Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Cockney persona: the London accent in characterisation and translation

ABSTRACT This contribution focuses on the London accent, in its traditional Cockney realisation and in its more recent developments. The function of this accent in the original texts and its translation into Italian dubbing are both considered. After a description of the iconic features of the London variety, significant examples are presented, which showcase this accent in contrast with other accents and sociolects, especially the received pronunciation, according to a typical narrative topos. Rather than concentrating on the frequent realistic portrayals authored by socially oriented writers and directors, the examples chosen here to illustrate some typical telecinematic renditions of this popular variety are more stereotypical realisations of the London accent, whose aim is to portray an emblematic character with a distinctive idiolect. In the last section, dialogue excerpts will be analysed through the lens of two functions in particular, those defined by Kozloff (2000) as ‘opportunities for star turns’ and ‘exploitation of the resources of language’, two of the least quoted, but most interesting categories of her seminal taxonomy. Emphasis on these functions will arguably give the opportunity to approach the much-discussed topic of dialect translation from a fresher perspective.
Evolving Networks and Social Network Analysis Methods and Techniques

Evolving networks by definition are networks that change as a function of time. They are a natural extension of network science since almost all real-world networks evolve over time, either by adding or by removing nodes or links over time: elementary actor-level network measures like network centrality change as a function of time, popularity and influence of individuals grow or fade depending on processes, and events occur in networks during time intervals. Other problems such as network-level statistics computation, link prediction, community detection, and visualization gain additional research importance when applied to dynamic online social networks (OSNs). Due to their temporal dimension, rapid growth of users, velocity of changes in networks, and amount of data that these OSNs generate, effective and efficient methods and techniques for small static networks are now required to scale and deal with the temporal dimension in case of streaming settings. This chapter reviews the state of the art in selected aspects of evolving social networks presenting open research challenges related to OSNs. The challenges suggest that significant further research is required in evolving social networks, i.e., existent methods, techniques, and algorithms must be rethought and designed toward incremental and dynamic versions that allow the efficient analysis of evolving networks.
Internet of Things adoption for reconfiguring decision-making processes in asset management

Purpose Managers are increasingly looking to adopt the Internet of Things (IoT) to include the vast amount of big data generated in their decision-making processes. The use of IoT might yield many benefits for organizations engaged in civil infrastructure management, but these benefits might be difficult to realize as organizations are not equipped to handle and interpret this data. The purpose of this paper is to understand how IoT adoption affects decision-making processes. Design/methodology/approach In this paper the changes in the business processes for managing civil infrastructure assets brought about by IoT adoption are analyzed by investigating two case studies within the water management domain. Propositions for effective IoT adoption in decision-making processes are derived. Findings The results show that decision processes in civil infrastructure asset management have been transformed to deal with the real-time nature of the data. The authors found the need to make organizational and business process changes, development of new capabilities, data provenance and governance and the need for standardization. IoT can have a transformative effect on business processes. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalizability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the propositions further. Practical implications The paper shows that data provenance is necessary to be able to understand the value and the quality of the data often generated by various organizations. Managers need to adapt new capabilities to be able to interpret the data. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified need to understand how IoT adoption affects decision-making processes in asset management in order to be able to achieve expected benefits and mitigate risk.
Seasonal variations of urinary stone colic in Arabia.

The western region of Saudi Arabia is an area with a high prevalence of urolithiasis. This study was designed to find the effect of climatic changes on the occurrence of urinary stone colic as well as the effect of Ramadan fasting and pilgrimage festival. The emergency room (E.R.) records at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah were studied for 3 consecutive years. Males diagnosed as urinary colic during this period were recorded on monthly basis with correction for 30 days a month. Data were recorded before, during and after the fasting month as well as before and after the pilgrimage festival. The results showed a steady increase in urinary stone colic in the hot season with a maximum rate in the months of June, July and August. The mean number of males with stone colic in these months was 45.33, 44.19 and 45.16 respectively. The lowest number was in March (28.06) with a rate of 4.11 per 1000 patients. A strong correlation was found between urinary stone colic and both temperature and atmospheric pressure with a P value of < 0.0001. No significant correlation was observed with relative humidity and similarly no significant change in relation to Ramadan fasting or the pilgrimage festival. These results suggest that there is a clear stone season in this area corresponding to the hot summer months. No significant increase in urinary stone colic was observed in relationship to the fasting month of Ramadan or the pilgrimage festival.
THE EFFECT OF WORKLOAD, INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND SCHOOL CLIMATE ON TEACHERS’ EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF PAPUA

