22 research outputs found
Profile of author and Portland native Heidi Julavits, featuring an interview in
No full textProfile of author and Portland native Heidi Julavits, featuring an interview in question-and-answer format. Julavits\u27s third novel, The Uses of Enchantment, is about a 17-year-old girl in West Salem, Mass., who may or may not have faked her own abduction. In addition to fiction writing, Julavits is founding editor of the Believer magazine. Julavits splits her time between Manhattan and Brooklin, Maine
Archaeological and biological examination of “The Mystery Wreck” (8MO143) off Vaca Key, Monroe County, Florida: A Report Submitted to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in Fulfillment of a NOAA Maritime Heritage Program Mini-grant
No full textDuring the summer of 2004, the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research Underwater Archaeology team undertook a project to relocate, assess, and record thirteen of the shipwrecks of the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet in the Florida Keys. One source of background information that they used was a commercially available videotape entitled “Galleon Hunter,” produced by Don Ferguson. Aside from the 1733 wrecksites, the video features another site, locally known as “the Mystery Galleon,” that was shown to Ferguson by local diver Stefan Sykora. Using location numbers supplied in Ferguson’s video, Roger Smith, Della Scott-Ireton, and Dave McCampbell relocated the site in Hawk Channel, off the city of Marathon. Later, the site further was examined by Smith, Jennifer McKinnon, and Jason Raupp, who made initial sketches, still photos, and video recordings.ReportSubmitte
Context-Based Quotation Recommendation
No full textWhile composing a new document, anything from a news article to an email or essay, authors often utilize direct quotes from a variety of sources. Although an author may know what point they would like to make, selecting an appropriate quote for the specific context may be time-consuming and difficult. We therefore propose a novel context-aware quote recommendation system which utilizes the content an author has already written to generate a ranked list of quotable paragraphs and spans of tokens from a given source document.
We approach quote recommendation as a variant of open-domain question answering and adapt the state-of-the-art BERT-based methods from open-QA to our task. We conduct experiments on a collection of speech transcripts and associated news articles, evaluating models' paragraph ranking and span prediction performances. Our experiments confirm the strong performance of BERT-based methods on this task, which outperform bag-of-words and neural ranking baselines by more than 30% relative across all ranking metrics. Qualitative analyses show the difficulty of the paragraph and span recommendation tasks and confirm the quotability of the best BERT model's predictions, even if they are not the true selected quotes from the original news articles
Improper Supplementation Habits of Folic Acid Intake by Hungarian Pregnant Women: Improper Recommendations
No full textBackground: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are some of the most common congenital anomalies. Proper folic acid supplementation is a dominant risk factor, which has been shown to decrease the incidence of NTDs. In Canada, the incidence of neuroblastoma has presented a considerable decrease of 60% as a result of enrichment cereal grain flours with synthetic folic acid. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of folic acid intake by pregnant women on the incidence of NTDs and neuroblastoma. Methods: Regular folic acid intake has been recommended to pregnant women in Hungary since the eighties of the last century by health visitors eventually raking effect as an official protocol which had been released in 1997. During 2001, 2002 and 2003. folic acid intake habits of pregnant women were evaluated by health visitors, proving to be successful in collecting data front 95.06% of the pregnant women. The incidence of NTDs has been registered by the Hungarian National Centre of Epidemiology, Department of Human Genetics and Teratology. The Pediatric Cancer Registry provided the incidence of neuroblastoma in children. Results: Consistent findings revealed a regular intake of supplementary folic acid products by 68.71% of the pregnant women. Out of these. 93.13% of pregnant women who were taking folic acid, started the supplementation after their 7 weeks of pregnancies, a time designated as the completion period of the development of the neural tube. The dose of folic acid supplementation was evaluated as less than 5 mg/day in 84.75% of the pregnant women. In Hungary, the incidence of NTDs has remained constant, while the incidence of neuroblastoma has shown constant slight increase in spite of the introduction of folic acid supplementation in 1997. Conclusions: Based on our experience, folic acid supplementation was initiated after the recognition of pregnancy and its application in a dose of lower than 5 mg/day neither decreased the incidence of NTDs nor did it have an effect on the neuroblastoma incidence. It is implicated that proper folic acid supplementation, which is started front the conception. can be achieved only with the enrichment of cereal grain flours
Preface
No full textThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
This volume contains selected papers from the 33rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from March 27-29, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alphabetic thanks go to Dimka Atanassov, Toni Cook, Ariel Diertani, Lauren Friedman, Josef Fruehwald, Kyle Gorman, Catherine Lai, Marielle Lerner, Laurel MacKenzie, Brittany MacLaughlin, and Lydia Rieck for help in editing, uploading, and general support.
