Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The use of auditory stimulants during swim encounters with Hector's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori hectori) in Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand

The coastal distribution of Hector’s dolphins and their attraction to vessels make them easily accessible to commercial tour operations. For over 25 yr, tour operators have been undertaking view and swim-with-dolphin trips in Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand. Since 2003, auditory stimulants, in particular stones, have been provided during such swim encounters. The potential effects associated with such stimulants have not, until now, been examined. Here, we investigate the effects of stones and other human-induced noise on Hector’s dolphin behavior. The use of stones significantly affected how dolphins interacted with swimmers. Specifically, swimmers who used stones had a greater probability of close approaches by dolphins than those who sang or simply floated on the surface of the water. The number of close and sustained approaches was also significantly higher for swimmers using stones. Dolphins were more interactive with active swimmers, approaching closer and engaging for longer than with nonactive swimmers. Dolphins socializing had a tendency to be engaged longer with swimmers. The use of stones as an auditory
Patient e-health platform for Rheumatoid Arthritis: accuracy and adherence factors

Background: Personal health records (PHRs) are patient-controlled repositories, capturing health data entered by individuals and providing information related their care. These tools improve treatment adherence but data are scarce concerning tool adherence. The accuracy of the self-recorded data remains controversial. We assessed how support measures improve PHR adoption determined the factors that influence the accuracy of self-recorded data and tool adherence of RA patients. Methods: A controlled randomized study with a PHR tool with integrated electronic health records developed by SANOIA. RA patients with ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria with web access randomized into 3 groups: Group 1 patients were given written information to create and manage a PHR; Group 2 patients received written information and a web technician hotline 48 hours after inclusion; Group 3 patients began their PHR with their rheumatologist during the consultation. Results: 56 RA patients were included (female: 73%, mean age: 57.1, mean DAS28: 3.04, mean RAPID-3: 2.93). Self-reported data accuracy was significantly higher in Groups 2 (73.7%) and 3 (82.4%) than in Group 1 (45.0%), ( P = 0.04). Patient adherence was higher in Group 2 (78.9%) compared with Groups 1 (55.0%) and 3 (58.8%) ( P = 0.45). Accuracy was correlated to adhesion ( P <0.0001). Gender, age, disease duration and activity, treatments, and patient level of interest were not correlated to data accuracy or patient adherence. Conclusion: Information accuracy collected with PHR was relevant and better when patients were initially assisted either by their physician or by non-medical phone support. We also observed better adherence when patients were initially assisted.
SoS TextVis: A Survey of Surveys on Text Visualization

Text visualization is a rapidly growing sub-ﬁeld of information visualization and visual analytics. There are many approaches and techniques introduced every year to address a wide range of tasks and enable researchers from different disciplines to obtain leading-edge knowledge from digitized collections. This can be challenging particularly when the data is massive. Additionally, the sources of digital text have spread substantially in the last decades in various forms, such as web pages, blogs, twitter, email, electronic publications, and books. In response to the explosion of text visualization research literature, the ﬁrst survey article was published in 2010. Furthermore, there are a growing number of surveys that review existing techniques and classify them based on text research methodology. In this work, we aim to present the ﬁrst Survey of Surveys (SoS) that review all of the survey and state-of-the-art papers on text visualization techniques and provide an SoS classiﬁcation. We study and compare the surveys, and categorize them into 5 groups: (1) document-centered, (2) user task analysis, (3) cross-disciplinary, (4) multi-faceted, and (5) satellite-themed. We provide survey recommendations for researchers in the ﬁeld of text visualization. The result is a very unique, valuable starting point and overview of the current state-of-the-art in text visualization research literature.
Singleton detection using semantic word vectors and neural networks

Using semantic word vectors and neural networks, a state-of-theart singleton detection system is developed. Singleton detection is a pre-processing task for coreference resolution, which aims to filter out singleton mentions (mentions not involved in a coreference cluster). Filtering out singleton mentions reduces the search space of the coreference resolution system, which helps to improve performance. Instead of using features present in previous approaches (part-ofspeech tags, surface semantics, named entity information, etc.), we make use of semantic word vectors, a relatively new technology which represents words as real-valued, high-dimensional dense vectors. These vectors have shown promise as features in other NLP tasks, such as named-entity recognition, paraphrase detection, syntactic parsing and sentiment analysis. In addition to word representations, a recursive autoencoder is used to generate vector representations for mentions consisting of multiple words. These features are used in a multi-layer perceptron classifier to achieve state-of-the-art performance (79.5% overall accuracy) in singleton detection on the CoNLL 2011 and 2012 Shared Task data (i.e., the OntoNotes corpus). It is shown that off-the-shelf semantic word vectors are informationrich features, which can be used for more than just ‘low-level’ syntactic NLP tasks, but also for tasks more semantic in nature, such as singleton detection. This shows their promise for further advances in natural language processing. It is hypothesized, because semantic word vectors contain more semantic information than other commonly used features, and because they are types of features not already used by coreference resolution systems, that a singleton detection system based on this can benefit coreference resolution more than earlier mention filtering systems. To this goal, performance is evaluated with the most recent versions of the Stanford and Berkeley coreference resolution systems, which are among the state-of-the-art in English coreference resolution. Performance with the Stanford system is good (0.7 point increase in CoNLL F1-score), but not with the Berkeley system (0.3 point increase). As such, the conclusion has to be drawn that, as they are used in this study, semantic word vectors do not have significant added value for coreference resolution performance.
The Influence of Income, Ethnicity, and Parenting on Child Health

