Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modelling of monsoon rainfall for a mesoscale catchment in North-West India I: assessment of objective circulation patterns

Abstract. Within the present study we shed light on the question whether objective circulation patterns (CP) classified from either the 500 HPa or the 700 HPa level may serve as predictors to explain the spatio-temporal variability of monsoon rainfall in the Anas catchment in North West India. To this end we employ a fuzzy ruled based classification approach in combination with a novel objective function as originally proposed by (Stehlik and BᲤossy, 2002). After the optimisation we compare the obtained circulation classification schemes for the two pressure levels with respect to their conditional rainfall probabilities and amounts. The classification scheme for the 500 HPa level turns out to be much more suitable to separate dry from wet meteorological conditions during the monsoon season. As is shown during a bootstrap test, the CP conditional rainfall probabilities for the wet and the dry CPs for both pressure levels are highly significant at levels ranging from 95 to 99%. Furthermore, the monthly CP frequencies of the wettest CPs show a significant positive correlation with the variation of the total number of rainy days at the monthly scale. Consistently, the monthly frequencies of the dry CPs exhibit a negative correlation with the number of rainy days at the monthly scale. The present results give clear evidence that the circulation patterns from the 500 HPa level are suitable predictors for explaining spatio- temporal Monsoon variability. A companion paper shows that the CP time series obtained within this study are suitable input into a stochastical rainfall model.
Loudness of Pure Tones at Low and Infrasonic Frequencies

Contours of equal loudness were determined in the frequency range 2–63 Hz and the loudness range 20–100 phon. The loudness curves run almost parallel in the infrasonic frequency range and much closer than in the audio region. Infrasound only a few dB above the hearing threshold will therefore seem loud and possibly annoying. The subjects were 20 normal hearing students aged between 18 and 25, and the psychometric method was based on maximum-likelihood estimation of psychometric functions.
First Record of Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788) (Osteichthyes: Stromateidae) in the Tunisian Coast (Mediterranean Sea)

First Record of Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788) (Osteichthyes: Stromateidae) in the Tunisian Coast (Mediterranean Sea) The second Mediterranean record of the silver pomfret, Pampus argenteus is reported, with the capture of four specimens in the Gulf of Hammamet (North-East Tunisia) on March 15th 2007. The species is a non-indigenous for the Mediterranean, being native to the Indo-West Pacific area. A short description of all these specimens is given and the presence of this species in the Mediterranean is critically discussed. This note describes the first record of the P. argenteus in the Tunisian waters (Southwestern Mediterranean Sea).
Catastrophic precipitation‐triggered lahar at Casita volcano, Nicaragua: occurrence, bulking and transformation

A catastrophic lahar began on 30 October 1998, as hurricane precipitation triggered a small ﬂank collapse of Casita volcano, a complex and probably dormant stratovolcano. The initial rockslide‐debris avalanche evolved on the ﬂank to yield a watery debris ﬂood with a sediment concentration less than 60 per cent by volume at the base of the volcano. Within 2·5 km, however, the watery ﬂow entrained (bulked) enough sediment to transform entirely to a debris ﬂow. The debris ﬂow, 6 km downstream and 1·2 km wide and 3 to 6 m deep, killed 2500 people, nearly the entire populations of the communities of El Porvenir and Rolando Rodriguez. These ‘new towns’ were developed in a prehistoric lahar pathway: at least three ﬂows of similar size since 8330 14C years bp are documented by stratigraphy in the same 30‐degree sector. Travel time between perception of the ﬂow and destruction of the towns was only 2·5–3·0 minutes. The evolution of the ﬂow wave occurred with hydraulic continuity and without pause or any extraordinary addition of water.
Organizing spaces: photography and the visual production of space-texts in organizational ethnography

