Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The English gerund revisited

Abstract This paper re-examines the semantics of Present-day English gerunds by analyzing their collocational preferences. While traditional approaches suggest that a semantic opposition between ‘actions’ and ‘facts’ determines the meaning as well as the distributional preferences of nominal (the signing of the contract) and verbal (signing the contract) gerunds, these claims have not been supported by quantitative evidence. At the same time, more recent studies which quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the meaning of gerunds from a referential perspective lack a distributional dimension. This study presents a semantic typology of the nouns and verbs that are attracted to nominal and verbal gerunds in noun and verb complementation structures by means of a distinctive collexeme analysis which has been applied to contextual collexemes. The analysis shows that, while nominal and verbal gerunds occur in clearly distinctive contexts, this distinction does not appear to be based on an action-fact dichotomy, but is rather determined by the more abstract features of conceptual (in)dependence and temporal flexibility. Finally, it is shown how these abstract semantic profiles can be filled in more concretely by specific contextual slots, thus arriving at a more fine-grained and dynamic perspective on the semantics of English gerunds.
Yablo’s Paradoxes in Non-arithmetical Setting

Proving a paradox from very weak assumptions helps us to reveal what the source of the paradox is. We introduce a weak non-arithmetical theory in a language of predicate logic and give proofs for various versions of Yablo’s paradox in this weak system. We prove Always, Sometimes, Almost ,Always, and Infinitely Often versions of Yablo’s paradox in the presented weak axiom system, which is much weaker than the arithmetical setting.
Modern Magnetic Materials Principles And Applications

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The inhibitive effect of sh-HIF1A-AS2 on the proliferation, invasion, and pathological damage of breast cancer via targeting miR-548c-3p through regulating HIF-1α/VEGF pathway in vitro and vivo

Background Breast cancer (BC) has been the commonest malignant tumor with a low survival rate among woman. Long non-coding RNA hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha antisense RNA-2 (HIF1A-AS2) was correlated with various cancers. Purpose The study aimed to investigate the roles and related underlying molecular mechanisms of HIF1A-AS2 in BC. Material and methods Target relationships were speculated by Targetscan 7.0 and confirmed by dual luciferase reporter assay. Proteins levels were monitored by RT-qPCR, Western blot and immunohistochemistry assays. CCK-8 assay, SA-β-gal staining and transwell assay were used to detect proliferation, senescence and invasion, respectively. Xenograft nude mice were put into use to evaluate the tumor growth and motility. Results The present study exhibited that HIF1A-AS2 and hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) were upregulated while miR-548c-3p was downregulated in MDA-MB-231, MCF-7, ZR-75-1, and BT-549 BC cell lines. Bioinformatics analysis showed HIF1A-AS2 and HIF-1α were two targets of miR-548c-3p, and the target relationship was further confirmed by dual luciferase reporter assay. Moreover, knockdown of HIF1A-AS2 by shRNA (sh-HIF1A-AS2) markedly elevated miR-548c-3p level, and the enhanced miR-548c-3p noticeably suppressed cell proliferation, invasion, and epithelial–mesenchymal transition, and promoted senescence in vitro. In addition, overexpression of HIF-1α promoted MCF-7 cell invasion. Intriguingly, low expression of HIF1A-AS2 reduced HIF-1α level by upregulating the expression of miR-548c-3p. Furthermore, experiment in xenograft nude mice has indicated that sh-HIF1A-AS2 inhibited tumor growth and motility by targeting miR-548c-3p through regulating HIF-1α/vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway in vivo. Conclusion The inhibitive effect of HIF-1α/VEGF pathway by sh-HIF1A-AS2 through targeting miR-548c-3p plays crucial regulatory roles in BC. Therefore, designing targeted drugs against HIF1A-AS2 provides a new direction for the treatment of BC.
Analog and Digital Array Processor Realization of a 2D IIR Beam Filter for Wireless Applications

A broadband digital beamforming algorithm is proposed for directional filtering of temporally-broadband bandpass space-time (ST) plane-waves (PWs) at radio frequencies (RFs). The enhancement of desired waves, as well as rejection of undesired interfering PWs, is simulated. A massively-parallel synchronous and asynchronous array architecture is proposed for the real-time implementation of 2-order two-dimensional (2D) infinite impulse response (IIR) spatially-bandpass (SBP) beam filters having potential applications in broadband beamforming of temporally downconverted RF signals. The higher speed of operation and potentially reduced power consumption of the asynchronous architecture in comparison to the conventional synchronous hardware have emerging applications in radio-astronomy, radar, navigation, space science, cognitive radio and wireless communications. Further, the bit error rate (BER) performance improvement along with the reduced computational complexity of these digital filters over digital phased array feed (PAF) beamformer is provided. A nominal BER versus signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) gain of 2− 3 dB at approximately half the number of parallel multipliers compared to digital PAF, is observed. A novel discrete-space continuous-time (DSCT) analog circuit implementation of the 2D IIR SBP beam filter using ideal operational amplifiers is also proposed.
A time-stepping dynamically-consistent spherical-shell dynamo code

