Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
De-identification for privacy protection in biometrics

De-identification, which is defined as the process of removing or concealing personal identifiers or replacing them with surrogate personal identifiers to prevent direct or indirect identification of a person, is recognized as an efficient tool for protection of a person's privacy that is one of the most important social and political issues of today's information society. The chapter “De-identification for privacy protection in biometrics” aims to review the progress of recent research on the de-identification of biometric personal identifiers. The chapter covers de-identification of physiological biometric identifiers (face, fingerprint, iris, ear), behavioural biometric identifiers (voice, gait, gesture), as well as soft biometrics identifiers (body silhouette, gender, tattoo) and discuss different threats to person's privacy in biometrics.
15-Deoxy-∆-12,14-Prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2), an Endogenous Ligand of PPAR-γ: Function and Mechanism

15-Deoxy-∆-12,14-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2), a natural peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) agonist, has been explored in some detail over the last 20 years. By triggering the PPAR-γ signalling pathway, it plays many roles and exerts antitumour, anti-inflammatory, antioxidation, antifibrosis, and antiangiogenesis effects. Although many synthetic PPAR-γ receptor agonists have been developed, as an endogenous product of PPAR-γ receptors, 15d-PGJ2 has beneficial characteristics including rapid expression and the ability to contribute to a natural defence mechanism. In this review, we discuss the latest advances in our knowledge of the biological role of 15d-PGJ2 mediated through PPAR-γ. It is important to understand its structure, synthesis, and functional mechanisms to develop preventive agents and limit the progression of associated diseases.
1 Factors Affecting Sustainable Apparel Consumption 2 in Emerging Countries : A Systematic Literature 3 Review 4

The growth of sustainable apparels provides grounding for the emergence of a new 13 consumer market. Surprisingly, this movement has not only taken place in developed countries but 14 also in emerging countries. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no systematic reviews have been 15 carried out on sustainable apparels, focused specifically on emerging countries. The goal of this 16 systematic review is to analyse the existing literature on various factors that influence sustainable 17 apparel consumption in emerging countries, as well as presenting future research directions. This 18 detailed literature review is guided by the PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for 19 Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) review method, and its searches encompass sources such 20 as Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar databases which, in result, identified 19 related 21 studies. Furthermore, the reviewers segregated the factors into four major domains which include 22 value, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control and knowledge. The results of this review 23 demonstrate that most customers in the emerging countries have already experienced a growing 24 interest in sustainable apparel with a strong development of knowledge, great concern, values and 25 social circle. In sum, this systematic literature review provides an insightful information about 26 sustainable apparel purchase behaviour and helps academicians, manufacturers and retailers to 27 position and market their sustainable clothing brands. 28
Outline of an Economic Sociology of Islamic Banking

This article offers the outline of a sociological framework for the analysis of Islamic banking. The proposed theoretical approach consists of three analytical levels. First it presents the key features that characterise Islamic conception of economy. In the next step, the article demonstrate how a specific institutional order derives from this fundamental conception. Finally it is shown how this institutional arrangement provides the rules and principles required for organising economic interactions, including financial practices. The article ends with a short chronological review of the actual course of establishment and expansion of the Islamic financial institutions during the last few decades, embracing a number of countries in which Islamic banking has been of a certain degree of significance.
AParallel , High-OrderDirectDiscontinuousGalerkin Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations on 3 D Hybrid Grids

A parallel, high-order direct Discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method has been developed for solving the three dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations on 3D hybrid grids. The most distinguishing and attractive feature of DDG method lies in its simplicity in formulation and efficiency in computational cost. The formulation of the DDG discretization for 3D Navier-Stokes equations is detailed studied and the definition of characteristic length is also carefully examined and evaluated based on 3D hybrid grids. Accuracy studies are performed to numerically verify the order of accuracy using flow problems with analytical solutions. The capability in handling curved boundary geometry is also demonstrated. Furthermore, an SPMD (single program, multiple data) programming paradigm based on MPI is proposed to achieve parallelism. The numerical results obtained indicate that the DDG method can achieve the designed order of accuracy and is able to deliver comparable results as the widely used BR2 scheme, clearly demonstrating that the DDG method provides an attractive alternative for solving the 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. AMS subject classifications: 65M60, 65M99, 35L65
Processing of French Liaisons in Toddlers

