Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Towards Information Quality Assurance in Spanish: Wikipedia

Featured Articles (FA) are considered to be the best articles that Wikipedia has to offer and in the last years, researchers have found interesting to analyze whether and how they can be distinguished from “ordinary” articles. Likewise, identifying what issues have to be enhanced or fixed in ordinary articles in order to improve their quality is a recent key research trend. Most of the approaches developed to face these information quality problems have been proposed for the English Wikipedia. However, few efforts have been accomplished in Spanish Wikipedia, despite being Spanish, one of the most spoken languages in the world by native speakers. In this respect, we present a breakdown of Spanish Wikipedia’s quality flaw structure. Besides, we carry out studies with three different corpora to automatically assess information quality in Spanish Wikipedia, where FA identification is evaluated as a binary classification task. Our evaluation on a unified setting allows to compare with the English version, the performance achieved by our approach on the Spanish version. The best results obtained show that FA identification in Spanish, can be performed with an F1 score of 0.88 using a document model consisting of only twenty six features and Support Vector Machine as classification algorithm.
Impact of conservation tillage on soil properties in rice- wheat cropping system

Rice-wheat cropping system is the predominant and most profitable cropping system and emerge as the major cropping system in the Indo-gangetic plains leading to the Green Revolution; Punjab, Haryana,Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) crescent has been the heartland of the Green Revolution (GR). It occupies an area about 65 mha in these states, out of this rice is grown on 40 mha and wheat on 25mha and this system contribute more than 70 % of total cereal production in India. In Asia, the rice-wheat system is grown on an estimated at 23.5 million ha, including China with about 10 million ha, and South Asia with about 13.5 million ha. The area of rice-wheat system in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal is 10.0, 2.2, 0.8, and 0.5 million ha, respectively. Rice-wheat systems represent 32 per cent of the total rice area and 42 per cent of the wheat area in these countries. Several problems associated to this system in the Indo-Gangtic plains, however, the major problems are reduction in organic matter of soil, depletion of water resources, lowering water quality and goundwater pollution, burning of residue, reduction in productivity, higher cost of production and environmental pollution. Due to these reasons the sustainability of rice-wheat system under great threat. Therefore, to achieve sustainable higher productivity, efforts must be focused on reversing the trend in natural resource degradation by adopting efficient resource conservation technologies. One of these RCT’s is Conservation tillage, conservation tillage practices generally result in higher amounts of soil organic matter (OM), reduced erosion, increased infiltration, increased water stable aggregates and greater microbial biomass carbon when compared to conventional tillage systems. In this paper discuss the expansion, magnitude of contribution and problems related to the rice-wheat system and how conservation tillage will help to achieve the sustainable higher productivity by changing the soil properties.
Stochastic Liouville equation approach for the effect of noise in quantum computations

We propose a model based on a generalized effective Hamiltonian for studying the effect of noise in quantum computations. The system-environment interactions are taken into account by including stochastic fluctuating terms in the system Hamiltonian. Treating these fluctuations as Gaussian Markov processes with zero mean and {delta}-function correlation times, we derive an exact equation of motion describing the dissipative dynamics for a system of n qubits. We then apply this model to study the effect of noise on the quantum teleportation and a generic quantum controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate. For quantum teleportation, the effect of noise in the quantum channels is found to be additive, and the teleportation fidelity depends on the state of the teleported qubit. The effect of collective decoherence is also studied for the two-qubit entangled states. For the quantum CNOT gate, we study the effect of noise on a set of one- and two-qubit quantum gates, and show that the results can be assembled together to investigate the quality of a quantum CNOT gate operation. We compute the averaged gate fidelity and gate purity for the quantum CNOT gate and investigate phase, bit-flip, and flip-flop errors during the CNOT gate operation. The effects of direct interqubit couplingmore » and fluctuations on the control fields are also studied. We find that the quality of the CNOT gate operation is sensitive to the strengths of the control fields and the strengths of the noise, and the effect of noise is additive regardless of its origin. We discuss the limitations and possible extensions of this model. In sum, we demonstrate a simple model that enables us to investigate the effect of noise in arbitrary quantum circuits under realistic device conditions. « less
CLOSURE TIME OF SPHENO-OCCIPITAL SUTURE IN THE MALE CADAVERS REFERRED TO LEGAL MEDICINE ORGANIZATION

The identity of dead is an essential part of post-mortem examination. The identification of unknown human remnants begins with the creation of an anthropological profile, which includes sex, biological age, stature and individualizing features. The estimation of age at death is based on the bodily biological changes that occur throughout life. Closure of spheno occipital synchondrosis is one of factors used for age estimation although its importance and reliability has been challenged with different authors. We studied its closure time among Iranian 8 to 26 years old male cadavers with direct inspection during autopsy. We divided synchondrosis situation depending on its fusion state into three categories: open, semi closed and closed. During 2004-5, 106 cases studied. Mean age of open, semi closed and closed were 12.78, 16.86 and 21.36 years, respectively. Their difference was significant (p
Perceived key determinants of payment instrument usage: a fuzzy cognitive mapping-based approach

