Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Soil Erosion Characteristics under Different Precipitation Conditions in Loess Plateau

The distribution of soil erosion has obvious characters of spatial change, and studying the spatial change law is important for scientific prevention of soil erosion. Loess Plateau, situated at E100°52′～114°33, N33°41′～41°16, is a part of Northwest China. For a long time, severe soil erosion not only has produced a great impact on agriculture in this area, but also silted up the reservoirs and riverbeds in the lower reaches, so it has been becoming the most important cause seriously damaging the ecological system of the Loess Plateau and the near areas. The main factors affecting soil erosion are precipitation, topography and vegetation. The precipitation is classified seven grades and there exists a close relation between the precipitation and soil erosion in Loess Plateau land-scale. The relationship of the precipitation and soil erosion in Loess Plateau is discussed through using the spatial overlay statistics for the soil erosion and precipitation data based on Geographical information system. The results show that the soil erosion exist under different precipitationconditions in Loess Plateau, water-wind erosion accounts for 55.76%of all kinds of erosions in precipitation grade 1. The proportions of water erosion andwind erosion are approximate in precipitation grade 2 and 3. Water erosion dominates from precipitation grade 4 to grade 7, accounting for 82.54%, 98.66%, 99.53%and 100%, respectively. Frozen erosion distributes from precipitationgrade 2 to grade 6. Water erosion, wind erosion and water-wind erosion indices in precipitation grade 4, being 406.84, 665.9 and 723.78, respectively, are bigger than those in the rest precipitation grade. These results can provide scientific evidences for the protection, utilization, recovery and reconstruction of Loess Plateau and demonstrate the effectiveness of studying the relationships ofthe precipitation and the soil erosion by combination of Geographical Information System and landscape ecological method.
Virtual traveling strategies in teaching writing during COVID-19 pandemic

This study sought to examine the strategies adopted by teachers to improve students’ writing ability during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted at the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare, Indonesia. The research method involved questionnaire to see the students’ interest in learning English and pre-test/post-test to see the student’s ability to promote tourism objects through written texts. The data indicates significant contribution of Virtual Traveling Strategy in writing class. Moreover, the majority of students agree that Virtual Traveling Strategy is very useful and applicable in in-class writing. Furthermore, the dependency on internet connection becomes the weaknesses of this strategy. Despite its limitation, this method is highly recommended as one of the teaching strategies in addressing writing skills.
Propriétés physiques des sols et pouvoir colmatant des eaux usées en fonction de leur degré de traitement

Cet article traite des effets de la teneur en matieres en suspension (M.E.S.) sur l'infiltration des eaux usees dans le sol sous le seul angle du colmatage physique. Nous avons utilise des eaux usees a la sortie d'un decanteur primaire (M.E.S. 30 a 50 mg.l −1 ; l'eau potable (M.E.S.=0) etant prise comme reference. Nous avons mesure dans une premiere phase le pouvoir colmatant de ces eaux sur des modeles simples representes par des filtres millipores, dont les pores varient de 0,8 a 180 μm, des billes de verre de 120 a 500 μm de diametre et des sables grossiers de 400 a 500 μm de diametre (.)
Evaluating cluster analysis on f0 contours: an information theoretic approach on three languages

This paper proposes a method for evaluating cluster analyses of f0 contours. Contour clustering was recently introduced as a theory-neutral approach to grouping f0 contours. This approach is applicable to any type of speech data (spontaneous to scripted) from any language. It lets the user explore how f0 shape differences relate to differences in linguistic content. Many cluster analysis methods leave the number of clusters as a parameter. The current paper proposes a method for identifying the ideal value for this parameter for a given dataset. In particular, we use a the Bayes-equivalent method of ﬁnding the minimum description length (MDL). This method is illustrated here using f0 data from three typologically different languages, obtained using different elicitation methods. The results show that the MDL measure selects cluster counts corresponding nat-ural classes identiﬁed by humans.
The role

