Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Étude du chlore organique dans les sols et de sa formation en conditions biotiques et abiotiques

Des etudes ont demontre que du chlore organique est retenu dans les sols et serait forme par un processus de chloruration issu de l’activite microbienne des sols. Le but de cette etude est d’estimer les formes organiques de chlore dans des sols contrastes et de mettre en evidence l’evolution de ces formes de chlore selon certains parametres environnementaux ou modalites d’incubations en fonction de l’activite des microorganismes. Les horizons organo-mineraux de sols contrastes ont ete etudies (i) in situ : Les quantites de chlore et les parametres physico-chimiques et microbiologiques de sols ont ete mesure ; (ii) dans deux dispositifs d’incubations sous differentes modalites. Les mesures des teneurs en chlore entre le debut et la fin de la premiere experience ont ete mesurees par analyseur d’AOX. Pour la deuxieme experience, les sols ont ete enrichis en Na37Cl et les teneurs en 37Cl ont ete mesurees par ICP MS HR. Des mesures par spectrometrie Xanes ont ete realisees pour preciser la speciation du chlore des sols. Les teneurs en chlore organique non extractibles representent presque la totalite du chlore. Les parametres qui influencent la repartition des teneurs en chlore correspondent au couvert vegetal, au pH, a la teneur en carbone organique et aux quantites de microorganismes. Les teneurs en chlore mesurees par analyseur d’AOX et par ICP MS HR ont permis de mettre en evidence une formation de chlore organique en relation avec les parametres microbiologiques. Les mesures par ICP MS HR ont montre une formation de chlore organique en conditions abiotiques. Les analyses par spectrometrie XANES n’ont pas permis de mettre en evidence une formation de chlore organique
Middle Permian fusulines from the Funabuseyama area, Mino Terrane, central Japan

The Funabuseyama Limestone, an exotic limestone block in the western part of the Jurassic Mino Terrane, yields various kinds of Permian foraminifers especially fusulines ranging from the Artinskian to Capitanian. Many microphotographs of fusuline and non-fusuline foraminifers are illustrated to reconsider the foraminiferal information of the Funabuseyama faunas and to compare with the coeval faunas in and outside of Japan. Thirty-one species of Middle Permian fusulines are systematically described. Fusuline faunas in the Mino Terrane, characterized by the component of Acervoschwagerina, Parafusulina japonica, and Yabeina, are similar to most of those in other Jurassic terranes of Japan, but different from those of the Permian terranes of Japan where these three taxa are almost absent.
Screening and prevention of anticoagulant resistance development in house mice: A review

Unrestricted use of anticoagulants has resulted in rodents developing resistance to them. This has caused a series of problems regarding reduction in rodent populations, which has further implicated great economic losses and a serious threat to the health of people and domestic animals. The popular global trend currently is to control rodent populations by applying the least possible amounts of chemicals, which on the other hand implies that several coactive alternative measures need to be applied in an effort to reduce rodent numbers to an acceptable economic level. On the other hand, knowledge of the genetic structure of rodent populations has become an important set of information desirable to have before setting off to apply rodenticides in practice, so as to prevent ineffective use of rodenticides and prevent further spreading of resistant rodent populations. The latest trend of using combinations of low-dose anticoagulant baits requires further research as their effects on susceptible populations are known but their impact on resistant animals is still not clear.
Quality of Teachers’ Performance Evaluation in Public and Private Secondary Schools of Karachi, Pakistan

This descriptive study explored the quality of teachers’ performanceevaluation process used in schools of Karachi city. The sample of thisstudy included 50 principals and 250 teachers from public and privateschools. Using structured, closed-ended questionnaire, data wereanalyzed by descriptive statistics and Independent t test. The results ofthe study indicate that both private and public secondary schools inKarachi have a proper system of teachers’ performance evaluation but asignificant difference exists in terms of quality. Unlike private schools,the performance of teachers in public schools is not monitored regularly,the results of performance evaluation do not accurately reflect a teacher’sability, and the rating system used to evaluate teachers is not useful forthe growth of teachers and principals. The results concluded that bothpublic and private secondary schools in Karachi have a trustworthysystem of teachers’ performance evaluation. The study also revealed thatthe quality of teachers’ performance evaluation in private secondaryschools is better than public secondary schools in Karachi. The privateschools have a formative system of teachers’ performance evaluation thatis reflected through regular informal visits by their principal to check theperformance of teachers. In contrast the public schools have a summativeevaluation system to check the performance of teachers which wasreflected through lack of regular visits by principal to check theperformance of teachers.
How will Snow Retention and Shading from Arctic Shrub Expansion Affect Caribou Food Resources?

