Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The experimental evaluation of the dynamics of fluid-loaded microplates

An experimental testing system for the study of the dynamic behavior of fluid-loaded rectangular micromachined silicon plates is designed and presented in this paper. In this experimental system, the base-excitation technique combined with pseudo-random signal and cross-correlation analysis is applied to test fluid-loaded microstructures. Theoretical model is also derived to reveal the mechanism of such an experimental system in the application of testing fluid-loaded microstructures. The dynamic experiments cover a series of testings of various microplates with different boundary conditions and dimensions, both in air and immersed in water. This paper is the first that demonstrates the ability and performances of base excitation in the application of dynamic testing of microstructures that involves a natural fluid environment. Traditional modal analysis approaches are used to evaluate natural frequencies, modal damping and mode shapes from the experimental data. The obtained experimental results are discussed and compared with theoretical predictions. This research experimentally determines the dynamic characteristics of the fluid-loaded silicon microplates, which can contribute to the design of plate-based microsystems. The experimental system and testing approaches presented in this paper can be widely applied to the investigation of the dynamics of microstructures and nanostructures.
Effect of the muscle biochemical characteristics on the tenderness of aged meat in young goatling (Capra nubiana) animals.

The effect of muscle biochemical characteristics on the tenderness of goatling meat was examined in Semimembranosus (SM), Semitendinosus (ST) and Longissimus (L) muscles. Twelve goatling of Nubia breed were slaughtered at 55 days of age, the muscles were obtained at 1 hour postmortemand aged for 8 days at 4oC.pH decline rate, metabolism, contraction rate, cathepsins B and B+L activities and tenderness (myofibrillar toughness) were evaluated at different ageing times. This study showed that in goatling muscles, the pH decline rate and metabolism type directly influencedon the activity of cathepsins B+L andtheir activity decline rate.Cathepsin B+L activity presented a quadratic correlation (R2=0.88) with myofibrillar toughness and it was associated with the final meat tenderness.The term “goatling” refers only to young animals and it is suggests that an ageing period is necessary to improve theirtenderness.
A Study on Preferred Learning Styles of Turkish EFL Teacher Trainees.

Since people have different ways of perception, levels of motivation, and attitudes towards teaching and learning they consistently differ from each other in their preferences of learning and acquiring knowledge. Therefore, the more instructors understand the differences, the better chance they have of understanding and meeting the diverse learning needs of their students. The present study has been conducted to investigate the Turkish ELT students' learning style preferences in relation to gender and age to see if there is any relationship between achievement and learning style preferences. To perform the aim of the study Wintergerst and DeCapua's (1999) learning style indicator (LSI) was administered on 249 English trainees. To find the male and female students' learning style preference differences separately, t-test was utilized. The result indicated that Turkish students are mostly group-oriented learners and learn best through interacting with other students while learning. Gender also varies according to the three orientation areas under investigation. In the current study, no relation between achievement and learning style has been identified.
Global Uncertainty , Macroeconomic Activity and Commodity

We extend Jurado et al. (2015)’s forecast-error-based uncertainty measure to the international context, and construct a new measure of global uncertainty. We examine dynamic causal effects among global uncertainty and other global macroeconomic variables, and provide two important applications of our global uncertainty measure by linking it to the price formation mechanism of oil and international uncertainty spillover effects. We show that the well-documented relation between uncertainty and real activities is not only a regional issue, but also a global phenomenon. Global uncertainty also plays a key role in determining commodity prices, as well as driving business cycle fluctuations in a certain economy. JEL Classification: C32, E32, F44, O13
Is volume the holographic dual of fidelity susceptibility

It was proposed by Miyaji et al. that the fidelity susceptibility of a state of a conformal field theory under a marginal deformation is holographically dual to the volume of a maximal time slice in the dual Anti de Sitter spacetime. We study this proposal by analyzing the leading and subleading divergences in these two quantities in two specific scenarios. We find that although the structure of the divergences in these two quantities is similar, their numerical coefficients are inconsistent with an exact relationship between these two quantities.
Retrospective Evaluation of Adverse Reactions Associated with Blood Transfusions Reported in the Blood Banks of Kerala

