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On Aligning OpenIE Extractions with Knowledge Bases: A Case Study

Open information extraction (OIE) is the task of extracting relations and their corresponding arguments from a natural language text in un- supervised manner. Outputs of such systems are used for downstream tasks such as ques- tion answering and automatic knowledge base (KB) construction. Many of these downstream tasks rely on aligning OIE triples with refer- ence KBs. Such alignments are usually eval- uated w.r. t. a specific downstream task and, to date, no direct manual evaluation of such alignments has been performed. In this paper, we directly evaluate how OIE triples from the OPIEC corpus are related to the DBpedia KB w.r. t. information content. First, we investigate OPIEC triples and DBpedia facts having the same arguments by comparing the information on the OIE surface relation with the KB rela- tion. Second, we evaluate the expressibility of general OPIEC triples in DBpedia. We in- vestigate whether—and, if so, how—a given OIE triple can be mapped to a single KB fact. We found that such mappings are not always possible because the information in the OIE triples tends to be more specific. Our evalua- tion suggests, however, that significant part of OIE triples can be expressed by means of KB formulas instead of individual facts.
Effects of self-heating on fT and fmax performance of graphene field-effect transistors

It has been shown that there can be a significant temperature increase in graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) operating under high drain bias, which is required for power gain. However, the possible effects of selfheating on the high-frequency performance of GFETs have been weakly addressed so far. In this work, we report on a experimental and theoretical study of the effects of selfheating on dc and high-frequency performance of GFETs by introducing a method that allows accurate evaluation of the effective channel temperature of GFETs with a submicron gate length. In the method, theoretical expressions for the transit frequency (fT) and maximum frequency of oscillation (fmax) based on the small-signal equivalent circuit parameters are used in combination with models of the field and temperature-dependent charge carrier concentration, velocity and saturation velocity of GFETs. The thermal resistances found by our method are in good agreement with those obtained by solution of the Laplace equation, and by the method of thermo-sensitive electrical parameters. Our experiments and modeling indicate that self-heating can significantly degrade the fT and fmax of GFETs at power densities above 1 mW/μm, from approximately 25 GHz to 20 GHz. This work provides valuable insights for further development of GFETs, taking into account self-heating effects on the high-frequency performance.
Clinical Evaluation of a New Approach for IOL Power Calculation in Keratoconus

Purpose: To obtain an expression of the adjusted IOL power (PIOLadj) in keratoconus eyes associated with minimal errors in IOL power calculation. Materials and methods: This retrospective study included a total of 25 eyes of 25 patients with ages ranging from 20 years to 76 years. The following IOLs were implanted: Acrysof IQ Toric, Acrysof SA60AT in 9 eyes, Sensar in 3 eyes, Tecnis 1 in 4 eyes, and Tecnis Toric in 2 eyes. The PIOLadj is based on Gauss equations, using adjusted keratometric index (nkadj) specific to keratoconus eyes. From this nkadj, an adjusted keratometric corneal power is calculated (Pkadj). The PIOLadj calculation was performed after estimating the effective lens position (ELP) using a mathematical expression obtained by multiple regression analysis (named ELPadj). Comparison between the PIOLadj and the real intraocular power implanted in each patient (PIOLreal) was carried out. Results: No significant differences between PIOLreal and PIOLadj were found. However, differences could be clinically relevant up to of 2.54 D as PIOLreal increases. But, in the range of PIOLreal between 0 and 20 D, differences were lower than 1.5 D, being most of them below 1 D. Conclusion: A new formula of IOL power calculation (PIOLadj) based on the use of an adjusted keratometric power (Pkadj) that considers a variable keratometric index due to the influence of the posterior corneal surface (nkadj) and adjusted effective lens position (ELPadj) is useful for estimating IOL power in low-to-moderate keratoconus, with more limitation in the most advanced keratoconus.
Valorization of the mineral and thermal water of Kosovo and Metohija in a function of health tourism

