Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XVIII. CoRoT-18b: a massive hot Jupiter on a prograde, nearly aligned orbit

We report the detection of CoRoT-18b, a massive hot jupiter transiting in front of its host star with a period of 1.9000693 +/- 0.0000028 days. This planet was discovered thanks to photometric data secured with the CoRoT satellite combined with spectroscopic and photometric ground-based follow-up observations. The planet has a mass M_p = 3.47 +/- 0.38 M_Jup, a radius R_p = 1.31 +/- 0.18 R_Jup, and a density rho_p = 2.2 +/- 0.8 g/cm3. It orbits a G9V star with a mass M_* = 0.95 +/- 0.15 M_Sun, a radius R_* = 1.00 +/- 0.13 R_Sun, and a rotation period P_rot = 5.4 +/- 0.4 days. The age of the system remains uncertain, with stellar evolution models pointing either to a few tens Ma or several Ga, while gyrochronology and lithium abundance point towards ages of a few hundred Ma. This mismatch potentially points to a problem in our understanding of the evolution of young stars, with possibly significant implications for stellar physics and the interpretation of inferred sizes of exoplanets around young stars. We detected the Rossiter-McLaughlin anomaly in the CoRoT-18 system thanks to the spectroscopic observation of a transit. We measured the obliquity psi = 20 +/- 20 degrees (sky-projected value: lambda = -10 +/- 20 degrees), indicating that the planet orbits in the same way as the star is rotating and that this prograde orbit is nearly aligned with the stellar equator.
The Effect of Post-Yield Stiffness Ratio on Strength Reduction Factors Due to Ductility with an Emphasis on Iran's Strong Ground Motions

Inelastic strength demands can be calculated from elastic strength demands by strength reduction factors. These factors are also called response modification factors which depend on some parameters such as ductility, over-strength, redundancy and damping. The main objective of this study is to determine the strength reduction factor due to ductility for non-deteriorating bilinear single degree of freedom systems which have positive post-yield stiffness or strain hardening for some Iran's major earthquake records. Compact structural steel sections and some seismic base isolation systems are some examples of mechanical systems with bilinear hysteresis behaviour. In this research, The effect of positive post-yield stiffness ratio is studied for both constant-ductility response spectra or inelastic strength demand spectra and strength reduction factors due to ductility. The evaluation of ductility factor requires large computational efforts. To overcome this problem, the PRISM software was used. A functional form was proposed and parameters were evaluated by the least square error method. This functional form is assumed to be a function of post-yield stiffness ratio, target ductility factor and structural period. For this purpose, the El-Centro, Tabas, Naghan and Abbar ground motions were used.
Organizational Cynicism and its Relationship with EmployeeÃ¢ÂÂs Performance in Teaching Hospitals of Pakistan

Organizational cynicism has become an issue that is being faced by members of an organization and needs investigation. The purpose of this study was to find out the significance of the relationship of organizational cynicism with employee’s performance. For this research the study population was employees of the teaching hospitals of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Wah Cantt, approximately 3500 individuals. Using purposive sampling technique a total of 280 questionnaires were distributed to get response of individuals. Out of the 280 questionnaires 65 were not returned, whereas 215 were received, out of which 15 were incompletely filled. Thus the overall response rate was 71.4%. SPSS 20 has been used for reliability, correlation and regression analysis. The overall results of the study revealed negative relationship of organizational cynicism with employee’s performance. Implication of the study and future research directions were given based on the findings of the study. The study is expected to have great deal of significance for organizations, managerial staff, employees and research scholars alike.
Food safety knowledge, attitude and practices of orange fleshed sweetpotato puree handlers in Kenya

Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) puree is a nutritious food ingredient for promoting Vitamin A intake in processed food products in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). OFSP puree handlers play an important role in ensuring production of consistently safe and quality OFSP puree and related processed products. Lack of or insufficient knowledge on food safety coupled with poor practices by food handlers are major causes of foodborne illnesses and deterioration in food quality along the food chain. The current study assessed levels of food safety knowledge, attitude and hygiene practices (KAP) of OFSP puree handlers in Kenya. A cross-sectional study using a self-administered structured questionnaire was conducted among 35 OFSP puree handlers chosen by exhaustive sampling during the period of July and August 2016. The mean percentage scores for knowledge, attitude, practices and overall KAP were 73, 89, 80 and 81, respectively. OFSP puree handlers in this study had low level of knowledge on personal hygiene, food contamination, foodborne illnesses, cleaning and sanitation with mean scores of 80, 64, 76 and 63%, respectively. Training had a significant impact on knowledge ( p =0.020), attitude ( p =0.050), practices ( p =0.006) and overall KAP ( p =0.001) with majority of the OFSP puree handlers (63%) having received a training on food safety. A significant moderate positive correlation existed between knowledge and practices (r=0.358, p =0.035) and attitude and practices (r=0.42, p =0.013). As per adjusted linear regression analysis, food safety practices significantly ( p =0.045) increased by 0.32% with one percent increase in knowledge and by 0.38% ( p =0.018) with one percent increase in attitude. OFSP puree handlers had low level of knowledge and practices but demonstrated a positive attitude on food safety. Frequent food safety training is needed to improve knowledge and hygienic practices of OFSP puree handlers. Keywords : Food handlers, Foodborne illnesses, Contamination, Personal hygiene
The Government Expenditure Structure and Economic growth

This article examines the effect of the government expenditure structure on the economic growth. The objective is to determine which components of public expenditures are growth enhancing and which growth retarding. The theoretical model is set into the endogenous growth framework and describes the growth mechanism of productive and unproductive government expenditures. The growth impact of public spending composition is analysed for 18 European countries from 1996 to 2012. The empirical part is based on the panel data analysis. The empirical findings suggest that reallocating public resources towards education and health can promote growth. On the contrary higher expenditures on social spending and defence are likely to be growth-retarding.
DECHLORINATION OF 2,4,6-TRICHLOROPHENOL BY FREE AND IMMOBILIZED LACCASE FROM TRAMETES VERSICOLOR IN A LAB SCALE BIOREACTOR

Detoxification of a chlorinated phenolic compound, 2,4,6-trichlorophenol through treatment with laccase enzyme produced by a white rot fungus, Trametes versicolor was investigated. Enzymatic dechlorination experiments by using free and immobilized laccase have been performed in a lab scale bioreactor. Chlorine ion and dissolved oxygen electrodes mounted to the bioreactor were used continuously to detect the profiles of chlorine ions and oxygen consumption, respectively, in reaction medium. The maximum dechlorination activity of laccase for free and immobilized form was determined as 160 μM of substrate concentration at pH 5.0, 25 °C, and 30 min of incubation time. Also, GC/MS analyses of enzymatic degradation products indicated that chlorine removal was a result of degradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol by the laccase under the determined optimum conditions.
The Wave Packet Frames with Several Generators

The main goal of this paper is to consider the necessary conditions of wave packet systems to be frames in higher dimensions. The necessary conditions of wave packet frames are established, which include the corresponding results of wavelet analysis and Gabor theory as the special cases. The existing results are generalized to the case of several generators and general lattices.
Effects of length in stem cutting and its planting position on cassava yield

Stem cuttings selected from mature portions of parent plants are used for cassava reproduction. Cuttings may be of different lengths and may be planted horizontally, vertically or in an inclined position. Conducted at the State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitoria da Conquista, BA Brazil, the experiment evaluated the effects of cutting length and planting position on cassava. Ten treatments combining five planting positions (horizontal, inclined, upside-down inclined, vertical, and upside-down vertical) and two cutting lengths (20 and 30 cm) were tested. The best treatments for tuberous root yield were 20-cm cuttings planted horizontally (21.292 kg.ha) and 30-cm cuttings planted in the inclined position (20.236 kg.ha). Cassava cuttings planted in vertical or inclined position sprouted faster, while those planted in the horizontally gave rise to plants with heavier aerial part. Treatments with higher root yield produced higher starch and dry matter content in the roots, higher starch yield per hectare, and higher root weight per plant. Plants with heavier aerial part had lower harvest index and lower dry matter and starch content in the tuberous roots.
Power, democracy and technology: the potential dangers of care for teachers in higher education

Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential of care ethics as a useful normative framework to evaluate teaching and learning in higher education. However, to date there has been little engagement with the inherent dangers of care such as those of paternalism and parochialism. This is particularly pertinent in the South African context where there are on-going struggles to find ways of dealing with continuing inequality experienced by students, who may be at the receiving end of paternalism and parochialism. This article focuses on interviews conducted with teaching and learning practitioners collected during a larger national project on the potential of emerging technologies to achieve qualitative learning outcomes in differently placed South African higher education institutions. An analysis of the interviews indicated that while these lecturers were portrayed as innovative educators, using emerging technologies to enhance their pedagogy, issues of paternalism and parochialism inevitably affected teaching as a practice of care. The findings showed that without self-reflexivity and critical engagement with issues of power and control, including choice of technology, there exists danger that teaching could be paternalistic, leading to disempowerment of students and a narrow parochial focusing on the studentteacher dyad. What also emerged from the findings was that interdisciplinary teaching and student-led cross-disciplinary learnng has the potential to mitigate parochialism in the curriculum. Vivienne Bozalek, Kathleen Watters & Daniela Gachago 260
Is the behaviour analysis interview just common sense

Summary: TheBehaviour Analysis Interview (BAI)is aninterviewprotocol developed by JohnE. ReidandAssociates togenerate different reactions in guilty and innocent suspects. Even though research has questioned the usefulness of the BAI protocol (Vrij et al., 2006), many law enforcement officials are trained in the BAI every year. Two studies were conducted to examine whether the BAI recommendations are in line with lay participants’ beliefs about the correlates of guilt or innocence. In Study 1, the participants read the transcriptions of two BAIs and had to indicate which one corresponded to the guilty suspect. Virtually all the
The interaction of core-collapse supernova ejecta with a companion star

Context. The progenitors of many core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to be in binary systems. After the SN explosion in a binary, the companion star may suffer from mass stripping and be shock heated as a result of the impact of the SN ejecta. If the binary system is disrupted by the SN explosion, the companion star is ejected as a runaway star, and in some cases as a hypervelocity star. Aims. By performing a series of three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations of the collision of SN ejecta with the companion star, we investigate how CCSN explosions affect their binary companion. Methods. We use the BEC stellar evolution code to construct the detailed companion structure at the moment of SN explosion. The impact of the SN blast wave on the companion star is followed by means of 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations using the STELLAR GADGET code. Results. For main-sequence (MS) companion stars, we find that the amount of removed stellar mass, the resulting impact velocity, and the chemical contamination of the companion that results from the impact of the SN ejecta strongly increases with decreasing binary separation and increasing explosion energy. Their relationship can be approximately fitted by power laws, which is consistent with the results obtained from impact simulations of Type Ia SNe. However, we find that the impact velocity is sensitive to the momentum profile of the outer SN ejecta and, in fact, may decrease with increasing ejecta mass, depending on the modeling of the ejecta. Because most companion stars to Type Ib/c CCSNe are in their MS phase at the moment of the explosion, combined with the strongly decaying impact effects with increasing binary separation, we argue that the majority of these SNe lead to inefficient mass stripping and shock heating of the companion star following the impact of the ejecta. Conclusions. Our simulations show that the impact effects of Type Ib/c SN ejecta on the structure of MS companion stars, and thus their long-term post-explosion evolution, is in general not dramatic. We find that at most 10% of their mass is lost and their resulting impact velocities are less than 100 km s-1.
Estimating Tax Noncompliance With Evidence from Unaudited Tax Returns

This article estimates the degree of tax noncompliance using evidence from unaudited tax returns. Measurements of noncompliance are derived from the relationship between reported charitable contributions and reported income from wages and salary as compared to alternative reported income sources such as self-employment, farm and other small business income. Assuming that the source of one's income is unrelated to one's charitable inclinations and that the ratio of true income to taxable income does not vary by income source, any difference in the relationship between charitable contributions and the source of income can be attributed to (relative) underreporting by the individual. We find that the implied amount of noncompliance is significant and that it varies by source of income, as well as between positive and negative values of each type of income. Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007.
A Study of the Travel Information Resources, Destination Image, and Behavioral Intention of College Students on Kenting

The purpose of this study is to understand the college students of their to tourism destination information sources, image, and the revisit behavioral intention. In this study, non-random sampling method was used, 416 valid questionnaires were collected from college students who had visited the Kenting Area (the famous coastal resort in southern Taiwan). After statistical analysis, the study found: 1. The source of tourism information for college students is "have been to the Kenting tourism recommended by friends and families" is the highest. 2. In terms of destination image, "pleasant summer climate for activities in waters" is the highest. 3. The “TV & Newspaper report”, “others recommended and comment”, "marine ecological environment", and "entertainment" have predict power on behavioral intention. This study not only puts forward the management suggestions to the marine tourism industry, but also provides the government sectors with the strategy of strengthening the destination image.
Estimating the magnitude and correlates of poverty using consumption approach in Khyber Agency (FATA)

