Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Eleven Years' Monitoring of the World's Most Successful Male Biathlete of the Last Decade.

PURPOSE To report the changes in the training characteristics, performance, and heart-rate variability (HRV) of the world's most successful male biathlete of the last decade. METHOD During the analyzed 11-year (2009-2019) period, the participant won 7 big crystal globes, corresponding to the winner of the International Biathlon Union World Cup. The training characteristics are reported as yearly volume (in hours) of low-intensity training (LIT), moderate- and high-intensity training, and speed and strength training. Performance was quantified by the number of World Cup top-3 positions per season. HRV was expressed as low- and high-frequency spectral power (in milliseconds squared), root-mean-square difference of successive R-R interval (in milliseconds), and heart rate (in beats per minute). RESULTS The training volume increased from 530 to ∼700 hours per year in 2009-2019, with a large polarization in training intensity distribution (ie, LIT 86.3% [2.9%]; moderate-intensity training 3.4% [1.5%]; high-intensity training 4.0% [0.7%]; strength 6.3% [1.6%]). The number of top-3 positions increased from 2 to 24-26 in 2009-2018 but decreased to 6 in 2019. The mean supine values in the root-mean-square difference of successive R-R interval and high-frequency spectral power divided by heart rate increased until 2015, which were stable over 2016-2018 but decreased in 2019. The number of top-3 positions was related to the total (r = .66, P = .02) and LIT (r = .92, P < .001) volume and to several markers of supine parasympathetic activity. CONCLUSION The improvement in performance of the participant was mainly determined by the progressive increase in training volume, especially performed at low intensity, and was correlated to parasympathetic activity markers. This case study confirms the effectiveness of the training method, with a large amount of LIT in an elite endurance athlete, and of regular HRV monitoring.
A Zika Vaccine Generated Using the Chimeric Insect-Specific Binjari Virus Platform Protects against Fetal Brain Infection in Pregnant Mice

Zika virus (ZIKV) is the etiological agent of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), a spectrum of birth defects that can lead to life-long disabilities. A range of vaccines are in development with the target population including pregnant women and women of child-bearing age. Using a recently described chimeric flavivirus vaccine technology based on the novel insect-specific Binjari virus (BinJV), we generated a ZIKV vaccine (BinJ/ZIKA-prME) and illustrate herein its ability to protect against fetal brain infection. Female IFNAR−/− mice were vaccinated once with unadjuvanted BinJ/ZIKA-prME, were mated, and at embryonic day 12.5 were challenged with ZIKVPRVABC59. No infectious ZIKV was detected in maternal blood, placenta, or fetal heads in BinJ/ZIKA-prME-vaccinated mice. A similar result was obtained when the more sensitive qRT PCR methodology was used to measure the viral RNA. BinJ/ZIKA-prME vaccination also did not result in antibody-dependent enhancement of dengue virus infection or disease. BinJ/ZIKA-prME thus emerges as a potential vaccine candidate for the prevention of CSZ.
Identifying environmental and economic development factors in sustainable entrepreneurship over time by partial least squares (PLS)

This study analyses the impact of environmental and economic factors consolidation on sustainable entrepreneurship over time. A model is proposed that analyses the relations between these factors and sustainable entrepreneurship over time with sustainable development goals performances and the continuation of the businesses index as variables. Using data from 50 countries, a quantitative method based on partial least squares was applied to validate the proposed model. Our findings showed positive and significant relations between environmental and economic factors with sustainable entrepreneurship over time. This implies that the countries which invest more efforts to consolidate their economic and environmental factors obtain higher durability rates for their sustainable entrepreneurship.
Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Modulates RhoA/ROCK Signaling of Rat Mandibular Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Rescue Their Damaged Cytoskeletal Organization and Cell Biological Function Induced by Radiation

Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (ORNJ) is an infrequent yet potentially devastating complication of head and neck radiation therapy. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) has been widely accepted as a promising method for the successful management of ORNJ, but the mechanism remains unclear. In this study, the effects of LIPUS on cytoskeletal reorganization, cell viability, and osteogenic differentiation capacity of rat mandible-derived bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (M-BMMSCs) induced by radiation were determined by immunofluorescence staining, CCK-8 cell proliferation assay, quantification of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, alizarin red staining, and real-time RT-PCR, respectively. Moreover, the involvement of the RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway underlying this process was investigated via western blot analysis. We found that radiation induced significant damage to the cytoskeleton, cell viability, and osteogenic differentiation capacity of M-BMMSCs and downregulated their expression of RhoA, ROCK, and vinculin while increasing FAK expression. LIPUS treatment effectively rescued the disordered cytoskeleton and redistributed vinculin. Furthermore, the cell viability and osteogenic differentiation capacity were also significantly recovered. More importantly, it could reverse the aberrant expression of the key molecules induced by radiation. Inhibition of RhoA/ROCK signaling remarkably aggravated the inhibitory effect of radiation and attenuated the therapeutic effect of LIPUS. In the light of these findings, the RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway might be a promising target for modifying the therapeutic effect of LIPUS on osteoradionecrosis.
ELOPTERYX REVISITED - A NEW BIRD-LIKE SPECIMEN FROM THE MAASTRICHTIAN OF THE HAŢEG BASIN (ROMANIA)

