Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adaptive mechanical tolerance and dislodgement velocity of the kelp Laminaria japonica in wave-induced water motion

Adaptive mechanical tolerance of Laminaria japonica to water motion was examined by field transplant and laboratory flow-tank experiments. L. japonica attaching to plastic plates were obtained at mid-water platforms sheltered from and moderately exposed to wave action. The envi- ronmental water velocities were determined during the cultivation period and transplant experiment using ultrasonic flow meters and available offshore wave height records. When transplanted to 3 depth sites with different intensities of wave-induced water motion, almost all the 'sheltered' plants were dislodged from the plastic plates by waves within 5 d, while most of the 'exposed' ones remained attached even at the shallowest depth 72 d after transplantation. This difference in mechanical tolerance was quantified by a flow-tank experiment conducted in sinusoidal oscillatory flows: 50% of the 'sheltered' plants were dislodged at a velocity amplitude of 0.8 to 0.9 m s -1 , while all of the 'exposed' plants persisted even at 1.1 m s -1 . The maximum water velocities encountered by the transplants were estimated using ultrasonic flow meter records and the period-averaged water speeds, which were determined by correlating water velocity with decreased mass of gypsum blocks. These estimates coupled with the observed survivorships at the transplant sites were consistent with the results of the flow-tank experiment. Attachment strength increased significantly as the holdfast grew for the 'exposed' plants but was constant for the 'sheltered' ones. In addition, the 'sheltered' plants had a short, wide, undulated blade which resulted in higher drag while the 'exposed' plants had a long, narrow, flat blade and thereby lower drag. Despite the marked difference in tolerance to water motion, the frequency distribution of the root-mean-square water velocity experienced by plants during the growth period was only 0.05 m s -1 higher at the exposed culture station than at the sheltered one, suggesting the presence of a critical velocity in developing the adaptive mechanical tolerance. The observed dislodgement velocity for the 'sheltered' plants was considerably lower than predicted from general hydrodynamic theories describing attachment strength of a thallus stretched out in the direction of flow. This indicates that detailed dynamic behaviors of plants should be explored to predict the wave-induced mechanical failure in large, flexible algae such as L. japonica.
Elevated self-esteem 12 months following a 10-day developmental voyage

The following article examined elevated self-esteem as a function of a 10-day developmental voyage. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 demonstrated that participants who completed the voyage experienced elevated self-esteem. Study 2 replicated and extended these results insofar as it revealed that (a) elevated self-esteem was maintained 12 months following the voyage; and (b) increasing levels of perceived self-efficacy and belonging (as assessed on the last day of the voyage), but not social support, each made a unique contribution to these effects. Together, these findings provide converging evidence to suggest that a 10-day developmental voyage upon the Spirit of New Zealand promotes elevated self-esteem that is maintained over time, and that perceived self-efficacy and belonging contribute to this outcome.
THE EFFECT OF PLANT QUALITY ON SURVIVAL OF LYMANTRIA DISPAR (LEPIDOPTERA: LYMANTRIIDAE) LARVAE INFECTED BY BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS BERLINER

In this study the influence of plant secondary compounds on the survival rate of Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) which was infected with Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 subsp. kurstaki was investigated using four different plant species, Elaeagnus rhamnoides (L.) A. Nelson, Quercus cerris L. 1753, Corylus maxima Mill. and Crataegus monogyna Jacq. The highest survival rate was seen on the larvae which fed on the E. rhammoides that had the highest protein rate. The highest mortality rate was seen on the larvae which fed on the C. monogyna that had the lowest protein rate. Maximum deaths of the larvae infected by each food set occurred on the second day. These deaths were observed in larvae that fed on the lowest protein amount plant. We have discovered that survival rate correlated with gallotanen amounts. The survival rate of the larvae infected fed on E. rhammoides that have the highest gallotanen amount were higher than other diets. Our results showed that in the larvae which were treated with Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki the survival rate positively correlated with proantosiyanidin (condensed tannin) and total phenolic content.
TheMiocene genusMantellina (Bivalvia: Limidae) discovered living on the deep reefs off Curaçao, with the description of a new species

Mantellina translucens n. sp. inhabits the deep reefs (215–310 m) off southeastern Curaçao, occurring singly or in pairs, attached to vertical rock walls and boulders by thin byssal threads. This species differs from all living Limidae in having an exceptionally thin, comarginally corrugated shell that is longer than tall and lacks radial sculpture. This new species possesses a unique suite of characters associated with adaptations to an epibyssate mode of life in bathyal habitats, including simplification of the digestive tract, possibly indicating omnivory. It is assigned to the genus Mantellina Sacco, 1904, previously known only from fossil deposits of Burdigalian to Serravallian Miocene age of the Central Paratethys, on the basis of similar shell morphology. Anatomical characters and ribosomal DNA sequence data (18S and 16S genes) confirm placement of this taxon within the family Limidae, yet its shell superficially resembles those of several genera of the extinct family Inoceramidae, while differing in hinge morphology and shell ultrastructure. A preliminary molecular phylogeny recovered Limidae as a monophyletic clade within Pteriomorphia, with Mantellina derived relative to Limaria, and sister group to a clade containing the remaining representatives of Limidae. Ctenoides was not monophyletic. The phylogenetic tree based on molecular data does not support previously proposed suprageneric relationships based on morphological data.
Survey for fungal decaying archaeological wood and their enzymatic activity.

