Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dialog Management for Credit Card Selling via Finite State Machine Using Sentiment Classiﬁcation in Turkish Language

—In this paper, we propose a goal-oriented chat bot, which aims to sell a suitable credit card to customers according to their needs. Our proposed chat bot detects customer’s needs, uses this information to recommend a credit card, answers speciﬁc queries from customers and gathers the required information to start a credit card application process. This goal-oriented dialog management system is designed for Turkish Language and it makes use of a Finite State Machine (FSM) structure to achieve its goals. This design allows the chat bot to facilitate the ﬂow of conversation and prevents giving unrelated answers to customers. The chat bot has unique tasks to perform in each state of FSM. Transitions between states are processed with the events, which are determined by outputs of the sentiment analysis model. Due to Turkish being an agglutinative language we perform morphological analysis of words to perform this task. Besides driving the conversation ﬂow to achieving its goal, the chat bot can detect when customers ask questions and proceeds to the related state where the chat bot retrieves a proper answer. Since sentiment classiﬁcation model forms the basis for keeping the chat bot in proper states, we experimented with different classiﬁcation algorithms with different features and compared their successes. K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm using bag-of-words and lexicon features yielded the best results with the 0.822 f-score. Moreover, human evaluations for chat bot showed that using FSM and managing the conversation with the sentiment classiﬁcation model for Turkish language is a promising solution.
Alternative Noetherian Banach Algebras

Sinclair and Tullo [6] proved that noetherian Banach algebras are finite-dimensional. In [3], Grabiner studied noetherian Banach modules. In this paper, we are concerned with alternative noetherian Banach algebras. Combining techniques from [3] with techniques and the result from [6], we prove that every alternative noetherian Banach algebra is finite-dimensional.
Underweight as a predictor of diabetes mellitus in older adults: A large cohort study

A total of 39,201 men and 88,012 women aged 40-79 years who underwent health checkups in 1993 and who were free of diabetes were followed until the end of 2004 to examine an association between underweight and risk of diabetes. Incident diabetes mellitus was defined by a blood glucose concentration of ≥ 7.0 mmol/liter on fasting or ≥ 11.1 mmol/liter while non-fasting and/or when a person had begun to receive treatment for diabetes. The multivariable hazard ratio of diabetes mellitus adjusted for age, baseline blood glucose level, fasting status, and other confounding variables among subjects who had a BMI of less than 18.5 kg/m 2 compared to those with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 was 1.32 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.12, 1.56) in men aged 60-79 years and 1.31 (95%CI: 1.07, 1.60) in women aged 60-79 years. Underweight may be associated with risk of diabetes mellitus among older adults.
WIP: Validating a Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) in an Active, Blended, and Collaborative (ABC) Dynamics Learning Environment

as graduate research assistant in engineering education department. Her research interests are assessment for learners in diverse settings, teacher education multicultural afﬁliated the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Laboratories the insti-tution. He his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in mechanical engineering, Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research interests include the predictive design, analysis, and implementation of resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for use in chemical and biological sensing, electromechanical signal processing, and computing; the dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the thermomechanics of energetic materials; additive manufacturing; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads is a Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), he serves on the Design Engineering Division’s Technical Committees on Micro/Nanosystems and Vibration and Sound, as well as the Design, Materials, and Manufacturing (DMM) Segment Leadership Team. Dr. Rhoads is a of numerous research and teaching awards, the National Science Foundation’s Early Career Development (CAREER) Mechanical
1 Shear-sensitive adhesion on conductive coverslips

We conducted the measurements described in the main manuscript on glass coverslips coated with indium tin oxide (ITO) in order to investigate whether triboelectric charging can explain part of the increase in the energy release rate at low peel angles. A repeated measures ANCOVA revealed that the relationship between adhesion and peel angle was not significantly affected by the conductivity of the surface (F1,352=0.72, p=0.4), providing evidence that triboelectric charging is not of significant importance for shear-sensitive adhesion in insect pads (see fig. S1).
Comparative study on the growth performance of amur common carp ( Cyprinus carpio ) and catla ( Catla catla ) at polythene-lined farm ponds of Vijayapur district, Karnataka

