Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.
Nutrition in Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is mostly recognized for its pulmonary morbidity, but the earliest manifestations of the disease are related to its gastrointestinal and nutritional derangements. Destruction of acinar pancreatic tissue, pancreatic ductular obstruction, and lack of enzymatic activity lead to malabsorption (particularly of fats), diarrhea, and failure to thrive. A minority of CF patients carrying milder CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutations have preserved pancreatic secretory activity and are free from significant malabsorption early in life. However, these patients are at risk for losing pancreatic function over time. Nutritional status plays an important role in the progression of the pulmonary disease in CF. Further, CF patients with better nutritional status have a survival advantage. Several factors contribute to impaired nutritional status in CF (e.g., pancreatic insufficiency, chronic malabsorption, recurrent sinopulmonary infections, chronic inflammation, increased energy expenditure, suboptimal intake). Progressive lung disease further increases calorie requirements by increasing the work of breathing. Treatment programs that place an emphasis on higher caloric intake and more aggressive nutritional management in CF patients report better outcomes. Basic tenets of nutritional repletion in CF include the use of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy and following a high calorie, high protein, unrestricted diet. At the Stanford Cystic Fibrosis Center, nutritional status is assessed on an ongoing basis through anthropometric parameters and annual assessment of body composition, bone density, glucose tolerance, and various biochemical and micronutrient levels. Based on the anthropometric data obtained on routine clinical encounters, patients are categorized as to their nutritional risk. This proactive approach for the early identification of nutritional risk has become a major theme within the network of US CF centers. Aggressive nutritional support with adequate pancreatic replacement management should lead to both normal growth and lung function preservation. In addition, nutritional status has to be monitored closely during routine encounters to allow for early intervention once derangements are noted. This will include increasing calories in the early stages of lung disease and being vigilant of gastrointestinal symptomatology and complications.
High performance 4.5-nm-thick compressively-strained Ge-on-insulator pMOSFETs fabricated by Ge condensation with optimized temperature control

We report high performance extremely-thin-body (ETB) Ge-on-Insulator (GOI) pMOSFETs fabricated by a new Ge condensation process with minimized temperature cycles and slow cooling-down rate. This new condensation process effectively suppresses strain relaxation during Ge condensation and creates high compressive strain. By combining the highly-strained GOI substrates with a digital etching process, we successfully realized 4.5-nm-thick strained-GOI pMOSFETs with excellent GOI thickness uniformity. The MOSFETs exhibit highest hole mobility of 138 cm2/Vs in GOI thickness less than 5 nm and the hole mobility enhancement of 2.0 over that of best performance GOI pMOSFETs in this thickness range.
Network Information Flow

A formal model for an analysis of an information flow in interconnection networks is presented. It is based on timed process algebra which can express also network properties. The information flow is based on a concept of deducibility on composition. Robustness of systems against network timing attacks is defined. A variety of different security properties which reflect different security requirements are defined and investigated.
Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging System with Chirp-Coded Excitation for Assessing Biomechanical Properties of Elasticity Phantom

The biomechanical properties of soft tissues vary with pathological phenomenon. Ultrasound elasticity imaging is a noninvasive method used to analyze the local biomechanical properties of soft tissues in clinical diagnosis. However, the echo signal-to-noise ratio (eSNR) is diminished because of the attenuation of ultrasonic energy by soft tissues. Therefore, to improve the quality of elastography, the eSNR and depth of ultrasound penetration must be increased using chirp-coded excitation. Moreover, the low axial resolution of ultrasound images generated by a chirp-coded pulse must be increased using an appropriate compression filter. The main aim of this study is to develop an ultrasound elasticity imaging system with chirp-coded excitation using a Tukey window for assessing the biomechanical properties of soft tissues. In this study, we propose an ultrasound elasticity imaging system equipped with a 7.5-MHz single-element transducer and polymethylpentene compression plate to measure strains in soft tissues. Soft tissue strains were analyzed using cross correlation (CC) and absolution difference (AD) algorithms. The optimal parameters of CC and AD algorithms used for the ultrasound elasticity imaging system with chirp-coded excitation were determined by measuring the elastographic signal-to-noise ratio (SNRe) of a homogeneous phantom. Moreover, chirp-coded excitation and short pulse excitation were used to measure the elasticity properties of the phantom. The elastographic qualities of the tissue-mimicking phantom were assessed in terms of Young’s modulus and elastographic contrast-to-noise ratio (CNRe). The results show that the developed ultrasound elasticity imaging system with chirp-coded excitation modulated by a Tukey window can acquire accurate, high-quality elastography images.
Varying proportions of constituent transforms to generate hybrid wavelet transform for image compression

