News media profiling is helpful in preventing the spread of fake news at the source and maintaining a good media and news ecosystem.Most previous works only extract features and evaluate media from one dimension indep...News media profiling is helpful in preventing the spread of fake news at the source and maintaining a good media and news ecosystem.Most previous works only extract features and evaluate media from one dimension independently,ignoring the interconnections between different aspects.This paper proposes a novel news media bias and factuality profiling framework assisted by correlated features.This framework models the relationship and interaction between media bias and factuality,utilizing this relationship to assist in the prediction of profiling results.Our approach extracts features independently while aligning and fusing them through recursive convolu-tion and attention mechanisms,thus harnessing multi-scale interactive information across different dimensions and levels.This method improves the effectiveness of news media evaluation.Experimental results indicate that our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods,achieving the best performance in Accuracy and F1 score,improving by at least 1%compared to other methods.This paper further analyzes and discusses based on the experimental results.展开更多
Evidential Document-level Event Factuality Identification(EvDEFI)aims to predict the factual nature of an event and extract evidential sentences from the document precisely.Previous work usually limited to only predic...Evidential Document-level Event Factuality Identification(EvDEFI)aims to predict the factual nature of an event and extract evidential sentences from the document precisely.Previous work usually limited to only predicting the factuality of an event with respect to a document,and neglected the interpretability of the task.As a more fine-grained and interpretable task,EvDEFI is still in the early stage.The existing model only used shallow similarity calculation to extract evidences,and employed simple attentions without lexical features,which is quite coarse-grained.Therefore,we propose a novel EvDEFI model named Heterogeneous and Extractive Graph Attention Network(HEGAT),which can update representations of events and sentences by multi-view graph attentions based on tokens and various lexical features from both local and global levels.Experiments on EB-DEF-v2 corpus demonstrate that HEGAT model is superior to several competitive baselines and can validate the interpretability of the task.展开更多
This paper focuses on document-level event factuality identification (DEFI), which predicts the factual nature of an event from the view of a document. As the document-level sub-task of event factuality identification...This paper focuses on document-level event factuality identification (DEFI), which predicts the factual nature of an event from the view of a document. As the document-level sub-task of event factuality identification (EFI), DEFI is a challenging and fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, most existing studies focus on sentence-level event factuality identification (SEFI). However, DEFI is still in the early stage and related studies are quite limited. Previous work is heavily dependent on various NLP tools and annotated information, e.g., dependency trees, event triggers, speculative and negative cues, and does not consider filtering irrelevant and noisy texts that can lead to wrong results. To address these issues, this paper proposes a reinforced multi-granularity hierarchical network model: Reinforced Semantic Learning Network (RSLN), which means it can learn semantics from sentences and tokens at various levels of granularity and hierarchy. Since integrated with hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL), the RSLN model is able to select relevant and meaningful sentences and tokens. Then, RSLN encodes the event and document according to these selected texts. To evaluate our model, based on the DLEF (Document-Level Event Factuality) corpus, we annotate the ExDLEF corpus as the benchmark dataset. Experimental results show that the RSLN model outperforms several state-of-the-arts.展开更多
Background: Blood transfusion (BT) is crucial to the provision of modern health care. However, blood is scarce and costly, and its use is associated with risks. Therefore, the medical professionals who handle it shoul...Background: Blood transfusion (BT) is crucial to the provision of modern health care. However, blood is scarce and costly, and its use is associated with risks. Therefore, the medical professionals who handle it should have adequate knowledge to ensure rational and safe utilization. The objective of the study was to determine the level of BT knowledge among junior medical doctors in Kenya. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted among junior medical doctors working in Western Kenya. Data was collected using questionnaires from August 2021 to March 2022, and analysis was done by way of descriptive and inferential statistics. A p Results: A total of 150 medical doctors participated in the study. Males comprised 60% (n = 90), and the mean age of the participants was 29.9 (SD 3.6) with a range of 25 - 45 years. The mean knowledge score was 54.1% ± 16.4% and was associated with orientation (AOR = 3.157, 95% CI = 1.194 - 8.337). Conclusion: Blood transfusion knowledge among the doctors was suboptimal and was associated with pre-internship induction. There is a need for additional education in BT during all phases of medical training and practice, including orientation for medical interns.展开更多
The increasing demand for unconventional oil and gas resources,especially oil shale,has highlighted the urgent need to develop rapid and accurate strata characterization methods.This paper is the first case and examin...The increasing demand for unconventional oil and gas resources,especially oil shale,has highlighted the urgent need to develop rapid and accurate strata characterization methods.This paper is the first case and examines the drilling process monitoring(DPM)method as a digital,accurate,cost-effective method to characterize oil shale reservoirs in the Ordos Basin,China.The digital DPM method provides real-time in situ testing of the relative variation in rock mechanical strength along the drill bit depth.Furthermore,it can give a refined rock quality designation based on the DPM zoning result(RQD(V_(DPM)))and a strength-grade characterization at the site.Oil shale has high heterogeneity and low strata strength.The digital results are further compared and verified with manual logging,cored samples,and digital panoramic borehole cameras.The findings highlight the innovative potential of the DPM method in identifying the zones of oil shale reservoir along the drill bit depth.The digital results provide a better understanding of the oil shale in Tongchuan and the potential for future oil shale exploration in other regions.展开更多
