Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know

From the Publisher: The definitive primer on knowledge management, this book will establish the enduring vocabulary and concepts and serve as the hands-on resource of choice for fast companies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Drawing on their work with more than 30 knowledge-rich firms, the authors-experienced consultants with a track record of success-examine how all types of companies can effectively understand, analyze, measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporate knowledge into market value. They consider such questions as: What key cultural and behavioral issues must managers address to use knowledge effectively? ; What are the best ways to incorporate technology into knowledge work? ; What does a successful knowledge project look like-and how do you know when it has succeeded? In the end, say the authors, the human qualities of knowledge-experience, intuition, and beliefs-are the most valuable and the most difficult to manage. Applying the insights of Working Knowledge is every manager's first step on that rewarding road to long-term success. A Library Journal Best Business Book of the Year. "For an entire company.to have knowledge, that information must be coordinated and made accessible. Thomas H. Davenport.and Laurence Prusak. offer an elegantly simple overview of the 'knowledge market' aimed at fulfilling that goal. Working Knowledge provides practical advice about implementing a knowledge-management system.A solid dose of common sense for any company looking to acquire -- or maintain -- a competitive edge. "--Upside, June 1998
Optimasi Isolasi dan Amplifikasi ITS DNA Ribosomal Fungi Karbolitik Isolat Zona Inti Cagar Biosfer Giam Siak Kecil- Bukit Batu

LBKURCC20, LBKURCC21, LBKURCC22, LBKURCC27, LBKURCC28, LBKURCC29, LBKURCC30, LBKURCC34 merupakan fungi karbolitik koleksi laboratorium Biokimia FMIPA Universitas Riau. Fungi-fungi tersebut telah berhasil diisolasi dan dimurnikan dari tanah zona inti hutan cagar biosfer Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu Riau, menggunakan media selektif penghasil karbohidrase tertentu. Identifikasi secara morfologi isolat-isolat tersebut telah dilakukan, tetapi masih perlu dilakukan analisis filogenetik molekuler untuk menentukan hubungan kekerabatan hingga tingkat spesies yang lebih tepat. Hal ini dikarenakan identifikasi morfologi fungi secara tepat baru dapat dilaksanakan hingga tingkat genus. Sebelum dapat dilakukan analisis filogenetik molekuler berdasarkan sekeuens DNA ribosomal (rDNA) pada daerah ITS ( Internal Transcribed Spacer region ), terlebih dahulu harus dilakukan optimasi isolasi DNA dan amplifikasi ITS rDNA tersebut. Optimasi ini perlu dilakukan, supaya diperoleh produk amplifikasi PCR ITS rDNA yang cukup baik, untuk menghasilkan sekuens DNA yang optimal untuk analisis filogenetik. Isolasi DNA kromosomal dilakukan menggunakan kit Wizard Genomic ex Promega Co. (Madison, USA) dari miselia kultur dengan umur bervariasi. Keberhasilan isolasi dan amplifikasi DNA dengan PCR bergantung pada konsentrasi isolat DNA templat yang cukup, primer, dan temperatur annealling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa masing-masing isolat DNA fungi yang berhasil diisolasi dengan baik berasal dari umur miselia kultur yang bervariasi mulai dari 1 hingga 3 hari, yaitu sebelum timbul spora, tetapi dalam jumlah miselia yang cukup. Primer untuk amplifikasi ITS rDNA terbaik adalah pasangan primer ITS-4 dan ITS-5, kecuali untuk Penicillium sp. LBKURCC34. Temperatur annealing bervariasi bergantung pada galur dan pasangan primernya, tetapi berada pada rentang antara 44oC s/d 49oC. Kata Kunci. ITS rDNA, Trichoderma, Penicillium.
Nutrient dynamics of natural evergreen forests in the eastern region of Thailand

