Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Song Lyrics Summarization Inspired by Audio Thumbnailing

Given the peculiar structure of songs, applying generic text summarization methods to lyrics can lead to the generation of highly redundant and incoherent text. In this paper, we propose to enhance state-of-the-art text summarization approaches with a method inspired by audio thumbnailing. Instead of searching for the thumbnail clues in the audio of the song, we identify equivalent clues in the lyrics. We then show how these summaries that take into account the audio nature of the lyrics outperform the generic methods according to both an automatic evaluation and human judgments.
Administering Public Participation

Participation and administration have long had an uneasy coexistence. On one hand, public participation in decisions that affect citizens is consistent with citizenship and democracy; on the other hand, much of what government does is complex and requires some level of technical understanding to make decisions. In this article, we report on public administrators’ perceptions of public participation and the ways that they understand the participation process. We find that public participation is managed by public administrators; they determine the extent of participation, shape the ways that the participation takes place, and decide whether or not participation is valuable for their work. In some cases, the process is rather democratic, whereas in others, it is not. We find that it is up to administrators to shape the spaces for participation and select the participants in a manner consistent with their understanding of the task to be accomplished. We explore this process in the context of Environmental Impact Analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Produção internacional, condições de trabalho e ativismo institucional: ensaio sobre a indústria do vestuário

A producao internacional e um aspecto maior da globalizacao. A industria do vestuario tem destaque nesses termos, exibindo terceirizacao influenciada por bolsoes de baixos salarios e leis trabalhistas frouxas, o que geralmente significa forte degradacao do trabalho. Esse e o contexto deste estudo, que discute o combate a violacao dos direitos dos trabalhadores nessa industria. Sindicatos e ONGs sao protagonistas, utilizando o marketing anticorporativo entre seus principais instrumentos. Ao denunciarem praticas degradantes, afetam a imagem e as vendas das empresas e pressionam pela adocao de codigos de conduta entre os fornecedores. Mas as dificuldades sao grandes, e os efeitos, diferenciados.
Integrated Interactive Tutorial for Dental Students to Teach Medical Subjects - An Innovative Approach to Effective Learning

Background: The students in medical and dental courses are usually focused on achieving good grades in the examinations. They tend to forget the knowledge gained in pre and paraclinical subjects and hence application of knowledge to the practical life situations suffers. There is a need to change this attitude of “learning only for exams” to “learning for applying the knowledge” for good care of the patients. It is well known that integrated teaching leads to better understanding of the topic than the traditional teaching. Aims and Objectives: Aim was to promote active self learning and develop skills of integrating knowledge. The objectives were to: (1)Introduce the integrated interactive learning method through two departments, (2) To obtain feedback from the students and faculty. Methods: An innovative approach of integrated interactive tutorial was tried among second year students of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course. Students were asked to prepare the Physiology and Pathology of a common clinical condition over a week’s time. During the session, students asked questions on physiology and pathology of that condition from each other. The teachers acted only as facilitators. These sessions were conducted for three consecutive years. After each session, the authors obtained the feedback of students and faculty on their satisfaction and learning experience of this alternative learning strategy. Results: Majority of students felt that this method of learning helped to develop reasoning skills, motivated them towards active self learning and leads to better and deeper understanding of the topic. Conclusion: Integrated interactive tutorial proves to be an easy and learner centred approach to effective learning.
Study on dual redundant PMSM drive design and fault-tolerant control strategy

ABSTRACT With the development and application of servo system, the requirements of high performance servo system are getting higher and higher. Its key is the high-performance motor that has the fault-tolerance to improve the motor reliability. This paper proposes a novel dual redundant PMSM (Permanent magnet synchronous motor), which has multiple same armature winding. Each winding has same three phases and is controlled by inverter module. Based on the fault-tolerant control system model, a reliable fault-tolerant control strategy has been proposed. The experiment platform is built to carry out consistency experiment of each redundancy, response characteristic experiment and fault-tolerant experiment of two redundancies in the PMSM. The experiment result shows the dual redundant PMSM has a good response and fault-tolerance characteristics.
New trends in allergy and atopic eczema

