Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Research on Innovation of Urban Planning System Based on Virtual Reality Technology

With the rapid development and expansion of urbanization, the use of traditional twodimensional GIS data technology, drawing design and other urban planning can not meet the requirements of urban design and planning. Virtual reality technology is a kind of computer technology which can create and experience virtual world. Using this technology, we can provide better perceptual knowledge for urban planning and design. Innovating the concept of planning, developing and utilizing virtual reality technology will play a great role in promoting China's economic construction and cultural development. The three-dimensional modeling technology and virtual reality technology of professional objects realize the automatic three-dimensional modeling of planned and designed objects in the process of two-dimensional design and real-time virtual rendering of three-dimensional design scenes. Building a realistic 3D environment with highperformance computers allows the experiencer to immerse themselves in the virtual world and interact with the object in different ways in the virtual environment. The key technologies and current problems of web-based multi-user, roaming and visual 3D virtual cities are pointed out, and the application trends of virtual reality technology in urban planning and design are pointed out.
Guidelines for Science : Evidence-based Checklists

Problem: The scientific method is unrivaled for generating useful knowledge, yet papers published in scientific journals frequently violate the scientific method. Methods: A definition of the scientific method was developed from the writings of pioneers of the scientific method including Aristotle, Newton, and Franklin. The definition was used as the basis of a checklist of eight criteria necessary for compliance with the scientific method. The extent to which research papers follow the scientific method was assessed by reviewing the literature on the practices of researchers whose papers are published in scientific journals. Findings of the review were used to develop an evidence-based checklist of 20 operational guidelines to help researchers comply with the scientific method. Findings: The natural desire to have one’s beliefs and hypotheses confirmed can tempt funders to pay for supportive research and researchers to violate scientific principles. As a result, advocacy has come to dominate publications in scientific journals, and had led funders, universities, and journals to evaluate researchers’ work using criteria that are unrelated to the discovery of useful scientific findings. The current procedure for mandatory journal review has led to censorship of useful scientific findings. We suggest alternatives, such as accepting all papers that conform with the eight critera of the scientific method. Originality: This paper provides the first comprehensive and operational evidence-based checklists for assessing compliance with the scientific method and for guiding researchers on how to comply. Usefulness: The “Criteria for Compliance with the Scientific Method” checklist could be used by journals to certify papers. Funders could insist that research projects comply with the scientific method. Universities and research institutes could hire and promote researchers whose research complies. Courts could use it to assess the quality of evidence. Governments could base policies on evidence from papers that comply, and citizens could use the checklist to evaluate evidence on public policy. Finally, scientists could ensure that their own research complies with science by designing their projects using the “Guidelines for Scientists” checklist.
How recorded audio-visual feedback can improve academic language support

Providing effective, high quality feedback that students engage with remains an important issue in higher education today, particularly in the context of academic language support where feedback helps socialise students to academic writing practices. Technology-enhanced feedback, such as audio and video feedback, is becoming more widely used, and as such, it is important to evaluate whether these methods help students engage with the feedback more successfully than conventional methods. While previous research has explored students’ perceptions of audio-visual feedback, this paper seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining the impact of the audio-visual mode on undergraduate students’ engagement with feedback compared to written-only feedback. Evidence from an analysis of feedback comments (n = 1040) and corresponding revisions as well as interviews (n = 3) is used to draw conclusions about the value of providing audio-visual feedback to help students revise their writing more successfully. In line with multimedia learning theory (Mayer 2009), it is argued that the multimodal format, conversational tone, verbal explanations and personalised feel of audio-visual feedback allows for a more successful engagement with the feedback, particularly for students with a lower level of English language proficiency.
Kampo therapy and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) occur in approximately 80–90% of patients with dementia. Although antipsychotics are used to treat BPSD, patients often suffer from parkinsonism and impaired activities of daily living (ADL). In addition, an increased mortality rate has been reported in patients with dementia taking antipsychotics. Thus, Kampo therapy is one alternative to antipsychotic medicines. Yokukansan has been reported to be effective for treatment of agitation/aggression, and irritability/lability in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), vascular dementia (VD), and frontotemporal dementia. In addition, yokukansan is effective for treatment of visual hallucinations in DLB patients. Because DLB patients have hypersensitivity to antipsychotics, and often have severe adverse reactions to these drugs, the beneficial effects and tolerability of yokukansan for DLB patients are particularly significant. Orengedokuto has been reported to be effective for treating irritability and sullenness in patients with VD, and to improve excitement, depression, anxiety, and restlessness in patients with cerebrovascular lesions. Chotosan has been found to be effective for treatment of delirium, insomnia, hallucination, and delusion in patients with VD. Tokishakuyakusan has been reported to improve emotional lability, restlessness, and sleep disturbances in patients with AD and VD. Kampo therapy does not induce extrapyramidal symptoms and anticholinergic symptoms, and has no adverse effects on ADL and cognitive function. In addition, Kampo therapy has been reported to have various neuroprotective effects. Thus, Kampo therapy is safe and promising for patients with BPSD, and should be further utilized for treatment of BPSD.
Usage of Cloud Tracking Solar Forecasting Methodology in Power System Operation

