Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resolving Entity Coreference in Croatian with a Constrained Mention-Pair Model

Being able to identify that different mentions refer to the same entity is beneﬁcial for applications such as question answering and text summarization. In this paper, we propose the ﬁrst model for entity coreference resolution for Croatian. We enforce transitivity constraints with integer linear programming on top of pairwise decisions produced by the supervised mention-pair model. Experimental results show that the proposed model signiﬁcantly outperforms two different rule-based baselines, reaching performance of 74.4% MUC score and 77.6% B 3 score.
Health utilities in evaluating intervention in the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome

Formulating a rational health policy necessitates the ability to compare between different healthcare interventions and disease scenarios. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy with a conservative lifestyle strategy in sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS) was evaluated using health utility and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) as outcome measures. A total 71 SAHS (apnoea/hypopnoea index ≥15 h−1) patients completed a randomised, parallel group study over 3 months using utilities derived by the standard gamble approach (Usg) and European quality of life questionnaire (Euroqol) (Ueq). The severely impaired health status at baseline improved by 23% (Usg 0.32 to 0.55) adding 8 QALYs in the CPAP group, compared to a 4% improvement with 4.7 QALYs added in the lifestyle group (Usg 0.31 to 0.35). The Ueq showed a marginal change with CPAP (0.73 to 0.77) but did not demonstrate any improvement with lifestyle intervention. The health status impairment in sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome patients is markedly improved by continuous positive airway pressure compared to a modest improvement with conservative lifestyle strategies using the standard gamble utility, which may be incorporated in effectiveness and economic analyses. The European quality of life questionnaire did not reflect a similar degree of impact and is probably not useful in this population.
Session Limits at University Counseling Centers: Effects on Help-Seeking Attitudes.

Psychotherapy session limits are becoming commonplace in university counseling centers, yet there is a paucity of evidence regarding the effects on students' service utilization. This study investigated whether students are likely to seek counseling when the number of sessions is limited, while also considering problem type and help-seeking attitudes. Students (N = 300) rated 20 problems on perceived urgency; read a brochure describing counseling services offering 3, 10, or unlimited sessions; and rated their likelihood of seeking counseling for each problem. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that the 20 problem urgency ratings conformed to a 5-factor structure. No differences were found among the 3 groups' likelihoods of utilization for the 5 problem factors as a function of number of sessions available.
An Historical Review of Sebastes Taxonomy and Systematics

Following the initial description of a species of Sebastes from the Atlantic in the late 1700’s, in the late 1800’s the incredible taxonomic diversity of the genus began to be recognized as more species were discovered in northeast Pacific waters. With over 100 species, most of them from the North Pacific, the genus Sebastes (rockfishes) now presents taxonomic problems at every level. For example, although early efforts to understand relationships among the species resulted in the erection of several subgenera, those and more recent efforts remain largely unsuccessful. Also, the position of the genus within the order Scorpaeniformes, as well as the limits of the genus and the validity of some species are all unresolved. This paper examines the worldwide history and status of taxonomic studies on Sebastes, and reviews the 23 subgenera that have been erected over the years. This review of research, which includes morphological and genetic studies, provides a framework against which to evaluate studies using new genetic techniques.
Routinely available cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and occurrence of respiratory and diarrhoeal morbidity in infants born to HIV-infected mothers in South Africa.

OBJECTIVES To examine the influence of cotrimoxazole (CTM) prophylaxis on incidence of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) and diarrhoea. DESIGN A prospective observational cohort study. Morbidity and feeding data on infants born to HIV-infected mothers were collected routinely at clinic visits at 1 week, 6 weeks and 3 months, and 3-monthly thereafter, with blood drawn for determining HIV status. SETTING Two hospitals in Durban, South Africa. In one hospital (King Edward VIII Hospital), infants born to HIV infected mothers received CTM prophylaxis and in the other (McCord Hospital) infants did not receive CTM prophylaxis. SUBJECTS Infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Outcome measures. Incidence of LRTI and diarrhoea. RESULTS In multivariate analysis controlling for breast-feeding status, number of clinic visits and HIV infection status, HIV infected infants with access to CTM prophylaxis had a significantly lower incidence of LRTI (82%) than those without access to prophylaxis. However in HIV-uninfected infants, this was not the case. CTM prophylaxis was associated with a non-significant increased risk for diarrhea in both infected (odds ratio (OR) 1.58, p = 0.45) and uninfected infants (OR 1.52, p = 0.10). CONCLUSIONS This observational study confirms current thinking that CTM prophylaxis is protective against LRTIs in HIV-infected children. However, because of a possible association between CTM prophylaxis and an increased risk of diarrhoea, HIV status of infants should be determined as early as possible in order to prevent unnecessary exposure of uninfected infants to CTM prophylaxis, while further studies to quantify both beneficial and adverse effects of CTM prophylaxis are undertaken.
Telling What Happened.

