Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Species diversity and prey items of amphibians in Yoddom Wildlife Sanctuary, northeastern Thailand

Abstract. Thongproh P, Duengkae P, Ratree P, Phetcharat E, Kingwongsa W, Jaitrong W, Chuaynkern Y, Chuaynkern C. 2019. Species diversity and prey items of amphibians in Yoddom Wildlife Sanctuary, northeastern Thailand. Biodiversitas 20: 2718-2732. Amphibian occurrence within Yoddom Wildlife Sanctuary, which is located along the border region among Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, is poorly understood. To determine amphibian diversity within the sanctuary, we conducted daytime and nocturnal surveys from 2014 to 2017 within six management units. We recorded 26 amphibian species and two additional unidentified taxa from two orders (Anura and Gymnophiona) and six families. Four of the encountered species are new records for Ubon Ratchathani, (Kalophrynus interlineatus, Microhyla berdmorei, Micryletta inornata, and Chiromantis nongkhorensis). In addition to observational surveys, we investigated amphibian prey items via fecal pellet analyses. Prey items comprised mainly animals (85% from class Insecta), but 9% of species consumed both plants and animals. Among insects, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera were the most abundant prey (35% and 31%, respectively). In addition, we observed one case of Ichthyophis kohtaoensis consuming an earthworm and an incident of cannibalism in Sylvirana mortenseni. Finally, due to illegal logging activities and active landmines, surveys were limited to the secure regions within the sanctuary. Thus, we noted that further species might remain unidentified within Yoddom Wildlife Sanctuary due to this limitation.
6 Formation of Ultrahigh Density Quantum Dots Epitaxially Grown on Si Substrates Using Ultrathin SiO 2 Film Technique

Development of Si-based light emitter has been eagerly anticipated in Si photonics. However, its realization is difficult because group IV semiconductors such as Si and Ge are indirect-transition semiconductors. Si or Ge quantum dots (QDs) on Si substrates have drawn much attention as Si-based light emitting materials because their optical transition probability can be enhanced by their quantum confinement effect. There are some kinds of QDs fabricated by various methods: Stranski Krastanov (SK) QDs (Eaglesham & Cerullo, 1990; Schmidt & Eberl, 2000), Ge nanoparticles in SiO2 matrix (Maeda, 1995), Si QDs by anodic oxidation (porous Si) (Wolkin et al., 1999; Cullis & Canham, 1991), and so on. In terms of the crystal orientation control, SK QDs have intensively attracted much interest. In general, the density of SK QDs is approximately 1010-11 cm-2 and the size is about 50-100 nm. In order to get strong light emission and quantum confinement effect, the higher density and smaller size are required.
Exploring the Education of Hong Kong's Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Secondary Students

