Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modelling line emission of deuterated H 3 + from prestellar cores

Context. The depletion of heavy elements in cold cores of interstellar molecular clouds can lead to a situation where deuterated forms of H + are the most useful spectroscopic probes of the physical conditions. Aims. The aim is to predict the observability of the rotational lines of H2D + and D2H + from prestellar cores. Methods. Recently derived rate coefficients for the H + + H2 isotopic system were applied to the “complete depletion” reaction scheme to calculate abundance profiles in hydrostatic core models. The ground-state lines of H2D + (o) (372 GHz) and D2H + (p) (692 GHz) arising from these cores were simulated. The excitation of the rotational levels of these molecules was approximated by using the state-to-state coefficients for collisions with H2. We also predicted line profiles from cores with a power-law density distribution advocated in some previous studies. Results. The new rate coefficients introduce some changes to the complete depletion model, but do not alter the general tendencies. One of the modifications with respect to the previous results is the increase of the D + abundance at the cost of other isotopologues. Furthermore, the present model predicts a lower H2D + (o/p) ratio, and a slightly higher D2H + (p/o) ratio in very cold, dense cores, as compared with previous modelling results. These nuclear spin ratios affect the detectability of the submm lines of H2D + (o) and D2H + (p). The previously detected H2D + and D2H + lines towards the core I16293E, and the H2D + line observed towards Oph D can be reproduced using the present excitation model and the physical models suggested in the original papers.
Growth of maize (Zea mays L.) and changes in some chemical properties of an ultisol amended with brewery effluent

A greenhouse studies was conducted at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria to evaluate the effect of brewery effluent on some soil chemical properties and growth of maize. The experiment, which was organised in a completely randomised design, had three replications with 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% effluent concentration in a 2 kg soil. Results showed that organic carbon, N, P, Na, and Mg concentration in the soil were reduced while K, Ca, C/N ratio, soil pH were increased. There were no changes observed in the soil textural class. The growth of maize plant as well as chlorophyll content was enhanced with brewery effluent treatments when compared with the control.
Quantitative and Qualitative Effects of Feldenkrais, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, and Standard Medical Treatment in Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction

This short-term study examined the effectiveness of the Feldenkrais method of functional integration and of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) compared with the standard medical treatment during the acute phase after myocardial infarction. Three patient groups (n = 20 each) received 1 of 3 treatment options: 2 sessions of Feldenkrais therapy, 2 sessions of PMR, or no intervention. Evaluations using quantitative and qualitative methods were performed an average of 3.7 and 7.8 days after subjects' myocardial infarction, respectively. Significant improvements, independent of the intervention, were found over the evaluation period in the Perception of Body Dynamics body image scale and in the Physical Well-Being and Emotional Well-Being quality-of-life scales. A statistically significant, differential effect of any one intervention with respect to the control group did not arise in any of the quantitative questionnaire variables examined. However, subjective improvements of varying description were noted by 17 of 20 patients after the 1st Feldenkrais therapy and by 13 of 20 patients after the first PMR treatment. Although the therapeutic doses were probably too small to illustrate a significant effect on the self-rating methods, the qualitative patient statements support using the Feldenkrais method or PMR for particular cases in an acute medical setting and continuing treatment during rehabilitation or on an outpatient basis.
Effect of Supplementing Sheep with Sunflower Acid Oil or its Calcium Soap on Nutrient Utilization

Four adult rams (22.25±0.90 kg) were used in a 4×4 latin square design to evaluate the rations without (T1) or with supplementation of sunflower acid oil at 5 (T2), 10 (T3) or calcium soap at 10% of dietary DM (T4) on nutrient digestibility and balances of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus. The basal ration contained 60 parts Brazilian napier grass hay and 40 parts concentrate mixture. The DM, CF, NDF and ADF digestibilities and nitrogen retention (g/d) decreased (p<0.01) by inclusion of sunflower acid oil at 5% of dietary DM. In addition, depression (p<0.01) in digestibilities of CP, nitrogen free extract (NFE), cellulose, hemicellulose, retention of calcium and phosphorus (g/d) were also observed with increasing the level of sunflower acid oil to 10% of dietary DM. The EE digestibility, total digestible nutrients (TDN) content and calcium retention (g/d) were significantly higher (p<0.01) for ration supplemented with calcium soap. It is concluded that sunflower acid oil supplementation in free form as low as 5% of dietary DM is deleterious to fibre digestion in sheep while as calcium soap, it can be fed up to 10% of dietary DM as an energy source without any adverse effect. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2002. Vol 15, No. 9 : 1288-1293)
Title : Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Professional Institutional