Since Vol. 14.2, PWPL has been an internet-only publication. Since Vol. 13.2, PWPL has been published both in print and online gratis via ScholarlyCommons@Penn. Due to the large number of hits these online papers have received, and the time and expense of managing a back catalog of PWPL volumes, the editorial committee decided in 2008 to cease print publication in favor of wider-scale free online dissemination. Please continue citing PWPL papers or issues as you would a print journal article, though you may also provide the URL of the manuscript. An example is below:
Antonenko, Andrei. 2010. Puzzles of Russian Subjunctives. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.1: Proceedings of PLC 33, ed. J.S. Stevens, 1-10. http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol16/iss1/2
Ultimately, the entire back catalog will be digitized and made available on ScholarlyCommons@Penn.
Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers.
The PWPL editors can be contacted at: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104–6305
[email protected] http://ling.upenn.edu/papers/pwpl.html
Jon Scott Stevens
Issue Edito
Preface
No full textThe University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from NWAV and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
This volume contains selected papers from the 33rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held from March 27-29, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alphabetic thanks go to Dimka Atanassov, Toni Cook, Ariel Diertani, Lauren Friedman, Josef Fruehwald, Kyle Gorman, Catherine Lai, Marielle Lerner, Laurel MacKenzie, Brittany MacLaughlin, and Lydia Rieck for help in editing, uploading, and general support.
Since Vol. 14.2, PWPL has been an internet-only publication. Since Vol. 13.2, PWPL has been published both in print and online gratis via ScholarlyCommons@Penn. Due to the large number of hits these online papers have received, and the time and expense of managing a back catalog of PWPL volumes, the editorial committee decided in 2008 to cease print publication in favor of wider-scale free online dissemination. Please continue citing PWPL papers or issues as you would a print journal article, though you may also provide the URL of the manuscript. An example is below:
Antonenko, Andrei. 2010. Puzzles of Russian Subjunctives. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.1: Proceedings of PLC 33, ed. J.S. Stevens, 1-10. http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol16/iss1/2
Ultimately, the entire back catalog will be digitized and made available on ScholarlyCommons@Penn.
Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers.
The PWPL editors can be contacted at: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104–6305
[email protected] http://ling.upenn.edu/papers/pwpl.html
Jon Scott Stevens
Issue Edito
Autism and the U.K. secondary school experience
No full textThis research investigated the self-reported mainstream school experiences of those diagnosed on the autistic spectrum compared with the typically developing school population. Existing literature identifies four key areas that affect the quality of the school experience for students with autism: social skills, perceived relationships with teaching staff, general school functioning, and interpersonal strengths of the young person. These areas were explored in a mainstream U.K. secondary school with 14 students with autism and 14 age and gender matched students without autism, using self-report questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Quantitative analyses showed consistent school experiences for both groups, although content analysis of interview data highlighted some differences in the ways in which the groups perceive group work, peers, and teaching staff within school. Implications for school inclusion are discussed, drawing attention to how staff awareness of autism could improve school experience and success for students with autism attending mainstream schools
On bifurcated supertasks and related questions
No full textBifurcated supertasks entail the actual infinite division of time (accelerated system of reference) as well as the existence of half-curves of infinite length (supertask system of reference). This paper analyzes both issues from a critique perspective. It also analyzes a conflictive case of hypercomputation performed by means of a bifurcated supertask. The results of these analyzes suggest the convenience of reviewing certain foundational aspects of infinitist theories
A pedagogy of freedom: Why primary school teachers should embrace educational emancipation
No full textRich stories of learning journeys that arose from a Life History Research Project resulted in the development of a growing awareness on the part of the author in the role that freedom can productively play within the primary school classroom. The stories that adults told of their most memorable learning experiences almost exclusively occurred outside of the classroom within play and social situations where they were free to engage in a meaningful and personalised learning experience. Learning stories involving risk and even danger, conflict and resolution, freedom from supervision and responsibility as a self-regulated mantle of growing maturity were common themes within the stories. The learning, when scrutinised, revealed deep learning within the domains of problem solving, inventiveness, innovation, creativity, coping skills, processing skills, emotional intelligence, personal happiness, belonging, identity, confidence, political ideology, ethical formation, interpersonal communication and many others. These domains are highly valued within the adult population. However, social change within modern childhood has resulted in many societies espousing social norms that result in children growing up within highly controlled environments with high levels of adult input, supervision, watchfulness, involvement and interference. The level of time spent indoors as opposed to outdoors has also increased dramatically between the last two generations (O’Connor, McCormack, Angus & MacLaughlin 2012). The consequences of this social change are largely unknown as of yet, however, it is surmissable that the impact on the development of skills that require freedom within childhood to flourish is at least a strong possibility. What will this mean for future generations? Who will lead? Who will innovate? Who will be happy?