Preface Ring, J. Darsow, U. Behrendt, H. Allergy and Environment: Determinants of Allergy Development Allergy in Evolution: Platts-Mills, T.A. E. Climate Change, Environment and Allergy: Behrendt, H. Ring, J. The Hygiene Hypothesis Does Not Apply to Atopic Eczema in Childhood: Cramer, C. Link, E. Koletzko, S. Lehmann, I. Heinrich, J. Wichmann, H. -E. Bauer, C. -P. v. Berg, A. Berdel, D. Herbarth, O. Schaaf, B. Borte, M. Behrendt, H. Kramer, U. Molecular Genetics of Atopic Eczema: Ring, J. Mohrenschlager, M. Weidinger, S. Pathogenesis of the Deviated Immune Response Mechanisms of Immune Tolerance to Allergens: Fujita, H. Meyer, N. Akdis, M. Akdis, C.A. Th17 and Th22 in Skin Allergy: Cavani, A. Pennino, D. Eyerich, K. IL-25 Induces Both Inflammation and Skin Barrier Dysfunction in Atopic Dermatitis: Deleuran, M. Hvid, M. Kemp, K. Christensen, G.B. Deleuran, B. Vestergaard, C. Angiogenesis, Lymphangiogenesis and Atopic Dermatitis: Genovese, A. Detoraki, A. Granata, F. Galdiero, M.R. Spadaro, G. Marone, G. What Can Dogs Bring to Atopic Dermatitis Research? Olivry, T. Can Microbial Superantigens Influence Atopic Dermatitis Flares? Alomar, A. Inflammation-Induced Alterations in the Skin Barrier Function: Implications in Atopic Dermatitis: Vestergaard, C. Hvid, M Johansen, C. Kemp, K. Deleuran, B. Deleuran, M. Clinical Aspects Itch and Eczema: Darsow, U. Pfab, F. Valet, M. Tolle, T.R. Ring, J. Eczema Herpeticum: Wollenberg, A. Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: Haeck, I. van Velsen, S. de Bruin-Weller, M. Bruijnzeel-Koomen, C. Immunosuppressive Effect of Prolactin-Induced Protein: Sugiura, S. Fujimiya, M. Ebise, H. Miyahira, Y. Kato, I. Sugiura, Y. Kimura, T. Uehara, M. Sato, H. Sugiura, H. Therapy and Management Is Food Allergy Testing Reliable in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis? A Population-Based Study: Keck, L.E. Simpson, E.L. Berry, T.M. Hanifin, J.M. New Strategies for Dealing with Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and the Emerging Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Epidemic in Atopic Dermatitis: Boguniewicz, M. Anti-IL-4 as a New Strategy in Allergy: Schmidt-Weber, C.B. New Drug Targets in Atopic Dermatitis: Simon, D. Simon, H. -U. Latest Approaches to Treating Atopic Dermatitis: Paller, A.S. Author Index Subject Index.
Artificial Potential Field Algorithm Implementation for Quadrotor Path Planning

Potential field algorithm introduced by Khatib is well-known in path planning for robots. The algorithm is very simple yet provides real-time path planning and effective to avoid robot’s collision with obstacles. The purpose of the paper is to implement and modify this algorithm for quadrotor path planning. The conventional potential method is firstly applied to introduce challenging problems, such as not reachable goals due to local minima solutions or nearby obstacles (GNRON). This will be solved later by proposed modified algorithms. The first proposed modification is by adding virtual force to the repulsive potential force to prevent local minima solutions. Meanwhile, the second one is to prevent GNRON issue by adding virtual force and considering quadrotor’s distance to goal point on the repulsive potential force. The simulation result shows that the second modification is best applied to environment with GNRON issue whereas the first one is suitable only for environment with local minima traps. The first modification is able to reach goals in six random tests with local minima environment. Meanwhile, the second one is able to reach goals in six random tests with local minima environment, six random tests with GNRON environment, and six random tests with both local minima and GNRON environment.
ETİK DEĞERLENDİRMENİN, MÜŞTERİNİN FIRSATÇI ŞİKAYET DAVRANIŞINA ETKİSİNDE ÇATIŞMADAN KAÇINMANIN DÜZENLEYİCİ ROLÜNÜN İNCELENMESİ: KIRIKKALE İLİNDE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Although customer complaints are often regarded as opportunities in the marketing field, it has recently been discovered that complaints may not be of good intentions and may be brought in to exploit business or administrative arrangements to gain extra benefit. Investigating the causes of opportunistic customer complaints that reduce productivity and negatively affect the performance of enterprises is thought to be beneficial for businesses and for understanding the dynamics of consumer behavior. Ethical evaluation about opportunistic complaints and the level of customer conflict avoidance are important variables in understanding the opportunistic complaint behavior. The aim of this study is to understand the effects of ethical evaluation and conflict avoidance variables in opportunistic customer complaint behavior and moderating role of conflict avoidance on the effect of ethical evaluation on opportunistic complaint behavior. Within the scope of the research, after the literature review on the subject, hypotheses are developed for the effect of ethical evaluations and conflict avoidance on opportunistic customer complaint behavior and moderating role of conflict avoidance. Then, primary data are collected from 325 consumers in Kırıkkale province and analyzed. According to the results of the research, it was supported that ethical evaluations about opportunistic complaint behavior and conflict avoidance affect opportunistic complaint behavior. Moreover, conflict avoidance does not plays a moderating role in the effect of ethical evaluation on opportunistic complaints. Another finding of the study is that ethical evaluations about opportunistic complaint is positive and common among customers.
Research on error Analysis of LED chips visual positioning system