A pseudo-spectral dynamo code, developed as a computational laboratory, is described. The magnetic, heat and Boussinesq Navier-Stokes equations, with inertia, non-linear advection, buoyancy with asymmetric gravity, Coriolis, viscous and Lorentz forces, are solved numerically in a rotating conducting fluid shell. The convection is thermally driven by prescribed boundary temperatures. The equations are discretised using toroidal-poloidal fields, Chebychev collocation in radius and spherical harmonic expansion in angles. Derivatives are performed spectrally. Products are evaluated in physical space for efficiency. Fields are transformed between physical and spectral spaces by fast Fourier and Gauss-Legendre methods. Linear terms are time-stepped implicitly and product terms explicitly using an Adams predictor/corrector. Results are presented for two benchmark models.
Intima media thickness as an early predictor of atherosclerosis in Egyptian children with familial Mediterranean fever

Introduction Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease. It is characterized by recurrent crises of fever and serosal inflammation. Although FMF patients are symptom free in between attacks, subclinical inflammation continues during the attack-free period. Such patients with inflammatory status have an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular complications. We attempted to elucidate the role of arterial wall thickening as a predictor of early atherosclerosis in children affected by FMF and to clarify the links between carotid intima media thickness and the markers of subclinical inflammation serum amyloid A (SAA), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR). Material and methods It is a case control study. The study comprised 45 Egyptian children diagnosed with FMF and 45 healthy children of matched age and sex who served as controls, without family history or clinical manifestations suggestive of FMF. Laboratory investigations included complete blood count, NLR, PLR, ESR, C-reactive protein and lipid profile. Serum amyloid A levels were determined in both groups using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Assessment of the common carotid artery intima media thickness (CIMT) in the FMF patients was carried out. Results The level of SAA was significantly higher in patients than the control subjects with a mean value of 38.30 ng/ml and 23.43 ng/ml respectively (p < 0.001). Our patients showed significantly higher PLR when compared to controls (p < 0.001). The mean right and left carotid intima media thickness in patient and control groups showed a highly significant difference (p = 0.005 and 0.036 respectively). Conclusions The mean carotid intima media thickness is higher in cases than the control group. Hence carotid intima media thickness may be used as a tool in the prediction of any atherosclerotic burden in those children.
Information Streams of Education Content Integrative Designing at a Federal University

Modern university education is aimed to provide a future expert with knowledge and experience of professional activity in the context of information society development and innovative knowledge-intensive production. At the same time information the teacher should be furnished with to implement own designing activity in the context of new education content formation is getting actual. Such designing is gaining an integrative character and becomes essential in the environment of controlled information streams. The paper reveals the phenomenon of education content integrative designing, features and invariant requirements to its content adequate to current trends of university education development, and ensures the unity and specificity of educational, scientific, production and social spheres of education content implementation realized within the selection of a variable logistic trajectory of its designing. The leading approaches to research the ways of integrative designing were system analysis of dynamic information educational environment and modeling of a logistic structure of information streams of educational purpose. The paper reveals the double-circuit organization of data exchange in the course of education content designing within which internal streams provide disciplinary differentiation, and external streams provide integration of disciplines, training profiles and educational structures. The paper develops subject - subject and subject – object exchange of information between educational organizations and society, between governing structures and divisions, between students and teachers in information educational environment of education content integrative designing. The paper proves that integration of information streams is a key idea to solve problems of timely and high-quality integrative designing of innovative education content. Practical significance of materials from the paper is that on the basis of described procedures the realization of developed functions and established interactions can be transferred to links of the information environment, and exchange of information becomes mediated by information resources and agents of educational purpose. The practical importance consists in the detailed and experimentally approved organization of an integration link regulating information exchanges in the course of designing and educational activity of subjects and agents of educational process.
Environmental concern to attitude towards green products: evidences from India

