Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mean-Field Expansion, Regularization Issue, and Multi-Quark Functions in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model

In this paper, the results of the investigation of multi-quark equations in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the mean-field expansion are presented. The multi-quark functions have been considered up to the third order of expansion. One of the purposes of our computations is the study of corrections of higher orders to parameters of the model. The important problem of the application of the NJL model is regularization. We compare the NJL model with 4-dimensional cutoff regularization and the dimensionally analytical regularization. We also discuss so-called “predictive regularization” in the NJL model, and a modification of this regularization, which is free of the Landau pole, is proposed. To calculate the high-order corrections, we use the Legendre transform method in the framework of bilocal-source formalism, which allows one effectively to take into consideration the symmetry constraints. A generalization of the mean-field expansion for other types of multi-quark sources is also discussed.
Running head: COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY, ATTENTION, AND EMOTION The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility in the Link between Broadened Attentional Scope and Positive Changes in Mood

The present study sought to investigate the link between broadened attentional scope and positive changes in mood reported in recent studies (e.g., Gu et al., 2017) and stemming more generally from Broaden and Build Theory (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001). It was hypothesized that the cognitive construct that mediates this relationship is cognitive flexibility. Participants (n =66) from Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges viewed a sad film clip aimed at temporarily depressing mood, then completed the abbreviated profile of mood states (“A-POMS”) (Grove & Prapavessis, 1992) to assess mood. Participants were then split into two groups to undergo a priming exercise aimed at temporarily influencing either a broadened or narrowed scope of attention by viewing zooming out or zooming in images of neutral content selected from IAPS (CSEA-NIMH, 1999). Cognitive flexibility was then measured using the Water Jar Task (“WJT”) (Greenberg, Reiner, & Meiran (2012) and mood was reassessed a second time using the A-POMS. Eye-tracking equipment was used during the attentional manipulation to confirm its effectiveness and to more closely link gaze-patterns with the dependent variables. It was predicted that the participants in the broadened attention group would display greater cognitive flexibility and a greater decrease in mood disturbance during the experiment. The results were primarily unsupportive of the hypotheses and cast doubt on the certainty of earlier findings and on the validity of the tests used in the present study.
Semantic sentiment analysis of twitter Conference or Workshop Item

Sentiment analysis over Twitter offer organisations a fast and effective way to monitor the publics’ feelings towards their brand, business, directors, etc. A wide range of features and methods for training sentiment classifiers for Twitter datasets have been researched in recent years with varying results. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach of adding semantics as additional features into the training set for sentiment analysis. For each extracted entity (e.g. iPhone) from tweets, we add its semantic concept (e.g. “Apple product”) as an additional feature, and measure the correlation of the representative concept with negative/positive sentiment. We apply this approach to predict sentiment for three different Twitter datasets. Our results show an average increase of F harmonic accuracy score for identifying both negative and positive sentiment of around 6.5% and 4.8% over the baselines of unigrams and part-of-speech features respectively. We also compare against an approach based on sentiment-bearing topic analysis, and find that semantic features produce better Recall and F score when classifying negative sentiment, and better Precision with lower Recall and F score in positive sentiment classification.
Perioperative fast-track rehabilitation protocol contributes to recovery after laparoscopic resection of colorectal cancer

Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of perioperative fast-track (FT) rehabilitation protocols on patients with laparoscopic colorectal resection of colorectal cancer (CC). Methods: The clinical information was collected from 174 cases of CC patients who were admitted to our hospital between August 2015 and May 2016. Patients were divided into two groups according to the rehabilitation protocol, the FT rehabilitation protocol and the conventional protocol. The general clinical data, the timing of exhaust, hospital stays and costs were recorded by relevant carers. The complications, the variations in intensity of pain and patients’ satisfaction were compared between the two groups. Results: The first time for flatus was much shorter in FT treated group than that of control group. FT treated patients spent less postoperative hospital stays (50.8 ± 0.54 vs. 6.75 ± 0.92 days) and hospital costs (49350.77 ± 1893.48 yuan vs. 57824.92 ± 2134.07 yuan) than the control patients. Less postoperative complications and lower VAS score were found in FT treated group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The application of FT in patients with laparoscopic radical resection of colorectal cancer benefit to early rehabilitation with fewer complications.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION GAP TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS ’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT SEVENTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 KRAS KEDIRI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016

