Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Initial crustal thickness geometry controls on the extension in a back arc domain: Case of the Gulf of Corinth

Since 60 Myr, Peloponnesus and continental Greece have been affected by the Hellenidean compressional and the Aegean extensional phases. This complex evolution resulted in development of a strongly inhomogeneous crust in the Gulf of Corinth region. To study this area, we use a large strain thermomechanical numerical code PARAVOZ previously used for a number of similar problems such as rift evolution. Yet, instead of varying boundary and initial conditions applied to a plane‐layered model, we use available geophysical constraints on the actual deep structure of the lithosphere to test its different possible initial structures. By varying the position of the initial crustal heterogeneity versus the position of the lithospheric slab, we are able to explain the origin of the internal structures and the kinematics of the Gulf of Corinth. The results suggest that the development of shear zones in the lower crust is favored by the gravitational collapse of the thicker part of the crust, whereas the geometry and the kinematics of these shear zones are controlled by the position of the edge of the slab. Asymmetry is seen in cases when a horizontal shift exists between the edge of the slab and the thicker part of the crust. Our model explains the differences between the northern shore and the southern shore as well as the east west variations observed in the Gulf of Corinth.
Collection efficiency of the soot-particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SP-AMS) for internally mixed particulate black carbon

Abstract. The soot-particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SP-AMS) uses an intra-cavity infrared laser to vaporize refractory black carbon (rBC) containing particles, making the particle beam–laser beam overlap critical in determining the collection efficiency (CE) for rBC and associated non-refractory particulate matter (NR-PM). This work evaluates the ability of the SP-AMS to quantify rBC and NR-PM mass in internally mixed particles with different thicknesses of organic coating. Using apparent relative ionization efficiencies for uncoated and thickly coated rBC particles, we report measurements of SP-AMS sensitivity to NR-PM and rBC, for Regal Black, the recommended particulate calibration material. Beam width probe (BWP) measurements are used to illustrate an increase in sensitivity for highly coated particles due to narrowing of the particle beam, which enhances the CE of the SP-AMS by increasing the laser beam–particle beam overlap. Assuming complete overlap for thick coatings, we estimate CE for bare Regal Black particles of 0.6 ± 0.1, which suggests that previously measured SP-AMS sensitivities to Regal Black were underestimated by up to a factor of 2. The efficacy of the BWP measurements is highlighted by studies at a busy road in downtown Toronto and at a non-roadside location, which show particle beam widths similar to, but greater than that of bare Regal Black and coated Regal Black, respectively. Further BWP measurements at field locations will help to constrain the range of CE for fresh and aged rBC-containing particles. The ability of the SP-AMS to quantitatively assess the composition of internally mixed particles is validated through measurements of laboratory-generated organic coated particles, which demonstrate that the SP-AMS can quantify rBC and NR-PM over a wide range of particle compositions and rBC core sizes.
STUDENTS' SATISFACTION WITH LIFE AND ITS RELATION TO SCHOOL BURNOUT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between school burnout and satisfaction with life for students in grade of 7 th to 9 th . A quantitative method used in this study. 351 subjects were selected using stratified sampling. The two questionnaires employed here were The Satisfac- tion with Life Scale with five items of the Diener et al. (1985) and School- Burnout Inventory with nine items and three component - exhaustion at schoolwork (EXH), cynicism toward the meaning of school (CYN), and sense of inadequacy at School (INAD) - measures of school burnout of the Salmela- Aro et al. (2009). The findings of this study showed that the high school stu- dents described their satisfaction with life in relatively satisfactory and they have described their level of school burnout lower than average. The results also showed their school burnout in component of exhaustion at schoolwork was above average and in Components of cynicism toward the meaning of school, and sense of inadequacy at School were lower than average. The re- sults showed that in overall there was no significant correlation between satis- faction with life and school burnout. However, there was relatively low posi- tive correlation between students' satisfaction with life and exhaustion at schoolwork, relatively low negative correlation between students' satisfaction
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP WITH STRUCTURAL EMPOWERMENT IN MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN PROVINCE

The purpose of this research is investigating the relation between Authentic Leadership with Structural Empowerment in Medical sciences university of Kurdistan province. Number of statistical population was 252 persons from administrative staff who were selected 152 persons as sample. This research is one occasional by time period. This study in terms of method is descriptive – correlation research, and in terms of purpose is applied research. The sampling method is simple randomly and instruments for collecting data is authentic leadership standard questionnaire and structural empowerment. In order to determine reliability of questionnaire, sound and structure reliability method has been used and in order to estimate validity of questionnaire, Cronbach alpha has been used. The important findings show that there is positive and significant relationship between authentic leadership and all its dimensions with structure empowerment, also, balanced processing dimension has much significant relationship with structural empowerment.
Fully Neural Network Based Speech Recognition on Mobile and Embedded Devices

