Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SuDS for managing surface water in Diepsloot informal settlement, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) imitate natural water management processes in catchments that have been degraded due to urbanisation. The aim is to reduce the quantity of stormwater runoff and improve water quality. Management of rainwater in the informal settlement of Diepsloot in Johannesburg is compounded by domestic wastewater discharged into the informal lanes. These lanes fall outside the mandate of the City of Johannesburg’s stormwater management system; hence residents need to rely on their own initiatives to address surface-water problems. This preliminary study investigated the introduction of SuDS to enhance existing surface-water interventions, as a low-cost flexible approach. Using action research methods, small-scale interventions were designed, constructed and refined by residents and researchers at two sites close to the Jukskei River. While the primary intention of the research was to reduce standing water in the public areas, water quality testing indicates that the SuDS reduced some pollutants. Nitrate and phosphate concentrations were slightly lowered through the introduction of permeable channels and soakaways, while these interventions had a moderate effect on chemical oxygen demand. The involvement of residents at the two sites was markedly different, reflecting divergent priorities and social dynamics. Spontaneous continuation of the SuDS system at one of the sites indicates successful knowledge and skills exchange. This study was of limited duration with only two sets of water quality tests; therefore, longer term monitoring is strongly advised to be able to give more robust assessment of this type of intervention.
USING PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE FOR AURALIZATION

Over the last 10 years, the architecture of graphics accele– rators (GPUs) has dramatically evolved, outpacing traditional general purpose processors (CPUs) with an average 2.25-fold increase in performance every year. With massive processing capabilities and high-level programmability, current GPUs can be leveraged for applications far beyond visual rendering. In this paper, we offer an overview of modern programmable GPUs and how they can be applied to audio rendering. For applications ranging from sound synthesis and audio signal processing to numerical acoustic simulations, GPUs massive parallelism and dedicated instructions can offer a 5 to 100-fold performance improvement over traditional CPU implementations. We will illustrate such benefits with results from 3D audio processing and sound scattering simulations and discuss future opportunities for auralization on massively multicore processors.
Predicting Turnout from State Voter Files: A Proposed Method and an Evaluation of Competing Specifications

Predictions of voter turnout from state voter files are useful to scholars and practitioners who need an accurate sample of the electorate. I explore how scholars with even limited resources can create accurate turnout predictions by utilizing a subsampling bootstrap imputation and estimation method that puts the estimation task on a memory and computational scale suitable for desktop computers. I compare the performance of different model specifications in making out-of-sample predictions using data from the state of Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF) before and aer the 2014 elections. Predictions based on empirical Bayes estimates of unobserved heterogeneity at the individual level consistently perform better than predictions simply based on observable behavior and demonstrate how subsampling provides a practical way for scholars to estimate complex and accurate predictive models of turnout for either local survey sampling or public use. Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Sci
Commensurated subgroups in tree almost automorphism groups

We prove that the tree almost automorphism groups admit exactly three commensurability classes of closed commensurated subgroups. Our proof utilizes an independently interesting characterization of subgroups of the tree almost automorphism groups which contain only periodic elements in terms of the dynamics of the action on the boundary of the tree. Our results further cover several interesting finitely generated subgroups of the tree almost automorphism groups, including the Thompson groups $F$, $T$, and $V$. We show in particular that Thompson's group $T$ has no commensurated subgroups other than the finite subgroups and the entire group. As a consequence, we derive several rigidity results for the possible embeddings of these groups into locally compact groups.
Time-resolved compound repositioning predictions on a texted-mined knowledge network

Computational compound repositioning has the potential for identifying new uses for existing drugs. New algorithms and data source aggregation strategies provide ever-improving results via in silico metrics. However, the number of compounds successfully repositioned via computational screening remains low. Using a text-mined database, we applied a previously described network-based computational repositioning algorithm, yielding strong results via cross-validation, averaging 0.95 AUROC on test-set indications. The text-mined data was then used to build networks corresponding to different time-points in biomedical knowledge. Training the algorithm on contemporary and indications and testing on future showed a marked reduction in performance, peaking in performance metrics with the 1985 network at an AUROC of . 797. Examining performance reductions due to removal of specific types of relationships highlighted the importance of drug-drug and disease-disease similarity metrics. Using data from future timepoints, we demonstrate that further acquisition of these kinds of data may help improve computational results. We also suggest focusing efforts on improving algorithmic performance in a time-resolved paradigm may further improve computational repositioning predictions.
NEW GENETIC DATA ON GENISTA ANGLICA L. VERSUS GENISTA ANCISTROCARPA SPACH (FABACEAE, FABALES) IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND MOROCCO. PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC CLUES

