Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Producción de hojarasca de Rhizophora mangle en el manglar de Punta Capitán Chico, estado Zulia-Venezuela

Se determino la produccion de hojarasca de Rhizophora mangle en el manglar de Punta Capitan Chico, Estado Zulia – Venezuela. Se establecieron tres parcelas permanentes (perpendiculares a la costa) de 100 m2, y se distribuyeron aleatoriamente 27 cestas (0,25m2) de recoleccion de hojarasca. La hojarasca se recolecto mensualmente durante un ano y separada en estructuras (hojas, estipulas, flores, frutos, propagulos, miscelaneos). La produccion de hojarasca promedio fue de 3,58 g/m2/dia y de 13,07 ton/ha/ano, correspondiendo 52 % a hojas, 11 % a propagulos, 11 % a miscelaneos, 10 % a flores, 10 % a frutos y 6 % a estipulas. La produccion de hojarasca fue continua durante el ano, las tasas maximas se observaron desde junio hasta octubre, periodo correspondiente a la estacion lluviosa. Los resultados evidenciaron una produccion de hojarasca comparativamente de media a alta, la cual se transfiere casi en su totalidad a cuerpos de agua adyacentes y constituye una fuente importante de materia organica que sustenta complejas redes troficas estuarinas y marinas.
P o S ( I C R C 2 0 1 7 ) 1 1 1 6 Status of ground based gamma-ray observations

This is a proceeding of a rapporteur talk given on ground-based gamma-ray astronomy at the 35th International Cosmic-Ray Conference (ICRC) held in 2017 in Busan, Republic of Korea. A total of ∼300 contributions were presented during the ICRC over 17 gamma-ray sessions. Here, I summarize the contributions mainly focusing on the source observations performed by ground-based gamma-ray instruments and the connection between gamma rays and cosmic rays. Any such summary must necessarily be incomplete. However, I have attempted to provide a glance into recent progress that has been made in using ground-based gamma-ray observations to understand the nature of high energy particles in our Universe.
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF APPLICATIONS OF SPATIO TEMPORAL DATA MININGIN GIS

The advancement in database and internet technology has led to large debris of data being collected. The process of extraction knowledge led to coining of new term called data mining. In this paper we have discussed the spatio temporal dimension of data mining and its applications in field of Geographical Information Systems. The applications include forest fires, Maize yield, Weather forecasting etc.
Host-Pathogen Interaction of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and Cassava Mosaic Viruses (ICMV and SLCMV)

Cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, is one of the most important staple food crops (ElSharkawy, 2007; Lopez, 2005; Mann, 1997) for more than 700 million subsistence farmers in tropical and sub-tropical Africa, Asia and Latin America (IFAD and FAO, 2000) and grown widely under diverse environmental conditions. About 70 per cent of world cassava root production (which is estimated to be over 45 m metric tonnes of dry root annually) is used for human consumption either directly after cooking or in processed forms; the remaining 30 per cent is used for animal feed and other industrial products such as starch, glucose, and alcohol (El-Sharkawy, 2004). The major constraint in cassava production is cassava mosaic disease (CMD), International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 7 (2017) pp. 1305-1317 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Take-Off Efficiency: Transformation of Mechanical Work Into Kinetic Energy During the Bosco Test

Purpose. The aim of the study is to present a new method for determining the efficiency of take-off during a 60-s bosco repeated vertical jump test. Method. The study involved 15 physical education students (age: 21.5 ± 2.4 years; height: 1.81 ± 0.08 m; mass: 76 ± 9 kg). The data were collected with the use of a pedobarographical system (Pedar-x; Novel, Munich, Germany). The statistical analysis utilized a simple linear regression model. Results. Owing to possible fatigue, flight time and flight height decreased. The average flight height was 0.260 ± 0.063 m, and the average contact time equalled 0.54 ± 0.16 s. The average anaerobic power values calculated for the 60-s work period had the mean value of 21.9 ± 6.7 W · kgbW –1 ; there was a statistically significant ( p < 0.05) decrease in anaerobic power during the 60-s bosco test. Conclusions. The efficiency of mechanical work was highest at the beginning of the test, reaching values of up to 50%. The efficiency of mechanical work conversion into mechanical energy seems to be an appropriate determinant of rising fatigue during the 60-s bosco jumping test. 10.1515/humo-2017-0023
DIAGNOSTIC ROLE OF INTRA OPERATIVE OVARIAN CYST FLUID CYTOLOGY IN DETERMINING MALIGNANCY

