Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Flirting Online and the Connection between the Use of Dating Websites and Dating Applications

For this research, we used data collected by the Pew Foundation's "Internet and American Life Project Tracking Survey," conducted in Spring 2013. The data was adjusted through the use of sampling weights to estimate for general population parameters. The collected data examined online flirting, use of dating websites, and the use of dating apps. Findings suggest women between the ages of 18-34 years are just as likely as men to signal their romantic interest by engaging in online flirtation. In addition, women ages 50 years or older are less likely than men to signal their romantic interest by engaging in online flirtation. Also, adults ages 50 years or more who flirt online are more likely to use an online dating website or app. Findings concerning Generation X are also discussed. Marketing implications include a concentration on “flirting-focused” options, especially in relation to free trials, promotional offers, and marketing tactics for digital dating services. Strategies for appealing to the Baby Boomer market may involve a focus on active lifestyles and geographic marketing. Marketing to Millennials may need to be increasingly strategic given the equal amount of online flirting among males on females.
The role of the arginine methyltransferase CARM1 in global transcriptional regulation.

ii Co-Authorship Statement . iv Acknowledgments . v Table of Contents . vii List of Tables . xi List of Figures . xii List of Appendices . xiv List of Abbreviations . xv Chapter 1 . 1 1 General Introduction . 1 1.1 Gene Expression . 1 1.2 Transcriptional Regulation . 2 1.3 Chromatin and Regulation of Transcription . 6 1.3. 1 The Language of Covalent Histone Modifications . 9 1.4 Transcription Factors . 13 1.4. 1 Nuclear Receptors . 16 1.4. 2 The Estrogen Receptor . 18 1.5 Transcriptional Coregulators . 20 1.5. 1 Steroid Receptor Coactivators . 20 1.5. 2 Post-translational Modifications of SRCs . 24 1.5. 3 p/CIP . 28 1.5. 4 p/CIP in Breast Cancer . 29 1.6 Protein Arginine Methylation . 32
Ecological and Faunistic Characteristics of the Leech Fauna in the Bukhtarma Reservoir, Eastern Kazakhstan

The taxonomic diversity of the Hirudinea fauna and its dependence on the ecological conditions in the Bukhtarma Reservoir (Eastern Kazakhstan) have been studied. The morphological analysis has shown that these leeches belong to two orders and three families: Rhynchobdellida (families Glossiphoniidae and Piscicolidae) and Arhynchobdellida (family Erpobdellidae). On the whole, eight leech species from five genera (Alboglossiphonia, Helobdella, Theromyzon, Piscicola, and Erpobdella) have been identified. Among them, there are three glossiphoniid species (A. heteroclite, H. stagnalis, and T. tessulatum), two species of piscicolids (Piscicola geometra and Piscicola sp.), and three species of predatory leeches (E. octoculata, E. vilnensis, and Erpobdella sp.). Possible effects of hydrochemical parameters of the aquatic environment on the species diversity have been analyzed. Correlation has been revealed between the abundance of species and the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment.
PREVENTING CHRONIC DISEASE

Introduction The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides access to breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women in all states and US territories. In Idaho, a rural state with very low breast and cervical cancer screening rates, this program is called Women’s Health Check (WHC). The program has been operating continuously since 1997 and served 4,719 enrollees in 2013. The objective of this study was to assess whether disparities existed in cause-specific survival (a net survival measure representing survival of a specified cause of death in the absence of other causes of death) between women screened by WHC and outside WHC and to determine how type of surgery or survival varies with stage at diagnosis. Methods WHC data were linked to Idaho’s central cancer registry to compare stage distribution, type of surgery, and cause-specific survival between women with WHC-linked breast cancer and a comparison group of women whose records did not link to the WHC database (nonlinked breast cancer). Results WHC-linked breast cancer was significantly more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of disease than nonlinked breast cancer. Because of differences in stage distribution between WHC-linked and nonlinked breast cancers, overall age-standardized, cause-specific breast cancer survival proportions diverged over time, with a 5.1 percentage-point deficit in survival among WHC-linked cases at 5 years of follow-up (83.9% vs 89.0%). Differences in type of surgery and cause-specific survival were attenuated when controlling for stage. Conclusion This study suggests that disparities may exist for Idaho WHC enrollees in the timely diagnosis of breast cancer. To our knowledge, this is the first study to publish comparisons of cause-specific breast cancer survival between NBCCEDP-linked and nonlinked cases.
Sixty-two bacterial pathogens were isolated from 201 blood culture specimens collected from chronic haemodialysis patients. All patients were suffering from signs and symptoms of bacteraemia which is a frequent complication associated with tunnelled, cuffed, permanent catheters (PCs). The study aime

