Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transparent Semiconductor-Superconductor Interface and Induced Gap in an Epitaxial Heterostructure Josephson Junction

Measurement of multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) in a Josephson junction made from an InAs heterostructure with epitaxial aluminum is used to quantify the highly transparent semiconductor-superconductor interface, indicating near-unity transmission. The observed temperature dependence of MAR does not follow a conventional BCS form, but instead agrees with a model in which the density of states in the quantum well acquires an effective induced gap, in our case 180 {\mu}eV, close to that of the epitaxial superconductor. Carrier density dependence of MAR is investigated using a depletion gate, revealing the subband structure of the semiconductor quantum well, consistent with magnetotransport experiment of the bare InAs performed on the same wafer.
Parenteral iron administration in suckling piglets – a review

Parenteral iron administration has been a common practice for the prevention of iron deficiency in newborn piglets. The efficacy and safety of this method require reexamination due to the introduction of new genetic lines and management changes in swine production. The aim of this article was to review current knowledge on this method of anaemia prevention in piglets. Iron requirements, iron sources, and the mode of action, dosage, and negative effects of iron dextran injection are discussed. The paper also reviews methods for evaluating the efficacy of iron administration in piglets. Iron dextran, oxidative stress, heamoglobin, haematocrit Iron deficiency is a serious problem in swine production. Newborn piglets have limited reserves of iron (Fe), which cannot cover daily iron requirements (Venn et al. 1947). Therefore, without additional iron supplements the piglets develop anaemia within 10–14 days after birth (Egeli et al. 1998a). The most commonly used method for preventing iron deficiency in piglets is parenteral iron injection (Svoboda and Drabek 2005b). The introduction of new genetic lines and management practices have raised concerns about the efficacy and safety of this method. The need of piglets for supplemental iron is influenced by iron requirements and the availability of iron sources.
Ongoing Struggles Versus Resolved Issues: Are Either Appropriate for a Therapist to Reveal?

Sixty-six undergrad students listened to 1 of 3 audiotapes which portrayed a 10 minute excerpt from a counseling session. In the first condition, the therapist did not reveal any personal information. In the second condition, the therapist revealed 3 ongoing struggles and in the third condition, the therapist revealed 3 resolved issues. After listening to the tape, participants rated the therapist and session. Results indicated that the resolved issues group received the most favorable ratings and the no self-disclosure group received the least favorable ratings. However, no significant differences were found between ongoing struggles and resolved issues. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Discriminating physical and non-physical diffracted energy in source–receiver interferometry

SUMMARY We show how physical and non-physical diffracted waves can be discriminated in source– receiver interferometry (SRI), a wavefield interferometric method that constructs Green’s functions between any source–receiver pair. These can be estimated by convolution and crosscorrelation of wavefields propagating to or from other sources or receivers. SRI has been observed to work surprisingly well in practical applications when theoretical requirements (e.g. complete enclosing boundaries of other sources and receivers) are contravened as is standard in practical applications. As a partial explanation to this, it has been demonstrated previouslythatSRIforsinglediffractorproblemsproducescorrectGreen’sfunctionsestimates without requiring wavefields to be generated around specific stationary-phase points in space (as is required by other forms of interferometry). In this paper, we show that also for multiplediffractorproblems,anyboundarysource–receiverpairproducesstationary,correctkinematics for singly and multiply diffracted waves. However, when multiple diffractors are present, non-physical artefacts are produced in Green’s functions estimated by SRI with incomplete boundaries. We introduce a purely data-driven algorithm that allows traveltimes of any order ofphysical, diffractedwaves tobepredicted. Thisreduces ambiguity ininterpreting wavefields generated using SRI with only partial boundaries: this also permits spurious or non-physical energy in the constructed Green’s functions to be identified and either interpreted or ignored.
Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Optimal Double-Base Chains : Extended Abstract (Mathematical Foundations and Applications of Computer Science and Algorithms)

In this work, we propose an algorithm to produce the double-base chains that optimize the time used for computing an elliptic curve cryptosystem. The double-base chains is the representation that combining the binary and ternary representation. By this method, we can reduce the Hamming weight of the expansion, and reduce the time for computing the scalar point multiplication $(Q=rS)$ , that is the bottleneck operation of the elliptic curve cryptosystem. This representation is very redundant, i.e. we can present a number by many expansions. Then, we can select the way that makes the operation fastest. However, the previous works on doublebases chain have used a greedy algorithm, and their solutions are not optimized. We propose the algorithm based on the dynamic programming scheme that outputs the optimized the double-bases chain. The experiments show that we have reduced the time for computing the scalar multiplication by 3.88-3.95%.
Redescription of the Skull of Dacquemys Williams, 1954, a Podocnemidid Side-Necked Turtle from the Late Eocene of Egypt