Valorization of the mineral and thermal water of Kosovo and Metohija in a function of health tourism is an important issue for recognizing the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (AP KiM) as a significant tourist destination. Valorization of the mineral and thermal water in the territory former SFRY, to which Kosovo and Metohija belonged was largely based on the applicable legal regulations in the observed time period. The economic valorization of mineral and thermal water was generally lacking. The situation has changed significantly in recent years in the area of health tourism, which needs yet to get its portion of the budget while competing with the other social areas. Therefore, health tourism itself should become the very source of profit. Valorization of the mineral and thermal mineral water of Kosovo and Metohija should be based on the world criteria that contribute both to the economic development and reconciliation process. Furthermore, a part of research in the study paper, the special emphasis has been placed on the identification of sources of thermal and mineral water as a natural attraction in Kosovo and Metohija, elements of tourist valorization and the importance of mineral and thermo mineral water for development the tourist economy in Kosovo and Metohija.
Inferring causal relationships among growth traits in Kermani sheep applying structural equation modeling

Data on early growth traits of 1574 Kermani lambs, the offspring of 874 dams and 122 sires, were recorded between 1992 to 2010 at the Breeding Station of Kermani sheep breed in Shahr-e Babk city, Kerman province, Iran. The traits included the birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and weight at six months of age (6MW). Preliminary investigations demonstrated the decisive effects of direct and maternal genetic influences on the expression of these traits. The data were used to adopt three models of genetic analysis. The first model was the standard multivariate model (SMM), which does not consider the causal relationships among the traits. The second model was the fully recursive multivariate model (FRM), which assumes the existence of causal influences of BW on WW and on 6MW, and the influence of WW on 6MW. The third model was the temporal recursive model (TRM), in which BW causally impacts on WW, and WW on 6MW. The Bayesian approach, via Gibbs sampling, was used for genetic analysis. The adopted models were compared considering the deviance information criterion (DIC) and mean square error of prediction (MSE) as criteria for assessing the predictive ability of the models. The DIC values revealed the superiority of TRM over FRM and SMM. Under the investigated multivariate models, the values of MSE were similar for BW but those obtained for WW and 6MW were the lowest under TRM. The causal effect of BW on WW and that of WW on 6MW were statistically significant estimates of 1.10 kg and 0.70 kg, respectively. Furthermore, accounting for causal relationships,the early growth traits in Kermani sheep may have advantageous impacts on prediction of the breeding values and consequently the accuracy of lamb ranking for selective breeding purposes. Generally, significant causal relationships were detected among the early body weight traits in Kermani sheep, and the superiority of TRM over other models showed the necessity of considering such causal influences in the genetic evaluation of these growth-related characteristics.
Options d'intensification durable des cultures vivrières au Sud du Togo