Putative bird remains were reported relatively early from the Maastrichtian continental beds of the Haţeg Basin. They were referred to as Elopteryx nopcsai Andrews, 1913 based on material collected by Nopcsa (femora, tibiotarsi), diagnosed as a large-size cormorant-like bird. Subsequently, the tibiotarsi were redescribed as belonging to two new taxa of large owls (Bradycneme draculae, Heptasteornis andrewsi). More recently, several authors have contested the avian affinities of these remains, considering them as belonging to small non-avian theropods. The discovery of new bird-like remains is therefore remarkable, since they might potentially establish the presence of birds in the Haţeg ecosystem. A distal right femur from the La Scoabă locality, Sinpetru, is reminiscent in size and features of the femora described initially by Andrews, showing some resemblances to steganopod femora and corresponding in size to large Recent pelicans. However, several osteological details differentiate the specimen from other fossil and Recent steganopodes, suggesting that it does not, in fact, belong to a bird. Several non-avian theropods have a distal femur reminiscent of the Sinpetru specimen, showing an ectocondylar crest and lacking a craniomedial crest. Among these, alvarezsaurids most closely resemble the La Scoabă femur. The new specimen is thus considered to belong to an alvarezsaurid, not to a steganopod bird; it represents the second indication of the presence of this peculiar late Cretaceous theropod clade in the Haţeg Basin.
Local Financing Platform Loan and Performance of City Commercial Banks: Evidence from City Commercial Banks in China

This paper investigates the relationship between optimum local financing platform loan and the perfor¬mance of CCBs using data of 68 CCBs during 2010 to 2018. Our results derived from panel threshold regression model show a positive and significant impact of local financing platform loan on the perfor¬mance of CCBs before the upper estimated thresholds. Once the local financing platform loan moves above the upper threshold level, then its impact becomes negative. Further, the same relationship is conducted in sub-samples of eastern, central and western regions. Our findings suggest the policymak¬ers that maintains ideal local financing platform loan is effective to encourage the performance of CCBs.
Final Report Summary-EURUCAS ( European-Russian Centre for cooperation in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic environmental and climate research )

Executive Summary: EuRuCAS (European-Russian Centre for cooperation in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic environmental and climate research) Project aims on extension, consolidation and strengthening scientific cooperation between researchers from EU Member States and Associated Countries and Russia using Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NIERSC), established in St. Petersburg by
Camelot: A Modular Customizable Sandbox for Visualizing Interactive Narratives

Camelot is a modular customizable virtual environment that is inspired by the needs of current and previous narrative generation research. Camelot is meant to facilitate interactive narrative prototyping, controlled comparisons of different systems, and reproducing and building on the works of others. It provides a 3D presentation layer that is fully separable from the narrative generation system that controls it. This allows any application, AI algorithm, or technology, written in any programming language, to connect and use Camelot to visualize their interactive narratives. In this paper, we introduce Camelot and its capabilities, and provide some details on how and to what extent it can be used to beneﬁt the interactive narrative community.
Assessment of indole-3-acetic acid induced morpho-physiological responses and ROS scavenging in silver nanoparticles stressed Oryza sativa seedlings.

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are used in several commercial products, medical and diagnostic treatments, and as nano-pesticide and nano-herbicide. On release, it contaminates the environment and ultimately reaches the agriculture field, causes an alteration in the plant growth and development, whereas their negatives impacts could be restored by the exogenous application of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Therefore, the present study has been carried out to examine the potential role of IAA on the toxicity of AgNPs in Oryza sativa seedlings. AgNPs at both doses (200 and 500 μM) showed a remarkable decline in growth, photosynthetic pigments, and protein content. AgNPs also negatively affected the kinetics of photosystem II (PS II) photochemistry that leads to oxidative stress as confirmed by invitro and in-vivo visualization of superoxide radicle (SOR) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) that ultimately cause cell death. While the addition of IAA along with AgNPs mitigates the toxicity by increasing the photosynthetic pigment, protein content and it also repairs the kinetics of PSII photosystem and reduces the generation of reactive oxygen species. Therefore, this study concludes that IAA ameliorates the negative impacts caused by AgNPs and improves plant growth.
Use of population viability analysis to evaluate management options for the endangered lower keys marsh rabbit