Hong Kong’s educational landscape has been shifting to include Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) students in public and government subsidized schools. Policies surrounding language of instruction, curricula and literacy practices have involved a negotiation of power, space, and belonging for Hong Kong’s NCS ethnic minority population. The thesis explores how secondary school is experienced by NCS students, facilitated by the teachers of NCS students, and designed by policy makers through the discourse of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau (EDB). By obtaining a post-structuralist theoretical framework (Foucault, 1980; Bourdieu, 1989, 1991; Bell & Russell, 2000; Robinson-Pant, 2001), and through in-depth interviews, and an analysis of the EDB’s printed materials this study suggests that 1) Non-Chinese Speaking students’ experiences of school do not align with the discourse of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau, and 2) that the experience of the category of “Non-Chinese Speaking” is problematic as it refers to much more than students’ Chinese language skills. The findings from this study suggest that the current practice of schooling NCS students requires a rethink, as the experience of the category of “Non-Chinese Speaking” leads students to develop ideas about their exclusion from the community, which directly impacts their ideas about what it means to be a citizen of Hong Kong.
Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Pure Neuritic Hansen ' s Disease in Western Odisha : a Hospital Based Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Odisha region, despite the area still being endemic for leprosy. This study has been carried out to address this issue to identify the profile of pure neuritic leprosy reporting to a Tertiary Care Centre in Western Odisha. Patient's case records with clinical diagnosis of PNL who reported to this centre between October 2012 to October 2014 were studied. Demographic details, educational qualification, clinical presentation, pattern of peripheral nerve involvement, type of disabilities and complications occurring if any, were noted from the patient records and analyzed. Data collected and analysed shows that out of total 1460 of these leprosy patients 145 (9.93%) patients had been diagnosed with pure neuritic form of the disease. The mean age of PNL patients was 34.43 + 1.09 years. The various clinical presentations, that were observed and recorded, included sensory loss, tingling, pain, hypoesthesia, trophic ulcer and various grades of motor nerve disabilities. Neuropathic pain was complained by 28.3% patients. Mononeuritic presentation was observed in 79/145 (54.5%) patients with ulnar nerve being the most commonest nerve involved. Grade 2 disabilities were present in a large proportion of these PNL cases. Disabilities were more common in polyneuritic type of cases compared with mononeuritic cases. Such high disability rates in these PNL cases at our Tertiary Care Centre might be due to late self reporting of cases for treatment or diagnosis being delayed. These figures may not reflect the proportion/percentages at population level which should be verified by actual surveys after proper training of staff. As PNL demands early diagnosis to prevent progression of nerve damage and multiple nerve involvement, all patients having the above clinical presentations should be suspected of PNL in leprosy endemic areas.
Advancing Sequence-to-Sequence Based Speech Recognition

The paper presents our endeavor to improve state-of-the-art speech recognition results using attention based neural network approaches. Our test focus was LibriSpeech, a well-known, publicly available, large, speech corpus, but the methodologies are clearly applicable to other tasks. After systematic application of standard techniques – sophisticated data augmentation, various dropout schemes, scheduled sampling, warm-restart –, and optimizing search configurations, our model achieves 4.0% and 11.7% word error rate (WER) on the test-clean and testother sets, without any external language model. A powerful recurrent language model drops the error rate further to 2.7% and 8.2%. Thus, we not only report the lowest sequence-tosequence model based numbers on this task to date, but our single system even challenges the best result known in the literature, namely a hybrid model together with recurrent language model rescoring. A simple ROVER combination of several of our attention based systems achieved 2.5% and 7.3% WER on the clean and other test sets.
The Evaluation of Social Security OrganizationReadiness In Implementing Knowledge Management based on Underlying Factor ( case study : the Remedy Department of Mazandaran )

Nowadays, because of the complexity, variation, rapid and ongoing change of the environment ,knowledge is discussed as a strategic and valuable resource and a property, In this Context, this paper has been assessed the readiness of the Social Security organization in remedy department for implementation of knowledge management by using underlying factor including organizational culture, structure, technology and human resources. In this regard, totally 32 indices were compiled by referring to review of literature ad experts' confirmation as the major infrastructural indices of knowledge management in the form of a questionnaire, The research Statistical community has been chosen from the CEO ,managers and experts of the Social Security organization in Remedy Department in Mazandaran that were 1800 pepole, which 135 samples of theme were selected by optional method, Furthermore for the test of the hypothesis Binomial and Fridman testwere used and also for reliability, Coronbakh Alfa test was used. The results showed that the readiness of the Social Security organization in Remedy Department is not idealistic and some suggestions have been presented for its state improvement.
Learners’ Conceptual Understanding about Image Formation by a Convex Lens: How and to What Extent Can it be improved?

