Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Suspended sediment load estimation in an ungauged river in south‐eastern Australia

Soil erosion poses a significant threat to river health as well as the sustainability of soil resources. Management of this issue requires catchment‐specific data to be developed; however, many large catchments are poor in terms of hydrological and sediment transport data. Regional scale (thousands of square kilometres), computer‐based modelling methods are a way to generate such data. This study aims to apply the SedNet model to estimate a sediment budget for a 575 km2, ungauged, agricultural catchment of south‐eastern Australia. The model results are then compared with field measured erosion rates for the catchment, in order to assess the sustainability of soil loss and redistribution across the catchment. SedNet estimated average suspended sediment concentrations between 70 and 120 mg/L, under conditions deemed most representative of the river. These model estimates were comparable with monitoring data, showing suspended sediment concentrations between 30 and 350 mg/L. It was found that soil loss and redistribution across the catchment is low; however, the estimated base sediment loads indicate that river health may be negatively impacted by this. SedNet accurately represented current catchment and river conditions and provided a reliable estimation of sediment yield, demonstrating the ability to estimate sediment loss and redistribution across data‐poor catchments using a multifaceted modelling approach. Methodologies, such as the one presented here, offer the ability to better assess the impacts of erosion on sediment loads to develop strategies to effectively manage excess suspended sediment.
Fossil Podocarpus (Podocarpaceae) from the lower Pliocene of Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China and its biogeographic significance

ABSTRACT Numerous pollens and a few wood fossils with probable affinity to Podocarpus L’Heritier ex Persoon have been discovered from China. However, the leaf fossils of Podocarpus were not well documented. In this study, we describe a new species, Podocarpus pliomacrophyllus sp. nov., from the lower Pliocene of Tengchong, western Yunnan, southwestern China, with detailed cuticular structures. According to gross morphology and cuticular structure of leaves, the present species mostly resembles extant P. macrophyllus (Thunberg) Sweet, which is attributed to the subgenus Foliolatus de Laubenfels. Molecular data support that the genus Podocarpus derived from Gondwana, and the subgenus Foliolatus diverged from the subgenus Podocarpus during the early Miocene. Therefore, the present fossils from Tengchong indicate that the subgenus Foliolatus had spread from India to western Yunnan before the early Pliocene, and then to southeastern China. The Pleistocene glacial events forced Podocarpus to retreat from western Yunnan and the uplifted Hengduan Mountains hindered its reconnection during the subsequent warm interglacials.
A Comparison of Distraction Techniques (Bubble and Cartoon) On Reducing Chemotherapy induced pain in children with Cancer

Introduction:: The purpose of the present study was to compare the influence of the two techniques of distraction through watching a cartoon and bubble manufacturing /producing on chemotherapy pain reduction in children suffering from cancer. Method: The method of the study was pretest and post test experimentation with the control group. The study population included all children with cancer hospitalized in Buali hospital in Ardabil. The subjects were selected through convenience sampling method and were randomly placed in three groups (16 in distraction group watching a cartoon, 16 in bubble manufacturing and 16 in the control group). To collect the data, the Oucher pain tools and fur the more, to create distraction a bubble manufacturing tool and a cartoon CD were used. To analyze the research hypotheses, ANOVA was applied. Results: Toki test results show that the average score of pain " making bubbles from the group watching cartoons," and mean scores of "both experimental groups in witness group" was significantly higher (p<0/05). These results mean that watching cartoons and making bubbles help to reduce the pain that felt by children during chemotherapy. Also results show that the method of making bubbles rather than watching cartoons method has helped to reduce pain in children during chemotherapy (p<0/01). Conclusion: Generally the results showed that the distraction includes none pharmacologic interventions are effective in pain relief. In addition this method has the little or even no complications than medicinal methods, and also has low cost. This method has no physical and psychological devastating effects for children, has easy application, requires less training and does not need a lot of time to execute for kids and more importantly is that this method is attractive to children and by using this children will have less perceived of pain. Finally the findings of this study suggest that the possibility of using distraction methods as effective nonPharmaceutical treatments in different parts of the hospital will help to reduce pain.
IMPROVING THE EMPLOYEE TRANSFER EXPERIENCE WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION

: This research examines how to improve an employee’s experience when transferring between departments within an organization. This research includes a historical review of a Canadian retail organization. Based on this historical review, gaps are identified between current and future visions to show where problems with existing training and development practices need to be resolved to reduce front-line employee turnover within an organization. The strategies within this paper support leaders through the LEAD: Listen, Explore, Act and Develop, Change Management Model. The LEAD Change Management Model supports the change process. This research proposes three possible solutions to improve an employee who is transferring between departments. The best solution to resolve the problem of improving an employee moving between departments experience is creating a Training Manager position within the retail store. A Training Manager position could support both employees and leadership with training and development of staff who are moving between departments. Within this research, an implementation plan using the TransX Model was created. The TransX Model is a hybrid of Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Transformational Leadership Theory to facilitate this organizational change within an organization by creating a common vision. Finally, this research provides the next steps as well as future considerations to enhance the training manager role within an organization.
GaN-Half-Bridge for Core Loss Measurements Under Rectangular AC Voltage and DC Bias of the Magnetic Flux Density

An accurate calculation of core losses is essential for the design of switched-mode power supplies. However, such predictions remain a challenge as core losses depend on various parameters, e.g., the waveform of the magnetic flux density, including its fundamental frequency and dc bias. To investigate the influence of dc bias, core loss measurements usually impose a dc current and, thus, dc bias of the magnetic field strength on ungapped toroid samples. However, hardware designers require the ac and dc excitation of the magnetic flux density. Therefore, this article proposes a half-bridge configuration to impose rectangular ac voltages on the core under test (CUT). By performing a pulsed operation in combination with an iteration method, the desired ac and dc excitation of the magnetic flux density can be obtained. GaN-HEMTs have been applied as they allow a printed circuit board design with low parasitic inductances and thus avoid ringing. The measurement setup is able to characterize magnetic materials at high frequencies for triangular magnetic flux density waveforms, including dc bias and different duty cycles. In addition, the influence of magnetic history on core losses can be studied, an issue usually not addressed in the literature. Moreover, the relationship between the dc bias of the magnetic field strength and the dc bias of the magnetic flux density is investigated. A simple functional approach, e.g., by using the initial magnetization curve, does not suffice to describe this relationship. Accordingly, core losses should be derived as a function of dc bias of the magnetic flux density for the results to be of practical use to hardware designers.
Job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of CTE health science teachers

Context: The healthcare profession is one of the largest growing occupations in the United States. Yet, there is a shortage of healthcare professionals and the situation is further compounded by insufficient instructors to prepare individuals to provide safe and quality care. A number of teachers leave the profession within 3 to 5 years of work in the classroom. It is important to ensure that teachers are satisfied and engaged at work because of the positive impact these job attitudes contribute to performance. Considering the importance of Career and Technical Education (CTE) health science teachers to the health sector, there is need to examine teacher job satisfaction and work engagement and the impact this may have on turnover intention. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of CTE health science teachers in the United States (US). Approach: In this study, hierarchical multiple regression was used to analyze a total of 249 responses from CTE health science teachers in the State of Texas in the US.
Effect of Land Configuration and Weed Management on Yield and Yield Attributes of Green Gram (Vigna radiata L)

To study the effect of land configuration and weed management on yield and yield attributes of green gram, a field experiment was conducted at Hisar during kharif 2016 in strip plot design with four replications. Ridge method of planting recorded significantly higher number of branches plant-1, seeds pod-1, 100 seed weight and seed yield in comparison to flat method of planting. Among the weed management practices, application of pendimethalin 30 EC @ 1.0 kg/ha-PE fb imazethapyr 10 % SL @ 55 g/ha at 15-20 DAS recorded significantly higher number of branches plant-1, seeds pod-1, pods plant-1 and 100 seed weight compared to weedy check. Similarly the same treatment recorded higher yield to the tune of 236, 48 and 18 % over weedy check, pendimethalin 30 EC @ 1.0 kg/ha-PE and Imazethapyr 10 % SL@ 55 g/ha at 15-20 DAS, respectively. Highest net returns (` 24632/ha), BC ratio (2.15) and weed control efficiency (94 %) was also recorded when pendimethalin 30 EC @ 1.0 kg/ha-PE fb imazethapyr 10 % SL @ 55 g/ha at 15-20 DAS of green gram crop was applied.
A study on satisfaction level among patients attending sexually transmitted infections clinic

Introduction: Patient satisfaction has become a favourite debate for enhancing quality of OPD services, however it still needs a lot of improvement for the better delivery of health care services. Aim: The aim was to study the satisfaction level among STI (Sexually transmitted infection) patients regarding quality of care and services provided in STI clinic. Materials and methods: The present study was a cross sectional study conducted on 88 patients with ages ranging from 16-65 years attending STI clinic at the department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology of a tertiary care hospital in Gujarat, India from December 2016 to april 2017. An effort was made to bring into focus significant areas to target for improvement. Satisfaction was assessed using 13 questions modified from patient satisfaction questionnaire by Wirral Community NHS Trust.Patients were asked to give rating to these questions. Likert's 5 point rating scale was used. Results: It was noticed that total satisfaction in present study was 82.9%. Most of the questions of patient satisfaction were statistically highly significant (p <0.0001). Conclusion: Overall patient satisfaction with services provided at our STI Clinic was high (93.2%) except length of waiting time (<30 minutes), waiting area & other amenities of the hospital.
Influence of dietary roughage level and Megasphaera elsdenii on feedlot performance and carcass composition of thin cull beef cows fed for a lean market

