Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Barcelona en Comú on Twitter. Analyzing the electoral communication of the confluence during 2015 council election

In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in digital networks as political communication tools. However, the use of social media depends on, among other things, the character of each political organization. The main objective of this research is to analyze Barcelona en Comu’s digital communication on Twitter during the municipal election campaign from May 8 to May 22, 2015 in Barcelona. The methodology is based on a social network analysis (SNA) of all the tweets disseminated by the six political parties that formed the confluence. The investigation deepens our understanding of the communicative relationship between the six parties, and between the parties and the users, with the aim of analyzing the bi-directionality of the communicative process. We conclude that the party that generated the most electoral information on Twitter during the electoral campaign was Barcelona en Comu.
Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research

The overall complexity of employment relations today raises new challenges for scholars to extend their work across the boundaries of particular geographies, organizations, theoretical perspectives and disciplines. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, this article introduces key aspects of global challenges facing employees and research on employment relations. Drawing on the articles of this anniversary issue, we identify several theoretical concepts drawn from the wider social sciences that have proven useful in understanding global challenges around global value chains, transnational and multi-level institutional frameworks, and the role of global finance. We also identify and discuss the emergence of new actors that have a growing salience for global employment research and the establishment of more global forms of worker representation. By further developing theoretical concepts around these global challenges, we argue that employment relations research will increase its dialogue with and distinctive contribution to wider debates in the social sciences.
Gizzard and other lean mass components increase, yet Basal Metabolic Rates decrease, when red knots Calidris canutus are shifted from soft to hard-shelled food

We measured basal metabolic rate (BMR), body mass, lean mass, and gizzard mass of captive red knots Calidris canutus islandica maintained on a trout chow diet (softtexture, low ash and water content) for several years and then shifted to small mussels Mytilus edulis (hard-texture, high ash and water content). During a 3-week period of feeding on mussels, body mass, lean mass, and gizzard mass increased 7.3 g (7%), 10.5 g (12%), and 4.9 g (213%), respectively, yet BMR decreased from 0.96 to 0.89 W( 8%). Under the new mussel regime, red knots must have reduced the metabolic intensity of some of the tissues. This suggests that the experimental red knots experienced the transition to a mussel diet as stressful and energy limiting, resulting in an energy-saving strategy by reducing BMR in spite of hypertrophy of the gizzard and other organs.
Effect Of Supplementation With Different Proportions Of Breweries Dried Grain And Maize Bran Mixtures On The Performance Of Crossbred Dairy Cows

Effect of supplementation with different proportions of breweries dried grain and Maize bran mixtures on feed intake, digestibility, milk yield and milk composition of crossbred dairy cows were assessed at Holetta Agricultural Research Center by using five crossbred cows of similar milk yield (8-10 kg/d), body weight (355+47), age of lactation (early lactation), but differ in parities arranged in 5*5 single Latin square design; being started at December/2010 and finished at March/2011. Experimental animals were fed ad libitum natural pasture hay basal diet and supplemented with different treatments; T1 = Concentrate mix that consisted 65% wheat bran, 33% noug (Guizotia abysinica) seed cake and 2 % salt, T2 = 20% breweries dried grain (BDG) + 78% maize bran (MB) + 2% Salt ; T3 = 38% BDG + 60% MB + 2% Salt ; T4 = 58% BDG + 40% MB + 2% Salt and T5 = 78% BDG + 20% MB + 2% Salt. Laboratory analysis of experimental feeds showed that all ingredient feeds except maize bran had adequate CP content required for moderate level of ruminant production, which is greater than 15%, a level that is usually required to support lactation and g rowth. Dry matter and metabolisable energy intakes were the same in all groups while basal diet and crude protein intakes were significantly different where by cows maintained on T1 ration consumed high basal intake with the average daily intake of 8.04 kg/d. Similarly, significantly higher (P 0.05) for apparent dry matter digestibility and apparent acid detergent fiber digestibility, but significance difference (P<0.05) existed for apparent crude protein digestibility, apparent metabolisable energy digestibility and apparent neutral detergent fiber digestibility whereby animals consumed T5 concentrate diet digest higher (P<0.01) CP than those on T2, T3 and T4. In addition to this, animals that received T3 and T5 concentrate diet digested higher (P<0.05) NDF than those consumed T1 concentrate diet. Milk yield, milk protein, lactose and total solids were not affected by experimental rations, but significant variation was existed for milk fat between animals fed with the different experimental rations whereby cows consumed T1 gave milk with high (P<0.05) fat of 4.62% when compared to T2 (4.14%) and T5 (4.06%). The average daily milk yields were 10.28, 9.72, 10.20, 10.66 and 10.79 kg in T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5, respectively. Economic analysis showed that T5 concentrate diet was economically feasible than the control group and the remaining dietary treatments. However, due to significantly lower milk fat in T5 than the control, it can be concluded that breweries dried grain and maize bran mix at the proportion of 58% BDG +40% MB+2% Salt (T4) can be proposed as alternative concentrate diet for the control (T1) for lactating dairy cows.
Generating Compelling Procedural 3D Environments and Landscapes

