Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On Evaluating Embedding Models for Knowledge Base Completion

Knowledge graph embedding models have recently received significant attention in the literature. These models learn latent semantic representations for the entities and relations in a given knowledge base; the representations can be used to infer missing knowledge. In this paper, we study the question of how well recent embedding models perform for the task of knowledge base completion, i.e., the task of inferring new facts from an incomplete knowledge base. We argue that the entity ranking protocol, which is currently used to evaluate knowledge graph embedding models, is not suitable to answer this question since only a subset of the model predictions are evaluated. We propose an alternative entity-pair ranking protocol that considers all model predictions as a whole and is thus more suitable to the task. We conducted an experimental study on standard datasets and found that the performance of popular embeddings models was unsatisfactory under the new protocol, even on datasets that are generally considered to be too easy. Moreover, we found that a simple rule-based model often provided superior performance. Our findings suggest that there is a need for more research into embedding models as well as their training strategies for the task of knowledge base completion.
The small, disloyal fake news audience: The role of audience availability in fake news consumption

In light of the recent US election, many fear that “fake news” has become a force of enormous reach and influence within the news media environment. We draw on well-established theories of audience behavior to argue that the online fake news audience, like most niche content, would be a small subset of the total news audience, especially those with high availability. By examining online visitation data across mobile and desktop platforms in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election, we indeed find the fake news audience comprises a small, disloyal group of heavy Internet users. We also find that social network sites play an outsized role in generating traffic to fake news. With this revised understanding, we revisit the democratic implications of the fake news crisis.
Rescue from lethal acute radiation syndrome (ARS) with severe weight loss by secretome of intramuscularly injected human placental stromal cells

Most current cell‐based regenerative therapies are based on the indirect induction of the affected tissues repair. Xenogeneic cell‐based treatment with expanded human placenta stromal cells, predominantly from fetal origin (PLX‐RAD cells), were shown to mitigate significantly acute radiation syndrome (ARS) following high dose irradiation in mice, with expedited regain of weight loss and haematopoietic function. The current mechanistic study explores the indirect effect of the secretome of PLX‐RAD cells in the rescue of the irradiated mice.
Turn an Ear to Hear: How Hearing-Impaired Listeners Can Exploit Head Orientation to Enhance Their Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Social Settings

Turning an ear toward the talker can enhance spatial release from masking. Here, with their head free, listeners attended to speech at a gradually diminishing signal-to-noise ratio and with the noise source azimuthally separated from the speech source by 180° or 90°. Young normal-hearing adult listeners spontaneously turned an ear toward the speech source in 64% of audio-only trials, but a visible talker’s face or cochlear implant (CI) use significantly reduced this head-turn behavior. All listener groups made more head movements once instructed to explore the potential benefit of head turns and followed the speech to lower signal-to-noise ratios. Unilateral CI users improved the most. In a virtual restaurant simulation with nine interfering noises or voices, hearing-impaired listeners and simulated bilateral CI users typically obtained a 1 to 3 dB head-orientation benefit from a 30° head turn away from the talker. In diffuse interference environments, the advice to U.K. CI users from many CI professionals and the communication guidance available on the Internet most often advise the CI user to face the talker head on. However, CI users would benefit from guidelines that recommend they look sidelong at the talker with their better hearing or implanted ear oriented toward the talker.
A Progress Report on the State of Pharmacy Informatics Education in US Pharmacy Schools and Colleges

Objective. To characterize informatics education opportunities in US colleges and schools of pharmacy curricula. Methods. Informatics curricular information online was catalogued via publicly available websites. Website content was searched via domain-specific keywords. Online course descriptions were reviewed. Website searches were also conducted for informatics-related opportunities. Results. Of 132 pharmacy curricula found online, 47 (36%) included an informatics course. Of those, 64% (n=30) were required while 47% (n=22) were elective courses. Additionally, 20% (n=26) provided informatics advanced and/or introductory pharmacy practice experiences, 20% (n=27) offered an informatics residency, and 17% (n=22) listed certificate and/or graduate degree programs in informatics. Conclusion. Over the past 10 years, little observable progress has been made in pharmacy school curricula in response to the increasing importance of informatics to the profession. Pharmacy programs can address this educational gap by internal (eg, course development) and external (eg, open source curriculum) solutions.
Life skills development and enjoyment in youth soccer: The importance of parental behaviours

ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationships between parental behaviours and players’ life skills development and enjoyment within youth soccer. In total, 317 players (Mage = 12.83, SD = 1.70, age range = 10–16 years) completed a survey assessing parental behaviours (praise and understanding, directive behaviour, and pressure), perceived life skills development (teamwork, goal setting, time management, emotional skills, interpersonal communication, social skills, leadership, and problem solving and decision making), and enjoyment of soccer. Multiple regression analyses found that praise and understanding was the key contributor to the outcome variables, making the largest unique contribution to teamwork, goal setting, leadership, and total life skills. Directive behaviour made the largest unique contribution to emotional skills, and problem solving and decision making; whereas pressure made the largest unique contribution to participants’ time management and social skills. In practice, the results suggest that parents should display praise and understanding behaviours, which were the main contributor to players’ development of life skills within soccer.
Deep Learning-based Cooperative Trail Following for Multi-Robot System

Following trails in the wild is an essential capability of out-door autonomous mobile robots. Recently, deep learningbased approaches have made great advancements in this field. However, the existing research only focuses on the trail following with a single robot. In contrast, many robotic tasks in the reality, such as search and patrolling, are conducted by a group of robots. While these robots are grouped to move in the wild, they can cooperate to significantly promote the trail following accuracy, for example, by sharing images of different view angles or real-time decision fusion. This paper proposes such an approach named DL-Cooper that enables multi-robot visionbased trail following based on deep learning algorithms. It allows each robot to make a decision respectively with deep neural network and then fusion the decisions on the collective level with the support of back-end cloud computing infrastructure. It also takes Quality of Service (QoS) assurance, a very essential property of robotic software, into consideration. By limiting the condition to fusion decisions, the time latency can be minimally sacrificed. Experiments on the real-world dataset show that our approach has significantly improved the accuracy of the singlerobot system.
Nursing students’ relationships among meaning in life, well-being, and positive beliefs

Abstract Nursing educators have a core responsibility to develop nursing students’ health promotion. The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students regarding their relationships among meaning in life, well-being, and positive beliefs. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted in this study. Purposive sampling was used. A total of 219 nursing students participated in the study. Quantitative analysis was utilized for the data analyses. The study found that nursing students had the following mean scores on the meaning in life, 4.33 (86.60%) standard deviation (SD) 0.79; well-being, 4.23 (84.60%) SD 0.78; and positive beliefs, 4.32 (86.40%) SD 0.75. The nursing students’ characteristics, meaning in life, and well-being explained 79% of the variance in positive beliefs (adjusted R2 = 0.79, F = 114.57, P < .001). Nursing educators can promote meaning in life and well-being to nursing students as an effective way to increase their positive beliefs.
The Role of Positive Emotion and Ego-Resilience in Determining Men’s Physical Activity Following a Workplace Health Intervention

Men are a hard-to-reach group in the promotion of modifiable behaviors such as physical activity. Examining the individual differences among men that might predict positive behavior changes could support customization of health promotion programs. This study examined the role of emotional outlook, positive emotion, and ego-resilience in determining men’s physical activity and health-related quality of life following implementation of a gender-sensitive workplace health intervention. Using a pre–post within-subjects design, computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) was used to collect measures of emotion and ego-resilience along with physical activity and health-related quality of life (using the 12-item short form [SF-12]) at baseline (n = 139) and after 6 months (n = 80) from adult men (Mage = 43.7, SD = 12.5). Baseline emotional outlook and ego-resilience were both positively related to increased physical activity at follow-up among men. Emotional outlook and positive emotion were positively related to ego-resilience, and ego-resilience mediated the relationship between these and the physical component of health-related quality of life. Workplace health interventions that incorporate the promotion of personal resources hold potential for greater impacts.
Inclusive sensory ethnography: Studying new media and neurodiversity in everyday life

Media and communication studies has recently begun to ethnographically explore the sensory dimensions of how individuals experience and perceive technology. This turn toward the sensorial has centered primarily on the five “external” senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) and less so on “internal” vestibular and proprioceptive systems that concern bodily spatial positioning. I propose inclusive sensory ethnography to account for greater neurodiversity in how humans process sensory input, as well as a fuller range of multi-sensory encounters with new media. I ground this conceptualization in a qualitative study of young children on the autism spectrum with difficulties processing sensory information and their social engagements with print, screen, and interactive media. Inclusive sensory ethnography reveals novel understandings of how the internal senses shape and are shaped by mediated relationships, practices, and intimacies. I discuss further implications for how disability and inclusive sensory ethnography can enrich the study of everyday technology use.
Comparing Teaching Methods on Skin Disorders Using Standardized Patients Dressed in Moulage vs Paper Cases

