nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Friend Affiliations and School Adjustment Among Mexican American Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Peer and Parent Support
Venue: Journal of youth and adolescence
Year: 2014

Studies examining friendships among Mexican American adolescents have largely focused on their potentially negative influence. The current study examined the extent to which deviant and achievement oriented friend affiliations are associated with Mexican American adolescents' school adjustment and also tested whether support from friends and parents moderates these associations. High school students (N 412; 49 male) completed questionnaires and daily diaries; primary caregivers also completed a questionnaire. Although results revealed few direct associations between friend affiliations and school adjustment, several moderations emerged. In general, the influence of friends' affiliation was strongest when support from friends was high and parental support was low. The findings suggest that only examining links between friend affiliations and school outcomes does not fully capture how friends promote or hinder school adjustment.
Deconstructing Digital Currency and Its Risks: Why ASIC Must Rise to the Regulatory Challenge
Venue: Federal Law Review
Year: 2019

Digital currency is a 'disrupter' of financial services and currency markets, and as such presents new regulatory challenges. International regulatory responses to digital currency range from being largely ignored in some jurisdictions to being banned in others, with most jurisdictions charting a middle course of 'wait and see' while attempting to deal with pressing issues (such as taxation liability and potential money laundering and terrorism financing issues) This article explains digital currency, its benefits, its problems, its risks and the regulatory response so far. It analyses the extent to which the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC, the national securities regulator) may or may not have regulatory power and jurisdiction under existing Australian law, and the role of other relevant regulators and institutions. It concludes that digital currency may well be a 'financial product' under Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 763A (though many suppliers/issuers of that product will be website operators located outside Australia) If it is a financial product, ASIC would also have jurisdiction over issuers and markets that trade in that product. This conclusion could easily be fortified by legislative confirmation; however, it is suggested that ASIC should in all events test its powers to determine whether any legislative change is needed. Regulation by ASIC would add to recent moves to deal with digital currency by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) In all cases, this article argues that the time has come for Commonwealth regulation of digital currencies by ASIC as the relevant regulator. This would then trigger the obligations set out in the Corporations Act and the ASIC Act, including Australian Financial Services Licensing, Australian Market Licensing, standards of efficiency, honesty and fairness, disclosure provisions, possible market offences and corporate regulation generally. The suggested jurisdiction of ASIC would build on its existing role as well as the roles of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the ATO and AUSTRAC.
A Robust Indoor Positioning Method based on Bluetooth Low Energy with Separate Channel Information
Venue: Sensors
Year: 2019

Among the current indoor positioning technologies, Bluetooth low energy (BLE) has gained increasing attention. In particular, the traditional distance estimation derived from aggregate RSS and signal attenuation models is generally unstable because of the complicated interference in indoor environments. To improve the adaptability and robustness of the BLE positioning system, we propose making full use of the three separate channels of BLE instead of their combination, which has generally been used before. In the first step, three signal attenuation models are separately established for each BLE advertising channel in the offline phase, and a more stable distance in the online phase can be acquired by assembling measurements from all three channels with the distance decision strategy. Subsequently, a weighted trilateration method with uncertainties related to the distances derived in the first step is proposed to determine the user's optimal position. The test results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm for determining the distance error achieves a value of less than 2.2 m at 90% while for the positioning error, it achieves a value of less than 2.4 m at 90% Compared with the traditional methods, the positioning error of our method is reduced by 33% to 38% for different smartphones and scenarios.
Mixed Membership Word Embeddings Corpus Specific Embeddings Without Big Data
Year: 2016

Word embeddings provide a nuanced representation of words which can improve the performance of NLP systems by revealing the hidden structural properties of words and their relationships to each other. These models have recently risen in popularity due to the successful performance of scalable algorithms trained in the big data setting. Consequently, word embeddings are commonly trained on very large generic corpora such as Wikipedia, instead of a (typically smaller) corpus of interest, leading to embeddings that are precisely trained but inaccurate relative to the domain of study. I propose a probabilistic model based word embedding method which can recover high dimensional embeddings without big data, due to a sensible parameter sharing scheme. The key insight is to leverage the notion of mixed membership modeling, in which global representations are shared, but individual entities (i.e. dictionary words) are free to use these representations to uniquely differing degrees. Leveraging connections to topic models, I show how to train these models in high dimensions using a combination of state of the art training techniques from the word embedding and topic modeling literatures.
Topic Aware Pointer Generator Networks for Summarizing Spoken Conversations
Venue: 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
Year: 2019