Organizing spaces: photography and the visual production of space-texts in organizational ethnography Conference or Workshop Item How to cite: Lucas, Mike and Wright, Alex (2015). Organizing spaces: photography and the visual production of spacetexts in organizational ethnography. In: APROS/EGOS Colloqium 2015 Sub-theme 12: Organizational Ethnography and the Challenge of Social Space, 9-11 Dec 2015, UTS Sydney, Australia.
Past‐ and present‐day Madden‐Julian Oscillation in CNRM‐CM5

Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the past (nineteenth century) and present day (twentieth century) is examined using preindustrial and historical experiments of Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques‐Coupled Models, version 5 (CNRM‐CM5) in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The present‐day MJO is stronger than the past MJO by 33% and it is ~10% more frequent. In particular, the MJO phases 4–7 signifying deep convection situated over the Maritime continent and western Pacific (WP) are considerably enhanced. These changes are due mainly to greenhouse gas forcing with little impact from nature forcing. Dynamical mechanisms for this change are investigated. A peculiar strengthening of MJO over WP comes from increased basic‐state sea surface temperature (SST) over the Central Pacific (CP) and EP. The increase in precipitation over WP results from both the response to enhanced SST over CP and the inverted Walker circulation induced by the EP and CP SST increase. The latter causes a pair of anticyclonic Rossby waves straddling the equator, leading to moisture convergence over WP.
Response to Reviewer comment # 2 : General comments

This manuscript describes OH and HO2 measurements in Shenzhen during Autumn 2018 and the skills of a photochemical box model to reproduce the observed radical levels when constrained with simultaneous observations of key reactants, to test the atmospheric photochemistry theory. The results showed that the model underestimated OH levels while it reproduced HO2 levels well. Missing recycling from HO2 to OH by species X was suggested, while the required levels of X were not very high (0.1 ppb). The atmospheric oxidation capacity was calculated on the observation basis and compared with the O3 formation rate. The results, though not including OH reactivity measurements, are worth to be added to those from numbers of previous field studies, for future diagnostics of missing processes in the model. Though the number of field studies in China has been increasing, the chemical conditions are very different among the studies and more field evidence is necessary. However, for this purpose, clarification is necessary at several points. First, uncertainty analysis needs to be provided for both observations and model simulations, particularly when the authors claim introduction of X to explain the model’s underestimation of the OH levels. Second, the authors cited values or results from previous studies for comparison but in-depth analysis/discussion across the studies were not provided in search for missing processes. The authors should specify the important characteristics of the conditions studied during this campaign and what is enabled with the observational results. Third, I am afraid that the major OH term of the atmospheric oxidation capacity is not very innovative; it is just the OH reactivity multiplied to the OH concentrations, i.e., OH loss rate, and thus it is very natural that it correlates with F(O3), i.e., the HO2/RO2 + NO rate, when the OH loss produces RO2/HO2 and the peroxy radicals undergo reactions with NO. Overall, I would suggest major revisions regarding the points above and the following specific comments.
Social and Emotional Behavioral Profiles in Kindergarten: A Population-Based Latent Profile Analysis of Links to Socio-Educational Characteristics and Later Achievement

Relatively little attention has been given to understanding different social and emotional behavior (SEB) profiles among students and their links to important educational outcomes. We applied latent profile analysis to identify SEB profiles among kindergarten students based on five SEBs: cooperative, socially responsible, helpful, anxious, and aggressive-disruptive behavior. In Study 1, we identified SEB profiles among the population of students who attended kindergarten in New South Wales (NSW; Australia’s most populous state comprising Australia’s largest education jurisdictions), Australia in 2012 (N = 100,776). We also examined whether profile membership was differentially associated with students’ socioeducational characteristics (gender, age group, language background, neighborhood socioeconomic status, and learning disability status). Results revealed four different SEB profiles: social-emotional prosocial (SE-Prosocial), SE-Anxious, SE-Aggressive, and SE-Vulnerable groups. Profile membership was associated with the socioeducational characteristics in different ways (e.g., female and older students tended to be in the SE-Prosocial profile). In Study 2, we undertook replication with a different sample of children who attended kindergarten in 2009 in NSW (n = 52,661). We also examined whether the SEB profiles were associated with academic achievement in Grades 3 and 5 using standardized test scores. Results revealed the same four profiles as Study 1 and similarities in how profile membership was associated with the socioeducational characteristics. Moreover, profiles were associated with significantly different levels of achievement in Grades 3 and 5—highest for the SE-Prosocial and lowest for the SE-Vulnerable profiles. Together, the findings have implications for healthy student development and academic intervention.
Curriculum Orientations and Educational Philosophies of High School Arabic Teachers.