The research conducted for this paper evaluates the effectiveness of an interactive optics teaching module, designed to enhance conceptual understanding by adopting a quasi-experimental pre-test – post-test design. One intact Grade 11 class in a selected school was chosen as the experimental group (N = 36) and another intact Grade 11 class in the same school was chosen as the comparison group (N = 44). The data were collected from four relevant questions of a 4-tier Optics Diagnostic Instrument (4ODI), which was designed for the larger version of the study. Even though there were 4 tiers for each question of the 4ODI, this paper reports only on the data collected from the participants’ responses to the 1 (answer tier) and the 3 tier (reason tier) of each of the four questions. The findings suggest that the practical experiment, supported by carefully-designed worksheets, worked significantly better than the computer simulation in improving learners’ conceptual understanding of image formation by lenses. The main contribution of this study lies in its authenticity in advocating that Physics education researchers and educators need to integrate technology and practical experiments appropriately into the traditional worksheet-based learning and teaching activities. Furthermore, the study recommends that practical experiments, if properly designed and implemented, can act as an effective approach to science teaching and learning.
Translation constraints on quantum phases with twisted boundary conditions

Bulk properties of quantum phases should be independent of a specific choice of boundary conditions as long as the boundary respects the symmetries. Based on this physically reasonable requirement, we discuss the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis-type ingappability in two-dimensional quantum magnets under a boundary condition that makes evident a quantum anomaly underlying the lattice system. In particular, we direct our attention to those on the checkerboard lattice which are closely related to frustrated quantum magnets on the square lattice and on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. Our discussion is focused on the adiabatic U(1) flux insertion through a closed path in a boundary condition twisted by a spatial rotation and a reflection. Two-dimensional systems in this boundary condition are effectively put on a nonorientable space, namely the Klein bottle. We show that the translation symmetry on the Klein-bottle space excludes the possibility of the unique and gapped ground state. Taking advantage of the flux insertion argument, we also discuss the ground-state degeneracy on magnetization plateaus of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the checkerboard lattice.
Ekológia ( Bratislava ) 1 EFFECTS OF WATER TURBULENCE ON PLANT , SEDIMENT AND WATER QUALITY IN REED ( Phragmites australis ) COMMUNITY KEERTHI

Atapaththu K.S. S. , Asaeda T. , Yamamuro M. , Kamiya H. : Effects of water turbulence on plant, sediment and water quality in reed (Phragmites australis) community. Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 1–9, 2017. Even though the interaction between water movements and aquatic plant is crucial for the aquatic ecosystem management, the importance of water turbulence in this regard is not well documented. To add to our knowledge on the interaction between aquatic plant communities and water turbulence, this study examined turbulence, plant, sediment and water quality at the reed community (Phragmites australis) in the Lake Shinji, Japan. Observations were conducted along transects perpendicular to the shoreline. For each transect, reed communities were observed at land ward side, centre, water ward and the outside of the reed community. An elevated level of turbulence was observed outside compared to inside reed community, where the magnitude of turbulence decreased with distance into the community interior. A significant positive correlation was observed for turbulence and surface-dissolved oxygen where the latter was negatively correlated to reed density. Sediment composition was affected by water turbulence where the content of coarse particles positively correlated to turbulence. Accumulation of organic matter in anoxic sediments together with fine particles was observed under low turbulence. Our findings can offer insight into understanding the interactions between turbulence and aquatic plant communities.
Reduction of Chilling Injury and Peroxide Hydrogen Accumulation in Thompson Grape (Vitis vinifera L.) Fruit by Proline and Ascorbic Acid During Storage

This experiment was carried out to determine the effects of proline and ascorbic acid on chilling injury, electrolyte leakage, lipid peroxidation, peroxide hydrogen and antioxidant enzymes activity of Thompson grape (Vitis vinifera L.) fruit. Grape fruits were treated by 0 (control), 250 and 500 μM proline and 0 (control), 2 and 4% ascorbic acid and their combinations, then stored at 1°C and 90-95 % relative humidity for 28 days. Grapes treated with 500 μM proline and its combination with 2 and 4% ascorbic acid had the lowest amount of lipid peroxidation and peroxide hydrogen and lower chilling injury and electrolyte leakage than non-treated fruits. Moreover, grapes treated with 500 μM proline and its combination with 2 and 4% ascorbic acid significantly increased ascorbate peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase enzyme activity. The present study can be regarded as the first evidence that proline and ascorbic acid enhance grape fruit tolerance to cold stress and therefore fruit quality.
ILIZAROV TREATMENT OF COMPLEX NON-UNION TIBIA

