Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hamming Distance Encoding Multihop Relation Knowledge Graph Completion

Knowledge graphs (KGs) play an important role in many real-world applications like information retrieval, question answering, relation extraction, etc. To reveal implicit knowledge from a knowledge graph (KG), viz. knowledge graph completion (KGC), is a crucial task for the downstream applications based on KG. For this purpose various embedding-based approaches have been proposed recently. This paper proposes a new approach named HRESCAL to KGC. It extends the well-known embedding-based approach RESCAL by introducing Hamming distance-based encoder to capture implicit multihop and partial inverse relation features in a KG. Experimental results on widely used KGC benchmarks show that the new approach achieves state-of-the-art or is competitive AUC performance.
Neuromorphic Computing with Phase Change, Device Reliability, and Variability Challenges

Neuromorphic computing with analog memory can accelerate deep neural networks (DNNs) by enabling multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations to occur within memory. Analog memory, however, presents a number of device-level challenges having macro-implications on the achievable accuracy and reliability of these artificial neural networks. This paper focuses on the adverse effects of conductance drift in phase-change memory (PCM) on network reliability. It is shown that conductance drift can be effectively compensated in a variety of networks by applying a ‘slope correction’ technique to the squashing functions to maintain accuracy/reliability for a period of ~1 year. In addition to conductance drift, PCM poses considerable variability challenges, which impact the accuracy of the initial t0 weights. This paper summarizes recent advances in optimizing t0 weight programming, and provides evidence suggesting that the combination of ‘slope correction’ and programming optimization techniques may allow DNN acceleration using analog memory while maintaining software-equivalent accuracy with reasonable reliability.
Estilos relacionales parentales y ajuste adolescente

Resumen En este artículo se presentan los resultados de un estudio realizado sobre una muestra de 848 adolescentes de edades comprendidas entre los 12 y los 17 años, que cumplimentaron un cuestionario que incluía una escala con 6 dimensiones sobre su percepción del estilo parental o relacional materno y paterno y otros instrumentos para evaluar el ajuste adolescente. La realización de un análisis de conglomerados a partir de las puntuaciones en las 6 dimensiones que componían la escala reveló la existencia de tres grupos de padres y de madres que fueron definidos como democráticos, estrictos e indiferentes. El trabajo ofrece un modelo de categorización de las relaciones entre padres e hijos que posee un carácter bidireccional y que incluye dimensiones como la revelación, el humor y la promoción de autonomía, que enriquecen la perspectiva clásica basada exclusivamente en las dimensiones de afecto y disciplina. El estilo materno y el paterno fueron evaluados por separado encontrándose una alta coincidencia entre ambos estilos, que además mostraron una relación muy significativa con el ajuste de chicos y chicas.
Nitrogen source influences wild mustard growth and competitive effect on sweet corn

Abstract Manipulations of the soil environment can affect the growth and competitive ability of annual weeds because of the large influence that soil conditions exert on seedlings early in the growing season. Our objective was to identify soil nitrogen (N) management systems with weed suppression potential. We hypothesized that competition from wild mustard against sweet corn would be weaker when N was supplied by organic sources (organic) or a split application of NH4NO3 fertilizer applied at planting and 4 wk thereafter (split) than when NH4NO3 fertilizer was applied in a single dose at planting (early). This hypothesis was tested in a 2-yr field experiment conducted in central Maine. Wild mustard's maximal relative growth rate (RGR) was 12% lower (P < 0.05) in 1997 and 1998, and the amount of time needed to achieve maximal RGR was delayed by 0.8 d (P < 0.05) in 1997 in the organic compared to the early treatment. The competitive effect of wild mustard on sweet corn yield was lower in the organic treatment than in the early and split treatments in 1 of 2 yr. In 1997, competition from wild mustard reduced marketable ear yields of sweet corn by 30%, but the magnitude of yield reduction did not differ between the three N addition treatments. In contrast, in 1998, sweet corn yield in the organic treatment was not reduced by weed competition, whereas yield loss in the early and split treatments was 20 and 35%, respectively. The mechanisms underlying selective suppression of weeds, but not crops, by organic N sources require further attention. Nomenclature: Red clover, Trifolium pratense L. , ‘Mammoth’; spring wheat, Triticum aestivum L. , ‘Belvedere’; sweet corn, Zea mays L. ‘Clockwork’; wild mustard, Brassica kaber (D.C.) L.C. Wheeler SINAR.
UAV-assisted Online Video Downloading in Vehicular Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Online video becomes a significant service in daily life, and it usually adopts a caching and playing mechanism. Due to high mobility and changeable topology, challenges of video downloading still exist in vehicular networks, especially in areas where the roadside units (RSUs) are not fully covered. The flexible deployment of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) compensate for the lack of RSU coverage, and thus this paper considers that a cyclic flight UAV to assist RSUs in providing video download services for vehicles. With the help of UAV, seamless communication coverage and stable transmission links ensure better service quality for vehicles. In addition, we propose a model-free algorithm based on a deep Q network to find the optimal UAV decision policy to achieve the minimized stalling time. Finally, the simulation results are given to demonstrate that the proposed solution can effectively maintain a high-quality user experience.
Preliminary Characterization of Capacitive Intrabody Communication Channel under Implantable-Like Conditions

