Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Model of Text-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Representation Learning with Collaborative Attention

This paper proposes a novel collaborative attention mechanism, to fully utilize the mutually reinforcing relationship among the knowledge graph representation learning procedure (i.e., structure representation) and textual relation representation learning procedure (i.e., text representation). Based on this collaborative attention mechanism, a text-enhanced knowledge graph (KG) representation model is proposed, which could utilize textual information to enhance the knowledge representations and make the multi-direction signals to be fully integrated to learn more accurate textual representations for further improving structure representation and vice versa. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed model on both link prediction task and triple classification task.
Sieving Interior Collinear Points for Convex Hull Algorithms

(FCS’15) The convex hull of a set of points, Q, denoted by CH(Q), is the smallest convex polygon that encloses all the points of P. Each point in the convex hull is either on the boundary of P or in its interior. Traditional algorithms such as Graham's Scan, Jarvis March, and QuickHull use all the points in Q as input to obtain the CH(Q). This research developed a pre-processing “sieve” algorithm that reduces the number of points necessary to compute the CH(Q). Given a set Q with integer coordinates, an O(n) sieve algorithm “filters” interior collinear points from Q into a reduced set of sieve points SP. This reduces the number of points necessary to compute the CH(Q) and improves the overall performance of the traditional convex hull algorithms. The sieve points remain a superset of the hull points; SP ⊃ CH(Q). A program has been created to test the correctness of the sieve algorithm[4][8][9]. Using a uniform distribution of points, the program has shown that |SP| << |Q|.
ESCAPE TO MAYHEM ? TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ATTENDEES ’ MOTIVATIONS AT A HEAVY METAL FESTIVAL

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyse motivations for attending Download Festival. This study further seeks to add to music festival literature, with focus on the heavy metal genre. Primary data were collected using Iso-Ahola’s (1987) motivation frameworka survey of 264 visitors was conducted. Seventeen motivational items were factor analysed resulting in five factors: event experience, event curiosity, socialisation, escape and band affiliation. Results of this study identified two new motivating factors, ‘event experience’ and ‘event curiosity’. The underlying results suggest that motivations for attending a heavy metal festival are unique to the heavy metal genre.
Effect of Hypoxia on the Induction of Premature Cellular Senescence in the Cells of Periodontium during Orthodontic Tooth Loading

During orthodontic treatment, application of forces to move the teeth within the dento-alveolar complex is associated with structural and biological tissues changes. One of the main changes is hypoxia which is due to the compression of blood vessels resulting in insufficient oxygenation of the tissues. On orthodontic loading, hypoxia causes irreversible cell cycle arrest (or so called cellular senescence) and apoptosis of the tissue cells around the teeth especially on the compression zone. Excessive hypoxia, in turn leads to a massive, an inevitable and detrimental destruction of tissues supporting the tooth such as remarkable root resorption. This mini-review is highlighting the effect of orthodontic force in inducing a local hypoxic environment and its consequences in causing cells death of the periodontal cells.
Core Specific Block Tagging ( CSBT ) based Thread Migration Model for Single ISA Heterogeneous Multi-core Processors

The proposition of a single ISA heterogeneous multi-core architecture as a mechanism for saving power sparked the revolution of experimenting with various thread to core assignment and migration policies. This paper proposes a compiler based approach for migration, which takes into account the ILP inherent in a given instruction sequence (of a thread). In this mechanism, the compiler splits a thread into blocks, tags a block to a core based the underlying core architecture and optimizes the split. During execution, the thread is migrated between cores based on the tags such that power used is minimized without a negative impact on the overall performance. The paper also proposes a mathematical model for the migration policy and derives an expression for the maximum number of parallelizable and non-parallelizable blocks an assembly code could have, up to which migration would be favorable. We have shown by simulations that our migration policy provides better performance/power ratio when compared to assignment of the entire thread to a single
Formation of the symbolic function through the thematic social role-play in preschool

Antecedentes. La funcion simbolica es una formacion psicologica que se complejiza en la edad preescolar por medio del juego tematico de roles sociales. El metodo de juego de roles es una propuesta innovadora que ha sido trabajada y desarrollada dentro del enfoque de la pedagogia historicocultural en educacion y psicologia en esta edad del desarrollo. Se ha observado en varios estudios que, a partir de este tipo de juegos, diversas habilidades psiquicas logran afianzarse, por lo cual resulta relevante abordar las particularidades de dichas actividades y el impacto que generan en los ninos.
ICT Faculties' Usage in the UAE Private Universities: A Case Study

