Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution with Deep Memory Network

Existing approaches for Chinese zero pronoun resolution typically utilize only syntactical and lexical features while ignoring semantic information. The fundamental reason is that zero pronouns have no descriptive information, which brings difficulty in explicitly capturing their semantic similarities with antecedents. Meanwhile, representing zero pronouns is challenging since they are merely gaps that convey no actual content. In this paper, we address this issue by building a deep memory network that is capable of encoding zero pronouns into vector representations with information obtained from their contexts and potential antecedents. Consequently, our resolver takes advantage of semantic information by using these continuous distributed representations. Experiments on the OntoNotes 5.0 dataset show that the proposed memory network could substantially outperform the state-of-the-art systems in various experimental settings.
Obesity Prevalence in Gaziantep, Turkey

Background: Obesity is associated with reduced quality of life, development of serious chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, increased medical care costs, and premature death. Environmental effects, especially feeding habits may cause hyperinsulinemia and obesity. A Healthy People 2010 objective is to reduce the proportion of adults who are obese to 15%. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 1647 persons in a sample representing Gaziantep, Turkey. Over the selected 329 houses, 310 houses were reached (94.2%) and data about 1315 related persons was collected. The body mass index (BMI) shows the relationship between the weight and the height of people, calculated by the ratio of mass by kg over the square value of height measure. In statistical analyses chi-square, student's t-test and logistic regression analysis were used. Results: The mean BMI increased with time for both sex, whereas decreased for 60+ age group. The fastest increase for both sex was seen while transition from 18 year to 19-29 age groups occurred. Another increase in women was in 30-39 age group; BMI=25.08±4.39 in 19-29 ages whilst BMI=29.02±5.79 in 30-39 ages. The increases in both sex in other age groups were not as much as in this group. Conclusion: Obesity is not only a problem in the Gaziantep but is also a major health concern in Europe and other regions of the world. As an accepted method against obesity, life-style changes should be put into use from childhood supported in school and family life.
InParanoid 6: eukaryotic ortholog clusters with inparalogs

The InParanoid eukaryotic ortholog database (http://InParanoid.sbc.su.se/) has been updated to version 6 and is now based on 35 species. We collected all available ‘complete’ eukaryotic proteomes and Escherichia coli, and calculated ortholog groups for all 595 species pairs using the InParanoid program. This resulted in 2 642 187 pairwise ortholog groups in total. The orthology-based species relations are presented in an orthophylogram. InParanoid clusters contain one or more orthologs from each of the two species. Multiple orthologs in the same species, i.e. inparalogs, result from gene duplications after the species divergence. A new InParanoid website has been developed which is optimized for speed both for users and for updating the system. The XML output format has been improved for efficient processing of the InParanoid ortholog clusters.
Development and validation of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D2/D3 using a turbulent flow online extraction technology

Abstract Background: Vitamin D is important to health and disease. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) is considered the most accurate technology for quantification of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) which is the best biomarker for estimating vitamin D nutritional status. Methods: Serum was mixed with acetonitrile containing hexadeuterated 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (d6-25OHD3) and centrifuged 10 min at 15,634×g. The supernatant was injected onto a turbulent flow preparatory column then transferred to a polar endcapped C18 analytical column. The mass spectrometer was set for positive atmospheric pressure chemical ionization. Results: The analytical cycle time was 5.5 min. Inter- and intra-assay CV for both analytes across three concentrations ranged from 3.8% to 14.2%. The method was linear from 3.0 to 283.6 nmol/L for 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25OHD3) and 4.6 to 277.9 nmol/L for 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 (25OHD2), with an accuracy of 88.7%–118.7% and 90.7%–100.3%, respectively. No carryover or ion suppression was observed. Comparison with a radioimmunoassay using patient specimens (n=527) showed a mean difference of 5.2%, and diagnostic agreement of 80.9% with Deming regression of slope 0.867, intercept 12.8, standard error of estimate (SEE) 17.4, and r=0.8425. Conclusions: The LC-MSMS method coupled with turbulent flow technology for serum 25OHD quantitation is rapid, efficient, and suitable for clinical testing. Clin Chem Lab Med 2009;47:1565–72.
Rubella outbreak in the union territory of Chandigarh, North India

