discuss the results of the official scores and our observations on the same.
Separated by an Un-common Language: Towards Judgment Language Informed Vector Space Modeling

A common evaluation practice in the vector space models (VSMs) literature is to measure the models' ability to predict human judgments about lexical semantic relations between word pairs. Most existing evaluation sets, however, consist of scores collected for English word pairs only, ignoring the potential impact of the judgment language in which word pairs are presented on the human scores. In this paper we translate two prominent evaluation sets, wordsim353 (association) and SimLex999 (similarity), from English to Italian, German and Russian and collect scores for each dataset from crowdworkers fluent in its language. Our analysis reveals that human judgments are strongly impacted by the judgment language. Moreover, we show that the predictions of monolingual VSMs do not necessarily best correlate with human judgments made with the language used for model training, suggesting that models and humans are affected differently by the language they use when making semantic judgments. Finally, we show that in a large number of setups, multilingual VSM combination results in improved correlations with human judgments, suggesting that multilingualism may partially compensate for the judgment language effect on human judgments.
Modelling of positive discharges in laboratory gaps under switching voltage impulses

A simplified model of leader development based on physical and engineering approximations for laboratory long gap discharges under switching impulses was proposed and tested. The model was derived from the physical analysis proposed by Bondiou-Gallimberti and the engineering approximation for the potential drop on the tip of the leader proposed by Rizk. The calculated leader development characteristics with this model were compared with experimental results and numerical models. The proposed model is in close agreement with the existing published data. The calculation method was applicable to long gaps with rise times higher than 100 ¿s.
Dex-Net 1.0: A cloud-based network of 3D objects for robust grasp planning using a Multi-Armed Bandit model with correlated rewards

This paper presents the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) 1.0, a dataset of 3D object models and a sampling-based planning algorithm to explore how Cloud Robotics can be used for robust grasp planning. The algorithm uses a Multi- Armed Bandit model with correlated rewards to leverage prior grasps and 3D object models in a growing dataset that currently includes over 10,000 unique 3D object models and 2.5 million parallel-jaw grasps. Each grasp includes an estimate of the probability of force closure under uncertainty in object and gripper pose and friction. Dex-Net 1.0 uses Multi-View Convolutional Neural Networks (MV-CNNs), a new deep learning method for 3D object classification, to provide a similarity metric between objects, and the Google Cloud Platform to simultaneously run up to 1,500 virtual cores, reducing experiment runtime by up to three orders of magnitude. Experiments suggest that correlated bandit techniques can use a cloud-based network of object models to significantly reduce the number of samples required for robust grasp planning. We report on system sensitivity to variations in similarity metrics and in uncertainty in pose and friction. Code and updated information is available at http://berkeleyautomation.github. io/dex-net/.
Music Therapy for Autistic Children and Their Families: A Creative Spectrum

A review of the literature shows that little has been published about music therapy for parents and children together, and Oldfield's recent article (Oldfield et al. 2003) describes this work as ‘fairly uncommon’. This paper uses three clinical examples to illustrate a range of approaches to working with children with autism and their parents: a group for children with autism and their parents in a mainstream primary school, short-term work with a 4-year-old autistic girl and her mother, and work with a mother and her two young sons, one of whom has Asperger's Syndrome. Music therapy can help children with autism to communicate and interact and can build their self-confidence. It can also play an important role for parents of children with autism, who may be under great stress, by fostering relationships, developing positive interactions and helping them to feel contained and supported.
ERICA: prevalence of healthy eating habits among Brazilian adolescents

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of eating habits considered healthy in adolescents according to sex, age, education level of the mother, school type, session of study, and geographic region. METHODS The assessed data come from the Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA), a cross-sectional, national and school-based study. Adolescents of 1,247 schools of 124 Brazilian municipalities were evaluated using a self-administered questionnaire with a section on aspects related to eating behaviors. The following eating behaviors were considered healthy: consuming breakfast, drinking water, and having meals accompanied by parents or legal guardians. All prevalence estimates were presented proportionally, with their respective 95% confidence intervals. The Chi-square test was used to evaluate the differences in healthy eating habits prevalences according to other variables. The module survey of the Stata program version 13.0 was used to analyze complex data. RESULTS We evaluated 74,589 adolescents (72.9% of the eligible students). Of these, 55.2% were female, average age being 14.6 years (SD = 1.6). Among Brazilian adolescents, approximately half of them showed healthy eating habits when consuming breakfast, drinking five or more glasses of water a day, and having meals with parents or legal guardians. All analyzed healthy eating habits showed statistically significant differences by sex, age, type of school, session of study, or geographic region . CONCLUSIONS We suggest that specific actions of intersectoral approach are implemented for the dissemination of the benefits of healthy eating habits. Older female adolescents (15 to 17 years old) who studied in public schools, resided in the Southeast region, and whose mothers had lower education levels, should be the focus of these actions since they present lower frequencies concerning the evaluated healthy habits.
Using Contextual Information to Understand Searching and Browsing Behavior

