Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Energy landscape and band-structure tuning in realistic MoS2/MoSe2 heterostructures

While monolayer forms of two-dimensional materials are well characterized both experimentally and theoretically, properties of bilayer heterostructures are not nearly so well known. We employ high-accuracy linear-scaling density functional theory calculations utilizing nonlocal van der Waals functionals to explore the possible constructions of the MoS2/MoSe2 interface. Utilizing large supercells, we vary rotation, translation, and separation of the layers without introducing unrealistic strain. The energy landscape shows very low variations under rotation, with no strongly preferred alignments. By unfolding the spectral function into the primitive cells, we show that the monolayers are more independent than in homo-bilayers and that the electronic band structure of each layer is tunable through rotation, thus influencing hole effective masses.
Fighting for a future: the potential for posttraumatic growth among youths formerly associated with armed forces in Northern Uganda

This article presents the potential of posttraumatic growth (PTG) among youths formerly associated with the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. Through investigating life narratives of 12 such youths, this study aims to discover the potential of PTG as a consequence of a forced time period with the LRA. By means of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), the narratives revealed four themes: social support; participation; self perception, and faith in God. These four themes are found to resemble four of the five factors measuring PTG. Basic values and cultural understanding, however, makes the possibility of PTG very doubtful. Yet, a matching review of the four themes and PTG compose a foundation of how to focus future interventions, with an increased potential for growth, among youths formerly associated with the LRA.
Current taxonomic issues with planktonic representatives of the genus Anabaena (Cyanobacteria) with special reference to their morphological features; literary review

Planktonic representatives of nostocacean genus Anabaena belong to the group of important water-bloom-forming cyanobacteria. Their populations develop mostly in summertime, especially in eutrophicated water bodies. Hence, they can strongly influence the quality of various kinds of surface waters. For clear identification, unambiguous species definition and a complete knowledge of the range of morphological variability of single morphospecies are necessary. This review of the literature summarizes studies connected with the taxonomy of the above mentioned cyanobacterial group, mainly with respect to phenotypic features and morphological variability in relation to changing growth conditions.
The Effect of Feed Regimen on Ascites Induced by Cold Temperatures and Growth Performance in Male Broilers

A trial was conducted to investigate to effects of feed type (pellet and mash) on ascites in broiler. A total of 208 male chicks were used in this study. Pellet and mash feed group were formed in the study, pellet feed group fed on pellet and mash feed group fed on mash feed. Half of the animals from each group were moved to compartment with 16 C after 21 day. Body weights, feed conversion, weight gain and feed o consumption of the chicks were calculated and mortality from ascites was recorded daily. On 42 day, blood samples were collected to determine hematocrit values. End of the study it was determined that feed type has no effect on body weight, weight gain, feed consumption and feed conversion rate. However, mash feed reduced the incidence of ascites.
Cytokeratin Staining to Detect Residual Disease in Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation followed by Esophagectomy for Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer

Thirty percent of patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (neo-CRT) for locally advanced esophageal cancer achieve a complete pathologic response (CPR) based on standard Hematoxylin and Eosin staining (CPR-HE). There is controversy regarding the prognostic value of CPR-HE. Immunohistochemical staining may be useful to detect subtle microscopic residual disease in such patients. We undertook this present study to test this hypothesis. Eighteen consecutive patients who achieved CPR-HE were identified. Seven patients had positive cytokeratin staining; three had microscopic residual disease that was not identified on original hematoxylin-eosin sections. Three of the seven patients (43%) with positive cytokeratin staining had systemic relapse (60 % of patients with systemic relapse). Cytokeratin staining could be a useful adjunct to routine hemaoxylin-eosin staining to identify residual tumor in such patients. The prognostic significance of CPR-CK, however, needs to be validated in a large cohort.
Behavioral Modeling of the Individual’s Acceptance and use of Internet in Bangladesh: An Analysis Using an Integrated Approach

This study attempts to examine individuals’ behavior in the adoption and usage of the Internet for accomplishing various transactions and communication in Bangladesh. A descriptive research design is administered to ascertain the joint impact of the study constructs. A combination of AMOS 18 and PLS graph has been used for structural equation modeling with a cross-sectional dataset of 239 individuals in Bangladesh collected through a questionnaire survey. The proposed model was assessed with two step procedure after scrutiny and correction for non response and subjective response bias. The psychometric properties of the model, convergent and discriminant validity were assessed through confirmatory factor analysis, construct reliability and the constructs correlation. The structural model estimation results reveal a significant association of image with perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and intention while indirect correlation with actual usage through intention. On the other hand, perceived usefulness has direct effects on intention while perceived ease of use is found to be indirectly associated through perceived usefulness. The path analysis furthered the significant effects of intention on actual usage behavior. The study also reports that analysis of the entire dataset with two different a roaches of structural equation modeling produces a consistent result which ensures robustness in the analysis. The study concludes with implications.
Heritability of resistance to bacterial infection in commercial meat rabbit populations.

