Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Space-use and movements of adult male white-tailed deer in northeastern Louisiana

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are an important game species and the number of adult males harvested has recently increased. Concurrently, increases in global positioning system (GPS) technology for tracking animal movements have allowed detailed studies of animal movements. Therefore, I used GPS-telemetry collars to investigate seasonal and fine-scale movements and space use of adult male deer in northeastern Louisiana. I found that males maintained largest space holdings in spring and fall/winter, followed by summer. I also found that within the reproductive season, movements and space use were greatest during the rut, followed by pre-rut and post-rut, and least during the non-breeding season. I modelled movement rates and found that circadian period, breeding chronology, and refugia from hunting were important variables for predicting movement rates. Finally, movement rates on a limitedhunting refuge were more crepuscular than on open access hunting areas, suggesting deer may be modifying behavior to avoid human predation. INDEX WORDS: GPS, hunting pressure, Louisiana, movements, Odocoileus virginianus, space use, white-tailed deer SPACE-USE AND MOVEMENTS OF ADULT MALE WHITE-TAILED DEER IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
Structural Investigations of Afghanistan Deduced from Remote Sensing and Potential Field Data

This study integrates potential gravity and magnetic field data with remotely sensed images and geological data in an effort to understand the subsurface major geological structures in Afghanistan. Integrated analysis of Landsat SRTM data was applied for extraction of geological lineaments. The potential field data were analyzed using gradient interpretation techniques, such as analytic signal (AS), tilt derivative (TDR), horizontal gradient of the tilt derivative (HG-TDR), Euler Deconvolution (ED) and power spectrum methods, and results were correlated with known geological structures.The analysis of remote sensing data and potential field data reveals the regional geological structural characteristics of Afghanistan. The power spectrum analysis of magnetic and gravity data suggests shallow basement rocks at around 1 to 1.5 km depth. The results of TDR of potential field data are in agreement with the location of the major regional fault structures and also the location of the basins and swells, except in the Helmand region (SW Afghanistan) where many high potential field anomalies are observed and attributed to batholiths and near-surface volcanic rocks intrusions.A high-resolution airborne geophysical survey in the data sparse region of eastern Afghanistan is recommended in order to have a complete image of the potential field anomalies.
M2Di: Concise and efficient MATLAB 2‐D Stokes solvers using the Finite Difference Method

Recent development of many multiphysics modeling tools reflects the currently growing interest for studying coupled processes in Earth Sciences. The core of such tools should rely on fast and robust mechanical solvers. Here we provide M2Di, a set of routines for 2‐D linear and power law incompressible viscous flow based on Finite Difference discretizations. The 2‐D codes are written in a concise vectorized MATLAB fashion and can achieve a time to solution of 22 s for linear viscous flow on 10002 grid points using a standard personal computer. We provide application examples spanning from finely resolved crystal‐melt dynamics, deformation of heterogeneous power law viscous fluids to instantaneous models of mantle flow in cylindrical coordinates. The routines are validated against analytical solution for linear viscous flow with highly variable viscosity and compared against analytical and numerical solutions of power law viscous folding and necking. In the power law case, both Picard and Newton iterations schemes are implemented. For linear Stokes flow and Picard linearization, the discretization results in symmetric positive‐definite matrix operators on Cartesian grids with either regular or variable grid spacing allowing for an optimized solving procedure. For Newton linearization, the matrix operator is no longer symmetric and an adequate solving procedure is provided. The reported performance of linear and power law Stokes flow is finally analyzed in terms of wall time. All MATLAB codes are provided and can readily be used for educational as well as research purposes. The M2Di routines are available from Bitbucket and the University of Lausanne Scientific Computing Group website, and are also supplementary material to this article.
Promising results of a clinical feasibility study: CIRBP as a potential biomarker in pediatric cardiac surgery

Objective Cold-inducible RNA binding Protein (CIRBP) has been shown to be a potent inflammatory mediator and could serve as a novel biomarker for inflammation. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and capillary leak syndrome (CLS) are frequent complications after pediatric cardiac surgery increasing morbidity, therefore early diagnosis and therapy is crucial. As CIRBP serum levels have not been analyzed in a pediatric population, we conducted a clinical feasibility establishing a customized magnetic bead panel analyzing CIRBP in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods A prospective hypothesis generating observational clinical study was conducted at the German Heart Center Berlin during a period of 9 months starting in May 2020 (DRKS00020885, https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00020885). Serum samples were obtained before the cardiac operation, upon arrival at the pediatric intensive care unit, 6 and 24 h after the operation in patients up to 18 years of age with congenital heart disease (CHD). Customized multiplex magnetic bead-based immunoassay panels were developed to analyze CIRBP, Interleukin-1β (IL-1β), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-8 (IL-8), Interleukin-10 (IL-10), Monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1), Syndecan-1 (SDC-1), Thrombomodulin (TM), Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) in 25 µl serum using the Luminex MagPix® system. Results 19 patients representing a broad range of CHD (10 male patients, median age 2 years, 9 female patients, median age 3 years) were included in the feasibility study. CIRBP was detectable in the whole patient cohort. Relative to individual baseline values, CIRBP concentrations increased 6 h after operation and returned to baseline levels over time. IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and MCP-1 concentrations were significantly increased after operation and except for MCP-1 concentrations stayed upregulated over time. SDC-1, TM, Ang-2, as well as FGF-23 concentrations were also significantly increased, whereas VEGF-A concentration was significantly decreased after surgery. Discussion Using customized magnetic bead panels, we were able to detect CIRBP in a minimal serum volume (25 µl) in all enrolled patients. To our knowledge this is the first clinical study to assess CIRBP serum concentrations in a pediatric population.
Demographic trends of red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa) in southern Portugal after implementation of management actions

