Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of uncertainties in regional climate change simulations

We have run two regional climate models (RCMs) forced by three sets of initial and boundary conditions to form a 2×3 suite of 10-year climate simulations for the continental United States at approximately 50 km horizontal resolution. The three sets of driving boundary conditions are a reanalysis, an atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model (GCM) current climate, and a future scenario of transient climate change. Common precipitation climatology features simulated by both models included realistic orographic precipitation, east-west transcontinental gradients, and reasonable annual cycles over different geographic locations. However, both models missed heavy cool-season precipitation in the lower Mississippi River basin, a seemingly common model defect. Various simulation biases (differences) produced by the RCMs are evaluated based on the 2×3 experiment set in addition to comparisons with the GCM simulation. The RCM performance bias is smallest, whereas the GCM-RCM downscaling bias (difference between GCM and RCM) is largest. The boundary forcing bias (difference between GCM current climate driven run and reanalysis-driven run) and intermodel bias are both largest in summer, possibly due to different subgrid scale processes in individual models. The ratio of climate change to biases, which we use as one measure of confidence in projected climate changes, is substantially larger than 1 in several seasons and regions while the ratios are always less than 1 in summer. The largest ratios among all regions are in California. Spatial correlation coefficients of precipitation were computed between simulation pairs in the 2×3 set. The climate change correlation is highest and the RCM performance correlation is lowest while boundary forcing and intermodel correlations are intermediate. The high spatial correlation for climate change suggests that even though future precipitation is projected to increase, its overall continental-scale spatial pattern is expected to remain relatively constant. The low RCM performance correlation shows a modeling challenge to reproduce observed spatial precipitation patterns.
Effects of Propolis on microbiologic and biochemical parameters of Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) after exposure to the pesticide

Cypermethrin is a potential toxic pollutant that directly threatens the aquatic ecosystems and environment. Propolis, a natural product collected from plants by honey bees has many functions, such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. This study attempted to detrmine some biochemical and microbiological parameters of rainbow trout fillets after exposure to propolis and cypermethrin. The results of the current study revealed that levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), lactic acid, total volatile base-nitrogen (TVB-N), total counts of psychrophilic, and mesophilic bacteria increased in cypermethrin groups (P<0.05), compared to control group. Furthermore, there were no significant differences in pH levels between groups. Additionally, levels of MDA, lactic acid, TVB-N, count of psychrophilic, and mesophilic bacteria in cypermethrin+propolis treated groups were significantly reduce in comparison to exposed groups with cypermethrin (P<0.05). The findings also showed that the fillet quality some biochemical and microbiologic functions of fishes could be changed in groups that exposed to cypermethrin by propolis.
Role of Berberis lycium in Reducing Serum Cholesterol in Broilers

This study was planned to investigate the role of Berberis lycium in reducing serum cholesterol in broilers. Six experimental rations designated as A, B, C, D, E and F having 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5% Berberis lycium were fed to 240 broiler chicks, randomly distributed into 24 replicates, so as to have 4 replicates per group and 10 chicks per replicate. The experiment lasted for 35 days. Average serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) were used as criteria of response. Average total serum cholesterol per chick was 129.33, 120.50, 116.50, 113.00, 101.67 and 114.00 mg/dl for group A, B, C, D, E and F respectively. Total serum cholesterol showed decreasing trend with the increasing level of Berberis lycium unto 2% (p<0.05). Mean serum triglyceride level per chick was 60.00, 58.17, 58.00, 55.33, 50.17 and 48.50 mg/dl for group A, B, C, D, E and F respectively. Mean serum triglyceride showed decreasing trend with the increasing level of Berberis lycium (p<0.05). Serum triglyceride was significantly lower in group F than other groups. Mean HDL per chick for the six experimental groups A, B, C, D, E and F was 52.08, 53.42, 60.42, 62.25, 62.92 and 54.50 mg/dl respectively. HDL showed increasing trend with the increase in the level of Berberis lycium unto 2%. The average serum LDL per chick was 65.25, 55.45, 44.48, 39.68, 28.72 and 49.80 mg/dl for group A, B, C, D, E and F respectively. LDL also showed decreasing trend with the increase in the level of Berberis lycium unto 2% (p<0.05). It was concluded that Berberis lycium added to feed at the rate of 2.0% can be used in broiler feed for reducing serum total cholesterol, triglyceride and LDL and increasing HDL.
"Can Social Entrepreneurs Do Well by Doing Good? Blending Social and Economic Value Creation" - an Investigation