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of environmental concern of consumers with their attitude towards green products and also to identify the predictors of environmental concern. The data was generated from a researcher controlled sample of graduate and post-graduate students enrolled in educational institutions located in the national capital of India (New Delhi) and surrounding areas popularly known as National Capital Region (NCR). The data generated was analysed employing Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The study findings indicate that environmental concern has a significant and positive influence on attitude towards green products. Collectivism and eco-literacy emerged as predictors of the environmental concern of consumers. The findings of this study are expected to enhance the understanding of marketers of the role played by variables such as religiosity, collectivism, eco-literacy, and environmental concern in formation of attitude of consumers towards green products.
Mapping the cosmological expansion

En esta tesis se usan observaciones geometricas del universo para poner a prueba la viabilidad demodelos cosmologicos que describen la expansion acelerada del universo y restringir asi el espacio deparametros de dichos modelos. Estas observaciones se centran en el universo a gran escala para trazar sugeometria de fondo, o de manera equivalente de acuerdo con la Relatividad General, su contenidoenergetico y/o material. La informacion que aportan se contrastan con nuevos modelos que se proponencomo alternativa a ? CDM, el modelo cosmologico estandar de consenso. La teoria estadistica con la queCDM, el modelo cosmologico estandar de consenso. La teoria estadistica con la quese ponen a prueba los diferentes modelos respecto a las observaciones cosmologicas es en el marco de lainferencia Bayesiana, donde todos los modelos cosmologicos considerados se comparan entre ellosutilizando observaciones del fondo cosmologicos recientes.En la Parte I, repasamos la base teorica utilizada a lo largo de esta tesis, donde el capitulo 1 introudce laRelatividad General aplicada a la cosmologia. En el capitulo 2 describimos de forma general como semiden las distancias en un universo en base a las referencias fisicas que esten disponibles. En el capitulo3, la ultima parte de la introduccion, explicamos la teoria estadistica de la inferencia Bayesiana utilizadaen esta tesis. En la Parte II de la tesis se utilizan conjuntos de datos de observaciones cosmologicasrecientes para probar la viabilidad de ciertos modelos. En el capitulo 4, mostramos un posible modelodenominado materia-energia oscura unificada (UDM, unified dark matter-energy) que no solo podriaexplicar la expansion acelerada del universo como energia oscura, sino que tambien explicaria lacomponente de materia oscura observada. En el capitulo 5, constrenimos otro modelo UDM donde elfluido exotico puede estar representado por un campo escalar. La parte III de la tesis se centra en datosque simulan posibles futuras observaciones. En el capitulo 6, simulamos unas posibles observaciones queconsisten en medir la deriva cosmica del redshift de objetos lejanos, tambien llamado el test de Sandage-Loeb (SL), y analizamos sus capacidades de constrenir diferentes modelos. Finalmente, en el capitulo 7de la Parte IV se presentan las conclusiones y comentarios finales de la tesis.
Performance analysis of activation function in higher order logic programming

Higher-order logic programming in Hopfield neural network is a vital paradigm to solve numerous combinatorial optimization problem and pattern recognition. Hence, activation function can be integrated as catalyst or accelerating techniques of doing higher order logic programming in Hopfield network. Obviously, the McCulloch-Pitts learning rule is widely used in higher order logic programming. Hereby, we proposed the Bipolar sigmoid and Hyperbolic activation function trained by Wan Abdullah’s method by integrating energy minimization scheme in order to speed up the training process. Computer simulations are carried out to authenticate the performance of Hyperbolic activation function, Bipolar sigmoid activation function and McCulloch-Pitts function (Logistic Function) in higher order Hopfield network. We used Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 as a platform of simulating, training and testing the network. Therefore, evaluations are made between these activation functions to see which one is superior in the aspects .
Advergaming – How Does Cognitive Overload Effect Brand Recall?: Differences between In-Game Advertising (IGA) and Advergames

Advergaming serves as a new and valuable form of online advertising, especially for companies that target young consumers. This study examines the impacts of cognitive overload with placement prominence on respondents’ brand recall, recognition and brand attitudes. An experiment was conducted on a group of university students with an exposure to an advergame under low and high cognitive load stimulus. Results showed that brands that are placed prominently are better recalled in high cognitive load condition. However, cognitive overload doesn’t have any significant effect on the recognition of the main brand in which the advergames is specifically designed. Moreover, there is no difference in recall of subtly placed products in low and high cognitive load conditions. However, there is a significant difference in brand attitude in different cognitive loads. The study both investigated the context of advergames and as well in-game advertising (IGA) situations. The results of the study have both practical and theoretical implications. Advergaming – How Does Cognitive Overload Effect Brand Recall? Differences between In-Game Advertising (IGA) and Advergames
Dynamics and evolution of turbulent Taylor rolls

