nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Sleep disordered breathing in medically stable patients with myasthenia gravis
Venue: European journal of neurology
Year: 2007

We investigate sleep and breathing in clinically stable myasthenia gravis (MG) patients and ask weather sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is causally linked with MG. Nineteen MG patients with a mean disease duration of 9.7 years underwent sleep studies in two consecutive nights. The primary outcome measure was the respiratory disturbance index (RDI) in terms of snoring and apneas/hypopneas. Further outcome measurements were total sleep time, sleep stage distribution and the number of arousals. A clinically relevant SDB in terms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (defined as RDI 10/h) was found in four patients. There were only a few central apneas (central apnea index: 0.19 0.4/h) We did not find a relationship between maximum inspiratory pressure and SDB (r 0.03) There is no evidence for a causal relationship between medically stable MG and SDB in terms of OSA. The extent of respiratory muscle weakness failed to correlate with SDB. Furthermore, our study does not confirm the high occurrence of central respiratory events during sleep in patients with well controlled MG.
Microbial contamination of mobile phones in a teritary care hospital
Year: 2018

The use of electronic gadgets like mobile phones have become a part of life, They are being used in almost all places irrespective of hospital halls, laboratories, outpatient department, operation theatres, and various areas in the hospital. These mobile phones could probably act as fomites and may facilitate transfer of microbes from one patient to another in hospital settings. They are seldom cleaned and are often touched during or after examination of patients and handling of specimens without proper hand washing. These mobile phones are now described as "technological petri dishes" where in they might play a role in hospital acquired infections as they spread through the hands of health care personnel. The problem with these gadgets are when compared to stationary fomites they facilitate inter ward (and possibly inter facility) transmission and pathogens on them are very difficult to eliminate by surface cleaners and other disinfectants used routinely in hospitals. The use of mobile phones should be weighed against the risk of contamination and transmission of infections in hospitals and other health associated units. It is of utmost importance that the role of electronic gadgets like mobile phones in spreading infections are identified
Brexit and its impact on New Zealand economy: A conceptual analysis Saida Parvin [et al.
Year: 2017

'Brexit' which means exit of United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) is not only a European issue but has varied implications throughout the world, especially amongst its trading nations. This conceptual paper first discusses pros and cons of Brexit on UK and EU. This is seen in the light of Brexit impact on trade, unemployment rate and inflation rate. It further discusses some of the immediate implication Brexit might have on New Zealand, which is the EU's third largest trading partner. The discussion is based on the impact post Brexit may have in terms of trade, employment, GDP and the tourism sector in New Zealand.
Thermodynamics of dyonic black holes with Thurston horizon geometries
Year: 2018

In five dimensions, we consider a model described by the Einstein gravity with a source given by a scalar field and various Abelian gauge fields with dilatonic like couplings. For this model, we are able to construct two dyonic black holes whose three dimensional horizons are modeled by two nontrivial homogeneous Thurston's geometries. The dyonic solutions are of Lifshitz type with an arbitrary value of the dynamical exponent. In fact, the first gauge field ensures the anisotropy asymptotic while the remaining Abelian fields sustain the electric and magnetic charges. Using the Hamiltonian formalism, the mass, the electric and magnetic charges are explicitly computed. Interestingly enough, the dyonic solutions behave like Chern Simons vortices in the sense that their electric and magnetic charges turn to be proportional. The extension with an hyperscaling violating factor is also scrutinized where we notice that for specific values of the violating factor, purely magnetic solutions are possible.
Quantification of Training Load, Energy Intake, and Physiological Adaptations During a Rugby Preseason: A Case Study From an Elite European Rugby Union Squad
Venue: Journal of strength and conditioning research
Year: 2015

Quantification of training load, energy intake, and physiological adaptations during a rugby preseason: A case study from an Elite European Rugby Union Squad.  is a high speed collision sport consisting of an intermittent activity profile. Given the extreme physical demands of the sport, significant emphasis is placed on players possessing high lean body mass while minimizing body fat. Anecdotally, the most significant changes in body composition are observed during the preseason; however, there are no objective data on the physiological demands and energy intake during this time. We therefore monitored 45 elite European RU players over the 10 week preseason period by assessing training load using Global Positioning System and session rate of perceived exertion (sRPE) while also assessing changes in anthropometry and physical performance. For forwards and backs, respectively, mean weekly distance covered was 9,774 m (1,404) and 11,585 m (1,810) with a total mean weekly sRPE of 3,398 (335) arbitrary units and 2,944 (410) arbitrary units. Mean daily energy intake was 14.8 MJ (1.9) and 13.3 MJ (1.9) carbohydrate (CHO) intake was 3.3 (0.7) and 4.14 (0.4) g*kg 1 body mass, protein intake was 2.52 (0.3) and 2.59 (0.6) g*kg 1 body mass, and fat intake was 1.0 (0.3) and 0.95 (0.3) g*kg 1 body mass for forwards and backs, respectively. Markers of physical performance (1 repetition maximum strength, speed, and repeated sprint tests) and anthropometry (body fat and estimated lean mass) improved in all players. Interestingly, all players self selected a "low" CHO "high" protein diet. Based on physiological improvements the training load and energy intake seems appropriate, although further research is required to evaluate if such energy intakes would also be suitable for match day performance.
Instagram Effects as Social Media toward Adolescence and Young Adult Users: Uses and Gratification Approach
Year: 2018