This study raises the question of the ICT usage in Education. A particular focus was put on the UAE private universities implementation of the Learning Management Systems and their engagement in terms of uses. A number of semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of academicians selected from four private universities in the UAE, in order to identify the experience of using Blackboard and Moodle. The result showed that the sample faces challenges of transformation of curriculum and learning process, mainly in some programs related to colleges of humanities and social sciences. To boost the use of technology in these programs, respondents claimed many recommendations, such as implementing platforms that recognize the Arabic language and organizing orientations and training sessions for both faculties and students.
Commentary : Increasing Differences Between Firms : Market Power and the Macroeconomy Valerie A

This fine paper by John Van Reenen surveys the emerging evidence on global declines in labor shares and rising concentration and evaluates recent arguments that these are signs of distortions caused by rising market power. This paper makes a valuable contribution by critically evaluating the existing evidence, including Van Reenen’s own work and with Autor, Dorn, Katz and Patterson, as well as the competing arguments and stories. The paper also asks the important question: How should policymakers respond?
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF DATA MINING CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES IN MEDICAL IMAGE DATABASES

Modern medicine generates a great deal of information stored in the medical database. Extracting useful data and making scientific decision for diagnosis and treatment of disease from the database increasingly becomes necessary. We propose a Heart diseases Prediction System for the society to prevent the cause of the death. We have applied Naïve-Bayes and ID3 algorithms and have compared both results. So we are analyzing heart disease patient to identify which treatment is most effective one and provide better result. Keywords— Heart disease, Data mining, KDD, Classification, Classifier
Contaminants in the Watershed : Implications for Hawaiian Stream Biota

In aquatic systems throughout the world, urban and agricultural activities have resulted in elevated concentrations of organochlorine pesticides and metals. At sites on two Hawaiian Islands, O‘ahu and Kaua‘i, streambed sediment and fishes were analyzed for organic and metal contaminants; benthic invertebrates were collected for analysis of community composition and structure; and physical habitat characteristics were recorded. Sites were selected to represent a gradient of development from high-intensity urban to undeveloped (forested) areas. Many of the sites had both urban and agricultural development in the watershed. Concentrations of many organic and metal contaminants at the developed sites exceeded criteria for the protection of fish and benthic aquatic invertebrates, and the wildlife that consume them, and indicate potential deleterious effects. Streams in developed watersheds had elevated concentrations of organochlorine pesticides used for termite control (dieldrin and chlordane) and DDT. Concentrations of metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead, and zinc in sediment from developed areas were substantially higher than concentrations measured in undeveloped areas. Differences in macroinvertebrate species composition, diversity, and abundance were associated with elevated concentrations of contaminants at the developed sites compared with the undeveloped sites. The persistence of these contaminants, their tendency to accumulate in sediment and biota, and their potentially harmful effects are of concern for the management and protection of stream biota in Hawaiian watersheds.
Influence of SPECT reconstruction algorithms in the improvement of SNR in cardiac imaging

Cardiac SPECT images often suffer from a number of degrading factors including depth-dependent spatial blurring, attenuation, scatter and low data counts. Thus, researchers have been working on developing a variety of reconstruction methods incorporating scatter correction (SC), resolution recovery (RR), noise supression and attenuation correction (AC). The goal of this work is to study the accuracy of absolute and relative measurements, and how these degrading factors impact on the reconstructed myocardium when different methods are used for half-time acquisitions. The reconstruction software used were WBR (UltraSPECT, Ltd.) and Evolution for Cardiac (GE Healthcare) with and without CT-based AC. The comparison between algorithms was made based on raw and normalized counts, severity and SRS values. Overall, some statistically significant differences were noted between parameters obtained with different methods, which makes decision only based on them somewhat unreliable. The results obtained confirm the usefulness of AC in addition to RR, but they should be evaluated next to NC images to avoid undervaluation of a lesion. The assessment of the RCA and LCX territory seems to benefit most from it.
Design of Low Power Vedic Multiplier Using Adaptive Hold Logic

248 Abstract—Now a days, the growth of portable devices are increasing prominently. So, the designers need to l imit the high power consumption in the devices. Digital Multiplication is most commonly used in the arithmetic operations in many applications like digital signal processing, discre t cosine transform and in various scientific arithmetic circuits. Overall performance of the VLSI system is mainly depends on the multiplier. Furthermore, the negative bias temperature instability effects when pMOS transistors are stresed under negative bias. As a result, it leads to threshold v oltage is increase and also multiplier speed is reducing. Positive bia s temperature instability occurs, when nMOS transistors are stresed under positive bias. From these both effects, transistor speed is degraded and timing violation occurs due to system failure. Hence, the circuit is significant to design high pe rformance multipliers. In this paper, a Vedic multiplier with AHL circuit helps to increase the performance of the multiplier . The design of Vedic multiplier is able to provide low power consumption through AHL circuit and also to reduce timing violations. Finally, the experimental results analyze that 4x4 Vedic multiplier with AHL can achieve low power and delay as compared to Vedic multiplier without AHL by using the Tanner EDA tool.
Leaving Elsevier's "big deal": an evaluation of the Italian National Institute of Health experience inside the Bibliosan Consortium