1 Office of the Assistant Drugs Controller, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 035, Kerala, India 2,3 Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara University, Mysore – 570 015, Karnataka, India 4 Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram–695011, Kerala, India 5 JSS Hospital, Mysore 570 004, Karnataka, India *Corresponding Author P. K. Sreekumar Email: skumardi@gmail.com Abstract A retrospective review of all the adverse transfusion reactions reported from 01/01/2014 to 31/12/2015 by the 19 blood banks of Kerala was done with the aim to assess the frequency and type of transfusion reactions occurring in patients receiving blood transfusion. During the study period a total of 455201 units of blood products were issued from the subjected blood banks for transfusion. RBC is the major product (39.8%) issued for transfusion and under the hemovigilance system, totally 814 adverse reactions (0.18%) were reported during the study period. Among them, the most common type of reaction observed was febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction (FNHTR) 69.9% (n =569) followed by anaphylaxis, Post transfusion purpura (PTP), Transfusion associated dyspnoea (TAD) were also reported. No major reactions like transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI), transfusion associated graft Vs host disease (TAGvHD), transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO) and haemolysis were reported. No infections were also reported during the study period. From this study it was clear that the frequency of adverse transfusion reactions was 0.18%. Obivesoly, it may be due to an underestimation of the true incidence because of under reporting and it revealed that necessity of awareness development regarding with safe blood transfusion and the implementation of proper and effective haemovigilance system to provide better patient care.
Icephobicity of Functionalized Graphene Surfaces

Manipulating the ice nucleation ability of liquid water by solid surface is of fundamental importance, especially in the design of icephobic surfaces. In this paper, the icephobicity of graphene surfaces functionalized by sodium ions, chloride ions, or methane molecules is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The icephobicity of the surface is evaluated by the freezing temperature. The freezing temperature on surface functionalized by methane molecules decreases at first and then increases as a function of the number groups, while the freezing temperature increases monotonically as a function of the number groups upon surfaces functionalized by sodium ions or chloride ions. The difference can be partially explained by the potential morphologies near the surfaces. Additionally, the validity of indicating the ice nucleation ability of water molecules using the number of six rings in the system is examined. Current study shows that the ice nucleation upon functionalized surfaces is inhibited when compared with smooth graphene substrate, which proves the feasibility of changing the icephobicity of the surfaces by functionalizing with certain ions or molecules.
The Effects of Memory Recovery Techniques on Jurors’ Perceptions of Recovered Memories

The current study examined the impact of memory recovery techniques (guided imagery and dream interpretation) on mock jurors’ perceptions of recovered memories. Participants (N = 181) were randomly assigned to read one of four vignettes representing a therapist who uncovered memories of child sexual abuse in an adult female client using guided imagery, dream interpretation, technique concealed, or memories were continuous as opposed to recovered. Participants then responded to a series of questions regarding plaintiff credibility, defendant guilt, and external influences. Lower ratings of plaintiff credibility and defendant guilt emerged, along with higher ratings of external influence when guided imagery or dream interpretation was used by the therapist compared to when the technique was concealed. The same pattern of findings held when the dependent variables of interest reflected credible vs. not credible and guilty vs. not guilty decisions. The current study highlights the necessity of informing jurors as to the processes by which memories are recovered.
A Study of Teacher Growth, Supervision, and Evaluation in Alberta: Policy and Perception in a Collective Case Study

Teacher effectiveness has long been identified as critical to student success and, more recently, supporting students attaining the skills and dispositions required to be successful in the early 21st century. To do so requires that teachers engage in professional learning characterized as a shift away from conventional models of evaluation and judgment. Accordingly, school and system leaders must create “policies and environments designed to actively support teacher professional growth” (Bakkenes, Vermunt, & Webbels, 2010). This paper reports on the Alberta Teacher Growth, Supervision, and Evaluation (TGSE) Policy (Government of Alberta, 1998) through the eyes of teachers, school leaders, and superintendents. The study sought to answer the following two questions: (1) To what extent, and in what ways, do teachers, principals, and superintendents perceive that ongoing supervision by the principal provides teachers with the guidance and support they need to be successful? and, (2) To what degree, and in what ways, does the TGSE policy provide a foundation to inform future effective policy and implementation of teacher growth, supervision, and evaluation? Results affirm international findings that although a majority of principals consider themselves as instructional leaders, only about one third actually act accordingly (OECD, 2016).
Study of Gastrointestinal Parasites of Deer at Char Kukri Mukri in Bhola District

To study the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites of deer, 127 fecal samples were collected from Char Kukri Mukri upazilla of Bhola district of Bangladesh during the period from January to May, 2013. Eighty eight samples were found to be infected with gastrointestinal parasites and overall prevalence rate was 69.29%. Fasciola sp. (8.66%), Paramphistomum sp. (20.47%), stomach worm (18.11%), hook worm (20.47%), Strongyloides sp. (1.57%), Oesophagostomum sp. (1.57%), Eimeria sp. (6.30%) and Balantidium coli (1.57%) were found. The overall prevalence of nematode, trematode, protozoan and mixed infection were 29.13%, 25.19%, 5.51% and 9.45% respectively. Seasonal prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in summer and winter were 70.59% and 66.67% respectively. The range of EPG/CPG/OPG varied from 100 to 300 among the parasites and highest count was found in Paramphistomum sp. (300), hook worm (300) and stomach worm (300). This study provided a first overview on parasites in deer in the vicinity of villages, but to evaluate parasite transmission dynamics much more studies were required on livestock and on wild herbivores. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/bjvm.v12i1. 20460 Bangl. J. Vet. Med . (2014). 12 (1): 27-33
The influence of career planning and HRM practices on career success of faculty members in public sector universities of Pakistan