Fungi play a considerable role in deterioration/degradation of cultural heritage due to their enormous enzymatic activity. A total of 112 fungal isolates were identificated from selected archaeological wood objects located at different areas (Islamic Art Museum, Storage area of Cheops's Solar Boat, Excavation of Saqqara and Grand Egyptian Museum). Aspergillus spp. were predominant in all investigated samples. Thirty seven fungal isolates were screened for cellulases, pectinases and ligninases activity. Aspergillus brasiliensis Varga, Frisvad et Janos and Penicillium duclauxii Delacroix exhibited high cellulolytic activity while Aspergillus amstelodami (Mangin) Thom and Cruch and Aspergillus parasiticus Speare have high pectinolytic activity. Seven fungal species showed ligninolytic potential activity based on their ability to oxidize dyes.
The growth-IPRs nexus in OPEC member countries: An empirical investigation

This study employs a parsimonious model of economic growth to investigate the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection on the economic growth of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member countries. The growth model is estimated in the context of the Hausman-Taylor estimation technique in an annualized panel data framework. The principal finding suggests that IPRs per se are not an important factor in explainingthe economic growth of OPEC member countries. However, the interaction between IPRs and trade has exerted a positive and significant impact on the economic growth of OPEC member countries.
Geologic Mapping of Ice Cave Peak Quadrangle, Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah with Implications from Mapping Laramide Faults

Geologic Mapping of Ice Cave Peak Quadrangle, Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah with Implications from Mapping Laramide Faults Gabriel J. Poduska Department of Geological Sciences, BYU Master of Science Geologic mapping (1:24,000 scale) of the Ice Cave Peak quadrangle, Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah has produced a better understanding of the geologic structures present in the quadrangle and has increased our understanding of faulting in northeastern Utah. Map units in the quadrangle range in age from late Neoproterozoic to Quaternary and include good exposures of Paleozoic rocks (Mississippian to Permian), limited exposures of Mesozoic rocks, and good exposures of Tertiary strata (Duchesne River Formation and Bishop Conglomerate) deposited during uplift of the Uinta Mountains. Lower Mississippian strata along the south flank of the Uinta Mountains have typically been mapped as Madison Limestone. Our preliminary mapping suggested that the Madison could perhaps be subdivided into an upper unit equivalent to the Deseret Limestone, and a lower unit separated by a phosphatic interval equivalent to the Delle Phosphatic Member of the Deseret Limestone found farther west. Upon further investigation, we propose not extending the use of Deseret Limestone, with the equivalent to the Delle Phosphatic Member at its base, into the south-central Uinta Mountains. Microprobe analysis revealed no phosphorus in thin sections of this unit. Instead, the unit is composed almost entirely of calcite and dolomite. A zone of northwest-trending faults, called the Deep Creek fault zone, occurs mainly east of the Ice Cave Peak quadrangle. However, our mapping shows that this fault zone extends into the quadrangle. These faults are both strike-slip and normal/oblique faults as documented by mapping and kinematic indicators and cut the folded hanging-wall sedimentary rocks above the Uinta Basin-Mountain boundary thrust fault. These faults may be part of an en echelon fault system that is rooted in the Neoproterozoic and reactivated during Laramide deformation above a possible transfer zone between segments of the buried boundary thrust.
Analysis of Management Support and Teaching Practices for the Implementation of New Elementary Science Curriculum in Islamabad Model Schools

This descriptive study aimed at exploring the teaching practices of elementary science teachers and the support provided by the management of 80 Islamabad Model Schools, after introducing new textbooks based on science curriculum 2006. The curriculum enforces the dissemination of content through student centered and inquiry based teaching approach for conceptual development of the students. It is important because this approach facilitates students to understand the included themes of Science, Technology, Society and Environment in the textbooks and to make them able to integrate the scientific concepts in real life situations. In this respect, the data were taken from the schools’ heads and science teachers through questionnaires, while some heads were also interviewed about the actual application of the curriculum. They also suggested ways to remove the hurdles regarding the improvement of science education. The correlated results were presented by analyzing the effects of the school’s profile, the teacher’s profile and the support of management on the practices of the science curriculum. The positive values are seen in some of the practices, which reflected the potential of teachers in pedagogical skills, while management support was often seen in the teaching of science contents. For this, they believed in the participation of teachers, parents, students and other schools and more often facilitate teachers for concept building of the students, but rarely recommended teachers for trainings. In the interview, they commented that the science teaching practices may be improved by teacher training, timely delivery of textbooks, available resources for the induction of dropout students and controlling school security threats.
Seismic hazard and deaggregation assessment at the nuclear power plants (NPP) sites in Spain using an updated seismological database