Due to the lack of publicly available resources, conversation summarization has received far less attention than text summarization. As the purpose of conversations is to exchange information between at least two interlocutors, key information about a certain topic is often scattered and spanned across multiple utterances and turns from different speakers. This phenomenon is more pronounced during spoken conversations, where speech characteristics such as backchanneling and false starts might interrupt the topical flow. Moreover, topic diffusion and (intra utterance) topic drift are also more common in human to human conversations. Such linguistic characteristics of dialogue topics make sentence level extractive summarization approaches used in spoken documents ill suited for summarizing conversations. Pointer generator networks have effectively demonstrated its strength at integrating extractive and abstractive capabilities through neural modeling in text summarization. To the best of our knowledge, to date no one has adopted it for summarizing conversations. In this work, we propose a topic aware architecture to exploit the inherent hierarchical structure in conversations to further adapt the pointer generator model. Our approach significantly outperforms competitive baselines, achieves more efficient learning outcomes, and attains more robust performance.
KONSEP PENDIDIKAN SEKS BAGI ANAK DALAM BUKU MENDIDIK ANAK BERSAMA NABI KARYA MUHAMMAD NUR ABDUL HAFIZH SUWAID
Year: 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk 1) Mengkaji Perkembangan Psikologi Anak. 2) Menganalisis konsep Pendidikan Seks bagi Anak yang terdapat dalam buku Mendidik Anak Bersama Nabi Karya Muhammad Nur Abdul Hafizh Suwaid. 3) Mengidentifikasi Implementasi Konsep Pendidikan Seks bagi Anak dalam Buku Mendidik Anak Bersama Nabi Karya Muhammad Nur Abdul Hafizh Suwaid. Jenis penelitian ini tergolong kepustakaan (Library research) dengan menggunakan pendekatan Kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan dengan menelaah, mencari dan memilah dari berbagai literatur yang berkaitan dengan skripsi ini. Teknik pengumpulan data dibagi dalam dua sumber yaitu Data Primer dan Sekunder. Sedangkan teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan model Miles dan Huberman terdapat tiga tahapan yaitu; Reduksi Data, Penyajian Data dan Penarikan Kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa 1) Psikologi perkembangan anak terdapat banyak aspek dalam menunjang anak dalam berbagai perkembangan. 2) pendidikan seks bagi Anak dalam buku Mendidik Anak Bersama Nabi Karya Muhammad Nur Abdul Hafizh Suwaid terdapat kaidah kaidah pembinaan pendidikan seks yang diberikan kepada anak yaitu; Melatih anak meminta izin sebelum masuk kamar orangtua, membiasakan anak menundukan pandangan dan menutup aurat, pemisahan tempat tidur anak dengan orangtua atau saudaranya, tidur dengan posisi miring bahu kanan dan tidak telungkup, menghindarkan anak dari Ikhtilath (pembaharuan antar lawan jenis) dan menjauhkan anak dari segala yang membangkitkan nafsu seks, mempelajari kewajiban kewajiban mandi dan sunnah sunnahnya, menjelaskan kandungan ayat ayat Q.s An Nur, pendidikan seks bagi anak dewasa dan melarang berbuat keji serta pernikahan dini. 3) Implementasi Konsep pendidikan seks bagi anak dalam buku mendidik anak bersama Nabi dalam kehidupan anak sehar hari sebagai petunjuk agar terhindar dari perilaku penyimpangan. Dengan adanya kaidah kaidah pendidikan seks yang terdapat dalam buku mendidik anak bersama Nabi menjadi pengetahuan bagi oraangtua dalam mempersiapkan anak anak menjadi generasi yang beriman, bertakwa dan menciptakan perilaku yang mencerminkan Islam serta terhindar dari keburukan atau tindak keji yang dilarang Allah SWT.
A Matricentric Feminist's Approach to Art Activism: Killjoy Tactics in Rape Stories from the Family Album
Year: 2019

I am a matricentric feminist as described by Andrea O'Reilly in her text Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice. Matricentric feminists are evolving in response to new feminist understandings and motherhood theories; they do not pre exist. I am a feminist killjoy as prescribed by Sara Ahmed in "A Killjoy Manifesto." Feminist killjoys are assigned to pre existing conditions, often because they are assembled around circumstance. I also produce comics and sequential art in a reflexive praxis that has value in the disciplinary sense rather than aiming at market value. In this article, I discuss six drawings from my book Rape Stories from the Family Album. I consider them through a matricentric feminist lens highlighting how they reflect an activist art praxis that mobilizes feminist killjoy tactics. I will focus my discussion around my traumatic memories of learning about my three daughters' rapes as represented in the drawings. Where necessary for sense making I will introduce aspects of comics art and trauma memoir.
Results of initial low dose computed tomographic screening for lung cancer.
Venue: The New England journal of medicine
Year: 2013

