Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Political Ideology Detection Using Recursive Neural Networks

An individual’s words often reveal their political ideology. Existing automated techniques to identify ideology from text focus on bags of words or wordlists, ignoring syntax. Taking inspiration from recent work in sentiment analysis that successfully models the compositional aspect of language, we apply a recursive neural network (RNN) framework to the task of identifying the political position evinced by a sentence. To show the importance of modeling subsentential elements, we crowdsource political annotations at a phrase and sentence level. Our model outperforms existing models on our newly annotated dataset and an existing dataset.
3DUI and the Phantom Limb: multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation

In the context of the 3DUI Contest promoted by the IEEE VR 2020, we propose an application to allow users to experience having an amputated arm. By providing both visual and haptic feedback, our application offers a multisensory experience to enhance the sense of embodiment. The user of our application should still feel their real limb attached to their bodies, and yet see their virtual avatar and interact with the virtual environment as an amputee. A simple task of handling and positioning objects in a table is proposed for the users to experience the difficulties of having a missing arm. As most amputees have the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached, our application should allow users to experience the same feeling.
Evaluation of Formal Method Usage amongst Babcock University Students in Nigeria

The knowledge of Formal Methods involves techniques and tools that are based on mathematics but most students tend to have poor approach in applying these techniques during software systems developmental processes despite all the potentials that using formal methods possess in designing systems that are error free, robust and more reliable. This study was conducted to evaluate formal methods usability among students and to enable them understand how important it is to embrace this technique in building highly reliable systems and for the academia to work more on bridging the gap between research and industries so as to promote the use of formal methods in software engineering companies. In this paper, the benefits that Formal Methods has to offer in the area of Software Development was explored including present challenges affecting their usability, the present level of awareness and usage amongst students of computer science who have acute interest in software engineering was also evaluated. The research was done quantitatively using a pilot study of students selected conveniently from Babcock University, Ilisan, Nigeria Computer Science students. A usability evaluation model was used in designing the measuring tool focusing on awareness, learnability, ease of use and willingness to use formal methods in their Research works and they were evaluated using descriptive statistical method. The measuring tool was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. Reliability test was done and found to be 0.906 which indicated a high internal consistency. The result of the analysis shows that if formal methods is easy to learn, then students will find it easy to use and the willingness to use it for their projects will be there. If they are willing to use it, then learnability and ease of use will also be high. Conclusion and Recommendations were also given at the end of the Research analysis.
Atrial septal defect closure via mini-thoracotomy in pediatric patients: Postoperative analgesic effect of intercostal nerve block.

Background In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of intercostal nerve block for postoperative pain management in pediatric patients undergoing atrial septal defect closure through a right lateral mini-thoracotomy. Methods Between January 2016 and January 2019, a total of 63 pediatric patients (37 males, 26 females; mean age 34.8±26.8 months; range, 2 to 96 months) who underwent corrective congenital heart surgery for atrial septal defect closure through a right lateral mini-thoracotomy were retrospectively reviewed. The patients were divided into two groups as those (Group 1, n=33) receiving intercostal nerve block and general anesthesia and those (Group 2, n=30) receiving general anesthesia alone. Intravenous morphine at a dose of 0.03 mg/kg was applied as rescue analgesia to the patients with a Ramsay Sedation Scale score of >4 and Children"s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale score of >7. The total analgesic requirement, adverse effects, duration of mechanical ventilation and length of stay in the intensive care unit were recorded. Results The mean duration of mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit stay was shorter in Group 1 compared to Group 2 (3.6±1.3 vs. 9.4±2.1 h; 23±2.6 vs. 30±7.2 h, respectively) (p<0.0001). The need for postoperative rescue analgesia was statistically significantly lower in Group 1 compared to Group 2 (0.3±0.5 mg vs. 1.1±0.9 mg, respectively) (p=0.003). The mean total morphine consumption was also lower in Group 1 compared to Group 2 (4.0±2.2 mg vs. 9.0±3.4 mg, respectively) (p<0.0001). Conclusion Intercostal nerve block before thoracotomy closure in pediatric patients undergoing atrial septal defect repair under mini-thoracotomy provides early extubation, shorter mechanical ventilation duration and intensive care unit stay, and reduced analgesic requirements.
Photocatalytic Removal Of Xanthene And Diaryl Methane Dyes By Air Oxidation Using Tio2 Nanospheres Under Sunlight

