Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tree-based Clustering of Vowel Duration Ratio Toward Dictionary-based Automatic Assessment of Prosody in L2 English Word Utterances

Placing correct accents in producing a word is the ﬁrst step for second language (L2) learners to acquire the rhythm of a language. To evaluate correctness of the contrast between long and short syllables, we have proposed a referential vowel duration ratio (R-VDR), which takes the ratio of the segmental duration between two vowels in consecutive syllables in reference to the magnitude relation of the duration between the same vowels in the same word uttered by native speakers. The R-VDR sig-niﬁcantly improved the correlation between the objective and subjective assessment scores on prosody (subjective-objective score correlation). However, it requires a native speaker’s reference utterance of the same word. To migrate from refer-encing native speakers’ utterances to referencing a pronunciation dictionary, we applied tree-based clustering to the weights for computing the objective score. A preliminary experiment showed that rational clusters were formed by the resulting decision tree, although a weighted mean of log VDR with the clustered weights improved the subjective-objective score correlation slightly compared with the arithmetic mean of log VDR.
Anti-SLA and AMA-positive celiac disease: A report of two cases and evaluation of autoimmune liver serology

Background and Aim: Antibodies to soluble liver antigen (anti-SLA) and anti-mitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) are two specific serological markers of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). They are rarely detected in the sera of patients with non-liver autoimmune disorders. The biochemical, serological, and histological findings of two celiac disease (CD) patients who were seropositive for anti-SLA and/or AMA were evaluated. The data of two female patients who were 28 and 34 years old at the time of CD diagnosis were analyzed. The first patient presented with elevated liver function tests (LFTs) and immunoglobulin (Ig) G values. She was seropositive for both anti-SLA and AMA. A liver biopsy suggested features of AIH but no bile duct injury was noted. In addition to a gluten-free diet (GFD), immunosuppressive therapy was administered to normalize the LFTs. The second patient presented with elevated LFTs, a high IgG level, and a positive anti-SLA finding. A GFD was initiated, which resulted in an excellent clinical and biochemical response. Seropositivity for AMA in the first patient and anti-SLA in the second patient remained unchanged during follow-up but neither patient developed primary biliary cholangitis or AIH. Despite the high specificity of anti-SLA and AMA, these autoantibodies can be detected in CD without having any clinical relevance.
In Quest of Pathognomonic/Endophenotypic Markers of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Potential of EEG-Based Frequency Analysis and ERPs to Better Detect, Prevent and Manage ADHD

Abstract Attention ﻿d﻿eficit ﻿hyperactivity ﻿disorder (ADHD) is a chronic heritable developmental delay psychiatric disorder requiring chronic management, characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, hyperkinectivity and impulsivity. Subjective clinical evaluation still remains crucial in its diagnosis. Discussed are two key aspects in the “characterizing ADHD” and on the quest for objective “pathognomonic/endophenotypic diagnostic markers of ADHD”. The first aspect briefly revolves around issues related to identification of pathognomonic/endophenotypic diagnostic markers in ADHD. Issues discussed include changes in ADHD definition, remission/persistence and overlapping-symptoms cum shared-heritability with its co-morbid cross-border mental disorders. The second aspect discussed is neurobiological and EEG-based studies on ADHD. Given the neurobiological and temporal aspects of ADHD symptoms the electroencephalograph (EEG) like NeuralScan by Medeia appears as an appropriate tool. The EEGs appropriateness is further enhanced when coupled with suitable behavior/cognitive/motor/psychological tasks/paradigms yielding EEG-based markers like event-related-potential (ERPs like P3 amplitudes and latency), reaction time variability (RTV), Theta:Beta ratio (TBR) and ﻿sensorimotor ﻿rhythm (SMR). At present, these markers could potentially help in the neurobiological characterization of ADHD and either help in identifying or lay the groundwork for identifying pathognomonic and/or endophenotypic EEG-based markers enabling its diagnosis, treatment and management.
An Efficiency-Driven Approach For Real-Time Optical Flow Processing On Parallel Hardware