There is great imbalance in the richness of information on the web and the succinctness and poverty of search requests of web users, making their queries only a partial description of the underlying complex information needs. Finding ways to better leverage contextual information and make search context-aware holds the promise to dramatically improve the search experience of users. We conducted a series of studies to discover, model and utilize contextual information in order to understand and improve users' searching and browsing behavior on the web. Our results capture important aspects of context under the realistic conditions of different online search services, aiming to ensure that our scientific insights and solutions transfer to the operational settings of real world applications.
Clinical and technical considerations for imaging colorectal cancers with technetium-99m-labeled antiCEA Fab' fragment.

OBJECTIVE Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, after lung and breast cancers. Approximately 133,500 Americans develop colorectal cancer annually and approximately 54,900 die of the disease. As many as 600,000 individuals in the US are under care after surgery for colorectal cancer. After reading this article, the nuclear medicine technologist will be able to: (a) describe the role of Arcitumomab in evaluating and managing patients with recurrent colorectal carcinoma metastasizing to the liver; (b) discuss the clinical use of CEA-Scan (Immunomedics, Inc., Morris Plains, NJ) and its overall imaging performance characteristics and sensitivity related to specific anatomical sites compared to conventional diagnostic modalities; (c) describe radiopharmaceutical preparation and quality control; (d) identify the pertinent patient history before starting the test; and (e) explain the imaging procedure, processing and display of data to optimize study interpretation.
Factors Determining the Outcome of Pontine Hemorrhage in the Absence of Surgical Intervention

Objectives and Importance: Although pontine hemorrhage is very often fatal, the clinical manifestations vary accord-ing to the location and extent of the hematoma. We investigated the prognostic factors of pontine hemorrhage by assessing clinical manifestation and CT findings in relation to outcome. Materials and Methods: The outcome and clinical features of 19 patients with pontine hemorrhage without surgical intervention were analyzed. The CT features of the hematoma were classified into four types: massive, tegmento-basilar, transverse oval, and small unilateral. The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) was used to assess patient outcome (G, good recovery; MD, moderate disability; SD, severe disability, V, vegetative state, D, death) at discharge. Results: The outcome was MD in 7 cases, SD in 3, and D in 9. Eight of 9 patients with acute hydrocephalus died, whereas only one of 10 patients without hydrocephalus died (p 12, tetraparesis, or respiratory failure (p < 0.01, 0.05, 0.01, respectively). Four of 5 patients with CT evidence of massive hemorrhage died, and another patient became vegetative. The outcome in 6 patients with tegmento-basilar-type hematoma included D in 3, V in 2, and MD in 1, and that in 7 patients with transverse oval hematoma included D in 2, V in 1, SD in 1, and MD in 3. Five (65%) of the 8 patients with transverse oval or small unilateral hematomas were able to walk (MD) with or without assistance, whereas only 2 (18%) of 11 patients with tegmento-basilar-type and massive hematoma were ambulatory at discharge (p < 0.05). Conclu-sion: On the basis of CT classification, the functional prognosis of transverse oval pontine hemorrhage is as favorable as that of the small unilateral type.
Remedial Processes in Embarrassing Predicaments

Embarrassing predicaments are a routine pari of social interaction arising from the display of untoward or inappropriate behavior. Such events create feelings of chagrin, engender negative attributions about the embarrassed person, and disrupt social interaction. Consequently, both embarrassed acton and observers employ remedial face work in response to embarrassing predicaments in order to repair damaged identities, maintain face, and restore interactional equilibrium. This chapter summarizes the relevant literature in four areas related to embarrassment: (a) the nature of embarrassing predicaments, (b) remedial strategies employed by embarrassed acton, (c) responses of observers to an embarrassing predicament, and (d) factors influencing the use and effectiveness of remedial strategies. While prior research has offered some useful knowledge about general remedial processes, it fails to capture some of the unique and subtle aspects of coping with embarrassment. To promote greater understanding of the inh.
Greedy Bilateral Sketch, Completion & Smoothing

