Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Competition and environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across 1 the planet 2 3 Distribution patterns in Canidae 4 5

15 The phylogenetic information of assemblages carries the signature of ecological and 16 evolutionary processes that assembled these communities. Identifying the mechanisms 17 that shape communities is not simple, as they can vary spatially. Here, we investigated 18 how the phylogenetic structure of Canidae across the globe is affected by the 19 environment and competition. We first identified phylogenetically clustered and 20 overdispersed assemblages of canids over the planet taking into account regional pools 21 of species in South and North America, Eurasia, and Africa. Then, we applied Structural 22 Equation Models in these communities in order to identify the effect of temperature, 23 vegetation cover, human impact, and body size dissimilarity on the spatial distribution 24 of the phylogenetic information of canids. Only southern South America and the Middle 25 East had strong phylogenetic clustered patterns, while the rest of the planet 26 predominantly showed overdispersed assemblages. Body size dissimilarity and 27 vegetation cover were the most important variables to explain the spatial patterns of 28 phylogenetic structure in clustered and overdispersed communities, respectively. 29 Canidae community composition across the world presents significant patterns of 30 clustering and overdispersion, which vary following mainly the environmental gradient, 31 suggesting habitat filtering as the main force acting on Canidae assemblages. 32
Influence of seismic waves spatial variability on bridges : A sensitivity analysis

The sensitivity of bridges to spatial variations of seismic ground motions is studied within the framework of the multiple support response spectrum (MSRS) method developed by Der Kiureghian and Neuenhofer (Earthquake eng. struct. dyn. 21, 713-740 (1992)). A simplified approximate formula for small spatial variations of seismic motions sheds some light on the response of bridges: the pseudo-static contribution which is commonly introduced to account for static effects of relative ground displacements may be neglected in case of lateral or vertical ground displacements but may contribute significantly to the response in case of longitudinal ground motions. Mode shapes affect the dynamic contribution in the following way: spatial variability of ground motion increases the response of antisymmetrical modes and decreases that of swaying modes which lie on one side of the structure position at rest. The approximate formula indicates properly the trend of the response given by the MSRS rule for small ground motion spatial variability and may therefore be useful at a design stage. A criterion is given to estimate the number of modes that need to be included in the analysis. For large and/or uncertain spatial variability, an efficient algorithm based on the MSRS rule is proposed to obtain the maximum (conservative) response.
Air Bottoming Cycle: Use of Gas Turbine Waste Heat for Power Generation

This paper presents a thermodynamic analysis of the Air Bottoming Cycle (ABC) as well as the results of a feasibility study for using the Air Bottoming Cycle for gas turbine waste heat recovery/power generation on oil/gas platforms in the North Sea. The basis for the feasibility study was to utilize the exhaust gas heat from an LM2500PE gas turbine. Installation of the ABC on both a new and an existing platform have been considered. A design reference case is presented, and the recommended ABC is a two-shaft engine with two compressor intercoolers. The compression pressure ratio was found optimal at 8:1. The combined gas turbine and ABC shaft efficiency was calculated to 46.6 percent. The LM2500PE gas turbine contributes with 36.1 percent while the ABC adds 10.5 percent points to the gas turbine efficiency. The ABC shaft power output is 6.6 MW when utilizing the waste heat of an LM2500PE gas turbine. A preliminary thermal and hydraulic design of the ABC main components (compressor, turbine, intercoolers, and recuperator) was carried out. The recuperator is the largest and heaviest component (45 tons). A weight and cost breakdown of the ABC is presented. The total weight of the ABC package was calculated to 154 metric tons, and the ABC package cost to 9.4 million US$. An economical examination for three different cases was carried out. The results show that the ABC alternative (LM2500PE + ABC) is economical, with a rather good margin, compared to the other alternatives. The conclusion is that the Air Bottoming Cycle is an economical alternative for power generation on both new platforms and on existing platforms with demand for more power.
A power and efficiency measurement technique for active patch antennas

In this paper, the power input to the radiating element of an active microstrip patch antenna is measured using a small sensing patch, which is weakly coupled to a radiating edge. Combined with an estimate of patch radiation efficiency, this also yields a measurement of total radiated power. The method has advantages of convenience, insensitivity to room reflections, and a weakly frequency-dependent calibration factor.
A wide-FSR waveguide double-ring resonator for optical FDM transmission systems

A wide free-spectral-range (FSR) waveguide double-ring resonator (DRR) is investigated for use in optical frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission systems. It consists of two ring resonators with different radii and three directional couplers. The FSR is determined by the least common multiple of the FSRs of the two ring resonators. In order to determine the parameters of the DRR, transmission equations of the DRR, which have different radii, are derived by using the scattering matrix. The dependence of the transmittance characteristics of the DRR on the amplitude coupling coefficients of directional couplers and on the propagation loss of the ring waveguides is studied. The design guidelines for OFDM transmission systems are described. >
Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in potential technology-based entrepreneurs

