Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biogeochemical Response of Apalachicola Bay and the Shelf Waters to Hurricane Michael Using Ocean Color Semi-Analytic/Inversion and Hydrodynamic Models

Hurricanes are increasingly being recognized as important episodic drivers in ocean biogeochemical cycling; however, spatiotemporal response of their impacts on coastal and estuarine ecosystems are limited. Hurricane Michael, which made landfall just west of Apalachicola Bay (ApB) on October 10, 2018 as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 250 km h-1, caused widespread damage to the northwest Florida coast, and adverse effects on oyster reefs and water quality in ApB due to winds and coastal flooding associated with a strong storm surge. The impact of wind forcing and retreating storm surges on coastal and shelf biogeochemical properties remains however, largely unknown. In this study, we use a combination of pre-hurricane field observations, ocean-color satellite imagery and the outputs (salinity, currents, sea surface height and temperature) of a nested high-resolution 3-dimensional hydrodynamic model (NCOM) to examine the biogeochemical response of ApB and the surrounding shelf waters to Hurricane Michael. MODIS-derived optical proxies (e.g., absorption of colored dissolved organic matter or CDOM and particle backscattering coefficients) of dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC and POC) were derived for a series of clear-sky imagery (prior to and following the hurricane) using a combination of estuarine-tuned semi-analytic and empirical algorithms. Following the hurricane, spatiotemporal distribution of both DOC and POC in ApB and the nearshore coastal waters showed a strong response to storm surge, increasing river discharge, currents, and wind field. Average flux estimates of organic carbon exported from ApB between October 5-21, 2018 to the coastal ocean were much greater for DOC (0.86106 kg C d-1) than POC (0.21106 kg C d-1) and increased with increasing river discharge and the wind field. A bio-optical inversion algorithm applied to Sentinel-3A OLCI imagery of 13 October, 2018 immediately following the hurricane’s passage, showed a strong, week-long biological response with spatially distinct phytoplankton blooms of Karenia brevis and Emiliania Huxleyi, as detected by satellite imagery of pigments, an approach that could revolutionize our understanding of environmental impacts on phytoplankton. This study revealed spatiotemporal changes in estuarine and coastal ocean biogeochemistry reflective of a systematic regional ecosystem response to Hurricane Michael.
Breast Tissue Biology Expands the Possibilities for Prevention of Age-Related Breast Cancers

Preventing breast cancer before it is able to form is an ideal way to stop breast cancer. However, there are limited existing options for prevention of breast cancer. Changes in the breast tissue resulting from the aging process contribute to breast cancer susceptibility and progression and may therefore provide promising targets for prevention. Here, we describe new potential targets, immortalization and inflammaging, that may be useful for prevention of age-related breast cancers. We also summarize existing studies of warfarin and metformin, current drugs used for non-cancerous diseases, that also may be repurposed for breast cancer prevention.
Cronobacter sakazakii, Cronobacter malonaticus, and Cronobacter dublinensis Genotyping Based on CRISPR Locus Diversity

Cronobacter strains harboring CRISPR-Cas systems are important foodborne pathogens that cause serious neonatal infections. CRISPR typing is a new molecular subtyping method to track the sources of pathogenic bacterial outbreaks and shows a promise in typing Cronobacter, however, this molecular typing procedure using routine PCR method has not been established. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish such methodology, 257 isolates of Cronobacter sakazakii, C. malonaticus, and C. dublinensis were used to verify the feasibility of the method. Results showed that 161 C. sakazakii strains could be divided into 129 CRISPR types (CTs), among which CT15 (n = 7) was the most prevalent CT followed by CT6 (n = 4). Further, 65 C. malonaticus strains were divided into 42 CTs and CT23 (n = 8) was the most prevalent followed by CT2, CT3, and CT13 (n = 4). Finally, 31 C. dublinensis strains belonged to 31 CTs. There was also a relationship among CT, sequence type (ST), food types, and serotype. Compared to multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), this new molecular method has greater power to distinguish similar strains and had better accordance with whole genome sequence typing (WGST). More importantly, some lineages were found to harbor conserved ancestral spacers ahead of their divergent specific spacer sequences; this can be exploited to infer the divergent evolution of Cronobacter and provide phylogenetic information reflecting common origins. Compared to WGST, CRISPR typing method is simpler and more affordable, it could be used to identify sources of Cronobacter food-borne outbreaks, from clinical cases to food sources and the production sites.
Advances in Facial Composite Technology, Utilizing Holistic Construction, Do Not Lead to an Increase in Eyewitness Misidentifications Compared to Older Feature-Based Systems