The storage and transfer of images have gained importance. Image compression plays a vital role for ease of storage and transfer of images. Image compression in transform domain is one of the most popular techniques. Previous work has proved that the hybrid wavelet transforms (HWT) are better than the respective orthogonal transforms [1]. In this paper, the effect of varying proportions of constituent transforms to generate the hybrid wavelet transform are tested for the effect on quality of image compression using cosine and Kekre transform. The experimentation is done on set of 20 images by varying the proportion of constituent transforms and compression ratios (CR). Here, in addition to conventional 1:1 proportion of constituent transforms; four additional proportions alias 1:16, 1:4, 4:1, 16:1 are also considered for generation of HWT. The results prove that for compression ratio above 90%, 4:1 ratio of constituent DCT-Kekre transform in HWT gives better results. 1:1 ratio of constituent transforms give better results for compression ratios between 75% and 90%. But for lower compression ratios, 1:4 proportions of constituent transforms (DCT-Kekre transform) in HWT gives better results.
Evaluation of a Nanodispersion Formulation Prepared through Microfluidic Reactors for Pulmonary Delivery of Budesonide Using Nebulizers

This study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. The size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects on the particle size. Results showed a narrow distribution for budesonide nanodispersion with spherical and smooth surfaced particles. To investigate the in-vitro aerosolization performance of the nanodispersion, the preparation was compared with a commercially available budesonide microsuspension using the Comité Européen Normalization (CEN) methodology. Aerosolization results showed that the fine particle fraction (FPF) generated from the budesonide nanodispersion was significantly higher than that of the marketed budesonide (ie. mean (SD) 56.88 (3.37)% vs. 38.04 (7.82)%, respectively). Additionally, mass median aerodynamic diameter (MMAD) of nano-budesonide dispersion was significantly smaller than the microsuspension (ie. mean (SD) 3.91 (0.49) vs. 6.22 (1.09) μm, respectively), with nebulization time of nano-budesonide dispersion significantly shorter than the marketed budesonide microsuspension (ie. 12.3 (0.37) vs. 14.85 (0.36) min, respectively). The produced nanodispersion was found to be stable over a period of 10 days if stored at 4 °C.
Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Sosyal Bilgiler Dersinde Düşünme Becerilerini Kazandırma Yeterliklerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Bu arastirmada ilkogretim okullari 4 Sinif Sosyal Bilgiler Dersinde ogretmenlerin problem cozme karar verme soru sorma elestirel ve yaratici dusunme becerilerini kazandirma yeterlikleri degerlendirilmistir Arastirmanin temel amaci bu dusunme becerilerinin ogrencilere kazandirilip kazandirilmadigini betimlemek ve ogretmenlerin brans mesleki kidem brans ve cinsiyetlerinin bu becerilerin ogretilmesinde farklilik yaratip yaratmadigini saptamaktir Arastirma genel tarama turunde betimsel bir calisma olmustur Arastirmada Antakya merkezdeki 30 adet ilkogretim okulu 4 siniflarini okutan 97 ogretmene uygulanan anket ve bunlarin icinden random ile secilen 24 ogretmene uygulanan gozlem veri toplama araci olarak kullanilmistir Ogretmenlerin sinifta dusunmeyi gelistirici etkinlikleri uygulama duzeyini belirlemek amaciyla gelistirilen anket ve gozlem formlari birbirine paralel 6 alt bolumden olusmustur Bu formlarin I bolumunde ogretmenlerin kisisel bilgileri II bolumunde problem cozme karar verme elestirel dusunme yaratici dusunme ve soru sorma becerilerine ait toplam 29 madde ile bu beceriler betimlenmistir Yapilan istatistikler sonucunda ankete katilan ogretmenler belirtilen dusunme becerilerinin kazandirilmasinda kendilerini yeterli bulmuslardir Buna karsin arastirmaci tarafindan yapilan gozlemde ogretmenlerin bu becerileri kazandirmada yetersiz ya da tamamen yetersiz olduklari ortaya cikmistir Tek yonlu varyans analizi one way ANOVA sonuclarina gore ogretmenlerin mesleki kideminin cinsiyetinin bransinin ve mezun olunan okul turunun problem cozme karar verme soru sorma ve elestirel dusunme becerilerini kazandirmada anlamli bir fark olusturmamasina karsin 16 20 yillik mesleki kideme sahip ogretmenlerin yaratici dusunme becerilerini kazandirmalarinda anlamli bir fark cikmistir Ogretmen egitiminde dusunme becerileri ile ilgili ders okutulmamasi programda bu becerilerin kazandirilmasi ile ilgili herhangi bir duzenleme olmamasi egitimin ogrenciyi merkeze almamasi ve ogretmenlerin kendilerini gelistirme cabasi icinde olmamalari gibi nedenler bu becerilerin sinifta istenen duzeyde uygulanamamasi sonucunu ortaya cikarmistir Anahtar Kelimeler: Sosyal Bilgiler Dusunme Becerileri Problem Cozme Karar Verme Soru Sorma Elestirel Dusunme Yaratici Dusunme
Path planning of a mobile robot for avoiding moving obstacles with improved velocity control by using the hydrodynamic potential