Digital geological mapping fundamentally broke through the traditional working pattern,successfully carried out the geological mapping digitalization.By using the RGMAP system to field digital geological mapping,the a...Digital geological mapping fundamentally broke through the traditional working pattern,successfully carried out the geological mapping digitalization.By using the RGMAP system to field digital geological mapping,the authors summarized the method of work and the work flow of the RGMAPGIS during the field geological survey.First,we prepared material,set up the PRB gallery,then put the geographic base map under the background maplayer and organizing the field hand map,forming the field factual datum map.At last,the geological space database is formed.展开更多
AIM:To evaluate the impact of surgical volume on nationwide hospital mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy(PD) for periampullary tumors in South Korea.METHODS:Periampullary cancer patients who underwent PD between 2...AIM:To evaluate the impact of surgical volume on nationwide hospital mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy(PD) for periampullary tumors in South Korea.METHODS:Periampullary cancer patients who underwent PD between 2005 and 2008 were analyzed from the database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service of South Korea.A total of 126 hospitals were divided into 5 categories,each similar in terms of surgical volume for each category.We used hospital mortality as a quality indicator,which was defined as death during the hospital stay for PD,and calculated adjusted mortality through multivariate logistic models using several confounder variables.RESULTS:A total of eligible 4975 patients were enrolled in this study.Average annual surgical volume of hospitals was markedly varied,ranging from 215 PDs in the very-high-volume hospital to < 10 PDs in the verylow-volume hospitals.Admission route,type of medical security,and type of operation were significantly different by surgical volume.The overall hospital mortality was 2.1% and the observed hospital mortality by surgical volume showed statistical difference.Surgical volume,age,and type of operation were independent risk factors for hospital death,and adjusted hospital mortality showed a similar difference between hospitals with observed mortality.The result of the HosmerLemeshow test was 5.76(P = 0.674),indicating an acceptable appropriateness of our regression model.CONCLUSION:The higher-volume hospitals showed lower hospital mortality than the lower-volume hospitals after PD in South Korea,which were clarified through the nationwide database.展开更多
The paper investigated the prospect of selected export crops in meeting the demand of emerging commodity and futures market in Nigeria within the context of a counterfactual model, The data covered about three decades...The paper investigated the prospect of selected export crops in meeting the demand of emerging commodity and futures market in Nigeria within the context of a counterfactual model, The data covered about three decades （1973-2000）. The model was estimated to capture two economic policies in the period namely stabilization （1973-1985） before introduction of Structural Adjustment Programme （SAP） and liberalization policy （1986-2005） that followed SAP The results indicated positive divergence between factual and counterfactual trends for palm kernel, cocoa, coffee and rubber but neuative for groundnut after SAP展开更多
Administrative license is closely related to validity judgments on civil juristic acts. In terms of civil law, an administrative organ, under administrative license, allows citizens, legal persons or other organizatio...Administrative license is closely related to validity judgments on civil juristic acts. In terms of civil law, an administrative organ, under administrative license, allows citizens, legal persons or other organizations to engage in specific activities. Some of these activities fall under approved factual acts;some are approved civil juristic acts;and some depend on the particular situation, sometimes belonging to factual acts, sometimes to civil juristic acts. Correspondingly, some provisions for administrative license found in law or administrative regulations are mandatory provisions falling under simple norms;some are mandatory provisions falling under complex norms;and some depend on the particular situation, sometimes belonging to the former and sometimes to the latter. Where a party intends to rule out the application of such mandatory provisions by virtue of agreement on the intent of the civil juristic act, Article 153(2) of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China shall be cited to hold that the agreement is absolutely invalid. Where the civil juristic act of a party violates mandatory provisions falling under complex norms, Article 153(1) of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China shall be invoked to judge its validity.展开更多
Wang Guowei expressed doubts about Xun Zi＇s proposition on ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing,＂ arguing that it was in direct conflict with the philosopher＇s famous thesis that ＂human natural tend...Wang Guowei expressed doubts about Xun Zi＇s proposition on ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing,＂ arguing that it was in direct conflict with the philosopher＇s famous thesis that ＂human natural tendency is evil.＂ The word qing （情） has several connotations in the Xunzi： it may refer to factual truth （实情）, sincerity （诚实） or emotions （情感）. Readers of the Xunzi tend to view the emotional connotation of qing in a negative light, but in actuality qing as human emotions can also be understood in a commendatory or neutral sense in the Xunzi. I argue that Xun Zi＇s proposition on ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ can only be consistent with his view that ＂human natural tendency is evil＂ when qing is used in the neutral sense. In other words, ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ means to establish, on the basis of actual circumstances, ritual practices and rules that adequately satisfy people＇s normal feelings. Xun Zi＇s propositionon ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ can be validated within his own philosophical framework.展开更多
基金funded by“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”,No.CUC23ZDTJ005.
