Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Detectable Human Influence on Changes in Precipitation Extremes Across China

This study explored the human influence on the observed changes in precipitation extremes across China for the period of 1961–2014 by the latest simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). Changes in observations and CMIP6 simulations under different external forcings for annual total wet‐day precipitation (PRCPTOT), the number of heavy precipitation days (R10 mm), very wet days (R95p), extremely wet days (R99p), the maximum 1‐day precipitation amount (RX1day), and the maximum 5‐day precipitation amount (RX5day) are compared using a regularized optimal fingerprinting method. The results show that both anthropogenic (ANT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) experiments generally exhibit increasing trends in precipitation extremes over China, agreeing with the overall observed increases. The ANT influence is robustly detected for R95p, R99p, RX1day, and RX5day over China, with clear separation from the natural forcing. Additionally, the GHG signal is also detectable for R95p, R99p, and RX1day but separated from the natural and other ANT forcings for only R99p and RX1day and from the natural and ANT aerosol forcings for only RX5day. Thus, the intensified precipitation extremes can be attributed to human influence dominated by the GHG effect. However, detections fail for PRCPTOT and R10 mm. The ANT aerosol forcing may partly offset the role of the GHG responses to observed increases despite being undetectable. Based on the detection and attribution results, the observation‐constrained projections indicate that precipitation extremes are projected to significantly increase under the SSP2–4.5 and SSP5–8.5 scenarios but with a smaller magnitude compared to the raw CMIP6 outputs.
A Machine Learning Model for Improving Building Detection in Informal Areas: A Case Study of Greater Cairo

Building detection in Ashwa’iyyat is a fundamental yet challenging problem, mainly because it requires the correct recovery of building footprints from images with high-object density and scene complexity.A classification model was proposed to integrate spectral, height and textural features. It was developed for the automatic detection of the rectangular, irregular structure and quite small size buildings or buildings which are close to each other but not adjoined. It is intended to improve the precision with which buildings are classified using scikit learn Python libraries and QGIS. WorldView-2 and Spot-5 imagery were combined using three image fusion techniques. The Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matrix was applied to determine which attributes are important in detecting and extracting buildings. The Normalized Digital Surface Model was also generated with 0.5-m resolution.The results demonstrated that when textural features of colour images were introduced as classifier input, the overall accuracy was improved in most cases. The results show that the proposed model was more accurate and efficient than the state-of-the-art methods and can be used effectively to extract the boundaries of small size buildings. The use of a classifier ensample is recommended for the extraction of buildings.
Development of a Multifunctional Implantable Heart Monitoring Device

Early detection of cardiac complications after heart surgery is a crucial demand in clinical surveillance facilities. The use of accelerometer devices fixated to the heart has been demonstrated as a promising method for the detection of myocardial ischemia with high sensitivity and specificity. One of the most important challenges in developing heart implantable accelerometer devices is to minimize any tissue trauma. In this study, a new approach in making a heart muscle implantable accelerometer sensor is described. An overall diameter of 2 mm is achieved by encapsulating a miniaturized three-axis MEMS accelerometer (similar to the BMA355) from Bosch Sensortec GmbH, Germany. The design of the sensor features a simple implantation procedure, which aims to be similar to the medical procedure of temporary pacing wire attachment. The device remained in place in the heart muscle without the need for additional attachment or fixation. The essential clinical requirements for implantable devices, especially hear.
Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications

This report presents detailed information about solar resource data and the resulting data products needed for each stage of a solar energy project, from initial site selection to systems operations. It also contains a summary of solar forecasting and its development throughout the last few years. The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office, project developers, engineering procurement construction firms, utility companies, system operators, energy suppliers, financial investors, and others involved in solar energy systems planning and development will find this handbook to be a valuable resource for the collection and interpretation of solar resource data. This handbook is expected to be used as a reference during each project stage.
Exploring Socio-Cultural Factors that Affect the Potential to Start a Business: In Case Indonesia University Students

The results showed that the potential to open new businesses for students was significantly influenced by factors such as residential factors, family expectations, and community attitudes. It was found that the decision to pursue a career was strongly influenced by the family and society in general. It is hoped that there will be collaboration between universities, communities, and business practitioners to increase student interest so that they start opening businesses. The combination of theory and practice is very much needed in order to increase the capacity of human resources for regional and even national economic growth.
This Is PFM

The acronym 'PFM' stands for Public Financial Management: But what is public financial management? This short note tries to demystify the concept, drawing on perspectives of specialists in the area who work in different contexts and bring different views (from academia, the multilateral and bilateral development agencies, think tanks, government, and civil society). The note is not meant to be prescriptive but rather offers an entry point to a fuller discussion on the constituent elements of PFM systems, how and why PFM reforms have emerged, and where the gaps are for future attention.
Anxiety level among newly hired nurse in a specialized oncology hospital: An observational study

