Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Differentially Private High-Dimensional Data Publication in Internet of Things

Internet of Things and the related computing paradigms, such as cloud computing and fog computing, provide solutions for various applications and services with massive and high-dimensional data, while producing threats to the personal privacy. Differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving definition for various applications and is enforced by injecting random noise into each query result such that the adversary with arbitrary background knowledge cannot infer sensitive input from the noisy results. Nevertheless, existing differentially private mechanisms have poor utility and high-computation complexity on high-dimensional data because the necessary noise in queries is proportional to the size of the data domain, which is exponential to the dimensionality. To address these issues, we develop a compressed sensing mechanism (CSM) that enforces differential privacy on the basis of the compressed sensing (CS) framework while providing accurate results to linear queries. We derive the utility guarantee of CSM theoretically. An extensive experimental evaluation on real-world data sets over multiple fields demonstrates that our proposed mechanism consistently outperforms several state-of-the-art mechanisms under differential privacy.
The Hiring Process of Principals in Public Schools in the United Arab Emirates: Practices and Policies

This study aims to explore the current selection practices of school principals in the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates. The study covers three main objectives: to investigate the current practices and policies regarding the recruitment of school principals in public schools in the UAE; to explore how the Ministry of Education equips school principals for leadership positions; and to survey school principals’ views on recruitment and training and their on-going professional development needs. Currently there are three main stages in the recruitment process: the first stage is to submit an online application, the second stage is the interview, and the third stage is undergoing a probation period as a school principal. A significant finding was that school principals at present are not satisfied with the current recruitment process and see it in need of change. Thus some recommendations made in this study are presented based on the research findings and school principals’ reflections and experiences. School principals felt they would benefit from more specialized training in leadership and management skills, as well as, visits to successful schools both in the United Arab Emirates and overseas. One important recommendation was to develop a new academic diploma focusing on management and leadership skills for school principals, a ‘Principalship Diploma’ which covers the fundamental core content, training and requirements for educational leadership and effective performance. School principals play an imperative role in supporting the school, staff, and student performance, and therefore it is extremely important to create a clear, transparent and effective hiring policies in order to hire the most competent, effective and best performing school principals to lead the educational reform process in the United Arab Emirates.
A Common Outcome Measurement for Service-Learning in Hong Kong

Use of service-learning is burgeoning among higher education institutions in Hong Kong and expanding in Asia. The positive student outcomes that have been reported in Western society, however, are not as widely recognized in Asian society. Asian institutions of higher education need a standardized measurement of outcomes that will help refine the practice of service-learning, increase government funding for this pedagogy, and encourage cross-institution collaboration. This article describes the development, testing, and verification of the common outcomes measurement (COM), a tool for generating reliable data on student learning outcomes achieved through different service-learning initiatives. With nine domains and 34 items, the COM contributes to both theoretical and practical aspects of service-learning. As a verified means of measuring service-learning outcomes in Asian circumstances, the COM encourages development of quality education that can yield community impacts in Hong Kong.
Internal electric field engineering for steering photogenerated charge separation and enhancing photoactivity

Funding information Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 21437003, 21621003, 21673126, 21761142017, 21872077 Abstract Photocatalysis as a desirable technology shows great potential in environmental remediation and renewable energy generation, but the recombination of photogenerated carriers is a key limiting factor for efficiency in artificial photosynthesis. Internal electric field (IEF, also known as built-in electric field) engineering acts an emerging and clearly viable route to increase photocatalytic efficiency by facilitating charge separation and transfer. This review summarizes the basic principles of IEF including the source, the strategies for the enhancement and the measurement of IEF. Highlight is the recent progress in steering photogenerated charge separation of photocatalysts by IEF engineering and related mechanisms. Finally, the challenges in IEF engineering and exciting opportunities to further enhancing charge separation and photocatalytic performance are discussed.
PEMBERHENTIAN PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA DARI MASA KE MAS

The impeachment of the President of Indonesia that has happened from periode to periode is not the same uniform. In the Old Orde has been no provision for sure when the President can be impeach, especially when the President Soekarno was appointed as President for Life. During the New Order, according to Article 4 has been set Tap No.III/MPR/1978 to impeach the President before his term runs out, namely because: (a) at his own request, (b) remain absent, (c) really is agains the GBHN. During the Reformation, the termination of President expressly provided in Article 6 and Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution. Both in the Old Orde and the New Orde Impeachment of President is more political than judicial. While at the Reformation Orde had never happened to impeach the Presiden. In Constitutional Law, decisions of state institution in generally is more political than judicial.
Complete mitochondrial genome of the skinnycheek lantern fish Benthosema pterotum (Perciformes: Myctophidae) in the East China Sea

Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Benthosema pterotum is first described in this article. The total length of mitogenome is 18,052 bp. It contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two ribosomal RNA genes. The overall base composition of H-strand is 27.83% A, 30.88% C, 25.61% T, and 15.69% G, with an A＋T bias of 53.43%. The phylogenetic analysis result showed that the B. pterotum and Electrona carlsbergi were close relationship.
Suppression of inflammation and cartilage destruction by steroid-rich methanolic extract of Withania Somnifera: A study on collagen induced arthritic rats

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disorder characterized by oxidative stress, inflammation and cartilage destruction. Withania somnifera (WS) is used in Indian folk medicine for the treatment of various musculoskeletal disorders. WS is considered to possess potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible mechanism of action of methanolic extract of Withania somnifera roots (WSMe) against collagen induced arthritic (CIA) rats. Arthritis in rats was induced by subcutaneous injection of bovine type II collagen and was treated with WSMe at the dose of 200 mg/kg BW for 20 days after arthritis was induced. Number of biochemical, molecular and histological changes was observed in CIA rats. In CIA rats we found an imbalance in antioxidant and oxidant status as level of MDA was increased while GST, GSH and FRAP was found to be decreased. Administration of WSMe200 significantly ameliorates the level of antioxidant and oxidant to near normal. Serum concentration of transcription factor NF-kB, inflammatory cytokines like TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IL-10 were altered in CIA rats. In consistent to this mRNA expression of NF-kB, TNF-α and MMP-8 were also found to be Up-regulated, which were significantly inhibited by WSMe200 treatment. These findings are positively correlated with the results of histological examinations of joints, which showed reduced inflammation and bone erosion in the treated group. The ability to inhibit the production of oxidative stress and subsequent modulation of the inflammatory cytokines shows the protective effect of WSMe and its potential use for the treatment of arthritis.
A diagnosis of students' errors in answering the mathematics test in senior high school

This study aims to reveal: (1) the characteristics of diagnostic test items used in mathematics subject of the first grade of senior high school (SHS); (2) the degree of errors from several types of students’ errors in answering mathematics test; and (3) the dominant factor causing the students to make mistakes in answering mathematics test. This study used a quantitative approach involving the first graders of eight SHSs in Mataram as the population. The sample was collected by a proportionate random sampling technique, consisting of 350 students for preliminary field testing and 450 students for main field testing. The research instrument was a mathematics diagnostic test, questionnaire, and interview guidelines. The results show that: (1) the diagnostic test instrument meets the qualitative and quantitative content validity, proves empirically fit with Partial Credit Model (PCM), has reliability index of 0.92 (high category), and all items in the diagnostic test instrument are categorized in moderate difficulty; (2) misrepresentation becomes dominant errors if compared with misconceptions, the counting errors, and procedural errors. The errors dominant in the topic domain are Inequalities Linear System Two Variables if compared with Rational and Irrational Inequality One Variable, Equations and Inequalities of Absolute Value, and Linear Equations System Three Variables; and (3) most of the students do not understand how to solve the problem of inequality, determining factor quadratic equations, determining the members of the set completion, problems concerning graphs, and problems that require the capability of language interpretation into the mathematics model.
The Roles of Language Models and Hierarchical Models in Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction

With the advent of deep learning, research in many areas of machine learning is converging towards the same set of methods and models. For example, long short-term memory networks (Hochreiter and Schmidhuber, 1997) are not only popular for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP) such as speech recognition, machine translation, handwriting recognition, syntactic parsing, etc., but they are also applicable to seemingly unrelated fields such as bioinformatics (Min et al., 2016). Recent advances in contextual word embeddings like BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) boast with achieving state-of-the-art results on 11 NLP tasks with the same model. Before deep learning, a speech recognizer and a syntactic parser used to have little in common as systems were much more tailored towards the task at hand. At the core of this development is the tendency to view each task as yet another data mapping problem, neglecting the particular characteristics and (soft) requirements that tasks often have in practice. This often goes along with a sharp break of deep learning methods with previous research in the specific area. This thesis can be understood as an antithesis to the prevailing paradigm. We show how traditional symbolic statistical machine translation (Koehn, 2009) models can still improve neural machine translation (Kalchbrenner and Blunsom, 2013; Sutskever et al., 2014; Bahdanau et al., 2015, NMT) while reducing the risk of common pathologies of NMT such as hallucinations and neologisms. Other external symbolic models such as spell checkers and morphology databases help neural models to correct grammatical errors in text.
Pengaplikasian Building Information Modeling (BIM) Dalam Desain Bangunan Gedung

