bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Kajian Tingkat Akurasi Sensor pada Rancang Bangun Alat Ukur Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) dan Tingkat Kekeruhan Air
Authors: Wirman Rahmi Putri , Wardhana Indrawata , Isnaini Vandri Ahmad
Published: August 2019

Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and turbidity of water are parameters to determine the quality of water. In this research, instruments development and study of accuracy level for TDS meter and turbidimeter have been made. Instruments were made using TDS sensor and turbidity sensor that were inexpensive and available on the market. The samples used for instruments examination were water with dye (Rhodamine B) and powder of coffee as impurities. The results showed that the sensors worked properly and provided a better accuracy in measuring water samples with coffee impurities than dye impurities. The inaccuracy on the determination of water samples with dye impurities due to dye particles which have soluble properties on water and microscopic size than particles of coffee.
Karakterisasi Sifat Mekanik Benang Wol dan Benang Kasur
Authors: Rahmayanti Handika Dany , Munir Rahmawati , Sustini Euis , Abdullah Mikrajuddin
Published: August 2019

Kajian mengenai karakteristik sifat mekanik benang merupakan hal yang sifatnya sederhana namun penting dilakukan demi berkembangnya penelitian mengenai serat dan benang. Pada penelitian ini digunakan dua jenis benang di pasaran yakni benang wol dan benang kasur. Karakterisasi meliputi kekuatan benang, elongasi, tenacity dan modulus Young. Berdasarkan hasil uji tarik didapatkan nilai kekuatan, elongasi dan tenacity dari benang. Nilai kekuatan benang wol berkisar 1269,09gram-1551,32gram. Dari kurva hasil uji tarik dapat diestimasi nilai modulus Young dari benang wol yang ada di pasaran yaitu 295 MPa-439 MPa. Sedangkan untuk hasil karakterisasi benang kasur di pasaran didapatkan bahwa benang mampu menahan beban maksimum 4794,12 gram-5895,45gram dan nilai modulus Young dari benang kasur didapatkan nilai 389,7MPa-495,29 MPa.
Hyperinsulinemia restrains endometrial angiogenesis during decidualization in early pregnancy
Authors: Chen Wenqi , Lu Siyu , Yang Chengshun , Li Na , Chen Xuemei , He Junlin , Liu Xueqing , Ding Yubin , Tong Chao , Peng Chuan , Zhang Chen , Su Yan , Wang Yingxiong , Gao Rufei
Published: August 2019

Previous research on the role of insulin has focused on metabolism. This study investigated the effect of insulin on angiogenesis in endometrial decidualization. High insulin-treated mouse model was constructed by subcutaneous injection of insulin. Venous blood glucose, serum insulin, P4, E2, FSH and LH levels in the pregnant mice were detected by ELISA. Decidual markers, angiogenesis factors and decidual vascular network were detected during decidualization in the pregnant mouse model and an artificially induced decidualization mouse model. Tube formation ability and angiogenesis factors expression were also detected in high insulin-treated HUVECS cells. To confirm whether autophagy participates in hyperinsulinemia-impaired decidual angiogenesis, autophagy was detected in vivo and in vitro. During decidualization, in the condition of high insulin, serum insulin and blood glucose were significantly higher, while ovarian steroid hormones were also disordered (P < 0.05), decidual markers BMP2 and PRL were significantly lower (P < 0.05). Uterine CD34 staining showed that the size of the vascular sinus was significantly smaller than that in control. Endometrial VEGFA was significantly decreased after treatment with high insulin in vivo and in vitro (P < 0.05), whereas ANG-1 and TIE2 expression was significantly increased (P < 0.05). In addition, aberrant expression of autophagy markers revealed that autophagy participates in endometrial angiogenesis during decidualization (P < 0.05). After treatment with the autophagy inhibitor 3-MA in HUVEC, the originally damaged cell tube formation ability and VEGFA expression were repaired. This study suggests that endometrial angiogenesis during decidualization was impaired by hyperinsulinemia in early pregnant mice.
El informe Lebret, propuesta que pudo haber evitado una guerra de 60 años
Authors: Arbeláez Ochoa John
Published: August 2019

La Misión Lebret del Centro Nacional de la Investigación Científica de París entregó en 1958 un detallado estudio sobre las condiciones de desarrollo de Colombia, y suministró una serie de recomendaciones para acelerar el desarrollo y la igualdad social y económica en el campo, entre las cuales se advertía que se debía realizar un cambio en las estructuras cuasi coloniales de la tenencia de la tierra. Esta recomendación fue acogida por los presidentes Alberto Lleras Camargo y Carlos Lleras Restrepo con la promulgación de varias leyes que acometían la tarea de efectuar una verdadera reforma agraria integral. Los saboteos a las propuestas de estos gobiernos, por parte de élites y terratenientes, dieron al traste con los intentos de reformas agrarias que, puestas en marcha, hubieran hecho innecesario e inútil el surgimiento de los grupos guerrilleros, la mayoría campesinos sin tierra, siempre sometidos, y de la respuesta paramilitar que desde hace 60 años o más azotan al país y que han convertido al expoliado campesino colombiano en objetivo militar por parte de guerrilleros, paramilitares y agentes del Estado. Los destructivos resultados económicos y sociales para el campo y para el país indican que ha llegado la hora de hacer las ansiadas reformas agrarias postergadas por décadas.
Inserción de la mujer en cargos gerenciales en la industria tequilera
Authors: Gutiérrez Olvera Sandra , Montañez Moya Gloria Silviana
Published: August 2019

