Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Know Your Graph. State-of-the-Art Knowledge-Based WSD

This paper introduces several improvements over the current state of the art in knowledge-based word sense disambiguation. Those innovations are the result of modifying and enriching a knowledge base created originally on the basis of WordNet. They reflect several separate but connected strategies: manipulating the shape and the content of the knowledge base, assigning weights over the relations in the knowledge base, and the addition of new relations to it. The main contribution of the paper is to demonstrate that the previously proposed knowledge bases organize linguistic and world knowledge suboptimally for the task of word sense disambiguation. In doing so, the paper also establishes a new state of the art for knowledge-based approaches. Its best models are competitive in the broader context of supervised systems as well.
On the Coordination of Wind and Hydro Power

Wind power production introduces new challenges in operation of a power system due to its variability and forecast uncertainty. More flexibility should be added to wind power system in order to address those challenges. One possible so lution is to introduce new storage facilities or using storage capa bilities already available in the power system. Existing hydro power plants with larger reservoirs or pumped storage hydro power plants, are suitable for this purpose. This is a relatively recent topic of research and it has been approached in several paper s from quite different perspectives. This paper is an attempt to summarize the existing research on this subject and to draw some general conclusions on the benefits and the limitations of the coordination between wind and hydro power as well as poin t out some areas in which further research might be required. Present research is divided into several focus areas. Studi es from Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, France, Germany and Canad are analyzed in each focus area and methodologies, results a nd common conclusions are discussed.
Classification of Micro-Texts Using Sub-Word Embeddings

Extracting features and writing styles from short text messages is always a challenge. Short messages, like tweets, do not have enough data to perform statistical authorship attribution. Besides, the vocabulary used in these texts is sometimes improvised or misspelled. Therefore, in this paper, we propose combining four feature extraction techniques namely character n-grams, word n-grams, Flexible Patterns and a new sub-word embedding using the skip-gram model. Our system uses a Multi-Layer Perceptron to utilize these features from tweets to analyze short text messages. This proposed system achieves 85% accuracy, which is a considerable improvement over previous systems.
INFECÇÃO EXPERIMENTAL DE RATOS (Rattus norvegicus) DA LINHAGEM LEWIS POR Strongyloides venezuelensis: DINÂMICA DA INFECÇÃO, USO DE PCR PARA DETECÇÃO DO PARASITA E CARACTERIZAÇÃO DA RESPOSTA IMUNE

In the present study the dynamics of Strongyloides venezuelensis primary infection in Lewis rats, the host sex influence and its immune response were analyzed. We also compared the sensitivity between PCR, parasitological and histological techniques to characterize this infection using feces and tissue samples. In the first paper the number of eggs per gram of feces (EPG) using a McMaster modified technique was enumerated and DNA was extracted to do PCR analysis. Sensitivity of both methods to diagnosis the parasite in feces of rats inoculated with 40, 400 or 4000 infective larvae (L3) was compared. These infections were considered light, moderate and heavy, respectively. Two PCR primer pairs were employed, a specific one was designed from a S. venezuelensis rDNA partial sequence and the other one amplifies several species within this genus. In light infection, the specific primer did not detect DNA in any sample, in the other hand the genus primer presented higher sensitivity than EPG. The host sex influence in susceptibility to light, moderate and heavy infection was evaluated in the second experiment. The FEC means and the mean parasite infection intensity were higher in males than in females in animals with moderate and heavy infection. But this phenomenon was not observed in light infection. In the third paper, animals were inoculated with 4000 L3 to determine the kinetics infection and to characterize the immune response during acute and recovery phases. The kinetics of infection was daily measured by FEC during 32 days after infection. Parasite eggs were detected in the feces for the first time at day 6 post-infection, but the maximal egg number was observed at days 8 and 11 post-infection. Both IgG1 and IgG2b specific antibodies were elevated at the acute phase and there was a significant increase of IgG1 concentration in the recovery one. IgE and IL-10 also presented a high concentration in the recovery phase which denotes a typical Th2 response pattern. In the forth paper, it was compared PCR sensitivity with two primer pairs and EPG enumeration during 32 days of infection with the same samples presented in the third paper. Both methods detected parasite presence at day 6. PCR with genus primer detected the parasite DNA in all samples and fecal egg count showed 0 to 100 EPG in seven out of 32 samples starting from day 23. PCR with specific primer did not detect the parasite DNA from day 20. Additionally, PCR and histological examinations were evaluated, according to their sensitivity, to define the parasite migration route. The other group of animals was sacrificed at different periods after infection: 30 minutes, 24h, 48h, 72h and 120h. Tissue samples were collected and analyzed by PCR only with the genus primer. PCR and histopathological analysis showed larvae presence below the muscular fibers of skin and at the muscular layer 30 minutes post-
A Fast and Accurate Partially Deterministic Morphological Analysis

