Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Study of the Performance in Ewes of Bulgarian Dairy Synthetic Population and Their Crosses with Lacaune

The aim of the study was to compare the milk yield in ewes from Bulgarian Dairy Synthetic Population and their crosses with Lacaune. “Blood introduction” of Lacaune breed with F1 cross ram was carried out on 40 purebreed ewes of Bulgarian Dairy Synthetic Population (BDSP). The ewes were equal in the sequence of lactation, genealogic line and milk yield. The object of the present study were 32 ewes on first lactation – purebred BDSP (n=16) and crosses of the breed with Lacaune (n=16). The ewes were reared in the experimental farm of the Institute of Animal Science- Kostinbrod, Bulgaria. The milk yield for the control day was determined after the AC method of ICAR as the standard 120 d milking milk yield was determined. The fertility was determined as a ratio of the number of the lambs born alive to the number of the experimental ewes. The content of fat, total protein, dry fat-free residue and dry matter were measured in each control of 20 ml of individual sample for each of the animals, using milk analyser Ecomilk, Bultech. The data were evaluated through the Data Analysis statistical package of Excel 2016, Microsoft. The effect of the crossbreeding on the examined traits was assessed through one way ANOVA. No effect of the “blood introduction” from Lacaune was observed on the milk yield and fertility of the ewes. No significant difference between the mean milk yield for a standard 120 period of first lactation was found (79.47 l and 81.83 l, respectively for the purebred ewes and the crosses). The percentage of the fat and the dry matter of the first control in the Lacaune crosses (5.27% and 16.64%) was significantly lower (P<0.01; P<0.05) when compared to the purebred BDSP ewes (6.21% and 17.32%).
Bayesian model comparison and asymptotics for state-space models

This thesis studies the implementation and properties of a novel criterion for model comparison, with a keen interest in the task of selecting Bayesian state-space models. This criterion, based on the Hyvärinen score and termed the H-factor, was recently advocated in the decision-theoretic literature as an appealing alternative to the ubiquitous Bayes factor, particularly in settings where the presence of vague prior distributions renders the latter unreliable. The practical use of H-factors requires them to be numerically estimated, which we propose to consistently achieve by using sequential Monte Carlo methods. The uncertainty of the model choice, resulting from this estimation, is quantified by using new advances in unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to construct confidence intervals for the exact H-factors. Proving theoretical guarantees for this new criterion in large samples will bring us to the realm of Bayesian asymptotics. It will require us to look into the consistency and asymptotic Normality of posterior distributions, à la Bernstein-von Mises, in general and possibly misspecified state-space models.
Using Threshold Estimation Technique to Measure Housing Wealth Effect in Different Income Levels

In this study, we estimate the housing wealth effect of households with different income levels. Since we expect the housing wealth effect to vary based on the different income levels, we use the threshold estimation technique developed in Hansen (1999) instead of imposing an exogenous criterion to divide the sample by income level. This econometric technique is developed for panels with individual-specific fixed effects. Therefore, we apply this econometric method on the findings in the existing literature to estimate the housing wealth effect, while considering the heterogeneity in different income categories. We obtain individual level data from the 2012 to 2016 Korea Household Finance and Welfare Survey (KHFWS) and find statistically significant threshold income levels, thus indicating households show different behaviors based on the threshold income. We provide the groundwork for future research to identify the target group who maximizes their wealth effect, which has housing policy implications.
Financial development–economic growth nexus in Pakistan: new evidence from the Markov switching model

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980–2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the Schumpeter’s view that finance spurs growth. The result reveals that financial development augments economic growth in both high and low economic growth regimes in Pakistan. However, the impact of financial development on economic growth is found to be relatively higher in the high-growth regime. This implies that economic growth responds differently to financial development in low-growth and high-growth regimes. Among the control variables, trade openness and government expenditures impact economic growth positively, while labour force exerts a negative impact on economic growth.
Water Vapor from Western Eurasia Promotes Precipitation during the Snow Season in Northern Xinjiang, a Typical Arid Region in Central Asia