For-profit Social Entrepreneurial Ventures (SEVs) and Entrepreneurial Ventures (EVs) differ from each other in their purpose, mission and process. Many researchers were sceptical about SEVs blending social good with economic benefits. In the extant literature, there are hardly any empirical studies to refute this perceived notion that SEVs find it hard to balance both economic and social gain compared to their commercial counterparts. This study is an attempts to bridge this gap, bringing data from 140 practicing social and business entrepreneurs to answer the two fundamental questions; Can SEVs align wealth creation while serving a social purpose and do it well? Do they still lag behind business enterprises in creating profitable ventures? The study assumed that both EVs and SEVs are two different types of businesses with different nature, striving to achieve different outcomes. The findings show that EVs and SEVs converge and diverge in many variables. There are differences in some of the “not so important” parameters like age of the venture, the number of part-time employees and the number of partners among EVs and SEVs. However, there are no statistical differences in the parameters that really matter for a venture like annual sales turnover, the number of customers, the number of full-time employees and volunteers. Current profitability status of SEVs and EVs also did not differ statistically. The most significant finding of this study is that SEVs are able to reach the same performance level similar to EVs in terms of annual sales turnover and number of customers. They employ the same number of people and are profitable the same way as commercial entrepreneurs. One of the barriers to SEVs’ profitability emerged in this study is low employee efficiency ratio compared to EVs. The study showed the nature of the firm has an influence on sales turnover and current status of the venture in terms of profitability. Age of the venture had a significant influence on the profitability status, profitable SEVs were older than profitable EVs.
A Demonstration of FPGA-Based You Only Look Once Version2 (YOLOv2)

We implement the YOLO (You only look once) object detector on an FPGA, which is faster and has higher accuracy. It is based on the convolutional deep neural network (CNN), and it is a dominant part of both the performance and the area. It is widely used in the embedded systems, such as robotics, autonomous driving, security, and drones, all of which require high-performance and low-power consumption. A frame object detection problem consists of two problems: one is a regression problem to spatially separated bounding boxes, the second is the associated classification of the objects within realtime frame rate. We used the binary (1 bit) precision CNN for feature extraction and the half-precision (16 bit) precision CNN for both classification and localization. We implement a pipelined based architecture for the mixed-precision YOLOv2 on the Xilinx Inc. zcu102 board, which has the Xilinx Inc. Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC. The implemented object detector archived 35.71 frames per second (FPS), which is faster than the standard video speed (29.9 FPS). Compared with a CPU and a GPU, an FPGA based accelerator was superior in power performance efficiency. Our method is suitable for the frame object detector for an embedded vision system.
Consumption of picoplankton‐size particles by marine ciliates: Effects of physiological state of the ciliate and particle quality

Ingestion of picoplankton‐size particles was studied in two marine ciliates, a typical grazer of pica‐ and nanoplankton, the oligotrich Strombidium sulcatum, and a bacteriovorous scuticociliate, Uronema sp. In laboratory experiments, both logarithmic‐ (food‐unlimited) and stationary‐phase (food‐limited) populations were presented with particles of different sizes and surface properties: plain microspheres, protein‐adsorbing carboxylate microspheres, fluorescently labelled heterotrophic bacteria, and cyanobacteria. In both log‐ and stationary‐phase populations, Strombidium clearance rates varied linearly as function of prey size based on the ingestion of plain microspheres. In contrast, Uronema clearance rates were invariant with particle size for log‐phase populations but increased with particle size in stationary‐phase cells. Discrimination among prey with different surface properties was also dissimilar in the two ciliates. For Strombidium, log‐phase populations cleared 1‐µm‐diameter plain microspheres at higher rates than those with carboxylate surfaces. The pattern was repeated by stationary‐phase cells for both 0.5 and 1‐µm‐diameter microspheres. In Uronema, there was no significant difference in clearance rates with surface property in log‐phase populations, similar to the findings with regard to particle size. Only in stationary‐phase populations of Uronema was some selection evident, as 0.97‐µm carboxylate microspheres were cleared at rates higher than were 0.95 µm plain microspheres. Overall, selection was higher in stationary‐phase ciliates, and Strombidium seemed to feed more size‐selectively among picoplankton particles than did Uronema.
Cathodo- and Photo- Luminescence of Silicon Rich Oxide Films Obtained by LPCVD

Silicon technology dominates the electronics industry today, so it is highly desirable the development of silicon-based components compatible with silicon technology, allowing integration of electrical and optical components on a single chip. One promising approach to the development of a silicon based light emitter is Silicon Rich Oxide (SRO), also called offstoichiometric silicon oxide. The interest on the optical properties of this material has grown since it was demonstrated that SRO films subjected to high-temperature annealing exhibit efficient photoluminescence (PL) (Iacona et al., 2000; Shimizu-Iwayama et al., 1996).
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Hybrid systems: computation and control