This paper proposes a partially deterministic morphological analysis method for improved processing speed. Maximum matching is a fast deterministic method for morphological analysis. However, the method tends to decrease performance due to lack of consideration of contextual information. In order to use maximum matching safely, we propose the use of Context Independent Strings (CISs), which are strings that do not have ambiguity in terms of morphological analysis. Our method first identifies CISs in a sentence using maximum matching without contextual information, then analyzes the unprocessed part of the sentence using a bi-gram-based morphological analysis model. We evaluate the method on a Japanese morphological analysis task. The experimental results show a 30% reduction of running time while maintaining improved accuracy.
Quantum Programming Languages

Quantum algorithms are often presented as a mixture of mathematical equations, unitary matrices, circuit diagrams, and narrative text, which describe what the algorithm does and argue for its correctness. This approach does not scale well to complex algorithms and does not lend itself to formal verification or generation of instructions for an actual machine. For practical quantum computation, we need a formalism that allows us to describe quantum computations in a precise and intuitive way, and in a way that can be translated easily into “code” that can be analyzed and run on a (hypothetical) system for quantum computation. In other words, we need programming languages for quantum computers. The ideal time to explore di↵erent quantum programming language designs is now, before a quantum computer has been realized, so that when a quantum computer is actually built we will be able to take full advantage of its resources. This paper discusses some of the work that has begun this exploration.
Light-controllable dithienylethene-modified cyclic peptides: photoswitching the in vivo toxicity in zebrafish embryos

This study evaluates the embryotoxicity of dithienylethene-modified peptides upon photoswitching, using 19 analogues based on the β-hairpin scaffold of the natural membranolytic peptide gramicidin S. We established an in vivo assay in two variations (with ex vivo and in situ photoisomerization), using larvae of the model organism Danio rerio, and determined the toxicities of the peptides in terms of 50% lethal doses (LD50). This study allowed us to: (i) demonstrate the feasibility of evaluating peptide toxicity with D. rerio larvae at 3–4 days post fertilization, (ii) determine the phototherapeutic safety windows for all peptides, (iii) demonstrate photoswitching of the whole-body toxicity for the dithienylethene-modified peptides in vivo, (iv) re-analyze previous structure–toxicity relationship data, and (v) select promising candidates for potential clinical development.
THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN INFLUENCE OF JUSTICE TOWARD EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE ( STUDY AT THE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TRAINING CENTER – BATU MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE )

Employee commitment is one of the determinants of the superiority of Government institutions in optimizing public services. This study aims to examine and analyze the role of organizational commitment in the relationship between the dimensions of justice organizations namely distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice and informational justice on individual performance . The study sample was taken from 89 employees of the Animal Husbandry Training Center - Batu UPT Ministry of Agriculture. The data taken is primary data collected by distributing questionnaires to respondents who have been chosen. Data analysis uses the Partial Least Square (PLS) approach . The results of this study indicate that effect of procedural justice, ter toward commitment organizational significant influence, the influence of distributive justice on employee performance significant influence, commitment, organizational on employee performance effect is not significant whereas the effect of distributive justice, interactional justice, informational justice to the commitment of organizational effect is not significant and that the effect of interactional justice, informational justice against employees performance has no significant effect . This research contributes to explaining the justice mechanism using four dimensions. Two dimensions of justice, informational and interactional, are perspectives that still require further testing in the context of public organizations. The practical implications of this study can provide a view of the leadership at the Animal Husbandry Training Center - Batu UPT Ministry of Agriculture about the effect of justice on individual performance of workers so that the results of the research can be a consideration to improve performance for the advancement of the goals of the organization. Keywords: Distributive Justice, Procedural Justice, Interactional Justice, Informational Justice, Organizational Commitment, Employee Performance
Precipitação Provável Para A Região Centro-Sul Do Ceará, Brasil (Rainfall Probable In The Region Of Central South Ceará, Brazil)