In this paper we present the results obtained in the seismic hazard reassessment at the sites, in the free field, of the seven Spanish nuclear power plants (NPPs), six of them are still operative till date. The computation was done using the spatially-smoothed seismicity approach, and an updated seismic catalog. In most cases, the results do not greatly differ from those previously reported. In addition, at two of these locations where the hazard levels were higher, we carried out a seismic deaggregation study. We were thus able to determine the characteristics of the seismicity responsible for seismic hazard in terms of distance, magnitude and azimuth. The results obtained show that seismic hazard at the Cofrentes NPP is entirely due to close-range seismicity (< 70 km), whereas hazard at the Almaraz NPP is due to earthquakes located from 190 to 350 km away. A clear limitation of this work is the fact that we cannot include into our seismic hazard assessment, at this stage, paleoseismic information for the Spanish NPP sites.
BaPtSi 3 : A noncentrosymmetric BCS-like superconductor

By investigations of phase relations in the alloy system Ba-Pt-Si at 900 ° C we observe the formation of the compound BaPtSi3, which crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric BaNiSn3 structure type. Its space group is I4mm with the tetragonal lattice parameters a = 0.440942nm and c = 1.00132nm for the arc-melted compound annealed at 900 ° C. The characterization of the physical properties of BaPtSi3 reveals a superconducting transition at 2.25 K with an upper critical field at T =0 K of 0.05 T. For analyzing the electronic structure, density-functional theory calculations are performed yielding very good agreement between theory and experiment for the structural properties. From relativistic electronic-structure calculations, Fermi surface nesting features are found for two characteristic double sets of bands. The spin-orbit splitting of the relativistic electronic bands is in general rather small at Fermi energy and, therefore, superconductivity adheres to an almost undisturbed BCS state.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PARALYMPIC ATHLETES’ SELF-REALISATION

The Paralympic sport has become an important tool for post-traumatic recovery, adaptation, integration and social inclusion of people with disabilities. Disabled people involvement into sports activities has important social implications not only for a person but also for society as a whole. Due to relative "youth" of the Paralympic sports, there are no enough studies aimed at creation of necessary scientific support not only for full-scale trainings and competitions of Paralympic athletes, but also for provision of full integration of Paralympians into society with the means of the Paralympic Sports, which is extremely important. High importance of psychological and socio-psychological research in this context is obvious. The article presents the results of our research aimed at identifying of common characteristics and factors of Paralympic athletes’ self-realization in order to promote the efficiency of trainings and competitions and full-scale integration into society
Educating Swedish telenurses to improve caller experience: Reflections on a pilot study

Telenurses employed at Swedish Healthcare Direct offer triage recommendations and self-care advice to the general public over the telephone on a wide range of health problems. Their understanding of work and ability to communicate are essential for callers’ adherence to recommendations and satisfaction with the service. This paper presents and reflects upon an educational intervention for Swedish telenurses which aimed to improve caller experience. Twelve telenurses participated. Six were randomised to an intervention group, the other six to a reference group. The nurses in the intervention group individually listened to, and reflected on their authentic calls together with one of the researchers on five to six separate occasions. Callers’ experiences were surveyed using a postal questionnaire sent within 48 hours of their call, both before and after the intervention. Descriptive and comparative statistics as well as content analysis were used in the analysis of the questionnaires. The most striking finding was that the educational intervention did not seem to have any effect on outcomes of the telenurses calls. Other findings revealed that a large group of callers, about 20%, did not find the call useful and only 50% to 60% of the callers reported that they had learned something from the call. Callers’ most frequent unfulfilled expectations centred on not being referred to a physician, and a perceived low level of competence among telenurses. The modest impact of the intervention on the services of telenursing may have been due to the participating nurses, the organisation, or the design of the intervention. Lessons have been learned that need to be taken into account in future and more large scale studies.
War-related trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder prevalence among undergraduate students in Iraq in 2010