This paper describes the theory and the simulation of an improved velocity potential approach for path planning by which a mobile robot avoids standing and/or moving obstacles by using the hydrodynamic potential. This potential function for path planning is feasible for guiding a mobile robot to avoid an arbitrarily moving obstacle and to reach the goal in real time without finding the local maximum or minimum points in all cases. In this theory, there are two problems. One is that a mobile robot accelerates rapidly when it avoids a moving obstacle. The other is that a mobile robot has a discontinuous velocity when it is passing a moving obstacle. An ellipse field, which is obtained by using the conformal transformation, and a correction function, which generates the continuous velocity field, are installed in the previous potential function to cope with the difficulty. As a result, a mobile robot can gradually avoid a moving obstacle from further away, and can be safely guided without rapid acceleration.
Including Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in Typical Classrooms: Practical Strategies for Teachers

Educating Students with Diverse Strengths and Needs Together: Rationale for Inclusion Instruction in the General Education Environment First Steps: Determining Individual Abilities and General Guidelines to Support Students in Inclusive Settings The Preschool Student The Elementary School Student in K-5 Classes The Middle School or Junior High Student The High School Student in Various High School Classes The Important Role of Peers in Inclusive Education Working Cooperatively: The Role of Team Members Are They Making Progress? : Assessing the Skills of Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in General Education Classrooms Common Concerns and Some Responses.
Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin öğrenme-öğretme sürecine entegrasyonunu incelemede bir çerçeve: etkinlik kuramı

