40 research outputs found
Cross genre author profilling using syntactic N-Grams
No full textTesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Computación), Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIC, 2017, 1 archivo PDF, (95 páginas). tesis.ipn.m
Qur'anic Citations in Karen Armstrong's "Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time"
No full textKaren Armstrong is one of the leading orientalists interested in the study of Islam. She has published two books on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). One of them is titled "Muhammad: The Prophet of Our Time". In this book, the author has presented a number of discussions in a narrative and analytical manner on various aspects of the life of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). At some points, Karen has provided answers to the objections of non-Muslim writers regarding prophetic role of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), however, in many places, she has maintained the continuity of the Orientalist narrative. In her book, she has presented some verses of the Holy Quran as evidence to raise doubts and suspicions regarding the personality of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his character, his companions and wives, and has tried to prove that the doubts she has presented are based on Quranic verses. When an ordinary reader reads this book, he may be confused by seeing a new narrative related to the Holy Quran and Prophet (PBUH) at the same time. Therefore, it is necessary to identify from an Islamic perspective those parts of Karen's book in which the objections are based on the Holy Quran. This article fulfills this need
Memory Study in The Danish Girl (2000) by David Ebershoff Through Voyant Text Mining Tools: A Digital Humanities (DH) Study: 1. Muhammad Awais 2. Adeel Khalid
Full text linkIn this digital era, the world has revolutionised its ways of extracting knowledge patterns based on diverse and large texts using a digital humanities (DH) approach and a range of digital text mining tools available to deconstruct and visualise literary texts. This paper attempts to explore the characters of the novel, ‘The Danish Girl’ by David Ebershoff, through the study of their individual or collective memories through Voyant, a text-mining digital tool for textual analysis. Analysis revealed knowledge patterns on memory in the text through the Voyant text mining tool, which recognizes repeating words and phrases and provides insights into the author\u27s language choices and how they relate to memory studies. It provided textual analysis and allowed data visualisation, collocations, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of the text. The study unveils the summary tool features of the overall corpus, cirrus, unique words, dense words, themes, and phrase tools using a digital humanities approach to text mining, underscoring the significance of digital tools in advancing our understanding of literature and memory
Retraction note: Assessment of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) Induced Hepatotoxicity and Ameliorative Effects of <em>Cinnamomum cassia</em> in Sprague-Dawley Rats (<em>Biological Trace Element Research</em>, (2018), 182, 1, (57-69), 10.1007/s12011-017-1074-3)
No full text\ua9 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article after concerns were raised about data presented in Tables 2, 4, and 5 and error bars in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, and 15. The authors failed to provide raw data and evidence of ethical approval. The Editors-in-Chief therefore have lost confidence in the data presented in this article. Authors, Muhammad Shakeel, Farhat Jabeen, and Sadia Zafar do not agree to this retraction. Authors, Rehana Iqbal, Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Adeel Khalid, Samina Shabbir, and Muhammad Saleem Asghar have not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction
Label-free electrochemical aptasensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein based on carbon cloth sputtered gold nanoparticles
Full text linkThe proliferation and transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or the (COVID-19) disease, has become a threat to worldwide biosecurity. Therefore, early diagnosis of COVID-19 is crucial to combat the ongoing infection spread. In this study we propose a flexible aptamer-based electrochemical sensor for the rapid, label-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (SP). A platform made of a porous and flexible carbon cloth, coated with gold nanoparticles, to increase the conductivity and electrochemical performance of the material, was assembled with a thiol functionalized DNA aptamer via S–Au bonds, for the selective recognition of the SARS-CoV-2 SP. The various steps for the sensor preparation were followed by using scanning electron microscopy, cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The proposed platform displayed good mechanical stability, revealing negligible changes on voltammetric responses to bending at various angles. Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 SP was performed by DPV and chronopotentiometry (CP), exploiting the changes of the electrical signals due the [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- redox probe, when SARS-CoV-2 SP binds to the aptamer immobilized on the electrode surface. Current density, in DPV, and square root of the transition time, in CP, varied linearly with the log[ SARS-CoV-2 SP], providing lower limits of detection (LOD) of 0.11 ng/mL and 37.8 ng/mL, respectively. The sensor displayed good selectivity, repeatability, and was tested in diluted human saliva, spiked with different SARS-CoV-2 SP concentrations, providing LODs of 0.167 ng/mL and 46.2 ng/mL for DPV and CP, respectively
Cross-Genre Author Profile Prediction Using Stylometry-Based Approach Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2016
No full textAbstract.Author profiling task aims to identify different traits of an author by analyzing his/her written text. This study presents a Stylometry-based approach for detection of author traits (gender and age) for cross-genre author profiles. In our proposed approach, we used different types of stylistic features including 7 lexical features, 16 syntactic features, 26 character-based features and 6 vocabulary richness (total 56 stylistic features). On the training corpus, the proposed approach obtained promising results with an accuracy of 0.787 for gender, 0.983 for age and 0.780 for both (jointly detecting age and gender). On the test corpus, proposed system gave an accuracy of 0.576 for gender, 0.371 for age and 0.256 for both
Global navigation of Lithium in water bodies and emerging human health crisis
Full text linkThe production of lithium (Li) increased by 256% in recent years due to unprecedented demands from technological industries. Intensive harvesting poses serious impacts on the sustainability of Li production. Herein, we address the global Li cycle and predict the peak production to reach 740000 million tons in 2041. Global Li accumulation in water bodies is mapped, and the consequences on human health of a wide range (20 mg L−1) of Li concentrations in drinking water are explored. The implications to human health of Li exposure remains unresolved and needs further investigation. There are still no recommendations on safe limits of Li in drinking water for humankind. In conclusion, there is an emergency call to health governing bodies, environmental protection agencies and scientific communities for urgent efforts on sustainable production of Li and identify their thresholds levels in drinking water to minimize the emerging consequences of Li on humans.This article is published as Adeel, M., Zain, M., Shakoor, N. et al. Global navigation of Lithium in water bodies and emerging human health crisis. npj Clean Water 6, 33 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-023-00238-w. © The Author(s) 2023.This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Heat Energy Transfer Using Butyl Stearate as Phase Change Material for Free-Cooling Applications
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Recent Progress in Isotropic Magnetorheological Elastomers and Their Properties: A Review
No full textMagnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are magneto-sensitive smart materials, widely used in various applications, i.e., construction, automotive, electrics, electronics, medical, minimally invasive surgery, and robotics. Such a wide field of applications is due to their superior properties, including morphological, dynamic mechanical, magnetorheological, thermal, friction and wear, and complex torsional properties. The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive review of the recent progress in isotropic MREs, with the main focus on their properties. We first present the background and introduction of the isotropic MREs. Then, the preparation of filler particles, fabrication methods of isotropic MREs, and key parameters of the fabrication process—including types of polymer matrices and filler particles, filler particles size and volume fraction, additives, curing time/temperature, and magnetic field strength—are discussed in a separate section. Additionally, the properties of various isotropic MREs, under specific magnetic field strength and tensile, compressive, or shear loading conditions, are reviewed in detail. The current review concludes with a summary of the properties of isotropic MREs, highlights unexplored research areas in isotropic MREs, and provides an outlook of the future opportunities of this innovative field
