Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
When Cultural Workers Become an Urban Social Movement: Political Subjectification and Alternative Cultural Production in the Macao Movement, Milan

This paper explores the relationship between cultural production and insurgent political activity. The specific context for the study is the urban cultural movement of Macao, in Milan. Macao is an urban social movement that aims to challenge neoliberal cultural production and neoliberal urban politics through alternative cultural production models. The overarching argument is that Macao pursues its subjectification process through aesthetic tactics: the process of the formation of a political subject passes through arts and creative expressions to impact and reconfigure the sensible domain. This collective subject is created by: first, reappropriating urban spaces; second, enacting alternative practices of cultural production; and third, guerrilla branding tactics. Ultimately, the paper explores the potential of alliances between urban struggles and struggles over commodification and exploitation of culture.
Impact of Government Policies and Corporate Land Grabs on Indigenous People’s Access to Common Lands and Livelihood Resilience in Northeast Cambodia

Cambodia has become a principal target of transnational (and domestic) land grabs over the past decade, mostly in the form of economic land concessions (ELCs). The northeastern part of the country—where the majority of Cambodia’s indigenous people reside—is a particular hotspot. In this article, we discuss three policy mechanisms that the Cambodian government has employed to extend and legitimize land exclusions in the name of national economic development through the example of two indigenous villages in Srae Preah Commune, Mondulkiri Province. First, we show how the allocation of two ELCs has deprived indigenous communities of their communally managed land. Second, we examine how communal land titling processes have failed to provide indigenous villagers with effective legal mechanisms to counteract ELCs and land encroachment by internal migrants. Third, we elucidate how the promotion of cash crop production contributed to livelihood and land use transitions from a reliance on forest resources in 2003 to a dependence on cash crops in 2012 to a struggle to remain resilient amid a slump in crop prices in 2018. We conclude that the combination of these policies has undermined communal ownership and livelihood resilience under a situation of limited exit strategies.
Are Average Facial Configurations Attractive Only Because of Their Symmetry?

Several commentators have suggested that the attractiveness of average facial configurations could be due solely to associated changes in symmetry. If this symmetry hypothesis is correct, then averageness should not account for significant variance in attractiveness ratings when the effect of symmetry is partialed out. Furthermore, changes in attractiveness produced by manipulating the averageness of individual faces should disappear when all the images are made perfectly symmetric. The experiments reported support neither prediction. Symmetry and averageness (or distinctiveness, the converse of averageness) made independent contributions to attractiveness (Experiments 1 and 2), and changes in attractiveness resulting from changes in averageness remained when the images were made perfectly symmetric (Experiment 2). These results allow us to reject the symmetry hypothesis, and strengthen the evidence that facial averageness is attractive.
Spin diffusion in bulk GaN measured with MnAs spin injector

Shafat Jahangir,1 Fatih Dogan,2 Hyun Kum,1 Aurelien Manchon,2 and Pallab Bhattacharya1,* 1Center for Photonics and Multiscale Nanomaterials, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122, USA 2Division of Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia (Received 4 May 2012; revised manuscript received 25 June 2012; published 16 July 2012)
Constraints to a Galactic component of the Ice Cube cosmic neutrino flux from ANTARES

The IceCube evidence for cosmic neutrinos in the high-energy starting events (HESE) sample has inspired a large number of hypothesis on their origin, mainly due to the poor precision on the measurement of the direction of showering events. The fact that most of HESE are downward going suggests a possible Galactic component. This could be originated either by a single point-like source or to a directional excess from an extended Galactic region. These hypotheses are reviewed and constrained, using the present available upper limits from the ANTARES neutrino telescope. ANTARES detects $\nu_\mu$ from sources in the Southern sky with an effective area larger than that providing the IceCube HESE for $E_\nu<60$ TeV and a factor of about two smaller at 1 PeV. The use of the $\nu_\mu$ signal enables an accurate measurement of the incoming neutrino direction. The Galactic signal allowed by the IceCube HESE and the corresponding ANTARES limits are studied in terms of a power law flux $E^{-\Gamma}$, with spectral index $\Gamma$ ranging from 2.0 to 2.5 to cover most astrophysical models.
Replica Server Placement QoS Aware Consistency Aware Energy Aware Others Optimized QoS Bounded QoS Periodic Update Aperiodic Update

