Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
AGREEMENT AMONG HUMAN AND AUTOMATED ESTIMATES OF SIMILARITY IN A GLOBAL MUSIC SAMPLE

While music information retrieval (MIR) has made substantial progress in automatic analysis of audio similarity for Western music, it remains unclear whether these algorithms can be mean-ingfully applied to cross-cultural analyses of more diverse mu-sics. Here we collect perceptual ratings from 62 Japanese participants using a global sample of 30 traditional songs, and compare these ratings against both pre-existing expert annotations and audio similarity algorithms. We find that different methods of perceptual ratings all produced similar, moderate levels of inter-rater agreement comparable to previous studies, but that agreement be-tween human and automated methods is always low regardless of the specific methods used to calculate musical similarity. Our findings suggest that the MIR methods tested are unable to measure cross-cultural music similarity in perceptually meaningful ways.
Special Hermitian metrics, complex nilmanifolds and holomorphic deformations

We focus on the interaction of several complex invariants of cohomological type and metric properties of compact complex manifolds, as well as their behaviour under holomorphic deformations of the complex structure. Recent results on the complex geometry of nilmanifolds concerning such properties are reviewed. We show that the complex geometry of the 6-dimensional manifold N × N given by the product of two copies of the Heisenberg nilmanifold N allows to construct a holomorphic deformation with interesting properties in its central limit.
Effects of speech rate and elicitation methods on Polish Voice Onset Time

The differences in pronunciation caused by using different elicitation methods in phonetic research is currently poorly understood. This study aims to start filling this knowledge gap by investigating whether the Voice Onset Time of Polish stop consonants can differ between the tasks of picture naming and word reading. In order to better understand this effect, it simultaneously investigates a similar Voice Onset Time difference between slow and fast speech, as this effect has been established in other languages for prevoiced and aspirated stops. It has been explained using the theory of Laryngeal Real-ism, in which only these two categories of Voice Onset Time are underlyingly laryngeally specified. Data collected from 18 Polish speakers living in Poland and in the Netherlands shows longer Voice Onset Time for Polish prevoiced stops elicited using picture naming, but the exact mechanism behind this result remains unknown. The study also finds the expected lengthening of Voiced Onset Time in slower speech for voiced stops. Additionally, it uncovers a lengthening effect for the voiceless series, which is not supposed to happen based on Laryngeal Realism and which is sometimes present in previous data. Several solutions are proposed, in which the voiceless series would need to be laryngeally specified. Another explanation posits that the effect is not in fact of a phonological nature. Further research suggestions into the nature of the Voice Onset Time changes are presented. The study also puts forward a hypothesis for the origin of the elicitation method effect.
Thermal Transport in Sheared Nanoparticle Suspensions: Effect of Temperature

ABSTRACT Nanoparticle suspensions, known as nanofluids, exhibit many potential applications in thermal and chemical engineering, of which the thermal transport characteristics have a great dependence with the corresponding flow process and heat transfer process. Recently, a shear flow-induced enhancement of the thermal transport in the nanoparticle suspensions was previously reported. Here, the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of deionized water based silicon oxide nanoparticle suspensions in the shear flows at different temperatures were experimentally measured to elucidate the effect of temperature on the thermal transport in sheared nanoparticle suspensions. The results show that the ETC enhancement induced by shear flows is more obvious at lower temperatures, which can be attributed to the easily formed nanoparticle agglomerates for the lower mobilities of nanoparticles. Meanwhile, a correlation for quantitatively predicting the ETC enhancements, i.e., the ratios of infinite-shear thermal conductivity to zero-shear thermal conductivity, is proposed with considering the effect of temperature. In summary, the thermal transport in sheared nanoparticle suspensions demonstrates distinctive characteristics at different temperatures for the distinguishing nanoparticle structures.
training in interventional neuroradiology. The rhesus monkey as an animal model for

The angiographic anatomy of the external carotid artery system In the rhesus monkey is described. Similarities and differences between human and monkey anatomy are emphasized, as well as anatomic variations and potential collateral pathways. Superselective angiography and embolization in the external carotid artery system of the rhesus monkey proved to be technically feasible and potentially represents an excellent training model for surgical neuroangiographic techniques. AJNR
Antecedents of Passenger Loyalty in Online Taxi Services: A Case Study of GoCar Services

