Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Survey on Multi Criteria Decision Making Recommendation System using Sentiment Analysis

The users usually make an essential decision in everyday life such as, either buying a product online, gathering information about movies, booking the best hotel, looking for the best tourist place, or making a reservation in a restaurant online. Social networking, users’ participation in an online forum for discussion, and posting online reviews about products or services has become a popular trend among the user community. As a result, it is generating a large amount of information on the different media landscape. Today’s, it has become difficult for the user in navigating through a large amount of information available on the web and find relevant information about his/her interest. Various recommender systems have been developed which mostly use collaborative and content-based filtering methods to alleviate the information overload problem. These recommender systems are usually based on the single criterion rating problem to determine the user preference. In general, there are many factors involved in making a better and informed decision. Customers’ reviews and information from different online blogs, social media and ecommerce platform can be valuable information in determining the user preferences and develop a better model for decision making process. This paper characterizes the recommendation problem as a multi-criteria decision problem and provides a comprehensive survey of real-world applications of different multi-criteria decision making methods and explores the scope of customer’s reviews in the decision making process.
Czech labour market through the lens of a search and matchingDSGE model

This contribution reveals some important structural properties of the Czech labour market in the last fifteen years and evaluates possible changes within this period. A small search and matching model incorporated into standard macroeconomic dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is estimated using Bayesian techniques. The results show that search and matching aspect provides satisfactory description of employment flows in the Czech economy. Model estimates provide convincing evidence that wage bargaining process is determined mainly by the power of the unions and that the institutional changes of the Czech labour market in the last fifteen years had only little real impact on the matching effectiveness.
Deposition of Highly Oriented Ta2O5 Piezoelectric Thin Films on Silicon for Fabricating Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Structure by RF Magnetron Sputtering

X-axis-oriented tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5) piezoelectric thin films were deposited on Si using an RF magnetron sputtering system with the aim of obtaining a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) structure. First, the degree of orientation and the coupling factor K2 for the surface acoustic wave were evaluated. The K2 of the first mode of the Ta2O5 thin film deposited on the unprocessed Si(100) was almost the same as that of the zeroth mode of the Ta2O5 thin film/SiO2 glass substrate for a similar thickness. However, the K2 of the Ta2O5 thin film deposited on a silicon oxide layer formed on the Si was small because the (200) plane spacing slightly increased. Then, a process in which the Ta2O5 thin film itself was used as an etch stop layer was adopted and an FBAR structure was fabricated. The resonance response corresponding to a longitudinal bulk wave was observed.
A folding space odyssey

Most of us who teach protein structure have very likely stood in front of a class at some point and confidently stated that any two naturally occurring proteins displaying 40% sequence identity will be homologous and thus possess the same fold. A paper by Roessler et al. (1) in a recent issue of PNAS has definitively overturned this basic tenet by demonstrating that a pair of protein homologues displaying 40% identity exhibit markedly different folds. These proteins are both repressors of the Cro family and were identified in prophage sequences present in the genomes of the bacterial species, Pseudomonas fluorescens (Pfl 6) and Xylella fastidiosa (Xfaso 1). The atomic resolution structures of these proteins, solved by Roessler et al. using x-ray crystallography, reveal a similar N-terminal helix–turn–helix but widely diverging C-terminal regions; Xfaso 1 displays an all-helical monomeric fold, whereas the Pfl 6 C terminus forms an intertwined β-sheet dimer (Fig. 1 A). The conclusion that these proteins are descended from a common ancestor is strongly supported. An alignment of homologues of each of these protein shows that many positions are conserved across both groups of proteins even in the C-terminal region where the structures diverge (Fig. 1 B). This conservation pattern argues against a distinct C terminus being placed onto one of these proteins through a nonhomologous recombination event. The genomic context of the genes encoding these proteins with respect to other surrounding phage genes is also highly conserved, which implies a common ancestry and function.
H 3 K 14 ac is linked to methylation of H 3 K 9 by the triple Tudor domain of SETDB 1

SETDB1 is an essential H3K9 methyltransferase involved in silencing of retroviruses and gene regulation. We show here that its triple Tudor domain (3TD) specifically binds to doubly modified histone H3 containing K14 acetylation and K9 methylation. Crystal structures of 3TD in complex with H3K14ac/K9me peptides reveal that peptide binding and K14ac recognition occurs at the interface between Tudor domains (TD) TD2 and TD3. Structural and biochemical data demonstrate a pocket switch mechanism in histone code reading, because K9me1 or K9me2 is preferentially recognized by the aromatic cage of TD3, while K9me3 selectively binds to TD2. Mutations in the K14ac/K9me binding sites change the subnuclear localization of 3TD. ChIP-seq analyses show that SETDB1 is enriched at H3K9me3 regions and K9me3/K14ac is enriched at SETDB1 binding sites overlapping with LINE elements, suggesting that recruitment of the SETDB1 complex to K14ac/K9me regions has a role in silencing of active genomic regions. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02259-9 OPEN
Does family involvement on board of the directors contribute to firm profitability? An empirical evidence from Saudi Arabia

