Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Title High Resolution Shape Completion Using Deep Neural Networksfor Global Structure and Local Geometry Inference

We propose a data-driven method for recovering missing parts of 3D shapes. Our method is based on a new deep learning architecture consisting of two sub-networks: a global structure inference network and a local geometry refinement network. The global structure inference network incorporates a long short-term memorized context fusion module (LSTM-CF) that infers the global structure of the shape based on multi-view depth information provided as part of the input. It also includes a 3D fully convolutional (3DFCN) module that further enriches the global structure representation according to volumetric information in the input. Under the guidance of the global structure network, the local geometry refinement network takes as input local 3D patches around missing regions, and progressively produces a high-resolution, complete surface through a volumetric encoder-decoder architecture. Our method jointly trains the global structure inference and local geometry refinement networks in an end-to-end manner. We perform qualitative and quantitative evaluations on six object categories, demonstrating that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art work on shape completion. *equal contribution
Phylogenetic analysis of Rhabdepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and redefinition of generic limits based on morphological characters

Rhabdepyris (Epyrinae) is a cosmopolitan genus comprised of 132 species. No morphological synapomorphies are known for the genus and the genus is characterized by a combination of characters common to most Epyrini. Herein, we performed a cladistic analysis based on morphological characters to test the monophyly of Rhabdepyris. The three known subgenera of Rhabdepyris (Chlorepyris, Rhabdepyris s. str., and Trichotepyris) and other Epyrini (Anisepyris, Bakeriella, Calyozina, Epyris, Laelius, Trachepyris) were included in the ingroup. The cladistic analysis of 48 taxa (46 ingroup species and two outgroup species) and 81 structural characters yielded 72 cladograms under equal weights, and one under successive weighting. Rhabdepyris was found to be polyphyletic; the subgenus Trichotepyris was closely related to Anisepyris whereas Rhabdepyris str. s. was closely related to Laelius. The subgenus Chlorepyris is paraphyletic. Morphological characters are discussed in the light of the new phylogeny; novel characters are proposed and illustrated, and a new classification of Rhabdepyris and Epyrini is proposed. The following nomenclatural changes are proposed: Trichotepyris is synonymized under Anisepyris (syn. n.); Chlorepyris is recognized as a separated genus (stat. rev.); all 12 American species of the subgenus Rhabdepyris are transferred to Laelius; 22 species of Trichotepyris are transferred to Anisepyris; 58 species are transferred to Chlorepyris. A remaining total of 40 species are now recognized in Rhabdepyris. The holotype of Rhabdepyris, R. myrmecophilus Kieffer, the type species of Rhabdepyris, is redescribed.
VWAP Execution as an Optimal Strategy

The volume weighted average price (VWAP) execution strategy is well known and widely used in practice. In this study, we explicitly introduce a trading volume process into the Almgren-Chriss model, which is a standard model for optimal execution. We then show that the VWAP strategy is the optimal execution strategy for a risk-neutral trader. Moreover, we examine the case of a risk-averse trader and derive the first-order asymptotic expansion of the optimal strategy for a mean-variance optimization problem.
Long range seasonal movements of northern pike (Esox lucius L.) in the barbel zone of the River Ourthe (River Meuse basin, Belgium).

In order to study the annual activity cycle and reproductive ecology of northern pike (Esox lucius L.) in the River Ourthe (Belgian Ardenne), 6 fish (579-742 mm FL, 1605-4090 g, 2 females and 4 males) were captured by electric fishing in November 2000 and January 2001. They were surgically implanted with radio-transmitters and tracked for 149 to 349 days in a 30-km river stretch. During the pre-spawning period in winter, most movements were between distinct holding areas spaced from 40 to 550 m. All the pike began the upstream spawning migration between 8 February and 30 March 2001, when the mean water temperature varied from 6.7°C to 8.7 °C and the water flow from 52 to 199 m3s-1. The six pike travelled upstream, over distances ranging from 0.75 km to 15.7 km to reach their potential spawning sites. Pike arrived on their potential spawning sites between the 13 February and the 02 April 2001 and remained there from 5 to 25 days when the daily mean water temperature ranged from 2.9 to 10.0 °C. The six pike moved downstream after spawning and showed similar behaviour to those observed prior to spawning, but the distances between holding areas were more extended than during the winter pre-spawning period. When considering the entire tracking period, the longitudinal extension of the activity range varied from 1,421 to 24,798 m (mean 12,050 m). This exploratory study provided original observations on northern pike movements in a barbel zone of the River Meuse basin. Results contrast with the widely established view of pike being a sedentary predator and provide data on its behaviour throughout the annual cycle. 191 Spedicato, M.T. ; Lembo, G. ; Marmulla, G. (eds.) Aquatic telemetry: advances and applications. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe. Ustica, Italy, 9-13 June 2003. Rome, FAO/COISPA. 2005. 295p.
Pacific Exploratory Mission in the tropical Pacific: PEM-Tropics A, August-September 1996