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control -- HSCC'13. This year's conference continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of basic and applied research that combines computer science and control theory for analysis and controls of dynamical systems that exhibit continuous, discrete, or combined (hybrid) dynamics. The mission of the conference is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss computational challenges arising in both manmade, cyber-physical systems (ranging from mixed signal circuits and small robots to global infrastructure networks) and natural systems (ranging from biochemical networks to physiological models). The call for papers attracted 86 submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee accepted 30 regular papers and 10 tool and case study papers that cover a variety of topics, including analysis, control, scheduling, formal verification, synthesis, abstraction, and learning for hybrid systems. The applications include robotics, networks, biology, and medicine. In addition, the program includes a poster session for tool and case study papers and work-in-progress discussions and an invited presentation by Aaron Ames from Texas A&M University.
Effects of Prior Verbal or Nonverbal Experience on Acquisition and Awareness in Verbal Operant Conditioning

Using a Taffel-type conditioning situation, female undergraduate Ss were reinforced with “good” for using activity verbs to compose sentences. One group received only typical (neutral) verbal-conditioning instructions; another group was given a problem-solving set following operant trials; a third group served as nonreinforced controls. Preconditioning verbal or nonverbal experience was introduced via a free-responding word-saying task, a written sentence-completion task, or an inkblot-perception task. Awareness was assessed via a postconditioning interview. Superior acquisition was found in groups exposed to previous verbal (oral or written) experience, while the inkblot-perception group did not differ from nonreinforced control Ss. Contrary to prediction, learning set failed to produce superior conditioning. Prior verbal experience led to an increased number of aware Ss, while the majority of Ss exposed to nonverbal prior experience failed to report awareness. It was suggested that Es attempt to control for prior experience of Ss in verbal operant conditioning research.
Multi-Document Summarization Using Complex and Rich Features

Multi-document summarization consists in automatically producing a unique informative summary from a collection of texts on the same topic. In this paper we model the multi-document summarization task as a problem of machine learning classification where sentences from the source texts have to be classified as belonging or not to the summary. For this aim, we combine superficial (e.g., sentence position in the text) and deep linguistic features (e.g. semantic relations across documents). In particular, the linguistic features are given by CST (Cross-document Structure Theory). We conduct our experiments on a CST-annotated corpus of news texts. Results show that linguistic features help to produce a better classification model, producing state-of- the-art results.
El arte en tus manos: actividades de exploración táctil en la exposición «Obras maestras del patrimonio de la Universidad de Granada»

La exposicion ? Obras maestras del patrimonio de la Universidad de Granada? , organizada del 27 de octubre de 2006 al 17 de enero de 2007, con ocasion de la conmemoracion del 475o aniversario de la fundacion de la Universidad, ha contado con un programa de actividades, ? El arte en tus manos: actividades de exploracion tactil? , dirigido especificamente a los visitantes con discapacidad visual. En el programa se han utilizado los elementos y tecnicas de accesibilidad mas novedosos y avanzados, segun se describe en este articulo. La autora expone la finalidad y objetivos de la actuacion, la metodologia y materiales empleados, y el desarrollo de las actividades. Esta experiencia se valora como una interesante aportacion, tanto a la accesibilidad del patrimonio artistico y cultural, como a la concienciacion de las entidades museisticas y de la sociedad en general respecto a las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad visual.
Mental Health, Wellness, and the Quest for an Authentic American Indian Identity.

hen I first arrived on the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in north central Montana to live and work following my graduation from college, I began systematically asking some of the more respected members of my community what it means to be American Indian (or, more precisely, what it means to be "Ind'in"—very few reservation community members used the term Native American at that time). I soon discovered that they too had devoted much thought and energy to the question despite their close and enduring ties to the reservation. It was during these conversations that I first encountered some of the surprising complexities that characterize the politics of identity in Indian country. One particularly memorable conversation involved a former chairman of the Fort Belknap Community Council, the elected head of our tribal government. This quiet, middle-aged man was born and raised at Fort Belknap to a Gros Ventre parent and an Assiniboine parent. His Certificate Degree of Indian Blood—the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) official record of an Indian person's degree of Native ancestry—attested to his "full-blood" status, a designation somewhat uncommon for his generation at Fort Belknap. He described a time in his life when he had just completed a successful reelection campaign, having previously been the youngest tribal chairman in Fort Belknap history. Once
Age , growth , sex ratio and diet of eastern mosquitofish