Abstract The known material of the side-necked turtle Dacquemys paleomorpha Williams, 1954, consists of the type skull and a new skull from the late Eocene of Egypt. Dacquemys is reaffirmed as a member of the Podocnemididae because of its well-developed cavum pterygoideus. Within the Podocnemididae Dacquemys uniquely possesses a fully roofed temporal region produced by a posteriorly extensive parietal and wide supraoccipital, a very wide interorbital area, and two accessory maxillary ridges meeting anteriorly to form an enclosed trough.
A case method for Sales and Operations Planning: a learning experience from Germany

Abstract Adequate preparation, learning, and training is required for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to aid organizations in achieving the full expected benefits from its implementation. This paper presents a case method for S&OP and the learning experience of its application at the University of Munster (Germany). The “constructive alignment principle” was applied with a “team teaching” approach, involving an executive from the case company. Students improved their knowledge on S&OP and their analytical skills by understanding the conceptual S&OP building blocks and by learning how to deal with them to provide a solution for a case based on a real-life situation. The learning results were evaluated positively during the discipline’s student evaluation of teaching (SET). The applied case method enhanced the student’s motivation and engagement (e.g., higher preparation effort and class attendance), which were considered higher than in other disciplines with the traditional lecture-based education.
Bioavailability pharmacokinetics and residues of marbofloxacin in normal and E.coli infected broiler chicken

The pharmacokinetics of marbofloxacin was studied following a single intravenous, oral administration in normal broiler chickens and repeated oral administrations in normal and experimentally E.coli infected broiler chickens. The pharmacokinetic parameters following a single intravenous injection of 2 mg/kg b.wt. , revealed that marbofloxacin obeyed a two compartments open model, distribution half-life (t 0.5(α) ) was 0.25±0.02 h, volume of distribution (V dss ) was 0.76±0.08 L/kg, elimination half-life (t 0 . 5(β) ) was 5.43±0.87 h and total body clearance (CL tot ) was 0.09±0.002 l/kg/h. Following a single oral administration, marbofloxacin was rapidly and efficiently absorbed through gastrointestinal tract of chickens as the absorption half-life (t 0.5 (ab) : 0.62±0.02 h). Maximum serum concentration (C max ) was 1.15±0.01 μg/ml, reached its maximum time (t max ) at 2.53±0.04 h, elimination half-life (t 0.5 (el) ) was 7.36±0.20 h indicating the tendency of chickens to eliminate marbofloxacin in slow rate. Oral bioavailability was 73.57± 1.90 % indicating good absorption of marbofloxacin after oral administration. Serum concentrations of marbofloxacin following repeated oral administration of 2 mg/kg b.wt. once daily for five consecutive days, peaked 2 hours after each oral dose with lower significant values recorded in experimentally infected broiler chickens than in normal ones. Tissues residues of marbofloxacin in slaughtered normal chickens was highly in those tissues lung, liver, and kidneys in chickens and the chicken must not be slaughtered before 3 days of stopping of drug administration. It was concluded that the in- vitro protein binding was 12.33±0.82%.
Using IFRS to understand the impact of the privatization on the firm’s performance: evidence from Europe

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of privatization on the performance of privatized firms. The sample included 56 European firms over the period of 1996-2005. The methodology involved (1) comparing the ratios of privatized firms three years before and after privatization (Megginson et al., 1994) and (2) comparing the ratios of privatized firms with a sample of similar private firms three years before and after privatization (Albouy & Obeid, 2007). The ratios used in the study were consistent with the International Financial Reporting Standards. The results indicate that privatization had a positive impact on the ratios, although the effect was not statistically significant.
Representation of masculinities and race in South African television advertising: a content analysis