Abstract This study aims to characterize the profile of potential technology-based entrepreneurs (PTBE) in terms of their environmental values, given that one would expect to observe differences in their pattern of ecological values in comparison with people who do not aspire to set up a technology-based enterprise. On a sample of 191 students from the University of Almería (34.5%o men, 65.5%o women, age range: 18–50, M = 23, SD = 6) an electronic questionnaire was carried out, containing a scale of ecocentric environmental values, anthropocentric environmental values, sociodemographic items and items aimed at classifying the participants as PTBE. The results show that there are no statistically significant differences with regard to ecocentrism, but that there are in relation to anthropocentrism in accordance with the entrepreneurial profile. These results indicate that PTBE tend to be more anthropocentric individuals than the non-entrepreneurial population and general purpose entrepreneurs.
Influencer Credibility and the Moderating Role of Social Media Usage Behaviour on Consumer Purchase Intention: A hybrid PLS-SEM Modelling Approach

Influencer marketing has a significant influence over consumer purchase intention either direct or indirect relation with a comprehensive literature review, we are suggesting a relation between influencer to purchase intention via consumer attitude to consumer brand engagement to purchase intention. The study tries to understand the moderating role of social media usage behaviour on the influencer to purchase intention of the consumer. To evaluate the model, we have applied partial least square structural equation modelling and the findings of the study suggest that there is a significant relation between influencer to purchase intention and social media usage behaviour also has significant relation. The evidence of the study suggest that social media usage behaviour has significant impact on consumer purchase intention and there is no significant difference in both mediating and moderating role of social media usage behaviour. The study is the first of its kind studying on moderating role of social media usage behaviour on influencers and the study provides empirical pieces of evidence suggesting fostering better decision making for the marketers.
Effect of Accounting Information System Effectiveness, User Technique Ability and Utilization of Information Technology on Employee Performance of BPD Bali Branch Office, South Bali Region

: The banking challenge during the Covid-19 pandemic tends to focus on services usingtechnologythat has been provided to cover all customerneeds. In addition, in terms of improvingemployee performance, it can beaffected by the use of an information technology in the form of an accounting information system in the banking system itself. This studyaims to determine the effect of the effectiveness of accounting information systems, the technicalability of SIA users and the use of information technology on employee performance. This researchwasconducted at the BPD Bali branch office in the southern Bali region. The number of samplestakenwas 134 employeeswith a purposive sampling technique. Data collection wascarried out by distributing questionnaires. Data wereanalyzedusing multiple linearregressionanalysis. The resultsshowedthat the effectiveness of the accounting information system, the technicalability of SIA users and the use of information technologyhad a positive effect on employee performance at the BPD Bali branch office in the southern Bali region .
Learning from project based learning: a land development studio account of practice

Over time, the role of studios in planning education has shifted (Wetmore and Heumann 1988) in response to changes in factors like staff workload, reorientation of university planning department staff appointments from professionals to researchers, changes in student numbers; as well as to changes in pedagogical philosophy and in perceptions of its pedagogic value (Heumann and Wetmore 1984). Yet studios remain an integral, though contested, part of planning education (eg in Australia, Brown and Moore 1989). A website search in September 2008 revealed that at least 13 of 17 Australian universities that currently appear to offer Planning Institute of Australia accredited planning degrees include some studio work in their planning degrees. Furthermore, the studio's central pedagogic approach of learning by doing (Lang 1983) is applied historically and widely, not only in planning and in design courses, but also more recently in fields like chemistry (Gottfried et al. 2007), physics (Sorensen et al. 2006), geology (King 2006), and petrology where it has a recognised role in promoting deeper learning and lifelong learning (Perkins 2005). Typically a planning studio involves project work of some kind. Students, often in teams, work and apply their planning skills to a real problem, sometimes for a real client, working towards a solution under the supervision and guidance of teaching staff. The purported benefits and weaknesses of studio approaches in planning education are reasonably well documented but not necessarily well researched. Studios are seen to offer a learning experience which is either not possible or not ideally achieved in traditional lecture based courses. This paper considers the issue of what it is that students actually learn in studio. Using illustrations from a land development processes studio for planners, it argues that in addition to traditionally reported generic skills and discipline-specific learning outcomes, the experience of individual studio projects can provide substantive learning insights that emerge from the specifics of each project. This is because project-based planning studios, involving urban land development in this case, can be an experimental model of real life urban development and its complex processes. After a brief review of the claimed learning benefits of planning studios, this paper presents an account of practice. It discusses a studio course in land development, examining the hidden lessons emerging from each studio project taught in the past 11 years. What do students learn?
Evidence-based organizational change and development : is evidence-based OCD a reality or mere rhetoric ?

