Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The stable isotopic composition of water vapour above Corsica during the HyMeX SOP1 campaign: insight into vertical mixing processes from lower-tropospheric survey flights

Abstract. Stable isotopes of water vapour are powerful indicators of meteorological processes on a broad range of scales, reflecting evaporation, condensation, and air mass mixing processes. With the recent advent of fast laser-based spectroscopic methods, it has become possible to measure the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric water vapour in situ at a high temporal resolution. Here we present results from such comprehensive airborne spectroscopic isotope measurements in water vapour over the western Mediterranean at a high spatial and temporal resolution. Measurements have been acquired by a customized Picarro L2130-i cavity-ring down spectrometer deployed onboard the Dornier 128 D-IBUF aircraft together with a meteorological flux measurement package during the HyMeX SOP1 (Hydrological cycle in Mediterranean Experiment special observation period 1) field campaign in Corsica, France, during September and October 2012. Taking into account memory effects of the air inlet pipe, the typical time resolution of the measurements was about 15–30 s, resulting in an average horizontal resolution of about 1–2 km. Cross-calibration of the water vapour measurements from all humidity sensors showed good agreement under most flight conditions but the most turbulent ones. In total 21 successful stable isotope flights with 59 flight hours have been performed. Our data provide quasi-climatological autumn average conditions and vertical profiles of the stable isotope parameters δD, δ18O, and d-excess during the study period. A d-excess minimum in the overall average profile is reached in the region of the boundary-layer top, possibly caused by precipitation evaporation. This minimum is bracketed by higher d-excess values near the surface caused by non-equilibrium fractionation, and a maximum above the boundary layer related to the increasing d-excess in very depleted and dry high-altitude air masses. Repeated flights along the same pattern reveal pronounced day-to-day variability due to changes in the large-scale circulation. During a period marked by a strong inversion at the top of the marine boundary layer, vertical gradients in stable isotopes reached up to 25.4 ‰ 100 m−1 for δD and 24.0 ‰ 100 m−1 for the d-excess.
The Responsible Anarchist: Postmodernism and social change

In recent years, the adoption of postmodern theoretical perspectives within educational research has prompted strong critical reaction. For some critics (particularly Marxist researchers), the greatest fault of postmodernism is that it lacks an agenda for social change. This paper takes issue with this argument, and with four associated arguments: (1) that postmodernism disempowers those to whom it claims to give voice; (2) that it appeals only to intellectuals and has no practical value; (3) that it denies the possibility of the construction of a new social order; and (4) that it colludes with the status quo in its refusal to act. Addressing each of these points in turn, the author suggests that, contrary to the view of these critics, postmodernism offers a powerful force for social change, through the acceptance of uncertainty, the acknowledgement of diversity and the refusal to see concepts such as 'justice' or 'society' as fixed, or as governed by unassailable 'truths'.
Simplex Virus Glycoprotein D Lymphocyte Epitopes Identified from Herpes Cytotoxic T + HLA-A*0201-Restricted CD8

Evidence obtained from both animal models and humans suggests that T cells speciﬁc for HSV-1 and HSV-2 glycoprotein D (gD) contribute to protective immunity against herpes infection. However, knowledge of gD-speciﬁc human T cell responses is limited to CD4 (cid:1) T cell epitopes, with no CD8 (cid:1) T cell epitopes identiﬁed to date. In this study, we screened the HSV-1 gD amino acid sequence for HLA-A*0201-restricted epitopes using several predictive computational algorithms and identiﬁed 10 high probability CD8 (cid:1) T cell epitopes. Synthetic peptides corresponding to four of these epitopes, each nine to 10 amino acids in length, exhibited high-afﬁnity binding in vitro to puriﬁed human HLA-A*0201 molecules. Three of these four peptide epitopes, gD 53–61 , gD 70–78 , and gD 278–286 , signiﬁcantly stabilized HLA-A*0201 molecules on T 2 cell lines and are highly conserved among and between HSV-1 and HSV-2 strains. Consistent with this, in 33 sequentially studied HLA-A*0201-positive, HSV-1-seropositive, and/or HSV-2-seropositive healthy individuals, the most frequent and robust CD8 (cid:1) T cell responses, assessed by IFN- (cid:2) ELISPOT, CD107a/b cytotoxic degranulation, and tetramer assays, were directed mainly against gD 53–61 , gD 70–78 , and gD 278–286 epitopes. In addition, CD8 (cid:1) T cell lines generated by gD 53–61 , gD 70–78 , and gD 278–286 peptides recognized infected target cells expressing native gD. Lastly, CD8 (cid:1) T cell responses speciﬁc to gD 53–61 , gD 70–78 , and gD 278–286 epitopes were induced in HLA-A*0201 transgenic mice following ocular or genital infection with either HSV-1 or HSV-2. The functional gD CD8 (cid:1) T cell epitopes described herein are potentially important components of clinical immunotherapeutic and immunoprophylactic herpes vaccines. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 180: 426–437.
Subways: a case for redundant, inexpensive data center edge links

