Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improvement of Red Rice Yield by Changing from Conventional to Aerobic Irrigation Systems Intercropped with Soybean at Different Dates

Previous studies reported that intercropping rice with legume crops under aerobic systems increased growth and yield of rice compared with monocropped rice. This study aimed to examine the effects of rice cultivation techniques and patterns of rows on growth and yield of red rice with special objective to examine if intercropping red rice with soybean relay-planted between double or triple rows of rice on raised-beds under aerobic irrigation system can produce higher yield than the conventional one. The experiment was conducted in Narmada (West Lombok, Indonesia), arranged according to Split Plot design with two treatment factors, i.e. rice row patterns as the main plots (P1= double, P2= triple rows) and techniques of rice cultivation (Tc= conventional rice, T0= irrigated aerobic rice system (ARS) without intercropping; T1= relay-planting soybean 1 week, T2= 2 weeks, T3= 3 weeks after seeding the pre-germinated red rice seeds). Results indicated that between the two treatment factors, techniques of growing rice resulted in significant effects on more variables compared with the patterns of rice rows, but there were significant interaction effects on leaf number per clump at anthesis and grain yield per clump. Based on the main effects, tiller number, filled panicle number and grain yield per clump and harvest index were significantly higher on red rice plants grown in irrigated aerobic systems intercropped with soybean compared with those in aerobic monocropped or conventional systems, with the highest grain yield average of 53.76 g/clump in T3, 29.04 g/clump in T0 and only 17.45 g/clump in Tc treatment, and based on the interaction effects, the highest average of grain yield was on red rice plants in the T3 treatment under triple-row pattern (57.58 g/clump) and the lowest was on conventional plot (Tc) under double-row pattern (16.53 g/clump).
Single Image Cloud Removal Using U-Net and Generative Adversarial Networks

Cloud removal is a ubiquitous and important task in remote sensing image processing, which aims at restoring the ground regions shadowed by clouds. It is challenging to remove the clouds for a single satellite image due to the difficulty of distinguishing clouds from white objects on the ground and filling the irregular missing regions with visual consistency. In this article, we propose a novel two-stage cloud removal method. The first stage is cloud segmentation, i.e., extracting the clouds and removing the thin clouds directly using U-Net. The second stage is image restoration, i.e., removing the thick cloud and recovering the corresponding irregular missing regions using generative adversarial network (GAN). We evaluate the proposed scheme on both synthetic images and real satellite images (over <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$20\,000\, \times \,20\,000$ </tex-math></inline-formula> pixels). On synthetic images for cloud coverage less than 40%, the proposed scheme achieves improvements of 0.049–0.078 in Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) and 3.8–6.2 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), while the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm error reduces by 49%–78%, compared with a state-of-the-art deep learning method Pix2Pix. On real satellite images, we demonstrate the consistent visual results of the proposed scheme.
A conservative saint-venant type model to describe the dynamics of thin partially wetting films with regularized forces at the contact line

This paper deals with the numerical simulation of thin liquid films flowing on partially wetting solid substrates. A 2D Saint-Venant like model is proposed. Its originality lies in the conservative formulation of the capillary forces and in the model used for the disjoining pressure that accounts for the contact line capillary forces. A finite volume scheme is proposed for the resolution of the system and various numerical examples are presented and discussed. In particular, when the mesh resolution is fine enough, the model is proved to be able to predict correctly the spreading of a film with the exact contact angle in the vicinity of the contact line. When the mesh size is larger than the film thickness (which could be the case for many industrial applications), it is of course no longer possible to recover the contact angle. However, the model is proved to correctly predict the spreading of the film. This important feature is related to the thermodynamic consistency of the model in the sense that the latter ensures by construction the decrease of the film total free energy in the absence of external driving forces.
Predominant Factor of Activation Energy for Ionic Conductivity in Perovskite-Type Lithium Ion-Conducting Oxides

