Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
GAIA at SM-KBP 2019 - A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System

Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System Manling Li, Ying Lin, Ananya Subburathinam, Spencer Whitehead, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Tongtao Zhang, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hengji@illinois.edu Alireza Zareian, Hassan Akbari, Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown 2 Columbia University sc250@columbia.edu, kathy@cs.columbia.edu Yixiang Yao, Jennifer Chen, Eric Berquist, Kexuan Sun, Xujun Peng, Ryan Gabbard Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, T.K. Satish Kumar 3 Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California mrf@isi.edu Arka Sadhu, Ram Nevatia University of Southern California nevatia@usc.edu Miguel Rodriguez5, Yifan Wang5, Yang Bai5, Ali Sadeghian4, Daisy Zhe Wang5 5 University of Florida daisyw@ufl.edu
Assessment of students’ thinking when working with graphs of functions – Promoting pre-service teachers’ diagnostic competence

Diagnostic competences are essential for teacher actions; however pre-service teachers often do not have the opportunity to train these skills at university. Thus, there is a need to find out the best way to promote diagnostic competences in teacher training. During the last decades, several projects introduced videos as a tool for the training of diagnostic skills, but there is no evidence that pre-service teachers really acquire diagnostic skills better by analysing videos than by analysing tasks. The present study contributes to this growing area of research by exploring which one of these two methods promotes diagnostic skills better. Video analysis and task analysis are compared as training methods in an intervention study with a pretest-posttest design. Fostering preservice teachers’ diagnostic skills with focus on students’ abilities, problems and misconceptions with graphs of functions, is the specific objective of our study.
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS ON EXPORT PERFORMANCE: TURKEY CASE

While foreign direct investment (FDI) may be a strong source of export incentives in developing countries, its role is still controversial. On the one hand, foreign investment has been suggested to increase exports in developing countries through superior technology and capital, while on the other hand, it is claimed that the role of FDI in encouraging exports depends on the motivations behind this investment. This shows that the nature of the link between FDI and export performance is not clear and should be empirically investigated by country basis. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of foreign direct investments on exports in the case of Turkey.
Big Data for Population and Social Policies

Harnessing big data for policymaking is an evolving paradigm, which is being influenced by the rapid advancements in technology that are producing real-time data exhausts of our everyday activities. With the aim of accelerating the adoption of big data applications in the areas of population dynamics and social development research, we present a brief introduction to big data research approaches for researchers and practitioners in these fields. We discuss big data fundamentals, methods, potentials, as well as challenges and how to address them. We highlight these aspects with evidence drawn from use cases in the hope of increasing support for the continuation, improvement and expansion of big data analytics in policymaking and the operational delivery of public programmes.
Relationship between Work-Family and Interpersonal Conflicts: Mediating Role of Psychological Distress and the Moderating Effect of Islamic Work Ethics

Abdul Qayyum 1∗, Sadia Kousar 2, Raja Ahmed Jamil 3, Muhammad Sarmad 4 1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management Sciences, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan 2 MS Scholar, FMS, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan 3 PhD Scholar, FMS, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan 4 Assistant Professor, FMS, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Amblyomma Variegatum as Bioindicators for the Presence Of Trypanosoma Congolense In Semi-Extensively Managed White Fulani Cattle In Kaduna Metropolis, Kaduna State, Nigeria

The presence of trypanosome parasites in ixodidae ticks of cattle naturally infected with trypanosomiasis in semi-extensively managed herd of white Fulani cattle was studied. The ticks were naturally attached to the cattle. Each of the cattle harbours about 120 ticks with one tick marked for this study on each of the following regions; sternal region, peri-anal region and under the tail. Three ticks from each of the eleven cattle were examined. Amblyomma variegatum was the only specie of ticks found. On the first day of the parasitological analysis, 14 (42.4%) of the ticks were found to be positive for Trypanosoma congolense (the only specie found). The Amblyomma variegatum ticks which infest these cattle are of veterinary importance, because they may be mechanical vectors of the economically important blood protozoan parasites. These ticks can also be used as a source of monitoring and thus enabling strategic planning, more effective in combating the diseases caused by the haemo-parasites.
Entry for F. Volkmar (ed.): Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Springer