An eyewitness can contribute to a police investigation both by creating a composite image of the face of the perpetrator and by attempting to identify them during an identification procedure. This raises the potential issue that creating a composite of a perpetrator might then interfere with the subsequent identification of that perpetrator. Previous research exploring this issue has tended to use older feature-based composite systems, but the introduction of new holistic composite systems is an important development as they were designed to be a better match for human cognition and are likely to interact with memory in a different way. This issue was explored in the current experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to a feature-based composite construction condition (using E-FIT), a holistic-based composite construction condition (using EFIT-V) or a control condition. An ecologically valid delay between seeing a staged crime, creating the composite, and completing the identification task was employed to better match conditions in real investigations. The results showed that neither type of composite construction had an effect on participants’ accuracy on a subsequent identification task. This suggests that facial composite systems, including holistic systems, may not negatively impact subsequent eyewitness identification evidence.
21st Century Learning Skills: The Investigation of Indonesian Students' Perspective on the Use of Duolingo as Language Learning Strategy

This study investigates how Indonesian students' views towards duolimgo application, whether the Indonesian students use the duolingo application as their language learning strategy or not. This study is aimed at analyzing the students in Indonesia use duolingo regarding e-learning in the 21st century learning. This study relies on interviews with five Indonesian students who have duolingo application. The analysis shows the students in Indonesia use duolingo as their language learning strategy. There are several reasons underlying the students' answer. This analysis is significant for students to realize that language learning strategy is very important and technology will continue to grow. They need to realize that to master target language, they need to choose language learning strategy that's suitable for them.
Evaluating Children's User Experience (UX) Towards Mobile Application: the Fantasy Land Prototype

This paper presents the experience and results aimed at evaluating user experience (UX) of children while interacting with a mobile application prototype, named Fantasy Land. The goal was to investigate the children's acceptance and enjoyment experience as well as to find out the suitability of such evaluation conducted with children. The first author who is also the main experimenter in this study took around 3 weeks to complete the study sessions that involved 18 children who were recruited from a selected school as well as among friends and family members. A set of questionnaire known as user experience questionnaire (UEQ) was adapted in performing the evaluation and gathered feedback was analyzed quantitatively in the efforts of presenting the results. The results of evaluation using UEQ demonstrated that the children had an average experience interacting with the prototype and contents in UEQ were practicable for children as they were able to answer the questions that being asked to them.
Indonesian Elders in Assisted Living: A Design Journey

This paper describes a design journey that began with a cultural probe exploration of the lived experiences of residents of a home for elderly women in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The paper describes how requirements for a tangible experience installation were brought together and how an initial design concept was imagined. Having bought into a technology solution, the design team encountered problems that lead to some conflict that stalled the project. With the passage of time, the teams were able to come to a new solution. This paper reflects on the journey and offers some insights for others working in similar situations.
An Observational Study for Developing Digital Technology in the Museum

This study aims to understand the behaviour of visitors of the Negeri Sembilan State Museum, Malaysia based on visitor demographic information and activity patterns. 30 volunteers were observed during their visit to investigate how they interact with tangible objects that are exhibited in the museum space. All participants were never exposed to any digital technologies in the museum before. A qualitative approach was adopted where an evaluation toolkit for museum practitioners and observation framework was used for data collection. Our findings indicated that dioramas received much more attention from the participants than the artefacts and labels display. This pointed to the inadequacy of the exhibition style where it did not capture nor attract the participants to stop, interact or obtain information from the artefacts. The gap may be filled in by the usage of digital technology in museum exhibitions as it has the potential of providing interactive features that would attract visitors and create engagement with the artefacts in the museum.
Minimizing the usage of hardware counters for collective communication using triggered operations