This study was undertaken to determine if routine observational comments on commercial rabbits, including disease incidence, could be used to identify genetic variation for bacterial infection. In two populations heritability for the infection trait (incidence of bacterial infection) was low but significantly different from zero (0.044±0.010 and 0.034±0.006), when the measurement was treated as a continuous variable. Using threshold models the heritability was higher, in the range of 0.14 to 0.37. The incidence of infection in the populations was 7% (rabbits scored at 10 weeks of age) and 4% (rabbits scored at 9 weeks of age), respectively. There appears to be no significant maternal genetic component for the disease trait. Liveweight was heritable in the two populations (0.180±0.034 and 0.159±0.020, respectively) and showed a significant maternal genetic effect (0.1). The genetic correlation between disease incidence and liveweight was low (-0.13) and could only be estimated in one group. Further studies investigating different statistical approaches are warranted and further work is required to refine the scoring system used and define the optimum age of measurement.
Biased estimates of fitness consequences of brood size manipulation through correlated effects on natal dispersal

Summary 1. Dispersal of parents and offspring in relation to manipulated brood size were analysed in the great tit Parus major (L.) to study the potential confusion between dispersal and survival. The study area consisted of eight woodlots interspersed with nonbreeding habitat. The maximum distance between nestboxes was 10 km. 2. The brood size of pairs with similar clutch size and laying date was manipulated in 3 years when chicks were 2 days old (1995, 1997 and 1998). Three nestlings were removed from one and added to another brood while a third was kept as a control. Offspring were measured, weighed and marked and breeding birds were captured and marked to allow dispersal estimates. 3. For the offspring, dispersal was estimated as the distance between the natal nestbox and the nestbox of first breeding (natal dispersal distance) and, for the parents, as the distance between breeding boxes in two subsequent seasons (breeding dispersal distance). 4. Natal dispersal distance was positively affected by brood size manipulation. This effect was more pronounced in males than in females. Breeding dispersal distance was not affected by manipulation. 5. The practical consequence of this finding is that fitness estimates used to measure selection on brood size did depend on the spatial scale of the study area. For the Lauwersmeer population measured selection pressure changed from positive to stabilizing when I restricted the spatial scale of recovery. Other brood size manipulation experiments may suffer from similar biases in their fitness estimates. 6. The biological consequence of this finding is that, if clutch size has a heritable component, local adaptation of clutch size will depend on the spatial heterogeneity of the habitat.
Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Dating of Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids: Towards Determination of Dietary Reservoir Effects in Humans

When humans consume foods from different radiocarbon reservoirs offset in age to the atmosphere, inaccuracies in the 14C date of bone collagen can occur. Mesolithic human skeletons from the Iron Gates section of the Lower Danube Valley have yielded reservoir offsets of up to ∼500 yr. This has been demonstrated through direct dating of bulk collagen from human bones and the remains of ungulate bone projectile points that were found embedded in them (Cook et al. 2001). We present improvements to a novel HPLC method for the detection and separation of underivatized amino acids using a water-only mobile phase free of organic or inorganic modifiers, ensuring very low carbon backgrounds. Our hypothesis is that direct 14C dating of single essential and non-essential amino acids might allow an improvement in the dating accuracy for reservoir-affected human bones. The method facilitates separation of less polar amino acids (mostly “essential”), currently not possible in the recently published protocol. We discuss methodological developments, demonstrate carbon backgrounds, and present analytical approaches to minimize their effects. We validate the precision and accuracy of the method by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating relatively modern and 14C-dead, known-age bone standards. Finally, we apply the method to the dating of single amino acids from bone samples with a proven ∼500–yr carbon reservoir effect from Mesolithic burials at the Iron Gates sites. We investigate whether differences can be found in AMS dates for essential and non-essential amino acids since, although contemporaneous, these are expected to derive from dietary sources with differing 14C reservoirs.
Introduction: Issues in (Re)Contesting Indigenous Knowledges and Indigenous Studies