In 2011 the Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS), the Italian National Institute of Health, has been forced, due to economic reason, to leave the Bibliosan Consortium contract with the publisher Elsevier. The contract, following the “big deal” model, provided for the maintenance of paper subscriptions and the payment of an additional fee for the whole electronic collection (more than 2,000 journal titles). The continuous increase of annual costs has led to unsustainable growth in costs and to the subsequent cancellation of the contract. This meant that more than 500 researchers of the Institute have suddenly had access to just 180 Elsevier current titles instead of the previous 2,000. The study traces the various stages which led to taking this unavoidable decision to cut about half of the Elsevier’s journals and analyzes its impact.
Multi-class Gaussian process classification of single-trial MEG based on frequency specific latent features extracted with linear binary classifiers

This report summarizes the modeling challenge held in conjunction with the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2011 and sponsored by the PASCAL2 Challenge Programme. The challenge aimed at promoting awareness of the task “mind reading” or “brain decoding” based on magnetoencephalography (MEG) data. For neuroscientists, the task provides a practical tool for understanding brain process underlying perception, since any mechanism that can be used for inferring the stimulus on the basis of brain activity must be related to processing of the stimulus. For machine learners and other modelers, the challenge provides an interesting real-world application playground for solving active machine learning problems such as multi-view learning and covariate shift. The task was to infer from one-second time windows the type of visual stimulus shown to the subject. The best brain decoders, out of the 10 submissions, reached almost 70% accuracy in the task with mere 23% chancelevel, proving that even a short MEG measurement can be sufficient for brain decoding tasks with a reasonable number of stimulus categories.
Mycelial growth rate and toxin production in the seed pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda: Resource trade-offs and temporally varying selection

Pyrenophora semeniperda, an important pathogen in Bromus tectorum seed banks in semi-arid western North America, exhibits >4-fold variation in mycelial growth rate. Host seeds exhibit seasonal changes in dormancy that affect the risk of pathogen-caused mortality. The hypothesis tested is that contrasting seed dormancy phenotypes select for contrasting strategies for increasing pathogen fitness, and that increased fitness on nondormant seeds involves a resource trade-off between toxin production and growth. The strategy for successfully attacking rapidly germinating nondormant seeds at high inoculum loads in autumn involves increased post-infection aggressiveness to prevent seed escape through germination. An earlier study demonstrated that slow-growing strains caused higher mortality than faster-growing strains on nondormant host seeds at high inoculum loads. In this study, production of the toxin cytochalasin B was significantly higher in slower-growing strains, and was induced only in seeds or in seed-constituent-containing media. Its production was reduced in vivo by Bromus tectorum seeds, suggesting direct involvement in pathogenesis on seeds. Fast-growing strains caused significantly higher mortality than slow-growing strains at low inoculum loads on dormant seeds, which apparently have resistance that is overcome at high loads or through rapid mycelial proliferation. In a co-inoculation study, the fast-growing isolate produced 3 9 more stromata than the slow-growing isolate on dormant seeds, whereas the slow-growing isolate was twice as successful on nondormant seeds. These results provide evidence that mycelial growth rate variation and associated variation in cytochalasin B production represent a trade-off maintained through temporally varying selection resulting from seasonal variation in host seed dormancy status.
A Study on the Efficiency of VSP ( Venture Support Policy ) from the Concept of ‘ Ease of Use ’ and ‘ Experience ’ Perspective , Using Integrated Model with TRA and TAM In

This study is to examine constructs influencing the acceptance of SMEs for VSPs and the efficiency of VSPs, based on the two theories theory of reasoned action (TRA) and technology acceptance model (TAM) in the context of venture support program in Korea. This study concentrates on the government’s venture support policy (VSP), namely the examination of the efficiency of current government VSPs in terms of preferential treatment for SMEs experiencing many other venture support programs (the EXP policy), and the reduction of documents/processes related to venture support programs for SMEs so that they are easily accessible and implementable (the EASE policy). Additionally, this paper will suggest an effective way to encourage SMEs to succeed by analyzing the fundamental reasons for their acceptance of VSPs to attain their long-term goals.
Modern approaches to the rehabilitation of the drug addicts