En la presente investigación se analiza información con el objetivo de definir el perfil de la mujer gerencial y comparar las conductas de liderazgo de hombres y mujeres en las empresas tequileras de Jalisco, México. El estudio es una investigación con enfoque cuantitativo transversal y alcance descriptivo, la población son las empresas tequileras de Jalisco, se determinó entrevistar a aquellas con más de 30 trabajadores, obteniendo una muestra de 12 empresas, y al final se pudieron encuestar 8, en donde se entrevistaron a 38 gerentes 12 mujeres y 26 hombres. Con los resultados obtenidos, se determinó un perfil de la mujer gerencial y, además, se evidencia que las conductas de líder en la mujer están orientadas hacia las tareas.
Competencias de gobernanza regional: Alianza del Pacífico-Mercosur y Unasur-OEA - estrategias colombianas
Authors: Palotas Kelen Laszlo Vladimir
Published: August 2019

Este artículo de reflexión analiza dos competencias de gobernanza regional, la competencia entre la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) y el Mercosur, y la competencia entre la Unasur y la OEA, explorando las estrategias colombianas. Mientras la AP, combinada con el transregionalismo de sus miembros, parecía prevalecer en la competencia con el Mercosur para surtir el modelo privilegiado de gobernanza económica regional, la Unasur no solo perdió la competencia con la OEA por ejercer el mandato de la gestión de seguridad en América del Sur, sino quedó amenazada de extinción. La competencia Unasur-OEA – entre dos organizaciones anidadas– era mucho más intensa que la competencia AP-Mercosur, atenuada con esfuerzos de convergencia. Mientras la competencia Unasur-OEA emanaba de una búsqueda de autonomía suramericana, apoyada en el ascenso de Brasil (hasta 2013), la competencia AP-Mercosur abarcó la contestación institucional colombiana frente a su aspiración al liderazgo regional.
Buscando pertenecer: estudiantes latinos de primera y segunda generación en la Universidad de Purdue, Indiana
Authors: Veiman Echeverría Marilyn , Nowakowski Justin , Rojas Carballo Fabio
Published: August 2019

Los estudiantes latinos, hijos de inmigrantes (segunda generación) e inmigrantes, que se han criado en comunidades locales en exclusión, como los enclaves, descubren que integrarse a la comunidad universitaria es una transición que va más allá del reto académico. Su bagaje cultural y posición socioeconómica los diferencia en un contexto sociocultural predominantemente caucásico y de clase media. Los estudios señalan que lograr un sentido de pertenencia a la comunidad universitaria es clave tanto para la consecución como para la persistencia académica y la falta de esta experiencia se asocia a un alto porcentaje de deserción de los estudios por parte de latinos.

Reconociendo que el carecer de un sentimiento de comunidad en el campus es una causa de la deserción, en este proyecto se investigan algunos de los elementos que producen la experiencia de un sentido de pertenencia en el estudiante latino de la Universidad de Purdue en Indiana, EE.UU. Se solicitó la participación voluntaria de parte del grupo de interés y se aplicaron dos instrumentos: una entrevista a profundidad (indagando en una selección de indicadores como las comunidades de origen, el idioma del hogar y la percepción de inclusión o exclusión en el ambiente universitario) y una encuesta de valor numérico para analizar el “sentido de pertenencia”, cuyos resultados se combinaron con el promedio ponderado, en busca de relaciones con la persistencia académica.
Qur’anic Exegesis for Commoners: A Thematic Sketch of Non-Academic Tafsīr Works in Indonesia
Authors: Qadafy Mu'ammar Zayn
Published: August 2019

This article deals with two scholarly tafsīr books circulating throughout modern Indonesia: Husein Qadri’s (1906-1966) “Senjata Mukmin” (The Weapons of the Believers) and Agus Purwanto’s (b. 1964) “Nalar Ayat-Ayat Semesta” (Reasoning of the Verses of the Universe). Qadri, representing his position as Muslim scholar, and Purwanto, as Muslim intellectual, contribute to the shaping of lay exegesis in their country. I conclude that although the two works are completely different with regard to genre, methodology and style, both are concerned with attracting the attention of lay readers and, accordingly, endeavor to present their information in a comprehensible and accessible manner. In term of content, the two books limit their discussion to the apparent (ẓāhir) meaning of the Qur’an, an understanding that depends on a reader’s knowledge of Arabic; one might call it an immediate understanding of the text. Their works also maintain the primacy of Arabic over the Indonesian language.
Being Muslim in a Secular World: Indonesian Families in Washington DC Area
Authors: Husin Asna
Published: August 2019