The formalised naming and positioning of Indigenous Australian standpoint within the academy is relatively new and borrows from feminist traditions (Nakata, 2002; Rigney, 1997). Articulating one’s own standpoint is recognition of one’s subject position and proponents of standpoint contend that one’s own identity and subject position is implicated in one’s practice within the academy. The ready acceptance of Indigenous Australian standpoint is testimony to the discontent experienced by Indigenous Australians and Indigenous peoples from other places in relation to the disciplines that formerly held principal authority in relation to knowledge-building about Indigenous peoples, chief amongst these is of course anthropology and other social sciences. Off the back of this, Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous Studies are gaining traction, incremental change is revolution without the “r”, and today’s academics who are Indigenous have got the space to centre Indigenous knowledge in our work within the academy. Academics who are non-Indigenous to Australia and other places have also got the opportunity to consolidate their position within the academy on shifted ground. This special supplementary edition of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education offers a significant new contribution to this shifted ground and is guest edited by Sandra Phillips, Jean Phillips, Sue Whatman and Juliana McLaughlin of the Oodgeroo Unit of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The edition is the published outcome from the inaugural (Re)Contesting Indigenous Knowledges and Indigenous Studies Conference hosted by the Oodgeroo Unit in 2006, and the papers bound in this supplementary edition have been blind-refereed and revised for publication. Authors for this Volume submitted from across Australia, South Africa, Norway, Thailand and Canada. This 2006 conference was the first of a series of international conferences planned around the themes of Indigenous studies and Indigenous knowledge. The second conference is being hosted by Jumbunna House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney, in July, 2007, with a third slated for 2008.
Psycho-Demograhic Factors as Predictors of Depression Among Person With Diabete Mellitus

The study examined psycho-demographic factors as predictors of depression among persons with diabetes mellitus in Ibadan metropolis. A cross-sectional survey method was adopted to collect data from two hundred and thirty eight respondents with one hundred and fifteen (48.3%) males; and one hundred and twenty-three (51.7%) females and age ranging from 17 – 74 years with mean (χ) 44.3 years and standard deviation (SD) 12.1. The result of regression analysis suggested that hopelessness, life purpose, and gender were significant independent predictors of depression, while the variables jointly predicted depression; R = . 44; F (7, 237) = 8.12; P < . 005. Also, the variables jointly accounted for 17% (Adj. R 2 = .174) variance on the depression. Low life purpose has a significant influence on depression (t = 3.48; P <.05). In conclusion, the study found that the above psycho-demographic variable has significant influence on depression. Therefore, it was recommended that government, and non-governmental organizations should create more public awareness on the possible effect of those variables that was found to have negative influence on depression in our society.
Molecular gut content analysis demonstrates that Calanus grazing on Phaeocystis pouchetii and Skeletonema marinoi is sensitive to bloom phase but not prey density

The seawater samples were stained with primuline (Direct Yellow 59, Sigma-Aldrich Co), fixed with a solution containing 3.6% (v/v) glutaraldehyde and 10% (v/v) glycerol (final concentrations), and gently filtered onto black-stained 25 mm diameter 0.4-µm pore-size Nucleopore filters. Filters were mounted on slides and analyzed by epifluorescence microscopy. The method is a modification from Grebecki (1962), Hobbie et al. (1977) and Caron (1983) with the glycerol added to reduce the damage of particularly small delicate protists during filtration as described in Sazhin et al. (2007). FlowCAM analysis of mesocosm seawater The FlowCAM was run in autoimage-mode, using 4x magnification to analyze particles ranging between 15 and 1000 µm. The water samples were kept in dim light at 4°C until analyzed, within 4 h after sampling. Each sample was run for ca. 30 min, corresponding to 5.7 ml of analyzed volume. The relevant context capture property chosen to do the analysis was distance to nearest neighbor = 50 µm. All the image collages were manually post-analyzed in order to identify the particles in question. Particle sizes were estimated from area-based diameter determined by the FlowCAM VISP 2.2 software following Jakobsen & Carstensen (2011). Colonies of P. pouchetii are composite clusters of cells spaced in colonies of various sizes. When the colonies are forming dense blooms, the FlowCAM cannot distinguish whether a cluster is a part of colony or if a cluster is a part of a neighbouring colony. The FlowCAM therefore captures clusters of colonies. S. marinoi and P. pouchetii are colonial structures of multiple cells, and we developed scaling relationships between colony area and cell number by manually counting the number of cells in either a diatom chain or a P. pouchetii colony (n > 100) and related the cell number to particle area. We further developed scaling relationships between cluster areas by manually counting the number of cells in P. pouchetii clusters (n > 100). The same procedure was used for estimating S. marinoi cells, where we manually counted the number of cells per chain. The cell numbers were related to either cluster area (P. pouchetii clusters) or chain length (S. marinoi), and the relationships were then used to estimate the total number of P. pouchetii or S. marinoi cells in colonies or chains, respectively, by sample. Cell concentrations were estimated by correcting for the analyzed volume. The resulting regression equation used for estimation the number of P. pouchetii cells in colonies and colony fragments was Cells = ABD 1.834 * 0.028 (R 2 = 0.83), where ABD (area base diameter) is an output parameter from
TAN: Temporal Aggregation Network for Dense Multi-Label Action Recognition