In many shear- and pressure-driven wall-bounded turbulent flows secondary motions spontaneously develop and their interaction with the main flow alters the overall large-scale features and transfer properties. Taylor–Couette flow, the fluid motion developing in the gap between two concentric cylinders rotating at different angular velocities, is not an exception, and toroidal Taylor rolls have been observed from the early development of the flow up to the fully turbulent regime. In this manuscript we show that under the generic name of ‘Taylor rolls’ there is a wide variety of structures that differ in the vorticity distribution within the cores, the way they are driven and their effects on the mean flow. We relate the rolls at high Reynolds numbers not to centrifugal instabilities, but to a combination of shear and anti-cyclonic rotation, showing that they are preserved in the limit of vanishing curvature and can be better understood as a pinned cycle which shows similar characteristics as the self-sustained process of shear flows. By analysing the effect of the computational domain size, we show that this pinning is not a product of numerics, and that the position of the rolls is governed by a random process with the space and time variations depending on domain size.
A Study of Group Behaviour within an Agent-Based Artificial Stock Market

As researchers have realised the limitations with traditional economic models, exploration into evolutionary economics and artificial simulations has grown considerably. Although still in its infancy, the agent-based economics field has produced a wide range of research. However, there exists a relatively small amount of research into emotional, and erratic, behaviour of trading agents, and into the dividend period of a market. Furthermore, openly available implementations, such as the one for Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market (SFI-ASM), originally formalised by Palmer et al (1994), lack transparency, and usability. Previous research in the field as a whole, and in these areas is reviewed and critically appraised as approaches to the problems described are considered. A detailed design is produced which specifies a basic market setup, partly based on SFI market, and an experimental layer which sits above. This experimental layer allows for investigation into the group behaviour effects in the market of emotional or erratic traders, and the pressures on the information process and behaviour of a market with a variable dividend period length. Experiments are carried out and their results checked against the original SFI market and real-world markets, and the investigatory results appraised for their value. Furthermore, these experiments provide a number of interesting results, and pose several questions. It is discussed that the result could be used to begin to explain a number of empirical market features, which exist in real-world markets. Finally, it is concluded that the final product from the project provides an implementation which has a number of accessibility advantages, a high level of transparency and usability, a considerably flexible modular architecture, and good foundation for further research into this field, and other similar fields.
Individuals physically interacting in a group rapidly coordinate their movement by estimating the collective goal

How can a human collective coordinate, for example to move a banquet table, when each person is influenced by the inertia of others who may be inferior at the task? We hypothesized that large groups cannot coordinate through touch alone, accruing to a zero-sum scenario where individuals inferior at the task hinder superior ones. We tested this hypothesis by examining how dyads, triads and tetrads, whose right hands were physically coupled together, followed a common moving target. Surprisingly, superior individuals followed the target accurately even when coupled to an inferior group, and the interaction benefits increased with the group size. A computational model shows that these benefits arose as each individual uses their respective interaction force to infer the collective’s target and enhance their movement planning, which permitted coordination in seconds independent of the collective’s size. By estimating the collective’s movement goal, its individuals make physical interaction beneficial, swift and scalable.
Variety and NPK Rate Effect on Growth and Yield of Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.) in the Bediese Soil Series at Asante Mampong in Ghana

Cabbage is one of the major vegetables cultivated on large scale in Asante Mampong for sale in the Ashanti Region and beyond. Low yield due to low yielding cultivars and inappropriate use of fertilizers is a setback in cabbage production in the area. The growth and yield response of three cabbage varieties to three NPK (15:15:15) rates was evaluated in a 3 x 3 factorial experiment conducted in Asante Mampong, Ghana in 2015. The cabbage varieties (Sahel F1, Fortune and Super Cross) and NPK rates (90 kg/ha, 120 kg/ha and 150 kg/ha) were arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications. With the exception of root weight, there was no significant interaction effect of the treatments on the parameters studied. Although the number of leaves per plant was similar among the fertilizer rates, the higher NPK rates resulted in more Short Research Article Hope et al.; AIR, 8(3): 1-6, 2016; Article no.AIR. 29940 2 leaves. The application of 120 kg/ha NPK gave the greatest yield (28.1 t/ha) and this was 18.9% and 17.8% more than the 150 kg/ha and 90 kg/ha rates respectively. The variety, Fortune, had the greatest head circumference, head diameter and head weight and it gave the greatest yield (29.2 t/ha). Application of 120 kg/ha NPK (15:15:15) and cultivation of the Fortune variety could help increase the yield and possibly income of cabbage growers in Asante Mampong.