Real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR) on mobile and embedded devices has been of great interests for many years. We present real-time speech recognition on smartphones or embedded systems by employing recurrent neural network (RNN) based acoustic models, RNN based language models, and beam-search decoding. The acoustic model is end-to-end trained with connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss. The RNN implementation on embedded devices can suffer from excessive DRAM accesses because the parameter size of a neural network usually exceeds that of the cache memory and the parameters are used only once for each time step. To remedy this problem, we employ a multi-time step parallelization approach that computes multiple output samples at a time with the parameters fetched from the DRAM. Since the number of DRAM accesses can be reduced in proportion to the number of parallelization steps, we can achieve a high processing speed. However, conventional RNNs, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) or gated recurrent unit (GRU), do not permit multi-time step parallelization. We construct an acoustic model by combining simple recurrent units (SRUs) and depth-wise 1-dimensional convolution layers for multi-time step parallelization. Both the character and word piece models are developed for acoustic modeling, and the corresponding RNN based language models are used for beam search decoding. We achieve a competitive WER for WSJ corpus using the entire model size of around 15MB and achieve real-time speed using only a single core ARM without GPU or special hardware.
Impact of LGR 5 in colorectal cancer on overall and progression-free survival : a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective: The prognostic and clinical significance of LGR5 in Colorectal Cancer (CRC) remains controversial. Here, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of LGR5 expression on prognosis and clinicopathological features of CRC patients, clarifying a precise determinant of the clinical significance of LGR5. Methods: Pubmed, Web of Science, Medline and Chinese CNKI (from 1982 to December 15st, 2015) were searched for titles and abstracts, using the following keywords: “LGR5”, “GPR49”, and “colorectal cancer” to identify studies eligible for our analysis. Meta-analysis was performed by Reman5.2, and the used data were extracted from published hazard ratios (HRs), if available, or derived treatment estimates from survival curves. The outcomes included overall survival, progression-free survival and various clinicopathological features. Results: A total of eleven eligible studies were finally included, and our results showed that LGR5 expression in CRC tissues was significantly correlated with overall survival (OR=2.01, 95% CI=1.16-3.47, P=0.01, Random model) and progression free survival (OR=2.27, 95% CI=1.37-3.77, P=0.002, Fixed model) of CRC patients. With respect to clinicopathological features, LGR5 expression was positively correlated with TNM stage (OR=2.18, 95% CI=0.97-4.92, P=0.06), but has no relationship with the differentiation (OR=1.40, 95% CI=0.55-3.57, P=0.48) of CRC patients. Conclusion: LGR5 expression trends to correlate with a worse overall survival and progression-free survival in CRC patients, which indicates that LGR5 could be a potential prognostic marker for CRC patients. In addition, a high TNM stage was found in LGR5 positive CRC patients.
Coexistence of Obesity and Anemia in Children Between 2 and 18 Years of Age in Mexico

According to the most recent national nutrition survey (ENSANUT 2006) in Mexico, 18.4% of the population aged 5 years or older was obese, and 19.6% of those children aged 1 year or older were anemic. Although these are two of the most highly prevalent conditions, coexistence of both conditions has not been previously described at the national level. Methods. We carried out a secondary data analysis to determine the frequency of anemia in different categories of body mass index (BMI) and the frequency in which obesity and anemia co-occurred in children between 2 and 18 years of age. We included data from 29,893 children <18 years of age. Results. The highest prevalence of anemia was found among children with low BMI (13.1%), whereas in obese children the corresponding prevalence was 9.6%. Only 1.3% of children presented obesity and anemia, and its coexistence was observed mainly in children <5 years of age (p = 0.001). Being female and being <9 years of age were the two factors significantly associated with the phenomenon under study. Conclusions. The risk for coexistence of obesity and anemia varied according to the gender and age of the children. Integral nutrition education programs are required to simultaneously address both of these issues
Studying Communication Patterns in Projects

Projects are one of the central forms of work organisation. In such settings, communication between the diverse players has turned out to be a critical factor (Freitag 2011a: 13). Agile project management models are discussed as an answer to project failure and disappointments. With interaction strongly centred on concrete work outcomes, such methods promise to make project communication less abstract. However, there are not sufficient studies on whether this really works, and why. The following article presents an approach with which project communication can be studied. To this end, an analytical framework is developed based on the situated paradigm, communicative events (meetings, briefings, presentations, user tests, etc.) and communication contexts (one-on-one/group talks, media, “artefacts”) forming specific combinations called communication patterns. Based on this, a literature-based comparison of the classical “Waterfall” and the agile “Scrum” models is carried out, preparing the ground for targeted data-collection in real projects, as explained in the concluding section.
Competition Measurement of Hospitals in Poland: The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Approach