We present Temporal Aggregation Network (TAN) which decomposes 3D convolutions into spatial and temporal aggregation blocks. By stacking spatial and temporal convolutions repeatedly, TAN forms a deep hierarchical representation for capturing spatio-temporal information in videos. Since we do not apply 3D convolutions in each layer but only apply temporal aggregation blocks once after each spatial downsampling layer in the network, we significantly reduce the model complexity. The use of dilated convolutions at different resolutions of the network helps in aggregating multi-scale spatio-temporal information efficiently. Experiments show that our model is well suited for dense multi-label action recognition, which is a challenging sub-topic of action recognition that requires predicting multiple action labels in each frame. We outperform state-of-the-art methods by 5% and 3% on the Charades and Multi-THUMOS dataset respectively.
CYTOGENETIC STUDIES ON A MULBERRY (MORUS SP.) HYBRID OF A CROSS BETWEEN DIPLOID AND TRIPLOID PARENTS.

* R. Ravi Kumara and Basavaiah. Mulberry Breeding and Genetics Laboratory, Department Of Studies in Sericulture Science, University Of Mysore, Manasagangotri , Mysuru -570 006. Karnataka , India . Manuscript Info Abstract . Manuscript History
ANALYSIS OF DEPOSITION FROM PARAFFIN-SOLVENT MIXTURES UNDER TURBULENT FLOW

Paraffin deposition is a common problem in the flow of paraffinic and heavy oils. Solids deposition in the pipe wall results in rising process costs due to an increase in energy cost of pumping, a decrease in production, an increase in pressure on the line and risk pipeline blockage. In this work, a simulator was developed to allow the analysis of paraffin deposition under different operating conditions, to understand the influence of the variables (inlet and external temperatures, wax appearance temperature, composition, and time) on paraffin deposition under turbulent flow. A mathematical model for quantitative prediction of wax deposition for paraffin-solvent mixtures was proposed. The methods used in the estimation of physical, thermal, and transport properties of mixtures were suitable when compared with literature data. The simulator calculated the profiles of temperature and thickness of the deposit, with consistent results. The results showed the important role of operating temperatures in paraffin deposition.
Mechanical Engineering 3-1-1996 Synthesis of Spatially and Intrinsically Constrained Curves Using Simulated Annealing

A general technique is presented for automatic generation of B-spline curves in a spatially constrained environment, subject to specified intrinsic shape properties. Spatial constraints are characterized by a distance metric relating points on the curve to polyhedral models of obstacles which the curve should avoid. The shape of the curve is governed by constraints based on intrinsic curve properties such as parametric variation and curvature. To simultaneously address the independent goals of global obstacle avoidance and local control of intrinsic shape properties, curve synthesis is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem and solved via simulated annealing. Several example applications are presented which demonstrate the robustness of the technique. The synthesis of both uniform and nonuniform B-spline curves is also demonstrated. An extension of the technique to general sculptured surface model synthesis is briefly described, and a preliminary example of simple surface synthesis presented.
USING STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, STUDENT SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE, AND TEACHER SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TO PREDICT STUDENT SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF LUNAR PHASES

OF THESIS USING STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, STUDENT SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE, AND TEACHER SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TO PREDICT STUDENT SPATIAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF LUNAR PHASES Student demographic characteristics of gender and race/ethnicity, students’ spatial-content knowledge as measured by pre-instructional performance on the Lunar Phases Concept Inventory (LPCI) (Lindell & Olsen), and post-instructional performance on the Purdue Visualization of Rotations Test (PSVT-ROT) (Bodner & Guay, 1997), and teachers’ spatial-content knowledge as measured by the two assessments were considered to predict students’ overall understanding of lunar phases as measured by post-instructional results on the LPCI. A mixed modeling approach was used in a hierarchal manner to evaluate the student learning outcomes. Results showed that student gender was not a significant predictor of post-instructional student performance, but students who identified as “Other” for their race/ethnicity were shown to be a significant predictor. When considering preinstructional spatial-content knowledge based on Wilhelm’s four spatial-mathematical domains, Periodic patterns and Spatial Projection were found to be significant predictors, but the domains of Geometric & Spatial Visualization and Cardinal Directions were not found to be significant predictors. Students’ post-instructional performance on the PSVTROT was found to be a significant predictor with student learning outcomes. Repeated Measures ANOVA tests showed that students’ gain scores on the LPCI were significantly different for six of the seven teachers under consideration.