Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Build Emotion Lexicon from Microblogs by Combining Effects of Seed Words and Emoticons in a Heterogeneous Graph

As an indispensable resource for emotion analysis, emotion lexicons have attracted increasing attention in recent years. Most existing methods focus on capturing the single emotional effect of words rather than the emotion distributions which are helpful to model multiple complex emotions in a subjective text. Meanwhile, automatic lexicon building methods are overly dependent on seed words but neglect the effect of emoticons which are natural graphical labels of fine-grained emotion. In this paper, we propose a novel emotion lexicon building framework that leverages both seed words and emoticons simultaneously to capture emotion distributions of candidate words more accurately. Our method overcomes the weakness of existing methods by combining the effects of both seed words and emoticons in a unified three-layer heterogeneous graph, in which a multi-label random walk (MLRW) algorithm is performed to strengthen the emotion distribution estimation. Experimental results on real-world data reveal that our constructed emotion lexicon achieves promising results for emotion classification compared to the state-of-the-art lexicons.
Propulsion performance of a skeleton-strengthened fin

SUMMARY We examine numerically the performance of a thin foil reinforced by embedded rays resembling the caudal fins of many fishes. In our study, the supporting rays are depicted as nonlinear Euler–Bernoulli beams with three-dimensional deformability. This structural model is then incorporated into a boundary-element hydrodynamic model to achieve coupled fluid–structure interaction simulation. Kinematically, we incorporate both a homocercal mode with dorso-ventral symmetry and a heterocercal mode with dorso-ventral asymmetry. Using the homocercal mode, our results demonstrate that the anisotropic deformability of the ray-reinforced fin significantly increases its capacity of force generation. This performance enhancement manifests as increased propulsion efficiency, reduced transverse force and reduced sensitivity to kinematic parameters. Further reduction in transverse force is observed by using the heterocercal mode. In the heterocercal model, the fin also generates a small lifting force, which may be important in vertical maneuvers. Via three-dimensional flow visualization, a chain of vortex rings is observed in the wake. Detailed features of the wake, e.g. the orientation of the vortex rings in the heterocercal mode, agree with predictions based upon particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements of flow around live fish.
Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Parenthood, 1977-1997

Although many observers assume that balancing the often-competing demands of work and family has become increasingly difficult in recent decades, little research has explicitly examined this proposition. This study examines this question by drawing on data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey and the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. The author found that work-family conflict has increased during this period, particularly for men. In addition, marital, parental, and spouse’s employment status prove to be consistently important predictors of work-family conflict. Future research focusing on men’s experiences of conflict, examining conflict from the perspective of the family unit, and exploring the effects of workplace policies is suggested.
THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATIVE ELITES AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA ARGUMENT

Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presidential campaigns? Findings suggest that these criticisms of news media are at least partly strategic and reflect a dynamic relationship between political elites and journalists during a presidential campaign.
Spatiotemporal segmentation of MR image sequence based on hierarchical analysis

In this paper, a technique is described to segment blood volume of the left ventricle on MR image sequences based on graph representation. First, watershed transform is used to build an indexed hierarchy represented by a set of nested partitions of the image. The segmentation is based on two operations, the addition and suppression of classes or regions of the indexed hierarchy. These operations delete or include classes selected automatically and hierarchically according to centroid distance and grayscale criteria. Finally, we show experimental results and a preliminary comparison with the manual segmentation for one sequence of magnetic resonance images. The images are obtained from the informatics division of Institute do Coragao de Sao Paulo (In-Cor).
Factors affecting examination attrition: does academic support help? A survey of ACN203S (Cost Accounting and Control) students at Unisa

This study sought to determine the attributing and contributing factors to examination absence as well as whether the academic and social support available to students had a role to play in discouraging or reducing absence from examinations using results from a quantitative survey of ACN203S (Cost Accounting and Control) students who were admitted to but did not sit for the October/November 2011 and/or May/June 2012 ACN203S examinations. The results indicate that it is mainly non-academic factors that were responsible for examination absence, mainly work responsibilities that resulted in students not having enough time to study, and those who had enough time to study not to spend sufficient time studying. With regard to academic and social support, despite students indicating awareness and need for counselling, lecturer, tutorial and other support, their use of available support was minimal. This was attributed in part to not knowing how to explain their problems to the lecturer, having a view that the support would not be helpful and not having the time to contact support services.
FROM CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS TO CULTURE, ACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

