Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mapping of Deep Tectonic Structures of Central and Southern Cameroon by an Interpretation of Surface and Satellite Magnetic Data

The aim of this study is to determine the depth of deep tectonic structures observed in the Adamawa-Yadé zone (central part of Cameroon) and propose a new structural map of this area. The horizontal gradient associated with upward continuation and the 3D Euler deconvolution methods have been applied to the Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid 2 (EMAG2) data from the study area. The determination of the maximum magnitude of the horizontal gradient of the total magnetic intensity field reduced to the equator, in addition to the main contacts deducted by Euler solution, allowed the production of a structural map to show the fault systems for the survey area. This result reveals the existence of two structural domains which is thus confirmed by the contrast of magnetic susceptibility in the Central Cameroon Zone. The suggested depths are in the range of 3.34 km to 4.63 km. The structural map shows two types of faults (minors and majors) with W-E, N-S, NW-SE, NE-SW, ENE-WSW, WNW-ESE, NNE-SSW, and NNW-SSE trending. The major faults which are deepest (3.81 km to 4.63 km) with NE-SW, W-E, and N-S direction are very represented in the second domain which includes the Pangar-Djerem zone. This domain which recovers many localities (Ngaoundéré, Tibati, Ngaoundal, Yoko Bétaré-Oya, and Yaoundé) is associated with the Pan-African orogeny and the Cameroon Volcanic Line.
BEST PRACTICES IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND THE MEANINGS OF INTEGRALITY

This study aimed to analyze the best practices implemented in primary healthcare (PHC) services and their defining criteria, according to the perceptions of managers, healthcare professionals and users. The theoretical framework of integrality, in three meanings: organization of the services, practices of the healthcare professionals and governmental policy, allowed the characterization of the best practices in PHC and their criteria. This was a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and analytical study, based on Grounded Theory. Interviews were conducted with seven coordinators, ten healthcare professionals and twelve users of healthcare centers in Florianopolis, Brazil, comprising three sample groups. Two categories of analysis dealing with the meaning of best practice resulted. Perceptions were related to the context and the interactions established between social actors, who prepare their positions based on their experience and positions held in healthcare services.
ONE NEW SUBFAMILY AND TWO NEW TRIBES OF THE DIASPIDIDAE (HOMOPTERA: COCCOIDEA)

TAKAGI, S. , 2002. One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Ins. matsum. n. s. 59: 55-100,2 tables, 26 figs. Ulucoccinae, subfam. n. , and Thysanaspidini and Smilacicolini, tribb. n. , are erected on the basis of Ulucoccus, Thysanaspis, and Smilacicola, respectively. The subfamily Ulucoccinae is one of very primitive forms of the Diaspididae, lacking distinct pygidial appendages, and may approach a remote ancestor of the Diaspidini, Diaspidinae, being similar to the second instar males of some species of the tribe, especially of the Chionaspidina. The tribe Thysanaspidini represents the most primitive form of the Aspidiotinae in the pygidial appendages, which are composed of well-developed pectinae alone in the nymphal stages. Thysanaspis is pupillarial, so that the nymphal stages of the genus give some idea of the putative ancestor of the extant Aspidiotinae. The Smilacicolini inhabit a constricted space on the plant body as the Odonaspidini do, and may have derived from a group of forms related to, but more primitive than, the extant Parlatoriini, to which the Odonaspidini are also related. Five other diaspidids are described or figured for comparison with the Thysanaspidini and the Smilacicolini. Two of them, occurring in the Philippines, are new species belonging to a new genus: Ligaspis maculata and L. pala. Another species, Mongrovaspis quadrispinosa, is newly recorded from eastern Asia and is redescribed. The new higher taxa and the other higher taxa mentioned in this study are primarily gradal units, and comments are made on the reason why such a view of taxa is adopted. Author's address. c/o Systematic Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589 Japan.
Modélisation électromagnétique des discontinuités uni-axiales : application à l'étude des circulateurs planaires et de la cellule GTEM

La methode variationnelle multimodale (MVM) est une methode integrale de modelisation electromagnetque tres efficace pour analyser les discontinuites uni-axiales. Cette methode est basee sur l'identification du champs electromagnetique de part et d'autre de la discontinuite associee a la definition du coulage entre modes via l'utilisation de fonctions d'essai. Ceci lui procure de tres bonnes performances notamment en rapidite et precision. L'objectif de cette these c'est d'adapter l'utilisation de la MVM en association avec d'autres methodes telles que la BEM ou la TRM au traitement de circuits pesentant des discontinuites uni-axiales peu conventionnelles a travers deux applications assez differentes. La premiere consistait en l'etude du comportement des circulateurs planaires en technologie micro-ruban a temperature cryogenique. La deuxiemeapplication, consistait a elaborer un modele electromagnetique de la cellule GTEM. ABSTRACT : The multimodal variational method (MVM) is an electromagnetic modelling integral method which is very efficient in analysing uni-axial discontinuities. This method is based on the identification on the electromagnetic field on both sides of the discontinuity in association with the mode-coupling definition by using test functions. this provides it with very good performances particulary in terms of rapidity an precision. The objective of this thesis, is to adapt the use of the MVM in addition whith other methods like the BEM or the TRM to the treatment of circuits presenting a non-conventional uni-axial discontinuities through tow rather different applications. the first one onsisted of the study of the microstrip circulators behavior at cryogenic temperature. the second application , consisted in creating an electromagnetic model of GTEM cell.
Production of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in Chesapeake Bay: application of size-based theory

