Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Insight on fish reaction to the presence of trawl from the comparison of acoustic data recorded during and between trawl stations

In many cases, people also collect acoustic data during bottom trawl surveys. The inclusion of acoustic recordings in the estimation process could potentially improve the precision and accuracy of the estimations if acoustic data collected between trawl stations are consistent with that collected during trawling operations. The present paper deals with this latter consideration. First, on station and underway acoustic data are compared using statistics computed globally over an entire survey area. This amounts to comparing the average vertical profiles, and the spatial structures of the acoustic data integrated over various combination of depth layers. Second, we focus on underway data recorded in the vicinity of stations, distinguishing between data recorded before and after the tows. The objective is to avoid masking possible differences due to spatial non homogeneity between on station and underway acoustic data. Contrary to expectation, on station and underway acoustic data happen to be highly consistent and no systematic perturbation of the gear is observed at the study scale.
Model Driven Framework for the Configuration and the Deployment of Applications in the Cloud

Cloud computing offers a distributed computing environment where applications can be deployed and managed. Many companies are seeing substantial interest to extend their technical infrastructure by adopting cloud infrastructures. Although the choice of such an environment may seem advantageous, users are faced with many challenges, especially with regard to deployment and migration of applications in the Cloud. To address some of these challenges, we propose a new approach based on modeldriven engineering techniques (MDE), called MoDAC-Deploy, for the assistance to the configuration and the deployment of applications in the Cloud. This paper focuses on the design and the implementation of our approach. In fact, we developed a model-driven Framework with generative mechanisms to simplify and to automate cloud services deployment process, to overcome APIs heterogeneity, to minimize the vendor lock-in and to enable application portability among different cloud infrastructures by reusing configurations/deployments ”Model a configuration once and deploy it anywhere”. We conducted also a case study in order to validate our proposed approach. Our empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our MDE Framework to seamlessly deploy services in the cloud and to migrate easily between different Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) without any programming efforts. Keywords-Deployment; Cloud Computing; Model Driven Engineering.
Electro-Mechanical Modelling and Load Sway Simulation of Container Cranes with Hoisting

In this work, a nonlinear model representing the dynamics of the load sway of a container crane is derived. The dynamics of the induction motors are also taken into consideration in addition to the simultaneous travelling, trolley and hoisting motions. The data of a small container crane is used to simulate the behavior of the load under an actual transportation plan with load hoisting. The container sway is found to be relatively high and may exceed the safe limits, especially for load hoisting and crane acceleration. Hence, the derived model can be implemented to achieve safe transportation plans. A feedback control scheme can be also developed on the basses of the derived model.
Effects of multiple disturbances on hard coral recruits in Glovers Reef Atoll ’ s lagoon , Belize

Glovers Reef Atoll, Belize, suffered two large-scale disturbances in the autumn of 1998: a 3-month bleaching event and a hurricane. The authors also participated in a large-scale field study that manually cleared macroalgae from a subset of the atoll’s lagoon patch reefs, creating an additional disturbance. Recruit populations on these patch reefs were sampled two weeks after the algal reduction, which was also during the bleaching event and prior to the hurricane (September 1998). The reefs were then resampled in September 1999. There was a significant reduction both in the density of recruits and in the proportion of bleached recruits between 1998 and 1999. Statistical analysis showed that the reduction in recruit density was not a result of the algal reduction. Benthic transects were conducted to assess coral cover change on these patch reefs. Qualitative observations suggest that the hurricane had little physical impact on these sheltered patch reefs and that declines in coral cover and recruit density were more likely attributable to bleaching. Some coral taxa appear to be especially sensitive (agaricids) or insensitive (Porites asteroides) to bleaching in both adult and recruit populations, while other genera exhibited more variation between adult and recruit responses. The variability of response also occurred on small geographic scales between different environmental habitats, illustrating the complexity of reef communities, even at geographically local scales. We conclude by discussing the possible management implications of these findings.
Influence of Perceived Stress , Anxiety , and Self-Esteem on Aggressive Behavior among Teenagers

This study was carried out to find out the influence of perceived stress, anxiety, self-esteem in correlation with aggressive behavior among the teenagers in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. An ex-post facto research design was conducted using a purposive sampling technique. A total 240 students were sampled from 5 schools (40 students per school). The respondents age range from 1319 years. Information was collected with the use of a self-structured questionnaire. Results from this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between aggression and perceived stress (r =0.002; <0.05). This found that the higher the level of aggression, the higher the stress level among secondary school students. There was also a significant relationship between aggression and self-esteem (r= -0.166 and sig (0.01) < 0.05). This implies that the lower the levels of self-esteem, the higher the level of aggression. The study also shows that anxiety did not significantly predict aggression among secondary students (0.328) > 0.05 level) and also (r) = 0.63. Also found that perceived stress and self-esteem has a negative effect on aggression (-0.634) while anxiety has a positive effect on aggression. The study revealed age, gender ethnic group, parent type jointly predicted aggression (R2=0.780 P<0.05) among teenagers in the selected secondary schools. However, Educators and families need to be aware of the stressors in children’s lives and help children learn how to cope and manage them appropriately.
GENOME WIDE IN SILICO CHARACTERIZATION OF DIRIGENT PROTEIN FAMILY IN FLAX ( LINUM USITATISSMUM L . )