The objective of this study was to investigate the nutrient dynamics of natural evergreen forests in the Eastern Region of Thailand. Study sites included the moist evergreen forest (MEF) and hill evergreen forest (HEF) at Khao Khitchakut National Park, and in the dry evergreen forest (DEF) at Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, Chanthaburi Province. The study period was between January 2001 and December 2002. The results revealed that the above ground biomass production, the rate of annual biomass increment and the rate of litterfall and soil nutrient content were different in the evergreen forests, and therefore affected the nutrient dynamics in each part of the forest. DEF showed the highest rate of nutrient retention in plant and soil systems, followed by MEF and was lowest in HEF. The nutrient dynamics of Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca) and Magnesium (Mg) of these evergreen forests - in terms of uptake rate, return and release rates from litterfall and litter decomposition - were highest in DEF, followed by MEF and lowest in HEF. Furthermore, the nutrient turnover rates in litter on the soil surface were highest in DEF and lowest in HEF. It could be concluded that biomass production, litterfall and soil fertility influenced the nutrient dynamics of the three evergreen
Desiccation of mineral liners below landfills with heat generation

In the case of landfills with heat generation, the long-term efficiency of composite liners at the landfill base is imperiled by desiccation and subsequent cracking of the mineral liner below the geomembrane. Downward vapor diffusion due to temperature gradients leads to desiccation unless it can be balanced by capillary rise. A numerical model (SUMMIT) of coupled transport of water, vapor, and heat in unsaturated porous media was developed to assess the landfill-specific desiccation risk of mineral liners (in terms of matric potentials). Water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of mineral liner and subsurface materials were measured. Simulations of nonisothermal lab and field experiments show that nonisothermal vapor diffusion can be up to five times higher than is physically explainable. Matric potentials in the mineral liner decrease (and thus the risk of cracking increases) with decreasing unsaturated hydraulic conductivity and water capacity, and increasing air porosity and distance to ground water. Desiccation simulations for typical landfill conditions show that the drainage layer directly beneath the mineral liner will most probably lead to cracking.
Some practical aspects of prestack waveform inversion using a genetic algorithm: An example from the east Texas Woodbine gas sand

In this paper, a prestack inversion method using a genetic algorithm (GA) is presented, and issues relating to the implementation of prestack GA inversion in practice are discussed. GA is a Monte-Carlo type inversion, using a natural analogy to the biological evolution process. When GA is cast into a Bayesian framework, a priori information of the model parameters and the physics of the forward problem are used to compute synthetic data. These synthetic data can then be matched with observations to obtain approximate estimates of the marginal a posteriori probability density (PPD) functions in the model space. Plots of these PPD functions allow an interpreter to choose models which best describe the specific geologic setting and lead to an accurate prediction of seismic lithology. Poststack inversion and prestack GA inversion were applied to a Woodbine gas sand data set from East Texas. A comparison of prestack inversion with poststack inversion demonstrates that prestack inversion shows detailed stratigraphic features of the subsurface which are not visible on the poststack inversion.
Daily Solar Energy Estimation for Minimizing Energy Storage Requirements in PV Power Plants

This paper proposes an optimized energy management strategy (EMS) for photovoltaic (PV) power plants with energy storage (ES) based on the estimation of the daily solar energy production. This EMS produces a constant-by-hours power reference which mitigates the stochastic nature of PV production typically associated to the solar resource, and enables PV power plants to take part in the day and intraday electricity markets. The possibility of using the intraday market sessions to refine the plant's power reference paves the way to minimizing the energy capacity ratings of the ES system required to operate the PV power plant without incurring excessive production deviations. This proposal is analyzed on an annual basis using actual irradiance data and theoretical irradiance models extracted from official databases.
Gmelin handbook of inorganic chemistry