In intrabody communication (IBC) conductive properties of the human body are exploited for establishing communication between devices on, in, or very near the human body. Usually, galvanic coupling is used for establishing communication with implanted devices, and capacitive coupling for communication with the devices on or very close to the skin. It was shown recently that capacitive IBC electrodes can be used for establishing communication with implanted devices as well, and first implantable capacitive IBC channel investigations were performed on human body phantoms, animal tissue, and by numerical simulations. In this paper, we present the first in vivo measurements of in-body to on-body capacitive IBC channel emulated by body-worn electrodes and compare it to an equivalent on-body to on-body IBC link. In-body to on-body channel was realized placing transmitter electrodes under the armpit and taking different body positions, while covering transmitter electrodes with tissue. Measurements of transmission characteristics were performed in the frequency range between 100 kHz and 100 MHz using a network analyzer and a pair of symmetrical balun transformers.
The Potential Use of Dietary Salt Deficiency for the Force Resting of Laying Hens

Abstract Two experiments using a total of 240 laying hens housed in individual cages were conducted to evaluate dietary salt deficiency as a potential tool for the force resting of laying hens. The control group of hens received the corn-soy diet with 0.25% added salt. Another group of hens received a basal corn-soy diet with no added salt for six weeks then was returned to the control diet. The third group was subjected to the force molting technique recommended by Wilson et al. (1969). The drinking water, given ad libitum, and the basal diet contained 26 p.p.m. and 270 p.p.m. sodium, respectively. Hen weight, feed consumption, egg production, egg weight and egg specific gravity were recorded throughout each experiment. Feed consumption and body weight of hens receiving the low salt diet (Treatment 2) or forced molted (Treatment 3) decreased significantly and egg production ceased during the molt period. The reproductive organs of hens fed the low salt diet regressed to about 25% of the original size. When hens were returned to control feed, recovery was complete with significant increases in egg weight and egg specific gravity for hens on treatment two. Egg production was significantly higher for both the hens which received low salt and those force molted, compared to the control birds during the post molt period. The results of the experiments indicated that dietary salt deficiency is effective for the force resting of laying hens.
Bill Hamilton, sexual selection, and parasites.

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Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors and Magnetic Fluids: Plasmonic Tunability and Sensing properties for Measurements

The optical properties of multimode plastic optical fibers (POFs) could be used for both the monitoring of magnetic field and for the tuning of plasmonic phenomenon, when a magnetic fluid was deposited on its cladding and it is connected in input to a plasmonic POF sensor. In this case, a magnetic field exerts a bending force on the POF covered with magnetic fluid, thus producing a variation of light in input to the plasmonic POF sensor and changing the plasmonic phenomenon. In particular, the focus of this work is the assessment of the tuning mechanism for the plasmonic phenomenon, which has been performed through a dedicated measurement approach. Preliminary experimental results are here presented to demonstrate how this approach can be used to change several plasmonic parameters, such as the sensitivity and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This approach could be used in biosensing applications, where even smaller variation of the plasmonic response can significantly improve the detection of substances.
Intranasal tooth in Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