ABSTRACT Increased snow cover and attenuation of light due to shrub expansion can lead to changes in the quantity and nutritional quality of food resources for migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus). To determine how vegetation is affected by snow accumulation and shade, we conducted an experiment that simulated the light and snow conditions created by increased shrub cover at Deception Bay (Nunavik, Canada), within the summer range of the Rivière-aux-Feuilles caribou herd. We estimated the foliar biomass of two major components of the caribou diet (Betula glandulosa and Carex spp.). We also harvested foliar tissue to conduct chemical composition analyses (nitrogen, fibre, total phenolics). Experimental light attenuation was found to increase the nitrogen concentrations in B. glandulosa and Carex spp. throughout the growing season. Phenolic concentration in B. glandulosa decreased in early summer but was otherwise consistent in response to light attenuation and increased snow cover. Increased snow cover combined with ambient light had a positive effect on the foliar biomass of B. glandulosa. Increased snow cover and shade caused by shrub densification may therefore increase forage quantity and quality for caribou. We suggest investigating the effects of shrub expansion on other components of the caribou diet, such as lichens and forbs.
Telerehabilitation as a physical therapy solution for the post-stroke patient in COVID-19 pandemic situations: A review

Open access: ht p://isainsmedis.id/ Telerehabilitation as a physical therapy solution for the post-stroke patient in COVID-19 pandemic situations: A review I Made Yoga Prabawa1*, Dedi Silakarma1, M. Widnyana 2 Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability among the adult population. One-third of post-stroke patients require ongoing physical rehabilitation to improve their motoric function. But in this COVID-19 pandemic situation, all outpatient visits or non-emergency cases, including in-clinic physical rehabilitation therapy, have been postponed and limited to maintain physical distancing to prevent the spreading of infection. Telerehabilitation can be the answer to overcome this circumstance. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search for online literature or studies in 2020. We explored evidence using the following database Cochrane Library, PubMed, and Google Scholar. The keywords used to obtain the relevant research include “telerehabilitation” OR “telemedicine” AND “physical rehabilitation” AND “stroke patient” AND “COVID-19 pandemic”. The literature was analyzed based on the results of previous studies. Results: Telerehabilitation delivers rehabilitation services via communication technologies involving the patient and the physical therapist communicate using telehealth platform and video-teleconference. Several telerehabilitation techniques can be used for stroke patients’ physical exercise, such as portable transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TENS), mirror therapy, home exercise program, and virtual reality exercise. Several studies have shown that telerehabilitation is not inferior than in-clinic physical exercise, and both showed significant improvement in post-stroke patients’ motor function. Conclusions: Telerehabilitation can be the solution for post-stroke patient’s physical rehabilitation in the COVID-19 pandemic. This novel health innovation allowed the post-stroke patient to exercise at home and prevent them from the risk of COVID-19 infection.
Worksite Stress Reduction Through the Transcendental Meditation Program

®Transcendental Meditation, TM, Maharishi Vedic Science, and Maharishi University of Management are registered or common law trademarks licensed to Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation and used under sublicense or with permission. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 2005, 17, 235–273. ©2005 Select Press, Novato, CA, 415/209-9838. Worksite Stress Reduction Through the Transcendental Meditation Program
Modeling Trade-offs in New Product Development: Competitive Demand Dynamics and the Optimal Time of Product Launch

We present a model describing the demand dynamics of two new products competing for a limited target market. The demand trajectories of the two products are driven by a market saturation effect and an imitation effect reßecting the product experience of previous adopters. In this general setting, we provide analytical results for the sales trajectories and lifecycle sales of the competing products. We use these results to study the impact of launch time delay (acceleration) on overall lifecycle sales. Our analysis support trade-off rules that can be used in the tactical decision-making of a product development team. Taking the perspective of a team developing one of the competing products, we Þnd that the proÞt-maximizing launch time response exhibits a counter-intuitive behavior, which results from nonconcavities in the underlying objective function. In particular, we show that a Þrm facing a launch time delay from a competing product might beneÞt from moving its own product launch forward in time, opposed to using the softened competitive situation to further improve its cost position. We identify conditions under which such non-concavities arise and a marginal cost-beneÞt analysis leads to sub-optimal launch time decisions. Finally, we analyze the Nash equilibrium in launch time decisions of the two competing brands.
Teaching English to Young Learners: Pre-service Language Teachers’ Use of Digital Stories