O aproveitamento dos recursos hidricos de forma adequada requer o conhecimento das probabilidades de ocorrencia das chuvas, sendo isto possivel com o uso das funcoes de distribuicao de probabilidade de ocorrencia. Foram analisadas sete distribuicoes de probabilidade (Exponencial, Gama, Log-normal, Normal, Weibull, Gumbel e Beta) para a precipitacao pluviometrica mensal e anual na regiao Centro-Sul do Ceara, Brasil. Os dados de chuva foram obtidos da base de dados da SUDENE registrados durante o periodo de 1913 a 1989. Para verificacao dos ajustes dos dados as funcoes densidade de probabilidade foi utilizado o teste nao-parametrico de Kolmogorov-Smirnov com nivel de 5% de significância. Para a chuva total anual teve ajuste satisfatorio dos dados as distribuicoes Gama, Gumbel, Normal e Weibull e nao ocorreu ajuste as distribuicoes Exponencial, Log-normal e Beta. Recomenda-se o uso da distribuicao Normal para estimar valores de chuva provavel anual para a regiao, por ser um procedimento de facil aplicacao e tambem pelo bom desempenho nos testes. A distribuicao de frequencia Gumbel foi a que melhor representou os dados de chuva para o periodo mensal, com o maior numero de ajustes no periodo chuvoso. No periodo seco os dados de chuva foram melhores representados pela distribuicao Exponencial. ABSTRACT The use of water resources properly requires knowledge of the probabilities of occurrence of rainfall, this being possible with the use of distribution functions, probability of occurrence. We analyzed seven probability distributions (Exponential, Gamma, Log-normal, normal, Weibull, Gumbel and Beta) for monthly and annual rainfall in South-Central region of Ceara, Brazil. The rainfall data were obtained from the database SUDENE recorded during the period 1913-1989. To check the settings of the data probability density functions we used the nonparametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test with the 5% level of significance. For the total annual rainfall was satisfactory adjustment range of the data distributions, Gumbel, Normal and Weibull and there was no adjustment to the exponential distributions, Log-normal and Beta. It is recommended to use the normal distribution to estimate the annual amounts of rain likely for the region, being an easy application procedure and also by the good performance in the tests. The frequency distribution Gumbel was the one that best represented the rainfall data for the monthly period, with the largest number of adjustments during the rainy season. In the dry season rainfall data were best represented by exponential distribution. Key words - Probability of occurrence. Probability distributions. Adherence tests.
Presence and Treatment of Asthma Exacerbation in Infants and Children

We sought to determine that asthma exacerbation exists in infants and can be treated effectively with inhaled corticosteroids. The sample included 1500 consecutive children aged <5 years who attended a tertiary pediatric asthma clinic in 2000-2013 because of an asthma exacerbation that failed to be controlled in the community. Clinical characteristics and response to treatment were compared between the infants and older children (age 1-5 years). Thirty-one percent of the children were infants. There was no difference between infants and older children in rate of asthma in the family, percentage of emergency department visits or hospitalizations, duration of asthma symptoms, and beta-2 agonist and oral corticosteroid use. All patients had a history of prolonged cough and were coughing during their first visit; 45% were also wheezing. During the treatment period, the rate of emergency department visits and hospitalization for asthma exacerbations decreased significantly without use of oral corticosteroids. Most patients (88%), with or without wheezing, had a good response to treatment, with no significant difference between infants and older children. Asthma is present in infants and has the same clinical characteristics as in older children. In both age groups, asthma exacerbations respond equally well to inhaled corticosteroids, regardless of the presence of wheezing.
A Study of Learning Activities of Selected Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients in East Tennessee

A STUDY OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED CAREGIVERS OF ALZHEIMER' S PATIENTS IN EAST TENNESSEE by Jeannette G. McLaughlin The problem of this study was to identify and describe the individual learning activities of caregivers of people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and to develop an analytical description of the patterns of learning of these adults. An instrument was not available for use; therefore, a focused interview guide was developed. The interview guide was developed through consultation with several spouses or adult children caring for Alzheimer's patients, professionals in the health care field, and a review of the literature. The major analysis procedure for the study was the constant comparative method, an inductive method that has been used most systematically by Glaser and Strauss (1967). Grounded theory is discovered or generated from data. It is developed by entering the field work phase without a hypothesis, describing what happens, and formulating explanations as to why it happens. Five research questions were explored dealing with the caregiver's support system, reasons for seeking medical help, learning at the time of the diagnosis, learning activities, and learning patterns. Caregivers, as adult learners, showed the capacity to conduct self-directed learning activities. While the content was greatly determined by the patient's progression of the disease, caregivers identified six learning processes: (a) professionally guided, (b) informal conversation, (c) observation, (d) solving problems, (e) change in perspective, and (f) facilitating understanding for others. The informal support system was significant in providing information to caregivers. Sixty percent of the friends and 50.5% of the family provided information, resources, and discussion. An extensive informal support system showed a greater use of a problem solving process.
Quarries, Caravans, and Routes to Complexity:Prehispanic Obsidian in the South-Central Andes (Ph.D. Dissertation, Anthropology)

