Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chemical composition of Infraspinatus, Triceps brachii, Longissimus thoraces, Biceps femoris, Semitendinosus, and Semimembranosus of Bactrian (Camelus bactrianus) camel muscles

The objective of this study was to determine chemical composition of Infraspinatus, Triceps brachii, Longissimus thoraces, Biceps femoris, Semitendinosus, and Semimembranosus muscles from nine Bactrian carcasses (2-3 years of age). The left side muscles were collected and kept in a chiller (3-4oC) for 48 hrs then stored at -20oC. Chemical analyses were carried out to determine moisture, crude protein, fat (ether extract), ash, essential and non-essential element contents. The Infraspinatus, Triceps brachii, Biceps femoris, Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus muscles had significantly higher moisture content than Longissimus thoraces muscle. The range of variation in protein content among the muscles was from 17% (Longissimus thoraces) to 18.8% (Semitendinosus). The Longissimus thoraces muscle had significantly higher fat content than other muscles. The Longissimus thoraces muscle had significantly lower phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and potassium contents than Infraspinatus, Triceps brachii, Biceps femoris, Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus muscles. Small variation in iron, zinc, lead, cadmium, copper, cobalt and magnesium contents were found among selected muscles. This study indicated that muscle location of the Bactrian camel may have an effect on its chemical composition. (Resume d'auteur)
Scalar absorption by charged rotating black holes

We compute numerically the absorption cross section of planar massless scalar waves impinging upon a Kerr-Newman black hole with different incidence angles. We investigate the influence of the black hole electric charge and angular momentum in the absorption spectrum, comparing our numerical computations with analytical results for the limits of high and low frequency.
Year : 2009 The attentional blink modulates activity in the early visual cortex

The attentional blink (AB) documents a particularly strong case of visual attentional competition, in which subjects' ability to identify a second target (T2) is significantly impaired when it is presented with a short SOA after a first target (T1). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the impact of the AB on visual activity in individually defined retinotopic representations of the target stimuli. Our results show reduction of neural response in V3 and marginally in V2 and V1, paralleling the behavioral AB effect. Reduction of visual activity was accompanied by reduced neural response in the inferior parietal cortex. This indicates that attentional competition modulates activity in higher-order parietal regions and the early visual cortex, providing a plausible neural basis of the behavioral AB effect. The Attentional Blink Modulates Activity in the Early Visual Cortex Grit Hein, Arjen Alink, Andreas Kleinschmidt, and Notger G. Müller
The effects of traumatic experiences on the infant–mother relationship in the former war zones of central Mozambique: The case of madzawde in Gorongosa

This article addresses the ways in which years of war and periods of serious drought have affected the cultural representations of the populations in Gorongosa District, Mozambique. In the wake of these events different cultural and historical representations have been disrupted, leavingthe members of these communities with fragmented protective and resilience factors to cope effectively. Emphasis is placed on the disruption of madzawde, a mechanism that regulates the relationship between the child (one to two years of life) and the mother, and the family in general. The war, aggravated by famine, prevented the populations from performingthis child-rearingpractice. Nearly a decade after the war ended, the posttraumatic effects of this disruption are still beingobserved both by traditional healers and health-care workers at the district hospital. The results suggest that this disruption is affecting and com- promisingthe development of the child and the physical and psycholog ical health of the mother. An in- depth understandingof this level of trauma and posttraumatic effects is instrumental in makinga culturally sensitive diagnosis and in developing effective intervention strategies based on local knowledge that has not been entirely lost but is nonetheless beingquestioned. RESUMEN: Este ensayo trata de las maneras en que los anos de guerra y los periodos de dura sequia han afectado las representaciones culturales de las poblaciones en el distrito Gorongosa, en Mozambique. Como resultado de estos eventos, se han trastornado diferentes representaciones culturales e historicas, dejandoles a los miembros de estas comunidades factores de proteccion y resistencia frangmentados para arreglarselas con efectividad. Se pone enfasis en la ruptura de madzawde, un mecanismo que regula la relacion entre el hijo (1 a 2 anos de vida) y la madre, y en general con la familia. La guerra, con el agravante del hambre, no les permitioa las poblaciones llevar a cabo esta practica de crianza del nino. Casi una decada despues del termino de la guerra, los efectos traumaticos posteriores de esta ruptura son
The Impact of Funding Models and Foreign Bank Ownership on Bank Credit Growth: Is Central and Eastern Europe Different?