Background: Anxiety is common among oncology nurses due to the complexity of oncology patients' needs and demands. The current study aimed to assess the anxiety level among newly hired nurses in a specialized oncology hospital throughout their initial period of employment, deploying a General Nursing Orientation (GNO) and the Clinical Resource Nurse (CRN) role. Methods: A longitudinal one-group repeated measure design was used. Participants' demographics sheet and Sate-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults questionnaire were used. A total of 181 newly hired nurses participated in the study. Results: The anxiety level among newly hired oncology nurses was (mean=38.65, SD=9.58) at the beginning of GNO, and the level of anxiety was highest after 90 days of employment (mean=45.71, SD=7.20). The level of anxiety among newly hired oncology nurses increased gradually from day one of the GNO, the last day of GNO, and finally, after 90 days of employment. Conclusions: Nurses working in oncology workplaces face anxiety. It is important to seek nursing administrators' attention to apply proper strategies to decrease the anxiety level among newly hired nurses to help them smoothly fit into a new team to ensure safe patient care.
mir-204-5p Acts as a Tumor Suppressor by Targeting DNM2 in Osteosarcoma Cells

Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor composed of interstitial cells. We aim to seek the function of mir-204-5p/DNM2 in osteosarcoma cells. From April 2017 to August 2019, 58 cases of cancer tissues and paracancer tissues were obtained from patients with osteosarcoma in our hospital. qPCR was used to detect mir-204-5p in excisional cancer tissues and paracarcinoma tissues of osteosarcoma patients. The overexpression vector of mir-204-5p was established and transfected into osteosarcoma cells, and the propagation, invasiveness, migration, and apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells were observed. StarBase was employed to forecast the binding site of mir-204-5p and DNM2. The targeting connection of mir-204-5p with DNM2 was detected via double luciferase reporter gene. mir-204-5p was lessened in osteosarcoma (p < 0.05). mir-204-5p overexpression suppressed propagation and accelerated apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells (p < 0.05). The results of double luciferase reporter gene revealed that the fluorescence activity of mir-204-5p was obviously declined when binding to DNM2 (p < 0.05). mir-204-5p functions as a tumor inhibitor by targeting DNM2 in osteosarcoma cells. Our research is helpful to provide new ideas for clinical treatment.
Risk management for investors in stock market

It is well established fact around the world that financial planning has always come into limelight and gained its rightful recognition during market fluctuation. In this article, we discussed about financial activities that maximize the value of investors or a portfolio by reducing the costs and appropriate use of fund in such a way to get the optimum output. Successful investors use stock market risk management strategies to minimize the risk and maximize the gain in due course and for this first one should know the properties and volatility of market and follow the strategies that conducive to protect investment. An integrated risk management approach should be evaluated and monitored in order to identifying all risks and their dependences to which investors are exposed.
The Relationship between CSR and CBBE in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Moderating Role of Customer Perceived Value

ABSTRACT Relying on the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) to better understand sub-Saharan African urban marketplaces, this article puts forward a conceptual framework whose objective is to a) investigate the effect of CSR on multiple dimensions of CBBE and b) investigate the moderating role of customer perceived value (CPV). Survey data are from 501 consumers in Ghana and are analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that engaging in CSR unquestionably improves all aspects of brand equity such as brand awareness, brand image, brand quality, and brand loyalty. We also find that the relationship between CSR and CBBE is moderated by CPV across all CSR-CBBE relationship. These findings have important implications for CSR, branding, international business and marketing in the Ghanaian marketplace.
In-Silico Detection of Oral Prokaryotic Species With Highly Similar 16S rRNA Sequence Segments Using Different Primer Pairs