The Gmelin Formula Index and its First Supplement covered those volumes of the Eighth Edition of the Gmelin Handbook which had been issued up to the end of 1979. The present Second Supplement updates the Index by inclusion of the volumes which appeared up to the end of 1987. With this Second Supplement all compounds described in the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry in the period between 1924 and 1987 can be located. The basic structure of the Formula Index remains the same as in the previous editions. Computer techniques were employed in the preparation and print of the Second Supple ment. The data acquisition, sorting, and further data handling were performed with the aid of a series of computer programs developed by staff members of the former" Online Group" of the Gmelin Institute, now at Chemplex GmbH, and by the printer" UniversiUits druckerei H. StOrtz AG, WGrzburg. " Whereas the Handbook itself will continue to appear in printed form, the present Second Supplement of the Index is intended to be the last one issued in print. The cumulated contents of the Index and its Supplements are contained in the Gmelin Formula Index (GFI) database which is available to the scientific community via STN. This database will be updated annually to include the published Handbook volumes. "
Field evaluation of soybean varieties at Ilorin in the southern guinea savanna ecology of Nigeria

Twenty six newly developed soybean varieties were evaluated for two years at Ilorin in a southern guinea savanna environment of Nigeria. The reaction of the varieties to rust infection was also assessed. Effects due to year, variety and year x variety interaction were significant for all the characters evaluated except for plant height where year x variety interaction had no significant effect. Number of days to 50% flowering ranged from 42 to 47.33. Early flowering varieties included TGX 19038F, TGX 1903-7F and TGX 1904-2F, while late flowering ones were TGX 1924-1F and TGX 1925-1F. Plant height varied between 25.00 and 44.17 cm. Grain yield ranged from 1017.24 to 2133.01 kg/ha. The best yielding varieties were TGX 1921-23F and TGX 1922-1F. Significantly higher grain yields were obtained in 2005 with an average value of 1602.0 kg/ha compared with 1470.13 kg/ha recorded in 2006. There was no incidence of rust infection in 2005, but in 2006 however, six soybean varieties expressed mild symptoms of the disease.
Observational evidence for impacts of vegetation change on local surface climate over northern China using the Granger causality test

The three‐north region in China (northeastern, northwestern, and northern China) is one of the most environmentally vulnerable regions in the country. To improve the local natural environment, the Chinese government launched the Three‐North Shelter Forest Program, one of the largest afforestation/reforestation programs in the world. This program has led to significant changes in vegetation. Although many studies have evaluated the impacts of vegetation changes on local climate in this region, their results are highly inconsistent. In this study, evidence for local monthly climate impacts of vegetation change was investigated using remotely sensed data and ground meteorological measurements during the growing season (May to September) from 1982 to 2011 using the bivariate Granger causality test. The results showed that the local near‐surface climate is sensitive mostly to vegetation changes characterized by the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in arid and semiarid regions and that vegetation plays a more important role in influencing hydroclimate in the arid/semiarid zones than in other zones, which has great implications for water resources in this dry region. Moreover, NDVI changes in northeastern China have a significantly negative influence on air tembut no other climatic variables, whereas the test results in northern China is not as objective as the other zones due to the rapid urbanization. All these results suggest that the local climate is very sensitive to the variations in vegetation in arid and semiarid regions, so extra caution should be taken when planting trees in this area.
Rings and spirals in barred galaxies. III. Further comparisons and links to observations.

In a series of papers, we propose a theory to explain the formation and properties of rings and spirals in barred galaxies. The building blocks of these structures are orbits guided by the manifolds emanating from the unstable Lagrangian points located near the ends of the bar. In this paper, the last of the series, we present more comparisons of our theoretical results to observations and also give new predictions for further comparisons. Our theory provides the right building blocks for the rectangular-like bar outline and for ansae. We consider how our results can be used to give estimates for the pattern speed values, as well as their effect on abundance gradients in barred galaxies. We present the kinematics along the manifold loci, to allow comparisons with the observed kinematics along the ring and spiral loci. We consider gaseous arms and their relations to stellar ones. We discuss several theoretical aspects and stress that the orbits that constitute the building blocks of the spirals and rings are chaotic. They are, nevertheless, spatially well confined by the manifolds and are thus able to outline the relevant structures. Such chaos can be termed ‘confined chaos’ and can play a very important role in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxy structures and in galactic dynamics in general. This work, in agreement with several others, argues convincingly that galactic dynamic studies should not be limited to the study of regular motions and orbits.
Final Report to Congress on the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Demonstration, Phases I and II

