Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of the Phytoextraction Potential of Some Fast Growing Halophytes and Maize Plants

s: Phytoextraction of heavy metal from contaminated soils is promising remediation technology. Till now, more than several hundreds of plant species have been used. However, phytoextraction using halophytes is still not extensively researched. This work carried out to evaluate of phytoextraction potential for three fast growing halophytic grasses Leptochloa fusca, Sporobolus virginicus and Spartina patens vs Zea mays plants. Highest values of shoot accumulation were found in Leptochloa fusca to record 335 and 45 mg kg DW for Zn and Ni compared with 103 and 16 mg kg DW in maize plants. However, the value of Zn concentration in shoot of maize surpassed those found in Sporobolus virginicus (85 mg kg DW) and in Spartina patens (43 mg kg DW). Only the halophytic species succeeded to translocate Cu into their aerial parts. The highest Cu accumulation value was achieved by Sporobolus virginicus (25 mg kg shoot DW) followed by Leptochloa fusca (21 mg kg shoot DW) and Spartina patens (17 mg kg shoot DW) while, Zea mays accumulated 7 mg kg shoot DW. The capacity of Ni accumulation in shoot of tested plants was ranked in descending order Leptochloa fusca, Sporobolus virginicus, Spartina patens and Zea mays. Despite of Z. mays had completely failed to translocate Cu into shoot but, it had the greatest phytostablisation potential, recording the lowest values of extractable metal in contaminated soil.
Quantifying Malware Evolution through Archaeology

Dynamic analysis of malware allows us to examine malware samples, and then group those samples into families based on observed behavior. Using Boolean variables to represent the presence or absence of a range of malware behavior, we create a bitstring that represents each malware behaviorally, and then group samples into the same class if they exhibit the same behavior. Combining class definitions with malware discovery dates, we can construct a timeline of showing the emergence date of each class, in order to examine prevalence, complexity, and longevity of each class. We find that certain behavior classes are more prevalent than others, following a frequency power law. Some classes have had lower longevity, indicating that their attack profile is no longer manifested by new variants of malware, while others of greater longevity, continue to affect new computer systems. We verify for the first time commonly held intuitions on malware evolution, showing quantitatively from the archaeological record that over 80% of the time, classes of higher malware complexity emerged later than classes of lower complexity. In addition to providing historical perspective on malware evolution, the methods described in this paper may aid malware detection through classification, leading to new proactive methods to identify malicious software.
Determination of Mechanic Resistance of Osseous Element through Finite Element Modeling

in this paper, the geometry and dimensions of a human femur was generated through 3D scanning process, to obtain the femur external topology. The internal structure was obtained through morphological studies based on radiography and tomography, in order to determine the right proportions and dimensions of the internal femur. Then, the complex structure of the femur was represented through three dimensional finite element model, built with Comsol. This model was simulated with isotropic and anisotropic materials, subjected to various mechanical loads according with experimental reference studies. The reference studies, was developed using dual energy X ray absorptiometry (DXA), quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and real human bones, which was subjected to specific loads in order to establish an objective basis for comparison. The main goal of this study is to determine the femur mechanical strength using finite element technique, validating the results by comparison with experimental studies.
The Analysis of Influence of Job Stressor upon Performance and Turnover Intention of Broker-Dealer of Equity Securities in Surabaya

The long-term goal of this research is to make the Indonesian capital market equals/parallel to other capital markets in the Asia Pacific region. The research is conducted in securities companies which are Members of Indonesia Stock Exchange located in Surabaya City, East Java Province. The number of domestic investors in the capital market in Indonesia is still very limited, reaching only about 400 thousand people, or less than 0.1% of the number of Indonesia's middle class who already have securities accounts as an active sign of becoming a financier in the stock exchange (Afifuddin, 2011). This situation is a problem that needs to get serious attention from the government to enliven the Indonesian capital market, so the dream of making the Indonesian capital market parallel to the capital markets in the Asia Pacific region can be realized. The number of domestic investors needs to be increased so that ownership of equity securities is not only dominated by foreign investors. Such condition of the Indonesian capital market is inseparable from the role and performance of Broker-Dealer of Equity Securities (PPEE), so this is a problem that needs to be studied. The research variables consist of independent variables consisting of role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload variables, as well as dependent variables consisting of performance variables and turnover intention. Sampling is done by purposive sampling method, while statistical data analysis is done by using Structural Equation Modeling Method. The result of this research is the result of hypothesis testing as follows: 1). There is no significant influence between role ambiguity and PPEE performancein Surabaya, 2). There is no significant influence between role conflict and PPEE performance in Surabaya, 3). There is a significant influence between role overload and PPEE performancein Surabaya, 4). There is no significant influence between role ambiguity and PPEE turnover intention in Surabaya, 5). There is no significant influence between role conflict and PPEE turnover intention in Surabaya, 6). There is a significant influence between role overload and PPEE turnover intention in Surabaya, and 7). There is a significant negative effect between performance and PPEE turnover intention in Surabaya.
EVALUATIONAL RESEARCH ON A VIDEO-BASED IN-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHER TRAINING PROJECT - REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE AND JUDGEMENTS ON INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY 1