New genetic data on Genista anglica L. versus Genista ancistrocarpa Spach (Fabaceae, Fabales) in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. Phylogeographic clues. The genetic analysis through the nuclear ribosomal DNA of some Iberian and NW Morocco populations of Genista ancistrocarpa Spach and G. anglica L. has validated the separation of these two sister taxa as two distinct genetic entities, strengthening the already described morphological differentiation. The studied populations neatly show the G. ancistrocarpa as a coastal taxon with occidental Iberian and NW Morocco distribution, contrary to the G. anglica. The distribution areas of the two species appear to be distinct and with an important biogeographical significance. The coastal clade is determined by populations of G. ancistrocarpa, and outlines a biogeographic region that seems to depart genetically from the remaining peninsular populations, also in several molecular analyses of other plants and animals by many authors, supporting the idea of a distinct evolution from the Miocene onwards, when the installation of dry and hot conditions has pushed the moisture-dependent populations of G. ancistracarpa toward the westernmost sectors of Iberia and Morocco with an atlantic influence.
7.4.3 Ontology‐driven Requirements Engineering —A case study of OntoREM in the aerospace context

OntoREM is an Ontology‐driven Requirements Engineering Methodology (process, methods and tools) that aims to improve the quality of requirements while also reducing the time and cost needed to develop, maintain and re‐use requirements. In order to evaluate the potential of such an ontology‐driven approach, OntoREM was applied to the aircraft operability (AO) domain and generic AO requirements for the wing design were developed. These requirements were subsequently compared to corresponding AO requirements that were developed for the wing design of two different development contexts for which a traditional requirements process was applied. Similarly, the elapsed process times to develop the requirements were compared, as measured for OntoREM and estimated for the traditional requirements process. The preliminary outcomes of this case study strongly suggest that the application of the OntoREM approach led to better quality requirements in considerably less time and hence at less cost per requirement. Further saving potential exists through increasing automation of OntoREM. In addition, there are several, additional advantages of applying this methodology that, for example, enable the reuse of domain ontologies including requirements in even less time i.e. at lower cost in the future, not to mention the advantages of explicitly capturing domain knowledge. An industrial scale pilot application of OntoREM has been proposed in order to mature the methodology and its underlying IT infrastructure for the anticipated global use in the context of entire aircraft development programmes in order to prepare for full integration into the Airbus Product Development Process (PDP).
Is Big Five Better than MBTI? A Personality Computing Challenge Using Twitter Data

English. Personality Computing from text has become popular in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For assessing gold-standard personality types, Big5 and MBTI are two popular models but still there is no comparison of the two in personality computing. With this paper, we provide for the first time a comparison of the two models from a computational perspective. To do that we exploit two multilingual datasets collected from Twitter in English, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. Italiano. Il riconoscimento automatico di personalità è diventato popolare nelle comunità di linguistica computazionale. I test Big Five e MBTI sono due modelli differenti per valutare la personalità, ma ancora non c’è un vero confronto dei due in ambito di riconoscimento automatico di personalità. In questo articolo per la prima volta forniamo una comparazione dei due modelli dal punto di vista computazionale. Per fare questo abbiamo raccolto dati Twitter in Inglese, Italiano, Spagnolo e Olandese in due corpora paralleli annotati con i due test.
CHANGES OVER TIME IN GLOBAL FOREIGN ACCENT AND LIQUID IDENTIFIABILITY AND ACCURACY

This study assessed global foreign accent in sentences and the production of two English consonants, /[upside-down r]/ and /l/, by 11 Japanese college students during their freshman and senior years (T1, T2). In Experiment 1, native English-speaking listeners rated five sentences spoken by the Japanese speakers and five native English control speakers. Experiments 2 and 3 examined 25 word onsets containing /[upside-down r]/ and /l/. Auditory evaluations by native English-speaking listeners were used to determine: (a) to what extent the consonants produced could be identified as intended at T1 and T2; and (b) whether /[upside-down r]/ and /l/ were produced more accurately at T2 than at T1. The results provided little support for a markedness hypothesis based on statistical frequencies and mixed support for a hypothesis based on perception studies. Some speakers made significant improvement, however, in both global foreign accent and liquid identifiability and accuracy.
The Relationship between Laboratory, Yoyo, and Hoff Tests in Determining Aerobic Capacity of Players of the National Women’s Soccer Team

