Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constraints of Lexical Tone on Semantic Activation in Chinese Spoken Word Recognition

Constraints of lexical tones on semantic activation on the recognition of spoken words in Chinese were investigated in three cross modal priming lexical decision experiments. In Experiments 1 and 2, disyllabic compound words that shared the same segmental templates but differed in lexical tones (e.g., tiao4 yue4, jump vs. tiao2 yue1, treaty ; numbers denote tone types) were used as auditory primes while words that were semantically related to one of the pairs were visually presented for lexical decision. The semantic primes and the tone mismatch primes differed in tones of the first, the second, or both syllables. In Experiment 3, nonword tone mismatch primes were created by changing the first or the second tones of semantic primes. The similarity between the original tones and the resulting tones was also manipulated. It was found that the appearance of significant priming effects for the tone mismatch primes depended on lexical competition environment, the goodness of fit between input tones and underlying tones, and the constituent position of mismatching tones. The results are discussed in terms of how tonal information in speech input is mapped onto the lexicon, how tonal information is represented in the lexicon, and how tonal constraints on semantic activation are influenced by competition environment.
A grey wolf optimizer–cellular automata integrated model for urban growth simulation and optimization

This article proposes a grey wolf optimizer (GWO) and cellular automata (CA) integrated model for the simulation and spatial optimization of urban growth. A new grey wolf‐inspired approach is put forward to determine the urban growth rules of CA cells by using the GWO algorithm, which is suitable for solving optimization problems. The inspiration for GWO comes from the social leadership of wolf groups, as well as their hunting behavior. The GWO‐optimized urban growth rules for CA describe the relationship between the spatial variables and the urban land‐use status for each cell in the formation of “if–then. ” The GWO algorithm and CA model are then integrated as the GWO–CA model for urban growth simulation and optimization. By taking Nanjing City as an example, the simulation accuracy in terms of urban cells is 86.6%, and the kappa coefficient is 0.715, indicating that the GWO algorithm is efficient at obtaining urban growth rules from spatial variables. The validation of the GWO–CA model also illustrates that it performs well in terms of the simulation and spatial optimization of urban growth, and can further contribute to urban planning and management.
Using a genre-based approach to teach writing to Thai students: A case study.

Thai university students are required to write expositions for different purposes, for example, for their class assignments and independent study research projects. Yet, many are not able to write them successfully as they encounter problems such as organisation of ideas and appropriate rhetorical style. This paper discusses issues that arose in using the genre-based approach to teach writing to students at the Department of Foreign Languages, Khon Kaen University, in the northeast of Thailand. It also provides insight into the impact of the genre-based approach on students’ writing and the implications for applying it to other Thai educational contexts.
Elucidating the Ethical Sales Behavior in Electronic Commerce

Ethics profoundly impacts the formation and maintenance of long-term buyer-seller relationships. However, ethical sales practices in electronic commerce (EC) have seldom been addressed. This study analyzes the role of consumer perceptions of ethical sales behavior in developing better relationships between EC websites and consumers. This study creates an analytical model, in which the outcomes of perceived ethical sales behavior include trust, satisfaction, and word-of-mouth (WOM). Research hypotheses derived from the model are tested using structural equation modeling on responses from 548 online shoppers. Analytical results indicate that perceived ethical sales behavior not only directly impacts trust, satisfaction, and WOM, respectively, but also indirectly influences satisfaction via trust, and WOM via both trust and satisfaction. Based on the findings, managerial implications are proposed for EC websites and future research directions suggested.
Truck Traffic Speed Prediction Under Non-Recurrent Congestion: Based on Optimized Deep Learning Algorithms and GPS Data

Due to the restriction of traffic management measure in large cities, large heavy-haul trucks can only travel on the circuits and expressways around the city, which often causes congestion in these areas. It is necessary to study the travel speed prediction of trucks on the urban ring road and provide special information services for trucks. Based on the data generated by the trucks driving on the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing, an optimized GRU algorithm is proposed to predict the travel speed of trucks driving on urban express roads under non-recurrent congested conditions. First, a GPS map-matching algorithm that can simultaneously meet the accuracy and efficiency requirements of matching is proposed. Then, the trucks’ data traveling on the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing are extracted from the original data. Aiming at getting rid of the abnormal data in GPS data, the screening and processing rules of the abnormal data are made, and then, the traffic speed sequence is extracted. Aiming at the problem that the commonly used weight optimization algorithm SGD cannot adaptively adjust the learning rate, Adam, Adadelta, and Rmsprop are used to optimize the weights in the GRU model in this paper. Considering the four scenarios, including workday, weekend, rainy, and accident, the accuracies of the proposed methods are verified.
Health promotion, inequalities and young people’s health: a systematic review of research