Literatures view board of the directors as the cornerstone of firm’s success.Therefore, family involvement on the board and its impact on firm profitability is an issue of interest and need to be addressed.The purpose of this paper lies in the fact that it extracts new empirical evidence from a promising area in the world.The study proceeds with a cross-sectional time-series analysis based on a data of 75 Saudi non-financial public listed firms from 2007-2011(375 firm-year observations) to examine family representing on board of the directors, family chairman, and founder chairman and its impact on firm performance (ROA). The study concludes the out performance of firms in which family represents heavily on the board.In addition, the results suggest that not all family members are good stewards.Strictly speaking, founder chairman only found to be beneficial to the firm profitability rather than others. However, the results confirmed its robustness against different indicator (EPS) and when family firms only being selected.
Tail Event Driven ASset allocation: evidence from equity and mutual funds’ markets

The correlation structure across assets and opposite tail movements are essential to the asset allocation problem, since they determine the level of risk in a position. Correlation alone is not informative on the distributional details of the assets. Recently introduced TEDAS—Tail Event Driven ASset allocation approach determines the dependence between assets at different tail measures. TEDAS uses adaptive Lasso-based quantile regression in order to determine an active set of negative coefficients. Based on these active risk factors, an adjustment for intertemporal correlation is made. In this research, authors aim to develop TEDAS, by introducing three TEDAS modifications differing in allocation weights’ determination: a Cornish–Fisher Value-at-Risk minimization, Markowitz diversification rule or naïve equal weighting. TEDAS strategies significantly outperform other widely used allocation approaches on two asset markets: German equity and Global mutual funds.
Financial Policies and the Aggregate Productivity of the Capital Stock: Evidence from Developed and Developing Economies

We collect data on a number of financial restraints, including restrictions on interest rates and capital flows and reserve and liquidity requirements, and capital adequacy requirements from central banks of 14 countries. We estimate the effects of these policies on the aggregate productivity of the capital stock, controlling for the effects of inputs and financial development and using modern econometric techniques. We find that financial development has positive effects on productivity, while the effects of financial policies vary considerably across countries. Our findings demonstrate that financial liberalization is a much more complex process than has been assumed by earlier literature, and its effects on macroeconomic aggregates are ambiguous.
CAMA Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Inflation Dynamics and The Role of Oil Shocks : How Different Were the 1970 s ? CAMA Working Paper 59 / 2013 August 2013

This paper presents evidence on why inflation pass-through from oil shocks in the 21 century relative to the 1970s has dampened. First, results suggest global business cycle demand driven oil shocks are not inflationary. Second, there has been a reduction in inflation pass-through from oil supply and speculative oil demand shocks. Movements in oil inventories and production suggest oil supply and speculative oil demand shocks in the 1970s were different. Oil market participants expect higher oil prices to persist into the future. The analysis highlights the importance of modelling inventories as a means of capturing expectations in the oil market. | T H E A U S T R A L I A N N A T I O N A L U N I V E R S I T Y
Active Microrheology of Intestinal Mucus in the Larval Zebrafish

Mucus is a complex biological fluid that plays a variety of functional roles in many physiological systems. Intestinal mucus in particular serves as a physical barrier to pathogens, a medium for the diffusion of nutrients and metabolites, and an environmental home for colonizing microbes. Its rheological properties have therefore been the subject of many investigations, thus far limited, however, to in vitro studies due to the difficulty of measurement in the natural context of the gut. This limitation especially hinders our understanding of how the gut microbiota interact with the intestinal environment, since examination of this calls not only for in vivo measurement techniques, but for techniques that can be applied to model organisms in which the microbial state of the gut can be controlled. We address this challenge by developing a method that combines magnetic microrheology, light sheet fluorescence microscopy, and microgavage of particles, applying this to the larval zebrafish, a model vertebrate. We present measurements of the viscosity of mucus within the intestinal bulb of both germ-free (devoid of intestinal microbes) and conventionally reared larval zebrafish. At the length scale probed (≈ 10μm), we find that mucus behaves as a Newtonian fluid, with no discernable elastic component. Surprisingly, despite known differences in the the number of secretory cells in germ-free zebrafish and their conventional counterparts, the fluid viscosity for these two groups was very similar. Our measurements provide the first in vivo measurements of intestinal mucus rheology at micron length scales in living animals, quantifying of an important biomaterial environment and highlighting the utility of active magnetic microrheology for biophysical studies.
Splenic injury diagnosis & splenic salvage after trauma