Children in low-income and ethnic minority families are more likely to be in poor health, which may impact physical and economic well-being in adulthood. This study explored how maternal depression and parenting efficacy were associated with child health outcomes in a sample of low-income African American and Latino families. Results demonstrated that children in optimal health were more likely to have mothers with high parenting efficacy and fewer depressive symptoms. Differences between African American and Latino families illustrated the importance of considering both socioeconomic and racial and ethnic disparities in child health simultaneously. Parent characteristics may be opportune targets for addressing child health disparities, and future research should focus on understanding these associations and identifying parent behaviors associated with child health.
Comparing Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles and Cloud Vertical Structure from Multiwavelength Raman Lidar Retrievals and Radiosounding Measurements

A study of comparison of water vapor mixing ratio profiles, relative humidity profiles, and cloud vertical structures using two different instruments, a multiwavelength Aerosol-Depolarization-Raman lidar and radiosoundings, is presented. The observations were taken by the lidar located in Warsaw center and the radiosoundings located about 30km to the North in Legionowo (Poland). We compared the ground-based remote sensing technology with in-situ method in order to improve knowledge about water content thought the atmosphere and cloud formation. The method used for retrieving the cloud vertical structure can be improved comparing the radiosonde results with the lidar observations, which show promising results.
Trends in the abundance of marine fishes

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a target in 2002 to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Using a newly constructed global database for 207 populations (108 species), we examine whether the 2010 target has been met for marine fishes, while accounting for population biomass relative to maximum sustainable yield, BMSY. Although rate of decline has eased for 59% of populations declining before 1992 (a pattern consistent with a literal interpretation of the target), the percentage of populations below BMSY has remained unchanged and the rate of decline has increased among several top predators, many of which are below 0.5BMSY. Combining population trends, a global multi- species index indicates that marine fishes declined 38% between 1970 and 2007. The index has been below BMSY since the mid-1980s and stable since the early 1990s. With the exception of High Seas pelagic fishes and demersal species in the Northeast Pacific and Australia - New Zealand, the multispecies indices are currently below BMSY in many regions. We conclude that the 2010 CBD target represents a weak standard for recovering marine fish biodiversity and that meaningful progress will require population-specific recovery targets and associated time lines for achieving those targets. Resume´ : La Convention sur la diversitebiologique (« CBD ») s'est donnee en 2002 comme objectif de reduire le taux de perte de la biodiversiteavant 2010. Utilisant une nouvelle base de donnees globale de 207 populations (108 especes), nous examinons si l'objectif 2010 de la CBD a eteatteint pour les poissons marins, tout en tenant compte de la biomasse des populations relative au rendement maximal durable, BMSY. Malgreune diminution du taux de declin chez 59 % des po- pulations en chute avant 1992 (une tendance qui correspond aune interpretation litterale de l'objectif 2010 de la CBD), le pourcentage des populations sous BMSY s'est maintenu constant et le taux de declin s'est accelerechez plusieurs des preda- teurs sommitaux, une majoritedesquels sont a un niveau inferieur a 0,5BMSY. Combinant les tendances des populations, un indice global multi-especes montre que les poissons marins ont diminuede 38 % entre 1970 et 2007. L'indice est inferieur aBMSY depuis le milieu des annees 1980 et stable depuis le debut des annees 1990. Avec l'exception des populations pela- giques de haute mer et des populations demersales du nord-est du Pacifique et de Nouvelle-Zelande - Australie, les indices multi-especes sont presentement sous BMSY dans plusieurs regions. Nous concluons que l'objectif CBD 2010 represente un faible standard pour recuperer la biodiversitedes poissons marins et qu'un progresr eel requerra des cibles claires de recu- peration specifiques achacune des populations et soumises ades echeanciers stricts pour atteindre les objectifs vises.
Determinants of nurse faculty intention to remain employed

