Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SEDIMENTARY MEGASEQUENCES OF COLOMBIAN BASIN, OFFSHORE COLOMBIA by Yeison

6 1.INTRODUCTION . 8 1.1OBJECTIVES . 9 1.2 LOCATION . 10 1.3 TECTONIC SETTING . 11 1.3.1 Subduction of the Caribbean plate in Northwestern South America . 16 1.3.2 Geologic Provinces present in the area . 16 1.3. 3 Other important geological features present in the area . 19 2. DATA AND METHODOLOGY . 21 2.1 Seismic Reflection Data . 21 2.2 DSDP Well Log and Core Data . 22 2.3 Bathymetry and Gravimetry . 22 2.4 Methodology . 23 3. PREVIOUS GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES AND WELL STRATIGRAPHY OF THE COLOMBIAN BASIN . 24 3.1 Ocean Drilling program information, Horizon A” and B” . 25 3.2 Stratigraphy of the Colombian Basin . 26 3.2.1 Western Colombian Basin . 26 3.2.2 Eastern Colombian Basin . 29 3.2.3 Magdalena Fan Stratigraphy . 30
Heard But Marginalized: A Case Study of Chinese NGOs in the Anti-domestic Violence Legislation

This paper examines the interactions of Chinese NGOs and the government, before and after the legislation of antidomestic law. In 1995, the Fourth World Congress of Women held in Beijing remarks on Chinese determination to engage in public affairs globally; afterward, concepts of anti-domestic violence and NGOs have come into China. With further connection with the world, China has accepted the normative practice that NGOs are vital for solving domestic violence. It has resulted in the isomorphic strategies adapted by early anti-domestic violence NGOs in China, learning from the successful foreign models. However, the Chinese government also feels alert to NGOs' assumption from the western experience of expanding civil society instead of the official. With the development of the antidomestic violence movement, NGOs, in turn, display a unitive tendency to get closer to the authorities. This article argues that the government achieves the localization of NGOs in the Chinese context during the past two decades of the ant-domestic violence movement. The enactment of the law in 2016 promotes solving domestic violence and reaffirming the official authority in public affairs.
Gender Style of Humor at Coffee Shop

The aim of this study is deal with gender style of humor at coffee shop. The objectives of the study were to find out the types of humor style occurred at different gender at coffee shop. This research conducted by the qualitative research with cross sectional research design. The data sources of this research were 11 people and divided into 3 categories. Three people were students of SMA Negeri 1 Lubuk Pakam consisted of feminine and feminine, and the data were taken at Post 2 Cafe. And 3 people from students of SMA Negeri 1 Lubuk Pakam consisted of masculine and masculine, the data were taken at Post 2 Cafe. And another 5 people were students of SMA Nusantara Lubuk Pakam consisted of masculine and feminine, and the data were taken at Bangsal Cafe. The data of this research were phrases which consisted of gender style of humor at coffee shop which were collected by using audio recorder and some list of questions that would be interviewed to the source of data. Then, the data were analyzed by using interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana. The result of this research is the types of humor style found in feminine and feminine conversation occurred at coffee shop were affiliative, aggressive, and self-defeating. Feminine were dominantly used aggressive style when they were talking humorously with their fellow females. It could be happened because each individual tends to have a notion of vertical individualism. Then, the types of humor styles found in masculine and masculine conversation occurred at coffee shop were aggressive, affiliative, self-defeating, and self-enhancing. Masculine were dominantly used affiliative humor style when they were talking with their male friends. It could be happened because each individual tends to have a notion of horizontal individualism. And the types of humor style found in feminine and masculine conversation occurred at coffee shop were affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing and self-defeating.
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Purpose – Reaching decisions in a deliberative manner is of utmost importance for boards, as their decisionmaking impacts entire organisations. The current study aims to investigate (1) the quality of group decisions made by boardmembers, (2) their confidence in, satisfactionwith, and reflection on the decision-making, and (3) the effect of two discussion procedures on objective decision quality and subjective evaluations of the decisionmaking. Design/methodology/approach – Board members of various Dutch non-profit organisations (N 5 141) participated in a group decision-making task and a brief questionnaire. According to the hidden-profile paradigm, informationwas asymmetrically distributed among groupmembers and should have been pooled to reach the objectively best decision. Half of the groups received one of two discussion procedures (i.e. advocacy decision or decisional balance sheet), while the other half received none. Findings – Only a fifth of the groups successfully chose the best decision alternative. The initial majority preference strongly influenced the decision, which indicates that discussion was irrelevant to the outcome. Nevertheless, board members were satisfied with their decision-making. Using a discussion procedure enhanced participants’ perception that they adequately weighed the pros and cons, but did not improve objective decision quality or other aspects of the subjective evaluation. These findings suggest that board members are unaware of their biased decision-making, which might hinder improvement. MD 59,13
Railroad passenger car collision analysis and modifications for improved crashworthiness