Objective. To determine whether using standardized patients dressed in moulage improves pharmacy students’ ability to assess skin disorders compared to using picture-based paper cases. To determine pharmacy student preferences when learning assessment of skin disorders through these two educational methods. Methods. Faculty members investigated student assessments of drug-induced skin disorders and contact dermatitis by using picture-based paper cases compared with using standardized patients dressed in moulage in a patient assessment course. Faculty members measured student knowledge via multiple-choice questions before laboratory, immediately after laboratory, and during a final examination 3 weeks later. Student preferences were measured immediately after laboratory via survey instrument in this randomized, non-blinded, crossover design educational study. Results. No significant differences in knowledge scores related to skin disorders were found after laboratory or 3 weeks later when comparing the two educational methods. However, survey results suggested student preferences for using standardized patients dressed in moulage for drug-induced skin disorders. No significant differences were found for contact dermatitis cases. Conclusion. Using standardized patients dressed in moulage did not improve pharmacy students’ ability to assess skin disorders compared to using picture-based paper cases. Pharmacy students preferred standardized patients dressed in moulage only when learning assessment of drug-induced skin disorders.
Relation of the frequency and mortality of pulmonary thromboembolism with meteorological parameters

Objective:The objective of this study is to find the relationship between incidence rate and mortality of acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and seasonal and meteorological factors. Materials and methods: The data from 234 patients who were hospitalized due to acute PTE in the emergency service or policlinics between 2001 and 2008 were investigated retrospectively. Cases that developed APE (acute pulmonary embolism) in the hospital were excluded. Seasons and months in which acute PTE was diagnosed were recorded. Mortality rates by months and seasons were evaluated. The mean pressure, temperature and humidity values were evaluated for periods of three days, seven days and one month before the day of presentation. The effects of meteorological factors on the severity (massive or non-massive) and mortality of APE were investigated. Results: The incidence rate of acute APE showed a significant difference according to seasons (p=0.000). APE was diagnosed most commonly in spring and winter. The mean pressure values for three days, seven days and one month and the mean humidity values for three days for the dead patients were found to be significantly lower than those of the survived ones (p<0.05). The mortality rate for patients admitted in summer was significantly higher than the rates for other seasons (p=0.02). There were no seasonal differences among the massive APE incidences. Mortality rates were higher in summer because of the nonmassive APE patients rather than the massive patients. Conclusion: Acute PE is a disease whose incidence and mortality rates are affected by meteorological factors. (www.actabiomedica.it)
Promotion of Learning Motivation through Individualization of Learner-Game Interaction

Educational games have been used in educational settings for ages. The reasons behind this interest are different, e.g., games increase enjoyment, involvement, and motivation, as well as they influence emotions. In an area where competence level and challenge level are well balanced the so-called "flow-experience" appears. But how can we maintain "flow-experience" by using serious games? Computational intelligence could be a pioneer answer, if the technology will be implemented in a didactic and meaningful manner. A serious game with emotion-based adaptation has been developed and described in the paper. An experimental study with 244 participants has been carried out involving the usage of the developed game. Results of the experiment in terms of learning outcomes, flow-experience, and motivation are described in the paper.
Online Learning of Recurrent Neural Architectures by Locally Aligning Distributed Representations

Temporal models based on recurrent neural networks have proven to be quite powerful in a wide variety of applications, including language modeling and speech processing. However, to train these models, one relies on back-propagation through time, which entails unfolding the network over many time steps, making the process of conducting credit assignment considerably more challenging. Furthermore, the nature of back-propagation itself does not permit the use of non-differentiable activation functions and is inherently sequential, making parallelization of the underlying training process very difficult. In this work, we propose the Parallel Temporal Neural Coding Network, a biologically inspired model trained by the local learning algorithm known as Local Representation Alignment, that aims to resolve the difficulties and problems that plague recurrent networks trained by back-propagation through time. Most notably, this architecture requires neither unrolling nor the derivatives of its internal activation functions. We compare our model and learning procedure to other online back-propagation-through-time alternatives (which also tend to be computationally expensive), including real-time recurrent learning, echo state networks, and unbiased online recurrent optimization, and show that it outperforms them on sequence modeling benchmarks such as Bouncing MNIST, a new benchmark we call Bouncing NotMNIST, and Penn Treebank. Notably, our approach can, in some instances, even outperform full back-propagation through time itself as well as variants such as sparse attentive back-tracking. Furthermore, we present promising experimental results that demonstrate our model's ability to conduct zero-shot adaptation.
A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