Research background: Since SMEs lack the financial and human resources required for inter-nationalization, they face more obstacles than large firms. In this regard, their internal/controllable risk management capabilities based on the Resource-based View (RBV) theory might help them overcome internationalization barriers. Purpose of the article: This study aims to investigate the positive impact of internal/controllable risk management capabilities, such as strategic, operational, and personnel risk capabilities, on the export intention of SMEs. Moreover, this paper finds out whether the impacts of these risk management capabilities on export intention differ depending on the countries where SMEs operate. Methods: This research uses a random sampling method and shares an online questionnaire with survey respondents. It includes research samples from Czech, Slovakian, and Hungarian SMEs. The researchers analyze the effects of enterprise risk management capabilities on export by performing Binary Logistic Regression analyses. Findings & value added: While personnel risk management does not affect the export intention of SMEs, strategic risk management and operational risk management positively affect the export intention of SMEs, depending on the countries where SMEs are located. For this reason, there are international differences in the impacts of strategic and operational risk management capabilities on the export intention of SMEs. This paper provides a more holistic approach to managing internal/controllable risk factors and investigates this construct’s effect on internationalization. A country comparison in this specific effect has been only performed in this study. Moreover, the construct of managing internal/controllable risk factors is also linked with the dynamic capability of RBV only in this paper.
Mathematical Formulation of an Optimal Execution Problem with Uncertain Market Impact

We study an optimal execution problem with uncertain market impact to derive a more realistic market model. We construct a discrete-time model as a value function for optimal execution. Market impact is formulated as the product of a deterministic part increasing with execution volume and a positive stochastic noise part. Then, we derive a continuous-time model as a limit of a discrete-time value function. We find that the continuous-time value function is characterized by a stochastic control problem with a Levy process.
Permanental Processes

This is a survey of results about permanental processes, real valued positive processes which are a generalization of squares of Gaussian processes. In a certain sense the symmetric positive definite function that determines a Gaussian process is replaced by a function that is not necessarily symmetric nor positive definite, but that nevertheless determines a stochastic process. This is a new avenue of research with very many open problems.
PROSODIC PREDICTORS OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURE IN CONVERSATIONAL TURN-TAKING

Fluid conversation depends on conversation partners’ ability to make predictions about one another’s speech in order to forecast turn ends and prepare upcoming turns. One model used to explain this process of temporal prediction is the coupled oscillator model of turn-taking [1]. A generalization that the model captures is the relative scarcity of interruption in turn-taking, as it predicts partners’ turns should be counter-phased to one another, with minimal pause time between turns. However, in naturalistic conversation, turns are often delayed, rather than occurring in perfect succession. We hypothesize that these delays are not of arbitrary duration, but are structured in their timing, just as between turns with immediate transitions. We demonstrate that relative timing of prosodic events occurring at turn ends is key to modelling pause duration between turns, providing evidence that inter-turn pauses exist in a temporal trading relation with the final syllable and prosodic word of immediately preceding turn.
Native-Language Phonotactic Processing in Bilinguals

Bilinguals are prone to competition from similar sounding words across their two languages (e.g., strict activates Spanish estricto ). In three experiments, we relied on phonotactic constraints (i.e., rules for combining speech sounds) to examine how experience with multiple languages transforms the way in which speech sounds are processed. In Experiment 1, we found that Spanish-English bilinguals accessed the L1 Spanish vowel+s+consonant constraint (Spanish estricto ) during L2 English processing (English strict ) when performing a cross modal phonological priming lexical decision task. In Experiments 2 and 3, we found that bilinguals processed L2 auditory and/or visual inputs in line with the L1 constraint ( strict as estrict ) in a vowel detection task and a sound recognition task (visual world paradigm). We conclude that bilinguals access L1 phonotactic constraints during L2 processing and that L1 representations for sounds and words influence how L2 input is perceived.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF TEMPORAL CUES TO PERCEIVED NATIVENESS IN THE NATIVE SPEECH OF ENGLISH MIGRANTS TO AUSTRIA

Learning a second language can affect pronunciation in the first language, and may result in the impression of non-nativeness. The role of segments and prosody in perceived non-nativeness is unknown. We investigated the role of temporal features to perceived non-nativeness in the L1 speech of English migrants to Austria, using a design where segmental and temporal cues are swapped. Results revealed that the relative importance of temporal features in listeners’ impression of non-nativeness depends on whether the segmental string comes from monolingual (i.e. non-attrited) or bilingual (i.e. attrited) speakers. In the former situation, listeners attend to the transferred temporal information and judge the manipulated stimuli as less native. However, when segments originate from bilingual speakers, listeners ignore the transferred temporal information. This suggests that there needs to be some correspondence between segmental and prosodic information for listeners to attend to temporal information in their judgements of nativeness i .
Predicting sound change: acoustic evidence from a longitudinal study of /s/- retraction in English /str/

This study is concerned with the predictability of regular sound change at the population level and within individual grammars. Taking /s/-retraction in Australian English /str/ as a case study, it presents an acoustic analysis of longitudinal data from production experiments with eighteen speaker participants from a single speech community. Coarticulatory /s/- retraction was evident for all speaker participants in /str/ at the baseline. After eight intervening years, incremental shifts in the same direction (towards /ʃ/) were evident for most speakers. Comparison with the outcome of simulated interaction in an agent-based model suggests that regular sound change is predictable at the population level but not at the level of the individual speaker.
Transfusion characteristics and hemovigilance of pediatric cancer patients: A single-center observational study