This article tackles the entire lifecycle of an algorithm: from its design to its implementation. It exhibits a method for making efficient choices at algorithm design time knowing the characteristics of the underlying hardware target. As of today, computing the optical flow of a stream of images is still a demanding task. In the meantime, the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has become mainstream and allows substantial gains in processing frame rate. In this paper, we focus on a specific variational method (CLG [1]) where linear systems have to be solved. They depend on two parameters $\alpha$ and $\rho$. To efficiently solve the problem, we look at convergence speed with respect to the model’s parameters. We benchmark usual linear solvers with preconditioners to identify the fastest in terms of convergence per iteration. We then show that once implemented on GPUs, the most efficient solver changes depending on the model parameters. For $640 \times 480$ images, with the right choice of solver and parameters, our implementation can solve the system with relative $10 e^{-8}$ accuracy in 15 ms on a Titan V GPU. All the results are aggregated on a 30-image set to increase confidence in their extendability.
Heat-Induced Denaturation and Rheological Properties of Chicken Breast Myosin and F-Actin in the Presence and Absence of Pyrophosphate

The heat capacity profile of chicken breast myosin had four transitions at 49, 50, 57, and 67 o with a calorimetric enthalpy (ΔH cal ) of 2215.8±89.3. Addition of sodium pyrophosphate produced similar heat capacity profiles but reduced ΔH cal to 1727.9±45.4 kcal/mol. Both curves were deconvoluted into 10 two-state transitions. Using dynamic testing, storage modulus (G') of myosin increased at 53.5 o C, formed a transition peak, and increased again above 62 o C. Pyrophosphate did not change the rheogram. The F-actin endotherms had a single peak at 75.5±0.4 o C, with a ΔH cal of 143.4±9.6. The cooperative ratio of F-actin was higher than unity, indicating intermonomer interaction
Horizontal continuous and apical stretching sutures does not reduce FGG shrinkage: a split-mouth randomized controlled clinical trial

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate whether horizontal continuous and apical stretching sutures could reduce FGG shrinkage. Materials and methods: In this randomized controlled clinical trial ten patients (20 sites, seven females and three males) ranging from 18 to 53 years (average 39 years) with insufficient keratinized and attached gingiva received FGG in two quadrants of mandible (splitmouth design). Horizontal continuous and apical stretching sutures were used in test sites in addition to common suturing techniques. Clinical parameters including probing depth (PD), the width of keratinized and attached gingiva (KG, AG), the horizontal and vertical dimension of the graft (HD, VD), and graft area (GA) were recorded at baseline and 1, 3, and six months after the operation. Results: PD did not differ significantly for six months. The average change of other parameters in test and control sites respectively was as follows: KG increased 5.5 mm and 5.1 mm, AG increased 5.3 mm and 5.1 mm, HD shrinkage was 21.6% and 15.8%, VD shrinkage was 33.7% and 33.2%, GA shrinkage was 47.3% and 43.3%. There were no significant differences between test and control sites in clinical parameters six months after surgery. Conclusion: Application of horizontal continuous and apical stretching sutures does not reduce FGG shrinkage.
Research on Diagnosis of Dermatology Based on Deep Residual Neural Network

The methods of dermatological clinical examination are mainly skin images, including dermoscopy. Residual neural network (ResNet) can predict diseases according to dermoscopy images and provide effective proposals for doctors. Based on the ResNet model, this article migrated the pre-trained model on ImageNet to simulation experiment, and used the Focal Loss function to solve the problem of experimental sample imbalance, including but not limited to operations such as flip, rotation, scaling, and loss function replacement, thereby improving network performance. The experimental results show that the model trained by our method can reach completely correct when it classified a small number of samples. Our model can reach accuracy rate of 90.08%, recall rate of 88.44%, and F1 score of 85.25%. Compared with the model with unmodified loss function at the same depth, our model has respectively improved by 1.3%, 4.62%, and 3.58% in the above three aspects, which indicates that our method is effective in predicting rare diseases, and in predicting common diseases the accuracy rate also achieves good results.
Interruption of Synthesis as a Cost of Sex in Small Organisms