In this study, we concentrated on aspects of evaluational research on a video-based in-service teacher training program with more than 30 participating upper secondary mathematics teachers. As the program aimed at encouraging the teachers in improving cognitive activation in their classrooms, the evaluation focused both on components of the teachers’ professional knowledge and on indicators for implementation in instructional practice. The results indicate that teachers modified their perception of instructional situations and reported to have introduced more student-centered work on activating tasks in their classrooms. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
A Hierarchical Approach to Interactive Motion Editing for Human-like Figures

This paperpresentsa techniquefor adaptingexisting motion of a human-likecharacterto have thedesiredfeaturesthatarespecified by asetof constraints.Thisproblemcanbetypically formulatedas a spacetimeconstraintproblem. Our approachcombinesa hierarchicalcurvefitting techniquewith anew inversekinematicssolver. Usingthekinematicssolver, we canadjusttheconfigurationof an articulatedfigure to meetthe constraintsin eachframe. Through thefitting technique,themotiondisplacement of every joint ateach constrainedframeis interpolatedandthussmoothlypropagatedto frames.We areableto adapti vely addmotiondetailsto satisfythe constraintswithin aspecifiedtoleranceby adoptingamultilevel Bsplinerepresentationwhich alsoprovidesa speedupfor the interpolation. The performanceof our systemis further enhancedby thenew inversekinematicssolver. We presenta closed-formsolution to computethe joint anglesof a limb linkage. This analytical methodgreatlyreducesthe burdenof a numericaloptimizationto find thesolutionsfor full degreesof freedomof ahuman-likearticulatedfigure.Wedemonstratethatthetechniquecanbeusedfor retargettinga motion to compensatefor geometricvariationscaused by both charactersand environments. Furthermore,we can also usethis techniquefor directly manipulatinga motionclip through agraphicalinterface. CR Categories: I.3. 7 [Computer Graphics]: ThreedimensionalGraphics—Animation;G.1. 2 [Numerical Analysis]: Approximation—Splineandpiecewisepolynomialapproximation
Modelling the survival of elite Australian Rules Footballers

The length of player careers is modelled using Survival Analysis. Survival and hazard functions were constructed for the cohort of players who were first drafted between years 1995 and 2008. A Cox regression was run to determine how career length is affected by draft rank. Consequences for drafting strategy and possibilities for future research are discussed.
New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Using administrative data from the Spanish Social Security Administration, we analyse the nature and stability of job matches starting during the economic boom in 2005 and during the recession in 2009. We compare the individual, job and firm characteristics in the two samples and estimate a competing risk model distinguishing job-to-job, job-to-unemployment, and other transitions. We find that job-to-job transitions are pro-cyclical, while unemployment transitions are counter-cyclical. Individuals most affected by the economic crisis tend to be young males, living in regions with high unemployment rates, with low qualifications and working in manual occupations (particularly construction), and (especially Spanish speaking) immigrants. The positive relation between job stability and firm size is stronger during the recession than during the boom.
Naturalness bias in palatalization: An experimental study

In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment aiming to test the idea that it is easier to learn palatalization before a front vowel than it is to learn depalatalization in the same context. The motivation for the study comes from recent work by Czaplicki (2013), who provides a detailed analysis of palatalization-related effects in Polish, showing that they have no phonological basis. The conclusion he reaches is that ‘phonological naturalness does not play a role in linguistic computation’ Czaplicki (2013:32). It is nevertheless the case that palatalization is cross-linguistically much more common than depalatalization. If naturalness plays no role in computation, the typological asymmetry must arise from elsewhere, for example, from biases in learning difficulty. Our results provide provisory evidence that there is a small but statistically significant advantage for learning palatalization over depalatalization for adult Hungarian speakers.
Case Study: Lean-Rfid Based Waste Identification System on Example of Small-Medium Manufacturing Industries