Triggered operations and counting events or counters are building blocks that can be used by communication libraries, such as MPI, to offload collective operations to the Host Fabric Interface (HFI) or Network Interface Card (NIC). Triggered operations can be used to schedule a network or arithmetic operation to occur in the future, when a trigger counter reaches a specified threshold. On completion of the operation, the value of a completion counter increases by one. With this mechanism, it is possible to create a chain of dependent operations, so that the execution of an operation is triggered when all its dependent operations have completed its execution. Triggered operations rely on hardware counters on the HFI and are a limited resource. Thus, if the number of required counters exceeds the number of hardware counters, a collective needs to stall until a previous collective completes and counters are released. In addition, if the HFI has a counter cache, utilizing a large number of counters can cause cache thrashing and provide poor performance. Therefore, it is important to reduce the number of counters, specially when running on a large supercomputer or when an application uses non-blocking collectives and multiple collectives can run concurrently. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to optimize the number of hardware counters used when offloading collectives with triggered operations. With our algorithm, different operations can share and re-use trigger and completion counters based on the dependences among them and their topological orderings. Our experimental results show that our proposed algorithm significantly reduces the number of counters over a default approach that does not consider the dependences among the operations.
Scaling UX with design systems

• Design systems reduce effort. So much of design work is creating a new version of what already exists, albeit slightly modified for a new context. Building on others’ expertise reduces re-work and frees up time for the creative aspects of designing and developing for the specific product context. My favorite example is sewing patterns. In the midto late-1800s, sewing patterns synthesized expertise into packaged and systematized formats, enabling fabric creatives (that is, people who sewed) to produce affordable, homemade fashion quickly and cheaply [4]. In a similar way, design systems guide digital design creatives toward the production of usable, useful, and delightful experiences. They help maintain consistency and reduce divergence across products and product suites. They reduce the time to go from concept to designed interaction to engineered experience. They offset reinventing the wheel and I remember the delight of discovering that I could “view source” for a webpage and see the underlying html. Copy . Paste into an editor . A tweak here and there . Publish . And then, ta-da! My website. Very exciting! I have the same kind of excitement in working with “design systems” [1]. Since around 2011, the idea of a systematic or systems-level approach to visual and interaction design has become more and more popular. Design systems lay out the core elements and components of visual and interactive design for the devices we use every day—cellphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and car dashboards, to name just a few. They offer guidance for layout, shape/form, color palettes, buttons, forms, tables, typography, user task flows, and can offer advice for content, branding, tone, and personality. Design systems enable designers and developers to create a consistent and cohesive product or suite of products. If you haven’t immersed yourself in this world before, I entreat you to pick up your favorite device right now and carefully examine the interface of your most-used application, whatever it is—mail app, shopping app, health app. Examine with new eyes the layout and all the visual elements, experience the interactions, and ask yourself: What decisions went into choosing that shape? That color? That motion or animation when you click on a button? That visual (or haptic or sonic) feedback and ensuing interaction possibility, invitation, or call to action? There are many design systems out in the world of visual and interaction design, addressing a variety of screen-based experiences [2]. Designsystem style guidance is also appearing for nonvisual modalities, including voice, sonic and haptic feedback, and fully embodied gestures for immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences and for interaction with smart vehicles and smart, sensor-laden physical spaces and interactive environments. Researchers on my team [3] have been looking into what value design systems provide. Here are some obvious and non-obvious points of value, and some indicators for why more research into design systems is an exciting proposition:
Persistent Memory Programming on Conventional Hardware

Driven by the advent of byte-addressable non-volatile memory, the persistent memory style of programming will gain traction among developers, taking its rightful place alongside existing paradigms for managing persistent application state. Until NVM becomes available on all computers, developers can use the techniques presented in this article to enjoy the benefits of persistent memory programming on conventional hardware.
The Adaptive Model Driven Approach for Enhancing Usability of User Interface Design: A Review Process

This paper focus to narrative review the adaptive user interface using model-driven approach to overcome the usability problem. Several UI designs suffered from the usability problem that might cause some applications hardly to deliver the function intended to the user. Therefore, the adaptive user interface design was introduced to acknowledge the usability problem that caused by the traditional UI which cannot satisfy context-of-use (user, device, and environment). In this paper, we describe model-driven approach of adaptive UI using modelling language to create the models of adaptive UI. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) can raise the level of abstraction in software application, so it will be the basis for devising adaptive UIs because it has the possibility to apply numerous types of adaptions to the various levels of abstraction. The evaluation of usability has its own requirement that different from the usability evaluation of other system application. At the end of this paper we will conclude our finding that the adaptive UI could minimize the usability problem in web application using model-driven approach.
TinyCORP: A Calculus for Context-Oriented Reactive Programming