This research was conducted to determine the relationship between perceived value (X1), value for money (X2), corporate image (X3), and switching costs (X4) on passenger satisfaction (M) and passenger loyalty (Y) for GoCar customers in Indonesia. This research is a quantitative study using a questionnaire with statement items arranged using a Likert scale (1-5). The sampling technique was carried out using the Lemeshow formula for an unknown population. The data obtained was then processed using the PLS-SEM method with the SmartPLS 3.2. 9 application. The results of the study found that perceived quality, value for money, and corporate image in the four-wheeled ride-hailing service industry affect passenger satisfaction which will then generate passenger loyalty. Switching costs were also found to positively affect passenger loyalty. This implies that four-wheeled ride-hailing customers care about quality, price and quality comparison, corporate image, and costs/barriers that arise when they decide to switch from a service.
Depressive symptoms and their sociodemographic determinants among people living with HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

Background : HIV is a chronic disease with a profound social impact due to its strong ties with sexual and societal stigmatized behavior, such as illegal drug use and sexual promiscuity. Depression is one of the major disabling factors in chronic illnesses. Depression and anxiety disorders are more common among people living with HIV than the non-infected individuals. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of depression and its associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh. Methods : This cross-sectional study, which took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from July to December 2020, included 338 HIV-positive people. The method used was a simple random sampling technique. The Beck Depression Inventory assessed depression in HIV-positive people (BDI). Results : More than 62 percent of the 338 people surveyed had severe depression, 30.5 percent had moderate depression, 5.6 percent had mild depression, and 1.8 percent had no depression. Age, being a male, being married, and having a low monthly income were all significant predictors of depression. Conclusions : This study found that depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among HIV-positive patients in Bangladesh.
THE EFFECT OF MWM WITH CONSERVATIVE PHYSICAL THERAPY IN MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY OSTEOARTHRITIS ANTERIOR KNEE PAIN: A CASE STUDY

-Background/Purpose: The most frequent type of arthritis in elderly adults is knee osteoarthritis (OA). This case study explains a conservative physical therapy and manual therapy strategy to symptomatic knee OA pain relief and functional benefits. Case description: The patient, a female 50-year-old with a complicated medical history, complained of anterior-medial knee pain. The patient's objective in physical therapy and some manual treatment techniques was to resume functional activities like walking for more than 60 minutes and climbing stairs without experiencing any pain. Outcome: After completing physical therapy and manual therapy, the patient showed slight improvements in knee strength, flexion range of motion that was still below functional limitations, and the six-minute walk test (6 MWT) executing a home exercise programme (HEP) with independence. Discussion: This case study has demonstrated how conservative physical therapy, manual therapy, and the use of electrotherapy can be used to treat symptomatic arthritis knee pain in a 50-year-old female patient. Improvements in muscle strength, active range of motion (AROM), and the 6MWT with fewer reports of symptomatic knee discomfort served as evidence for this.
Continuous observations from horizontally pointing lidar, weather parameters and PM2.5: a pre-deployment assessment for monitoring radioactive dust in Fukushima, Japan

Abstract. A horizontally pointing lidar is planned for deployment with other instruments in Fukushima, Japan, to continuously monitor and characterize the optical properties of radioactive aerosols and dust in an uninhabited area. Prior to installation, the performance of the lidar is tested at Chiba University. Data from the continuous operation of the lidar from August 2021 to February 2022 are analyzed for extinction and volume linear depolarization ratio. These are compared with the weather sensor and particulate matter (PM2.5) measurements to quantify the relationships between atmospheric conditions and optical properties of near-ground aerosols. The results show that the lidar data's extinction coefficient and depolarization ratio can have a quantifiable relationship with relative humidity (RH), absolute humidity, rain rate, wind speed, wind direction and PM2.5 concentration. Analysis of the 7-month data shows that the optical properties of aerosol and dust depend on the combined effects of the weather parameters. An increase in RH or PM2.5 concentration does not imply an increase in radioactive aerosols. The average extinction coefficient and depolarization ratio of aerosols and dust, originating from the land and ocean, show different values and opposing trends, which can aid in determining the occurrence of ground-based radioactive dust and aerosols. The information obtained from analyzing the inter-relationship among lidar, weather parameters and PM2.5 concentration is essential in assessing the occurrence of radioactive aerosols and characterizing local aerosol–weather relationships in a radioactive area. This result provides essential information in describing radioactive aerosols in Fukushima.
Egoistic Relative Deprivation and Support for Populism in Days of Democracy Crisis: the Case of Poland

: According to the social psychological literature, egoistic relative deprivation impairs well-being but has at most little impact on political protest and engagement. We considered this view incomplete and over-simplifying. It was predicted that egoistic relative deprivation itself may impair democracy by increasing support for populism, and that the postulated relationship will be mediated by dysphoric affect, political alienation, and political paranoia. The empirical basis of the article were three studies carried out on nationwide random-quota samples of adult Poles: in 2002 (N = 1500), in 2010 (N = 800), and in 2017 (N = 2000). It was found that support for populism systematically depends directly on dysphoric affect and political paranoia, which are strengthened by egoistic relative deprivation. In 2017, with populist political groupings in power in Poland, the role of political alienation turned out to be ambiguous. Political alienation slightly strengthened political paranoia but directly lowered support for populism. In conclusion it was noted that in Poland's history and in the contemporary Polish mentality there is a great potential for negative affect, pessimism and bitterness. Relative deprivation experienced today successfully maintains this potential.
Constructing Memory: Consolidation as Teacher-Student Training of a Generative Model

