Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mirror Symmetry via Logarithmic Degeneration Data II

This paper continues the authors' program of studying mirror symmetry via log geometry and toric degenerations, relating affine manifolds with singularities, log Calabi-Yau spaces, and toric degenerations of Calabi-Yaus. The main focus of this paper is the calculation of the cohomology of a Calabi-Yau variety associated to a given affine manifold with singularities B. We show that the Dolbeault cohomology groups of the Calabi-Yau associated to B are described in terms of some cohomology groups of sheaves on B, as expected. This is proved first by calculating the log de Rham and log Dolbeault cohomology groups on the log Calabi-Yau space associated to B, and then proving a base-change theorem for cohomology in our logarithmic setting. As applications, this shows that our mirror symmetry construction via Legendre duality of affine manifolds results in the usual interchange of Hodge numbers expected in mirror symmetry, and gives an explicit description of the monodromy of a smoothing.
Impact of Foreign Bank’s Profitability on Domestic Bank’s Earnings in BRIC

The current study aimed at investigating the impact of foreign banks on domestic banks in (Brazil, Russia, India and China) BRIC group of countries during 2001-2011. The importance of this topic is due to instability of financial industry and continuously changing financial markets. Financial liberalization did not only give boom to banking industry but also made it more competitive and unstable. To stay in competition, banks follow risky practices that do not only create problems within financial industry but also become cause of financial crisis. Financial crisis in 2008 is one of the examples of risky practices. Due to the importance of this topic, many researchers conducted studies on it. One of the famous studies on that topic was conducted by Claessens et al in (2001). Their study examined foreign and domestic banks in developing and the developed countries. It was found that foreign banks became the cause of reduction in domestic banks’ income, profit and cost in developing countries. Current study was the extension of Claessens et al (2001) with some amendments. First of all, current study focused on BRIC countries only which are the fastest growing developing countries. Second, this study compared foreign bank’s profitability with domestic bank’s profitability. Whereas, return on assets and return on equity was used as an indicator of profitability. Nearly 1600 bank’s financial data was collected from Bankscope database and Thomason Reuter’s DataStream. The current Study followed a Quantitative research method in order to investigate two research questions; first was the impact of foreign bank’s profitability on domestic bank’s earnings during 2001-2011 and second was foreign and domestic bank’s financial performance during financial crisis. Hierarchical multiple regression in the absence of control variables (foreign bank’s market share, inflation rate, real interest rate and GDP growth rate) explained that foreign banks were positively related with domestic banks in BRIC during 2001-2011. This Study rejected previous research results that foreign banks had negative relation with domestic banks in developing countries. Second result showed that in fast growing developing countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China, domestic banks performed better than foreign banks during financial crisis whereas foreign bank’s profitability had high volatility then domestic banks in financial crisis.
Banded Karyotypes of 11 Species of American Bats

Gand C-band patterns for 11 species of New World Myotis are herein described. The karyotypes have remained highly stable during the evolution of this group, all species studied possess 2n=44 with four pairs of biarmed autosomes and a biarmed X. The only variation encountered is the size of the Y chromosome and chromosome 25, which is typically a minute a arocentric but in some species is a metacentric. The variation in both the Y and number 25 chromosomes is due to differing amounts of C-band positive heterochromatin. 796 John W. Bickham Cytologia 44 Three species of American "long-eared" Myotis appear to be karyotypically derived. A nomenclatural system is proposed for vespertilionid chromosomes in which each autosomal arm is numbered and each band is numbered beginning at the centromere. There are more than 200 bands identifiable in the G-band karyotype of Myotis.
Fonctorial Construction of Frobenius Categories

Let $\Ascr,\Bscr$ be exact categories with $\Ascr$ karoubian and $M$ be an exact functor. Under suitable adjonction hypotheses for $M$, we are able to show that the direct factors of the objects of $\Ascr$ of the form $MY$ with $Y \in \Bscr$ make up a Frobenius category which allow us to define an $M$-stable category for $\Ascr$ only by quotienting. In addition, we propose a construction of an $M$-stable category for $\Ascr,\Bscr$ triangulated categories and $M$ a triangulated functor. We illustrate this notion with a theorem of Keller and Vossieck which links the two notions of $M$-stable category.
Filtering free resolutions