Atmospheric water vapor plays an important role in the water cycle, especially in arid Central Asia, where precipitation is invaluable to water resources. Understanding and quantifying the relationship between water vapor source regions and precipitation is a key problem in water resource research in typical arid Central Asia, Northern Xinjiang. However, the relationship between precipitation and water vapor sources is still unclear of snow season. This paper aimed at studying the role of water vapor source supply in the Northern Xinjiang precipitation trend, which was investigated using the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model. The results showed that the total water vapor contributed from Western Eurasia and the North Polar area presented upward trends similar to the precipitation change trend, which indicated that the water vapor contribution from the two previous water vapor source regions supplied abundant water vapor and maintained the upward precipitation trend from 1980 to 2017 in Northern Xinjiang. From the climatology of water vapor transport, the region was controlled by midlatitude westerlies and major water vapor input from the western boundary, and the net water vapor flux of this region also showed an annual increasing trend. Western Eurasia had the largest moisture percentage contribution to Northern Xinjiang (48.11%) over the past 38 years. Northern Xinjiang precipitation was correlated with water vapor from Western Eurasia, the North Polar area, and Siberia, and the correlation coefficients were 0.66, 0.45, and 0.57, respectively. These results could aid in better understanding the water cycle process and climate change in this typical arid region of Central Asia.
A review of the penetration of Francophone research on intervention in physical education and sport in Anglophone journals since 2010

ABSTRACT Introduction: Since the 1990s, the notion of intervention has expanded with growing interest in the analysis of practices in Francophone country. French-speaking research community considers intervention sciences as a specific field of research in sport and PE. The aim of this literature review was to characterize the penetration of Francophone research in the English-language literature in physical education and sport concerned with intervention since 2010 in the category ‘Education & Educational Research’ of the Journal Citation Reports (2017). This research was in line with the analysis of the papers presented during six Francophone congresses from 2000 to 2010 of the Association for Research on Intervention in Sport (Musard and Poggi 2015). Methods: The selection of articles was carried out in three stages: selection of journals, selection of articles manually, the second level of selection. The selection of journals is do in this category "Education & Educational Research" (JCR, 2017) focusing primarily on sport and physical education. Six journals met these criteria: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, European Physical Education Review, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, Sport Education and society, Quest, Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education. Then, the selection of articles was manually analyzing all the publications of each journal since 2010 (almost 2000 articles) according to inclusion criteria "sport or physical education", "francophone authors", and "intervention". Each 46 articles selected was classified according to its theoretical framework. The last stage of selection corresponded to an analyze and an extension of the literature review by a French-speaking specialist in each theoretical framework. Results: The results show that French-language research on/in/for intervention is in close connection with the international tradition. Some approaches such as didactique, a technological approach, and course of action, have a Francophone specificity based on various international theoretical anchors; others such as motor learning, social psychology, ecological approach come from non-French-speaking international theoretical frameworks. Discussion and conclusion: These findings raise the question of the Francophone specificity of intervention sciences. Beyond particular French-speaking theoretical frameworks, concepts and concerns join Anglophone traditions. As in the international fields of ‘sport pedagogy’ or ‘praxis’, the Francophone intervention sciences are composed of a diversity of theoretical approaches and are focused towards an epistemology of action. These two communities can enrich each other and deserve more interaction and exchange.
TACHYPHYLAXIS OF INDIRECTLY ACTING SYMPATHOMIMETIC AMINES:III INFLUENCE OF ACUTELY AND CHRONICALLY ADMINISTERED RESERPINE