ABSTRACT A rare case of the dental anomaly, viz., intranasal tooth was observed in a female Japanese macaque monkey (Macaca fuscata) (K-105) from Kinkazan Island, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan. Intranasal tooth is an ectopic tooth erupted into the nasal cavity. The intranasal tooth of K-105 is a left P4 based on the morphology, and is not a supernumerary tooth. Intranasal tooth is one symptom, but, its etiology may be divided into two; one is the problem of tooth germ's development that causes intranasal teeth as supernumerary teeth, and another is the problem of tooth germ's migration that causes intranasal teeth as missing teeth from the dentition. In our sample, the tooth germ of the left P4 probably moved from the normal position to the nasal floor in an early life stage and developed there. The crown proportion is different from the typical P4 in the Kinkazan specimens. K-105 has relatively short buccolingual breadths of P4 on both sides. The intranasal tooth may have been an obstacle to breathing to some extent, yet K-105 survived until adulthood. The disadvantage of having an intranasal tooth in this case was not serious.
Youth, social change and inequality

Since the mid to late 1990s major structural changes have been taking place that have brought about a significant reconfiguration of what it means to be young across the globe. Old models of transitions from school to work have been replaced, and adulthood is being either delayed or reconstituted (France, 2016a). One significant change that has contributed to this has been the “massification” of higher education. Large numbers of young people now stay in education after 16 seeing university as a necessary step to getting a job. This combined with the expansion of the vocational training sector means that young people today have become the most educated generation on record with “. 82% of younger adults having attained at least upper secondary education compared to 64% of older adults” (OECD, 2014, p. 31). The idea of leaving school and getting a job at 16 as the normal pathway into adulthood has now virtually vanished, being replaced by education and training. In fact, as a result of anxieties over those not in education, employment or training (NEETs) a number of countries such as the UK, Australia and Canada are normalising this by making education and training compulsory up to the age of 18. While the young can still work, the option of being unemployed is being seen as unacceptable (France, 2016a). Of course alongside this we have seen major changes taking place in the youth labour market. Since the early 2000s youth unemployment has been a structural feature of the youth labour market. While it declined between 2005 and 2007 throughout the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) it rocketed reaching heights in some parts of the world of over 50% of the youth population (ILO, 2013). In fact throughout this period young people were three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and they made up almost half of the world’s total unemployed (ILO, 2016). While youth unemployment has, on average, slowly declined, in some parts of the world it has remained static and entrenched, creating major problems for policy makers (ILO, 2016). Of course part of this arises because fewer jobs are being
Studies on the release of sugar into the vessels of sugar maple (Acer saccharum)

The release of sucrose into the vessel water of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) has been investigated with biochemical and enzyme-cytochemical methods. The amount of sucrose released into the vessels in isolated stem segments was found to be temperature-dependent. The release of sucrose also proved to be inhibited when p-chloromercuribenzoate as an inhibitor of respiratory enzymes was present in the vessels. This suggests that the sucrose release is dependent upon the respiratory activity of some cells. In the cytochemical studies much increased activity of respiratory enzymes (succinate, NAD-dependent isocitrate, and alcohol dehydrogenases) and of acid phosphatases could be demonstrated in the contact cells of the ray and axial parenchyma. Phosphatase activity was concentrated on the large pits between contact cells and vessels. These increased enzyme activities in contact cells were restricted to the time when sucrose appeared in the vessels. Since contact cells are the only cells of the ray and axi.
Physical Cell ID Detection Probability Using Synchronization Signals of NB-IoT Radio Interface in 28-GHz Band

This paper presents the physical-layer cell identity (PCID) detection probability using the narrowband primary synchronization signal (NPSS) and narrowband secondary synchronization signal (NSSS) based on the narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) radio interface considering frequency offset and the maximum Doppler frequency in the 28-GHz band. Simulation results show that autocorrelation based NPSS detection achieves almost the same PCID detection probability as that for cross-correlation based NPSS detection using frequency offset estimation and compensation before the NPSS received timing detection, while the former achieves a lower level of computational complexity than the latter. We also show that when using autocorrelation based NPSS detection, the loss in the PCID detection probability at the carrier frequency of $f_{c}=28$ GHz compared to that for $f_{c}=3.5$ GHz is only approximately 5% at the average received SNR of 0dB when the frequency error of a temperature compensated crystal oscillator of a set of user equipment (UE) is 20 ppm. Therefore, we conclude that the multiplexing schemes and sequences of NPSS and NSSS based on the NB-IoT radio interface associated with autocorrelation based NPSS detection will be applicable to the 28-GHz frequency spectra.
Woodland regeneration in relation to grazing and fencing in Coed Gorswen, north Wales.

