Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Anthropogenic Forcing and Natural Variability on the 2018 Heatwave in Northeast Asia

AFFILIATIONS: QIAN —Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; MURAKAMI—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; HSU—Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; KAPNICK—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey
Reaching, Grasping and Re-grasping: Learning Multimode Grasping Skills.

The ability to adapt to uncertainties, recover from failures, and coordinate between hand and fingers are essential sensorimotor skills for fully autonomous robotic grasping. In this paper, we aim to study a unified feedback control policy for generating the finger actions and the motion of hand to accomplish seamlessly coordinated tasks of reaching, grasping and re-grasping. We proposed a set of quantified metrics for task-orientated rewards to guide the policy exploration, and we analyzed and demonstrated the effectiveness of each reward term. To acquire a robust re-grasping motion, we deployed different initial states in training to experience failures that the robot would encounter during grasping due to inaccurate perception or disturbances. The performance of learned policy is evaluated on three different tasks: grasping a static target, grasping a dynamic target, and re-grasping. The quality of learned grasping policy was evaluated based on success rates in different scenarios and the recovery time from failures. The results indicate that the learned policy is able to achieve stable grasps of a static or moving object. Moreover, the policy can adapt to new environmental changes on the fly and execute collision-free re-grasp after a failed attempt within a short recovery time even in difficult configurations.
Peri-operative Patient Education: What Methods of Patients Education Will Better Prepare Patients for Their Surgical Experience; and Will Better Preparation Result in Increased Patient Satisfaction

The current trend of surgeries moving firmly towards outpatient procedures has highlighted new challenges regarding the timing, location and effectiveness of patient teaching. Once considered to be a formal hospital-based initiative, patients are now more likely to learn about the procedure itself in the surgeon’s office, the patient’s role and expectations (including medications to continue or discontinue, nothing by mouth status and timing, arrival time at the hospital, etc.) on the telephone from Pre-Admission Testing personnel, and post-operative care and follow-up (including teaching) from the Recovery Room staff at the hospital just prior to discharge. While this process change was inevitable, evidence shows that it isn’t working effectively. This paper explores the methods of teaching that might better prepare patients for their outpatient surgery experience. Use of nurse prepared DVDs, internet resources and printed instructions are considered as methods to supplement existing teaching, accomplish effective patient teaching and to increase patient satisfaction. Jacqueline Dye and Roberta Kennedy
Optical Modeling of Black Carbon With Different Coating Materials: The Effect of Coating Configurations

In this work, an assembly of coating structures is generated for coated black carbon (BC) based on two different coating methods with limited tunable parameters. By defining typical parameters, the proposed coating structures show great agreement with the detailed morphologies of coated BC particles in the atmosphere. Our models can accurately reproduce the measured linear backscattering depolarization ratio (LDR). We noticed that BC with spherical coatings (Configuration E) has difficulty estimating large LDRs, while the ability to reproduce a large LDR is improved by making the coating structure slightly nonspherical (Configuration C). Our models also show a better performance in reproducing the laboratory‐measured absorption enhancement (Eabs), mass absorption/scattering cross sections, and absorption Ångström exponent than the simplified models. In addition, sizable uncertainties in the optical properties of coated BC with different coating configurations are found. The uncertainties in the LDR, Eabs, mass absorption cross section, and absorption Ångström exponent caused by the coating configurations can reach approximately 220%, 35%, 90%, and 20%, respectively. Therefore, complex coating structures should be carefully considered. In this work, various coating structures are represented by limited tunable parameters, which is beneficial to the parameterization of the optical properties of BC with a complex coating structure. Our models can also provide tools for exploring the agreement between calculations and measurements.
El redactor periodístico ante el neologismo. Estrategias comunicativas para reexpresar los conceptos de la crisis económica mundial

Miembro del Grupo de investigacion en Estudos Literarios e Culturais, Traducion e Interpretacion BiFeGa, financiado por la Xunta de Galicia: Programa de Consolidacion e Estruturacion de Unidades de Investigacion Competitivas (Ref. ED431B 2017176). El grupo pertenece a la Rede Internacional de Investigacion de Xestion da Comunicacion (Ref. ED341D R2016/019 XESCOM), financiada por la Xunta de Galicia. El presente trabajo se ha realizado parcialmente durante su estancia de investigacion en el Observatoire linguistique Sens-Texte de la Universidad de Montreal. Esta estancia ha sido financiada por el Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte en el marco del Programa Estatal de Promocion del Talento y su Empleabilidad en I+D+i, Subprograma Estatal de Movilidad, del Plan Estatal de I+D+I, en virtud de la Resolucion de 11 de diciembre de 2017, de la Secretaria de Estado de Educacion, Formacion Profesional y Universidades [BOE de 18 de diciembre de 2017].
Second flexural and torsional modes of vibration in suspended microfluidic resonator for liquid density measurements