Abstract The purpose of this study was to measure the competition level of general hospitals in Poland. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) was used to investigate the concentration level of the general hospital sector in Poland, which is treated in the literature as a proxy of competition. To understand how general hospitals’ market has been structured and thus competitive, the data for general hospitals spanning all Poland for the period of 2005-2013 were collected. The concentration of hospitals was measured in each of the 16 provinces in Poland based on the aggregated data at the counties level. Data are collected from the public statistical system. The HHI indices support the assertion that in the period of analysis the entire general hospitals’ sector in Poland has been on average moderately concentrated and thus, moderately competitive with the growing tendency to higher concentration and less competition. Moreover, the concentration of hospitals’ services is diversified across the provinces and regions of Poland and it is quite uneven. The analysis also shows that changes in the health care market, which took place in the analysed period, especially statutory changes regarding hospitals in 2011, affected the level of concentration and thus competition. Including this introduction, this paper is organized into six sections. Section 2 outlines the Polish health care reforms especially those applying to hospitals. Section 3 and 4 presents the concept of empirical research, such as data and method. Section 5 provides results of empirical research and section 6 concludes.
Impact of physical properties of mixture of diesel and biodiesel fuels on hydrodynamic characteristics of fuel injection system

One of the alternative fuels, originating from renewable sources, is biodiesel fuel, which is introduced in diesel engines without major construction modifications on the engine. Biodiesel fuel, by its physical and chemical properties, is different from diesel fuel. Therefore, it is expected that by the application of a biodiesel fuel, the characteristic parameters of the injection system will change. These parameters have a direct impact on the process of fuel dispersion into the engine cylinder, and mixing with the air, which results in an impact on the quality of the combustion process. Method of preparation of the air-fuel mixture and the quality of the combustion process directly affect the efficiency of the engine and the level of pollutant emissions in the exhaust gas, which today is the most important criterion for assessing the quality of the engine. The paper presents a detailed analysis of the influence of physical properties of a mixture of diesel and biodiesel fuels on the output characteristics of the fuel injection system. The following parameters are shown: injection pressure, injection rate, the beginning and duration of injection, transformation of potential into kinetic energy of fuel and increase of energy losses in fuel injection system of various mixtures of diesel and biodiesel fuels. For the analysis of the results a self-developed computer program was used to simulate the injection process in the system. Computational results are verified using the experiment, for a few mixtures of diesel and biodiesel fuels. This paper presents the verification results for diesel fuel and biodiesel fuel in particular.
A finite difference method for flow past mechanically vibrated circular cylinders

A finite difference solution is presented in this paper for the 2-D, unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for laminar flow about fixed and oscillating cylinders. Boundary-fitted co-ordinates are used and the governing equations are transformed to a non-inertial system fixed to the accelerating cylinder. Convective terms are handled by a third order modified upwind difference, other space derivatives are by fourth order central differences and time derivatives by forward differences. The computed Strouhal numbers and time-mean drag coefficients for fixed cylinders compare well with experimental results. Amplitude bounds of locked-in vortex shedding due to forced transverse oscillation are determined for a fixed Re number. Computations were carried out for a cylinder in orbital motion placed in a uniform flow.
Peppermint and Lavender Essential Oils: Are They Therapeutic Aromas for Attention and Memory?

IntroductionPrevious study showed that aroma has direct and indirect psychological effects and the sense of smell stimulates our memory, feeling of creativity as well as emotions. Peppermint enhances memory and increases alertness in terms of mood while lavender has calming and sedating properties which decreases memory and attention based tasks. The aim of our study is to determine the effect of peppermint and lavender scents on the memory and attention of participants. MethodsA randomized control trial was conducted and a total of 45 undergraduate students participated. Participants were stratified into male and female and then they were randomly assigned to three groups. The two intervention groups were exposed to either peppermint or lavender scent while the control group was not exposed to any scent. The first part of assessment was on the familiarity of 20 brands. The second part assessed the memory of participants to recollect all 20 brands. The third part assessed the attention of participants to identify the odd symbol from the grid picture. The data were analysed using Chi square, Fishers exact test, Independent sample T test ans ANOVA. ResultsIn the attention test, the findings were significant (P<0.013) with mean score of peppermint group being 11.7, lavender group being 8.3 and control group being 8.9. Based on Bonferroni test in ANOVA, there is significant difference of attention score between peppermint and lavender groups (P < 0.018). However, the memory test was not significant with peppermint group scoring a mean of 8.0, lavender group being 7.6 and control group being 7.9 In conclusion, peppermint scent enhances the attention of the participants and lavender reduces the concentration and working memory of the participants.
Defining Key Factors to Sustain Maximum Shareholder Value