In this study, crashworthiness assessment and suggestions for the modification of a railroad passenger car are presented. To assess the crashworthiness, collision of the railroad passenger car onto a rigid wall is simulated by using finite element (FE) methods. A full-length, detailed passenger car model is used in FE analyses. In order to validate the FE model, simulation results obtained for different types of static loading conditions in compliance with various scenarios defined in UIC CODE OR 577 are compared with experimental measurements before running collision analyses of the railroad passenger car. The good agreement between static tests and FE analyses results indicates that the FE model accurately represents the real structure. Following the FE model validation, analysis of the collision behaviour of the railroad passenger car consists of two stages. In the first stage, the crashworthiness of the initial concept design of the railroad passenger car is analysed. It was observed that local buckling takes place at various points, which prevents the desired progressive damage behaviour in the railroad car body. Having revealed the structural weaknesses, the initial design was modified and simulated again under the same conditions. Using size optimisation, thickness of some sheet metal components is changed in order to obtain the intended progressive damage behaviour. As a result of the modifications, the passenger car design with better crashworthiness properties was obtained, in which large plastic deformations occur around the collision side of the car while mainly elastic deformations occur in the car's body away from the bumpers.
EVALUATION OF SEMI-EMPIRICAL ANALYSES FOR TANK CAR PUNCTURE VELOCITY, PART II: CORRELATIONS WITH ENGINEERING ANALYSES

This report is the second in a series focusing on methods to determine the puncture velocity of railroad tank car shells. In this context, puncture velocity refers to the impact velocity at which a coupler will completely pierce the shell and puncture the tank. In the first report in this series, a set of semi-empirical equations was evaluated by comparing calculated puncture velocities with data from tank car impact tests. These equations were originally developed by the RPA-AAR Tank Car Safety Committee and later modified by the industry to account for head shield protection and jacket insulation. The semi-empirical equations generally produced reasonable and conservative estimates of puncture velocity when compared with the experimental data. However, differences between the calculated and observed results become more widespread when the tank is pressurized or when shield protection is present. Moreover, alternative methods to determine puncture velocity may be observed by the industry to avoid overdesign. In this report, methods to predict puncture velocity based only on engineering mechanics principles (i.e., no empiricism) are developed and described. Results from the semi-empirical approach are compared with results from the engineering methods. These methods rely on both analytical and computational tools to examine the structural behavior of tanks with ellipsoidal shapes. These tools include finite element and dynamic lumped mass models.
Factors Influencing Adoption of Fisheries Innovations by Artisanal Fishermen in Coastal Areas of Ogun State, Nigeria

The factors influencing adoption of innovations by artisanal fishermen were studied in coastal areas of Ogun State. Data were obtained from one hundred and twenty fishermen using simple random sampling technique. The instrument used to obtain information from the fishermen was structured interview schedule. Data were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics such as percentages and means. Chi-square was further used to test relationships between variables. The findings showed that 71.7 percent of the fishermen still used unmotorised hand operated canoes which they considered laborious and derived low income from fishing activities. The results also revealed that, most of the fishermen were aware of the extension agencies in their villages but not all the innovations disseminated were adopted. The use of outboard engine and preservation equipment like ice box, cold storage and refrigerator could not be adopted due to high cost (72.5%), lack of social infrastructural facilities like electricity (67.0%), lack of capital (72.5%) and lack of government incentives (60%). The test of hypotheses established significant relationship between age of the fishermen and adoption of fisheries innovations (χ 2 = 0.041, p<0.05). Also there was significant difference between the reasons for not adopting innovation and the constraints faced by the fishermen in the fishing operations. Based on these findings, it was recommended that fishermen should be linked with credit institutions particularly the Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (NACRDB) for credit facility and essential basic infrastructure like accessible road and electricity be provided in rural fishing villages.
Evaluation of Silicon Nutrition on Yield, Growth Attributes and Available Nutrient Status of Paddy in Coastal Zone of Odisha