Rubella virus outbreaks usually occur when a large numbers of susceptible individuals accumulate. The disease presents clinically with fever and maculopapular rash. The present study reports the investigation of rubella outbreak in a modern and well‐planned village near Chandigarh, North India. The blood samples were collected from 39 cases with febrile rash and from 15 age and sex matched healthy controls residing in the same locality and subjected for the detection of Rubella IgM and IgG antibodies by Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The throat swabs, urine and blood samples from acute cases were also collected and subjected to RT‐PCR using the primers targeting the E1 region. The genetic characterization of the rubella virus was carried out to identify the circulating genotypes. In the present outbreak, 13 laboratory confirmed cases were reported. Rubella IgM antibodies were detected in 12/39 (30.7%) patients. Rubella RNA could be detected in 83.3% (5/6) of urine, 22.2% (2/9) of throat swabs, and 8.3% (1/12) of blood samples. The rubella genotype responsible for the present outbreak was identified as genotype 1a. This outbreak highlights the need for the introduction of rubella vaccine in the National Immunization Programme of India to prevent outbreaks and to aim towards the eradication of this disease. This study reports the presence of genotype 1a in North India for the first time and stresses the need for further molecular work to identify the circulating strains of the virus. J. Med. Virol. 87:344–349, 2015. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Biodegradation of p-nitrophenol via 1,2,4-benzenetriol by an Arthrobacter sp

The degradation of p-nitrophenol (PNP) by Moraxella and Pseudomonas spp. involves an initial monooxygenase-catalyzed removal of the nitro group. The resultant hydroquinone is subject to ring fission catalyzed by a dioxygenase enzyme. We have isolated a strain of an Arthrobacter sp. , JS443, capable of degrading PNP with stoichiometric release of nitrite. During induction of the enzymes required for growth on PNP, 1,2,4-benzenetriol was identified as an intermediate by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) and radiotracer studies. 1,2,4-Benzenetriol was converted to maleylacetic acid, which was further degraded by the beta-ketoadipate pathway. Conversion of PNP to 1,2,4-benzenetriol is catalyzed by a monooxygenase system in strain JS443 through the formation of 4-nitrocatechol, 4-nitroresorcinol, or both. Our results clearly indicate the existence of an alternative pathway for the biodegradation of PNP.
An analytically formulated structural strain method for fatigue evaluation of welded components incorporating nonlinear hardening effects

An analytically formulated structural strain method is presented for performing fatigue evaluation of welded components by incorporating non-linear material hardening effects by means of a modified Ramberg ‐ Osgood power law hardening model. The modified Ramberg ‐ Osgood model enables a consistent partitioning of elastic and plastic strain increments during both loading and unloading. For supporting 2 major forms of welded structures in practice, the new method is applied for computing structural strain defined with respect to a through ‐ thickness section in plate structures and cross section in piping systems. In both cases, the structural strain is formulated as the linearly deformation gradient on their respective cross sections, consistent with the “ plane sections remain plane ” assumption in structural mechanics. The structural strain ‐ based fatigue parameter is proposed and has been shown effective in correlating some well ‐ known low ‐ cycle and high ‐ cycle fatigue test data, ranging from gusset ‐ to ‐ plate welded plate connections to pipe girth welds.
DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store