The impact of intermittent power production by Photovoltaic (PV) systems to the overall power system operation is constantly increasing and so is the need for advanced forecasting tools that enable understanding, prediction, and managing of such a power production. Solar power production forecasting is one of the enabling technologies, which can accelerate the transition to sustainable energy environment. Short-term forecast information on the expected power production can assist existing forecasting techniques and enable efficient integration of renewable energy sources through the efficient energy trading, power system control and management of energy storage units. The paper presents an approach to predict regional PV power output based on short-term solar forecasting by the use of ground-based camera and analyzes the benefits of such forecast to the power system operation. In the proposed research, analysis of the commonly used forecasting methods with added precision of the short-term forecasting was made. Cost-effectiveness was calculated with different scales of a power plant. An overview of the benefits for the transmission system operator is given. This overview considers the ways in which short-term forecasting can improve the efficiency of power management in an electric grid. A system cost-effectiveness analysis was carried out for electricity producers that can use this system to generate better forecasts for the production of electricity and thus reduce penalties for non-compliance with the anticipated production.
TITLE: Effects of Kinesio-Taping on The Relief of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial RUNNING HEAD: Effects of Kinesio-Taping on DOMS

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Kinesio-Taping (KT) on delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Design: Randomized controlled study. Setting: Clinical laboratory. Participants: Fifty-four non-athletic volunteers were assigned randomly in KT (n=27) and placebo KT (n=27) groups. Interventions: The intense exercise protocol consisted of 100 consecutive drop-jumps from a 0.60 m high platform. Kinesio-tape was applied with the fan technique on the quadriceps muscles in the KT group. The placebo KT group received the Kinesio-tape with no technique and tension. Main outcome measure: Muscle soreness, maximal isometric quadriceps muscle strength, vertical jump height, and blood analyses (creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, myoglobin, and C-reactive protein) were measured pre-, immediately post-, 48 h post-, and 72 h post-exercise. Results: There was a significant effect of time in all outcome measures (p<0.05), except serum C-reactive protein level (p>0.05). The intensity of muscle soreness was significantly lower in the KT group relative to the placebo KT group at 72 h post-exercise (p=0.006). The serum creatine kinase level was significantly higher in the KT group compared to the placebo KT group at 72 h postexercise (p=0.012). There were no statistically significant differences between groups for the other outcome measures (p>0.05). Conclusion: These findings indicate that KT intervention following the intense exercise protocol reduces muscle soreness. However, it has no effects on maximal quadriceps isometric strength and vertical jump height, as well as serum lactate dehydrogenase, myoglobin, and C-reactive protein levels. Furthermore, KT application after intense exercise also increases serum CK level.
Network Forecast with Support Vectors Machines

In this paper, we address the problem of forecasting a function of the link load, such as the peak load or percentil es of its distribution, during an arbitrary time interval. As for ecasting technique, we select Support Vector Machines (SVM), which have shown very good performance in several areas including , more recently, networking. SVM are known for its generalization ability with respect to unseen data and their suitability to on-line learning. Using a hands-on approach, we evaluate the impact of several parameters on the SVM prediction accuracy. In order to gather robust results, we consider several real-world traffic traces, representative of very different network scenarios –such a s ISP, Ethernet, WiFi LAN and enterprise networks– so as to be able t o print out a fine-grained picture of the gain brought by SVM in t he context of network load forecast. Our results show that SVR may provide accurate predictions and substantial gain over a na ive estimation technique, and furthermore that the use of sever al machines in parallel can both ease SVM tuning and increase forecast performance as well.
Current Account Imbalances and the Euro Area. Alternative Views

