Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Challenges for Robust Prosody-based Affect Recognition

Prosody-based affect recognition has great potential impact for building adaptive speech interfaces. For example, in intelligent systems for personalized learning, sensing a student’s level of certainty, which is often signaled prosodically, is one of the most interesting states to interpret and respond to. However, robust uncertainty recognition faces several challenges, including the lack of gold-standard labels, and differences in expressivity among speakers. In this paper we explore the intersection of these two issues. We have collected a corpus of spontaneous speech in a question-answering task. Three kinds of certainty labels are associated with each utterance. First, speakers rated their own level of certainty. Second, a panel of listeners rated how certain the speaker sounded. Third, an externally crowd-sourced difﬁculty score is generated for each stimulus (the question). We present a word-level prosodic analysis of individual speaking styles, as they relate to these three different measurements of certainty. Our results suggest that instead of learning one-size-ﬁts-all prosodic models of affect, we might ﬁnd improvement from learning multiple models corresponding to different speaking styles.
An institution-based cervical PAP smear study, correlation with clinical findings & histopathology in the Konkan region of Maharashtra state, India

Cervical carcinoma is a common cause of death in India. It is presented by spectrum of precancerous lesions, called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Cervical cytological screening is designed to detect over 90% of cytological abnormalities. It has been established that cervical cancers can be diagnosed at the pre-invasive stage with adequate, repetitive cytological screening. Keeping in view of the importance of cervical PAP abnormalities & by classifying them by Bethesda terminology; correlation with clinical findings & histopathological findings was done.
Behaviour patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) relative to tidal state, time-of-day, and boat trac in Cardigan Bay, West Wales

A heat-sensitive recording material produced by a process wherein an excess amount of a color developing layer coating solution or a protective layer coating solution is removed by a roll blade coater is excellent in recording machine applicability and dynamic sensitivity without bringing about streaks, pressure fogging and heat fogging on the uppermost treated surface.
Endodontic infections and apical periodontitis. An analysis of microbial factors prior, during and after endodontic treatment

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A single-frequency integrated ring laser for gyro applications

Inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an essential part of modern aircrafts, drones spacecrafts, ships, missiles and others. A typical IMU comprises a set of accelerometers and gyroscopes providing signals which enable accurate and reliable navigation. The application determines detailed requirements, however in any case high speed and accuracy, compact and robust design combined with low power consumption are strongly demanded. Optical gyroscopes, either interferometric or ring laser based devices, seem to be the most suitable for these applications. However, so far an integrated optical gyroscope has not been implemented on the market [1]. In our previous paper [2] we demonstrated the initial results of our research on multi-mode integrated ring lasers for gyro application, while in this work we present a system, based on a single-frequency integrated ring laser, which could be used as an optical gyro sensor.
Enhanced Carbon Enrichment in Parasitoids (Hymenoptera): A Stable Isotope Study

Abstract By considering the magnitude of isotope enrichment associated with trophic transfers in biologically important elements such as carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N), it is possible to infer trophic interactions in systems where direct observations are logistically difficult. Several recent reviews have estimated that consumers become enriched in the heavy nitrogen isotope on the order of 2.3 to 3.4‰ with each trophic transfer. Furthermore, these same reviews have estimated that consumers become enriched in the heavy carbon isotope between 0.4 and 0.5‰ per trophic transfer. Although these estimates have been used to infer trophic interactions in a variety of taxa, the applicability of these estimates for studies of arthropod community ecology is poorly understood. Specifically for insect parasitoid communities, estimates of nitrogen and carbon isotope enrichment from a comprehensive study have yet to be published. Here, we present the results of nitrogen and carbon stable isotope analyses for a suite of hymenopteran parasitoids that attack the gall-making midge, Rhopalomyia californica Felt (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), on coyote bush, Baccharis pilularis (Compositae), in northern California. Mean carbon enrichment for all parasitoids developing on R. californica was considerably higher than expected, based on recent reviews. In fact, discrimination among trophic levels was possible, based on carbon enrichment values alone. Mean nitrogen isotope enrichment was slightly lower than values reported in recent reviews. However, the variation associated with our estimate of nitrogen enrichment falls well within the range of values reported in the reviews. Mechanisms behind the greater than expected enrichment in carbon are currently unknown and will require further investigation.
Deep ocean exchange with west-European shelf seas