Frequent accounting frauds, research and development cost cuts, agency problem – these factors tend to lead to short-term gains, while providing eroded long-term performance to equity investors. The present study looks into the conflict between the short-term and longterm return to understand which factors can provide sustainable long-term return. Based on the content analysis of the academic literature, contemporary scientific publications and mission statements of the public companies, the authors propose hypothetical model of sustainable shareholder value. According to the model, the key elements, which achieve maximum long-term return of the company, are plausible corporate governance structure, high earnings quality, high innovative potential and optimal capital structure to ensure low cost of capital.
The identification of hydrological indices for the characterization of macroinvertebrate community response to flow regime variability

Abstract The importance of flow regime variability for maintaining ecological functioning and integrity of river ecosystems has been firmly established in both natural and anthropogenically modified systems. River flow regimes across lowland catchments in eastern England are examined using 47 variables, including those derived using the Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) software. A principal component analysis method was used to identify redundant hydrological variables and those that best characterized the hydrological series (1986–2005). A small number of variables (<6) characterized up to 95% of the statistical variability in the flow series. The hydrological processes and conditions that the variables represent were found to be significant in structuring the in-stream macroinvertebrate community Lotic-invertebrate Index for Flow Evaluation (LIFE) scores at both the family and species levels. However, hydrological variables only account for a relatively small proportion of the total ecological variability (typically <10%). The research indicates that a range of other factors, including channel morphology and anthropogenic modification of in-stream habitats, structure riverine macroinvertebrate communities in addition to hydrology. These factors need to be considered in future environmental flow studies to enable the characterization of baseline/reference conditions for management and restoration purposes. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Guest editor M. Acreman Citation Worrall, T.P., Dunbar, M.J., Extence, C.A. , Laizé, C.L. R. , Monk, W.A. , and Wood, P.J., 2014. The identification of hydrological indices for the characterization of macroinvertebrate community response to flow regime variability. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (3–4), 645–658.
DRAFT-The Impact of Human Resource Practices on Business-Unit Operating and Financial Performance

This study examined the impact of HR practices and organizational commitment on business-unit operating performance and profitability. Using a predictive design with a sample of 50 autonomous business-units within the same corporation, the study revealed that both organizational commitment and HR practices were significantly related to operational measures of performance as well as operating expenses and pre-tax profits.
Effect of Cow Milk on the Growth and Economic Traits of Silkworm (Bombyx mori L.)

Silkworm Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae), is a domestic insect which produce silk through spinning. Silkworm is a monophogous insect and major portion of successful silk production as well as quality of silk cocoon depends on nutritional value of mulberry leaf. The present study was undertaken to find out the effect of cow milk on increasing the growth rate and economic traits of silkworm. Silkworm became voracious in the last fifth stages and it consumed about 94% of its total fed and major portion of raw silk (fi- broin & sericin) is secreted in the last stage. The mulberry leaves were dipped in milk and air dried before giving them as feed to the silk larvae. Larval weight, cocoon weight and shell weight was measured. The result showed that the larvae fed with milk treated leaves gained 208% weight from day 1 to 5, while the larvae fed with fresh leaves gained 188% weight in the same span. Cocoon weight in- creased by 18% and shell percentage by 11% when compared to the control. These result suggested to fed silkworm larvae with mulber- ry leaves dipped in cow milk at fifth instar for better larval weight and reeling performances.
Development of Zinc Doped Hydroxyapatite for Bone Implant Applications

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has widely been used as bone substitutes and as coatings on metallic prostheses because of its good biocompatibility and bioactivity. In order to improve bioactivity of HA, hydroxyapatite has been doped with zinc. It was also proven that doping zinc into calcium phosphate structure gave better mechanical strength of calcium phosphate implants. In this research, zinc-doped hydroxyapatite powder was synthesized through sol-gel method. The obtained powders were physically characterized using FESEM, XRD, FTIR, TG/DTA, and particle size analyzer. In this method, ammonium solution, EDTA, Ca(NO3)2.4H2O, (NH4)2HPO4 and urea have been used as the raw materials and Zn(NO3)2.6H2O as dopant with the concentrations of 2, 5, 10, and 15 mol%. Calcination temperatures were varied between 500 – 900oC. It was shown that synthesized Zn-doped HA powders resulted in high purity after calcination up to 700oC, and TCP started to appear after 800 oC calcination. The highly crystalline powders had been obtained for the calcination temperature above 700oC. Moreover, FTIR analysis shown that the bands of HPO4 increased meanwhile O-H decreased with the increasing zinc doping. Individual particles become larger with the increased calcination temperature and the decreasing concentration of zinc doping.