The development of the web 2.0 and new trends in the social media leads to the changes of human communication and human motivation to use social media. The Uses and Gratification Theory, which emerged in the 1940s, is a mass communications theory which sees a mass audience as an active user who seeks out media to fulfill their needs and leads to ultimate gratification, psychological and social needs. A recent study on the Uses and Gratification Theory identified ten uses and gratifications for using social media  the ten uses and gratifications are: social interaction, information seeking, pass time, entertainment, relaxation, communicatory utility, convenience utility, expression of opinion, information sharing, and surveillance/knowledge about others. this paper review from other findings to discuss and examine the effects of Instagram, as social media toward adolescence and young adult users using Uses and Gratification approach. ; uses and gratification theory; adolescence and young adult; teenagers; effects; social media; instagram.
Induction of synthetic lethality in IDH1 mutated gliomas through inhibition of Bcl xL
Venue: Nature Communications
Year: 2017

Certain gliomas often harbor a mutation in the activity center of IDH1 (R132H) which leads to the production of the oncometabolite 2 R 2 hydroxyglutarate (2 HG) In six model systems, including patient derived stem cell like glioblastoma cultures, inhibition of Bcl xL induces significantly more apoptosis in IDH1 mutated cells than in wild type IDH1 cells. Anaplastic astrocytoma samples with mutated IDH1 display lower levels of Mcl 1 than IDH1 wild type tumors and specific knockdown of Mcl 1 broadly sensitizes glioblastoma cells to Bcl xL inhibition mediated apoptosis. Addition of 2 HG to glioblastoma cultures recapitulates the effects of the IDH mutation on intrinsic apoptosis, shuts down oxidative phosphorylation and reduces ATP levels in glioblastoma cells. 2 HG mediated energy depletion activates AMPK (Threonine 172) blunting protein synthesis and mTOR signaling, culminating in a decline of Mcl 1. In an orthotopic glioblastoma xenograft model expressing mutated IDH1, Bcl xL inhibition leads to long term survival. These results demonstrate that IDH1 mutated gliomas are particularly vulnerable to Bcl xL inhibition.Glioblastoma (GBM) cells are often characterized by the presence of the IDH1 R132H mutation and high expression of anti apoptotic proteins. Here, the authors show that the inhibition of Bcl xL is synthetically lethal in IDH1 mutated GBM models and that this effect is mediated by the oncometabolite, 2 HG, which reduces Mcl 1 protein levels.
Does Gender Matter? Towards Fairness in Dialogue Systems
Venue: COLING
Year: 2020

Recently there are increasing concerns about the fairness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in real world applications such as computer vision and recommendations. For example, recognition algorithms in computer vision are unfair to black people such as poorly detecting their faces and inappropriately identifying them as "gorillas" As one crucial application of AI, dialogue systems have been extensively applied in our society. They are usually built with real human conversational data; thus they could inherit some fairness issues which are held in the real world. However, the fairness of dialogue systems has not been well investigated. In this paper, we perform a pioneering study about the fairness issues in dialogue systems. In particular, we construct a benchmark dataset and propose quantitative measures to understand fairness in dialogue models. Our studies demonstrate that popular dialogue models show significant prejudice towards different genders and races. Besides, to mitigate the bias in dialogue systems, we propose two simple but effective debiasing methods. Experiments show that our methods can reduce the bias in dialogue systems significantly. The dataset and the implementation are released to foster fairness research in dialogue systems.
Designing and Prototyping from the Perspective of AI in the Wild
Venue: Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Year: 2019

