Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mining Postal Addresses

This paper presents FuMaS (Fuzzy Matching System), a system capable of an efficient retrieval of postal addresses from noisy queries. The fuzzy postal addresses retrieval has many possible applications, ranging from datawarehouse dedumping, to the correction of input forms, or the integration within online street directories, etc. This paper presents the system architecture along with a series of experiments performed using FuMaS. The experimental results show that FuMaS is a very useful system when retrieving noisy postal addresses, being able to retrieve almost 85% of the total ones. This represents an improvement of the 15% when comparing with other systems tested in this set of experiments.
Understanding Rumination Thinking from the Perspectives of Psychological Control Source and Personality Traits

: This study primarily explores the relationship between rumination thinking in high school students and their personality traits and psychological control sources. Utilizing a questionnaire survey method, we randomly distributed surveys to 557 high school students who completed the Rumination Thinking Response Scale, Internal Control, Authority and Opportunity Scale, and China's Big Five Personality Questionnaire. The results revealed significant differences in rumination and its dimensions concerning gender, only-child status, and grade (ps < 0.01). Rumination showed a significant positive correlation with the big five personality, neuroticism, and conscientiousness (ps < 0.01). Additionally, rumination was significantly correlated with psychological control sources, internal control, authority, and opportunity (ps < 0.01). Through a mediation effect test, the mediating effect value of psychological control sources between the big five personality and rumination was found to be 0.048, accounting for 33.80% of the total effect, thus indicating that psychological control sources played a partial mediating role. The study suggests that there are individual differences in rumination thinking among high school students. Schools and parents may consider influencing students' rumination from the perspectives of personality and psychological control sources to enhance positive thinking and contribute to addressing and improving students' psychological well-being.
Combining Deterministic Dependency Parsing and Linear Classification for Robust RTE

We present a robust RTE approach which is built as one module incorporating all possible knowledge sources in form of different features. This way we can easily include or remove knowledge sources which are involved into the process of judging the entailment relation. We perform numerous tests in which we analyse the contribution of different types of features based on word forms, structural information, lexical semantics and named entity recognition to this process. The core of our system is our own deterministic dependency parser MDParser, which is based on a fast linear classification approach. We use the RTE6 challenge as an opportunity to evaluate its performance in a real-world application against another state of the art parser MaltParser. In our official submissions we achieve an f-score of 39.81 with MaltParser and 38.26 with MDParser. However, the parsing speed with MDParser is
Color stability, water sorption and cytotoxicity of thermoplastic acrylic resin for non metal clasp denture

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the color stability, water sorption and cytotoxicity of thermoplastic acrylic resin for the non-metal clasp dentures to those of thermoplastic polyamide and conventional heat-polymerized denture base resins. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three types of denture base resin, which are conventional heat-polymerized acrylic resin (Paladent 20), thermoplastic polyamide resin (Bio Tone), thermoplastic acrylic resin (Acrytone) were used as materials for this study. One hundred five specimens were fabricated. For the color stability test, specimens were immersed in the coffee and green tee for 1 and 8 weeks. Color change was measured by spectrometer. Water sorption was tested after 1 and 8 weeks immersion in the water. For the test of cytotoxicity, cell viability assay was measured and cell attachment was analyzed by FE-SEM. RESULTS All types of denture base resin showed color changes after 1 and 8 weeks immersion. However, there was no significant difference between denture base resins. All specimens showed significant color changes in the coffee than green tee. In water sorption test, thermoplastic acrylic resin showed lower values than conventional heat-polymerized acrylic resin and thermoplastic polyamide resin. Three types of denture base showed low cytotoxicity in cell viability assay. Thermoplastic acrylic resin showed the similar cell attachment but more stable attachment than conventional heat-polymerized acrylic resin. CONCLUSION Thermoplastic acrylic resin for the non-metal clasp denture showed acceptable color stability, water sorption and cytotoxicity. To verify the long stability in the mouth, additional in vitro studies are needed.
The Effect of Dietary Protein Hydrolysate from Black Soldier Fly Larvae and Schizochytrium on Palatability, Nutrient Metabolites and Health Status in Beagle Dogs