This paper examines how masculinities and race are co-constructed in South African television advertising. A sample of 5803 advertisements was collected that included 876 primary visual male actors. These were coded and analysed by means of traditional content analysis. A coding scheme was developed which was partly based on existing research. Coding categories included advertisement setting and products; race, social class, age and portrayal of primary visual actor; as well as sexuality, toughness, independence, status, responsibility and homophobia norms of traditional masculinity as related to the primary visual male actor. Hypotheses predicted that men would be represented significantly differently in television advertisements depending upon their race. These differences in representation reflect an intersection between traditional gender and race relations in South Africa that are marked by longstanding inequalities. The findings largely supported these hypotheses. White men are represented as exemplars of hegemonic masculinity whilst black men are marginalised. It is argued that these representations serve to maintain hierarchical social relations between men in South Africa. This study provides a foundation upon which further work may be undertaken. Avenues for future research are outlined.
SOCIETAL AWARENESS OF THE CHILD’S RIGHTS ACT AMONG RURAL AND URBAN DWELLERS OF OGUN STATE

Protecting the rights of children has become important to local and international agencies of government and non-governmental organizations. This led to the formulation of laws that provided for and protected the rights of the child. Such laws include the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Nigeria’s Child’s Rights Act (CRA) and the Child’s Rights Law of Ogun State. However, the provisions of these documents seem to be inefficient in curbing the violation of child’s rights due to the high prevalence of street hawking, raping, corporal punishment, etc among children in Nigeria and Ogun State in particular. Hence, this study sought the societal awareness of CRA in rural and urban areas of Ogun State. About 243 rural and urban residents were interviewed through multistage sampling techniques with the aid of questionnaires and interview schedules administered on the different groups of respondents. The result showed that 69.14% of Ogun State residents were aware of the CRA. It further revealed that awareness of CRA was higher in urban than rural areas. Awareness of CRA was primarily sourced through the radio (42.86%) and television (42.86%). Radio and awareness campaigns were the most common sources of awareness among rural (51.76%) and urban (65.06%) residents respectively. The study recommended that government agencies and non-governmental organizations should sponsor more programmes that will be specifically directed to raising residents’ awareness of CRA in rural areas of the state.
Challenging the age of austerity: disruptive agency after the global economic crisis

This article explores the different forms of disruptive subjectivity that have developed in the context of the post-2008 global and European crises. The article traces developments both before and after 2008, with a specific focus on events in Spain and the UK. These country contexts are chosen due to their considerable differences in terms of the impact that the crisis had; yet we witness notable similarities with regard to the instances of refusal and resistance observed, especially in terms of the motives held and forms adopted, albeit with differences in scale. The paper presents the results of qualitative research, including 65 in-depth interviews, to highlight the way in which disaffection, the search for voice, and the threat of withdrawal from relations of exploitation, have each become problematic as means of dissent following 2008. As a result, we have seen a merging of these more conventional forms of dissent with a number of more radical prefigurative practices that had been developing prior to 2008. As a result, the stagnation of neoliberal capitalism from 2008 onwards has witnessed the development of a new form of pragmatic prefigurative disruptive subjectivity, responsible for some of the more important and interesting political developments in contemporary advanced industrial democracies. The global economic crisis and the subsequent crisis of the Eurozone have revealed the instability of contemporary capitalism, sharpened inequalities and insecurity, and decreased the responsiveness of democratic states to the demands of their respective populations. The crises, however, have not only altered (and in many cases intensified) structures of domination; they have also led to new forms of agency which disrupt those attempts to consolidate domination. Innovative and developing forms of disruptive agency or disruptive subjectivities have emerged throughout this period, confirming the autonomist Marxist claim that there exists an ever-present capacity for refusal on the part of those targeted for subordination (Tronti 1964). These disruptive subjectivities have had a significant impact upon the post-2008 political economy of the advanced capitalist democracies (Huke et al., 2015).
A General Stability Result for Viscoelastic Equations with Singular Kernels

Viscoelasticity with regular relaxation functions has attracted the attention of many researchers over the last half century or so. Several results concerning existence and long-time behavior of solutions have been established. In particular the exponential, polynomial decay and recently what so called the general decay have been proved. For viscoelasticity, with singular kernels, less attention has been given and few results of existence and exponential decay have been established. In this paper we extend the general decay result, established for regularkernel viscoelasticity, to that with singular kernels. We also present some numerical test to illustrate our theoretical result.
A Study of Consuming Behaviors of Budget Coffee

