Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis

Despite being a fairly recent phenomenon, emojis have quickly become ubiquitous. Besides their extensive use in social media, they are now also invoked in customer surveys and feedback forms. Hence, there is a need for techniques to understand their sentiment and emotion. In this work, we provide a method to quantify the emotional association of basic emotions such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness for a set of emojis. We collect and process a unique corpus of 20 million emoji-centric tweets, such that we can capture rich emoji semantics using a comparably small dataset. We evaluate the induced emotion profiles of emojis with regard to their ability to predict word affect intensities as well as sentiment scores.
On the Uses of Rubrics: Reframing the Great Rubric Debate

Reframing the Great Rubric Debate beyond the taking of sides, Eric D. Turley and Chris W. Gallagher propose a set of questions designed to help educators assess the value of rubrics. They contend that these four simple questions push educators to deliberately articulate “judgments about the uses of rubrics” and why they will or will not use them for assignments.
System for Monitoring People with Disabilities in the Event of an Accident using Mobile Terminals

Being in the speed century, people around the world are busy scheduling every day and therefore, it is impossible to spend enough time with the elderly and people with disabilities or people who have a chronic illness. These persons need a lot more attention and care because they cannot cope with the daily activities like a healthy person would. Daily monitoring and assistance of elderly or disabled people is a very important task, both in the current activity, or, especially when emergencies can occur. Fortunately, we can easily use today's technologies, which are constantly developing to be able to monitor them remotely. This paper tries to find a solution to reduce cases of fatality due to accidents, by using advanced technologies of today, e.g. smartphones, fast communications. The use of these technologies can provide permanent monitoring of the elderly and persons with disabilities, without bounding their mobility and without affecting their quality of life. In this way, if emergency situations arise for the elderly or people with disabilities or chronic diseases, measures can be taken as soon as possible. The development of a mobile application capable to monitor the occurrence of accidents for the above-mentioned persons is obviously a help granted to the doctors involved in ensuring their health. Thus, the main objective of the application is to detect the accidental falls of the persons in the shortest possible time. Another objective is to provide an application that runs in the background of the mobile operating system, using as little as possible the power supply.
Truth and Justification in Knowledge Representation

While the traditional philosophical epistemology stresses the importance of distinguishing knowledge from true beliefs, the formalisation of this distinction with standard logical means turns out to be problematic. In Knowledge Representation (KR) as a Computer Science discipline this crucial distinction is largely neglected. A practical consequence of this neglect is that the existing KR systems store and communicate knowledge that cannot be verified and justified by users of these systems without external means. Information obtained from such systems does not qualify as knowledge in the sense of philosophical epistemology. Recent advances in the research area at the crossroad of the computational mathematical logic, formal epistemology and computer science open new perspectives for an effective computational realisation of justificatory procedures in KR. After exposing the problem of justification in logic, epistemology and KR, we sketch a novel framework for representing knowledge along with relevant justificatory procedures, which is based on the Homotopy Type theory (HoTT). This formal framework supports representation of both propositional knowledge, aka knowledgethat, and non-propositional knowledge, aka knowledge-how or procedural knowledge. The default proof-theoretic semantics of HoTT allows for combining the two sorts of represented knowledge at the formal level by interpreting all permissible constructions as justification terms (witnesses) of associated propositions.
Improved pattern classification in functional MRI using neuro-anatomically selective boosting

M. Martinez-Ramon, V. Koltchinskii, G. L. Heileman, S. Posse MIND Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, Mathametics & Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Lung injury after cardiopulmonary bypass in rats