Observations were made of influence of acute and chronic reserpinization upon the pressor effects of intravenously administered ephedrine-like (Ephlike) drugs and on tachyphylaxis arising from repeated dosage of these drugs in atropinized dogs under morphine-pentobarbital anesthesia. 1) In acutely reserpinized dogs, repeated administration of ephedrine (Eph), methamphetamine (Met), Pheniprazine (Ph) and tyramine (Ty) at dosage level of 0.5 mg/kg caused pressor effects more prominent consistently and slightly than in unreserpinized ones. With Eph, Met and Ty administered repeatedly in doses of 1 mg/kg, diminution of the pressor response was noted to be more slightly marked in the dogs given reserpine (Res) than that in the unreserpinized controls ; hence a slight enhancement of tachyphylaxis to these drugs by acute reserpinization. With Ph, in contrast, marked pressor effects occurred repeatedly and the tachyphylactic tendency was accordingly allayed to a considerable extent. If Res was intitially injected the tachyphylactic response to Eph, Met and Ty was somewhat profound in an occasional case, yet the development of tachyphylaxis was not significantly hastened by the administration of Res. 2) In animals with tachyphylactic response to repeated Eph, Met or Ph dosage with the consequent disappearance of pressor effects, reserpinization gave rise to a persistent elevation in blood pressure even after the appearance of hypotension (reversal effect). Res, however, failed to bring about any conspicuous rise in blood pressure when it was injected after disappearance of the pressor response following repeated high dosage of Ty. After reserpinization no alterations in the pattern of blood pressure lowering response (reversal effect) were noted to occur with Eph, Met and Ph, whereas with Ty, a slight recovery to pressor effects occurred. 3) A tendency was noted to exsist for the cross tachyphylaxis with these Eph-like drugs to be some what conspicuously provoked by the administration of Res. Especially, the pressor effect of Ty was observed to be somewhat markedly diminished with an augmentation of tachyphylaxis in animals having been received Res plus Eph or Met. 4) In chronically reserpinized dogs, the pressor response to Eph-like drugs was remarkably modest from the beginnig and further gradually diminished, yet never subsided, as the drugs were injected repeatedly. These results obtained indicate that acute or chronic reserpini-
Toward a Holistic Model of Deception: Subject Matter Expert Validation

Security challenges require greater insight and flexibility into the way deception can be identified and responded to. Deception research in interactions has identified behaviors indicative of truth-telling and deceit. Deception in military environments has focused on planning deception, where approaches have been developed to deceive others, but neglecting counterdeception perspectives. To address these challenges a holistic approach to deception is advocated. A literature review of deception was conducted followed by validation interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Explanatory thematic analysis of interviews conducted with SMEs (n=19) led to the development of meta-themes related to the ‘deceiver’, their ‘intent; ‘strategies and tactics’ of deception, ‘interpretation’ by the target and ‘target’ decision-making strengths and vulnerabilities. This led to the development of the Holistic Model of Deception (HMD), an approach where strategies reflect context. The implications of this approach are considered alongside the limitations and future directions required to validate the HMD.
Rural Healthcare Access for Hispanics in the United States: Barriers and Possible Solutions

espanolLas barreras para acceder a la atencion primaria, especializada y preventiva entre los residentes de inmigrantes hispanos rurales en los Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) se examinan utilizando la teoria de sistemas ecologicos y una perspectiva de enfoque de capacidades. Los datos demograficos nacionales y rurales de las poblaciones latinas se describen con un enfoque en los obstaculos sanitarios frecuentemente encontrados por las poblaciones rurales hispanas. Se presentan las posibles soluciones sistemicas para la atencion medica accesible y culturalmente competente para abordar las disparidades de acceso rural entre las poblaciones rurales latinas. EnglishBarriers to accessing primary, specialty, and preventive healthcare among rural Hispanic immigrant residents in the United States (U.S) are examined using ecological systems theory and a capabilities approach perspective. National and rural Latino population demographics are described with a focus on healthcare obstacles frequently encountered by rural Hispanic populations. Possible systemic solutions for accessible and culturally competent medical care to address rural access disparities among rural Latino populations are presented
Lattices in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: A Platform for Nonequilibrium Quantum Simulation