To evaluate and quantify productivity of abundant bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, daily stock biomass, production, and contribution to predators of young- of-the-year (YOY) bay anchovy were estimated from May 1995 to October 2000, based on tri-annual midwater trawl collections. Empirical allometric relationships were applied to develop size-depen- dent growth and mortality estimates. Estimated annual mean stock biomass of YOY bay anchovy was lowest in 1996 (17 × 10 3 metric tons (t) wet weight) and highest in 2000 (64 × 10 3 t). Estimated YOY production varied inter-annually by a factor of 4, ranging from 167 × 10 3 t in 1996 to 697 × 10 3 t in 2000. Daily stock biomass levels usually peaked in mid September, while daily production and con- tribution to predators peaked from mid July to late September. The annual production to mean bio- mass (P/ - B) ratio, which included the very productive larval stage, was high and ranged from 9.02 to 13.23. Analysis of environmental factors indicated that water temperature and dissolved oxygen were important controllers of growth rate. Inter-annual variability in length-specific mortality was inversely related to mean salinity in the summer and fall, suggesting that salinity controls abun- dances and spatial distributions of predators on bay anchovy. Results imply that annually variable hydrological conditions and secondary productivity may drive observed variability in recruitment and production of YOY bay anchovy by inducing small but decisive differences in growth and predation mortality on early-life stages.
A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become an important part of Search engine marketing. Trends, contents, importance and working of SEO and comparison of various page ranking algorithms have been reviewed in this paper. Humanized Ranking, Mobile search which are the biggest search medium are also discussed. Due to the increase in number of web sites, web page links, there is need to properly rank the web pages from most relevant to least relevant web site links according to the need of the user. Need of the hour is a web marketing technique known as search engine optimization.
Proximate analysis of different groups of irradiated alginic acid

Background: Seaweeds contain significant quan��es of lipids, protein, vitamins and minerals. Aquavac Ergosan contains 1% alginic acid extracted from two brown seaweeds, Laminaria digitata and Ascophyllum nodosum. Both in vivo and in-vitro researches have mainly been focused on the effect of Ergosan on fish growth, survival rate, reproducve performance and innate immunity in blood and epidermal mucus. Despite numerous studies on the ef fects of Ergosan on immune system of aquac animals and evaluaon of seaweeds in proximate analysis, there is no data available on proximate analysis of irradiated Ergosan extract (alginic acid). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the effect of on different groups of irradiated alginic acid (10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 KGy) for analyzing proximate composion. Materials and Methods: Alginic acid was prepared from the sonicated Ergosan extract. The Alginic acid extracted from Ergosan was irradiated with a gamma cell. The protein and lipid content and Moisture and ash were recorded. Results: Stascal analysis showed no signif icant dif ferences among all of groups in terms of protein, lipid, ash and moisture. Conclusion: Radiaon processing is a very convenient tool for imparng desirable effects in polymeric materials. The polysaccharide degradaon by gamma or ultraviolet irradiaon is free of iniators. High energy radiaon technique can be effecvely used to decrease the molecular weight of different polysaccharides such as alginate and Chitosan. Based on the results of this study, gamma irradiaon of alginic acid as natural polysaccharide had no effect on crude protein, crude lipid, moisture and ash.
GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ALPINE SHEEP BREEDS

The aim of this study was to characterize from the genetic point of view eight alpine sheep breeds reared in Italy (Bergamasca, Biellese, Schwarzbraunes Bergschaf and Tiroler Bergschaf), Germany (Brillenschaf and Weisses Bergschaf) and Slovenia (Bovska and Jezerzko-Solcavska) through the use of microsatellite molecular markers. Allelic richness was rather high in each breed highlighting a considerable genetic diversity. However, the study evidenced a significant departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in all analyzed breeds caused by a heterozygote deficiency. Such lack seems to be caused by a rather high level of inbreeding. The genetic differentiation among breeds was rather low (FST = 0.064) but significant. The neighbour-joining tree obtained from Reynolds’ genetic distance estimates, showed the presence of three groups formed by the three Bergschaf breeds, the Italian Bergamasca and Biellese and the two Slovenian breeds together with the German Brillenschaf. Such grouping is in accordance with the breeds’ region of origin and with their known history. Concluding, microsatellite resulted to be a useful tool to investigate breed variability and to characterize alpine sheep breeds. Obtained findings suggest the need to set up a conservation plan aiming to safeguard and increase the genetic variability of the studied breeds compromised by the high level of inbreeding. Microsatellites genotyping could help to monitor breed variability and to organize matings.
Minimizing Processor Power Dissipation with Self-tuning Techniques

