Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sequential estimation of the national early warning score-2 and SERUM PRESEPSIN might discriminate sepsis patients who were vulnerable to death in surgical ICU

ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the ability of at-admission (Day 1) estimated serum levels of inflammatory biomarkers and clinical scorings for prediction of survival outcome of sepsis patients admitted to surgical ICU. Patients & Methods One hundred and seventy-eight patients were clinically evaluated and gave blood samples for estimation of serum biomarkers’ levels (Day 1 data) and re-evaluated on Days 2–3 for the National Early Warning-2 (NEWS-2) score and Day 3 for the Sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score and serum level of presepsin (PSP). During 28-day, patients were grouped according to survival outcome as Survivors and Non-survivors. Results Day1 clinical scorings and biomarkers’ levels were significantly higher in non-survivors (n = 41) than survivors (n = 137). Day 3 SOFA scores of all patients were significantly higher than Day1 scores with significantly higher scores for non-survivors. Through Day1-3, the number of patients with high-grade risk on NEWS2 was significantly higher among non-survivors. Day-3 serum PSP levels were significantly decreased in survivors, while increased in non-survivors. The statistical analyses defined high NEWS2, SOFA, PSP, and procalcitonin serum levels as the significant predictors of mortality. Diagnostic performance characteristics of combined NEWS score and PSP showed high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy rates with a 99% negative predictive value for survival outcomes. Conclusion Sequential estimation of NEWS2 score and serum PSP can discriminate between high-risk patients and those prone to die. Coupling of NEWS-2 scoring and estimation of serum PSP allowed more accurate early identification of patients vulnerable to deterioration with high sensitivity and accuracy rates.
An Independent Dual-Coil Driving Topology for Wireless Power Transfer

The existing dual-coil driving topology mostly adopts two inverters or additional switching circuit, which increases the cost and size, and the complexity of the wireless power transfer (WPT) system. In this letter, a novel inverter topology with independent dual-coil driving capability is proposed for WPT applications, where the main switch and auxiliary switch can drive two independent coils. Moreover, this topology not only offers wide zero voltage switching range and compact size, but also improves the output power and coil utilization. Meanwhile, a quadruple D square (QDS) coil with uniform magnetic field is discussed with the dual-coil driving topology. The detailed parameters design of the proposed topology is discussed and the QDS coil is compared with other coils in terms of magnetic flux intensity. Finally, a 1MHz and 220W wireless power transfer system is built to verify the proposed topology and coil structure.
Sub-GHz X-Cut Lithium Niobate S₀ Mode MEMS Resonators

This paper reports on the design, fabrication, and characterization of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{0}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mode X-cut Lithium Niobate Laterally Vibrating Resonators (LVRs) operating between 100 MHz and 1 GHz. In the first Section of this work, analytical and numerical models are implemented to investigate the impact of topology and geometrical features on the Electromechanical Coupling (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k_{t}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and Quality Factor (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q_{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of this class of devices. The models are used to define the design of experiments aimed at characterizing the resonator performance. The resonators are fabricated and tested in atmospheric, vacuum, and cryogenic (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T$ </tex-math></inline-formula> = 10 K) conditions to assess their performance and identify the main sources of discrepancies in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k_{t}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q_{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to the analytical and numerical models. Under vacuum quality factors exceeding a few thousands are recorded across the investigated spectrum, with measured <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k_{t}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> as high as 28.9%. At 100 MHz, measured <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q_{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k_{t}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 8,279 and 28.5%, respectively, combine into a record-breaking Figure of Merit (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$FOM$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of 2,688, while cryogenic testing highlighted <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q_{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> as high as 26,511. In the last section, by analyzing the differences in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k_{t}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q_{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> between experiments and models, best design approaches to maximize the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$FOM$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and minimize spurious modes responses are reported, with a focus on the 100 to 550 MHz range. [2022-0081]
Assessment of antibacterial genes of emerging queen Apis mellifera L. induced by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae larvae