Indonesian Muslims in Washington DC and the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia are an important Indonesian community in the United States. They are one of a few Indonesian American communities with a Muslim majority. We survey its birth and assess the early Indonesian and Indonesian Muslim presence in America and their arrival routes. We then examine the lack of Indonesian interest to immigrate to this continent until very recently. Our study draws upon scholarly research on Indonesian-Dutch connections and the early Indonesian experience in the United States. Data about the Indonesian Muslim Association in America (IMAAM) mosque are derived from interviews with over two hundred leaders and members of the community (jamā‘ah). This includes in-depth interviews with forty-six selected individuals, and observation of the masjid activities over a year (April 2017 – June 2018) forms an integral part of this explorative research.
Experiência de produção de recursos pedagógicos abertos em Laboratório de Inovação Cidadã - LABIC: uma análise do comum
Authors: Frosch Renato
Published: August 2019

Este artigo apresenta a experiência do autor no desenvolvimento de material pedagógico para crianças com deficiência visual, apoiado por hardware aberto (impressora 3D), pelos princípios da cultura maker e da ciência aberta. A etapa do projeto abordada neste trabalho foi realizada por uma equipe multidisciplinar no Laboratório de Inovação Cidadã - LabicAR, com duração de 15 dias, em outubro de 2018, em Rosário - Argentina. A abordagem metodológica foi desenvolvida por um processo aberto e democrático, incluindo a seleção dos membros da equipe e o projeto/protótipo executado. Os resultados alcançados no laboratório apontam para possibilidades de disseminação e aprimoramento da criação e popularização de material pedagógico, como softwares (principalmente aqueles relacionados à modelagem digital) e hardware em amplo uso livre, a fim de obter aplicações progressivas para promover, neste caso, o aumento da aprendizagem escolar para um público específico: comunidades de aprendizagem incluindo crianças com deficiência visual.
Comportamento de risco na adolescência: uma revisão sistemática da literatura nacional
Authors: Francisco Caroline de Fátima , Ferreira da Silva Carlos Henrique , Rocha Matheus Henrique da Silva , Afonso Renan De Morais , Dellazzana-Zanon Letícia Lovato
Published: August 2019

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo identificar e analisar os estudos empíricos brasileiros publicados entre os anos de 2007 e 2017 sobre comportamentos de risco de adolescentes por meio de uma revisão sistemática da literatura nacional, a fim de responder a seguinte pergunta: quais os principais comportamentos de risco de adolescentes do Brasil relatados nos estudos nacionais sobre essa temática? A busca foi realizada na base eletrônica de dados do Portal Periódicos da CAPES e teve como palavra-chave: comportamento de risco.A busca resultou em 55 artigos e, após a aplicação dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão, 20 artigos foram analisados na íntegra. Os resultados indicaram que os comportamentos de risco mais investigados nas pesquisas nacionais no período investigado estão relacionados com o uso de álcool e drogas e comportamento alimentar pouco saudável. Entre os profissionais que mais publicaram sobre o assunto destacam-se médicos, nutricionistas, enfermeiros e dentistas. Os resultados deste estudo chamam atenção para o fato de que comportamentos de risco de adolescentes são um tema interdisciplinar que diz respeito a diferentes áreas do conhecimento. Constata-se que pesquisas com essa população são importantes, pois seus resultados podem subsidiar políticas públicas para adolescentes e ações de prevenção, bem como orientar programas de intervenção.
Comunicación política y planeación participativa para el desarrollo sostenible
Authors: Sotelo Aragón Clay Said , Hundek Pichón Leticia Elena , Wilches Luna Victoria Sofía
Published: August 2019

El objetivo del estudio consistió en analizar la convergencia entre la comunicación política y la planeación participativa como ejes prioritarios para determinar la efectividad de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). Desde un estudio de caso, se plantea la necesidad de generar escenarios de participación ciudadana que sirvan como prácticas de control social sobre los instrumentos de planeación,orientándolos a la ejecución de políticas sostenibles y sugiriendo mecanismos de interrelación sobre las estrategias aplicadas a nivel nacional y local para garantizar el logro de los ODS. La investigación fue de tipo teórico-descriptivo, bajo un método cualitativo, que permitió estudiar las diferentes estrategias de comunicación política y planeación participativa implementadas por los gobiernos central y local, para determinar que se encuentran orientadas al desarrollo sostenible y dando muestra de la convergencia de la comunicación política y la planeación participativa, lo que garantiza la efectividad de los instrumentos de planeación para el cumplimiento de los ODS.
Reflexión sobre la pertinencia de la política pública de Educación Superior en Buenaventura
Authors: Barona Rivas Jose Manuel , Caviedes Quintero Gilbert
Published: August 2019

