Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
In situ stress field of eastern Australia

New in situ data based on hydraulic fracturing and overcoring have been compiled for eastern Australia, increasing from 23 to 110 the number of in situ stress analyses available for the area between and including the Bowen and Sydney Basins. The Bowen Basin displays a consistent north-northeast maximum horizontal stress (sH) orientation over some 500 km. Stress orientations in the Sydney Basin are more variable than in the Bowen Basin, with areas of the Sydney Basin exhibiting northnortheast, northeast, east‐west and bimodal sH orientations. Most new data indicate that the overburden stress (sV) is the minimum principal stress in both the Bowen and Sydney Basins. The Sydney Basin is relatively seismically active, whereas the Bowen Basin is relatively aseismic. Despite the fact that in situ stress measurements sample the stress field at shallower depth than the seismogenic zone, there is a correlation between the stress measurements and seismicity in the two areas. Mohr-Coulomb analysis of the propensity for failure in the Sydney Basin suggests 41% of the new in situ stress data are indicative of failure, as opposed to 13% in the Bowen Basin. The multiple pre-existing structural grains in the Sydney Basin further emphasise the difference between propensity for failure in the two areas. Previous modelling of intraplate stresses due to plate boundary forces has been less successful at predicting stress orientations in eastern than in western and central Australia. Nonetheless, stress orientation in the Bowen Basin is consistent with that predicted by modelling of stresses due to plate boundary forces. Variable stress orientations in the Sydney Basin suggest that more local sources of stress, such as those associated with the continental margin and with local structure, significantly influence stress orientation. The effect of local sources of stress may be relatively pronounced because stresses due to plate boundary forces result in low horizontal stress anisotropy in the Sydney Basin.
The impacts of academic patenting on paper publication: A quantity-quality examination

This paper examines the relationship between academic patenting and academic publication. Previous studies provided little investigation of how the quality and quantity of academic patent inventors may further influence their quantity and quality of paper publication. This paper explores four hypotheses to examine the impacts of patenting on publication. This paper collects the patenting and publishing data of 395 academic patent inventors from 5 major universities in Taiwan from 2002 to 2006. Our analysis indicates that better patents will breed more and better papers. More patents generate better but not more papers. The paper concludes that generating better patents can mutually reinforce the further publication.
Intuitive Interaction with Complex Artefacts

This paper addresses the application of intuitive interaction to interface design. Intuition is based on experiential knowledge and people can only use intuitive processing if they have previous experience to draw on. Previous research has revealed that prior knowledge of features of a digital camera and a universal remote control allowed participants to use those features intuitively. An experiment was conducted to test various interfaces applied to the universal remote control. The interfaces were designed according to principles developed previously. Users were video recorded doing set tasks with one of the four remote control interfaces. The video data were later analysed using Noldus Observer VideoPro software. All of the new interfaces were found to be quicker and more intuitive to use than the default interface provided by the manufacturers. By applying the principles of intuitive interaction developed previously, it was possible to increase the intuitive usability of the product.
Working Memory Deficits After Lesions Involving the Supplementary Motor Area

The Supplementary Motor Area (SMA)—located in the superior and medial aspects of the superior frontal gyrus—is a preferential site of certain brain tumors and arteriovenous malformations, which often provoke the so-called SMA syndrome. The bulk of the literature studying this syndrome has focused on two of its most apparent symptoms: contralateral motor and speech deficits. Surprisingly, little attention has been given to working memory (WM) even though neuroimaging studies have implicated the SMA in this cognitive process. Given its relevance for higher-order functions, our main goal was to examine whether WM is compromised in SMA lesions. We also asked whether WM deficits might be reducible to processing speed (PS) difficulties. Given the connectivity of the SMA with prefrontal regions related to executive control (EC), as a secondary goal we examined whether SMA lesions also hampered EC. To this end, we tested 12 patients with lesions involving the left (i.e., the dominant) SMA. We also tested 12 healthy controls matched with patients for socio-demographic variables. To ensure that the results of this study can be easily transferred and implemented in clinical practice, we used widely-known clinical neuropsychological tests: WM and PS were measured with their respective Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale indexes, and EC was tested with phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks. Non-parametric statistical methods revealed that patients showed deficits in the executive component of WM: they were able to sustain information temporarily but not to mentally manipulate this information. Such WM deficits were not subject to patients' marginal PS impairment. Patients also showed reduced phonemic fluency, which disappeared after controlling for the influence of WM. This observation suggests that SMA damage does not seem to affect cognitive processes engaged by verbal fluency other than WM. In conclusion, WM impairment needs to be considered as part of the SMA syndrome. These findings represent the first evidence about the cognitive consequences (other than language) of damage to the SMA. Further research is needed to establish a more specific profile of WM impairment in SMA patients and determine the consequences of SMA damage for other cognitive functions.
Effi cacy of electrospun bionanofi bers as fumigant pesticides in foodstuff storage

