Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tectonic-Geophysical Mapping of Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospecting

The eastern Mediterranean is a tectonically complex region evolving in the long term located in the midst of the progressive Afro-Eurasian collision. Despite years of investigation, its geological-geophysical structure is not completely known. At the same time, the recent discovery of large gas deposits has attracted the attention of many researchers to this region. For instance, the latest U. S. Geological Survey estimates using conventional assessment methodology suggest that there are on the order of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and more than 4 trillion m3 of recoverable gas in the Levant Basin [1]. This highlights the need for analysis of the paleogeographical conditions that can yield deep paleotectonic criteria for oil and gas discovery in this region. For this purpose, isopach maps of the Middle-Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous were generated from detailed examinations of numerous well sections and the most significant outcroppings in the eastern Mediterranean. The maps confirm an earlier model of continental accretion [2]. In particular, abrupt changes in the trend and thickness of the Early Mesozoic formations coincide with the terrane boundaries. These compiled isopach maps also pinpoint significant distinctions between the Arabian and Sinai plates on the one hand and the Syrian arc on the other. A new tectonic map of the eastern Mediterranean is presented that first of all integrates geophysical satellite-derived gravity and airborne magnetic fields, as well as tectonic-structural, paleogeographical and facial analyses. The results have clear implications for hydrocarbon prospecting in this region.
Participatory design of citizen science experiments

This article describes and analyzes the collaborative design of a citizen science research project through cocreation. Three groups of secondary school students and a team of scientists conceived three experiments on human behavior and social capital in urban and public spaces. The study goal is to address how interdisciplinary work and attention to social concerns and needs, as well as the collective construction of research questions, can be integrated into scientific research. The 95 students participating in the project answered a survey to evaluate their perception about the dynamics and tools used in the cocreation process of each experiment, and the five scientists responded to a semistructured interview. The results from the survey and interviews demonstrate how citizen science can achieve a “cocreated” modality beyond the usual “contributory” paradigm, which usually only involves the public or amateurs in data collection stages. This type of more collaborative science was made possible by the adaptation of materials and facilitation mechanisms, as well as the promotion of key aspects in research such as trust, creativity and transparency. The results also point to the possibility of adopting similar codesign strategies in other contexts of scientific collaboration and collaborative knowledge generation
Proterozoic multistage (ca. 1.1 and 0.8 Ga) extension recorded in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and establishment of northwest- and north-trending tectonic grains in the southwestern United States

The Grand Canyon Supergroup records at least two distinct periods of intracratonic extension and sedimentation in the late Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic. New 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age determinations indicate that the Mesoproterozoic Unkar Group was deposited between ca. 1.2 and 1.1 Ga. Basins in which the Unkar Group was deposited and the related northwest-striking faults were created by northeast-southwest extension, which was contemporaneous with regional northwest-southeast “Grenville” contraction. New U-Pb data indicate that the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group was deposited between 800 and 742 Ma. Sedimentary and tectonic studies show that Chuar deposition took place during east-west extension and resulting normal slip across the Butte fault. This event is interpreted to be an intracratonic response to the breakup of Rodinia and initiation of the Cordilleran rift margin. Laramide monoclines of the Grand Canyon region have north and northwest trends, reactivate faults that originated at the time of Unkar and Chuar deposition, and can be traced for great distances (hundreds of kilometers) from the Grand Canyon. We use the distribution of monoclines in the Southwest to infer the extent of Proterozoic extensional fault systems. The 1.1 Ga northwest-trending structures and ca. 800–700 Ma north-trending extensional structures created regional fault networks that were tectonically inverted during formation of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains and Laramide contraction and reactivated during Tertiary extension.
One year of monitoring of the Type IIb supernova SN 2011dh