Human episodic memories are (re)constructed, share neural substrates with imag-ination, and show systematic biases that increase as they are consolidated into semantic memory. Here we suggest that these main features of human memory are characteristic of ‘teacher-student’ training of a neocortical generative model by a one-shot memory system in the hippocampal formation (HF). As we simulate with image datasets, the ‘students’ (variational autoencoders) in association cortex develop a compressed ‘latent variable’ representation of experience by learning to reconstruct replayed samples from the ‘teacher’ (a modern Hopfield network). Recall and imagination require these representations to be decoded into sensory experience by the HF and return projections to sensory cortex, whereas semantic memory and inference rely directly on the latent variables without requiring the HF. We extend preceding models to explain the construction of episodic memory, and the interaction between semantic memory and episode generation more broadly.
Symptoms of asthma and associated factors in adolescents from Salvador, Bahia.

OBJECTIVE Identify the factors associated with asthma symptoms in adolescents. METHODS Cross-sectional study with the participation of 1,176 students between the ages of 11 and 17 years old, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The asthma symptoms were identified by using the standardized questionnaire from The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Program (ISAAC), phase III. The subjects' food intake data were collected by a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) comprised of 97 food items. All of the information was collected during a single interview. Anthropometric, socioeconomic, and demographic data were collected from the study population. The robust Poisson model was adopted to obtain the raw and adjusted PR (prevalence ratio). RESULTS From the total number of adolescents, 57.6% are female and 83.71% of them were between 13 and 17 years old. The prevalence of asthma symptoms was of 7.6%, being higher among males (9.62%). The prevalence of wheezing in the last 12 months was 8.6%. Among the adolescents with rhinitis and eczema, the prevalence of asthma symptoms was of 15.2 and 14.3%, respectively. After an adjusted analysis, the following factors were identified: females PR = 0.64 (95%CI 0.42 - 0.96), rhinitis PR = 3.23 (95%CI 2.17 - 4.83) and the 2nd tertile of the healthy pattern (moderate consumption) PR = 0.61 (95%CI 0.37 - 0.99). CONCLUSION Rhinitis and eczema were presented as risk factors for asthma symptoms. The healthy food intake pattern that had been stratified in tertiles, presented the 2nd tertile as a protector for asthma symptoms.
Before and After the 2017 Gulf Crisis: Peace, Propaganda, and Violence Frames in Al-Jazeera’s Coverage of Bahrain’s Uprising

This study explores how the fluctuations of Qatari-Bahraini ties from 2011 to 2021 have influenced Al-Jazeera’s legitimization of the Bahraini regime. It also measures the extent to which Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) included Galtung’s typology of violence (ToV) and peace journalism model (PJM) in their coverage of Bahrain’s 2011 uprising. A total of 424 articles were analyzed from both channels. The results found that the regime’s direct violence dominated the coverage, whereas its structural and cultural violence received less attention, particularly by AJA. In addition, the number of articles framing the regime’s propaganda as facts dropped across both channels following the 2017 Gulf crisis. During the same period, delegitimizing frames of the regime increased in articles from AJA and AJE. The study concludes that the deterioration of Qatari-Bahraini relations after the 2017 crisis made Al-Jazeera’s coverage more critical of the Bahraini regime but not necessarily more peace journalism oriented.
Effects of work-family and family-work conflict and guilt on job and life satisfaction

: The boundary between work and family life is now almost invisible, making the search for a balance between both spheres a dilemma and challenge. These concerns have led to a growing increase in studies on work-family and family-work conflict, their predictors, and their effects. This study aims to: 1) observe the predictive effect of work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) on work-family guilt (WFG) and family-work guilt (FWG), respectively; and 2) to observe the effect of WFC, FWC, WFG and FWG on satisfaction with life and job satisfaction. In a sample of 213 participants aged between 22 and 64 years (M = 41.77; SD = 6.63), the results show that, in contrast with expectations, WFG and FWG did not prove to be predictors; only WFC and FWC had a negative effect on both guilt and satisfaction with life and job satisfaction. The family work interface is a topic that is extremely important, not only for organizations but also for society. Therefore, the study of its implications on variables is considered essential for the promotion of positive functioning of individuals.
A Phylolinguistic Classification of the Quechua Language Family Clasificación