The content management includes a major technical strategy in the network paradigm of the internet which is called a Content delivery network. The design and the deployment of the CDN shall ensure optimal Quality of services (QoS). This paper aims to brief the taxonomy of the CDN along with its typical architecture. Much latest advancement in smartphones and smart devices which are content hungry require more efficient and reliable mechanism for the costeffective delivery of the contents irrespective of bottleneck constraints that leads to redesign the entire architecture of CDN on the cloud as CCDN or a new business model of CCDN as a service. The challenges of design for CCDN along with the evolved architecture are discussed in this paper. Keywords—Content delivery network; cloud computing; distribution network; mobility; scalability; distribution
A Cross-Sectional Study of Ocular Morbidity in Urban Slums Non-schooling Children of Ahmedabad City, Gujarat

Background: Data on eye diseases among non-schooling children is very rare. Considering the fact those 19 million visually impaired children, 12 million children are due to refractive errors while 1.4 million are irreversibly blind for the rest of their lives. Early detection and treatment of ocular morbidity among children is important. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of ocular morbidity among urban-slums, non-schooling children of age 0-15 years. Methods: A cross sectional community based study was carried out in five slum areas of urban health training center, Asarwa, adopted by Dept. of Community Medicine to cover non-schooling children of below 15 years of age, from November 2010 to December 2010. Information was collected on a pretested semi structured proforma. An ophthalmologist from Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) did visual acuity and detailed ophthalmic examination. Data was analyzed with appropriate statistical tests like simple proportions and chi-square (x2) test. Result: Total 391 (14.2%) children in urban –slums community, who were not going to school, were included. Prevalence of ocular morbidity was 21.2%, Trachoma 4.9%, vitamin A deficiency 3.6 %, conjunctivitis 3.3%, refractive errors 3.3% squint 2.5% & color blindness 1.0%. Overall prevalence of ocular morbidity in government hospital and non-schoolings did not show any statistical significant difference. Conclusion: A high prevalence of ocular morbidity among non-schooling children was observed. School health services should be further expanded as child health check-up for the benefit of non-schooling children as well.
The Effects of Context Pre-Exposure and Emotionality on Memory for Context

1 The Effects of Context Pre-Exposure and Emotionality on Memory for Context . 2 Investigations of memory for past real-life emotional events 3 Laboratory investigations of memory for emotional events 5 Theoretical explanation of the differential effects of emotionality on different memory components 7 Ecological validity and the importance of context 9 Brain correlates of emotional memories 12 Current studies 14 Pilot Study 15 Methods 16 Results and Discussion 18 Experiment 1: The influence of context-pre-exposure on memory for context for neutral and negative events 19 Methods 20 Results 23 Discussion 25 Experiment 2: Contextual pre-exposure and context-item binding 27 Methods 28 Results 30 Discussion 31
Characterization of bio-oils from alkaline pretreatment and hydrothermal liquefaction (APHL) of cypress.

Four bio-oils obtained from the hydrothermal liquefaction (at 280 °C for 0 min) of untreated and pretreated cypresses were subjected to several types of chemical analyses to compare their structural features and chemical constituents. Pretreatments were carried out with alkali at 90 °C for 0.5, 1, and 2 h. The bio-oils were further divided into water-soluble oil, diethyl ether-soluble oil, and diethyl ether-insoluble oil fractions. Alkaline pretreatment had a significant effect on the contents of different components in the bio-oils. The diethyl ether-insoluble oil fraction was made up of intermediate-sized macromolecular fragments of lignin decomposed during the hydrothermal liquefaction process. The G6 resonance, β-5, β-β’, and β-O-4’ peaks (which were present in the spectra of milled-wood lignin) almost disappeared from the spectra of the diethyl ether-insoluble oil fractions obtained via hydrothermal liquefaction of pretreated and untreated cypresses. At the same time, the intensities of the peaks corresponding to methoxy groups, G2, and G5 resonances were reduced. Long-duration alkaline pretreatment created a strong, highly water-soluble oil fraction with a wide molecular weight distribution.
Kuiper belt structure around nearby super-Earth host stars