The NASA Pacific Exploratory Mission to the Pacific tropics (PEM-Tropics) is the third major field campaign of NASA's Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) to study the impact of human and natural processes on the chemistry of the troposphere over the Pacific basin. The first two campaigns, PEM-West A and B were conducted over the northwestern regions of the Pacific and focused on the impact of emissions from the Asian continent. The broad objectives of PEM-Tropics included improving our understanding of the oxidizing power of the tropical atmosphere as well as investigating oceanic sulfur compounds and their conversion to aerosols. Phase A of the PEM-Tropics program, conducted between August-September 1996, involved the NASA DC-8 and P-3B aircraft. Phase B of this program is scheduled for March/April 1999. During PEM-Tropics A, the flight tracks of the two aircraft extended zonally across the entire Pacific Basin and meridionally from Hawaii to south of New Zealand. Both aircraft were instrumented for airborne measurements of trace gases and aerosols and meteorological parameters. The DC-8, given its long-range and high-altitude capabilities coupled with the lidar instrument in its payload, focused on transport issues and ozone photochemistry, while the P-3B, with its sulfur-oriented instrument payload and more limited range, focused on detailed sulfur process studies. Among its accomplishments, the PEM-Tropics A field campaign has provided a unique set of atmospheric measurements in a heretofore data sparse region; demonstrated the capability of several new or improved instruments for measuring OH, H2SO4, NO, NO2, and actinic fluxes; and conducted experiments which tested our understanding of HOx and NOx photochemistry, as well as sulfur oxidation and aerosol formation processes. In addition, PEM-Tropics A documented for the first time the considerable and widespread influence of biomass burning pollution over the South Pacific, and identified the South Pacific Convergence Zone as a major barrier for atmospheric transport in the southern hemisphere.
Growth in a Time of Austerity: Evidence from the UK

A recent recovery in the United Kingdom comes after a program of austerity measures announced by the incoming coalition government in 2010. Can the recent pick up in economic activity be attributed to this controversial fiscal policy? This paper uses an empirical approach to test the causal relationship between debt and growth for the case of the UK using monthly time series data between 1995 and 2013. This time series perspective makes use of Granger-causality and co-integration tests that allow for non-stationarity in macroeconomic time series data. We find that controlling for structural breaks in this way leads us to the finding of no empirical support for the hypothesis that fiscal discipline can restore economic activity after a recession.
The influence of the environmental history on quenching star formation in a Λ cold dark matter universe

We present a detailed analysis of the influence of the environment and of the environmental history on quenching star formation in central and satellite galaxies in the local Universe. We take advantage of publicly available galaxy catalogues obtained from applying a galaxy formation model to the Millennium simulation. In addition to halo mass, we consider the local density of galaxies within various fixed scales. Comparing our model predictions to observational data (SDSS), we demonstrate that the models are failing to reproduce the observed density dependence of the quiescent galaxy fraction in several aspects: for most of the stellar mass ranges and densities explored, models cannot reproduce the observed similar behaviour of centrals and satellites, they slightly under-estimate the quiescent fraction of centrals and significantly over-estimate that of satellites. We show that in the models, the density dependence of the quiescent central galaxies is caused by a fraction of "backsplash" centrals which have been satellites in the past (and were thus suffering from environmental processes). Turning to satellite galaxies, the density dependence of their quiescent fractions reflects a dependence on the time spent orbiting within a parent halo of a particular mass, correlating strongly with halo mass and distance from the halo centre. Comparisons with observational estimates suggest relatively long gas consumption time scales of roughly 5 Gyr in low mass satellite galaxies. The quenching time scales decrease with increasing satellite stellar mass. Overall, a change in modelling both internal processes (star formation and feedback) and environmental processes (e.g. making them dependent on dynamical friction time-scales and preventing the re-accretion of gas onto backsplash galaxies) is required for improving currently used galaxy formation models.
MAXCOV-HITMAX : A Taxonomic Search Method for Loose Genetic Syndromes

AT THIS WRITING it is no longer possible for an informed person, unless he is an environmentalist fanatic, to believe that everyone is born with an equal biological talent for developing schizophrenia, the only important difference between schizophrenics and others arising from their social learning experiences. Two monumental investigations alone would suffice to make such a view completely untenable (Heston, 1966, 1970; Gottesman and Shields, 1968, 1972). I think it is time for those of us interested in behavioral genetics to suspend debate with radical environmentalists, calmly recognizing that there are ideologies in science (as in politics and religion) which are, for all practical purposes, temporarily resistive to the influence of counterevidence. (See Barber, 1961; Kuhn, 1970; Lakatos and Musgrave, 1970; and the writings of Feyerabend cited on pp. 229-230 therein; but see also Nash, 1963. A fascinating account of the interplay among geneticists between fact and speculation, “rigor” and “looseness,” and the fine line between dogmatism and fruitful theoretical tenacity is to be found in Carlson, 1966.) The research task is no longer to find out whether genes have
A novel application of 1 H magnetic resonance spectroscopy : non-invasive identification of spermatogenesis in men with non-obstructive azoospermia