This study evaluated the expression of antimicrobial abaecin and defensin genes in virgin honey-bee queens (Apis mellifera) following induction of 4th larval instar with the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae larvae (1.07 × 102 CFU/queen); to investigate whether the presence of bacteria affects the immune response as well as gene transcript levels for the immune proteins. The total body proteins of bacteria-treated queens showed a highly significant increase, and the appearance of new proteins patterns and/or disappearance of others. The gene expression profile of treated queens showed up-regulation equalled four-fold of the defensin gene, whereas no progression occurred in the abacien gene. This finding likewise greatly affects the diseases challenging this pollinator.
Molecular Pathways of WRKY Genes in Regulating Plant Salinity Tolerance

Salinity is a natural and anthropogenic process that plants overcome using various responses. Salinity imposes a two-phase effect, simplified into the initial osmotic challenges and subsequent salinity-specific ion toxicities from continual exposure to sodium and chloride ions. Plant responses to salinity encompass a complex gene network involving osmotic balance, ion transport, antioxidant response, and hormone signaling pathways typically mediated by transcription factors. One particular transcription factor mega family, WRKY, is a principal regulator of salinity responses. Here, we categorize a collection of known salinity-responding WRKYs and summarize their molecular pathways. WRKYs collectively play a part in regulating osmotic balance, ion transport response, antioxidant response, and hormone signaling pathways in plants. Particular attention is given to the hormone signaling pathway to illuminate the relationship between WRKYs and abscisic acid signaling. Observed trends among WRKYs are highlighted, including group II WRKYs as major regulators of the salinity response. We recommend renaming existing WRKYs and adopting a naming system to a standardized format based on protein structure.
Inclusive Settings in Belizean Primary Schools: A Focus on Teacher Practices

Educators in Belize are charged with ensuring that all Belizeans are given an opportunity to acquire a quality education that promotes personal development and productive citizenship. Consequently, Belizean law now requires all children from ages five through fourteen to attend at least eight years of primary school. Students with special needs have historically not received accommodations in the education system, so many teachers struggle with meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities in these inclusive settings. This qualitative case study explored teaching strategies and contextual factors in inclusive primary classrooms in Belize and was conducted in the form of Community Engaged Research in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports, and Culture (MOE). Findings suggest consistent approaches for differentiating instruction, teacher passion for teaching and commitment to meeting student needs, a need for additional resources and training, and a disconnect between families and schools. Interpretation of these findings through Hornby’s (2015) theory of inclusive education suggests that Belize is primarily following inclusivity as students with disabilities are integrated into the mainstream educational system. However, while some principles and practices of inclusion are followed, other features are absent. Adding a special education component could enhance student learning as individualization and standardization of instruction, expectations, and assessment could occur between teachers, across grade levels, and in communication with families. A special education component with associated teacher training could support teacher desire for additional resources and meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of students.
Precision luminosity measurement at LHCb with beam-gas imaging

An important aspect of luminosity calibration measurements is the bunch population product normalization. In the case of the LHC, the treatment of this normalization can be split into three subjects: the total current measurement, the corrections from the non-perfect longitudinal distribution and the relative amplitude of the individual bunch populations. In this note, we discuss the rst item in details and in the context of the 2010 and 2011 luminosity calibrationmeasurements performed for each LHC Interaction Point. Effects Internal to the DCCT, the sensitivity to external factors, uncertainty related to the absolute calibration and comparison of two systems are all addressed. e DCCT uncertainty and numerical examples are given.
Neutron-4He Resonant Scattering at d-3H Threshold

Speed plot and time delay analysis confirms a two-pole S-matrix structure of the lowest 3/2+ level in 5He. Real parts of neutron-alpha elastic and 4He(n,d)3H reaction pole energies are 17.669+/-0.006 and 17.705+/-0.001 MeV n-4He c.m. , respectively. Neutron-alpha elastic resonance, uncorrected for experimental energy spread, is characterized by deuteron and neutron partial widths ca. 0.008 and 0.030 MeV suggested by previous time delay analysis.
Spin from defects in two-dimensional quantum field theory