With the continuous development of intelligent equipment, the chip positioning accuracy requirements are also constantly improving. In this paper, a mathematical model of the LED chips positioning system based on the characteristics of the system is constructed. And then, an error analysis method based on Monte Carlo is proposed, which is able to obtain the impact factors of various sources of error, such as calibration error, image processing error and motion control error. By analyzing the influence factors of these error sources, we can know that calibration error is the main source of error affecting positioning accuracy.
Essays on Two-sided Platforms: Market Entry Strategy and Dynamic Pricing

This dissertation consists of two chapters: In the first chapter, we build a theoretical framework to study the dynamic entry interactions between two platforms with homogeneous products into city-based markets. This research is applicable for studying the entry strategies between, for example, Uber and Lyft; Groupon and Living Social, and other business models with the attributes of switching cost, network effect, and segregated markets. We address three questions in this paper: 1) What determines the expansion path of city-based platforms? ; 2) What factors are affecting the market concentration structures; and 3) Under what conditions can a second mover become the market leader (with more than 50% of the market share)? We find that a significant degree of the network effect and large switching cost will build a natural barrier for the late entrant; Transaction-efficient markets with larger transaction volume are less likely to be concentrated than transaction-inefficient markets. We take consideration of entry cost and initial fund in our dynamic settings, and find that the uncertainty in market return will make the platforms’ expansion path and the final outcome less predictable. However, on average, the capability of capturing the largest market first is crucial for both players; if a platform loses the opportunity of being the first to capture the largest market, it may have to raise a considerable amount of money to overcome its disadvantages in the
Enhancement of collaboration in the early stage of an interdisciplinary engineering and design project: Mapping group dynamics

Health care systems are moving towards multidisciplinary patient-centered solutions. Team members can agree on high-level aspirations, but it does not imply that they will have conformity in specific objectives. Collaboration is a strong requirement for facilitating the research activities and fulfils the general expectations. It is believed that a common goal enhances collaboration and uniforms the group in a shared direction. Under this premise, this study presented a qualitative procedure: Mapping Group Dynamics (MGD) that represents the interaction of the objectives of the project members and assist in identifying possible conflicts in the inner structure of the project. This method was applied in a specific research project: Patient-Centric Engineering in Rehabilitation (PACER.) The results and benefits of the method are discussed.
Local contour symmetry facilitates the neural representation of scene categories in the PPA.

Human observers can rapidly classify real-world scenes into their natural categories (e.g. beaches, mountains). It is unclear what neural mechanisms underlie this rapid processing of scenes. In a previous behavioral study, we demonstrated that local ribbon symmetry facilitates scene classification. Here we manipulate the ribbon symmetry content of line drawings of real-world scenes and then decode scene categories from patterns of voxel activities of the observers obtained via fMRI. We can decode scene categories from the parahippocampal place area (PPA) more easily from symmetric scenes than asymmetric scenes. In earlier visual areas the decoding accuracy for symmetric and asymmetric scenes was not significantly different. This suggests that the benefit for symmetric scenes in both behavior and fMRI is not solely driven by a lower-level preference for symmetry. Instead, ribbon symmetry may be uniquely informative for scene categorization.
Examining Emergent Communities and Social Bots Within the Polarized Online Vaccination Debate in Twitter

Many states in the United States allow a “belief exemption” for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines. People’s opinion on whether or not to take the vaccine can have direct consequences in public health. Social media has been one of the dominant communication channels for people to express their opinions of vaccination. Despite governmental organizations’ efforts of disseminating information of vaccination benefits, anti-vaccine sentiment is still gaining momentum. Studies have shown that bots on social media (i.e., social bots) can influence opinion trends by posting a substantial number of automated messages. The research presented here investigates the communication patterns of anti- and pro-vaccine users and the role of bots in Twitter by studying a retweet network related to MMR vaccine after the 2015 California Disneyland measles outbreak. We first classified the users into anti-vaccination, neutral to vaccination, and pro-vaccination groups using supervised machine learning. We discovered that pro- and anti-vaccine users retweet predominantly from their own opinion group. In addition, our bot analysis discovers that 1.45% of the corpus users were identified as likely bots which produced 4.59% of all tweets within our dataset. We further found that bots display hyper-social tendencies by initiating retweets at higher frequencies with users within the same opinion group. The article concludes that highly clustered anti-vaccine Twitter users make it difficult for health organizations to penetrate and counter opinionated information while social bots may be deepening this trend. We believe that these findings can be useful in developing strategies for health communication of vaccination.
Physiologic Aspects of porcine Hemorrhage. II. Alterations in Heart Rate and Arterial Pressure during Fifty Percent Blood Volume Loss in the Conscious Animal.