The present study was conducted to evaluate the growth performance of Amur common and Catla at polythene-lined farm ponds of Vijayapur district, Karnataka. For this study, two Farm pond selected located at two villages viz., Ronihal, Basavanabagewadi taluk and Kakhandaki, Vijayapur taluk of Vijayapur district, Karnataka. Fingerlings of Amur common carp and catla of uniform size were selected and stocked at the rate of 1 No/m 2 and the fishes were fed with floating carps feed @ 5% of fish body weight. In both the farm ponds located at Ronihal and Kakhandaki, Amur common carp had shown the highest growth in terms of gain in weight and length (1208.9g, 29.1 cm and 1208.9g, 29.1 cm respectively) compared to Catla (809g, 28.0cm and 919.05g, 28.3cm respectively). The specific growth rate of Amur common carp was highest both in Ronihal farm pond (2.29%) and Kakhandaki farm pond (2.33%) compared to Catla. The survival rate was also higher in Amur common carp in both the farm ponds of Ronihal (82%) and Kakhandaki (85%) compared to Catla (78 and 80% respectively). Amur common carp exhibited a better growth compared to Catla, which may be due to the omnivorous feeding habit and burrowing nature. It could be inferred from the study that Amur common carp could be incorporated as an alternative species against existing common carp and Mrigal and it can be culture with Catla by following the Stocking ratio 50: 50 would improve fish production.
The Effect of Social Undermining on Employees’ Emotional Exhaustion and Procrastination Behavior in Deluxe Hotels: Moderating Role of Positive Psychological Capital

: The purpose of this study was to determine if social undermining as perceived by frontline employees signiﬁcantly affects their emotional exhaustion and procrastination behavior and to clarify the moderating role of positive psychological capital. A total of 310 deluxe hotel employees in South Korea participated in this study by completing a self-administered questionnaire. The study results showed that social undermining perceived by deluxe hotel employees positively inﬂuenced their emotional exhaustion. In addition, when emotional exhaustion became severe, employees’ procrastination behavior, which harmed their organizations, increased. Additionally, the ﬁndings suggest a mediating effect, thereby indicating that employees’ procrastination behaviors may increase when they experience emotional exhaustion resulting from social undermining. When employees perform their jobs with a positive attitude in a work situation, the negative inﬂuence of social undermining and emotional exhaustion may be partially offset. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed. procrastination behavior, and positive psychological capital.
Characteristic Model Based All-Coefficient Adaptive Control on Flexible Rotor Supported by Active Magnetic Bearings

Active magnetic bearings (AMBs) have found a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery applications in energy storage, electric power generation, machine tool operation, heart pumps and hybrid vehicles. Compared with conventional mechanical bearings, AMBs need feedback control to support and constrain the rotor and demand additional electronic devices. When AMBs are used to support flexible rotors, their nonlinear characteristics and complex dynamics of flexible rotors cause problems with stabilization and disturbance rejection. Proportionalintegral-derivative (PID) controllers are the most popular control method for AMB applications. They are easy to implement and reasonable control performance can be achieved. However, it is difficult for PID controllers to deliver robust and near optimal performance for complex dynamic systems. In recent years, robust control techniques such as μ-synthesis have also been applied to AMB applications. The μ-synthesis is able to better handle the uncertainties in complex systems and to achieve reliable performance. However, it requires plant and uncertainty models to generate the most suitable solution, which makes this control design not as practical as PID controllers. The characteristic model-based all-coefficient adaptive control (ACAC) method has been widely used in process control and the aerospace industry. Numerous applications have demonstrated its effectiveness. This method is able to provide robust control performance on multidimensional complex dynamical systems, while maintaining a simple structure and not requiring the actual plant model. It focuses on the characteristics of the plant and the control performance requirements instead of precise system dynamics. It compresses the corresponding information of the high order plant into several characteristic parameters so that no information is lost. The simplicity of the characteristic model based ACAC method makes it convenient for practical engineering applications. This thesis explores the application of the characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive ii Chapter 0 Abstract iii control method to the stabilization of a flexible rotor AMB system. Simulation has shown performance improvements over the μ-synthesis in terms of minimizing the vibration and maintaining a small orbit. Experimental results have also demonstrated some features of ACAC method and shown it is comparable to the μ-synthesis in certain measures. These results show its strong potential to perform well in spite of its simplicity.
Functional Consequences of Old World Hantavirus Infection in Human Renal Cells