Abstract:This study was aimed to investigate the potential effect of workload, individual characteristics, and school climate on teachers’ emotional exhaustion in Christian elementary schools of Boven Digoel district, Papua. The problems guided the study, namely: (a) does workloadeffectsignificant positively on teachers’ emotional exhaustion elementary schools? ; (b) does individual characteristics effectsignificant positively on teachers’ emotional exhaustion in elementary schools? ; and (c) does school climate effect significant positively on teachers’ emotional exhaustion in elementary schools? Four quantitative questionnaires using Likert’s scale were administered to 94 teachers who have been decided as respondents. Data were analyzed quantitatively using simple linear regression analysis technique by employing SPSS version 21 for windows. Results of the study revealed that workload, individual characteristics, and school climate partially effect significant positively on teachers’ emotional exhaustion in elementary schools. These findings might be worthwhile for the school supervisors as well as The Head of Education Office in regional government level to eliminate teachers emotional exhaustion by creating different programs to improve workload system and to improve school climate on one hand and, on the other hand, to foster teachers’ character of hard-working.Keywords: workload, individual characteristics, school climate, emotional exhaustion, teachers PENGARUH BEBAN KERJA, KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU, DAN IKLIM SEKOLAH TERHADAP KELELAHAN EMOSIONAL GURU SD DI PAPUAAbstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menginvestigasi pengaruh beban kerja, karakteristik individu, dan iklim sekolah terhadap kelelahan emosional guru SD Kristen di Kabupaten Boven Digoel, Papua. Masalah yang menuntun penelitian ini adalah: (a) apakah beban kerja guru berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap kelelahan emosional guru SD? ; (b) apakah karakteristik individu berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap kelelahan emosional guru SD? ; dan (c) apakah iklim sekolah berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap kelelahan emosional guru SD? Empat angket kuantitatif yang menggunakan Skala Likert disebarkan kepada 94 guru yang menjadi responden. Data dianalisis secara kuantitatif menggunakan SPSS versi 21. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa beban kerja, karakteristik individu, dan iklim sekolah secara parsial berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap kelelahan emosional guru SD. Hasil penelitian ini dapat menjadi pertimbangan bagi penyelia sekolah dan Kepala Dinas Pendidikan pada level pemerintah Kabupaten Boven Digoel dalam mengupayakan berbagai program yang berbeda untuk memperbaiki sistem pembebanan kerja dan iklim sekolah serta mendorong karakter guru yang suka bekerja keras dan pantang menyerah.Kata Kunci: beban kerja, karakteristik individu, iklim sekolah, kelelahan emosional, guru
Quantitative urine levels of cocaine and other substances of abuse.

: Used appropriately, quantitative levels can address research hypotheses and clinical issues that are otherwise untested by traditional qualitative urine results. Quantitative urine levels can provide new information in health services research, pharmacotherapy trials, studies of the interaction of cigarette smoking and substance abuse, additional studies of polysubstance abuse, and the linking of biological markers with phases of addiction and risk to relapse.
Efeitos térmicos do ultra-som terapêutico sobre os tecidos ósseo e muscular e sobre placa metálica implantada* Estudo experimental termográfico em coelhos

Os efeitos termicos do ultra-som terapeutico sobre os tecidos osseo e muscular, na presenca de placa metalica implantada, nao estao definitivamente aclarados. Um estudo experimental foi realizado para investigar essesefeitos, por meio da termografia, em ratos. Ambos os femures foram usados no estudo, sendo o direito como controle. No lado de teste (esquerdo), uma placa de osteossintese de aco inoxidavel de cinco orificios era fixada ao osso, sem osteotomia. No lado de controle, apenas a abordagem cirurgica era realizada, o osso sendo deixado intacto. Ambos os lados eram irradiados com o ultra-som terapeutico por 15 minutos, nas intensidades de 1,0 1,5, 2,0, 2,5 e 3,0W/cm2, de acordo com ogrupo experimental. A temperatura dos tecidos era media e cada cinco minutos, simultaneamente nos dois tecidos estudados, empregando-se um teletermografo. ObservacSes macroscopicas e estudos histologicos dos tecidos tambem eram realizados. Dos pontos de vista macro e microscopico, queimaduras foram produzidas tanto na pele como no musculo, com intensidades de ultra-som maiores que 2,0W/cm2. A analise termografica mostrou que houve aumento nas temperaturas do osso, do musculo e da placa, que foi diretamente proporcional a intesidade, mas que foi sempre maior nos tecidos vivos do que na placa, onde nunca excedeu 3,0 graus Celsius. Os autores concluiram que a placa metalica implantada nÝo induz temperaturas excessivamente altas, nem qualquer outro efeito deleterio nos tecidos circunjacentes.
Low Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Is Associated With Increased Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease

To the Editor: In a recent interesting paper by Juul et al1 and an accompanying editorial by Frystyk et al,2 an association between low insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) serum levels and the incidence of ischemic heart disease was reported. The inverse nature of this relationship was unexpected by these authors, and a number of possible mechanisms were discussed. However, in addition to these authors’ hypotheses about the molecular mechanisms …
Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?