Bilgi ve Iletisim Teknolojileri (BIT)’nin ogrenme-ogretme surecine entegrasyonu, ogretmenler, ogrenciler, BIT koordinatoru, okul yonetimi, egitim programlari ve okul kulturu gibi bir cok dinamigi icinde barindiran karmasik ve cok boyutlu bir surectir. Bu nedenle BIT uygulamalarinin, icinde bulundugu baglamla birlikte ele alinip irdelenmesi onemli gorunmektedir. Etkinlik Kurami’nin, bir taraftan BIT’in ogrenme ortamlarina nasil entegre edilecegi konusunda diger yandan, BIT’in kullanildigi baglamdaki etkinlikler, icerikler ve kisiler arasi sureclerin butunsel bir bakis acisiyla incelenebilmesinde onemli olanaklar sunabilecegi ileri surulebilir. Buradan hareketle calismada, Etkinlik Kurami’nin temel yapisi ve ilkeleri aciklanarak, BIT’in ogrenme-ogretme surecine entegrasyonunun cok boyutlu olarak irdelenebilmesinde, Etkinlik Kurami’ndan nasil yararlanilabilecegi ortaya konulmaya calisilmistir
Temporal Robust Features for Violence Detection

Automatically detecting violence in videos is paramount for enforcing the law and providing the society with better policies for safer public places. In addition, it may be essential for protecting minors from accessing inappropriate contents on-line, and for helping parents choose suitable movie titles for their children. However, this is an open problem as the very definition of violence is subjective and may vary from one society to another. Detecting such nuances from video footages with no human supervision is very challenging. Clearly, when designing a computer-aided solution to this problem, we need to think of efficient (quickly harness large troves of data) and effective detection methods (robustly filter what needs special attention and further analysis). In this vein, we explore a content description method for violence detection founded upon temporal robust features that quickly grasp video sequences, automatically classifying violent videos. The used method also holds promise for fast and effective classification of other recognition tasks (e.g., pornography and other inappropriate material). When compared to more complex counterparts for violence detection, the method shows similar classification quality while being several times more efficient in terms of runtime and memory footprint.
Apricot Breeding at the Faculty of Horticulture in Lednice

The aim of the apricot-breeding program in the Horticultural Faculty in Lednice, that has been developed since 1981, is to obtain new adaptable cultivars, which combine most of the valuable biological traits. Standard breeding techniques, such as crossing by emasculation and hand pollination, self-pollination and open pollination, were employed. A total of 1.154 crossings were produced from more than 110 different parents. So far more than 20,000 seedlings have been obtained, of which about 13,000 have already been evaluated. The most interesting selections were grafted and planted in trial orchards (we now have more than 650 elite genotypes). Ten of these have already been registered, and further promising new hybrids have been submitted for registration and law right protection (Betinka, Candela, Sophia and Adriana). The basic prerequisite for the initiation of the breeding program was a large collection of genetic resources, established and gradually supplemented since the 1970s. At the present time, we preserve and manage more than 300 accessions of apricot trees. In the frame of the descriptive work of the genetic resources and in order to use in breeding, a collection of apricots has been evaluated. We selected the genotypes and characters relating to an increased level of adaptation to the environment.
Recent advances into the understanding of mesenchymal stem cell trafficking

The use of adult stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue circumvents the moral and technical issues associated with the use of those from an embryonic source. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) can be isolated from a variety of tissues, most commonly from the bone marrow, and, although they represent a very small percentage of these cells, are easily expandable. Recently, the use of MSC has provided clinical benefit to patients with osteogenesis imperfecta, graft‐versus‐host disease and myocardial infarction. The cellular cues that enabled the MSC to be directed to the sites of tissue damage and the mechanisms by which MSC then exert their therapeutic effect are becoming clearer. This review discusses the relative therapeutic importance of the ability of MSC to differentiate into multiple cell lineages or stimulate resident or attracted cells via a paracrine mode of action. It also reviews recent findings that MSC home to damaged tissues in a similar, but somewhat distinct, manner to that of leucocytes via the utilisation of adhesion molecules, such as selectins and integrins, and chemokines and their receptors in a manner reminiscent of leucocytes trafficking from the blood stream to inflammatory sites.
Optimum Practical Design of Distributed and Asynchronous Power Control for Wireless Networks with Shared Bands