Background: Non-union tibia is more common compared to other long bone non-unions. Irrespective of the cause, complicated non-unions are difficult clinical condition to patient as well as to treating surgeon. Resistant non-union may be treated by intramedullary nailing or other methods of internal fixation. These methods are however limited in their ability deal with complications like infection, segmental bone loss, shortening and bone deformities in spite of extensive soft tissue dissection around the fracture site. Thus more advanced and biological technique like Ilizarov techniques can be used successfully in complicated non-unions. Aim: To evaluate the outcomes of Ilizarov methods of treatment in complex non-union tibia. Methods: This is a prospectively collected data of patients with complex non-union tibia treated with Ilizarov technique. The patients were evaluated clinically and radiologically with preoperative and post operative radiographs. Lengthening zone was assessed with ultrasound to assess the regenerate. All patients were followed up at regular intervals to asses union at fracture site and consolidation of regenerate. Results were assessed according to classification by ASAMI (Association for Study and Application of Methods of Ilizarov Techniques) as bone results and functional results. Results: A total of 20 cases of complex non-union tibia were operated Key-words: Non-union tibia, gap non-union, distraction osteogenesis, Ilizarov technique Original Article
Profiling of Quality as a mixed method approach to study multimodal experienced quality

To reach users’ overall quality acceptance is a very important aspect for the success of new technologies. Therefore, user studies following a psychoperceptual evaluation approach have been used for a long time. However, these studies neglect the dualistic nature of quality. While they are able to capture quality in its holistic excellence, methods to understand underlying quality factors are still missing. Open Profiling of Quality (OPQ) is a mixed method approach that combines quantitative and descriptive quality analysis with naïve participants. OPQ is meant as a tool to create deeper understanding of perceived multimodal quality.
Circulating HER2 Extracellular Domain and Response to Chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Purpose: The present study was designed to demonstrate the association between HER2 and chemotherapy resistance in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Patients and methods: We performed a prospective assessment of the predictive value of the circulating HER2 extracellular domain (ECD) in patients with metastatic breast carcinoma using paclitaxel and doxorubicin. Serum samples were collected from 45 patients with metastatic breast carcinoma before first-line chemotherapy for metastatic disease and the levels of circulating HER2 ECD were measured using an enzyme immunoassay. Immunohistochemistry with anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody CB11 was used to assess the expression of HER2 in the primary tumors. Results: When 450 fmol/ml was used as a cutoff, 18 patients (40%) had elevated HER2 ECD levels. Elevated levels of circulating HER2 ECD were associated with the expression of HER2 in the primary tumor tissue and with the metastatic tumor burden (evaluated with the marker CA 15-3; p = 0.032 and p = 0.002, respectively) but not with variables such as menopausal status, stage at diagnosis, previous adjuvant therapy, or the number of metastatic sites. The levels of circulating HER2 ECD correlated inversely with the response to treatment. The probability of obtaining a complete response to chemotherapy was significantly lower (p = 0.021) in patients with elevated HER2 ECD levels (0%; 95% confidence interval, 0-13%) in comparison with patients with non-elevated HER2 (26.9%; 95% confidence interval, 12-45%). In addition, the duration of clinical response was significantly shorter in patients with elevated HER2 ECD, in comparison with the cases with non-elevated HER2 (7.5 versus 11 months; p = 0.035).
Equity Issuance of Distressed Firms : Debt Overhang or Agency Problem ? May 25 th , 2017