Author(s): Tripcevich, Nicholas | Abstract: Regional studies of obsidian artifacts in the south-central Andes have shown that over 90% of the analyzed artifacts from the Lake Titicaca Basin belong to a single geochemical obsidian type. A decade ago researchers identified the geological origin of this obsidian type as the Chivay / Cotallalli source, located 180km west of Lake Titicaca above the Colca valley in Arequipa at 71.5355° S, 15.6423° W (WGS84), and at 4972 meters above sea level. This research project focused on the obsidian source and adjacent lands within one day’s travel from the source. The project included a 33 km2 survey, 8 test units, and in-depth lithic attribute analysis. Mobile GIS (Arcpad) was used extensively during survey. A substantial quarry pit and an obsidian workshop were examined closely, as were consumption sites in nearby areas. The results of this study found that the earliest diagnostic materials at the source date to the Middle Archaic (8000 – 6000 BCE) and that intensification of obsidian production occurred earlier than previously recognized, at circa 3300 BCE Increased obsidian production appears to have been focused on the acquisition of large (g 20cm) and homogeneous obsidian nodules, although the formal tools produced with obsidian were predominantly small projectile points. It is argued that the acquisition of large, homogenous nodules was prioritized because the production potential of large nodules was highest, and because obsidian was associated with competitive display among early aggrandizers. The timing and economic associations of obsidian production and circulation suggest that the possession of large obsidian pieces in the Titicaca Basin was a demonstration of social connections to distant resources, and to regional trade networks that emerged with regularized camelid caravan transport networks. Obsidian artifacts were not inherently “prestige goods”; rather, it is suggested here that obsidian was the least-perishable of a number of cultural goods distributed by an expanding network of caravans that linked communities in the region. The acquisition and consumption of these cultural goods was a demonstration of economic connections and cultural influence during the dynamic period of incipient social inequality between the Terminal Archaic (3300–2000 BCE) through the Middle Formative (1300–500 BCE).
Producción y calidad de forraje y semilla del zacate navajita con la aplicación de biosólidos en un pastizal semiárido de Jalisco Forage and seed yield and quality of blue grama under biosolids application in a semiarid rangeland in Jalisco

Arid and semiarid rangelands show low yield and forage quality. The objective was to evaluate the effects of biosolids application on blue grama in a semiarid rangeland. Biosolids at 15 to 90 t ha-1 rates were surface-applied one-time only to 1 m-2 plots, and a control treatment (C). Blue grama height, forage yield, crude protein (CP), and digestibility were estimated in 2002 and 2003, and seed yield and germination in 2002. Data were analyzed under a completely randomized design and trend analysis. Blue grama height increased (P≤ ≤ ≤ ≤0.01) in both years. Forage yield per hectare increased (P≤ ≤ ≤ ≤ ≤0.01) in 2002 and 2003 (P≤0.01) from 572±184 kg at C to 5,638±1,406 kg at 60 t, and from 476±171 kg at C to 7,224±672 kg at 90 t. In 2002, CP increased (P≤0.01) from 5.3±0.4 % at C to 10.5±0.3 % at 90 t and (P≤ ≤ ≤ ≤ ≤0.01) from 5.4±0.2 % at C to 8.0±0.4 % at 90 t in 2003. Forage digestibility increased (P≤0.01) in 2002 with 36±3 % at C to 44±2 % at 90 t. Seed yield and germination increased (P≤0.01) with 8±4 kg at C up to 269±50 kg at 45 t; while seed germination varied from 8±5 % at C to 28±6 % at 60 t. Application of biosolids in semiarid rangelands increases blue grama forage yield and quality.
Epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a summary review.

Ovarian cancer is among the five leading sites for cancer incidence and mortality in women from developed countries. Its incidence and mortality rates have, however, been declining over the last few decades following the introduction of oral contraceptives, which - together with parity - are the best recognized protective factor for the disease. Late menopause and irregular menstrual cycles may also reduce the risk, while the role of hormone replacement therapy in menopause and fertility treatments is still unclear. Cosmetic talc use and some aspect of diet (i.e. saturated fats, refined carbohydrates) have been associated with increased risk, in some - though not all - studies), while vegetable consumption appears to be inversely related to risk. These issues remain open to debate. Women with a family history of ovarian and breast cancer in first-degree relatives are also at increased risk, but family history accounts for only 4-5% of cases. Most ovarian cancers are therefore environmental in origin and consequently, at least in principle, avoidable.
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11

Abstract: We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both consistency and specificity objectives. This paper documents how we adapt the code stream to address changes in data collection periods and strata for the respective surveys over time. Changes in the duration and time of year for data collection can be especially problematic for consistency in the presence of annual inflation of over 30 per cent. In addition, the Ethiopia case provides an example of how to address convergence problems encountered when running the PLEASe code. Careful consolidation of spatial domains and limiting the number of iterations in the estimation of poverty lines are potential solutions.