DB2 with BLU Acceleration deeply integrates innovative new techniques for defining and processing column-organized tables that speed read-mostly Business Intelligence queries by 10 to 50 times and improve compression by 3 to 10 times, compared to traditional row-organized tables, without the complexity of defining indexes or materialized views on those tables. But DB2 BLU is much more than just a column store. Exploiting frequency-based dictionary compression and main-memory query processing technology from the Blink project at IBM Research - Almaden, DB2 BLU performs most SQL operations - predicate application (even range predicates and IN-lists), joins, and grouping - on the compressed values, which can be packed bit-aligned so densely that multiple values fit in a register and can be processed simultaneously via SIMD (single-instruction, multipledata) instructions. Designed and built from the ground up to exploit modern multi-core processors, DB2 BLU's hardware-conscious algorithms are carefully engineered to maximize parallelism by using novel data structures that need little latching, and to minimize data-cache and instruction-cache misses. Though DB2 BLU is optimized for in-memory processing, database size is not limited by the size of main memory. Fine-grained synopses, late materialization, and a new probabilistic buffer pool protocol for scans minimize disk I/Os, while aggressive prefetching reduces I/O stalls. Full integration with DB2 ensures that DB2 with BLU Acceleration benefits from the full functionality and robust utilities of a mature product, while still enjoying order-of-magnitude performance gains from revolutionary technology without even having to change the SQL, and can mix column-organized and row-organized tables in the same tablespace and even within the same query.
Work locus of control as a mediator of the relationship between sources and consequences of occupational stress among university teachers

Recent research on work well-being of academic staff in higher education does not support the traditional view of this profession. Unlike previous research which places university teachers on top of the list in terms of job satisfaction and well-being (see Sales & House, 1971), recent studies show a decreased psychological well-being in university teaching staff (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Kinman & Jones, 2008b; Winefield et al., 2003), a higher level of burnout at work (Lackritz, 2004), the presence of various psychosomatic diseases (Blix, Cruise, Mitchell, & Blix, 1994; Gillespie, Walsh, Winefield, Dua, & Stough, 2001; Kinman, 1998), reduced job satisfaction (Kinman, 1998), a higher intention to leave the job (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Gillespie et al., 2001; Kinman & Jones, 2008b), and reduced job performance (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Jacobs, Tytherleigh, Webb, & Cooper, 2007; Parry et al., 2008). Disturbed well-being and reduced work motivation are the result of increased work pressures which university teachers are confronted with. Several authors have found that scientific and teaching staff are more exposed to occupational stress than general staff, normative population and other highly-stressed occupational groups (such as doctors and managers), and also when compared to previous years (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Catano et al., 2010; Doyle, 2003; Doyle & Hind, 1998; Gillespie et al., 2001; Kinman, 1998; Kinman & Jones, 2003, 2004; Tytherleigh, Webb, Cooper, & Ricketts, 2005; Winefield & Jarrett, 2001; Winefield et al., 2003). These findings confirm the overall impression that the structure and working conditions of university teaching staff have changed significantly in recent years. The reason for this may be sought in the reforms in higher education which, among other things, result in an increased number of enrolments and a stronger connection between academic activities and the economy. For this reason the aim of most contemporary studies on occupational stress in university teachers was to identify the characteristic sources of pressure and/or determine the level of their consequences, usually in terms of work well-being and motivation. The most common sources of work-related stress are the following: unfavorable working conditions (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Cownie, 2004; Gillespie et al., 2001; Kinman, 1998; Narayanan, Menon, & Spector, 1999), work overload (Barkhuizen & Routhmann, 2008; Gillespie et al., 2001; Kinman, 2001; Thorsen, 1996; Tytherleigh, 2003, Tytherleigh et al., 2005), and the conflict between work and family/social roles (Barkhuizen & Rothmann, 2008; Cownie, 2004; Kinman & Jones, 2008a, 2008b; Tytherleigh et al., Ana Sliskovic, Department of Psychology, University of Zadar, Obala kralja Petra Kresimira IV, 2, 23 000 Zadar, Croatia. E-mail: aslavic@ unizd.hr (the address for correspondence);
Diffusion tensor imaging in spinal cord injury