Aerobic capacity bears importance in soccer. Although laboratory tests are of high credibility to measure the oxygen consumption among soccer players in laboratory conditions, field tests simulating the real need of soccer, without requirin g complicated equipment, are necessary. The purpose of the present paper is to study the relationship between Hoff tests, Yoyo intermittent recovery test, and laboratory tests in determining the aerobic capacity of players of the national womens soccer te am. Twenty female soccer players have participated in this study. The players executed the laboratory test on treadmill and determining VO 2max with the gas analyzer device, Hoff, and Yoyo intermittent recovery test of level two in three separate periods wi th at least a one - day interval. The aerobic capacity, heart rate, and lactate were measured at the end of every three tests. The lactate level of blood (ICC=0.61) and heart rate (ICC=0.66) had a significant correlation at the end of both laboratory and Hof f tests. The maximal consumed oxygen of Yoyo and laboratory tests didnt have a significant relationship. As for heart rate and blood lactate, no significant relationship was found at the end of the two tests. Also, no significant correlation was found between the results of Hoff and Yoyo tests, and they cant be used interchangeably. According to these results, it can be said that Hoff test is a valid test which easily evaluates VO 2max, without requiring the equipment imposing a financial burden on the nat ional team, and whose physiological pressure is similar to the laboratory test.
Intracellular translocation of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles encapsulated with peptide-conjugated poly(D,L lactide-co-glycolide)

In this study, we propose the use of iron oxide nanoparticle encapsulated with peptide-conjugated poly(D,L lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) as a potent intracellular carrier for diagnosis agent. The iron oxide (γ‐Fe2O3) nanoparticles were prepared by a chemical coprecipitation method of ferric and ferrous ions in an alkali solution. Arg peptide (RRRRRRRRCK-FITC) were conjugated to the PLGA via a simple coupling reaction between maleimide-derivatized PLGA and thiol-terminated Arg peptide. The γ‐Fe2O3-PLGA-Arg-FITC nanoparticle was then prepared by an emulsification-diffusion technique. A confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed that the γ‐Fe2O3-PLGA-Arg-FITC nanoparticle was effectively adsorbed onto the membrane of stem cells and delivered into the nuclei without cytotoxicity. Magnetic properties of the γ‐Fe2O3-PLGA-Arg-FITC nanoparticle were observed by measuring the zero-field-cooled∕field-cooled magnetization and magnetic hysteresis loop using a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer f.
Compact nilmanifolds with nilpotent complex structures: Dolbeault cohomology

We consider a special class of compact complex nilmanifolds, which we call compact nilmanifolds with nilpotent complex structure. It is shown that if Γ\G is a compact nilmanifold with nilpotent complex structure, then the Dolbeault cohomology H∗,∗ ∂̄ (Γ\G) is canonically isomorphic to the ∂̄–cohomology H∗,∗ ∂̄ (gC) of the bigraded complex (Λ∗,∗(gC)∗, ∂̄) of complex valued left invariant differential forms on the nilpotent Lie group G.
Virtual and mixed prototyping techniques and technologies for consumer product design within a blended learning design environment

Both physical and virtual prototyping are core elements of the design and engineering process. In this paper, we present an industrial case-study in conjunction with a collaborative agile design engineering process and “methodology. ” Four groups of heterogeneous Post-doc and Ph.D. students from various domains were assembled and instructed to fulfill a multi-disciplinary design task based on a real-world industry use-case. We present findings, evaluation, and results of this study.
Low-amplitude rotational modulation rather than pulsations in the CoRoT B-type supergiant HD 46769

Aims. We aim to detect and interpret photometric and spectroscopic variability of the bright CoRoT B-type supergiant target HD 46769 (V = 5:79). We also attempt to detect a magnetic field in the target. Methods. We analyse a 23-day oversampled CoRoT light curve after detrending and spectroscopic follow-up data using standard Fourier analysis and phase dispersion minimization methods. We determine the fundamental parameters of the star, as well as its abundances from the most prominent spectral lines. We perform a Monte Carlo analysis of spectropolarimetric data to obtain an upper limit of the polar magnetic field, assuming a dipole field. Results. In the CoRoT data, we detect a dominant period of 4.84 d with an amplitude of 87 ppm and some of its (sub-)multiples. Given the shape of the phase-folded light curve and the absence of binary motion, we interpret the dominant variability in terms of rotational modulation, with a rotation period of 9.69 d. Subtraction of the rotational modulation signal does not reveal any sign of pulsations. Our results are consistent with the absence of variability in the Hipparcos light curve. The spectroscopy leads to a projected rotational velocity of 72 2 km s 1 and does not reveal periodic variability or the need to invoke macroturbulent line broadening. No signature of a magnetic field is detected in our data. A field stronger than 500 G at the poles can be excluded, unless the possible non-detected field were more complex than dipolar. Conclusions. The absence of pulsations and macroturbulence of this evolved B-type supergiant is placed into the context of instability computations and of observed variability of evolved B-type stars.
Graphene to Fluorographene: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study