Berbagai macam konflk dalam proses konstruksi, umumnya terjadi karena ketidakpahaman, kurang koordinasi, kekurangan biaya, kekurangan waktu, dan sebagainya. Untuk menyelesaikan konfik-konflik tersebut perlu pendekatan teknologi. Setelah berbagai percobaan, maka munculah sebuah inovasi dengan pendekatan teknologi bernama Building Information Modeling atau disebut BIM. Dengan BIM, pekerjaan konstruksi dapat dikerjakan dengan lebih mudah, efesien, dan tepat sasaran. BIM terdiri beberapa klasifikasi menurut fungsinya. Metode studi ini dilakukan dengan membuat perencanaan model bangunan. Kemudian ada komponen dari model tersebut yang diganti guna mendapatkan kelebihan dari cara kerja BIM. Dari hasil analisis dan pembahasan, dapat disimpulkan bahwa sistem kerja BIM adalah sistem kerja yang berintegrasi dan perubahan suatu komponen dapat dilakukan secara otomatis pada seluruh bangunan.
Macroinvertebrates of fluctuating lakes in Mongolia

Received: 28.03. 2019 Accepted: 02.04. 2019 Published online: 16.08. 2019 The dynamics of the water budget of Orog Nuur and Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur fluctuating lakes in the Valley of the Lakes (Wes­ tern Mongolia) in the period 2010–2018 is studied. It is shown that Orog Nuur Lake has passed to the wet phase in its long­term cyc­ le, while Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur Lake is currently in a transitional phase, which in previous cycles lasted 2–4 years. The composi­ tion and long­term changes in the species composition and quan­ titative characteristics of macrozoobenthos and macrozooophytos of Orog Nuur Lake, and macrozoobenthos and nekton of Taat­ siin Tsagaan Nuur Lake is studied. A total of 27 species of mac­ roinvertebrates is recorded for Orog Nuur Lake and 23 species for Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur Lake. During the study period, Orog Nuur Lake showed an increase in the diversity and abundance of benthic communities that exhibit multi­annual fluctuations due to changes in water level. The macroinvertebrate communities of Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur Lake are typical of a temporary water body, in each year of research, being dependent on the area of the lake and water budget, which in turn depends on changing patterns of its filling. Based on data from 2014, when Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur Lake was first filled with water after a dry phase, we calculated sex ratios and average individual body mass for each sex group of three syntopic species of Spinicaudata that experienced a sharp increase in abundance.
Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period

There is growing concern that rapidly changing climate in high latitudes may generate significant geomorphological changes that could mobilise floodplain sediments and carbon; however detailed investigations into the bank erosion process regimes of high latitude rivers remain lacking. Here we employ a combination of thermal and RGB colour time‐lapse photos in concert with water level, flow characteristics, bank sediment moisture and temperature, and topographical data to analyse river bank dynamics during the open‐channel flow period (the period from the rise of the spring snowmelt flood until the autumn low flow period) for a subarctic river in northern Finland (Pulmanki River). We show how variations of bank sediment temperature and moisture affect bank erosion rates and locations, how bank collapses relate to fluvial processes, and elucidate the seasonal variations and interlinkages between the different driving processes.
Survey on the demand of sicilian physicians for a specific training on human cadavers and animals

Currently, surgical training of physicians in Italy has limited possibilities.Surgical training can be performed on dissection of human bodies as well as in animal laboratories, but experience is very poor. We conducted a survey through an anonymous questionnaire in order to evaluate the opinions of post-graduate physicians on their need for experience training on both human and animal bodies during their medical studies. A total of 165 young Sicilian physicians responded to the survey. Only 14 of them (8.5%) declared they had specific training on a live animal, while 46 (27.9%) reported they already attended cadaver labs. Over 70% assigned the maximum score to the utility of such courses as integration of medical academic offer. Our results showed that the majority of the subjects interviewed expressed a need for training using these practices and that it might be necessary to investigate patterns to promote the opportunity for direct practice on human and animal bodies. © EuroMediterranean Biomedical Journal 2018
Same Language, Different Histories: Developing a “Critical” English Teacher Identity

ABSTRACT Our paper contends that growing awareness of the historicity of English lies at the heart of the process by which English language teachers develop “critical” identities. We compare novice teachers in three different contexts of English teaching: urban Guatemala, rural Nicaragua, and a Tibetan refugee community in India. Collectively, these ethnographic case studies illustrate the complexity of English teacher identity formation in contemporary global society, as our participants developed new understandings of their positions in history, their relationships with English learners, and the local meanings around English as symbolic capital.
A retrospective analysis of ketamine administration by critical care paramedics in a pre-hospital care setting