The predominant factors of the activation energy for ionic conductivity in perovskite-type lithium ion-conducting oxides were discussed in terms of structural distortion. As the result, the activation energies in almost all compounds are governed by a factor, a p /( B large -O) ( a p : perovskite parameter (cube root of cell volume per formula unit), ( B large -O): inter-atomic distance between larger B ion and oxygen ion). This finding implies that (i) the larger B ion gives rise to structural distortion such as the tilt of the B O 6 octahedra, which decrease the bottleneck size, (ii) the resultant smaller bottleneck determines the activation energies for ionic diffusion.
IMMIGRATION AND THE CONTEXT OF BREXIT: COLLOCATE NETWORK AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL FRAMEWORKS APPLIED TO APPRAISAL IN SFL

This article aims to discuss how three conservative UK newspapers (The Sun, The Telegraph and The Daily Star) represent the immigration issue during the days that preceded Brexit. The theoretical framework is based on Systemic-Functional Linguistics (appraisal system) and Corpus Linguistics (factor and collocates analysis). Collocates and network representation were calculated using two programmes (COWO and Gephi), and factor analysis and concordancing were based on R programming language. The results reveal a series of evaluation strategies related to immigrants and to the UK government and its policies. It was also possible to calculate how such strategies co-occur in the texts, obtaining a profile of the newspapers in terms of the most present dimensions and also of which strategies co-occur during instantiation
Bispectral Index Alterations and Associations With Autonomic Changes During Hypnosis in Trauma Center Researchers: Formative Evaluation Study

Background Previous work performed by our group demonstrated that intermittent reductions in bispectral index (BIS) values were found during neurofeedback following mindfulness instructions. Hypnosis was induced to enhance reductions in BIS values. Objective This study aims to assess physiologic relaxation and explore its associations with BIS values using autonomic monitoring. Methods Each session consisted of reading a 4-minute baseline neutral script and playing an 18-minute hypnosis tape to 3 researchers involved in the BIS neurofeedback study. In addition to BIS monitoring, autonomic monitoring was performed, and this included measures of electromyography (EMG), skin temperature, skin conductance, respiratory rate, expired carbon dioxide, and heart rate variability. The resulting data were analyzed using two-tailed t tests, correlation analyses, and multivariate linear regression analyses. Results We found that hypnosis was associated with reductions in BIS (P<.001), EMG (P<.001), respiratory rate (P<.001), skin conductance (P=.006), and very low frequency power (P=.04); it was also associated with increases in expired carbon dioxide (P<.001), skin temperature (P=.04), high frequency power (P<.001), and successive heart interbeat interval difference (P=.04) values. Decreased BIS values were associated with reduced EMG measures (R=0.76; P<.001), respiratory rate (R=0.35; P=.004), skin conductance (R=0.57; P<.001), and low frequency power (R=0.32; P=.01) and with increased high frequency power (R=−0.53; P<.001), successive heart interbeat interval difference (R=−0.32; P=.009), and heart interbeat interval SD (R=−0.26; P=.04) values. Conclusions Hypnosis appeared to induce mental and physical relaxation, enhance parasympathetic neural activation, and attenuate sympathetic nervous system activity, changes that were associated with BIS values. Findings from this preliminary formative evaluation suggest that the current hypnosis model may be useful for assessing autonomic physiological associations with changes in BIS values, thus motivating us to proceed with a larger investigation in trauma center nurses and physicians.
Racial Resentment, Empathy, and Support for Release during COVID-19: Results from a Survey Experiment

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented the American criminal justice system with unprecedented challenges, including protecting the safety of incarcerated men and women. Given the ill-suited structure of correctional facilities to facilitate health and safety guidelines, one solution is decarceration. Yet decarceration has faced political and public backlash. As no evidence currently exists on how the public views this emergency solution, the authors examined the correlates of support for decarceration by conducting a survey experiment in which respondents were randomly presented with information on the dangers of COVID-19 in prisons and jails. Respondents’ attitudes toward releasing various subgroups of the incarcerated population were then measured. The findings indicate that learning about the health risks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities had no discernable effect on support for decarceration for any subgroup. Racial resentment consistently predicted opposition to release for all groups, although its effect largely operated through empathetic identification with those who commit crimes.
Turbulence and Mixing in Energetic Environment of the Coastal Waters of Sri Lanka