Abstract One hundred forty-four cull cows (body condition score = 2.10 ± 0.61; BW = 456 ± 47 kg) were organized into a 2 × 2 factorial design (48 pens, 12 pens/treatment, and 3 cows/pen) to evaluate the effect of dietary roughage level and oral drenching of Megasphaera elsdenii NCIMB 41125 (M. elsdenii culture; Lactipro Advance; MS Biotec Inc., Wamego, KS) on performance and carcass characteristics. Cattle were finished over a 42-day realimentation period, and aggressively stepped up over a 10-day period to either a high roughage finisher (HRF; 25% roughage) or a low roughage finisher (LRF; 10% roughage). Within diet, cattle were administered no probiotic or 100 mL of M. elsdenii culture (M. elsdenii NCIMB 41125, 2 108 cfu/mL) on day 0. No diet × probiotic interactions were detected (P ≥ 0.15), suggesting that the magnitude of the response was not influenced by the concentrate level of the diet. The main effect of diet triggered several significant responses. Decreasing roughage level tended to improve average daily gain (ADG) by 9.7% (0.26 kg, P = 0.08), while decreasing dry matter intake (DMI) by 0.9 kg (P = 0.09), provoking a 19.7% enhancement of feed efficiency (0.036 units, P < 0.01). However, interim data revealed declines of performance parameters among both diets with a significant difference between treatments only documented during the final phase of the realimentation period. During the final 14 days, LRF posted a 0.68 kg increase in ADG (P = 0.05) and a 2.0 kg decrease in DMI (P = 0.01), translating to improved feed efficiency (0.054 units, P = 0.03). This suggests that increasing the caloric density of finishing diets may help offset the regression of performance typically observed following a compensatory gain. No carcass traits were impacted by either diet or M. elsdenii culture (P ≥ 0.08). Overall, oral drenching of M. elsdenii culture tended to augment ADG (0.26 kg, P = 0.08) and carcass ADG (0.20 kg, P = 0.10). Implying that M. elsdenii culture was effective at alleviating the acidosis risk prompted by the rapid step-up period employed in the trial and may help capitalize on the narrow timeline of compensatory gain in cull cow realimentation.
Towards sustainable and ocean-friendly aquafeeds: Evaluating a fish-free feed for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) using three marine microalgae species

Aquaculture, the fastest growing food sector, is expected to expand to produce an additional 30 million metric tons of fish by 2030, thus filling the gap in supplies of seafood for humans. Salmonids aquaculture exploits the vast majority of fishmeal and fish oil rendered from ocean-dwelling forage fish. Most forage fish diverted to these commodities are human-food grade, and all are primary prey for marine predators. Rising costs, price volatility, and environmental sustainability concerns of using these commodities for aquaculture feed are driving the global search for alternatives, including marine microalgae originating from the base of marine food webs but produced in culture. We report the first evaluation of two marine microalgae, Nannochloropsis sp. and Isochrysis sp. , for their potential to fully replace fishmeal and fish oil in diets of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), an important model for all salmonid aquaculture. We conducted a digestibility experiment with dried whole cells of Nannochloropsis sp. and Isochrysis sp. , followed by a growth experiment using feeds with different combinations of Nannochloropsis sp. , Isochrysis sp. , and Schizochytrium sp. We found that digestibilities of crude protein, crude lipid, amino acids, fatty acids, omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n3 PUFA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), n6 (omega 6) PUFA in Isochrysis sp. were significantly higher than those in Nannochloropsis sp. Digestibility results suggest that for rainbow trout diets Isochrysis sp. is a better substitute for fishmeal and fish oil than Nannochloropsis sp. The lower feed intake by fish fed diets combining multiple microalgae, compared to fish fed the reference diet, was a primary cause of the growth retardation. In trout fillets, we detected an equal amount of DHA in fish fed fish-free diet and reference diet. This study suggests that Isochrysis sp. and Schizochytrium sp. are good candidates for DHA supplementation in trout diet formulations.
Price Discreteness and Investment to Price Sensitivity