The role of primary school is more than the development of academic skills such as numeracy and literacy; it is also preparation for life. The broader skillset that can be developed within child led activities has a role within the primary classroom. Educators who embrace a pedagogy of freedom will be well rewarded in many ways. They will enjoy rich integrated teaching experiences and will also experience the joy of seeing children reach their true potential in a supportive learning environment which the children and their teacher have created together within a partnership approach to childhood education that is based on mutual respect for the innate wisdom of all learners
Correction: The association between dietary quality scores with C-reactive protein and novel biomarkers of inflammation platelet-activating factor and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2: a cross-sectional study
No full textFollowing the publication of the original article [1], the authors identified errors in the description of the score range of the Vegetarian Lifestyle Index in Table 1 and in the Methods section. The updated sentence and Table 1 are given below, and the changes have been highlighted in bold typeface. The sentence currently reads: The total vegetarian score was calculated by summing all of the points from each respective section to generate a composite score ranging in values from 0 to 80. The sentence should read: The total vegetarian score was calculated by summing all of the points from each respective section to generate a composite score ranging in values from 0 to 14. The incorrect Table 1 is: (Table presented.) Demographic and clinical characteristics of study subjects Characteristics Mean ± SD or N (%) or Median (IQR range) Mean ± SD or N (%) or Median (IQR range) Total n = 100 Male n = 31 Female n = 69 High risk of CVD n = 68 Low risk of CVD n = 32 Age, yearsb 49 ± 13 46 ± 13 50 ± 13 0.120 53 ± 13 38 ± 14 Race, Caucasian n (%) 92 (92) 25 (86) 67 (94) − 65 (96) 27 (84) – Male n (%) 31 (31) − 21 (31) 10 (31) – BMI, kg/m2b 28.3 ± 6.5 27.41 ± 5.0 28.65 ± 7.2 0.729 30.65 ± 6.4 23.19 ± 2.7 Waist Circumference (cm) Umbilicusb 95.8 ± 6.7 95.99 ± 12.60 95.70 ± 18.40 0.526 102.36 ± 15.40 81.83 ± 9.15 Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis % 4 (4) 3 (10) 1 (1) – 4 (6) 0 (0) – Physical Activity METs tertiles 1.41 ± 0.65 1.61 ± 0.72 1.32 ± 0.83 0.193 1.28 ± . 84 1.69 ± . 65 0.193 n (%) low PA 20 (20) 4 (13) 16 (23) – 17 (25) 3 (9) – n (%) medium PA 19 (19) 4 (13) 15 (22) – 15 (22) 4 (13) – n (%) high PA 61 (61) 23 (74) 38 (55) – 36 (53) 25 (78) – PAF ng/mLb 7.96 (3.89 – 16.77) 9.95 (4.31 – 15.33) 6.45 (3.81 – 18.90) 0.814 4.84 (3.24 – 14.57) 13.27 (9.59 – 21.63) Lp-PLA2 nmol/min/mL 14.91 ± 4.29 16.98 ± 4.90 13.98 ± 3.65 15.30 ± 4.42 14.09 ± 3.94 0.19 hsCRP mg/Lb,c 0.96 (0.49 – 2.98) 0.93 (0.41–2.1) 1.1 (0.5–3.14) 0.392 1.79 (0.64 – 3.80) 0.56 (0.22 – 1.01) DASH Index (0–80)d 43.86 ± 8.59 43.00 ± 8.44 44.25 ± 8.69 0.505 42.10 ± 8.68 47.59 ± 7.19 Vegetarian Lifestyle Index (0–15)d 7.64 ± 1.58 7.08 ± 1.29 7.89 ± 1.65 7.40 ± 1.53 8.15 ± 1.58 HEIFA Score (0–100)d 60.04 ± 11.61 60.84 ± 11.73 59.68 ± 11.63 0.647 57.74 ± 11.28 64.94 ± 10.92 MEDAS Score (0–14)d 6.45 ± 2.30 6.45 ± 2.43 6.45 ± 2.26 0.996 6.07 ± 2.09 7.25 ± 2.55 erMedDiet Score (0–17)d 8.30 ± 2.25 8.10 ± 2.12 8.39 ± 2.31 0.547 8.03 ± 2.02 