Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Internet as a Sensor: a Case Study with Special Events

This paper is about utilizing the web as a predictor for transport demand. The quality and quantity of information on the web, updated frequently, turns it into an enormous sensor of present occurrences and into an oracle for future occurrences. At the same time, the quality of data coming from public transit, taxi and private car usage is increasing and its availability starts to become a fact in many cities in the world. Such data revolution will impact transport demand modeling, particularly making elaborate approaches feasible for real time applications. The authors present here their approach to this challenge and provide particular focus to a case study with special events in the city-state of Singapore. The authors build an origin/destination trip prediction model that uses information extracted from the Internet together with tap-in/tap-out OD data from public transit (EZLink card).
Machine learning theory and practice as a source of insight into universal grammar 1

In this paper, we explore the possibility that machine learning approaches to naturallanguage processing being developed in engineering-oriented computational linguistics may be able to provide specific scientific insights into the nature of human language. We argue that, in principle, machine learning results could inform basic debates about language, in one area at least, and that in practice, existing results may offer initial tentative support for this prospect. Further, results from computational learning theory can inform arguments carried on within linguistic theory as well.
Hierarchical Aggregations for High-Dimensional Multiplex Graph Embedding

We investigate the problem of multiplex graph embedding, that is, graphs in which nodes interact through multiple types of relations (dimensions). In recent years, several methods have been developed to address this problem. However, the need for more effective and specialized approaches grows with the production of graph data with diverse characteristics. In particular, real-world multiplex graphs may exhibit a high number of dimensions, making it difficult to construct a single consensus representation. Furthermore, important information can be hidden in complex latent structures scattered in multiple dimensions. To address these issues, we propose HMGE, a novel embedding method based on hierarchical aggregation for high-dimensional multiplex graphs. Hierarchical aggregation consists in learning a hierarchical combination of the graph dimensions and refining the embeddings at each hierarchy level. Non-linear combinations are computed from previous ones, thus uncovering complex information and latent structures hidden in the multiplex graph dimensions. Moreover, we leverage mutual information maximization between local patches and global summaries to train the model without supervision. This allows to captures globally relevant information present in diverse locations of the graph. Detailed experiments on synthetic and real-world data illustrate the suitability of our approach on downstream supervised tasks, including link prediction and node classification.
Exercise for Cancer Therapy

Abstract: The number of new cancer cases in China is increasing rapidly, and China now ranks first in the world for the number of cancer patients. Traditional oncology treatment is based on surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but all three treatments are often accompanied by a poor quality of life, impaired physical function, and significant anxiety and depression. Exercise therapy can provide both prognostic improvement and a better quality of life for cancer patients, and can be adapted to serve patients at all stages from perioperative recovery to hospice. Although the impact of exercise alone is difficult to assess given the influence of lifestyle and other factors, data suggest that consistent exercise can improve the prognosis of cancer patients. Exercise enhances cardiopulmonary function, induces protein synthesis, improves physiological performance and increases physiological reserves; it also helps to improve the metabolic and immune functions, creating an anti-cancer environment in the body. An appropriate exercise plan can reduce adverse effects associated with cancer treatment, improve patients’ physiological function, reduce fatigue and improve quality of life. Of note, exercise may also reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and metastasis. In recent years, exercise oncology has received increasing attention, thus, this article reviews the progress made in the clinical application of exercise therapy in oncology patients.
Traffic Safety Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fatal Crashes Relative to Pre-Pandemic Trends, United States, May–December 2020

Despite a brief reduction during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes in the United States surged in 2020 to its highest level in over a decade. The purpose of the research reported here is to advance the understanding of how safety on U.S. roads changed during the pandemic, beyond its initial months, by comparing the involvement of specific crash, vehicle, and driver-related factors in fatal crashes during May–December 2020 to what would have been expected had the pandemic not occurred and pre-pandemic trends continued. Data from all fatal crashes in the U.S. from 2011–2019 were used to develop statistical models of the monthly number of fatal crashes through December 2019. These models were then used to forecast how many fatal crashes would been expected in each month of 2020 without the pandemic. Overall, the number of traffic fatalities in 2020 was 2,570 (7.1%) more than expected based on pre-pandemic trends. However, a sharp decrease in traffic fatalities in March and April 2020 partially offset an even larger increase later in the year. During the eight-month period of May–December 2020, the number of traffic fatalities was 3,083 (12.1%) more than expected. Importantly, however, this increase was not uniform across all factors examined. This Research Brief identifies specific crash, vehicle, and driver-related factors that contributed most to the overall increase in traffic fatalities during this period, as well as others that continued to follow pre-pandemic trends or that even decreased.
Low Phase Angle Predicts Poor Survival in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study