L'evolution des populations de perdrix rouges, Alectoris rufa, sur un domaine de 1984 ha du sud du Portugal, a ete etudiee apres la mise en place d'une nouvelle gestion cynegetique en 1989. Cette nouvelle gestion a consiste a remplacer un regime sans gestion sur domaine publique accompagne d'une forte pression cynegetique, par un regime avec gestion sur domaine prive. Sous ce dernier regime, la chasse a ete interdite (a l'exception d'un prelevement de 50 oiseaux en 1993/1994), et cette mesure a ete couplee avec un controle des predateurs et avec de l'agrainage. Les observations des differents groupes de perdrix en 1992, 1993 et 1994, ont permis d'etudier leur phenologie depuis la periode hivernale jusqu'a la periode estivale. Les variations inter- et intra-annuelles de leurs densites ont ete suivies a partir de donnees collectees en 1989, 1992, 1993 et 1994 provenant de la cartographie des territoires et de comptages par battues le long de transects. Le succes reproducteur pour les annees 1992-1994 a ete estime par le nombre moyen de jeunes a la fin juillet par couple forme au printemps, les âge-ratios estivaux, les pourcentages des compagnies avec et sans jeunes, et la taille moyenne des couvees. La formation des couples a commence avant le mois de janvier pour atteindre un pic en mars. La plupart des couvaisons ont eu lieu entre avril et juin, avec un pic en mai. Entre 1989 et 1994, le nombre de couples reproducteurs a ete multiplie par 7,3, ce qui represente un taux moyen d'augmentation annuelle de 47%. Au cours des annees 1992-1994, une certaine stabilisation de la densite a ete notee entre juillet et janvier, mais la reduction de densite entre janvier et mars fut importante, probablement a cause des dispersions avant la saison de reproduction. Le taux de disparition d'oiseaux adultes au cours de la saison de reproduction a ete faible, et le succes reproducteur a augmente entre 1992 et 1994. Dans l'ensemble, l'etat general (fitness) de la population de perdrix n'a cesse de s'ameliorer depuis le changement de regime de gestion, et on pourrait s'attendre a d'autres ameliorations si l'habitat de nidification etait gere.
Adverse Impact of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus on Pregnancy Outcomes: A Saudi Arabia Retrospective Multi-Center Study

Objective The current study aimed to determine the pregnancy outcomes complications in patients with SLE and its association with clinical, laboratory variables, disease activity, and medication use in the Saudi population, as well as pregnancy effect on disease activity. Methods A multicenter study included pregnant female patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) from three tertiary centers in Saudi Arabia. The demographics, clinical, and laboratory variables, SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI), medication before, during, and after pregnancy, planned pregnancy, pregnancy-related outcomes, and complications in comparison to age-matched healthy female controls were noted. Results A total of 66 pregnant patients with SLE and 93 healthy age-matched pregnant controls were included in the study. A total of 77.3% had SLEDAI-2K ≤ 4 before conception, and 84.85% of pregnancies were planned. Age of conception, cesarean section, miscarriage, and low birth weight were statistically significant (p <0.05) higher in SLE patients than in healthy controls. Among all clinical and laboratory variables, SLEDAI-2K > 4 and active lupus nephritis during pregnancy were statistically associated with adverse outcomes (p <0.05), history of lupus nephritis was not associated with statistically adverse pregnancy outcomes. Higher SLEDAI-2K > 4 was an independent risk at least 4.87 times higher association with adverse pregnancy outcomes. (p <0.05). Conclusion SLE is intricately connected with unfavorable pregnancy outcomes. The preconception of high disease activity stands as a pivotal risk factor for adverse outcomes. Despite the disease remission and meticulous planning, SLE patients frequently grapple with disease exacerbations during pregnancy, culminating in unexpected and unfavorable pregnancy-related outcomes. This underscores the intricate and multifaceted nature of managing SLE during gestation.
Dynamique et dispersion spatiale des Tabanidae dans différents faciès écologiques de Korhogo en Côte d’Ivoire