Abstract A recent result of Eisenbud–Schreyer and Boij–Söderberg proves that the Betti diagram of any graded module decomposes as a positive rational linear combination of pure diagrams. When does this numerical decomposition correspond to an actual filtration of the minimal free resolution? Our main result gives a sufficient condition for this to happen. We apply it to show the non-existence of free resolutions with some plausible-looking Betti diagrams and to study the semigroup of quiver representations of the simplest ‘wild’ quiver.
Branes on Poisson varieties

We first extend the notion of connection in the context of Courant algebroids to obtain a new characterization of generalized Kaehler geometry. We then establish a new notion of isomorphism between holomorphic Poisson manifolds, which is non-holomorphic in nature. Finally we show an equivalence between certain configurations of branes on Poisson varieties and generalized Kaehler structures, and use this to construct explicitly new families of generalized Kaehler structures on compact holomorphic Poisson manifolds equipped with positive Poisson line bundles (e.g. Fano manifolds). We end with some speculations concerning the connection to non-commutative algebraic geometry.
EFFECTS OF CIMETIDINE ON BROILER FATTENING AND ON STRESS-INDUCED GIZZARD EROSION IN CHICKEN

The work describes the effects of cimetidine on stress-induced gizzard erosions (Experiment A) and the influence of the long-term application (42 days) of the same drug on weight gain and feed consumption during broiler fattening (Experiment B). For Experiment A, 60 male, three-day-old chicks were divided into two groups: C (n = 30)  control chicks treated with 0.5 ml saline; CIM (n = 30)  chicks treated with cimetidine in a dose of 5 mg/kg body weight (b. w.) intragastrically. All chicks were stressed using a modified water-immersion stress method according to which the chicks, after 24 h of feed deprivation, were immersed in tap water (17 °C) for a few seconds. Under chloroform anaesthesia ten chicks from each group were killed 1, 2 and 3 h after the stressing. The morphometric analysis of gizzard erosion (GE) and histopathological examinations of gizzards were performed for each chick. In Experiment B, 32 one-day-old broilers of both sexes were used. The control group was untreated (n = 16) while the CIM group (n = 16) was fed the same diet supplemented with 10 mg of cimetidine per kilogram of feed throughout the fattening period (42 days). The results of Experiment A showed decreased mean length of the GE in the cimetidine-treated birds as compared with the GE lesions of the controls. In Experiment B, the treated chicks had reduced liveweight (1835.1 g), carcass weight (1474.6 g) and increased feed consumption (2115 g of feed per kilogram of weight gain) compared to the controls in which the same parameters were 1898.5 g, 1574.2 g and 1797 g, respectively. The results show that while stress-induced GE of chicks can be medicated pharmacologically, long-term application of the same substance impairs the results of fattening.
Phosphorus and nitrogen trajectories in the 1 Mediterranean Sea ( 1950-2030 ) : 2 Diagnosing basin-wide anthropogenic nutrient enrichment 3 4