Titanium dioxide nanocatalyst was synthesized by simple chemical precipitation method and is characterized by XRD, FE-SEM, EDAX, TEM, BET Surface area analysis, FTIR, UV-DRS and Photoluminescence. The synthesized TiO2 catalyst is evaluated for its photocatalytic activity towards the degradation of Rose Bengal and basic yellow (Auramine O) dyes under solar irradiation. The parameters such as catalyst dosage, initial dye concentration, pH were optimized for the effective photocatalytic dye degradation. The photodegradation rates of Rose bengal reached 98% within 60 minutes of reaction time and for basic yellow 89% of the dye degradation is achieved within 60 minutes of irradiation and the rate of dye degradation was found to be enhanced by air oxidation using TiO2 catalyst under sunlight.
Effective, interpretable algorithms for curiosity automatically discovered by evolutionary search

—We take the hypothesis that curiosity is a mechanism found by evolution that encourages meaningful exploration early in an agent’s life in order to expose it to experiences that enable it to obtain high rewards over the course of its lifetime. We formulate the problem of generating curious behavior as one of meta-learning: an outer loop will search over a space of curiosity algorithms that dynamically adapt the agent’s reward signal, and an inner loop will perform standard reinforcement learning using the adapted reward signal. These meta-learned algorithms are pieces of code similar to those designed by humans in ML papers. Our rich language of programs combines neural networks with other building blocks such as buffers, nearest-neighbor modules and custom loss functions. We ﬁnd two novel curiosity algorithms that perform on par or better than human-designed published curiosity algorithms in domains as disparate as grid navigation with image input, acrobot, lunar lander, MuJoCo ant and MuJoCo hopper. Interestingly both algorithms, which we call FAST (Fast Action Space Transition) and Cycle-consistency intrinsic motivation, have interpretable functionalities and, to the best of our knowledge, had not been proposed before. Finally, altohugh most of the intrinsic motivation literature focuses on purely intrinsic reward, we show that this needs to be combined with extrinsic reward for meaningful performance in many environments and describe a simple way to combine them automatically discovered by our search.
Ethics and Resource Scarcity: ASCO Recommendations for the Oncology Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to demand more resources than the US medical system has to supply, likely requiring explicit rationing of ventilators, critical and intensive care beds, and medications, including for patients with cancer. ASCO affirms the inherent worth and dignity of each patient affected by cancer and recognizes that cancer is a heterogeneous disease that differs in its prognosis, progression, and treatment among individuals. Therefore, allocation decision processes should not unconditionally deny patients with cancer consideration for access to scarce resources. Oncologists have a vital role to play in caring for and about their patients if resource allocation becomes needed. ASCO makes the following recommendations to guide oncologists.
Synthesis of Peres and R Logic Circuits in Nanoscopic Scale

Traditional lithography based VLSI architecture expanded to optimize higher scale integration and low powered computing of semiconductor components. This tend encounter severe challenges of short channel issue, tunneling and variation of doping. Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an esteemed nano-scale technology and a better substitute of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) for it’s transformation technique and computation method. Information-lossless or reversible logic circuits has divers precise utilization in communications, digital signal processing (DSP), computer graphics also in quantum computation. This paper presents the systematic model of Peres gate (PG) and R gate in QCA and CMOS. To simulate and verify the proposed design QCADesigner and Microwindlite, widely used simulation tools are used. Those proposed design has a promising future and can be used in modeling complex computing structure and nano-scale based low power consumption information processing structure.
ANTIOXIDANT AND HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF GARCINIA INDICA CHOISY FRUITS IN CARBON TETRACHLORIDE-INDUCED LIVER INJURY IN RATS

