Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Geometric changes and mass balance of the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard

Abstract. The dynamics and mass balance regime of the Austfonna ice cap, the largest glacier on Svalbard, deviates significantly from most other glaciers in the region and is not fully understood. We have compared ICESat laser altimetry, airborne laser altimetry, GNSS surface profiles and radio echo-sounding data to estimate elevation change rates for the periods 1983–2007 and 2002–2008. The data sets indicate a pronounced interior thickening of up to 0.5 m y−1, at the same time as the margins are thinning at a rate of 1–3 m y−1. The southern basins are thickening at a higher rate than the northern basins due to a higher accumulation rate. The overall volume change in the 2002–2008 period is estimated to be −1.3±0.5 km3 w.e. y−1 (or −0.16±0.06 m w.e. y−1) where the entire net loss is due to a rapid retreat of the calving fronts. Since most of the marine ice loss occurs below sea level, Austfonna's current contribution to sea level change is close to zero. The geodetic results are compared to in-situ mass balance measurements which indicate that the 2004–2008 surface net mass balance has been slightly positive (0.05 m w.e. y−1) though with large annual variations. Similarities between local net mass balances and local elevation changes indicate that most of the ice cap is slow-moving and not in dynamic equilibrium with the current climate. More knowledge is needed about century-scale dynamic processes in order to predict the future evolution of Austfonna based on climate scenarios.
‘Reconnecting’ the Unemployed Information and communication technology and services for jobseekers in rural areas

This paper discusses the potential uses of the Internet and other forms of information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for delivering information services for unemployed people, comparing the experiences and attitudes of jobseekers in peri-urban and remote rural labour markets. The analysis is based upon research carried out in two areas: the first combining a remote rural town with a much larger, more sparsely populated, rural ‘travel-to-work area’; the second, a centrally located peri-urban labour market. Survey research undertaken in the study areas gathered responses from 490 unemployed jobseekers. Emerging issues were then followed up during twelve focus groups. The study found that the use of ICT for job seeking remained a marginal activity for most unemployed people, but was much more important in remote rural communities. In these areas, jobseekers were more likely to use the Internet as a search tool and were particularly dependent on telephone helplines provided by the public employment service (PES). However, the study also found that a ‘digital divide’ was evident within the unemployed client group. Those with low educational attainment, the long-term unemployed, young people and those perceiving their ICT skills to be ‘poor’ were less likely to use the Internet. Although respondents in rural areas were more likely to use ICT to look for work, they also pointed to the overriding importance of informal, social networks as a means of sharing job information in remote communities. We conclude that ICT may have a future role in the delivery of services for jobseekers, especially in rural areas. However, policies are required to ensure that information provided through ICT-based services is locally relevant, and disadvantaged groups have access to the facilities and training they require.
CONTINUOUS APPROACH TO THE LIGHTNING DISCHARGE By BEYZA ÇALIŞKAN ASLAN A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy CONTINUOUS APPROACH TO THE LIGHTNING DISCHARGE By Beyza Çalışkan Aslan August 2007 Chair: William W. Hager Major: Mathematics We develop a continuous model for the lightning discharge. We consider Maxwell’s equations in three dimensions and obtain a formula for the limiting potential as conductivity tends to infinity in a three-dimensional subdomain (the lightning channel) of the modeled domain. The limit is expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions for a generalized eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian operator. The potential in the breakdown region can be expressed in terms of a harmonic function which is constant in the breakdown region.
An Exploration of Higher Education Teaching in Second Life in the Context of Blended Learning.

This study explores teaching experiences of educators within the virtual world of Second Life (SL) and pedagogical practices adopted. A blended approach is applied by using physical classrooms, BlackboardTM, web-based resources, and the virtual world of SL in an Information Literacy (IL) class for 1st year undergraduate students at an institution in the UK. A Case study was employed as well as a parallel qualitative component, interviews, was added to the study that provided another source of insights to articulate perspectives of educators in teaching within VWs. In reflecting and evaluating the teaching experiences, evidence is drawn from observations, semi structured interviews, chat logs, snapshots, and field notes. A thematic approach is used to analyse the data. The findings from the data analysis are presented in terms of seven themes: cybergogy, creativity, trial and error, wow moment, uncertainty, experiential learning, and dynamic relationship.
Biopsychosocial impacts of laughter yoga and therapy on stroke survivors