28 Human activities have significantly modified the inputs of land-derived phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) to 29 the Mediterranean Sea (MS). Here, we reconstruct the external inputs of reactive P and N to the Western 30 Mediterranean Sea (WMS) and Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) over the period 1950 to 2030. We 31 estimate that during this period the land derived P and N loads increased by fact ors of 3 and 2 to the WMS 32 and EMS, respectively, with reactive P inputs peaking in the 1980s but reactive N inputs increasing 33 continuously from 1950 to 2030. The temporal variations in reactive P and N inputs are imposed in a coupled 34 P and N mass balance model of the MS to simulate the accompanying changes in water column nut rient 35 distributions and primary production with time. The key question we address is whet her these changes ar e 36 large enough to be distinguishable from variations caused by confounding factors, spec ifically the relatively 37 large inter-annual variability in thermohaline circulation (THC) of the MS. O ur analysis indicates that for 38 the intermediate and deep water masses of the MS the magnitudes of changes in reacti ve P concentrations 39 due to changes in anthropogenic inputs are relatively small and likely difficult to diagnose because of the 40 noise created by the natural circulation variability. Anthropogenic N enrichment should be m ore readily 41 detectable in time series concentration data for dissolved organic N (DON) af ter the 1970s, and for nitrate 42 (NO3) after the 1990s. The DON concentrations in the EMS are predicted to exhibit the largest 43 anthropogenic enrichment signature. Temporal variations in annual primary production over the 1950-2030 44 period are dominated by variations in deep-water formation rates, followed by changes i n riv rine P inputs 45 for the WMS and atmospheric P deposition for the EMS. Overall, our analysi s indicates that the detection 46 of basin-wide anthropogenic nutrient concentration trends in the MS is rendered diffi cult due to: 1) the 47 Atlantic Ocean contributing the largest reactive P and N inputs to the MS, hence diluting the anthropogenic 48 nutrient signatures, 2) the anti-estuarine circulation removing at leas t 45% of the anthropogenic nutrients 49 inputs added to both basins of the MS between 1950 and 2030, and 3) variations i n intermediate and deep 50 water formation rates that add high natural noise to the P and N concentration trajectories. 51
AN EVALUATION OF PATIENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH HEALTH CARE SERVICES AT RALEIGH FITKIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN SWAZILAND

Personality and motives – Approach & avoidance might be associated. Extraversion, for instance, is associated with a tendency to be optimistic and having a positive attitude towards problems. Extraverted individuals may be motivated to keep their optimism and confidence in themselves. The objective of the article is to map the motivational orientation of the individuals in reference to the personality traits and to find out if there is any difference on any of these variables as per the gender. The type of motivators required for people with different personality and motives are different. So, it would be beneficial for the organizations to map the motivational orientation of their employees as per their personality and motive to put in an effort. The result of the study shows approach and avoidance motive are not gender dependent but is dependent on personality traits.
Gestating bodies: sensing foetal movement in first-time pregnancy Abstract A large body of literature engages with personal accounts of pregnancy to illustrate the subjugation

A large body of literature engages with personal accounts of pregnancy to illustrate the subjugation ラa ┘ラマWミげゲ embodied experience within practices of biomedicine. This article explores this issue through ┘ラマWミげゲ accounts of sensing initial foetal movement, drawn from qualitative interviews with 15 women resident in the UK. Participants depict this aspect of pregnant embodiment as ambiguous and indefinite, in contrast to clinical and popular representations of foetal movement. In highlighting the uncertainties characteristic of this corporeal event, the article adds to literature SWゲデ;Hキノキゲキミェ ┌ミSWヴゲデ;ミSキミェゲ ラa ヮヴWェミ;ミデ ┘ラマWミげゲ ;ミS aラWデ;ノ Hodies as bounded and distinct. Ambiguous experiences of foetal movement arise in the context of sociocultural framings of ヮヴWェミ;ミI┞ ;ゲ け;デ ヴキゲニげ, and in turn, may be seen to contribute to these representations, with some participants reluctant to interpret these uncertain sensations as providing reassurance. In this article, perceptions of foetal movement are emphasised as valuable to women, and as inextricable from the social settings in which they emerge. This research has implications for sociological and feminist discussions of pregnancy, and work exploring the mutual shaping of corporeality and sociocultural contexts more widely.
Multiphase Rayleigh-Bénard

Numerical simulations of two-phase Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a cylindrical cell with particles or vapor bubbles suspended in the fluid are described. The particles or bubbles are modeled as points, the Rayleigh number is 2 × 106 and the fluids considered are air, for the particle case, and saturated water for bubbles. It is shown that the presence of a second phase has a profound effect on the flow and heat transfer in the cell. The heat capacity of the particles and the latent heat of the liquid are used, in dimensionless form, as control parameters to modulate these effects. It is shown that, as these parameters are varied, the nature of the flow in the cell changes substantially, in some cases with adverse and in others beneficial effects on the Nusselt number. By the analysis of several aspects of the numerical results, a physical discussion of several mechanisms is provided.
Okounkov bodies of filtered linear series