We build two-dimensional quantum field theories on spin surfaces starting from theories on oriented surfaces with networks of topological defect lines and junctions. The construction uses a combinatorial description of the spin structure in terms of a triangulation equipped with extra data. The amplitude for the spin surfaces is defined to be the amplitude for the underlying oriented surface together with a defect network dual to the triangulation. Independence of the triangulation and of the other choices follows if the line defect and junctions are obtained from a Delta-separable Frobenius algebra with involutive Nakayama automorphism in the monoidal category of topological defects. For rational conformal field theory we can give a more explicit description of the defect category, and we work out two examples related to free fermions in detail: the Ising model and the so(n) WZW model at level 1.
Study on Tritium and Iodine Species Transport through Porous Granite: A Non-Sorption Effect by Anion Exclusion

The safety of deep geological repositories is important in the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW). In this study, advection–dispersion experiments were designed to build a transport model through a calibration/validation process, and the transport behavior of tritiated water (HTO) and various iodine species (iodide: I− and iodate: IO3−) was studied on a dynamic compacted granite column. Breakthrough curves (BTCs) were plotted under various flow rates (1–5 mL/min). BTCs showed that the non-sorption effect by anion exclusion was observed only in I− transport because the retardation factor (R) of I− was lower than that of HTO (R = 1). Moreover, equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport models were used and compared to identify the mobile/immobile zones in the compacted granite column. The anion exclusion effect was influenced by the immobile zones in the column. The non-sorption effect by anion exclusion (R < 1) was only observed for I− at 5.0 ± 0.2 mL/min flow rate, and a relatively higher Coulomb’s repulsive force may be caused by the smaller hydration radius of I−(3.31 Å) than that of IO3−(3.74 Å).
The INTEGRAL/SPI view of A0535+26 during the giant outburst of February 2011

A0535+26 is a slowly rotating pulsar accreting from the wind of a massive Be star, and that exhibits two cyclotron absorption lines in its X-ray spectrum, at about 45 and 100 keV, respectively. Unlike similar sources, no significant variations of the energy of its cyclotron lines with flux were observed to date. The bright outburst of February 2011 thus offers a unique occasion to probe this peculiar behavior at flux levels not yet observed with present-day instruments. Here we report on the spectral and timing analysis of the data from the spectrometer SPI on-board INTEGRAL collected during the outburst. At the peak of the outburst the estimated luminosity is ~4.9x10^37 erg/s. The fundamental cyclotron feature is detected at all flux levels, and its centroid energy is positively-correlated with the flux of the source, confirming that A0535+26 is accreting at a sub-critical regime. The correlation seems to fall off at ~10^37 erg/s, suggesting the transition from a Coulomb-stopping regime to a gas-mediated shock regime. From the timing analysis we found that the pulsar was spinning up during most of the outburst, and that the spin-up rate correlates with the flux of the source, albeit the correlation is steeper than the one expected from the standard disk accretion theory. Finally, we show that the pulse profile of the source changes dramatically as the flux increases. At high luminosity the profile is highly asymmetric, implying an asymmetry in the geometry of the accretion flow.
Three-dimensional motion detection of a sub-50 nm gold nanoparticle

We demonstrated three-dimensional position measurements of a gold nanoparticle using an in-line low-coherence digital holographic microscope with twilight-field method (TFM) and a regulation of temporal coherence of light source. An intensity of scattering light from a nanoparticle is very weak, and therefore, in order to get interference fringes with higher contrast, the TFM regulates only an intensity of the reference light to be close to an intensity of the object light using a low-frequency attenuation filter in the in-line digital holographic microscope. Coherence of light relates to get interference fringes with higher contrast on a wide aria. High coherence makes a lot of undesired coherent noises, therefore the fringes derived from nanoparticles is masked by them. Too low coherence makes fringes with low contrast and corresponding low signal-to-noise ratio. Consequently an adequate regulation of the coherence of light source gives the best performance in the position measurements. Uses of these methods allowed us to reach the minimum diameter of 20 nm in the position measurement of a gold nanoparticle.
Two‐dimensional time‐domain volume integral equations for scattering of inhomogeneous objects