The protective effects of aqueous extracts of the fruit rind of Garcinia indica (GIE) on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatotoxicity were investigated in rats. GIE (400 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg) and the reference drug silymarin (100 mg/kg) were administered orally for 10 days to rats treated with CCl4 for 7 days. GIE and silymarin elicited significant hepatoprotective activity by attenuating the CCl4-elevated levels of serum marker enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase) and malondialdehyde, and restoring the CCl4-depleted levels of reduced glutathione, superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase in liver. GIE 800 mg/kg demonstrated greater hepatoprotection than GIE 400 mg/kg. The present findings indicate that hepatoprotective effects of GIE in CCl4-induced oxidative damage may be due to an augmentation of the endogenous antioxidants and inhibition of lipid peroxidation in liver. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Garcinia indica Choisy is an Indian plant, the fruit of which is widely used in cooking and has many pharmaceutical and industrial uses. It has been shown to possess a wide range of medicinal properties and many of its therapeutic effects are described in Ayurveda. Traditionally, the syrup of G. indica fruit has been administered to alcohol-intoxicated individuals for protection of liver. Literature reports the aqueous extracts of G. indica fruit rind to possess potent antioxidant, free radical scavenging and anti-lipid peroxidative activities. The present study evaluates the hepatoprotective effect of G. indica fruit with an aim to bring about value addition to its health benefits, establish it as a potent “functional food” and promote its use as a culinary spice to enrich people's diets. Besides, it is cheap and readily available to all strata of society.
Conclusion:The EkoSonicTM endovascular system improved right ventricular dysfunction, decreased pulmonary arterial pressure, and improved oxygenation in patients with intermediate-high-risk pulmonary embolism without increasing the risk for bleeding

ÖZ Amaç: Bu çalışmada, orta-yüksek riskli pulmoner emboli tanısıyla hastaneye yatırılan hastalardaki EkoSonicTM endovasküler sistem uygulamalarının etkinliği ve güvenliliği değerlendirildi. Ça­lış­ma­ pla­nı:­ Ocak 2018 Mart 2019 tarihleri arasında, pulmoner emboli nedeniyle EkoSonicTM endovasküler sistemi kullanılarak ultrasonografi ile hızlandırılmış tromboliz yapılan toplam 15 hasta (7 erkek, 8 kadın; ort. yaş 64.7±17.8 yıl; dağılım, 35-90 yıl) retrospektif olarak incelendi. Pulmoner emboli tanısı, pulmoner bilgisayarlı tomografi anjiyografi ile konuldu. Hastaların tümü sağ ventrikül disfonksiyonu açısından ekokardiyografi ile değerlendirildi ve serum troponin I ve beyin natriüretik peptid düzeyleri kaydedildi. Bul gu lar: Hastaların işlem öncesinde ve sonrasında ortalama arteriyel kan gazı oksijen satürasyon değerleri sırasıyla %86.3±3.5 ve %94.2±2.5 olup, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark saptandı (p=0.001). İşlem öncesinde ve sonrasında ortalama parsiyel oksijen basıncı değerleri 73.3±7.7 mmHg ve 90.7±5.0 mmHg olup, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark saptandı (p=0.001). İşlem öncesinde ve sonrasında ortalama sağ ventrikül çapı açısından da istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark vardı (p=0.001). İşlem öncesinde ve sonrasında ortalama pulmoner arter basıncı sırasıyla 44±7.1 mmHg ve 36.3±4.5 mmHg olup, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark saptandı (p=0.001). Hastaların %93.7’sinde işlem sonrasında komplikasyon gözlenmedi. So­nuç:­ EkoSonicTM endovasküler system orta-yüksek riskli pulmoner emboli hastalarında kanama riskinde bir artışa neden olmaksızın sağ ventrikül disfonksiyonunu iyileştirdi; pulmoner arter basıncını azalttı ve oksijenasyonu düzeltti.
Type Safety of Rewrite Rules in Dependent Types