Objective To investigate the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass( CPB) on lung injury in rats and its related mechanism. Methods Twenty four male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups: sham operation group( Sham) and CPB group. Sham group establish CPB model,but without CPB bypass. After establish the CPB,the flow rate was gradually adjusted to the maximum[≥100 ml /( kg·min) ] and maintained for 60 min. Blood samples were collected at the beginning and the end of CPB,1 h,2 h,12 h for assays of tumor necrosis factor-α( TNF-α),matrix metalloproteinase-9( MMP-9) and arterial blood gas analysis. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid( BALF) and lung tissue were obtained 12 h after the operation for detection of TNF-α,MMP-9 and NF-κB protein expression levels,histological examination was also performed. Results Compared with Sham group,inflammatory cytokines of TNF-α、MMP-9 of the CPB group in serum、lung tissue and BALF significantly increased and NF-κB protein expression levels in the lung samples were obviously higher after CPB( P 0. 05). Histological examination revealed that the CPB group showed neutrophil infiltration,interstitial pulmonary edema,hemorrhage,hyaline membrane formation and necrosis. Conclusion Lung injury induced by CPB is related to NF-κB activation and thus increase of TNF-α、MMP-9.
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE The Characteristics of Atmospheric Turbulence and Radiation Energy Transfer and the Structure of Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Northern Slope Area of Himalaya

The mountains of Himalayas are the important channels for the mass exchange between surface layer of Northern Hemisphere and troposphere. The mountains relate surface layer atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau and the above free atmosphere through many atmospheric circulation systems including mountain-valley wind and glacier wind etc. Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) is the highest peak in the world, and its nearby region is a representative case of mountains of Himalayas. Firstly the back ground of the establishment of the Qomolangma Station for Atmospheric and Environmental Observation and Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (QOMS/ CAS) and the role of the station in the study of the atmosphere-land interaction over Himalayan area were introduced in this paper. Then some preliminary observational analysis results, such as the structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) and the characteristics of the atmospheric turbulence and the radiation energy distribution were shown. The results showed that: The excess resistance to heat transfer kB 1 has obvious diurnal variations with lower values in the night and higher values in the daytime; The low frequency perturbations have a large influence on the spectra variation of all wind components, but mid frequency perturbations have only influence on the spectra variation of vertical wind components and also alter the co-spectra of momentum and sensible heat flux under near neutral stratification; The downward shortwave radiation over this area are obviously larger than that in other areas; There is very clear constant layer of potential temperature existing in the northern slope of Mt. Qomolangma area around 12:00 (Beijing Standard Time, BST) in May, and the layer is about 2,200 m during the period over this area. In comparison with study results from other areas, some uniqueness and commonness of the Himalayan region are clearly identified.
Connection between the Star Formation Rate and the Gamma-Ray Bursts

Abstract It is remarkable that the long gamma-ray bursts, as objects connected with the supernovae - i.e. with the end of the massive stars, trace the star formation rate. This connection is discussed in this contribution. The presentation is in essence a recapitulation of the article Mészáros A. et al. A&A, 2006, 455, 785.
Normal Gelişim Gösteren Çocuk Annelerinin Kaynaştırma Uygulamasına İlişkin Görüşleri

Bu arastirmanin amaci, Eskisehir ilinde kaynastirma uygulamasinin yapildigi bir ilkogretim okulunda normal gelisim gosteren cocuk annelerinin kaynastirma uygulamasina iliskin goruslerini belirlemektir. Arastirma kapsaminda gonullu olarak katilan sekiz normal gelisim gosteren cocuk annesinin gorusleri alinmistir. Arastirma, nitel yaklasimla gerceklestirilmis, bu amacla nitel veri toplama tekniklerinden yari yapilandirilmis gorusmeler yapilmis, daha sonra veriler tumevarim yoluyla analiz edilmistir. Arastirmaya katilan annelerin tamami (sekiz anne) okulun 8-E sinifinda okuyan ogrencilerin anneleridir. Bulgular, normal gelisim gosteren cocuk annelerinin kaynastirma uygulamasina iliskin tutumlarinin olumlu oldugunu, ancak kaynastirma uygulamasi ile ilgili bilgilerinin yeterli olmadigini gostermistir. Ayrica, okul-veli isbirliginin neredeyse olmadigi ortaya cikmistir. Katilimcilar kaynastirma uygulamasinin varligindan ancak kaynastirma sinifina devam eden cocuklarinin araciligiyla haberlerinin oldugunu belirtmislerdir. Arastirma sonucunda elde edilen bulgular normal gelisim gosteren cocuk annelerine ve ayni zamanda babalarina yonelik bazi onerilerin ortaya cikmasini saglamistir. En onemli oneri, kaynastirma uygulamasi konusunda normal gelisim gosteren cocuk velilerinin bilgilendirilmesi icin etkinlikler gerceklestirilmesidir. Ayrica normal gelisim gosteren cocuk velileri ile kaynastirma ogrencisinin velilerini bir araya getirecek programlarin yapilmasi da onemli bir oneri olarak sunulmustur
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ODONATA FAUNA OF ÇİÇEKDAĞI (KIRŞEHİR), TURKEY