This paper proposes a time‐domain volume integral equation based method for analyzing the transient scattering from a two‐dimensional inhomogeneous cylinder by invoking the volume equivalence principle for both the transverse magnetic and electric cases. The cylinder is discretized into triangular cells, and the electric flux is chosen as the unknown. For the transverse magnetic case, the electric flux is defined on the surfaces of the triangles. For the transverse electric case, because of the electric charges induced inside and on the surface of the cylinder, the electric flux is defined on the edges of the triangles, and expanded in space in terms of two‐dimensional surface roof‐top basis functions. The time‐domain volume integral equation is solved by using a marching‐on‐in‐time scheme. Numerical results obtained using this method are in excellent agreement with the data obtained using the finite‐difference time‐domain method.
Counteracting French Fake News on Climate Change Using Language Models

The unprecedented scale of disinformation on the Internet for more than a decade represents a serious challenge for democratic societies. When this process is focused on a well-established subject such as climate change, it can subvert measures and policies that various governmental bodies have taken to mitigate the phenomenon. It is therefore essential to effectively identify and counteract fake news on climate change. To do this, our main contribution represents a novel dataset with more than 2300 articles written in French, gathered using web scraping from all types of media dealing with climate change. Manual labeling was performed by two annotators with three classes: “fake”, “biased”, and “true”. Machine Learning models ranging from bag-of-words representations used by an SVM to Transformer-based architectures built on top of CamemBERT were built to automatically classify the articles. Our results, with an F1-score of 84.75% using the BERT-based model at the article level coupled with hand-crafted features specifically tailored for this task, represent a strong baseline. At the same time, we highlight perceptual properties as text sequences (i.e., fake, biased, and irrelevant text fragments) at the sentence level, with a macro F1 of 45.01% and a micro F1 of 78.11%. Based on these results, our proposed method facilitates the identification of fake news, and thus contributes to better education of the public.
PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS iv LIST OF FIGURES/LIST OF TABLES viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Co-indexation 2 1.2 The Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis 4 1.3 Pronoun-Antecedent Binding in BP: Testing the PAH 6 1.4 Outline of the Thesis 7 CHAPTER 2: BINDING in BP 9 2.1. Theoretical Background: Principles & Parameters 10 2.1.1. Null & Overt Elements 10 2.2. Government & Binding Theory 15 2.2.1. Theta Theory 16 2.2.2. C-command 19 2.2.3 Case Theory 22 2.2.4. Trace Theory 23 2.2.5. Binding Theory 26 2.2. 6. Principles A, B & C of Binding Theory 26 2.2. 7. Pronoun-Antecedent Binding 27 2.2. 8. Syntactic, Semantic & Pragmatic Interfaces 30 2.3. Pragmatic Constraints in EP 31 2.3.1. Co-indexation of Pronouns in Embedded Clauses 32 2.4. Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis (PAH) 35 2.5. Research Questions 37 Chapter 3: BP’s STATUS as a NULL SUBJECT LANGUAGE 39 3.1. The Null Subject Parameter/+NSLs 40 3.1.1. NSP Features 42 3.1.2. Verbal Agreement Paradigms 44 3.1.3. Licensing 46 3.1.4. Identification Conditions 49 3.1. 5. Expletives 50 3.1. 6. EP & BP Null Referential Pronouns in Main Clauses 52 3.1. 7. EP & BP Null Referential Pronouns in Embedded Clauses 55 3.2. The Minimalist Program 58 3.2.1. Feature Checking 59 vi 3.2.2. +/– Strong Agreement (AGR) 61 3.2.3. + Strong EPP Feature 62 3.2.4. + Strong AGR in Romance Languages 66 3.2.5. + Strong EPP in BP 68 3.2. 6. Asymmetric C-Command 73 3.2. 7. Minimalist Account of Parameters 75 3.2. 8. Summary 76 Chapter 4: METHODOLOGY 78 4.1. The Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis 78 4.2. Purpose 79 4.3. Methodology: Experiment 1 80 4.4. Participants 81 4.5. The Stimuli/Materials 81 4.6. Procedure 82 4.7. Methodology: Experiment 2 82 4.7. 1. Participants/Procedure 82 4.7. 2. The Stimuli/Materials 82 4.8. Coding 83 4.8. 1. Scoring Use of the Dependent and Independent Variables 83 Chapter 5: RESULTS 84 5.1. Pilot Study Scoring 84 5.1.1. Objectives of the Study 86 5.2. Research Questions 86 5.3. Experiment 87 5.3.1. Experiment 2 88 5.3.2. Coordinate Clauses with a Null Pronoun 89 5.3. 3. Coordinate Clauses with an Overt Pronoun 90 5.3. 4. Embedded Clauses with a Null Pronoun 92 5.3. 5. Embedded Clauses with an Overt Pronoun 93 5.3. 6. Experiment 2 Results 94 5.4. Experiment 1 95 5.4.1. Coordinate Clauses with a Null Pronoun 96 5.4.2. Coordinate Clauses with an Overt Pronoun 97 5.4.3. Embedded Clauses with a Null Pronoun 98 5.4.4. Embedded Clauses with an Overt Pronoun 99 5.4.5. Results for Experiment 1 100 5.5. Summary 101
Title: Relationship between depression and exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with exacerbations. Some patients are prone to frequent exacerbations and these individuals have worse quality of life, greater limitation of their daily activity and faster disease progression than patients with less frequent exacerbations. Methods: We performed a prospective study in a well characterised cohort and assessed whether depression, as assessed by the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale was related to exacerbation frequency, systemic inflammation and various social factors. We also investigated the associations of any increase in depressive symptoms at exacerbation. Results: Frequent exacerbators had a significantly higher baseline depression score than infrequent exacerbators (17.7 (12.4) and 13.6 (10.0) respectively); p = 0.03. Depressed patients spend less time outdoors; r = - 0.34, p = 0.001 and had worse quality of life as measured by the SGRQ; r = 0.47, p < 0.001. Depression increased significantly in patients from baseline to exacerbation; 14.6 (11.8) and 20.3 (10.4) respectively; p < 0.001. Conclusions: This is the first study to show a relationship between depression and exacerbation frequency in patients with COPD. The finding that frequent exacerbators are more depressed than infrequent exacerbators is relevant, as exacerbation frequency is an important outcome measure in COPD. This data suggests we should be routinely and addressing aspects Awareness of social isolation may also partly explain the benefits
Exploring string-based “almost joins” for commonsense event intent and reaction annotations

