Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Responses of the endangered limpet Patella ferruginea to reintroduction under different environmental conditions: survival, growth rates and life‐history

The mollusc Patella ferruginea, endemic to the Mediterranean, is the most endangered marine species of the list of the European Council Directive 92/43/EEC and it is presently under serious risk of extinction. Survival, growth rates and life‐history of this species were studied for the first time in this species. A total of 570 specimens (420 introduced in a new habitat and 150 as control) were marked and monitored over a three‐year period. Growth rates observed were mainly related to the availability of microalgal food. The mortality rate of transplanted specimens was high (50% mortality immediately after transplant). Seasonality in growth rates was observed in both control and transplanted specimens, with greater growth rates detected in spring‐summer (warm season) than in autumn‐winter (cold season). Smaller specimens of P. ferruginea had the greatest growth rates in comparison with the bigger specimens, therefore the potential ability to adapt in a new habitat was higher for small specimens immediately after removal. An elevated growth rate (appearing as a light‐ring in the border of the shell) was detected immediately after translocation, following which growth rate progressively stabilized over time. Using differential equations and the von Bertalanffy model, the longevity of P. ferruginea was estimated to range between 8.89 and 35.72 years depending on the environment. Transplantation should not be considered as a conservation measure given the elevated mortality rate.
Cancer prevention as a source of exercise motivation: An experimental test using protection motivation theory

The present study examined whether cancer prevention is a meaningful source of exercise motivation using Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). Participants were 427 undergraduate students randomly assigned to read one of 16 persuasive communications that independently manipulated perceived vulnerability (PV), perceived severity (PS), response efficacy (RE) and self-efficacy (SE). A factorial ANOVA indicated a significant main effect for PS and a significant interaction between PS and RE. The interaction was such that individuals who were led to believe that colon cancer was a severe disease (high PS) were more motivated to exercise if they also believed that exercise was effective (high RE) as opposed to ineffective (low RE) in reducing their risk of colon cancer. Conversely, individuals led to believe that colon cancer was not a very severe disease (low PS) were not differentially motivated to exercise based on their RE beliefs. It was concluded that cancer prevention may be a meaningful source of exercise motivation but that further research is required to determine the replicability and generalizability of these results.
Penggunaan Dimethyl Sulfoxide Sebagai Krioprotektan dalam Pembekuan Semen Ayam Kampung (THE USE OF DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE AS CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT FOR NATIVE CHIKEN FROZEN SEMEN)

This study aim was to determine the best dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) concentration for native chicken’s(Gallus gallus domesticus) frozen semen. Semen was collected from three native chickens and then evaluatedmacroscopically and microscopically. Spermatozoa that used in this study had more than 75% spermmotility and more than 25 X 108 mL in sperm concentration. Semen was divided into three equal tubesand each of them diluted with Ringer lactate egg yolk (RLEY) extender consisted of 5, 7 and 9% of DMSO.Diluted semen was added into 0.25 mL of mini straw, then equilibrated at 5 °C for two hours. The semenwas then frozen placed in liquid nitrogen vapors for10 min. Finally, the semen was put into liquid nitrogenwith a temperature of – 196oC. Post thawing quality semen was assessed after 24 hours storage bythawing the straw in warm water (37 °C) for 30 seconds. Data were analyzed using one-way analysis ofvariance. The results demonstrated that the sperm motility and viability diluted with RLEY extenderwith 7% DMSO was better (p<0.05) than those in 5 or 9% DMSO. Semen quality decreased at every stepof freezing, especially between equilibration and thawing. Its concluded that 7% was the best DMSOconcentration for freezing of native chicken semen in Ringer lactate egg yolk extender compared to 5% and9%.
Regularity at the Boundary for Solutions of Nonlinear Subelliptic Equations

In this article we establish an estimate, in terms of subel- liptic p-capacity, for the modulus of continuity at the boundary of the solution to the Dirichlet problem associated to a class of subel- liptic quasilinear equations. We infer from it the sufficiency part of a Wiener type criterion for the regularity of boundary points.
THE EFFECT OF WALL INERTIA ON HIGH-FREQUENCY INSTABILITIES OF FLOW THROUGH AN ELASTIC-WALLED TUBE