The IDEATel demonstration tested the effects of providing home-based telemedicine services to a large number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries who had diabetes and lived in medically underserved areas in New York City and upstate New York. This report updates two earlier reports to Congress and draws conclusions on demonstration impacts. The demonstration met the requirements set by Congress for implementation; however, as delivered, it was neither as intensive nor as technologically sophisticated as originally designed. The evaluation found IDEATel to be clinically effective in only one site and to have no effects on Medicare Total, Part A, and Part B expenditures or the use of expensive services, such as hospital care. The interventionâ€™s costs were excessive (over $8,000 per person per year) compared to programs with similar-sized clinical impacts. Even if the intervention costs were halved and the program reduced hospitalizations by 50 percent (both unlikely scenarios), the program would still increase total costs to the government.
TNFA and TNFB polymorphisms in myasthenia gravis.

BACKGROUND Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha and TNF-beta are proinflammatory cytokines thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis (MG). OBJECTIVE To examine whether TNF polymorphisms are associated with MG, MG subgroups, and the presence of titin and ryanodine-receptor antibodies. PATIENTS AND METHODS We did genotyping on 30 patients with MG and 92 healthy blood donors for 2 biallelic TNFA polymorphisms (G to A at positions -238 and -308) and 1 TNFB polymorphism (NcoI digestive site) using methods based on the polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Patients with thymoma were typically homozygous for both the TNFA*T1 and the TNFB*2 alleles, but patients having an early onset of MG without thymoma were carriers of the TNFA*T2 and TNFB*1 alleles. Patients without thymoma who had the titin antibody had the same high frequency of TNFA*T1 and TNFB*2 as patients with thymoma, whereas patients without the titin antibody carried the same allele, TNFA*T2 and TNFB*1, regardless of age and thymic disease. No association was found with acetylcholine-receptor levels or disease severity for any of the TNFA or TNFB polymorphisms. CONCLUSION Patients having MG, including those with thymoma, who have the titin antibody are most often homozygous for the TNFA*T1 and TNFB*2 alleles, whereas the presence of the TNFA*T2 and TNFB*1 alleles correlates with early-onset MG and the absence of titin antibodies.
Different origins of adakites from the Dabie Mountains and the Lower Yangtze River Belt, eastern China: geochemical constraints

Cretaceous adakites are widely distributed in the Lower Yangtze River Belt (LYRB) and the Dabie Mountains, east-central China. Adakites from the LYRB in general are closely associated with Cu–Au deposits, whereas Dabie adakites lack any mineralization. Based on geochemical characteristics, we show that these adakites have different origins; for example, adakites from the Dabie Mountains have more variable Sr/Y (6.47–1303) and systematically higher La/Yb (20.8–402), Th/U (2.28–50.6), and Nb/Ta (5.07–65.2) compared to adakites from the LYRB, Sr/Y (28.8–185), La/Yb (14.1–49), Th/U (0.33–8), and Nb/Ta (7.5–23). The systematically higher La/Yb of Dabie adakites supports their continental origin, because the La/Yb of the lower continental crust is more than 10 times higher than that of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB). Moreover, the lower continental crust is also highly enriched in Sr, with Sr/Y > 10 times that of MORB. Interestingly, with the exception of those from Fuziling, most Dabie adakites have Sr/Y comparable to normal adakites, suggesting the presence of residual plagioclase. Because Th and U do not fractionate significantly from each other during magmatism, the high but variable Th/U suggests that the protolith of Dabie adakites underwent subduction. The LYRB adakites can be plausibly interpreted as being a result of Early Cretaceous partial melting of a young, hot, descending oceanic slab during ridge subduction. By contrast, Dabie adakites were likely formed by partial melting of the lower continental crust attending ridge subduction.
The Human Condition