Commonsense inference motivation Understanding a narrative often requires commonsense reasoning about the potential mental states of people in relation to events. For example, if “Alex is dragging his feet at work”, pragmatic implications about Alex’s intent are that “Alex wants to avoid doing things” (Figure 1). We can also infer that Alex’s emotional reaction might be “lazy” or “bored”. Furthermore, while not explicitly mentioned in the given event description, we can nonetheless infer that people other than Alex are affected by Alex’s action, and these people are likely to be “frustrated” or “impatient”. This type of pragmatic inference can potentially be useful for a wide range of NLP applications that require accurate anticipation of peoples’ intents and emotional reactions even when they are not stated directly. For example, an ideal dialogue system should react in empathetic ways by reasoning about the human user’s mental state based on the events the user has experienced, without the user explicitly stating how they’re feeling. Similarly, advertisement systems on social media should be able to reason about the emotional reactions of people after events like mass shootings, and remove ads for guns which might increase social distress [Goel and Isaac, 2016]. Also, pragmatic inference is a necessary step toward automatic narrative understanding and generation [Tomai and Forbus, 2010, Ding and Riloff, 2016, Ding et al., 2017]. However, this type of social commonsense reasoning goes far beyond the widely studied entailment tasks [Bowman et al., 2015, Dagan et al., 2006], and thus falls outside the scope of existing benchmarks. In this project, we introduce a new corpus that supports commonsense inference on events with a specific focus on modeling stereotypical intents