This paper presents a coaching assignment decisionmaking framework to assist coaches, and others in related to roles, to evaluate and make an informed choice about whether or not to accept a coaching assignment. There are good reasons to say ‘no’ to a coaching assignment, and a failure to do so can exact a serious cost – psychosocial, career-related or both. This paper presents empirical data, addressing the consequences of saying ‘yes’ when ‘no’ would have been the best decision in the circumstances, and presents a series of questions to inform the pre-coaching assignment decision-making process. The empirical data consists of a short survey completed by 345 experienced coaches. The data was subsequently analysed using NVivo in order to identify themes and illustrative responses, as well as summarizing and synthesizing the data as a whole. The findings explore the circumstances and factors respondents take into account when considering a coaching assignment. The authors present a coaching assignment decisionmaking framework. We hope that practitioners engaged in coaching may be able to benefit from the approach through the application of a practical framework and series of questions designed to be sufficiently flexible to apply to different contextual settings and circumstances. Introduction Practitioner and academic studies predominantly focus on the coaching approach, coaching process and/or the impact of coaching on the coachee (Wageman, Nunes, Burruss & Hackman, 2008; Chin-Yun, Long-Sheng, Ing-Chuang & Kuo-Chin, 2010). The quality of the relationship between the coach, the client and key stakeholders is believed to be one of the most critical indicators of coaching effectiveness (Baron & Morin, 2009; Bluckert, 2005; de Haan, Duckworth, Birch & Jones, 2013) and, ‘the more you and your client can include the whole system, the more effective the coaching is likely to be’ (Rogers, 2008, p. 123). Despite the known importance and value placed on the quality of the relationship, few studies focus on the decision-making process and questions posed by the coach in any role or context to assist in the pre-coaching assignment phase, or as commonly known, the contracting phase which helps to steer and determine the quality of the relationship. Furthermore, the role of multi-stakeholder contracting is an area of growing importance as coaches find themselves working for multiple clients, where little guidance in the pre-assignment phase is currently provided in practitioner or academic studies. Against this backdrop, the authors aim to address the paucity of practice-based coaching studies in this area, presenting a coaching assignment decisionmaking framework, to assist coaches in any role, context or multi-party arrangement, to evaluate and make an informed choice about whether or not to accept a coaching assignment. The impetus for this paper is two-fold. First, the cause of saying ‘yes’ to a coaching assignment when the answer should be ‘no’ can be largely attributed to the absence of a thorough exploration and contracting phase.
Mirativity and the Bulgarian evidential system

This paper provides an account of the Bulgarian admirative construction and its place within the Bulgarian evidential system based on (i) new observations on the morphological, temporal, and evidential properties of the admirative, (ii) a critical reexamination of existing approaches to the Bulgarian evidential system, and (iii) insights from a similar mirative construction in Spanish. I argue in particular that admirative sentences are assertions based on evidence of some sort (reportative, inferential, or direct) which are contrasted against the set of beliefs held by the speaker up to the point of receiving the evidence; the speaker’s past beliefs entail a proposition that clashes with the assertion, triggering belief revision and resulting in a sense of surprise. I suggest an analysis of the admirative in terms of a mirative operator that captures the evidential, temporal, aspectual, and modal properties of the construction in a compositional fashion. The analysis suggests that although mirativity and evidentiality can be seen as separate semantic categories, the Bulgarian admirative represents a cross-linguistically relevant case of a mirative extension of evidential verbal forms.
Impact of Safety Communication on Safety Commitment with Leader-Member Exchange Quality as a Moderating Factor: A Conceptual Framework

Purpose: The main purpose of the conceptual paper is to discuss development of a proposed conceptual framework in exploring the relationship between safety communication, leader-member exchange and safety commitment. Design/methodology/approach: The paper defines the development of a proposed conceptual framework of safety communication, leader-member exchange and safety commitment. Findings: Safety communication has a positive relationship with safety commitment meanwhile leader-member exchange moderates the relationship between safety communication and safety commitment. Research limitations/implications: Additional research is needed to empirically validate the proposed conceptual framework in the high risk organizations, particularly in oil and gas setting. Practical implications: This paper could assist employers and employees to have deeper understanding of “why” and “how” it is necessary to create a positive safety climate at the workplace. Originality/value: The paper and the proposed conceptual framework could be used as a leading indicator for future research in this area.
Ultra-Short Course of Neo-Adjuvant Denosumab for Nerve-Sparing Surgery for Giant Cell Tumor of Bone in Sacrum