Changes in theories and methods of language teaching may be perplexing to the English language teacher. Current stress on communicative functions and involvement of the learner's cognitive processes in language learning, though stimulating, has yet to be realized in generally accessible teaching material. Adopting an approach stressing the correlation of verb form and language function, the writer outlines some methods of teaching narrative. Emphasis is placed on the salient features of narrative, notably chronological sequence. Actual teaching material is used to show how tabulation and information transfer techniques can be employed to practice story-telling while also promoting the learner's understanding through his active participation in the learning activities with which he is presented.
An interface for melody input

We present a software system, called Tunserver, which recognizes a musical tune whistled by the user, finds it in a database, and returns its name, composer, and other information. Such a service is useful for track retrieval at radio stations, music stores, etc., and is also a step toward the long-term goal of communicating with a computer much like one would with a human being. Tuneserver is implemented as a public Java-based WWW service with a database of approximately 10,000 motifs. Tune recognition is based on a highly error-resistant encoding, proposed by Parsons, that uses only the direction of the melody, ignoring the size of intervals as well as rhythm. We present the design and implementation of the tune recognition core, outline the design of the Web service, and describe the results obtained in an empirical evaluation of the new interface, including the derivation of suitable system parameters, resulting performance figures, and an error analysis.
Effect of Indian classical music on quality of sleep in depressed patients: A randomized controlled trial

Music has been shown to be effective in a number of psychiatric conditions, including improving the quality of sleep. A pilot study was carried out to study the effect of Indian classical music on the quality of sleep in individuals with depression. Fifty individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder on DSM-IV were consecutively allocated into two groups. One group received music with selected raagas, while the other group was treated with hypnotic medications for a month. The changes in depressive symptoms and sleep quality were measured on MADRS and PSQI. Both PSQI and MADRS scores improved with music. Improvement in scores with music was comparable to hypnotic medications and persisted beyond the treatment period. We conclude that music is comparable to hypnotic medication in improving quality of sleep in depressed patients and can thus act as a useful adjunct in the management of depression.
Chagas’ disease: an update on immune mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

• Introduction • Chagas’ disease • Chemotherapy • Immune response in experimental T. cruzi infection • Immune response in human beings infected with T. cruzi • Immune response in the treatment of chagasic infection • The need for new therapeutic alternatives for Chagas’ disease • Conclusions
From D2D to Ds2D: Prolonging the Battery Life of Mobile Devices via Ds2D Communications

Emerging device-centric systems (DCSs) such as D2D communications are considered as a standard part of future mobile networks, where operators/ consumers involve the devices in direct communication to improve the cellular system throughput, latency, fairness, and energy efficiency. However, battery life of mobile devices involved in such communications is crucial for 5G smartphone users to explore the emerging applications in DCSs. It is anticipated that the owners of 5G-enabled smartphones will use their devices more extensively to talk, text, email, and surf the web more often than do customers with 4G smartphones or traditional handsets, which puts a significantly higher demand on the battery life. Smartphones are currently equipped with multiple radio interfaces that enable them to access different types of wireless networks including LTE-Direct and Wi-Fi-Direct, besides cellular networks. Such a capability is not well explored within the context of DCS. This article proposes a new scheme to support the emerging features in DCS where a D2D-enabled mobile device (a sink device or a file/ content requester) aggregates the radio resources of multiple mobile devices (source devices or file/content providers) via its multiple radio interfaces such that the scheme is referred to as devices-to-device (Ds2D) communications. The Ds2D communication scheme ensures an optimal packet split among the source mobile devices to improve the file/content transfer latency (FTL), energy efficiency, and battery life. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed optimal packet split scheme among multiple source devices participating in Ds2D communication guarantees an improvement in mobile battery life over a wide range of data rate levels in comparison with the random packet split strategy and traditional D2D communication paradigm between the sink and source mobile devices.
Reasoning on UML Class Diagrams in Description Logics