The review described in this report had two aims: to provide a descriptive map of the extent to which health promotion and public health intervention research has focused on inequalities in young people’s health; and to look in more detail at the methods used by researchers for defining and measuring inequalities. We defined ‘young people’ as those aged from 11 to 21. Addressing inequalities requires methods for including diverse populations in research and discriminating between them. Methods for the latter are addressed in this report; methods for the former are addressed in another study conducted at the same time.
Microbiological profiles of semen culture in male infertility

Background: Primary infertility and secondary infertility of men in the reproductive age represent 1.9 and 10.5%, respectively. Many etiological factors are involved, among which urogenital bacterial infections play an important role.Materials and Methods:Semen analysis, bacteriological culture, and sensitivity analyses were carried out to investigate the effect of genitourinary infections on semen parameters of infertile men.Results: Staphylococcus aureus was the most common isolated pathogen (46.2%) followed by urogenic gram-negative pathogens (24.1%). The isolated microorganisms are highly sensitive to piperacillin/tazobactam, imipenem, meropenem, gentamicin, doxycycline, amikacin, and nitrofurantoin. These antibiotics could be used empirically while awaiting the results of semen culture.Conclusion: Semen culture is an important diagnostic tool in all patients undergoing fertility investigations to detect genitourinary infections, pyospermia, and bacteriospermia. Moreover, early treatment should be considered according to the results of culture whenever possible. Wide range of broad-spectrum antibiotics can be used as an empirical treatment for infertile patients to adjust the seminal parameters and reduce the number of leukocytes in semen ejaculates.
Citra Tahanan Jenis Magnetotelurik Lintasan Jampang Kulon-Bogor Memotong Zona Sesar Cimandiri, Jawa Barat

Kombinasi pengukuran respon magnetotelurik periode panjang (ULF-MT) dan frekuensi Audio (AMT) dilakukan sepanjang lintasan Jampang Kulon-Cibadak-Bogor memotong Zona Sesar Cimandiri. Pemodelan inversi dua-dimensi dilakukan terhadap data magnetotelurik untuk mendapatkan model struktur tahanan-jenis sepanjang lintasan dengan menghitung determinan nilai invarian tensor impedansi. Metode inversi yang digunakan berdasarkan skema kuadrat-terkecil yang terlinierkan dengan smoothness regularization. Harga smoothness yang optimum dipilih berdasarkan kriteria statistika ABIC yang diturunkan dari statistika Bayesian dan teorema entropi maksimum. Penghitungan ke-depan berdasarkan pada metode elemen hingga dan topografi sepanjang lintasan ukur dimasukkan dalam mesh model. Model akhir yang diperoleh menunjukkan adanya zona tahanan-jenis rendah (3-100 ohm-m) di bawah Zona Sesar Cimandiri di mana sungai Cimandiri berada. Kenampakan bawahpermukaan menunjukkan bahwa zona sesar menerus sampai pada kedalaman lebih dari lima kilometer. Lapisan endapan permukaan bertahanan-jenis rendah lainnya didapatkan di selatan dan utara zona sesar yang berhubungan dengan produk volkanik Kuarter dan endapan laut. Lapisan dalam (lebih dari 5 km) dicirikan oleh harga tahanan-jenis sedang sampai tinggi (l 000-1 0, 000 ohm-m), yang diduga merupakan batuan dasar di daerah penelitian.
The evolution of bacterial cell differentiation and multicellular organization

