Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On the existence of topological hairy black holes in su ( N ) EYM theory with a negative cosmological constant

We investigate the existence of black hole solutions of four dimensional su ( N ) EYM theory with a negative cosmological constant. Our analysis differs from previous works in that we generalise the ﬁeld equations to certain non-spherically symmetric spacetimes. The work can be divided into two sections. In the ﬁrst half, we use theorems of Wang’s to derive a new topologically general su ( N ) -invariant one-form connection which may serve as the ansatz for our gauge potential. The second half is devoted to proving the existence of non-trivial solutions to the ﬁeld equations for any integer N , with N − 1 gauge degrees of freedom. Speciﬁcally, we prove existence in two separate regimes: for ﬁxed values of the initial parameters and as | Λ | → ∞ ; and for any Λ < 0, in some neighbourhood of existing trivial solutions. In both cases we can prove the existence of ‘nodeless’ solutions, i.e. such that all gauge ﬁeld functions have no zeroes; this fact is of interest as we anticipate that some of them may be stable.
Effective online privacy policies

Online privacy policies are important mechanisms for informing web site users about the level of information privacy protection afforded when visiting web sites. To date, societal mechanisms and technologies have been the focus of attempts to improve the quality and effectiveness of online privacy policies. Little attention, however, has been given to the development and use of organisational measures for this purpose. In this paper we present findings from an empirical study of online privacy policies, resulting in a set of organisational guidelines for effective online privacy policies, which extend the research base in this area and, more immediately, will assist companies concerned about the impact of privacy concerns on consumer web usage.
The Evaluation of Science Learning Program, Technology and Society Application of Audio Bio Harmonic System with Solar Energy to Improve Crop Productivity

One of the greatest challenges in science learning is how to integrate a wide range of basic scientific concepts of physics, chemistry, and biology into an integrated learning material. Research-based teaching material in this area is still very poor and does not much involve students of science education in its implementation as part of the learning program science technology and society (STS). The purpose of this study is to get the result of evaluation of the teaching and learning of STS in the form of public service in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. The program to improve crop productivity through the application of Audio Bio Harmonic System (ABHS) with solar energy have been selected for utilizing the natural animal sounds to open stomata of the leaves conducted during foliar fertilization, making it suitable for integrated science lessons. Component of evaluation model used is Stufflebeam model evaluation (CIPP). CIPP evaluation in these activities resulted in two aspects: The first aspect was improving the skills of students and farmers in using ABHS, and these two aspects, namely food crop productivity; (1) cayenne increased 76.4%, (2) increased red onions (56.3%) and (3) of maize increased by 67.8%. Besides, it was also the effect of the application of ABHS on the rate of plant growth. The outcome of this study is the STS teaching materials and appropriate technology of ABHS with solar energy.
Innate, Adaptive and Intrinsic Immunity in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

The first line of defence of the innate immune system functions by recognizing highly conserved sets of molecular structures specific to the microbes, termed pathogen-associated molecular patterns, or PAMPs via the germ line-encoded receptors Pattern-Recognition Receptors (PRRs). In addition to the innate immune system, the vertebrates have also evolved a second line of defence termed adaptive immune system, which uses a diverse set of somatically rearranged receptors T-Cell Receptors (TCRs) and B Cell Receptors (BCRs), which have the inherent ability to effectively recognise diverse antigens. The innate and adaptive immune systems are functionally tied in with the intrinsic immunity, which comprises of endogenous antiviral factors. Thus, this effective response to diverse microbial infections, including HIV, requires a coordinated interaction at several functional levels between innate, adaptive and intrinsic immune systems. This review provides a snapshot of roles played by the innate, adaptive and the intrinsic immune systems during HIV-infection, along with discussing recent developments highlighting the genomic basis of these responses and their regulation by micro-RNA (miRNAs).
Update and Review of Research on Radiofrequencies: Implications for a Prudent Avoidance Policy in Toronto

While reviewing this report I found that some scientists are mentioned and seem rewarded for reporting their errors. A simple understanding that children are susceptible to greater absorption of RF due to their size and thinner skulls is made unclear by some scientist. How can this be unclear? I have often heard “unclear” and “inconclusive” by those supporting thermal affects only. As infrared imaging technology has improved since 2007 we now see that scientists like Martin were correct. Also, Peter Valberg’s confusion has also been mentioned in this report.
Microwave Resonators for Weak Light Detection at Telecom Wavelength