This paper describes ObjectResponder a tool that allows designers to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to rapidly prototype concepts for context aware intelligent interaction in the wild. To our knowledge, there are currently no available tools for designing and prototyping with AI within the actual context of use. Our application uses Google Cloud Vision to allow designers assigning chat bot like responses to objects recognized by the smart phone camera. This enables designers to use object recognition labels as a means to diverge on possible interpretations of the context and start generating ideas that can then be immediately tested and iterated. Initial results suggest that looking at the world from the perspective of the AI may enable designers to balance human and nonhuman biases, enrich a designer's understanding of the context, and open up unexpected directions for idea generation.
Metodo de aseguramiento de la calidad en una metodologia de desarrollo de software: un enfoque practico
Year: 2018

espanolEl Aseguramiento de la Calidad de Software (ACS) es un conjunto de metodos, herramientas y tecnicas que permiten gestionar la calidad en el desarrollo de un producto de software. Pese a ser un elemento fundamental a la hora desarrollar un proyecto, no todas las empresas lo aplican debido a presupuesto, falta de personal o adaptaciones de estandares mas complejos. Este articulo, presenta un enfoque practico como guia estrategica, para administrar la calidad en el desarrollo de un proyecto de software. Para esto, se presenta un metodo de ACS que consta de tres componentes. La Esencia, que busca que todo el equipo de trabajo entienda el concepto de calidad; que no solo se ve reflejado en actividades o tareas, sino tambien en la forma como trabaja el equipo. Herramientas, que tienen como finalidad controlar la calidad en el proyecto de software. Y por ultimo, las Metricas utilizadas no solo para medir los resultados obtenidos, sino tambien para poder mejorar los procesos internos. El Metodo fue aplicado en un caso de estudio, para el desarrollo de una aplicacion web, ayudando a controlar de mejor manera los cambios y futuros riesgos que podrian ocurrir en el desarrollo del proyecto, proporcionando una forma de trabajo mas segura. Aunque el metodo facilito satisfacer las necesidades del cliente, no se ha probado en quipos de trabajo de mayor tamano. Ademas, la recoleccion de metricas es a largo plazo, lo que para este estudio de caso, no pudo ser probada. EnglishSoftware Quality Assurance (SQA) is a set of methods, tools and techniques that allows managing the quality in the development of a software product. In spite of a fundamental element in developing a project, not all companies apply due to budget matter, lack of staff or more complex standards adaptations. This article, presents a practical approach as a strategic guide, to manage the quality in the development of a software project. For this, a method of SQA is presented that consists of three components: The Essence, which seeks that work team understands the concept of quality; which is not only reflected in activities or tasks, but also in the way the team works. Tools, whose purpose is to control the quality in the software project. Finally, the Metrics used not only to measure the results obtained, but also to improve internal processes. The Method was applied in a case study, for the development of a web application, helping to better control the changes and future risks that could occur in the development of the project, providing a more secure way of working. Although the method facilitated meeting customer needs, it has not been tested in larger workpieces. In addition, the collection of metrics is long term, which for this case study, could not be proven.
Ecohydrological interactions in a degraded two phase mosaic dryland: implications for regime shifts, resilience, and restoration
Year: 2012

In the semi arid rangelands of north central Kenya, the abundance of grasses has declined over recent decades. Concomitantly, the native succulent herb Sansevieria volkensii has greatly proliferated in many areas. Landscape structure has thus shifted from contiguous herbaceous cover to large, dense stands of S. volkensii with interpatches of bare or sparsely vegetated ground. Local pastoralists view this transition as highly undesirable; understanding the mechanisms and reversibility of the transition is necessary to develop management options. Because water availability is a key driver in this dryland ecosystem, we assessed the ecohydrological dynamics that may govern the vegetative spread of S. volkensii patches in a communal landholding in Laikipia District, Kenya. We assessed surface water flow patterns, soil moisture, S. volkensii proliferation, and adjacent vegetation density along the margins of dense patches of S. volkensii. We found that run on zones along patch margins had greater soil moisture than runoff zones following a rain event. These run on zones also had significantly higher S. volkensii ramet density, more new ramets, and greater leaf water content. New ramet density was negatively affected by the density of adjacent interpatch vegetation. We interpret these findings in the context of scale dependent feedbacks and the cusp catastrophe model of ecosystem transitions. We hypothesize that the amount and spatial heterogeneity of plant available moisture governs the reversibility of transitions in this system and discuss the implications of this finding for management and restoration.
Attribute selection based recommendation framework for short head user group: An empirical study by MovieLens and IMDB
Venue: Expert Syst. Appl.
Year: 2012

Most of recommender systems have serious difficulties on providing relevant services to the 'short head' users who have shown intermixed preferential patterns. In this paper, we assume that such users (which are referred to as long tail users) can play an important role of information sources for improving the performance of recommendation. Attribute reduction based mining method has been proposed to efficiently select the long tail user groups. More importantly, the long tail user groups as domain experts are employed to provide more trustworthy information. To evaluate the proposed framework, we have integrated MovieLens dataset with IMDB, and empirically shown that the long tail user groups are useful for the recommendation process.
Improving Risk Evaluation in FMEA With Cloud Model and Hierarchical TOPSIS Method
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Year: 2019

