Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Time 0 Void Evolution and Effect on Electromigration

In this study, an Electromigration (EM) acceleration test was conducted at 150 oC ambient temperature with 12A current. The solder joint was made of SAC305. Time 0 void evolution was observed by X-ray. A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) based on Atom Flux Divergence (AFD) and vacancy concentration were introduced. The detail of simulation process is given. The results show that location and size play an essential role in EM failure. On the cathode side of a solder ball, the void position would slightly increase the TTF, temperature and current density, However, a larger void size will significantly increase the TTF, temperature and current density. On the anode side, time 0 void barely affects the TTF, temperature and current density. Avoiding the time 0 void on the substrate side will significantly improve the EM performance because the Cu pad is thicker than Cu trace in general.
Pollination of caged hybrid seed red rape with Osmia cornuta and Apis mellifera ( Hymenoptera Megachilidae and Apidae )

Osmia cornuta was tested as a pollinator of caged hybrid red rape for seed production in comparison to A. mellifera. Nine screen cages were set up, each to enclose ten plants of red rape. Four cages were provided with 40 O. cornuta (10 females and 30 males). In each of other four cages a small nucleus (ca. 400 workers) of A. mellifera was introduced. To estimate seed yields without pollinators, no bees were introduced in the ninth cage. After bloom, seed yield, seed germination percentages after 5 and 7 days, and seed weight were measured. Osmia cornuta readily visited red rape flowers, and pollinated them successfully. The O. cornuta cages produced a 1.5-fold increase in seed yield compared to A. mellifera cages. Seed quality was similar in O. cornuta and A. mellifera cages. The “no pollinator” cage produced few seeds, and of low quality. Red rape seems to be a suitable plant on which to rear O. cornuta, since the O. cornuta population released was increased by 1.2-fold.
Anti CCP and Anti MCV Antibodies are Marker of Arthritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Scleroderma

Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibodies (ACPA) has been reported as more specific serological markers of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). They provide a superior alternative to the Rheumatoid Factor (RF) test in laboratory diagnostics of RA [1]. Different studies suggest that the enzymatic citrullination and the production of ACPAs may also be associated with other inflammatory arthritis-associated autoimmune diseases [2].
The Structure and Dynamics of the HF-Pumped Ionosphere Based on a Joint Analysis of the Artificial Airglow Spots and Two-Dimensional Maps of the Total Electron Content

The paper carries out preliminary processing of experimental data for August 29, 2016, obtained during joint measurements of artificial variations in the total electron content of the ionosphere on a network of 20 GNSS stations located within a radius of 400km from the “Sura” facility, mainly in eastern and southeastern directions, and artificial airglow in the 630nm red line of atomic oxygen, stimulated by powerful radio emission from the “Sura” facility. A direct comparison between the images of artificial airglow spots and TEC maps is presented. Dynamic spatial-temporal picture of the TEC variations in the heating region of the HF-pumped ionosphere, where plasma waves are generated, capable of accelerating electrons to the excitation potential of optical levels is obtained.
Enabling Ultra-Thin Die to Wafer Hybrid Bonding for Future Heterogeneous Integrated Systems

The recent developments of wafer-to-wafer bonding technology based on direct assembly of inorganic dielectric materials is offering a path for the continuous need for higher integration density and lower interconnect pitches. However, numerous applications could benefit of a higher degree of design flexibility offered by a die-to-wafer approach. The achievement of high yielding die-to-wafer bonding with micron range die overlay is an essential element to unlock the potential of heterogeneous integration.
A P ] 3 J un 2 01 9 G LOBAL EXISTENCE AND WAVE BREAKING PHENOMENA OF SHALLOW WATER MODELS WITH TIME DECAYING SOLUTIONS

Abstract: A family of Camassa-Holm type equations with a linear term and cubic and quartic nonlinearities is considered. Local well-posedness results are established via Kato’s approach. Conserved quantities for the equation are determined and from them we prove that the energy functional of the solutions is time-dependent. If such coefficient is positive, then the energy functional is a monotonically decreasing function of time, bounded from above by the Sobolev norm of the initial data, and all solutions of the equation are dissipative. Sufficient conditions for the global existence of solutions are described. The existence of wave breaking phenomena is also investigated and necessary conditions for its existence are obtained. In our framework the wave breaking is guaranteed, among other conditions, when the coefficient of the linear term is sufficiently small, which allows us to interpret the equation as a linear perturbation of some recent CamassaHolm type equations considered in the literature. 2010 AMS Mathematics Classification numbers: 35A01, 35L65, 37K05.
Cervical Screening Research Consortium. Adverse psychological outcomes following colposcopy and related procedures: a systematic review. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2016, 123(1), 24-38

