Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Simultaneous Estimation of Vehicle Sideslip and Roll Angles Using an Integral-Based Event-Triggered Hinfinity Observer Considering Intravehicle

—In recent years, several technological advances have been incorporated into vehicles to ensure their safety and ride comfort. Most of these driver-assistance technologies aim to prevent skidding, whereas less attention has been paid to the avoidance of other dangerous situations such as a rollover. Since knowledge of slip and roll angles is critical to the control and safety of vehicle handling, their estimation remains of great interest when addressing emerging constraints in modern technologies involving networked communications and distributed computing. This paper presents an integral-based event-triggered H ∞ observer to simultaneously estimate the sideslip and roll angles, considering intravehicle communications with a networked-induced delay. As the longitudinal velocity and tire cornering stiffness of a vehicle can vary significantly during driving and have a strong influence on vehicle lateral stability, these time-varying parameter uncertainties are considered in the design of the observer. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed observer.
Microplastics and Tire Wear Particles in South Carolina Coastal Waters: Sources, Pathways, and Toxicity

Since the first report of the presence of microscopic plastic particles in plankton tows from the North Atlantic in 1972 (Carpenter & Smith, 1972), numerous studies have revealed their widespread distribution in marine environments from coastal harbors (Zhang, 2017) and subtropical gyres (Poulain et al., 2018) to the deepest ocean trenches (Peng et al., 2018) and even arctic ice (Kanhai et al., 2020). These particles, now referred to as microplastics, represent a heterogeneous mixture of synthetic particles that vary in size (< 5 mm), shape, color, density, and polymer composition. The diverse nature of these particles reflects their multiple sources and infers complex environmental transport and fate in estuarine and marine systems. Some microplastics are manufactured to be microscopic for use in a variety of industrial and household applications including personal care products, pharmaceutical vectors, and pre-production pellets (i.e. nurdles) (Auta et al., 2017). These manufactured microplastics are referred to as primary microplastics. Secondary microplastics are those derived from larger plastic items, such as litter, as they fragment over time. Both primary and secondary microplastics can be transported into coastal waters through point and non-point pathways.
Innovation and corporate growth in the evolution of the drug industry

This work studies the processes of growth of the worlds top 150 pharmaceutical firms, on the grounds of an original database which also allows disaggregate analysis at the level of single therapeutical classes and chemical entities. Our findings show that the industry — whose long-term evolution is driven by innovation, imitation and permanent creation of new markets — displays (i) ‘‘fat tails’’ in the distribution of growth shocks, present at all levels of aggregation, with (relatively rare) big ‘‘spurs of growth’’, (ii) a significant autocorrelation of growth rates, (iii) a fall of variance of growth rates with size entirely dependent on corporate diversification patterns, in turn plausibly shaped by the ‘‘competence scope’’ of each firm, and (iv) different ‘‘lifecycles’’ of diverse types of products, and persistent forms of heterogeneity across firms in terms of innovative output, which, however, do not not seem to affect comparative growth performances.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
approxi-Short communication: Condition of male dairy calves at auction markets

Male dairy calves in North America are frequently marketed through live auctions. Calves have been observed in suboptimal condition both at auctions and upon arrival at calf-rearing facilities that supply the veal or dairy-beef industries. The objectives of this study were to describe the health of male dairy calves at a commercial auction in British Columbia, Canada, examine the relationships between calf price and condition, and use price data from other auctions to reflect more broadly on the variability in calf condition at auction markets. Price and breed were recorded for 1,624 male calves, and a sample of 355 calves was assessed using a standardized health exam and body weight estimation. Linear regression was used to assess which calf characteristics were associated with price.
Vlasov (1961): Principles of Classifying Granite Pegmatites, and Their Textural-Paragenetic Types

Introduction The field campaign of mapping pegmatites in the United States during WWII was matched in the Soviet Union, and for the same reason: the Soviets understood the importance of strategic mineral commodities found in pegmatites to their national defense. The Soviet effort did not result in the publication of the detailed maps and descriptions of many specific pegmatites; geologic maps were generalized, presented without detailed locations and even spatial scale, presumably as a matter of secrecy. There were, however, numerous summary publications that arose from the Soviet field studies. The article by Kuz’ma A. Vlasov (1961) was notable for several reasons, and it was one of those important papers that conveyed to me some insights that would have taken years to learn firsthand.
The generic multiplicity-induced-dominancy property from retarded to neutral delay-differential equations: When delay-systems characteristics meet the zeros of Kummer functions