Compared with the conventional course of neo-adjuvant denosumab for the purpose of downstaging, the ultra-short course induced similar radiological and histological response with less fibrosis and ossification, which facilitated nerve-sparing surgery for sacral GCTB. It also achieved a low recurrent rate and satisfactory functional status after a short-term follow-up. Study Deign. This was a retrospective study about sacral giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB). Objective. This study aimed to investigate whether ultra-short course of neo-adjuvant denosumab treatment for sacral GCTB could (1) induce radiological and histological response? (2) Facilitate nerve-sparing surgery? (3) Achieve satisfactory oncological and functional outcomes? Summary of Background Data. Previous reports on long course of neo-adjuvant denosumab treatment for GCTB showed significant tumor response and a relatively high recurrent rate after curettage. Methods. Sixty-six patients with sacral GCTB treated with neoadjuvant denosumab and nerve-sparing surgery were categorized into ultra-short course group (≤3 doses and operation within D21 since 1st dose, 41 patients) or conventional group (>3 doses or operation after D21 since 1st dose, 25 patients). The radiological and histological response, operative data, oncological and functional outcomes were compared. Results. The ultra-short course group demonstrated fewer doses of neo-adjuvant denosumab (mean: 2.1 vs. 4.8, P < 0.001) and shorter time to surgery (12.2 days vs. 72.3 days, P < 0.001). Similar patterns of radiological and histological response were observed in the two groups with less fibrosis and ossification in the ultra-short course group. The operative duration (199.9 min vs. 187.8 min, P = 0.364) and estimated blood loss (1552.4 mL vs. 1474.0 mL, P = 0.740) were comparable. Most (94.8%) of the patients received adjuvant denosumab. After a mean follow-up of 29.4 months, three cases (8.8%) and five cases (20.8%) showed local recurrence in each group (P = 0.255). The estimated recurrence-free survival (56.2 vs. 51.2 months, P = 0.210) and the functional status [Motor-Urination-Defecation scores: 25.9 vs. 25.7, P = 0.762] did not differ between the two groups. Conclusion. Ultra-short course of neo-adjuvant denosumab for sacral GCTB could elicit radiological and histological responses as conventional course did. The less degree of fibrosis and ossification might facilitate nerve-sparing surgery and help to achieve satisfactory local control and functional status. Level of Evidence: 4
Proposing an Innovative Model Based on the Sierpinski Triangle for Forecasting EUR/USD Direction Changes

The Sierpinski triangle is a fractal that is commonly used due to some of its characteristics and features. The Forex financial market is among the places wherein this triangle's characteristics are effective in forecasting the prices and their direction changes for the selection of the proper trading strategy and risk reduction. This study presents a novel approach to the Sierpinski triangle and introduces an innovative model based on it to forecast the direction changes in currency pairs, particularly EUR/USD. The model proposed in this study is dependent on the number of data selected for forecasting. The number of data is, in fact, the area of the initial triangle and the forecasted value of the self-similar triangles formed in each stage. For the performance assessment of the proposed method within one year (03/01/2019 to 28/02/2020), daily EUR/USD closed price data was classified into three categories, namely the training (70%), testing (20%), and validation (10%). Three approaches were proposed that led to forecasting the mean direction accuracy and the best result of over 60 percent in the third approach and over 50 percent in the first and second approaches. Results reflect the satisfactory improvements in the third approach compared to the econometrics, time-series, and machine learning methods. Moreover, the optimal number of data for the model is selected such that the difference between the accuracy of the direction forecasting in the training category and testing category is above 0.6 and below 0.05.
A Brief Analysis of Proteomic Profile Changes during Zebrafish Regeneration

Unlike mammals, zebrafish are capable to regenerate many of their organs, however, the response of tissue damage varies across tissues. Understanding the molecular mechanism behind the robust regenerative capacity in a model organism may help to identify and develop novel treatment strategies for mammals (including humans). Hence, we systematically analyzed the current literature on the proteome profile collected from different regenerated zebrafish tissues. Our analyses underlining that several proteins and protein families responsible as a component of cytoskeleton and structure, protein synthesis and degradation, cell cycle control, and energy metabolism were frequently identified. Moreover, target proteins responsible for the initiation of the regeneration process, such as inflammation and immune response were less frequently detected. This highlights the limitation of previous proteomic analysis and suggested a more sensitive modern proteomics analysis is needed to unfold the mechanism. This brief report provides a list of target proteins with predicted functions that could be useful for further biological studies.