Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Some P-sources , Time of Application and their Interaction on Growth , Flowering , Bulbs Productivity and Chemical Constituents of Narcissus tazetta ( cv . Double Mixed ) Plant

The present experiment was performed throughout two successive seasons (2011/2012 and 2012/2013) at the nursery of Horticulture Research Institute, Giza. It intended to find out the individual and the combined effects of some P-sources in fertilization (calcium super phosphate (SP): 15.5 %P2O5), granulated triple super phosphate (GTSP): 37.5 % P2O5), monoammonium phosphate (MAP):45 % P2O5+ 11 % N) and Diammonium phosphate (DAP): 41 % P2O5+ 16 % N) and time of application (one, two and three split doses) on growth, flowering, bulbs productivity and chemical constituents of Narcissus tazetta (Cv. Double Mixed) plant for achieving the hope of producing plants of good flowers and bulbs quality. The results emphasized that using MAP and DAP proved their mastery in shortening the time required from planting to sprouting, with increasing plant height and No. of leaves/ plant. Besides, they improved flowers quality (inflorescence stem length, diameter, No. of flowers/ spike and fresh weight of cut inflorescence), with shortening the time required from planting to flowering. In addition, the same treatments improved also bulbs and bulblets productivity (No. of bulbs/ experimental unit (bulbs yield), bulb circumference, fresh weight of bulbs/ experimental unit and No. of bulblets/ experimental unit (bulblets yield). However, DAP treatment occupied the first rank in all cases for improving the previous traits in both seasons. Meanwhile, using fertilization treatments in three spilt doses occupied also the first rank in this concern. Chemical constituents of the plant were also affected by the previous treatments. Using MAP and DAP treatments with applying the fertilizers in three spilt doses proved also their mastery in improving chemical constituents of the plant {chlorophyll (a and b) in fresh leaves, total carbohydrates and N, P and K % in the new formed bulbs}. However, using MAP in fertilization occupied the first rank in raising total carbohydrates content in the new formed bulbs. From the aforementioned results and interactions, it could be recommended to apply either MAP or DAP in fertilization in three split doses for achieving the hope of producing Narcissus tazetta (Cv. Double Mixed) plant of high flowers and bulbs quality.
Osimertinib and pterostilbene in EGFR-mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Monotherapy with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) still leads to incomplete responses in most EGFR-mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, often due to acquired resistance through activation of parallel compensatory pathways. We have previously shown that co-targeting EGFR, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), and Src-yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1) was highly synergistic in vitro and in vivo. In the present study, we treated EGFR-mutation positive cell lines with the combination of osimertinib plus a natural compound, pterostilbene, which has been reported to abrogate Src and STAT3 activation. Methods: Cell viability assays and immunoblotting were performed to reveal the mechanisms of action of pterostilbene, osimertinib and pterostilbene plus osimertinib in five EGFR-mutation positive NSCLC and one triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell lines. Results: Osimertinib plus pterostilbene yielded synergistic effects in all EGFR-mutation positive NSCLC cell lines investigated. Surprisingly, pterostilbene alone did not inhibit, nor downregulate Src phosphorylation in the EGFR-mutation positive NSCLC cell lines or the TNBC cell line, MDA-MB-231. However, the double combination of osimertinib plus pterostilbene reversed the osimertinib-induced STAT3, YAP1, and CUB domain-containing protein-1 (CDCP1) phosphorylation and slightly suppressed Src phosphorylation in PC9 and H1975 cells. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that pterostilbene may be used to abrogate the activated resistance pathways of single osimertinib treatment in EGFR-mutation positive NSCLC. Future studies should focus on in vivo translation and confirmation of these results.
Understanding and Managing Firm Innovativeness in Japanese SMEs