Suspended microfluidic resonators enable detection of fluid density and viscosity with high sensitivity. Here, a two-legged suspended microchannel resonator that probes pico-litres of liquid is presented. The higher resonant modes (flexural and torsional) were explored for increased sensitivity and resolution. Unlike other reported microchannel resonators, this device showed an increase in the quality factor with resonant frequency value. The performance of the resonator was tested by filling the channel with three liquids, one at a time, over a density range of 779−1110 kg m−3 and a viscosity range of 0.89−16.2 mPa s. The highest resolution obtained was 0.011% change in density. Measurements with torsional mode showed an improvement of about six times in sensitivity and about fifteen times in resolution compared to the first flexural mode. When the empty channel was filled with liquids of different viscosity, the quality factor of the first flexural mode remained overall constant with a variation below 3.3% between the fluids, and confirming the inherent property of suspended microchannel resonators. However, it significantly decreased for second flexural and torsional modes. No noticeable difference was observed in the quality factor between different liquid viscosities for all modes.
The Design of a System to Support Storytelling Between Older Adults Living in a Nursing Home and Their Children

Overview In this paper, I present my ongoing PhD study: designing a system for intergenerational storytelling for older adults living in a nursing home, adopting the method of Research-through-Design. My research started from a contextual inquiry, and an explorative prototype named Interactive Gallery was first designed and implemented in a Dutch nursing home (first iteration). Based on its findings, my specific research focus and research question were identified. In the subsequent iterations, the research prototype was firstly designed in a co-design manner (second iteration) and was then implemented to investigate the older people’s life stories (third iteration), and memento stories (fourth iteration). The fifth iteration is currently in progress, aiming at fully engaging older people’s children by closing the story sharing loop.
Seeking robustness in a multilingual world: from pipelines to embeddings

En esta tesis estudiamos dos enfoques para abordar los desafios planteados de cara al procesamiento de contenidos textuales no estandar y multilingues generados por los usuarios del tipo que se pueden encontrar en la Web a dia de hoy. En primer lugar, presentamos un enfoque tradicional basado en pipelines discretos en el que el texto de entrada es preprocesado para facilitar su ulterior tratamiento por otros sistemas. Esto implica abordar el problema del multilinguismo, primero, identificando el idioma de la entrada para, seguidamente, tratar los fenomenos de escritura no estandar especificos de dicho idioma presentes en la entrada. Para ello se aplicaran tecnicas de normalizacion del texto y (re-)segmentacion de palabras. En segundo lugar, analizamos las limitaciones inherentes a este tipo de modelos discretos, lo cual nos conduce a un enfoque centrado en el empleo de modelos continuos basados en word embeddings (i.e., representaciones vectoriales). En este caso, el preprocesamiento expiicito de la entrada es sustituido por la codificacion de las caracteristicas linguisticas y demas matices propios de los textos no estandar en el propio espacio de embedding (un espacio vectorial). Nuestro objetivo es obtener modelos continuos que no solo superen las limitaciones de los modelos discretos, sino que tambien se alineen con el estado del arte actual del Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural (PLN), dominado por sistemas basados en redes neuronales. Los resultados obtenidos despues de una extensa experimentacion muestran la capacidad de las word embeddings para dar un soporte efectivo por si mismas a los fenomenos multilingues y no estandar propios de los textos generados por usuarios. Ademas, todo esto se logra dentro de un marco conceptual simple y modular que no necesita sacrificar la integracion de sistemas. Dichos modelos de word embeddings pueden emplearse facilmente como un elemento fundamental en redes neuronales de ultima generacion que, a su vez, son utilizadas en practicamente cualquier tarea de PLN.
Difficult airways for advanced mask design

We read the editorial by Shih-Yi Lee et al . on “Prospective view for mask design” with a great interest (1). In the article, the authors have proposed a new mask design for difficult mask ventilation (DMV). We would like to suggest them take the risk factors of difficult intubation (DI) into consideration into the design of novel masks, because both DMV and DI possibly cause difficult airways, though the risk factors between DMV and DI are different in some ways (2-5).
Who’s being ‘sheltered?’: How monolingual language ideologies are produced within education policy discourse and sheltered English immersion