8.88 ± 2.61 0.112 aIndependent T-test performed P < 0.05 represents significant difference b Mann Whitney U test performed P < 0.05 represents significant difference, c n = 99, d Higher scores indicate greater adherence BMI, body mass index; DASH, Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension; erMedDIET, Predimed-Plus Diet Score; HEIFA, Healthy Eating Index for Australian Adults; hsCRP, high-sensitivity c reactive protein; Lp-PLA2, lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2; mg/L, MEDAS, Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener; milligrams per litre; ng/L, nanograms per litre; nmol/min/mL, nanomoles per min per millilitre; PA, physical activity; PAF, platelet activating factor; SBP, systolic blood pressure; SD, standard deviation Bold values indicate statistical significance at p <.05 The correct Table 1 is: (Table presented.) Demographic and clinical characteristics of study subjects Characteristics Mean ± SD or N (%) or Median (IQR range) P valuea Mean ± SD or N (%) or Median (IQR range) P valuea Total n = 100 Male n = 31 Female n = 69 High Risk of CVD n = 68 Low Risk of CVD n = 32 Age, yearsb 49 ± 13 46 ± 13 50 ± 13 120 53 ± 13 38 ± 14 Race, Caucasian n (%) 92 (92) 25 (86) 67 (94) 65 (96) 27 (84) Male n (%) 21 (31) 10 (31) BMI, kg/m2b 28.3 ± 6.5 27.41 ± 5.0 28.65 ± 7.2 0.729 30.65 ± 6.4 23.19 ± 2.7 Waist Circumference (cm) Umbilicusb 95.8 ± 6.7 95.99 ± 12.60 95.70 ± 18.40 0.526 102.36 ± 15.40 81.83 ± 9.15 Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis % 4 (4) 3 (10) 1 (1) – 4 (6) 0 (0) – Physical Activity METs tertiles 1.41 ± 0.65 1.61 ± 0.72 1.32 ± 0.83 0.193 1.28 ± . 84 1.69 ± . 65 0.193 n (%) low PA 20 (20) 4 (13) 16 (23) – 17 (25) 3 (9) – n (%) medium PA 19 (19) 4 (13) 15 (22) – 15 (22) 4 (13) – n (%) high PA 61 (61) 23 (74) 38 (55) – 36 (53) 25 (78) – PAF ng/mLb 7.96 (3.89–16.77) 9.95 (4.31–15.33) 6.45 (3.81–18.90) 0.814 4.84 (3.24–14.57) 13.27 (9.59–21.63) Lp-PLA2 nmol/min/mL 14.91 ± 4.29 16.98 ± 4.90 13.98 ± 3.65 15.30 ± 4.42 14.09 ± 3.94 0.19 hsCRP mg/Lb,c 0.96 (0.49–2.98) 0.93 (0.41–2.1) 1.1 (0.5–3.14) 0.392 1.79 (0.64–3.80) 0.56 (0.22–1.01) DASH Index (0–80) 43.86 ± 8.59 43.00 ± 8.44 44.25 ± 8.69 0.505 42.10 ± 8.68 47.59 ± 7.19 Vegetarian Lifestyle Index (0–14) 7.64 ± 1.58 7.08 ± 1.29 7.89 ± 1.65 7.40 ± 1.53 8.15 ± 1.58 HEIFA Score (0–100) 60.04 ± 11.61 60.84 ± 11.73 59.68 ± 11.63 0.647 57.74 ± 11.28 64.94 ± 10.92 MEDAS Score (0–14) 6.45 ± 2.30 6.45 ± 2.43 6.45 ± 2.26 0.996 6.07 ± 2.09 7.25 ± 2.55 erMedDiet Score (0–17) 8.30 ± 2.25 8.10 ± 2.12 8.39 ± 2.31 0.547 8.03 ± 2.02 8.88 ± 2.61 0.112 BMI body mass index, DASH Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension, erMedDIET Predimed-Plus Diet Score, HEIFA Healthy Eating Index for Australian Adults, hsCRP high-sensitivity c reactive protein, Lp-PLA2 lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2, mg/L, MEDAS, Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener; milligrams per litre, ng/L, nanograms per litre, nmol/min/mL nanomoles per min per millilitre, PA physical activity, PAF platelet activating factor, SBP systolic blood pressure, SD standard deviation aIndependent T-test performed P < 0.05 represents significant difference bMann Whitney U test performed P < 0.05 represents significant difference cn = 99 The original article [1] has been corrected. © 2023, The Author(s)