For much of the post war period in the United States, sociological research on class consciousness has tended to be limited to and by survey methods, with the result that class consciousness has been viewed as a static, individuated phenomenon, abstracted from social action and the context of class practices. However, in recent years a body of work has developed, often based upon the concept of class formation rather than the ideationally bound concept of class consciousness, that holds more promise. By drawing upon historical, ethnographic, and participant observation techniques, this work challenges conventional approaches and points toward promising new directions for future research. This article reviews recent examples of sociological research that has sought to ground consciousness in cultural practices, in collective action, and in forms of social organization.
Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review

It is argued that the significance of the research assessment exercises (RAEs) does not reside primarily in their rationalisation of resources for research or in securing improvements in accountability for their expenditure, but, rather, in their contribution to legitimising the restructuring of higher education, which has included the withdrawal of research funding from an increasing proportion of academics and departments. Through a selective application of peer review procedures, the exercises have facilitated a simultaneous expansion of higher education with a reduction in unit costs. In turn, these reductions have further stimulated pressures and competition to attract privately funded projects as a way of supporting or maintaining resource flows into universities. The article focuses upon two related issues: first, the progressive tightening of the coupling between research activity and 'the needs of industry', and, second, the use of a system that simulates peer review to legitimise this process.
Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America

Although there is a lively academic debate about contemporary populism in Europe and Latin America, almost no cross-regional research exists on this topic. This article aims to fill this gap by showing that a minimal and ideological definition of populism permits us to analyse current expressions of populism in both regions. Moreover, based on a comparison of four prototypical cases (FN/Le Pen and FPÖ/Haider in Europe and PSUV/Chávez and MAS/Morales in Latin America), we show that it is possible to identify two regional subtypes of populism: exclusionary populism in Europe and inclusionary populism in Latin America.
Teaching the Learner to Ask for Information.

Although asking for information is a function of first priority in almost all forms of dialogue, it is generally admitted that the teaching of questions is not very successful. A survey of widely used textbooks showed that the techniques most commonly employed were transformational and that they failed to satisfy four major criteria when they: 1) provided the learner with no motives for asking questions; 2) inhibited spontaneity in their asking; 3) provided no instructions for following up initial questions with further inquiries; and 4) actively encouraged error by cross-association. Some alternative exercises which avoid these criticisms are put forward.
Automatic medical image registration based on deviating measurement

An image registration technique based on the gray joint probability of two correlative images is developed and presented. In this paper, a new matching measurement is proposed, i.e. deviating measurement. This parameter quantifies aligning degree of two images, and an image registration scheme based on deviating measurement is developed. Comparing with other similarity measurement(such as normal mutual information), the calculation cost of this registration method is low. Experiment results show that this method is valid and fast.
Nawroty w uzale¿nieniu od alkoholu CzŒúÊ 3: Spo‡eczno-demograficzne i psychologiczne czynniki ryzyka Relapse in alcohol dependence Part 3: Socio-demographic and psychological risk factors

n Among factors related to patient relapse, social and demographic variables such as gender, age, marital status, employment, social support resources as well as psychological and biological characteristics were reported. Psychological predictors include negative mood states, craving, self- efficacy, limited skills to cope with high-risk events, neurocognitive abnormalities, impulsiveness and other personality traits. Comorbid psychopathology has also received much attention as a sig- nificant predictor of poor treatment outcomes in alcoholic patients. Among psychiatric disorders n affective, anxiety, personality disorders such as borderline and antisocial personality are particularly associated with a high risk of relapse to heavy drinking. Comorbid depression has been considered as probably the strongest risk factor for failure in maintaining abstinence. In addition to psychiatric diagnosis, severity of psychopathology also has been found to be more pronounced among patients who relapsed, compared to abstainers. Several studies reported relationships between anxiety and alcoholism. Anxiety promotes drinking (self-medication), substance misuse and can lead to relapse. Among personality disorders, borderline, avoidant and antisocial personality disorders are the most strongly associated with the risk for relapse in alcohol dependence.
Split Migration of Large Memory Virtual Machines

Recently, Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds provide VMs with a large amount of memory, e.g., X1 instances with 2 TB in Amazon EC2. Such large memory VMs make VMmigration difficult because VM migration needs sufficient free memory at the destination host. Even in clouds, it is costly to always reserve hosts with a large amount of free memory. This paper proposes S-memV, which enables split migration of large memory VMs. Split migration migrates a large memory VM to multiple hosts by dividing its memory. It transfers core information and frequently accessed memory of a VM to the main host, whereas it transfers infrequently accessed memory to the sub-hosts. When the VM requires the memory stored in the sub-hosts, S-memV performs remote paging between the main host and the sub-hosts. Since split migration is aware of remote paging, S-memV can keep the performance of migrated VMs. In addition to such one-to-N migration, split migration supports N-to-one and partial migration. We have implemented S-memV in KVM and showed that migration time was much shorter than that of the traditional migration with virtual memory.
ANFIS MODELLING, PARTIAL SHADING AND MPPT CONTROLLED HARDWARE ANALYSIS OF STAND ALONE PHOTOVOLTAIC WATER PUMPING SYSTEM