Objective: This project aims to describe pre-hospital use of ketamine in trauma by South East Coast Ambulance Service critical care paramedics and evaluate the occurrence of any side effects or adverse events. Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients receiving pre-hospital ketamine for trauma between 16 March 2013 and 30 April 2017. Administrations were identified from Advanced Life Saving Interventions and Procedures reports submitted by the clinician and, later, from an electronic database. Each was scrutinised for patient demographics, doses and reports of side effects or adverse events. Results: A total of 510 unique administrations were identified. Following the exclusion of 61 records, 449 (88.0%) administrations remained. The most common indication for administration of ketamine was lower limb injury, with 228 (50.8%) administrations. Ketamine was only administered intravenously, and the median dose of ketamine for all administrations was 30 mg (interquartile range 20–40 mg). The gender split was dominated by males who accounted for 302 (67.3%) administrations compared to 147 (32.7%) females. The median age of patients was 44 years (interquartile range 28–58 years), with women on average being older than men. Telephone calls to a consultant were made for 243/449 (54.1%) of the administrations, reflecting a need for sanctioning of the drug, advice on dosages or indications, for example. Conclusions: Critical care paramedics within a well governed system are able to safely administer ketamine within an approved dosing regimen under a Patient Group Direction. Median doses are in keeping with nationally approved guidelines. Reported side effects were within the described frequencies in the British National Formulary. Prospective studies are now needed in order to confirm the safety and efficacy of ketamine administration among the advanced paramedic population.
Parent and student voice in evaluation and planning in schools

Current approaches to the regulation of schools in most jurisdictions tend to combine elements of external inspection with systems of internal self-evaluation. An increasingly important aspect of the theory and practice of both, but particularly the latter, revolves around the role of other actors, primarily parents and students, in the process. Using literature review and documentary analysis as the research method, this article explores the research literature from many countries around the concerns of schools and teachers about giving a more powerful voice to parents and pupils. Then, focusing on Ireland, this article tries to clarify three things, official policy concerning stakeholder voice in school self-evaluation and decision making, the efforts by schools to implement this policy and the response to date of school leaders and teachers to this rather changed environment. Using Hart’s ladder of genuine, as opposed to token, participation, it is argued that policy mandating parental and student involvement has evolved significantly, that schools have responded positively and that there is little evidence, as yet, of teacher concern or resistance. This response is explained by the low stakes and improvement-focused education environment; the controlled, structured and simplified nature of the self-evaluation process; and the limited extent of parental and student participation in decision making.
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Empirical Analysis of the Input-Output Efficiency of Forestry S&T Innovation in China

Statement of Retraction We, the Editors and Publisher of Journal of Sustainable Forestry, have retracted the following article: Kai Su, Yihui Chen. Empirical Analysis of the Input-Output Efficiency of Forestry S&T Innovation in China. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2020; 29: 608 -619. https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2020. 1714451 Following publication of the article we were notified by Yihui Chen, who was listed as the corresponding author, that they were not an author and had no knowledge of the publication. We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.
Effect of Concurrent Training and Supplementation with β-Hydroxy- β-Methylbutyirate (HMB) on the Prostate: Alterations in the Androgen Receptor and Inflammation

Supplementation is a strategy to potentiate physical training through hypertrophy of skeletal muscles, but other tissues such as the prostate may also be affected. Changes in prostate size and function are associated with the behavior of in dividuals, but evidence for an association with supplementation is scarce. Therefore, the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of b-hyd roxy bmethylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation and concurrent training on the prostate. Wistar rats were divided randomly into four group s with 10 animals each: control group (C), supplemented group (S), training group (T), and supplemented plus training group (TS). The supplemented groups (S and TS) received 76 mg·kg/day of HMB and the concurrent training groups (T and TS) performed exercise three times per week for eight weeks. HMB increased body composition, total weight of the prostate, and altered the histology of prostatic compartme nts. The lateral prostate of animals in the supplemented group had an increase in mast cells per mm 2 (28.0 ± 3.9) compared to the control and exercise group (6.1 ± 3.0; 2.3 ± 0.9) There was also an increase in inflammation in the stroma and lumen of the prostate, and increased expression of androgen receptor (AR) in the supplemented and trained supplemented group (79.8 ± 2.1; 76.8 ± 11.4) in relation to the trained group (61.5 ± 7.0). We concluded that HMB alters hormone receptors that induce morphological changes and inflammation, and animals in the concurrent training group had normal inflammatory and hormonal profiles, and favorable prostatic histology.