David S. Aaronson1,, Rahwa Iman2, Thomas J. Walsh3, John Kurhanewicz1,2,†, and Paul J. Turek4,† Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA The Turek Clinic, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
(DP 2015-05) N-Poly Viability and Conglopolistic Competition in Small Emerging Market

The economic catch-up of the East Asian region went hand-in-hand with the emergence and even dominance of large quasi-state or private conglomerates. Such for example were the Zaibatsus in the pre-WWII and the Keiretsus of the post-WWII Japan and the Chaebols of South Korea which enjoyed extensive state sponsorship and the Taipan-led business empires of South and South East Asia which were largely autonomic. The trend continues to this day especially in the People’s Republic of China. This dominance was not just an accidental fixture but the natural result of the economic and social environments prevalent in emerging markets. After reviewing the literature on why a few large private conglomerates tended to dominate the landscape of less developed economies in a rapid catch-up mode, we attempt a game theoretic account for the spread of these firms across different markets. We first define the concept of “n-poly viability” or the number of firms that can profitably Cournot compete in a market of a given the size and fixed capital requirement. We then show that conglopolistic competition (conglomerates competing in many markets) is a subgame perfect equilibrium of an entry game among initial monopolists and that this evolution is consumer welfare-improving. We identify the conditions under which only one firm or no firm benefits from the evolution. JEL Classification: C79, C72
Design of Information and Technology Based Teaching Materials in Mathematics Subjects of IT High School Pekanbaru Students

This research is based on the low mathematical representation ability of students and the lack of textbooks used by teachers in presenting teaching material. This study aims to describe the results of the development of information technology-based teaching materials to improve the mathematical representation ability of students in class X Trigonometry Function Materials that are valid, practical, and effective. The model used in this research development is the ADDIE development model, namely Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The research instruments used in this article are validation sheets (validity aspects), teacher assessment sheets and student assessment sheets (practical aspects), and mathematical representation ability tests (effectiveness aspects). Analysis of the data used in this research is parametric statistics, the t-test with the help of SPSS 18.00 using the Independent-Sample t-Test. This research resulted in a product of teaching materials based on information and technology in valid mathematics (87.11%), practical (90.81%) and effective (0.043 <0.05).
Ju l 2 01 5 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking , Intermediate Regulators and Physics Beyond the Standard Model

According to the long-standing received wisdom, a “small” value of the Higgs mass as for instance implied by general unitarity constraints is highly “unnatural” and essentially requires new physics to be present at or near currently accessible energy scales. Following the discovery of a new, Higgslike boson at the LHC facility in 2012, but with no sign of new physics after having explored a large region of parameter space, a dilemma thus seems to present itself : either the newly discovered boson is indeed the long-sought Higgs boson of the standard model of particle physics (or some appropriate variant of that model) and the new physics at the TeV scale, supposedly required by the naturalness argument, is still waiting to be discovered, possibly by LHC-II, or the identification of the new boson as the Higgs cannot be maintained. It is shown that this apparent dilemma is in fact a false one, in that nothing in contemporary particle physics dictates that a small Higgs mass be unnatural in any way.
Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia – II. Discovery of 24 lensed quasars

We report the discovery, spectroscopic confirmation and preliminary characterisation of 24 gravitationally lensed quasars identified using Gaia observations. Candidates were selected in the Pan-STARRS footprint with quasar-like WISE colours or as photometric quasars from SDSS, requiring either multiple detections in Gaia or a single Gaia detection near a morphological galaxy. The Pan-STARRS grizY images were modelled for the most promising candidates and 60 candidate systems were followed up with the William Herschel Telescope. 13 of the lenses were discovered as Gaia multiples and 10 as single Gaia detections near galaxies. We also discover 1 lens identified through a quasar emission line in an SDSS galaxy spectrum. The lenses have median image separation 2.13 arcsec and the source redshifts range from 1.06 to 3.36. 4 systems are quadruply-imaged and 20 are doubly-imaged. Deep CFHT data reveal an Einstein ring in one double system. We also report 12 quasar pairs, 10 of which have components at the same redshift and require further follow-up to rule out the lensing hypothesis. We compare the properties of these lenses and other known lenses recovered by our search method to a complete sample of simulated lenses to show the lenses we are missing are mainly those with small separations and higher source redshifts. The initial Gaia data release only catalogues all images of ~ 30% of known bright lensed quasars, however the improved completeness of Gaia data release 2 will help find all bright lensed quasars on the sky.
Import‐Export and ‘And’