The expressiveness of dependent type theory can be extended by identifying types modulo some additional computation rules. But, for preserving the decidability of type-checking or the logical consistency of the system, one must make sure that those user-defined rewriting rules preserve typing. In this paper, we give a new method to check that property using Knuth-Bendix completion.
Effect of Mamangement system on the performance of dromedary camel claves reared under organised farm condition

Camel calves (10),7- to 10-month-old, were allotted randon1ly into 2 conlparable groups of 5 each. First group "vas reared under intensive systenl of management (ISM) with concentrate supplernentation. The second group was reared under semi-intensive system of nlanagement (8ISM) and allowed daily grazing/browsing for about 6 to 7 h. All animals were offered moth crop residue as manger feeding. Watering was done once daily for all camels in both the groups. After 180 days of trial period, Inean body weight and average growth rate were significantly increased in ISM as compared to SISM group. The average total gain was alnl0st double in ISM than SISM. The crop residue intake significantly (P<0.05)varied between the groups. Various biometrical parameters. viz. body length, heart girth, height at withers, hump circumference (horizontal), neck length and leg length (fore) significantly increased in ISM as compared to SISM group. Significant variation was also observed for leg length (hind), foot pad length and width (fore and hind) between groups. Significant and positive correlation between body weight and all biolnetrical paran1eters were observed for both the groups. The level of triglyceride and total protein significantly increased in ISM as compared to SlSM group. Comparatively higher level of urea was found in ISM than SISM. The level of globulin significantly increased in ISM as compared to SISM. The levels of calcium and phosphorus were slightly higher in ISM as cOlnpared to S18M. The first in order of behavioral preference were ganthia (Dactylocteniunz aegyptiCll111), phog (CalligonU/ll polygolloides) and khejri (Prosopis cineraria) among grasses, bushes and trees, respectively. The total feeding cost per calf for 180 days was more in ISM than in SISM group, whereas the total cost per kg body 'Neight gain was quite less and economical in the fonner as compared to the later group.
TBT pollution in Tunisian coastal lagoons as indicated by imposex in Hexaplex trunculus (Gastropoda: Muricidae)

1 - Most of the shipping traffic in Tunisia comes from foreign countries that already enforced tributyltin (TBT) regulation.2 - Local and imported antifouling paints in Tunisia did not contain TBT.3 - Actual TBT contamination in Tunisia is the result of an old/historical pollution events.4 - Here we report data on imposex in Hexaplex trunculus from three Tunisian lagoons. This gastropod, which locally has fishery great commercial value, is currently used mostly for monitoring TBT effects in transitional and marine waters in the Mediterranean Sea.5 - Our results showed a decrease of imposex in Bizerta and in Northern Tunis lagoons, whilst in the southernmost lagoon of Boughrara imposex has significantly increased.6 - The effect of specimen size and reproductive activity on penis length variation in males and on the relative penis length index was validated.7 - Overall, we found that TBT is still a significant pollutant in the Tunisian waters, which requires further studies on the contamination causes.
Measuring word learning performance in computational models and infants

In the present paper we investigate the effect of categorising raw behavioural data or computational model responses. In addition, the effect of averaging over stimuli from potentially different populations is assessed. To this end, we replicate studies on word learning and generalisation abilities using the ACORNS models. Our results show that discrete categories may obscure interesting phenomena in the continuous responses. For example, the finding that learning in the model saturates very early at a uniform high recognition accuracy only holds for categorical representations. Additionally, a large difference in the accuracy for individual words is obscured by averaging over all stimuli. Because different words behaved differently for different speakers, we could not identify a phonetic basis for the differences. Implications and new predictions for infant behaviour are discussed.
DDDT_A_242883 1593..1607