This study aims to investigate the curriculum orientations of High school Arabic teacher in Riyadh city and to examine the relationship between curriculum orientation and their educational philosophies. The quantitative method (descriptive study) was adopted in this questionnaire survey-based study. Mean and standard deviation for the overall of the curriculum orientations and for each orientation were obtained and Pearson correlation coefficient was also used to examine the relationship between the curriculum orientations and their educational philosophies. The results show that Arabic teachers of High school considered all five curriculum orientations with the self-actualization/ Humanism ranked the highest orientation and the cognitive process ranked the lowest orientation. The current study also indicates that there is a positive relationship at the level of (0.05) between the curriculum orientations and the educational philosophies of the Arabic language teachers in High school.
Energy Drink Consumption, Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among Health Science Students

The aim of this study was to analyze energy drink consumption, perceived stress and sleep quality among health science students. This cross-sectional study was conducted at the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science in 2017–2018 with the participation of 2095 students.The data were gathered using a questionnaire as well as Perceived Stress Scale and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index. Energy drinks were consumed by as many as 1255(%59.9) respondents. Energy drink consumption was more common among men, above 21 years, smokers, alcohol and coffee drinkers and believing that energy drinks are not addictive. In the 13.8% of the study group who consumed energy drink stated that they had experienced a health complaint while consuming energy drink and the most frequently reported health complaints were palpitations and the other complaints were frequent urination, insomnia. Energy drink consumption is prevalent among health science students. There was no significant difference between mean scores of the Perceived Stress Scale of the students who consumed and not consumed energy drinks in the study and the Pitssburg Sleep Quality Index. There is a need to raising awareness about energy drink’s potential health effects.
Chloritoid-Bearing Mineral Assemblages in High-Pressure Metapelites from the Bughea Complex, Leaota Massif (South Carpathians)

High-Mg chloritoid (XMg ¼ 0� 40^0� 47) and relatively high-Mg staurolite (XMg ¼ 0� 25^0� 28) coexisting with kyanite and garnet were identified in a mica^garnet-rich rock associated with very high-pressure eclogites in the Bughea Complex of the Leaota Massif (South Carpathians). Major and trace element geochemical data for both fresh eclogites and associated rocks which represent a metasomatic or retrograde alteration rind of the eclogites, indicate a pelitic precursor. Magnesian chloritoid was found as inclusions in garnet as part of a chloritoid^kyanite^garnet assemblage which is indicative of high-pressure conditions. The host garnet shows a typically prograde chemical zoning pattern.The chloritoid-bearing assemblage is confined to the inner part of the garnet porphyroblasts, whereas the matrix assemblage in equilibrium with Mg-rich garnet rims has exceeded the thermal stability limit of chloritoid. Pressure^temperature pseudosections for simplified compositions approaching the rock bulk-chemistry show a high-pressure field for the identified chloritoid-bearing assemblage in good agreement with pressure^temperature estimates in the CFMASH and KCFMASH chemical subsystems using analysed mineral compositions. The derived pressure^temperature path is clockwise, indicating overprinting during exhumation from 1� 8G Pa and 5808 Ct o 1� 15 GPa and 6208C, at a water activity approaching aH2O ¼1. These conditions were attained � �
Wakefield and RF Kicks Due to Coupler Asymmetry in TESLA-Type Accelerating Cavities