Import-Export says that a conditional of the form pp > (q > r)q is always equivalent to the corresponding conditional p(p∧q)> rq. I argue that Import-Export does not sit well with a classical approach to conjunction: given some plausible and widely accepted principles about conditionals, Import-Export together with classical conjunction leads to absurd consequences. My main goal is to draw out these surprising connections. In concluding, I argue that the best response to these facts is to reject Import-Export and adopt instead a limited version of that principle which better fits natural language data, still accounts for the intuitions that motivate Import-Export, and sits more easily with a classical conjunction.
Regeneration of Anthurium andraeanum from Leaf Explants and Evaluation of Microcutting Rooting and Growth under Different Light Qualities

This study established a new method for regenerating Anthurium andraeanum Lind. and evaluated effects of different wavelengths from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on rooting and growth of adventitious shoots. Callus occurred in leaf explants of A. andraeanum 'Alabama' and 'Sierra' cultured on a modified Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium supplemented with four concentrations of N-phenyl-N#-1,2,3-thiadiazol-5- ylurea (TDZ). Adventitious shoots were induced from callus pieces (' 1c m 3 ) cultured on the modified MS medium containing 6-benzyladenine (BA) with kinetin (KN), BA, and/or KN with 3-indolebutyric acid (IBA) or a-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA). Results showed that 1.82 mM TDZ induced 83.3% and 77.8% of leaf explants of 'Alabama' and 'Sierra' to produce callus and 24.9 and 24.7 adventitious shoots were produced per callus piece of 'Alabama' and 'Sierra' cultured on the modified MS medium containing 0.89 m MB A, 2.32 mM KN, and 0.98 mM IBA, respectively. Adventitious shoots were cut and rooted in the modified MS medium containing 0.98 mM IBA and grown under the same light level but with different light qualities. All adventitious shoots rooted; root numbers, root lengths, root fresh and dry weights, and leaf area of plantlets grown under red plus blue light were comparable to those grown under conventional fluorescent white light. Shoot height was the greatest in monochromic blue light followed by red light. Shoot fresh and dry weights of plantlets grown under red plus blue light, however, were significantly greater than those grown under the other light qualities. Plantlets grown under red plus blue light had 22.7% greater total dry weight and more balanced root-to-shoot ratio than those grown under fluorescent white light. These results suggested the use of complex of red plus blue LED could be an option for improving growth of A. andraeanum plantlets in vitro.
On the Gamma-Ray Bursts Origin

Gamma-ray (GRBs) and X-ray Bursts are millisecond-10 and 1000 seconds-long events of unknown origin. Recent simulations of the merger of binary neutron star systems do not generate a magnetically dominated called funnel nor a relativistic outflow. New models for the detection the afterglow of GRB 121024A, measured 0.15 days after the burst, invoke anisotropy as required to produce the complex microphysics of realistic shocks in relativistic jets. On the other hand the non-thermal gamma-rays are supposed to be produced by a fireball of relativistic e? e+ pairs that are created by annihilation of neutrino-antineutrino pairs in the vicinity of the hot, merged object. It is also known that in a system of a large number of fermions with pairs, gravitational interaction occurs a spontaneous breaking of the vacuum spatial symmetry, accompanied by gravitational mass defect. If spherical symmetry is broken, as in the known case of the merger scenario where a rapidly rotating disk can be formed and material is pulled away from rotation axis by centrifugal forces, then a baryon-free funnel along the rotation axes may allow relativistic beam of γ’s and e? e+ to escape. It might lead to matter ejection with Lorentz factors of ~102 - 103 which are in the right range to enable copious gamma production during shock interaction with ambient interstellar gas. Here we show that the space rays generation mechanism on a method of direct transformation of intergalactic gamma-rays to the proton current on spin shock-waves ensure precise agreement between generated proton currents (spin shock waves theory) with the angular distribution data of Galactic gamma-rays as well as for the individual pulses of gamma-/X-ray bursts. There is a precise confirmation of the generated currents (theory) with the burst radiation data characterized by the standard deviation of ±1% in intensity in relative units within the sensitivity of the equipment. Thus, it was found that the spin angular momentum conservation law (equation of dynamics of spin shock waves) in the X-ray/gamma ranges is fulfilled exactly in real time. The next step involves setting the inverse problem of determining the wave function disturbance on the differential of measured smoothing pulses. In the asymptotic large times the problem is reduced to the solutions of the functional equation with shift of the argument. This will give additional information about the change speed of the wave, as well as on the interaction.