This study tested the hypothesis that statistically-based word segmentation is subject to linguistic constraints. French liaisons provide an ideal case for testing the syllablealignment constraint on segmentation. Liaisons occur when the underlying coda of liaison-causing words, mainly function words, surfaces phonetically as the syllabic onset of the subsequent vowel-initial word (e.g., “les amis”–[le zami]). The word onset and syllable onset are thus mis-aligned. Using a preferential looking procedure, we tested French-learning toddlers’ parsing interpretation of liaisons. Familiarization stimuli were sentences containing a pseudo-noun, onche or èque, preceded by liaison-causing words containing different underlying codas, e.g., causing onche to surface as [t]onche, [z]onches, [r]onche, [n]onche. The variable liaisons offered statistical support for segmenting the vowel-initial word. In Experiments 1 and 3, test stimuli were isolated vowel-initial target versus non-target (onche/èque). The target was consistent with the subsyllabic statistical parse. Twenty-four-month-olds segmented the target, whereas 20month-olds failed. Experiment 2 presented isolated consonant-initial forms as target versus non-target (zonches/zèques, the syllable-integrity bias). Twenty-month-olds segmented the consonant-initial target (corresponding to a surfaced consonant-initial form from familiarization), despite the statistical cues to the vowel-initial word boundary. Taken together, when statistical cues and syllable-alignment were conflicting, the latter guided infants’ word segmentation even at 20 months of age. Only by 24 months of age do infants become able to overcome this constraint by learning to segment words using subsyllabic statistical cues, contrasting sharply with preverbal infants’ statistical segmentation that respects the constraint. Our study therefore demonstrates the impact of a linguistic constraint during early acquisition.
The French c ’ est-cleft : an empirical study on its meaning and use

In French, the special syntactic construction called the c’est-cleft is associated with two important intuitions. First, the c’est-cleft C’est X qui/que P in (1a) is associated with an exhaustive inference given in (1c), which is somehow similar to the assertion found in exclusive sentences Seul X P shown in (1b), leading some researchers to claim that exhaustivity is part of the semantic meaning of the cleft (Clech-Darbon et al. 1999).
1 The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach

1 The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach 1 Maxime Forest and Emanuela Lombardo 2 ‘Going Soft’? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy 28 Fiona Beveridge 3 Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe 49 Andrea Krizsan and Raluca Popa 4 Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization? 75 Sophie Jacquot, Clémence Ledoux, and Bruno Palier 5 Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy 99 Alessia Donà 6 Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Discursive-Institutionalist Analysis 121 Emanuela Lombardo and María Bustelo 7 Swimming against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe 145 Aron Buzogány 8 Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe 168 Roman Kuhar
Fem 1 a is a mitochondrial protein up-regulated upon ischemia – reperfusion injury

a CNRS UMR5237, Centre de Recherche en Biochimie Macromoléculaire, Montpellier, France b Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France c Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France d Inserm U637, Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire, Montpellier, France e CNRS LGN-UMR7091, Genexpress, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology for Health, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, Villejuif, France
Psychological and communicative correlates of online disinhibition

This work offers a definition of the online disinhibition and its psychological and communicative correlates and it describes its different manifestations and theirs implications for a deeper understanding of a phenomenon that involves all the cybernauts to varying degrees. It also wants to be a reflection on the psychological implications of the phenomenon and the constructive and destructive possibilities that it brings with it. The first part of the paper explains briefly what the online disinhibition effect is. The second part of the paper addresses the potential that cyberspace has to encourage the free expression of oneself and in particular all those aspects of the self that are usually repressed or expressed with difficulty and limitations; we will talk about the difference between true self and actual self. The third and final part of the paper gives a brief overview of the immense possibilities of the online disinhibition effect to manifest, by focusing on the main possibilities and the implications that they bring with them and by following the footsteps of the fundamental distinction between positive and negative online disinhibition. The bibliography cited and consulted is also provided and critical observations and brief considerations are made on all these works.
Development Audio-Visual Learning Media of Hydroponic System on Biotechnology Topik For Senior High Schools

Learning media is one of the important aspects of supporting learning processes. This research development aims at producing audio-visual learning media of hydroponic system on biotechnology topic which are valid and effective. The development model used is a modified 4D development model. The data collected came from the subject experts, media specialists, and teachers as practitioners in the field using the media. The data collection instruments were in the form of questionnaires and interviews. The data were analyzed by the using descriptive qualitative and the descriptive statistics. The study was tested to the biology teachers from twelve senior high schools by using a questionnaire based on the seven criteria (in conformity with the learning objectives, the learners, the characteristics of the appeal, the time of purchase, the media cost, ease of use, and the context of use). The audio-visual learning media of hydroponic system developed was categorized as the very effective learning medium (88.17%) in the high schools and fulfilled all of the criteria. Keywords—Learning media, audio-visual, hydroponic system,
The Relationship Between Web Content and Web Accessibility at Universities

