Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Efficient HPSG Parsing with Supertagging and CFG-Filtering

An efficient parsing technique for HPSG is presented. Recent research has shown that supertagging is a key technology to improve both the speed and accuracy of lexicalized grammar parsing. We show that further speed-up is possible by eliminating non-parsable lexical entry sequences from the output of the supertagger. The parsability of the lexical entry sequences is tested by a technique called CFG-filtering, where a CFG that approximates the HPSG is used to test it. Those lexical entry sequences that passed through the CFG-filter are combined into parse trees by using a simple shift-reduce parsing algorithm, in which structural ambiguities are resolved using a classifier and all the syntactic constraints represented in the original grammar are checked. Experimental results show that our system gives comparable accuracy with a speed-up by a factor of six (30 msec/sentence) compared with the best published result using the same grammar.
Radio galaxies with a 'double-double morphology' - I. Analysis of the radio properties and evidence for interrupted acti

We present four Mpc-sized radio galaxies which consist of a pair of double-lobed radio sources, aligned along the same axis, and with a coinciding radio core. We call these peculiar radio sources `double-double' radio galaxies (DDRGs) and propose a general definition of such sources: a `double-double' radio galaxy consists of a pair of double radio sources with a common centre. Furthermore, the two lobes of the inner radio source must have a clearly extended, edge-brightened radio morphology. Adopting this definition, we find several other candidate DDRGs in the literature. We find that in all sources the smaller (inner) pair of radio lobes is less luminous than the larger (outer) pair, and that the ratio of 1.4-GHz flux density of these two pairs appears to be anticorrelated with the projected linear size of the inner source. Also, the outer radio structures are large, exceeding 700kpc. We discuss possible formation scenarios of the DDRGs, and we conclude that an interruption of the jet-forming central activity is the most likely mechanism. For one of our sources (B1834+620) we have been able observationally to constrain the length of time of the interruption to a few Myr. We discuss several scenarios for the cause of the interruption, and suggest multiple encounters between interacting galaxies as a possibility. Finally, we discuss whether such interruptions help the formation of extremely large radio sources.
Style Rotation and Performance Persistence of Mutual Funds

Most academic studies on performance persistence in monthly mutual fund returns do not find evidence for timing skills of fund managers. Furthermore, realized returns are undoubtedly driven by the investment style of a fund. We propose a new holdings-based measure of style rotation to investigate the relation between performance persistence and changes in style. For a large sample of U.S. domestic equity mutual funds we find that top and bottom performing decile portfolios, sorted on past one-year returns and risk djusted excess performance from a 4-factor model, are subject to a higher degree of style rotation than middle deciles. Style inconsistent funds with high values for the style rotation measure in turn exhibit less persistence in decile rankings over subsequent years than style consistent funds. Hence, it is important for delegated portfolio management to consider style rotation when selecting managers based on past performance.
Correlations of serum visfatin and metabolisms of glucose and lipid in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

Visfatin is a newly discovered adipocytokine hormone, which exerts an insulin‐like effect by binding to the insulin receptor‐1. However, the role of visfatin in human gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remains controversial. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between serum visfatin and metabolism of glucose and lipid in GDM.
From With�In The Black Diamond: The Intersections of Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Identity�An Epistolary Autoethnographic Exploration into the Lived Experiences of a Black Male Graduate Student

xi CHAPTER ONE: GREETINGS (INTRODUCTION) . 1 Problem Statement . 3 Research Question . 4 Purpose of the Study . 4 CHAPTER TWO: THE BODY (REVIEW OF LITERATURE) . 9 Studies of Identity Construction through a Gendered Educational Lens . 10 Boyhood . 10 Black Boyhood . 11 Gender Expression and Gay Boyhood . 14 Gender Expression and Boyhood in Gay Boys of Color . 16 Manhood Among Males in Higher Education . 17 Black Manhood Among Males in Higher Education . 18 Gay Manhood Among Males in Higher Education . 20 Black Gay Manhood Among Males in Higher Education . 21 Friendship and Belonging in Higher Education . 24 Male Friendship in Higher Education . 24 Black Male Friendship in Higher Education . 26 Gay Male Friendship (with straight men) in Higher Education . 27 Gay Black Male Friendship and Belonging in Higher Education . 28 Theoretical Frameworks . 29 Identity Construction among Students in Higher Education . 30 Pre-College & Internalized Indications of Success among BGMCS . 31 Non-Heteronormative Concepts of Success among BGMCS/BGMGS . 35 Racialized Concepts of Success among BGMCS/BGMGS . 38 Gender and Sexuality among BGMCS/BGMGS . 40 Critical Race Theory among BGMCS/BGMGS . 41 CHAPTER THREE: THE BODY PART II (METHODOLOGY) . 47 Rationality . 47 Autoethnography . 48 Autoethnography as a Personal Narrative Method . 50 Weakness of Personal Narrative Autoethnography . 57 Epistemological Underpinnings . 59 Symbolic Interactionism and the Narrative Body . 59 Research Design (Method) . 61
The Structurally Smoothed Graphlet Kernel