The giant tyrannosaurids were the apex predators of western North America and Asia during the close of the Cretaceous Period. Although many tyrannosaurid species are known from numerous skeletons representing multiple growth stages, the early evolution of Tyrannosauridae remains poorly known, with the well-known species temporally restricted to the middle Campanian-latest Maastrichtian (∼77–66 Ma). The recent discovery of a new tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes, from the Wahweap Formation of Utah provided new data on early Campanian (∼80 Ma) tyrannosaurids. Nevertheless, the early evolution of Tyrannosauridae is still largely unsampled. We report a new tyrannosaurid represented by an associated skeleton from the lower Campanian Allison Member of the Menefee Formation of New Mexico. Despite fragmentation of much of the axial and appendicular skeleton prior to discovery, the frontals, a metacarpal, and two pedal phalanges are well-preserved. The frontals exhibit an unambiguous autapomorphy and a second potential autapomorphy that distinguish this specimen from all other tyrannosaurids. Therefore, the specimen is made the holotype of the new genus and species Dynamoterror dynastes. A phylogenetic analysis places Dynamoterror dynastes in the tyrannosaurid subclade Tyrannosaurinae. Laser-scanning the frontals and creation of a composite 3-D digital model allows the frontal region of the skull roof of Dynamoterror to be reconstructed.
Retroactive Attentional Shifts Predict Performance in a Working Memory Task: Evidence by Lateralized EEG Patterns

Shifts of attention within working memory based on retroactive (retro-) cues were shown to facilitate performance in working memory tasks. Although posterior asymmetries in the EEG, such as the contralateral delay activity (CDA), have been used to study the active storage of lateralized working memory representations, results on the relation of such asymmetric effects to retro-cue benefits remain inconclusive. We recorded EEG in a retro-cue working memory task with lateralized items and a continuous performance response. Following either a selective or neutral retro-cue, participants adjusted the orientation of a central memory probe to the cued item. Selective retro-cues elicited an early posterior contralateral negativity (PCN), anterior directing attention negativity (ADAN) and a later modulation of CDA indicating that active storage was concentrated on the cued information. By dividing all trials into three within-condition performance quantiles, we could further show that high working memory accuracy was associated with a sustained increase of the CDA effect following the retro-cue. These results suggest that focusing resources on the active storage of relevant representations is an important factor regarding retro-cue benefits in working memory tasks.
Prognostic factors for multiple myeloma in the era of novel therapies

ABSTRACT Introduction: Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized by notable inter-patient and intra-clonal heterogeneity that is gradually decoded over the last decade. Despite the deeper and better understanding of its biology and the development of novel therapeutic strategies that have prolonged overall survival, MM still retains a poor prognosis in patient subgroups with certain high-risk features. Areas covered: This article summarizes currently identified features that stratified patients in high-risk myeloma with impaired prognosis and discusses available therapeutic options that may partially overcome the impact of these adverse factors in patients’ outcome. Numerous molecular and genetic assays such as detection by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) of cytogenetic aberrations, gene expression profiling, minimal residual disease assessment by flow cytometry, or next-generation sequencing as well as novel imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT) have considerably increased available tools for recognizing in advance patients with unfavorable outcome. In parallel, many novel agents, particularly in combination treatments, have significantly improved the natural evolution of high-risk disease. Expert commentary: Moving forward to the same direction, a more accurate identification of patients with high-risk MM will allow a more individualized and intensive approach in their management directly after diagnosis.
Sexting scripts in adolescent relationships: Is sexting becoming the norm?

This study offers empirical insight into adolescents’ norms around sexting. Informed by sexual scripting theory, we investigated the extent to which young people perceive sexting as being a likely behavior in the context of a romantic relationship (the “sexting script”). A distinction is made between what adolescents find likely among same-aged peers (the general sexting script) versus what they find likely in their personal situation (the personal sexting script). Data were gathered through questionnaires from adolescents aged 13–18 years (N = 357, 45% male). The results show that sexting scripts are gendered and that adolescents perceive sexting as being more likely to occur among peers than in their personal situation. The personal sexting script is related to the general sexting script, sexual experiences, and the use of online pornography. The results of the study are useful for the design of sexting education and sensitization messages toward youth.