The game industry of today puts a lot of pressure on game developers. More than ever, the expectations of what developers can deliver are high, with increased computational power common in video game consoles and gaming PCs. For big budget games, the company or companies behind it often need to rely on hundreds of graphical designers to populate the gaming world with interesting content. This creates problems for small-scale independent game companies with limited resources, who want to compete on the game market. In order for smaller game companies to create comparable gaming worlds with substantially fewer developers, one technique they might use to achieve this is called procedural content generation (PCG). This technique utilizes the performance of a computer to generate assets based on mathematical algorithms. In this thesis project the goal has been to create an open source PCG engine for game developers to use, in which procedural content generation plays an integral part. Implemented as a pipeline, the input to the engine yields deterministic output based on what modules are used with it. The modules can work on many different scales, from creating flowers to generating 3D landscapes. With a conveyor belt style approach, it is possible to generate large worlds filled with interesting content in a linear, deterministic way. The result of the project consists of a handful of modules capable of generating 3D terrain with multiple biomes, with interpolation techniques to blend the different landscapes together. An L-system for generating trees has been implemented as well, along with a module for scattering objects in the game world in a natural way. The pipeline is connected to an external rendering engine. However, the modules have not been successfully integrated with the pipeline.
High frequency of extra-pair copulation with low level of extra-pair fertilization in the Lanyu scops owl Otus elegans botelensis

The genetic mating system is known for only a few species of owls. Most of them are genetically monogamous. The Lanyu scops owl Otus elegans botelensis breeds in high density in the forests of Lanyu (Orchid Island), southeast of Taiwan. Because extra-pair copulations (EPCs) have frequently been observed, we suspected a high degree of extra-pair fertilizations (EPFs). Through intensive field observations we quantified both within-pair and extra-pair copulations of this owl, and used a set of microsatellite loci to assign the parentage of 200 offspring from 108 families collected between 1999 and 2004. Among copulations for which we could identify both participants, 19.77% were EPC. However, no EPC was observed in the period just before egg laying. We found only two cases of parentage mismatch among 108 broods. The first case was most likely a case of brood usurpation, which would be the first case reported in the Strigidae. The second case was an EPF resulting in one offspring. Our study found that parentage mismatch in the Lanyu scops owls to be extremely low, therefore reproductive success can be estimated accurately by simply counting chicks in nests.
Building Standard Offline Anti-phishing Dataset forBenchmarking

Anti-phishing research is one of the active research fields in information security. Due to the lack of a publicly accessible standard test dataset, most of the researchers are using their own dataset for the experiment. This makes the benchmarking across different antiphishing techniques become challenging and inefficient. In this paper, we propose and construct a large-scale standard offline dataset that is downloadable, universal and comprehensive. In designing the dataset creation approach, major anti-phishing techniques from the literature have been thoroughly considered to identify their unique requirements. The findings of this requirement study have concluded several influencing factors that will enhance the dataset quality, which includes: the type of raw elements, source of the sample, sample size, website category, category distribution, language of the website and the support for feature extraction. These influencing factors are the core to the proposed dataset construction approach, which produced a collection of 30,000 samples of phishing and legitimate webpages with a distribution of 50 percent of each type. Thus, this dataset is useful and compatible for a wide range of anti-phishing researches in conducting the benchmarking as well as beneficial for a research to conduct a rapid proof of concept experiment. With the rapid development of anti-phishing research to counter the fast evolution of phishing attacks, the need of such dataset cannot be overemphasised. The complete dataset is available for download at http://www.fcsit. unimas.my/research/legit-phish-set.
Flood risk management: cases studies in French Mediterranean area

