Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Treatment of benzene, toluene, and xylene by deep oxidation on CuO catalytic materials synthesised from red mud and rice husk ash

In this study, CuO-doped material fabricated from rice husk ash and red mud was modified by CeO2 promoter and urea using the impregnation method. The obtained samples were investigated for catalytic degradation of aromatic derivatives (benzene,toluene, and p-xylene - BTX) at a temperature range of 275 to 450oC. This demonstrated that all samples were highly active in the BTX treatment. Several techniques, such as X-ray powder diffraction analysis (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), BET surface areas and pore parameters (N2physisorption), and hydrogen temperature programed reduction (H2-TPR), were applied to analyse properties of obtained materials. The modification of CuO-doped catalytic material by both CeO2 promoter and urea resulted in decreased particle size, increased CuO dispersion, and improved catalytic activity of the material. In relation to this material, the conversions of benzene, toluene, and p-xylene were 66.1%, 96.8%, and 96.8% respectively at 375oC.
Measurement of γγ *→π0 transition form factor at Belle

We report a measurement of the process gamma gamma* -> pi(0) with a 759 fb(-1) data sample recorded with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. The pion transition form factor, F(Q(2)), is measured for the kinematical region 4 GeV2 <= Q(2) <= 40 GeV2, where -Q(2) is the invariant-mass squared of a virtual photon. The measured values of Q(2)vertical bar F(Q(2))vertical bar agree well with the previous measurements below Q(2) similar or equal to 9 GeV2 but do not exhibit the rapid growth in the higher Q(2) region seen in another recent measurement, which exceeds the asymptotic QCD expectation by as much as 50%.
Research and Application of a Combined Art Image Query Method

With the development of society, number of art image becomes bigger and bigger. In order to classify the art images, it is necessary to retrieve the images with common features. Different from the commonly used image query method, art images are always seen by specific researchers and to study and classification, and it is much more important for the query method with high retrieval precision. So it is important to develop a better query method specifically used for the art image query. The main work of this paper is to establish a combined method to improve the art image query precision without decreasing the query time seriously. The combined query method includes several steps: (1) Initial query. The tag query method and the semantic query method will be used. The initial query results includes the results searched by both the methods. (2) Reorganization of the initial query results. The repeated images will be cleared and only one image will be left. (3) Distance based results rechecked. The most relative image will be ranked in front of the list and the less correlation image will be cleared. (4) Reordering the images. All the images will be reordered by the distance which reflects the correlation of the query image. According to the experimental verification, the combined method can improve the query precision.
HOLIS - Higher Education Statistics Agency Online Information System

HESA was setup in 1993 following a Government White Paper â? ~Higher Education: A New Frameworkâ? T, which called for more coherence in higher education statistics. HESA is now the central source for higher education statistics and has standardised and streamlined the data collection and publication process to become a respected point of reference.
Development of Two-Dimensional Biomechanical Modeling of the Thumb for Pipetting

The aim of this study is to develop a two-dimensional biomechanical static thumb model based on the posture of the hand using pipette. This model used hand anatomy and static equilibrium conditions to estimate internal tendon forces against a given external force. The input variables can be divided into two groups: 1) joint angle, external load and bone length, which are directly measured from the test; and 2) tendon force ratio and moment arm, which are adopted from previous studies. The thumb model was simulated using an FSR (forcesensing resistor) and validated using an Electromyography (EMG) system with four grip heights from 1 to 4 cm and with two tasks: Aspirating and Dispensing. A similar trend was observed between the simulation and EMG results. The average thumb pressure for Dispensing tasks is about 3.1 times greater than that for Aspirating, and the overall force efficiency ratio for both tasks is around 8 times the external load. The optimal grip height is 3 cm in terms of grip strength, 1 or 3 cm in terms of minimum internal force and 1 cm in terms of force efficiency. Overall, the optimal grip height is 1 or 3 cm.
Development and application of a computational approach to align protein interaction networks

This thesis describes the development of PINALOG, a protein interaction network alignment method, and its application to the area of protein function prediction and protein complex detection. Protein-protein interactions (PPI) play an important role in the function of biological processes. Advances in high-throughput technology have produced a large amount of protein-protein interaction data, enabling analyses at the system level. Although protein-protein interaction networks (PPINs) vary between species, there are components of them that perform similar biological functions and these are likely to be conserved across species. Comparison of the protein interaction networks from different species yields understanding of the evolution of species, as well as a means to predict protein function and conserved components. An alignment method, PINALOG, has been developed which globally aligns the similar parts of the networks using information from protein sequences, protein functions and network topology in a seed-and-extend framework. The results on human and yeast network alignment revealed conserved subnetworks that are components of similar biological processes such as the proteasome or transcription related processes. The alignments of several pairs of species confirm the superior performance of PINALOG over commonly used methods such as Græmlin and IsoRank in terms of finding a large conserved network as well as detecting biologically meaningful mappings of the proteins in the two aligned species. The alignment method also suggested an approach to perform protein complex prediction by knowledge transfer from one species to another. In addition the implications for function prediction of proteins in the “twilight” zone where there is little or no sequence similarity were explored. A web server for PINALOG was developed to provide users access to the alignment method.
Flare emission from Sagittarius A*