In this paper we formalize UML class diagrams in terms of a logic belonging to Description Logics, which are subsets of First-Order Logic that have been thoroughly investigated in Knowledge Representation. The logic we have devised is specifically tailored towards the high expressiveness of UML information structuring mechanisms, and allows one to formally model important properties which typically can only be specified by means of qualifiers. The logic is equipped with decidable reasoning procedures which can be profitably exploited in reasoning on UML class diagrams. This makes it possible to provide computer aided support during the application design phase in order to automatically detect relevant properties, such as inconsistencies and redundancies.
Rotation curves of 967 spiral galaxies: Implications for dark matter

We present the rotation curves of 967 spiral galaxies, obtained by deprojecting and folding the raw Hα data originally published by Mathewson et al. (1992). Of these, 80 meet objective excellence criteria and are suitable for individual detailed mass modelling, while 820, individually less compelling mainly because of the moderate statistics and/or limited extension, are suitable for statistical studies. The remaining 67 curves suffer from severe limitations that may largely restrict their use in galaxy structure studies. A preliminary analysis of their properties confirms that RCs are a universal function of luminosity and that the dark matter fraction in spirals increases with decreasing luminosity.
Schemata As Moderators of Clinical Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Patients with Depression Or Anxiety Disorders

The authors examined the clinical effectiveness of a comprehensive cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) program offered to patients with depression or anxiety disorders. They also tested the prediction, based on Young’s schema-focused approach to therapy, that endorsement of maladaptive cognitive schemata predicts poor response to standard CBT. One hundred thirtyfour consecutive referrals were assessed on a battery of self-report measures at the commencement of the program, and 121 of these patients (90%) completed the program and provided posttreatment data. Two thirds of the patients showed statistically reliable symptom reduction, and half had large effect size (0.8 standard deviations or more) symptom reduction. Contrary to predictions, greater initial endorsement of schemata did not predict poor therapy response. The CBT program was effective for most patients, including patients with high endorsement of maladaptive schemata.
Notes on overlap management in conversation: The case of delayed completion

A turn‐taking system allocates speaking turns in conversation. Nonetheless, on occasion speakers start up “out of turn. ” This report examines one procedure, Delayed Completion, that speakers use to finish a discontinued turn after an intervening utterance by another speaker. Speakers employ resources intrinsic to the turn‐taking system, such as the projectability of turn unit completion, to regain turn occupancy and to locate the utterance of the out‐of‐turn speaker as having been interruptive. When the intervening utterance makes a next action relevant, Delayed Completion can also cancel the relevance of that next action.
Revisiting New Right citizenship discourse in Thatcher’s Britain

The aim of this article is to examine the rationales that Thatcher’s Britain employed in dealing with immigration and multicultural policies. With a focus on the responsible political elite hypothesis, I trace the role of New Right citizenship discourse as a combined reflection of elite behaviors as well as mass concerns. I analyze various writings and remarks of Enoch Powell as a precursor of the New Right, and those of Margaret Thatcher as an executor of the New Right, discourses of the reconstruction of the British nation and the bringing back of the active citizen as the main campaign of the New Right, and the emergence of two nations and controversies over the cause of this cleavage as a probable policy outcome of the New Right. Through the theoretical account of New Right citizenship as an unstable combination of libertarian individualism and republican conservatism, I offer an interpretation of post-war Britain that can explain the relationship between the shift toward neo-liberalism and shifts in immigration conceptions and multicultural policies.
Integrating multi-perspective views into ontological analysis

It is argued that contribution to the theory and practice of the analysis and design of information systems and services within organizational contexts requires the following steps. First, an underlying theoretical domain is needed. Second, the constructs of this domain have to be communicated using some commonly understood “language. ” Third, these constructs have to be applied to purposes that are of interest to users, particularly business users. Finally, this application needs to take into consideration the constraints that users work under and, particularly in business, the need for cost effectiveness. It is claimed that the models developed by Bunge, Wand and Weber (BWW models), in particular the representation model, provide a good starting point for this theoretical foundation. In order to communicate the BWW models, an ER-based meta model for the BWW representation model is suggested. A common issue about some of the results with a number of the ontological analyses that have been done so far is the lack of relevance and cost effectiveness. This situation suggests that integrating perspectives into the process of ontological analysis would improve the usefulness of the results to users. Specifically, ensuring the relevance of the results to the different purposes of different users would improve the usefulness of the ontological analysis to users of modeling grammars. Accordingly, the application of a third dimension—the cost effectiveness dimension—to the analysis of modeling grammars using the BWW representation model is investigated. Specifically, the requirements of activity-based costing systems are analyzed as a first example of a perspective.
Factors affecting illicit and licit drug use among adolescents and young adults in Greece