The recent economic climate has had direct repercussions on people’s daily lives. This has occurred not only in how they use payment instruments, but is also evinced in new concerns adjacent to technological advances, people’s safety and the credibility of financial institutions. In this regard, the banking sector has had a crucial role in countries’ economic development, making it increasingly important to understand how the banking system operates and what payment instruments are available to users. Relying on specialized literature and the application of fuzzy cognitive mapping, this study aims to understand the cause-and-effect relationships between customers’ preference factors in using payment instruments. The results show that usability aspects and safety concerns constitute the factors which users pay more attention to. Strengths and limitations of our proposal are also discussed.
DIRECT AUTOREGRESSIVE PREDICTORS FOR MULTISTEP PREDICTION: ORDER SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO THE PLUG IN PREDICTORS

A direct method for multistep prediction of a stationary time series con- sists of fitting a new autoregression for each lead time, h, by a linear regression procedure and to select the order to be fitted from the data. By contrast, a more usual 'plug in' method involves the least-squares fitting of an initial kth order autoregression; the multistep forecasts are then obtained from the model equa- tion, but with the unknown future values replaced by their own forecasts. The asymptotic distributions of the direct and plug in estimates of the h-step predic- tion constants and their respective mean squared errors of prediction are derived for a finite autoregressive process; explicit asymptotic expressions for comparing the loss in predictive and parameter estimation efficiency due to using the direct method instead of the plug in method in this situation are also given. The finite sample behaviour of the prediction errors with these two methods is investigated by a simulation study.
Eff ect and after-eff ect of barley seed coating with phosphorus on germination , photosynthetic pigments and grain yield

Phosphorus is an important macronutrient for barley, but commonly it has low availability in soils. Th erefore, seed coating with readily available phosphorus is used in agricultural practice. Th e aim of this work was to investigate the infl uence of barley seed coating with phosphorus on germination, the content of pigments of green plastids in shoots, the seed yield and the presence of an aft er-eff ect on the second generation. Th e coating of barley seeds with phosphorus depressed germination in the beginning of the development of plants, but there was a positive infl uence of the coating on the amount of pigments of green plastids in the shoots, and the yield of barley seeds increased by 3 to 91 %. Th e treatment of barley seeds with the phosphorus infl uenced positively the physiological activity of next generation seeds. Th e usage of phosphorus-treated barley seeds is eff ective: physiological activity of the seeds increases as well as the yield of the seeds. Also, phosphorus uptake is improved, which contributes to better environmental protection.
Novel Quinone Methide Precursors: Enhanced Sensitivity and Selectivity towards Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Cells

High progression and resistance to chemoimmunotherapies is the challenge in treatment of TP53 mutated patients. Para-nitric oxide releasing-acetylic salicylic acid (para-NO-ASA) has been shown to possess antineoplastic properties in CLL, but features an insufficient therapeutic index and a low efficacy against TP53 mutated CLL cells. Therefore, the para-NO-ASA was modified and the effect of these newly developed compounds in vitro and in vivo was investigated. Three of the synthesized derivatives effectively induced apoptosis with a high selectivity on CLL cells. This antineoplastic effect was independent of the TP53 mutation status. Derivative B9 demonstrated good tolerability and a strong anti-tumor efficacy in the xenograft mouse with a maximal tumor inhibition rate of 65%. Phosphorylation of the NFκB p65 subunit was significantly reduced by 10 M B9 and B13 by around 75%, while 20 M NO-aspirin could not induce significant reduction. The same applies to the reduction of translocation of NFκB p65 subunit to the nucleus. In addition, expressions of the NF-κB target genes BCL-2, CFLAR and BTK were clearly shut down after incubation with each substance. These results show arresting features of three newly developed derivatives making them promising compounds for high-risk CLL therapy.
Insecticidal Effect of the Fruit Extract Bitter Melon (Citrullus colocynthis) on Locust Chrotogonus trachypterus