Professional Institutional Original Effective Date: October 11, 2011 Original Effective Date: October 11, 2011 Revision Date(s): December 20, 2013; July 1, 2016; July 7, 2016; October 1, 2016; January 1, 2017; July 11, 2017; October 1, 2017; August 8, 2018; October 1, 2018 Revision Date(s): December 20, 2013; July 1, 2016; July 7, 2016; October 1, 2016; January 1, 2017; July 11, 2017; October 1, 2017; August 8, 2018; October 1, 2018 Current Effective Date: August 8, 2018 Current Effective Date: August 8, 2018
Evaluating the Management Effectiveness in Market and Volatility Timing of Mutual Funds in Pakistan

This paper investigates the timing abilities of Pakistani mutual funds for 55 open-end mutual funds on monthly data over the period of 2007-2014. The results conclude that Pakistani mutual funds, in general exhibit marketing and volatility timing skills which means they have the ability to alter their portfolios in anticipation of market movements. The results suggest that mutual funds perform effectively in timing the market, and by utilizing this superior information, mutual funds are capable of adjusting their investment according to market conditions.
English Compliment Response Strategies on Social Networks by Iranian EFL Learners

Development of technology including computers and the Internet has introduced a new channel of sharing ideas and beliefs in social networks all over the world. Despite a huge number of studies on compliment, this verbal behavior has not received sufficient attention in such contexts as online communication in social networks. This study aimed to investigate the realization of English compliment response strategies by Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) Learners on social networks. To this end, a sample of 30 Iranian EFL learners studying at Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch (IAUKB) was selected from friend’s list on social networks. Observing ethical issues, participants’ compliments and compliment response strategies were recorded, classified, analyzed in terms of frequency and percentage, and then interpreted. The findings revealed that the most frequent response strategy to English compliments was acceptance strategies at macro level and appreciation token at micro level. The findings of this study may benefit teachers, linguists, language learners, and others interested in language learning and teaching.
The missing-letter effect for common function words depends on their linguistic function in the phrase.

It has been proposed that function words such as for and on conceal their letters because their higher familiarity allows fast access to their unitized representations. However, in this study we show that letter detection in function words varies with their linguistic role in text. When such words were embedded in a phrase where they were forced into a content role by the surrounding context (e.g., for or against or on switch), letter detection improved markedly and did not differ from that of matched content words. The result was replicated when the context preceding the function word and the overall sentential meaning were equated for both function and content usages
Thermal-Alkaline Pretreatment on the Decomposition of the Streptomycin Bacterial Residue

ABSTRACT There is still insufficient practical experience in the removing and degrading of streptomycin bacterial residues. The effect of thermal-alkaline pre-treatment on the decomposition of a streptomycin bacterial residue was investigated. Without NaOH pretreatment, the effect of thermal pre-treatment was not obvious. Soluble chemical oxygen demand and volatile suspended solids were 66.39% and 55.0% at 0.10 NaOH/TS ratio (g/g) and 368.15 K, respectively. The methane yield was 380 mL CH4/gVSadded at 303.15 K and no added NaOH and increased to 434 mL CH4/gVSadded at 0.10 NaOH/TS ratio (g/g) and 368.15 K. Thermal-alkaline pretreatment could significantly enhance not only the SCOD and VSS solubilization, but also the biodegradability. Methane production was enhanced, probably as a result of the breakdown of cell walls and membranes of microorganisms by thermal-alkaline pretreatment, which may facilitate the contact between organic molecules and anaerobic microorganisms.
Mean effective gain of antennas in a wireless channel

The mean effective gain (MEG) is one of the most important parameters for the characterisation of antennas in wireless channels. An analysis of some fundamental properties of the MEG is provided and corresponding physical interpretations are given. Three points are analysed in detail: (i) closed-form expressions for MEG in a mixed environment with both stochastic and deterministic components are provided, showing that the MEG can be written as a sum of gains for the deterministic and stochastic components, (ii) it is shown that under some assumptions, the propagation channel and the antenna are equivalent in the sense that the impact of the channel cross-polarisation ratio (XPR) and the antenna effective cross-polar discrimination on the MEG are symmetrical, (iii) based on the fact that MEG depends on random variables, such as the XPR and antenna rotations because of user's movements, the average, the minimum and maximum MEG of antennas are defined, respectively. Finally, the maximum effective gain of antennas is derived and shown that it is bounded by 4 pi eta(rad), where eta(rad) is the radiation efficiency of the antenna.
Cash Flow Sensitivities and the Allocation of Internal Cash Flow

We study how firms allocate cash flow by estimating the cash-flow sensitivities of various uses of cash flow. We decompose cash flow into a transitory and a permanent component and focus on the allocation of the transitory component, which by construction contains little information about future growth opportunities. We find that more financially constrained firms allocate more transitory cash flow to cash savings and direct less toward investment than do less constrained firms, consistent with constrained firms accumulating liquidity to buffer against future financial constraints. We also illustrate several methodological advantages of our approach over alternative methods in previous studies.
Taster, a Frama-C plug-in to enforce Coding Standards

