Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mesoscale variability in phytoplankton biomass distribution and photosynthetic parameters in the Canary-NW African coastal transition zone

ABSTRAff: Pigment distribution and photosynthesis versus irradiante (P-E) responses in the rnixed layer (ML) and in the chlorophyil maximurn (CM] were examined in the coastal transition zone (CTZ) between the NW African coastal upwelling and the Canary Islands during August 1993. The sampling included 2 island-generated eddies in the lee of the archipelago and an upwelling filament from the Afncan continental shelf, entrained around a cyclonic eddy about 100 km width. Chiorophyii a and P-E pararneters (a, P,) showed reqonal differences refleding changes in the water column structure and phytoplankton species composition. The deep CM shoaied from -100 to -10 m as the African shelf was approached, and there was a clear offshore-onshore transition in the verticaiiy integrated chlorophyli distribution and P-E responses related to the upwelling front. CM oceanic samples presented high a (0.020 to 0.042 mg C mg-' chl h-' [pmol m-' S-']-') and photomhibition. indicating adaptation to low irradmnce. Differences between CM and ML in P-E responses decreased in the vicinity of the upwelling untu they eventuaiiy became indistinguishable in a well-rnixed station on the continental sheif. Island-generated eddies affected mainly the productivity and chlorophyli distributions at the deep CM. Nutrient input in the eddy center resulted in an increase of a in the CM to the leve1 of the upwellmg samples (-0.053 mg C mg-' chl he' [wol m-' S-']-'). On the basis of the mesoscaie variability in the physical structure of the water column and the vertical distribution of chlorophyil, the CTZ was divided into 4 subregions with characteristic photosynthetic pararneters. Average integrated production in these areas vaned from -100 mg C m-' d-' m the most oligotrophic subregion to more than 500:: mg m-2 d-l . be upwe--ly zuiie. T;ie raiige vaA*'iioii &le p~otosymi'ne~c pararneiers in this CTZ was of the sarne magnitude as ranges observed in basin-scale studies of the Atlantic. Integrated produdion estimates are also in the lower and higher extremes of the observed values in the ocean. Our results highlight the importante of addressing the variability of the photosynthetic parameters in coastal upweiiing-open ocean transition zones in order to model primary production at regional scales.
Evaluation of uterine condom catheter tamponade in management of atonic postpartum haemorrhage in poor responders to medical management

Background: Postpartum haemorrhage is major cause of obstetric morbidity and mortality. It is estimated that worldwide, 1 woman dies every 4 minutes due to postpartum haemorrhage. The incidence is said to be approximately 4% in vaginal deliveries and 7% in caesarean deliveries. The most common cause of postpartum haemorrhage is uterine atony which accounts for 80% cases of PPH. In patients poorly responding to medical management and before major surgical intervention and hysterectomy is envisaged, uterine tamponade is reasonable option for management of PPH. The condom catheter has been shown to be effective in managing severe PPH, and is a simple, cheap and quick intervention which may prove valuable in resource-poor countries. However, limited data is available regarding efficacy of uterine condom catheter tamponade. In this study, authors hypothesized that uterine condom catheter tamponade will reduce the need for surgical intervention by 70±10% for management of atonic PPH in patients who respond poorly to medical management.Methods: Prospective data of 26 women who went into atonic Primary PPH was collected over period of one year.Results: Out of 26 women who had atonic PPH, 12 were inserted with condom balloon catheter after medical management. Success rate was 11/12 (91.7%). Conclusions: Authors conclude that uterine condom catheter tamponade is 91.7% effective in controlling atonic postpartum haemorrhage poorly controlled with medical management, and hence is effective in averting laparotomy on 91.7% such patients.
The Effects of Business Intelligence on the Effectiveness of the Organization (Case Study: Airline Companies in Iran)

Given the increasing competition between airlines companies in the country and equipping them with modern information technologies, establishment of knowledge management system in airline industry can increase the effectiveness of business intelligence system and lead to effectiveness of this industry. The aim of this study was to identify the effects of strategy, structure, processes and organizational culture on the effectiveness of organization and mediating role of business intelligence systems in Iran’s airline companies. Statistical society includes all airlines of Iran. For sampling, non-random judgmental sampling method is used. In order to study the research hypotheses, structural equation methods have been used. Questionnaire tools were used for gathering the data. Stability of the questionnaires used in the present study was calculated higher than 0.7 in term of Cronbach alpha, confirming the validity. The results showed that there is a positive and significant effect between variables of strategy, structure, and organizational culture on the effectiveness of the organization and business intelligence systems in Iran’s airlines and that there is not a significant relationship between organizational variables and organizational effectiveness.
Management of pharmaceutical waste in hospitals in Serbia – challenges and the potential for improvement