ABSTRACT This paper critically examines the notion of ‘sheltered’ pedagogies for English language teaching in English-dominant contexts. I specifically explore how the increasingly popular Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) model has been interpreted in certain contexts to further monolingual language ideologies. Drawing on critical and poststructural approaches to policy analysis, I ask who is being sheltered through SEI – interrogating the degree to which the model accommodates multilingual learners as compared to ‘sheltering’ monolingual pedagogies, teachers, students, and policies of the status quo. Ultimately, this framing destabilizes assumptions around who benefits from ‘sheltered’ approaches. I first introduce a theoretical framework to challenge claims of a widespread transcendence of monolingual language ideologies through theoretical advances such as the pluri/multilingual turn. Next, I analyze the socio-historical trajectory of SEI’s use within U.S. English-only movements and the language ideologies produced therein. Finally, I provide a specific example of an SEI training mandate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts that demonstrates how monolingual language ideologies can be reinforced through teacher education, even in the absence of specific English-only policies. Beyond SEI classrooms, this analysis has implications for how language hierarchies are maintained across a broad range of educational settings and policies.
Characterization of the Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-1[beta] on Butyrate Metabolism in Colorectal Cancer Cells

76 Background . 78 Results . 79 Discussion . 81 Conclusions . 84 Methods.85 Literature Cited . 87 Appendix . 91 CHAPTER IV: Interleukin-1 beta regulates p21 induction by butyrate in colorectal cancer cells through a p38 mechanism . 95
Parametric Rules for State Contingent Claims

We study bankruptcy rules in a setting where individuals have state contingent claims. A rule must distribute shares before uncertainty resolves. Within a wide class of parametric rules, we first characterize rules of ex-ante form in terms of the way that the rule processes inherent uncertainty in the individual claims. The key property is: No Penalty for Risk. It says that the rule does not penalize an individual in a situation that differs from another only in terms of the this individual's claim in that the former situation has a risky version of the riskless claim in the latter situation. With regard to the ex-post characterization, our key property is: Indifference to Independent Combinations. It says that if an individual is risk neutral with expected utility preferences then any rule that makes her indifferent between any bankruptcy problem and a corresponding independent combination of gamble between a degenerate gamble and a zero game (any bankruptcy game with zero endowment) forces the rule to be in the ex-post form. Finally, a partial comparative static result is provided which formalizes the claim that individuals generally and ex-ante rules more appealing when the level of the resource is suffciently low.
Prevalence and correlates of antenatal depression among women registered at antenatal clinic in North India

Objective: Women pass through many stages throughout her lifetime. Among these phases, pregnancy is crucial phase. If women are not able to cope with this stress, it may lead to adverse outcomes of pregnancy. Early detection of possible depression in pregnant women may lead to decrease in incidence of depression and adverse outcomes of pregnancy. Materials and Methods: The present study was done in an urban primary health center of east Delhi where antenatal and postnatal services are provided. Two hundred pregnant women who attended antenatal clinic for their antenatal checkup were included in the study. Edinburgh postnatal depression scale was used to diagnose possible depression. The presence of a statistically significant difference between possibility of depression in terms of various socioeconomic, obstetric, gender issues, life events, previous psychiatric history and family relationships was ascertained using Chi-square/Fisher's exact test. Logistic regression was carried out to determine important confounding variables. Results: The mean age of participants was 25.32 ± 3.86 years. Of total 200 women, 42 (21%) women were found to be suffering from possible depression. The possibility of depression was found to be significantly higher in literate participants (P = 0.001) and in women who were married after 18 years of age (P = 0.016). Participants who wanted the present pregnancy and whose spouses were alcoholic were found to be associated significantly (P = 0.00). On applying logistic regression, age and abortion history was found to be significant. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the prevalence of antenatal depression is high in developing countries, and universal screening of depression during antenatal and postnatal period is feasible along with other antenatal and postnatal services provided to them.
Biotic and abiotic factors driving the diversification dynamics of Crocodylia

Species diversity patterns are governed by complex interactions among biotic and abiotic factors over time and space, but are essentially the result of the diversification dynamics (differential speciation and extinction rates) over the long‐term evolutionary history of a clade. Previous studies have suggested that temporal variation in global temperature drove long‐term diversity changes in Crocodylia, a monophyletic group of large ectothermic organisms. We use a large database of crocodylian fossil occurrences (192 spp.) and body mass estimations, under a taxic approach, to characterize the global diversification dynamics of crocodylians since the Cretaceous, and their correlation with multiple biotic and abiotic factors in a Bayesian framework. The diversification dynamic of crocodylians, which appears to have originated in the Turonian (c. 92.5 Ma), is characterized by several phases with high extinction and speciation rates within a predominantly low long‐term mean rate. Our results reveal long‐term diversification dynamics of Crocodylia to be a highly complex process driven by a combination of biotic and abiotic factors which influenced the speciation and extinction rates in dissimilar ways. Higher crocodylian extinction rates are related to low body mass disparity, indicating selective extinctions of taxa at both ends of the body mass spectrum. Speciation rate slowdowns are noted when the diversity of the clade is high and the warm temperate climatic belt is reduced. Our finding supports the idea that temporal variations of body mass disparity, self‐diversity, and the warm climate belt size provided more direct mechanistic explanations for crocodylian diversification than do proxies of global temperature.
Risk stratification in sudden cardiac death : engineering novel solutions in heart failure