A commonly used paradigm for representing graphs is to use a vector that contains normalized frequencies of occurrence of certain motifs or sub-graphs. This vector representation can be used in a variety of applications, such as, for computing similarity between graphs. The graphlet kernel of Shervashidze et al. [32] uses induced sub-graphs of k nodes (christened as graphlets by Przulj [28]) as motifs in the vector representation, and computes the kernel via a dot product between these vectors. One can easily show that this is a valid kernel between graphs. However, such a vector representation suffers from a few drawbacks. As k becomes larger we encounter the sparsity problem; most higher order graphlets will not occur in a given graph. This leads to diagonal dominance, that is, a given graph is similar to itself but not to any other graph in the dataset. On the other hand, since lower order graphlets tend to be more numerous, using lower values of k does not provide enough discrimination ability. We propose a smoothing technique to tackle the above problems. Our method is based on a novel extension of Kneser-Ney and Pitman-Yor smoothing techniques from natural language processing to graphs. We use the relationships between lower order and higher order graphlets in order to derive our method. Consequently, our smoothing algorithm not only respects the dependency between sub-graphs but also tackles the diagonal dominance problem by distributing the probability mass across graphlets. In our experiments, the smoothed graphlet kernel outperforms graph kernels based on raw frequency counts.
Image Classification Based on pLSA Fusing Spatial Relationships Between Topics

The spatial relationships between objects are the important specificities of the images. This letter proposes a histogram to represent the spatial relationships, and use fuzzy k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classifier to classify the spatial relationships (left, right, above, below, near, far, inside, outside) with soft labels. Then probabilistic latent semantic analysis (pLSA) is extended by taking into account the spatial relationships between topics (SR-pLSA), and SR-pLSA is used to model the image as the input for support vector machine (SVM) to classify the scene. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve high classification accuracy.
Depositional facies and platform architecture of microbialite-dominated carbonate reservoirs, Ediacaran–Cambrian Ara Group, Sultanate of Oman

Intrasalt carbonates of the Ediacaran–Cambrian Ara Group constitute a significant reservoir element of the intrasalt “stringer” play in Oman, in which dolomitic carbonates are encased in salt at depths of 3 to 7 km (1.9 to 4.3 mi). These reservoir carbonates have significant microbial influences. Although Ara Group reservoirs are mostly latest Precambrian, the models developed here may be applicable to younger microbially dominated carbonate reservoirs in basins of higher salinity when higher organisms are excluded, in lacustrine settings where calcified invertebrates are not a significant source of carbonate, or after periods of mass extinction before faunal recovery. A broad range of carbonate facies provides the context in which to understand the origin of the microbialite-dominated reservoirs developed across both ramp and rimmed shelf profiles. Major facies associations include carbonate-evaporite transition zone, deep ramp and slope, subtidal microbialites, clastic-textured carbonates, and restricted peritidal carbonates. Microbialites are subdivisible into a number of facies that all have significance in terms of understanding environmental history as well as reservoir properties, and that help in predicting the location of reservoir fairways. Microbially influenced facies include shallow subtidal thrombolites with massive clotted textures and very high initial porosities (>50%), shallow subtidal pustular laminites with cm-scale variability of lamina morphology, deeper subtidal crinkly laminites that show mm-scale variability of lamina morphology, and intertidal tufted laminates that show mm- to cm-scale tufted textures. Other reservoir facies are more conventional grainy carbonates including ripple cross-stratified grainstone–packstone, hummocky cross-stratified grainstone–packstone, flat pebble conglomerate, ooid and intraclast grainstone–packstone, and Cloudina grainstone–packstone. These facies are almost invariably dolomitized and all have moderate to excellent reservoir quality. These facies comprise carbonate platforms, broken up during salt tectonics, that range up to 160 m (525 ft) in thickness and extended laterally, prior to halokinesis, for tens to over 50 km (31 mi). The distribution of reservoir facies follows sequence stratigraphic predictions, with microbialites occurring in every accommodation profile. Late highstand and early transgressive systems tracts favor greater lateral extent of thrombolite build-ups, whereas later transgressive to early highstand system tracts favor greater lateral discontinuity and compartmentalization of buildup reservoir facies. Pustular laminites occur in close association with thrombolite buildups but form laterally extensive sheets in late transgressive to late highstand periods. Crinkly laminites form during late transgressive to early highstand systems tracts and may represent maximum flooding intervals when the flux of carbonate sediment was greatly reduced allowing pelagically derived organics to accumulate.
Prosody as a Tool for Assessing Reading Fluency of Adult ESL Students.