We examine the effect of wall inertia on the onset of high-frequency self-excited oscillations in flow through an elastic-walled tube. The previous asymptotic model of Whittaker et al. (Proc. Roy. Soc. A466, 2010), for a long-wavelength high-frequency instability in a Starling-resistor set-up, neglected inertia in the tube wall. Here, we extend this model by modifying the ‘tube-law’ for the wall mechanics to include inertial effects. The resulting coupled model for the fluid and solid mechanics is solved to find the normal modes of oscillation for the system, together with their frequencies and growth rates. In the system and parameter regime considered, the addition of wall inertia reduces the oscillation frequency of each mode, however its effect on the stability of the system is not as straightforward. Increasing wall inertia lowers the mean flow rate required for the onset of instability, and is therefore destabilising. However, at higher flow rates the instability growth rate is decreased, and so wall inertia is stabilising here. Overall, the addition of wall inertia decreases the sensitivity of the system to the mean axial flow rate. The theoretical results show good qualitative and reasonable quantitative agreement with direct numerical simulations performed using the oomph-lib framework.
An Efficient Heuristic Based Test Suite Minimization Approach

Objectives: Development of an efficient test suite minimization approach in order to reduce the size of a previously acquired test suite and produce a new representative suite which will guarantee the same requirement coverage that was achieved before minimization for an effective and efficient regression testing. Method: Test suite minimizations techniques try to reduce the size and redundancy of test suite by removing certain test cases since requirement covered by them are already covered by other test cases. But, it has been found that the acquired test cases after minimization severely lacks ability to achieve the desirable code coverage because the minimization was done based on a single test adequacy criteria. In this paper, we propose an efficient heuristic based test suite minimization algorithm which will reduce the size of the test suites with respective to multiple test adequacy criterions in order to preserve the fault detection effectiveness and code coverage characteristics of the final test suite. Findings: Our experimental results indicate that a significant percentage of reduction in the test suite size is achieved when the minimization is performed with respect to multiple test adequacy criterions. Our approach is unique compared to the existing approaches in the sense that, we carried out minimization based on multiple test adequacy criterions while most of the existing approaches usually take one or two criterions into consideration. The proposed approach is evaluated based on two well known software testing metrics; one indicate the percentage of reduction in test suite size and the second one indicate the percentage of code coverage achieved by the minimized test suite. Our experimental results indicate that a significant percentage of reduction in the size as well as significant code coverage characteristics is achieved when the minimization is done according to the proposed approach. Improvements: The important contribution of this study is that, it presents a novel and efficient test suite minimization technique that optimizes the test suite size based on multiple adequacy criterions.
An Assessment of Processors' Awareness, Perception and Adoption of NIFOR Developed Improved Coconut Processing Technologies in Lagos State, Nigeria

The study assessed the awareness, perception and adoption of NIFOR developed improved coconut processing technologies in Lagos state, Nigeria. A total of 120 coconut processors were sampled through a multi-stage random sampling procedure. Primary data which were obtained through administration of structured questionnaire were used for this study. Percentages, Weighted mean scores and Chi-square were used for presenting the data. The findings of the study show that majority (77.1%) of the respondents were female, married (88.1%) and belong to age bracket of 31-50 years old (78.9%). Also majority (78%) of the respondents had primary with or without secondary education and larger percentage (89.9%) had between less than 1 and 2 ha. of land with up to 15 years of processing experience (61.8%). The findings also revealed that majority (81.1%), (74.6%), (67.8%) and (60.2%) of the respondents were not aware of husk fiber weaving frame, coconut oil expeller, meat grater and rotary copra dryer. Nevertheless, results support high perception of improved coconut processing technologies but low adoption of NIFOR developed improved coconut processing technologies such as rotary dryer (100%), expeller (100%), meat grater (100%) and husk fiber weaving frame (100%) respectively, while dehusker lever (41.53%) was the only adopted NIFOR developed coconut processing technologies in the study area. Chi-square result showed that age (χ2 = -7.851, p = 0.049), educational level (χ2= 27.722, p = 0.000), farm size (χ2 = 20.460, p =0.000), years of processing experience (χ2 = 8.454, p = 0.038) and household size (χ2 = -0.190, p = 0.35) were significantly related to adoption of NIFOR developed improved coconut processing technologies. For coconut processors to be more aware and adopt NIFOR developed improved coconut technologies, the study, therefore, recommends that Extension arm of NIFOR in collaboration with LASCODA should carry out sensitization and training through workshops, seminars etc at least twice in a year in the study area.
On the Direct Computation of the Time-Domain Plane-Wave Reflection Coefficients

─ This communication compares different approximate techniques to calculate the transient reflection coefficient for TE and TM plane waves from a lossy half space in terms of accuracy, computational costs and area of validity. By varying angles of incidence and constitutive parameters of the half spaces, it is shown that approximate equations can efficiently and accurately calculate the reflection coefficients in the time domain, if the right equation and enough terms in the approximate series are chosen. To confirm these conclusions, it is considered, as a practical example, short pulses reflected by an operational Ground-Probing Radar from different half spaces.
Variability of total ozone at Arosa, Switzerland, since 1931 related to atmospheric circulation indices