Essential oils as alternative synthetic pesticides for pest management of foodstuff s have recently received increased attention. Controlled and slow release formulations of essential oils are used to enhance their effi ciency. Two volatile essential oils of Mentha piperita L. and Salvia offi cinalis L. were investigated for release rate and mortality percentage by fumigant toxicity against 1st instar larvae of Plodia interpunctella . Electrospinning was used to incorporate various concentrations of essential oils in nanofi bers. Th e essential oils can be released from the nanofi bers for long periods of time, from several days to several weeks. Poly(lactic acid) was used as a green polymer carrier and the essential oils were incorporated into the nanofi bers (8–15v/v% PLA). Insecticidal bioassay revealed that oil-loaded nanofi bers (NFOs) were more toxic than pure essential oils (PEOs) against tested larvae. Th e LC 50 and LT 50 of NFOs were 1.2 and 4 times, respectively, more than PEOs. Our results indicated that PEOs completely lost their insecticidal activity aft er 14 days, whereas at the same period, NFOs had an average of 93% mortality when applied against P. interpunctella . Th erefore, it can be concluded that nanofi bers improved the persistence of the oil. Th is study presents S. offi cinalis has more toxicity and M. piperita had more persistence for controlling the larvae of indian meal moth.
Evaluation of Thyroid Function Test in Sudanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a very common endocrinal disorder with inappropriate hyperglycemia due to either an absolute deficiency of insulin secretion or a reduction in the biological effectiveness of insulin or both. The present study was carried out aiming to evaluate thyroid function in patients with type 2 DM. In this casecontrol study, a total of 90 subjects were recruited to participate, where 45 subjects were diagnosed as type 2 DM as the study group and other 45 subjects were apparently healthy as control group to evaluate the effect of DM on thyroid function. Thyroid dysfunction was evaluated by investigating the subjects for Total tri-iodo– thyronine (T3), Total thyroxine (T4) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). All these parameters were measured by using ELISA technique, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) were measured spectrophotometrically. Statistical analysis was performed using software statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21 using independent samples test, Pearson`s correlation. Independent samples test analyses showed a significant decrease in mean level of T3, T4 (p<0.05) for both, while significant increase was observed in TSH level (p<0.05) when compared with the control group. Person's correlation reveals that there were insignificant positive correlation between FPG, HbA1c and duration of DM with the study parameters (T3 and T4) with p> 0.05 and insignificant negative correlation between FPG, HbA1c and duration of DM with the study parameter (TSH) with p> 0.05. Abnormal thyroid function was found to be higher in type 2 diabetes mellitus subjects when compared to non-diabetic subjects.
Thermal Profiling and Modeling of Hadoop Clusters Using BigData Applications

In this paper, we propose a thermal model called tModel, which projects outlet temperatures from inlet temperatures as well as directly measured multicore temperatures rather than deploying a utilization model. We perform extensive experimentation by varying applications types, their input data sizes, and cluster sizes. We collect inlet, outlet, and multicore temperatures of cluster nodes running a group of big-data applications. The proposed thermal model estimates the outlet air temperature of the nodes to predict cooling costs. We validate the accuracy of our model against data gathered by thermal sensors in our cluster. Our results demonstrate that tModel estimates outlet temperatures of the cluster nodes with much higher accuracy over CPU-utilization based models. We further show that tModel is conducive of estimating the cooling cost of data centers using the predicted outlet temperatures.
Enhancing deregulated distribution network reliability for minimizing penalty cost based on reconfiguration using BPSO

This researchpsilas focus is on the description and solution one of the distribution companies (DISCOs) optimization problem in deregulated distribution systems. In this paper it is assumed according to the contract, DISCOs must pay a penalty cost (PC) to its customers if any interruption happens in the service continuity. Determination of minimum PC configuration based on reconfiguration using binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) is suggested. Test results based on a typical sample network have shown that the proposed feeder reconfiguration method can effectively reduce the PC value in the network, and the BPSO technique is efficient in searching for the optimal solution.
Analysis of the Effects of Water Management Strategies and Climate Change on the Environmental and Agricultural Sustainability of Urmia Lake Basin, Iran