Optical UBVRI photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy of the Type IIb supernova SN 2011dh in M51 are presented, covering the first year after the explosion. The light curve and spectral evolution are discussed. The early phase light-curve evolution of SN 2011dh is very similar to SN 1993J and SN 2008ax. In the late phase, however, SN 2011dh declines faster than SN 1993J. The late phase decline in the B band is steeper than in the R and I bands, indicating the possibility of dust formation. With a peak V-band absolute magnitude of MV = −17.123 ± 0.18 mag, SN 2011dh is a marginally faint type IIb event. The reddening corrected colour curves of SN 2011dh are found to be redder than other well-studied Type IIb supernovae. The bolometric light curve indicates ~0.09 M☉ of 56Ni is synthesized during the explosion. The He I lines were detected in the spectra during the rise to maximum. The nebular spectra of SN 2011dh show a box-shaped emission in the red wing of the [O I] 6300−6363 A feature, that is attributed to Hα emission from a shock-excited circumstellar material. The analysis of nebular spectra indicates that ~0.2 M☉ of oxygen was ejected during the explosion. Further, the [Ca II]/[O I] line ratio in the nebular phase is ~0.7, indicating a progenitor with a main-sequence mass of 10–15 M☉.
Intellectual capital and financial performance: an evaluation of the Australian financial sector

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the intellectual capital (IC) performance of the Australian Financial Sector for the period 2006‐2008. It also aims to examine the relationship between IC performance and the financial performance of the financial sector.Design/methodology/approach – The value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) approach developed by Pulic is used to determine the IC performance of the Australian financial sector. The required data to calculate different constituents of IC was obtained from the annual reports of Australian Financial Sector companies.Findings – The value creation capability of financial sector in Australia is highly influenced by human capital. About two thirds of the sample companies have very low levels of intellectual capital efficiency. The performance of various components of VAIC and overall VAIC differs across all subsectors in the financial sector. Investment companies have high value VAIC due to higher a level of human capital efficiency, as comp.
Fairness or anger in Ultimatum Game rejections

Guth, Schmittberger and Schwarze’s (1982) ultimatum game result is replicated with mean earnings of £59.98 (N = 51) S.D. = £11.45, from a possible £80, and a linear relationship between offer size and acceptance rate. Results indicate a significant interaction effect between offer size and response, F(3, 31) = 3.69, p
Eddy stirring and horizontal diffusivity from Argo float observations: Geographic and depth variability

Stirring along isopycnals is a significant factor in determining the distribution of tracers within the ocean. Salinity anomalies on density surfaces from Argo float profiles are used to investigate horizontal stirring and estimate eddy mixing lengths. Eddy mixing length and velocity fluctuations from the ECCO2 global state estimate are used to estimate horizontal diffusivity at a 300 km scale in the upper 2000 m with near‐global coverage. Diffusivity varies by over two orders of magnitude with latitude, longitude, and depth. In all basins, diffusivity is elevated in zonal bands corresponding to strong current regions, including western boundary current extension regions, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and equatorial current systems. The estimated mixing lengths and diffusivities provide an observationally based data set that can be used to test and constrain predictions and parameterizations of eddy stirring.
Utilizing Smartphone Sensors for Daily Physical Activity Recognition

Smartphones with built-in sensors promise a conducive, objective way to quantify everyday body movements and classify those movements into activities. Utilizing smartphone accelerometer data we estimate the following daily activities performed by the user: walking, jogging, using stairs, sitting, standing and lying down. The proposal is tested experimentally via evaluations on real data obtained from 50 test users. The evaluation indicates that the J48 classifier using a window size of 512 samples with 50% overlapping yields the highest accuracy (i.e., up to 96.02%). Keywords—daily activity recognition; feature extraction; WEKA; machine learning
Exploratory Data Visualization Dashboard for Technical Analysis of Commodity Market Indicators