: We present a computational phylogeny for the internal classification of the Quechua language family. Based on a concept list of 150 lexical items, we manually analyzed data from 39 contemporaneous Quechua varieties for cognacy and computed a family tree using Bayesian phylogenetic methods. The results provide further evidence for the classification of individual varieties. We also compare the results to the existing hypotheses for the evolution of the Quechua language family.
Long-range transported pollution from the Middle East and its impact 1 on carbonaceous aerosol sources over Cyprus. 2

The geographical origin and source apportionment of submicron carbonaceous aerosols (organic aerosols, OA, and 20 black carbon, BC) have been investigated here for the first time by means of high time resolution measurements at an urban 21 background site of Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean. This study covers a half-year period, 22 encompassing both the cold and warm periods with continuous observations of the physical and chemical properties of PM 1 23 performed with an Aerosol Chemical Speciation monitor (ACSM), an Aethalometer, accompanied by a suite of various ancillary 24 off and on-line measurements. Carbonaceous aerosols were dominant during both seasons (cold and warm periods), with a 25 respective contribution of 57% and 48% to PM 1 , respectively, and exhibited recurrent intense night-time peaks (>20-30 µg m -3 ) 26 during the cold period associated with local domestic heating. Findings of this study show that high concentrations of sulfate 27 (close to 3 µg m -3 ) were continuously recorded, standing among the highest ever reported for Europe and originating from the 28 Middle East region. 29 Source apportionment of the OA and BC fractions was performed using the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) approach and 30 the combination of two models (aethalometer model and multilinear regression), respectively. Our study revealed elevated 31 hydrocarbon-like organic aerosol (HOA) concentrations in Nicosia (among the highest reported for a European urban background 32 site), originating from a mixture of local and regional fossil-fuel combustion sources. Although air masses from the Middle East 33 had a low occurrence and were observed mostly during the cold period, they were shown to strongly affect the mean 34 concentrations levels of BC and OA in Nicosia during both seasons. Overall, the present study brings to our
Does back-flow of leaf water introduce a discrepancy in plant water source tracing through stable isotopes?

Plant water source tracing studies often rely on differences in stable isotope composition of different water sources. However, an increasing number of studies has indicated a discrepancy between the isotopic signature of plant xylem water and 10 the water sources assumed to be used by plants. Based on a meta-analysis we have reconfirmed this discrepancy between plant xylem water and groundwater and suggest back-flow of leaf water (BFLW), defined as a combination of (i) the Péclet effect, (ii) foliar water uptake (FWU) and (iii) hydraulic redistribution of leaf water, as a possible explanation for these observations. Using the average 2.21‰ 18 O enrichment of xylem water compared to groundwater in our meta-analysis, we modelled the potential of BFLW to result in this observed isotopic discrepancy. With a low flow velocity of 0.052 m.h -1 and an effective 15 path length of 2 m, the Péclet effect alone was able to account for the average offset between xylem water and groundwater. When including a realistic fraction of 5-10% xylem water originating from FWU and tissue dehydration, 60-100% of the average observed enrichment can be explained. By combining the Péclet effect with FWU and tissue dehydration, some of the more extreme offsets in our meta-analysis can be elucidated. These large effects are more probable during dry conditions when drought stress lowers transpiration rates, leading to a larger Péclet effect, more tissue dehydration, and a potential greater 20 contribution of FWU.
Relationships among measures of longest utterances, MLU, age, and number of utterances in child language samples

The length of longest utterances (LLU) may offer a useful view of the upper boundaries of a child's early expressive grammar. In this study, the properties of four measures of LLU were examined in terms of their relationships to mean length of utterance (MLU) and to language sample size over the course of early development. The four measures of LLU were (1) mean length of the longest three utterances (LLU-3), (2) mean length of the longest 10% of utterances (LLU-10%), (3) MLUs over the median utterance length (LLU-M), and (4) MLUs longer than one morpheme (LLU > 1). Language samples of various sizes were created by randomly selecting subsets of 50, 100, 200, and 300 utterances from Brown's samples of Adam, Eve, and Sarah. The four calculation methods were compared in each of the sample sizes, over the course of development for each child. The results indicated that LLU-M and LLU > 1 were both close to MLU, although age differences were noted. Increases in LLU tended to outpace MLU over development in three of the four calculation methods. LLU was positively related to language sample size for one of the calculation methods, LLU-3. Overall, LLU was found to be a fairly close parallel of MLU and a good predictor of future MLU values. It was concluded that three basic properties of LLU should be taken into consideration: (1) calculation method affects LLU outcome, (2) LLU gradually increases relative to MLU throughout early development, and (3) LLU is affected by interaction of language sample size with calculation method.