Rista Shantya Rini: The Effectiveness Of Information Gap Technique In Improving Students’ Speaking Ability At Seventh Grade Of Smpn 1 Kras Kediri Academic Year 2016/2017 Speaking is one of the ways for people to communicate the unit massage of the information. All of people always speak everyday in their life. A good relationship needs a good communication too; in order to the people understand about the topic which they are speaking of their native language. Therefore, this experimental research was conducted to find out the effectiveness of information gap technique in improving students’ speaking ability at seventh grade of SMPN 1 Kras. The research was carried out in November 2016 and the participant of this research wa VII-B class of SMPN 1 Kras which consist of 36 students. The data of this research is quantitative data which was taken by assessing the students speaking ability through post test. The finding of the research had showed the clearly that information gap technique is effective to improve students speaking ability expecially at seventh grade. it can be seen by the total score and the mean score between pre-test and post-test. the total score increase from 1287 into 1480 and the mean score from 33,8816 into 49,8977. Information gap technique make the students better in speaking. The level of the students speaking also changing. In other hand, information gap technique also can help the students increase their pronounciation, vocabulary, fluency and grammar. Information gap is effective technique on the students’ speaking ability. This technique should be used by the teacher in teaching speaking. Because information gap technique can help the students to solve their difficulties in speaking such as pronounciation, fluency, vocabulary and grammar. Finally, the researcher conclude that information gap is very helpful technique in teaching speaking. KEYWORD : Information Gap Technique, Speaking Artikel Skripsi Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri Rista Shantya Rini | 12.1. 01.08. 0066 simki.unpkediri. ac.id FKIP – Bahasa Inggris ǀǀ 3 ǀǀ
Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts

Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts, but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event (EWE) has emerged to bring some coherence on this kind of events. It is increasingly used, often as a synonym of other terms related to wildfires of high intensity and size, but its definition remains elusive. The goal of this paper is to go beyond drawing on distinct disciplinary perspectives to develop a holistic view of EWE as a social-ecological phenomenon. Based on literature review and using a transdisciplinary approach, this paper proposes a definition of EWE as a process and an outcome. Considering the lack of a consistent “scale of gravity” to leverage extreme wildfire events such as in natural hazards (e.g., tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes) we present a proposal of wildfire classification with seven categories based on measurable fire spread and behavior parameters and suppression difficulty. The categories 5 to 7 are labeled as EWE.
The Impact of Reservoirs on Runoff Under Climate Change: A Case of Nierji Reservoir in China

Reservoirs play an important role in responding to natural disasters (such as flood and drought) by controlling the runoff. With the climate changing, the frequency and intensity of flood and drought are likely to increase. Thus, the impact of reservoirs on runoff under climate change needs to be studied to cope with future floods and drought. In this study, the Nierji Reservoir located on the Nenjiang River Basin was chosen to explore the impact. The Nenjiany River Basin is the vital water source in the water resources transfer project in Northeast China. Climate change in Nenjiang River Basin was analyzed using the 1980 to 2013 climate observations. The results show that the temperature of the basin significantly (p < 0.05) increased while the precipitation significantly (p < 0.05) decreased. Based on the result, nine kinds of different climate scenarios were set up. For different climate scenarios, the Hydroinformatic Modeling System (HIMS) model and the HIMS model with the reservoir calculation module were used to simulate runoff during the no reservoir operation period (1980–2000) and reservoir operation period (2007–2013), respectively. The impact of reservoirs on runoff under climate change is studied. Results show that the Nierji Reservoir can effectively relieve the impact of climate change on downstream runoff. When temperature increases or precipitation decreases, there are larger differences in runoff over the non-flood period, especially during periods of no reservoir operation. Reservoir operation under climate change can provide reliability in drought protection.
Wikinflection: Massive Semi-Supervised Generation of Multilingual Inflectional Corpus from Wiktionary

Wiktionary is an openand crowd-sourced dictionary which has been an important resource for natural language processing/understanding/generation tasks, but a big portion of the available information, such as inflection, is hard to retrieve and has not been widely utilized. In this paper, we are describing our efforts to generate inflectional paradigms for lemmata of the English Wiktionary, by using both the dynamic links of the XML dump file and the static information of the web version. Our system can generate inflectional paradigms for 225K lemmata, with almost 8,5M forms from 1.708 inflectional templates, for over 150 languages, and after evaluating the generation, 216K lemmata and around 6M forms are of high quality. In addition, we retrieve morphological features, affixes and stem allomorphs for each paradigm and form. The system can produce a structured inflectional corpus from any version of the English Wiktionary XML dump file, and could also be adapted for other language versions. The first version of the source code is currently available online.
ICLE-Ayurvedic Formulation of Liv-Pro-08 Reduces Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Rats Fed with High-fat Diet