Objectives: Determining the prevalence rates of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among undergraduate students in the University of Kerbala in Iraq and its association with students’ demographic variables.Methods: A cross-sectional self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among one third undergraduate students in the University of Kerbala in Iraq in 2010 (5446 students). The questionnaire used depended on a reliable and valid source PTSD check list-civilian (PCL-C) questionnaire.Results: The internal reliability of the 17 questions about PTSD symptoms in the PCL-C section was high (Cronbach’s α was 0.90). More than three quarters (79%) of the undergraduate students reported life-time exposure to trauma, and this was significantly more among males (15% higher). Road traffic accidents formed the majority of accidents (71%) while war-related traumas were reported in about one fifth of the participants. On the contrary, PTSD prevalence was low (3%), and it was more common among female and younger students, however, PTSD symptoms were common (>30%). The reasons behind low PTSD prevalence in Iraq and surrounding countries might be related to sociocultural factors and higher population resilience. Finally, a prediction model suggested through structural equation modelling incorporating all potential predictors showed gender as the sole significant predictor.Conclusion: Four fifths of undergraduate students were exposed to life-time trauma mostly road traffic accidents, and these were more among males. War-related trauma was also prevalent among one third; however, PTSD was at a much lower prevalence and more in females. Accident management premises should keep mental drawbacks in mind on treating violence victims.
Fractional powers of closed operators and the semigroups generated by them.

Fractional powers of closed linear operators were first constructed by Bochner [2] and subsequently Feller [3], for the Laplacian operator. These constructions depend in an essential way on the fact that the Laplacian generates a semigroup. Phillips [6] in fact showed that these constructions (for positive indices less than one) were part of a more general one based on the Kolmogoroff-Levy representation theorem for infinitely divisible distributions. Finally, the present author constructed an operational calculus [1] for infinitesimal generators affording in particular a systematic study of the representation and properties of these operators. In this paper we obtain a new construction for fractional powers in which it is not required that the base operator generate a semigroup; indeed its domain need not even be dense. Since the semigroup is not available, the previous constructions, based as they are on the RiemannLiouville integrals, are not possible. However, we shall show, if the resolvent exists for λ > 0, and is O(l/λ) for all λ, (a weaker condition will suffice at the origin, see § 7), then fractional powers may still be constructed, using an abstract version of the Stieltjes transform. It is immediate that a closed operator A, for which ||λiZ(λ, A)\\ < My does not necessarily generate a semigroup of any type. For a simple example, let the Banach space be 12( — oo, oo) and let A correspond to multiplying the nth coordinate by n(l + i) say. Then for λ > 0, \\R(XJA)\\ < i/lΓ/λ, whereas A does not generate a semigroup, since no right-half plane is free of the spectra of A. An example in which A has no spectra in the right half plane and yet no semigroup is generated is given by Phillips [4]. The main motivation for the construction of fractional powers is the application to abstract Cauchy problems of the type:
Scaling limit of a limit order book model via the regenerative characterization of L\'evy trees

We consider the following Markovian dynamic on point processes: at constant rate and with equal probability, either the rightmost atom of the current configuration is removed, or a new atom is added at a random distance from the rightmost atom. Interpreting atoms as limit buy orders, this process was introduced by Lakner et al. to model a one-sided limit order book. We consider this model in the regime where the total number of orders converges to a reflected Brownian motion, and complement the results of Lakner et al. by showing that, in the case where the mean displacement at which a new order is added is positive, the measure-valued process describing the whole limit order book converges to a simple functional of this reflected Brownian motion. Our results make it possible to derive useful and explicit approximations on various quantities of interest such as the depth or the total value of the book. Our approach leverages an unexpected connection with Levy trees. More precisely, the cornerstone of our approach is the regenerative characterization of Levy trees due to Weill, which provides an elegant proof strategy which we unfold.
Growth Performance in Dromedary Camels under Two Feeding Regimen

This work was designed to evaluate the effect of diet on camels growth rate and daily gain. Forty five camels (18-24 months) of age, average weight at 225±35 kg were utilized in this study. The camels were divided into two groups, zero browsing group (15Darfuri &10 Butana) fed complete ration composed of (sorghum,50%; groundnut cake15%,molases10%,wheatbran5%,dura husk5%,urea2%, bagas12% and Common salt1%). The 2nd group was a free browsing camel (11Darfuri &9 Butana) without any supplement. The animals were weight weekly for 120 days after two weeks that served as adaptation period. The results revealed a significant increase (p< 0.05) in mean body weight and average growth rate in zero browsing groups (321.5± 38.5) as compared to free browsing group (272 ±32.3). The average total gain was almost double in zero browsing groups than free browsing groups. However, no significant differences were observed in weight gain, dry matter intake and feed conversion ratio between Darfuri & Butana in zero browsing groups. It is concluded that the dietary complete ration effect significantly on camel's growth rate and daily gains, and promote their body condition.