We have investigated, using fully reactive molecular dynamics methodology, the structural and dynamical aspects of the fluorination of graphene membranes leading to fluographene formation. The strong and fast chemical reactivity processes involving fluorine produce distinct aspects of the observed in the case of the hydrogenation of graphene (the so called graphane formation). Fluorination tends to produce significant defective areas on the graphene membrane with alteration on the typical carbon-carbon distances, sometimes with the presence of large holes due to carbon losses. This may explain the broad distribution of values of lattice parameter experimentally observed.
Interaction of 2009 CTX - M Variants with Drugs and Inhibitors: a Molecular Modeling and Docking Study

Extended-spectrum- β -lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes produced by bacteria which impart resistance against advanced-generation-cephalosporins. CTX-M enzymes have become the most prevalent ESBLs. The amino acid residues through which 2009 CTX-M-variants interact with drugs and inhibitors is not reported. Homology models for CTX-M-15 (This study), CTX-M-53, CTX-M-71, CTX-M-82 and CTX-M-89 were prepared. Ramachandran-Z-scores for models were found to be -0.449, 0.006, -0.103, -0.007 and 0.092, respectively. These models were docked with target drugs (cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime) and inhibitors (clavulanate, sulbactam, tazobactam). The bla CTX-M-15 marker was PCR-ampli fi ed from plasmid DNA of clinical Escherichia coli isolate. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for drugs were tested by the microbroth-dilution-method. E. coli C600 cells (harboring cloned bla CTX-M-15 ) were found positive for ESBL-production by the double-disk-synergy test. The bla CTX-M-15 marker was found transmissible through conjugation. Discovery Studio analysis of the docked structures revealed that irrespective of the CTX-M-type, ceftazidime interacted with the residues A226, G227, L228, P229, A/T230, S231, W232, R285, T288, D289, G290 and L/Y291. Moreover, sulbactam was found to bind most ef fi ciently to the studied enzymes on the basis of interaction energies. The study identi fi es amino acid residues crucial to ‘CTX-M-drug’ and ‘CTX-M-inhibitor’ interactions which might be useful in the ongoing search for a versatile CTX-M-inhibitor.
HPV DNA Detection Assays for Cervical Screening

Various high-risk HPV (hr HPV) DNA assays have been developed that allow detection of a broad spectrum of HR HPVs. Two of these assays [Hybrid Capture 2 (hc2) and GP5+/6+-PCR] have shown in large clinical trials a superior clinical sensitivity for cervical (pre)cancer compared to cytology and an optimal balance between clinical sensitivity and pecificity. Comparative studies showed that an increased sensitivity for HR HPV relative to GP5+/6+-PCR and/or hc2 results in a dramatic decrease in clinical specificity, whereas on the other hand a decreased sensitivity for virus leads to a decrease in sensitivity for (pre)cancer. These data argue for guidelines on HR HPV test requirements for cervical screening purposes.
Population structure of marine turtles in coastal waters of Qatar

Knowledge of the interrelationships between habitats and life-stage development in marine turtles requires an understanding of recruitment, size and age at maturity, sex ratios, growth and sexual development rates, survivorship and nesting probabilities. These data may be used to determine the status and survival of turtle populations during earlier life stages and for the development of appropriate conservation strategies. We sampled in-water stocks of marine turtles in coastal waters of Qatar using rodeo-style captures, entrapments in an industrial cooling intake and opportunistic bycatch to determine species, size, gender and age class. Our results revealed that Qatar is home to a resident population of small juvenile green turtles (<40 cm curved cara- pace length, CCL) and a transient population of juvenile hawksbills (<25 cm CCL) at an approxi- mate 7:3 ratio of green to hawksbill turtles. Hawksbills were male-biased (4M:1F) while green tur- tles were slightly female biased (2M:3F). Given the extreme high ambient and water temperatures in the Arabian Gulf, which may be considered a living laboratory for understanding climate change effects on marine species, our results are not conclusive that elevated temperatures have led to feminisation of marine turtle populations. We instead believe that there may be a regional and/or evolutionary shift in the pivotal temperature that regulates ecologically appropriate sex determination, which requires further investigation. Our data provide, for the first time, a descrip- tion of the foraging marine turtle population structure in Qatari waters, and point to a need for protection of seagrass beds, effective mitigation measures for sedimentation from coastal develop- ment and rehabilitation of coral-reef habitats.