Normal 0 21 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this study, 74 Odonata specimens were collected and determined from Cicekdagi between 2000 and 2001. Odonata specimens belonging to 21 species 15 genera of 7 families were determined. 18 species are new records for the Odonata fauna of Cicekdagi. This study includes faunistic and distributional records of 21 species. Key Words: Kirsehir province, Cicekdagi, Odonata, fauna, Turkey.
First- and Third-Year Pharmacy Students' Attitudes Toward Cheating Behaviors

Objectives. This study was conducted to investigate the attitudes towards cheating of first- and third-year pharmacy students and to relate this information back to the descriptive characteristics of student respondents. Methods. Eight hundred forty-four pharmacy students completed the attitudes toward cheating scale in the fall of 2002. Ordered logistic regression was used to analyze the data and descriptive statistics were employed to summarize the information. Results. The statistically significant model indicated the following: (1) the probability of a female student holding a conservative or moderately conservative attitude toward cheating was 56%, (2) the probability of an older student possessing a conservative or moderately conservative attitude toward cheating was 58%, (3) the probability of a student with a high GPA holding a conservative or moderately conservative attitude toward cheating was 51%. Conclusion. Pharmacy students guided by intrinsic motivations possess more conservative attitudes .
High-Quality Depth Map Generation of Humans in Monocular Videos

The quality of 2D-to-3D conversion depends on the accuracy of the assigned depth to scene objects. Manual depth painting for given objects is labor intensive as each frame is painted. Specifically, a human is one of the most challenging objects for a high-quality conversion, as a human body is an articulated figure and has many degrees of freedom (DOF). In addition, various styles of clothes, accessories, and hair create a very complex silhouette around the 2D human object. We propose an efficient method to estimate visually pleasing depths of a human at every frame in a monocular video. First, a 3D template model is matched to a person in a monocular video with a small number of specified user correspondences. Our pose estimation with sequential joint angular constraints reproduces a various range of human motions (i.e., spine bending) by allowing the utilization of a fully skinned 3D model with a large number of joints and DOFs. The initial depth of the 2D object in the video is assigned from the matched results, and then propagated toward areas where the depth is missing to produce a complete depth map. For the effective handling of the complex silhouettes and appearances, we introduce a partial depth propagation method based on color segmentation to ensure the detail of the results. We compared the result and depth maps painted by experienced artists. The comparison shows that our method produces viable depth maps of humans in monocular videos efficiently.
Geomorphology in the tropics: a study of weathering and denudation in low latitudes.

Geomorphology from a Tropical Perspective. PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS OF WEATHERING. The Alteration of Rocks Under Tropical Conditions. Weathering Profiles and Saprolites. Laterites, Bauxites and Duricrusts. DENUDATION PROCESSES. Surface Processes in Tropical Climates. Landsliding and Other Mass Movement. QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT. Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Landforms and Deposits Associated with Environmental Change. THE EVOLUTION OF TROPICAL LANDSCAPES. Etching Processes and Landform Development. Erosional Terrain and Residual Hills. Long-Term Landform Evolution. References. Indexes.
A numerical study of the hydrometeorological drylines in Northwest India during the monsoon