Today, safety margins are causing significant amount of unnecessary power overhead or limiting the performance of the conventional digital designs. In order to minimize the overhead of safety margins, there is an increasing interest for adaptive techniques. One of the first and well known adaptive technique which minimizes the overhead of entire safety margins is dubbed Razor [1]. This thesis work is a case study of implementation and evaluation of the Razor approach on a processor which executes a subset of the AVR32 instruction set. ATMEL 150nm low leakage library is used for synthesize and evaluations. A methodology is explained to introduce the Razor approach to the pipeline with one-cycle error recovery. Simulations showed that at least 26-28% reduction in energy is possible on typical library conditions over the supply voltage determined by the worst case safety margins.
The Role of Community Radio in Livelihood Improvement: The Case of Simli Radio

The present study focuses on the contribution of Simli Radio to the livelihood improvement of the people in the Tolon-Kumbungu and Savelugu-Nanton Districts of the Northern Region of Ghana. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 12 communities for the study. Data were gathered on the use of broadcasting as an educational tool, the promotion of traditional culture, communication and information sharing, entertainment and income promotion. The study established that Simli Radio has worked to improve awareness and knowledge of solutions to community development problems ranging from culture, rural development, education, hygiene and sanitation, agriculture to local governance. The station has been an appropriate medium that has facilitated an interface between duty bearers and rights holders. It has promoted small and medium enterprise development by creating market opportunities for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) operators and consequently improved sales and incomes. It is recommended that regular feedback from the listening public is essential in identifying listeners’ preferences and the taste of various listeners segments (youth, women, men, aged, etc) and to avoid politics and religion.
Effectiveness of Strength Training in Post Stroke

The study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of strength training in post stroke. This was an experimental randomized study, conducted at various Physical Therapy OPD setting areas. Sample n = 30; 3 females and 12 males as experimental group and 3 females and 12 males as control group were selected through probability sampling. Mean age of 57 with middle recovery stage of post stroke were included. Different selected strength training exercises were applied on experimental group to assess spasticity, cadence and manual muscle testing. Result was taken by using Mann – Whiteny U test for outcome measures as in cadence, spasticity and manual muscle testing. The result of two outcome measure shows significant result which means the strength training is more effective than the conventional treatment for post stroke of middle recovery stage.
Cross Flow past Circular Cylinder with Waviness in Confining Walls near the Cylinder

Two dimensional flow past circular cylinder confined by walls with local waviness near the cylinder has been studied. The aim of the present study is to identify the ability of the waviness to control vortex shedding, for which two different waviness configurations such as in-phase configurations (IPC) and out-phase configurations (OPC) are considered. Further, the effect of location of the local waviness with respect to the cylinder has also been studied. Air is the working fluid and the flow is assumed to be laminar and incompressible at Re=200. The finite volume based CFD solver Ansys Fluent (Version 15.0) is used for the computations. Flow characteristics such as drag, lift and Strouhal number are computed. Interesting shedding characteristics and drag reduction are observed due to the presence of local waviness. However, the significant factor is the location of waviness in the confining walls that leads to complete suppression of shedding. Among various locations and configurations of waviness studied, waviness in downstream with OPC3 suppresses the vortex shedding completely with reduced drag.
Analysis using Adaptive Tree Structured Clustering Method for Medical Data of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

It is known that the classification of medical data is difficult problem because the medical data has ambiguous information or missing data. As a result, the classification method that can handle ambiguous information or missing data is necessity. In this paper we proposed an adaptive tree structure clustering method in order to clarify clustering result of selforganizing feature maps. For the evaluating effectiveness of proposed clustering method for the data set with ambiguous information, we applied an adaptive tree structured clustering method for classification of coronary heart disease database. Through the computer simulation we showed that the proposed clustering method was effective for the ambiguous data set.
Contributions of catchment and in-stream processes to suspended sediment transport in a dominantly groundwater-fed catchment