The aim of the presented paper is to analyze the approaches to the non-pharmaceutical rehabilitation of the drug addicts based on the example of the Social and Rehabilitative Centre «Roza Vetrov» of the municipal pedagogic institution «Podrostok». The following rehabilitative approaches were used: (1) labor and environmental rehabilitation; (2) group and family psychotherapy; (3) different trainings; (4) supported employment and workplace accommodation. Destigmatization is an obligatory psychotherapeutical procedure starting the rehabilitation. Rehabilitative environment is a special micro social group with adjusted behavior. Trainings are a complex of psycho corrective procedures with different targets. Adaptive psychotherapy is the necessary part of the rehabilitation and bringing the patients back to the micro social group they are used to be a member of. Family psychotherapy is performed by discussing the problems of co-abuse, possible options of manipulative behavior in drug addicts and their families. At the stage of workplace accommodation and professional orientation behavior modes are formed, necessary for successful entry into the professional labor.
A Survey of Software Requirements Engineering Practices in Turkey

Quality software products and services are becoming increasingly important as computers and smart devices are used widely. To be achieved the required levels of quality it is crucial to give importance to the software development process. The success of the software products and services depends on the accuracy and completeness of the requirements. Despite the importance of the issue, studies carried out about requirements engineering practices related to Turkey are very limited. In this study, we aimed to find out and characterize a high-level view of requirements engineering implementations in the Turkish software industry. To achieve this objective, we designed an online survey based on the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). Although our data are not sufficient the research shows that, to draw statistically significant results, it appears that industries under regulation typically have more well-defined requirement engineering practices.
ST ] 2 2 A ug 2 01 9 Iterative Collaborative Filtering for Sparse Matrix Estimation

We consider sparse matrix estimation where the goal is to estimate an n×nmatrix from noisy observations of a small subset of its entries. We analyze the estimation error of the popularly utilized collaborative filtering algorithm for the sparse regime. Specifically, we propose a novel iterative variant of the algorithm, adapted to handle the setting of sparse observations. We establish that as long as the fraction of entries observed at random scale as log 1+κ n for any fixed κ > 0, the estimation error with respect to the max-norm decays to 0 as n → ∞ assuming the underlying matrix of interest has constant rank r. Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA; borgs@microsoft.com Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA; jchayes@microsoft.com Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; devavrat@mit.edu Cornell University, Ithaca NY; cleeyu@cornell.edu 1
Alleviation of shoot tip necrosis in in vitro propagation of Salvia santolinifolia, Boiss

Shoots of Salvia santolinifolia can be regenerated and multiplied on MS medium containing 3.0 mg/l of BA. Shoot tip necrosis has been noticed to be the main preventive factor in in vitro shoots regeneration. The necrosis of shoots appeared with the yellowing of top leaves following burn of leaf and finally death of whole shoots. The intensity of shoots tip necrosis were found more in elongated shoots (5-7 cm) whereas shoots less than 5-7 cm the frequency of shoots tip necrosis were low. Various factors such as strength of the media, charcoal and different combination of nutrients have been investigated for reducing the occurrence of shoot necrosis. Shoots tip necrosis can be reduced (0-10 %) by increasing the level of calcium in combination with increased concentrations of Magnesium (Mg) Manganese (Mn) and Iron (Fe) of MS medium containing 3.0 mg/l of BA. Apart from calcium, subculture interval also reduced shoot tip necrosis still at low level. Transfer of shoots showing easily signs of necrosis to half strength MS medium supplemented with BA (3.0 mg/l). All the additive including Activity charcoal promoted shoot tip necrosis and inhibited shoots multiplication.
Beyond CPAP in OSA

In the early days, the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was surgical therapy, by performing permanent tracheostomy, which could bypass the site of obstruction in the upper airway. Since its description in 1981 by Sullivan and colleagues, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, that could alleviate upper airway obstruction through air-pressure ‘splinting’ of collapsible upper airway segments, has become the treatment of choice for OSA. But, an alternative treatment may be required if CPAP is not feasible for medical or psychological reasons. Also, it has been shown that severely symptomatic patients with frequent apnea/hypoapnea readily improve with CPAP therapy, but in asymptomatic patients there is no measurable benefit and hence compliance with CPAP is much less in such patients. There are a multitude of other treatment options for OSA, which can be broadly classified into conservative, apparative, pharmacological and surgical methods.
Encoder Graph Module Decoder Input : Text Output : Tags ... Encoder

Most modern Information Extraction (IE) systems are implemented as sequential taggers and only model local dependencies. Non-local and non-sequential context is, however, a valuable source of information to improve predictions. In this paper, we introduce GraphIE, a framework that operates over a graph representing a broad set of dependencies between textual units (i.e. words or sentences). The algorithm propagates information between connected nodes through graph convolutions, generating a richer representation that can be exploited to improve word-level predictions. Evaluation on three different tasks — namely textual, social media and visual information extraction — shows that GraphIE consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art sequence tagging model by a significant margin.1