Abstract : A porcine animal model, designed to simulate physiologic characteristics of the combat casualty, was used to assess the effects of severe blood loss on the heart rate and arterial pressures in the absence of anesthesia or other interventions. Chronic catheters were placed surgically in the aorta, via the carotid artery, of 8 young domestic pigs. Seven to 9 days after surgery each animal was brought into the laboratory and the catheter was connected to a three-way stop-cock and a pressure transducer for blood removal and pressure recording. After 30 minutes of unrestrained and uninterrupted supine rest, control measurements were made. Thereafter, 50% of the estimated blood volume was removed progressively over a one-hour period. No physiological changes were seen until blood exceeded 10%. A transient increase in heart rate occurred at 20% loss, but subsequent rates were no different from control values. Systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressures decreased progressively between 20 and 50% blood loss; the respective values at 50% blood loss were 84 + or - 3.2, 31 + or - 3.2, and 49 + or - 2.8 mm Hg. Because of the functional similarities of the human and porcine cardiovascular systems, studies of severe hemorrhage in the recumbent conscious pig may provide reliable physiological information which will be useful in recognizing the consequences of massive hemorrhage in humans.
Macroeconomic Determinants Of Real Estate Investment Trust’S (Reit’S) Dividend Return In Nigeria

PURPOSE – The Nigeria REIT market has been rated low in term of dividend return amidst the industry variables of Size, NAV, FFO, Leverage, Advisor Puzzle among others. Other Scholars have examined the influence of macroeconomic variables (GDP, Inflation, etc.). This study examines the effects of these macroeconomic variables and other specific factors on Nigeria REIT’s dividend return.DESIGN/METHODOLOGY – The study is a quantitative econometric study. The data were collected from various government institutions CBN, NBS, NSE and annual Reports of the Skye Shelter REIT. The data covers the period of existence of REIT in Nigeria (2008-2016). The study utilized multiple regression and correlation analyses to establish the influence and relationship of the macroeconomics variables on REIT return.FINDINGS – The correlation study shows a significant relationship between REIT dividend to oil price (-ve) and exchange rate (+ve). The regression analysis confirmed the significant effect of oil prices of P=0.015 (P
Software tool for simulation of vehicle – road interaction

This paper deals with the development of a software to simulate and study the vehicle-road interaction. This allows to quantify the forces induced and energy released from vehicles to the road pavement, in different vehicle motion scenarios, and the energy absorbed by the road surface, speed reducer, or a specific energy harvester surface. It enables the user to quantify the energetic efficiency of the process. A practical study is presented in order to show the effectiveness of the software, as well as its potential applications.
The Evolution of the Tax Burden for EU Companies

Since its creation, the EU has targeted tax harmonization to protect the single market and avoid capital outflow to regions that have lower tax rates. However, despite repeated attempts, complete convergence has not yet been achieved. Using the effective tax rate, the statutory tax rate, and the absolute difference between these two rates, this study explored the trends of the tax burden in 15 EU member states. The study period of 2006 to 2014 enabled analysis of the tax burden before and after the financial crisis. Analysis was conducted using an econometric model. The results suggest that during periods of economic stability, the tax burden tends to converge. In contrast, during periods of crisis, countries apply their own tax policies to protect themselves from the adverse effects of the crisis.
Being Human: Ordinariness in Nursing

PART 1 CONSIDERATIONS Nursing as a Human Relationship. Understanding the Nature and Effects of Nursing PART 2 STORIES Andrew's Nurse-Patient Interactions. Elizabeth's Nurse-Patient Interactions. Jane's Nurse-Patient Interactions. Peter's Nurse-Patient Interactions. Sally's Nurse-Patient Interactions. Sue's Nurse-Patient Interactions PART 3 MEANINGS Ordinariness in Nursing. A Redefinition of Nursing Bibliography. Index
Board gender diversity and its effect on Capital Structure – A comparison between the Financial and Non-Financial sector

While the majority of the financial literature indicates a negative relationship between gender board diversity and capital structure, some disagreements still persist. Furthermore, some studies suggest that this effect might be mitigated when we look at female directors in a financial setting. This paper thus investigates this suspicion by adopting a new panel data set which includes firms from both the financial and non-financial sector, covering a timeframe of 2000 until 2018. While the results reveal a negative tendency between gender diversity and capital structure, the unique timeframe of this study allows for the inclusion of a financial crisis effect, which greatly reduces the statistical significance of the negative correlation found. Additionally, this paper finds that the effect of gender diversity on capital structure is actually larger and more significant for financial firms relative to non-financial firms. While this study provides some evidence for the negative effect of board gender diversity on capital structure, further research on the topic is required.