Digital storytelling, which is about the combination of media and technology with traditional storytelling to help students learn, has lately been considered as an effective tool in instructional environments. This paper examines the effects of the digital storytelling experience on pre-service language teachers’ perceived self-efficacy towards integration of educational technology to teach English to young learners. With this aim in mind, the researcher prepared two-hours training on what is a digital story and how it can be prepared with educational purposes, more specifically language teaching. The qualitative study was conducted in Spring semester 2016-2017, at a pre-service teacher education department of a state university in Turkey. The data for the current study was gathered through pre-service language teachers’ lesson plans and open-ended questionnaire. In order to be able to answer the research questions, the document analysis was carried out with lesson plans prepared by pre-service language teachers followed by the content analysis of pre-service language teachers’ answers to the open-ended questionnaire with the concurrent themes noted down. The findings indicated that the participants of the study had self-efficacy towards integration of educational technology in TEYL. However, when their self-efficacy towards the use of digital stories in TEYL was examined, no such improvement can be observed. Implications for future research and policy makers are provided.
4-CYCLE FREE APM LDPC CODES WITH AN EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTION

Recently, a class of low-density parity-check codes based on affine permutation matrices, called APM-LDPC codes, have been considered which have some advantages than quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes in terms of minimum-distance, cycle distribution, and error-rate performance. Moreover, some explicit constructions for exponent matrices of conventional APM-LDPC codes with girth at least 6 have been investigated. In this paper, a class of 4-cycle free APM-LDPC codes is constructed by a new explicit method such that the constructed codes have better cycle distributions rather than the recently proposed APM codes with girth 6. As simulation results show, the constructed codes outperform PEG and random-like LDPC codes with the same rates and lengths.
Opleiding Informatica Analysis of nonsimple Nonograms

Nonograms are a type of logic puzzles in which the puzzler is supposed to ﬁll in the correct values for all cells in a rectangle grid, eﬀectively composing a pixelated image. The lengths of the consecutive segments of non-empty pixels in each row and column should, preserving the order in which these segments appear, match their corresponding puzzle line descriptions. In general, puzzles can have an arbitrary number of pixel values (colours). In this thesis we focus on Nonograms with only two possible pixel values, depicting a black and white binary image. Firstly, several solving strategies are explained and examined. Then, the characteristics of these puzzles and strategies are analyzed by mass solving large sets of puzzles with relatively small image spaces, as well as by taking samples for larger puzzle sizes. Finally, we propose a diﬃculty measure to classify the puzzles and try to capture some of the characteristics that can make a puzzle substantially harder to solve.
Theoretical and Empirical Implications of Foreign Direct Investment in Producer Services: Application to ASEAN Countries

This paper analyzes the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) in producer services. We focus on two likely effects of FDI in producer services: bilateral and third-country effects which foster the development of producer services industries; and economic integration which deters the presence of producer services. To illustrate how these forces work, we develop the Knowledge-capital model of Baltagi et al. (2007) by following the theoretical concepts of Markusen and Strand (2009). Using numerical simulation, the theoretical implications show that bilateral and thirdcountry effects as well as economic integration dominates FDI in producer services. Afterwards, we investigate on how changes of determinants influence the U.S. FDI in producer services to ASEAN economies over the periods 1999-2008. Applying spatial panel data technique, we find that there are substantially impacts of bilateral and third-country characteristics and economic integration on FDI in producer services. Specifically, the empirical evidence tends to support theoretical implications on FDI in producer services. JEL Classification: L80; F23; F15
MATHEMATICS TEACHER CANDIDATES TOWARDS MATHEMATICAL PROVING

The purpose of this study is to examine mathematics teacher candidates' perceptions about mathematical proving through metaphors. The participants of the research were 203 mathematics teacher candidates who were having education at the Faculty of Education of the two state universities in the Central Anatolia region, and they were selected on the basis of volunteerism. As a means of data collection, the mathematics teacher candidates were given papers which were written "proving is like. because. " on. While the metaphors developed by mathematics teacher candidates were being analyzed, the appropriate and inappropriate metaphors were determined. Then, the sources of metaphors developed by mathematics teacher candidates for proving were read in detail, and these metaphors were classified according to their similarities, and categorized. At the end of the content analysis, the metaphors developed by the participants were collected under a total of 12 conceptual categories. When these categories were examined, it was found that 35% of the participants perceived proving as a difficult, complex, boring and unnecessary process, and their perceptions about proving were negative, while the remaining participants (65%) had positive perceptions towards proving, and generally the metaphors obtained were towards explaining the nature of proving.
CORRELATION OF ASSR HEARING THRESHOLDS WITH ABR HEARING THRESHOLDS IN CHILDREN