Recovering a large low-rank matrix from highly corrupted, incomplete or sparse outlier overwhelmed observations is the crux of various intriguing statistical problems. We explore the power of “greedy bilateral (GreB)” paradigm in reducing both time and sample complexities for solving these problems. GreB models a lowrank variable as a bilateral factorization, and updates the left and right factors in a mutually adaptive and greedy incremental manner. We detail how to model and solve low-rank approximation, matrix completion and robust PCA in GreB’s paradigm. On their MATLAB implementations, approximating a noisy 10 4 × 10 4 matrix of rank 500 with SVD accuracy takes 6s; MovieLens10M matrix of size 69878 × 10677 can be completed in 10s from 30% of 10 7 ratings with RMSE 0.86 on the rest 70%; the low-rank background and sparse moving outliers in a 120×160 video of 500 frames are accurately separated in 1s. This brings 30 to 100 times acceleration in solving these popular statistical problems.
A Curious Commentary on a Book on Mirror Neurons and Other Tales of Scientific Misses : Response to Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia and to Glenberg

higher-level representations when we are thinking more abstractly. By any metric, my publication record shows that I am quite sympathetic to the idea that sensory and motor systems play a substantial role in what we have traditionally viewed as “higher cognition. ” Some cognitive psychologists might even label me as an embodied cognition theorist for all the reasons noted above. But at the same time I have no interest in putting the theoretical cart in front of the data horse. If the motor system plays a role, for example along the lines that Kilner (Kilner, Friston, & Frith, 2007), Arbib (Arbib, 2004), and I have suggested, then it plays a role. I have no ideological objection to it. But the existing data, as reviewed in my book, point to either no role or a very small role indeed for the motor system in understanding actions. Glenberg suggests that the book is a “major miss” because it has clouded the contributions of mirror neuron theory to our understanding of cognition and behavior. He’s partially right. My book has clouded the contributions of the theory, but this is only because the theory is cloudy. The Myth of Mirror Neurons reveals this state of affairs and offers some alternatives for emerging from the mist. Acknowledgements: I am indebted to Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia, and Art Glenberg for taking the time to provide their thoughts on my book and to Dom Massaro for organizing and editing the discussion and providing helpful feedback on my response. Supported in part by NIH DC03681.
Tactile programming: a unified manipulation paradigm supporting program comprehension, composition and sharing

Although visual programming techniques have been used to lower the threshold of programming for end users, they are not sufficient for creating end user programming environments that are both easy to use and powerful. To achieve this, an environment must support the definition of programs that are not just static representations of behavior, but are instead dynamic collections of program objects which can be applied in a number of contexts rather than just a program editor. We describe an approach to end user programming called tactile programming which extends visual techniques with a unified program manipulation paradigm that makes programs easy to comprehend, compose and, most importantly, share over the World Wide Web. Tactile programming's inherent ability to support the social context in which programming takes place along with its ability to ease program comprehension and composition is what differentiates this approach from others. In the context of the Agentsheets programming substrate, we have created an instance of a tactile programming environment called Visual AgenTalk which is used to create interactive simulations.
Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and self-concept changes

The scientific interest on mindfulness meditation (MM) has significantly increased in the last two decades probably because of the positive health effects that this practice exerts in a great variety of clinical and non-clinical conditions. Despite attention regulation, emotional regulation, and body awareness have been argued to be critical mechanisms through which MM improves well-being, much less is known on the effects of this practice on personality. Here we review the current state of knowledge about the role of MM in promoting changes in practitioners’ personality profiles and self-concepts. We first focus on studies that investigated the relations between mindfulness and personality using well-known self-report inventories such as the Five-Factor model of personality traits and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Second, based on the intrinsic limitations of these explicit personality measures, we review a key set of results showing effects of MM on implicit, as well as explicit, self-representations. Although the research on MM and personality is still in its infancy, it appears that this form of meditative practice may notably shape individuals’ personality and self-concept toward more healthy profiles.
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation

Predicting query performance, that is, the effectiveness of a search performed in response to a query, is a highly important and challenging problem. We present a novel approach to this task that is based on measuring the standard deviation of retrieval scores in the result list of the documents most highly ranked. We argue that for retrieval methods that are based on document-query surface-level similarities, the standard deviation can serve as a surrogate for estimating the presumed amount of query drift in the result list, that is, the presence (and dominance) of aspects or topics not related to the query in documents in the list. Empirical evaluation demonstrates the prediction effectiveness of our approach for several retrieval models. Specifically, the prediction quality often transcends that of current state-of-the-art prediction methods.
Mimicking the Neurotrophic Factor Profile of Embryonic Spinal Cord Controls the Differentiation Potential of Spinal Progenitors into Neuronal Cells

Recent studies have indicated that the choice of lineage of neural progenitor cells is determined, at least in part, by environmental factors, such as neurotrophic factors. Despite extensive studies using exogenous neurotrophic factors, the effect of endogenous neurotrophic factors on the differentiation of progenitor cells remains obscure. Here we show that embryonic spinal cord derived-progenitor cells express both ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA before differentiation. BDNF gene expression significantly decreases with their differentiation into the specific lineage, whereas CNTF gene expression significantly increases. The temporal pattern of neurotrophic factor gene expression in progenitor cells is similar to that of the spinal cord during postnatal development. Approximately 50% of spinal progenitor cells differentiated into astrocytes. To determine the effect of endogenous CNTF on their differentiation, we neutralized endogenous CNTF by administration of its polyclonal antibody. Neutralization of endogenous CNTF inhibited the differentiation of progenitor cells into astrocytes, but did not affect the numbers of neurons or oligodendrocytes. Furthermore, to mimic the profile of neurotrophic factors in the spinal cord during embryonic development, we applied BDNF or neurotrophin (NT)-3 exogenously in combination with the anti-CNTF antibody. The exogenous application of BDNF or NT-3 promoted the differentiation of these cells into neurons or oligodendrocytes, respectively. These findings suggest that endogenous CNTF and exogenous BDNF and NT-3 play roles in the differentiation of embryonic spinal cord derived progenitor cells into astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocytes, respectively.
State Policies and Pakistani Migrant Organisations in Toronto and NYC

This paper examines how different ‘contexts of reception’ in Toronto and NYC shape the size, programmatic domain (social, cultural, economic, political), and geographic scope of action (local vs. transnational) of non-profit organisations serving the Pakistani immigrant community. Existing literature tends to employ a one-sided focus on the role of state-policies in determining the prevalence of immigrant organisations. This literature is also divided into two epistemic camps, one focusing on organisations promoting settlement/incorporation and others on transnational organisations. This study addresses these limitations by examining how state-policies, socioeconomic incorporation, community characteristics and societal attitudes combine to shape the composition of an immigrant group’s collective organisational space – comprised of incorporation and transnationally-oriented organisations. Data come from a new original database of the universe of Pakistani non-profit organisations based in Toronto and New York and from qualitative data gathered in both cities. Contrary to our expectations and previous research, we find that state-sponsored multiculturalism is not associated with a larger or more transnational Pakistani organisational space in Toronto. Rather, the size, programmatic domain and geographic scope of Pakistani organisational spaces are determined by the intersection of statepolicies and the immigrant community’s socioeconomic incorporation – where the more affluent New Yorker Pakistani community is associated with a larger and more transnational organisational space. Findings also reveal tensions between locallyand transnationally-oriented organisations in both cities, reflecting growing fragmentation between affluent cosmopolitan, immigrant elites and the impoverished segments of the Toronto and NYC Pakistani communities.
Attitudes toward online shopping and the Internet

Since the explosion of the Web as a business medium, one of its primary uses has been for marketing. Soon, the Web will become a critical distribution channel for the majority of successful enterprises. The mass media, consumer marketers and advertising agencies seem to be in the midst of Internet discovery and exploitation. Before a company can envision what might sell online in the coming years, it must first understand the attitudes and behaviour of its potential customers. Hence, this study examines attitudes toward various aspects of online shopping and provides a better understanding of the potential of electronic commerce for both researchers and practitioners.