The main aspiration of the study was to discover and evaluate the predictors of career success for the faculty members of public sector universities in Pakistan. Data was collected from 92 faculty members who are currently either on study leave or on scholarship and enrolled as international doctoral candidates in four different universities of Malaysia. The results supported the significant positive association of planning and HRM practices with career success. The study converses the significance of these conclusions for faculty members’ career success in public sector universities of Pakistan. Key w ords: Career Success, Career Planning, Human Resource Management Practices, Public Sector Universities, Pakistan.
Patterns of Human Capital Development in Russia: Meeting the Challenge of Market Reforms and Globalization

This paper examines post-Soviet reforms on human capital development in Russia. The primitivization of economy in the first decade of reforms resulted in growing underemployment of skilled labour that drove out two streams of brain drain, viz. one, through classical emigration, and two, through the outflow of skilled labour into a wide range of survival activities from shuttle trade to subsistence farming. The consequences of this for the Russian economy were dire as it led to the depreciation and degradation of the national human capital stock. The second decade of reforms generated controversial implications for Russia’s national human capital. On the one hand, it was characterized by the emergence and exacerbation of a wide range of supply-demand human capital mismatches. On the other hand, the revival of labour demand and the partial substitution of direct brain drain for outsourcing widened opportunities for the preservation and accumulation of national human capital.
Effect of chelating agents and metal ions on nickel bioavailability and chlorophyll fluorescence response in wheat- An approach for attenuation of Ni stress

Soil contamination is a major environmental concern due to dispersal of industrial and urban wastes generated by human activities (Ghosh and Singh 2005). Disposal of wastes, accidental and process spillage, mining and smelting of ores, sewage sludge application to agricultural soils are responsible factors for contamination of our ecosystem. However, elevated concentrations of both essential and nonessential heavy metals in the soil can lead to toxicity symptoms and growth
Control of CaCO3 Crystal Growth by the Acidic Proteinaceous Fraction of Calcifying Marine Organisms: AnInVitroStudyofBiomineralization

Only little is known about the early stages of CaCO3 crystallization (Pouget et al. 2009; Gebauer, Volkel, and Colfen 2008), though this mineral has been studied for more than a century now. Identified precursor phases are amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) in bio(Addadi, Raz, and Weiner 2003; Weiner et al. 2003) and biomimetic mineralization. Crystal nucleation and biomineralization processes in organisms occur through a sophisticated regulation of internal chemistry that departs significantly from the “constant ionic medium” of seawater (Falini et al. 1996; Addadi et al. 2006; Rahman and Oomori 2009). Magnesium ions are mainly responsible for controlling the kinetics and thermodynamics of calcium carbonate precipitation, especially inhibition of the calcite formation (Davis, Dove, and De Yoreo 2000). The precipitation of calcite at ambient temperature is both thermodynamically and kinetically favored in solutions containing low amounts of magnesium ions. Very recently, it is reported that although Mg2+ is influential in producing aragonite in the crystallization process, acidic macromolecules produced calcite crystals in soft corals even in the presence of high Mg2+ ions (Rahman, Oomori, and Worheide 2011; Rahman and Oomori 2009).
From nonlinear Fokker–Planck equations to solutions of distribution dependent SDE

We construct weak solutions to a class of distribution dependent SDE, of type $dX(t)=b\left( X(t), \displaystyle\frac{d\mathcal{L}_{X(t)}}{dx}(X(t))\right) dt+\sigma\left( X(t),\displaystyle\frac{d\mathcal{L}_{X(t)}}{dt}(X(t))\right) dW(t)$ for possibly degenerate diffusion matrices $\sigma$ with $X(0)$ having a given law, which has a density with respect to Lebesgue measure, $dx$. Here ${\mathcal{L}}_{X(t)}$ denotes the law of $X(t)$. Our approach is to first solve the corresponding nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations and then use the well known superposition principle to obtain weak solutions of the above SDE.
Temporal Integration of English Words: Evidence for a Processing Hierarchy in Visual Word Recognition

Several models of visual word recognition suggest a processing hierarchy; basic orthographic features are processed early and whole-word representations are processed late in the hierarchy. Unfortunately, given the extreme efficiency of the visual word recognition system, studies typically focus on one specific level of the processing hierarchy (e.g., orthographic, phonological and/or semantic processing). Furthermore, different paradigms are used to study different levels of the hierarchy. Fortunately, data across different studies in the literature do converge to two distinct temporal thresholds for letter perception and whole-word integration. The current experiments assessed the temporal thresholds for both letter perception and whole-word integration using a single novel paradigm. The results demonstrated distinct temporal thresholds for letter perception and whole-word integration which agree with those reported in the literature. Thus, the current experiments provide further behavioral evidence that the visual word recognition is a hierarchical process.
Physical properties of dusty protoplanetary disks in Lupus: evidence for viscous evolution?