As network demand increases, data center network operators face a number of challenges including the need to add capacity to the network. Unfortunately, network upgrades can be an expensive proposition, particularly at the edge of the network where most of the network's cost lies. This paper presents a quantitative study of alternative ways of wiring multiple server links into a data center network. In it, we propose and evaluate Subways, a new approach to wiring servers and Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches that provides an inexpensive incremental upgrade path as well as decreased network congestion, better load balancing, and improved fault tolerance. Our simulation-based results show that Subways significantly improves performance compared to alternative ways of wiring the same number of links and switches together. For example, we show that Subways offers up to 3.1× better performance on a MapReduce shuffle workload compared to an equivalent capacity network.
Dorsal midbrain syndrome

We report clinical and oculographic findings in seven patients with the dorsal midbrain syndrome (Parinaud's syndrome). All presented with limited upward voluntary gaze and convergence nystagmus with attempted upward voluntary gaze. Quantitative analysis of vertical eye movements documented characteristic abnormalities of saccades with relative preservation of reflex eye movements (ie, vestibular, optokinetic, and visual-vestibular). Vertical saccade velocity was only slightly decreased in five patients with tumors, indicating that the vertical burst neurons in the mesencephalic reticular formation and their efferent pathways to the oculomotor neurons were minimally damaged. On the other hand, two patients with probable brainstem encephalitis exhibited marked slowing of vertical saccades, indicating that the burst neurons, or their efferent pathways to the oculomotor neurons, were severely damaged.
An Introduction to the Green IT Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic IT Management System

In this paper we introduce the Green IT Balanced Scorecard by incorporating an environmental aspect of technology into the scorecard measurement method. We conceptualized the Green IT balanced scorecard as "a nomological management tool to systematically align IT strategy with business strategy from an environmental sustainability perspective in order to achieve competitive advantage". The objectives of the Green IT balanced scorecard include the measurement of technology performance via the effective integration of environmental aspects, the investigation of both tangible and intangible assets of Green IT investment, the alignment of IT performance and business performance, and the transformation of the results into competitive advantage. This concept offers a new possibility for both practitioners and researchers to translate their sustainable business strategies into Green IT actions.
Through a Glass Darkly

Although education researchers understand that race is a problematic concept of spurious value, the concept persists in our research and scholarship. Each of the social sciences that contribute to the field of education has a history of racialized understandings that make their way to both our research and practice. Until we begin to carefully examine the way race and racialized thinking influence our work, we will continue to perpetuate destructive thinking about the capabilities of learners based on race.
Transform/subband representations for signals with arbitrarily shaped regions of support

Transform/subband representations form a basic building block for many signal processing algorithms and applications. Most of the effort has focused on developing representations for infinite-length signals, with simple extensions to finite-length 1-D and rectangular support 2-D signals. However, many signals may have arbitrary length or arbitrarily shaped (AS) regions of support (ROS). We present a novel framework for creating critically sampled perfect reconstruction transform/subband representations for AS signals. Our method selects an appropriate subset of vectors from an (easily obtained) basis for a larger (superset) signal space, in order to form a basis for the AS signal. In particular, we have developed a number of promising wavelet representations for arbitrary-length l-D signals and AS 2-D/M-D signals that provide high performance with low complexity.
“You are Not Allowed to Talk about Production”: Narratization on (and off) the Set of CBS's Big Brother

In this autoethnographic account, I critically interrogate my experiences on and off the set of CBS's reality show Big Brother. Pulling from phenomenological theories of time and narrative, I investigate how members of the show's production, Big Brother viewers, and I performatively rendered gay identity in the immediate contexts of the program and its fan forums.
The N-Pact Factor: Evaluating the Quality of Empirical Journals with Respect to Sample Size and Statistical Power

The authors evaluate the quality of research reported in major journals in social-personality psychology by ranking those journals with respect to their N-pact Factors (NF)—the statistical power of the empirical studies they publish to detect typical effect sizes. Power is a particularly important attribute for evaluating research quality because, relative to studies that have low power, studies that have high power are more likely to (a) to provide accurate estimates of effects, (b) to produce literatures with low false positive rates, and (c) to lead to replicable findings. The authors show that the average sample size in social-personality research is 104 and that the power to detect the typical effect size in the field is approximately 50%. Moreover, they show that there is considerable variation among journals in sample sizes and power of the studies they publish, with some journals consistently publishing higher power studies than others. The authors hope that these rankings will be of use to authors who are choosing where to submit their best work, provide hiring and promotion committees with a superior way of quantifying journal quality, and encourage competition among journals to improve their NF rankings.
Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure

In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper we present a method that extends the language modeling approach to incorporate both document structure and PICO query formulation. We present an analysis of the distribution of PICO elements in medical abstracts that motivates the use of a location-based weighting strategy. In experiments carried out on a collection of 1.5 million abstracts, the method was found to lead to an improvement of roughly 60% in MAP and 70% in P@10 as compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The Politics of Consumption: A Re-inquiry on Thompson and Haytko's (1997) "Speaking of Fashion."