The prosodic features in reading aloud assignment has been associated with the students’ decoding skill. The goal of the present study is to determine the reliability of prosody for assessing reading fluency of adult ESL students in Indonesia context. The participants were all Indonesian natives, undergraduate students, adult females and males who have learned English in school (at the very least twice a week) for more than 12 years. Text reading prosody was assessed by reading aloud task and the students’ speaking manner was taped and measured by using the Multidimensional Fluency Scale, as for text comprehension was assessed with a standardized test. It was discovered by the current study that prosody is a reliable sign to determine reading fluency and also reading comprehension. The student who did not read the text prosodically (with appropriate expression) actually showed that he/she failed to comprehend the text. This study also revealed that a struggling reader was also having low comprehension capacity in listening spoken texts. The ESL students’ common problems to acquire prosodic reading skill are low exposure to the target language and do not have a good model to imitate prosodic reading.
Exploring Knowledge and Perceptions of School Adolescents regarding Pubertal Changes and Reproductive Health

Background and Objective: Reproductive health is a crucial component of general health during adolescence and adulthood as the severity of problems faced during the time of puberty decides the health of next generation as well as the health of both males and females beyond reproductive years. A majority of young teenagers are still far from access of education on sexual and reproductive health and rights. This study attempts to understand the knowledge and perceptions of school-going adolescents regarding pubertal changes, pregnancy, abortion, menstruation (girls only), masturbation (boys only) and problems of reproductive health. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the urban area of Varanasi city of Uttar Pradesh, India. It consists of 650 boys and 1022 girls of 9th and 11th standard of both Hindi and English medium schools. Both boys and girls are interviewed by a self-administered structured questionnaire maintaining high level of confidentiality. Results: Adolescents of Hindi medium schools are more ignorant regarding sexual health than those of English medium schools. The majority of boys (65.8 percent) gather information on sex from internet websites and also by watching blue movies. Over two-third girls discuss their personal problems with their parents. Around one-fourth of boys have ever involved in sexual intercourse. Mean age at first intercourse is found to be 15.43 years and 14.95 years for boys and girls respectively, who were ever involved in sexual intercourse. Only 16.4 percent Hindi medium school boys know that father is responsible for the determination of gender of the child. Merely 60 percent girls have the knowledge about menstruation before it started and in most cases mothers give this information to their daughters. Conclusions: The knowledge of school-going adolescents, both boys and girls, is poor about pubertal changes and reproductive health issues. There is a great need for sexual and health education programs to be implemented among adolescents.
Transpolar arc evolution and associated potential patterns

Abstract. We present two event studies encompassing detailed relationships between plasma convection, field-aligned current, auroral emission, and particle precipitation boundaries. We illustrate the influence of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field By component on theta aurora development by showing two events during which the theta originates on both the dawn and dusk sides of the auroral oval. Both theta then move across the entire polar region and become part of the opposite side of the auroral oval. Electric and magnetic field and precipitating particle data are provided by DMSP, while the Polar UVI instrument provides measurements of auroral emissions. Utilizing satellite data as inputs, the Royal Institute of Technology model provides the high-latitude ionospheric electrostatic potential pattern calculated at different times during the evolution of the theta aurora, resulting from a variety of field-aligned current configurations associated with the changing global aurora. Key words. Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; electric fields and currents). Magnetospheric physics (magnetosphereionosphere interactions)
Joint perception: gaze and social context

We found that the way people looked at images was influenced by their belief that others were looking too. If participants believed that an unseen other person was also looking at what they could see, it shifted the balance of their gaze between negative and positive images. The direction of this shift depended upon whether participants thought that later they would be compared against the other person or would be collaborating with them. Changes in the social context influenced both gaze and memory processes, and were not due just to participants' belief that they are looking at the same images, but also to the belief that they are doing the same task. We believe that the phenomenon of joint perception reveals the pervasive and subtle effect of social context upon cognitive and perceptual processes.
The use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges

The use of indigenous knowledge has been seen by many as an alternative way of promoting development in poor rural communities in many parts of the world. By reviewing much of the recent work on indigenous knowledge, the paper suggests that a number of problems and tensions has resulted in indigenous knowledge not being as useful as hoped for or supposed. These include problems emanating from a focus on the (arte)factual; binary tensions between western science and indigenous knowledge systems; the problem of differentiation and power relations; the romanticization of indigenous knowledge; and the all too frequent decontextualization of indigenous knowledge.
Forecasting the Saudi Arabia stock prices based on artificial neural networks model