Three processes associated with sex-meiosis, gametic union, and nuclear fusion-have a mechanical component, i.e., they require movements of supramolecular bodies. Times required for these processes are surprisingly high, probably because of the mechanical component, thus insuring that production of cells by sexual processes will require much longer than production of an equal number of cells by asexual processes. This is especially evident in direct comparisons of meiosis and mitosis. Meiosis requires much longer than two mitotic divisions. For unicellular organisms, and for small multicellular organisms in which the egg-to-egg time is very short, the additional time required by sexual processes at the cellular level lowers the feasibility of sex by slowing the reproduction rate. This is called the "cellular-mechanical" cost of sex. The cellular-mechanical cost of sex is at least twofold and will often exceed 10-fold by comparison with asexual reproduction in unicellular eucaryotes. The cellular mechanical cost of sex thus is a strong selective force acting against sex in unicellular and small organisms and, because it does not apply when the organism stops growing, tends to restrict sexuality to the end of the growth period.
Balanço eletrolítico e níveis de proteína bruta sobre o desempenho, o rendimento de carcaça e a umidade da cama de frangos de corte de 1 a 42 dias de idade

An trial was conducted to determine the best electrolyte balance (EB) for broilers from 1 to 42 days old. In the first phase of the experiment 2,112 Ross chicks male were reared in the floor covered with shaving woods and fed two corn-soybean meal based diet: one with 20 and one with 23% of crude protein (CP) combined with 0; 50; 100; 150; 200; 250; 300 and 350 mEq/kg of EB. In the growing phase, 1,728 broilers of the total, remained in the experimental units and were fed only a basal diet. The experiment was analyzed as a completely randomized design with a factorial arrangement of treatments (two protein sequences and eight EB levels) and six replicates of 18 broilers each one. The following parameters were evaluated: weigh gain (WG), feed consumption (FC), feed efficiency (FE), carcass yield, noble cuts and the dry matter of broiler litter at 42 days of age. The best EB estimated at 42 days were 179 (20-20% CP) and 185 (23-20% CP) mEq/kg for the WG and similar values were found for the highest FC, 193 (20-20% CP) and 192 (23-20% CP) mEq/kg. The FE (23-20% CP) had the best value estimated 159 mEq/kg, lower than the values found for WG and FC. For carcass yield and noble cuts the best values obtained were similar to the performance values. The values obtained for the highest level of dry matter in the broiler litter were 138 (20-20% CP) and 148 (23-20% CP) mEq/kg. Based on the obtained data, EB should be from 160 to 190 mEq/kg for the best performance of broilers from 1 to 42 days old.
Green-Oriented Dynamic Resource-on-Demand Strategy for Multi-RAT Wireless Networks Powered by Heterogeneous Energy Sources

Energy harvesting with combination of multiple cooperating radio access technologies (multi-RAT) is regarded as a promising network paradigm to improve the energy efficiency of 5G networks. In this paper, we propose a resource-on-demand energy scheduling strategy for multi-RAT wireless networks, where the varying energy demand of the network can be satisfied by both grid power and harvested energy. Due to the high sensitivity to uncertainties of energy harvesting, a dynamic network energy queue model is designed first considering the inherently stochastic and intermittent nature of the harvested energy. Then, to minimize time-averaged grid power consumption and make effective utilization of harvested energy, the energy scheduling is formulated as a stochastic optimization problem subject to data queue stability and harvested energy availability, considering the high ynamics of wireless channel states and renewable energy sources. Following the Lyapunov optimization framework, the stochastic grid power minimization problem is decomposed into a network flow control subproblem, a network energy management subproblem, and a network resource allocation subproblem, respectively. In order to solve these subproblems, we develop a dynamic adaptive resource-on-demand (DAROD) algorithm to effectively reduce the grid power consumption cost by allocating the resource efficiently based on the dynamic demands of multi-RAT networks. Finally, the tradeoff between grid power consumption cost and network delay is achieved, in which the increase of network delay is approximately linear with the network control parameter $V$ and the decrease of grid power consumption cost is at the speed of $1/V$ . Extensive simulations are conducted to verify the theoretical analysis and show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.
The nature of migration in the red admiral butterfly Vanessa atalanta: evidence from the population ecology in its southern range