Background: Left over medication widely used in hospitals for the treatment of various diseases including malignant illnesses, stand to represent a hazardous form of healthcare waste. According to regulations in the Republic of Serbia dating back to 2009, all healthcare facilities are obligated to separate, label and safely put away said leftover medication, i.e. forward it to authorised operators in order to be securely shipped and properly taken care of abroad. Pharmaceutical waste can lead to dire consequences on a patient’s or medical employee’s health, as well as cause simultaneous damage to the environment, both work and not. The main aim of this research is the assessment of the state of Serbian hospitals as is, from the perspective of dealing with pharmaceutical waste. Also, the research’s objective is to examine the factors that affect the way healthcare waste is handled and the respectful aftermath of their alterations in healthcare institutions. Methods: For the realization of this survey, a special questionnaire was developed, concocted with regard to the margins set out by WHO, in order to promptly assess the management of healthcare waste in hospitals, which had beforehand been pretested. The research was carried out as a cross-sectional study of the representative hospital sample of the secondary and tertiary level of healthcare facilities in the public domain, in November 2014. Results: The questionnaire was completed by 60 hospitals, which typifies a representative number of said facilities in the Republic of Serbia and which covers more than 85% of inpatient capacity within the public sector’s network of healthcare hospitals defined by the Bylaw (referred to as the Network of healthcare facilities in Serbia). Conclusion: Tertiary level hospitals, meaning clinical centres, clinicalmedical centres and institutes that offer highly specialized healthcare services and have an admittedly larger number of hospital beds, have a more evolved system of sorting pharmaceutical waste and do away with grander amounts of it on a yearly basis. Establishing a safe and law-abiding management of pharmaceutical waste in hospitals will come to wholly enhance the management of hazardous waste in the healthcare system.
On zeta regularization and some of its uses in cosmology

Zeta regularization has been proven to be a fine, powerful and very reliable tool for the regularization of the vacuum energy density in ideal situations. With the additional help of the Hadamard calculus, we have shown it to yield also finite and physically meaningful answers in more involved cases, as when imposing physical boundary conditions in two‐ and higher‐dimensional surfaces, being then able to mimic in a convenient way other ad hoc cut-offs, as non-zero depths. These recent developments are described in the first part of this pr esentation. Recently, those techniques have also been used in calculations of the contribution of th e vacuum energy of the quantum fields which are presumably pervading the universe, to the cosmological constant. Naive calculations of the absolute contributions of all known fields lead to a value which is off by roughly 120 orders of magnitude, as compared with the results obtained from observational fits, what is known as the new cosmological constant problem. This is very difficult to solve and we address here such issue only indirectly, by means of some specific examples.
Impact of Capital Structure on Firm Value: Evidence from Indian Hospitality Industry

This study examines the effect of capital structure and firm quality on firm value of selected BSE listed Indian hospitality firms over a time frame of 2001-15. Variables including firm quality measured through Altman Z score, leverage, size, profitability, tangibility, growth, liquidity along with macro variables of growth in gross domestic product and inflation are taken into consideration for examining their impact on firm value. An empirical study has been carried out through panel data techniques by applying pooled OLS, fixed effects and random effects models. The findings of the study reveal a significant relationship of firm value with firm quality, leverage, liquidity, size and economic growth. The study shows that Modigliani miller theorem of capital structure irrelevance does not hold for Indian hospitality sector. It is of practical significance for hotel owners to reassess their capital structure to improve firm quality and firm’s market performance.
Normalising least angle choice in Depthmap - and how it opens up new perspectives on the global and local analysis of city space

Depthmap embodies a theory of the city, as well as being a method for analysing the city. By solving outstanding problems of the normalisation of measures, most notably syntactic choice (mathematical betweenness), to permit comparison of cities of different sizes, we can gain new theoretical insights into their spatial structuring.
An exploratory analysis of quality of working life in the banking sector

Nowadays Quality of Working Life (QWL) has been considered an additional advantage since satisfied employees can produce more and better, and consequently they can improve the profitability of the companies. In this context, this paper presents an exploratory analysis of QWL in the banking sector, which was conducted in a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A hybrid QWL evaluation model was used based on existing models and scientific studies in the literature, incorporating current characteristics of the banking sector. Cronbach’s alpha and item-to-total correlations analysis were conducted in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. Mann-Whitney U test was conducted in order to examine the differences in QWL according to perception of male and female workers, and Quartile analysis was used to identify the most critical issues. As a result, special attention should be dedicated to the critical questions, but also considering some questions on which there is a difference in the workers’ perception of QWL concerning gender.
Determinants of smallholder farmers' participation in banana markets in Central Africa: the role of transaction costs