Abstract The analysis of child’s speech corpora shows that the process of acquisition of English and French displays identical development of children’s expressions when the speech-utterances are presented as Fibonacci-weighted classes of concepts. A model of concept complexity and information processing based on principles of optimality is proposed to explain this statistical result.
Cholesterol

From the Ancient Greek chole(bile) and stereos (solid) followed by the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol, is an organic molecule. It is a sterol (or modified steroid), a type of lipid molecule, and is biosynthesized by all animal cells, because it is an essential structural component of all animal cell membranes; essential to maintain both membrane structural integrity and fluidity. Cholesterol enables animal cells to dispense with a cell wall (to protect membrane integrity and cell viability), thereby allowing animal cells to change shape and animals to move (unlike bacteria and plant cells, which are restricted by their cell walls).
Rate control algorithm based on frame complexity estimation for MVC

Rate control has not been well studied for multi-view video coding (MVC). In this paper, we propose an efficient rate control algorithm for MVC by improving the quadratic rate-distortion (R-D) model, which reasonably allocate bit-rate among views based on correlation analysis. The proposed algorithm consists of four levels for rate bits control more accurately, of which the frame layer allocates bits according to frame complexity and temporal activity. Extensive experiments show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently implement bit allocation and rate control according to coding parameters.
Differences in students’ learning outcomes between discovery learning and conventional learning models

The number of students’ learning outcomes of Year 9 SMP Negeri 1 Pekanbaru Indonesia, were still under minimum completion criteria (less than 82). The objective of this research is to see the difference in learning outcomes between students who follow the learning through the discovery learning model implementation and conventional learning on 3-dimensional shapes with curved surfaces. This study used a pre-experimental research design (Static Group Comparison) involved 2 sample classes, experiment, and control classes. The results showed that there were differences in learning outcomes between students who learned by discovery and conventional learning models.
Protective Effect of Coptis chinensis Polysaccharide Against Renal Injury by Suppressing Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Diabetic Rats

Our previous studies confirmed that Coptis chinensis polysaccharide (CCPW) had a good antidiabetic activity and could improve insulin resistance. However, whether CCPW has a protective effect against the renal injury caused by diabetes has not been reported. In this study, the protective effect of CCPW against the renal injury of diabetic rats and its underlying mechanisms were investigated. The results showed that in CCPW-treated groups, the body mass of rats increased significantly, while the ratio of kidney weight to body weight decreased significantly; the 24-hour urine protein and the serum BUN and serum creatinine (Scr) levels decreased significantly, and pathological changes of the renal tissue were improved; superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities in the renal tissue were significantly higher, and malondialdehyde (MDA) contents in the renal tissue, and tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and hypersensitive c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels in the serum were significantly lower; the expressions of phosphorylated tyrosine kinase 2 (p-JAK2) and activators of transcription 3 (p-STAT3) decreased significantly. The results indicate that CCPW should have a protective effect against the renal injury in diabetic rats, which may be associated with its inhibition on oxidative stress and inflammation.
The use of social media and artificial intelligence tools by online doctoral students at the thesis stage

Our paper aims to explore how the doctoral students made use of digital technologies - Social Media (SM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools - in the thesis stage of their fully online doctoral studies and what impact those tools had on their studies. Data were collected from an online survey (n=28) and a series of semi-structured interviews (n=9). The analysis of the survey data informed the qualitative phase of data collection. Both survey and interview data show a similar pattern of digital technologies uses in which for our participants SM tools far outpaces the usages of AI tools. We argue that the unique characteristics of the online doctoral students might have determined the popularity of some digital tools. The study findings help us to better understand students digital experience as both individuals and learners.
Assessment, Analytics, and Analysis: Demonstrating the Impact of LMS Embedded Librarians on Student Learning

Abstract Librarians are committed to supporting teaching, learning, and research. They are equally committed to supporting student success and retention. Demonstrating the impact that learning management system (LMS) embedded librarians make on student learning has been difficult to correlate, however. Studies that assess this connection, using qualitative and quantitative data have been undertaken in recent years. In a university regional campus library study conducted in 2016–2017, LMS embedded librarians explored the relationship between student learning and information literacy instruction, relying primarily on a customized LMS embedded librarian page of library resources and learning objects. They used a rubric to assess student research papers and bibliographies, LMS course analytics, instructors’ grades, and student feedback. This article reviews the literature and their methodology, challenges, and findings. They wish to guide colleagues, committed to assessing how librarians contribute to student learning, in selecting assessment approaches and validate their instructional role.
Association of ABO blood group in Iraqis with hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