This article explores Thompson and Haytko's (1997) interpretation of fashion discourses by bringing together two opposing perspectives on consumers' use of objects as signs. The first perspective assumes that the consumer has free reign in the play of signs (i.e., the consumer is constituting). The second assumes that the consumer is imprisoned by the signs and codes of the historical moment (i.e., the consumer is constituted). The dialectical and discursive tension between these two perspectives is used as an orienting framework in the hermeneutic analyses of 14 phenomenological interviews. Thompson and Haytko's (1997) findings/claims remain pertinent in a professional, middle-class context. In addition, this research contributes to their lived hegemony premise by emphasizing the dominating tendencies of marketing systems. Copyright 2002 by the University of Chicago.
Newly Developed Automatic Lay-Up Process for Manufacturing of FRP Sheets

Hand lay-up process is fabrication process to manufacture of FRP products. FRP or fiberglass corrugated roof sheet also manufactured by hand lay-up process, but some problems has been arise with this method such that, mainly low production rate of sheets; uniform thickness not maintaining; lay-up does not uniformly perform, resin is harmful for human. These problems can be eliminated by hand lay-up process converted into Automatic lay-up process with providing safety environments for works. In this paper also discussed about different composite materials of methods for manufacturing of roof sheet and other products.
Distributed phased-array radar detection performance analyses

Based on distributed radar and phased-array radar, put forward distributed phased radar system. The transmission and reception models of distributed phased-array radar system are given; Radar detection performance formulas are derived based on binary hypothesis testing and Neyman-Pearson criterion; under the different SNR, detection performance of radar system with different number of station and antenna is analyzed; simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Absence of Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity in Fecundity in the Parasitoid Anagrus erythroneurae (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

To improve biological pest control, we would like to understand the main factors that limit the reproductive success of key biological control agents, including parasitoid wasps. Previous research with proovigenic parasitoids in the genus Anagrus collected from multiple field sites revealed positive correlations between parasitoid fecundity and local host density. In this article, we test whether this variation in fecundity is a reflection of transgenerational phenotypic plasticity. We exposed females in laboratory microcosms to either low or high host densities and then quantified the fecundity of their adult daughters. Mean fecundity of daughters did not differ across host density treatments, arguing against the operation of phenotypic plasticity. Significant variation in mean fecundity across different families instead suggested the possibility that genetic variation may underlie the observed fecundity differences.
An Application of the What Works Clearinghouse Standards for Evaluating Single-Subject Research

The use of single-subject research in the development and evaluation of academic, psychological, and behavioral interventions has led to the experimental validation of an array of treatment options for a diverse set of educational challenges. However, the synthesis of these bodies of research has been the subject of considerable debate. In an effort to utilize the findings from studies using single-subject methodologies to identify effective educational practices, the What Works Clearinghouse developed a set of criteria to evaluate the strength of evidence for various strategies. In this article, an application of these standards is demonstrated using a body of self-management intervention studies drawn from a recently published systematic review. The utility of the standards for identifying evidence-based practices validated with single-subject research methods is discussed. In addition, a comparison of the What Works Clearinghouse procedures to previously developed methods for identifying evidence-based practices with single-subject research is provided, and implications for research and practice are described.
Device-Free Indoor Activity Recognition System

In this paper, we explore the properties of the Channel State Information (CSI) of WiFi signals and present a device-free indoor activity recognition system. Our proposed system uses only one ubiquitous router access point and a laptop as a detection point, while the user is free and neither needs to wear sensors nor carry devices. The proposed system recognizes six daily activities, such as walk, crawl, fall, stand, sit, and lie. We have built the prototype with an effective feature extraction method and a fast classification algorithm. The proposed system has been evaluated in a real and complex environment in both line-of-sight (LOS) and none-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios, and the results validate the performance of the proposed system.
Moral Foundation of the Kindergarten Teacher’s Educational Approach: Self-Reflection Facilitated Educator Response to Pluralism in Educational Context