(Received 14 August, 2001 ; accepted 10 May, 2002) RESUME Pour intensifier de maniere durable les cultures vivrieres dans les zones de terres de barre degradees au sud du Togo, plusieurs options ont ete evaluees avec les paysans. Grâce a des entretiens collectifs de type participatif, sept differents groupes d'exploitants ont procede a un classement par ordre de preference de ces differentes options. Parmi cinq variantes d'un paquet MME (Mais-Mucuna-Engrais mineraux) portees a leur choix, les paysans preferent (1) le MME avec un degre de preference de 66%, a cause de son efficacite en termes de production agronomique; (2) le MM (Mais-Mucuna sans engrais) avec 57 % de degre de preference pour ceux n'ayant pas de moyens financiers pour l'achat d'engrais et (3) le MMCCE ( Mais- Mucuna a Cycle Court + Engrais) avec 54% de degre de preference parce qu'il permet une deuxieme saison de cultures. En dehors du paquet MME et de ses variantes, d'autres options d'intensification des cultures, Mais / Haies-vives + fumier (MHF), cultures en couloirs Mais / Cajanus cajan (Cajanus), haies vives pour la production de biomasse et labour profond ont respectivement obtenu 86%, 79%, 36% et 18% de preference. Les durabilites ecologique, economique et sociologique des options ont aussi ete evaluees par les exploitants au moyen de methodes participatives d'entretiens de groupe. De cette evaluation, il ressort que les trois paquets ayant le plus fort potentiel d'adoption sont: (1) le paquet MME, (2) le paquet MCCE et (3) le paquet MHF. Mots Cles : durabilite, engrais vert, haies vives, mais, Mucuna, terres de barre ABSTRACT In order to identify sustainable crop intensification options on ferralsols of Southern Togo, a series of alternative cropping technologies were evaluated together with farmers. In participatory group interviews, seven different groups of farmers prioritized options. Among five options associating maize with Mucuna cover crop, farmers had a 66% preference for a maize — mucuna — mineral fertilizers option because of its agronomic efficiency, followed by a maize — mucuna — no fertilizer option with 57% for those farmers lacking means of purchasing fertilizers, and a maize — short cycle mucuna — mineral fertilizer option with 54% preference because it enables a second cropping season. Non-mucuna options, which interested farmers were a maize — live hedge — animal manure option (86%) and a Cajanus cajan alley cropping option (79%). Low preferences were given to green biomass production with live hedges (36%) or mechanized ploughing (18%). Ecological sustainability, economic competitivity and social equity of the different options were compared using various appropriate tools. From this combined evaluation, it appears that the three options with the highest adoption potential are (1) the maize — mucuna — mineral fertilizer option, (2) the maize — short cycle mucuna — mineral fertilizer option, and (3) the maize — live hedge — animal manure option. Key Words: Crop intensification, green manure, live hedges, maize, Mucuna, sustainability (Af Crop Sci J 2002 Vol 10 No 3 pp239-250)
An Adaptive Fractional-Sine Cosine Algorithm For Noise Removal And Video Deblurring

: Digital videos have been occupying major part of our everyday life and thus videos enhancement techniques have become one of the trending research areas. Video processing tasks like deblurring and denoising have drawn significant attention from research community. This paper proposes a robust technique for noise removal and deblurring using adaptive optimization algorithm. Initially, each frame in the input video undergoes two stages i.e. noise removal and deblurring. The noise removal is performed in two steps such as main structure extraction and filtering. The main structure extraction is carried out based on structure texture decomposition and for filtering nonlocal mean filter is used. After that, the kernel estimation is performed using the proposed Adaptive Fractional-Sine Cosine Algorithm (F-SCA) which is responsible for global optimal convergence. For latent frame extraction, anisotropic TV model is employed. The performance of the noise removal and video deblurring based on Adaptive F-SCA is evaluated in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural similarity (SSIM) index. The proposed noise removal and video deblurring method achieves the maximal PSNR of 29.182 dB and the maximal SSIM of0.9366 that indicates its superiority.
Simulating the impact of immigration on wages and unemployment

This paper looks at the e¤ects of migration in labour market models that allow for unemployment in equilibrium. We include three di¤erent models: a competitive labour market model, a wage bargaining model and an e¢ ciency wage model. We simulate a one-percentage point increase in the labour force due to migration. Simulation results show that e¤ects of migration do not di¤er that much between di¤erent labour market models: wages decrease with 0.3% to 0.4% and the unemployment rate increases with at most 0.24 percentage points. Migration also positively a¤ects public nancing by increasing governments budget with 0.3% to 0.5%.
Optical properties of Central Asian aerosol relevant for spaceborne lidar applications and aerosol typing at 355 and 532 nm