Current trend of seamless connections between computing systems and their surrounding environments requires software to be more reactive and adaptable, and reactive programming (RP) and context-oriented programming (COP) have been studied to directly support reactive behavior and dynamic adaptation. Sometimes reactive behavior and dynamic adaptation interact with each other. One issue of such interactions is how to avoid a loop of reactive behavior and dynamic adaptation when there are mutually recursive dependencies between them. This paper proposes TinyCORP, a core calculus for context-oriented reactive programming that is designed in a main-stream, general-purpose language setting. This calculus is expressive enough to represent both features of signals (i.e., time-varying values in RP) and layer-based partial methods in COP, and their interactions including the ability to specify the mutually recursive dependencies between dynamic adaptation and reactive behavior. We also demonstrate that the computation in TinyCORP do not result in the loop of reactive behavior and dynamic adaptation.
Paradox Lost

This monograph, written by an outstanding expert in time resolved spectroscopy of semiconductors, presents the most striking recent advances in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductors and their nanostructures. The book contains 8 chapters with in total 1160 references and 186 figures, preface and subject index. It begins with an introductory chapter on basic concepts of semiconductor physics and ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. The following five chapters are arranged in the order of occurrence of events in a homogeneous semiconductor following photoexcitation by an ultrashort pulse. These events comprise four temporally-overlapping regimes:
Recurrent posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymoma in a young child with constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD)

Department of Neuropathology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK The International Replication Repair Deficiency Consortium (IRRDC), Division of Haematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada Department of Genetics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Department of Neurosurgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Department of Radiation Oncology, The Christie Proton Beam Therapy Centre, Manchester, UK Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre, Biodiscovery Unit, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Division of Neuropathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada East-Genomics Laboratory Hub (GLH) Genetics Laboratory, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Environmental Parameters and Temporal Dynamics of Anguillicoidescrassus in Tonga Lake and Mafrag estuary (North- East of Algeria)

The presence of the parasitic swimbladder nematode, Anguillicoloidescrassus, in eels of the aquatic ecosystem of the northeast of Algeria, was recorded in 1999. Since we had only results related to epidemiological parameters of parasites. No study of environmental influence in temporal dynamics of A. crassus was performed.The aim of this study is firstly, to collecte monthly the nematode A. crassus from eelscaughted in Tonga lake and Mafrag estuary to assess the spatial temporal dynamics of this parasite, secondly to identify the influence of some environmental factors on the epidemiological parameters (prevalence, intensity of infestation and abundance) of the nematode.For this, we have proceeded, on a monthly rate, in collecting parasites and measuring some abiotic parameters (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and pH) from the two water dam.Eel samples collected from Tonga lake (360 eels of length ranged from 25 and 75cm ) and Mafrag estuary (360 eels of 19-71cm length) revealed respectively a parasite prevalence of 48 and 50%, a mean intensity of infestation of 3.6 and 3.7 per infected host, values of abundance of 1.7 and 1.9 per examined host. Our results show that the highest prevalence values are recorded in young specimens; however, the highest values of mean intensity and abundance are noted in large eelsThe survey of the evolutionary dynamic of parasitism reveals that A. crassusis present throughout the year in both water dam. In both sites, the lowest seasonal infestation rate is recorded in summer. The use of principal component analysis shows that water temperature and salinity are correlated negatively with prevalence of A. crassus; this parasite shows the lowest values of infestation rates in summer and autumn when water temperature and salinity present the highest values.The first two major components contain 86.73% and 84.32% of the total inter-month variability of the matrix of biotic and abiotic variables in Tonga lake and Mafrag estuary respectively. In Tonga lake, Axis 1 explains 56.46% of the total variation; it is positively correlated with salinity variables (r = 0.89; cos² = 0.79) and negatively correlated with dissolved oxygen (r = -0.94; cos² = 0.88). In Mafrag estuary, Axis 1 explains 59.91% of the total variability; it is positively correlated with temperature variables (r = 0.95; cos² = 0.91), salinity (r = 0.84; cos² = 0.70) and negatively correlated with dissolved oxygen (r = -0.71; cos² = 0.51). The low salinity that characterize the two water dam did not affect life cycle of A. crassus and may explain the similarity of the epidemiological parameters values obtained.