Protein hydrolysate from black soldier fly larvae (BSFP) has garnered great attention with its lower allergenicity, high amount of essential amino acids, and small bioactive peptides. Schizochytrium is a promising alternative source of n-3 FUFA because it has enriched docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22: 6). The aim of this study was to assess palatability, the presence of diarrhea, plasma biochemistry panels, anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects, and immune function in beagle dogs when supplementing a mixture of protein hydrolysate from black soldier fly larvae and schizochytrium (BSFPs) into their diets. Experiment I: 24 young beagle dogs (16 males and 8 females; 4–5 months; BW: 6.40 ± 0.15 kg) were randomly divided into four groups: (1) control (CON), (2) 5% BSFPs, (3) 10% BSFPs, (4) 15% BSFPs. Their body weights and fecal scores were recorded, and blood samples were collected for analysis. Experiment II: three diets containing 5%, 10%, and 15% BSFPs were evaluated by comparing them with a basal diet (CON) to evaluate palatability. These results suggested that a lower presence of diarrhea existed in the BSFP diet than the CON diet (p < 0.05). Three treatment groups remarkably increased their total protein (TP) and albumin (ALB) contents and decreased their concentrations of triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC) in plasma (p < 0.05). Moreover, the 5% and 15% BSFPs groups had a higher calcium (CA) content in plasma, and the activities of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and contents of creatinine (CREA) and urea nitrogen (BUN) were significantly reduced by supplementing BSFP in their diets (p < 0.05). Their anti-oxidative enzyme activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX) were dramatically enhanced, and their malondialdehyde (MDA) concentrations were remarkably reduced (p < 0.05). Immunoglobulin A and G (IgA and IgG) concentrations in the plasma in the 10% and 15% BSFPs groups were significantly increased (p < 0.05). Furthermore, lower interleukin-8 (IL-8) contents were shown in the BSFP diets than the CON diet (p < 0.05). Similarly, the diets supplemented with BSFPs exhibited a positive effect on palatability (p < 0.05). To sum up, the diets supplemented with BSFPs significantly enhanced palatability, immune function, and anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory capacity to alleviate diarrhea and improve the general health of the beagle dogs.
OPTIMo: Online Probabilistic Trust Inference Model for Asymmetric Human-Robot Collaborations

We present OPTIMo: an Online Probabilistic Trust Inference Model for quantifying the degree of trust that a human supervisor has in an autonomous robot “worker”. Represented as a Dynamic Bayesian Network, OPTIMo infers beliefs over the human’s moment-to-moment latent trust states, based on the history of observed interaction experiences. A separate model instance is trained on each user’s experiences, leading to an interpretable and personalized characterization of that operator’s behaviors and attitudes. Using datasets collected from an interaction study with a large group of roboticists, we empirically assess OPTIMo’s performance under a broad range of configurations. These evaluation results highlight OPTIMo’s advances in both prediction accuracy and responsiveness over several existing trust models. This accurate and near real-time humanrobot trust measure makes possible the development of autonomous robots that can adapt their behaviors dynamically, to actively seek greater trust and greater efficiency within future human-robot collaborations. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.1. 2 [Models and Principles]: User/Machine Systems- software psychology General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation
Suppressor cell function in multiple sclerosis: Correlation with clinical disease activity

Concanavalin A (Con A)–activated suppressor cell activity was determined in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who had been assigned to one of three subgroups, those with active disease, those recovering from a flare‐up, and those with stable disease. The level of suppression induced by the Con A–activated suppressor cells on the mitogenic response of autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes was reduced in patients with active disease (3 ± 8%) compared with stable patients (30 ± 8%), patients recovering from a flare‐up (62 ± 5%), and controls (40 ± 5%). As a measure of the actual amounts of suppressor factors released, the effect of supernatants from the Con A–activated cells on the proliferative activity of a dividing cell line (L cells) was determined concurrently. The inhibitory effect of supernatants from activated cells was reduced in active and stable MS patients (7 ± 3%) compared to controls (21 ± 4%). Three of 4 with active MS showed mildly elevated immune complex levels as measured by the Raji cell technique; each of these patients had low suppressor activity. Levamisole (1 μg per milliliter) failed to alter suppresor cell activity in our in vitro system.
Incorporating Observer Biases in Keyhole Plan Recognition (Efficiently!)

Plan recognition is the process of inferring other agents' plans and goals based on their observable actions. Essentially all previous work in plan recognition has focused on the recognition process itself, with no regard to the use of the information in the recognizing agent. As a result, low-likelihood recognition hypotheses that may imply significant meaning to the observer, are ignored in existing work. In this paper, we present novel efficient algorithms that allows the observer to incorporate her own biases and preferences--in the form of a utility function--into the plan recognition process. This allows choosing recognition hypotheses based on their expected utility to the observer. We call this Utility-based Plan Recognition (UPR). While reasoning about such expected utilities is intractable in the general case, we present a hybrid symbolic/decision-theoretic plan recognizer, whose complexity is O(N DT), where N is the plan library size, D is the depth of the library and T is the number of observations. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach with experimental results in several challenging recognition tasks.
Keyphrase extraction through query performance prediction