We conducted a population viability analysis (PVA) for the federally endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefucri). We estimated parameters via livetrapping, radiotelemetry, and fecal-pellet counting during a 2.5-year study. Historically, this subspecies ranged thronghout the Lower Keys of Florida. but today the marsh rabbit is limited to 41 subpopulations occurring in 3 distinct metapopulations. To evaluate this subspecies risk of extinction, we used VORTEX, a simulation modeling program, that combined deterministic and stochastic birth and death events, differing migration rates based on spatially explicit patch structure, and extinction and recolonization. Our simulation calculated, the chance that each metapopulation would go extinet imder current conditions and several management scenarios. Under current conditions, the model predicted there is a 100% chance that all metapopulations will go extinct. The metapopulation with many small patches went extinet faster that the metapopulations with fewer, larger patches The most effective strategy to decrease the risk of extinction of all 3 metapopulations was to increase the survival rate an several age and sex classes by eliminating predation by domestic cats.
Computational Creativity in Procedural Content Generation: A State of the Art Survey

Computational Creativity is a research area that encompasses, among other investigation, the study of creativity models applied to the production of artifacts. As such, artistic areas are targeted by Computational Creativity researchers. One such area, that could potentially benefit from the inclusion of artificial creativity models, is Procedural Content Generation. In this paper, we provide a survey of Procedural Content Generators that contain explicit creativity models. We start by presenting an overview of Procedural Content Generation alongside its applications in addition to providing some insights regarding Computational Creativity, in general. We then illustrate the common grounds that Procedural Content Generation shares with Computational Creativity and, finally, we pinpoint future directions for research.
Numerical Study of Yawed Wind Turbine Under Unstable Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows

Turbine-wake interactions among wind turbine array significantly affect the efficiency of wind farms. Yaw angle control is one of the potential ways to increase the total power generation of wind plants, but the sensitivity of such control strategy to atmospheric stability is rarely studied. In the present work, large-eddy simulation of a two-turbine configuration under convective atmospheric boundary layer is performed, with different yaw angles for the front one, the effect of turbine induced forces on the flow field is modeled by actuator line. Emphasis is placed on wake characteristics and aerodynamic performance. Simulation results reveal that atmospheric stability has a considerable impact on the behavior of wind turbine, wake deflection on the horizontal hub height plane for yawed wind turbine is relatively small, compared with the result of the empirical wake model proposed for wind turbine operating in the neutral stratification, which is attributed to the higher ambient turbulence intensity and large variance of wind direction in the convective condition. And associated with the smaller wake deflection, the total power production does not increase as expected when yawing the upstream turbine. In addition, due to the existence of great quantities of disorganized coherent turbulent structures in the unstable condition, the yaw bearing moment experienced by the downstream wind turbine increases dramatically, even if the rotor plane of the first turbine is perpendicular to the inflow direction.
Cultural Identity Development in Second Language Teacher Education: Toward a Negotiated Model

This is a two-phase study toward understanding the cultural identity development of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers when they participated in cultural negotiation programs and developing a negotiated model of cultural identity development for the second language teacher education programs. To such ends, the analysis of the narratives authored by five experienced and four novice EFL teachers was done by using Wenger’s (1998) community of practice and Pennington’s (2014) TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher identity model to track the cultural identity development of the EFL teachers during the cultural negotiation sessions. Then, by meticulously examining the theoretical and empirical underpinnings about cultural identity including the theories and previous empirical studies along with the results obtained from the first phase of the study, we developed a negotiated model of cultural identity development for the EFL teachers. The model is a theoretical one which can be applied to different second language teacher education programs to develop the cultural identity of the language teachers by participating in negotiation sessions. The study concluded with some implications for second language teacher education programs to develop the cultural identity of the EFL teachers.
Effect of long term rice establishment methods on physical properties in Vertisol

The present investigation was carried out during 2016-17 at Hingnadih and Malpuri village, Dhamdha block, Durg district, Raipur. The soil of the experimental field was clay and clay loam in texture (Vertisol) localy knows as “kanhar”. The experiment was laid out in Randomized block design with thirteen replications and three treatments. In this study, the effect of long term rice establishment methods on rice under rice based cropping system on physical properties were evaluated in after harvest of rice crop. In this study, three rice establishment methods (puddling, biasi and direct seeding rice) were laid in main treatment. The soil were evaluated after harvesting of rice crop under various depths viz. 015, 15-30, 30-45 and 45-60 cm.After harvest of rice the soil physical properties viz., bulk density, hydraulic conductivity, penetration resistance, water holding capacity and cracks volume were significantly affected by different rice establishment method. Puddling significantly increase the bulk density of surface soil (0-15 cm) and sub-surface layer (15-30 and 30-45 cm) but non-significant effect was found at 45-60 cm depth. The highest hydraulic conductivity was found in surface layer in direct seeding rice, when the depth increases hydraulic conductivity was decreases vice versa. Penetration resistance was found significant higher in puddled condition than biasi and direct seeding. Penetration resistance was also increased with the depth. Water holding capacity increase with the puddling and minimum was found in direct seeding. Puddling was because the crack volume, the higher crack volume was found in puddling condition.
DEEP HYBRID FEATURES FOR CODE SMELLS DETECTION