In a future linear collider, such as the International Linear Collider (ILC), trains of high current, low emittance bunches will be accelerated in a linac before colliding at the interaction point. Asymmetries in the accelerating cavities of the linac will generate fields that will kick the beam transversely and degrade the beam emittance and thus the collider performance. In the main linac of the ILC, which is filled with TESLA-type superconducting cavities, it is the fundamental (FM) and higher mode (HM) couplers that are asymmetric and thus the source of such kicks. The kicks are of two types: one, due to (the asymmetry in) the fundamental RF fields and the other, due to transverse wakefields that are generated by the beam even when it is on axis. In this report we calculate the strength of these kicks and estimate their effect on the ILC beam. The TESLA cavity comprises nine cells, one HM coupler in the upstream end, and one (identical, though rotated) HM coupler and one FM coupler in the downstream end (for their shapes and location see Figs. 1, 2) [1]. The cavity is 1.1 m long, the iris radius 35 mm, and the coupler beam pipe radiusmore » 39 mm. Note that the couplers reach closer to the axis than the irises, down to a distance of 30 mm. « less
Seismic induced flow deformation and remediation study of Sardis Dam

Previous investigations of the seismic stability of Sardis Dam indicated that the entire central silt core and a weak clayey silt layer in the dam foundation are susceptible to liquefaction which could result in large losses of shear strengths in these liquefied soils. The post-liquefaction behaviour of Sardis Dam was evaluated using new flow deformation analysis technique which was developed by Finn and Yogendrakumar(1989). The analysis showed the potential for large displacements including a great loss of freeboard during the design earthquake. A strategy of designing remedial measures to limit deformations to a tolerable amount was adopted over the conventional factor of safety approach. Various levels of remediations were investigated using TARA-3FL. The remediation procedure adopted for field trials was anchoring the upstream slope to the foundation using rows of rectangular prestressed reinforced concrete piles. Estimating post-liquefaction deformations for this remediation scheme posed challenging problems in analysis.
The Relational Dimension of Identity—Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

Abstract Identity has been recently introduced as a “legitimate” subject matter in economics. Whereas the social nature of identity is consensually acknowledged, its relational and moral dimensions are overlooked. We begin by clarifying the role of interpersonal relations in identity formation. Following Honneth (1995) we argue that the development of a positive identity, defined as a person's relation-to-self, depends on the processes of mutual recognition in which a person takes part throughout her/his life. We then frame Honneth's recognition processes in terms of the access to relational and moral goods. An empirical study is presented that illustrates the association between relational and moral goods and “relation-to-self. ” Based on European Social Survey (ESS) data, we show that high levels of relational goods (e.g. experiencing intense and positive social relations) and moral goods (e.g. perceiving to be treated with justice and respect) are associated with a positive relation-to-self.
Greening big data networks: Volume impact

Tremendous volumes generated by big data applications are starting to overwhelm data centers and networks. Traditional research efforts have determined how to process these vast volumes of data inside datacenters. Nevertheless, slight attention has addressed the increase in power consumption resulting from transferring these gigantic volumes of data from the source to destination (datacenters). An efficient approach to address this challenge is to progressively processing large volumes of data as close to the source as possible and transport the reduced volume of extracted knowledge to the destination. In this article, we examine the impact of processing different big data volumes on network power consumption in a progressive manner from source to datacenters. Accordingly, a noteworthy decrease for data transferred is achieved which results in a generous reduction in network power consumption. We consider different volumes of big data chunks. We introduce a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model (MILP) to optimize the processing locations of these volumes of data and the locations of two datacenters. The results show that serving different big data volumes of uniform distribution yields higher power saving compared to the volumes of chunks with fixed size. Therefore, we obtain an average network power saving of 57%, 48%, and 35% when considering the volumes of 10 - 220 (uniform) Gb, 110 Gb, and 50 Gb per chunk, respectively, compared to the conventional approach where all these chunks are processed inside datacenters only.
Internationalization of eLearning - Consideration of Culture-specific Differences of Self-directed Learning Ability