The formation of planets strongly depends on the total amount as well as on the spatial distribution of solids in protoplanetary disks. Thanks to the improvements in resolution and sensitivity provided by ALMA, measurements of the surface density of mm-sized grains are now possible on large samples of disks. Such measurements provide statistical constraints that can be used to inform our understanding of the initial conditions of planet formation. We analyze spatially resolved observations of 36 protoplanetary disks in the Lupus star forming complex from our ALMA survey at 890 micron, aiming to determine physical properties such as the dust surface density, the disk mass and size and to provide a constraint on the temperature profile. We fit the observations directly in the uv-plane using a two-layer disk model that computes the 890 micron emission by solving the energy balance at each disk radius. For 22 out of 36 protoplanetary disks we derive robust estimates of their physical properties. The sample covers stellar masses between ~0.1 and ~2 Solar masses, and we find no trend between the average disk temperatures and the stellar parameters. We find, instead, a correlation between the integrated sub-mm flux (a proxy for the disk mass) and the exponential cut-off radii (a proxy of the disk size) of the Lupus disks. Comparing these results with observations at similar angular resolution of Taurus-Auriga/Ophiuchus disks found in literature and scaling them to the same distance, we observe that the Lupus disks are generally fainter and larger at a high level of statistical significance. Considering the 1-2 Myr age difference between these regions, it is possible to tentatively explain the offset in the disk mass/disk size relation with viscous spreading, however with the current measurements other mechanisms cannot be ruled out.
Therapeutic activities of Ocimum tenuiflorum accounted in last decade: a review.

Ocimum tenuiflorum is broadly distributed in Asia and occurred almost in all the seasons. Ocimum tenuiflorum synonym: Ocimum sanctum (English: Holy Basil) belongs to family Lamiaceae; Labiatae. The essential oil of fresh leaves from Ocimum tenuiflorum is found to contain Eugenol, ß-caryophyllene, ßelemene and germacrene D as major phytochemical constituents. Recently, the extract of the Ocimum tenuiflorum has been established as potent in radioprotective activity. The review accounts for anthelmintic, antiaflatoxigenic, antibacterial, anticancer, antidepressant, antidiabetic, antifungal/anticandidal, antimetastatic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiprotozoal, antistress, antiviral, anxiety, cardio protective, chemoprotective, cognition improvement, hepatosupression, hyperlipidemia, immunomodulatory, noise stress release, renal damage recovery and wound healing activities.
Within-Season Variation of Fitness in Elite Youth Female Soccer Players

Within-Season Variation of Fitness in Elite Youth Female Soccer Players The within-season variation in fitness measures of elite youth female soccer players (<18 years of age) has not been investigated previously. Further knowledge of this area could allow more effective periodization of training, whilst also enabling coaches to design appropriate long-term athlete development models. This study investigated the within-season variation of fitness test performance in elite youth female soccer players. In elite youth female soccer players, acceleration, sprint and CoD performance decreased over the course of a season, whilst RSA performance improved in U13 players. Coaches should consider the impact of physiological preparation on performance when working with youth female soccer players, implementing training interventions and recovery strategies accordingly to prevent reduced performance capacity during competition.
Technology Adoption and Demographic Change

This paper studies the effect of demographic change on the technology distribution of an economy and on aggregate productivity growth. In the quantitative dynamic model, firms decide on employment and the technology they use subject to an aging workforce. Firms with a higher share of elderly workers update their technology less often and prefer older technologies than firms with a younger workforce. The shorter expected worklife of elderly workers makes firms reluctant to train them for new technologies. I calibrate the model for the German economy and simulate the projected demographic change. The results indicate that labor force aging reduces the realized annual productivity growth rate by 0.28 percentage points between 2010–2025.
Perceived Ability and School Choices

This paper studies how youths’ self-perceptions of ability affect their sorting patterns across schools. We design and implement a field experiment in which ninth-graders from less advantaged backgrounds in Mexico City are provided with individualized feedback about their performance on an achievement test. The treatment shifts both the mean and the variance of the subjective distributions of academic ability. This variation is embedded into a discrete choice model that characterizes the channels through which perceived ability shapes individual preferences over school characteristics. Follow-up data on schooling outcomes suggest that the information intervention improved the match between students and education choices.