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Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference : Extended Abstract Template – Biker Revs on Tour : Pilgrimage motivations of motorbiking vicars from Leeds Diocese

The new Church of England Diocese of Leeds was instituted in April 2014. To mark this development, a group of motorcycling vicars began to meet regularly and undertake ‘rides out’, across the diocese and further afield. Through a series of semi-structured interviews and more informal conversations with the Biker Revs, including staying with them at religious destinations on two longer trips in 2016 and 2017, this research investigates their experiences and motivations for undertaking pilgrimage on motorbikes. As a basis for comparison, this paper utilizes Michalowski and Dubisch’s 2001 iconic ethnographic research on an American motorcycle pilgrimage, to analyse the group’s activities. Ordained bikers identify the group as a safe space for clergy, outside the parish, where ‘I can be me’, whilst spouses of clergy recognised the benefits of spending time with ‘others like me who understand the pressures of clergy life’.
Rock-scissors-paper game on regular small-world networks

The spatial rock-scissors-paper game (or cyclic Lotka–Volterra system) is extended to study how the spatiotemporal patterns are affected by the rewired host lattice providing uniform number of neighbours (degree) at each site. On the square lattice this system exhibits a self-organizing pattern with equal concentration of the competing strategies (species). If the quenched background is constructed by substituting random links for the nearest-neighbour bonds of a square lattice then a limit cycle occurs when the portion of random links exceeds a threshold value. This transition can also be observed if the standard link is replaced temporarily by a random one with a probability P at each step of iteration. Above a second threshold value of P the amplitude of global oscillation increases with time and finally the system reaches one of the homogeneous (absorbing) states. In this case the results of Monte Carlo simulations are compared with the predictions of the dynamical cluster technique evaluating all the configuration probabilities on one-, two-, four- and six-site clusters.
Strategic corporate social responsibility and economic performance

This article proposes a novel Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) index based on a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Acknowledging the argument that companies might favour those CSR dimensions that provide strategic competitive advantages, we argue that the index can capture companies’ strategic approach to CSR. Furthermore, our findings reveal a neutral relationship between this strategic CSR index and economic performance as measured by Return on Assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q, when controlling for firm unobserved heterogeneity and past economic performance. By contrast, an equally-weighted index of the same CSR indicators is found to be negatively related with ROA, which reinforces our claim that this specific DEA-based index is a measure of strategic CSR.
NEW DATA ON THE ANALCIME-WAIRAKITE SERIES

DTA and TGA data and infrared absorption spectra, are determined for a,nalcime, wairakite, and a mineral having a composition intermediate between analcime and wairakite; the monoclinicity of the mineral with intermediate composition was also determined, Infrared absorption spectra of si-o (12001000 cm-'), and OH-O (around 3600 cm-') stretching bands for analcime and wairakite are quite distinct. Tbo oH-o distances for the analcime structure and four OII-O distances for the wairakite structure were established. An absorption
Phorate Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats

Organophosphorus compounds induce oxidative stress leading to generation of free radicals and alterations in antioxidant and scavengers of oxygen free radicals. The present study demonstrates the effect of chronic exposure of phorate in causation of oxidative stress in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Phorate was administered orally at doses 0.05, 0.1 and 1 mg/kg of body weight for 60 days. After the administration of doses, the liver and blood samples were analyzed for various parameters of oxidative stress and liver toxicity markers. The results indicated an increase in lipid peroxidation , increase in the levels of aminotransferases (ALT and AST), ALP,ACP, LDH and GGT . Similarly, there was a dose dependent decrease in catalase, superoxide dismutase and GSH in liver at all doses. The level of cytochrome P450 was also found to be enhanced. Histopathological changes confirmed that phorate caused significant structural damages to the liver tissues. These results might perhaps be the first to establish the phorate induced oxidative stress mediated hepatotoxicity in rats.
Debt Non-Neutrality, Policy Interactions, and Macroeconomic Stability

We study the consequences of non-neutrality of government debt for macroeconomic stabilization policy in an environment where prices are sticky. Assuming transaction services of government bonds, Ricardian equivalence fails because public debt has a negative impact on its marginal rate of return and thus on private savings. Stability of equilibrium sequences requires a stationary evolution of real public debt, which steers inflation expectations and rules out endogenous fluctuations. Under anti-inflationary monetary policy regimes, macroeconomic fluctuations tend to decrease with the share of tax financing, which justifies tight debt constraints. In particular, a balanced budget policy stabilizes the economy under cost-push shocks, such that output and inflation variances can be lower than in a corresponding case where debt is neutral.
Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People” and “Cat People”