Abstract: Background The phase angle (PA) is an indicator of nutritional status derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Studies have shown that the PA is one of several factors related to the survival of cancer patients. However, the correlation between the PA and prognosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has not been reported. This study aimed to explore the relationship between the PA, nutrition-related indicators, and patient prognosis. Methods The data from 248 HCC patients who underwent BIA between January 2015 and December 2019 at the First Hospital of Jilin University were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were divided into two groups according to the median PA value, then the nutrition-related indicators and overall survival (OS) were compared between the two groups. The correlations between the PA and laboratory test nutrition-related indicators and the results of a body composition analysis were determined using Pearson correlation analysis. Independent predictors of the patient prognosis were identified using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results The median OS in the high and low PA groups were 70 and 54.6 months, respectively (P = 0.004). The Pearson correlation analysis revealed that the PA was associated with both laboratory test nutrition-related indicators and the results of a body composition analysis. The multivariable Cox regression analysis identified the PA as an independent risk factor affecting the prognosis of patients with Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage A or B. Conclusion The PA is a good biomarker for the nutritional status. We found that the PA was associated with the prognosis in patients with HCC, with a low PA indicating a poor nutritional status and worse prognosis.
Bioenergy from pre-commercial thinning, forest infrastructure and undergrowth - resources, productivity and costs.

this article is covering results of pre-commercial thinning, forest infrastructure and undergrowth harvesting field studies implemented in July, 2007 by skogforsk and Lsfri silava. a scope of the study was to estimate prime costs of biofuel production from small trees and to compare two types of harvester heads (Bracke c16.a and Ponsse eH25). the productivity in pre-commercial thinning expressed as trees per e0-h (effective hour) ranged between 53 (Ponsse) and 118 (Bracke) in the pine stand and 150 (Bracke) in the mixed spruce stand. in comparison the Lvm3 (Lv – loose volume) ranged between 9.9 (Ponsse) and 14.1 (Bracke) in the pine stand and was 13.0 (Bracke) in the mixed spruce stand. in the forest infrastructure (roadside ditches) harvesting productivity was 8.2 Lvm3 e0-h -1 for Ponsse and 12.5 Lvm3 e0-h -1 for Bracke. Productivity was economically insufficient in undergrowth removal, both in harvesting (Bracke) and forwarding (Ponsse) operations, respectively 1.1 and 2.6 Lvm3
Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation

The symposium entitled Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation had two goals: (1) to investigate the empirical methods that can be used in the development and evaluation of computational theories of discourse and (2) to develop a set of shared resources for the computational discourse community. The workshop was successful at achieving the first goal because of the large number of papers submitted (48) surveying a range of different empirical methods. Methods discussed included Wizard of Oz studies, machine learning on corpora tagged for discourse features, human subjective evaluation of the system output in a natural language–generation system using a grading scheme, simulation test beds, the running of the implemented systems with different discourse modules on subjects and the evaluation of the quality of the interaction by various methods, and the coding of independent and dependent variables and the statistical calculation of their relationships. The discussions were lively and addressed issues such as determining what methods to use for various problems, suiting statistical tests to different types of tagging scheme, and determining the generalizability of different methods. The discussions also focused on the second goal, but progress on this goal consisted of airing the issues and forming a committee to get funding for a follow-on workshop to focus on developing shared resources.
AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of Neurosonography in Neonates and Infants

T he American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is a multidisciplinary association dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of clinical practice parameters, and accreditation of practices performing ultrasound examinations. The AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of Neurosonography in Neonates and Infants was developed (or revised) by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) in collaboration with other organizations whose members use ultrasound for performing this examination(s) (see “Acknowledgments”). Recommendations for personnel requirements, the request for the examination, documentation, quality assurance, and safety may vary among the organizations and may be addressed by each separately. For the purpose of this practice parameter, infants are defined primarily as those in whom the anterior fontanelle remains open and this parameter is intended to provide the medical ultrasound community with recommendations for the performance and recording of high-quality ultrasound examinations. The parameter reflects what the AIUM considers the appropriate criteria for this type of ultrasound examination but is not intended to establish a legal standard of care. Examinations performed in this specialty area are expected to follow the parameter with recognition that deviations may occur depending on the clinical situation.
The evolution of the Eyjafjoll volcanic system, southern Iceland.