Malignancy of the ovarian cyst is a common neoplasms of female genital organs. Frozen section is an important and helpful methodin intra operative diagnosis of suspiciously malignant ovarian cyst. But frozen section facilities are not available at many hospitals,especially in developing countries. The aim of this study is to determine the role of intra operative cytological diagnosis of ovariancyst fluid. The present study was conducted in Pathology Department Dr. Soetomo hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia on Novembre 1st2012 until January 31st 2013. Thirty cases of ovarian cyst fluid by intra operative aspiration were collected. Cytological smear wereprepared by centrifuging cyst fluid obtained by intra operative aspiration. Cytological result were compared with histopathologicaldiagnosis as the gold standard. Overall the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of intra operative cytological diagnosis of ovariancyst fluid were 86,7%, 76,5% and 100%, respectively. The positive and negative predictive value were 100% and 76,5%. Cytologicalexamination of ovarian cyst fluid obtained by aspiration intra operative demonstrated high specificity and positive predictive value. (FMI 2013;49 119-123)
Choice, Management, and Modification: Situational Context in Risky Choice

We sought to examine the potential differences between different types of risky decisions. While some decisions are easily represented as choices between future alternatives, other decisions may be better represented as the management of a personally owned situation. Schneider (2003) created the risk management task, which manifested these situated improvement decisions, and identified a unique pattern of risk preferences when compared to the standard gambling paradigm. To determine what cognitive processes might be differentially activated for each type of decisions so as to yield these risk preference differences, we incrementally manipulated the gambling paradigm to parse potentially influential elements of situational context from both risky choice and risk management. The elements of context found to be influential were (a) making an improvement of your situation rather than a choice within your situation, (b) integrating information into a more compact display, and (c) limiting the visual salience of consequence information. The implications of these results as they relate to current formal models of decision making and subsequent investigations of decision context are addressed. Future directions using a similar appreciation of individual perceptual and cognitive processes when studying decision making are also discussed.
On the morphological characteristics of overdeepenings in high‐mountain glacier beds

Overdeepenings, i.e. closed topographic depressions with adverse slopes in the direction of flow, are characteristic for glacier beds and glacially sculpted landscapes. Quantitative information about their morphological characteristics, however, has so far hardly been available. The present study provides such information by combining the analysis of (a) numerous bed overdeepenings below still existing glaciers of the Swiss Alps and the Himalaya‐Karakoram region modelled with a robust shear stress approximation and (b) detailed bathymetries from recently exposed lakes in the Peruvian Andes. The investigated overdeepenings exist where glacier surface slopes are low (< 5°–10°), occur in bedrock or morainic material and are most commonly a fraction of a kilometre squared in surface area, hundreds of metres long, about half the length in width and tens of metres deep. They form under conditions of low to high basal shear stresses, at cirque, confluence, trunk valley and terminus positions. The most striking phenomenon, however, is the high variability of their geometries: Depths, surface areas, lengths and widths of the overdeepenings vary over orders of magnitude and are only weakly – if at all – interrelated. Inclinations of adverse slopes do not differ significantly from those of forward slopes and are in many cases higher than so far assumed theoretical limits for supercooling of ascending water and corresponding closure of sub‐glacial channels. Such steep adverse slopes are a robust observation and in support of recently developed new concepts concerning the question about where supercooling of sub‐glacial water and closure of ice channels can or must occur. However, the question of when and under what climatic, topographic and ice conditions the overdeepenings had formed remains unanswered. This open question constitutes a key problem concerning the interpretation of observed overdeepenings, the understanding of the involved glacio‐hydraulic processes and the possibility of realistic predictive modelling of overdeepening formation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Properties and Constructions of Constrained Codes for DNA-Based Data Storage