The present paper proposes two novel and practical schemes for distributed and asynchronous power control in wireless ad hoc networks, in which users dynamically share several frequency bands as in “cognitive radio” networks. These schemes iteratively adjust transmit powers of individual network transmitters with respect to mutually caused interference in the shared bands. Their most attractive feature is that they find network-wide acceptable trade-offs to diverse signal-to-noise and interference (SINR) requirements and efficiently use techniques of stochastic approximation and time-averaging to guarantee a robust performance in random channels. Advantageously, both proposed algorithms do not assume any particular modulation, coding, QoS measure definition or network architecture, which assures their high applicability in the industry and research. Moreover, the broad definition and non-linear nature of these schemes mathematically generalize and thus encompass as a special case many widely deployed power control schemes such as e.g. those for achieving fixed SINR targets or using game-theoretic utility maximization. Simulations are provided to illustrate our approach and its better performance compared to standard algorithms.
Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship Patterns

We model team formation as a random matching process influenced by agents’ preferences for team size and gender composition. We then test if the coauthorship pattern in articles published during 1991–2002 in three top economics journals is gender neutral, exploiting variation in female presence across subfields. Controlling for author, team, and field characteristics, we find that the gender gap in the propensity to coauthor with a woman increases in the presence of women in the subfield. We also find that women single author significantly more than men. These findings allow us to reject gender neutrality in team formation in economics.
Courtship songs of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. II. Genetics of species differences

Although male courtship songs have been repeatedly implicated in sexual isolation between numerous Drosophila species, no genetic studies have evaluated the genetic basis of differences between species beyond using quantitative genetic analyses of hybrids or surveying associations of song characters to five or fewer genetic markers. Here, we dissect the genetic basis of the difference between D. pseudoobscura and D. persimilis in two courtship song elements (interpulse interval and intrapulse frequency) using 15 molecular markers. We also evaluate the association between song elements and sexual isolation in these backcross hybrid males of these species. We find that song differences between these species are associated with at least two or three genomic regions, and the species difference in interpulse interval may be oligogenic. Courtship song differences are especially strongly associated with two inversions that differentiate these species. Further, we found that interpulse interval is strongly associated with mating success to D. pseudoobscura females, while intrapulse frequency is associated with mating success to D. persimilis females. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Hypnotic Interrogation, Pretrial Preparation, and Witness Testimony Direct and Cross-Examination* during

Subjects who witnessed a videotaped shooting were interrogated immediately after viewing the film and again several days later. Before their second interrogation half of the subjects received hypnotic suggestions for enhanced recognition. Hypnotic and nonhypnotic subjects failed to differ in the accuracy with which they identified a mugshot of the offender, but hypnotic subjects placed more confidence in their misidentifications than did nonhypnotic subjects. In a third session, subjects who had identified a mugshot returned to be examined and cross-examined in a mock courtroom setting. Before direct examination, half the subjects underwent pretrial preparation aimed at building confidence. When coupled with pretrial preparation, hypnotic interrogation led subjects to express relatively high certainty in their mugshot identification while testifying. Nevertheless, hypnotic interrogation did not deter witnesses from disavowing their testimony (i.e., breaking down) during crossexamination. In contrast, pretrial preparation induced substantial resistance to breakdown during cross-examination. Implications are discussed.
The Use of Modified Annandale’s Method in the Estimation of the Sediment Distribution in Small Reservoirs—A Case Study

In the current study, the applicability of the Annandale method was verified based on the results of silting and sediment distribution measurements carried out in eight small reservoirs, with a capacity that does not exceed 5 million m3. It was found that the application of this method is possible only in the case of small reservoirs, in which the sediment load is deposited in the near-dam zone. The results of studies conducted on small reservoirs allowed the construction of a graph presenting the relationship of a sum of dimensionless sediment load volume as a function of relative distance from the dam, which became the modification of the graph in Annandale’s method. The proposed modification of Annandale’s method considers reservoirs with a length less than 1000 m and capacity-inflow ratio ranging from a few per mille to a percent.