ARTICLE HISTORY Received: 5 th April 2015 Accepted: 18 October 2015 Available online: June 2016 Sixty-two bacterial pathogens were isolated from 201 blood culture specimens collected from chronic haemodialysis patients. All patients were suffering from signs and symptoms of bacteraemia which is a frequent complication associated with tunnelled, cuffed, permanent catheters (PCs). The study aimed to use molecular technique to diagnose bacterial pathogens isolated from haemodialysis patients. Identification and Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) of commonly used antibiotics were determined by VITEK 2 Compact System and confirmed by amplification of species–specific primers targeted to the 16S rRNA gene for Staphylococcus epidermidis, E. faecalis, E. faecium, Staphylococcus aureus and P. aeruginosa. Class 1 and 2 integron integrase (intI) genes were amplified to determine whether integrons were present in all isolates genome. The amplification of genes was carried out by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The result showed that PCR assays employing 16S rRNA primer pair produced DNA products of the predicted size of 34 of 35 Staphylococcus epidermidis, 5 of 6 E. faecium and all E. faecalis, P. aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. The result showed that class 1 intI gene was found in 54 (87.1%) of the isolates and the integron harbouring isolates were significantly more resistant to Erythromycin (54.2%), Clindamycin (31.3%), Ciprofloxacin (16.7%) and Rifampicin (6.3%). The class 2 intI gene was not found in these studied strains.
Towards Microbial Metabolism in Future

Citation: Dr. Hitt Sharma. , et al. “Towards Microbial Metabolism in Future”. EC Microbiology SI.01 (2017): 14-19. Introduction The use of organisms as biopharmaceutical production factories offers several advantages over chemical synthesis. Microbial metabolism consists of networks of reactions that bacteria use to convert nutrients into molecules that make up the cell and release energy for cell processes. Such networks have an enormous potential to produce a huge range of molecules that might be useful, like biofuels or biopharmaceuticals. Microorganisms can produce high molecular weight compounds such as proteins [1] and carry out highly enantioand regio-selective reactions by their native enzymatic machinery – these reactions are hard to achieve by chemical synthesis. The use of microorganisms also enables repeated implementation of immobilized enzymes or cells resulting in the reduction of the overall production costs [2]. However, the high complexity of bacterial metabolism has considerably limited such efforts. This calls for new approaches that can incorporate the complexity of metabolic systems and predict appropriate modifications. This article provides insight into microbial metabolism, approaches and caveats of their use.
Combining NLP and Computer Vision to Help Blind People Stanford CS224N Custom Project

This paper is about an attempt to help visually impaired population by solving image captioning task for VizWiz dataset [12]. This dataset consists of images taken by blind people in real-world situations and is the best choice to address their needs. It has been overlooked by researches comparably to other commonly used visual-linguistic datasets, and consequently requires further investigation. In this project several models based on CNN-LSTM architecture [2], [11] and Transformer [14] are constructed. All models show solid performance with the best result achieved by CNN-LSTM model with attention in combination with beam-search inference. Additionally, the dataset limitations are explored, and it can be concluded that algorithms pre-trained on artiﬁcially created datasets like MSCOCO perform poorly when deployed on VizWiz
Answerability Veriﬁcation in SQuAD

Question answering has become one of the most important problems in modern NLP research. In this project, we explore the use of pre-trained language models and the use of a separate module for answerability veriﬁcation in building a retrospective reader model for the SQuAD 2.0 dataset. While we ﬁnd that our model does not improve on the standard EM and F1 metrics, we note that the design of our model allows for advancements in design and interpretability
Evaluating a relationship between mental health and wearable sensors using NLP

Here we evaluate 100,000 abstracts published in the last fifteen years to determine if there exist ideal sensors that can more accurately predict onset of stress and depression. We deploy an unsupervised learning approach with information-dense word embeddings to capture complex concepts such as the link between stress and depression. Our initial results indicate accurate word-relationship mappings. Further work will be done to evaluate the dataset.
Light therapy for multiple sclerosis-associated fatigue