This objective of this study is to elucidate the processes that govern the space-time persistence of the hydrometeorological dryline in Northwest India. The working hypothesis is that orographic forcing and land-atmosphere interactions via soil moisture and vegetation processes lock the hydrometeorological line to the Aravalli range and the Thar Desert (a.k.a. the Great Indian Desert). For this purpose, simulations of active and break phases of the 2001 monsoon season were conducted using a mesoscale model (MM5). During the active phases of the monsoon, southeasterly depressions from the Bay of Bengal propagate over northern India, maintaining sustained convergence of moist available energy east of the Aravalli range, leading to increased rainfall and cloudiness patterns consistent with deep convective activity. Drier air originating from the Arabian Sea in the Western Indian Ocean is constrained to the west. During monsoon break phases, moisture convergence from the Bay of Bengal to the Northern India Convergence Zone (NICZ) decreases dramatically, weakening regional circulations east of the Aravalli range. This allows ventilation of the central portion of the NICZ through penetration of westerly dry air, leading to reduced rainfall, lower soil wetness, decrease of latent heat fluxes, and finally lower CAPE and humidity in the lower troposphere. Whereas the inland propagation of monsoon depressions from the Bay of Bengal triggers the onset (demise) of active and break periods, the sustainability of either regime requires strong feedbacks between humidity and stability in the lower troposphere and the surface energy balance: negative in the case of monsoon breaks, positive in the case of active periods. This study shows that, albeit relatively modest (<600 m average elevation), the Aravalli provides sufficient lift (upwind) and descend (downwind) to organize the spatial distribution of updrafts westward (active phase) and eastward (break phase) of the topographic divide in such a way that low level updrafts are nearly suppressed over the Thar Desert. Sensitivity experiments with modified soil and vegetation cover show that daytime latent heat fluxes (and evapotranspiration) play an important role in the spatial orgnization of CAPE and in triggering light rainfall processes in the semi-arid regions of northwest India, whereas the occurrence of heavy rainfall to the east of the Aravalli range is controlled by largescale monsoon dynamics.
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Timing of El Niño-Related Warming and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall

The relationship between all-India summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) and the timing of (El Nino– Southern Oscillation) ENSO-related warming/cooling is investigated, using observational data during the period from 1881 to 1998. The analysis of the evolutions of Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies suggests that when ISMR is not below normal despite the co-occurrence of an El Nino event, warming over the eastern equatorial Pacific starts from boreal winter and evolves early so that the westerncentral Pacific and Indian Ocean are warmer than normal during the summer monsoon season. In contrast, when the more usual El Nino–dry ISMR relationship holds, the eastern equatorial Pacific starts warming rapidly only about a season before the reference summer so that the western-central Pacific and Indian Oceans remain cold during the monsoon season.
Antipsikotik Kullanan Hastalarda İlaç Yan Etkileri ve İlaç Uyumu* Side Effects of Medications and Adherence to Medication in Patients Using Antipsychotics

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the medication side-effects, medication adherence and their relationship in patients who take antipsychotic medication at an outpatient clinic. Method: The descriptive and correlational study was carried out with a total of 117 outpatients who met the research criteria and willing to participate in research in the psychiatry clinic of Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. Data were collected with a sociodemografic form, The Liverpool University Neuroleptic Side Effect Rating Scale-LUNSERS, Morisky’s Questions-Self Report Measure of Adherence. Data were analyzed by Kruskal Wallis Test and Mann Whitney-U Test, Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient and Spearmans’ rho corelation analysis. Results: It was determined that patients experienced at least one medication side effect and they frequently experienced tiredness and difficulty in concentrating and remembering thing . Medication adherence was determined to be high in 47.9%, medium in 43.6% of the patients. The patients with low adherence experienced more psychologic side-effects compared to the patients with high adherence. Conclusion: In conclusion, it was determined that the patients experienced medical side effects frequently, the rate of medical adherence in patients was high and the psychologic side-effects affected the adherence.
MISSISSIPPI'S EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON ACTIVE CLAYS