We present new observations of the Kuiper belt analogues around HD 38858 and HD 20794, hosts of super-Earth mass planets within 1 au. As two of the four nearby G-type stars (with HD 69830 and 61 Vir) that form the basis of a possible correlation between low-mass planets and debris disc brightness, these systems are of particular interest. The disc around HD 38858 is well resolved with Herschel and we constrain the disc geometry and radial structure. We also present a probable JCMT sub-mm continuum detection of the disc and a CO J=2-1 upper limit. The disc around HD 20794 is much fainter and appears marginally resolved with Herschel, and is constrained to be less extended than the discs around 61 Vir and HD 38858. We also set limits on the radial location of hot dust recently detected around HD 20794 with near-IR interferometry. We present HARPS upper limits on unseen planets in these four systems, ruling out additional super-Earths within a few au, and Saturn-mass planets within 10 au. We consider the disc structure in the three systems with Kuiper bel t analogues (HD 69830 has only a warm dust detection), concluding that 61 Vir and HD 38858 have greater radial disc extent than HD 20794. We speculate that the greater width is related to the greater
Effect of bacteriophage DC22 on Escherichia coli O157:H7 in an artificial rumen system (Rusitec) and inoculated sheep

Effet du bacteriophage DC22 sur Escherichia coli O157:H7 dans un systeme de rumen artificiel (Rusitec) et de moutons infectes. L'effet du bacteriophage DC22, sur la survie d'Escherichia coli O157: H7 dans un systeme de rumen artificiel (Rusitec) et chez des moutons experimentalement infectes a ete evalue. Le test de detection des plages de lyse des souches E. Coli au DC22 a montre que 23 des 23 souches E. Coli O157:H7 etaient sensibles au DC22, tandis que 12 souches E. Coli enterohemorragique non-O157 n'etaient pas sensibles au bacteriophage. Sur les etudes utilisant le fluide ruminal clarifie, la multiplicite d'infection (MI) du DC22 sur E. coli O157:H7 a ete superieure a 10 4 unites formant des plages (UFP)/unite formant des colonies (UFC). Dans le rumen artificiel (Rusitec), 10 4 UFC.mL -1 de la souche E. coli Q157:H7 3081 ont ete eliminees des fermenteurs (n = 4), 4 hapres l'administration du DC22 (MI = 10 5 UFP/UFC, P 0,05) n'a ete observee en ce qui concerne les concentrations d'E. coli O157:H7 dans les feces, entre le groupe DC22 et le groupe temoin, sur une periode de 30 jours. Les taux de DC22 retrouves dans les feces du groupe DC22 ont diminue de 5,98 log 1o UFP.g -1 le 3 e jour a un niveau indetectable le 13 e jour chez tous les agneaux. L'adsorption non specifique du DC22 ou son inactivation avant d'atteindre le tractus digestif inferieur a probablement diminue son efficacite a eliminer E. coli O157:H7 de la portion intestinale du tube digestif des agneaux.
Using a modified heuristic-systematic model to characterize information seeking on the Internet

USING A MODIFIED HEURISTIC-SYSTEMATIC MODEL TO CHARACTERIZE INFORMATION SEEKING ON THE INTERNET Kyle Hill, B.S. Marquette University, 2013 This study combines two major theories in communication research, Palmgreen and Rayburn’s Expectancy-Value approach to media gratifications (1985) and Eagly and Chaiken’s Heuristic-Systematic Model (1989), in order to identify the relationships between information seeking tendencies, channel beliefs about specific websites, and website usage for accurate information. Taking a page from schema theory (Rumelhart, 1980), it was expected that individuals who use the Internet frequently to find accurate information have a set of beliefs concerning what a “good” or “bad” website has on it. To this end, a study of 130 undergraduate college students was completed. The study had an added experimental manipulation which varied the domain extension and authority of the website given for the task. The analyses performed showed that when given a task of finding accurate information, a higher capacity to understand information predicted which characteristics of a website were highly valued and how likely a given website was to have those characteristics. This in turn predicted website usage. Furthermore, websites with official domain extensions (e.g., .gov) were considered more likely to have desirable characteristics, more likely to contain accurate information than websites with nonofficial domain extensions (e.g., .com), and were more likely to be used. The study also offers a model of how information seeking, domain extension, and channel beliefs lead to website use.
Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Pigeon pea Seed Growers: A Study in Raichur District of Karnataka, India