Non-operative management (NOM) has replaced surgery as the treatment of choice for hemodynamically stable patients with splenic injury after trauma. The growing use of NOM for blunt abdominal organ injury has been made possible by the progress in the quality and availability of the multidetector CT scan and the development of minimally invasive intervention options such as splenic artery embolization (SAE). This thesis contributed to the further refinement of patient selection for the (non-)operative treatment of blunt splenic injury after trauma. The challenge is to use the least invasive techniques to control life threatening haemorrhage as quickly as possible (‘Time is life’) in order to reduce the number of unnecessary splenectomies. This maximises patient benefit while maintaining high standards of safety. The most important findings of this thesis are: • If 24/7 interventional radiology facilities are available, SAE is not associated with time loss compared to splenic surgery, even in patients who are HD unstable upon presentation. • After correction for confounders with the propensity score technique, there was a small, but consistent advantage of SAE over observation alone with regard to successful treatment in patients with blunt splenic injury after trauma. • From a prospective study we concluded that splenic function of embolised patients is intact and routine vaccination appears not to be indicated. • Lastly, one of the studies showed that variation in treatment and outcome of splenic injury exists in the Netherlands. The development of a national guideline is advised to minimalize splenectomy after trauma.
No pathogenic mutations in the uroplakin III gene of 25 patients with primary vesicoureteral reflux.

PURPOSE The uroplakin III (UPIII) knockout mouse provides a good model for human primary vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Since to our knowledge no causative genes in human VUR have been identified to date, we wondered whether the UPIII gene might be involved in human primary VUR. Therefore, the UPIII gene was sequenced to see if any mutations could be detected in patients with primary VUR. MATERIALS AND METHODS DNA was obtained from 25 patients who were surgically treated for primary VUR. Each patient had a family history positive for VUR. RESULTS No pathogenic mutations were identified in patient DNA. One missense mutation (Ala154Pro) not reported in the human genome data base was observed. However, because its frequency in the patient and control populations was similar, it was interpreted as a polymorphism. CONCLUSIONS Although mutations in regulatory elements affecting gene function cannot be excluded, the UPIII gene does not seem to have a major role in primary VUR in humans.
THU-HCSI at MediaEval 2016: Emotional Impact of Movies Task

In this paper we describe our team’s approach to MediaEval 2016 Challenge “Emotional Impact of Movies”. Except for the baseline features, we extract audio features and image features from video clips. We deploy Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to extract image features and use OpenSMILE toolbox to extract audio ones. We also study multi-scale approach at different levels aiming at the continuous prediction task, using Long-short Term Memory (LSTM) and Bi-directional Long-short Term Memory (BLSTM) models. Fusion methods are also considered and discussed in this paper. The evaluation results show our approaches’ effectiveness.
Giving Computers a Nose for News

The use of social media as a source of news is entering a new phase as computer algorithms are developed and deployed to detect, rank, and verify news. The efficacy and ethics of such technology is the subject of this article, which examines the SocialSensor application, a tool developed by a multidisciplinary European Union research project. The results suggest that computer software can be used successfully to identify trending news stories, allow journalists to search within a social media corpus, and help verify social media contributors and content. However, such software also raises questions about accountability as social media is algorithmically filtered for use by journalists and others. Our analysis of the inputs SocialSensor relies on shows biases towards those who are vocal and have an audience, many of whom are men in the media. We also reveal some of the technology’s temporal and topic preferences. The conclusion discusses whether such biases are necessary for systems like SocialSensor to be effective. The article also suggests that academic research has failed to recognise fully the changes to journalists’ sourcing practices brought about by social media, particularly Twitter, and provides some countervailing evidence and an explanation for this failure.
Self-Construal and Its Implications for Marketing

Self-construal is the concept of the individual’s understanding of the relationship between the self and others. Different self-construals have different effects on the individual’s behavior. This article compares the differences in individual consumption behaviors of individuals with different self construals, and analyzes the cognitive factors that produce such differences. Finally, it provides the application methods of self-construal in marketing practice.
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and kidney injury molecule 1 (KIM-1) as predictors of incident CKD stage 3: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