In France, for a long time, flood risk management has only oriented to controlling flood hazard with structural measures such as dikes. But since 1990’s many events have proved they have not totally efficient measures. So, institutions decided it’s necessary to manage flood risk with others ways like prevention. Risk management is so organize about holistic policies with different stakeholders and societies exposed at risk. Our study have the aim to demonstrate through several examples how flood risk is manage in French Mediterranean area. Post event feedback permit us to evaluate damage and crisis management. This method is use for show if this strategies is efficient or not. This study demonstrate how is risk management in France. Regulations are they efficient, so have they an influence about the reduction of deaths and damages? Individual measures are they more important than collective action? Finally, what policies and strategies are used and effective? The main results about cases studies show that natural event has most important that publics policies and it determines preventive policies.
Ethnic Considerations of Choice of Livelihood Coping Strategies to Combat Climate Change and Variability: A Gender Perspective

Humans by nature make efforts to cope with climate variability and change, however, adaptation to climate change manifest in varied ways and forms. From an ethnic and gender perspective, this study examined the choice of livelihood coping strategies in the face of climate variability in the Kasena-Nankana Municipality and the Bongo District in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The concurrent mixed method approach was used. A sample size of 312 rural farmers (194 males and 118 females; age range of 18-73 years), were involved in the study. Two Focus Group Discussions (between 8 to 12 members each) were conducted in each community. Quantitative data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. An application of the Chi-square test revealed that, most coping strategies had very significant relationships with ethnicity, with P Values of less than . 001 (P< .001). Gender however, didn’t have a significant relationship with coping strategies adopted as P-Values for all coping strategies except collecting and storing of grasses during the rainy season (x2=4.41, p=0.04) were greater than the significance level of 0.05. It was further revealed that Women have limited capacities to cope with climate change than men.
Determinants of Energy Demand for Heating in the European Residential Sector

The improvement of energy efficiency is one of the key targets of EU energy policy. In order to design and implement efficient energy policy, information on energy demand price and income elasticities is required. This thesis puts forward a stylized theoretical model of residential energy demand and empirically examines space heating demand from 1990 to 2015 in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK). By use of dynamic panel data models, the short-run and long-run price elasticities for space heating are estimated to -0.21 and -0.44 respectively, suggesting an inelastic demand with some room for discouraging energy consumption using price increases. The corresponding income elasticities are estimated to 0.16 and 0.43. The elasticities are smaller for electricity demand and robust over estimation techniques. The inclusion of additional sets of variables into the model suggests that energy performance standards and financial incentives also play important roles in promoting energy savings, whereas informative measures do not yield a significant impact.
EFFICIENT EXPANSION OF SUBSPACES IN THE JACOBI-DAVIDSON METHOD FOR STANDARD AND GENERALIZED EIGENPROBLEMS

We discuss approaches for an efficient handling of the correction equation in the Jacobi-Davidson method. The correction equation is effective in a subspace orthogonal to the current eigenvector approximation. The operator in the correction equation is a dense matrix, but it is composed from three factors that allow for a sparse representation. If the given matrix eigenproblem is sparse then one often aims for the construction of a preconditioner for that matrix. We discuss how to restrict this preconditioner effectively to the subspace orthogonal to the current eigenvector. The correction equation itself is formulated in terms of approximations for an eigenpair. In order to avoid misconvergence one has to make the right selection for the approximations, and this aspect will be discussed as well.
A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGN-LED CULTURE WITHIN THE FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS INDUSTRY

The role of design is not limited to developing tangibles outcomes as an operational tool but in recent times has expanded to a strategic one. Corporations' acknowledgement of design has shifted from product development toward cultural transformation and increasingly design-led. However, there has been little research to investigate how to embed design as a cultural entity within different industries in order to defy a limited role of design exploitation. In addition, although the FMCG industry produces brands embedded in our lives, it has not drawn academic attention, compared to the electronic and IT industries. Hence, this paper proposes a framework to assist the FMCG industry in enhancing the role of design within brand development and, through this consistent design exploitation, aims to assist FMCG organisations attain a design-led culture.
Characterization of α-actinin as a member of the spectrin superfamily of proteins in "Neurospora crassa"