Enforcing Coding Standards is part of the traditional concerns of industrial soft- ware developments. In this paper, we present a framework based on the open source Frama- C platform for easily developing syntactic, typing (and even some semantic) analyses of C source code, among which conformance to Coding Standards. We report on our successful attempt to develop a Frama-C plug-in named Taster, in order to replace a commercial, off-the-shelf, legacy tool in the verification process of several Airbus avionics software products. We therefore present the types of coding rules to be verified, the Frama-C platform and the Taster plug-in. We also discuss ongoing industrial deployment and qualification activities.
Deeply Cascaded Networks

After the seminal work of Viola-Jones[15] fast object detection algorithm, cascade classifier frameworks have been dominant in many of computer vision applications, especially for the ones that real time processing is necessary( e.g. pedestrian detection for autonomous cars and face detection for mobile devices). The cascade framework consists of many of weak and strong features and classifiers top of them, and they are ordered by their performance (or computational cost). Most of image patches are filtered out by weak classifiers at early stages of the cascade and only a few of them survive throughout the cascade. That being said, it can significantly reduce computational cost by removing the necessity of strong classifier evaluations on every image patches.
Feasibility and Efficacy of Definitive Hypofractionated High-Dose Radiotherapy for Cutaneous Angiosarcoma of the Scalp.

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Shimoda E, Inoue K, Wakai N, Morimoto Y, Asakawa I, et al. (2015) Feasibility and Efficacy of Definitive Hypofractionated High-Dose Radiotherapy for Cutaneous Angiosarcoma of the Scalp. Int J Cancer Clin Res 2:032 Received: October 02, 2015: Accepted: October 31, 2015: Published: November 03, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Shimoda E. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Shimoda et al. Int J Cancer Clin Res 2015, 2:5
Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms’ trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms’ export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large sample of German establishments, and relate this to the exporting behaviour of these establishments. We allow for the possible endogeneity of an establishment’s workforce by instrumenting the share of foreign workers with the regional distribution of foreign workers in the wider labour market. We find a significant effect of worker nationality on exporting which is not driven by the industrial, occupational or locational concentration of migrants. The effect is much stronger for senior occupations, which are more likely to have a role in exporting decisions by the establishment. The relationship is also stronger when we consider exports to particular regions and workers from these regions, consistent with a gravity model in which trade flows from country i to j are a function of migrants from j in i.
Impact of climate change on radial growth of Siberian spruce and Scots pine in North-western Russia

Abstract: When adapting forest management practices to a changing environment, it is very important to understand the response of an unmanaged natural forest to climate change. The method used to identify major climatic factors influencing radial growth of Siberian spruce and Scots pine along a latitudinal gradient in north-western Russia is dendroclimatic analysis. A clear increasing long-term trend was identified in air temperature and precipitation. During the last 20 years, all meteorological stations experienced temperature increases, and 40 years ago precipitation began to increase. This is shown by the radial increment of Siberian spruce and Scots pine. Therefore, climate change could partly explain the increased forest productivity. The total variance explained by temperature varied from 22% to 41% and precipitation from 19% to 38%. The significant climatic parameters for radial increment in Komi Republic were identified, and the relation between temperature and precipitation in explained variance changes over time for Siberian spruce.
EVALUATION OF RESISTANCE TO ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE INHIBITING HERBICIDE IN WILD MUSTARD (Sinapis arvensis L.)

To evaluate the mechanism and levels of herbicide resistance in Sinapis arvensis, a series of experiments were performed. Sequencing of ALS gene in S. arvensis sub-populations was carried out and ALS-based resistance (substitution of Asp by Glu) was detected at position 376 in this weed species. Further, it was reported that combined application of herbicide mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron can cause up to 50% reduction in dry weight (GR50) of heterozygous resistant (FHR3), homozygous resistant (FHR2) and homozygous susceptible (MHS1) sub-populations and it was reported 2409, 603 and 289 g ha -1 , respectively. Further, resistance indices (RI) were reported 8.3 and 2 for FHR3 and FHR2 sub-populations, respectively. Based on LD50, RI values were 8.5 and 4.5 for FHR3 and FHR2, respectively. Growth reduction occurred in the resistant homozygous when compared with the heterozygous sub-population in the presence of mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron.
Benefits of Inoculation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Growth and Development of Onion (Allium cepa) Plant