Shortage of nurses is a major concern across healthcare systems. One contributing factor that has received little attention is the shortage of adequately prepared nurse faculty. The nurse shortage will be exacerbated if the supply of adequately prepared nurse faculty is insufficient. Little is known about the factors that influence nurse faculty to remain employed. Focus groups were conducted in 2011 with nurse faculty from both colleges and universities in Ontario, Canada. Six focus groups including 37 participants were held with different groups of nurse faculty in geographically diverse areas of the province. Focus group transcripts were reviewed by five members of the research team using thematic analysis strategies to identify factors related to nurse faculty intention to remain employed. Nurse faculty members’ intention to remain employed was influenced by factors that fell into four thematic categories: personal characteristics, work environment and organizational support, job content, and external characteristics. Each thematic category includes several factors reported to influence nurse faculty intention to remain employed. The “Determinants of Nurse Faculty Intention to Remain Employed” Model is hypothesized. Strategies to address modifiable factors and support non-modifiable factors are suggested to promote retention of nurse faculty. Additional research is needed to test the hypothesized model of nurse faculty intention to remain employed.
Microprocessor Floorplanning with Power Load Aware Temporal Temperature Variation

Traditional microprocessor floorplanning only considers area and wire length. Recent research has started to consider performance optimization due to interconnect pipelining and thermal hotspot caused by increased power density. However, there is no efficient approach on microprocessor floorplanning considering application dependent power load for performance and thermal optimization. This paper studies microprocessor floorplanning considering thermal and throughput optimization. We first develop a stochastic heat diffusion model taking into account the application dependent power load for thermal analysis. Then, we design the floorplanning algorithm based on this model. Experimental results show that, compared with the deterministic heat diffusion model, our model obtains up to 3.2C reduction of the on-chip peak temperature, 1.29% reduction of the area, and 1.13x better CPI (cycles per instruction) performance, respectively. Compared with temperature aware floorplanning in the HOTSPOT tool set that ignores interconnect pipelining, our algorithm is up to 27x faster, reduces the peak temperature by up to 3C, and also reduces CPI significantly with a negligible area overhead. We also use our thermal model to analyze the floorplanning for dual core microarchitecture. The results show that optimizing the floorplan over two cores simultaneously can further reduce temperature by 3.36C with slightly better CPI performance.
Brief Review of Epitaxy and Emission Properties of GaSb and Related Semiconductors

Groups III–V semiconductors have received a great deal of attention because of their potential advantages for use in optoelectronic and electronic applications. Gallium antimonide (GaSb) and GaSb-related semiconductors, which exhibit high carrier mobility and a narrow band gap (0.725 eV at 300 K), have been recognized as suitable candidates for high-performance optoelectronics in the mid-infrared range. However, the performances of the resulting devices are strongly dependent on the structural and emission properties of the materials. Enhancement of the crystal quality, adjustment of the alloy components, and improvement of the emission properties have therefore become the focus of research efforts toward GaSb semiconductors. Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is suitable for the large-scale production of GaSb, especially for high crystal quality and beneficial optical properties. We review the recent progress in the epitaxy of GaSb materials, including films and nanostructures composed of GaSb-related alloys and compounds. The emission properties of these materials and their relationships to the alloy components and material structures are also discussed. Specific examples are included to provide insight on the common general physical and optical properties and parameters involved in the synergistic epitaxy processes. In addition, the further directions for the epitaxy of GaSb materials are forecasted.
Fractional Queues with Catastrophes and Their Transient Behaviour

Starting from the definition of fractional M/M/1 queue given in the reference by Cahoy et al. in 2015 and M/M/1 queue with catastrophes given in the reference by Di Crescenzo et al. in 2003, we define and study a fractional M/M/1 queue with catastrophes. In particular, we focus our attention on the transient behaviour, in which the time-change plays a key role. We first specify the conditions for the global uniqueness of solutions of the corresponding linear fractional differential problem. Then, we provide an alternative expression for the transient distribution of the fractional M/M/1 model, the state probabilities for the fractional queue with catastrophes, the distributions of the busy period for fractional queues without and with catastrophes and, finally, the distribution of the time of the first occurrence of a catastrophe.
Anatomo-functional bimodality imaging for plant phenotyping: An insight through depth imaging coupled to thermal imaging

As reproductive units, seeds are essential for the survival of plant species and for their role in stand establishment. Seeds are also a crucial input for agriculture, as they are the vector of genetic progress and of different plant protection treatments. Germination is the first step in plant development and is a complex process (Bewley and Black, 1994; Nonogaki et al., 2010; Rajjou et al., 2012). It is a critical phase in the plant life cycle during which quiescent seeds are reactivated to produce seedlings. Germination sensus stricto begins with uptake of water by the seed and terminates with the initiation of growth of the embryo axis and radicle protrusion (Come and Thevenot, 1982; Nonogaki et al., 2007). During this initial stage, seed water content increases in direct relation with the moisture content of the environment, allowing seed reserves to be hydrolyzed and metabolism to restart. Seed water content has to reach a threshold value to allow germination and to maintain this value until the radicle emerges (Bewley and Black, 1994; Kigel and Galili, 1995). Subsequent seedling growth depends
Relationships between Free-Living Amoeba and their Intracellular Bacteria