文摘News media profiling is helpful in preventing the spread of fake news at the source and maintaining a good media and news ecosystem.Most previous works only extract features and evaluate media from one dimension independently,ignoring the interconnections between different aspects.This paper proposes a novel news media bias and factuality profiling framework assisted by correlated features.This framework models the relationship and interaction between media bias and factuality,utilizing this relationship to assist in the prediction of profiling results.Our approach extracts features independently while aligning and fusing them through recursive convolu-tion and attention mechanisms,thus harnessing multi-scale interactive information across different dimensions and levels.This method improves the effectiveness of news media evaluation.Experimental results indicate that our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods,achieving the best performance in Accuracy and F1 score,improving by at least 1%compared to other methods.This paper further analyzes and discusses based on the experimental results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant Nos.62006167 and 62276177)the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD).
文摘Evidential Document-level Event Factuality Identification(EvDEFI)aims to predict the factual nature of an event and extract evidential sentences from the document precisely.Previous work usually limited to only predicting the factuality of an event with respect to a document,and neglected the interpretability of the task.As a more fine-grained and interpretable task,EvDEFI is still in the early stage.The existing model only used shallow similarity calculation to extract evidences,and employed simple attentions without lexical features,which is quite coarse-grained.Therefore,we propose a novel EvDEFI model named Heterogeneous and Extractive Graph Attention Network(HEGAT),which can update representations of events and sentences by multi-view graph attentions based on tokens and various lexical features from both local and global levels.Experiments on EB-DEF-v2 corpus demonstrate that HEGAT model is superior to several competitive baselines and can validate the interpretability of the task.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62006167,62276177,62376181,and 62376178the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China under Grant No.24KJB520036the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development(PAPD)of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
文摘This paper focuses on document-level event factuality identification (DEFI), which predicts the factual nature of an event from the view of a document. As the document-level sub-task of event factuality identification (EFI), DEFI is a challenging and fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, most existing studies focus on sentence-level event factuality identification (SEFI). However, DEFI is still in the early stage and related studies are quite limited. Previous work is heavily dependent on various NLP tools and annotated information, e.g., dependency trees, event triggers, speculative and negative cues, and does not consider filtering irrelevant and noisy texts that can lead to wrong results. To address these issues, this paper proposes a reinforced multi-granularity hierarchical network model: Reinforced Semantic Learning Network (RSLN), which means it can learn semantics from sentences and tokens at various levels of granularity and hierarchy. Since integrated with hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL), the RSLN model is able to select relevant and meaningful sentences and tokens. Then, RSLN encodes the event and document according to these selected texts. To evaluate our model, based on the DLEF (Document-Level Event Factuality) corpus, we annotate the ExDLEF corpus as the benchmark dataset. Experimental results show that the RSLN model outperforms several state-of-the-arts.
文摘Background: Blood transfusion (BT) is crucial to the provision of modern health care. However, blood is scarce and costly, and its use is associated with risks. Therefore, the medical professionals who handle it should have adequate knowledge to ensure rational and safe utilization. The objective of the study was to determine the level of BT knowledge among junior medical doctors in Kenya. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted among junior medical doctors working in Western Kenya. Data was collected using questionnaires from August 2021 to March 2022, and analysis was done by way of descriptive and inferential statistics. A p Results: A total of 150 medical doctors participated in the study. Males comprised 60% (n = 90), and the mean age of the participants was 29.9 (SD 3.6) with a range of 25 - 45 years. The mean knowledge score was 54.1% ± 16.4% and was associated with orientation (AOR = 3.157, 95% CI = 1.194 - 8.337). Conclusion: Blood transfusion knowledge among the doctors was suboptimal and was associated with pre-internship induction. There is a need for additional education in BT during all phases of medical training and practice, including orientation for medical interns.
基金supported by grants from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(Grant No.HKU 7137/03E)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41977248)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB10030100).