Mycorrhizae are fungal symbionts forming mutualistic relationship with plant roots. In the present study surface sterilized seeds of onion were sown in earthen pots filled with sterile soil. Half the pots were inoculated with 30 AMF spores of the Glomus species and 10 grams of maize root inoculated with the species of genus Glomus. Another half represented controls with no AMF inoculation. Inoculation was done twice 3 days before sowing the seeds and on the onset of germination. Potted plants were regularly watered. After germination, the inoculated plants along with their controls were sampled at 20, 40, 60 and 80 days of growth. The observed data seems to predict that there is a net increase in the above and below ground growth of the plant with each 20 days interval after germination. The present study seems interesting since it pertains the work on modified stem vis a vis mycorrhizal relationship of a modified stem than normal root. The Chlorophyll content besides morphological growth parameters and fresh and dry weight content of onion plant are shown to present in higher levels in the mycorrhiza infected as compared to the non-inoculated ones.
September 2001 Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization

Over the period 1972-1986, the correlations of GDP, employment and investment between the United States and an aggregate of Europe, Canada and Japan were respectively 0.76, 0.66, and 0.63. For the period 1986 to 2000 the same correlations were much lower: 0.26, 0.03, and -0.07 (real regionalization). At the same time, U.S. international asset trade has significantly increased. For example, between 1972 and 1999, United States gross FDI and equity assets in the same group of countries rose from 4 to 23 percent of the U.S. capital stock (financial globalization). We argue that these two trends are intimately related. We document that the correlation of real shocks between the U.S. and the rest of the world has declined. We then present a model in which international financial market integration occurs endogenously in response to less correlated shocks. Financial integration further reduces the international correlations in GDP and factor supplies. We find that both less correlated shocks and endogenous financial market development are needed to account for all the changes in the international business cycle. keywords: International business cycles, international diversification JEL Classification Codes : F36, F41 Preliminary. We thank Robert Engle, Alessandra Fogli, Philippe Martin, Andy Neumeyer and seminar participants at the CEPR ESSIM 2001, the Econometric Society Summer Meetings 2001, the Duke International Economics Group Meetings in Venice, and the SIEPR Meetings in Stanford for helpful comments. Heathcote thanks the NSF Economics Program for financial support. Remaining errors are our own.
On the instabilities of a potential vortex with a free surface

In this paper, we address the linear stability analysis of a confined potential vortex with a free surface. This particular flow has been recently used by Tophøj et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 110(19), 2013, article 194502) as a model for the swirling flow of fluid in an open cylindrical container, driven by rotating the bottom plate (the rotating bottom experiment) to explain the so-called rotating polygons instability (Vatistas J. Fluid Mech., vol. 217, 1990, pp. 241–248; Jansson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 96, 2006, article 174502) in terms of surface wave interactions leading to resonance. Global linear stability results are complemented by a Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin–Jeffreys (WKBJ) analysis in the shallow-water limit as well as new experimental observations. It is found that global stability results predict additional resonances that cannot be captured by the simple wave coupling model presented in Tophøj et al. (2013). Both the main resonances (thought to be at the root of the rotating polygons) and these secondary resonances are interpreted in terms of over-reflection phenomena by the WKBJ analysis. Finally, we provide experimental evidence for a secondary resonance supporting the numerical and theoretical analysis presented. These different methods and observations allow to support the unstable wave coupling mechanism as the physical process at the origin of the polygonal patterns observed in free-surface rotating flows.
MAGNETOSPHERES OF “HOT JUPITERS”: THE IMPORTANCE OF MAGNETODISKS IN SHAPING A MAGNETOSPHERIC OBSTACLE

Weak intrinsic magnetic dipole moments of tidally locked close-in giant exoplanets (“hot Jupiters”) have been shown in previous studies to be unable to provide an efficient magnetospheric protection for their expanding upper atmospheres against the stellar plasma flow, which should lead to significant non-thermal atmosphere mass loss. The present work provides a more complete view of the magnetosphere structure of “hot Jupiters,” based on a paraboloid magnetospheric model (PMM). Besides the intrinsic planetary magnetic dipole, the PMM considers among the main magnetic field sources also the electric current system of the magnetotail, magnetopause currents, and the ring current of a magnetodisk. Due to the outflow of ionized particles from the hydrodynamically expanding upper atmosphere, “hot Jupiters” may have extended magnetodisks. The magnetic field produced by magnetodisk ring currents dominates above the contribution of an intrinsic magnetic dipole of a “hot Jupiter” and finally determines the size and shape of the whole magnetosphere. A slower-than-the-dipole-type decrease of the magnetic field with the distance forms the essential specifics of magnetodisk-dominated magnetospheres of “hot Jupiters. ” This results in their 40%–70% larger scales compared to those traditionally estimated by only the planetary dipole taken into account. Therefore, the formation of magnetodisks has to be included in the studies of the stellar wind plasma interaction with close-in exoplanets, as well as magnetospheric protection for planetary atmospheres against non-thermal escape due to erosion by the stellar plasma flow.