Chrotogonus trachypterus Blanchard is an active grasshopper on farms in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, in high populations and is one of the most important pests of vegetables, alfalfa, early growth stages of Gramineae and many crops. Chemical pesticides have harmful effects on the environment and human health; therefore, the use of natural insecticides derived from plants play significant role in pest management because of lower costs, lack of environmental pollution and protection of human health. In this study, lethal effect of Citrullus colocynthis fruit extract was evaluated on the Ch. trachypterus grasshopper under controlled laboratory conditions (at a temperature of 24±2°C, relative humidity of 75±5%, and photoperiod of 16: 8) in a completely randomized design with three replications. The plant was collected from its natural habitat around the city of Iranshahr, Iran, and then dried in the shade. The extraction was performed using methanol. The results obtained from experiments showed significant increase in mortality of tested insects after 24 hours with increasing concentrations of plant extracts. The effect of this extract with concentrations of 10, 20, 25, 35 and 40 milligrams per milliliter were tested on adult Ch. trachypterus grasshoppers. The highest mortality rate (87.50%) was found at a concentration of 40 milligrams per milliliter and the lowest mortality rate (23.33%) was observed at concentrations of 10 milligrams per milliliter. The mortality rate elevated with increasing concentration in all treatments. The LC 50 value for C. colocynthis plant on adult grasshopper was calculated 18.58 milligrams per milliliter.
Analysis of semi-parametric single-index models by using MAVE-method based on some kernel functions

In this paper, we used many forms of kernel functions with minimum average variance estimation (MAVE) method [Xia2002] we called the proposed methods (MAVE-Biweight), (MAVE-Epanechnikov ) and . (MAVE-Gaussian ) for estimation the parameters and the link function of the single – index model (SIM) comparing with other methods of estimation . to evaluate the performing of the various methods s simulation and a real data have been used, conclusions showed that the (MAVE- Gaussian) method in this paper gave better results compared with other methods depending on the mean squared error (MSE) and mean Absolute error (MAE) criterion for comparison.
Assessing risk factors and levels of functioning across the continuum of psychosis

James Castorina Jr. ASSESSING RISK FACTORS AND LEVELS OF FUNCTIONING ACROSS THE CONTINUUM OF PSYCHOSIS 2013/14 Thomas Dinzeo, Ph.D. Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Schizophrenia and other related psychotic disorders are often associated with impairments in social and general functioning. It has been proposed that there may be underlying factors such as personality traits or cognitive abilities that contribute to one’s “psychosis proneness,” or levels of “schizotypy. ” In the current study, we expect to see a decline in overall functioning and verbal memory according to symptom severity. Particularly, we hypothesize a similar pattern with overall functioning and verbal memory in regards to negative symptomology with comparable results between an outpatient sample and those with high levels of schizotypy. Furthermore, based on prior research, we anticipate specific cognitive abilities like verbal memory and certain personality traits to predict success on performance-based tasks related to social and general functioning. One-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) will be conducted to examine the differences in performance-based tasks (SSPA, UPSA-B, and verbal memory task scores) across the 5 groups based on overall and negative symptom severity (3 subclinical from an undergraduate sample & 2 clinical from an outpatient sample). Hierarchical linear regression analyses will be run to examine how well verbal memory and the 5 personality characteristics (while controlling for symptom severity) predict scores on performance-based tasks (SSPA and UPSA=B scores).
Childhood temperament and its effects on adjustment to college

Ashley Prim CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON ADJUSTMENT TO COLLEGE 2008/09 Dr. Roberta Dihoff and Dr. Klanderman Masters of Arts in School Psychology The purpose of this study was to determine whether temperaments seen in early childhood would have an effect on adjustment throughout life, especially during adjustment to college. Specifically, the researcher hypothesized that children with easy temperaments would have an easier time adjusting to college; whereas, children with slow-to-warm-up or difficult temperaments would have a more difficult time adjusting to college. A self-created survey was distributed to 30 undergraduate psychology students at Rowan University. The survey consisted of temperament and adjustment measures. Correlations were run using SPSS in order to determine the effects of temperament on adjustment to college. While the data did not yield significant results, some interesting trends were uncovered.
On groups admitting no integral Cayley graphs besides complete multipartite graphs

Let G be a non-trivial finite group, S  G \ {e} be a set such that if a 2 S, then a-1  S and e be the identity element of G. Suppose that Cay(G, S) is the Cayley graph with the vertex set G such that two vertices a and b are adjacent whenever a-1  S. An arbitrary graph is called integral whenever all eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix are integers. We say that a group G is Cayley integral simple whenever every connected integral Cayley graph on G is isomorphic to a complete multipartite graph. In this paper we prove that if G is a non-simple group, then G is Cayley integral simple if and only if G  Zp2 for some prime number p or G  Z2 x Z2. Moreover, we show that there exist finite non-abelian simple groups which are not Cayley integral simple.
Mobile Instant Messaging: Whatsapp and its Potential to Develop Oral Skills