La motivación para la publicación del artículo, radica en la necesidad de pensar, analizar y debatir frente a los alcances sociales que realmente tiene la Política Pública de Educación Superior en el Municipio de Buenaventura, como unidad de complejidad social que requiere ser vista desde sus potencialidades. El objetivo consistió en identificar la pertinencia social actual de la educación superior en Buenaventura, en relación con los criterios de formulación de política pública de educación superior en Colombia. Como metodología, el proceso se realizó mediante una mirada hermenéutica que condujo a la triangulación metodológica (entrevista, encuesta, revisión documental) tomando como muestra poblacional a 160 estudiantes y 56 docentes de la Universidad del Pacifico y de la Universidad del Valle, sedes de Buenaventura, ambas públicas. Una conclusión relevante fue que se deben considerar las características culturales como ejes fundamentales en la planificación e implementación de la Política Pública de Educación Superior en el Distrito Especial de Buenaventura, con el fin de obtener mayores opciones de apropiación de la población y pertinencia de la misma en el contexto social, económico y educativo.
Lipper: Speaker Independent Speech Synthesis Using Multi-View Lipreading
Authors: Salik Khwaja Mohd. , Aggarwal Swati , Kumar Yaman , Shah Rajiv Ratn , Jain Rohit , Zimmermann Roger
Published: August 2019

Lipreading is the process of understanding and interpreting speech by observing a speaker’s lip movements. In the past, most of the work in lipreading has been limited to classifying silent videos to a fixed number of text classes. However, this limits the applications of the lipreading since human language cannot be bound to a fixed set of words or languages. The aim of this work is to reconstruct intelligible acoustic speech signals from silent videos from various poses of a person which Lipper has never seen before. Lipper, therefore is a vocabulary and language agnostic, speaker independent and a near real-time model that deals with a variety of poses of a speaker. The model leverages silent video feeds from multiple cameras recording a subject to generate intelligent speech of a speaker. It uses a deep learning based STCNN+BiGRU architecture to achieve this goal. We evaluate speech reconstruction for speaker independent scenarios and demonstrate the speech output by overlaying the audios reconstructed by Lipper on the corresponding videos.
Find a Reasonable Ending for Stories: Does Logic Relation Help the Story Cloze Test?
Authors: Shang Mingyue , Fu Zhenxin , Yin Hongzhi , Tang Bo , Zhao Dongyan , Yan Rui
Published: August 2019

Natural language understanding is a challenging problem that covers a wide range of tasks. While previous methods generally train each task separately, we consider combining the cross-task features to enhance the task performance. In this paper, we incorporate the logic information with the help of the Natural Language Inference (NLI) task to the Story Cloze Test (SCT). Previous work on SCT considered various semantic information, such as sentiment and topic, but lack the logic information between sentences which is an essential element of stories. Thus we propose to extract the logic information during the course of the story to improve the understanding of the whole story. The logic information is modeled with the help of the NLI task. Experimental results prove the strength of the logic information.
MIGAN: Malware Image Synthesis Using GANs
Authors: Singh Abhishek , Dutta Debojyoti , Saha Amit
Published: August 2019

Majority of the advancement in Deep learning (DL) has occurred in domains such as computer vision, and natural language processing, where abundant training data is available. A major obstacle in leveraging DL techniques for malware analysis is the lack of sufficiently big, labeled datasets. In this paper, we take the first steps towards building a model which can synthesize labeled dataset of malware images using GAN. Such a model can be utilized to perform data augmentation for training a classifier. Furthermore, the model can be shared publicly for community to reap benefits of dataset without sharing the original dataset. First, we show the underlying idiosyncrasies of malware images and why existing data augmentation techniques as well as traditional GAN training fail to produce quality artificial samples. Next, we propose a new method for training GAN where we explicitly embed prior domain knowledge about the dataset into the training procedure. We show improvements in training stability and sample quality assessed on different metrics. Our experiments show substantial improvement on baselines and promise for using such a generative model for malware visualization systems.
Symmetrization for Embedding Directed Graphs
Authors: Sun Jiankai , Parthasarathy Srinivasan
Published: August 2019

In this paper, we propose to solve the directed graph embedding problem via a two stage approach: in the first stage, the graph is symmetrized in one of several possible ways, and in the second stage, the so-obtained symmetrized graph is embeded using any state-of-the-art (undirected) graph embedding algorithm. Note that it is not the objective of this paper to propose a new (undirected) graph embedding algorithm or discuss the strengths and weaknesses of existing ones; all we are saying is that whichever be the suitable graph embedding algorithm, it will fit in the above proposed symmetrization framework.
Robust Facial Landmark Localization Based on Two-Stage Cascaded Pose Regression
Authors: Tong Ziye , Zhou Junwei , Yang Yanchao , Cheng Lee-Ming
Published: August 2019

In this paper, we propose a two-stage cascaded pose regression for facial landmark localization under occlusion. In the first stage, a global cascaded pose regression with robust initialization is performed to get localization results for the original face and its mirror image. The localization difference between the original image and the mirror image is used to determine whether the localization of each landmark is reliable, while unreliable localization with a large difference can be adjusted. In the second stage, the global results are divided into four parts, which are further refined by local regressions. Finally, the four refined local results are integrated and adjusted to get the final output.
Manifold Distance-Based Over-Sampling Technique for Class Imbalance Learning
Authors: Yang Lingkai , Guo Yinan , Cheng Jian
Published: August 2019

Over-sampling technology for handling the class imbalanced problem generates more minority samples to balance the dataset size of different classes. However, sampling in original data space is ineffective as the data in different classes is overlapped or disjunct. Based on this, a new minority sample is presented in terms of the manifold distance rather than Euclidean distance. The overlapped majority and minority samples apt to distribute in fully disjunct subspaces from the view of manifold learning. Moreover, it can avoid generating samples between the minority data locating far away in manifold space. Experiments on 23 UCI datasets show that the proposed method has the better classification accuracy.
Sequence to Sequence Learning for Query Expansion
Authors: Zaiem Salah , Sadat Fatiha
Published: August 2019