The solar photovoltaic power has received great attention and experienced impressive progress the countries all over the world in recent years because of more and more serious energy crisis and environmental pollution. Due to scarcity of fossil fuel and increasing demand of power supply, we are forced to utilize the renewable energy resources. Considering easy availability and vast potential, world has turned to solar photovoltaic energy to meet out its ever increasing energy demand. The mathematical modelling and simulation of the photovoltaic system is implemented in the MATLAB/Simulink environment and the same thing is tested and validated using Artificial Intelligent (AI) like ANFIS. This paper proposes an embedded controlled buck converter using PIC 16F877A microcontroller for standalone photovoltaic water pumping application with Incremental conductance algorithm as maximum power point tracker and the same thing is implemented in hardware application till the motor level. The simulated results are matching closely with the hardware results. The output of the controller, pulse generated from PWM can switch MOSFET to change the duty cycle of buck DC-DC converter. The result reveals that the maximum power point is tracked satisfactorily for varying insolation condition. Finally the performance of the photovoltaic array under partially shaded condition is also analysed for varying illumination level.
Linear mixed-effects models for within-participant psychology experiments: an introductory tutorial and free, graphical user interface (LMMgui)

Linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are increasingly being used for data analysis in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology, where within-participant designs are common. The current article provides an introductory review of the use of LMMs for within-participant data analysis and describes a free, simple, graphical user interface (LMMgui). LMMgui uses the package lme4 (Bates et al., 2014a,b) in the statistical environment R (R Core Team).
The Psychological Effect of Horticultural Therapy Intervention on Earthquake-Related Stress in Women of Earthquake-Related Areas

In this study, we provided horticultural therapy as an intervention to 54 adult women with earthquake-related stress from the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake along the coastline of Miyagi Prefecture. After two months of horticultural intervention, scores on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Positive Affect (PA), and the Japanese version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-J) improved significantly in the intervention group, and salivary cortisol concentration decreased significantly. Although subsequent retesting after a two-month follow-up period revealed no major changes in CAPS or PANAS-PA scores or salivary cortisol concentration, there was an increase in PTGI-J score. These findings suggest that horticultural therapy has an effect on the symptoms of earthquake-related stress in women, and that this effect may sustain.
Situation calculus and personalized web systems

Personalized systems are a response to the increasing number of resources on the Internet, but can be difficult to create. In order to facilitate the design and creation of such personalized systems, we aim at formalizing them. The situation calculus is a logical framework that has often been proposed to model web applications and even personalized ones. However, the details of its use are much more rarely explained. In this paper we will show that it is needed to carefully consider which variant of the situation calculus to choose. We will precisely show why we want to use the so-called guarded action theories. We explain why and how it fits into an architecture. We introduce two scenarios of personalized applications to illustrate this choice.
6 Traditional and Novel Caries Detection Methods

Dental caries is a bacteria-associated progressive process of the hard tissues of the coronal and root surfaces of teeth. The net demineralization may begin soon after tooth eruption in caries susceptible children without being recognized by dental professionals. This process may progress further resulting in a caries lesion that is the sign and/or the symptom of the carious process. Caries is in other words a continuum which may by assessed falsely when only a certain time point is considered. Figure 1 shows different stages of the carious process.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Assessment and Intervention of Children's Peer Relations

Recent advances in our understanding of children's peer relations have led to new models of assessment and intervention firmly rooted in developmental principles and practices. In this article, assessment and intervention efforts based on one contemporary approach to children's peer-related social competence are discussed in terms of their compatibility with developmentally appropriate practices for children without disabilities who are experiencing problems establishing productive relationships with their peers. In addition, children with Down syndrome serve as the reference group to illustrate how this model can be applied to children with disabilities. The extent to which this contemporary assessment and intervention approach can be carried out within the framework of developmentally appropriate practices while simultaneously addressing the special considerations presented by children with disabilities is examined.
TV Station Group and Cross-Media Ownership: A 1995 Update