Background: Hearing assessment in neonates, or in older children/teenagers with special needs, is very challenging since a pure tone audiogram is not possible due to lack of co-operation and click-ABRs are not frequency specific. Objectives: To assess the value of auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) in neonates or in uncooperative children/teenagers and correlate the hearing thresholds derived from them with those derived from ABR. Subjects and Methods: Using ABR and ASSR, the hearing thresholds of 119 children too young to perform behavioral audiometry, and older children or teenagers with special needs (who were unable or unwilling to perform a pure tone audiogram), were assessed. The age range was 1 month to 18 years old with a mean age of 2.7 years and median of 2.3 years; the large majority (106 or 89%) were younger than 5 years. Results: ASSR was found to be a valuable and objective method for hearing assessment as a strong correlation between ABR-derived and ASSR-derived thresholds was found for all frequencies (500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz) with Spearman rank correlation coefficients ranging from 0.83 to 0.87 and high statistical significance (p<0.0001). Conclusion: The reliability of ASSR is supported by the results of the present study which suggest that there is a strong correlation between ASSR and ABR thresholds even at a frequency of 500 Hz.
Assessing the Use of Linear Regression Analysis in Examining Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction Relationship in Premium Casual Restaurants (PCR) in Subang Jaya (Klang Valley) Malaysia

Many urban Malaysians are attracted to the moderately-priced food that is usually served in a casual atmosphere. Its popularity has given rise to its potential business in the foodservice industry. The sudden increase in the number of Premium casual restaurants (PCR), however, creates a stiff competition which has resulted not only in a bad turnover of customers but also in businesses closing abruptly. Another reason for such closures is also the dissatisfied customers who experience poor quality service at these dining restaurants. Thus, the current study aims to examine the relationship between Service Quality (SERVQUAL) and customer satisfaction at (PCR). A total of 380 questionnaires distributed and yielded a response rate of 53 percent. The SERVQUAL model contributed 76 percent of the variance in the customers’ satisfaction level among those who dined in the restaurants. The overall results show that in a highly competitive business environment, customers' evaluation of Service Quality and customer satisfaction is critical to the service restaurants' survival. The management must, therefore, focus on these most crucial factors that have enhanced service standards of future research.
Unsupervised Clustering for Deep Learning: A tutorial survey

: Unsupervised learning methods play an essential role in many deep learning approaches because the training of complex models with several parameters is an extremely data-hungry process. The execution of such a training process in a fully supervised manner requires numerous labeled examples. Since the labeling of the training samples is very time-consuming, learning approaches that require less or no labeled examples are sought. Unsupervised learning can be used to extract meaningful information on the structure and hierarchies in the data, relying only on the data samples without any ground truth provided. The extracted knowledge representation can be used as a basis for a deep model that requires less labeled examples, as it already has a good understanding of the hidden nature of the data and should be only ﬁne-tuned for the speciﬁc task. The trend for deep learning applications most likely leads to substituting as much portion of supervised learning methods with unsupervised learning as possible. Regarding this consideration, our survey aims to give a brief description of the unsupervised clustering methods that can be leveraged in case of deep learning applications.
Intelligent traffic city management from surveillance systems

Surveillance and more speciﬁcally trafﬁc management technologies constitute one of the most intriguing aspects of smart city applications. In this work we investigate the applicability of an object detector for vehicle detection and propose a novel hybrid shallow-deep representation to sur-pass its limits. Furthermore, we leverage the detector’s output, so as to localize new vehicles and track them throughout the whole duration that they exist in the video scene. The detection and tracking system is then evaluated and compared with other State-of-the-Art algorithms on the new developed NVIDIA AI city datasets.
DETECTION OF MALICIOUS NODES IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be used as an important concept to reduce the redundancy and energy consumption. To optimize the wireless sensor networks for secured data transmission both at cluster head and base station, data aggregation is needed. The existence time of sensor network diminishes due to energy inefficient nodes for data aggregation. Henceforth aggregation process in WSN ought to be advanced in energy efficient way. Data aggregation is performed in every router while forwarding data. It is difficult to identify and isolate the compromised nodes so as to abstain from being deceived by the distorted data infused by the enemy through compromised nodes. In any case, it is trying to secure the flat topology network effectively in light of the poor adaptability and high communication overhead. We discuss a mechanism that distinguishes malicious nodes by the collaboration of appropriate nodes and logically isolates the recognized, malicious nodes from remote sensor systems. Also this paper describes about the attacks and security goals in the WSN.
A Broader Perspective of ECR Adoption Study

In order to sustain competitiveness companies need to adopt electronic commerce enabled inter-organisational systems to improve the efficiencies of the entire supply chain. Adoption of inter-organisational systems by companies, however, has proved to be difficult, since such systems span organisation boundaries. Understanding this lack of success is hampered by the lack of sound theoretical analysis of inter-organisational systems adoption. In this study, which uses Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) as an example, we describe and contrast two different approaches to modeling adoption. The first relates ECR characteristics, organisation characteristics, and certain external driving forces to ECR adoption, and is a familiar factorstype model. Then, recognition of the importance of the inter-orgaisational context of ECR adoption leads to a reconsideration of the causal links in this model and to the formulation of a new model of the proccesual kind. Case studies of ECR adoption in Australia are presented to demonstrate that the revised model captures more of the complexity of ECR adoption experiences and outcomes.