1 Department of Agricultural Extension Bangalore, Ph.D. Scholar, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore-560065, India 2 Department of Agricultural Extension, Director of extension, University of Agricultural Sciences Raichur-584104, India 3 Department of Agricultural Extension, Assistant professor, University of Agricultural Sciences Raichur-584104, India 4 Department of Agricultural Extension Bangalore, Professor and Editor, Communication Centre, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore-560065, India
Adaptive Sampling Strategies for Stochastic Optimization

In this paper, we propose a stochastic optimization method that adaptively controls the sample size used in the computation of gradient approximations. Unlike other variance reduction techniques that either require additional storage or the regular computation of full gradients, the proposed method reduces variance by increasing the sample size as needed. The decision to increase the sample size is governed by an inner product test that ensures that search directions are descent directions with high probability. We show that the inner product test improves upon the well known norm test, and can be used as a basis for an algorithm that is globally convergent on nonconvex functions and enjoys a global linear rate of convergence on strongly convex functions. Numerical experiments on logistic regression problems illustrate the performance of the algorithm.
The Effects of Behavioral Intervention on Mood in Disabled Professional Basketball Players

The statistical population of this study were 80 disabled in wheelchair basketball (Mage=25/10). 30 athletes who had high scores in the mean of mood components and mood disturbances were selected. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions (45 minutes) of intervention for two months. The results showed that the execution of intervention was lead a significant difference (P<0.001) in the decreasing of the on mood scores and this intervention improved the mood in the experimental groups. Also the results were significant in the confusion, anger, depression, tension, and vigor components but those were not significant in the fatigue component (P>0.165).
Antifungal Activity of Heartwood Extracts from Three Juniperus Species

Heartwood samples from three species of Juniperus (i.e., J. virginiana, J. occidentalis, and J. ashei) were extracted with hexane, ethanol, and methanol. The hexane and ethanol extracts were tested for antifungal activity against four species of wood-rot fungi (i.e, Gloeophyllum trabeum, Postia placenta, Trametes versicolor, and Irpex lacteus). Ashe juniper (AJ) gave the highest extract yields (6.60 to 11.27%), followed by Eastern red cedar (ERC) (4.78 to 9.56%), and then Western juniper (WJ) (4.26 to 7.32%). WJ contained the highest level of cedrol (over 60%), while AJ contained the highest level of thujopsene (over 30%). Methanol and ethanol gave the highest extract yields as well as slightly higher percentages of cedrol and widdrol. The juniper extracts were more effective against white-rot fungi than brown-rot fungi. The ethanol extracts had higher antifungal activity than the hexane extracts. The AJ extracts had the greatest bioactivity against the wood-rot fungi.
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING COURSES IN KHUZESTAN PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY ACCORDING TO KIRKPATRICK MODEL

The research has been done in Khuzestan Petrochemical Company in Mahshahr Special Economic Zone, entitled "Evaluating effectiveness of in-service training courses in Khuzestan Petrochemical Company based on Kirkpatrick model". The research population included all participants of in-service training in Khuzestan Petrochemical Company in the first six months of 2013 that consisted731 individuals and sample size was 250 people. Quantitative and qualitative tools (questionnaires with open and close questions and post-test scores) of interviews with experts and employees in relevant posts are used for data collection and the investigation has used Kirkpatrick model as a conceptual model. Effectiveness of petrochemical trainings studies the Kirkpatrick model in four levels of response, learning, behavior and results. SPSS version 21 software was used for this purpose. After data analysis, it was found that courses are effective at learning, response, and behavior and results level. The purpose of above-mentioned study is to explain and describe the categories of training and show the results of research in Khuzestan Petrochemical Company in order to evaluate the effect of these four levels of response, learning, behavior and results. In addition, this study is the result of collaboration between all staff of Khuzestan Petrochemical Company and based on data received from staff.
Effects of Surface Ocean Conditions on Deep Sea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Calcite Dissolution Proxies in the Tropical Pacific