In order to obtain first insights on the ocean turbulence and mixing in the waters around Sri Lanka, the microstructure measurements in the South Monsoon Current to the south of Weligama (along 80.5°E and near the shelf break) and in the East Indian Coastal Current in the Bay of Bengal to the east of Trincomalee (along 8°N) was conducted by National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) of Sri Lanka aboard the research vessel Samuddrika. It is shown that in strongly startified pycnocline, which is dynamically detached from the low-sa-line surface mixed layer, the probability distributions of the logarithm of the kinetic energy dissipation rate follow generalized extreme value (GEV) model. This could be associated with the occurrence of rare highly-energetic turbulent patches in the pycnocline due to intermittent breaking of internal-wave and sporadic shear-induced instabilities. The mixing Reynolds number (a nomalized eddy diffusivity) was found to be a function of the gradient Richardson number, and followed the parameterization proposed by [1].
Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan dan Strore Atmosphere terhadap Kepuasan Konsumen di Bravo Resto

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kualitas pelayanan dan store atmosphere terhadap kepuasan konsumen di Bravo Resto di Kabupaten Kuningan. Dimana variabel independen adalah kualitas pelayanan (X1) dan store atmosphere (X2) mempengaruhi kepuasan konsumen (Y) sebagai variabel dependen. Jenis penelitian ini adalah asosiatif dengan metode kuantitatif. Sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 100 responden dari populasi seluruh konsumen Bravo Resto dengan menggunakan teknik insidental sampling, data dikumpulkan dengan metode survey melalui kuisioner yang berisikan pernyataan yang harus diisi oleh responden. Teknik analisis menggunakan regresi linier berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa secara parsial kualitas pelayanan berpengaruh secara signifikan. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai sig-t l 0,05 dan nilai thitunggttabel yaitu 4.614g 1,660sedangkan variabel Store atmosphere secara parsial berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kepuasan konsumen. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai sig-t l 0,05 dan nilai thitung g ttabel yaitu 7.281g 1,660. Secara simultan kualitas pelayanan dan store atmosphere berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kepuasan konsumen di Bravo Resto. Dari hasil pengujian juga di dapat pengaruh sebesar 82,8% dan adapun sisanya 17,2% dipengaruhi oleh faktor lain yang tidak diteliti oleh peneliti. n Kata kunci: Kualitas Pelayanan, Store Atmosphere, dan Kepuasan Konsumen
Mechanical stress development during dental implant surgery : a literature review

1 1 Abstract 1.1 Summary Aim of the investigation: The application of dental implants, which are anchored in the alveolar process similar to a tooth root, has proven to be effective for the treatment of missing teeth. When placing the implant, high primary stability values were aimed for, which was particularly true in cases with immediate loading of the implant. Modern implant systems feature design and drilling protocols that are intended to prevent overloading of the alveolar bone during implant placement, since resorptive processes can impair esthetics and, in the long term, function. The aim of this literature study is to determine the current data situation regarding the effects of mechanical stress on the alveolar bone during implant placement and to present the new findings with regard to clinical relevance. Material and method: The medical database PubMed was searched for the following terms and links: Dental implant insertion AND mechanical stress AND bone. The publications found were assigned to the groups I) in vitro studies and finite element studies, II) animal studies and III) clinical studies. The final search took place on September 3
Efficient inhibition of acrylamide formation in French fries by dipping in lactic acid solution before and after par-frying in a two-step procedure