Companies and traders working in the commodity market encounter a variety of different data sets, including numerous economic indicators. The analysis of those indicators and their connection to certain markets can lead to important insights. The understanding of the market can be improved and predictions of the future market development can be created. However, dozens of economic indicators exist and one of the main challenges is to show a clear overview of the indicators and identify those, which show a correlation to a certain market. Software tools are often utilised in order to perform the analysis of financial markets. However, according to domain experts, they often hit the limit of human perception capabilities. This thesis focuses on the development of a prototypical web application dashboard, which enables the user to analyse the relation between a defined commodity market and different economic indicators. Besides the relation between one indicator and a given market, the possibility to interactively create one’s own composite indicator, for comparison with the given market, is implemented. The process of creating a composite indicator is another challenge as it requires numerous decisions to be made. The dashboard therefore offers a platform for exploring the different composite indicator configurations. Moreover, the web-application provides also some visualization and interaction techniques, like highlighting, brushing and details-on-demand to enhance the comparison process and amplify human cognition.
Genotype × Environment Interactions and Stability Analysis for Grain Iron and Zinc Concentrations in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Genotypes

Nearly one billion people worldwide are undernourished due to insufficient food, and more than double this population, mostly the resource-poor in the developing world, suffer from ‘hidden hunger’, a term more often used to describe malnutrition due to micronutrient deficiencies in staple food diet (Bouis and Welch 2010, FAO 2010). Two-thirds of all deaths among the children below five years were reported due to micronutrient deficiencies (Welch and Graham, 2004). The micronutrient deficiencies are particularly concentrated in the semi-arid tropics, especially in South and South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Reddy et al., 2005). In India, 230 million people were reported to be undernourished, accounting for more than 27% of the world’s undernourished population (Lodha et al., 2005).
Regulatory Reform and Risk-Taking: Replacing Ratings

We analyze a reform of insurance companies' capital requirements for mortgage-backed securities. First, credit ratings were replaced as inputs to capital regulation. Second, the redesigned system ensures capital buffers sufficient to withstand expected losses, but insufficient to protect against adverse outcomes. Many bonds are now treated as riskless and require minimal capital. By 2012, aggregate capital requirements for mortgage-backed securities have been reduced from $19.36bn (had the previous system been maintained) to $3.73bn. Exploiting that the change did not affect other asset classes, we document that insurers' risk taking was distorted and increased in response to the new regulation.
Change-Points in Affine Arbitrage-Free Term Structure Models

In this paper, we investigate the timing of structural changes in yield curve dynamics in the context of an arbitrage-free, one latent and two macroeconomic factors, affine term structure model. We suppose that all parameters in the model are subject to changes at unknown time points. We fit a number of models to the U.S. term structure data and find support for three change-points. We also find that the term structure and the risk premium are materially different across regimes and that the out-of-sample forecasts of the term structure improve from incorporating regime changes. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. , Oxford University Press.
Positive occupational health psychology.

This chapter introduces positive occupational health psychology (POHP). We discuss the negativity bias, and consider why a focus on positive job characteristics, well-being, and positive behaviours is important. After introducing the emerging concept of work engagement, we describe research findings on several POHP-topics, including the design of jobs to do good, job crafting, and positive spillover fromwork to home. Additionally, we review the first positive interventions in occupational health psychology.
High‐latitude forcing of diatom productivity in the southern Agulhas Plateau during the past 350 kyr