In arid and semi-arid areas, unsustainable development of irrigated agriculture has reduced the water level of large lakes such as Aral, Urmia, Hamoon, and Bakhtegan. Urmia Lake, as a hyper saline and very shallow lake, located in the northwest of Iran, has water level reductions of about 40 cm each year over the past two decades. In this research, the indices of environmental and agricultural sustainability are evaluated using performance criteria influenced by climate change and water management strategies for the Zarrinehrud and Siminehrud River basins as the largest sub-basin of Urmia Lake basin. Modeling of hydrologic behavior of these basins is performed using WEAP21 model. The model is analyzed for three future emission scenarios (A2, A1B, and B1), for the period of 2015–2040 and five water management scenarios: (1) keeping the existing situation; (2) crop pattern change; (3) improving the conveyance and distribution efficiency; (4) combining the improvement of conveyance and distribution efficiency with improving the application efficiency using modern technology; and (5) the combination of crop pattern change with the improvement of total irrigation efficiency. The results show that the highest values of indices of environmental sustainability and agricultural sustainability are related to the scenario of combining the crop pattern change with improving the total irrigation efficiency under the B1 emission scenario (B1S4).
miR-99 regulates normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal

The microRNA-99 (miR-99) family comprises a group of broadly conserved microRNAs that are highly expressed in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (LSCs) compared with their differentiated progeny. Herein, we show that miR-99 regulates self-renewal in both HSCs and LSCs. miR-99 maintains HSC long-term reconstitution activity by inhibiting differentiation and cell cycle entry. Moreover, miR-99 inhibition induced LSC differentiation and depletion in an MLL-AF9–driven mouse model of AML, leading to reduction in leukemia-initiating activity and improved survival in secondary transplants. Confirming miR-99’s role in established AML, miR-99 inhibition induced primary AML patient blasts to undergo differentiation. A forward genetic shRNA library screen revealed Hoxa1 as a critical mediator of miR-99 function in HSC maintenance, and this observation was independently confirmed in both HSCs and LSCs. Together, these studies demonstrate the importance of noncoding RNAs in the regulation of HSC and LSC function and identify miR-99 as a critical regulator of stem cell self-renewal.
India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export

This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et al (2003) and De Rosa (2007) in analyzing the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze Indias trade flows (exports and imports) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner or both are members. Clearly this is of interest, since, from 1991 India is aggressively negotiating and concluding PTAs of which South Asian preferential trade (and later free trade) agreement is the most prominent. We find that India is not well served by its pursuit of PTAs and should instead push for multilateral trade liberalisation by contributing to conclusion of the Doha round of negotiations with an agreement beneficial to all WTO members. The second and the more recent strand is the analysis of trade flows using data on exports of individual firms. It is well known that in all countries of the world relatively few firms participate in world trade, thus suggesting that characteristics of a firm (such as its size and productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This strand is rapidly growing. Ours is one of the very few attempts at modeling and estimating the decision of Indian firms on their participation using firm level data. The paper reports on our preliminary results. We have also collected primary data from a sample survey of firms to explore this issue deeper. While these data are yet to be fully analyzed, nevertheless some preliminary descriptive tables summarizing them are included in an Appendix.
Experimental Characterization of the Inline-Screw-Feeding Vacuum-Arc-Thruster Operation

A CubeSat-class micropropulsion system is being developed at the Aerospace Plasma Laboratory, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, called the inline-screw-feeding vacuum-arc thruster (ISF-VAT). The ISF-VAT couples a conventional VAT triggerless ignition geometry with an active feeding system that mechanically drives the cathode propellant in a periodic helical motion. The thruster performance is found to be highly regular for at least 700 000 pulses, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\approx 12$ </tex-math></inline-formula> h of continuous operation, with good pulse to pulse repeatability. The measured average thrust-to-power ratio is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\approx 3~\mu \text{N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>/W. Observations of the cathode and insulator erosion patterns show that while the cathode electrode geometry is maintained by the feeding system, the ceramic insulator is also being consumed. The maximum insulator erosion rate was determined to be <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\approx 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>/7 of the cathode consumption rate. The thruster lifetime is, therefore, determined by the length of the insulator.
Dynamics and depinning of the triple contact line in the presence of periodic surface defects

We propose an equation that describes the shape of the driven contact line in dynamics in the presence of an arbitrary (possibly random) distribution of the surface defects. It is shown that the triple contact line depinning differs from the depinning of interfaces separating two phases; the equations describing these phenomena have an essential difference. The force–velocity dependence is considered for a periodical defect pattern. It appears to be strongly nonlinear both near the depinning threshold and for large contact line speeds. This nonlinearity is comparable to experimental results on the contact line depinning from random defects.
Liquidity Insurance in a Financially Dollarized Economy