Background: Fatigue is the most commonly reported symptom among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, more than a quarter of whom consider fatigue to be their most disabling symptom. However, there are few effective treatment options for fatigue. We aim to investigate whether supplemental exposure to bright white light will reduce MS-associated fatigue. Methods: Eligible participants will have clinically confirmed multiple sclerosis based on the revised McDonald criteria (2010) and a score ≥36 on the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). Participants will be randomized 1:1 to bright white light (10,000 lux; active condition) or dim red light (<300 lux; control condition) self-administered for 1 hour twice daily. The study will include a 2-week baseline period, a 4-week treatment period, and a 4-week washout period. Participants will record their sleep duration, exercise, caffeine, and medication intake daily. Participants will record their fatigue using the Visual Analogue Fatigue Scale (VAFS) 4 times every third day, providing snapshots of their fatigue level at different times of day. Participants will self-report their fatigue severity using FSS on 3 separate visits: at baseline (week 0), following completion of the treatment phase (week 6), and at study completion (week 10). The primary outcome will be the change in the average FSS score after light therapy. We will perform an intention-to-treat analysis, comparing the active and control groups to assess the postintervention difference in fatigue levels reported on FSS. Secondary outcome measures include change in global VAFS scores during the light therapy and self-reported quality of life in the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life-54. Discussion: We present a study design and rationale for randomizing a nonpharmacological intervention for MS-associated fatigue, using bright light therapy. The study limitations relate to the logistical issues of a self-administered intervention requiring frequent participant self-report in a relapsing condition. Ultimately, light therapy for the treatment of MS-associated fatigue may provide a low-cost, noninvasive, self-administered treatment for one of the most prevalent and burdensome symptoms experienced by people with MS.
The Effect Of Testosterone On The Spring Migratory Phenotype Of A North American Songbird (Zonotrichia albicollis)

ii Co-Authorship Statement iii Acknowledgments iv List of Tables vii List of Figures viii List of Abbreviations ix List of Appendices x Chapter 1 : General Introduction 1 1.1 Fuelling Migration 3 1.2 Improving Endurance Exercise Machinery 4 1.3 Migratory Behaviour 6 1.4 Regulation of Migration by Endogenous Programs 7 1.5 Migration and Reproduction 9 1.6 Thesis Objectives 11 1.7 Literature Cited 14 Chapter 2 : Effects of testosterone on spring nocturnal migratory restlessness in the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). 29 2.
Idiomatic Language Translation and Transfer Learning

Current translation models fall short for a number of translation patterns. One such example is idioms, and in this project we hope to provide better translation of idiomatic expressions within languages by improving upon an implementation of a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model. We aim to do so by altering the attention mechanism and testing different loss functions in our architecture. Additionally, since state of the art machine translation models take long amounts of time to train, we explore transfer learning as a method to reduce total training time between languages. Speciﬁcally, we ﬁrst train a NMT between English and the Latin script Transliteration of Greek and use this NMT to initialize our parameters on a translation model between English and Greek. We ﬁnd that the Dual Skew Divergence Loss allows helps in improving the translation accuracy of idiomatic expressions while our transfer learning architecture lead to similar BLEU scores yet took about half the amount of training time compared to a regular English-Greek NMT model.
Isolation and Evaluation of Endophytic Bacteria Against Plant Parasitic Nematodes Infesting Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.)

Abundant and diverse populations of bacterial endophytes have been identified in many plants. In the present study, 80 isolates of endophytic bacteria were isolated from different varieties of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) grown at different locations in India. Another 30, isolates were obtained from tissue cultured black pepper plants. These isolates were tentatively grouped into Bacillus spp. (32 strains), pseudomonads (26 strains), Arthrobacter spp. (20 strains), Micrococcus spp. (10 strains), Curtobacterium sp. (one strain), Serratia (one strain) and twenty unidentified strains based on morphology and biochemical tests. Their nematicidal properties, when tested in an in vitro bioassay using Meloidogyne incognita juveniles, varied from 0 -31.03%. Consortia of these endophytic bacteria were made and evaluated in nurseries for their nematode suppression and growth promotion in black pepper rooted cuttings. All the bacterial consortia were able to suppress nematodes, M. incognita and Radopholus sintilis, significantly. The maximum number of cuttings (243 cuttings/plant) was obtained with phorate treatment followed by treatment with consortia 1 and 4 indicating the potential of these bacteria to be used as nematode biological control agents.
Children's Grammars Grow More Abstract with Age - Evidence from an Automatic Procedure for Identifying the Productive Units of Language

We develop an approach to automatically identify the most probable multiword constructions used in children's utterances, given syntactically annotated utterances from the Brown corpus of CHILDES. The found constructions cover many interesting linguistic phenomena from the language acquisition literature and show a progression from very concrete toward abstract constructions. We show quantitatively that for all children of the Brown corpus grammatical abstraction, defined as the relative number of variable slots in the productive units of their grammar, increases globally with age.
Locus of Control and Investment Behavior Among Smallholding Maize Farmers: An Empirical Study from Mozambique and Tanzania

This paper brings to bear insights from psychology and behavioral economics to better understand the way in which perceptions of self-efficacy influence investment behavior – and through behavior, welfare. Using both analytical and empirical methods, the paper demonstrates that control beliefs affect investment decisions and shape the way in which decision makers interpret success and failure. General and activityspecific locus of control beliefs are elicited for a sample of maize-producing households in Mozambique and Tanzania. Households attributing more variation in production to external factors relative to input choice, such as the weather, are shown to be significantly less likely to adopt improved maize varieties. This reduction is greater than fifteen percent in Tanzania and over ten percent in Mozambique. Control beliefs are also show to affect the choice of crop portfolio.
PAIRSE: a privacy-preserving service-oriented data integration system