The hydrography of the Indian-Atlantic Ocean gateway has been connected to high-latitude climate dynamics by oceanic and atmospheric teleconnections on orbital and suborbital timescales. A wealth of sedimentary records aiming at reconstructing the late Pleistocene paleoceanography around the southern African continent has been devoted to understanding these linkages. Most of the records are, however, clustered close to the southern South African tip, with comparatively less attention devoted to areas under the direct influence of frontal zones of the Southern Ocean/South Atlantic. Here we present data of the composition and concentration of the diatom assemblage together with bulk biogenic content and the alkenone-based sea surface temperature (SST) variations for the past 350 kyr in the marine sediment core MD02-2588 (approximately 41°S, 26°E) recovered from the southern Agulhas Plateau. Variations in biosiliceous productivity show a varying degree of coupling with Southern Hemisphere paleoclimate records following a glacial-interglacial cyclicity. Ecologically well-constrained groups of diatoms record the glacial-interglacial changes in water masses dynamics, nutrient availability, and stratification of the upper ocean. The good match between the glacial maxima of total diatoms concentration, Chaetoceros spores abundance, and opal content with the maximum seasonal cover of Antarctic ice and the atmospheric dust records points to a dominant Southern Hemisphere forcing of diatom production. Suborbital variability of SST suggests rapid latitudinal migrations of the Subtropical Front and associated water masses over the southern Agulhas Plateau, following millennial contractions and expansions of the subtropical gyres. Warmings of the upper ocean over site MD02-2588 during terminations IV to I occurred earlier than that in the Antarctic Vostok, which is indicative of a Northern Hemisphere lead. Our multiparameter reconstruction highlights how high-latitude atmospheric and hydrographic processes modulated orbital highs and lows in primary production and SST as triggered by northward transport of Si, eolian dust input, and latitudinal migrations of frontal zones.
Effect of turmeric (Curcuma longa Linnaeus) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, hematological values, and intestinal histology in nursery pigs

Materials and methods: A total of 48 nursery pigs were divided into groups receiving 0.00%, 0.05%, 0.10%, and 0.20% turmeric in the feed, with four replicates. Experiment 1: visceral organs and light microscopic parameters (eg, intestinal villus height) were measured at 30 kg body weight (BW). Epithelial cell morphology on the villus apical surface was observed using a scanning electron microscope. Experiment 2: blood was collected at 40 and 80 kg BW for hematology, triglyceride, and cholesterol assays. Growth performance was compared at 90 kg BW.
Silicic acid depletion and silicon limitation in the plume of the Mississippi River: evidence from kinetic studies in spring and summer

The surface distributions of dissolved silicic acid, chlorophyll and diatom abundance were measured in the plume of the Mississippi River and adjacent waters during spring (late Apnl and early May 1993) and summer (July 1992). In spring, the time of maximum river flow, there was an ~ntense diatom bloom with a mean diatom abundance of 1.5 X 10' cells 1-', more than an order of magnitude higher than in summer Mixing curves of silicic acid concentration ([Si(OH),]) versus salinity indicate that biological uptake within the river plume removed >99% of the Si(OH), supplied by the river In spring and 80 to 95% in summer. In spring [Si(OH),] was occasionally depleted to <0.2 pM-among the lowest values ever reported from the ocean-with extensive depletion to <0.5 pM over the shelf. In summer [Si(OH),] was less severely depleted; the lowest measured was 0.93 pM and all others were 22.4 pM. 3 0 ~ i k netic experiments were performed during both spring and summer to measure the degree to which the rate of Si uptake by the natural diatom asse~nblages was limited in sjtu by substrate availability. In spring the dependence of the specific uptake rate (V) on extracellular [Si(OH),] conformed much more closely to the Michaelis-Menten saturation function than has been observed in past studies. Strong dependence of V on [Si(OH),] was observed throughout the most Si(OH),-depleted (<O.5 PM) region, where Vwas limited to 12 to 45% of the diatom assemblages' maximum uptake rate (V,,,). Half-saturation concentrations for Si uptake (K,) averaged 0.85 pM (range = 0.48 to 1.71; n = 7) in spring, with the lowest values equal to the lowest previously reported for natural diatom assemblages. There was only 1 station In summer where Vwas limited by [Si(OH),], and at that station K, was 5.3 pM-quite high in comparison with previous studies. At stations where Vwas limited by [Si(OH)4]. in both spring and summer, Chaetoceros spp. were numerically dominant; where there was no SI limitation other diatoms, usually Skeletonema costaturn, dominated. The data thus indicate strong SI limitation in spring, with diatom assemblages well adapted to low [Si(OH),], but little or no Si limitation in summer. Historical data suggest that coastal Si(OH), depletion and Si limitation may be recent phenomena in the northern Gulf of Mexico, resulting from increasing [NO,-] and decreasing [Si(OHk] in the Mississippi River during the past 30 to 50 yr.
Regional Evaluation of Tolerability and Efficacy of Imatinib Mesylate in Patients with Chronic Phase CML in Mashhad (Iran, Southwest Asia)