Code smells are symptoms of poor software design and implementation choices. Previous empirical studies have underlined their negative effect on software comprehension, fault-proneness and maintainability. A number of approaches have been proposed to identify the existence of code smells in the source code; recent studies have shown the potential of machine learning models in this context. However, previous approaches did not exploit the lexical and syntactical features of the source code; they instead modelled the source code using software metrics only. This paper proposes an approach for detecting the occurrence of the God class smell which utilizes both, the source code textual features and metrics to train three deep learning networks (i) Long short term memory, (ii) Gated recurrent unit and (iii) Convolutional neural network. We proposed utilizing deep leaning networks as they are reported to outperform traditional machine learning models in several domains including software engineering. To assess the proposed approach, a dataset for the God class smell was built using source codes acquired from the “Qualitas Corpus”. Experimental results demonstrated that, the three deep learning networks outperformed three traditional machine learning models: Naïve Bayes, Random forests and Decision trees. Additionally, of the three deep learning networks the Gated recurrent unit model is the superior in this context. Furthermore, combining both, the source code metrics and textual features enhanced the accuracy of detecting the God class smell.
Two new species of Lichenothelia (Lichenotheliaceae) from Iran

Abstract Two new species of Lichenothelia, both from Iran, are described. Lichenothelia iranica is characterized by a black thallus with often finely lobate, slightly effigurate, not areolate margins, eight non-amyloid spores per ascus and 1–3-septate ascospores with 1–2 longitudinal or oblique septa. Lichenothelia ilamensis is distinguished by a black areolate, fissured, slightly effigurate or rarely lobulate thallus. The areoles are confluent and aggregated in the centre, becoming dispersed towards the margin, and the asci contain (4–)6(–8) non-amyloid, 1-septate spores.
Growth and development of Canada goose goslings

Under natural conditions goslings of Cackling Canada Geese (Branta canadensis minima) grew more rapidly (k = 0.074, Gompertz equation) than ducks but at a rate similar to other arctic nesting geese. Lipid levels in 2-day-old goslings were sufficient to meet energy requirements for less than one additional day. The liver, legs, and components of the gastrointestinal tract in Cackling Geese were relatively larger at hatching than in altricial birds. These tissues completed growth about three weeks before fledging as compared to one week in similar sized altricial birds. Early growth of digestive organs is probably related to the herbaceous diet of geese. Comparison of growth patterns of gallinaceous birds with those of geese superficially supports Ricklefs’ hypothesis that proportion of mature tissue at hatching regulates growth rates. Examination of growth within the Anatidae, however, suggests that temporal patterns in food quality and availability may have been important influences in the evolution of growth patterns in these species.
Observations on Copulatory Behavior of a Pair of Screech Owls (Otus asio)

Precopulatory and copulatory behavior is rarely described, even though it may differ significantly between species, between individuals, and between mating encounters of the same pair. As for nocturnal species of birds, mating behavior is probably seldom witnessed in the wild, much less recorded. I report here the observation of one instance of the mating behavior of Screech Owls. At about 22:30 on 15 January 1971 a pair of Screech Owls was called to a tree by a whistled imitation of the species' tremulous "song" (of the "bouncing-ball" rhythm, as described by Peterson (A field guide to western birds. Second ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 1961, p. 157). Both sexes responded with a similar call, the female's being higher in pitch. Eventually the female approached her mate, who remained in position, and sat, in contact, beside him. The pair remained thus for over 10 min, calling frequently, and nibbling one another around the area of their bills. Suddenly the call of the male changed to a rapid tremulo, consisting of a short phrase followed by a longer one of equal intensity. This call was repeated with more regular and shorter intervals than the earlier "song," and during each interval a short, unbroken tremulo of the female's, at a higher pitch, was interspersed. This "pair-song" terminated when the male suddenly mounted his mate. Coition consumed 1.5-2.0 sec, the male flapping continuously to keep his position, and the pair separated by flying in opposite directions. About 30 min later the male was back on the same branch and was again approached by the female. Without calling and without the precopulatory nibbling of the earlier encounter, he mounted her immediately. His eyes remained closed while he seemed to be attempting to grasp the nape of her neck with his bill. Again they flew to different trees after coition. This particular pair of owls is resident on the University of Oregon campus and is exceptionally tame, being accustomed to the traffic of students at all hours. Most of the observations were made by flashlight, from distances rarely exceeding 15 ft.