Abstract We associate to certain filtrations of a graded linear series of a big line bundle a concave function on its Okounkov body, whose law with respect to the Lebesgue measure describes the asymptotic distribution of the jumps of the filtration. As a consequence, we obtain a Fujita-type approximation theorem in this general filtered setting. We then specialize these results to the filtrations by minima in the usual context of Arakelov geometry (and for more general adelically normed graded linear series), thereby obtaining in a simple way a natural construction of an arithmetic Okounkov body, the existence of the arithmetic volume as a limit and an arithmetic Fujita approximation theorem for adelically normed graded linear series. We also obtain an easy proof of the existence of the sectional capacity previously obtained by Lau, Rumely and Varley.
EFFECTS OF ASSIGNMENT TEACHING METHOD ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN BUSINESS STUDIES IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA BY

The study investigated the effects of assignment teaching method (ATM) on academic achievement of students in business studies in Oyo State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and 1 hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study was all junior secondary school business studies students in Oyo State, Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of 93 students for the study. Pre-test, post-test non-equivalent groups quasi-experimental design was used for the study and the instrument for data collection were programmed book in business studies and business studies achievement test (BSAT) which were developed by the researchers and validated by two experts. A reliability coefficient of 0.72 was obtained for the test items using split-half reliability technique. Mean was used to analyse data relating to research questions while analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. Findings revealed that students taught business studies using ATM achieved better with higher post-test mean score than those taught using conventional teaching method. Findings revealed that no interaction effects of teaching methods and gender on students’ academic achievement in business studies. It was recommended that business studies teachers should use assignment method in teaching so as to enhance students’ academic achievement in the subject.
A Quiver Construction of Symmetric Crystals

In the recent papers with Masaki Kashiwara, the author introduced the notion of symmetric crystals and presented the Lascoux-Leclerc-Thibon-Ariki type conjectures for the affine Hecke algebras of type $B$. Namely, we conjectured that certain composition multiplicities and branching rules for the affine Hecke algebras of type $B$ are described by using the lower global basis of symmetric crystals of $V_\theta(\lambda)$. In this paper, we prove the existence of crystal bases and global bases of $V_\theta(0)$ for any symmetric quantized Kac-Moody algebra by using a geometry of quivers (with a Dynkin diagram involution). This is analogous to George Lusztig's geometric construction of $U_v^-$ and its lower global basis.
Effect of feeding an immune modulator to multiparous Holstein cows during the dry period and early lactation on health, milk and reproductive performance

In this study we evaluated the effect of feeding an immune modulatory feed additive (OmniGenAF®; OMN) during the dry period through early lactation on postpartum health, subsequent lactational and reproductive performance of multiparous Holstein cows. We hypothesized that feeding OMN beginning in the dry period and through 150 days in milk (DIM) would improve milk yield and reproductive performance as a result of improved immune response. To test our hypothesis, 1392 multiparous pregnant Holstein cows of a commercial dairy herd were enrolled and randomly assigned at dry-off (47.6± 9.4 d before calving) to OMN (n = 706) or control (CON, n = 686) treatments. Both OMN and CON (placebo) supplements were fed once per day at a rate of 56 g/d per head from dry-off through 150 DIM. Cows were milked three times a day and daily milk yield was measured once per week, starting at the second week of lactation through 140 days in milk. Postpartum health disorders were monitored daily throughout the experiment. Cows were bred following a double OvSynch protocol after a 77-d voluntary waiting period (VWP). Final pregnancy status was assessed after supplementation ended at 230 DIM. Our results indicated that cows supplemented with OMN produced more milk than CON (40.8 kg/d vs. 40.1 kg/d; P<0.01) during the first 140 d of lactation. Once they entered lactation, cows supplemented with OMN tended (P<0.10) to have a reduced incidence of mastitis, retained placenta, displaced abomasum (P<0.11) and reduced number of days spent in the hospital pen relative to CON. OmniGen feeding was also associated with a 10-d reduction in days open (P<0.05) compared to CON. However, pregnancy rate at first, second and until ∼230 DIM did not differ between treatments. In conclusion, supplementing an immunomodulatory feed additive to dry and early lactation dairy cows was associated with improved milk yield, a tendency to reduce transition cow disorders and reduced number of days open.
Chapter 10 Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Demographic Models 10