right a 2011, Korean Pharmacop 0.1016/j.jams. 2011.09. 014 Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as a serious obesity-related disorder, and it will continue to be a major liver health issue worldwide in the coming decades. We aimed to determine the effect of Liv-Pro-08 (Nigella sativa, Entada pursaetha, and Ficus glomerata) an oral ayurvedic formulation on rats fed with highfat diet. Rats were given a high-fat diet for a period of 7 days. After this period, LivPro-08 (250, 500, and 750 mg/kg.body weight was given orally for 7 days. We examined the effect of the high-fat diet on various parameters related to obesity and insulin resistance. In the experimental rats who received the extract of Liv-Pro-08, their lipoprotein profiles were significantly improved compared with those that are not receiving the extract. Also, a slight reduction was observed in serum aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and alkaline phosphatase enzymes. Moreover, Liv-Pro-08 significantly decreased their fasting serum glucose and fasting insulin levels. This experimental study suggests that Liv-Pro-08 can act as a therapeutic tool in preventing NAFLD progression (i.e., reducing hepatic lipid accumulation). Although further investigations and large randomized trials should be conducted, ayurvedic Liv-Pro-08 oral formulation may be a potential natural drug for NAFLD in the future.
Opening the Farm Gate to Women? Sustainable Agriculture in the United States

This paper analyzes the relationship between the growth in the number of women farmers and the rise in sustainable agriculture using the US Census of Agriculture. Assessing full time farmers, we show that farms operated by women earn much lower farm incomes than farms operated by men, such that the gender gap in agriculture is amongst the largest in any occupation. While this inequality can be partly explained by the patrilineal inheritance of land and capital, farms headed by women still generate nearly 40 percent less income after controlling for farm assets, work time, age, experience, farm type, and location. We investigate whether three different forms of sustainable agriculture improved incomes for women farmers during 2012. We find that only farms engaging in Community Supported Agriculture experience a marked decline in the gender gap. We argue that the diverse set of principles associated with Community Supported Agriculture results in women selecting into that form of farming, and that the men involved in it may be more supportive of women farmers.
STUDY ON THE POPULATION TREND OF BRINJAL FRUIT BORER Leucinodes orbonalis GUEN . ( LEPIDOPTERA : PYRALIDAE ) AND IT ’ S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DIFFERENT INSECTICIDES

Brinjal fruit borer, Leucinodes orbonalis Guen. is the major insect pest of brinjal (eggplant) in South Asia. Larvae bore into the fruit; render it unfit for human consumption. This study reports the seasonal fluctuations and the efficacy of various insecticides against L. orbonalis in a field study conducted in two separate plots under field conditions. To determine the seasonal abundance and population trend of the pest, plants were regularly monitored on weekly basis throughout the cropping season soon after the fruits were formed. L. orbonalis was most persistent throughout the crop growing season. A low infestation (18.66%) of borer was noted in the third week of May, severe infestation (75.50%) in the first week of August, and a high infestation (42.64%) in the last week of September at the end of the crop growing season. Five insecticides from different classes of chemicals were sprayed 3 times at 25 days interval against the borer, which significantly reduced the borer infestation in comparison to the untreated control. However, Ripcord (Cypermethrin) decreased the infestation to a least minimum level than any other insecticide used.
Chromosomal changes in prostate cancer: A fluorescence in situ hybridization study

The incidence of prostate cancer (PC) is increasing steadily with the aging population in Singapore. As the pattern of chromosomal aberrations in Asian men with PC is poorly understood, we investigated the numerical aberrations for chromosomes 7, 8, 11, and 17 by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). FISH was performed on standard sections and tissue microarrays of 54 PC and 33 benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) specimens. Among the 54 PC specimens, FISH detected 44 cases as aneusomy and two as disomy and was unsuccessful for eight cases. Cytogenetic alterations of two or more chromosomes per tumor were detected in 33/46 (72%) PCs. The most frequent alteration was aneusomy of chromosome 8 detected in 34/46 (74%) cases followed by numerical aberrations in chromosome 7 (61%). Gain of 8q24, loss of chromosome 7, and gain of 11q13 were associated with higher Gleason score and were statistically significant. Gain of chromosome 7 was more common in locally advanced disease, while gain of chromosome 11q13 and chromosome 7 was more common in metastatic disease.
Dietary Supplementation of Vine Tea Ameliorates Glucose and Lipid Metabolic Disorder via Akt Signaling Pathway in Diabetic Rats