Functional connectivity (FC) has been defined as “temporal correlations between spatially remote neurophysiological events” (Friston, Frith, & Frackowiak, 1993), a definition that is still considered authoritative today. The reference to correlation highlights the distinction from the concept of effective connectivity, which invokes causality and has been defined as “the influence one neural system exerts over another” (Friston et al., 1993). Correlations can exist on widely differing time scales, specifically high frequencies in the gamma band (> 25 Hz), as detected in electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), and low frequencies (< 0.1 Hz) in functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI). A more encompassing recent definition of FC refers to “the statistical dependence between remote neural processes” (Honey, Kotter, Breakspear, & Sporns, 2007).
Concurrent Validity of the Static and Dynamic Measures of Inspiratory Muscle Strength: Comparison between Maximal Inspiratory Pressure and S-Index

Objective To verify the concurrent validity between the inspiratory muscle strength (IMS) values obtained in static (maximal inspiratory pressure [MIP]) and dynamic (S-Index) assessments. Methods Healthy individuals were submitted to two periods of evaluation: i) MIP, static maneuver to obtain IMS, determined by the Mueller’s maneuver from residual volume (RV) until total lung capacity (TLC); ii) and S-Index, inspiration against open airway starting from RV until TLC. Both measures were performed by the same evaluator and the subjects received the same instructions. Isolated maneuvers with differences < 10% were considered as reproducible measures. Results Data from 45 subjects (21 males) were analyzed and that showed statistical difference between MIP and S-Index values (133.5 ± 33.3 and 125.6 ± 32.2 in cmH2O, respectively), with P=0.014. Linear regression showed r2=0.54 and S-Index prediction formula = 39.8+(0.75×MIP). Pearson’s correlation demonstrated a strong and significant association between the measures with r=0.74. The measurements showed good concordance evidenced by the Bland-Altman test. Conclusion S-Index and MIP do not present similar values since they are evaluations of different events of the muscular contraction. However, they have a strong correlation and good agreement, which indicate that both are able to evaluate the IMS of healthy individuals.
Inter-Relations among Corporate Environmental Performance, Environmental Disclosures, Financial Performance, and Risk

We propose a holistic approach to modelling of the links among various environmental and financial outcomes of a firm, taking into account the endogeneity of these relations. In particular, we explicitly incorporate financial risk in the environmental-financial accountability analysis. We find corporate environmental performance and disclosures, corporate financial performance, and financial risk to be endogenously determined. First, we find that higher and more objective environmental disclosures help improve a firm’s operating performance while mitigating its operating risk. This finding suggests that environmental disclosures are largely a means of engaging with and building a positive reputation among the firm’s key operational stakeholders including customers. Second, we find corporate environmental performance to improve a firm’s market value while reducing its market risk: for investors, environmental actions seem to speak louder than words. Third, consistent with the voluntary disclosure theory, we find a positive link between environmental performance and environmental disclosures. Finally, we find many of the links between the endogenous variables to be bidirectional. Overall these results have important conceptual and methodological implications for future research as well as for policy and practice related to the wider role of business in society.
Complementarity and aggregate implications of assortative matching: A nonparametric analysis

This paper presents econometric methods for measuring the average output effect of reallocating an indivisible input across production units. A distinctive feature of reallocations is that, by definition, they involve no augmentation of resources and, as such, leave the marginal distribution of the reallocated input unchanged. Nevertheless, if the production technology is nonseparable, they may alter average output. An example is the reallocation of teachers across classrooms composed of students of varying mean ability. We focus on the effects of reallocating one input, while holding the assignment of another, potentially complementary, input fixed. We introduce a class of such reallocations—correlated matching rules—that includes the status quo allocation, a random allocation, and both the perfect positive and negative assortative matching allocations as special cases. We also characterize the effects of small changes in the status quo allocation. Our analysis leaves the production technology nonparametric. Identification therefore requires conditional exogeneity of the input to be reallocated given the potentially complementary (and possibly other) input(s). We relate this exogeneity assumption to the pairwise stability concept used in the game theoretic literature on two-sided matching models with transfers. For estimation, we use a two-step approach. In the first step, we nonparametrically estimate the production function. In the second step, we average the estimated production function over the distribution of inputs induced by the new assignment rule. Our methods build upon the partial mean literature, but require extensions involving boundary issues and the fact that the weight function used in averaging is itself estimated. We derive the large-sample properties of our proposed estimators and assess their
DESENSITIZATION: Privacy-Aware and Attack-Preserving Crash Report