Introduction: Transfusion therapy is not risk-free, and hemato-oncological patients are the most commonly transfused patients; hence, hemovigilance is needed. The objective of the present study was to identify the transfusion characteristics and hemovigilance of pediatric patients with cancer at the SOLCA Institute-Cuenca from January to December 2021. Method: A descriptive study was carried out with all patients under 18 years of age who required transfusions, and all blood transfusions were performed at SOLCA-Cuenca 2021. The data were collected in a previously validated form and analyzed with the SPSS v25.0 program; the results are presented as the frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Results: A total of 73 patients and 620 transfusions were studied; 45.2% were adolescents, 63% were male, 98.6% were mixed race, 76.7% were urban, and 83.5% were ORH+ patients. B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (49.3%) and induction chemotherapy (41.1%) were used. A total of 58.9% had a transfusion history, and 4.1% had a previous reaction (urticaria). The average number of transfusions per patient was 8.49, and 7.1% of the patients were premedicated with steroids. Concentrated erythrocytes were mainly transfused (49%) for anemia (95.4%) at 9.32 ml/kg (mean) in 121 to 180 minutes (56.9%). Of the 3.1% of reactions detected, 100% were immediate, 84.2% were noninfectious (urticaria), definitive, and were treated with medications (84.2% steroid); 79% of the reactions were mild; they were secondary to erythrocyte concentrates (47.4%), apheresis (47.4%) and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (31.5%). Conclusions: Patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia required additional blood transfusions, mainly erythrocyte concentrates, while transfusion reactions were frequently associated with erythrocyte concentrates and apheresis.
LATERAL AND CENTRAL TONGUE BRACING COORDINATION IN TYPICAL SPEAKERS AND COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS

This paper addresses two research questions: 1. how are lateral and central bracing coordinated in typical Croatian speakers as opposed to prelingually deaf cochlear implant (CI) users, and 2. how are bracing patterns related to hearing status and intelligibility in CI users. Electropalatographic (EPG) and acoustic recordings of eight typical adult speakers and three CI users with different hearing status and speech intelligibility scores were included in this investigation. They were recorded in a communicative situation which facilitated spontaneous speech. Bracing patterns were analysed during Croatian words /ʃlapama/, which were repeated four times by each speaker. Central and lateral bracing were under competing demands during ʃl-sequences, while subsequent non-lingual sequences did not constrain the tongue directly. The analysis showed that the coordination and coarticulation between central and lateral bracing differed between typical and atypical speakers. CI users with different hearing status and speech intelligibility scores differed in their bracing patterns.
The Role of Brand Ambassador and Electronic Word-of-Mouth in Predicting Purchase Intention

Beauty trends and Indonesian women are inseparable and make the cosmetic industry have the potential to continue to grow in the future. Recent media promotion trends show that Instagram is an essential medium for companies engaged in the cosmetic industry. The results of research conducted by the Zap Beauty Index in 2020 showed that as many as 77.2% of Indonesian women use social media Instagram to find body care and beauty products. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of brand ambassadors and three dimensions of eWOM: the eWOM quality, eWOM quantity, and the sender’s expertise in predicting purchase intention. This study is based on a survey of 400 online respondents. This research uses descriptive and SEM-PLS analysis techniques. Based on the study results, it can be concluded that brand ambassador, eWOM quality, eWOM quantity, and sender’s expertise have positive and significant influences in predicting purchase intention. As a managerial implication, our findings can help strategic marketing managers and marketers to focus on the identified factors that drive purchase intention.
Original Research Article Hydrothermal synthesis of valve metal Ta-doped titanate nanofibers for potentially engineering bone tissue

Recent research efforts have increasingly concentrated on creating innovative biomaterials to improve bone tissue engineering techniques. Among these, hybrid nanomaterials stand out as a promising category of biomaterials. In this study, we present a straightforward, cost-efficient, and optimized hydrothermal synthesis method to produce high-purity Ta-doped potassium titanate nanofibers. Morphological characterizations revealed that Ta-doping maintained the native crystal structure of potassium titanate, highlighting its exciting potential in bone tissue engineering.
Assessment of people's perceptions and adaptations to climate change and variability in mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh, India