24 Objectives To estimate prevalence of post-colposcopy physical after-effects and investigate 25 associations between these and subsequent psychological distress. 26 Design Longitudinal survey. 27 Setting Two hospital-based colposcopy clinics. 28 Population Women with abnormal cytology who underwent colposcopy (+/related 29 procedures). 30 Methods Questionnaires were mailed to women 4-, 8and 12-months post-colposcopy. Details 31 of physical after-effects (pain, bleeding and discharge) experienced post-colposcopy were 32 collected at 4-months. Colposcopy-specific distress was measured using the Process Outcome 33 Specific Measure at all time-points. Linear mixed effects regression was used to identify 34 associations between physical after-effects and distress over 12-months, adjusting for socio35 demographic and clinical variables. 36 Main outcome measures Prevalence of post-colposcopy physical after-effects. Associations 37 between presence of any physical after-effects, awareness of after-effects and number of after38 effects and distress. 39 Results 584 women were recruited (response rate=73%, 59% and 52% at 4, 8 and 12-months, 40 respectively). 82% of women reported one or more physical after-effect(s). Multiple physical 41 after-effects were common (two after-effects=25%; three after-effects=25%). Psychological 42 distress scores declined significantly over time. In adjusted analyses, women who experienced all 43 three physical after-effects had on average a 4.58 (95% CI 1.10 to 8.05) higher distress scored 44 than those who experienced no after-effects. Women who were unaware of the possibility of 45 experiencing after-effects scored significantly higher for distress during follow-up. 46 Conclusions Prevalence of physical after-effects of colposcopy and related procedures is high. 47 The novel findings of inter-relationships between awareness of the possibility of after-effects, 48 and experiencing multiple after-effects, and post-colposcopy distress may be relevant to the 49 development of interventions to alleviate post-colposcopy distress. 50 51
Quality of life after esophagogastrostomy plus gastrojejunostomy reconstruction following proximal gastrectomy : a comparative study of three surgical procedures

Objective: We have previously reported a novel reconstruction method, esophagogastrostomy plus gastrojejunostomy (EGJ), after curative proximal gastrectomy for proximal gastric cancer (PGC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) after EGJ reconstruction in patients with PGC by comparing with other two surgical procedures during a one-year postoperative period. Methods: We investigated a total of 43 PGC patients who underwent radical gastrectomy and had no evidence of recurrence or metastasis 1 year after surgery. Of these patients, 17 were treated with proximal gastrectomy followed by esophagogastrostomy (EG) reconstruction, 12 with total gastrectomy and Roux-en Y (RY) reconstruction and 14 with proximal gastrectomy followed by EGJ reconstruction procedure. The Chinese versions of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Cancer (QLQ-C30) and the site-specific module for gastric cancer (QLQ-STO22) were used to assess changes of QOL based on three different reconstruction methods. Questionnaires were completed at the baseline (before surgery) and 1, 6 and 12 months postoperatively. Results: The mean scores for most of the functional and symptom scales deteriorated significantly at 1 month after surgery and gradually improved afterwards. Global health status, appetite loss and reflux symptoms showed significant differences among three groups at the same follow-up interval. EGJ patients suffered from the least reflux symptoms, which apparently influenced global health status of the EG group. Meanwhile, Up to 75% of RY patients at 1 month and 41.7% at 6 months postoperativelycomplained of serious appetite loss symptom and resulted in poor QOL when compared with the other two groups. Conclusions: Our study showed that EGJ patients had better QOL during a 1-year period after surgeryby not only resolving the syndrome of reflux esophagitis but alsopreserving the distal stomach as well as duodenal passage.
79 3 Antennas and antenna diversity

The antennas are the outermost components in the transmission chain which are deterministically describable and physically manufacturable. However the network performance of the antennas is not dependant on the antenna alone, but on the interaction between antenna and radio environment. This causing the network performance evaluation of the antenna system to be of a stochastic nature. The primary task for the antenna is
Significant Industrial Properties of Enterococcus faecium SFD as a Probiotic and Bacteriocin-Producing Strain