Abstract An increasing number of bacteria have been described as benefiting from interaction with free-living amoeba. The most common association between free-living amoeba and microorganisms is interaction of various non-pathogenic and pathogenic bacterial species with amoeba. Various pathogenic bacterial species have capacity to resist digestion by free-living amoeba, which has been observed by many researchers. Also, several of these pathogens are able to resist digestion by macrophages. In addition, free-living amoeba have been associated with several diseases in humans. Acanthamniioeba castella is an important predator of bacteria. It is a ubiquitous organism in water, soil, and air. Attention from a public health perspective is needed by investigation of interaction of foodborne pathogens and free-living amoeba. Bacteria can use free-living amoeba as reservoirs, mediators or vehicles, an infection route, “biological gym” and evolutionary crib or interaction may result in a close endosymbiotic relationship. The purpose of this review is to describe the interaction mechanisms between free-living amoeba and common bacteria species that survive in host cells.
Near wall motion of undulatory swimmers in non-Newtonian fluids

We investigate the near-wall motion of an undulatory swimmer in both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids using a two-dimensional direct numerical simulation. Our results show that the undulatory swimmer has three types of swimming mode depending on its undulation amplitude. The swimmer can be strongly attracted to the wall and swim in close proximity of the wall, be weakly attracted to the wall with a relatively large distance away from the wall, or escape from the wall. The scattering angle of the swimmer and its hydrodynamic interaction with the wall are important in describing the near-wall swimming motion. The shear-thinning viscosity is found to increase the swimming speed and to slightly enhance the wall attraction by reducing the swimmer’s scattering angle. The fluid elasticity, however, leads to strong attraction of swimmer’s head towards the wall, reducing the swimming speed. The combined shear-thinning effect and fluid elasticity results in an enhanced swimming speed along the wall.
Groundwater Annual Dynamics in the Basins of Woro and Chago (Eastern Niger) as Affected by Seasonal Variability and Anthropic Activities

The Sahelian region is known to have extremes climatic constraints since the end of the seventies. The studied zone is characterized by an extreme spatial and temporal variability of the environmental factors, complicating the understanding of the mechanisms governing the functioning of the hydrological system in the basin. The evapotranspiration was very high (1975 mm/an), whereas the local annual rainfall was around 300 mm/year. The piezometric data showed a rise of the groundwater level during the rainy season and a decrease in the dry season. The water balance obtained using the Penman-Monteith method showed the predominance of the evapotranspiration (75% to 80% of the rainfall) on the drainage (20% to 25% of the precipitations).
Pricing American Options Under Regime Switching Using Method of Lines

This paper considers the American option pricing problem under regime-switching by using the method-of-lines (MOL) scheme. American option prices in each regime involve prices in all other regimes. We treat the prices from other regimes implicitly, thus guaranteeing consistency. Iterative procedures are required but very few iterative steps are needed in practice. Numerical tests demonstrate the robustness, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed numerical scheme. We compare our results with Buffington and Elliott (2002)’s analytical approximation under two regimes. Our MOL scheme provides improved results especially for out-of-the money options, possibly because they use a separation of variable approach to the PDEs which cannot hold around the early exercise region. We also compare our results with those of Khaliq and Liu (2009) and suggest that their implicit scheme can be improved.
Development of an Adaptive Collaborative Serious Game Based on Learning Style, Using Trace and Agent Technology

In the collaborative serious game, adaptation is one of the main factors could be considered in the phase of conception since they can contribute to improve learning performance. Learning styles present one of the most factors that affect learning outcomes. Game-based learning (GBL) that takes into account learning styles in the process of adaptation, it furnishes to learners a greater benefit owing in the personalization of learning and contents materials according to their proper learning styles. In this paper, Adaptive system that personalize a collaborative serious game based on learning style proposed by Felder and Silverman is described. This system used trace and agent technology. A model of trace and group model are developed to extract adaptation knowledge in order to form plan that will be executed by Npc player. To evaluate a system, an experiment has been conducted on group of students. From the experimental results, it is concluded that the adaptive collaborative serious game based on learning style improve learning outcomes and effectiveness, and promote learning motivation. Subject Categories and Descriptors K.3. 1 Computer Uses in Education] Collaborative learning I.2. 6 [Learning] Knowledge acquisition General Terms: Collaborative Learning, Game Based Learning, Learning Style