Abstract Background and Purpose: To assess the feasibility of spinal tractography in patients of spinal cord injury vs a control group and to compare fractional anisotropy (FA) values between the groups. Materials and Methods: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was performed in the spinal cord of 29 patients (18 patients and 11 controls). DTI was done in the cervical region if the cord injury was at the dorsal or lumbar region and in the conus region if cord injury was in the cervical or dorsal region. FA was calculated for the patients and the controls and the values were compared. Results: The mean FA value was 0.550±0.09 in the control group and 0.367±0.14 in the patients; this difference was statistically significant (P=0.001). Conclusion: Spinal tractography is a feasible technique to assess the extent of spinal cord injury by FA, which is reduced in patients of spinal cord injury, suggesting possible Wallerian degeneration. In future, this technique may become a useful tool for assessing cord injury patients after stem cell therapy, with improvement in FA values indicating axonal regeneration.
Flow morphometry to assess the red blood cell storage lesion

We present a novel automated system for morphology analysis of red blood cells (RBC) under flow. RBC concentrates collected by blood banks for transfusions are stored for periods of up to several weeks, during which time a number of changes occur, collectively termed the storage lesion. Typically the extent of hemolysis is the defining criterion to determine the acceptability of the RBCs for transfusions. Morphological changes are related with biochemical alteration during the storage of RBCs. The typical blood smear procedure for determining such changes is a labor‐intensive and potentially biased manual process. The advantage of the flow morphometry system presented here is that it provides fully automated morphological classification of RBCs with large sample numbers in a short time. Our system uses a commercially available flow cell and flow conditions that prevent adhesion of RBCs, thus eliminating the need for blocking agents such as albumin that affect the distribution of cell shapes. Our morphometry results are validated by comparison with standard biochemical assays (hemolysis, ATP) for blood from 17 donors stored under blood bank conditions for 13 weeks. We show that the percentage of spherocytes present can be used to estimate the status of RBC concentrates. © 2017 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
Aspirin as a risk factor in Reye's syndrome.

Fifty-six cases of Reye's syndrome (RS) in school-aged children were reported in Michigan during the winter of 1979-1980. The parents of 25 of these children were interviewed in the spring of 1980, as were controls matched to the cases for age, race, school grade, and nature of antecedent viral illness. Children with RS were more likely to have received medication containing aspirin during their viral illness than controls (24/25 v 34/46), even when the child's highest measured fever was added as a criterion for matching (14/14 v 14/19). During the winter of 1980-1981, a second study was undertaken to examine this observed difference more carefully. All 12 school-aged children with RS, and controls matched to the cases for race, school grade, nature of antecedent viral illness, and peak temperature, were interviewed as cases occurred. Again, the ill children had received aspirincontaining products more frequently (12/12 v 13/29). Although RS can occur in the absence of aspirin ingestion, our data indicate that aspirin taken during viral illness may contribute to the development of RS. ( JAMA 1982;247:3089-3094)
A Novel Solvent System to Prepare Pellets of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Having Tacky Wet-Mass Forming Propensity By Extrusion Spheronization Technique

Itopride hydrochloride (IH) is a prokinetic agent that has been widely used for the treatment of dyspepsia and other gastrointestinal conditions. Because of its short biological half-life, it is suitable candidate for sustained drug delivery systems. However, IH has propensity to form a tacky/sticky wet-mass when comes in contact with water, especially in presence of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (Hypromellose). This makes it extremely difficult to process IH into sustained release granules or pellets using hypromellose as a matrix-forming material and aqueous-based solvent system. Therefore, aim of this study was to explore an optimum solvent system that can produce discrete and spherical SR pellets of IH by extrusion spheronization technique. Various conventional and non-conventional solvent systems were evaluated, and it was found that water: PEG 400 system has potential to produce a non-tacky wet mass of IH in presence of other pharmaceutical excipients. Therefore, IH and excipients were mixed and granulated using purified water: PEG 400 (85:15 ratio) in a high shear granulator. The wet mass was extruded using screw extruder equipped with 1.0 mm screen. The extrudes were spheronized at 700 ± 100 rpm for 10 min and dried in fluid bed drier at a target bed temperature of 42°C. Pellets were characterized for morphology, particle size, friability, flow property and dissolution (pellets filled in capsule). Results revealed that the purified water: PEG 400 (85:15 ratio) system can produce a non-tacky wet-mass of IH and pharmaceutical excipients including hypromellose, which can be processed successfully into discrete and spherical pellets with sustained release profile and satisfactory pharmacotechnical properties.
Comparative study of statistical word sense discrimination techniques