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a prospective reliability analysis technique used in a wide range of industries for enhancing the safety and reliability of systems, products, processes, and services. However, the conventional FMEA method has been criticized for inherent drawbacks that limit effectiveness and applications. In this paper, a novel integrated FMEA model based on cloud model theory and hierarchical technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method is developed to assess and rank the risk of failure modes. First, individual linguistic assessments of failure modes are converted into normal clouds. Then, FMEA team members' weights are calculated based on the subjective weighting information. Finally, the risk priority of failure modes is determined by using the cloud hierarchical TOPSIS. The newly proposed FMEA method combines the advantages of the cloud model in coping with fuzziness and randomness of linguistic assessments and the merits of hierarchical TOPSIS in solving complex decision making problems. Two empirical examples to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed FMEA are presented together with a comparison to existing methods.
A Corpus Study on Collocations of High Frequency Verbs in Senior High School English Textbooks in China
Year: 2015

As is known, verb is the focus and core of a sentence,also one of the most difficult points in language learning. Further more, collocations of high frequency verbs are the focus of language instruction. Collocation acquisition has become an increasing ly important area for EFL learners to achieve fluency in language comprehension and production. Therefore, the present study in vestigates the high frequency verb collocations found in the New Senior English for China used by senior high school students(from Book 1 to Book 11) The researcher constructs textbook corpus to analyze the collocations of high frequency verbs in read ing parts. The aim of this research is to offer suggestions to students, teachers and textbook editors, thereby contributing to the im provement of the secondary education.
Make Users Own Their Data: A Decentralized Personal Data Store Prototype Based on Ethereum and IPFS
Venue: 2018 3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
Year: 2018

In the times we are living, data protection infringements, at local, national or international level, are a daily occurrence, highlighting how important is the problem of users' awareness and "consent" about what data should or not be shared. A vast number of service providers strives to have access to users' personal data. While users may be aware of sharing their data with services they receive, they may be still unaware if their data is passing in others' hands and unknown third parties. But the sharing of personal data remains unavoidable, in this always connected digital era, contextualized services are not only fancy desires, they could save money, time, and even lives. The problem becomes even more complicate if we try to consider the devices around us: how to share devices we own, so that we can receive pervasive services, based on our contexts and device functionalities. The European Authority has provided regulations about personal data protection, but there are still significant differences in the ways each EU member state would implement the protection of privacy and personal data in national laws, policies, and practices. The tool that should empower users with the personal data protection has to face two problems: data privacy and control. Due to the lack of central authorities, blockchain based technologies would seem fit for the challenge, but such solutions are not fully exploited. One possible reason could be that distributed architectures alone do not achieve privacy of data. In this paper we tackle the challenge of a novel Personal Data Store, by making use of a distributed architecture, based on the Ethereum framework, together with an ontology to model user profile and data/device sharing towards services. Such solution, The Decentralized Identity Manager, solves personal data protection by offering a unique endpoint, without any central authority, where users can manage their data/device access, their privacy levels, and grant or deny sharing consent, every time services ask for personal data.
PENGARUH IRADIASI SINAR GAMMA PADA BENIHTERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN CABAI MERAH (Capsicum annuum L.
Year: 2018

Cabai (Capsicum annuum L. merupakan tanaman penting yang kontinuitas produksinya harus ditingkatkan. Salah satu upaya yang dapat dilakukan untuk meningkatkan produksi cabai adalah melalui iradiasi sinar gamma pada benih cabai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dosis iradiasi sinar gamma yang menghasilkan pertumbuhan terbaik pada cabai merah kultivar 'Laris' Iradiasi sinar gamma dilakukan di Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Teknologi Isotop dan Radiasi, Pasar Jumat, Jakarta, Penanaman benih yang telah diiradiasi dilakukan di Laboratorium Lapangan Terpadu Universitas Lampung, Bandar Lampung, Provinsi Lampung. Penelitian dilakukan pada bulan Oktober 2016 sampai Maret 2017. Dosis iradiasi sinar gamma yang diberikan adalah 0 Gy, 100 Gy, 200 Gy, 300 Gy, dan 400 Gy. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan acak kelompok sebanyak tiga ulangan dan setiap dosis terdiri dari lima tanaman. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa iradiasi sinar gamma dengan dosis 0 Gy,100 Gy, 200 Gy, 300 Gy, dan 400 Gy tidak berpengaruh nyata terhadap pertumbuhan tanaman cabai merah kultivar 'Laris' pada generasi M1, namun dosis iradiasi sinar gamma 400 Gy berpotensi menghasilkan tanaman mutan terbaik yang menghasilkan julmlah buah terbanyak (107, 07 buah) bobot buah total terberat (278,14 g) dan panjang buah sampel terpanjang (12,53 cm) Kata kunci: Cabai, iradiasi sinar gamma, produksi.