Although clustering by operational taxonomic units (OTUs) is widely used in the oral microbial literature, no research has specifically evaluated the extent of the limitations of this sequence clustering-based method in the oral microbiome. Consequently, our objectives were to: 1) evaluate in-silico the coverage of a set of previously selected primer pairs to detect oral species having 16S rRNA sequence segments with ≥97% similarity; 2) describe oral species with highly similar sequence segments and determine whether they belong to distinct genera or other higher taxonomic ranks. Thirty-nine primer pairs were employed to obtain the in-silico amplicons from the complete genomes of 186 bacterial and 135 archaeal species. Each fasta file for the same primer pair was inserted as subject and query in BLASTN for obtaining the similarity percentage between amplicons belonging to different oral species. Amplicons with 100% alignment coverage of the query sequences and with an amplicon similarity value ≥97% (ASI97) were selected. For each primer, the species coverage with no ASI97 (SC-NASI97) was calculated. Based on the SC-NASI97 parameter, the best primer pairs were OP_F053-KP_R020 for bacteria (region V1-V3; primer pair position for Escherichia coli J01859.1: 9-356); KP_F018-KP_R002 for archaea (V4; undefined-532); and OP_F114-KP_R031 for both (V3-V5; 340-801). Around 80% of the oral-bacteria and oral-archaea species analyzed had an ASI97 with at least one other species. These very similar species play different roles in the oral microbiota and belong to bacterial genera such as Campylobacter, Rothia, Streptococcus and Tannerella, and archaeal genera such as Halovivax, Methanosarcina and Methanosalsum. Moreover, ~20% and ~30% of these two-by-two similarity relationships were established between species from different bacterial and archaeal genera, respectively. Even taxa from distinct families, orders, and classes could be grouped in the same possible OTU. Consequently, regardless of the primer pair used, sequence clustering with a 97% similarity provides an inaccurate description of oral-bacterial and oral-archaeal species, which can greatly affect microbial diversity parameters. As a result, OTU clustering conditions the credibility of associations between some oral species and certain health and disease conditions. This significantly limits the comparability of the microbial diversity findings reported in oral microbiome literature.
A finite difference model for free surface gravity drainage

The unconfined gravity flow of liquid with a free surface into a well is a classical well test problem which has not been well understood by either hydrologists or petroleum engineers. Paradigms have led many authors to treat an incompressible flow as compressible flow to justify the delayed yield behavior of a time-drawdown test. A finite-difference model has been developed to simulate the free surface gravity flow of an unconfined single phase, infinitely large reservoir into a well. The model was verified with experimental results in sandbox models in the literature and with classical methods applied to observation wells in the Groundwater literature. The simulator response was also compared with analytical Theis (1935) and Ramey et al. (1989) approaches for wellbore pressure at late producing times. The seepage face in the sandface and the delayed yield behavior were reproduced by the model considering a small liquid compressibility and incompressible porous medium. The potential buildup (recovery) simulated by the model evidenced a different- phenomenon from the drawdown, contrary to statements found in the Groundwater literature. Graphs of buildup potential vs time, buildup seepage face length vs time, and free surface head and sand bottom head radial profiles evidenced that the liquidmore » refills the desaturating cone as a flat moving surface. The late time pseudo radial behavior was only approached after exaggerated long times. « less
Aspects of the economics of transformation : harvesting productivity, a case study of different intervention types in the conversion of Welsh sitka spruce to continuous cover forestry

An increased interest in continuous cover forestry (CCF) and a national policy change in Wales has generated a demand for knowledge of operational productivity in transformation relative to conventional working. This study took place within Coed Trallwm, a privately owned upland woodland in Mid Wales. The site is one of three study sites in Wales used by the UK Forestry Commission to study operational aspects of the transformation to CCF. A total of eight 0.5 ha buffered plots were installed in uniform areas of Sitka spruce (Pice a sitchensis). Treatments consisted of low thinning (paired plot), frame tree (paired plot), group system (paired plot), spatially-moderated creaming (single plot) and premature clearfelling (single plot). Harvesting removed 20% of the standing basal area in the transformation plots and 100% in the clearfell plot. Harvester and forwarder working was recorded through a time and work study in order to identify time differences in cyclical and non-cyclical operations and felling outputs between the different interventions. Relative brash mat production, rack usage and area coverage were also studied. Models for work phase time consumption and total productivity were developed for both machines. Harvester cyclic time consumption was found to be most related to tree size, spacing and morphology, and non-cyclic time consumption to the regularity of the racking system. Forwarder cyclic time consumption was most influenced by thinning type through its effect on assortment, and thinning intensity, through its effect on volume cut. Non-cyclic work was less strongly influenced by these factors. The productivity of both machines increased with mean felled tree diameter. Models for volume recovery, relative product assortments and volumes were also developed for intervention type. Volume recovery, proportion of log material and mean piece size all increased with mean felled tree diameter.
The Effects of High-Repetition Strength Training on Performance in Competitive Endurance Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Abstract Nugent, FJ, Flanagan, EP, Darragh, I, Daly, L, and Warrington, GD. The effects of high-repetition strength training on performance in competitive endurance athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Strength Cond Res 37(6): 1315–1326, 2023—The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the effects of high-repetition strength training (HRST) on performance in competitive endurance athletes. The methodology followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis protocol. A search of databases was performed until December 2020. Inclusion criteria were (a) competitive endurance athletes, (b) ≥4 weeks HRST intervention, (c) control or comparison group, (d) outcome measures of performance (either physiological or time trial performance), and (e) all experimental designs. Quality assessment was performed using the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale. Of the 615 studies retrieved, 11 studies were included (216 subjects) and 9 studies provided sufficient data for the meta-analysis (137 subjects). The PEDro scale score had a mean of 5 of 10 points (range: 3–6). There was no significant difference between the HRST and control groups (g = 0.35; 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.38 to 1.07; p = 0.35) or HRST and low-repetition strength training (LRST) groups (g = 0.24; 95% CI = −0.24 to 0.72; p = 0.33). The findings of this review and meta-analysis indicate that HRST does not result in improved performance over a 4- to 12-week period, and the results seem to be similar to LRST. The majority of studies involved recreational endurance athletes and had a mean duration of 8 weeks, which is a limitation of the findings. Future intervention studies should be > 12 weeks in duration and involve well-trained endurance athletes (maximal oxygen uptake [V̇o2max] of >65 ml·kg−1·min−2).
How the Incumbent Can Win: Managing Technological Transitions in the Semiconductor Industry.: Managing Technological Transitions in the Semiconductor Industry.