ABSTRACT Alleged personality differences between individuals who self-identify as “dog people” and “cat people” have long been the topic of wide-spread speculation and sporadic research. Yet existing studies offer a rather conflicting picture of what personality differences, if any, exist between the two types of person. Here we build on previous research to examine differences in the Big Five personality dimensions between dog people and cat people. Using a publicly accessible website, 4,565 participants completed the Big Five Inventory and self-identified as a dog person, cat person, both, or neither. Results suggest that dog people are higher on Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness, but lower on Neuroticism and Openness than are cat people. These differences remain significant even when controlling for sex differences in pet-ownership rates. Discussion focuses on the possible sources of personality differences between dog people and cat people and identifies key questions for future research.
Conceptualizing Motivation in Foreign-Language Learning *

This study investigates the components of motivation in foreign-language learning (FLL)—which involves learning the target language in institutional/academic settings without regularly interacting with the target language community. It was assumed that the results obtained from second-language acquisition (SLA) contexts—those in which the target language is learned at least partly embedded in the host environment—are not directly applicable to FLL situations. Therefore a motivational questionnaire was developed and administered to 134 learners of English in Hungary, a typical European FLL environment, with the aim of defining the relevance and characteristics of integrativeness and instrumentality in FLL, as well as to locate other motivational components. Based upon the results, a motivational construct was postulated consisting of (1) an Instrumental Motivational Subsystem, (2) an Integrative Motivational Subsystem, which is a multifaceted cluster with four dimensions, (3) Need for Achievement, and (4) Attributions about Past Failures. The results also indicated that in mastering an
A pilot study of low-income mothers and fathers of preschool age children to determine the relationship of food security and nutrition assistance on feeding style and child body weight

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to investigate the association of household food security status and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation with parental feeding style and child body mass index (BMI) in low-income households. Mother/father dyads (n = 52) with preschool aged children were interviewed and BMI measured. Food security status was not associated with feeding style but mothers’ food insecurity was associated with lower children’s BMI z-scores (β = −.31, p = 0.03). Fathers participating in SNAP had lower odds of an authoritarian feeding style (odds ratio = 0.17, p = 0.05). The relationship of food security or SNAP participation with childhood obesity needs further investigation between mothers and fathers.
Hydrographs of Ephemeral Streams in the Southwest

For ephemeral streams of the Southwest, runoff producing rainfall typically covers only a part of the watershed area. Conventional unit hydrograph techniques are not well adapted to the synthesis of hydrographs of runoff for such watersheds and flood routing methods must be modified to consider transmission losses and abrupt translatory waves. Hydrograph rise time was used as the time parameter for developing the dimensionless hydrographs. Average hydrograph rise time was found to decrease with increasing watershed size for the size watersheds analyzed. Dimensionless hydrographs developed in the paper were found to have a family of recessions based on antecedent channel moisture and the distance of dry streambed over which the runoff has traversed. Total runoff volumes for simple runoff events were found to be significantly correlated with the peak discharge for the event.
Title: The Role of Inflammation in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension: from cellular mechanisms

Title: The Role of Inflammation in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension: from cellular mechanisms to 1 clinical phenotypes. 2 3 Steven C. Pugliese, MD (corresponding author) 4 Developmental Lung Biology, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratories, 5 Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine 6 Division of Pediatrics-Critical Care 7 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics 8 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 9 B131, 12700 E. 19th Ave, Research 2 Aurora, CO 80045 10 (303) 724-5627 11 Steven.pugliese@ucdenver.edu 12 13 Jens M. Poth, MD 14 Developmental Lung Biology, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratories, 15 Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, 16 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 17 Jens.poth@ucdenver.edu 18 19 Mehdi A. Fini, MD 20 Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine 21 Dept. of Medicine 22 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 23 Mehdi.Fini@ucdenver.edu 24 25 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol (November 21, 2014). doi:10.1152/ajplung.00238. 2014
Digital PCR (Dpcr) a Step Forward to Detection and Quantification of Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) in Ph+/BCR-ABL1 Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Philadelphia-positive (Ph+), BCR-ABL1, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a model of leukemia driven by a single, specific, chromosome translocation, the t (9;22) (q22;q11). This translocation, leading to a new, hybrid, leukemia-specific gene (BCR-ABL1) encoding for a deregulated tyrosine-kinase protein (p210), drives the leukemic transformation of hematopoietic stem cells [1-6] and induces the progression of the disease from the early chronic phase (CP) to the late blastic phase BP) which close the natural history of the disease. In the 2000s, the introduction of Imatinib, the first tyrosinekinase inhibitor (TKI) able to target the protein p210, significantly changed the fate of CML to fatal disease in real chronic disease.
Estimation of biomass in a neotropical forest of French Guiana: spatial and temporal variability