L’abondance et la diversite specifique des Tabanides ont ete evaluees par des captures d’insectes a l’aide des pieges Nzi, dans differents facies ecologiques dans 2 localites du departement de Korhogo en Cote d’Ivoire. Au total, 12 especes de Tabanides ont ete identifiees sur ces 2 sites, les plus abondantes ont ete Tabanus laverani Surcouf, 1907 et Chrysops distinctipennis Austen, 1906 avec des densites apparentes par piege et par jour (DAP) respectives de 9,6 et 7,6 individus/piege/jour a Kasievogo et de 9,4 et 10,7 individus/piege/jour a Litio. Tabanus taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1807 est moyennement represente a Kasievogo avec une DAP de 6,6 individus/piege/jour sur ce site. Les autres especes sont faiblement representees avec des DAP inferieures a 5 taons/piege/jour sur les 2 sites prospectes. Le profil general de l’activite journaliere des principales especes T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1807, T. laverani Surcouf, 1907 et C. distinctipennis Austen, 1906 a indique un rythme d’activite de type unimodal. L’activite journaliere varie selon les especes, T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1807 et C. distinctipennis Austen, 1906 ont des activites maximales observees respectivement dans l’intervalle de 10h a 12h et de 12h a 16h. T. laverani Surcouf, 1907, par contre presente une activite tardive, elle est maximale dans l’intervalle de 16h a 18h. La presence des Tabanides, vecteurs potentiels d'agents pathogenes dans les elevages bovins doit encourager a mettre en place des mesures de lutte anti-vectorielle.
EFEKTIFITAS PENAMBAHAN MEDIA GEOTEKSTIL PADA SARINGAN PASIR LAMBAT TERHADAP PENYISIHAN PARAMETER KEKERUHAN, JUMLAH COLI DAN COD

Slow sand filter processing is done by separating raw contaminant water which is passed slowly on sand. Fluctuating raw water quality resulted in the schmutzdecke layer not growing optimally. Therefore, it is needed media that help the performance of the sand filter. One of the media used is geotextile. The geotextile is useful as a medium to optimize the growth of microorganisms in the schmutzdecke layer. Geotextiles have similar surface structures such as sand filters as well as their pores. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of adding geotextiles in reducing turbidity parameters, number of coli and COD. This study used slow sand filter reactor with a continuous flow system of 0.3 m3 / m2.jam for 7 days. Based on the research, the addition of geotextile media is quite effective and can improve the performance of slow sand filter. Percentage of turbidity removal reached 94.27%, coli 99.40% and COD 92.85%. COD values tend to be dynamic as raw water conditions. Geotextiles is quite helpful in growing a layer of schmutzdecke because the structure resembles sand so as to increase the number of bacteria bed filters.
Learning to Estimate Sea Ice Concentration from SAR Imagery