1. The migrant Vanessa atalanta (L.) occurs throughout Europe and North Africa. In autumn, populations emigrate from northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean region to overwinter. In the spring, the northern range is recolonised by migrants from the south. The dynamics of the species in the winter range is poorly known.
Varying Effects of Urban Tree Canopies on Residential Property Values across Neighborhoods

As more land area than ever is covered with impermeable surfaces causing problems in the environment, urban trees are effective not only in mitigating environmental problems in the built environment and reducing buildings’ energy use, but also in increasing social and economic benefits. However, the benefits urban trees provide are not evenly distributed but rather disproportionately distributed in high-income neighborhoods. The purpose of this study is to estimate the varying effects of urban trees based on a variety of factors that have influence on tree canopy coverage, including land constraints, new developments, financial capacity to maintain trees, and neighborhood characteristics. Using a unique dataset that includes 24,203 single-family residential sales from 2007 to 2015 merged with Urban Tree Canopy (UTC), this study utilizes spatial models to empirically evaluate the impact of UTC on residential property values in the housing market. Multi-Level Mixed (MLM) models are used to capture the varying effects of tree cover, based on land constraints, new development, financial capacity, and neighborhood characteristics. The findings show the effect of trees is positive and varies across neighborhoods, and implication of the results to best achieve specific desired outcomes in tree-related policies and urban development are apparent.
Booking smart parking system using microcontroller

Recently there are many vehicle users have difficulty to find a parking area because no information full or empty parking slot so that it can cause congestion, pollution, and fuel inefficiency, because of these conditions can cause difficulty in controlling the parking management. By using microcontroller smart parking system (based on IoT) parking problems can be resolved. Smart Parking System is designed to make easier for parking users to get information on the availability of empty and filled parking slots, in addition to that parking users can also book for parking slots using web based applications. There are many phases to implement microcontroller based Smart Parking System i.e requirements systems, prototyping development, prototyping evaluation, coding system, testing and evaluation system. This system uses hardware such as Arduino Mega, Arduino Uno, Ethernet Shield, PN532, LDR, and NFC. The programming language used is C to configure Arduino and PHP which are used for the web interface while MySQL for database server. By Smart Parking Application, it is expected to help parking service users to get information and find empty parking slots through booking in the application so that it will be more efficient in time and parking management will be more controlled.
Diet and feeding behaviour of the forest elephant

Ce travail docrit le regime et le comportement alimentaire des elephants de foret dans I'Ouest du Ghana. Lcs elephants se nourrissaient surtout de feuilles et de branches d'arbres. L/herbe, rare dans la foret, etait en proportion negligeable dans ce r£gime. Trente-six especes de fruits ont ete* consom mees dont 9 ont constitue la partie principale du regime : Antrocaryon micraster, Irvingia gabonensis, Klainedoxa gabonensis, Myrianthus arboreus, Panda oleosa, Parinari excelsa, Strychnos aculeata, Tctrapleura tetraptera et Vitex ferruginea. C'est pendant la saison seche que les elephants out dispose de la plus grande variete de fruits. Les elephants ont enleve" l^corce de 20 especes d'nrbrcs et particulierement de 7 d'entre elles : 44 a 100% des arbres de ces especes etaient eiulommages. Les elephants broutaient en foret claire quand la vegetation forestiere etait facilement accessible. Us aimaient specialement les lianes ligneuses. C'est plutot en foret dense qu'ils se sont nourris d'ecorce et de fruits. Les elephants prenaient leur nourriture en tirant ä eux les rameaux terminaux ou en depouillanl les branches de leurs feuilles. Rarement ils ont brise, deracine ou öcorceles troncs des arbres.
Reciprocal interrelations between subjective psychological well-being and passive smartphone indicators of social activity and mobility