We describe properties and constructions of constraint-based codes for DNA-based data storage which account for the maximum repetition length and AT/GC balance. Generating functions and approximations are presented for computing the number of sequences with maximum repetition length and AT/GC balance constraint. We describe routines for translating binary runlength limited and/or balanced strings into DNA strands, and compute the efficiency of such routines. Expressions for the redundancy of codes that account for both the maximum repetition length and AT/GC balance are derived.
Diagnostic Value of Hematologic and Inflammatory Profile in Adjunction to Blood Culture in Patients Suspected to Septicemia

Background Septicemia is a serious condition in pediatric population which highly depends on immediate diagnosis and treatment in terms of mortality and morbidity rate. Developing adjunctive laboratory tests to help clinicians make appropriate decision is of great priority. In this study we aimed to evaluate the predictive value of each biomarker to find the most valuable one based of which a reasonable empiric therapy would be initiated prior to definite diagnosis by blood culture. Materials and Methods Hospital records of Patients who referred to the Hazrat-Masumeh hospital of Qom province were reviewed between March 2013 and March 2017. Diagnostic tests including blood culture and hematologic indices (WBC, ANC, ABC and Platelets) as well as inflammatory biomarkers (ESR, CRP) were measured for all participants. Patients over 6 year-old and those received antibiotic within a week prior to admission were excluded from the study. Results Total number of 378 patients was enrolled in this retrospective study, of which 200 (52.91%) were boys. Positive blood culture was achieved in 171 (45.23%) patients. Significant increase observed in ANC, ABC, Platelets, ESR and CRP levels among patients with positive blood culture compared with negative blood culture (P-value of 0.0012, <0.0001, <0.0001, 0.03 and 0.018, respectively). However, there was no significant difference in WBC counts between two groups (P-value = 0.1344). The most sensitive hematologic parameter (88.89%) and the most specific parameter in our evaluations was CRP (92.27%). Conclusion Measuring the ANC, ABC, Platelet, ESR, CRP levels as initial evaluation in adjunction to confirmative blood culture is reasonable approach with acceptable diagnostic value for patients suspected to septicemia.
The Nexus of Domestic Violence and Poverty

This study extends past research by examining the mediating role of cognitive and social resilience in the domestic violence–anxiety relation. Mediation is tested on a sample of 100 impoverished women from the Women’s Health Outcomes in Urban and Rural Environments (Women’s HOUR) Study. Regression analysis and structural equation modeling provide consistent support for the proposed model: poor women’s violence experience impairs support and self-esteem, which in turn influences their anxiety levels. Results demonstrate the dynamic role impaired resilience may play in the violence process, highlighting implications for research, practice, and policy at the nexus of violence and poverty.
Exploring the Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility at Chinese Hotels

Exploring the Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility at Chinese Hotels Corporations increasingly are expected to not only generate profits but to behave in ways that are socially responsible. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a global phenomenon impacting companies in both developed and developing countries. The current qualitative study used interviews from 17 hotel managers in China to explore the key drivers for hotel management there to undertake socially responsible activities. The research revealed that managers were motivated to implement CSR due to belief in its long-term value for the company and due to traditional cultural beliefs. The managers expected CSR activities to generate significant benefits including stronger corporate culture and greater engagement as well as enhancement of the reputation of the hotel over time. Immediate benefits, such as reduced labor costs and reduced operating costs, also were seen as important benefits of CSR, particularly among smaller hotel companies. One may note that hotel managers reported much of the CSR related activities were undertaken by primary stakeholders, particularly employees or local community members.
Leaf gas exchange and biomass partitioning in Jatropha curcas L. young plants subjected to flooding and drought stresses