As fas as we are aware, using Sequence to Sequence algorithms for query expansion has not been explored yet in Information Retrieval literature. We tried to fill this gap in the literature with a custom Query Expansion system trained and tested on open datasets. One specificity of our engine compared to classic ones is that it does not need the documents to expand the introduced query. We test our expansions on two different tasks : Information Retrieval and Answer preselection. Our method yielded a slight improvement in performance in both two tasks . Our main contributions are :• Starting from open datasets, we built a Query Expansion training set using sentence-embeddings-based Keyword Extraction.• We assess the ability of the Sequence to Sequence neural networks to capture expanding relations in the words embeddings’ space.We afterwards started a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the weights learned by our network. In the second part, I will discuss what is learned by a Recurrent Neural Network compared to what we know about human language learning.
Classifier-Agnostic Saliency Map Extraction
Authors: Zołna Konrad , Geras Krzysztof J. , Cho Kyunghyun
Published: August 2019

Extracting saliency maps, which indicate parts of the image important to classification, requires many tricks to achieve satisfactory performance when using classifier-dependent methods. Instead, we propose classifier-agnostic saliency map extraction. This allows to find all parts of the image that any classifier could use, not just one given in advance. This way we extract much higher quality saliency maps.
Precision-Recall versus Accuracy and the Role of Large Data Sets
Authors: Juba Brendan , Le Hai S.
Published: August 2019

Practitioners of data mining and machine learning have long observed that the imbalance of classes in a data set negatively impacts the quality of classifiers trained on that data. Numerous techniques for coping with such imbalances have been proposed, but nearly all lack any theoretical grounding. By contrast, the standard theoretical analysis of machine learning admits no dependence on the imbalance of classes at all. The basic theorems of statistical learning establish the number of examples needed to estimate the accuracy of a classifier as a function of its complexity (VC-dimension) and the confidence desired; the class imbalance does not enter these formulas anywhere. In this work, we consider the measures of classifier performance in terms of precision and recall, a measure that is widely suggested as more appropriate to the classification of imbalanced data. We observe that whenever the precision is moderately large, the worse of the precision and recall is within a small constant factor of the accuracy weighted by the class imbalance. A corollary of this observation is that a larger number of examples is necessary and sufficient to address class imbalance, a finding we also illustrate empirically.
How Many Pairwise Preferences Do We Need to Rank a Graph Consistently?
Authors: Saha Aadirupa , Shivanna Rakesh , Bhattacharyya Chiranjib
Published: August 2019

We consider the problem of optimal recovery of true ranking of n items from a randomly chosen subset of their pairwise preferences. It is well known that without any further assumption, one requires a sample size of Ω(n2) for the purpose. We analyze the problem with an additional structure of relational graph G([n],E) over the n items added with an assumption of locality: Neighboring items are similar in their rankings. Noting the preferential nature of the data, we choose to embed not the graph, but, its strong product to capture the pairwise node relationships. Furthermore, unlike existing literature that uses Laplacian embedding for graph based learning problems, we use a richer class of graph embeddings—orthonormal representations—that includes (normalized) Laplacian as its special case. Our proposed algorithm, Pref-Rank, predicts the underlying ranking using an SVM based approach using the chosen embedding of the product graph, and is the first to provide statistical consistency on two ranking losses: Kendall’s tau and Spearman’s footrule, with a required sample complexity of O(n2χ(G¯))⅔ pairs, χ(G¯) being the chromatic number of the complement graph G¯. Clearly, our sample complexity is smaller for dense graphs, with χ(G¯) characterizing the degree of node connectivity, which is also intuitive due to the locality assumption e.g. O(n4/3) for union of k-cliques, or O(n5/3) for random and power law graphs etc.—a quantity much smaller than the fundamental limit of Ω(n2) for large n. This, for the first time, relates ranking complexity to structural properties of the graph. We also report experimental evaluations on different synthetic and real-world datasets, where our algorithm is shown to outperform the state of the art methods.
Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion
Authors: Chen Jiaao , Chen Jianshu , Yu Zhou
Published: August 2019

The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as commonsense) to construct a reasonable and consistent story. However, most previous approaches do not explicitly use background commonsense knowledge. We present a neural story ending selection model that integrates three types of information: narrative sequence, sentiment evolution and commonsense knowledge. Experiments show that our model outperforms state-ofthe-art approaches on a public dataset, ROCStory Cloze Task (Mostafazadeh et al. 2017), and the performance gain from adding the additional commonsense knowledge is significant.
Stochastic Goal Recognition Design
Authors: Wayllace Christabel
Published: August 2019

