Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Lofoten Basin eddy: Three years of evolution as observed by Seagliders: THE LOFOTEN BASIN EDDY

The Lofoten Basin in the Norwegian Sea is an area where the warm Atlantic Water is subject to the greatest heat losses anywhere in the Nordic Seas. A long-lived, deep, anticyclonic eddy is located in the central part of the basin (the Lofoten Basin Eddy, LBE). Here we use observations from Seagliders, collected between July 2012 and July 2015, to describe LBE in unprecedented detail. The missions were designed to sample LBE repeatedly, allowing for multiple realizations of radial sections across the eddy. LBE has a mean radius of 18 6 4 km and propagates cyclonically with a mean speed of approximately 3–4 cm s. The anticyclonic azimuthal peak velocity varies between 0.5 and 0.7 m s, located between 700 and 900 m depth. The average contribution of geostrophy in the cyclogeostrophic balance is 44%. The relative vorticity of the core is close to the local Coriolis parameter. The evolution of core water properties shows substantial interannual variability, influenced by surface buoyancy flux and advection of anomalous low-salinity nearsurface waters that may affect the vertical extent of winter convection. A comparison of the eddy properties to those inferred from automated tracking of satellite altimeter observations shows that the location of eddy center is successfully detected to within one half eddy radius, but vorticity is underestimated and the radius overestimated, each approximately by a factor of 2, because of excessive smoothing relative to the small eddy radius.
A Journey along the Borderland: A Critical Approach to Artificial Intelligence-Based Art and Literary Practices

Digital media open up opportunities for new integrations of art and science. However, the close contact between the multiple cultures in either tradition also unveils fundamental value differences that impose considerable difficulties in performing interdisciplinary work. In this chapter, we identify a new form of this cultural divide in the context of computer art and digital media practices. Next, we identify a growing number of practices that engage the capacity of the computer to abstractly represent data and to process it algorithmically in order to serve expressive, critical, and generalizable purposes. In particular, we explore artificial intelligence-based art and literary practices that actively negotiate the hidden assumptions and push the disciplinary boundaries of both art and science. Finally, we present our AI-based interactive narrative work Memory, Reverie Machine, which engages literature, cognitive science, and AI. It illustrates our perspective and strategy of combining art and science practices synergistically, as part of a growing community for which the exploring of the borderland between art and science can transform not only particular technologies or how they are perceived, but also end goals and values.
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. III. A Jupiter-mass companion around HD 109246

We report the detection of a Jupiter-mass planet discovered with the SOPHIE spectrograph mounted on the 1.93-m telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory. The new planet orbits HD 109246, a G0V star slightly more metallic than the Sun. HD 109246b has a minimum mass of 0.77 MJup, an orbital period of 68 days, and an eccentricity of 0.12. It is placed in a sparsely populated region of the period distribution of extrasolar planets. We also present a correction method for the so-called seeing effect that affects the SOPHIE radial velocities. We complement this discovery announcement with a description of some calibrations that are implemented in the SOPHIE automatic reduction pipeline. These calibrations allow the derivation of the photon-noise radial velocity uncertainty and some useful stellar properties (v sini ,[ Fe/H], logR � ) directly from the SOPHIE data.
Mining Blocks ' Association Rules for Disk Data

as the processor-I/O gap continues widening, the modern I/O-bound applications such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) often suffer from great latency of disk access. In this paper, we argue that the block association rule can be recognized as common semantic information embedded in disk I/O traces and it can be utilized to direct disk prefetching. We propose a novel mining approach to extract such association rules to benefit prefetching. The experimental results show that this proposed approach is effective in increasing prefetching accuracy, and the disk latency can be reduced by this association rule based
Compound eye as a target organ of white spot baculovirus (WSBV) in Penaeus indicus H. Milne Edwards

Recently mass mortalities of penaeid prawns have been reported worldwide in the culture ponds due to the occurrence of White Spot Disease (WSD). Eventhough, several tissues of ectodermal and mesodermal origin have been confirmed to be the target organs for white spot baculovirus, not much importance has been given so far to the compound eyes of penaeid prawns affected with WSD. Histopathological and ultrastructural studies were conducted in the compound eye of Penaeus indicus H. Milne Edwards, affected with WSD. Eosinophilic to basophilic intranuclear inclusion bodies were observed in the narrow region of the retinular cell nuclei in the dioptic portion of the ommatidia. Electron microscopic examination of the compound eye revealed the presence of rodshaped, enveloped, non-occluded virions and viral particles in the affected nuclei of retinular cells.
A MONITOR FOR DETECTING NUCLEAR WASTE LEAKAGE IN A SUBSURFACE REPOSITORY