Privacy is among the key challenges to data integration in many sectors, including healthcare, e-government, etc. The PAIRSE project aims at providing a flexible, looselycoupled and privacy-preserving data integration system in P2P environments. The project exploits recent Web standards and technologies such asWeb services and ontologies to export data from autonomous data providers as reusable services, and proposes the use of service composition as a viable solution to answer data integration needs on the fly. The project proposed new composition algorithms and service/composition execution models that preserve privacy of data manipulated by services and compositions. The proposed integration system was demonstrated at EDBT 2013 and VLDB 2011.
Lists of Larval Worms from Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America

Immature stages of 73 digenetic trematodes are listed by their families, marine invertebrate hosts, and localities and then cross listed according to their molluscan hosts. The list contains many new host records, and larval stages of 15 digenetic trematodes were newly recorded from gastropods from British Columbia and California. A list of immature stages of 14 cestodes, acanthocephalans, and nematodes is also included.
Role of Noncoding Regions in Newcastle Disease Virus Replication and pathogenesis

Title of Document: ROLE OF NONCODING REGIONS IN NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS REPLICATION AND PATHOGENESIS Yongqi Yan, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Siba K.Samal College of Veterinary Medicine The roles of the intergenic sequences (IGS) and untranslated regions (UTR) in Newcastle disease virus (NDV) transcription and pathogenesis are not clear. By our established reverse genetics system, we investigated the role of these noncoding regions in NDV life cycle. The infectious recombinant viruses containing increased/decreased length of F-HN and HN-L IGS were recovered and the transcription and pathogenicity of mutants were characterized. Our studies indicated that increased F-HN or HN-L IGS length reduced the downstream gene transcription. Morever, all IGS mutants were attenuated in chickens and the level of attenuation was increased as the length of IGS increased. The mutant viruses with modified 5’ and 3’ UTR of HN mRNA were also recovered. The transcription, translation and pathogenecity of these recombinant viruses were characterized. Our studies indicated that the UTRs are not essential for NDV replication in vitro. Complete deletions of 5’ HN UTR down regulated its transcription, translation levels and incorporation of HN protein into virus particle, therefore, attenuated the pathogenicity of NDV in chickens. Moreover, studies on the HN UTRs replaced with corresponding NP UTRs virus suggested that UTRs can be exchanged between NDV mRNAs without affecting the replication of virus in vitro and in vivo. In summary, my research identifies for the first time the role of noncoding regions in NDV replication and pathogenesis and provides novel methods for the development of attenuated live vaccines for NDV. ROLE OF NONCODING REGIONS IN NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS REPLICATION AND PATHOGENESIS
Compliance of Pharmacotherapy with GOLD Guidelines: A Longitudinal Study in Patients with COPD

Objective: To evaluate the clinical implementation of pharmacotherapy recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on the Global Initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD) guidelines, in a longitudinal setting. Methods: This is a sub-analysis of a prospective, non-interventional cohort study including patients with con ﬁ rmed mild-to-very-severe COPD from seven pulmonary outpatient clinics in Switzerland. Follow-up visits took place annually for up to 7 years, from October 2010 until December 2016. For each visit, we evaluated the compliance of the prescribed pharmacotherapy with the concurrently valid GOLD guideline. We investigated whether step-ups or step-downs in GOLD stage or risk-group were accompanied by concordant changes in prescribed medication. Groups were compared via ANOVA. Results: Data of 305 patients (62±7 years, 66% men) were analysed. In 59.1% of visits, the prescribed medication conformed to the respective valid GOLD-guideline. Patients with very severe COPD were most likely to receive pharmacotherapy in compliance with guidelines. Step-ups and step-downs in risk group, requiring escalation, or de-escalation of pharmacotherapy, were noticed in 24 and 43 follow-up visits, respectively. Step-ups were adequately implemented in 4 (16.7%) and step-downs in six cases (14.0%). Conclusion: The compliance of COPD-pharmacotherapy with GOLD-guidelines is suboptimal, especially in lower risk groups. The high rates of missed out treatment-adjustments suggest that the familiarity of physicians with guidelines leaves room for improvement.
The Influence of Enterprise Earnings Management on Cost Stickiness

Enterprises’ cost and earnings management are important links for the smooth operation of enterprises. Research on earnings management and cost stickiness can help improve corporate governance and reduce managers’ cost-management behavior based on their own interests. This paper analyzes the impact of different earnings management motives on cost stickiness, establishes a regression model, and tests whether there is cost stickiness in China's listed companies through empirical analysis, and whether the impact of different earnings management motives on cost stickiness is different.