In recent years, superconducting circuits have emerged as a promising platform for quantum computation and quantum simulation. One of the main driving forces behind this progress has been the ability to fabricate relatively low-disorder, low-loss circuits with a high-degree of control over many of the circuit parameters, both in fabrication and in-situ. This coupled with advances in cryogenics and microwave control electronics have significantly improved the rate of progress. The field, which is broadly called circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) has become one of the cleanest and most flexible platforms for studying strong interactions between light and matter. This thesis builds upon previous work on small-scale interacting cQED lattices and larger-scale, non-interacting superconducting circuit lattices to investigate nonequilibrium quantum simulation using large-scale, interacting cQED lattices. In the first experiment, construct a 72-site 1D chain of CPW cavities with each cavity coupled to a single transmon qubit. Each transmon imparts a strong nonlinearity on the photons in the cavity lattice. This, coupled with the drive and dissipation in the lattice gives rise to a novel dissipative phase transition, where the system exhibits bistability with time-scales many orders of magnitude slower than any intrinsic decay rates in the system. The next project in this thesis involves the study of non-Euclidean lattices which can be made from CPW lattices. This work relies on the fact that the frequency of the resonators in the lattice is dependent mostly on the total length of the cavities, not the length between the ends of the cavity. This means that we can form lattices from CPW cavities where the edge distance is not the same but they are the same frequency. The first result in this direction is the fabrication and measurement of a finite piece of a hyperbolic graph, formed from a ‘regular’ tiling of heptagons. This
Is Monetary Policy Gender Neutral? Evidence from the Stock Market

We use US household survey data from 2001-2017 to investigate whether monetary policy has heterogeneous effects on women's and men's financial portfolio decisions by analyzing their equity investment. On the one hand, monetary policy significantly affects the entry decisions of women, but not of men: after a contractionary shock, the probability of women entering the stock market decreases. On the other hand, monetary policy is gender-neutral for stock market participants: there are no significant differences in exit or in portfolio rebalancing decisions between women and men. Our results suggest that monetary policy does not have a heterogeneous effect on portfolio decisions across genders once women participate in the stock market.
Adaptive Model-Based Myoelectric Control for a Soft Wearable Arm Exosuit: A New Generation of Wearable Robot Control

Despite advances in mechatronic design, the widespread adoption of wearable robots for supporting human mobility has been hampered by 1) ergonomic limitations in rigid exoskeletal structures and 2) the lack of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) capable of sensing musculoskeletal states and translating them into robot-control commands. We have developed a framework that combines, for the first time, a model-based HMI with a soft wearable arm exosuit that has the potential to address key limitations in current HMIs and wearable robots. The proposed framework was tested on six healthy subjects who performed elbow rotations across different joint velocities and lifting weights. The results showed that the model-controlled exosuit operated synchronously with biological muscle contraction. Remarkably, the exosuit dynamically modulated mechanical assistance across all investigated loads, thereby displaying adaptive behavior.
Semi-automatic detection of the evolutionary forms of visceral leishmaniasis in microscopic blood smears

Leishmaniasis is a complex group of diseases caused by obligate unicellular and intracellular eukaryotic protozoa of the leishmania genus. Leishmania species generate diverse syndromes ranging from skin ulcers of spontaneous resolution to fatal visceral disease. These syndromes belong to three categories: visceral leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis and mucosal leishmaniasis. The visceral leishmaniasis is based on the reticuloendothelial system producing hepatomegaly, splenomegaly and lymphadenopathy. In the present article, a semiautomatic segmentation strategy is proposed to obtain the segmentations of the evolutionary shapes of visceral leishmaniasis called parasites, specifically of the type amastigote and promastigote. For this purpose, the optical microscopy images containing said evolutionary shapes, which are generated from a blood smear, are subjected to a process of transformation of the color intensity space into a space of intensity in gray levels that facilitate their subsequent preprocessing and adaptation. In the preprocessing stage, smoothing filters and edge detectors are used to enhance the optical microscopy images. In a complementary way, a segmentation technique that groups the pixels corresponding to each one of the parasites, presents in the considered images, is applied. The results reveal a high correspondence between the available manual segmentations and the semi-automatic segmentations which are useful for the characterization of the parasites. The obtained segmentations let us to calculate areas and perimeters associated with the parasites segmented. These results are very important in clinical context where both the area and perimeter calculated are vital for monitoring the development of visceral leishmaniasis.
Study on ore‐forming material source and metallogenic epoch of the Taiping Pb‐Zn deposit, Yunnan Province, China