—Software vendors collect crash reports from end-users to assist in the debugging and testing of their products. However, crash reports may contain users’ private information, like names and passwords, rendering the user hesitant to share the reports with developers. We need a mechanism to protect users’ privacy in crash reports on the client side while keeping sufficient information to support server-side debugging and analysis. In this paper, we propose the D ESENSITIZATION technique, which generates privacy-aware and attack-preserving crash reports from crashed executions. Our tool adopts lightweight methods to identify bug-related and attack-related data from the memory, and removes other data to protect users’ privacy. Since a large portion of the desensitized memory contains null bytes, we store crash reports in spare files to save the network bandwidth and the server-side storage. We prototype D ESENSITIZATION and apply it to a large number of crashes of real-world programs, like browsers and the JavaScript engine. The result shows that our D ESENSITIZATION technique can eliminate 80.9% of non-zero bytes from coredumps, and 49.0% from minidumps. The desensitized crash report can be 50.5% smaller than the original one, which significantly saves resources for report submission and storage. Our D ESENSITIZATION technique is a push-button solution for the privacy-aware crash report.
Modelling screening programmes : unobservable obstacles ?

s from all retrieved references were reviewed by two researchers (JK, EG). Differences were discussed and resolved amicably. The set of retrieved papers included a lot of economic evaluation papers for which it was difficult to exclude the possibility modelling, though it was noted that the reference lists of such papers might be useful sources of additional modelling studies. Additional studies have been identified from the reference lists of the retrieved papers, and from responses to the project website [www. ], which asked for additions to the list of the screening studies identified from the initial literature searches.
THE CHANGES OF MEAN PLATELET VOLUME AND PLATELET DISTRIBUTION WIDTH IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH DISEASE ACTIVITY

ADEM YILDIRIM1, MEHMET KARABIBER1, GULSEREN DOST SURUCU1, IBRAHIM HALIL TÜRKBEYLER2, AHMET KARAKOYUN3, MUSTAFA YAVUZ SELKUC4, ORHAN ZENGIN2 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Adiyaman University, Adiyaman 2Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty of Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 3Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Aksaray State Hospital, Aksaray 4Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty of Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey
Reporting Frameworks for Financial Instruments in Czech: Czech Accounting Practices versus International Financial Reporting Standards

During last decades financial accounting faces the shift of financial reporting paradigms from historical costs accounting towards fair value concept. The most visible item of this change is reporting for financial instruments, particularly for financial derivatives. The research presents the particular approach of the analyzed area, namely identifying the particularities of reporting for financial instruments in correspondence to IFRS, through both theoretical description and empirical analysis, and continuously linking the findings to the actual knowledge stage and theories developed in the field. The results show a high level of similarity between Czech accounting principles and IFRS for reporting of financial instruments. Key-Words: Financial Instruments; Financial Reporting; IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards); Czech Republic; Historical Costs Accounting; Fair Value Accounting.
Folic Acid and Vitamins B12 Levels and Their Correlation in Cigarette Smoker with Hyperhomocysteinemia

To estimate the levels of folic acid and vitamin B12 and their relationship in cigarette smoker with hyperhomocysteinemia. 30 male cigarette smokers in the age group of 30 to 60 years were studied for estimation of serum folic acid, vitamin B12 and total homocysteine (tHcy) over a period of 6 months. These tests were determined by means of Immulite 1000 analyzer. The statistical analysis of smoker group compared with normal control group, showed significant (p<0.001) decreases in serum folic acid, vitamin B12 levels whereas increased concentration of total homocysteine in all 30 smoker subject indicate hyperhomocysteinemia. A positive and significant correlation was observed between folic acid and vitamin B12 in smoker. The present study found a significant association between serum folic acid, vitamin B12 levels and their deficiency in smoker with hyperhomocysteinemia indicate cardiovascular risk in cigarette smoker with hyperhomocysteinemia.
Teachers’ Creativity in Career Technical Education: The Mediating Effect of Knowledge Creation Practices in the Learning Organization*

This study examined the structural relationships among learning organization culture, teachers’ knowledge creation practices, and the level of teachers’ creativity in Career Technical Education (CTE) schools and investigated the mediating effect of teachers’ knowledge creation practices to explain the relationship between learning organization culture and the level of teachers’ creativity. A total of 304 CTE teachers across one of the central states in the US were used as the research sample. The study employed hierarchical multiple regression and structural equation modeling. The study found the structural relationships among the research variables including learning organization culture, teachers’ knowledge creation practices, and the level of teachers’ creativity. Furthermore, knowledge creation practices of teachers were found to mediate the relationship between learning organization culture and teachers’ creativity levels. Results
Effect of low-level laser therapy on orthodontic pain caused by canine retraction force