Atmospheric circulation determines to a considerable extent the variability of lower stratospheric ozone and can modulate its long‐term trends in Europe and the North Atlantic Region. Due to dynamical stratosphere‐troposphere coupling, important features of the variability of the surface pressure field are reflected in the long‐term total ozone record from Arosa, Switzerland. Significant (p<0.01) correlations between total ozone and different atmospheric circulation indices (NAOI, AOI, EU1, EU2) are found in all months except for April, June, July, and November for the period 1931 to 1997. An analysis of geopotential heights for the period 1958 to 1997 shows that these circulation anomaly patterns have upper tropospheric features over the North Atlantic‐European sector that are consistent with a dynamical influence on total ozone.
Thinking Big: Public opinion and options for reform of Australia's federal system1

30 1 Research in this article was made possible by the Australian Research Council through Discovery Project 0666833 (see www.griffith.edu.au/federalism). The author thanks his project colleagues from Charles Sturt University, the University of New England and The University of Melbourne, and Mark Bruerton for research support. The findings and views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of all researchers involved or the Australian Research Council.
Black-Box Testing Technique for Information Visualization. Sequencing Constraints with Low-Level Interactions

The software development process has matured significantly o ver t he p ast d ecade. W e are currently in a state where the need for the verification a nd validation o f t he p roduct under development is unquestionable. Visualizations, as software products, must go through such verification a nd v alidation c ontrol. A t the implementation level, a visualization software is no different from any other software, its source code can be verified a nd v alidated by using any available white-box technique. The usability studies and controlled experiments are helpful to understand how the user perceives and uses the visualization. However, at an interaction level, a visualization software is not like any other software. Most interactions on a traditional software, are based on buttons and text fields w hile o n a v isualization, t he interactions are mostly based on zooming, selecting and filtering visual e lements. The black-box techniques found in the literature, also known as functional tests, are not suitable for this context. This paper describes a black-box technique tailored for information visualization implementations. The technique is built on constraints imposed over the sequences of low-level interactions available in the visualization and the User Action Notation.
Is there a trade-off between energetics and spleen mass? A quantitative genetic study in the leaf-eared mouse

Question: Is there a microevolutionary trade-off between energetics and spleen mass? Hypothesis: A negative genetic correlation between energetics and spleen mass would indicate a trade-off. Methods: We carried out a quantitative genetic study in cold-acclimated individuals of the leaf-eared mouse, Phyllotis darwini. Conclusions: Our results (1) do not support a microevolutionary trade-off between spleen mass and energetic traits, and (2) do not provide evidence that spleen mass can respond to current natural selection
Resistance of dried chips of yam (Dioscorea cayenensis-D. rotundata complex) landraces to Dinoderus porcellus Lesne (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

Abstract Yams (Dioscorea spp.) are one of the food crops that contribute to food security and poverty alleviation in Benin and, like several other products, the post-harvest phase is threatened by the rotting of fresh tubers. To overcome this constraint, yam tubers are traditionally processed into dried chips which unfortunately are severely attacked by Dinoderus porcellus Lesne (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae). Research studies on relative resistance of dried chips of 24 yam landraces to the attack of D. porcellus during storage were carried out using free-choice tests (antixenosis) and non-choice tests under laboratory conditions. Attractiveness of yam chips, mortality of initial pest populations, weight loss, and also the Dobie’s index of susceptibility were considered as indicators of resistance. The results revealed that the landraces Boniwouré and Wonmangou were significantly less attractive and consumed by D. porcellus. The highest mortality rate of D. porcellus was observed on the landrace Boniwouré followed by Alahina. Based on the Dobie index of susceptibility five yam landraces (Gaboubaba, Boniwouré, Alahina, Yakanougo, and Wonmangou) were scored as resistant to D. porcellus. All the remaining landraces were categorized as moderately resistant. Based on the present study, these five resistant landraces deserve special consideration and may be recommended for relatively longer storage to achieve the goal of sustainable management of D. porcellus.
The Workflow Trace Archive: Open-Access Data From Public and Private Computing Infrastructures

Realistic, relevant, and reproducible experiments often need input traces collected from real-world environments. In this work, we focus on traces of workflows—common in datacenters, clouds, and HPC infrastructures. We show that the state-of-the-art in using workflow-traces raises important issues: (1) the use of realistic traces is infrequent and (2) the use of realistic, <italic>open-access</italic> traces even more so. Alleviating these issues, we introduce the Workflow Trace Archive (WTA), an open-access archive of workflow traces from diverse computing infrastructures and tooling to parse, validate, and analyze traces. The WTA includes <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${>}48$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo>></mml:mo><mml:mn>48</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="versluis-ieq1-2984821.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> million workflows captured from <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${>}10$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo>></mml:mo><mml:mn>10</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="versluis-ieq2-2984821.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> computing infrastructures, representing a broad diversity of trace domains and characteristics. To emphasize the importance of trace diversity, we characterize the WTA contents and analyze in simulation the impact of trace diversity on experiment results. Our results indicate significant differences in characteristics, properties, and workflow structures between workload sources, domains, and fields.
Examining Online Shopping Services in Relation to Experience and Frequency of Using Internet Retailing