This paper reports on research which sought to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying components of firm innovativeness. Our theoretical and practical understanding of the complex mix of issues that influence a firm’s ability to be more innovative remains fragmented at best. To develop a more thorough understanding of the phenomenon over 2000 firm owners and managers were surveyed in Japan and the results were factor analysed with twelve components emerging which associated a distinct and complex set of variables with firm innovativeness. Results indicate that it is necessary to view firm innovativeness from a multidimensional perspective in order to capture more thoroughly the essence of this complex and fluid phenomenon. Product, process and systems innovativeness are largely reliant upon the nature of the relationships among firm members particularly at the SME level. In recent times, firm innovativeness has held centre stage in organisational development research and given reduced cycle times, increased competition, greater consumer and market sophistication and the everincreasing pace of change, the study of innovativeness will in all likelihood remain centre stage for some time to come.
Correction of the Ring effect and I 0-effect for DOAS observations of scattered sunlight

Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg, INF 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 021381516, USA Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospatial, Carretera de Ajalvir km 4, 28850 Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain Service d'Aeronomie CNRS, BP 3, 91371 Verrieres-Le-Buisson, France NIWA Lauder, Private Bag 50061, Omakau, Central Otago, New Zealand Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Instituttveien 18, P.O. Box 100, N-2027 Kjeller, Norway Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e dell’Oceano, ISAO-CNR, via Gobetti 101, I-40129, Bologna, Italy Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 33 04 40, D-28334 Bremen, Germany Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Av Circulaire 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
NASAL COARTICULATION IN L 1 AND L 2 ENGLISH SPEECH : A LARGE-SCALE STUDY

We investigated nasal coarticulation in English produced by native English and Mandarin speakers, based on hundreds of hours of speech. A novel method was proposed to measure nasality, using softmax-based features from deep neural network models for broad phonetic classes. Segment durations were calculated from the results of forced alignment. Our analysis revealed that vowel stress tends to “block" the regressive influence of the following nasal coda, leading to less nasality in stressed vowels compared to unstressed ones. In addition, there was a positive correlation between the duration of vowels and nasal codas in L1 English, but a weak negative correlation in L2 English speech.
Speculation and Negation detection in French biomedical corpora

In this work, we propose to address the detection of negation and speculation, and of their scope, in French biomedical documents. It has been indeed observed that they play an important role and provide crucial clues for other NLP applications. Our methods are based on CRFs and BiLSTM. We reach up to 97.21 % and 91.30 % F-measure for the detection of negation and speculation cues, respectively, using CRFs. For the computing of scope, we reach up to 90.81 % and 86.73 % F-measure on negation and speculation, respectively, using BiLSTM-CRF fed with word embeddings.
VOLTAGE STABILITY ENHANCEMENT USING UNIFIED POWER FLOW CONTROLLER IN DEREGULATED POWER SYSTEMS

The maximum loading capability (MLC) is a measure to identify voltage stability margin (VSM) of the power 1 International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume 120 No. 6 2018, 4423-4439 ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version) url: http://www.acadpubl. eu/hub/ Special Issue http://www.acadpubl. eu/hub/
Applying Gadamer’s “Prejudices” to a Grounded Theory Study

Interpretation and analysis of qualitative data inevitably involves a collision with one’s own lived experience. This paper reflects on a postgraduate research project that employed the methodology of grounded theory to determine themes around the meaning that individuals in a school community give to the term spirituality. Reflecting on the process has highlighted ways in which unexamined personal assumptions were at play as the researcher conducted analysis, influencing the interpretation of data. It is argued here that in researching the concept of spirituality, which is both nebulous and highly subjective, becoming aware of one’s own assumptions throughout the process is integral to an interpretation that illuminates the data with greater clarity. I argue here that engaging with Gadamer’s understanding of “prejudices” can assist researchers in considering their own perspective, regardless of the methodology employed, as well as providing an analytic method of engaging with these assumptions. The method for this engagement is subsequently provided.
Efficient GPU Implementation of 3D Spectral Domain Synthetic Aperture Imaging