IN THE YAZOO, PORTER'S CREEK, AND ZILPHA CLAY AREAS THAT COVER LARGE AREAS OF MISSISSIPPI, PAVEMENTS HAVE BEEN BADLY DISTORTED AND DESTROYED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THE HIGHLY EXPANSIVE SUBGRADES. AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED TO PRODUCE A DEFINITIVE STUDY FOR THE PREDICTION OF THE MOVEMENT OF CLAYS, AND TO PRESENT TO THE HIGHWAY ENGINEERS A CONSTRUCTION METHOD THAT WOULD ELIMINATE OR GREATLY REDUCE THE HEAVE OF THE SUBGRADE AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE ROADWAY. THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS REPORT, AND THE RESULTS AND SUBSEQUENT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE PRESENTED.
Porosity and packing of Holocene river, dune, and beach sands

The porosity and packing of 174 samples of surficial and shallowly buried (to 17 m), unconsolidated Holocene sands (medium to coarse-grained) were determined by point counting the upper surface of thin sections of epoxy-impregnated samples in reflected light. Average depositional porosity for 124 surficial sands from beaches, river point bars and braid bars, and eolian dunes, respectively, is 47, 48, and 49%. The porosity values range between 40 and 58%. Beach sands exhibit an average packing value (CI = contact index) of 0.79, fluvial sands an average CI of 0.91, and eolian sands an average CI of 1.02. Beach sands typically contain 5.5% oversized pores, river sands 3.8% oversized pores, and eolian dune sands 4.0% oversized pores. Most oversized pores are depositional packing defects, although trapped air bubbles are common in some beach sands. Extrapolation of our data for buried samples indicates depositional oversized pores are destroyed at a depth of less than 100 m. Average porosity is 46% for eolian ripple strata, 50% for grain-fall strata, and 51% for grain-flow strata. Differences in packing are significant for grain-flow versus grain-fall strata and for ripple versus grain-flow strata for samples of similar grain size. Porosity is more uniform within individual beds from a river and a beach than among different beds at the same localities. Porosity of ancient sandstones from a particular bed or facies may be as uniform as sampled Holocene sands, unless cements having patchy distribution, such as carbonate or anhydrite, are present. Compaction associated with burial to 17 m is minor. Packing is tighter, but our technique of measuring porosity is not sensitive enough to show any decrease in porosity. Changes in packing and porosity upon burial to common hydrocarbon reservoir depths will depend on individual histories of cementation, compaction, and secondary porosity development. However, if only physical compaction of quartzose river, dune, and beach sands takes place, porosity would approach a limiting value of 26% and CI would approach 5.5.
Comment Evaluation by Combining Comment and Word Mutual Evaluation Method and LSTM Evaluation Method in Lecture Questionnaire

Many universities give free-description question-naires to students to obtain feedback on faculty development (FD). When this is done, a proper analysis of the students’ comments is necessary. The number of comments from the free description that can be acquired for the FD activities is often not very large. To evaluate a small amount of data with approximately 1500 comments here needs to be some improvement in the currently available evaluation methods. In this study, we propose a probability distribution for the evaluation. We also propose a method for mutually evaluating the words and the comments long with the LSTM evaluation method by using neural networks. However, these methods seem to have differences in accuracies between the estimated values of the closed tests and the unrated comments. Therefore, we apply two methods to the bootstrap method to estimate the unrated comments; we also propose a method to incorporate the comments into our solution.
KNN and SVM Classification for Chainsaw Sound Identification in the Forest Areas

We present in this paper a comparative study of two classifiers, namely, SVM (support vector machine) and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors), which we combine to MFCC (Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) in order to make possible the detection of chainsaw’s sounds in a forest environment. Optimization’s calculation of the relevant characteristics of the sounds recorded in the forest and the judicious choice of the key parameters of the classifiers allows us to obtain a true positive rate of 95.63% for the SVM-LOG-KERNEL and 94.02% for the KNN. The SVM-LOG-KERNEL classifier offers a better classification result and a processing time 30 times faster than KNN.