Based on Bremer et al. (2011) and Eckart et al. (2012) we report on simultaneous observations and modeling of the millimeter, near-infrared, and X-ray flare emission of the source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) associated with the super-massive (4×106 M⊙) black hole at the Galactic Center. We study physical processes giving rise to the variable emission of SgrA* from the radio to the X-ray domain. To explain the statistics of the observed variability of the (sub-)mm spectrum of SgrA*, we use a sample of simultaneous NIR/X-ray flare peaks and model the flares using a synchrotron and SSC mechanism. The observations reveal flaring activity in all wavelength bands that can be modeled as the signal from adiabatically expanding synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) components. The model parameters suggest that either the adiabatically expanding source components have a bulk motion larger than vexp or the expanding material contributes to a corona or disk, confined to the immediate surroundings of SgrA*. For the bulk of the synchrotron and SSC models, we find synchrotron turnover frequencies in the range 300-400 GHz. For the pure synchrotron models this results in densities of relativistic particles of the order of 106.5 cm−3 and for the SSC models, the median densities are about one order of magnitude higher. However, to obtain a realistic description of the frequency-dependent variability amplitude of SgrA*, models with higher turnover frequencies and even higher densities are required. We discuss the results in the framework of possible deviations from equilibrium between particle and magnetic field energy. We also summarize alternative models to explain the broad-band variability of SgrA*.
Rheology Of Filled Polymer Systems

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The Modern World

Food scholars agree that what people eat, and the ways in which they produce and prepare it, have been radically transformed by modern food systems. For some, the industrialization of food production and the globalization of food markets have led to homogenization and standardization; for others these processes have resulted in a proliferation of consumption choices. Underlying these divergent views, however, there is a broad consensus that traditional cuisines rooted in agrarian practices are being eroded. The seemingly paradoxical explosion of appeals to ‘traditional’ and ‘authentic’ food, recipes and home-style cooking in popular culture and in supermarkets, it is argued, reflects a nostalgic longing for some kind of meaning in a world in which it appears to be more and more elusive. This study argues that traditional culinary cultures and practices are more resilient than is generally believed. Based on in-depth interviews with 31 people from diverse backgrounds residing in a multicultural suburb of Melbourne, a key finding was that culinary traditions retained important symbolic and practical significance for the participants. The study found that culinary traditions remain important emblems of cultural heritage and family origin, and that the participants continued to practice their culinary traditions, albeit in transformed ways. Crucially, the study also found that the participants saw their use of ‘convenience’ products and experiments with their own and others’ traditions as innovations which unfolded alongside their continued identification with their inherited traditions. Finally, the study found that while a ‘traditional’ gender division of labour around domestic meal provision was present among the participants, the revaluation of the status of cooking that has been occurring in Western popular culture was influencing the meanings and status associated with domestic cooking. The thesis draws on sociological theories of ‘living’ traditions to argue that rather than leading to the erosion of culinary traditions, modern foodways are providing a way of sustaining them. Drawing on the work of John Thompson, Barbara ! i Adam, and others it problematizes the notions of ‘detraditionalization’ and the ‘invention of tradition’ in food studies and proposes a notion of ‘authenticity’ that recognizes the mutability of traditions. The thesis concludes that culinary traditions are more resilient than many commentators suppose, and modern food systems are less corrosive than some of its critics suggest.
Chronic disease in the elderly: back to the future of internal medicine