Given an environment and a set of allowed modifications, the task of goal recognition design (GRD) is to select a valid set of modifications that minimizes the maximal number of steps an agent can take before its goal is revealed to an observer. This document presents an extension of GRD to the stochastic domain: the Stochastic Goal Recognition Design (S-GRD). The GRD framework aims to consider: (1) Stochastic agent action outcomes; (2) Partial observability of agent states and actions; and (3) Suboptimal agents. In this abstract we present the progress made towards the final objective as well as a timeline of projected conclusion.
Effects of steel spring floating slab on vibration and noise of a rail transit box-girder
Authors: Li Xiaozhen , Guo Zhen , Lei Kangning , Hu Xuehui , Liang Lin
Published: August 2019

In order to study the effects of a steel spring floating slab track (SSFST) on the vibration and noise of rail transit overhead box-girders, a train–track system coupling model in the frequency domain was established. Two numerical models – a finite-element model to analyse the vibration and a boundary-element model for predicting structure-borne noise – were then built. Based on a field test of one 30 m long simply supported box-girder paved with ordinary slab track (OST) in an urban rail transit system, the models were verified to be effective at predicting the vibration and noise of the box-girder. Meanwhile, both the vibration- and noise-reduction effects of SSFST were assessed in comparison with OST. After substituting SSFST for OST, the maximum reductions of the overall vibration acceleration level and overall sound pressure level of the box-girder were 34·7 dB and 25 dB, respectively. Finally, the effects of the SSFST's parameters on the noise of the box-girder were investigated. The results showed that the isolator stiffness is the primary factor that affects the noise characteristics of the box-girder, followed by the floating slab thickness. However, the floating slab length and fastener stiffness were found to have little influence on the noise radiation.
As políticas de desenvolvimento territorial rural na América latina: uma hibridação do referencial e da implementação.
Authors: Sabourin Eric Pierre , Massardier Gilles , Massardier Gilles , Sotomayor Octavio , Sotomayor Octavio
Published: August 2019

Las políticas de desarrollo territorial rural en América latina: una hibridación del referencial y de la implementaciónResumen: El artículo propone examinar el surgimiento y la diseminación regional de las políticas públicas de desarrollo territorial rural – DTR en América Latina. Formula la hipótesis de la existencia y difusión de un modelo latino-americano específico de política de DTR. La metodología basa–se en una matriz de análisis común del “policy making” a los programas de DTR en varios países y en el examen da su aplicación en cuatro países: Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay. El trabajo concluye con la existencia de un mecanismo de hibridación tanto del referencial teórico-metodológico como de las modalidades de difusión regional y de implementación nacional de esas políticas de DTR.
Biochemical Measures of Neuropathy - Hydrogen Peroxide Assay v1
Authors: Feldman Eva
Published: August 2019

Summary: Oxidative stress is highly correlated with the metabolic changes caused by hyperglycemia. Increased levels of glucose overload mitochondria and result in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, the flow of excess glucose through cellular pathways decreases the cell’s normal ability to detoxify ROS. As a result, the neurons and axons of the peripheral nervous system contain increased levels of ROS and decreased antioxidant capacity. The following assays are used to measure these changes in rodent models of diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic Complication:
Biochemical Measures of Neuropathy - Lowry Protein Assay v1
Authors: Feldman Eva
Published: August 2019

Summary: Oxidative stress is highly correlated with the metabolic changes caused by hyperglycemia. Increased levels of glucose overload mitochondria and result in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, the flow of excess glucose through cellular pathways decreases the cell’s normal ability to detoxify ROS. As a result, the neurons and axons of the peripheral nervous system contain increased levels of ROS and decreased antioxidant capacity. The following assays are used to measure these changes in rodent models of diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic Complication:
DASH Protocol v3
Authors: Lyden Amy , Crawford Emily , Quan Jenai , Caldera Saharai , Dynerman David
Published: August 2019

This protocol is for performing Depletion of Abundant Sequences by Hybridization (DASH) after preparing sequencing libraries and pooling together. DASH is most useful for RNA-seq of human metagenomic samples, where abundant species such as human mitochondrial ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) occupy a majority of the sequencing space available, leaving a minor fraction for regions of interest. DASH treatment is performed after ligation of adapters and unique barcoding of the RNA-seq library. It employs CRISPR-Cas9 complexed to a set of guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeted to the abundant regions to be depleted in a given library. These abundant regions in the library are then cleaved, leaving only the fragments with intact adapters on both ends to be further amplified and sequenced.
FLASH v2.0 v2
Authors: Lyden Amy , Castañeda Gloria , Crawford Emily , Caldera Saharai , Quan Jenai , Travisano Katherine
Published: August 2019

FLASH is a crispr-cas9 technology that enriches for targeted sequences in sequencing libraries. The initial DNA sample undergoes a blocking step that removes of the 5’ phosphoryl groups of the DNA fragments, resulting in a product that is not amendable for downstream adaptor ligation or amplification via standard Illumina-based library preparation. The subsequent incorporation of targeted CRISPR-cas9 library exposes the desired regions of interest, allowing them to be processed into a library. For more information on methods and results, please see the FLASH paper. For FLASH guide RNA design help, please see our github.
Disturbance of food behavior as a predictor of obesity and metabolic syndrome: is possible prevention?
Authors: Bulatova Elena M. , But’ko Pavel V. , Shabalov Alexandr M.
Published: August 2019

Relevance of the study. Eating disorders in children in early childhood are among the leading causes of obesity and the metabolic syndrome. The aim of the study. For the prevention of noncommunicable diseases (obesity, metabolic syndrome) in the future, to carry out the analysis of actual nutrition of children of early age and to identify unfavorable factors influencing the formation of eating behavior.