A cross‐sectional survey on psychosocial issues, drug use, alcohol and health was carried out in Greece, with a nationwide probability sample of 2448 respondents aged 12–17 and 18–24. Factors potentially associated with illicit and unprescribed licit drug use were tested by logistic regression analysis. Several predictors were revealed. Sex and age were related to a higher lifetime use of illicit drugs, the male young adults reported a higher lifetime use of illicit drugs than the females. Positive attitudes toward hashish use, systematic smoking and use of drugs by close friends were more closely related to illicit than to unprescribed licit drug use. In addition “low self‐esteem, family members using tobacco and alcohol” and “problematic drinking” were found only to predict illicit drug use. Other variables, “family members using drugs with or without a doctor's prescription”, “being dissatisfied with social life” and “suffering from anxiety, depression and depersonalization symptoms” were found to be significantly associated with licit but unprescribed drug use.
A Microneedle Functionalized with Polyethyleneimine and Nanotubes for Highly Sensitive, Label-Free Quantification of DNA

The accurate measure of DNA concentration is necessary for many DNA-based biological applications. However, the current methods are limited in terms of sensitivity, reproducibility, human error, and contamination. Here, we present a microneedle functionalized with polyethyleneimine (PEI) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) for the highly sensitive quantification of DNA. The microneedle was fabricated using ultraviolet (UV) lithography and anisotropic etching, and then functionalized with PEI and SWCNTs through a dip coating process. The electrical characteristics of the microneedle change with the accumulation of DNA on the surface. Current-voltage measurements in deionized water were conducted to study these changes in the electrical properties of the sensor. The sensitivity test found the signal to be discernable from the noise level down to 100 attomolar (aM), demonstrating higher sensitivity than currently available UV fluorescence and UV absorbance based methods. A microneedle without any surface modification only had a 100 femtomolar (fM) sensitivity. All measurement results were consistent with fluorescence microscopy.
Computation of dynamic operating balancing reserve for wind power integration for the time-horizon 1–48 hours

Summary form only given. A challenge now facing utilities is how to adjust reserves in the operations-planning horizon of 0 to 48 hours ahead to mitigate the effects of wind variability and forecast uncertainties, in addition to those of load uncertainties and unavailability of generation. Reserves are maintained to ensure a high level of reliability and security to the system. They are subdivided into two groups: those responding within an intra-hourly time horizon to regulate power imbalances, and those responding over a 1-48 hours ahead time horizon addressing the net forecast uncertainties. In this paper, we present a methodology for calculating reserves in the latter category, referred to as balancing reserves (BRs), following the integration of wind generation in a power system. Their computation is based on maintaining a predefined level of risk. The novelty here is that wind forecast error distributions are adjusted as a function of wind generation forecast levels. Gamma-like distributions with time-varying parameters, estimated from real data, were chosen to approximate the wind generation forecast errors. It is shown that this improved modeling significantly modifies the values of required balancing reserves and associated risk. The methodology developed is based on a clear criterion, namely risk, and it demonstrates the imperativeness of considering dynamic balancing reserves as a function of the imminent wind generation forecast.
Optimising colorectal cancer screening acceptance: a review

The study aims to review available evidence concerning effective interventions to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening acceptance. We performed a literature search of randomised trials designed to increase individuals' use of CRC screening on PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects. Small (≤100 subjects per arm) studies and those reporting results of interventions implemented before publication of the large faecal occult blood test trials were excluded. Interventions were categorised following the Continuum of Cancer Care and the PRECEDE–PROCEED models and studies were grouped by screening model (opportunistic vs organised). Multifactor interventions targeting multiple levels of care and considering factors outside the individual clinician control, represent the most effective strategy to enhance CRC screening acceptance. Removing financial barriers, implementing methods allowing a systematic contact of the whole target population, using personal invitation letters, preferably signed by the reference care provider, and reminders mailed to all non-attendees are highly effective in enhancing CRC screening acceptance. Physician reminders may support the diffusion of screening, but they can be effective only for individuals who have access to and make use of healthcare services. Educational interventions for patients and providers are effective, but the implementation of organisational measures may be necessary to favour their impact. Available evidence indicates that organised programmes allow to achieve an extensive coverage and to enhance equity of access, while maximising the health impact of screening. They provide at the same time an infrastructure allowing to achieve a more favourable cost-effectiveness profile of potentially effective strategies, which would not be sustainable in opportunistic settings.