In this paper, which is a direct continuation and generalization of the recent works by the authors [https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2019073, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde. 2021.03. 003], we show the validity of the generic multiplicity-induced-dominancy property for a general class of linear functional differential equations with a single delay, including the retarded as well as the neutral cases. The result is based on an appropriate integral representation of the corresponding characteristic quasipolynomial functions involving some appropriate degenerate hypergeometric functions.
Sustained clinical efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Malawi after 10 years as first line treatment: five year prospective study

Abstract Objective To measure the efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment of falciparum malaria in Malawi from 1998 to 2002, after a change from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as first line treatment in that country in 1993. Design Prospective open label drug efficacy study. Setting Health centre in large peri-urban township adjacent to Blantyre, Malawi. Participants People presenting to a health centre with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Main outcome measures Therapeutic efficacy and parasitological resistance to standard sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment at 14 days and 28 days of follow up. Results Therapeutic efficacy remained stable, with adequate clinical response rates of 80% or higher throughout the five years of the study. Analysis of follow up to 28 days showed modest but significant trends towards diminishing clinical and parasitological efficacy over time within the study period. Conclusion Contrary to expectations, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine has retained good efficacy after 10 years as the first line antimalarial drug in Malawi. African countries with very low chloroquine efficacy, high sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine efficacy, and no other immediately available alternatives may benefit from interim use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine while awaiting implementation of combination antimalarial treatments.
This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium.

Voice conversion (VC) techniques can be abused by malicious parties to transform their audios to sound like a target speaker, making it hard for a human being or a speaker verification/identification system to trace the source speaker. In this paper, we make the first attempt to restore the source voiceprint from audios synthesized by voice conversion meth-ods with high credit. However, unveiling the features of the source speaker from a converted audio is challenging since the voice conversion operation intends to disentangle the original features and infuse the features of the target speaker. To fulfill our goal, we develop R EVELIO , a representation learning model, which learns to effectively extract the voiceprint of the source speaker from converted audio samples. We equip R EVELIO with a carefully-designed differential rectification algorithm to eliminate the influence of the target speaker by removing the representation component that is parallel to the voiceprint of the target speaker. We have conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the capability of R EVELIO in restoring voiceprint from audios converted by VQVC [54], VQVC+ [63], AGAIN [9], and BNE [34]. The experiments verify that R EVELIO is able to rebuild voiceprints that can be traced to the source speaker by speaker verification and identification systems. R EVELIO also exhibits robust performance under inter-gender conversion, unseen languages, and telephony networks.
Unexpected plasma gonadal steroid and reproductive hormone levels across the mouse estrous cycle

Despite the importance of the mouse in biomedical research, the levels of circulating gonadal steroids across the estrous cycle are not established with any temporal precision. Using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, now considered the gold standard for steroid hormone analysis, we aimed to generate a detailed profile of gonadal steroid levels across the estrous cycle of C57BL/6J mice. For reference, luteinizing hormone (LH) and prolactin concentrations were measured in the same samples by sandwich ELISA. Terminal blood samples were collected at 8-hour intervals (10 am, 6 pm, 2 am) throughout the four stages of the estrous cycle. As expected, the LH surge was detected at 6 pm on proestrus with a mean (±SEM) concentration of 11±3 ng/mL and occurred coincident with the peak in progesterone levels (22±4 ng/mL). Surprisingly, estradiol concentrations peaked at 10 am on diestrus (51±8 pg/mL), with levels on proestrus 6 pm reaching only two-thirds of this value (31±5 pg/mL). We also observed a proestrous peak in prolactin concentrations (132.5±17 ng/mL) that occurred earlier than expected at 2 am. Estrone and androstenedione levels were often close to the LOD and showed no consistent changes across the estrous cycle. Testosterone levels were rarely above the LOD (0.01 ng/mL). These observations provide the first detailed assessment of fluctuating gonadal steroid and reproductive hormone levels across the mouse estrous cycle and indicate that species differences exist between mice and other spontaneously ovulating species.
quantitative careers research: Challenges and recommendations