Received: 13 January 2018 Abstract Accepted: 22 February 2018 The purpose of this research is to develop a Lean-RFID based waste identification system (LRWIS) for small-medium manufacturing companies. The specific objective of this research is to develop and implement the LRWIS from integrating the appropriate lean tools and advanced technologies for wastes reduction and inventory management. Subsequently, the framework was converted into a system for a small-medium sized wood processing manufacturer in Malaysia and integrated into a computerized program. The LRWIS can monitor real-time inventory and production status so the manufacturer can optimise the quantity of the primary products and deliver them on time as per the RFID information of each container. The manufacturer can also make decision instantly for controlling and changing different products in the production progress. The system provides simple constructed framework under a low cost infrastructure, yet it is of practical value in reducing the wastes and also optimising the production process.
FORCED VIBRATION OF TIP-MASSED CANTILEVER WITH NONLINEAR MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS

This paper predicts the nonlinear relative motion of a cantilever with a tip mass and magnets based on a distributed-parameter model. The Kelvin viscoelastic model is used to account for the damping in the cantilever. Under the harmonic base excitation, the governing equation is deduced via a coordinate transformation linked to its static equilibrium. To qualitatively validate those results captured from the approximate methods, the finite difference method and the multi-scale method are respectively employed to determine the natural frequency and the steady-state response of forced vibration. It is analytically demonstrated that those modes uninvolved in a certain resonance actually have no effect on the response amplitude of the stable steady-state motion. The effects of forcing amplitude, viscoelastic damping, and tip mass on the steady-state response are detailed via the amplitude–frequency response curves. For the first time, the current works theoretically illustrated the conversion from the hardening-type behavior to the softening-type versus the augmenting magnetic force, as well as the opposing effect of different tip masses on the first mode and the higher modes.
Are Farms in Less Favoured Areas Less Efficient

This paper investigates farm technical efficiency (TE), taking into account technological heterogeneity among farms in the case of the Slovenian Farm Accountancy Data Network sample of farms in the 2007-2010 period. A random parameter model is used to analyse inter- and intra-sectoral heterogeneity of farms. The empirical results confirmed that it is important to handle both inter- and intra-sectoral heterogeneity. Additionally the estimations based on propensity score matching (PSM) demonstrated that farms in less favoured areas (LFAs) are slightly technically less efficient than farms in non-LFAs. However, combined PSM and difference in difference estimator cast serious doubts that LFA farms are less efficient in terms of TE. Both groups of farms are able to adopt technologies to natural and other conditions for their operation.
Integrated toxicogenomics analysis with Toxygates for inferring molecular mechanisms

Assessment of the safety of drug candidates in early research and development (R&D) stage holds the key to the successful drug development. Toxicogenomics is one of the promising approaches using omics techniques since a number of ‘omics databases is rapidly growing. Although many of these databases are open to the public, there remain some barriers for biologists regardless of their bioinformatics skills. Toxygates was originally developed as a user-friendly interface for Open TG-GATEs, which is one of the largest and most widely used toxicogenomics databases. Since the original Toxygates was developed to enable users to display the gene expression values obtained by selected compounds or experimental conditions for genes of interest, there were some limitations as an analytical platform. To overcome this situation, significant improvements have been added and finally, a new version of Toxygates allows users to analyze the data such as creating heatmap for visualization of gene expression profile, performing hierarchical clustering and creating a dendrogram with interactive display, performing several types of enrichment analysis such as gene ontology and pathways and uploading user data for further analysis. As a case study, we used Toxygates to successfully find novel insights that the hepatotoxicity caused by well-studied PPARα agonist WY-14643 may include the disruption of intracellular calcium dynamics and imbalance between PPARα signaling and Wnt signaling.
Phylogenetic relationships among megachiropteran species from the two major islands of the Philippines, deduced from DNA sequences of the cytochrome b gene

Complete cytochrome b gene sequences (1140 base pairs) in species of Megachiroptera were ascertained in order to deduce their phylogenetic relationships, using samples of Cynopterus brachyotis, Eonycteris spelaea, Ptenochirus jagori, Pteropus vampyrus, and Rousettus amplexicaudatuscollected from the islands of Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. Genetic divergence between samples of R. amplexicaudatus, E. spelaea, and C. brachyotis was very small. On the other hand, a large genetic distance was detected between species of Megachiroptera. The phylogenetic tree using neighbor-joining, parsimony, and maximum-likelihood methods generated similar topologies, reflecting the evolutionary associations among megachiropteran species. We estimated that Megachiroptera separated from Microchiroptera 50.2 million years ago (MYA), and split further approximately 32.4 MYA, forming three lineages: E. spelaea, R. amplexicaudatus, and P. vampyrus and the P. jagori - C. brachyotis cluster. The third lineage, composed of P. vampyrus and the P. jagori - C. brachyotis cluster, branched out 31.9 MYA. We hypothesize that R. amplexi- caudatus diverged from the three members of the subfamily Pteropodinae examined, and its phylogenetic relationship with E. spelaea remains unclear. Resume : Les sequences completes du gene cytochrome b (1140 paires de base) chez des megachiropteres ont ete etu-
Teaching Using New Technologies and Students Resilience.