Abstract. For the first time, a dense data set of particle extinction-to-backscatter ratios (lidar ratios), linear depolarization ratios, and backscatter- and extinction-related Ångström exponents for a Central Asian site are presented. The observations were performed with a continuously running multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at Dushanbe, Tajikistan, during an 18-month campaign (March 2015 to August 2016). The presented seasonally resolved observations fill an important gap in the database of aerosol optical properties used in aerosol typing efforts with spaceborne lidars and ground-based lidar networks. Lidar ratios and depolarization ratios are also basic input parameters in spaceborne lidar data analyses and in efforts to harmonize long-term observations with different space lidar systems operated at either 355 or 532 nm. As a general result, the found optical properties reflect the large range of occurring aerosol mixtures consisting of long-range-transported dust (from the Middle East and the Sahara), regional desert, soil, and salt dust, and anthropogenic pollution. The full range from highly polluted to pure dust situations could be observed. Typical dust depolarization ratios of 0.23–0.29 (355 nm) and 0.30–0.35 (532 nm) were observed. In contrast, comparably low lidar ratios were found. Dust lidar ratios at 532 nm accumulated around 35–40 sr and were even lower for regional background dust conditions (20–30 sr). Detailed correlation studies (e.g., lidar ratio vs. depolarization ratios, Ångström exponent vs. lidar ratio and vs. depolarization ratio) are presented to illuminate the complex relationships between the observed optical properties and to identify the contributions of anthropogenic haze, dust, and background aerosol to the overall aerosol mixtures found within the 18-month campaign. The observation of 532 nm lidar ratios (<25 sr) and depolarization ratios (around 15 %–20 %) in layers with very low particle extinction coefficient (<30 sr) suggests that direct emission and emission of resuspended salt dust (initially originated from numerous desiccating lakes and the Aralkum desert) have a sensitive impact on the aerosol background optical properties over Dushanbe.
In silico Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in INHA Gene of Sheep and Goats

Inhibin A (INHA) a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family has been implicated in the negative feedback control mechanism of the pituitary follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). Inhibin has been reported to be associated with litter size, milk yield, fertility and reproductive traits in ruminants. A total of ten amino acid sequences (four sheep and six goats) were downloaded from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp). The amino acid sequence alignment was carried out using ClustalW algorithm of Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis software version 6.0. The functional effects of eighteen (18) amino acid substitutions of INHA gene in each of sheep and goats were predicted computationally using Polyphen-2, PROVEAN and SIFT algorithms while INHA gene functions and interactions with associated genes were investigated using GeneMANIA. Variants that were consensually predicted to be deleterious by the three algorithms utilised were referred to as ‘Cmutant’ and ‘Dmutant’ in sheep and goats, respectively. The MutPred was further used to determine the tolerance degree for each amino acid substitution of both the ‘Cmutant’ and ‘Dmutant’. GeneMANIA revealed 20 genes that co-localised, co-expressed with, play functionally similar role or has physical or genetic interaction with INHA gene. Out of the studied eighteen (18) amino acid substitutions; there was a consensus by SIFT, PROVEAN and PolyPhen-2 algorithms in the prediction of variants C99R, C264D, L237T and F14C as being deleterious in sheep and variants D77F, L190K, R223D, L240N, C322T and P326C in goats. In goats, MutPred revealed that variants R223D and D77F were not harmful while, L190K, R223D, L240N and P326C mutations were observed to be highly harmful. In sheep, the ‘Dmutants’ (C99R, C264D, F14C and L237T) were predicted to be highly harmful. The obtained findings would be useful in planning research aiming at exploring the association between INHA gene variants and economically important traits of small ruminants.
Intervention for a Visual Attention Span Processing Deficit in a Greek-Speaking Child with Slow Reading Speed

We present the case of TN, aged 9;11, a monolingual Greek-speaking girl with accurate but slow word and non-word reading. Neuropsychological assessment revealed a selective deficit in visual attention (VA) span tasks. TN had previously taken part in a spelling intervention targeting whole word processing and, although her spelling improved, at the end of the programme her reading remained slow. In the present study, we assessed TN in a lexical decision task with semantic primes, and she showed reduced semantic priming in relation to typically developing readers. TN took part in an intervention aimed at mitigating the VA span processing deficit and similar to a programme previously conducted with a twelve-year-old Greek-speaking boy, RF ([author(s)], 2013). Post-test results for TN revealed a significant improvement in letter report ability as well a reduction in word reading latencies; semantic facilitation was also observed in the priming task following the intervention, although differences were not significant. The results indicate, in line with previous research, an association between visual attention span and reading speed.
A NEW NON-ECLIPSING CV SDSSJ 122405.58+184102.7 - A PROBABLE MEMBER TO THE SW SEXTANTIS TYPE STARS