This research assesses whether universities from varied cultures rank significantly different with respect to the quality of their web contents and with regard to their web accessibility (WA) level. Moreover, this article tests whether universities, which make stronger efforts to improve the quality of their web contents, also take into account WA issues to ease the access to such contents. We use a database containing 399 universities from 16 countries. Main results suggest that universities in Anglo-Saxon countries pay more attention to WA issues and that those in Germanic countries rank significantly higher with regard to web quality contents. On a global basis, there is a significant relationship between the level of accessibility at university webpages and the quality of the web contents. However, if countries are grouped, results are different. While in Germanic, Nordic, and Anglo-Saxon countries, there is no relation between the level of accessibility of university webpages and the quality of the web contents, in Latin countries, this relation is direct and significant.
Face Detection Model LearningInput Videos Matching Subspaces Exemplars DCNN Features Subspaces And Exemplars Face Classifier Deep Feature Extraction Face Association Face Bounding Boxes Face Detector Face Sets and Feature Sets Multiple-Shot Association Single-Shot Association OR Target Subject Targe

Although deep learning approaches have achieved performance surpassing humans for still image-based face recognition, unconstrained video-based face recognition is still a challenging task due to large volume of data to be processed and intra/inter-video variations on pose, illumination, occlusion, scene, blur, video quality, etc. In this work, we consider challenging scenarios for unconstrained video-based face recognition from multiple-shot videos and surveillance videos with low-quality frames. To handle these problems, we propose a robust and efficient system for unconstrained video-based face recognition, which is composed of face/fiducial detection, face association, and face recognition. First, we use multi-scale single-shot face detectors to efficiently localize faces in videos. The detected faces are then grouped respectively through carefully designed face association methods, especially for multi-shot videos. Finally, the faces are recognized by the proposed face matcher based on an unsupervised subspace learning approach and a subspace-tosubspace similarity metric. Extensive experiments on challenging video datasets, such as Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC), Face and Ocular Challenge Series (FOCS), JANUS Challenge Set 6 (CS6) for low-quality surveillance videos and IARPA JANUS Benchmark B (IJB-B) for multiple-shot videos, demonstrate that the proposed system can accurately detect and associate faces from unconstrained videos and effectively learn robust and discriminative features for recognition.
Analysis of different interpolation methods for uphole data using Surfer software

An attempt has been made to understand the different interpolation techniques using SURFER software. Uphole data at 1000m apart have been interpolated with four different methods for velocity, line, picket and reduced depth. Around 25% of the data sets were deleted randomly from the actual data sets to see the difference between interpolated data sets and the true data sets. While doing this, anisotropic factors were varied for different methods to see the quantum of difference between interpolated data sets and the true data sets. Kriging method of interpolation is found to give better result for present data set.
n empirical investigation of knowledge management and innovative erformance : The case of alliances u

This paper examines firm-level performance implications of strategic alliances by employing knowledge management practices as intermediaries. Unlike previous research which focuses on partner firm factors, this study investigates how alliance characteristics (i.e., alliance scope and governance) affect interfirm knowledge sharing and creation, and how these two practices and their interaction in turn vailable online 23 December 2008
Ju n 20 19 ComDMFT : a Massively Parallel Computer Package for the Electronic Structure of Correlated-Electron Systems

ComDMFT is a massively parallel computational package to study the electronic structure of correlated-electron systems (CES). Our approach is a parameterfree method based on ab initio linearized quasiparticle self-consistent GW (LQSGW) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). The non-local part of the electronic self-energy is treated within ab initio LQSGW and the local strong correlation is treated within DMFT. In addition to ab initio LQSGW+DMFT, charge selfconsistent LDA+DMFT methodology is also implemented, enabling multiple methods in one open-source platform for the electronic structure of CES. This package can be extended for future developments to implement other methodologies to treat CES.
Growth , flowering and chemical compositions of Tagetes patula L . plants as affected with naphthalene acetic acid and gibberellic acid .