This study of television ownership was undertaken against a background of industry turbulence and likely regulatory change to provide new data on TV station multiple ownership and local newspaper-TV cross-media ownership in 1995. It reveals that 75% of all TV stations in the top one hundred markets are licensed to multiple owners, with 22.5% affiliated with newspaper publishers. Local newspaper-TV cross-media ownerships have become rare, with only 19 of 734 stations in the top one hundred markets sharing ownership with a colocated newspaper. Of the 210 TV groups, about 10 are major entities, with perhaps 25 firms playing a significant role in the television industry at this time.
Occurrence Frequency of CO Outflows in Massive Protostellar Candidates

We mapped 12 massive protostellar candidates in the CO J = 2-1 line, which, in combination with Zhang et al., completes an unbiased survey of outflows for all 48 sources with l > 50° in a sample of 101 massive protostellar candidates. We detected outflows in 10 sources, implying 88% occurrence frequency of outflows for the 48 sources. This supports the conclusion of previous studies that bipolar outflows are an integral component in the formation process of massive stars. The vast majority of the observed outflows are much more massive (>10 M☉) and energetic (>100 M☉ km s-1) than outflows from low-mass protostars. They also have large mass outflow rates (>2 × 10-4 M☉ yr-1), suggesting large (~1 × 10-4 M☉ yr-1) accretion rates sufficient to overcome the radiation pressure of the central massive protostars. We compared the frequency distribution of collimation factors of 40 massive outflows including those of this study with that of 36 low-mass outflows from the literature and found no significant difference between the two. All these results are consistent with the suggestion that massive stars form through accretion as do low-mass stars but with much higher accretion rates.
Whole-blood Gene Expression Profiling in Ankylosing Spondylitis Shows Upregulation of Toll-like Receptor 4 and 5

Objective. To identify differentially expressed genes in peripheral blood cells (PBC) of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) relative to healthy controls and controls with systemic inflammation. Methods. We investigated PBC samples of 16 patients with AS and 14 matched controls, in addition to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) samples utilizing Illumina Human Ref-8 BeadChips. Candidate genes were confirmed using quantitative PCR. Subsequently, these genes were also validated in a separate sample of 27 patients with AS [before and after anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) treatment] and 27 matched controls. Results. We identified 83 differentially expressed transcripts between AS patients and controls. This gene list was filtered through the lists of differentially expressed transcripts in SLE and SSc, which resulted in identification of 52 uniquely dysregulated transcripts in AS. Many of the differentially expressed genes belonged to Toll-like receptor (TLR) and related pathways. TLR4 and TLR5 were the only dysregulated TLR subtypes among AS patients. We confirmed the overexpression of TLR4 and TLR5 in AS patients in comparison to controls (p = 0.012 and p = 0.006, respectively) and SLE (p = 0.002, p = 0.008) using quantitative PCR in the same sample. Similarly, TLR4 (p = 0.007) and TLR5 (p = 0.012) were significantly upregulated among the AS patients before anti-TNF treatment in the confirmatory sample. TLR4 (p = 0.002) and TLR5 (p = 0.025) decreased significantly after anti-TNF treatment. Conclusion. PBC gene expression profiling in AS shows an upregulation of TLR4 and TLR5. This supports the importance of TLR subtypes in the pathogenesis of AS that are responsible for the immune response to Gram-negative bacteria.
Depression after spinal cord injury: relation to gender, ethnicity, aging, and socioeconomic indicators.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation among aging, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic indicators, and depressive symptoms after spinal cord injury (SCI). DESIGN Survey was done to collect cross-sectional data. A mediational model was used to analyze the interrelationships between predictors and depressive outcome variables. SETTING A large Southeastern rehabilitation hospital. PARTICIPANTS Participants, identified from outpatient records who met the following inclusion criteria: (1) traumatic SCI; (2) at least 18 years old at the time of study; and (3) injured for at least 1 year. There was an initial pool of 1923 potential participants in 1997, of whom 1391 (72%) participated. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The Older Adult Health and Mood Questionnaire, a 22-item measure of depressive symptoms designed following Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III-R) criteria, was used to measure depression. It has been validated against clinical assessments by psychiatrists and psychologists. RESULTS Forty-eight percent of the participants reported clinically significant symptoms. Minority participants, particularly women, were at a substantially higher risk for depressive symptoms. This risk diminished but did not disappear after controlling for years of education and income, both of which were highly negatively correlated with depressive symptoms. Aging factors were modestly positively correlated with depression, although education or income did not mediate these associations. CONCLUSIONS Symptoms of depression are highly prevalent after SCI and are related to aging, gender or ethnicity, and socioeconomic status indicators (education and income).