This paper provides new evidence on the factors affecting protracted credit contraction in the wake of the global financial crisis. The paper applies panel vector autoregressions to a global panel that consists of quarterly data for 41 countries for the period 2000-2011 and documents that domestic private credit growth is highly sensitive to cross-border funding shocks around the world. This relationship is significantly stronger in Central and Eastern Europe, a region with considerably stronger foreign presence, higher cross-border funding, and elevated loan-to-deposit ratios compared with the rest of the world. The paper shows that high foreign ownership per se does not appear to explain credit response differences to foreign funding shocks. Rather, there is a stronger response in countries that exhibit high loan-to-deposit ratios and a high reliance on foreign funding relative to local deposits. The results suggest that funding model differences were at the heart of the post-crisis credit contraction in several Central and Eastern European countries. These findings have important regulatory and supervisory implications for emerging countries in Central and Eastern Europe as well as for other countries.
Optimal initial condition of passive tracers for their maximal mixing in finite time

The efficiency of a fluid mixing device is often limited by fundamental laws and/or design constraints, such that a perfectly homogeneous mixture cannot be obtained in finite time. Here, we address the natural corollary question: Given the best available mixer, what is the optimal initial tracer pattern that leads to the most homogeneous mixture after a prescribed finite time? For ideal passive tracers, we show that this optimal initial condition coincides with the right singular vector (corresponding to the smallest singular value) of a suitably truncated Perron-Frobenius (PF) operator. The truncation of the PF operator is made under the assumption that there is a small length-scale threshold $\ell_\nu$ under which the tracer blobs are considered, for all practical purposes, completely mixed. We demonstrate our results on two examples: a prototypical model known as the sine flow and a direct numerical simulation of two-dimensional turbulence. Evaluating the optimal initial condition through this framework only requires the position of a dense grid of fluid particles at the final instance and their preimages at the initial instance of the prescribed time interval. As such, our framework can be readily applied to flows where such data is available through numerical simulations or experimental measurements.
Estimates in Besov spaces for transport and transport-diffusion equations with almost Lipschitz coefficients

This paper aims at giving an overview of estimates in general Besov spaces for the Cauchy problem on t = 0 related to the vector field ? t + v·N. The emphasis is on the conservation or loss of regularity for the initial data. When Nu belongs to L1(0,T; L? ) (plus some convenient conditions depending on the functional space considered for the data), the initial regularity is preserved. On the other hand, if Nv is slightly less regular (e.g. Nv belogs to some limit space for which the embedding in L? fails), the regularity may coarsen with time. Different scenarios are possible going from linear to arbitrary small loss of regularity. This latter result will be used in a forthcoming paper to prove global well-posedness for two-dimensional incompressible density-dependent viscous fluids (see [11]). Besides, our techniques enable us to get estimates uniformly in v ? 0 when adding a diffusion term -v? u to the transport equation.
Children Versus Ideas: an “Influential” Theory of Demographic Transition

In this paper, I build on Blackmore (2000) to propose a formal theory of demographic transition (fertility decline) and associated growth of the stock of knowledge. The novelty of this theory is to entirely exclude private consumption from the objective function of the decision makers, and to assume that their goal is to maximize their social influence, that is, the number of people in the next generation utilizing their ideas. With high communication costs, one’s ideas are utilized mainly by his/her children, which creates an incentive to have as many children as possible. With modern communication technologies, one’s ideas can be used by millions, which makes people invest time into improvement of own ideas rather than production of children. Even those who can influence only their own children are induced to have smaller families and improve own ideas, because their children now have access not only to ideas of parents but also to ideas from the outside world.
JUDGING COMPOUND SOCIAL CATEGORIES: COMPOUND FAMILIARITY AND COMPATIBILITY AS DETERMINANTS OF PROCESSING MODE

Three experiments tested the hypothesis that judgments about a group formed by two paired categories would rely on stored instances of individual category members (i.e., exemplars) in some cases, but not in others. Specifically, judgments of a relatively unfamiliar compound category (e.g., male elementary schoolteachers) were expected to rely on exemplars, whereas alternative sources of information, particularly abstract stereotypes, would be available for making judgments of a more familiar category (e.g., female elementary schoolteachers). Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated support for these hypotheses. Experiment 3 ruled out the possibility that the differences in judgment strategy between the familiar and unfamiliar compound categories arose from the relative incompatibility of the two constituent categories (e.g., males and elementary schoolteachers), rather than familiarity. Implications for stereotype development and change are discussed.
Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy

Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) is intended to enhance standard bronchoscopy by providing a three-dimensional roadmap of the lungs and real-time information about the position of the steerable probe during bronchoscopy. The purpose of ENB is to allow navigation to distal regions of the lungs so that suspicious lesions can undergo biopsy and to allow for placement of fiducial markers.
Bank Transparency and Risk Taking: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