This research aims to explore the benefits of budget coffee shop chains pursued by the consumers, conduct cost effectiveness analysis on product purchases, compare the differences between the different types of consumer characteristics, and attempt to conduct an in-depth analysis on the budget coffee shop chains’ current situations and their relation with consumer behavior. The source of the research sample is 480 randomly selected consumers in Taichung, including 168 males and 312 females. The data was collected via a closed questionnaire, and the linear relationships for basic individual information and consumer behavior in regards to consumer consideration and characteristics were tested via the SPSS version 12.0 of hierarchical regression. The results showed that, amongst elements of consumer considerations, ‘server friendliness’ seems to be most important, and ‘media advertising’ seems to be the least important. As for consumer characteristics, ‘personal preference’ is most important, and ‘coffee has already become a part of life’ is the least important. As indicated from the regression analysis, consumers with monthly incomes between NT$20,000 and NT$30,000 have significantly higher consumer characteristics than consumers with monthly incomes of lower than NT$20,000. Moreover, consumers with steady jobs possess significantly higher consumer characteristics than consumers without jobs. Consumers purchasing more than once a week have higher consumer characteristics than those who make purchases less than once a week, and weekday consumers have significantly higher consumer characteristics than weekend consumers.
Tethered polymers in a shear flow: A molecular dynamics study of the good and bad solvent cases

Nanotechnology is now a reality although it is still very much in its infancy. This being said much work still needs to be done. During the last past few decades, new experimental tools such as videomicroscopy and optical tweezers, which allow us to both visualize and manipulate in real time the dynamics of macromolecules, have emerged. These two tools alone provide endless possibilities. For example, it is now possible to tether a polymer at one end with optical tweezers while a constant flow of solvent extends it. If the chain is fluorescently labeled, dynamical properties can be extracted via videomicroscopy. In this thesis, we study a similar problem. With the help of Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, we examine the physics of a Freely Jointed Chain (FJC) tethered by one end to a hard surface while being submitted to a Poiseuille flow. A good solvent is used during the first part of this thesis, while for the second part, we look at the dynamics of the chain in poor solvents. In both cases, we compare actual stretching theories to our simulation data and extract the effects of Hydrodynamic Interactions (HI). For good solvents, we propose a new empirical equation which relates the unstretched fraction of the chain to the full range of shear rates. We also observe a peculiar cyclic motion of the chain which was first reported experimentally. For poor solvents, we study the collapsed chain properties while changing the strength of the shear flow linearly in time. A novel hysteretic effect for the chain extension as a function of shear rate is observed in our simulations.
Warm Glow in a Cool Climate? Philanthropy in Ireland.

For some time now the Irish have prided themselves on being generous both as givers to charitable causes and in their civic expression through volunteering. Evidence from several national surveys, however, does not present as simple an image and so far, a definitive picture of this generosity has not been painted (Ruddle and Mulvihill 1999, 1995, Ruddle and O’Connor 1993). While individual giving in Ireland contributes a greater proportion of the third sector’s income than in many other countries internationally (Donoghue, Anheier and Salamon 1999), average amounts donated are not high and there is no history and little evidence of large donors as may be the case in other countries. In the past decade a number of tax incentives have been introduced. In comparison with other countries internationally, however, these are limited and their effects may only just be beginning to be felt. At the time of writing, tax relief is available on individual donations to third world charities and on corporate donations to both domestic and third world charities. The former was introduced in 1995, while the latter was introduced two years later. Both tax incentives have been the work of a powerful vocal lobby within the third sector. The state has tended to react to this lobby rather than develop a proactive stance on the development of philanthropy in Ireland. Individual and corporate donors also appear not to give proactively. Giving through prompted means is far more popular than planned forms of giving for individuals. Donations from the corporate sector, meanwhile, are modest and, as with individuals, the adoption of a strategy of planned giving does not seem to have occurred on any great scale. The Irish economy has grown enormously during the 1990s yet levels of individual giving have not risen with this growth. Furthermore, there is little sign that corporate donations are keeping pace with our economic success. So, in spite of having one of the largest third sectors internationally (Donoghue, Salamon and Anheier 1999), philanthropic support of the sector is relatively under developed. Indeed, Ireland has a small foundation field, which provides yet another indication that Irish philanthropy appears to be characterised by a relative lack of strategy. This paper draws together findings from recent studies on different forms of philanthropy in Ireland (Donoghue 2000, Ruddle and Mulvihill 1999, 1995, Ruddle and O’Connor 1993, Donoghue forthcoming) in order to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Irish philanthropy. Individual, corporate and foundation support of the third sector in Ireland will be assessed in comparison with such support in other countries. The perceived image of the Irish as generous donors will be critically appraised, and the paper will argue that, despite this positive image, philanthropy in Ireland needs greater development in order to harness better the goodwill that supposedly exists.