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Exploring termhood using language models

Proceedings of the Workshop CHAT 2011: Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology Resources. Editors: Tatiana Gornostay and Andrejs Vasiļjevs. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 12 (2011), 32-35. © 2011 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio. no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle. net/10062/16956 .
MEASURING METHOD FOR THE MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY OF SOLIDS BY WATER IMMERSION ULTRASONIC SING-AROUND METHOD

Mechanical anisotropy of solids is derived with the ultrasonic velocity measurement. By applying the water immersion ultrasonic sing-around method, not only the ultrasonic dilatational wave velocity in the solids and the ultrasonic shear wave velocity in them, but also the ultrasonic pseudo-dilatational wave velocity in them and the ultrasonic pseudo-shear wave velocity in them can be obtained, where the ultrasonic wave from water into the solids intersects the solid sample as it measures the directionality of the solids. Unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer laminates (CFRP) are chosen to investigate the mechanical anisotropy of solids. Using the ultrasonic velocity data of the CFRP, which are measured by the water immersion ultrasonic sing-around method, and the density data of them, which are measured by the hydro-weighing method, the elastic constants of them, namely, C11, C12, C13, C33, C44 and C66 of them are derived and are tabulated.
Experimental Constraints on the Fatigue of Icy Satellite Lithospheres by Tidal Forces

Fatigue can cause materials that undergo cyclic loading to experience brittle failure at much lower stresses than under monotonic loading. We propose that the lithospheres of icy satellites could become fatigued and thus weakened by cyclical tidal stresses. To test this hypothesis, we performed a series of laboratory experiments to measure the fatigue of water ice at temperatures of 198 K and 233 K and at a loading frequency of 1 Hz. We find that ice is not susceptible to fatigue at our experimental conditions and that the brittle failure stress does not decrease with increasing number of loading cycles. Even though fatigue was not observed at our experimental conditions, colder temperatures, lower loading frequencies, and impurities in the ice shells of icy satellites may increase the likelihood of fatigue crack growth. We also explore other mechanisms that may explain the weak behavior of the lithospheres of some icy satellites.
Properties of latitudinally directed cyclone tracks in NCEP data and in the ARPEGE general circulation model

Cyclone tracks that occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during 47 extended winters (1950/1 1997/11) has been identified from NCEP reanalyses by means of an objective tracking method (Hodges 1995, 1996). The tracks have been divided into two classes, one with northward moving cyclones and a second with southward moving cyclones. The criteria for this selection are that a cyclone track crosses any longitude section from either side (south or north). In both cases mean number of occurrence, variance and seriality (succession of cyclone occurrence) at a grid point level have been investigated. Corresponding cyclone track datasets have been derived from a simulation with the atmospheric model ARPEGE, forced with observed monthly SSTs from 1950 – 1997. The diagnostics listed above have been computed from the model data sets and compared with those based on observations (reanalyses). The winter mean distribution of northward moving cyclone transits in NCEP reanalyses resembles the corresponding distribution of eastward cyclone transits shown in recent literature. This is also the case for variability of monthly counts during winter. Both of the winter mean distributions have a high degree of similarity to other measures of storm track activity. Northward moving cyclones in ARPEGE appears similarly, both with respect to mean distribution and variance, but with a substantial difference that the number of occurrences is 30% lower in the model data as compared with NCEP data. The three regions where we find high numbers of southward moving cyclones correspond well in the two datasets, again with the model data containing 35% less cyclone counts than the NCEP data. A dispersion coefficient has been computed showing that for northward moving cyclones in the Pacific and Atlantic storm tracks, regularity is found in the westernmost parts while clustering occurs in central (Pacific) and eastern (North Atlantic) parts. The spatial distribution and degree of clustering and regularity is in overall agreement between the modeland NCEP data. The three regions with significant NS occurrences are associated with clustering in both datasets. The link between the monthly cyclone counts and the large-scale circulation, represented by the ten leading rotated principal components of monthly geopotential at 750hPa, was investigated. It was found that the NAO does not have as dominating influence in determining the cyclone count variability as could be expected on basis of earlier literature. Namely, four additional patterns are actively affecting cyclone occurrences in various regions in the North Atlantic and European sector. For NCEP data we found similar behaviour between northward cyclone transits and eastward moving cyclones in this respect. The link between monthly cyclone counts and large scale flow is very different in NCEP data than in the model data.
THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF LONG-MEMORY AND EXPONENTIAL ACD MODELS