Unlike the financial dollarization (FD) of external liabilities, the dollarization of domestic financial assets (domestic FD) has received comparatively less attention until very recently, when it has been increasingly seen as a key source of balance sheet exposure. This paper focuses on a complementary %u2013and often overlooked%u2013 angle of domestic FD: the limit it imposes on the central bank as domestic lender of last resort, and the resulting exposure to dollar liquidity runs. The paper discusses the incidence of FD on banking crisis propensity, shows that FD has been an important motive for self insurance in the form of international reserves, and highlights the moral hazard associated with centralized reserve accumulation. Next, it illustrates the authorities%u2019 belated recourse to suspension of convertibility in two recent banking crises (Argentina 2001 and Uruguay 2002). Finally, it argues for a combined scheme of decentralized reserves (liquid asset requirements on individual banks) to limit moral hazard, and an ex-ante suspension-of-convertibility clause (%u201Ccircuit breakers%u201D) to reduce self-insurance costs while limiting bank losses in the event of a run.
Automated SMT-based consistency checking of industrial critical requirements

With the ever-increasing size, complexity and intricacy of system requirements specifications, it becomes difficult to ensure their correctness with respect to certain criteria such as consistency. Automated formal techniques for consistency checking of requirements, mostly by means of model checking, have been proposed in academia. Sometimes such techniques incur a high modeling cost or analysis time, or are not applicable. To address such problems, in this paper we propose an automated consistency analysis technique of requirements that are formalized based on patterns, and checked using state-of-the-art Satisfiability Modulo Theories solvers. Our method assumes several transformation steps, from textual requirements to formal logic, and next into the format suited for the SMT tool. To automate such steps, we propose a tool, called PROPAS, that does not require any user intervention during the transformation and analysis phases, thus making the consistency analysis usable by non-expert practitioners. For validation, we apply our method on a set of timed computation tree logic requirements of an industrial automotive system called the Fuel Level Display.
Instabilities in Spin-Polarized Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

We report a first comprehensive theoretical analysis of optically pumped spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, which combines the spin-flip model with the largest Lyapunov exponent technique to determine regions of stability and instability. The dependence of these regions on a wide range of fundamental device parameters is investigated, and results were presented in a new form of maps of the polarization versus the magnitude of the optical pump. We also reveal the importance of considering both the birefringence rate and the linewidth enhancement factor when engineering a device for high-frequency applications.
Dynamical Adjustment of the Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature Field: Methodology and Application to Observations*

AbstractThe influence of atmospheric circulation changes reflected in spontaneously occurring sea level pressure (SLP) anomalies upon surface air temperature (SAT) variability and trends is investigated using partial least squares (PLS) regression, a statistical method that seeks to maximally explain covariance between a predictand time series or field and a predictor field. Applying PLS regression in any one of the three variants described in this study (pointwise, PC-wise, and fieldwise), the method yields a dynamical adjustment to the observed NH SAT field that accounts for approximately 50% of the variance in monthly mean, cold season data. It is shown that PLS regression provides a more parsimonious and statistically robust dynamical adjustment than an adjustment method based on the leading principal components of the extratropical SLP field. The usefulness of dynamical adjustment is demonstrated by applying it to the attribution of cold season SAT trends in two reference intervals: 1965–2000 and 192.
Design of Dual-Band Omnidirectional Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna

Design of a dual-band omnidirectional cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) using TM011 and TM012 modes is investigated in this letter. The limit of frequency ratio is found, and formulas that determine the dimensions of the DRA from two given frequencies have been provided. To verify the theory, a dual-band omnidirectional cylindrical DRA operating in 3.5-GHz WiMAX and 5.8-GHz WLAN bands is designed and tested. The reflection coefficient, radiation pattern, and antenna gain are studied, and reasonable agreement between measurement and theory is observed.
Performance Evaluation of Fuel Cell and Microturbine as Distributed Generators in a Microgrid

This paper presents dynamic models of distributed generators (DG) and investigates dynamic behaviour of the DG units within a microgrid system. The DG units include micro turbine, fuel cell and the electronically interfaced sources. The voltage source converter is adopted as the electronic interface which is equipped with its controller to maintain stability of the microgrid during small signal dynamics. This paper also introduces power management strategies and implements the DG load sharing concept to maintain the microgrid operation in standalone, grid-connected and islanding modes of operation. The results demonstrate the operation and performance of the microturbine and SOFC as distributed generators in a microgrid. Keywords: Microgrid, Distributed Generation, Microturbine, Fuel Cell