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have long been used in the production of fermented sausages and other meatderived commodities. The purpose of the present study was to determine the technological properties of the newly isolated E. faecium SFD from homemade Egyptian kareish chesse with potential application biopreservatives and probiotic. The strains were studied to evaluate the effects of different ingredients e.g. salt, nitrite, water activity and fat, on the functionality of the strain as well as nitrate reductase, proteolytic, lipolytic, Amylolytic activities and antifungal activity. A series of in vitro fermentation experiments were performed with varying concentrations of NaCl, NaNO2, glycerol and meat fat particles. A low concentration of NaCl (2%, w/v) showed almost no effect on bacterial growth. However, the biomass concentration in the presence of 4 and 6% NaCl was 91 and 72% of the concentration which was obtained when no salt was added. All sodium nitrite concentrations tested (100, 200 and 300 ppm) had little or no influence on both growth and bacteriocin production by E. faecium SFD with the exception of 400 ppm NaNO2. Furthermore, the strain was able to reduce nitrate to nitrite at anaerobic conditions and showed proteolytic activities as revealed by clear haloes in milk agar. Also an antifungal activity was detected against Fusarium proliferatum, F. culmorum, F. moniliforme and F. oxysporum. The restrictive and inhibitory effects of nitrite, salt and fat on the growth of bacteria investigated were not very marked, and there were no significant differences between the separate or combined action of salt and nitrite. [Sahar F. Deraz, Mohammed G. Shehata, Ashraf A. Khalil. Significant Industrial Properties of Enterococcus faecium SFD as a Probiotic and Bacteriocin-Producing Strain. Life Sci J 2015;12(3):82-91]. (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 11
Sharp adaptive estimation in sup-norm for d-dimensional Hölder classes

In this paper, our aim is to estimate an anisotropic function in the framework of the Gaussian white noise model. We suppose that the function belongs to an unknown d-dimensional Hölder class. We evaluate the performance of an estimator by the sup-norm risk. We find the exact asymptotics of the adaptive minimax risk and construct asymptotically adaptive estimators.
The syntax of the evidential particle ʃ ikil in Jordanian Arabic

This research investigates the syntax of the particle ʃikil in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It argues that this particle expresses indirect evidentiality, i.e. the speaker relies on indirect evidence (e.g. inference, third-party reports, etc.) as the information source for his proposition. The study also argues that ʃikil heads Moodevidential Phrase (cf. Cinque 1999) and is endowed with a set of unvalued, uninterpretable Φ-features. The valuation of such features is morphologically realized as an inflectional suffix on ʃikil, expressing the same Φ-content of the element that ʃikil agrees with. Additionally, the current research shows that T0 (and ʃikil) in JA can agree with the object in active voice as long as the object is a topic situated in the low IP area (cf. Belletti 2004), c-commanding the thematic subject. Evidence coming from the casesensitive personal pronouns demonstrates that the object in such cases is assigned nominative case (by T°), which, we suggest, overrides the object’s accusative case, already assigned by little v0 prior to its movement to the low IP area. *
The Effect of Authoritarian Regime Type on Exchange Rate Policy

Conventional wisdom holds that autocracies are more likely than democracies to adopt interventionist and protectionist economic policies, including fixed and undervalued exchange rates. This article suggests that this view is only partially correct: nondemocracies are a heterogeneous grouping, and only some types of authoritarian regimes adopt different foreign economic policies from those of their democratic counterparts. Using the example of exchange rate policy, the authors show that foreign economic policy varies across monarchic, military, and civilian dictatorships. More specifically, they hypothesize that monarchies and military regimes are more likely than democracies and civilian dictatorships to maintain fixed exchange rate regimes because the former regimes have smaller “selectorates” than the latter. The authors also expect that monarchies and civilian dictatorships maintain more undervalued exchange rates than democracies and military regimes because the former regimes provide their leaders with greater tenure security than the latter regimes. These hypotheses are evaluated using a time-series–cross-sectional data set of a large sample of developing countries from 1973 to 2006. The statistical results accord with these predictions. These findings indicate that the ways in which democracies engage with the global economy may be less unique than many believe.
Optimal Monetary Policy with Output and Asset Price Volatility in an Open Economy: Evidence from Kenya

This paper attempts to establish optimal response of monetary policy to output, in ation and asset price volatility in a small open economy, taking into account optimisation behaviour of households and rms. The empirical analysis suggest that monetary policy responds to deviation of interest rate and output growth rate from their targets with greater weight compared to asset prices and in ation. The analysis also show that commitment to a monetary policy rule achieves output and in ation objectives as well as a higher level of welfare compared to discretionary monetary policy rule. JEL Classi cations: E3,E32,G1
Factors favoring psychological resilience an 10 ng fostered young people