An important unresolved issue in finance is the extent to which bank transparency promotes or undermines banking risk-taking. Financial accounting information is an essential component of transparency and a necessary condition for market discipline. This latter can be conceptualized as a market-based incentive scheme with which investors in banking securities penalize banks for greater risk-taking by asking for higher returns on their investments. However, in developing countries, where financial markets are insufficiently developed, the role of market discipline in limiting banksi¯ risk-taking may be restricted. This paper examines the impact of transparency, as measured by voluntary disclosure of financial information, on the fragility of Tunisian banks. This study is motivated by the decision of the Central Bank of Tunisia to implement the directives of the second Basel Accord to improve the soundness and the safety of the Tunisian banking system. We examine a sample of ten Tunisian banks listed on the Stock Exchange of Tunis over the period 2000-2011. The results show that transparency has no effect on Tunisian banksi¯ risk-taking. Similarly, the results indicate that the capital adequacy ratio has no effect on the non-performing loans rate. These results may undermine the effectiveness of the guidelines of the Basel Committee agreements to reduce risk-taking by Tunisian banks.
Attenuation ( Q ) from VSP and Log Data : Ross Lake , Saskatchewan

VSP data and well log information from the Ross Lake oilfield, Saskatchewan (Husky Energy Inc.) are used to estimate P-wave and S-wave attenuation (Q-factors). We used both vertical and horizontal vibrators as sources and a downhole three-component tool. From the spectral ratio method, results are obtained for QP as well as QS. We estimate an average QP, over an interval of 200-1200m, to be 67 from the spectral ratio technique, and about 40 from drift curves. QS estimates over the same interval are 23 from the spectral ratio method and about 37 from “guesstimated” S-wave drift curves.
Pain therapy in patients with musculoskeletal disorders in outpatient setting: A cohort study

Abstract Objectives: The aim was to determine the habits of physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists (PRM) in the prescription of analgesics and application of different physical modalities in outpatients, and to investigate if there are any differences with respect to doctors age. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of outpatients treated at the Clinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinical Center Serbia, for 3 month period. The assessment was performed by patient reports analysis. We investigated the age of doctors, the diagnosis, whether pain intensity was measured using validated pain scale, if analgesics, physical modalities, or the combination were prescribed. We also examined the type of prescribed analgesics. Results: Out of 340 outpatients (192 males, 148 females, mean 45.2 ± 15.89 years) treated by 19 PRM specialists were included in the study. PRM specialists did not measured pain intensity by any valid scale in 296 patients (87.1%). NSAIDs where most used analgesic in 90 patients (26,5%). Opioids where used in only five patients (1.5%). Our results revealed that younger doctors prescribed more often analgesics than older (47.4 vs. 30.2%). Younger doctors also prescribe more often the combination of analgesics and different physical modalities (42.7 vs. 29.2%). Conclusions: We found that the most often prescribed are different physical modalities. The intensity of pain was measured by any validated pain scale in low percentage. Among transcribed analgesics, NSAIDs had the highest percentage, while the opioids were prescribed very little. Younger specialists prescribed analgesics more often as well the combination of analgesics and different physical modalities.
Experiments with SPEC CPU 2017 : Similarity , Balance , Phase Behavior and SimPoints

The recently released SPEC CPU2017 benchmark suite has already started receiving a lot of attention from both industry and academic communities. However, due to the significantly high size and complexity of the benchmarks, simulating all the CPU2017 benchmarks for design trade-off evaluation is likely to become extremely difficult. Simulating a randomly selected subset, or a random input set, may result in misleading conclusions. This paper analyzes the SPEC CPU2017 benchmarks using performance counter based experimentation from seven commercial systems, and uses statistical techniques such as principal component analysis and clustering to identify similarities among benchmarks. Such analysis can reveal benchmark redundancies and identify subsets for researchers who cannot use all benchmarks in pre-silicon design trade-off evaluations. The benchmarks in the CPU2017 suite are compared to others in the suite and also with CPU2006. Additionally, to evaluate the balance of CPU2017 benchmarks, we analyze the performance characteristics of CPU2017 workloads and compare them with emerging database, graph analytics and electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. One of the major changes in the new suite is the addition of multithreaded benchmarks, and hence we analyze the scalability of the multithreaded programs. We also study the phase behavior and variability of the programs, and identify large scale phases and simulation points that researchers can use if the whole program cannot be used for the experimentation.
The Level of High-Order Thinking and Its Relation to Quality of Life among Students at Ajloun University College