In this work, we considered the implementation of a 3D volume reconstruction algorithm for single plane-wave ultrasound insonification. We review the theory behind the Hybrid Spectral-Domain Imaging (HSDI) algorithm, provide details of the algorithm implementation for Nvidia CUDA GPU cards, and discuss the performance evaluation results. The average time required to reconstruct a single data volume using our GPU implementation of the HSDI algorithm was 22 ms. We also present an iso-surface extraction result using a marching cubes algorithm. Our work constitutes a preliminary research for further development and implementation of 3D volume reconstruction using GPU implementation of the spectral domain imaging algorithm.
USING OF SAR DATA AND DINSAR-PSINSAR TECHNIQUE FOR MONITORING WESTERN SIBERIA AND ARCTIC

Results of application of the DInSar and PSInSar m ethods of interferometric processing of radar data for monito ring of subsidence of a terrestrial surface in areas of oil and gas production of Weste rn Siberia are presented. Features of reception and initial data handling of ERS-2\SAR on the antenna TNA-9 complex are considered. Results of processing of a series o f the multi-temporal these sensors of ERS-2\SAR, ENVISAT\ASAR, ALOS\PALSAR on the basi s of the developed software of PSI technique in the environment of Mat Lab on high-productive distributed computing cluster are given. For proces sing of radar images are used this synchronous sub-satellite of measurements.
Extracting Named Entities. A Statistical Approach

Named entities and more generally Multiword Lexical Units (MWUs) are important for various applications. However, language independent methods for automatically extracting MWUs do not provide us with clean data. So, in this paper we propose a method for selecting possible named entities from automatically extracted MWUs, and later, a statistics-based language independent unsupervised approach is applied to possible named entities in order to cluster them according to their type. Statistical features used by our clustering process are described and motivated. The Model-Based Clustering Analysis (MBCA) software enabled us to obtain different clusters for proposed named entities. The method was applied to Bulgarian and English. For some clusters, precision is very high; other clusters still need further refinement. Based on the obtained clusters, it is also possible to classify new possible named entities.
Cultural differences and similarities in the use of gestures on touchscreen user interfaces

The International Usability Partners (IUP) have conducted a study in nine countries to identify cultural differences and similarities in the use of gestures on touchscreen user interfaces. Touchscreen-experienced and -inexperienced people performed gestures to trigger common actions, such as deleting an item or scrolling a page. A lo-fi prototype simulating a touchscreen handheld device was used to present “before” screen images that clarified the context of each action. Participants were then requested to make a gesture that would then result in the corresponding “after” screen image. It can be concluded that the cultural similarities found in this study outweigh the differences. In many cases the participants from China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, UK and USA generated similar gestures for individual actions. This finding is good news for designers of multi-touch user interfaces covering the countries in this analysis. However, there is one exception that should be taken into consideration when designing for a global audience. Chinese users created a significantly higher number of symbolic gestures (e.g. question mark, letter, check mark) compared to all other participating countries. Considering the cultural variations in the results of each country, this work also presents a starting point for the creation of a gesture set for actions investigated in this study. It, however, strongly recommends further testing of this gesture set.
Investigation of Transformer Based Spelling Correction Model for CTC-Based End-to-End Mandarin Speech Recognition

Connectionist Temporal Classiﬁcation (CTC) based end-to-end speech recognition system usually need to incorporate an exter-nal language model by using WFST-based decoding in order to achieve promising results. This is more essential to Mandarin speech recognition since it owns a special phenomenon, namely homophone , which causes a lot of substitution errors. The linguistic information introduced by language model is somehow helpful to distinguish these substitution errors. In this work, we propose a transformer based spelling correction model to automatically correct errors, especially the substitution errors, made by CTC-based Mandarin speech recognition system. Speciﬁ-cally, we investigate to use the recognition results generated by CTC-based systems as input and the ground-truth transcriptions as output to train a transformer with encoder-decoder architecture, which is much similar to machine translation. Experimental results in a 20,000 hours Mandarin speech recognition task show that the proposed spelling correction model can achieve a CER of 3.41%, which results in 22.9% and 53.2% relative improvement compared to the baseline CTC-based systems de-coded with and without language model, respectively.
Using Time-Spreading to Combat Multi-user Interference in ADSL and VDSL Systems