This paper examines some of the statistical properties of various Autoregressive Conditional Duration (ACD) speci…cations. More speci…cally, the statistical analysis of the longmemory, and exponential ACD models is presented. To allow for non-monotonic hazard functions we use either the generalized Gamma or the generalized F distributions. Conditions for the existence of the …rst two moments are established. We also provide analytical expressions of the autocorrelation function of the durations.
Permeability Evolution during Deformation of Siliciclastic Sandstones from Moab, Utah

We conducted triaxial deformation experiments on large (0.1-m; 0.33-ft)-diameter cores of four sandstones from the Moab area to investigate the effect of total axial strain and effective confining pressure on the evolution of bulk permeability of faulted samples. Sandstones with low bulk porosities (Dewey Bridge and Slickrock Subkha) exhibited an increase in permeability with increasing inelastic axial strain at low effective confining pressures, whereas those with high porosity (Navajo and Slickrock Aeolian) showed a decline in permeability. However, all samples showed permeability decline with increasing inelastic axial strain at high effective confining pressures. Meanwhile, microstructural observations revealed no systematic dependence of the width of the shear zone and the number of deformation bands on either strain or effective confining pressure, although grain-size reduction was more intense at high effective confining pressures. A new geometric model has been developed based on these observations for a constant effective confining pressure and is shown to provide excellent agreement with the experimental data at all effective confining pressures. However, the parameters of the model depend only weakly on effective confining pressure for low-porosity sandstones, suggesting that cataclastic fault seals in low-porosity rocks have a low sensitivity to burial depth in the range studied here.
Improving The 2.5D STAGE Robotic simulator

The open source Stage simulator is a plug-in for the Player robotic software system, that enables the user to test robotic devices in a simulated environment. While designing and building the hardware for a new robotic system might consume numerous months, the Stage simulator provides for building a simulation world with different robotic devices, and for the execution of different tasks, in a time frame of less than a week. Recent additions to Stage include a 2.5D version for simulating objects with simple height properties. However, the 2.5D version of Stage is incomplete. This project aims to provide a complete working solution for 2.5D. Several changes to Stage 2.5D are reported, including improvements to the collision detection and the addition of a gripper device that moves in the z direction. The solution for the collision detection issue provides full 2.5D collision detection functionality and the gripper model is used to allow the robot to complete simple 2.5D tasks such as stacking an object on top of another.
Risk Factors Associated with Acute Coronary Syndromes in South African Asian Indian Patients (The AIR Study)

Aims: To examine the association between traditional risk factors and acute coronary syndrome [ACS] in the South Asian Indian population in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Methods and Results: The study population comprised 4418 patients with a mean age of 54.6 ± 10.9 years, of whom 67% were males. The majority presented with STEMI [75%], 16% had NSTEMI, and 9% unstable angina. Visceral obesity [82%, mean waist circumference 101.43 ± 10.34 cm] was the most commonly observed risk factor, while 78% had hypercholesterolaemia [mean 5.97 ± 1.11 mmol/L] and 74% a family history of vascular disease. More males compared to females were smokers [p 65 years, n = 742] groups, whilst older patients were more likely to have diabetes [59 %, p = 0.001], and hypertension [68 %, p = <0.0001]. Conclusion: Asian Indians in South African have multiple risk factors for ACS, possibly contributing to the increased incidence of coronary heart disease at a young age. This study further confirms that a family history of vascular disease is strongly associated with the presence of ACS, and should be incorporated in future risk factor analyses.
Audit firm rotation, investor protection and audit quality

This study explores the relationship between audit firm rotation, investor protection, and audit quality. Existing research on this topic provides mixed results. One factor that could explain these mixed results is investor protection. Using a dataset consisting of 196 listed firms from eight European countries in 2014-2016 and both absolute discretionary accruals and audit fees as proxies for audit quality, the results show that audit firm rotation does not influence audit quality for both strongand weak investor protection countries. Further, investor protection is found to negatively influence audit quality based on accruals, but only in countries with weak investor protection. This negative effect disappears when a strong level of investor protection is obtained. Finally, the combined effect of audit firm rotation and investor protection is found to decrease audit quality based on accruals and audit fees, but only for the companies in weak investor protection countries. The findings suggest that countries with strong investor protection, in contrast to countries with weak investor protection, protect outside investors enough with their laws and regulations currently in place and guarantee a sufficient level of audit quality. Thus, the introduction of mandatory audit firm rotation is suggested to be reconsidered, especially for countries with weak investor protection. Further, a possible adaptation of other options such as SOX regulation should be examined. Finally, the difference between strongand weak investor protection countries should not be ignored in future research.
An Early Acorn Cache from Central California