A bivariate probit model was employed to jointly and separately estimate banana market participation decisions of buying and selling households in Rwanda and Burundi using household survey data. Selectivity bias was corrected for estimating the transacted volumes using Heckman's procedure. The results showed that transaction cost-related factors such as geographical location of households, market information sources, and travel time to the nearest urban center influence market participation. Non-price-related factors such as security of land tenure, labor availability, off-farm income, gender of the household head, and years of farming experience had a significant influence on the transacted volumes. Output prices had a significant correlation with sales volume, indicating price incentives increased supply by sellers. Generally, the findings suggest that policies aimed at investments in rural road infrastructure, market information systems, collective marketing, and value addition of banana products may provide a potential avenue for mitigating transaction costs and enhancing market participation and production of marketed surplus by rural households. Copyright (c) 2010 International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Shopping Motivation on Purchase Intention: Can Loyalty Program and Corporate Image Enhance Such Relationship?

Previous studies of shopping motivation as well as research to classify the various customers into group or types. This present study intends to take the first steps towards the development of shopping motivation may have effect on purchase intention with moderating role of loyalty program and corporate image in hypermarket format. The sample of 228 undergraduate and post graduate student where they had visited a hypermarket. Hierarchical regression was conduct to analysis that such of relationship. In this study was divided into 4 model including control variable, predictor variable, two way interaction and three way interaction. The result indicated that shopping motivation was statistically significant can increase purchase intention. Loyalty program and corporate image as not moderating variable, because the two interactions is not significant. However, loyalty program can affect independently (as predictor variable) on purchase intention. Shopping motivation and loyalty program may be the good combination of marketing strategy to increase purchase intention in retail format. In the future research, suggested using another variable such that store atmospheric, promotion strategy or other variable as moderating variable and also general public as respondent is the best sample.
Factors Associated with Mathematics Performance in Brazilian Basic Education

Several studies have indicated that student performance is strongly influenced by school context. Within this frame of reference, the present study sought to identify contextual variables that affect proficiency in mathematics taking the multilevel structure of schools into consideration. The information of 4,338,885 students who participated in the Brazilian national assessment of educational progress of 2009 was used. Multilevel analysis showed an intra-class correlation of . 27 and . 19 for the 5th grade of elementary school and 9th grade of middle school, the last year of middle school. In both models, more than 50% of school level variance and more than 11% of the variance on student level was explained. The final model is composed of control variables, 13 student level variables, 9 school level variables, and random and interaction effects. The results contribute to a better comprehension of factors that affect school performance, which permits the orientation of public policies.
Interaction between task values and self-efficacy on maladaptive achievement strategy use

We tested the interaction between task value and self-efficacy on defensive pessimism, academic cheating, procrastination and self-handicapping among 574 Korean 11th graders in the context of English as a foreign language. We hypothesised that perceiving high value in tasks or domains for which self-efficacy was low would pose a threat to perceived self-worth, leading students to resort to various maladaptive achievement strategies. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that, consistent with our hypothesis, the relationships of task value with academic cheating and procrastination depended on the level of self-efficacy. Perceiving high intrinsic value positively predicted academic cheating for students with low self-efficacy but not for students with high self-efficacy. Likewise, perceiving intrinsic or utility value positively predicted procrastination for students with low self-efficacy but not for students with high self-efficacy. Our findings support the major tenets of self-worth theory.
Socio-genetic structure of mound-building mice, Mus spicilegus, in autumn and early spring

Mus spicilegus has become a popular biological model species in the last decade because of the evolutionary interest of its behavioural particularities (the building of mounds, bi-parental care and monogamous mating system). The genetic structure of M. spicilegus populations should reflect those life-history traits. Although many studies have reported on mound-building mouse populations in the field or in a semi-natural enclosure, only one used hyper variable genetic markers to assess parentage and social structure. In the present study conducted in Hungary, we analysed individuals from seven highly populous mounds in autumn with the set of loci used in a previous study. Our results confirmed that mounds are inhabited by juveniles from several parental units, but revealed population differences. In a capture–recapture field session in spring, we assessed genetic relationships between individuals after dispersal from the mounds, the other key moment of the life cycle of this species. The results indicate that the social structure at this moment reflects a transition phase between the large over-wintering groups and the monogamous pairs described later in the year. Social bounds forged during the long winter cohabitation may have lasting effects on social and genetic structure of this species. This scenario is discussed in respect of the available literature on this species as well as other species. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 93, 689–699.
Analytical model of structures with frictional pendulum isolators