Finding the ideal deep sea CaCO3 dissolution proxy is essential for quantifying the role of the marine carbonate system in regulating atmospheric pCO2 over millennia. We explore the potential of using the Globorotalia menardii fragmentation index (MFI) and size – normalized foraminifer shell weight (SNSW) as complementary indicators of deep sea CaCO3 dissolution. MFI has strong correlations with bottom water [CO3 2], modeled estimates of percent CaCO3 dissolved and Mg/Ca in Pulleniatina obliquiloculata in core top samples along a depth transect on the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) where surface ocean temperature variation is minimal. SNSW of P. obliquiloculata and Neogloboquadrina dutertrei have weak correlations with MFI-based percent dissolved, Mg/Ca in P. obliquiloculata shells and bottom water [CO3 2] on the OJP. In core top samples from the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP), SNSW of P. obliquiloculata has moderate to strong correlations with both MFI-based percent CaCO3 dissolved estimates and surface ocean environmental parameters SNSW of N. dutertrei shells shows a latitudinal distribution in the EEP and a moderately strong correlation with MFI-based % dissolved estimates when samples from the equatorial part of the region are excluded. Our results suggest there may potentially be multiple genotypes of N. dutertrei in the EEP which may be reflected in their shell weight. MFI-based percent CaCO3 dissolved estimates have no quantifiable relationship with any surface ocean environmental parameter in the EEP. Thus, MFI acts as a reliable quantitative CaCO3 dissolution proxy insensitive to environmental biases within calcification waters of foraminifers.
Intake of the First-Generation Anti-Histamines in Early Childhood May Have an Adverse Effect on Cognitive Function. Population Based Pharmacoepidemiologic Study in Non-Asthamtic Children

As the allergic diseases increase steadily worldwide, the main goal of the study was to assess the association between the early intake of the first-generation sedative antihistamines in young non-asthmatic children and their cognitive function at the age of 7. The size of the exposure effect was measured by the Wechsler intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R) and adjusted in multivariable models for major confounders known to be important for children cognitive development. The study included 212 children who were non-asthmatic and completed the monitoring of antihistamines intake over 3 years preceding the WISC-R intelligence testing. While the first-generation drugs were used by 36.7% children and the newer generation by 39.6%, both categories of drugs were taken by 17.8% children. The analysis showed the deficit of 12 points on the verbal WISC-R IQ scale only in children who used the first- generation antihistamines for a longer time (beta coeff.=-11.7, 95% CI: -19.6, -3.7) compared to non-users. Out of the covariates included in the multivariable regression models, maternal education (beta coeff.=0.92, 95% CI: 0.37, 1.46) and breastfeeding at least for 6 months (beta coeff.=3.29; 95% CI: 0.34, 6.23) showed a significant positive impact on the verbal IQ. Intake of the newer generation antihistamines were associated neither with verbal nor performance IQ scores. Concluding, the results suggest that the “sedative antihistamines” have a negative impact on the verbal but not performance IQs of young children if drugs were used over a longer period. The weaker verbal communication ability of young children may hinder the cognitive development of children and be associated with relatively poor school academic achievements
Identifying threading dislocation types in ammonothermally grown bulk α-GaN by confocal Raman 3-D imaging of volumetric stress distribution

This study demonstrates all-optical Raman scattering study of dislocations in ammonothermally grown α-GaN crystal and identifies an edge a -type threading dislocation (TD) using a confocal Raman 3-D imaging technique. These findings make possible the characterization of volumetric stress field and low TD density distributions over a large area on bulk α-GaN single crystal. The dislocation type effects on Raman shift are also discussed in detail (in order to identify the edgea -type and mixed → + → a c -type TDs, and theorize the invisibility of the screw c -type TDs). Authors are not aware of any previous reports using the confocal Raman 3-D imaging to identify the edge a -type and mixed → + → a c -type TDs.