文摘The increasing demand for unconventional oil and gas resources,especially oil shale,has highlighted the urgent need to develop rapid and accurate strata characterization methods.This paper is the first case and examines the drilling process monitoring(DPM)method as a digital,accurate,cost-effective method to characterize oil shale reservoirs in the Ordos Basin,China.The digital DPM method provides real-time in situ testing of the relative variation in rock mechanical strength along the drill bit depth.Furthermore,it can give a refined rock quality designation based on the DPM zoning result(RQD(V_(DPM)))and a strength-grade characterization at the site.Oil shale has high heterogeneity and low strata strength.The digital results are further compared and verified with manual logging,cored samples,and digital panoramic borehole cameras.The findings highlight the innovative potential of the DPM method in identifying the zones of oil shale reservoir along the drill bit depth.The digital results provide a better understanding of the oil shale in Tongchuan and the potential for future oil shale exploration in other regions.
基金Supported by National Oil-gas Project:No XQ-2004-07
文摘Digital geological mapping fundamentally broke through the traditional working pattern,successfully carried out the geological mapping digitalization.By using the RGMAP system to field digital geological mapping,the authors summarized the method of work and the work flow of the RGMAPGIS during the field geological survey.First,we prepared material,set up the PRB gallery,then put the geographic base map under the background maplayer and organizing the field hand map,forming the field factual datum map.At last,the geological space database is formed.
文摘AIM:To evaluate the impact of surgical volume on nationwide hospital mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy(PD) for periampullary tumors in South Korea.METHODS:Periampullary cancer patients who underwent PD between 2005 and 2008 were analyzed from the database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service of South Korea.A total of 126 hospitals were divided into 5 categories,each similar in terms of surgical volume for each category.We used hospital mortality as a quality indicator,which was defined as death during the hospital stay for PD,and calculated adjusted mortality through multivariate logistic models using several confounder variables.RESULTS:A total of eligible 4975 patients were enrolled in this study.Average annual surgical volume of hospitals was markedly varied,ranging from 215 PDs in the very-high-volume hospital to < 10 PDs in the verylow-volume hospitals.Admission route,type of medical security,and type of operation were significantly different by surgical volume.The overall hospital mortality was 2.1% and the observed hospital mortality by surgical volume showed statistical difference.Surgical volume,age,and type of operation were independent risk factors for hospital death,and adjusted hospital mortality showed a similar difference between hospitals with observed mortality.The result of the HosmerLemeshow test was 5.76(P = 0.674),indicating an acceptable appropriateness of our regression model.CONCLUSION:The higher-volume hospitals showed lower hospital mortality than the lower-volume hospitals after PD in South Korea,which were clarified through the nationwide database.
文摘The paper investigated the prospect of selected export crops in meeting the demand of emerging commodity and futures market in Nigeria within the context of a counterfactual model, The data covered about three decades （1973-2000）. The model was estimated to capture two economic policies in the period namely stabilization （1973-1985） before introduction of Structural Adjustment Programme （SAP） and liberalization policy （1986-2005） that followed SAP The results indicated positive divergence between factual and counterfactual trends for palm kernel, cocoa, coffee and rubber but neuative for groundnut after SAP
基金a phased result of the key project of the National Philosophy and Social Science Fund of China “Research on Major Difficult Issues in the Codification of the Civil Code”(14ZDC017)。
文摘Administrative license is closely related to validity judgments on civil juristic acts. In terms of civil law, an administrative organ, under administrative license, allows citizens, legal persons or other organizations to engage in specific activities. Some of these activities fall under approved factual acts;some are approved civil juristic acts;and some depend on the particular situation, sometimes belonging to factual acts, sometimes to civil juristic acts. Correspondingly, some provisions for administrative license found in law or administrative regulations are mandatory provisions falling under simple norms;some are mandatory provisions falling under complex norms;and some depend on the particular situation, sometimes belonging to the former and sometimes to the latter. Where a party intends to rule out the application of such mandatory provisions by virtue of agreement on the intent of the civil juristic act, Article 153(2) of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China shall be cited to hold that the agreement is absolutely invalid. Where the civil juristic act of a party violates mandatory provisions falling under complex norms, Article 153(1) of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China shall be invoked to judge its validity.
文摘Wang Guowei expressed doubts about Xun Zi＇s proposition on ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing,＂ arguing that it was in direct conflict with the philosopher＇s famous thesis that ＂human natural tendency is evil.＂ The word qing （情） has several connotations in the Xunzi： it may refer to factual truth （实情）, sincerity （诚实） or emotions （情感）. Readers of the Xunzi tend to view the emotional connotation of qing in a negative light, but in actuality qing as human emotions can also be understood in a commendatory or neutral sense in the Xunzi. I argue that Xun Zi＇s proposition on ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ can only be consistent with his view that ＂human natural tendency is evil＂ when qing is used in the neutral sense. In other words, ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ means to establish, on the basis of actual circumstances, ritual practices and rules that adequately satisfy people＇s normal feelings. Xun Zi＇s propositionon ＂establishing ritual practices in accord with qing＂ can be validated within his own philosophical framework.