Although Totalitarianism has been perhaps the most widely read of Hannah Arendt's books (while Eichmann in Jerusalem is certainly the most notorious) it is The Human Condition that has attracted most scholarly attention. Generally regarded as her magnum opus , it has been the subject of a good deal of analysis and criticism. It would be neither appropriate nor feasible to attempt a full-scale commentary on the book here. Instead, what I shall try to do in this chapter is to situate it within the context of Arendt's work, and in particular to relate it to the thought trains set off by her encounter with totalitarianism. For the reason why we have spent so long tracing her path from The Origins of Totalitarianism to The Human Condition is that only within that context can one properly understand the later book. Following Arendt's thought trains will lead us to take a fresh look at a number of areas, of which the most interesting will perhaps be her theory of action. Some readers may be sceptical about this approach, and dubious in particular about the hermeneutic principles involved in making use of material Arendt chose not to publish in order to interpret what she did explicitly offer to the world. Such a reader might object that where a writer publishes a systematic work of political philosophy, we must suppose that the work as published represents her definitive position and should be taken as it stands.
Age and origin of the Årdal dike complex, SW Norway: False isochrons, incomplete mixing, and the origin of Caledonian granites in basement nappes

Granitic dikes intruding the upper thrust sheets of the Jotun Nappe Complex, southwest Norway, previously assigned a Sveconorwegian age based on Rb‐Sr data, are redated to 427 ± 1 Ma by U‐Pb. The erroneous Rb‐Sr age can be explained by mixing of magmas with different isotopic compositions. Similar geochemical signatures, evidence of Sr mixing, inherited Proterozoic zircons and synkinematic modes of emplacement are also seen in Silurian granites in the Lifjorden Complex as well as in the Lindås Nappe and the Totland unit of the Bergen Arc Complex. We propose that these granites are related and derived from anatexis of Rb‐poor sediments of Baltica affinity overridden by the nappes during Scandian thrusting. This interpretation is compatible with the presence of the granites in nappes of both oceanic and of continental affinities and their absence in the autochthonous basement.
Surface wave tomography of North America and the Caribbean using global and regional broad-band networks: Phase velocity maps and limitations of ray theory

SUMMARY We present phase velocity maps of fundamental mode Rayleigh waves across the North American and Caribbean plates. Our data set consists of 1846 waveforms from 172 events recorded at 91 broad-band stations operating in North America. We compute phase velocity maps in four narrow period bands between 50 and 150 s using a non-linear waveform inversion method that solves for phase velocity perturbations relative to a reference Earth model (PREM). Our results show a strong velocity contrast between high velocities beneath the stable North American craton, and lower velocities in the tectonically active western margin, in agreement with other regional and global surface wave tomography studies. We perform detailed comparisons with global model results, which display good agreement between phase velocity maps in the location and amplitude of the anomalies. However, forward modelling shows that regional maps are more accurate for predicting waveforms. In addition, at long periods, the amplitude of the velocity anomalies imaged in our regional phase velocity maps is three time larger than in global phase velocity models. This amplitude factor is necessary to explain the data accurately, showing that regional models provide a better image of velocity structures. Synthetic tests show that the raypath coverage used in this study enables one to resolve velocity features of the order of 800–1000 km. However, only larger length-scale features are observed in the phase velocity maps. The limitation in resolution of our maps can be attributed to the wave propagation theory used in the inversion. Ray theory does not account for off-great-circle ray propagation effects, such as ray bending or scattering. For wavelengths less than 1000 km, scattering effects are significant and may need to be considered.