Being socially integrated and actively engaged represent central factors related to subjective psychological well-being (SPWB). One way to measure socially related activity and mobility is passive mobile sensing. Based on recent findings, the present study examines Bluetooth and Global Positioning System (GPS) signals as indications of social activity and mobility over a period of six months derived from the longitudinal PhoneStudy data. With the help of a Random Intercept Cross Lagged Panel Model we will investigate reciprocal interrelations between variations in passive social activity and mobility indicators and self-reported SPWB over time, while taking relevant individual (i.e., personality) and situational (i.e. public distancing measures) characteristics into account. Implications for public health research and the promotion of SPWB will be discussed.
PID filter-shaped optimal PI tracker, state estimator, and EID estimator for continuous-time systems

This paper proposes a proportional–integral-differential (PID) filter-shaped optimal PI tracker for on-line robust optimal tracking control of a system with unknown disturbances. The proposed optimal PI tracker consists of both a modified state estimator and the newly modified equivalent input disturbance (EID) estimator. The main contributions of this paper are: (1) The conventional EID estimator is significantly modified to improve the tracking performances of a system with unknown disturbances; and (2) The improved EID estimator can be simply regarded as a plug-in component of the compensator, to perform on-line optimal tracking control of square/non-square servo systems with unknown disturbances.
Pengembangan Instrumen Penilaian Berbasis Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Pada Mata Pelajaran Kearsipan Jurusan OTKP Di SMKN 1 Sooko Mojokerto

AbstractThis study to purpose (1) the process of developing assessment instruments based on higher order thinking skills (HOTS) in the archive material of the OTKP major at SMKN 1 Sooko Mojokerto, (2) the feasibilty of assessment instrument based on higher order thinking skills (HOTS) on the archive material OTKP major at SMKN 1 Sooko Mojokerto (3) high level thinking skills of students in the Archive material OTKP major at SMKN 1 Sooko Mojokerto. The method used in this study is Research and Development (R&D). The development model used is the Sugiyono development model which consists of seven stages, namely the potential and problem stage, the data collection stage, the product design stage, the design validation stage, the design revision stage, the product trial stage, and the product revision stage. This product was tested on class X OTKP 1, 2, and 3 at SMKN 1 Sooko Mojokerto. The results showed that the feasibility of an instrument of assessment based on higher order thinking skills based on the results of validation by material experts, evaluators, and linguists obtained an average percentage of 90% with a very strong category. Feasibility quantitatively trials that include validity, reliability, level of difficulty, different power, and the deception of the questions to produce 25 multiple choice questions with the best criteria. Based on trial it can be seen that 61,7% of class X OTKP students have the ability to think at a high level in the medium category.
Development of microsatellite markers for the tropical moss, Acanthorrhynchium papillatum

We isolated and characterized microsatellite loci for the palaeotropic moss, Acanthorrhynchium papillatum. Eight loci tested on 98 gametophytic samples generated four to 26 alleles per locus with genetic diversities ranging from 0.578 to 0.936. These microsatellite loci are now being used as genetic markers for studies on the effects of deforestation on moss populations in South-East Asia.
Characterization of Gordonia sinesedis Isolated from a Zebu Cow Suffering from Lymphadenitis

Most of the Gordonia species described earlier have been considered as opportunistic pathogens in humans, but recently described species have been isolated from the environment with notable roles in bioremediation or the biodegradation of pollutants. A gram-positive slightly acid-fast nocardioform bacterium, strain SD256 (DSM 45847), was isolated from a granulomatous lymph node of a zebu cow at Kaduqli, western Sudan, was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The strain was found to have morphological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic properties that were consistent with its assignment to the genus Gordonia . Although the strain exhibited some Original Research Article