Viral infections of the kidney, with severe clinical pictures, represent an ongoing threat. The hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is caused by several species of pathogenic Old World hantaviruses and is clinically characterized by cellular permeability disorders, leading to acute kidney injury. Previously, it was shown that podocytes and tubular epithelial cells, which play a key role in renal function, are permissive for hantaviruses and further, that the infection was causing a disruption of cell-to-cell contacts correlating with the disease severity. Up until today, the renalspecific pathogenesis mechanisms of hantavirus infections, leading to the cellular leakage, are not well understood. In this study, functional and morphological consequences of hantavirus infection are examined in human renal cells and compared to African green monkey Vero E6 cells, which are commonly used to study hantaviruses. Analysis of podocytes and tubular epithelium in human renal biopsies of hantavirus-infected patients revealed distinct morphological changes known to be involved in functional disorders of various kidney diseases. To investigate how hantaviruses cause cellular disorders, the effects were further examined using in vitro experiments. Infections of podocytes and tubular epithelial cells with either Hantaan (HTNV) or Puumala virus (PUUV) caused cytoskeletal rearrangements in combination with an impairment of adhesion and motility capacity. The nucleocapsid (N) protein was associated with the actin cytoskeleton and, in addition to that, the integrity of filamentous (F-) actin was crucial for viral release. Furthermore, the transfection of podocytes revealed that the expression of N protein alone was sufficient to impair cellular functions. Soluble factors contributing to the cellular disturbances were neither detected in the supernatant of in vitro infected podocytes nor in the serum of hantavirus-infected patients, indicating direct effects of infection on renal cells. According to the severity of the clinical picture, the in vitro effects of hantaviral infections and N protein expression were more pronounced for HTNV than for PUUV. In contrast, the hantavirus infections were clearly different in Vero E6 cells and no functional consequences and actin involvement were observed, demonstrating the importance of choosing relevant cell culture models. These results demonstrate that hantavirus-induced morphological and functional injuries are speciesand cell type-specific. The association of N protein with actin and its involvement in the viral release might play a role in the underlying mechanism, leading to functional impairment and cell-to-cell contact disruption. Moreover, the N protein is identified to be a pathogenicity factor of Old World hantaviruses. Conclusively, these findings might contribute to the understanding of the pathogenesis mechanisms leading to the clinical picture of hantavirus-induced acute renal failure.
Evaluating Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Cervical Spine of Patients with Neck Pain in Port-Harcourt, South-South Nigeria

Neck pain (cervicalgia) is one of the potentially disabling and expensive musculoskeletal disorders that is becoming increasingly common worldwide with enormous impact on individuals, families, communities, health care and jobs. The purpose of this study was to establish the pattern of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings in patients presenting with neck pain in Port-Harcourt south-south Nigeria and relating these findings with age and sex. This study was carried out in the radiology departments of University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital and Transview Diagnostics Center Port-Harcourt over a 12month period. It is a cohort study of 130 patients’ imaging findings after undergoing MRI for neck pain. Both normal findings as well as abnormal findings seen were documented on a datasheet. Statistical analysis was performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20.0. Pearson Chi-square, Fishers Exact or student’s T tests were used as appropriate to compare age and sex with MRI findings. A p value of 0.05 was considered significant. Participants were from 19-76 years of age with mean age of 55.4±11.3 years. Males were 75.4% while females were 24.6%. Among the study population 88.5% had abnormal findings while 11.5% were normal. Spondylosis (67.7%) was the commonest MRI finding in the studied population and associated significantly with sex (p=0.0001). Second most disc degeneration (31.5%). Spondylosis is the most common cause of neck pain in our environment seen mainly among males while the second most common cause was intervertebral disc degeneration.
Delft University of Technology A non-parametric Bayesian approach to decompounding from high frequency data

Given a sample fromadiscretely observed compoundPoissonprocess,we consider non-parametric estimation of the density f0 of its jump sizes, as well as of its intensity λ0. We take a Bayesian approach to the problem and specify the prior on f0 as the Dirichlet location mixture of normal densities. An independent prior for λ0 is assumed to be compactly supported and to possess a positive density with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We show that under suitable assumptions the posterior contracts around the pair (λ0, f0) at essentially (up to a logarithmic factor) the √ n -rate, where n is the number of observations and is the mesh size at which the process is sampled. The emphasis is on high frequency data, → 0, but the obtained results are also valid for fixed . In either case we assume that n → ∞. Our main result implies existence of Bayesian point estimates converging (in the frequentist sense, in probability) to (λ0, f0) at the same rate. We also discuss a practical implementation of our approach. The computational problem is dealt with by inclusion of auxiliary variables and we develop aMarkov chainMonte Carlo algorithm that samples from the joint distribution of the unknown parameters in the mixture density and the introduced auxiliary variables. Numerical examples illustrate the feasibility of this approach. B Frank van der Meulen f.h. vandermeulen@tudelft.nl Shota Gugushvili shota.gugushvili@math.leidenuniv. nl Peter Spreij spreij@uva.nl 1 Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands 3 Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
EFFECT OF DIETARY MANNAN OLIGOSACCHARIDE AND LIGNIN ON POPULATION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PROBIOTIC BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM JAPANES QUAILS