Abstract. We review mechanisms and studies of exchange between the north-east Atlantic and the adjacent shelf seas. Well-developed summer upwelling and associated filaments off Portugal and north-west Spain give exchange O(3 m2/s per unit length of shelf). Prevailing westerly winds further north drive exchange O(1 m2/s). Poleward flow along most of the upper slope has associated secondary circulation O(1 m2/s), meanders and eddies. Eddies are shed from slope waters into the Bay of Biscay, and local exchanges occur at shelf spurs and depressions or canyons (e.g. dense-water cascading of order 1 m2/s). Tidal transports are larger, but their reversal every six hours makes exchange largely ineffective except where internal tides are large and non-linear, as in the Celtic Sea where solitons carry water with exchange O(1 m2/s). These various physical exchanges amount to an estimated 2–3 m2/s per unit length of shelf, between ocean and shelf. A numerical model estimate is comparable: 2.5×106 m3/s onto and off the shelf from Brittany to Norway. Mixing controls the seasonal thermocline, affecting primary production and hence fluxes and fate of organic matter. Specifically, CO2 take-up by primary production, settling below the thermocline before respiration, and then off-shelf transport, make an effective shelf-sea "pump" (for CO2 from the atmosphere to the deep ocean). However, knowledge of biogeochemical fluxes is generally sparse, giving scope for more measurements, model validation and estimates from models.
Epidemiological study of Aspergillosis in chickens and human contacts in chicken farms at Kalyoubia Governorate

A total of 100 suspected chicken lung tissues and 80 environmental samples including litter, feed, water and air (20 samples of each) were collected from different private chicken farms at kalyoubia Governorate, Moreover 30 sputum and 30 blood serum samples were collected from occupationally human contacts with these farms and with chronic respiratory disease. All samples except serum were examined mycologically but serum samples were serologically examined by ELISA. The percentage of Aspergillus species was 24%,55%,55%,10%,50 % and 23.3% in lung tissues, feed, litter, water, air and human sputum respectively. Almost all Aspergillus species isolated from lung tissues of chickens were also recovered from environmental samples and human sputum samples but Aspergillus fumigatus was the predominant and the most pathogenic fungus isolated from all samples followed by Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus flavus. The occurrence of infection was high in hot and humid seasons and was considerably high in chickens reared on saw dust litter as compared to rice husk litter. Regarding to human beings,Aspergilli were isolated from all age groups but the majority of infection exists among the 20-40 years group (26.7%) but it was nearly equal in both males (23.5%) and females (23.1%) and higher in farm workers (29.4%) than in farm owners and veterinarians. Aspergillus fumigatus was detected in sputum samples with 13.3% but in blood serum samples by using ELISA IgG, it was 10%. The zoonotic importance of Aspergillosis as occupationally disease among poultry farm workers as well as the suggested hygienic measures were discussed to decrease its transmission to humans.
Fifth metatarsal stress fracture in elite male football players: an on-field analysis of plantar loading

Objective Evaluate plantar loading during ‘on-field’ common football movements in players after fifth metatarsal (MT-5) stress fracture and compare with matched healthy players. Methods Fourteen elite male soccer players participated in the study conducted on a natural grass playing surface using firm ground football boots. Seven players who had suffered a primary stress fracture (MT-5 group) and seven matched healthy players (controls, CON) performed three common football movements while in-shoe plantar loading data were collected. Results Large between-group differences exist for maximal vertical force normalised to bodyweight (Fmax) at the lateral toes (2-5) of the stance leg during a set-piece kick (MT-5: 0.2±0.06 bodyweight (BW), CON: 0.1±0.05 BW, effect size (ES) 1.4) and the curved run where the MT-5 group showed higher Fmax with very large effect size at the lateral forefoot of the injured (closest to curve) limb when running a curve to receive a pass (MT-5 injured−CON=0.01 BW, ES 1.5). Small between-group differences were evident during straight-line running. However, between-limb analysis of MT-5 group showed significant unloading of the lateral forefoot region of the involved foot. Conclusions Elite male football players who have returned to play after MT-5 stress fracture display significantly higher maximum plantar force at the lateral forefoot and lateral toes (2-5) compared with healthy matched control players during two football movements (kick and curved run) with the magnitude of these differences being very large. These findings may have important implications for manipulating regional load during rehabilitation or should a player report lateral forefoot prodromal symptoms.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Serum Golgi Protein 73 as Tumor Marker for Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is common throughout the world. Most HCCs are diagnosed at an advanced stage so that there is an urgent need to find new methods for screening and surveillance of individuals at risk. Serum Golgi protein 73 (GP73) is a novel and promising biomarker for detection of HCC. The aim of this study was evaluation of the effectiveness of serum Golgi protein 73 as tumor marker for diagnosis of HCC. Material and methods: This study was performed on 125 subjects; they were divided into 3 groups. 50 patients with HCC, 50 patients with liver cirrhosis and 25 healthy subjects as a control. All subjects were subjected to full history taking and complete clinical examination, laboratory investigations, serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and GP73 (by ELISA), abdominal ultrasonography and triphasic CT or magnetic resonance imaging for patients with hepatic focal lesion(HFL). Patients who had a prior locoregional therapy, systemic therapy, any surgical intervention and patients with any other hepatic or non hepatic malignancy were excluded from the study. Results: The serum levels of AFP and GP73 were significantly elevated in patients with HCC compared to cirrhotic patients and controls (P<0.001). A significant correlation was found between serum GP73 level and prognostic markers of liver cirrhosis i.e. (Bilirubin, creatinine, INR and AFP and child pugh score) and more aggressive tumor characters (Tumor size, number and vascular invasion) (P<0.001). On the other hand there was no significant correlation between AFP and number and overall size of focal lesions (P>0.05). The sensitivity and specificity of GP73 for HCC were superior to those of AFP.GP73 had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 84% at the optimal cut-off value of 5.7ng/ml with accuracy of 84.3%. While, AFP had a sensitivity of 76.3% and a specificity of 76.2% at the optimal cut-off value of 23.12 ng /ml with accuracy of 81.7% for detection of HCC. On combining both AFP and GP73 values for selective detection of HCC, they had a sensitivity of 88%, specificity of 96 %. with accuracy of 92 % which is better than each of them alone. Conclusions: serum GP 73 can be used as useful biomarkers to confirm the diagnosis of HCC especially if combined with AFP and correlated with the aggressiveness of the tumor. [Sherif Monier Mohamed Hany Aly Hussein, Mostafa Hamed Abd Elaleem and Yasmin Nabil El-Sakhawy. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Serum Golgi Protein 73 as Tumor Marker for Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Life Sci J 2014;11(9s):658-665]. (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 123
Automatic Approach-Avoidance Tendencies and Sexual Interest Behavior