In this paper, we have proposed artificial neural network for the prediction of Saudi stock market. The proposed predictions model, with its high degree of accuracy, could be used as investment advisor for the investors and traders in the Saudi stock market. The proposed model is based mainly on Saudi Stock market historical data covering a large span of time. Achieving reasonable accuracy rate of predication models will surely facilitate an increased confidence ‎in the investment in the Saudi stock market. We have only used the closing price of the stock as the stock variable considered for input to the system. The number of windows gap to determine the numbers of previous days to be used in predicting the next day closing price data has been choosing based on experimental simulation carried out to determine the best possible value. Our results indicated that the proposed ANN model predicts the next day closing price stock market value with a very low RMSE down to 1.8174, very low MAD down to 18.2835, very low MAPE of down to 1.6476 and very high correlation coefficient of up to 99.9% for the test set, which is an indication that the model adequately mimics the trend of the market in its prediction. This performance is really encouraging and thus the proposed system will impact positively on the analysis and prediction of Saudi stock market in general.
Redundancy reduction for computational audition, a unifying approach

Computational audition has always been a subject of multiple theories. Unfortunately very few place audition in the grander scheme of perception, and even fewer facilitate formal and robust definitions as well as efficient implementations. In our work we set forth to address these issues. We present mathematical principles that unify the objectives of lower level listening functions, in an attempt to formulate a global and plausible theory of computational audition. Using tools to perform redundancy reduction, and adhering to theories of its incorporation in a perceptual framework, we pursue results that support our approach. Our experiments focus on three major auditory functions, preprocessing, grouping and scene analysis. For auditory preprocessing, we prove that it is possible to evolve cochlear-like filters by adaptation to natural sounds. Following that and using the same principles as in preprocessing, we present a treatment that collapses the heuristic set of the gestalt auditory grouping rules, down to one efficient and formal rule. We successfully apply the same elements once again to form an auditory scene analysis foundation, capable of detection, autonomous feature extraction, and separation of sources in real-world complex scenes. Our treatment was designed in such a manner so as to be independent of parameter estimations and data representations specific to the auditory domain. Some of our experiments have been replicated in other domains of perception, providing equally satisfying results, and a potential for defining global ground rules for computational perception, even outside the realm of our five senses. (Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, Rm. 14-0551, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Ph. 617-253-5668; Fax 617-253-1690.)
Sulforaphane inhibits histone deacetylase in vivo and suppresses tumorigenesis in Apcmin mice

Sulforaphane (SFN) is an isothiocyanate from broccoli that induces phase 2 detoxification enzymes. We recently reported that SFN acts as a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor in human colon cancer cells in vitro, and the present study sought to extend these findings in vivo. In mice treated with a single oral dose of 10 ümol SFN, there was significant inhibition of HDAC activity in the colonic mucosa after 6 h, and immunoblots revealed a concomitant increase in acetylated histones H3 and H4, which returned to control levels by 48 h. Longer‐term treatment with SFN in the diet resulted in levels of acetylated histones and p21WAF1 in the ileum, colon, prostate, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were elevated compared with controls. Consistent with these findings, SFN suppressed tumor development in Apcmin mice, and there was an increase in acetylated histones in the polyps, including acetylated histones specifically associated with the promoter region of the P21 and bax genes. These results provide the first evidence for HDAC inhibition by SFN in vivo and imply that such a mechanism might contribute to the cancer chemoprotective and therapeutic effects of SFN, alone or in combination with other HDAC inhibitors currently undergoing clinical trials.
The Lived Experiences of Academic Advisors with Counseling Degrees in Addressing Wellness with College Student-Athletes

THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF ACADEMIC ADVISORS WITH COUNSELING DEGREES IN ADDRESSING WELLNESS WITH COLLEGE STUDENT-ATHLETES By Jennifer M. Gerlach, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017 Major Director: Dr. Donna Gibson, Professor, Department of Counseling and Special Education The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the lived experiences of academic advisors who have master’s degrees in counseling in addressing wellness with college student-athletes. Of particular note was to explore if they addressed wellness and, if so, how they addressed wellness. Extant literature is replete with evidence documenting the numerous challenges and stressors student-athletes experience due to their athlete status. Prior to this study, the role of the academic advisor in addressing wellness has not been represented in the literature. This study examined the lived experiences of 10 academic advisors with counseling degrees, or currently enrolled in graduate level counselor education programs, in addressing wellness with college student-athletes through semi-structured individual interviews. Results from the data analysis yielded four themes and seven sub-themes: Academic Skills and Planning, Counselor Practice and Knowledge (emphasis on fostering relationships, counseling skills and theory, and athletic empathy), Barriers to Seeking Support Services, and Cultivating Holistic Wellness in Student-Athletes (career and life skill development, psychological support, coach-advisor relationship, and case management). The