This paper investigates the moral foundation of Kindergarten teachers’ educational approach from the perspective of sensitivity towards religions and other worldviews. As a context for the examination, the paper presents the current situation of the Finnish multi-faith kindergartens through the empirical mixed method data gathered from five day care centres in the capital Helsinki area. The findings illustrate that at present, the multitude of religions and other worldviews in the increasingly diverse Kindergarten context causes continuous negotiations among the staff on both the educational practices and in the teachers’ educational partnership with families. In particular, there is a lot of uncertainty of how—if at all—education on religions and worldviews should be implemented in the multicultural, multi-faith kindergarten. Some of the staff members have difficulties in encountering religious diversity in a positive or neutral light, as religions are often seen through limitations to everyday practicalities and educational contents. It is argued that in order to develop a constructive, worldview sensitive educator response to pluralism, and thus to encourage the development in the moral foundation of the teachers’ work, the teachers would need supported opportunities for dialoguous self-reflection. To support this, working models for intercultural and inter-faith sensitivity are suggested.
Effectiveness of a sexual assault awareness and prevention workshop for youth: A 3-month follow-up pragmatic cluster randomization study

Sexual violence and other forms of sexual assault and coercion have a pervasive presence in the lives of many young people. School and community services and programs that are geared toward sexual assault awareness and prevention of sexual violence have thus been offered to youth in high-school settings. The goal of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of one such sexual assault awareness and prevention workshop designed and presented specifically for male and female youth aged 15 to 17 over a three month follow-up. A sample of 794 youth recruited from two schools were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions. Participants completed self-report outcome measures that assessed their knowledge of sexual assault, awareness of available resources, attitudes toward sexual assault, ability to identify sexual assault and to respond appropriately to a disclosure of sexual assault as well as sexual victimization. The data were analyzed using random coefficient analyses, which revealed that the workshop was effective in improving general knowledge regarding sexual assault, awareness of resources in the event of experiencing sexual assault, and attitudes regarding sexual assault. Participation in the program was also shown to enhance youth’s ability to recognize sexual assault in a dating context and to diminish hypothetical responses that deny or minimize sexual assault in a dating situation disclosed by a peer. With one exception, these improvements were similar for male and female youth. The results indicate that the workshop was effective and that revision of some aspects of the implementation could further maximize its impact.
Introduction to Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions

Supergravities in four and higher dimensions are reviewed. We discuss the action and its local symmetries of N = 1 supergravity in four dimensions, possible types of spinors in various dimensions, field contents of supergravity multiplets, non-compact bosonic symmetries, non-linear sigma models, duality symmetries of antisymmetric tensor fields and super p-branes. ∗An expanded version of a review talk at YITP workshop on Supersymmetry, 27 – 30 March, 1996 †e-mail: tanii@th.phy. saitama-u.ac. jp
Artificial ontogenesis of controllers for robotic behavior using VLG GA

In this paper we describe a method for the synthesis of robotic controllers using evolutionary techniques. A modified version of the recurrent neural network used for controlling the robots is evolved using genetic algorithm using the variable length genotype approach where the genotype encodes the network. It has been discovered that the separation of modalities in the network like vision and touch, for the first few layers helps in faster evolution as well as in the development of faster controller networks. The structure of the network that emerges from this kind of evolution is similar to brain-like networks. Performance of plastic versus non-plastic individuals has also been explored. Gene-blocking technique has been used for developing several behaviors in the same evolution cycle. The final controller developed at the end of the evolutionary process was tested on a Khepera.
Preliminary validation results of MODIS albedo products compared with temporal ground-measured albedos of paddy fields

In the present paper, the validation results of Mod- erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) albedo products are reported. Measurements of shortwave band albedos have been conducted for paddy fields in Chiba, Japan from April to December of 2004. The accuracy of MODIS 1-km albedo products for paddy fields in Japan was found to be within approximately 0.03. In addition, the results indicate that the degradation of the accuracy may be caused by an insufficient number of observations, which is deeply related to the quality of the estimated BRDF model parameters. Considering the robustness of the BRDF estimation strongly affects the robustness of the albedo estimation, a robust method that can estimate BRDF even if the number of observations is limited should be developed.
Precursor B Lymphoblastic Lymphoma of the Orbit in a Child: An Unusual Presentation of a Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Objective: The majority of ocular adnexal lymphomas are marginal zone lymphomas, which occur rarely in children. This case report describes a 6 years old child with a precursor B lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting in the ocular adnexa. The combination of multi-agent chemotherapy with adjuvant radiotherapy seems to be necessary in order to achieve a complete remission of this subtype of lymphoma's in ocular adnexa. Design: Retrospective case study. Method: A review of the clinical, pathological, radiological findings and follow-up in a patient from the files available at our center, which were reviewed between the years 1974 and 2004.