In the present study, we adapted and validated a measure of automatic approach-avoidance tendencies toward sexual stimuli in a male heterosexual sample (N = 29). As expected, automatic approach-avoidance tendencies, as measured via push and pull reactions in a joystick task, primarily predicted an unobtrusive measure of the time participants viewed erotic slides but not a more deliberate measure of forced-choice between an erotic and an art calendar. Conversely, participants' explicit attitudes primarily predicted the forced- choice measure but not viewing time. Furthermore, automatic approach-avoidance tendencies discriminated reliably between those par- ticipants who were and those who were not currently engaged in a romantic relationship.
Diferencias y evolución del impacto académico en los perfiles de Google Scholar Citations: Una aplicación de árboles de decisión

The aim of this paper is to analyse the research performance of more than 3,000 profiles from Google Scholar Citations to define which groups (by gender, academic positions and disciplines) bring together more successful profiles. This analysis was faced both from a static and a longitudinal point of view. Decision trees were used to detect the most important variables in order to distinguish winning profiles and to observe which categories bring together more authors with high number of citations and h-indexes. Results show that the career is the most relevant aspect to achieve citations and improve the h-index. Senior researchers are thus ranked in the best positions, while young scholars describe nascent curricula. Otherwise, this distribution changes when growth rates are computed. It is concluded that researchers with a stable career from life sciences have better research impact than young researchers from humanities and social sciences, despite that the fastest growing profiles belong to young scholars.
Probabilities and trajectories in a classical wave-particle duality

Several recent experiments were devoted to walkers, structures that associate a droplet bouncing on a vibrated liquid with the surface waves it excites. They reveal that a form of wave-particle duality exists in this classical system with the emergence of quantum-like behaviours. Here we revisit the single particle diffraction experiment and show the coexistence of two waves. The measured probability distributions are ruled by the diffraction of a quantumlike probability wave. But the observation of a single walker reveals that the droplet is driven by a pilot wave of different spatial structure that determines its trajectory in real space. The existence of two waves of these types had been proposed by de Broglie in his "double solution" model of quantum mechanics. A difference with the latter is that the pilot-wave is, in our experiment, endowed with a "path memory". When intrusive measurements are performed, this memory effect induces transient chaotic individual trajectories that generate the resulting statistical behaviour.
Coral mucus as an efficient trap for picoplanktonic cyanobacteria: implications for pelagic–benthic coupling in the reef ecosystem