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk is reduced by implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) use in appropriately selected patients. Established markers such as impairment of left ventricular function and QRS duration are non specific for arrhythmic death and therefore many patients receive ICD therapy from which they gain no benefit, either due to survival without arrhythmia or death from pump failure. Both myocardial scar and serum protein biomarkers have potential as SCD risk stratifiers, but novel solutions are needed to deliver non invasive tests that are suitable for point of care testing. The aims of this thesis were to explore novel assessment methods for the risk stratification of SCD, with particular focus on heart failure. Several approaches were chosen to explore these concepts: (i) meta-analysis to assess the utility of fragmented QRS, (ii) retrospective evaluation of ECG and CMR to assess ECG markers of repolarisation and (iii) QRS scoring, (iv) prospective evaluation of an automated QRS scoring algorithm to predict myocardial scar, (v) artificial intelligence machine learning techniques to develop and validate an algorithm capable to classifying ECG scar, and (vi) a novel high resolution proteomic technique to propose biomarkers of SCD risk, validated using ELISA (vii). The hypothesis is that novel clinical tools, encompassing technologies and techniques which could stretch across the clinical landscape from primary to specialised care services, can be identified as indicators of ICD benefit in patients at risk of SCD. My results indicate that simpler ECG markers such as T-peak-end, fQRS and QRS scoring have a significant association with myocardial scar, although the strength of association varies according to scar characteristics, and is not specific. The specificity of these markers for mode of death is also weak. Computerised algorithms can serve to speed up manual ECG scoring, whilst maintaining overall accuracy, but greatest potential is seen in using a novel marker, custom developed using artificial intelligence techniques. I also found that candidate serum biomarkers, predictive of death or ventricular arrhythmia, could be identified through high resolution proteomic techniques. Clinical and technical validation with ELISA is possible. Novel non invasive markers, such as serum proteins and computer ECG analysis may be valuable tools to improve risk prediction. The incremental benefit of these tools to determine prognosis, and select those who will most benefit from ICD therapy, can now be addressed by future prospective studies.
Numerical simulation of NOx emission characteristics during combustion in 350 MW supercritical cogeneration tangentially boiler

In light of a 350 megawatt supercritical cogeneration tangential boiler, the combustion and the nitrogen oxides release mechanism in the furnace were numerically simulated. The combustion characteristics were analyzed, and the influencing factors, such as the pulverized coal concentration, the velocity of separated over-fire air and the boiler load, on nitrogen oxides release in the furnace were also systematically studied. The results show that the central airflow in the furnace rises spirally, and an inverted ? V? type temperature distribution is formed. The generation of nitrogen oxides can be effectively restrained by increasing the concentration of pulverized coal properly. Compared with the conventional concentration, the concentration of nitrogen oxides at the furnace exit can be reduced by 29.63% by taking high pulverized coal concentration. The concentration of NOx at the furnace exit can be drastically reduced by increasing the velocity of separated over-fire air. When decreasing boiler load, the concentration of NOx at furnace exit declines at first and then increases.
On the Design of Low-Power Hybrids for Full Duplex Simultaneous Bidirectional Signaling Links

This paper investigates the suitability of full duplex simultaneous bidirectional (FD-SBD) signaling as a method to theoretically double the aggregate data transfer per pin for ultra-short-reach links. Advantages as well as challenges associated with differential FD-SBD links are described, and comparisons are made with single-ended and multilevel signaling schemes. FD-SBD links require a hybrid to recover the weak received signal from the large self-interfering transmitted signal. After providing a summary of prior-art high-speed hybrids, which often utilize replica drivers and current-mode signaling, two voltage-mode hybrids are presented and compared to enable low-power FD-SBD links at high data rates without using any replica drivers. This includes an R- $G_{m}$ driver, as well as a resistor-bridge driver derived from a Wheatstone-bridge. It is shown that maintaining a uniform termination impedance is important to support FD-SBD signaling on low insertion-loss links. Accordingly, a resistor-bridge hybrid utilizing an averaging resistor embedded in the output transimpedance amplifier based voltage-mode driver is implemented. A prototype implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process is measured within a transceiver front-end at an aggregate data rate of 15 Gb/s over a short differential channel with 2.5 dB insertion loss at 3.75 GHz on a 4-layer FR4 PCB. The energy/bit for the transceiver front-end is 1.35 pJ/b at an aggregate data rate of 15 Gb/s.