Lung cancer is the largest contributor to mortality from cancer. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) showed that screening with low dose helical computed tomography (CT) rather than with chest radiography reduced mortality from lung cancer. We describe the screening, diagnosis, and limited treatment results from the initial round of screening in the NLST to inform and improve lung cancer screening programs.  At 33 U.S. centers, from August 2002 through April 2004, we enrolled asymptomatic participants, 55 to 74 years of age, with a history of at least 30 pack years of smoking. The participants were randomly assigned to undergo annual screening, with the use of either low dose CT or chest radiography, for 3 years. Nodules or other suspicious findings were classified as positive results. This article reports findings from the initial screening examination.  A total of 53,439 eligible participants were randomly assigned to a study group (26,715 to low dose CT and 26,724 to chest radiography) 26,309 participants (98.5% and 26,035 (97.4% respectively, underwent screening. A total of 7191 participants (27.3% in the low dose CT group and 2387 (9.2% in the radiography group had a positive screening result; in the respective groups, 6369 participants (90.4% and 2176 (92.7% had at least one follow up diagnostic procedure, including imaging in 5717 (81.1% and 2010 (85.6% and surgery in 297 (4.2% and 121 (5.2% Lung cancer was diagnosed in 292 participants (1.1% in the low dose CT group versus 190 (0.7% in the radiography group (stage 1 in 158 vs. 70 participants and stage IIB to IV in 120 vs. 112) Sensitivity and specificity were 93.8% and 73.4% for low dose CT and 73.5% and 91.3% for chest radiography, respectively.  The NLST initial screening results are consistent with the existing literature on screening by means of low dose CT and chest radiography, suggesting that a reduction in mortality from lung cancer is achievable at U.S. screening centers that have staff experienced in chest CT. (Funded by the National Cancer Institute; NLST ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00047385.
Prise en charge de la thrombose veineuse profonde des membres superieurs en Occitanie enquete epidemiologique
Year: 2019

l'incidence de la thrombose veineuse profonde du membre superieur progresse. Sa prise en charge est parfois complexe et difficile en raison de ses complications et de l'absence de recommandation de haut niveau de preuve. L'objectif etait de decrire la pratique des medecins vasculaires de la region Occitanie concernant la prise en charge des thromboses veineuses profondes des membres superieurs Materiel et methode nous avons realise une etude epidemiologique observationnelle descriptive sous forme d'une enquete declarative par l'intermediaire d'un questionnaire d'avril a mai 2019 aupres des medecins vasculaires. Resultats sur les 142 medecins contactes, 84 ont repondu soit un taux de reponse de 59,1% La majorite introduit un traitement par HBPM (60,71% et 29,76% un AOD devant un diagnostic de TVPMS. Une duree de 3 mois est choisie par 69% des repondants contre 27,4% pour une duree de 6 mois. Le bilan etiologique comprend une recherche de facteur de risques biologiques, une radiographie cervico thoracique et une echographie doppler avec manoeuvre dynamique. Trois quarts des medecins preconisent une compression veineuse. Un echo doppler de controle est realise a 1 mois et en fin de traitement pour 67,86% En relais de la phase aigue, 63% instaurent un traitement par AOD et 11% preconisent une recanalisation veineuse. Discussion et conclusion la mobilisation des medecins vasculaires temoigne de l'interet porte a cette pathologie. Sa prise en charge necessite des etudes specifiques pour repondre aux modalites therapeutiques, a la duree du traitement anticoagulant ou sur la place de la compression veineuse a la phase aigue.
Stanford parser based approach for extraction of Link Context from non descriptive Anchor Text
Venue: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization
Year: 2014

Link Context Analysis has been widely explored for determining the context of the target web page. But most of the researchers have only considered descriptive or meaningful anchor text and left the undiscriptive anchor text. By researching the World Wide Web it is analyzed that a good percentage of web pages can be reached by following the undescriptive anchor text. So an algorithm has been proposed and implemented for Link context determination (LCD) to determine the context of non descriptive anchor text in this paper. In this work non descriptive anchor text are mainly considered for Link Context determination. A corpus of different web pages belonging to a common domain has been considered first. Then the pages were manually analyzed and relation between the anchor text and the words in its vicinity were discovered. Certain numbers of rules were formed and represented in the form of a tree, based upon these relationships. In our proposed and implemented architecture for LCD we have used three components(1) Stanford parser (2) Rules (3) Link Context Determination. The input sentence is given to the Stanford parser which creates a parse tree for the read sentence. This tree is then used by the link context determiner along with the appropriate rules tree to determine the link context. The proposed approach has been implemented and validated by considering limited samples of non descriptive ATs. The results have shown that, the proposed LCD has extracted 100% actual link context of each considered non descriptive Anchor Text (AT's)
The Oslo Manual
Year: 2013

The ability to determine the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovating firms, and the internal and systemic factors that can influence innovation is a prerequisite for the pursuit and analysis of policies aimed at fostering innovation. The Oslo Manual is the foremost international source of guidelines for the collection and use of data on innovation activities in industry. This third edition has been updated to take account of the progress made in understanding the innovation process and its economic impact, and the experience gained from recent rounds of innovation surveys in OECD and non member countries. For the first time, the Manual investigates the field of non technological innovation and the linkages between different innovation types. It also includes an annex on the implementation of innovation surveys in developing countries.
Recombinant Spidroins Fully Replicate Primary Mechanical Properties of Natural Spider Silk.
Venue: Biomacromolecules
Year: 2018