With the purpose of assessing the physiological responses of J. curcas young plants to drought and flooding, plants were subjected to three watering regimes: Control, drought and flooding. In the same period, five plants were submitted to drought (irrigation suspension), five to flooding and five were maintained near the field capacity (control). Measurements of leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll content, biomass of each organ (leaf, stem and root), biomass ratios, as well as the root:shoot ratio were made. When compared to control, drought and flooding treatments led to significant reductions (P≤.05) of gas exchange rates at 14 and 7 days after imposition treatments (DAIT), respectively. At the 16 DAIT, significant reductions of leaf, root, stem and total biomass were observed, which resulted in changes of biomass partitioning of each organ. Significant reduction of leaf dry biomass (LDB) was observed in water deficit plants. Moreover, no significant effects of water deficit were observed in root dry biomass. Such response has led to a higher root:shoot ratio, suggesting an improved ability for water and nutrients uptake. In turn, flooding has induced a significant decrease in the dry biomass of all organs. Stem dry biomass ratio of flooded plants (0.67 g g) was significantly higher than that of control plants (0.41 g g), which, was seemingly due to leaf senescence and root system rotting of flooded plants. Altogether, present results reinforce the susceptibility of the studied genotype of J. curcas to flooding, as well as highlight some characteristics of drought tolerance in this species.
A network model for primary production highlights linkages between salmonid populations and autochthonous resources

Spatial variation in fish densities across river networks suggests that the influence of food and habitat resources on assemblages varies greatly throughout watersheds. Conceptual models predict that in situ primary production should vary with river characteristics, but the influence of autochthonous resource availability on the capacity for river reaches to support fish is poorly understood. We estimated primary production throughout the South Fork and Middle Fork of the John Day River, Oregon, by measuring diel cycles in dissolved oxygen (DO) during July 2013. Using these data, we (1) evaluated the extent to which juvenile salmonid abundance and resource limitation correlated with areas of high gross primary production (GPP), (2) developed models to predict GPP from both site-level measurements and remotely sensed data, and (3) made predictions of GPP across the entirety of the Middle Fork John Day River (MFJD) network and assessed the utility of these spatially continuous predictions for describing variation fish densities at broad scales. We produced reliable estimates of GPP at sites where DO loggers were deployed using measurements of solar exposure, water temperature, and conductivity measured at each site, as well as surrogates for these data estimated from remote sensing data sources. Estimates of GPP across fish sampling sites explained, on average, 58–63% of the variation in juvenile salmonid densities during the summer sampling period, and 51–83% during the fall sampling period, while continuous network predictions of GPP explained 44% of the variation in fish densities across 29 km of the MFJD. Further, GPP explained nearly half of the variation in juvenile steelhead dietary resource limitation, as inferred from bioenergetics modeling results. These results comprise a first effort at quantifying variation in autochthonous production across an entire river network and, importantly, provide a much-needed food-web context for guiding more effective fish and habitat management.
Dunkl Operators at Infinity and Calogero–Moser Systems

We define the Dunkl and Dunkl–Heckman operators in infinite number of variables and use them to construct the quantum integrals of the Calogero–Moser–Sutherland (CMS) problems at infinity. As a corollary, we have a simple proof of integrability of the deformed quantum CMS systems related to classical Lie superalgebras. We show how this naturally leads to a quantum version of the Moser matrix, which in the deformed case was not known before.
Consequences of the life history traits of pelagic larvae on interisland connectivity during a changing climate

Many coral reef organisms possess a pelagic larval phase during which some larvae are retained near spawning sites and others are dispersed to more distant locations via ocean cur- rents. Planktonic duration, distances traveled, and recruitment success can vary due to natural development rate, mortality rate, and sensory and swimming capabilities of particular taxa. Ele- vated water temperatures and acidification due to climate change can also influence recruitment by generally accelerating metabolism and growth, raising mortality rate, impairing development of calcified structures, and reducing sensory capabilities. We used hydrodynamic models and drifter data to investigate these various life history and climate-related influences on larval con- nectivity in and around the Samoan Archipelago. In general, virtual larvae spawned in the Samoan Archipelago seeded their natal reefs with relatively short-lived larvae, and their island neighbors to the west with longer-lived larvae. Larval duration, mortality rate, and sensory zone variables all had a significant effect on connectivity. Effect size was largest for mortality rate fol- lowed by larval duration. Shortened larval longevity due to climate change reduced interisland connectivity and changed the life history traits (and therefore taxa) that result in successful con- nections. Islands will generally become increasingly more reliant on self-seeding as the ocean warms, although the role of most islands primarily as a source or destination was robust to climate change.
1 Low-Activation Reinforced Concrete Design Methodology ( 2 )-Multi-group X-Sec . Library for Precise Activation Analysis -