Een populatie van bacterien wordt vaak gezien als een verzameling van cellen die min of meer hetzelfde simpele gedrag vertonen. Door een combinatie van experimenten en theorie laat ik zien dat deze kijk op bacterien te simplistisch is. Bacteriele populaties zijn sterk gestructureerd. Cellen kunnen zich zowel in de ruimte als over tijd organiseren en daarbij verschillende celtypen tot expressie brengen. Deze celtypen gaan vaak complexe interacties met elkaar aan. In een van mijn experimenten laat ik bijvoorbeeld zien dat cellen een hoge mate van samenwerking kunnen bereiken. Dit is mogelijk doordat de groei dynamiek van de kolonie de samenwerkende cellen beschermt tegen eventuele valsspelers die misbruik maken van de samenwerking. Ik laat ook zien dat cellen taken verdelen. Sommige cellen worden bijvoorbeeld geholpen door andere cellen om over een grote afstand te migreren, hierdoor kunnen deze cellen ontsnappen aan een tekort aan voedsel. Bacteriele cellen zijn zelfs in staat een gokje te wagen. Wanneer het onduidelijk is wat er in de toekomst gaat gebeuren, kunnen bacterien het risico spreiden door verschillende celtypen te vormen, ieder van deze celtypen is voorbereidt op een andere toekomst. Door middel van theoretische modellen bestudeer ik ook hoe de regulatie netwerken, die cel differentiatie reguleren, evolueren over tijd. Deze modellen tonen aan dat de regulatie netwerken in belangrijke mate bepalen hoe cellen evolueren. Onze kennis over deze regulatie netwerken is daarom van groot belang om te bepalen of en hoe organismen zich kunnen passen aan nieuwe condities.
Reconstructing vegetation diversity in coastal landscapes

Het proefschrift gaat in op het reconstrueren van vegetatie op zeer gedetailleerd niveau. Het richt zich dus niet zozeer op de ontwikkelingen in de vegetatie over langere tijd, maar meer op het scheppen van een beeld zoals het er voor de prehistorische mens uitgezien moet hebben. Het landschap en de vegetatie vormen een belangrijk uitgangspunt voor de kansen en mogelijkheden die een gebied bood voor een breed scala aan menselijke activiteiten zoals het weiden van vee, het verbouwen van graan en het verzamelen van wilde planten. Uitgangspunt voor de analyse vormen zaden en vruchten (botanische macroresten) uit twee Nederlandse prehistorische regio’s. Deze regio’s zijn het rivierensysteem in de Flevopolder waarin zich in het Neolithicum nederzettingen van de Swifterbantcultuur bevonden en het Fries-Groningse terpengebied in de periode van voor de grote bedijkingen (700 v.Chr. - ca. 1200 n. Chr.).
Middleware for the Integration of Hospital Information Systems

Introduction: The integration of healthcare information systems is one of the most urgent priorities of healthcare organizations. Middleware has a major role in the integration of hospital information system (HIS). The purpose of this study is to determine the type of middleware used, their configuration and integration approaches in the hospitals of the research community. Material and Methods: This study was descriptive in nature and was conducted in the form of a survey, with data being gathered via a self-structured questionnaire, in 2014. Seventeen hospitals affiliated to TUMS that have the HIS were recruited for this study. The questionnaire consisted of three parts. Simple statistical analysis was used to determine the integration status of HISs. Results: The most striking result to emerge from the data is that 64.7% of HISs had database-oriented middleware. Approximately half of surveyed HISs (41.2%) used synchronous mechanism and almost two-thirds of them (70.2%) used web service. Although, 17.2% of HISs use service-oriented integration approach, but the overall response to this question was poor. Conclusion: The result of the study indicates that the database-oriented middleware facilitate accessibility of the databases, on a variety of platforms. It might be related to the variety of company those developed the HISs. The result showed that the using web services could be helpful to application integration. The results of this investigation show that the HIS companies and healthcare facilities must be considered to the standards of interoperability for development and selection of the systems. Further research should be done to investigate the integration status of HISs in cross-national level and with other information systems in the field of healthcare.
Predictability of inpatient satisfaction scores based on hospital characteristics : quantitative analysis of HCAHPS survey data, 7/1/2013 through 6/30/2014