Under the conditions of a digital age, new technologies undergo various interpretations, approaches and usages. Education reaches new dimensions at all its levels, by adopting new technologies in order to deeper support modern possibilities of learning that define the new generations: a high degree of digital capabilities, the capacity to accomplish various tasks, constant connectivity, literacy in multiple media, the need for speed in data transmission, an education for delivery of information, as well as a unique approach towards the learning system. Undeniably, the new learning realities require these new technologies, without limiting their importance in the student's academic study. This paper analyzes the characteristics of today's students in connection with the development of their resilience to adopt new learning-style changes. It is meant to focus on the technology access and practice in academic study and to evaluate the level of the students' adaptability for change.
CRISPR/Cas9 System: A Breakthrough in Genome Editing

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is a new and advance gene editing tool using specific nuclease enzyme for specific cleavage. It is the most efficient technique, commonly used for many purposes like gene therapy, production of desired plants and transgenic animals. But it has some limitations like off-target issue and this issue can be minimized by the production of specific sequence of guide RNA. In the future, it can be used for the treatment of many human genetic diseases
Correlations of neck disability index with anthropometric and neckbiomechanical variables in Indian obese adolescents

The purpose of the present study was to search the correlations of neck disability index with selected anthropometric and neck biomechanical variables in Indian obese adolescents aged 12-18 years. To solve this problem, three anthropometric variables viz. height, weight and BMI, one body composition component, viz. percent body fat, six neck biomechanical variables, viz. neck range flexion, neck range extension, neck right side flexion, neck left side flexion neck right side rotation and neck left side rotation were measured and neck disability index was estimated on randomly selected 108 Indian obese adolescents (56 boy and 52 girl) aged 12–18 years from two schools of Ludhiana, Punjab, India. An adequate number of non-obese controls (n = 113, 59 boys and 54 girls) were also taken from the same schools for comparisons. In result, one way analysis of variance showed statistically significant between-group differences (p<0.008 - 0.001) in all the variables studied, except, neck right side flexion, neck right and left side rotation among obese and non-obese boys and girls. In obese boys, significant positive correlations (p < 0.05) of neck disability index were found with neck right and left side flexion, and significant negative correlations (p < 0.05 – 0.001) with height and weight, whereas in obese girls, significant negative correlations (p < 0.05 – 0.001) were found with height, BMI, neck right flexion and extension. In conclusion, it may be stated that though neck disability index had some correlations (p< 0.001) with almost all the variables studied, no marked effects of obesity was reported on neck disability index in Indian obese adolescents.
Barbopoulos, Leonidas and Marshall, Andrew and MacInnes, Cameron and McColgan, Patrick (2014) Foreign direct investment in emerging markets

We investigate the shareholder wealth effects of 306 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) announcements by UK firms in seventy five emerging markets (EM). Our results show that acquirers enjoy highly significant gains during the announcement period of FDI. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest gains are accrued to acquirers investing in countries with high political risk and high corruption ratings. The type of asset acquired has also a significant effect on the gains of acquirers’ shareholders, with the highest gains accrued to acquirers of physical assets. Also, investments in physical assets in EM with a high corruption rating elicit the highest gains. We contend that UK firms following resource-seeking strategies in EM with a high corruption rating are facilitated access to resources on favorable terms and this is viewed positively by the market participants. Our results are robust to alternative model specifications and the endogenous choice to expand internationally.
Assessment of flood risk perceptions and adaptation capacity: a comparative study between rural and peri-urban areas in Greece

Focusing on flood risk and the information associated with it, developing risk management plans is often overlooking public perception of the threat. The perception of risk varies in many different ways, especially between the authorities and the affected public. It is because of this disconnection that many risk 15 management plans concerning floods have failed in the past. This paper examines the private adaptation capacity and willingness with respect to flooding in two different catchments in Greece. The catchments of Evros and East Attica show recent flood events in the past 20 years. Two case studies were undertaken, comprised of a survey questionnaire focusing on 155 and 157 individuals, from a rural (Evros) and a peri-urban (East Attica) area, respectively, and they focused on those vulnerable to periodical (rural area) and flash floods (peri-urban 20 area). Based on the comparisons drawn from these responses, and identifying key issues to be addressed when flood risk management plans are implemented, improvements are being recommended for the social dimension surrounding such implementation.