We report the experimental measurements of weak light signal at 1550 nm wavelength with a high-quality factor microwave coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators. The quality factor of this niobium λ/4 CPW resonator is measured as Q =7 . 4 × 10 5 at ultra-low temperature (20 mK). With this device, we developed a technique to implement the proper fiber-resonator coupling, and realized the desirable weak light detection at telecommunication wavelength with 35 pW resolution by probing the shift of resonance frequency (f0). We found that the resonator shift increases with the increasing light power (from 11. 7p W to 9.77 nW), similar to the effects of increasing the system temperature (from 20 mK to 800 mK). The observed blue shifts of f0 (with the increasing of either the temperature and the applied light powers) are thoroughly deviated from the usual Mattis-Bardeen theory prediction, and could be explained by the effects relating to the two-level system existed on surface of the CPW device.
Extraction and structural properties of Acanthophora muscoides (Rhodophyceae) extracellular matrix sulfated polysaccharides and their effects on coagulation

Acanthophora muscoides (Rhodophyta) contains structurally heterogeneous sulfated polysaccharides (Am-SPs) with pharmacological importance; however, its matrix SPs composition has not been still extensively investigated. This study sequentially extracted and compared the structural features and the in vitro anticoagulant effects of the Am-SPs. Papain-extraction sequence yielded Am.E-1, Am.E-2 and Am.E-3 containing differences among the relative proportions of sulfate (26.18-33%) and hexoses (42.02-60.67%) based on chemical analyses. One- ( 1 H) and two-dimensions ( 1 H/ 13 C) nuclear magnetic resonance experiments showed very complex Am-SPs composed of alternating 4-linked-α-galactopyranosyl units and 3-linked-β-galactopyranosyl units presenting variable sulfation, CH 3 substitutions and3,6-anhydro-α-L-galactose units and pyruvated-D-galactose residues, respectively, typical of agarocolloids. Different chromatographic profiles (DEAE-cellulose) were observed, with fractions (Am I, Am II and Am III eluted with 0.5, 0.75 and/or 1 M of NaCl, respectively) revealing charge density patterns and distinct mobility to heparin by agarose-electrophoresis and, when analyzed by polyacrylamide-electrophoresis, a dispersive migration and similar mobility as chondroitin-6-sulfate for Am I fractions were noted. Regarding the activated partial thromboplastin time test, fractions had no virtually anticoagulation (1.47→3.07 IU mg -1 ) in comparison with 193 IU mg -1 heparin. Therefore, Am-SPs show significantly lower anticoagulation than heparin.
Attitudes towards English Language Learning among EFL Learners at UMSKAL

This paper analyses the result of a survey on 238 u ndergraduate EFL students at a public university in Malaysia. The survey focused on their attitude towards Englis h learning and causes that might have hindered thei r learning. For data collection, a 19 item questionnaire were d esigned and administered on 238 students. The objec tive of this study was to investigate (1) The attitudes of the learners towards the use of English in differen t areas; (2) Causes that may have influenced the effect of Engli sh learning for students (3) Perspectives of Englis h learning among non-major English learners in Malaysia. Results of the qualitative analysis show that the attitu de towards English language learning and using the language in various domains of usage is extremely positive. Th e data also revealed that most of the students had negativ e feelings or fear regarding classroom instructions in their learning experience. Students of different fields v aried in attitudes towards English language learnin g in terms of domains of usage and focus of learning skills, whic h shows that a single curriculum or teaching method ology is not adequate. Several suggestions have been made re garding teaching methodology, curriculum, teaching materials, and the status of English in Malaysia fr om this point of view.
INTRODUCING THE SHEAR-CAP MATERIAL CRITERION TO AN ICE RUBBLE LOAD MODEL

Current ice rubble load models are based on a cohesive-frictional stress criterion, of which the Mohr-Coulomb (MC) and Drucker-Prager (DP) models are the most widely used. Combining these failure criteria with a shear-cap model as a new material model provides limits to the behaviour of rubble in both deviatoric and hydrostatic stress states. This concept adds a cap yield surface to the DP shear yield criterion bounding the yield surface in hydrostatic compression. The cap yield surface controls the dilatation process by including a volumetric hardening parameter. A detailed parametric analysis has been done to investigate the range of the shear-cap model’s parameter values that provide valid results. These parameters have been calibrated to implement the shear-cap material criterion into an analytical load model. This analytical load model calculates the load of interaction between first year ice ridge keels and conical structures. Existing models significantly over-predict the recorded loads measured at the Confederation Bridge Pier (P31). As a result, one of the aims of the newly developed load model is to give calculated load values which correlate well with the Confederation Bridge recorded loads. Comparison has been made between the calculated pressures using the new model and the recorded pressure given by the Confederation Bridge Monitoring Program (Brown, 2006). The comparison showed promising correlation between the calculated and recorded pressures.
Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain aspects of the radiation and biological sciences. The facts which follow will introduce how our debilitated veterans are being misinformed of the possible role played by uranium in their illnesses.
A LOOK AT GLIDING AND UNDERWATER KICKING IN THE SWIM TURN