The study was designed to identify the effect of high-order thinking on the quality of life among Ajloun University students. The study used the associative method. The randomly selected sample consisted of 147 students from Ajloun University College. The study used two tools: The two measures were applied to the sample of the current study after extracting the psychometric properties of the two scales in terms of validity and reliability.The results indicated that the high-order thinking among the students was moderate. The students also achieved a medium degree according to the quality of life scale. There was a statistically significant correlation between both the high-order thinking and the quality of life. There were statistically significant differences in quality of life and the level of high-order thinking due to gender variable in favor of males and academic specialization in favor of students of scientific colleges, the study recommended the need for further research and studies on the relationship between quality of life and other variables such as self-efficacy, self-learning, and other variables, and to train students in skills that raise their high-order thinking skills because of their close relationship with quality of life and training programs and semi-empirical studies to improve students’ perception of level of life and its quality and satisfaction.
Gender-based differences in hematological and Cd4+ T-lymphocyte counts among HIV-patients in Ido-Ekiti

Background: Differences in prevalence and severity of HIV/AIDS between males and females remain complex and controversial; this may vary with time in the same location during the course of the epidemic, and vary greatly by place of residence. The aim of the study was to assess existent sex variations, the efficacy and ability of HAART to resolve hematological and immunological abnormalities in HIV infected. Methodology: A total of 400 HIV infected participants were recruited for the study from Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti between Agust-2013 to February 2014. 4ml of blood samples were collected into K 2 EDTA bottles for the analysis of hematological and immunological parameters. The volunteers comprised of both male and female respectively 123 (54 on HAART and 69 HAART naïve) 277 (146 on HAART and 131 HAART naïve). Results: Hematological and immunological parameters were found to be significantly different (p<0.05) among male and female patients under HAART. Conclusion: This study revealed that there is significant difference in hematological and immunological parameters between male and female on HAART and HAART naïve patients.
Answering with Memory-Augmented Networks

In this paper, we exploit memory-augmented neural networks to predict accurate answers to visual questions, even when those answers rarely occur in the training set. The memory network incorporates both internal and external memory blocks and selectively pays attention to each training exemplar. We show that memory-augmented neural networks are able to maintain a relatively long-term memory of scarce training exemplars, which is important for visual question answering due to the heavy-tailed distribution of answers in a general VQA setting. Experimental results in two large-scale benchmark datasets show the favorable performance of the proposed algorithm with the comparison to state of the art.
Testing Ex-post Implications of Asset Pricing Models using Individual Stocks ∗

This paper develops an over-identified IV approach that uses past beta estimates and firm characteristics as instruments for estimating ex-post risk premia while addressing the error-invariables problem in the two-pass cross-sectional regression method. The approach is developed in the context of large cross sections of individual stocks and short time series. We establish the N -consistency of the resulting IV ex-post risk premia estimator and obtain its asymptotic distribution along with an estimator of its asymptotic variance-covariance matrix. These results are then used to develop new tests for asset pricing model implications. Empirically, we examine a number of popular asset pricing models and find support for the recent q-factor model proposed by Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015).
MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND QUALITY OF HYBRID RICE

M. Shahrin, I.M. Rashed. , I. Jahan, M.R. Islam and Delwar M Hossain. Management of health and quality of hybrid rice seed. Bangladesh J. Plant Pathol. 32 (1&2): 53-60 Seed health of three hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) var. Moyna1, Moyna 2 and Moyna 3 collected from BRAC, was tested by blotter and NA method for detection of the seed-borne pathogens in the Seed Pathology Centre (SPC), Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Garlic extract, Vitavax 200 and Trichoderma harzianum were evaluated against seed borne fungi associated with those seeds. Highest percent of seed germination (88.0%) was recorded in Moyna 1 and the lowest (82.0%) germination was in Moyna 2. A total number of 318 seed-borne fungal infections were recorded in 1200 seeds obtained from three selected hybrid varieties. The highest number of total seed-borne fungal infection was recorded in Moyna 2 (123), followed by Moyna 3 (107) while the lowest total fungal infection was observed in Moyna1 (88). On the basis of total seed borne fungi, Moyna 2 was found much infected (28.5%) by the seven identified fungi followed by Moyna 3 (23.0%) and Moyna1 (19.5%) respectively. The seven fungi such as Alternaria padwickii, Bipolaris oryzae, Curvularia lunata, Fusarium oxysporum,, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergilus niger and Penicillium sp were identified from the seed samples of all the three hybrid rice varieties. Among the recorded seven fungi, the highest seed-borne infections occurred by Fusarium oxysporum (5.0-8.0%), and the lowest by Aspergillus flavus (2.0-2.2%) followed by Penicillium sp (1.43.1%). Var. Moyna 2 contained significantly the highest percentage of all the tested seed borne fungi followed by Moyna 3 var. Variety Moyna1 had significantly the lowest seed borne infection. Vitavax 200 (@0.3%) and Trichoderma harzianum (@3%) were found the best treatments followed by Garlic extracts (@ 1:1 w/v) regarding seed germination and percent reduction of seed borne infection in all the tested three hybrid varieties.