Acrylamide is a carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and genotoxic compound formed from free asparagine and reducing sugars during frying or baking of food products. The potato products French fries and chips are substantial contributors to acrylamide intake. The aim of the present work was to study effects of lactic acid and other α -hydroxy acids on acrylamide formation in French fries. Effective inhibition of acrylamide formation in French fries was obtained by short-time dipping in 0.4% solution of lactic acid before par-frying. It is suggested that the inhibitory effect on acrylamide formation is due to formation of a 6-ring ester-acid amine between the protonated α -hydroxy acid and free asparagine. The highest efficiency was achieved by applying lactic acid solution in a two-step procedure with dipping before and after par-frying. This process can be adopted to industrial conditions by lactic acid dipping after blanching and thereafter by submerging the par-fried French fries in lactic acid solution directly after the fryer. Use of this technology will contribute to lower acrylamide levels and reduced consumer exposure from French fries.
(1R,4S)-Calamenene. Chemical correlation with the diterpene analogues of Eremophila

(1R,4S)-(-)-Calamenene has been synthesized from dihydroxyserrulatic acid of known absolute configuration. (1R,4S)-(-)-8-Methoxycalamenene is shown to be the enantiomer of a calamenene isolated from the gorgonian Subergorgia hicksoni
Advances in Environmental Pollution Management: Wastewater Impacts and Treatment Technologies

Water pollutants are the substances that affect the physicochemical and biological properties of water that cause undesirable and great destruction of the ecosystem on earth. Industrialization, urbanization, and agriculture activities impact the quality of freshwater and also decrease the availability of freshwater. Water is the safeguard of biodiversity but the pollutants present in water accumulate in the body of the living organism and causes negative effect directly or indirectly on plants, animals, and human being. Excess plant food, herbicides, and pesticides once washed by rain into rivers cause danger to life. The control of water pollution increases the quality of water using various conventional treatments which reduces the pollutants that cause the reduction of water-borne diseases and increases physiological activities in the organism. Effective water quality prevention increases the economy and development of aquatic life as well as biodiversity. Biodiversity is the key to the earth ecosystem and nowadays the conservation of biological diversity is the biggest challenge. Thus, the present chapter enlightenment the impacts of various water pollutants on biodiversity and developing way of mitigation. The immediate actions need for making effective policies and implementation of acts reduce the pressure on the freshwater ecosystem.
A novel & effective visible light-driven TiO2/magnetic porous graphene oxide nanocomposite for the degradation of dye pollutants

Porous graphene oxide (pGO) was applied for the preparation of various nanocomposites, including TiO2 (anatase)/pGO, TiO2 (mix phase)/pGO, TiO2 (anatase)/magnetic pGO and TiO2 (mix)/magnetic pGO, using titanium(IV) chloride as the photocatalyst precursor. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance UV-vis spectroscopy (DR-UV-vis), and N2 adsorption–desorption using Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) analysis were employed to investigate the morphology, crystal structure, surface groups, and optical properties of the prepared nanocomposites. The photocatalytic performance of the synthesized nanocomposites under visible light was investigated in the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) as a model organic pollutant. The TiO2 (mix)/magnetic pGO nanocomposite showed enhanced efficiency under visible light irradiation compared with the other catalysts. 100% degradation using the TiO2 (mix)/magnetic pGO nanocomposite under visible light was achieved in less than 20 min in comparison with TiO2 (mix, anatase) nanoparticles, and TiO2 (anatase)/pGO and TiO2 (mix)/pGO nanocomposites. The degradation efficiency of RhB using the stable nanocomposite remained at 85% after 10 times reuse. The highest photocatalyst performance was achieved with 0.01 g of nanocatalyst and 10 mg L−1 of RhB at pH 9 under visible light irradiation in less than 20 minutes. Moreover, the effect of various scavengers, such as methanol (OH˙ radicals scavenger), disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA, holes scavenger), and p-benzoquinone (BQ, O2˙− radicals scavenger), on RhB degradation was investigated.
Transport Phenomena at Intersections at Low Reynolds Numbers