Through the growing interest in the Arctic for shipping, mining and climate research, large-scale high quality ice concentration is of great interest. Due to the unavailability of suitable ice concentration estimation algorithms, ice concentration maps are interpreted from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images manually by ice experts for operational uses. An automatic ice concentration estimation algorithm is required for accurate large-scale ice mapping. In this thesis, a set of algorithms are developed aiming at operational ice concentration estimation from SAR images. The major difficulty in designing a robust algorithm for ice concentration estimation from SAR images is the constantly changing SAR image features of ice and water in time and location. This difficulty is addressed by learning features instead of designing features from SAR images. A set of convolutional neural network based ice concentration estimation algorithms are developed to learn multi-scale SAR image features and simultaneously regress ice concentration from the learned image features. We first demonstrated the capability of CNNs in ice concentration estimation from SAR images when trained using image analysis charts as ground truth. Then the model is further improved by taking into account the errors in the image analysis charts. Ice concentration estimates with improved robustness to training samples errors, accuracy and scale of details are obtained. The robustness of the developed methods are further demonstrated in the melt season of the Beaufort Sea, where reasonable ice concentration estimates are acquired. In order to reduce the model training time, it is desired to reuse existing models. The model transferability is evaluated and suggestions on using existing models to accelerate the training process are given, which is shown to reduce the training time by over 10 times in our case.
THE PRESENT SITUATION OF HUMAN CRYPTOSPORIDIASIS IN SOME CENTERS IN DAKAHLIA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Background : Cryptosporidiosis is a zoonotic disease transmitted by the feco-oral route and results from the ingestion of Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts through the consumption of fecally contaminated food or water or through direct person-to-person or animal-to-person contact. Infection by the parasite accounts for up to 6% of all diarrheal diseases in immunocompetent patients, and presents in up to 24% of persons with both AIDS and diarrhea worldwide. In the literature, the prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection in Egypt varied significantly from 0% to 47% Objective: The aim of the work was to assess the problem of cryptosporidiosis in some centers in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects and Methodology: A total of 1786 individuals of different ages and both sexes were chosen randomly from May 2012 to August 2014 from rural and urban areas. All cases were subjected to history taking, clinical examination and laboratory investigations. Fecal specimens were examined by direct smear and concentration techniques using both formol-ether concentration and sheater's flotation methods. Microscopic examination of modified Ziehl-Neelsen, and aurmaine stained stool smears were also done as well as detection of coproantigens using ELISA technique . Results: Out of 1786 collected stool samples from four centers, i.e. Mansoura, Talkha, Belqas and Aga, only 97(5.43%),109(6.1%) and 178(9.96%) were positive according to Ziehl-Neelsen, Auramine and Coproantigen techniques. The highest prevalence of infection was recorded in Talkha center and Coproantigen was the most sensitive technique. Rural areas showed non significant higher prevalence of Cryptosporidiosis, while females showed relatively significant higher infection when using auramine stain. The infection was non significantly higher among the age group less than 5 years. Mixed infections were found in 43 cases ( 39.45% ) and distributed as 22 cases (20.18%) having one parasite, 11 cases (10.09%) having two parasites while those infected with more than two parnsites were 10 cases (9.17%). Asymptomatic cases represented 15 cases (22.73%), while symptomatic cases were 51 cases (77.27% ) and disributed as having abdominal pain (43 cases-5.15%), jaundice (8 cases-12.12% ), abdominal distesion (39 cases -59.09% ), diarrhea (42 cases-63.43 % ), tender abdomen (44 cases-86.27% ), hepatomegaly (13 cases25.49 % ), dehydration (1 cases41.18 % ) and with ascites ( 5 cases-11.36% ) . Conclusion: The high prevelance of Cryptosporidium infection in the studied areas must be taken in mind of laboratory personell and as a routine examination of all diarrhiec samples.
Patterning and Its Causation in the Pre-Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands (Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene)

ABSTRACT In 1981 one of us (Cherry) first attempted to identify spatial and temporal patterning in the human colonization of the Mediterranean islands. Since the 1980s, slowly accumulating evidence has suggested that the Mediterranean islands were sporadically inhabited by hunter-gatherers during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Here we seek to establish whether or not these data exhibit regularity. We suggest that evidence for Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic activity, tending to cluster on larger or less remote islands, indicates that while humans were clearly capable of reaching the Mediterranean islands prior to the Neolithic, their general reluctance to do so can be explained in terms of the variable environmental attractiveness of the insular Mediterranean. Tending to be relatively small, dry, and biologically depauperate, the Mediterranean islands were largely inhospitable to mobile groups preferring extensive territories with diverse and robust biotas. Sedentism only became a widely viable strategy in the insular Mediterranean with the development in the Neolithic of what we might regard as “terraforming”—that is, the introduction of cereals, pulses, and ovicaprids, all tolerant of xeric environments.
The quest for a unified Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary: implications of the ammonite succession at the turn of the Bimammatum and Planula Zones in the Wieluń Upland, Central Poland

The detailed biostratigraphic succession at the turn of the Bimammatum Zone and the Planula Zone in the Wielun Upland, Central Poland, displays the five ammonite horizons, viz . the litocerum horizon and the broilii horizon in the Hauffianum Subzone of the Bimammatum Zone, and the minutum horizon, the proteron horizon, and the planula horizon, in the Planula Zone. The stratigraphic position of the Amoeboceras Layer (MATYJA & WIERZBOWSKI 1988) has been partly revised: it lies in the litocerum horizon of the Hauffianum Subzone of the Bimammatum Zone. The layer marks a short-time invasion of the Boreal/Subboreal ammonites into the Submediterranean Province, including such forms described previously as Amoeboceras ( Plasmatites ) bauhini (OPPEL), A . ( P .) praebauhini (SALFELD), and A . ( P .) lineatum (QUENSTEDT), as well as the recently discovered Pictonia densicostata BUCKMAN and Prorasenia bowerbanki SPATH. The presence of these ammonites, and especially of P. densicostata , shows that the lower boundary of the Subboreal Kimmeridgian corresponding to the base of the Baylei Zone, lies not higher than the litocerum horizon of the Hauffianum Subzone in the Submediterranean Succession; in fact, it may lie still lower, somewhere between an upper Bimammatum Subzone and a lower Hauffianum Subzone of the Bimammatum Zone. Precise location of the lower boundary of the Submediterranean Kimmeridgian, corresponding to the base of the Platynota Zone, is not possible in the Subboreal Succession; that boundary in the Boreal Succession lies at the base of the Kitchini Zone. Normal 0 21 false false false PL X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Standardowy; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}