Nonlinearities in demographic models arise due to density dependence, frequency dependence (in 2-sex models), feedback through the environment or the economy, recruitment subsidy due to immigration, and from the scaling inherent in calculations of proportional population structure. This chapter presents a series of analyses particular to nonlinear models: the sensitivity and elasticity of equilibria, cycles, ratios (e.g., dependency ratios), age averages and variances, temporal averages and variances, life expectancies, and population growth rates, for both age-classified and stage-classified models. Nonlinearity is defined in contrast to linearity. If x is an age or stage distribution vector, and if the dynamics of x are given by
April 16 , 1981 Title : The Mobility and Plant Availability of Boron in Selected Western Oregon

5 Introduction 6 Materials and Methods 7 Results and Discussion 8 Conclusions 15 Acknowledgments 15 Literature Cited 16 CHAPTER 2: FACTORS AFFECTING THE MOBILITY AND PLANT AVAILABILITY OF BORON IN SOME WESTERN OREGON SOILS 17 Abstract 17 Introduction 19 Materials and Methods 22 Results and Discussion 27 Summary 39 Literature Cited 4017 Introduction 19 Materials and Methods 22 Results and Discussion 27 Summary 39 Literature Cited 40 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 43
Concentration of the adjacency matrix and of the Laplacian in random graphs with independent edges

Consider any random graph model where potential edges appear independently, with possibly different probabilities, and assume that the minimum expected degree is ! (lnn). We prove that the adjacency matrix and the Laplacian of that random graph are concentrated around the corresponding matrices of the weighted graph whose edge weights are the probabilities in the random model. We apply this result to two different settings. In bond percolation, we show that, whenever the minimum expected degree in the random model is not too small, the Laplacian of the percolated graph is typically close to that of the original graph. As a corollary, we improve upon a bound for the spectral gap of the percolated graph due to Chung and Horn.
Examining the Scientific Productivity of Authors in Dyslexia Research: A Study Using Lotka’s Law

Dyslexia, or a reading disability, occurs when an individual has significant difficulty with speed and accuracy of word decoding. Comprehension of text and spelling are also affected. The diagnosis of dyslexia involves the use of reading tests, but the continuum of reading performance means that any cut off point is arbitrary. The IQ score does not play a role in the diagnosis of dyslexia. The cognitive difficulties of dyslexics include problems with speech perception, recognizing and manipulating the basic sounds in a language, language memory, and learning the sounds of letters. Dyslexia is a neurological condition with a genetic basis. There are abnormalities in the brains of dyslexic individuals. There are also differences in the electrophysiological and structural characteristics of the brains of dyslexics. Physicians play a particularly important role in recognizing children who are at risk for dyslexia and helping their parents obtain the proper assessment. The fundamental aim of this study was, to analyze the application of Lotka’s law to the research publication, in the field of Dyslexia. The data related to Dyslexia were extracted from web of science database, which is a scientific, citation and indexing service, maintained by Clarivate Analytics. A total of 5182 research publications were published by the researchers, in the field of Dyslexia. The study found out that, the Lotka’s inverse square law is not fit for this data. The study also analyzed the authorship pattern, Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Co-authorship Index (CAI), Collaborative Co-efficient (CC), Modified Collaborative Co-efficient (MCC), Lotka’s Exponent value, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (K-S Test), Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time.