Materials and methods. A survey of 297 parents with children aged 1 to 3 years. The survey is based on the Google Form on-line platform. The platform for the survey was the social network VKontakte, in particular, thematic groups for mothers with children from 1 to 3 years old. The questions were developed taking into account the recommendations set out in the modern normative documents on children’s nutrition.

Results. According to the data, only 28% of children had 5 organized meals per day, 51% had 4 feedings per day, 21% had 3 feedings. More than half of the children (52%) had 2 snacks per day. The most common snacks were flour products (30%), as well as vegetables and fruits (27%). Most parents (78%) did not pay attention to the design of dishes, 16% did not provide adequate replacement of dishes that the child refused. It should be noted that 12% of children do not like vegetables. A joint meal was not organized in 7% of families. During the meal, 40% of parents and 23% of children used a TV/tablet/smartphone. There are a large number of families (37%) who visit fast food restaurants (fast food) with young children, while 26% of them offered menu items to children.

Conclusion. Identified adverse factors in the formation of eating behavior require changes in the approaches to monitoring a young child on nutritional issues both by a pediatrician and by the implementation of a number of recommendations by parents.
Measuring quality for destination marketing: local public stakeholders’ perceptions in Portugal
Authors:   Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra Education School, Moura Andreia Antunes ,   GOVCOPP-UA,   Rua Dom João III -Solum, 3030-329 Coimbra, Portugal, Mónico Lisete Santos Mendes ,   University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Rua do Colégio Novo, 3000-115 Coimbra, Portugal, Mira Maria do Rosário Campos ,   Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra Education School; Rua Dom João III -Solum, 3030-329 Coimbra, Portugal
Published: August 2019

Based on academicresearchand international recommendations on tourism quality, this study sought to develop a wide-ranging tourism quality scale adapted for Portuguese contexts. The research included creating and validating a marketing subscale to measure local public stakeholders’ perceptions of marketing strategies focused on improving tourism destinations’ quality. A self-administered survey was conducted with a sample of Portuguese municipalities including, more specifically, 134 local public stakeholders commonly considered local destination marketing organisations, as well as public policy-and decision-makers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to measure destination marketing quality, resulting in the identification of two factors: (1) image and promotion and (2) product differentiation. The proposed instrument was shown to have validity and reliability and to be a useful measurement tool. The findings highlight local public stakeholders’ responsibility to ensure the quality and competitiveness of tourism destinations’ marketing and provide multiple useful practical and theoretical implications and insights to guide future research
Mapping intangibilities in creative tourism territories through tangible objects: a methodological approach for developing creative tourism offers
Authors:   CIEO | Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações – Universidade do Algarve, Cabeça Sónia Moreira , Marques João Filipe ,   CIEO | Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações – Universidade do Algarve, Tavares Miriam ,   CIEO | Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações – Universidade do Algarve
Published: August 2019

How can individuals express their perceptions of local places through valued objects and links to their area? Can objects create narratives about places’ identity and collect significant cultural information that connect people to local spaces? Can cultural mapping thus be a useful tool in the design of creative tourist offers? To address these questions, the CREATOUR project organised a series of idea laboratories with various entities that provide creative tourism experiences. The goal was to approach cultural mapping through objects as a way for regional actors to discover what is ‘so special’ about their places and link tourism offers with the communities in which they take place. These exercises led participants to discuss their region’s importance and idiosyncrasies, providing evidence of cultural mapping’s significant role in producing more sustainable offers and better overall destination marketing. Mapping intangibilities through tangible objects helps capture what gives meaning to particular places.
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and diseases in patients with osteoarthritis of knee attending orthopaedic out-patient department of a tertiary care hospital
Authors: Shah Kunal Ajitkumar , Mohapatra Anuradha , Velhal Gajanan D.
Published: August 2019

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) and cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) share similar risk factors. Since OA may increase the risk of CVD through several mechanisms, this study was taken up to find the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and diseases in patients with OA knee. We also assessed the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during August 2018 to January 2019 in an Orthopaedic Out-patient Department of a tertiary care hospital in a metropolitan city. Sample size was 384. Patients above the age of 45 years who were radiologically diagnosed to be OA knee grade 2 and above were included. Questionnaire was used to collect data. Lipid profile and blood sugar were done. Perceived stress scale-10 was used for calculating stress level.Results: Physical inactivity was the most prevalent risk factor (79.68%) followed by tobacco consumption (69.27%), obesity (64.84%), unhealthy diet (56.77%), positive family history (48.43%), dyslipidaemia (48.17%), diabetes (38.54%), hypertension (27.60%), smoking, mental stress and excessive alcohol intake. Prevalence of CVDs like heart failure, heart attack, stroke and other cerebral atherosclerotic conditions were 5.98%. Prevalence among male and female was 6.16% and 5.88% respectively.Conclusions: Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases are common in patients of Osteoarthritis Knee. Physical inactivity is the most common risk factor followed by tobacco consumption, obesity and unhealthy diet. Prevalence of CVDs were 5.98%.
Espiritualidade no ambiente de trabalho: evidências em três casos
Authors: Pinheiro Luciano , Froehlich Cristiane , Konrath Karoline
Published: August 2019