A series of studies were conducted to examine hydrodynamic drag throughout the gliding and stroke preparation phases of the freestyle tumble turn. The first study examined the effects of velocity and depth on the passive drag forces and demonstrated that significant drag reduction benefits were found with the swimmers performing glides underwater when compared to gliding at the water surface. The second study sought to establish the appropriate velocity for initiating underwater kicking, as well as the most efficient gliding position and kicking technique. The results indicate that swimmers should initiate underwater kicking at between 1.9 and 2.2 ms-1. No significant differences were found between two streamline glide positions, and similarly, between three underwater kicking styles. The results of these studies present strategies for reducing the drag forces experienced by swimmers throughout the freestyle turn.
Metabolic fingerprinting for diagnosis of fibromyalgia and other rheumatologic disorders

Diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia (FM) remains a challenge owing to the lack of reliable biomarkers. Our objective was to develop a rapid biomarker-based method for diagnosing FM by using vibrational spectroscopy to differentiate patients with FM from those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to identify metabolites associated with these differences. Blood samples were collected from patients with a diagnosis of FM (n = 50), RA (n = 29), OA (n = 19), or SLE (n = 23). Bloodspot samples were prepared, and spectra collected with portable FT-IR and FT-Raman microspectroscopy and subjected to metabolomics analysis by ultra-HPLC (uHPLC), coupled to a photodiode array (PDA) and tandem MS/MS. Unique IR and Raman spectral signatures were identified by pattern recognition analysis and clustered all study participants into classes (FM, RA, and SLE) with no misclassifications (p < 0.05, and interclass distances > 2.5). Furthermore, the spectra correlated (r = 0.95 and 0.83 for IR and Raman, respectively) with FM pain severity measured with fibromyalgia impact questionnaire revised version (FIQR) assessments. Protein backbones and pyridine-carboxylic acids dominated this discrimination and might serve as biomarkers for syndromes such as FM. uHPLC-PDA-MS/MS provided insights into metabolites significantly differing among the disease groups, not only in molecular m/z+ and m/z− values but also in UV-visible chromatograms. We conclude that vibrational spectroscopy may provide a reliable diagnostic test for differentiating FM from other disorders and for establishing serologic biomarkers of FM-associated pain.
Balanced budget stimulus with tax cuts in a liquidity constrained economy

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of unexpected, exogenous, simultaneous, temporary cuts to income tax rates in an economy when the government follows a balanced budget fiscal rule and keeps money supply constant, and private agents face constraints on the ability to finance investments. The main results are that the tax cuts increase output, private consumption, and investment; the increases in output and consumption are significant and long-lasting; and the liquidity constraints play a major role in the shock's long-term persistence. Results are obtained from calibrating a modified version of the DSGE model of liquidity and business cycles by Kiyotaki and Moore (2012). The modifications are twofold: (i) distortionary taxes to labour and dividend incomes are added, and (ii) the government follows a balanced budget fiscal rule and keeps money supply constant. Results are qualitatively robust, but quantitatively sensitive, to assumptions regarding structural parameter values, and qualitatively and quantitatively sensitive to significant variations in the persistence of tax shocks.
Climate and mortality in Australia: retrospective study, 1979-1990 and predicted impacts in five major cities in 2030.

Quantitative assessment of climatic and environmental health risks is necessary because changes in climate are expected. We therefore aimed to quantify the relationship between climatic extremes and mortality in the 5 largest Australian cities during the period 1979–1990. We then applied the relationship determined between recent climatic conditions and mortality to scenarios for climate and demographic change, to predict potential impacts on public health in the cities in the year 2030. Data on mortality, denominator population and climate were obtained. The expected numbers of deaths per day in each city were calculated. Observed daily deaths were compared with expected rates according to temperature thresholds. Mortality was also examined in association with temporal synoptic indices (TSI) of climate, developed by principal component and cluster analysis. According to observed-expected threshold analyses, for the 5 cities combined, the annual mean excess of deaths attributable to temperature over the period 1979–1990 was 175 for the 28°C threshold. This sum of statistically significant differences from the 5 cities was the greatest excess found in association with any threshold considered in the range of temperatures that occur. Excess mortality for the hottest days in summer was greater than for the coldest days in winter. Temperature-mortality relationships were little modified by socio-economic status. TSI analyses produced similar results: using this method, the climate-attributable mortality in the 5 cities was approximately 160 deaths yr–1, although this number was evenly distributed across summer and winter. Persons in the group aged 65 yr and older were the most vulnerable. After allowing for increases in population, and combining all age groups, the synoptic method showed a 10% reduction in mortality in the year 2030. We conclude that the 5 largest Australian cities exhibit climate-attributable mortality in both summer and winter. Given the scenarios of regional warming during the next 3 decades, the expected changes in mortality due to direct climatic effects in these major coastal Australian cities are minor.
A Review of Machine Learning in Software Vulnerability Research