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv LIST OF TABLES. x LIST OF FIGURES . xxxvii ACRONYMS . xxxix CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION . 1 Significance of Study . 2 Goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 3 Overview of Value-Based Purchasing . 4 Research Questions . 6 Study Variables . 9 Independent Variable Definitions . 9 Top Box Calculation . 12 Delimitations . 13 Assumptions . 14 Researcher’s Perspective . 14 CHAPTER 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW . 15 The Patient as Consumer . 15 Perceptions and Expectations of Healthcare Quality . 20 Patient Experience (Narrative and Phenomenological) . 22 Designation of Hospitals by Independent Variables . 28 Academic . 29 Baldrige Award . 30 Faith Based . 36 For-Profit. 36 Health System . 38 MAGNET . 38 Most Wired . 39 Safety Net . 41 Sole Provider . 43 Domains within the HCAHPS Survey Tool . 44 Nurse Communication . 44 Physician Communication . 45 Staff Responsiveness . 45 Pain Management . 46 Communication about Medications . 46
Relative clauses in a spoken corpus of European Portuguese: identifying the factors determining their variation

This paper investigates a range of factors determining variation in European Portuguese (EP) relative clauses on the basis of a corpus study. From a more general perspective, we aim at empirically confirming or disconfirming generalizations formulated on the basis of introspection or standard language grammars. In addition, we seek to identify preferences within the “envelope of variation” in actual language use. We will focus on three variable aspects in EP relative clauses: i) the choice of the relativizer, ii) non-canonical relative clauses (preposition chopping and resumption), and iii) subject-object asymmetries and related information structural aspects. The results confirm that que is the default relativizer in spoken EP, and that animacy determines the choice of the relativizer in free relative clauses and headed relative clauses introduced by a preposition. Resumption is attested in various types of relative clauses and seems to be favoured in headed indirect object relative clauses. The relevance of other factors such as indefiniteness or presentational matrix verbs, however, cannot be confirmed. Chopping occurs in restrictive as well as non-restrictive relative clauses and with different prepositions, e.g. temporal prepositions, grammaticalized (“verbal”) prepositions but also in oblique and indirect object relative clauses. Finally, the corpus data provide evidence for a subject-object asymmetry that relates to information structural aspects.
İlköğretim Matematik Sınıflarında Gözlem Çalışması

The purpose of this paper is to investigate elementary mathematics classrooms in terms of mathematics content, teaching method, and the duration of mathematics lesson. Data for this research study comprised of 241 elementary mathematics lessons taught by 15 teachers working in different schools in Ankara. The results suggested, (a) in these lessons the topic was worthwhile to teach, the level of teaching was appropriate to the grade level, the topic was presented correctly but the connection between the topic of the lesson and other topics of math or daily life was not built. (b) Commonly used teaching method was lecturing and technique was question-answer; and the students studied individually. More than half of the lessons teachers did not use any material other than textbooks; (c) teachers were not successful at using the time efficiently.
Periodic Patrols on the Line and Other Networks

We consider a patrolling game on a graph recently introduced by Alpern et al. (2011) where the Patroller wins if he is at the attacked node while the attack is taking place. This paper studies the periodic patrolling game in the case that the attack duration is two periods. We show that if the Patroller's period is even, the game can be solved on any graph by finding the fractional covering number and fractional independence number of the graph. We also give a complete solution to the periodic patrolling game on line graphs of arbitrary size, extending the work of Papadaki et al. (2016) to the periodic domain. This models the patrolling problem on a border or channel, which is related to a classical problem of operational research going back to Morse and Kimball (1951). A periodic patrol is required to start and end at the same location, for example the place where the Patroller leaves his car to begin a foot patrol.
Impact of Lifestyle Intervention on the Estimated Visceral Fat Area and Skeletal Muscle Mass in Men with Obesity