Design/methodology/approach : Based on their experience as an author, reviewer, and editorial team member, the authors identify the main criteria that a quantitative study must meet to be considered for publication in international peer-reviewed journals covering career-related topics. They emphasize the importance of contributing to the careers literature and of designing the study in accordance with the research question. Purpose : To provide prospective authors guidelines that will hopefully enable them to submit more competitive manuscripts to journals publishing careers research . Findings : Manuscripts are rejected because they are insufficiently innovative, and/or because sample, instruments, and design are not appropriate to answer the research question at hand. Cross-sectional designs cannot be used to answer questions of mediation but should not be discarded automatically since they can be used to address other types of questions, including questions about nesting, clustering of individuals into subgroups, and to some extent, even causality. Originality : The manuscript provides an insight into the decision-making process of reviewers and editorial board members and includes recommendations on the use of cross-sectional data.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Even though computational algorithms often outperform human judgment, received wisdom suggests that people may be skeptical of relying on them (Dawes, 1979). Counter to this notion, results from six experiments show that lay people adhere more to advice when they think it comes from an algorithm than from a person. People showed this effect, what we call algorithm appreciation , when making numeric estimates about a visual stimulus (Experiment 1A) and forecasts about the popularity of songs and romantic attraction (Experiments 1B and 1C). Yet, researchers predicted the opposite result (Experiment 1D). Algorithm appreciation persisted when advice appeared jointly or separately (Experiment 2). However, algorithm appreciation waned when: people chose between an algorithm’s estimate and their own (versus an external advisor’s; Experiment 3) and they had expertise in forecasting (Experiment 4). Paradoxically, experienced professionals, who make forecasts on a regular basis, relied less on algorithmic advice than lay people did, which hurt their accuracy. These results shed light on the important question of when people rely on algorithmic advice over advice from people and have implications for the use of “big data” and algorithmic advice it generates.
Comparison of different pretreatments on mixed cultures to produce H 2 from glycerol

Recent research has focused on finding new sources of renewable energy and the H 2 could be considered as renewable if produced from biomass. In that purpose, H 2 can be produced biologically by dark fermentation from a great variety of organic materials, including industrial waste such as glycerol. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of inoculum pretreatment on H 2 yield in a CSTR. Aerobic enrichment as well as thermal shock pretreatment were investigated on two types of mixed inoculums: aerobic and anaerobic sludge. H 2 yields showed no significant difference between the use of non pretreated aerobic sludge (control), and anaerobic or aerobic sludge pretreatment after heat shock or aerobic enrichment for 4 weeks. The best yield was around 0.55 mol H2 mol −1glycerol . The operational conditions of the continuous system had a higher influence on H 2 yields than inoculum pretreatments. It was observed a specific selection of hydrogen producers-microbial community and clearly distinct with non-producers-microbial community.
Archaeology and Biogeography of Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Shell in Mississippi

The southeastern United States is home to the richest, most diverse freshwater mussel faunas on the planet, and Mississippi is no exception in this regard. Until fairly recent times, however, only qualitative lists of taxa were available and/or sampling was unsystematic and spotty. More recent work has taken place in waterways that have been significantly impacted by erosion, other forms of water pollution, and impoundment in modern times. Thus, even the best modern studies could benefit from a better knowledge of ranges and community characteristics as they existed prehistorically, when human impact, though present, an to this end this work presents a robust synthesis of pre-industrial mussel distributions and relative abundances in the state.
Money Attitudes, Mental Accounting, and Compulsive Buying Behavior Among Football Supporters

Financial behavior, especially among the speciﬁc community, is the researcher’s concern, which is related to how psychological responses in the form of money attitudes and mental accounting can inﬂuence compulsive buying behavior in members of the football supporter community. Some exciting things that motivated this research were triggered by a curiosity about whether business processes at football clubs are capable of inﬂuencing ﬁnancial behavior among their stakeholders. One phenomenon, CHLS – consumer hypnotic-like suggestion-a form of compulsive buying behavior-is thought to appear in this community. It is a concern for researchers to examine whether money attitude and mental accounting affect compulsive buying behavior. The analysis using multiple linear regression tests showed that money attitude and mental accounting affect compulsive buying behavior. The ﬁndings related to money attitude are in line with previous theories and ﬁndings. In contrast, mental accounting, although inﬂuential, should affect negatively so that the better the mental accounting, the more compulsive buying behavior will decrease. However, the ﬁndings of this study prove otherwise, so it is suspected that the expenditure priority scale factor is the cause of the anomaly of this study’s ﬁndings. In addition, the analysis of respondents’ proﬁles also corroborated allegations of research results that were not in harmony with mental accounting theory.
Measurement of the inclusive D*+- production in gamma-gamma collisions at LEP