This investigation centres on the development of a mathematically formal description of the dynamic response of structures isolated with the frictional pendulum system (FPS). It is shown that a theoretically ‘exact’ model can be formulated to account for large deformation kinematics and the associated P–Δ effects in the isolators. The problem is of importance in light of the large deformations observed during impulsive ground motions like those that occurred during the Northridge, Kobe, Turkey, and Taiwan earthquakes. Besides, the model developed may be easily extended to other devices with kinematic constraints other than the spherical one corresponding to the FPS. Results of the model are presented for two building examples. The first one deals with the seismic response of a rigid superstructure supported on two FPS isolators and is intended to provide a numerical example of the equations developed in the text. The second example presents the three‐dimensional earthquake response of a nominally symmetric structure supported on four FPS isolators and subjected to different ground motions. Both examples point out that small deformation kinematics may lead, in the case of impulsive motions, to discrepancies in global response quantities, relative to the ‘actual’ response, as large as 30 per cent. These discrepancies increase up to 50 per cent for local response quantities such as normal isolator forces. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Physico-chemical Quality Parameters of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Fruits Grown in a Mediterranean Subtropical Climate (SE Spain)

Mango ( Mangifera indica L.) production is on the rise in various subtropical zones throughout the world. The cultivation of this fruit tree is feasible along the coast of Granada, where some 1,500 ha are presently grown. In 2006, the EU exported 118 thousand tonnes of mangoes at a value of 131 million euros. This study was conducted to assess the physico-chemical quality characteristics of some mango fruit cultivars growing under a Mediterranean subtropical climate in Spain. A number of twenty-five fruits from eight Florida and one Australian cultivars were collected from different trees at the preclimacteric hard-green stage, and weighed. Osteen fruits bore the greatest weight (697 ±95 g) with their pulp:seed ratio ratios (20:2) significantly higher than those in the other cultivars tested. The lowest pulp:seed ratios were recorded for the cultivars Kensington (6.3) and Sensation (7.6). The fruits with the highest percentages of flesh belonged to cvs. Gleen, Palmer, and Osteen, each averaging 85%. The seed-weight of the fruits of cv. Osteen proved the lowest (4.2%) among all the cultivars, confirming the most desirable relationship with the pulp. The highest acidity (0.22%) went to Valencia Pride while Lippens contained the highest Total Soluble Solids (TSS). The TSS:TA ratios proved the highest for cvs. Kent (382) and Lippens (333), which might be indicative of the effect on their flavour. All the mango cultivars tested in this subtropical marginal area, especially cvs. Osteen and Tommy Atkins, met the standard parameters for high-quality fruits, and can be recommended for their performance and sustainable yield in such type of environments.
Anisotropic densifícation of glass powder compacts

Anisotropie densification of glass powder compacts. The sintering of a non-spherical aluminosilicate glass powder was investigatid using a heating microscope. The samples showed shrinkage anisotropy. The densification rate shows a stronger dependence on density than the prediction of Scherer's theory. The ratio of the creep rate due to anisotropic shrinkage to the densification rate shows no significant variation with density but it depends on the degree of shrinkage anisotropy.
Formulations for Estimating Spatial Variations of Analysis Error Variance to Improve Multiscale and Multistep Variational Data Assimilation

When the coarse-resolution observations used in the first step of multiscale and multistep variational data assimilation become increasingly nonuniform and/or sparse, the error variance of the first-step analysis tends to have increasingly large spatial variations. However, the analysis error variance computed from the previously developed spectral formulations is constant and thus limited to represent only the spatially averaged error variance. To overcome this limitation, analytic formulations are constructed to efficiently estimate the spatial variation of analysis error variance and associated spatial variation in analysis error covariance. First, a suite of formulations is constructed to efficiently estimate the error variance reduction produced by analyzing the coarse-resolution observations in one- and two-dimensional spaces with increased complexity and generality (from uniformly distributed observations with periodic extension to nonuniformly distributed observations without periodic extension). Then, three different formulations are constructed for using the estimated analysis error variance to modify the analysis error covariance computed from the spectral formulations. The successively improved accuracies of these three formulations and their increasingly positive impacts on the two-step variational analysis (or multistep variational analysis in first two steps) are demonstrated by idealized experiments.