Although the planktonic community of coral reefs is dominated by picoplankton (e.g. the cyanobacterium Synechococcus), it was long believed to play only a marginal role in pelagic- benthic coupling, as its minute size (0.2 to 2.0 µm) and negligible sinking rate render it largely unavailable for the filter-feeding reef benthos. However, scleractinian corals have been shown to continuously release mucus that functions as an efficient trap and important carrier for particulate matter within the reef ecosystem. This study investigates the trapping potential of coral mucus for picoplankton in the laboratory and in the field. Freshly released mucus of Fungia corals already con- tained background levels of pelagic and/or associated synechococcoid cyanobacteria (1.0 ± 0.2 × 10 4 cells ml -1 ). Mesocosm experiments in flow-through tanks revealed up to 46-fold picoplankton enrichment in aged mucus aggregates, while laboratory experiments with rotated chambers con- firmed the pelagic source of these mucus enrichments. Addition of coral mucus resulted in a signifi- cant increase in clearance rates (32 to 52% h -1 ) of the initial Synechococcus spp. population com- pared to clearance found in non-mucus chambers (6 to 18% h -1 ). Drifting mucus aggregates originating from Acropora corals collected in situ exhibited high Synechococcus enrichment (up to 4.6 × 10 6 cells ml -1 ) compared to the surrounding seawater (2.1 ± 0.8 × 10 4 cells ml -1 ), indicating effi- cient picoplankton enrichment by 2 orders of magnitude. The ensuing rapid sedimentation (0.5 to 1 cm s -1 ) of enriched aggregates highlights the importance of coral mucus as a so far overlooked vector enhancing the flux of pelagic picoplankton to the coral reef benthos.
New Records of Atypical Coral Reef Habitat in the Kimberley, Australia

New surveys of the Kimberley Nearshore Bioregion are beginning to fill knowledge gaps about the region’s marine biodiversity and the national and international conservation significance of this little-known tropical reef system. Here we report the recent finding of two unique coral habitats documented at Adele Island and Long Reef during the Woodside 2009/2010 Collection Project surveys. Firstly, we report the finding of a subtidal zone of mixed corallith and rhodolith habitat which appears on current records, to be unprecedented in Australia. Secondly, we report the discovery of an atypical Organ Pipe Coral habitat zone and provide empirical evidence that this commercially valuable species reaches an unparalleled level of benthic cover. We provide additional details about the wider hard and soft coral assemblages associated with these unique habitats; discuss the potential biological causes and consequences of them, and make recommendations to benefit their conservation.
Visual Sonority Modulates Infants’ Attraction to Sign Language

ABSTRACT The infant brain may be predisposed to identify perceptually salient cues that are common to both signed and spoken languages. Recent theory based on spoken languages has advanced sonority as one of these potential language acquisition cues. Using a preferential looking paradigm with an infrared eye tracker, we explored visual attention of hearing 6- and 12-month-olds with no sign language experience as they watched fingerspelling stimuli that either conformed to high sonority (well-formed) or low sonority (ill-formed) values, which are relevant to syllabic structure in signed language. Younger babies showed highly significant looking preferences for well-formed, high sonority fingerspelling, while older babies showed no preference for either fingerspelling variant, despite showing a strong preference in a control condition. The present findings suggest babies possess a sensitivity to specific sonority-based contrastive cues at the core of human language structure that is subject to perceptual narrowing, irrespective of language modality (visual or auditory), shedding new light on universals of early language learning.
Nervous System Manifestations of von Hippel-Lindau Disease

von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a highly penetrant multiple organ heritable cancer syndrome with a spectrum of benign and malignant tumors. VHL is results from a germline mutation of the VHL tumor suppressor gene (short arm of chromosome 3). VHL affects 1 in 36,000 to 39,000 livebirths as an autosomal dominant trait. Individuals harboring a mutation in VHL can develop benign and malignant tumors, both of the central nervous system (CNS) and systemically. VHL-associated lesions of the CNS include retinal and craniospinal hemangioblastomas, as well as endolymphatic sac tumors (ELSTs). While CNS hemangioblastomas (most common tumor in VHL) and ELSTs are benign tumors, they are associated with significant neurologic morbidity and mortality based on their location and multiplicity. Because of the management complexities of this disease, multidisciplinary screening and treatment, as well as a deep understanding of the natural course of the disease are needed.
The Influence of Paratext on Narrative Persuasion: Fact, Fiction, or Fake?

The present research examined the role of personality factors and paratextual information about the reliability of a story on its persuasiveness. Study 1 (N = 135) was focused on recipients' explicit expectations about the trustworthiness/usefulness and the immersiveness/entertainment value of stories introduced as nonfiction, fiction, or fake. Study 2 (experimental, N = 186) demonstrated that a story was persuasive in all three paratext conditions (nonfiction, fiction, or fake versus belief-unrelated control story) and that its influence increased with the recipients' need for affect. Participants' need for cognition increased the difference in persuasiveness of a nonfictional versus a fake story. Additional mediation analyses suggest that fiction is more persuasive than fake because readers of fiction get more deeply transported into the story world.