The mixing behavior at a pipe cross junction is investigated through a series of experiments using a sodium chloride tracer. A dimensionless concentration term is used to represent mixing. This term is investigated over a range of Reynolds number, ranging from laminar to transient to turbulent regimes, with pipe flows kept equal. Varying inflows are also examined in the laminar and transitional flow regimes, and preliminary results are reported. Experimental data indicate that mixing patterns are generally governed primarily by the ratio of the inflows (and likely outflows) as opposed to flow regimes.
Quantifying service-reliability-based day-to-day evolution of travel choices in public transit systems with smart transit card data

This study develops day-to-day models to explore how unreliability of public transit service affects the day-to-day evolution of travel choices. We consider two dynamical processes that incorporate transit service unreliability, i.e., travelers' learning and perception updating process (LPUP) and proportional-switch adjustment process (PSAP). The conditions for existence, uniqueness, and stability of the fixed point of each model are analytically derived. These conditions are then examined using real-world public transit data from the Greater Sydney area. We find that with some aggregations, the system stability conditions are satisfied in both models. The observed weighted average flow change between two successive days is around 6.5% over the observation period, which may reflect the system stochasticity rather than instability. Among a series of empirical findings, it is noteworthy that in the Sydney case, the value of service schedule delay is around 3.27 times that of in-vehicle time.
Analisis Kinerja Keuangan Bank Syariah

Pemerintah melalui Otoritas Jasa Keuangan mengeluarkan Surat Edaran Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (SEOJK) Nomor 10/SEOJK.03/2014 tentang Penilaian Tingkat Kesehatan Bank Umum Syariah dan Unit Usaha Syariah. Hal ini perlu dilakukan karena tingkat kesehatan bank merupakan tolak ukur bagi manajemen untuk menilai apakah bank sudah mampu melakukan kegiatan operasional perbankan secara normal dan memenuhi semua kewajibannya dengan baik, sesuai peraturan perbankan yang berlaku. Dalam penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh gambaran yang lebih jelas tentang ukuran tingkat kesehatan bank, adapun kategorinya adalah sehat, cukup sehat, kurang sehat, dan tidak sehat. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada bank syariah mandiri. Sistem pelaksanaan penilaian kesehatan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode CAMEL yaitu Capital, Assets, Management, Earning, dan Liquidity. Metode peniltian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif atas berbagai aspek yang berpengaruh terhadap kondisi dan perkembangan bank. Sedangkan perhitungan masing-masing faktor menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif, yaitu dengan mengkuantifikasikan komponen-komponen yang termasuk dalam masing-masing faktor sehingga diperoleh nilai atau angka tertentu. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan rasio permodalan selama tiga tahun, yaitu tahun 2015, 2016, dan 2017 Bank Syariah Mandiri memperoleh rasio CAR (Capital Adequacy Ratio) sebesar 12,85%, 14,01%, dan 15,89%, sehingga dapat dikatakan sehat. Rasio kualitas aktiva produktif (KAP) pada tahun 2015, 2016, dan 2017 sebesar 5,08%, 4,03%, dan 3,50%, sehingga dapat dikatakan sehat. Rasio Penyisihan Penghapusan Aktiva Produktif (PPAP) Pada tahun 2015, 2016, dan 2017 sebesar 100% , sehingga dapat dikatakan sehat. Rasio Return On Assets (ROA) pada tahun 2015, 2016 dan 2017 sebesar 0,56%, 0,59% dan 0,59%, sehingga dapat dikatakan tidak sehat. Rasio biaya operasional dengan pendapatan operasional (BOPO) pada tahun 2015, 2016, dan 2017 sebesar 94,78%, 94,12%, dan 94,44%, sehingga dapat dikatakan cukup sehat. Rasio LDR pada tahun 2015, 2016, dan 2017 sebesar 81,99%, 79,19% dan 77,66%, sehingga dapat dikatakan sehat. Rasio Jumlah Kewajiban Bersih Call Money terhadap Aktivitas Lancar (NCM) pada tahun 2015 sebesar 5,57% sehingga dikatakan kurang sehat sedangkan tahun 2016 dan 2017 sebesar 1,68%, dan 1,15% menunjukkan likuiditas bank ini baik.