Despite significant efforts to engineer their heterologous production, recombinant spider silk proteins (spidroins) have yet to replicate the unparalleled combination of high strength and toughness exhibited by natural spider silks, preventing their use in numerous mechanically demanding applications. To overcome this long standing challenge, we have developed a synthetic biology approach combining standardized DNA part assembly and split intein mediated ligation to produce recombinant spidroins of previously unobtainable size (556 kDa) containing 192 repeat motifs of the Nephila clavipes dragline spidroin. Fibers spun from our synthetic spidroins are the first to fully replicate the mechanical performance of their natural counterparts by all common metrics, i.e. tensile strength (1.03 0.11 GPa) modulus (13.7 3.0 GPa) extensibility (18 6% and toughness (114 51 MJ/m3) The developed process reveals a path to more dependable production of high performance silks for mechanically demanding applications while also providing a platform to facilitate production of other high performance natural materials.
Urbanization Processes and Child Breadwinner in Lagos Metropolis
Year: 2017

The aim of this paper is to explain how increasing urbanization is changing family lifestyles in the city. This paper was first presented as a seminar paper in urban sociology (sociology of development postgraduate class of 2015/2016 session) in the department of sociology, University of Ibadan. Increasing population growth, high unemployment rate, low income, poor working condition, a high cost of living have all put heavy pressures on the family. This has consequently made most families engage their children in child employment and labour in order to survive the economic pressures. The demands of life in the city of Lagos make children active participants in the economic fortunes of families majorly among the poor. The cases of child labour in Lagos are high in spite of efforts by the government to reduce drastically child employment and labour. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the changing lifestyles and family structures of the cities using the city of Lagos as a microcosm. The city of Lagos has a large population size of more than 20 million people. The younger generation dominates the economic control of the state both in the formal and informal sectors. Children cope better with urbanization pressures and stress of Lagos megacity than the parents. This study is anchored on Oscar Lewis's theory of culture of poverty. The thesis of the theory explains children breadwinners from the point of view of poverty and a response to the social and economic hardships. This culture is transmitted from one generation to another and they have strongly embraced the culture to be a coping mechanism and also the major solution to their problems. Consequently, children becoming breadwinners for their families have exposed a lot of them to hazardous works and make them more vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse. The definition of what child labour is most times is equivalent to the cultural definition of child work which is part of the socialization process of a child. Based on this conflicting ideology, this paper recommends that the concept of child labour should be defined from society to society.  child breadwinner, child work, urbanization processes, Lagos, child employment and labour
Automated curricula through setter solver interactions
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2019

Reinforcement learning algorithms use correlations between policies and rewards to improve agent performance. But in dynamic or sparsely rewarding environments these correlations are often too small, or rewarding events are too infrequent to make learning feasible. Human education instead relies on curricula the breakdown of tasks into simpler, static challenges with dense rewards to build up to complex behaviors. While curricula are also useful for artificial agents, hand crafting them is time consuming. This has lead researchers to explore automatic curriculum generation. Here we explore automatic curriculum generation in rich, dynamic environments. Using a setter solver paradigm we show the importance of considering goal validity, goal feasibility, and goal coverage to construct useful curricula. We demonstrate the success of our approach in rich but sparsely rewarding 2D and 3D environments, where an agent is tasked to achieve a single goal selected from a set of possible goals that varies between episodes, and identify challenges for future work. Finally, we demonstrate the value of a novel technique that guides agents towards a desired goal distribution. Altogether, these results represent a substantial step towards applying automatic task curricula to learn complex, otherwise unlearnable goals, and to our knowledge are the first to demonstrate automated curriculum generation for goal conditioned agents in environments where the possible goals vary between episodes.
South South Migration and Remittances
Year: 2007

South South Migration and Remittances reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on bilateral migration stocks. It sets out some working hypotheses on the determinants and socioeconomic implications of South South migration. Contrary to popular perception that migration is mostly a South North phenomenon, South South migration is large. Available data from national censuses suggest that nearly half of the migrants from developing countries reside in other developing countries. Almost 80 percent of South South migration takes place between countries with contiguous borders. Estimates of South South remittances range from 9 to 30 percent of developing countries' remittance receipts in 2005. Although the impact of South South migration on the income of migrants and natives is smaller than for South North migration, small increases in income can have substantial welfare implications for the poor. The costs of South South remittances are even higher than those of North South remittances. These findings suggest that policymakers should pay attention to the complex challenges that developing countries face not only as countries of origin, but also as countries of destination.