Biomass content and turnover rate were estimated for a lowland wet rain forest in French Guiana. A regression model relating the biomass of a tree to its dbh (diameter at breast height) was deduced from previously published data. A power-law allometric relationship of the form AGTB = aDb was used to estimate the tree biomass, AGTB (Mg ha−1), from its dbh D (cm). Using direct measurements of tree biomass in the literature, the best-fit allometric exponent b = 2.42 (SD = 0.02) was found. The logarithm of the coefficient a was normally distributed with an average of −2.00 (SD = 0.27). This method was applied to two permanent research stations of the lowland tropical rain forest of French Guiana: the Nouragues and Piste de Saint-Elie. At the Nouragues, the biomass was estimated from trees 10 cm in diameter on two plots covering a total surface area of 22 ha and yielded an average biomass of 309 Mg ha−1 (± 32 Mg ha−1, 95% confidence interval). Spatial variability was also addressed at the Nouragues by estimating the biomass of trees ≥ 30 cm dbh over a total surface area of 82 ha. For the wet tropical forest vegetation type, an average of 284 Mg ha−1 was obtained (spatial variability ±55 Mg ha−1). Biomass turnover was evaluated at Piste de Saint-Elie from two transects (0.78 and 1 ha) on which all trees ≥5 cm in diameter were recorded and mapped twice in 10 y. Transect 1 showed a slight increase in biomass, from 245 to 260 Mg ha−1 (338 to 345 Mg ha−1 for transect 2), corresponding to a net increase of 1.9 Mg ha−1 y−1 (0.7 Mg ha−1 y−1), and the biomass ingrowth was 3.2 Mg ha−1 y−1 (2.8 Mg ha−1 y−1). These figures are discussed in the light of the natural recruitment dynamics of tropical forests.
Repository The Advanced Generalist , v . 2 School of Social Work The Effect of a Personal Playlist on Older Adults with Dementia

Dementia is a disease that corrodes one’s cognitive abilities such as their memory, affecting around 5 million people in the United States. While there is currently no treatment available to cure dementia, music therapy was found effective to help reduce its symptoms. Based on the Music and Memory program, this study is aimed to examine the impact of listening to a personalized music playlist on observable behavior, memory, and mood of older adults with dementia. The Music and Memory program was applied to 6 older adults with dementia at a Retirement Center in Northwest Ohio. The findings indicated that listening to a personalized playlist had a positive outcome on improving moods and decreasing disruptive behavior of participants, with more increased eye contact, smiling, face relaxation, and responsiveness. This study suggests that personalized music is an effective intervention tool; therefore, social workers should take on the roles of educators, evaluators, brokers, and advocators in applying Music and Memory program to clients with dementia.
Hybrid 2018 campaigning: the social media habits of Italian political leaders and parties

The electoral communication flows produced by leaders, parties, and the main candidates are the result of hybrid media logics and this is due to the environment in which they develop, and to the communicative strategies used. These strategies are generated by the intersection of traditional media logics (TV, radio, press) with digital media logics (Internet). This article investigates the social media communication habits of the main Italian leaders and political parties on Twitter and Facebook. To understand how the hybrid campaign developed in the Italian context, specific indicators were identified to operationalize social media habits related to: (a) communicative strategy, based on the productivity of the account (broadcast) and on its degree of interactivity (conversational), (b) skillfulness, regarding the capability to use different features of the social media platform; and (c) engagement, related to the capacity of the account to involve the audience. Results show that a more skillful use of the platforms, combined with a conversational communication strategy, produce more engaging messages regardless the specific political actor (leader or party). Finally, the outcomes show a significant strengthening of hybrid media campaigning during the last Italian general elections on 4 March 2018.