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a compreensão e presença do conceito de espiritualidade no contexto organizacional. Para isso buscou-se: (a) verificar o entendimento de gestores e colaboradores das organizações estudadas sobre este conceito; (b) investigar a presença ou não de práticas associadas às dimensões da espiritualidade; (c) compreender o papel do líder neste contexto. Efetuou-se uma pesquisa exploratória e descritiva, qualitativa e pesquisa de campo. A coleta de dados ocorreu através de entrevistas semiestruturadas em três empresas da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre (RS): uma da área da educação, nomeada de Empresa S; uma loja de departamentos, denominada de Empresa C; e uma fábrica de calçados femininos, chamada de Empresa I. Os principais resultados demonstram que gestores e colaboradores destas empresas possuem entendimento de espiritualidade baseados no senso comum, e poucos possuem conhecimento a respeito da espiritualidade aplicada à gestão; é possível identificar nas empresas práticas que podem ser consideradas e classificadas dentro das cinco dimensões da espiritualidade.
Gestão e Acolhimento Hospitalar: um estudo de caso
Authors: Pinheiro Francine Dos Reis , Santos Carlos Honorato Schuch
Published: August 2019

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a implantação do Acolhimento com Avaliação e Classificação de Risco em um hospital público de grande porte do sul do Brasil, situado na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre, utilizando como objeto de estudo o setor Emergência. Mostra-se como esta implantação pode vir a contribuir para a melhoria do fluxo de atendimento/acolhimento dos seus usuários. Para isso, foi utilizada a técnica de análise documental, a partir dos seguintes documentos institucionais: a) relatórios sociais; b) material utilizado em apresentações públicas; e c) sistema de informações. Apoiado nestes documentos, foi possível identificar e descrever a realidade da implantação do Acolhimento com Avaliação e Classificação de Risco no setor de Emergência, bem como identificar eventuais melhorias e gargalos no processo de acolhimento dos pacientes. Concluiu-se que a implantação dessa metodologia trouxe significativas melhorias no fluxo de atendimento/acolhimento, proporcionando maior agilidade no atendimento aos usuários que necessitam conduta imediata, a diminuição do tempo de espera para atendimento na Emergência, além do “desafogamento” do setor.
Direitos fundamentais e letalidade policial: sentidos opostos numa mesma trilha
Authors: Ferreira Poliana Da Silva
Published: August 2019

Este artigo visa a apresentar uma reflexão a respeito das relações entre direitos fundamentais e letalidade policial no Brasil, como resultado de pesquisa. Tem-se por objetivo organizar um quadro teórico acerca de como as ações policiais que resultam na morte de um cidadão, além de ser violadoras dos direitos fundamentais, podem configurar um limitador a sua própria promoção. No Brasil, a letalidade policial, isto é, a alta frequência com que ocorrem mortes de civis em função de ações policiais, tem persistido nos últimos anos. Este fato é atribuído pelos pesquisadores de diferentes áreas à impunidade e à ausência de responsabilização dos agentes públicos na esfera criminal tornando-se o tema relevante do ponto de vista político, acadêmico e jurídico. No que concerne aos aspectos metodológicos, o presente trabalho está organizado em torno da revisão de literatura sobre temas como “autos de resistência”, letalidade policial, violência letal, rule of law na América Latina, relações raciais no Brasil e direitos fundamentais. Isto nos permitirá uma formulação original da articulação entre letalidade policial, por um lado, e direitos fundamentais, por outro.
A Internet como ferramenta de fiscalização pelos acionistas de companhias de capital aberto na Sociedade da Informação
Authors: Lisboa Roberto Senise , Figueiredo Leidi Priscila , Barreto Junior Irineu Francisco
Published: August 2019

Este artigo analisa a relevância da efetiva participação dos acionistas na fiscalização e acompanhamento das atividades empresariais, das companhias de capital aberto, com especial ênfase na possibilidade de utilização de informações disponíveis na Internet como facilitadoras dessas práticas. Muito embora a fiscalização pelo acionista deva ocorrer dentro dos parâmetros determinados na lei, como na ação judicial de exibição de livros proposta por acionistas minoritários, a rede mundial de computadores pode propiciar que essa análise seja incrementada pelas ferramentas disponível na web. A metodologia empregada fundamenta-se na técnica analítica, na qual são avaliados os aspectos formalistas da sistematização das normas jurídicas, com foco no ordenamento jurídico e suas relações internas, somado ao enfoque hermenêutico. A pesquisa conclui que as normas vigentes no Brasil para regular as atividades das sociedades anônimas exigem que as companhias disponibilizem informações aos investidores e ao mercado, além de determinar que uma série de outras informações sejam prestadas aos órgãos fiscalizadores, em especial, à Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM). Nesse contexto a internet pode servir como propulsora na resposta aos requisitos legais e no aumento da transparência dos atos empresariais.