The aim of this study is to provide necessary information on the biology of mosquitofish in Seyhan Dam Lake in Adana, which is located in southern part of Turkey. The population structure of eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 was studied in Seyhan Dam Lake. A total of 1582 specimens (772 males and 810 females) were collected monthly from January to December, 2007. The age composition of the sample range between 0+ and 2+in both sexes. The sex ratio was M:F= 1:1.04. The length-weight relationship calculated for all individuals, with W=0.0129 x L 2.927 . von Bertalanffy growth parameters were for males, L∞=3.31cm, K=0.6597 year -1 , to =0.9483 year; for females L∞=6.62cm, K=0.2369 year 1 , to =0.9259 year; for all samples, L∞=5.84cm, K=0.2369 year -1 , to =-1.0740 year. A total of 102 stomachs were examined and total of organisms identified from alimentary canal. The diet mainly consist of Diptera (Chironomidae (pupa) 29.40%; Diptera (adult) 24.50%), Egg (mosquito 14.70%; different organisms 1.96%), Crustacea (Copepoda 9.80%, Cladocera 3.92%), Coleoptera 4.90%, Hemiptera 1.96%, Fishes (G. holbrooki 3.92%), Other Hymenoptera 1.96%, Tricoptera 0.98%, Plecoptera 0.98%, Formicidae 0.98%. These data were conducted to compare with the results of other studies to carry out for other geographic areas.
Computations of unsteady multistage compressor flows in a workstation environment

High-end graphics workstations are becoming a necessary tool in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) environment. In addition to their graphics capabilities, the latest generation of workstations have powerful floating point operation capabilities. As workstations become common, they could provide valuable computing time for applications, such as turbomachinery flow calculations. This paper discusses the issues involved in implementing an unsteady, viscous multistage turbomachinery code (STAGE-2) on workstations. The workstation version of STAGE-2 has then been used to study the effects of axial-gap spacing on the time-averaged and unsteady flow within a 2 1/2-stage compressor. Results include force polar plots, time-averaged pressure contours, standard deviation of pressure contours, time-averaged surface pressures and pressure amplitudes.Copyright © 1991 by ASME
Fruit Consumption, its Determinants and Attitudes among Undergraduates

Fruits, being a good source of nutrients, can be used to fulfil the daily requirement of nutrients. However, the statistics of Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization state that the worldwide per capita consumption of fruits and vegetables is estimated to be less than 20 to 50 percent of the minimum daily recommended intake. The health and well-being of the future generation of a country are critical in preventing malnutrition and chronic diseases. A study was carried out to find out the daily intake of fruits, barriers for consumption and other patterns in consumption among undergraduates. Moreover, the study focused on identifying knowledge on nutrition and opinions of undergraduates on fruit production. 50 students from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka were randomly selected and given a self- administered questionnaire. The daily intake of a majority of students existed between 50-100g and most consumed fruits in fresh form. Unavailability in the market or the limited access was the major barrier for the intake of sufficient amount of fruits. The study concluded that the daily intake of fruits of undergraduates is less than the recommended level. Extension services and constant market prices can overcome the problems in fruit production.
Distribution and sources of phytosterols in coastal and river sediments of south-central Chile

Phytosterols are potential endocrine-disrupting compounds. Quantification of phytosterols was carried out in sediments from four coastal zones and two rivers in south-central Chile. Sterol concentrations were determined by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and the sources of sedimentary organic matter were determined using sterol ratios and lipid biomarkers. Total sterol concentrations (0.03 to 10.4 µg g -1 ) were within the range reported for other marine ecosystems and the β-sitosterol concentration (0.01 to 2.01 µg g -1 ) was lower than previously reported for the upwelling system off Peru. Some coastal stations adjacent to the rivers had β-sitosterol of terrestrial origin. High concentrations of β-sitosterol were also found in sediments from more oceanic stations, supporting the notion that this sterol can also be produced by phytoplankton. No differences in the sterol concentration between the coastal zones were found. However, significant differences were found between almost all coastal zones and both rivers, and between rivers. At the station level and using different biomarkers of the source of organic matter, some areas were found to have a clear terrestrial influence; whereby it is assumed that the source of the phytosterols (especially β-sitosterol) would be vascular plants. The BioBio River and its mouth have a wide variety of sterols and lipids and high levels of cholesterol and epicholestanol, which is possibly related to the presence of domestic effluents derived from large cities. No clear spatial pattern emerge between the location of pulp mill industries and β-sitosterol sediment concentration, with the exception of one station located in the Gulf of Arauco.