We find that investment responds more sensitively to a firm’s Tobin’s q when its share price is more discrete. Low-price U.S. stocks exhibit higher investment-q sensitivity, but this pattern disappears in countries whose tick sizes increase with share prices. Using Tick Size Pilot Program as a controlled experiment, we find that an increase in the tick size increases price informativeness and investment-q sensitivity, particularly when firms face tighter tick-size constraints. Investment-q sensitivity increases more when managers’ incentives to learn are stronger, that is, when they have less precise information and when they have more resources to respond to price signals.
Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing the Embeddings of Words and Entities from Wikipedia

The embeddings of entities in a large knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia) are highly beneficial for solving various natural language tasks that involve real world knowledge. In this paper, we present Wikipedia2Vec, a Python-based open-source tool for learning the embeddings of words and entities from Wikipedia. The proposed tool enables users to learn the embeddings efficiently by issuing a single command with a Wikipedia dump file as an argument. We also introduce a web-based demonstration of our tool that allows users to visualize and explore the learned embeddings. In our experiments, our tool achieved a state-of-the-art result on the KORE entity relatedness dataset, and competitive results on various standard benchmark datasets. Furthermore, our tool has been used as a key component in various recent studies. We publicize the source code, demonstration, and the pretrained embeddings for 12 languages at https://wikipedia2vec.github. io/.
Taking the sting out of assessment: The experiences of trainee teachers experimenting with innovative alternative performance assessment in the History classroom

This article explores the experiences of History and Social Sciences (History) trainee teachers (n=33) and their learners during the implementation of five versatile and innovative alternative performance assessment strategies in their diverse classroom settings during their practicum at schools. Originally designed for the corporate staff training environment, and subsequently utilised as community building and data collection techniques in a participative community-engaged research project, these five interactive activities were adapted to act as innovative teaching and alternative formative performance assessment strategies in the History classroom, the latter of which is the main focus of this article. The article is anchored in a social constructivist and dialogic theoretical framework and argues that alternative performance assessment techniques that are non-graded, interactive, formative and dialogic in nature, take place within an atmosphere of emotional safety, and integrate a strong element of enjoyment, are able to remove the anxiety that often characterises both summative and graded formative assessment. This, in turn, makes learners more receptive to learning and brings History to life in the classroom. In an attempt to answer two interrelated research questions: “how did trainee History teachers experience the implementation of innovative alternative performance assessment strategies”, and “how did they perceive the response of the learners to a fresh approach to formative assessment”, the article employs a qualitative research methodology which rests on research findings generated through the use of data gathered from written, visual and oral feedback from the participants during and after a practical workshop which prepared them for the implementation phase of the study. The research findings suggest, inter alia, that both the trainee teachers and their learners enjoyed a fresh, non-threatening approach to formative assessment and that the learners participated freely and enthusiastically in groups when implementing these formative assessment strategies. trainee teachers experimenting with innovative alternative performance assessment . History classroom, pp. 88-118
High-Resolution, In Situ Monitoring of Stable Isotopes of Water Revealed Insight into Hydrological Response Behavior

High temporal resolution (20-min intervals) measurements of stable isotopes from groundwater, stream water and precipitation were investigated to understand the hydrological response behavior and control of precipitation and antecedent wetness conditions on runoff generation. Data of 20 precipitation events were collected by a self-sufficient mobile system for in situ measurements over four months in the Schwingbach Environmental Observatory (SEO, temperate climate), Germany. Isotopic hydrograph separation indicated that more than 79% of the runoff consisted of pre-event water. Short response times of maximum event water fractions in stream water and groundwater revealed that shallow subsurface flow pathways rapidly delivered water to the stream. Macropore and soil pipe networks along relatively flat areas in stream banks were likely relevant pathways for the rapid transmission of water. Event water contribution increased with increasing precipitation amount. Pre-event water contribution was moderately affected by precipitation, whereas, the antecedent wetness conditions were not strong enough to influence pre-event water contribution. The response time was controlled by mean precipitation intensity. A two-phase system was identified, at which the response times of stream water and groundwater decreased after reaching a threshold of mean precipitation intensity of 0.5 mm h−1. Our results suggest that high temporal resolution measurements of stable isotopes of multiple water sources combined with hydrometrics improve the understanding of the hydrological response behavior and runoff generation mechanisms.
Regularization of a two‐dimensional strongly damped wave equation with statistical discrete data

In this paper, we consider an inverse problem for a strongly damped wave equation in two dimensional with statistical discrete data. Firstly, we give a representation for the solution and then present a discretization form of the Fourier coefficients. Secondly, we show that the solution does not depend continuously on the data by stating a concrete example, which makes the solution be not stable and thus the present problem is ill‐posed in the sense of Hadamard. Next, we use the trigonometric least squares method associated with the Fourier truncation method to regularize the instable solution of the problem. Finally, the convergence rate of the error between the regularized solution and the sought solution is estimated and also investigated numerically.