The evolution of the Eyjafjoll volcanic system, southern Iceland. S.0 Loughlin, University of Durham, 1995. The Eyj afj oil volcanic system is a central volcano which has been constructed above the anomalously thick crust of the Eastern Volcanic Zone in southern Iceland. The volcano has been active for the last 800Ka (Kristjansson et al., 1988) and has been constructed through six glacial and six interglacial periods. Volcanic activity during the glacial periods produced a variety of unusual cogenetic deposits consisting of lava, hyaloclastite and volcaniclastic lithofacies. Nine commonly occurring 'lithofacies associations' have been described and interpreted, showing that the form of the subglacial deposits varied depending upon the thickness of the ice, the subglacial topography, the eruption rate and the viscosity of the lava. Most of the subglacial volcanism at Eyjafjoil occurred beneath temperate ice up to 400m thick, the thickest ice tending to occur in valley-confined glaciers extending from the summit ice cap. Volcanism beneath valley-confmed glaciers formed distinctive deposits which, after retreat of the glacier, commonly underwent marginal erosion and topographic inversion, a process which is diagnostic of valley-confined subglacial volcanism on a polygenetic volcano. The Eyjafjoll volcanic system has an anomalous E-W orientation in a NE-SW orientated rift zone and is linked along E-W fissures to the nearby volcano, Katla. Transitional alkali basalt to hawaiite compositions at Eyjaf]oll were generated by the fractional crystallisation of olivine, clinopyroxene, plagioclase, Ti-magnetite and ilmenite, all of which are observed mineral phases in lavas and gabbroic xenoliths. Mugearite to trachyte compositions involve the addition of apatite to the fractionating assemblage. Fractionation took place in interconnected crustal magma chambers of varying depth and oxygen fugacity. Ankaramites are high-MgO lavas erupted directly from the base of the crust during the early stages of the growth of the volcano. They do not represent an average parental composition for the basalts. Trace element ratios suggest a common parental source material for all lavas at the Eyjafj011 volcanic system. All lavas are LREE-enriched and may be produced by small (-4%) degrees of melting in a melting column of restricted depth extending to the spinel-garnet lherzolite transition zone. Small variations in trace element ratios may be explained by segregation of instantaneous melts from this colunm. Highly differentiated, high FeTi basalts may have differentiated from high Fe mantle melts which underwent substantial olivine fractionation prior to eruption. These basalts are enriched in certain incompatible trace elements suggesting that they may have assimilated some crustal material.
Working Papers / Documents de travail

This paper investigates the evolution of wage formation in a Mincer model with sample selection for which we develop Bayesian inference and growth incidence and poverty growth curves. We estimate the effect of an exogenous exposure to Western TV broadcasts on labour market participation and wage inequality in East Germany after the German reunification. Using the GSOEP, we find evidences that Western television had significantly increased wage inequality among males while it has significantly affected female labour participation and led the less productive females to drop out from the market, hiding thus a large increase in wage inequality among females.
DETERMINACIÓN DE CURVAS CARACTERÍSTICAS EN SUELOS NO SATURADOS CON CELDAS DE PRESIÓN

El presente documento muestra un estudio sobre curvas caracteristicas. Se describen algunos de los factores que afectan su determinacion, y se muestran algunas de las celdas de presion que se han utilizado en agricultura para determinar dicha relacion. Se mencionan sus rangos de operacion, sus ventajas y desventajas. Se describe ademas una nueva celda de presion disenada en la Universidad Estatal de Arizona con algunas ventajas sobre las ya existentes (simular la sobrecarga que se tendra en condiciones reales, y estudio de cambio de volumen en trayectorias de secado y humedecimiento, medicion de varios puntos de la curva caracteristica sin mover la muestra, etc). En la ultima parte se muestran las propiedades de los suelos estudiados, y las curvas caracteristicas obtenidas con las celdas modificadas. Se incluyen figuras y conclusiones. Abstract: This research work presents a study on soil water characteristic curves. It describes some of the factors affecting its determination and also it discusses aspects of the pressure plates that have been used to determine such relationship. It mentions the ranges of application, the advantages and disadvantages. In addition, it is shown a new pressure plate apparatus that was designed at the Arizona State University. This new pressure plate overcomes some of the disadvantages of the cells already in the market. Among other characteristics of the new cell are: the application of overburden load, the measurement of volume change at any time during the test, the determination of the soil water characteristic curve following the drying or wetting paths, etc. The last part of the document provides the properties of the test soils and the soil water characteristics curves obtained with the modified cells. Included figures and conclusions.
Responsabilidad Social Universitaria: una revisión sistemática y análisis bibliométrico