Key points The ageing of the population has increased the prevalence of chronic diseases, which represent a huge proportion of human illness. The two most important risk factors underlying the most frequent chronic diseases of the elderly are tobacco use and obesity. The most important comorbidities are cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, particularly COPD. Comorbidities may not only contribute to the severity of a patient's clinical manifestations, but they may also complicate its treatment, and they are therefore important to recognise and treat effectively. Educational aims To increase the interest of chest physicians in multiple chronic comorbidities in the elderly. To define the most important and frequent comorbidities in elderly patients, particularly those with COPD. To provide updated information on the most common chronic diseases present in the elderly. To emphasise the limitations of single disease-oriented clinical practice guidelines, and the need for a more comprehensive “internistic” approach to patients with multiple chronic comorbidities. To suggest that chronic inflammation might represent the common pathogenetic link between the different chronic diseases present in the elderly. Summary Elderly people are often affected by two or more chronic diseases, more frequently cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, metabolic syndrome and cancer. These most frequent chronic diseases share largely preventable risk factors, the most important being smoking and obesity, and may be linked to chronic systemic inflammation. Coexisting chronic diseases affect the course of the primary disease and alter the efficacy and safety of its management. Current clinical practice is dominated by the "singledisease" approach, which has major limitations, and there is increasing evidence that a patient-oriented approach that takes into account the several co-existing components of chronic disease is required. This "change of concept" implies the need for medical specialists to extend their expertise to broader diagnostic and treatment approaches that are traditionally the purview of internal medicine. This new approach also requires a different approach to clinical research and teaching, followed by extensive rewriting of medical textbooks and remodelling of teaching curricula to reflect the complexity of the patient affected by chronic diseases.
Electrochemical discharge machining: A review

In this study, progress and sort of electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM) that was developed to manufacture the micro features like micro grooves, micro pillar, micro holes and micro channels etc. were investigated. Many materials can be machined regardless of material conductivity, hardness and strength by ECDM using electro chemical machining (ECM) and electric discharge machining (EDM) combination. Researchers developed electrochemical discharge drilling (ECDD), turning (ECDT), grinding (ECDG), milling, dressing, trepanning, wire ECDM, die-sinking ECDM, rotary ECDM, powder mixed ECDM, magnetic field assisted ECDM, vibration assisted ECDM methods. Pyrex, glass, stainless steel, cermet, soda lime glass, quartz, silicon nitride, zirconium oxide, borosilicate glass, diamond crystals, e-glass/epoxy composite, kevlar/epoxy composite and silicon wafer were used as a work piece. Effects of machining voltage and drilling depth on mean diameter, influence of tool travel rate on groove width and depth and effects of voltage types on micro holes accuracy and machining type etc were investigated. This review is to discuss the results of studies and applicability of this methods. It sums up also with a vision for future research in electrochemical micromachining.
Collapsing hyperkähler manifolds

Given a projective hyperkahler manifold with a holomorphic Lagrangian fibration, we prove that hyperkahler metrics with volume of the torus fibers shrinking to zero collapse in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense (and smoothly away from the singular fibers) to a compact metric space which is a half-dimensional special Kahler manifold outside a singular set of real Hausdorff codimension 2 and is homeomorphic to the base projective space.
Statistics of quantum transport in chaotic cavities with broken time-reversal symmetry

The statistical properties of quantum transport through a chaotic cavity are encoded in the traces ${\mathcal{T}}_{n}=\text{Tr}[{(t{t}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}})}^{n}]$, where $t$ is the transmission matrix. Within the random matrix theory approach, these traces are random variables whose probability distribution depends on the symmetries of the system. For the case of broken time-reversal symmetry, we use generalizations of Selberg's integral and the theory of symmetric polynomials to present explicit closed expressions for the average value, and for the variance of ${\mathcal{T}}_{n}$ for all $n$. In particular, this provides the charge cumulants $⟨⟨{Q}_{n}⟩⟩$ of all orders. We also compute the moments $⟨{g}^{n}⟩$ of the conductance $g={\mathcal{T}}_{1}$. All the results obtained are exact, i.e., they are valid for arbitrary numbers of open channels.
The Effects of Different Wearable Resistance Loads and Placements During Vertical Jumping and Sprint Running

XIII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale and significance of the Thesis 1 Research Aims and Hypothesis 3 Originality of the Thesis 3 Framework of the Thesis 4 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 5 Abstract 5 Introduction 6 Methods 7 Results 9 Discussion 30 Future Research 37 Conclusion 40 CHAPTER 3: ACUTE KINEMATIC AND KINETIC ADAPTATIONS TO WEARABLE REISTANCE DURING VERTICAL JUMPING 42 Abstract 42 Introduction 43 Methods 45 Results 49
SIDR: Scalable inter-domain routing protocol for Information Centric Networking

Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the thesis has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Due to the support of my country and the Republic of Korea Army, I could experience such a wonderful opportunity in the field of computer science with great professors. I will never forget their committed support. My beloved wife. Without you, I could not have endured the life in the strange foreign land. You always inspired and encouraged me to go one step more ahead when I fell in hardness. I sincerely respect you. I would like to express thank to my family for their unstinting support. The support is the force to overcome difficulties throughout my life. I am really happy that they are my family, and also proud of them. Most of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Duan for his guidance and patience to the journey to computer science. Because of him, I could see the much wider world in the computer science. He is not only the root of my research, but also the greatest mentor for my MS study. I would like to say thank again to Dr. Duan who always trusts me. Furthermore, I would like to express thank to the rest of my committee members, Dr. Liu and Dr. Wang. From their teachings, I could learn not only the knowledge but also the various perspective to see the world. It is an honor for me to take time for computer science with them. and Maria Hyun. For two years, I could enjoy the life in the campus with them. I was really happy to take time to talk and discuss all the issues, not even the classes. I could not forget the moments.
The Success of Reading Recovery for English Language Learners and Descubriendo La Lectura for Bilingual Students in California

The purpose of this study was to determine if Reading Recovery and Descubriendo La Lectura interventions resulted in reading and writing success for two groups of bilingual children: (a) English language learners receiving Reading Recovery instruction (first-grade children acquiring English as a second language concomitantly with developing literacy in English through instruction provided in English-speaking classrooms); and (b) Spanish-speaking children receiving the Descubriendo La Lectura intervention who were in first-grade bilingual classrooms that provided primary language instruction. Pre- and post-test data for the two target populations of firstgrade children in California were compared with data for the total English-speaking population of children in Reading Recovery in California for three academic years, 1993-1996, and with end-ofyear data from random samples of first-grade children. Results of this study indicate that statistically significant progress was made by both target populations of children, indicating that the interventions enabled low-performing English language learners and Spanish-speaking children to improve their performance on selected indicators of literacy acquisition. The proportion of these children’s success rates compared favorably with that of the total population involved in the interventions, and they achieved scores within the average range of a cohort of their peers drawn from a random sample of first graders.
The effect of mineral fractions on physical and phosphorus-related chemical properties of peat-based substrates for pot plants

Abstract Physicochemical traits of peat-based pot substrates prepared from mixing of 20 or 40 vol.% of some different mineral fractions (sub. 1 to 7, subjected to decreasing amount of clay content of 66.1, 61.2, 49.7, 38.5, 26.0, 23.7 and 19.4%, respectively) with black peat were evaluated and then phosphorus uptake of poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherima) simulated mechanistically as a case study pot plant. For preparation of substrate number 8, pure peat was mixed with 40 vol.% of the same mineral component as substrate number 6 (with 23.7% clay). Result revealed that adding different mineral fractions up to 40 vol.% to pure peat, water-holding capacity and total pore volume were reduced only by 11 and 15 vol.%, respectively. It was found that keeping the moisture content of peat-based substrates with 20 vol.% of mineral soils around 60%–70%, the optimum ventilation and enough free space of about 15%–25% will be provided around the root system. In addition, simulated P uptake did not change significantly with addition of 20 vol.% of different mineral components in peat-based substrates. As a result, P uptake mainly was dependent on the amount of plant available P level than different mineral fractions.
Role of (H2O)n (n = 1–2) in the Gas-Phase Reaction of Ethanol with Hydroxyl Radical: Mechanism, Kinetics, and Products

The effect of water on the hydrogen abstraction mechanism and product branching ratio of CH3CH2OH + •OH reaction has been investigated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//BH&HLYP/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory, coupled with the reaction kinetics calculations, implying the harmonic transition-state theory. Depending on the hydrogen sites in CH3CH2OH, the bared reaction proceeds through three elementary paths, producing CH2CH2OH, CH3CH2O, and CH3CHOH and releasing a water molecule. Thermodynamic and kinetic results indicate that the formation of CH3CHOH is favored over the temperature range of 216.7–425.0 K. With the inclusion of water, the reaction becomes quite complex, yielding five paths initiated by three channels. The products do not change compared with the bared reaction, but the preference for forming CH3CHOH drops by up to 2%. In the absence of water, the room temperature rate coefficients for the formation of CH2CH2OH, CH3CH2O, and CH3CHOH are computed to be 5.2 × 10–13, 8.6 × 10–14, and 9.0 × 10–11 cm3 molecule–1 s–1, respectively. The effective rate coefficients of corresponding monohydrated and dihydrated reactions are 3–5 and 6–8 orders of magnitude lower than those of the unhydrated reaction, indicating that water has a decelerating effect on the studied reaction. Overall, the characterized effects of water on the thermodynamics, kinetics, and products of the CH3CH2OH + •OH reaction will facilitate the understanding of the fate of ethanol and secondary pollutants derived from it.