Mountains are vital economic and ecological resources, high in biodiversity that provides people with much needed ecosystem services for sustaining livelihoods. They are the foundation for the natural processes of climate regulation and are a vital support for water quality, food security, and flood protection, amongst many others. However, climate change and variability is threatening the long term provision of ecosystem goods and services from the mountain ecosystems, thereby underlining the urgent need for people who exclusively rely on them for their livelihoods, particularly farmers, to come up with ways of adapting.
SNPs associated with HHIP expression have differential effects on lung function in males and females

Adult lung function is highly heritable and 279 genetic loci were recently reported as associated with spirometry-based measures of lung function. Though lung development and function differ between males and females throughout life, there has been no genome-wide study to identify genetic variants with differential effects on lung function in males and females. Here, we present the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on four lung function traits in 303,612 participants from the UK Biobank. We detected five SNPs showing genome-wide significant (P<5 × 10−8) interactions with sex on lung function, as well as 21 suggestively significant interactions (P<1 × 10−6). The strongest sex interaction signal came from rs7697189 at 4:145436894 on forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (P = 3.15 × 10−15), and was replicated (P = 0.016) in 75,696 individuals in the SpiroMeta consortium. Sex-stratified analyses demonstrated that the minor (C) allele of rs7697189 increased lung function to a greater extent in males than females (untransformed FEV1 β = 0.028 [SE 0.0022] litres in males vs β = 0.009 [SE 0.0014] litres in females), and this effect was not accounted for by differential effects on height, smoking or age at puberty. This SNP resides upstream of the gene encoding hedgehog-interacting protein (HHIP) and has previously been reported for association with lung function and HHIP expression in lung tissue. In our analyses, while HHIP expression in lung tissue was significantly different between the sexes with females having higher expression (most significant probeset P=6.90 × 10−6) after adjusting for age and smoking, rs7697189 did not demonstrate sex differential effects on expression. Establishing the mechanism by which HHIP SNPs have different effects on lung function in males and females will be important for our understanding of lung health and diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in both sexes.
Yield related traits in some Persian wal­ nut cultivars: Analysis of genetic and genetic by environment interaction

: The most important trait in tree species, including walnut, is the yield. In this study, the eﬀect of genotype and their interaction with year on Nut weight, Kernel weight, Kernel percentage, Fruit set, Nuts number on Scaﬀold (Canopy) Cross Area (SCA), Nut weight on SCA and Kernel weight on SCA were evaluated on Caspian, Persia, Alvand, and Chaldoran walnut cultivars. The results showed that the eﬀects of year, genotype, and year × genotype interac­ tion on all traits were signiﬁcant. The results showed that Alvand had the high­ est number of nuts (41.8 per m 2 ) and nut weight (472.1 g/m 2 ) on (SCA). Heritability (H 2b ) for kernel weight and kernel percentage, were estimated 0.75 and 0.80, respectively. The lowest value of H 2b (0.36) was belong to fruit set. The analyses of genetic and phenotypic correlations between traits showed that, the nut weight had (r g = 0.31, r p = 0.27) a moderate correlation with SCA same as kernel weight (r g = 0.34, r p = 0.29). The GGE biplot analysis explained most of the existing variations (
Use of tryptic peptide MALDI mass spectrometry imaging to identify the spatial proteomic landscape of colorectal cancer liver metastases.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. CRC liver metastases (CRLM) are often resistant to conventional treatments, with high rates of recurrence. Therefore, it is crucial to identify biomarkers for CRLM patients that predict cancer progression. This study utilised matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) in combination with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to spatially map the CRLM tumour proteome. CRLM tissue microarrays (TMAs) of 84 patients were analysed using tryptic peptide MALDI-MSI to spatially monitor peptide abundances across CRLM tissues. Abundance of peptides was compared between tumour vs stroma, male vs female and across three groups of patients based on overall survival (0-3 years, 4-6 years, and 7+ years). Peptides were then characterised and matched using LC-MS/MS. A total of 471 potential peptides were identified by MALDI-MSI. Our results show that two unidentified m/z values (1589.876 and 1092.727) had significantly higher intensities in tumours compared to stroma. Ten m/z values were identified to have correlation with biological sex. Survival analysis identified three peptides (Histone H4, Haemoglobin subunit alpha, and Inosine-5’-monophosphate dehydrogenase 2) and two unidentified m/z values (1305.840 and 1661.060) that were significantly higher in patients with shorter survival (0-3 years relative to 4-6 years and 7+ years). This is the first study using MALDI-MSI, combined with LC-MS/MS, on a large cohort of CRLM patients to identify the spatial proteome in this malignancy. Further, we identify several protein candidates that may be suitable for drug targeting or for future prognostic biomarker development.