(1) Seedling regeneration of tree species was studied in woodland composed primarily of oak, alder, ash, rowan and hawthorn. (2) Species diversity and abundance of seedlings and saplings did not reflect the relative abundances of mature trees. Most seedlings were of ash but most saplings of sycamore and ash. Oak regeneration was almost non-existent. (3) The effects of grazing on regeneration were studied by comparing species diversity and numbers of seedlings and saplings in fenced and unfenced 0.1 ha plots. There were many seedlings throughout the plots, but in unfenced, grazed plots, few seedlings survived beyond 2 yr. Sycamore seemed most susceptible to grazing and hawthorn least susceptible. (4) Observations made on seedlings and saplings when sheep broke into fenced areas suggest that grazing pressure may reduce sycamore regeneration without influencing that of ash and rowan. (5) In fenced areas, saplings of sycamore and ash had the greatest probabilities of filling gaps caused by death of mature trees. In unfenced grazed areas, saplings of hawthorn and ash were the most likely to replace mature trees.
LoRaWAN Performances for Underground to Aboveground Data Transmission

The aim of this paper is to discuss the usability of the LoRa transmission technology together with the LoRaWAN protocol for underground monitoring activities. In particular, the paper focuses on the transmission performances in different conditions (i.e., different antennas, different Spreading Factors and different burial depths), for an underground-to-aboveground (UG2AG) communication. The theoretical achievable value for RSSI is calculated and is then compared with the real values achieved by means of field measurements. While the obtained results on field are slightly worse than the theoretical ones, due to additional unpredictable losses and attenuation, their trends are consistent with the estimated ones and demonstrate the feasibility of UG2AG LoRaWAN transmission channels. Such a kind of system may be crucial in several application scenarios, like for example environmental monitoring or smart agriculture, where the real-time, remote acquisition of underground parameters at different depths is required.
Decision and Reasoning in Incompleteness or Uncertainty Conditions

When we try to solve new or known problems to which we want to give new solutions, we create new knowledge and realize new discoveries. To date, the scientific methods have used the probability in order to analyze problems, make inference and build forecasts. However, everyone agreed that most problems do not follow standard probabilistic rules. In this study we will build an uncertainty logic by using the concept of probability, with those of plausibility, credibility and possibility. We will provide several models which treats uncertainty information and allow to perform more reliable forecasts. After that, we will prove the models reliability through a final simulation on the Biometrics and Sport fields using one of the models; these simulation are fully replicabile for each field and for each of the provided models.
Larval settlement patterns, dispersal potential, and the effect of temperature on settlement of larvae of the reef coral, Platygyra daedalea, from the Great Barrier Reef

This study examined the initial larval settlement pattern, the settlement-competency period, and the effect of temperature on settlement rates of larvae of the broadcast spawning reef coral, Platygyra daedalea, from the Great Barrier Reef. Approximately 19% of larvae attached to settlement substrata 3-4 days after spawning (DAS), prior to complete larval metamorphosis and permanent settlement, which began at 4-6 DAS. This early larval attachment behaviour could enhance the retention of some P. daedalea larvae on, or near, their natal reefs, thereby allowing some degree of self-seeding of local populations. In contrast, the maximum larval settlement-competency period was 93-105 DAS, with the peak period of larval settlement occurring at 36-42 DAS and 33-41 DAS in repeated experiments over two years. The delayed period of peak settlement and the extended competency periods of these larvae indicate that there is considerable potential for meso-scale and long-distance dispersal of some P. daedalea larvae. Slightly elevated temperatures enhanced the development and settlement rates of P. daedalea larvae, which suggests that seawater temperature may be an important factor influencing patterns of coral larval settlement on coral reefs.