: The role of gut bacteria in animal health has became increasingly important, especially, with limitations use of antibiotics in animal feed due to consumer pressure and legislation. This study showed the relationships between gut bacteria and bird performance as a result of affecting by dietary supplementation of prebiotic such as (mannan oligosaccharide and lignin). A lower count of total aerobic bacteria was shown in mannan and lignin groups comparing with control during all experimental periods. Fortunately, count of the probiotic bacteria ( Bifidobacterium spp. and Lactobacillus spp.) increased significantly (P ≤ 0.01) in lignin and mannan groups compared to the control group at all three periods age, while the most increases were at 9 weeks. Determination of the susceptibility of isolated probiotics to antibiotics exhibited that the most effective antibiotic against the tested bacteria was ciprofloxacin (CIP), which reached up to 32 mm of inhibition zone, followed by vancomycin (VA) reaching up to 22 mm and finally tetracyclin (TE) which reached up to 20 mm. The antibacterial activity of the crude supernatant fluids obtained from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) culutures was generally greater against the Gram positive than the Gram negative tested bacteria. Sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene technique was considered to be a rapid and powerful method for identifying the probiotic isolates of Bifidobacterium spp . and Lactobacillus spp . to the species and at sub species level as Bifidobacterium longum subsp . infantis, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis and Lactobacillus acidophilus.
Antioxidant Capacity is Decreased in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients

We investigated through measurements in serum, the occurrence of oxidative stress in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy elderly controls. Possible correlations between a genetic risk factor for AD, the allele ε4 of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, and oxidative stress were also investigated. Through Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances (TBARS) assay serum lipid peroxidation products of AD patients, MCI patients and controls were measured. We also analyzed the participants’ serum antioxidant status through 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) dye reduction. No difference between the groups was observed concerning TBARS levels ( p = 0.212). Controls had a higher antioxidant status compared to AD (controls: 0.43 ± 0.061 O.D; AD: 0.39 ± 0.065 O.D), p = 0.002, and MCI patients (0.381 ± 0.065 O.D), p = 0.001. No difference concerning antioxidant status or TBARS levels was associated with the ε4 APOE allele. Oxidative stress in MCI and AD patients seems to be evidenced in serum by a reduction of the antioxidant system capacity rather than change in the TBARS levels. MTT assay for evaluation of antioxidant status could be helpful in therapeutic intervention and guide changes in the life-style of individuals in early stages of cognition impairment.
Mode of delivery and pregnancy outcomes in preterm birth วิธีการคลอดและผลลัพธ์การตั้งครรภ์ในทารกคลอดก่อนก

To assess the association of mode of delivery and pregnancy outcomes in preterm birth. This is a secondary analysis of Thai database of the World Health Organization Multi-country Survey. We included 880 women with singleton neonates who delivered between 22 and <37 weeks of gestation from 12 hospitals in Thailand. We used multilevel logistic regression to assess the association between mode of delivery and pregnancy outcomes in singleton preterm births, including maternal intensive care unit (MICU) admission, maternal near miss, maternal death; Apgar score <7 at 5 minutes, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission, fresh stillbirth, early neonatal, and perinatal death. All analysis were performed by R program. The prevalence of women delivered by Caesarean Section (CS) was 34.7%. There was only one maternal death and this case was observed in vaginal birth group; only two women delivered by CS were admitted to MICU. CS was associated with significantly increased odds of maternal near miss (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 12.0; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6-87.4), NICU admission (aOR: 1.8; 95%CI: 1.2-2.9). The odds of Apgar score <7 at 5 minutes (aOR: 1.9; 95%CI: 0.8-4.3), fresh stillbirth (aOR: 0.8; 95%CI: 0.2-2.8), early neonatal death (aOR: 0.6; 95%CI: 0.1-6.3), and perinatal death (aOR: 0.7; 95%CI: 0.1-3.2) were not significantly different between CS and vaginal birth. In preterm birth, CS was associated
Radon in Air Calibration Procedure: A Primary Method

A procedure has been developed for preparing 3- to 9-iota volumes of air under natural conditions with a known concentration of /sup 222/Rn to be used for calibrating radon systems. Air is passed into a plastic bag through a standard /sup 226/Ra solution (prepared by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards) contained in an emanation flask. This plastic bag retains /sup 222/Rn with little loss into or through the bag walls. The mean ratios of the /sup 222/Rn in the air at 2 and 7 days after filling to that immediately after filling were -. 992 +- 0.006 and 0.969 +- 0.008, which suggests a rate of radon loss into the bag of 0.4 +- 0.1%/day.