Sixty patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) who were on oral imatinib were included in this study. The study aimed to evaluate patients characteristic, tolerability and efficacy and clinical outcome in Iranian patients who have been treated with generic imatinib. The median age of patients was 48 years, and the median follow up was 44 months. 94% of patients achieved complete hematologic response (CHR) during the 3 months of beginning imatinib, and after 12 - 24 months of imatinib therapy 46.8% achieved molecular response. The most common non-hematologic toxicity was fluid retention (64%), fatigue (43%) and moderate to severe hematologic side effect included anemia 10%, neutropenia 10%, and thrombocytopenia 6.6%. About 13% of patients transformed into accelerated phase (AP) or blastic crisis (BC) and the death rate during this period was 7%. In conclusion, there is heterogeneity in different areas in characteristic of CML (especially in age), and also response rate and side effect of patients with CML that treated with imatinib are different.
Anomalous Price Behavior Around Repurchase Tender Offers

This paper reports anomalous price behavior around repurchase tender offers. Buying shares before the expiration date of a repurchase tender offer and tendering to the firm produces, on average, abnormal returns of more than 9 percent over a period shorter than one week. In addition, the authors find that repurchasing companies experience economically and statistically significant abnormal returns in the two years after the repurchase. The upward price drift is mainly caused by the behavior of the small firms in the sample. Copyright 1990 by American Finance Association.
Determination of Chicken Body Composition Measured by Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry

3 Abstract: Traditionally, body composition data for poultry is determined by grinding /homogenizing the whole bird and obtaining a sample for wet chemistry analysis. The overall process is slow, requires a large amount of freezer space and the time-lag required for determining body composition reduces the opportunity to use data in real- time situations. Two studies were conducted to evaluate Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) as a means of measuring body composition in broilers and broiler breeders. In Trial 1, two hundred and forty Cobb 500 broilers were reared from day-old to 60 days of age. Broilers were extracted from the flock every 3 days during the 60 day grow-out in order to obtain a variety of body weights and body composition for developing the body composition equations. The birds were weighed and scanned using the small animal software mode of the DEXA scanner (LunarProdigy, GE ). DEXA provides measurements in grams of Bone ® Mineral Content (BMC), Fat Mass (FM) and Lean Mass (LM). It was assumed that the sum of BMC+FM+LM represented the total body mass. After the scan was performed, the carcasses were frozen for further chemical analysis. Prior to chemical analysis, the carcasses were thawed, autoclaved at 110°C with 1 atm pressure for 1-5 h depending upon Body Weight (BW) and homogenized in a heavy duty blender (Waring Laboratory, Blender LBC15, Model CB15). Samples of the homogenized carcasses were freeze dried, weighed, ground and analyzed for total ash, ether extract and crude protein. The measurements obtained from the DEXA scans were compared with the whole body chemical analysis for each broiler. Regression analysis of DEXA values (BMC, FM, LM) and chemical analysis (ash, ether extract and protein) were utilized to determine possible correlations. Prediction equations were then developed to adjust the original DEXA results to more accurately predict BMC, fat tissue and lean mass. The R values for the prediction equations 2 using DEXA values were 0.999, 0.99, 0.96 and 0.99 for total mass, BMC, fat and lean mass (P<0.0001). In Trial 2, 156 Cobb 500 broiler breeder hens were scanned to validate the equations developed in Trial 1. The results indicate that the prediction equations were adequate and a reliable alternative for measuring body composition in broilers and broiler breeders. The high degree of correlation for all the variables indicates that with proper calibration the DEXA values can be used to predict body composition for these birds (R = 2 0.99, 9.99, 0.84 and 0.94 for total mass, BMC, FM and LM, respectively, p<0.001).