In the course of globalization there is a world-wide demand for increased use of eLearning, offering a variety of design possibilities supporting self-directed learning. However, a high degree of self-directed learning does not necessarily result in higher learning success. This paper reviews and compiles the current research, and points out how current IS research can be enriched by applying learning psychological approaches. Considering the current limitations, we qualitatively and quantitatively investigate culture sensitive success factors of eLearning with respect to overall satisfaction and learning success, comparing China and Germany. We hypothesize that eLearning outcome, regulated by the offered degree of self-directed learning possibilities, is dependent on a learner's cultural background. The quantitative survey is ongoing, with more than 1.500 completed questionnaires so far. Its purpose is to explore the main cross-culture differences that need to be considered for eLearning arrangements, and how such settings can be optimized.
Doubly Fed Induction Machine : Modeling and Control for Wind Energy Generation

This book will be focused on the modeling and control of the DFIM based wind turbines. In the first part of the book, the mathematical description of different basic dynamic models of the DFIM will be carried out. It will be accompanied by a detailed steady-state analysis of the machine. After that, a more sophisticated model of the machine that considers grid disturbances, such as voltage dips and unbalances will be also studied. The second part of the book surveys the most relevant control strategies used for the DFIM when it operates at the wind energy generation application. The control techniques studied, range from standard solutions used by wind turbine manufacturers, to the last developments oriented to improve the behavior of high power wind turbines, as well as control and hardware based solutions to address different faulty scenarios of the grid. In addition, the standalone DFIM generation system will be also analyzed.
The neighborhood context of homelessness.

OBJECTIVES We examined and compared the changing neighborhood characteristics of a group of homeless adults over time. METHODS We collected the addresses of previous housing and sleep locations from a longitudinal study of 400 homeless adults in the St. Louis, Missouri, region and compared census measures of housing and economic opportunities at different points along individual pathways from housing to homelessness and at 1- and 2-year follow-up interviews. RESULTS Sleep locations of homeless adults were much more concentrated in the urban core at baseline than were their previous housed and follow-up locations. These core areas had higher poverty, unemployment, and rent-to-income ratios and lower median incomes. CONCLUSIONS The spatial concentration of homeless adults in areas with fewer opportunities and more economic and housing distress may present additional barriers to regaining stable housing and employment. A big-picture spatial and time-course viewpoint is critical for both policymakers and future homelessness researchers.
Gravity wave and tidal influences on equatorial spread F based on observations during the Spread F Experiment (SpreadFEx)

The Spread F Experiment, or SpreadFEx, was per- formed from September to November 2005 to define the po- tential role of neutral atmosphere dynamics, primarily grav- ity waves propagating upward from the lower atmosphere, in seeding equatorial spread F (ESF) and plasma bubbles ex- tending to higher altitudes. A description of the SpreadFEx campaign motivations, goals, instrumentation, and structure, and an overview of the results presented in this special issue, are provided by Fritts et al. (2008a). The various analyses of neutral atmosphere and ionosphere dynamics and structure described in this special issue provide enticing evidence of gravity waves arising from deep convection in plasma bub- ble seeding at the bottomside F layer. Our purpose here is to employ these results to estimate gravity wave characteristics at the bottomside F layer, and to assess their possible con- tributions to optimal seeding conditions for ESF and plasma instability growth rates. We also assess expected tidal influ- ences on the environment in which plasma bubble seeding occurs, given their apparent large wind and temperature am- plitudes at these altitudes. We conclude 1) that gravity waves can achieve large amplitudes at the bottomside F layer, 2) that tidal winds likely control the orientations of the gravity waves that attain the highest altitudes and have the greatest effects, 3) that the favored gravity wave orientations enhance most or all of the parameters influencing plasma instability growth rates, and 4) that gravity wave and tidal structures act- ing together have an even greater potential impact on plasma instability growth rates and plasma bubble seeding.