: There is strong evidence to suggest that there is an association between ABO blood group and certain diseases. This study in Baghdad, Iraq investigated the possible association of diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolaemia and hypertension with ABO type. The data were derived from 920 patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia attending hospitals, clinics and laboratories in Baghdad, and 200 healthy control individuals. Analysing the data by blood group showed that the levels of total cholesterol, glucose and systolic/diastolic blood pressure were all significantly higher in male and female patients in blood group O than other groups, with a decreasing trend from group A to B then AB. Similar trends by blood group were seen for the healthy controls although the differences were less marked.
Global wildlife trade across the tree of life

A heavy toll Trade in wildlife, and their parts, is well recognized for a few key species, such as elephants and rhinos, but it occurs globally, across a wide array of species. Scheffers et al. looked across tens of thousands of vertebrate species and found that one in every five species is affected by trade of some sort. The impacts of trade tend to be concentrated in certain phylogenetic groups, thus the potential for long-term impact on certain lineages is substantial. This analysis allows for prediction of potential for trade where it does not yet occur, facilitating proactive prevention. Science, this issue p. 71 The wildlife trade affects one in every five vertebrate species. Wildlife trade is a multibillion dollar industry that is driving species toward extinction. Of >31,500 terrestrial bird, mammal, amphibian, and squamate reptile species, ~18% (N = 5579) are traded globally. Trade is strongly phylogenetically conserved, and the hotspots of this trade are concentrated in the biologically diverse tropics. Using different assessment approaches, we predict that, owing to their phylogenetic replacement and trait similarity to currently traded species, future trade will affect up to 3196 additional species—totaling 8775 species at risk of extinction from trade. Our assessment underscores the need for a strategic plan to combat trade with policies that are proactive rather than reactive, which is especially important because species can quickly transition from being safe to being endangered as humans continue to harvest and trade across the tree of life.
Detection of chlamydia infection within human testicular biopsies

Abstract STUDY QUESTION Can Chlamydia be found in the testes of infertile men? SUMMARY ANSWER Chlamydia can be found in 16.7% of fresh testicular biopsies and 45.3% of fixed testicular biopsies taken from a selection of infertile men. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Male chlamydial infection has been understudied despite male and female infections occurring at similar rates. This is particularly true of asymptomatic infections, which occur in 50% of cases. Chlamydial infection has also been associated with increased sperm DNA damage and reduced male fertility. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION We collected diagnostic (fixed, n = 100) and therapeutic (fresh, n = 18) human testicular biopsies during sperm recovery procedures from moderately to severely infertile men in a cross-sectional approach to sampling. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS The diagnostic and therapeutic biopsies were tested for Chlamydia-specific DNA and protein, using real-time PCR and immunohistochemical approaches, respectively. Serum samples matched to the fresh biopsies were also assayed for the presence of Chlamydia-specific antibodies using immunoblotting techniques. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE Chlamydial major outer membrane protein was detected in fixed biopsies at a rate of 45.3%. This was confirmed by detection of chlamydial DNA and TC0500 protein (replication marker). C. trachomatis DNA was detected in fresh biopsies at a rate of 16.7%, and the sera from each of these three positive patients contained C. trachomatis-specific antibodies. Overall, C. trachomatis-specific antibodies were detected in 72.2% of the serum samples from the patients providing fresh biopsies, although none of the patients were symptomatic nor had they reported a previous sexually transmitted infection diagnosis including Chlamydia. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION No reproductively healthy male testicular biopsies were tested for the presence of Chlamydia DNA or proteins or Chlamydia-specific antibodies due to the unavailability of these samples. WIDER IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FINDINGS Application of Chlamydia-specific PCR and immunohistochemistry in this human male infertility context of testicular biopsies reveals evidence of a high prevalence of previously unrecognised infection, which may potentially have a pathogenic role in spermatogenic failure. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) Funding for this project was provided by the Australian NHMRC under project grant number APP1062198. We also acknowledge assistance from the Monash IVF Group and Queensland Fertility Group in the collection of fresh biopsies, and the Monash Health and co-author McLachlan (declared equity interest) in retrieval and sectioning of fixed biopsies. E.M. declares an equity interest in the study due to financing of fixed biopsy sectioning. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER N/A