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of low-level laser therapy on orthodontic pain after the first canine retraction force. Method: This single-blind split-mouth placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial was performed in 30 orthodontic patients requiring bilateral canine retraction in Shahed University. Once canine retraction was initiated, a single dose of diode laser radiation (660 nm, 80 MW, and 3.8 J/cm2 density, diameter of the optical fiber tip: 0/45cm2) was administered to a randomly selected maxillary or mandibular quarter for 30 s. The other quarter served as the placebo side and was treated using the same device without turning on the laser. On the first, second, fourth, and seventh days, the patients rated the pain they experienced on each side at home by using visual analog scale-based questionnaires. Changes in pain were analyzed using non-parametric analysiswith SPSS software. Results: In patients who experienced pain,a signiﬁcant pain reduction was notedon the first and fourth days after low-level laser therapy on the experimental side compared to that on the placebo side (P <0.05). Conclusions: A single dose of diodelaser therapy (660nm)can be an efﬁcient modality to reduce the orthodontic pain associated with canine retraction
The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children MULTI-COUNTRY STUDY ON THE DRIVERS OF VIOLENCE AFFECTING CHILDREN

The study identi es and analyses how structural factors—the social, cultural, economic, legal, organizational, or policy responses—interact to a ect everyday violence in children’s homes and communities. In turn, it will identify causal pathways to better inform national strategies for violence prevention. Unpacking the drivers of violence—focusing on girls and boys at di erent stages of the life course, from the very young to older adolescents—will contribute to comparative global and national evidence bases on why and how change happens. The main outcome will be improved primary violence prevention interventions which are sensitive and responsive to variations by age and gender and that fully consider the needs of children and the adults who live with them.
Assessing a domain-specific risk-taking construct: A meta-analysis of reliability of the DOSPERT scale

The DOSPERT scale has been used extensively to understand individual differences in risk attitudes across varying decision domains since 2002. The present study reports a reliability generalization meta-analysis to summarize the internal consistency of both the initial and the revised versions of DOSPERT. It also examined factors that can influence the reliability of the DOSPERT and its subscales. A total of 104 samples (N = 30,109) that reported 465 coefficient alphas were analyzed. Results of meta-regression models showed that the overall coefficient alpha of the DOSPERT total scores was satisfactory, regardless of the scale and study characteristics. Coefficient alphas varied significantly across domain subscales, with values ranging from . 68 for the social domain to . 80 for the recreational domain. In addition, the alpha coefficients of subscales varied significantly depending on various study characteristics. Finally, we report the meta-analysis of the intercorrelations among DOSPERT subscales and reveal that intercorrelations among the subscales are heterogeneous. We discuss the theoretical implications of the present findings.
Transparency of corporate political disclosure and the cost of debt

We examine the relation between the transparency of borrowing firms’ corporate political disclosure (CPD) and the cost of debt. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms over the 2012–2015 period, we document a significant negative association between a firm’s CPD transparency and its cost of debt. We also find that the negative association is more pronounced for firms that are more sensitive to government economic policy, have entrenched CEOs, and are smaller. Our results are robust to a variety of sensitivity tests.
A Qualitative Approach

Inaam A. Khalaf, PhD, RN The University of Jordan Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Ghadeer Al-Dweik, MSc, RN Applied Science Private University Hana Abu-Snieneh, MSc, RN The University of Jordan Laila Al-Daken, MSc, RN Zarqa’ University Ruba M. Musallam, MSc, RN Royal Medical Services, Jordan Mohammad BaniYounis, MSN, RN Al-Hussein Bin Talal University Rula AL-Rimawi, MSc, RN Al-Balqaa Applied University Atef Hassan Khatib, MSN, RN Augusta Victoria Hospital Abla “Habeeb Allah”, MSc, CNS Mutah University Maysoun Hussein Atoum, MSc, RN The Hashemite University Arwa Masadeh, MSc, RN The University of Jordan
Teach for America Impact Estimates on Nontested Student Outcomes. Working Paper 146.

Recent evidence on teacher productivity suggests teachers meaningfully influence noncognitive student outcomes that are commonly overlooked by narrowly focusing on student test scores. These effects may show similar levels of variation across the teacher workforce and are not significantly correlated with value-added test score gains. Despite a large number of studies investigating the TFA effect on math and English achievement, little is known about nontested outcomes. Using administrative data from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, we investigate the relationship between being in a TFA classroom and non-test student outcomes. We validate our use of nontest student outcomes to assess differences in teacher productivity using the quasi-experimental teacher switching methods of Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014) and find multiple cases in which these tests reject the validity of candidate nontest outcomes. Among the cases deemed valid, we find suggestive evidence that students taught by TFA teachers in elementary and middle school were less likely to miss school due to unexcused absences and suspensions (compared to non-TFA teachers in the same school), although point estimates are very small. Other nontest outcomes were found to be valid but showed no evidence of a TFA effect.