The critical role of current account imbalances (CAI) is widely shared in the consensus narratives of the European crisis that followed the Great Recession. On the basis of this interpretation, new EU initiatives raised, in particular the so-called â€œSix Packâ€ adoption in 2011 and the establishment of the European Semester procedure to improve policy coordination in the EU beyond fiscal matters. This package includes the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure (MIP) that broadens the EU economic governance framework to include the surveillance of unsustainable macroeconomic trends. Although the widening of the CAI in the Euro Area is a matter of fact, and the consensus narrative contains elements of truth, alternative views have been put forward on mainly three issues: i) their relevance, ii) their causes and connection with the crisis, and iii) their policy implications. The aim of this paper is to examine these controversial points about the causes, meaning and consequences of CAI, and discuss the alternative policy prescriptions that emerge.
Calcific elastosis in the setting of weight gain

(5 g) was administered intravenously to enhance blood flow to the arm. Physiotherapy included manual lymphatic drainage of the right arm. In addition, compression bandages were applied to prevent further self-manipulation. Altogether, these treatments improved his skin condition. Cutaneous botryomycosis is a chronic granulomatous bacterial skin infection characterized by nodules, abscesses, and ulcers on the hands, feet, genitals, and head. It primarily results from the inoculation and persistent infection of injured skin by bacteria such as S aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. T cellerelated immune deficiency and diabetes can promote the disease.
Comprehension of underspecified iterative meaning in Japanese

We examine the processing of underspecified iterative meaning in sentences like “The athlete jumped for 20 minutes” in Japanese, crossing two verb types (Punctual: jump / Durative: jog) and the length of the intervals denoted by for-adverbials (Short: ten minutes / Long: a year). Additionally, we investigate the impact of individuals’ autistic tendency (AQ) during sentence comprehension. We found that the naturalness of sentences decreased as a function of meaning uncertainty. The self-paced reading experiment showed that sentences with underspecified meaning engendered longer reading times regardless of verb type, and that individuals with higher AQ scores (> low-AQ) stayed longer at the sentence-final region.
Question and Answering on SQuAD 2 . 0 : BERT Is All You Need

In this paper, we present a series of experiments using the Huggingface Pytorch BERT implementation for questions and answering on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD). We find that dropout and applying clever weighting schemes to the loss function leads to impressive performance. More specifically, we ensemble across three models: one leveraging dropout, another weighting questions with answers more heavily than those without, and finally, one weighting the answer span start more heavily than the end. This leads to a test set F1 score of 76.545 and a test set EM score of 73.609.
Maternal Teaching Behaviers Maternal Teaching and Temperament Disposition in Preschool Children

The relationship between maternal teaching techniques and young children's temperament in the cases of 20 children in a university laboratory scnool and their mothers was investl.gated. McDevitt and rrey's (1978) Behavioral Style Questionnaire was used to assers cnildren's temperament by means of mothers' reports. Teaching behaviors of interest were assessed with the Maternal Teaching Observation Technique (Laosa, 1980). Behaviors included inquiry, use of directives, negative verbal feedback, modeling, visual cues, physical affection, and positive and negative physical control. Correlational analyses revealed relationships between characteristics of children's temperament and the teaching techniques mothers used to teach the children. In comparison with others in the sample, children identified as slower tc adapt had mothers who offered less praise and more negative verbal feedback. Mothers of children who were described as having a positive mood used less negative verbal feedback while teaching. Children with higher levels of distractibility had mothers vho used more modeling. The lower the child's sensory threshold, the fewer the negative verbal comments by the mother and the more the visual cues by the mother. (RH) *********************. ************************************************* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. **********/************************************************************ U S. D(PARTMENT OF EDUCATION 011,ce of Educaponel Reattatch and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ER.c.) )4This dOCumenl has been reproduced a3 reCtaved trom Me person or organaabon oropmating 4 0 34,not chan13 bare been made to imProve reptoduCbor quahty Pomts ot wow or r pouons stated . n 1 hos doctr meat do not ICOSaarity tepreSent 01.031 GE RI pos,bon or poacy Maternal Teaching Behaviers Maternal Teaching and Temperament Disposition in Preschool Children Carla B. Goble Family Relations and Child Development Oklahoma State University Anne K. Bomba Department of Home Economics University of Mississippi James D. Moran III College of Human Ecology University of Tennessee I 0 The authors wish to thank the children and parents of the Oklahoma State University Chiid Laboratories for participating in this research project. Correspondence may be ) yrs, addressed to the first author, Department of Family Relations and Child Development, Cn Oklahoma state University, Stillwater, OK 74078-0337. rmi 0 Running Head: TEACHING AND TEMPERAMENT "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED Y Carlo. E3.Gob e TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTEH (ERIC)" ,
SQUAD 2 . 0 ( QANET , CHARACTER EMBEDDINGS AND TOKEN FEATURES )