Previous research shows that keyphrases are useful tools in document retrieval and navigation. While these point to a relation between keyphrases and document retrieval performance, no other work uses this relationship to identify keyphrases of a given document. This work aims to establish a link between the problems of query performance prediction (QPP) and keyphrase extraction. To this end, features used in QPP are evaluated in keyphrase extraction using a naïve Bayes classifier. Our experiments indicate that these features improve the effectiveness of keyphrase extraction in documents of different length. More importantly, commonly used features of frequency and first position in text perform poorly on shorter documents, whereas QPP features are more robust and achieve better results.
Numerical Simulation on Authigenic Barite Formation in Marine Sediments

Submarine cold seep and its associated authigenic minerals in sediment are meaningful to indicate the existence of underlying natural gas hydrate. The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is coupled with sulfate reduction (SR) and influences the dissolution and precipitation of barite. However, the forming mechanism of barite is not yet clearly understood. In order to investigate the forming process of authigenic barite and its relationship with methane leakage flux, based on the measured data of the Qiongdongnan Basin in the Northern slope of the South China Sea, we constructed a 1D model of a sedimentary column to reproduce the formation of barite using the numerical simulation method. The results show that the original equilibrium of barite was broken by the cold seep fluids and Ba2+ was carried upward to the sulfate-rich zone leading to the formation of barite front. When there is no flux of methane from the bottom of sediment, the barite front disappears. The relationship between methane leakage flux and authigenic minerals was also discussed. It can be concluded that high methane flux corresponds to a shallow barite front in the sediment, furthermore, the barite content first increases and then decreases as the methane flux increases. At the same time, an inverse relationship between the ratio of authigenic barite to calcite and methane flux was obtained.
Using Hormones to Manage Dairy Cow Fertility: The Clinical and Ethical Beliefs of Veterinary Practitioners

In the face of a steady decline in dairy cow fertility over several decades, using hormones to assist reproduction has become common. In the European Union, hormones are prescription-only medicines, giving veterinary practitioners a central role in their deployment. This study explored the clinical and ethical beliefs of practitioners, and provides data on their current prescribing practices. During 2011, 93 practitioners working in England completed a questionnaire (95% response rate). Of the 714 non-organic farms they attended, only 4 farms (0.6%) never used hormones to assist the insemination of lactating dairy cows. Practitioners agreed (>80%) that hormones improve fertility and farm businesses profitability. They also agreed (>80%) that if farmers are able to tackle management issues contributing to poor oestrus expression, then over a five year period these outcomes would both improve, relative to using hormones instead. If management issues are addressed instead of prescribing hormones, practitioners envisaged a less favourable outcome for veterinary practices profitability (p<0.01), but an improvement in genetic selection for fertility (p<0.01) and overall cow welfare (p<0.01). On farms making no efforts to address underlying management problems, long-term routine use at the start of breeding for timing artificial insemination or inducing oestrus was judged “unacceptable” by 69% and 48% of practitioners, respectively. In contrast, practitioners agreed (≥90%) that both these types of use are acceptable, provided a period of time has been allowed to elapse during which the cow is observed for natural oestrus. Issues discussed include: weighing quality versus length of cow life, fiscal factors, legal obligations, and balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including the increasing societal demand for food. This research fosters debate and critical appraisal, contributes to veterinary ethics, and encourages the pro-active development of professional codes of conduct.
Hubble Space Telescope and Very Large Array Observations of the H2O Gigamaser Galaxy TXS 2226–184

We present Hubble Space Telescope/Wide-Field and Planetary Camera 2 images in Hα + [N II] λλ6548, 6583 lines and continuum radiation and a VLA map at 8 GHz of the H2O gigamaser galaxy TXS 2226-184. This galaxy has the most luminous H2O maser emission known to date. Our red continuum images reveal a highly elongated galaxy with a dust lane crossing the nucleus. The surface brightness profile is best fitted by a bulge plus exponential disk model, favoring classification as a highly inclined spiral galaxy (i = 70°). The color map confirms that the dust lane is aligned with the galaxy major axis and is crossing the putative nucleus. The Hα + [N II] map exhibits a gaseous, jetlike structure perpendicular to the nuclear dust lane and the galaxy major axis. The radio map shows compact, steep spectrum emission that is elongated in the same direction as the Hα + [N II] emission. By analogy with Seyfert galaxies, we therefore suspect that this alignment reflects an interaction between the radio jet and the interstellar medium. The axes of the nuclear dust disk, the radio emission, and the optical line emission apparently define the axis of the active galactic nucleus. The observations suggest that in this galaxy the nuclear accretion disk, obscuring torus, and large-scale molecular gas layer are roughly coplanar. Our classification of the host galaxy strengthens the trend for megamasers to be found preferentially in highly inclined spiral galaxies.
Shared State for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