Word sense discrimination aims at automatically determining which instances of an ambiguous word share the same sense. Afully unsupervised technique based on avector representation of word senses was proposed by Schutze (Schutze, 1998). While the original model was assumed to be Gaussian, practical results were only reported for an approximated model making hard decisions between sense clusters. We show in the present study that a real Gaussian model provides a significant accuracy improvement while remaining fully tractable. An alternative discrete na¨ive Bayes model was presented in Manning and Schutze (1999). We propose here a description of both models in a unified statistical formalism in order to stress the similarities and differences between both approaches. Several practical experiments are conducted on the New York Times News 1997 corpus. They illustrate the respective advantages of various approaches trading off discrimination accuracy and computation time. We also show the interest of a global selection of content words to characterize the context of an ambiguous instance in the na¨ive Bayes model.
Toward wearable social networking with iBand

The iBand is a wearable bracelet-like device that exchanges information about its users and their relationships. This exchange happens during the common gesture of the handshake, which is detected by the device. As such, iBand seeks to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we discuss the iBand technology and feedback from an initial study in which 11 devices were used at two different social networking events. The results suggest that control over personal information is an ongoing issue, but they also highlight the possibility for wearable devices to enable the creation of a set of invented techno-gestures with different affordances and constraints that might be more appropriate for certain social interaction applications.
Mining closed frequent itemset based on FP-Tree

Closed frequent itemsets provide a minimal representation of the itemset without losing their support information and they can greatly reduce the number of patterns. So how to obtain all the closed frequent itemsets effectively is of good importance. This paper constructs a FP-Tree according the matrix which only scans the database once. Also we design an algorithm to mine closed frequent itemsets which use the structure of the FP-Tree. We construct a link for every single node in the FP-Tree, and then give the closed frequent itemsets and the pruning of the link. This algorithm is an algorithm which only scans the database once, also it avoids the defect about patterns tree based on terms and can mine the closed frequent items efficiently.
Folic acid deficiency increases delayed neuronal death, DNA damage, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule‐1 immunoreactivity, and gliosis in the hippocampus after transient cerebral ischemia

Folic acid deficiency increases stroke risk. In the present study, we examined whether folic acid deficiency enhances neuronal damage and gliosis via oxidative stress in the gerbil hippocampus after transient forebrain ischemia. Animals were exposed to a folic acid‐deficient diet (FAD) for 3 months and then subjected to occlusion of both common carotid arteries for 5 min. Exposure to an FAD increased plasma homocysteine levels by five‐ to eightfold compared with those of animals fed with a control diet (CD). In CD‐treated animals, most neurons were dead in the hippocampal CA1 region 4 days after ischemia/reperfusion, whereas, in FAD‐treated animals, this occurred 3 days after ischemia/reperfusion. Immunostaining for 8‐hydroxy‐2′‐deoxyguanosine (8‐OHdG) was performed to examine DNA damage in CA1 neurons in both groups after ischemia, and it was found that 8‐OHdG immunoreactivity in both FAD and CD groups peaked at 12 hr after reperfusion, although the immunoreactivity in the FAD group was much greater than that in the CD group. Platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule‐1 (PECAM‐1; a final mediator of neutrophil transendothelial migration) immunoreactivity in both groups increased with time after ischemia/reperfusion: Its immunoreactivity in the FAD group was much higher than that in the CD group 3 days after ischemia/reperfusion. In addition, reactive gliosis in the ischemic CA1 region increased with time after ischemia in both groups, but astrocytosis and microgliosis in the FAD group were more severe than in the CD group at all times after ischemia. Our results suggest that folic acid deficiency enhances neuronal damage induced by ischemia. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.