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a high-speed wireline access technology capable of supporting up to 8 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream in a bandwidth of 1.1 MHz. ADSL uses Discrete Multitone (DMT) modulation, allowing it to optimally adapt to changing line conditions, including line length, line topology and interference. Various techniques, like ReedSolomon coding, time equalizers, frequency equalizers and cyclic prefixing are used to combat the effect of interference in the system. These methods are limited in their ability to completely remove interference. In this paper we propose a time-spreading (TS) technique, using complex spreading codes. The technique is capable of rebuilding the signal, under severe multi-user interference and fading channel conditions. The technique only requires the addition of time-spreading/despreading modules between the transmitter and receiver in order to function. It can also be used on other xDSL related systems, such as Very-high-bit-rate DSL (VDSL). Keywords— Time-spreading (TS), Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), Discrete Multitone (DMT), multi-user interference cancellation
QoS Based Source Arrangement in Wireless Mesh Networks

Many next generation applications (such as video flows) are likely to have associated minimum data rate requirements in order to ensure satisfactory quality as perceived by end-users. In this paper, we develop a framework to address the problem of maximizing the aggregate utility of traffic flows in a multi-hop wireless network, with constraints imposed both due to selfinterference and minimum rate requirements. The parameters that are tuned in order to maximize the utility are (i) transmission powers of individual nodes and (ii) the channels assigned to the different communication links. Our framework is based on using a cross-decomposition technique that takes both inter-flow interference and selfinterference into account. The output of our framework is a schedule that dictates what links are to be activated in each slot and the parameters associated with each of those links. If the minimum rate constraint cannot be satisfied for all of the flows, the framework intelligently rejects a sub-set of the flows and recomputes a schedule for the remaining flows.We also design an admission control module that determines if new flows can be admitted without violating the rate requirements of the existing flows in the network.We provide numerical results to demonstrate the efficacy of our framework.
Kangai Injection Combined with Platinum-based Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Stage III/IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review of 35 Randomized Controlled Trials

Objective: In an effort to inform evidence-based guidelines for clinical practice, we performed a meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the safety and efficacy of Kangai injection (KAI) plus platinum-based chemotherapy for stage III/IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing KAI plus platinum-based chemotherapy (experimental group) to chemotherapy alone (control group) were electronically retrieved from the Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMbase, Web of Science, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biological Medicine (CBM) Database, Wanfang Database, and the VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals. RCTs published from the date of inception to July 5, 2018, were included. All trials were assessed for methodological quality in accordance with the Cochrane Reviewer's Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Intervention. Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan5.3 Software and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) 2.0. Results: The final analysis included 35 RCTs involving 2,618 patients. Our meta-analysis revealed that KAI combined with platinum-based chemotherapy was associated with significantly greater objective response rate (ORR) (RR=1.36, 95% CI: 1.25-1.49, P<0.00001) and disease control rate (DCR) (RR=1.14, 95% CI: 1.09-1.18, P<0.00001), improvements in quality of life (QOL) (RR=1.75, 95% CI: 1.59-1.93, P<0.00001), and decreases in the incidence of gastrointestinal reactions (RR=0.64, 95% CI: 0.54-0.77, P<0.00001), leukocytopenia (RR=0.54, 95% CI: 0.46-0.63, P<0.00001) and thrombocytopenia (RR=0.52, 95% CI: 0.36-0.76, P=0.0007) when compared with chemotherapy alone. In addition, combined treatment was associated with greater regulation of tumor immune function, as indicated by increases in the proportion of NK, CD3+ , and CD4+ cells (MD=2.27, 95% CI: 1.18-3.36, P<0.0001; MD=12.86, 95% CI: 11.64-14.08, P<0.00001; and MD=5.48, 95% CI: 2.68-8.28, P=0.0001) and decreases in the percentage of CD8+ cells (MD= -2.37, 95% CI from -4.51 to -0.23, P=0.03). Conclusions: From the available evidence, our results indicate that KAI plus platinum-based chemotherapy could be more effective in improving clinical efficacy, decreasing the incidence of adverse reactions and regulating the tumor immune function than chemotherapy alone in the treatment of stage III/IV NSCLC. Nevertheless, considering the limitations of the included studies, rigorous designed, high-quality, multicenter clinical trials are still need to further confirm the results.
TourWithMe: Recommending Peers to Visit Attractions Together