The antiquity of acorn processing has been a major concern of archaeologists because of its paramount importance in the historic subsistence economy of native Central California. In the lower Central Valley acorn use is amply documented for Middle period (post-500 B.C.) and succeeding cultures, but whether the Early period peoples of the region shared this well known pattern has been a focus for debate. This paper presents the first direct evidence for acorn use during that period.
Directing Ideologies through Media Cartoons

The aim of this paper is to provide a deeper analysis of the cognitive aspects involved in the control of people‘s minds through visual images. In order to do so, this study was designed to consider how cartoons published in the media along with articles on topics related with the Gaza conflict add their contribution in the process of redirecting people‘s ideologies in favor of the Palestinians.In addition, this paper will explain all the strategies carried out in this procedure of ideological change, with a strong emphasis on the cognitive aspects involved in the process.
Critical thinking and organisation theory : embedding a process to encourage graduate capabilities

The need for the development of effective business curricula that meets the needs of the marketplace has created an increase in the adoption of core competencies lists identifying appropriate graduate skills. Many organisations and tertiary institutions have individual graduate capabilities lists including skills deemed essential for success. Skills recognised as ‘critical thinking’ are popular inclusions on core competencies and graduate capability lists. While there is literature outlining ‘critical thinking’ frameworks, methods of teaching it and calls for its integration into business curricula, few studies actually identify quantifiable improvements achieved in this area. This project sought to address the development of ‘critical thinking’ skills in a management degree program by embedding a process for critical thinking within a theory unit undertaken by students early in the program. Focus groups and a student survey were used to identify issues of both content and implementation and to develop a student perspective on their needs in thinking critically. A process utilising a framework of critical thinking was integrated through a workbook of weekly case studies for group analysis, discussions and experiential exercises. The experience included formative and summative assessment. Initial results indicate a greater valuation by students of their experience in the organisation theory unit; better marks for mid semester essay assignments and higher evaluations on the university administered survey of students’ satisfaction.
Green Marketing and Corporate Social Engagement as Strategy Tools - A Conceptual Framework

“Green marketing” is regarded as a way of reducing costs or targeting eco-sensitive market segments. However, there is fast growth of the conscience for the environmental preservation in all layers of the population—not necessarily among consumers willing to pay more or to accept less product benefits to obtain green products. Literature has been seeking explanations for such managerial behaviors in altruism, not just in terms of actions of environmental protection, but also in relation to many corporate social behaviors. However, altruistic explanations do not answer conceptually to competitiveness losses imposed by economically non-justifiable expenses. This paper makes a conceptual analysis of the literature, looking for ethical reasons for the practice of social actions, to conclude that a framework in which environmental protection actions are source of competitive advantage in the fight for the consumer may well explain corporate engagement on green marketing —as well as corporate social behavior in general.
Estimation of Delay and Doppler shift of Weighted OFDM of Radar Targets

Abstract: In this paper, Delay and Doppler shift estimation of moving targets of OFDM based radar system by utilizing Maximum Likelihood Estimation(MLE) strategy has been produced. Taking benefits of OFDM waveform, the range Doppler coupling issues can be overcome for radar applications and complex balance filter is never again fundamentally used to adapt to frequency selective fading channel in view of multipath. Here Weighted Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WOFDM) system is utilized, and the Delay and Doppler shift estimation of WOFDM is compared with Constant Envelope OFDM (CEOFDM). The comparing Cramer-Rao limits (CRB) for the parameters are derived. Weighted OFDM waveforms are planned with subject to limitations on peak to average power ratio (PAPR). For the delay estimation, The proposed WOFDM modulation have bring down CRB esteem compared with the great constant envelope OFDM regulation while meeting the prerequisite on the PAPR level.
Intra-Occupational Gender Earnings Gaps in Malaysia

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the gender earnings gap of Malaysian employees within each occupational group. The decomposition method is used to determine the extent to which the intra-occupational gender earnings gaps can be explained by differences in the characteristics of male and female workers. The results show that some part of the earnings gap in the various occupational groups is ascribed to gender differences in education, experience and hours of work whilst a substantial portion of the gap is the residual or discrimination component. Interestingly, the residual or discrimination component of the gender earnings gaps tends to be larger in male-dominated occupations compared to female-dominated and gender-integrated occupations.