This study empirically tests whether firms are more likely to issue equity when distressed. Contrary to Myers’ (1977) debt overhang predictions, I find that all else being equal, distressed firms issue more equity compared to less-distressed firms, and this disparity is greater for firms with weaker governance. Moreover, I find distressed equity issuing firms yield lower delisting and CEO turnover rates in the short-horizon but eventually increase to similar levels of comparable distressed firm. Distressed issuers also exhibit significant negative equity returns, lower Tobin’s Q, deteriorating profitability, lower investments, and excess cash holdings following issuance, which indicate that managers subsidize losing operations rather than invest in positive NPV projects. These findings collectively suggest agency problems in distressed equity issuance.
Comparative Study of Parametric and Representation Uncertainty Modeling for Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Recurrent neural network language models (RNNLMs) have shown superior performance across a range of tasks, including speech recognition. The hidden layer of RNNLMs plays a vital role in learning the suitable representation of contexts for word prediction. However, the deterministic model parameters and fixed hidden vectors in conventional RNNLMs have limited power in modeling the uncertainty over hidden representations. In order to address this issue, in this paper, a comparative study of parametric and hidden representation uncertainty modeling approaches based on Bayesian gates and variational RNNLMs respectively is investigated on long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRU) LMs. Experimental results are presented on two tasks: PennTreebank (PTB) corpus, Switchboard conversational telephone speech (SWBD). Consistent performance improvements were obtained over conventional RNNLMs in terms of both perplexity and word error rate.
Between-speaker variation in English Learners' Realisation of Dental Fricatives

Anecdotally, it has been observed that Swiss Germans speaking English use a plethora of sounds for the dental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/. It is unsurprising that L2 speakers tend to substitute a sound not present in their native phoneme inventory with a sound that is present; however, there is wide intra- and inter-speaker variation in the sounds chosen to replace the dental fricatives. The present study is an initial examination of how speakers of Swiss German differ in their choice of sound substitution when speaking English. We recorded read speech from 45 high school students. Data was coded auditorily and acoustically. Findings confirm substantial variation between the learners, with the most common replacement being [d] for the voiced dental fricative and [f] for the unvoiced counterpart. We discuss potential reasons for the reported between-speaker variation.
Three dimensional virtual surgical planning for patient specific osteosynthesis and devices in oral and maxillofacial surgery. A new era.

Three dimensional virtual surgical planning (3D VSP) has become a structural component in the oral and maxillofacial surgeon’s armamentarium. Over the years, the 3D technology has increased the predictability, accuracy and speed of surgical procedures within the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS). This thesis aimed to improve the workflows for 3D VSP, in order to further improve surgical procedures in OMFS and, to provide adequate indications for the use of 3D VSP. In the new era of 3D VSP, optimisation is required for the following components: 1. Integration of multi-modality imaging into a single 3D VSP. 2. Systematic comparison with conventional methods, including thorough testing and validation of new 3D VSP applications. 3. Definitions of adequate indications for the use of 3D VSP. 4. Definitions of the required technical and medical expertise conforming to the implementation of 3D VSP. This thesis addresses these components and aims to present new and validated methods for three main pillars of OMFS. It is emphasized that the new technical physician profession seems to be crucial for the translation of technological developments and innovations in each of these applications into clinical practice. The new 3D VSP strategies delineated in this thesis for OMFS improve treatments in terms of predictability, accuracy and detailed possibilities for postoperative evaluation. This thesis optimises the workflows, systematically compares the 3D VSP methods to conventional methods and objectifies the indications for the wide, timely use of 3D VSP.
3 0 Ju l 2 01 9 Randomness ? What randomness ?

This is a review of the issue of randomness in quantum mechanics, with special emphasis on its ambiguity; for example, randomness has different antipodal relationships to determinism, computability, and compressibility. Following a (Wittgensteinian) philosophical discussion of randomness in general, I argue that deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics (like Bohmian mechanics or ’t Hooft’s Cellular Automaton interpretation) are strictly speaking incompatible with the Born rule. I also stress the role of outliers, i.e. measurement outcomes that are not 1-random. Although these occur with low (or even zero) probability, their very existence implies that the nosignaling principle used in proofs of randomness of outcomes of quantum-mechanical measurements (and of the safety of quantum cryptography) should be reinterpreted statistically, like the second law of thermodynamics. In appendices I discuss the Born rule and its status in both single and repeated experiments, and review the notion of 1-randomness introduced by Kolmogorov, Chaitin, Martin-Löf, Schnorr, and others.