Poverty is an integral part of the human condition, though its existential aspects differ from culture to culture and from region to region. As such, experts on the subject cannot reduce it to a single factor but focus on the forces which combine to cause the vicious cycle of poverty. The present study was used Poverty consumption approach to find out the incidence and correlates of poverty in Khyber Agency, Fata with a sample size of 110 households in its background. We have applied two different methods, poverty profile and an econometrics approach in our empirical analysis. According to the survey results, 48.1 % households are above and 51.9 % households are below poverty line. The depth and severity of poverty are 10.52% and 3.7% respectively. The results show that dependency ratio, persons per room, household size and age of head of the household have positively affected the level of poverty while household’ landholding, total assets of the household and earning members per household have negatively the incidence of poverty. The results of logistic model show that age of the households head, household size, household head is illiterate, household head is farmer, residence in kacha house was positively and significantly correlated with the probability being poor while households satisfaction with education facilities and household have members in abroad for income purpose are negatively and significantly correlated with the probability of being poor. Our final conclusion is that the people of the area may be introduced to new patterns of thinking to change their lives for the better. Awareness programs may be launched to prepare the new generation for the changes and challenges ahead. In this regard, the women of the area may be educated and empowered to enable them to actively participate in income-generating activities on sustainable grounds. Keywords: Poverty, households, FATA, Pakistan
Determination of the Structural Lineaments in the Kribi-Campo-Ma’an Area from a Multi-Scale Analysis of Gravity Data Using the HGM and Euler 3D Deconvolution Approaches

With the aim to produce a detailed structural map and then enhance the geological information of the south-western Cameroon, a field gravity study is carried out in the Kribi-Campo-Ma’an area (SW Cameroon). This study area is assumed to undergo pending active tectonics as witnessed by several earthquakes [1]. Besides, the area has been affected by some shears that gave rise to many major faults including the Kribi-Campo Fault (KCF). This N-S lineament is an active fault corresponding to the NW margin of the CC [2] [3] and related to the development of the Kribi-Campo basin. The gravity data analysis enables to highlight many deeply-seated structural features trending in the NE, NNE, N-S, NNW, NW and E-W directions in this region. The NW-SE trend is more strongly developed than the other identified trends and could have deeply affected the major NNE structure. The NNE-SSW to N-S fractures and faults which are local relays of the Kribi-Campo fault are related to the Kribi shear zone. The fairly good clustering observed on local maxima of the horizontal gradient magnitude enables to suggest that the contacts outlined have vertical to subvertical dips. However, a probable interpretation of these features is that they are vertical to subvertical faults which follow the aforementioned directions. The location of the study area in the gulf of Guinea suggests that it sustains tectonics related both to the equatorial and the south Atlantic oceans opening.
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein is associated with 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure variability in type 2 diabetes and control subjects

Abstract Background and Aim: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) has been associated with hypertension (HTN) and elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), but the possible implication of blood pressure (BP) variability in increasing hsCRP in T2DM are incompletely understood. We aimed to assess the association between hsCRP and BP variability during 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring in T2DM and healthy control subjects. Material and Method: The cross-sectional study included data from T2DM patients with normal BP (n=9), controlled HTN (n=46), uncontrolled HTN (n=20), and healthy controls (n=11). HsCRP was assessed using ELISA technique. All subjects underwent 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring; BP variability was calculated using standard deviation. Results: We found that hsCRP was associated with daytime and 24-hours systolic and diastolic BP variability. Higher hsCRP were observed in T2DM patients with uncontrolled HTN and high BP variability compared to the other three groups. In multiple regression analysis, hsCRP was predicted by daytime and 24-hour diastolic BP variability. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that high hsCRP was associated with increased ambulatory BP variability in T2DM and control subjects. The contribution of both hsCRP and BP variability to cardiovascular risk stratification in T2DM needs to be evaluated in prospective studies.
Strongly interacting Majorana modes in an array of Josephson junctions

An array of superconducting islands with semiconducting nanowires in the right regime provides a macroscopic implementation of Kitaev's toy model for Majorana wires. We show that a capacitive coupling between adjacent islands leads to an effective interaction between the Majorana modes. We demonstrate that, even though strong repulsive interaction eventually drives the system into a Mott insulating state, the competition between the (trivial) band insulator and the (trivial) Mott insulator leads to an interjacent topological insulating state for arbitrary strong interactions.