Abstract. Suspended sediments impact stream water quality by increasing the turbidity and acting as a vector for strongly sorbing pollutants. Understanding their sources is of great importance to developing appropriate river management strategies. In this study, we present an integrated sediment transport model composed of a catchment-scale hydrological model to predict river discharge, a river-hydraulics model to obtain shear stresses in the channel, a sediment-generating model, and a river sediment-transport model. We use this framework to investigate the sediment contributions from catchment and in-stream processes in the Ammer catchment close to Tübingen in southwestern Germany. The model is calibrated to stream flow and suspended-sediment concentrations. We use the monthly mean suspended-sediment load to analyze seasonal variations of different processes. The contributions of catchment and in-stream processes to the total loads are demonstrated by model simulations under different flow conditions. The evaluation of shear stresses by the river-hydraulics model allows the identification of hotspots and hot moments of bed erosion for the main stem of the Ammer River. The results suggest that the contributions of suspended-sediment loads from urban areas and in-stream processes are higher in the summer months, while deposition has small variations with a slight increase in summer months. The sediment input from agricultural land and urban areas as well as bed and bank erosion increase with an increase in flow rates. Bed and bank erosion are negligible when flow is smaller than the corresponding thresholds of 1.5 and 2.5 times the mean discharge, respectively. The bed-erosion rate is higher during the summer months and varies along the main stem. Over the simulated time period, net sediment trapping is observed in the Ammer River. The present work is the basis to study particle-facilitated transport of pollutants in the system, helping to understand the fate and transport of sediments and sediment-bound pollutants.
New SERS-active junction based on cerium dioxide facet dielectric films for biosensing

Further enhance of the Raman scattering is the priority for the development of the modern molecular diagnostic methods. Expected increasing in detection sensitivity of the biological and chemical agents provides substantial progress in such areas as: proteomics (discovery of new disease markers), pharmacokinetics of drugs, analysis of toxins and infections agents, drug analysis, food safety, and environmental safety.In this paper we investigated the possibility of the facet structures, based on cerium dioxide to further enhance the SERS signal. During the studies a new metamaterial was developed. The metamaterial is based on the facet cerium dioxide films and plasmonic nanoparticles that are immobilized on its surface. The new metamaterial provides additional SERS signal amplification factor of 211. Thus developed material offers the prospect of increasing the sensitivity and selectivity of biochemical and immunological analysis.
Differences in Resilience and University Adjustment between School Leaver and Mature Entry University Students

Edith Cowan University Research shows that mature entry and school leaver students have vastly different experiences when transitioning to the university environment. It is suggested that the transition to university is a major life transition and thus is a period of great stress. For mature entry students and school leaver students, the impacts upon adjustment to university are varied during the transition to university study. It has been proposed that for successful university adjustment, high levels of resilience are needed. Three hypotheses were tested with a sample of undergraduate students (n = 63). Hypothesis one, that there is a relationship between resilience and adjustment was supported. This indicates that 31.9 percent of the variance in adjustment can be accounted for by resilience. Hypothesis two, that there is a difference in university adjustment between school leaver and mature entry students, and hypothesis three, that mature entry students would exhibit higher levels of resilience than school leavers, were both not supported. These findings imply that individual differences are more important in adjustment to university than group differences, and have the implication that universities may be better off considering these individual differences when accommodating new students.
NOVEL COMPACT MICROSTRIP ULTRA-WIDEBAND FILTER UTILIZING SHORT-CIRCUITED STUBS WITH LESS VIAS

We present here a new pattern with compact size of Ultra Wideband (UWB) microwave filter. The filter is based on quarter-wave length short-circuited stubs model. We introduced here a new schematic model by extracting all parasitic elements such as T- junction and discontinuity in our new pattern of UWB filter. This new filter has minimal number of vias and improved frequency bandwidth, insertion loss and return loss. It is fabricated on RT Duroid 5880 with 0.508 mm of substrate thickness. The final dimension is measured as 21 mm × 14 mm. It is not only compact, but also delivers excellent scattering parameters with magnitude of insertion loss, |S21| lower than 0.85 dB and return loss better than −11.6 dB. The fractional bandwidth is 109% from 3.06 GHz to 10.43 GHz. In the pass band, the measured group delay varies in between 0.47 ns to 0.32 ns, showing stability with minimum variation of only 0.15 ns.
Feature Fusion Based on Convolutional Neural Network for SAR ATR

Recent breakthroughs in algorithms related to deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have stimulated the development of various of signal processing approaches, where the specific application of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data has spurred widely attention. Inspired by the more efficient distributed training such as inception architecture and residual network, a new feature fusion structure which jointly exploits all the merits of each version is proposed to reduce the data dimensions and the complexity of computation. The detailed procedure presented in this paper consists of the fused features, which make the representation of SAR images more distinguishable after the extraction of a set of features from DCNN, followed by a trainable classifier. In particular, the obtained results on the 10-class benchmark data set demonstrate that the presented architecture can achieve remarkable classification performance to the current state-of-the-art methods.