1Department of Traditional Medicine Research, National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 2Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute , University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 3Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Sulla Malaria/Italian Malaria Network, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 4School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy; 5Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 6Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Purpose: Continuous efforts into the discovery and development of new antimalarials are required to face the emerging resistance of the parasite to available treatments. Thus, new effective drugs, ideally able to inhibit the Plasmodium life-cycle stages that cause the disease as well as those responsible for its transmission, are needed. Eight compounds from the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Malaria Box, potentially interfering with the parasite polyamine biosynthesis were selected and assessed in vitro for activity against malaria transmissible stages, namely mature gametocytes and early sporogonic stages. Methods: Compound activity against asexual blood stages of chloroquine-sensitive 3D7 and chloroquine-resistant W2 strains of Plasmodium falciparum was tested measuring the parasite lactate dehydrogenase activity. The gametocytocidal effect was determined against the P. falciparum 3D7elo1-pfs16-CBG99 strain with a luminescent method. The murine P. berghei CTRP.GFP strain was employed to assess compounds activities against early sporogonic stage development in an in vitro assay simulating mosquito midgut conditions. Results: Among the eight tested molecules, MMV000642, MMV000662 and MMV006429, containing a 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-4-carboxamide chemical skeleton substituted at N-2, C-3 and C-4, displayed multi-stage activity. Activity against asexual blood stages of both strains was confirmed with values of IC50 (50% inhibitory concentration) in the range of 0.07–0.13 μM. They were also active against mature stage V gametocytes with IC50 values below 5 μM (range: 3.43–4.42 μM). These molecules exhibited moderate effects on early sporogonic stage development, displaying IC50 values between 20 and 40 μM. Conclusion: Given the multi-stage, transmission-blocking profiles of MMV000642, MMV000662, MMV006429, and their chemical characteristics, these compounds can be considered worthy for further optimisation toward a TCP5 or TCP6 target product profile proposed by MMV for transmission-blocking antimalarials.
Numerical Study of the Seismic Behaviour of Variable Friction Base Isolation Systems

Variable Friction Systems (VFS) have been recently proposed as potential alternatives to traditional friction devices. VFS come with an extra design “degree of freedom”, in the form of coexisting multiple friction coefficients across the sliding surface, so that the properties of the base isolators can be adjusted to achieve enhanced seismic performance. In particular, the principal benefit of VFS is their capacity of dissipating a larger amount of energy with respect to their constant-friction counterparts, reducing the displacement demand on the system, and the lateral forces and accelerations transmitted to the isolated structure. This paper presents the results of more than 450,000 non-linear time history analyses, illustrating key differences in the response of VFS as a function of the systems’ properties and showing that generic VFS can be capable of high seismic performance.
Influence of copper on soil microbial biomass and biodiversity in some NSW soils

Copper is one of the essential elements for all living organisms; however it becomes toxic at concentration exceeding certain limits. Eight surface soils (0-15 cm) including one Ferrosol (Robertson), two Tenosols (Catombal, Windsor), two Kurosols (Somersby, Box Hill), one Sodosol (Pine), one Chromosol (Brinsley) and one Kandosol (Lucerne), were collected from mainly pasture sites in NSW. The soils had different physico-chemical properties and there were some differences between the sites in climatic conditions. Copper was added as Cu(NO3)2. 4H2O salt to 1 kg oven-dry equivalent soils at six different levels (0, 60, 150, 300, 600, 1500 mg Cu kg dry soil) in polythene bags and samples were incubated at room temperature. Soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC) was estimated by the chloroformfumigation (CF) extraction method, and substrate utilization patterns determined by the Biolog method were used to assess the functional diversity of the microorganisms in these soils after 45 and 270 days of incubation. The extractable Cu in soils was determined using EDTA and CaCl2 solutions at each sampling time. After 45 days of incubation, soil microbial biomass and diversity in soils were significantly affected from 300 mg Cu kg soil in all studied soils. However after 270 days of incubation, significant effects were observed at all Cu concentration in all the studied soils. Soil properties such as pH, organic carbon and clay content affected the Cu toxicity to soil microbes.