Few studies have examined factors in an out-of-home care sample and explicitly tested these in a predictive model. The purpose of our study was to build an exploratory predictive model of psychological adjustment, detlned in terms of anxiety and physical aggression. Participants comprised 220 young people, aged 14 to 17, residing in Ontario, Canada. Selected predictors consisted of the factors most commonly thought to f.wor positive psychological adjustment among young people. A series of hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted to test predictive models ofpsychological adjustment. The findings revealed a signiticant association between lower levels of anxiety and higher-quality relationships with the female caregiver, a greater number of close friendships, and higher self-esteem. Less frequent physically aggressive behaviors were associated with a smallernumber ofprimary caregivers, higher-quality relationships with the female caregiver. a greutcr number of close friendships, higher self-esteem, greater use ofapproach coping strategies, and less frequent 11se ofavoidant coping strategies. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Key. ·ords: Resilience (psychological); Foster children; Out-of-home care; Emotional adjustment; Behuvi'>r problems
Performance of Several Present Weather Sensors as Precipitation Gauges

In addition to determining the types of weather, a present weather sensor also reports on the precipitation amount and rate, thus it can function as a precipitation gauge. In this work, the performance of several present weather sensors operating as precipitation gauges is studied. The present weather sensors included in this study are OTT Parsivel, Vaisala PWD22 and Qualimetrics/AWI POSS (Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System). The precipitation accumulations reported by these present weather sensors are compared to that of a number “traditional” precipitation gauges, with a Geonor gauge in a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) double fence serving as a reference. To gain a broader perspective, the comparison is carried out under various conditions such as different precipitation types and intensities. It is hoped that the results will help to shed light on the question of whether a present weather sensor can be a viable replacement of a traditional precipitation gauge.
Further on the diet of wintering Long-eared Owls Asio otus in northern Israel

In Israel, the Long-eared Owl Asio otus was classified as a scarce to uncommon resident in most low lying regions of the country and to some extent a rare to scarce migrant; and also as a winter visitor (Shirihai 1996). In recent years in Israel, the species has established further breeding populations and its numbers have increased greatly since 2002 with breeding pairs spreading into suburban and urban habitats (Dovrat & Meyrose 2005). They have also spread extensively into the Negev desert (Leader et al 2008). It was previously suggested that raptors (Mendelson & Yom-Tov 1987) and Long-eared Owls (Yosef 1997) in northern Israel subsist during the winter period mostly on the very common Field Vole (Microtus socialis guentheri). Since these preliminary studies of wintering birds, Leader et al (2008) have studied the diet of Long-eared Owl breeding pairs in the northern and central Negev desert, and Kiat et al (2008) described feeding specializations of an urban Long-eared Owl pair in Jerusalem. Following intensive attempts to eradicate voles in the northern parts of Israel and a steady decline in the number of wintering Long-eared Owls at a traditional roost site there (Yesod Hamaala), we considered it important to document whether there have been any obvious dietary changes so that pressures on the owls’ wintering site could be better understood. Mikkola (1983) considered pellet analysis to be a reliable technique that reflected the species’ diet.
Studies to enhance the shelf life of tomato using aloe vera and neem based herbal coating

The present study was carried out to evaluate the ability of Aloe gel based herbal coatings to reduce the loss of post harvest quality in Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L. ). Unripe green to reddish Tomato fruits were coated with different formulations of Aloe vera gel, Neem extract, Salicylic acid and citric acid. The coated and uncoated fruits were stored under different physiological conditions to slow down the ripening process. Visual, Firmness and sensory characteristics and marketability were analyzed at regular intervals during the storage period. It was found that the coatings controlled the physiological loss in weigh (PLW), ripening process and decay to a great extent and thus resulted in extended shelf life and better quality of Tomatoes. The effectiveness of Aloe vera gel coating was found to improve on incorporation of citric acid and neem extract.
Toward a New Process-Based Indicator for Measuring Writing Fluency: Evidence from L2 Writers' Think-Aloud Protocols

This article reports on a study aimed at testing the hypothesis that, because of strategic and temporal variables, composing rate and text quantity may not be valid measures of writing fluency. A second objective was to validate the mean length of writers' translating episodes as a process-based indicator that mirrors their fluent written production rather than the factors that may be related to it. The translating episode is defined as any chunk that has been written down and terminated by a pause of three or more seconds or by any composing behaviour. Data for the study were drawn from the think-aloud protocols generated by 30 Egyptian university students writing in their second language (L2) and from their retrospective interviews. To examine the validity of the three indicators, the participants' composing rates, text quantity, and translating episodes were related to their scores on an argumentative writing task and on three linguistic tests. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm the hypothesis tested and provide evidence for the validity of this newly developed indicator of writing fluency. Implications and suggestions for further research are presented.