This study investigates the benefits of Mobile Mediated Communication (MMC) to develop oral skills in second-language learners. A total of 80 Spanish students taking a B1 English course at the University of Almería were studied in this research. According to treatment type, subjects were divided in two groups, experimental and control. A “Whatsapp” group was created where 40 of these students participated in a daily interaction during six months. The samples collected in the application as well as a speaking were used to measure the students’ degree of oral development and the type and triggers of the language related episodes (LRE) given rise to mobile chat-based oral interaction. This study focuses on such interaction and seeks to measure the students’ degree of oral development through a mixed analysis approach. A temporal axis is used to measure the differences between the groups studied. Significant improvements in term of oral proficiency were observed in the experimental group and negotiations were the LRE most common throughout the activity. it is worth mention that Mobile learning offers an environment where learners can ubiquitously negotiate meaning, reflect and evaluate on their own performance through authentic interaction and feedback, constituting a powerful tool for developing second language proficiency. RESUMEN La presente investigación analiza los beneficios de la comunicación mediante teléfonos móviles para desarrollar las destrezas orales de los estudiantes en la segunda lengua. Un total de 80 estudiantes españoles que realizaban un curso de inglés nivel B1 en la Universidad de Almería participaron en el estudio. de acuerdo con el tipo de tratamiento, los sujetos fueron divididos en dos grupos, experimental y control. Mediante la creación de un grupo de «Whatsapp», 40 de dichos sujetos participaron en una interacción oral diaria durante 6 meses. Las muestras recogidas en la aplicación, así como un examen oral, fueron utilizados para analizar el grado en que los estudiantes desarrollan la destreza oral y los tipos y desencadenantes que dan lugar a episodios relacionados con el lenguaje en los chats orales. Este estudio se centra en la interacción utilizando un análisis mixto y un eje temporal con el fin de medir las diferencias entre los grupos analizados. Los resultados demuestran mejoras significativas en cuanto a la competencia oral en los alumnos del grupo en el que se implementó la actividad, siendo las negociaciones de significado el episodio relacionado con el lenguaje más común durante la interacción. Cabe destacar la accesibilidad que la mensajería móvil confiere a los alumnos, pues son capaces de negociar el significado, reflexionar y evaluar sus propias actuaciones mediante interacción real y feed-back.
Characterisation of the effect of LPS on DC subset discrimination in spleen.

The Gram-negative bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent inflammatory mediator and a leading cause of bacterial sepsis. While LPS is known to activate antigen-presenting cells, here we find that LPS down-regulates expression of CD11c and CD11b on splenic dendritic cell subsets, thus confounding the ability to identify these subsets following treatment. This has implications with regard to tracking the response to LPS in terms of the cell subsets involved, and should be considered whenever such studies are undertaken.
Microencapsulation of fish oil-oregano essential oil blends by spray drying and its oxidative stability

Microencapsulation of fish oil-oregano essential oil blends were done by spray drying method. Sodium caseinate, bovine gelatin, gum Arabic and maltodextrin were used as wall material. Fish oil and wall material was used at the ratio of 1:2:2. In order to improve the oxidative stability of the fish oil encapsulates, oregano essential oil was added at 0.50% concentration. Physical, chemical and oxidative stability of fish oil microencapsulates were analyzed. Microcapsules had a moisture content of 2.56-4.2%. Encapsulation efficiency of microencapsulates was found to be 39.60-65.13%. Morphological characterization of microcapsules was done by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) revealing spherical shape of particles with wrinkles. Oxidative stability studies revealed that encapsulates prepared by sodium caseinate and gum Arabic with oregano essential oil showed lower TBA (0.58 mg malonaldehyde kg) value than control (9.92 mg malonaldehyde kg). Results indicated that oregano essential oil can be used to improve the oxidative stability of fish oil microencapsulates.
Molecular dynamics of cholesterol in a thin film surrounding a carbon nanotube

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the system composed of a single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) surrounded by a thin film of: a) cholesterol–water mixture and b) pure cholesterol have been carried out. The translational and rotational correlation functions and their Fourier transforms of both cholesterol and water molecules have been calculated for several temperatures and concentrations. The interpretation of translational and rotational dynamics of both cholesterol and water molecules in the specific environment is presented.
A second order continuous time ∆ Σ modulator for ultra low power applications

In this work the analysis and design of a continuous time 2nd order ∆Σ modulator for ultra low power applications is presented. The demand for low power application is raising and especially the RF part of a circuit is one of the most power hungry having an ADC that won’t require big amounts of power to run is then required. Continuous time ∆Σ have become more popular in the last decade for this very reason, they are a suitable choice for low power applications and their continuous time architecture has an inherent anti aliasing filter which can completely remove the need for a dedicated filter. In this work a loop filter using only one amplifier is used, and the compensation of the amplifier is made such not to waste current in charging extra capacitance. Also a successive approximation register is used as the internal quantizer hence making the whole architecture designed for low power applications. The modulator achieve a maximum SNR of 65dB with an input bandwidth of 500kHZ and consuming only 69μW per conversion. The circuit was simulated using a 65nm CMOS process and will be fabricated later this year.