El propósito de este artículo es realizar una revisión sistemática y un análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica relacionada con la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria, a través de una revisión en las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus. Los registros obtenidos fueron analizados empleando la teoría de grafos y herramientas como bibliometrix, Sci2 Tool y Gephi; además, fueron presentados en tres categorías: hegemónicos, estructurales y recientes. Los resultados permitieron identificar tres perspectivas: medición, estratégico y conexión; también muestran que este campo de estudio es relativamente joven, en el cual el autor principal es Ricardo Gaete, mientras que François Vallaeys es el más citado. Adicionalmente, la región de mayor producción en el tema es Suramérica.
Panel on Neurological Imaging

Procedure Appropriateness Category Relative Radiation Level MRI spine area of interest without and with IV contrast Usually Appropriate O MRI spine area of interest without IV contrast Usually Appropriate O CT myelography spine area of interest May Be Appropriate Varies CT spine area of interest with IV contrast May Be Appropriate Varies CT spine area of interest without IV contrast May Be Appropriate Varies Arteriography spine area of interest Usually Not Appropriate Varies Radiography spine area of interest Usually Not Appropriate Varies MRA spine area of interest with IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate O MRA spine area of interest without and with IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate O MRA spine area of interest without IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate O MRI spine area of interest with IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate O CT spine area of interest without and with IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate Varies CTA spine area of interest with IV contrast Usually Not Appropriate Varies
The changing transition to adulthood : leaving and returning home

Leaving and Returning Home in 20th Century America Leaving and Returning Home 20th Century America Out of the Nest Back to the Nest Runaways and Stay-at-Homes The Changing Role of Regional Communities Who Left Whom? The Effects of Childhood Family Structure Sons and Daughters Leaving and Returning to the Feathered Nest The Shifting Ethnic Mosaic Religious Transformation and Family Values What Is New in Nest-Leaving in 20th Century America?
Pampa Grande and the Mochica culture

Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture] demonstrates what archaeologists can achieve in terms of reading cultural meaning from the material record. Clear, thoughtful, detailed, and balanced, it is one of the finest treatments of a prehistoric culture that I have ever read. -- Latin American Indian Literatures Journal In Shimada's elegantly illustrated, well argued and documented book, he undertakes the task of exploring the complex causes for the transition registered between Moche-IV and Moche-V, and for the rise and fall of the] last great Mochica civic experiment, Pampa Grande. But far more is offered, for Shimada embarked on a brilliant critical re-evaluation of what is known and still enigmatic about the long-lived Mochica cultural tradition in the Peruvian North Coast. Using a multidisciplinary approach Shimada weaves a richly patterned tapestry of Mochica prehistory. It is required reading for archaeologists interested in Latin America. -- Antiquity There is no work whatever at this time that presents the urban configuration and composition of a Moche city, so Shimada's] considerable data on this topic will be very valuable for scholars of urbanism of the Moche, of the North Coastal region and, for comparative purposes, of Andean culture in general. -- Garth Bawden, director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and professor of anthropology, University of New Mexico Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which thereare enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a biography of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at least three tiers.
Flexible PLA/MWCNTs-PDMS Based Hybrid Nanogenerator for Biomechanical Energy Harvesting

With the development of technology, self-powering devices by harvesting bioenergy is an efficient way to achieve sustainable system operation. In this paper, we fabricated a flexible hybrid nanogenerator (HNG) based on multilayer nanocomposites, innovatively using biocompatible Polylactic acid (PLA) as piezoelectric material and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as triboelectric material. A simple method was used to prepare the MWCNTs/PDMS films with surface microstructure. By coupling the triboelectric effect and the piezoelectric effect, a 3 cm × 3 cm HNG can generate an output of 80 V and 125 nA under a pressure stimulation of 20 N. Furthermore, due to the good flexibility and biocompatibility of our device, we can use it to harvest human energy.
Structure of aquaporin-0 arrays in sphingomyelin/cholesterol membranes and implications for lipid rafts

The tetrameric water channel aquaporin-0 (AQP0) forms square arrays in lens membranes through an as yet unknown mechanism. Lens membranes are enriched in cholesterol and sphingomyelin, suggesting that these raft lipids may play a role in AQP0 array formation. We produced two-dimensional crystals of AQP0 in sphingomyelin membranes with low and high cholesterol content and determined their structures by electron crystallography. At the higher cholesterol concentration, cholesterol associates with AQP0 and shifts lipids in the cytoplasmic leaflet away from the bilayer center, increasing the hydrophobic thickness of the annular lipid shell. AQP0 tetramers may thus