Precise estimation method for residual radioactivity and decommissioning cost is indispensable to decide adoption of low-activation material. For this precise estimation, both accurate estimation of thermal neutron flux and accurate activation cross section of structural material is necessary. In this paper, we show new cross section library that has multi-group structure in thermal energy. These libraries are processed from evaluated cross section library JENDL 3.3 by using NJYOY 99.83. Cross section library for SN transport calculation and activation calculation are prepared. These libraries are tested by JPDR experiment, and found to give better result than single thermal group treatment.
Genetic background of Porphyromonas gingivalis capsule biosynthesis

Paradontitis is een inflammatoire aandoening van het weefsel rond de tanden. Het ontstaat door een bacteriele infectie van het tandvlees waarna door de daaropvolgende ontstekingsreactie uiteindelijk het bot rond de tanden wordt aangetast. Dit kan zelfs leiden tot tanduitval. Paradontitis is een multifactoriele aandoening met zowel een levensstijlcomponent, als een genetische en bacteriele component. Jorg Brunner onderzocht Porphyromonas gingivalis, een van de bacterien die een rol speelt bij het ontstaan van parodontitis.
Pyradi: an open-source toolkit for infrared calculation and data processing

Electro-optical system design, data analysis and modeling involve a significant amount of calculation and processing. Many of these calculations are of a repetitive and general nature, suitable for including in a generic toolkit. The availability of such a toolkit facilitates and increases productivity during subsequent tool development: “develop once and use many times”. The concept of an extendible toolkit lends itself naturally to the open-source philosophy, where the toolkit user-base develops the capability cooperatively, for mutual benefit. This paper covers the underlying philosophy to the toolkit development, brief descriptions and examples of the various tools and an overview of the electro-optical toolkit. The toolkit is an extendable, integrated collection of basic functions, code modules, documentation, example templates, tests and resources, that can be applied towards diverse calculations in the electro-optics domain. The toolkit covers (1) models of physical concepts (e.g. Planck’s Law), (2) mathematical operations (e.g. spectral integrals, spatial integrals, convolution, 3-D noise calculation), (3) data manipulation (e.g. file input/output, interpolation, normalisation), and (4) graphical visualisation (2-D and 3-D graphs). Toolkits are often written in scriptable languages, such as Python and Matlab. This specific toolkit is implemented in Python and its associated modules Numpy, SciPy, Matlplotlib, Mayavi, and PyQt/PySide. In recent years these tools have stabilized and matured sufficiently to support mainstream tool development. Collectively, these tools provide a very powerful capability, even beyond the confines of this toolkit alone. Furthermore, these tools are freely available. Rudimentary radiometric theory is given in the paper to support the examples given. Examples of the toolkit use, as described in the paper, include (1) spectral radiometric calculations of arbitrary source-medium-sensor configurations, (2) spectral convolution processing, (3) 3-D noise analysis, (4) loading of ASCII text files, binary files, Modtran tape7 and FLIR Inc *. ptw files, (5) data visualization in 2-D and 3-D graphs and plots, (6) detector modeling from detail design parameters (bulk material detectors), (7) color coordinate calculations, and (8) various utility functions. The toolkit is developed as a cooperative effort between the CSIR, Denel SOC and DCTA. The project, available on Google Code at http://code.google. com/p/pyradi, is managed in accordance with general practice in the open source community.