BACKGROUND Identifying individuals at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is critical for timely treatment initiation to slow progression of the disease. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and kidney injury molecule 1 (KIM-1) are known biomarkers of acute kidney injury, but it is unknown whether these markers are associated with incident CKD stage 3 in the general population. STUDY DESIGN Matched case-control study. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS African American and white participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study who at baseline had an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m(2) and urinary albumin-creatinine ratio ≤30 mg/g. 143 controls were matched for age, sex, and race to 143 cases of incident CKD stage 3 after 8.6 years of follow-up. PREDICTORS Quartile of NGAL and KIM-1. OUTCOMES & MEASUREMENTS Incident CKD stage 3 (eGFR <60 mL/min/1.73 m(2) at follow-up and a decrease in eGFR from baseline to follow-up ≥25%). RESULTS Both NGAL (P = 0.05) and KIM-1 levels (P < 0.001) were correlated positively with baseline urinary albumin-creatinine ratio; neither was associated with baseline eGFR. Participants with NGAL concentrations in the fourth quartile had more than 2-fold higher odds (adjusted OR, 2.11; 95% CI, 0.96-4.64) of incident CKD stage 3 compared with participants in the first quartile after multivariable adjustment (P-trend = 0.03). Adjustment for urinary creatinine and albumin levels resulted in a nonsignificant association (highest quartile adjusted OR, 1.52; 95% CI, 0.64-3.58; P = 0.2). No significant association between KIM-1 level and incident CKD was observed in crude or adjusted models. LIMITATIONS The relatively small sample size of the study limits precision and power to detect weak associations. CONCLUSIONS Higher NGAL, but not KIM-1, levels were associated with incident CKD stage 3. Adjustment for urinary creatinine and albumin concentration attenuated this association. Additional studies are needed to confirm these findings and assess the utility of urinary NGAL as a marker of CKD risk.
Defining and Quantifying National-Level Targets, Indicators and Benchmarks for Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustainable future. The IAEG (InterAgency Expert Group of the SDGs) was tasked with disseminating indicators and methods to countries that can be used to gather data describing the global progress towards sustainability. However, 2030 Agenda leaves it to countries to adopt the targets with each government setting its own national targets guided by the global level of ambition but taking into account national circumstances. At present, guidance on how to go about this is scant but it is clear that the responsibility is with countries to implement and that it is actions at a country level that will determine the success of the SDGs. Reporting on SDGs by country takes on two forms: i) global reporting using prescribed indicator methods and data; ii) National Voluntary Reviews where a country reports on its own progress in more detail but is also able to present data that are more appropriate for the country. For the latter, countries need to be able to adapt the global indicators to fit national priorities and context, thus the global description of an indicator could be reduced to describe only what is relevant to the country. Countries may also, for the National Voluntary Review, use indicators that are unique to the country but nevertheless contribute to measurement of progress towards the global SDG target. Importantly, for those indicators that relate to the security of natural resources security (e.g., water) indicators, there are no prescribed numerical targets/standards or benchmarks. Rather countries will need to set their own benchmarks or standards against which performance can be evaluated. This paper presents a procedure that would enable a country to describe national targets with associated benchmarks that are appropriate for the country. The procedure builds on precedent set in other countries but in particular on a procedure developed for the setting of Resource Quality Objectives in South Africa. The procedure focusses on those SDG targets that are natural resource-security focused, for example, extent of water-related ecosystems (6.6), desertification (15.3) and so forth, because the selection of indicator methods and benchmarks is based on the location of natural resources, their use and present state and how they fit into national strategies.
FETAL PROGRAMMING : POTENTIAL TOOL FOR IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF RABBITS – A

Poor maternal nutrition during pregnancy cause poor foetal growth, poor foetal mammary gland development and susceptibility to oxidative stress damages all causing poor reproductive performance in adulthood. Inadequate supply of nutrients for metabolic use of animals during pregnancy stages is the most prominent route of this problem at both pre and post natal lives of animals. Rabbits because of their ability to survive on forage and non-conventional animal feeds resources coupled with poor commercial production value attached to rabbits in some countries; are left out of fetal programming science. However, foetal programming at early, mid and late pregnancy as well as early post-birth periods in rabbit, can be a vital means of improving rabbit reproductive performance because these are the periods of gonads development and acquisition of important reproductive traits by the offspring. Fetal programming is a potential reproductive technology for improving rabbit reproductive performance because it is now clear that full range of altered offspring phenotypes includes impaired reproductive function occurred as results of failures during foetal development. In rats, sheep and non human primates, reproductive capacity is altered by challenges experienced during critical periods of foetal development and early post-birth period. This paper will discuss fetal programming practice as a potential reproductive technology for improving reproductive performance and overall productive life-time in rabbit. It also gave an overview of the current state of fetal programming research focusing on improving rabbit reproductive performance through exploration of functional properties in microalgae.