E-shopping has the potential to replace traditional in-store shopping. It is well perceived that information and communication technologies have great impacts on modern society - they are changing how and where we work, shop, and in general terms how we live our lives. In this study, we use a survey instrument to examine the association between experience level with Internet and e-shopping and consumers’ frequency of online purchasing, while considering sex as a passive influencer. We study these relationships in a multinomial logistic regression model that is aimed at online retailers to help them improve their understanding of their consumers’ characteristics and propensity to buy through Internet retailing. Tracking the online journey of consumers will help enhance the attractiveness of this new retailing medium to current and potential customers.
Preliminary Data On The Sediments Of The Uvea Lagoon (New Caledonia)

Uvea atoll is situated in the Eastern part of New Caledonia. The lagoon has a maximum depth of about 40m, and covers an area of 850 km2. In the course of the first general study of the marine resources of Uvea lagoon, scuba divers collected sediment samples from 62 evenly distributed sta- tions. The main sedimentological characteristic of the Uvea lagoon is the paucity of soft substrata (mean thickness = 5.4cm). Sediments always pre- sent a light colour, a high carbonate content, and a low mud percentage. The general. characteristics of the lagoon speak for homogenous and moderate hydrodynamic conditions, a sediment production of low volume but well balanced between fine and coarse particles, and low sediment displacement. However, the inner barrier reef bottoms and the coastal strip differ from the general conditions.
The Effect of Workplace Inspections on Worker Safety

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforces safety regulations through workplace inspections. The authors estimate the effect of inspections on worker safety by exploiting a feature of OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting plan. The program targeted establishments for inspection if their baseline case rate exceeded a cutoff. This approach generated a discontinuous increase in inspections, which the authors exploit for identification. Using the fuzzy regression discontinuity model, they find that inspections decrease the rate of cases that involve days away from work, job restrictions, and job transfers in the calendar year immediately after the inspection cycle. They find no effect for other case rates or in subsequent years. Effects are most evident in manufacturing and less evident in health services, the largest two-digit industries represented in the data.
Comparing community acquired pneumonia between elderly population and others

Background: To evaluate the manifestations and outcome of community acquired pneumonia in elderly population and compare it with other adults in two teaching hospitals. Patients and methods: A prospective study including all patients over 14 years of age admitted to our hospitals with community acquired pneumonia, was carried out over a period of 12 months. All adult patients and over 65 years old (elderly patients) diagnosed with pneumonia were examined and followed by two of the authors distinctly. Analysis was performed, using chi square, in order to find correlations between signs and symptoms of pneumonia and age. Results: Totally, 183 patients (103 elderly) were studied. The mean age of the participants (±SD) was 59±24 years. The main manifestations of pneumonia in elderly patients were as follow: tachypnea (64%), cough (62%), and fever (34%), respectively. Our results showed that the frequency of fever (p=0.04), chest pain (p=0.001), and pleuritic pain (p=0.001) decrease with aging, however, mental status changes (p=0.015), and CHF (p=0.02) increase with aging. Thirty one patients (17%) died, of whom 29 were over 65 years of age (p=0.001). Conclusion: The clinical presentations of pneumonia in the elderly population can be different from those in younger patients, therefore, it is important to be familiar with these differences to avoid unnecessary delays in prompt diagnosis.
Learning With Average Precision: Training Image Retrieval With a Listwise Loss

Image retrieval can be formulated as a ranking problem where the goal is to order database images by decreasing similarity to the query. Recent deep models for image retrieval have outperformed traditional methods by leveraging ranking-tailored loss functions, but important theoretical and practical problems remain. First, rather than directly optimizing the global ranking, they minimize an upper-bound on the essential loss, which does not necessarily result in an optimal mean average precision (mAP). Second, these methods require significant engineering efforts to work well, e.g., special pre-training and hard-negative mining. In this paper we propose instead to directly optimize the global mAP by leveraging recent advances in listwise loss formulations. Using a histogram binning approximation, the AP can be differentiated and thus employed to end-to-end learning. Compared to existing losses, the proposed method considers thousands of images simultaneously at each iteration and eliminates the need for ad hoc tricks. It also establishes a new state of the art on many standard retrieval benchmarks. Models and evaluation scripts have been made available at: https://europe.naverlabs. com/Deep-Image-Retrieval/.