In the Cu‐Au‐Pb‐Zn‐Ag polymetallic mineralization belt of the conjuncture of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, occurs the Taiping Pb‐Zn deposit in Proterozoic metamorphic rock strata accompanied by late Proterozoic volcanic rocks. Previous studies on this type of Pb‐Zn deposits are limited. The main purpose of this work is to investigate its metallogenic characteristic and genesis. Rb‐Sr dating of sphalerite yields 714 ± 11 Ma for the Taiping Pb‐Zn deposit, which is a new mineralization age of Pb‐Zn deposits in the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Pb‐Zn metallogenic belt, reflecting that the Pb‐Zn deposits in the Proterozoic basement strata formed in the Neoproterozoic. In addition, the characteristics of its minerals, including pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, gersdorffite, and galena, imply that the deposit formed in moderately low temperature and moderately shallow‐seated environments. Sulphur (δ34S of 10.4–12.3‰) was dominantly derived from the reduction of marine sulphate in the strata. Lead isotope data showed normal Pb characteristic, indicating that Pb came from the basement strata and it was affected by metamorphism. 87Sr/86Sr values of trachyandesite are 0.77–0.87, reflecting that Sr was derived from crustal sources. For sphalerite, (87Sr/86Sr) i (t = 714 Ma) = 0.72064–0.72135, indicating that metallogenic materials (metal) came mainly from the basement strata. The enrichment of Zn was associated with ankerite alteration. Ore‐forming fluid is characterized by moderately low temperature (112.6–188.7°C), moderate salinity (10.61–19.68% NaCl), and moderately low pressure. Compositions of H and O isotopes show that the ore‐forming fluid was derived mainly from formation water, and that tensile spaces in the carbonate rocks likely provided conduits for fluid transport and space for metal precipitation, forming layered zinc ore bodies. In conclusion, the Chengjiang period in this study area was an important stage for zinc mineralization, and the Taiping Pb‐Zn deposit is a MVT type deposit in the Proterozoic basement.
Investigation of pesticide residues in water, sediments and fish samples from Tapi River, India as a case study and its forensic significance

Abstract This research is a case study on detection of pesticides in river water, sediment as well as fish samples from Tapi River, among the major rivers of Gujarat, India. To investigate the misuse, concentration level and occurrence patterns of persistent pesticides, samples were collected from the river. Chlorpyrifos, methyl parathion, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) and endosulfan were analyzed by gas chromatography technique with flame ionization detector (FID). Scanty reports are available, but after 1999, no such data are reported as some of these pesticides have been banned. Although these pesticides are still in use which we observed from the obtained results. In this river, the amount of endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, and methyl parathion was observed in surface water with concentrations of 37.56 µg/L, 0.86 µg/L and 0.43 µg/L, respectively. Endosulfan, DDT and methyl parathion detected in sediment were 38.38 ng/g, 0.65 ng/g and 0.77 ng/g, respectively. In fish samples, levels of endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, and methyl parathion detected were 101.28, 0.392, and 3.49 ng/g correspondingly. Results showed that highly toxic pesticides are still being used in the surrounding area, and there is an urgent need for enforcement of rules to control the production and application of such pesticides.