A field experiment was conducted in the central farm, Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Coastal Zone OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during kharif 2020 using cv-Lalat variety of Rice. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design (RBD) with ten treatments and three replications. In this experiment BOF (Basic Oxygen Furnace) slag was used as a source of silica for application to rice crop. 200, 300 and 400 kg SiO2/ha was applied in combination with 50% STD (Soil Test Dose) and 75% STD to assess the efficacy of Silica with reduction in fertilizer dose by 50% and 25%. It was shown that increase in number of effective tillers (7.8) per plant and length of the panicle (25.8 cm), but no significant increase was marked in case of 1000 grain weight (gm.) over control. In case of grain yield, straw yield and harvest index, 100% STD (T4) registered maximum (36.9q/ha) grain yield which was 29.4% more than that of control. Of course, grain yield in case of T9 i.e., 75% STD+300 kg SiO2/ha was at par 36.2q/ha indicated efficacy of silica application by reducing fertilizer dose. Harvest index was not affected by Si treatments. However, maximum HI (0.478) was observed in T9. Available N, P, K and S status in post-harvest soil was increased due to application of silica along with fertilizer over control indicated better availability of nutrients which plays a vital role in increasing production and productivity of rice. The study revealed that the DTPA extractable Fe and Mn content decreased, and Cu and Zn content increased with increased application of silica. Though 100% STD (T4) was found to be very effective as compared to other treatments but 75% STD + 300kgSiO2/ha was also equally effective so far as yield, growth attributing characters, available nutrient status of paddy.
LiDAR Depth Completion Using Color-Embedded Information via Knowledge Distillation

Depth completion is the task of reconstructing dense depth images from sparse LiDAR data. LiDAR depth completion, for which LiDAR data is the only input, is an ill-posed and challenging problem owing to the underlying properties of LiDAR data: extremely few points, presence of discontinuities, and absence of texture information. Accordingly, most approaches are heavily dependent on guided color images, which leads to unsatisfactory results when the color images are degraded. To alleviate the dependency on color images but leverage this information during training, we present a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) consisting of depth and edge CNNs via transferring of knowledge. In order to compensate for the limitations of LiDAR data, we design the edge CNN to learn a gradient depth image from a powerful teacher network through the Knowledge-Distillation method. Since the teacher network is trained with color images, color-embedded information can be obtained in the test phase even if color images are not used as an input. We further propose a Self-Distillation method for transferring the color-embedded features from the edge CNN to the depth CNN. Enforcing the depth features to contain edge information hardly observed in LiDAR data enables the depth CNN to generate more edge-attentive and structure-preserving results. Our novel methods show remarkable results in outdoor and indoor environments for KITTI and NYU-Depth-V2 datasets. Experiments performed with low-channel LiDAR data in KITTI and few depth points in the NYU-Depth-V2 dataset show that our method is robust to data sparsity and applicable in various scenarios.
Volatile profile of Spanish raw citrus honey: the best strategy for its correct labelling

12 The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of specific volatile compounds 13 (analyzed by SPME-GC-MS) in citrus honeys, comparing thyme and sunflower, and to 14 correlate their abundance with the level of methyl-anthranilate (accepted as a true marker 15 in citrus honey), for which a minimum content is mandatory in commercial transactions. 16 Methyl-anthranilate is well correlated with certain volatile compounds such as 1-p-17 menthene-9-al (0.903), limonene (0.885), dill-ether (0.842) and ethyl linalool (0.832), and 18 slightly lower with the four lilac aldehydes (0.717 to 0.764). However, the latter, together 19 with methyl-anthranilate , are of special interest because these were found in all citrus 20 honey samples. Consequently, the information provided by these five compounds could 21 facilitate the unmistakable classification of this honey. Thanks to these positive results 22 and even though that this method is not commonly practiced to objectively differentiate 23 between monofloral honeys it can be considered an interesting analytical tool in the 24 future. 25
Finite element modeling of multilayered electrostrictive actuators

Nonlinear, quasi-static finite element calculations are performed for multilayered, electrostrictive, ceramic actuators. Both a stand-alone device and an array of devices embedded in a 1 - 3 composite are studied. The numerical model is based on a fully coupled constitutive law for electrostriction which uses strain and polarization as independent state variables. This law accounts for the stress dependency of ceramic's dielectric behavior and simulates polarization saturation at high electric fields. Two-dimensional plane strain computations are done for a single actuator constructed from Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3- PbTiO3-BaTiO3 (PMN-PT-BT). The stress state near an internal electrode tip is computed and a fracture mechanics analysis is performed to assess the device's reliability. The effect of compressive prestress on the actuator's induced strain response is also predicted. In a second problem, a 1 - 3 composite embedded with an array of PMN-PT-BT multilayered actuators is studied with a plane stress version of the finite element technique. A unit cell model is used to compute the surface displacements of the composite.
A Basis for Evaluation of Seismic Hazard and Design Criteria for Saudi Arabia