Searching for and identifying vulnerabilities in computer software has a long and rich history, be that for preventative or malicious purposes. In this paper, we investigate the use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Software Vulnerability Research (SVR), discussing previous and current e orts to illustrate how ML is utilised by academia and industry in this area. We nd that the primary focus is not only on discovering new approaches, but on helping SVR practitioners by simplifying and automating their processes. Considering the variety of applications already in evidence, we believe ML will continue to provide assistance to SVR in the future as new areas of use are explored and improved algorithms to enhance existing functionality become available.
Sublethal Effects of Spirodiclofen on Tetranychus urticae Koch Pre-Ovipositional Females After Different Exposure Times

Sublethal effect of spirodiclofen on Tetranychus urticae females that survived different exposure times in the pre-ovipositional period was evaluated calculating two parameters - instantaneous rate of increase and net fertility - after six days of reproduction. The females were exposed to four concentrations/doses of the acaricide: 96 mg /L (0.24 µg/cm2), 48 mg/L (0.12 µg/cm2), 24 mg/L (0.06 µg/cm2) and 12 mg. /L (0.03 µg/cm2) for 2, 6 and 24h in a leaf disc bioassay. After 24h exposure to 12 mg/L, instantaneous rate of increase was significantly reduced (0.545; 0.634 in control), while significant reduction in net fertility (20.61; 28.57 in the control) was recorded even after 2h exposure to the same concentration. The effect of all tested concentrations of spirodiclofen on both parameters increased with exposure time. The lowest values of instantaneous rate of increase (0.268) and net fertility (2.58) were recorded after 24h exposure to 96 mg/L. After 24h exposure, the concentration increase from 12 to 24 mg/L significantly reduced both parameters, while a further increase from 24 to 96 mg/L significantly reduced instantaneous rate of increase, but not net-fertility. The results regarding T. urticae population management are discussed.
LEISURE STUDIES AND CULTURE: Reflections on Creative Leisure from an Empirical Research Perspective

Leisure is a significant sector because of its economic importance and its impact on well-being or on current lifestyles. The enjoyment of culture, as a personal decision of the subject that experiences it, is also considered leisure; but neither culture as human production is all leisure, nor is leisure all culture. This article examines the encounter between both concepts from the idea of creative leisure and data obtained from empirical research. From a humanistic approach, one of the great exponents of the relationship between leisure and culture is creative leisure, which has become the current embodiment of the concept of leisure inherited from classical culture. The development of the subject is based on the analysis of the study on Cultural Activities in Spain 2010-11, as well as data relating to two specific researches, conducted at the Institute of Leisure Studies at the University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain): one on the practices and experiences of leisure in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and the other focused on the Experience of Leisure in people who practice a consolidated leisure. From among the conclusions, we highlight the imbalance between the culture of reception and its creative aspect, which makes it necessary to differentiate between leisure practices associated with a broad vision of humanistic leisure and cultural practices whose meaning has been reduced to the consumption of so-called cultural industries. Still, it is evident that there is a wide range of confluence and, in both cases, it is possible to differentiate the two aspects, creation and re-creation, as different scopes of the same reality.
Conformity of MUSLE Estimates and Erosion Plot Data for Storm-Wise Sediment Yield Estimation

In this study, the conformity of mathematical model of the MUSLE for the estimation of storm-wise sediment yield in plots was examined at Matash Ranch in northern Iran. For the measurement of sediment yield, three plots were established within each openly grazed and manually harvested area. The MUSLE model was applied through determining the entire required inputs for the study plots of 24 storm events, which occurred during the study period from May to September 2004. The quantity results were then statistically compared using paired t-Test analysis. The results of the study verified the disability of the model in sound prediction of sediment yield on storm basis for the study area. Additionally, a high level of agreement beyond 86% was found between estimated and measured sediment yield which created the possibility of comparative evaluation of the effects of different land use managerial approaches on sediment yield in the study area.
Health inequalities in Argentina: Patterns, contradictions and implications

Abstract This paper examines the social gradient in self-reported health in Argentina, and at the provincial level, explores the extent to which self-reported health and mortality indicators provide dissonant health profiles. This study is based on a secondary analysis of Argentina’s 2001 Survey of Living Conditions. A significant gradient in self-reported health was observed by income quintile, but self-reported health and mortality indicators were not significantly correlated at the provincial level. Respondents from deprived regions were most likely to report being in good health, despite living in areas with low life expectancy and high infant mortality; in other words, respondents from areas of poor population health nevertheless report good individual health. Unless acknowledged, this will ultimately lead to an underestimate of the social gradient in health. The implications of this notion for tests of the income inequality hypothesis are discussed.