Background: The lifestyle modification remains the fundamental approach for the obesity treatment. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the effect of the multimodal lifestyle intervention on the estimated visceral fat area versus changes in musculoskeletal mass in a cohort of adult men with obesity. Subjects and Methods: A retrospective cohort study in which the file of eighty-two male subjects, aged 20 - 60 years, was studied for three months. Patients had been instructed to follow a balanced-hypocaloric diet, physical activity plan and general advice for combating the unhealthy lifestyle habits through the study period. Those who succeeded to loss > 5% of their body weight were classified as weight loser (WL) group, while others as weight resistant (WR) group. The results of In Body-720 bioelectric impedance analysis were used to report the fat mass (FM), visceral fat area (VFA), skeletal muscle mass (SMM), SMM/VFA ratio, osseous mass (OM), and basal metabolic rate (BMR) before and after the study period. Anthropometric measures, glucose, and lipid profile were also analyzed. Paired t-test was used to detect the significance of change between before and after measures, independent sample t-test was used to compare WL vs. WR groups. Results: There were significant decreases in weight, FM (p 0.05) and VFA (p 0.001), in addition to a significant rise of SMM/VFA ratio (p 0.05), together with insignificant changes of osseous mass, SMM and BMR after 3 months. Additionally, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides were significantly reduced (P 0.05). The percentages of reduction in weight, FM and VFA in WL vs. WR groups were highly significant (p 0.001), while the percentages of change in SMM, SMM/VFA ratio and BMR were significant (p 0.05). Conclusion: Lifestyle modification might be effective in production of positive changes in the body composition of patients with obesity. These changes were more significant in weight losers.
Exploring English Language Teachers’ Challenges and Coping Strategies in Teaching Slow Learners in Inclusive Education Programmes

It has been reported that English as second language (ESL) teachers are not well-trained to teach slow learners in inclusive education. The aim of this study is to explore the challenges that Malaysian English language teachers faced when teaching slow learners in the inclusive educational program as well as to determine their coping strategies. The present study employed a qualitative research method with case study design through face-to-face interviews with three English language teachers from three secondary schools in Malaysia. Five major themes were found through thematic analysis: external factors and internal factors represented the challenges that Malaysian teachers faced when teaching slow learners in the inclusive education, while teaching resources, remedial activities and teachers’ skills represented the coping strategies used by the English language teachers.
Pengembangan E-Learning Berbasis Schoology pada Materi Impuls dan Momentum untuk Melatihkan Literasi Digital

Penelitian dan pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kelayakan media e-learning berbasis schoology. Tujuan penelitian secara khusus untuk mendeskripsikan: (1) validitas media, (2) kepraktisan media, dan (3) efektivitas media. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Research & Development (R&D) model ADDIE. Subjek uji coba penelitian ini adalah peserta didik kelas X MIPA 1 SMAN 6 Banjarmasin berjumlah 32 orang. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah lembar validasi media, lembar keterlaksanaan RPP, dan tes hasil belajar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) validitas media diperoleh skor 3,94 berkategori valid, (2) kepraktisan media diperoleh skor 3,77 berkategori sangat praktis, dan (3) efektivitas media diperoleh skor 0,41 berkategori sedang. Simpulan penelitian ini adalah pengembangan e-learning berbasis schoology pada materi impuls dan momentum untuk melatihkan literasi digital layak digunakan pada pembelajaran.
Alterations in masticatory cycle efficiency and bite force in individuals with periodontitis

Objectives: The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of periodontitis on masticatory cycle efficiency and maximum molar bite force. Methods: Twenty-four individuals were divided into two groups: With periodontitis (Group I; mean age ± standard deviation (SD), 51.3 ± 2.8 years; n = 12) and without periodontitis (Group II; mean age ± SD, 48.9 ± 2.4 years; n = 12). Masticatory cycle efficiency was obtained from the value of the ensemble-averaged integrated linear envelope electromyographic signal of the masseter and temporalis muscles. Maximum bite force was recorded for the right and left molar regions. The data were tabulated and submitted to statistical analysis (P ≤ 0.05). Results: There was a significant difference between the groups for the left masseter muscle when chewing raisins (P = 0.04), peanuts (P = 0.02), and biocapsules (P = 0.01). Multiple regression analysis demonstrated the influence of dental mobility on masticatory cycle efficiency for peanuts (P = 0.03) and biocapsules (P = 0.01). The maximum bite force for the left molar region was significantly different between the groups (P = 0.02). Dental mobility was a variable that had a greater effect on masticatory cycle efficiency. The periodontitis group had a reduced bite force. Conclusion: The present study findings indicate that the loss of periodontal supporting structures had a negative impact on masticatory cycle efficiency and molar bite force. This finding suggested that dental mobility should be considered when determining clinical treatments aimed at improving masticatory efficiency and bite force in individuals with the periodontal disease.