Nous avons etudie le role de l' α-actinine dans le developpement de "Neurospora crassa". A l'aide des outils bioinformatiques, nous avons trouve un gene codant pour l'α-actinine puis nous avons caracterise ce dernier biochimiquement. Nous avons determine sa localisation "in situ" et "in vivo" pendant la germination et pendant la croissance hyphale. Bien que le role exact de l'α-actinine n'ait pas pu etre totalement elucide, l'etude phenotypique du transformant ("knock-out" partiel de l'α-actinine) nous amene a penser que cette proteine participe avec l'actine a la coordination de la germination, la formation des septa et l'etablissement des ramifications hyphales lors de la croissance du champignon. En outre, nous avons pu determiner que l'α-actinine est la seule proteine appartenant a la superfamille des spectrines chez les champignons filamenteux, les levures et les Oomycetes et represente un membre "primitif" de cette superfamille.
An Isogeometric Approach for Free Vibration and Buckling Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates

A NURBS-based isogeometric approach is developed for free vibration and buckling analyses of laminated composite plates using the classical plate theory (CPT). The NURBS basis function is employed for both the parameterization of the geometry and the approximation of plate deflection. The essential boundary conditions are presented through a weak form employing the Lagrange multiplier method and imposed using an orthogonal transformation technique. Several numerical examples for free vibration and buckling of laminated composite plates with various boundary conditions, fibre orientations and lay-up numbers are considered. The numerical results are compared with other existing solutions demonstrating the efficiency and high accuracy of the proposed approach for such problems.
Review of Chemical hazard based occupational health assessment methods for chemical processes

Hazard and risks are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but in reality, they are used in different context. In simple terms, hazard is basically something that exists all the time which is likely to cause damage whereas risks only appeared when there are exposures to the hazard. In chemical process industry, the occupational hazard caused by exposure to chemicals is quite difficult to detect, because some chemicals exist in a form which cannot be seen and are odourless. As a result, the workers who work in chemical process industry tend to have higher risk exposure to hazardous chemicals than in other industries. The reported cases of work-related diseases have been increasing yearly – this indicates that there is an urgent need to take into account the occupational health impact on worker’s health when developing, designing and operating a chemical process. Several occupational health assessment methods are available on the literature review to assess occupational health hazards generated from chemical processes. Several regulations such as OSHA 1970 (United States) and OSHA 1994 (Malaysia) have been gazetted to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for the workers. This indicates that occupational health issues in the chemical industries have drawn much attention from public, business companies and policy makers. With growing concern over the issue of chemical exposure among workers in chemical industries, it is expected that there will be more methods to be introduced in the near future. This could give rise to the difficulties faced by users in selecting the most appropriate method that cam meet their needs and are within their constraints. As for current practice, upon interested in applying any of the available methods, the users need to put additional effort to first conduct a literature review and analyse each of the said methods in order to find the most suitable one that can be used for their process. The result of this research is to produce an occupational health assessment framework, which aims to provide a systematic guideline on how to select the most appropriate and reliable method from all the options available. However, the result presented in the paper only covers the finding from literature review. The future work of this study will be developed an occupational health assessment framework by combining all the existing occupational health assessment methods into a single framework.
In vivo antiviral activity, protease inhibition and brine shrimp lethality of selected Tanzanian wil

In endeavor to have detailed account of nutritional, medicinal and pesticidal potentials of Tanzanian wild mushrooms, a study was conducted to assess the antiviral and protease activities of five edible species: Cantharellus platyphyllus and C. isabellinus from genus Cantharellus and Pleurotus djamour, P. sajor-caju and P. citrinopileatus from genus Pleurotus. Methanolic extracts were subjected to cytotoxicity lethality tests against Artemia salina Leach according to Meyer et al., (1982), in vivo antiviral tests using embryonated chicken eggs and protease tests using Screen to Nature methods. C. platyphyllus extracts had the highest cytotoxicity activity among Cantharellus species (LC50 = 7.846 μg/ml) and of all tested species. P. citrinopileatus extracts had highest cytotoxicity (LC50 = 12.807 μg/ml) among Pleurotus species. C. isabellinus and P. djamour extracts had stronger antiviral activities against both pox virus and infectious bursa disease virus. Other tested mushrooms showed moderate antiviral activities. All tested species showed non protease activities. While the Cantharellus species showed no protease inhibition property, Pleurotus species inhibited protein degradation similar to protease inhibitor. From these observations, the use of mushrooms as food and therapeutic substances particularly in HIV/AIDS infected persons is highly encouraged. It is recommended that further studies involving detailed biological activities (including antimicrobial, antioxidant and pesticidal activities) and determination of chemical compositions of Tanzanian wild edible mushrooms be done as the knowledge will contribute to the existing knowledge on these useful macro fungi.