We present observational evidence that helps classify the non-eclipsing binary system SDSSJ 122405.58+184102.7 as a new member of the SW Sextantis (SW Sex) class. First, from the analysis of the optical light curve, we identify the presence of two periodic signals that develop on different time scales. The first one is the orbital period of 0.167811(1) days (= 4.027464 (3) h) and the second one is the white dwarf spin period of 28.6 minutes. This second period is probably the first evidence for the presence of a magnetic white dwarf in the system. The second evidence is the presence of the HeII λ4886 emission line in its optical spectrum. In this work we interpret the detected periodicities within the context of a magnetic accretion model for SW Sex stars.
Lentiviral Vectors for Gene Therapy Targeting, Imaging and Baculovirus Mediated New Method for Lentivirus Production

In gene therapy, no optimal strategies are yet available to achieve targeted in vivo gene delivery. Lentiviruses are promising tools for gene therapy due to their unusual property of efficiently transducing both dividing and non-dividing cells and achieving long term expression of therapeutic genes. In this study, we describe versatile lentiviruses for targeting and imaging purposes. Lentivirus vectors displayed (strept)avidin fused to the transmembrane anchor of VSV-G on the virus envelope. The vectors were conjugated by biotinylated ligands and antibodies selectively binding to receptors expressed at high levels on cancer cells. In the in vitro targeting studies, the target cell-specific transduction of lentivirus was increased. In addition, using human ferritin as a marker, the streptavidin-displaying lentivirus could be simultaneously imaged for virus biodistribution by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with expression monitored by non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Another approach examined in this study was to utilize avidin fused to the endocytotic low density lipoprotein receptor in pretargeting experiments. In order to further extend the flexibility of the system, an avidin fusion protein expressing lentivirus was prepared. The results demonstrated that the virus transduced efficiently cells in vitro and in vivo, were safe to use and the receptor bound biotinylated ligands. However, an immune response was detected against the virus and transgene. Production of replication defective lentiviral vectors on the clinical scale is challenging. As the first step towards scalable lentiviral production system, four recombinant baculoviruses were constructed. The production of lentiviruses using baculovirus technology was achieved and the production conditions were further optimized. These lentiviruses transduced cells efficiently in vitro and showed sustained GFP expression. In addition, tangential flow filtration (TFF) in lentivirus purification was tested and the results showed that TFF purification decreased DNA and protein contaminants. In order to further improve the baculovirus system, we developed a new recombinant baculovirus carrying an EGFP expression cassette in its genome (F-bacmid). This novel baculovirus vector enabled an easy and efficient virus generation, high throughput screening and fast titering in
Investigating the Role of Attitude towards Substance use in the Relationship between Students' Self-Efficacy and Preparedness for Addiction

Introduction: Drug use in adolescents and its implications are an important public health issue that can lead to long-term costs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of attitude to substance in the relationship between self-efficacy and adolescents' preparedness of addiction. Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational performed on 228 high school students (116 girls, 112 boys) in Lorestan province, who are selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Data collection tools are Rahmati Attitude to Substance Questionnaire (ASQ), Muris Self-efficacy Questionnaire-Children (SEQ-C), and Zargar Iranian Addiction Potential Scale (IAPS). Data are analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis in SPSS software version 22. Results: The results show that there are significant correlations between attitude to substance, self-efficacy and addiction preparedness (P < 0.05). Also, the results of hierarchical regression analysis indicate that attitude toward substance can moderate the relationship between self-efficacy and addiction preparedness (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the attitude toward substance can moderate the relationship between self-efficacy and addiction preparedness. Consequently, changing the attitude of individuals to substance can reduce the tendency of adolescents to consume drugs.