In an open field of a private farm in kom-Hamada, EL-Behira governorate, Egypt this investigation was carried out during two successive seasons of 2016 and 2017 in order to study the effect of Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and Gibberellic acid (GA3) on vegetative, rooting and flowering growth and chemical compounds of Tagetes patula L. plants. The results refer that, most treatments induce significant differences in all studied parameters compared with the control. Firstly, the application of 50 mg/l NAA had the maximum plant dry weight, vase life, leaves content of chlorophyll A and B, total chlorophyll, carotenoids content, percentage of carbohydrates, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, polyphenols and flavonoids content and antioxidant activity. The treatment of 100 mg/l NAA gave the maximum root fresh weight and dry weight. From the other hand, the highest stem diameter and essential oil percentage were recorded with spraying 300 mg/l NAA in two seasons , respectively. Secondly, using 25 mg/l GA3 had the highest branches number. Using 100 mg/l GA3 had the highest essential oil content. However, the application of 200 mg/l GA3 gave earliest flowering, the maximum number of inflorescences per plant. While, the maximum values of plant height, branch length, node length, leaf area, fresh weight of plant and per inflorescence, inflorescence diameter and length of inflorescence pedicel were achieved with spraying 300 mg/l GA3 in the first and second seasons, respectively. Chemical composition of Tagetes patula essential oil was also affected with different concentrations of NAA and GA3 compared with the control.
First Mio-Pliocene salamander fossil assemblage from the southern Appalachians

The Gray Fossil Site (GFS) of northeastern Tennessee has yielded a diverse salamander fossil assemblage for the southern Appalachian Mio-Pliocene. This assemblage includes at least five taxa (Ambsytoma sp.; Plethodon sp., Spelerpinae, gen. et sp. indet., Desmognathus sp.; and Notophthalmus sp.) from three families (Ambystomatidae, Plethodontidae, and Salamandridae, respectively). All taxa are present in the area today and support a woodland-pond interpretation of the site. Reported specimens represent the earliest record of their families in the Appalachian Mountains (and the earliest record of Plethodontidae and Ambystomatidae east of the Mississippi River); with the Notophthalmus sp. vertebrae being the only Mio-Pliocene body fossil known for the Salamandridae in North America. The Desmognathus sp. specimens may help shed light on the evolutionary origins of the genus Desmognathus, which purportedly has its roots in this region during the Mio-Pliocene. Grant S. Boardman. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588, USA and Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 37614, USA grant128@hotmail.com Blaine W. Schubert. Department of Geosciences and Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 37614, USA schubert@mail.etsu. edu
Direct evaluation of the load-carrying capacity of steel-reinforced concrete beams by limit analysis

Steel reinforced concrete (RC) structural elements can exhibit, when loaded up to failure, considerable ductility injected by the presence of reinforcement bars (re-bars). The typical failure mode of properly designed so-called under-reinforced elements subjected to bending, in fact, initiates by yielding of the steel re-bars followed, with the load increasing, by crushing of concrete in compression zone. This is, actually, a failure mode regarded as ductile and normally assured by a reinforcement ratio significantly below the balanced ratio. Obviously, in these cases steel re-bars play a significant role in determining the post-elastic behaviour of the RC element as a whole.
Chinese Takeaways : Vegetarian Culture in Contemporary China 1

Vegetarianism has a long tradition in Chinese culture. Both Chinese Buddhism and Daoism promote a vegetarian diet based on the teaching of not taking life. Both also have had a long and fine vegetarian cuisine culture as a healthy lifestyle and a culinary art form. Bean curd was invented by the Chinese some 2,000 years ago. However, if you visit China today, it is not easy to find a vegetarian restaurant or come across a vegetarian. Interestingly, in the past few years, vegetarian restaurants started to appear in major Chinese cities in increasing numbers. This paper first provides an overview of the Chinese vegetarian tradition for the cultural context, and then focuses on vegetarianism in contemporary China. It presents the results from a recent survey on Chinese vegetarian culture before discussing the implications of the study, in particular in relation to ethical eating and animal welfare as a new consideration in Chinese vegetarianism, Chinese health issues associated with meat eating, and a general characterization of the vegetarian culture in contemporary China.
Efficacy of foliar spray applications of plant extracts against groundnut rust

An attempt has been taken to control groundnut rust disease caused by Puccinia arachidis Speg. using foliar spray applications of plant extracts under field condition. A new formulation, ‘Panchaparni extract’, was developed using leaf extracts of Eupatorium odoratum L. , Eucalyptus globulus Labill. , Azadirachta indica A. Juss. , Vitex nigundo L. and Datura metel L. to control rust of groundnut. The Panchaparni extract was observed to be most effective than all other plant treatments and control (distilled water spray) which reduced the percent disease index and increased the efficiency of percent disease control.