The inclusive production of D ⁄§ mesons in two-photon collisions is measured with the ALEPH detector at e + e ¡ centre-of-mass energies from 183 GeV to 209 GeV. A total of 360 § 27 D ⁄§ meson events were observed from an integrated luminosity of 699 pb ¡ 1 . Contributions from direct and single-resolved processes are separated using the ratio of the transverse momentum p D ⁄§ t of the D ⁄§ to the visible invariant mass W vis of the event. Diﬁerential cross sections of D ⁄§ production as functions of p D ⁄§ t and the pseudorapidity j · D ⁄§ j are measured in the range 2 GeV =c < p D ⁄§ t < 12 GeV =c and j · D ⁄§ j < 1 : 5. They are compared to next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD calculations. The extrapolation of the integrated visible D ⁄§ cross section to the total charm cross section, based on the Pythia Monte Carlo program, yields (cid:190) (e + e ¡ ! e + e ¡ c„c) < p s> =197GeV = 731 § 74 stat § 47 syst § 157 extr pb.
VU Research Portal The identification of sustainable opportunities in existing enterprises

Previous studies show that resource constraints have mixed effects on innovation and opportunity identiﬁcation by entrepreneurs. Sometimes, resource constraints lead to identifying more opportunities, whereas in other cases, entre-preneurs see fewer opportunities. This study explores a new approach to reconcile this inconsistency. Using a sample of 219 small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we explore relationships between supply and demand constraints, on the one hand, and identifying supply and demand opportunities, on the other hand. The results show that supply constraints have a positive effect on identifying supply opportunities but a negative effect on identifying demand opportunities. Similarly, demand constraints have a positive effect on identifying demand opportunities but a negative effect on identifying supply opportunities. Thus, this study shows that resource constraints direct the entrepreneur’s attention toward opportunities inside the constrained domain rather than outside the constrained domain. An important consequence for theory is that a complete explanation of the mixed effects of resource constraints should consider different types of resource constraints and different sources of opportunities simultaneously. For practicing entrepre-neurs, being aware of this mechanism can prevent missing out on promising opportunities outside the constrained domains.
Utilization of an Automated Latex Agglutination Turbidity Assay for Assessing Gastric Mucosal Alteration during Helicobacter pylori Infection

Background/Aims A latex agglutination turbidity (LA) assay to test for serum antibodies has been approved in Japan and Korea for mass screening of Helicobacter pylori infection. In this study, we evaluated the LA assay for diagnosing H. pylori infection and predicting gastric mucosal changes in a Mongolian population. Methods In total, 484 individuals were classified into H. pylori-positive (n=356) and H. pylori-negative (n=128) groups, as determined by histology and H. pylori culture. Results The best cutoff, sensitivity, and specificity values for the LA assay were 18.35 U/mL, 74.2%, and 65.6%, respectively. The LA values in the atrophic gastritis group were statistically higher than those in the other groups (healthy, chronic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer, p<0.0001). The cutoff value to distinguish the atrophic gastritis group from the other four groups was 32.0 U/mL, and its area under the curve was 0.673, which was the highest among the E-plate, pepsinogen (PG) I, PG II, and PG I/II ratio tests in our data. The odds ratios for atrophic gastritis determined by the LA assay and PG I test in multiple logistic regression were 2.5 and 1.9, respectively, which were significantly higher than for the other tests. Conclusions The LA assay can determine the risk of atrophic gastritis, which in turn is a considerable risk factor for gastric cancer. We propose using this assay in combination with the PG I/II ratio to avoid missing gastric cancer patients who have a low LA value (less than 32.0 U/mL).
The coffee agroecosystem in the neotropics: combining ecological and economic goals.

The Sociopolitical and Economic Landscape of Coffee Economic Importance of Coffee The 2001 Coffee Crisis Ecological Importance of Coffee Biodiversity Conservation in Shade Coffee Birds and Other Vertebrates Arthropods The Coffee Technification Process Consequences of Technification for Biodiversity Impact of Coffee Technification on Birds Arthropods and Coffee Technification The Function of Biodiversity in the Regulation of Herbivores Impact of Birds on Coffee Arthropods Impact of Ants on Other Coffee Arthropods Impact of Spiders on Other Coffee Arthropods Relevant Trophic Interactions Coffee Agroforests as a High-Quality Agricultural Matrix Shade, Biodiversity, Yield, and Certification Programs Organic Coffee Fair Trade Shade Coffee Smithsonian’s Bird Friendly Label
LATERAL PRESSURE ON SHEET PILE WALLS DUE TO STRIP LOAD. TECHNICAL NOTE

Model sheet pile wall tests were conducted in sand to investigate the effect of surcharge strip loads on wall behavior. Bending-moment graphs are presented for several values of strip load intensity and distance from the wall. Measured bending moments are compared with predictions made using lateral earth pressures for strip surface loading, defined by various methods. The Coulomb analysis and the simple "45 degree load distribution" approach provided the best predictions, while bending moments determined using elasticity theory were significantly overestimated. Finite-element analyses demonstrated the importance of lateral wall yielding for lateral surcharge pressures and bending moments.