When a user travels alone or in a small group, usually likes to share the experience of visiting different attractions in a larger group. This article propose TourWithMe, our first approach to the problem of recommending peers to visit attractions in a city together. To this aim, TourWithMe automatically learns the user’s interests from previously visited attractions, that are then combined with explicit preferences provided by the user to find compatible tourists in the city. TourWithMe recommends to the user different groups and, for each group, attractions that they would enjoy visiting together.
Phone-Attribute Posteriors to Evaluate the Speech of Cochlear Implant Users

People with preand postlingual onset of deafness, i.e, age of occurrence of hearing loss, often present speech production problems even after hearing rehabilitation by cochlear implantation. In this paper, the speech of 20 prelinguals (aged between 18 to 71 years old), 20 postlinguals (aged between 33 to 78 years old) and 20 healthy control (aged between 31 to 62 years old) German native speakers are analyzed considering phone-attribute features extracted with pre-trained Deep Neural Networks. Speech signals are analyzed with reference to the manner of articulation of consonants according to 5 groups: nasals, sibilants, fricatives, voiced-stops, and voiceless-stops. According to the results, it is possible to detect alterations in the consonant production of CI users when compared with healthy speakers. A comprehensive evaluation of speech changes of CI users will help in the rehabilitation after deafening.
Comparing inthe-moment skill coaching effects from tailored versus non-tailored Acceptance and Commitment Therapy mobile apps in a non-clinical sample

Mobile apps are promising for teaching how to practice psychological skills in high-risk and in vivo momentary situations, but there has been minimal research on the immediate effects of app-based skill coaching on mental health in-the-moment. This study analyzed the mobile app data in a non-clinical sample of 39 adults participating in a larger randomized controlled trial, with participants randomized to an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) mobile app that tailors skill coaching based on in-the-moment variables (n = 17) or an app that provides randomly selected skill coaching (n = 22). Data was collected before and after each ACT skill coaching session on proximal outcome (depression, anxiety, engagement in meaningful activity) and ACT process variables. Multilevel models indicated significant immediate improvements on average following ACT skill coaching sessions on all proximal outcome and ACT process variables, although with relatively small effects ranging between . 17 and . 27 SD units change. Larger immediate pre-topost effects from ACT coaching sessions were found for anxiety, experiential avoidance, and cognitive fusion in the tailored app versus random app condition. Overall, results suggest an ACT app can have immediate, in-the-moment effects on psychological functioning, which may be enhanced by tailoring skills to current context.
DIFFERENCES IN VOWEL-GLIDE PRODUCTION BETWEEN L1 AND L2 SPEAKERS OF HUL’Q’UMI’NUM’

This paper examines the acoustic properties of Hul’q’umi’num’ vowel-glide sequences [ej, ew] as well as short and long [e, eː], comparing pronunciations of a single L1 Hul’q’umi’num’ speaker to those of a group of fifteen L2 speakers. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs), which permit statistical comparisons of non-linear data such as transitional formant trajectories, were used in this study to investigate dynamic changes in acoustic qualities over time. From our results, we identify three key areas within which the L1 speaker differs from the L2 speakers: vowel duration, vowel and glide articulatory target positions, and dynamics of the intensity contour. This documentation work lays the foundation for creating pedagogical resources focused on teaching and learning pronunciation, as part of ongoing, collaborative language revitalization efforts.