[1] Minjoon Seo, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ali Farhadi, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi. Bidirectional attention flow for machine comprehension. arXiv:1611.01603, 2016. [2] Adams Wei Yu, David Dohan, Minh-Thang Luong, Rui Zhao, Kai Chen, Mohammad Norouzi,and Quoc V Le. Qanet: Combining local convolution with global self-attention for reading comprehension. arXiv:1804.09541, 2018. [3] Attention is all you need in pytorch repository: https://github.com/jadore801120/attention-is-all-you-need-pytorch BiDAF: Supplementing word-level embeddings with character-level embeddings leads to better performance However, adding only the part-of-speech feature seems to be nearly as effective as adding all three additional token features. Further tuning the model's hyperparameters and adding different, more descriptive token feature embeddings could result in even better performance.
Evaluation of Physicochemical Methods for Dormancy Breakage and Germination of Datura stramonium Seeds

Datura stramonium; scarification method; GA3; KNO3 ABSTRACT: Datura stramonium L. broadly performed in plant virology study has a significant seed germination difficulty due to its seed dormancy. This study was evaluated to find a simple seedling germination method intended for D. stramonium seeds as a traditional healthy detector plant. A factorial experiment organized as completely randomized design (CRD) in triplicate, determining results regarding seedling scarification, gibberellins (GA3) along with potassium nitrate (KNO3) at different concentrations from 0 to 2000 ppm. The particular germination rate along with radicle and plumule length scarified seed had been significantly affected using concentrations of GA3 as well as KNO3. After five days of treatment, radicle and plumule length and the percentage of germination were recorded, uncovering the real key function involving mechanical seed scarification method as being a requirement for germination of D. stramonium. The highest germination rate occurred at a concentration of 100 ppm GA3 and 500 ppm for KNO3 (63%).
Yardstick Competition , Performance Evaluation , and the Efficient Provision of Local Public Goods

This paper investigated performance evaluation from the point of view of inter-governmental competition and proposed an effective method to apply yardstick evaluation for regulating natural monopoly to evaluate local governmental performance. By using a yardstick competition model in which residents make contract with an incumbent governor under asymmetric information, it is indicated that an incentive contract using yardstick evaluation may attain the optimal of full information equilibrium. A preliminary empirical test which supports the theoretical results is conducted by using international data.
SEQUOIA: A LIBRARY FOR GENERATIVE MUSICAL SEQUENCERS

Sequoia is a new software library for musical sequencing, with generative capabilities and sample-accurate timing. The architecture supports a variety of techniques, including polymetric sequencing, clock division, probability, and other parameters which can be manipulated in real time – or even sequenced themselves. The core library is written in C and supports JACK MIDI; Python bindings are also available.
Switch-Reference as Interclausal Agreement Evidence from Quechua

✪ Claim: SR-marking is the result of interclausal agreement in tense • In Quechua, SR-markers are tense markers which occur whenever the clause has no tense feature of its own but must enter into tense agreement with a superordinated clause. • Tense agreement enables the comparison of referential indices of the respective subjects. • If the indices of two subjects are identical, the SS-marker is used; if not, the DS-marker is used.
Use of Corticosteroid as an Adjunct with Antitubercular Therapy in the Management of Miliary Tuberculosis Associated with Organizing PneumoniaA Case Report

In miliary TB, the role of steroid remains to be unclear. Till date, extremely limited studies have been conducted to evaluate corticosteroids’ role in miliary TB. We report a patient with miliary TB and co-existing organizing pneumonia (OP), a condition that was managed successfully by anti-TB chemotherapy in adjunct with the corticosteroid. To the best of our knowledge, this association has not been reported or extremely infrequently reported in the existing literature. The adjunctive use of corticosteroids does not appear to diminish the efficacy of ‘adequate’ anti-tuberculosis therapy. The use of corticosteroids has significant short- and long-term benefits in most forms of tuberculosis.
The effects of fl ipped instruction on out-of-class study time , exam performance , and student perceptions

This study assessed the impact of flipped instruction on students’ out-of-class study time, exam performance, preference, motivation, and perceptions in two sections of a large undergraduate chemistry course. Flipped instruction caused a shift in student workload without appreciably changing the overall study time. The treatment impact on student performance gradually diminished over time, showing a small but statistically significant effect with the final exam. No marked interaction was identified, indicating that flipped instruction benefited students of diverse backgrounds uniformly. Students in the flipped section showed mixed feelings with about one fifth of them displaying polarized attitudes. Openended student survey responses revealed non-compliance with pre-class studying as a serious implementation issue: By slowing down the overall pace of the class, it negatively affected students with different study behaviors and characteristics in ways that partly explained the small, diminishing treatment effect and absence of marked interaction. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.