InterWeave is a distributed middleware system that supports the sharing of strongly typed, pointerrich data structures across a wide variety of hardware architectures, operating systems, and programming languages. As a complement to RPC/RMI, InterWeave facilitates the rapid development of maintainable code by allowing processes to access shared data using ordinary reads and writes. To maximize performance on bandwidth-limited networks, InterWeave caches data locally, leverages application-specific coherence requirements to minimize the frequency of updates, and employs two-way diffing to update only those data that have actually changed. We have used InterWeave to construct applications in a variety of problem domains, including remote scientific visualization, interactive data mining, and human/computer collaboration. For previously uncached data, InterWeave achieves communication performance comparable to that of parameter passing in traditional RPC systems. For data that have already been cached, relaxed coherence and platform-independent diffs allow InterWeave to significantly outperform the straightforward use of RPC.
Prevalence and Impact of Bacteriophages on the Presence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Feedlot Cattle and Their Environment

ABSTRACT The relationship between endemic bacteriophages infecting E. coli O157:H7 (referred to as “phage”) and levels of shedding of E. coli O157:H7 by cattle was investigated in two commercial feedlots in southern Alberta, Canada. Between May and November 2007, 10 pens of cattle were monitored by collection of pooled fecal pats, water with sediment from troughs, manure slurry from the pen floor, and rectal fecal samples from individual animals (20 per pen) at two separate times. Bacteriophages infecting E. coli O157:H7 were detected more frequently (P < 0.001) after 18 to 20 h enrichment than by initial screening and were recovered in 239 of 855 samples (26.5% of 411 pooled fecal pats, 23.8% of 320 fecal grab samples, 21.8% of 87 water trough samples, and 94.6% of 37 pen floor slurry samples). Overall, prevalence of phage was highest (P < 0.001) in slurry. Recovery of phage from pooled fecal pats was highest (P < 0.05) in May. Overall recovery did not differ (P > 0.10) between fecal grab samples and pooled fecal pats. A higher prevalence of phage in fecal pats or water trough samples was associated (P < 0.01) with reduced prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in rectal fecal samples. There was a weak but significant negative correlation between isolation of phage and E. coli O157:H7 in fecal grab samples (r = −0.11; P < 0.05). These data demonstrate that the prevalence of phage fluctuates in a manner similar to that described for E. coli O157:H7. Phage were more prevalent in manure slurry than other environmental sources. The likelihood of fecal shedding of E. coli O157:H7 was reduced if cattle in the pen harbored phage.
Classifier Ensemble with Unlabeled Data

Ensemble learning aims to improve generalization ability by using multiple base learners. It is well-known that to construct a good ensemble, the base learners should be accurate as well as diverse. In this paper, unlabeled data is exploited to facilitate ensemble learning by helping augment the diversity among the base learners. Specifically, a semi-supervised ensemble method named Sealed is proposed. Unlike existing semi-supervised ensemble methods where error-prone pseudo-labels are estimated for unlabeled data, Sealed works by maximizing accuracies of base learners on labeled data and maximizing diversity among them on labeled as well as unlabeled data. Experiments show that Sealed can effectively utilize unlabeled data for ensemble learning and is highly competitive to wellestablished semi-supervised ensemble methods.
Reactivation steps by 2-PAM of tabun-inhibited human acetylcholinesterase: reducing the computational cost in hybrid QM/MM methods

The present work describes a simple integrated Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics method developed to study the reactivation steps by pralidoxime (2-PAM) of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibited by the neurotoxic agent Tabun. The method was tested on an AChE model and showed to be able to corroborate most of the results obtained before, through a more complex and time-consuming methodology, proving to be suitable to this kind of mechanistic study at a lower computational cost.
Perceptual and Cognitive Abnormality Model of Hypochondriasis: Amplification and Physiological Reactivity in Women

This study investigated the perceptual/cognitive abnormality model of hypochondriasis, which suggests that hypochondriacal patients amplify and misinterpret normal bodily sensations.The hypothesis was evaluated by assessing pain perception and stress reactivity in female hypochondriacal (N = 15) and female nonhypochondriacal control subjects (N = 15). Subjects completed self-report measures and participated in a laboratory stress reactivity assessment consisting of the cold pressor task and an imagery task. Hypochondriacal subjects exhibited a significant increase in heart rate during the cold pressor task and a significant drop in hand temperature relative to controls. Hand temperature remained lower among the hypochondriacal subjects after the cold pressor task was terminated. Hypochondriacal subjects terminated the cold pressor task more frequently, left their feet in the cold water bath a significantly shorter period of time, and rated the cold pressor task as significantly more unpleasant (although not more intense) relative to controls. Group differences were not observed in the imagery task. Of interest, hypochondriacal subjects' baseline heart rate was significantly lower than that of controls. Taken together, these data suggest that hypochondriacal behavior may be mediated, in part, by objective differences in physiological reactivity.