A traditional Chinese tea with many pharmacological effects, vine tea (VT) is considered a potential dietary supplement to improve type 2 diabetes (T2D). To investigate the effect and mechanism of VT on glucose and lipid metabolic disorders in T2D rats, Wistar rats fed a normal diet served as the normal control, while rats fed a high-fat diet combined with low-dose streptozotocin (STZ)-induced T2D were divided into three groups: The model group (MOD); the positive control group (MET, metformin at 200 mg/kg/d); and the VT-treated group (VT500, allowed to freely drink 500 mg/L VT). After four weeks of intervention, biochemical metrics indicated that VT significantly ameliorated hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hyperinsulinemia in T2D rats. Metabolomics research indicated that VT regulated the levels of metabolites closely related to glucose and lipid metabolism and promoted glycogen synthesis. Furthermore, VT had a significant influence on the expression of key genes involved in the Akt signaling pathway, inhibited gluconeogenesis through the Akt/Foxo1/Pck2 signaling pathway, and reduced fatty acid synthesis via the SREBP1c/Fasn signaling pathways. In conclusion, VT has great potential as a dietary supplement to ameliorate glucose and lipid metabolic disorders via the Akt signaling pathway in T2D rats.
The Survival of Pinus ponderosa Saplings Subjected to Increasing Levels of Fire Behavior and Impacts on Post-Fire Growth

Improved predictions of tree species mortality and growth metrics following fires are important to assess fire impacts on forest succession, and ultimately forest growth and yield. Recent studies have shown that North American conifers exhibit a ‘toxicological dose-response’ relationship between fire behavior and the resultant mortality or recovery of the trees. Prior studies have not been conclusive due to potential pseudo-replication in the experimental design and time-limited observations. We explored whether dose-response relationships are observed in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) saplings exposed to surface fires of increasing fire behavior (as quantified by Fire Radiative Energy—FRE). We confirmed equivalent dose-response relationships to the prior studies that were focused on other conifer species. The post-fire growth in the saplings that survived the fires decreased with increasing FRE dosages, while the percentage mortality in the sapling dosage groups increased with the amount of FRE applied. Furthermore, as with lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), a low FRE dosage could be applied that did not yield mortality in any of the replicates (r = 10). These results suggest that land management agencies could use planned burns to reduce fire hazard while still maintaining a crop of young saplings. Incorporation of these results into earth-system models and growth and yield models could help reduce uncertainties associated with the impacts of fire on timber growth, forest resilience, carbon dynamics, and ecosystem economics.
Intermediate human adenovirus type 22/H10,19,37 as a new etiological agent of conjunctivitis

Eight strains of a new intermediate adenovirus were isolated in the course of an investigation of conjunctivitis in Hiroshima City, Japan. The strain was first isolated in July 1986. All eight strains were isolated from conjunctival swab samples from patients with conjunctivitis, mainly epidemic keratoconjunctivitis. The virus was typed as adenovirus type 22 in neutralization tests and was related closely to types 10, 19, and 37 in hemagglutination inhibition tests. The DNA cleavage patterns of the eight strains with nine restriction endonucleases were the same with one exception but different from those of the above serologically related species. We conclude that the intermediate adenovirus is a new etiological agent of conjunctivitis, mainly epidemic keratoconjunctivitis.
Back to the Whiteboard: a Principled Approach for the Assessment and Design of Memory Forensic Techniques

Today memory analysis plays a fundamental role in computer forensics and is a very active area of research. However, the field is still largely driven by custom rules and heuristics handpicked by human experts. These rules describe how to overcome the semantic gap to associate high level structures to individual bytes contained in a physical memory dump. Structures are then traversed by following pointers to other objects, and the process is repeated until the required information is located and extracted from the memory image. A fundamental problem with this approach is that we have no way to measure these heuristics to know precisely how well they work, under which circumstances, how prone they are to evasions or to errors, and how stable they are over different versions of the OS kernel. In addition, without a method to measure the quality and effectiveness of a given heuristic, it is impossible to compare one approach against the others. If a tool adopts a certain heuristic to list the sockets associated to a program, how do we know if that is the only possible way to extract this information? Maybe other, even better, solutions exist, just waiting to be “discovered” by human analysts. For this reason, we believe we need to go back to the drawing board and rethink memory forensics from its foundations. In this paper we propose a framework and a set of metrics we can use as a basis to assess existing methodologies,understand their characteristics and limitations, and propose new techniques in a principled way. The memory of a modern operating system is a very large and very complex network of interconnected objects. Because of this, we argue that automated algorithms, rather than human intuition, should play a fundamental role in evaluating and designing future memory forensics techniques.
Title : Generalized Continuous-Time Random Walks , Subordination by Hitting Times , and Fractional Dynamics Year of publication : 2009

Functional limit theorems for continuous-time random walks (CTRW) are found in the general case of dependent waiting times and jump sizes that are also position dependent. The limiting anomalous diffusion is described in terms of fractional dynamics. Probabilistic interpretation of generalized fractional evolution is given in terms of the random time change (subordination) by means of hitting times processes.