The paper reports on an empirical study of the management of technological transitions. It focuses on project-level mechanisms for the generation of knowledge through experimentation and for its accumulation through individual experience. It proposes a model that links these mechanisms to effectiveness in the management of revolutionary and evolutionary development approaches. This argument is tested with data describing projects conducted by all major competitors in the semiconductor industry. Each project was aimed at a technological transition, defined as the introduction of a major new generation of process technology. The analysis shows substantial differences among competitors in the approach taken i.e., evolutionary vs. revolutionary and results achieved. Additionally, it shows that individual organizations can migrate, over time, from evolution to revolution and vice versa. The analysis further indicates that accumulating experience and generating knowledge through experimentation are significantly associated with project performance. While product performance improvement through revolution is associated with research experience and with parallel experimentation capacity, improvement through evolution is associated with project experience and minimum experimental iteration time.
Subsoiling before winter wheat cultivation increases photosynthetic characteristics and leaf water-use efficiency of summer maize in a double-cropping system

ABSTRACT Long-term rotary tillage negatively affects the soil plow layer, and subsoiling is an effective engineering measure to improve the structure of the soil plow layer. A double cropping system with winter wheat and summer maize is commonly practiced in the North China Plain (NCP). Three different tillage treatments, viz., rotary tillage at 15 cm (RT15) as control, and subsoiling at depths 35 cm (SS35) and 40 cm (SS40) were carried out during the 2017–2019 summer maize growing seasons, before winter wheat planting. We determined these tillage treatments on chlorophyll content index (CCI), leaf area index (LAI), net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr), and grain yield (GY) across three seasons. Subsoiling treatments significantly increased the CCI, LAI, Pn, Tr and water-use efficiency of leaves (WUEL), resulting in higher GY. Compared to the plants grown in the SS40 group, the CCI and LAI were improved during the late growth stages, kernel numbers per row and 1000-grain weight of plants in SS35 were significantly higher, thereby improving GY (by 2.87%) and WUEL (by 6.61%). These results suggest that subsoiling to a depth of 35 cm improved photosynthetic characteristics and water use efficiency of summer maize in the NCP.
Public sector employees' perception on performance management system's influence on career development

In the period 2000-2002, the Performance Management System (PMS) and career development were emerging concepts in the Eastern Cape Province and work was beginning to take shape in this area of employee development. This article is based on a study that made use of the non-experimental qualitative focus group discussions. Through thematic analysis, themes were revealed from the verbatim responses of participants outlining how public sector employees perceive the PMS and career development. The aim of this article is to present the findings of, clarify the result of the study and highlight some directions for the future implementation of the PMS programme in the public sector. The responses revealed that the PMS has not been fully implemented in the province, with some departments reporting that they only received an introduction to the PMS. While no conclusive correlation between PMS and the career development of public servants the Eastern Cape ProvincialGovernment (ECPG) could be established, the article makes some pertinent recommendations for the improvement of the implementation of the PMS. The background to some of the challenges currently being faced in implementing the PMS are highlighted and include, inter alia, a dearth of communication, implementation inconsistency, lack of role clarity and the absence of support from senior management.
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum

This research aimed to evaluate young children’s engagement, participation and inclusion within a city museum by utilising observations and semi structured interviews with children and families. Both groups requested more interactive exhibits, sensory experiences, making and doing activities and role play opportunities. In this article, we argue for increased visibility of children’s ‘intangible heritage’ (Brookshaw, 2016) and opportunities for responding which make links with children’s lives contemporarily. We further argue that museums should view children as experiencers rather than learners.