This paper presents the fundamental issues and policy decisions that formed the basis of the hazard and design aspects of a comprehensive research project conducted for development of the preliminary seismic design criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study represents the first regionally consistent and systematic collection and critical treatment of the limited historical and instrumental data on earthquakes and seismotectonics of the region, and development of seismic design criteria. The development of the seismic design criteria followed somewhat conservative course, rather than a strict scientific approach, in estimation of the seismic hazard. One of the significant outcome of the study was the preparation of an upto-date and refined earthquake catalog of the region. The catalog contains both, the historical data available in Arabian and English literature, and the data recorded by international and local seismic monitoring agencies. The data were critically treated and superimposed upon the available tectonic information of the Arabian peninsula to obtain a preliminary seismotectonic map of the region. The results of the probabilistic seismic hazard assessment indicate that the highest relative predicted ground-motion occurs near the northwestern border neighboring the Gulf of Aqaba and also near the southwestern border, neighboring Yemen. Based on iso-acceleration map for 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, for the seismic design purposes the Kingdom was delineated into four seismic zones. Following UBC format the seismic zones are assigned numbers 0, 1, 2A and 2B. Widely used codes, SEAOC and UBC were selected as the model for development of seismic design recommendations. Selection of the structural system is based on structural performance category which is determined by seismic zone number and the intended occupancy category. R w -factors for different types of structural system were assigned lower values in consonance with the design and construction practices prevalent in the country. The significance of this study is in its implementation of a global scheme in development of seismic design criteria of a region beset with limited seismic data.
Cognition, Emotions, and Language in Front-Line Healthcare Workers: Clinical and Ethical Implications for Assessment Measures

Objectives. The article aims to reveal language-based markers of stressful experiences in healthcare workers in terms of their cognitions and emotions. The following research questions were formulated for the current study: (1) Are risk and protective factors for psychological stress in healthcare staff, working with patients with COVID-19 aligned with anxiety, depression and resilience? (2) Are there any language-based indicators for emotional distress in healthcare staff, working with patients with COVID-19? (3) What are the key cognitions, emotions, and behavioral patterns are expressed in healthcare workers’ staff language? (4) What are words-associations in the Ukrainian Associative Dictionary aligned with language-based indicators of professional ethics in healthcare staff? Materials and Methods. The study applies Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Beck’s Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), the Psychological Stress Scale (PSM-25), and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC 2015). Results. Results show that healthcare staff demonstrates a low level of psychological stress, depression and anxiety, and a medium level of resilience. The results of multiple linear regression indicate that the only significant negative predictor of stress is resilience. The psycholinguistic analysis of healthcare staff's narrative on their professional experience treating COVID-19 patients shows the key meaningful categories, namely social contacts, cognitive processes, and time. Social contacts are primarily represented by the category family. The word-associations from the Ukrainian Associative Dictionary indicate that feeling of guilt related to professional ethics in healthcare staff is more expressed in men compared with women. Conclusion. The insights gained from this study may be of assistance to developing effective interventions for healthcare staff during a pandemic, primarily focusing on protective factors and weakening feelings of guilt to prevent moral injury. The study also raises some issues of the clinical psycholinguistic approach to examining emotional distress. This approach would be a fruitful area for further work.
EXERCISE TRAINING IN DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Objective To evaluate the effects and safety of exercise training, and to determine the most effective exercise intervention for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Exercise training was compared with no training, placebo or alternative exercise training. Primary outcomes were functioning and health-related quality of life. Secondary outcomes were muscular strength, endurance and lung function. Data sources A systematic literature search was conducted in Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Central, PEDro and Scopus. Study selection and data extraction Screening, data extraction, risk of bias and quality assessment were carried out. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Collaborations risk of bias tools. The certainty of evidence was assessed using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation. Data synthesis Twelve studies with 282 participants were included. A narrative synthesis showed limited or no improvements in functioning compared with controls. Health-related quality of life was assessed in only one study. A meta-analysis showed a significant difference in muscular strength and endurance in favour of exercise training compared with no training and placebo. However, the certainty of evidence was very low. Conclusion Exercise training may be beneficial in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but the evidence remains uncertain. Further research is needed on exercise training to promote functioning and health-related quality of life in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. LAY ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine the effects of all types of exercise training compared with no training, placebo or alternative exercise training programmes in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The primary outcomes were functioning and health-related quality of life. Secondary outcomes were muscular strength and endurance. A further aim was to evaluate safety and, if possible, to find the most effective exercise training intervention. This review investigates existing research on this topic. The results have been systematically gathered and analysed, to give a broader view of what effect exercise training may have for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The results suggest that exercise training preserves functioning, and benefits muscular strength and endurance. The study was not able to identify the best type of exercise training and prescriptions to use in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The validity of the results was reduced by the low number of studies included, the low quality of the studies, and diversity in both the interventions and outcome measures used. The results should therefore be interpreted with caution.