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an important agricultural crop grown worldwide both for its seed oil as well as its stem fiber. Flax seeds are well-known for their nutritional and nutraceutical attributes such as omega-3 fatty acids in the oil and lignans and mucilage from the seed coat. It has high health benefits against certain allergies, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Flax dirigent proteins (DIR) have roles in biosynthesis of lignan and are inducible by various types of abiotic and biotic stress factors, including secondary metabolism, fibers biosynthesis, and pathogen resistance. Lignan is the key component of seed protein and has vital role in seed development.In present study, first report on insilico analysis of six dirigent protein (DP) (DIR1, DIR2, DIR3, DIR4, DIR5 and DIR6) family in flax and comparative analysis with other oil seed family DPs protein including Brassica campestris, Helianthus annuus, Glycine max and Arabadopsis thaliana. DP gene family members encoding (–) and (+) pinoresinol-forming DPs and their associated downstream metabolic processes involved in early seed coat development stages. In silico analysis of DIRs protein revealed that it comprises high level of alanine, Phenylalanine and threonine across six DIR proteins. Whereas, in DIR4 and DIR6 possess high level of leucine. These DIRs protein have high hydrophobicity and there secondary and tertiary structure shown that it has more beta pleated sheet both parallel and antiparallel. There are 3 significant and common motif found in these six DIRs proteins. These conserved motifsand active sites can be further target for drug designing aspect. The phylogenetic analysis of flax DIRs family protein shown kinship with Arabadopsis thaliana and Helianthus annuus. This study will be highly informative and useful for effective genetic enhancement of flax seed development, oil profiling and development of disease resistance flax varieties.
TWO WAY COUPLED CFD-DEM MODEL TO PREDICT TUMBLING MILL DYNAMICS

The high energy inefficiency of tumbling mills has been the focus of much of modern day comminution research, Harsh milling conditions limit experimental measurement so the mill designers have to rely on empirical relations. The scope of the present work is to prepare a computational model that can accurately predict the complex multiphase dynamics of charge, air and slurry inside the mill using a coupling between computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method. The slurry air system is modelled using Volume of fluid (VOF) method and the charge motion is modelled by discrete element method. The phases are coupled using the interphase momentum exchange between the charge and the fluids at each fluid flow time step. The coupled model is compared with experimental results from the positron emitting particle tracking (PEPT) camera. The results show good qualitative agreement with equivalent PEPT findings. It is observed that out of the four modelling approaches investigated the Two-way coupled model gives the best agreement with the PEPT findings. The model can be useful in better understanding of the mill dynamics which can lead to more efficient design.
Asynchronous Forwarder Downstream Components Buffer Manager Produc : on Container Debug Container Pass-through Forwarder Upstream Components Pass-through Forwarder Asynchronous Forwarder Network Duplicator Network Aggregator Buffer Manager Dummy Reader Dummy Reader

Short time-to-bug localization and resolution is extremely important for any 24x7 service-oriented application. In this work, we present a novel-mechanism which allows debugging of production systems on-the-fly. We leverage userspace virtualization technology (OpenVZ/LXC), to launch replicas from running instances of a production application, thereby having two containers: production (which provides the real output), and debug (for debugging). The debug container provides a sandbox environment for debugging without any perturbation to the production environment. Customized network-proxy agents asynchronously replicate and replay network inputs from clients to both the production and debugcontainer, as well as safely discard all network output from the debug-container. We evaluated this low-overhead record and replay technique on five real-world applications, finding that it was effective at reproducing real bugs. In comparison to existing monitoring solutions which can slow-down production applications, Kensa allows application monitoring at “zero-overhead”.
TORSIONAL VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-BODY SINGLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE MODEL

Torsional vibrations of reciprocating engines arise due to the application of periodic combustion forces in the cylinder and the associated inertial forces of rotating Abstract: This paper presents a detailed multi-body numerical nonlinear dynamic model of a single cylinder internal combustion engine. The model comprises all rigid body inertial members, support bearings, joints, couplers, and connections between the various engine components, as well as means of vibration damping. The detailed model is parameterized, thus enabling virtual prototype testing of various engine designs, as well as allowing the engine designer to carry out a comprehensive noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) investigation of engine performance. This new approach in engine design reduces the conceptual design-to-development cycle time and removes the need for extensive engine testing, which accounts for a considerable cost in engine design and development process. The model incorporates the simultaneous solution of large displacement dynamics of engine components, infinitesimal vibrations of support bearings, and the trapped air-fuel cylinder transient pressures. The simultaneous solution of nonlinear inertial rigid body dynamics, the combustion process, and nonlinear vibrations of the crankshaft main journal bearing supports brings about a new approach in the numerical analysis of complex nonlinear multi-body dynamic problems. Frequency domain analysis of the results shows agreement with generallyknown experimental spectra. The numerical results also agree with a closed-form analytical solution reported by various authors.
The changes of nutrient and risk elements of top soil layers under canopy of different tree species and grassland in Arboretum Mlyňany , Slovakia

Polláková, N. , Šimanský, V. , Ložek, O. , Hanáčková, E. , Candráková, E. , 2015. The changes of nutrient and risk elements of top soil layers under canopy of different tree species and grassland in Arboretum Mlyňany, Slovakia. Folia Oecologica, 42: 29–34. Litter represents the input-output system of nutrients in forests. Since the aim of study was to extent the knowledge of nutrient and risk elements cycling in the Arboretum Mlyňany (Slovak Republic), we investigated the contents of selected elements in the litter of tree species and grassland, and compared them with the contents of elements in the surface soil layers (0–10 cm). Results showed that the richest on N, P, K macro-elements were sod of grass, rich was litter of maple, oak and surprisingly also yew. The correlation between quantity of exchange calcium, magnesium, total nitrogen, available phosphorus, potassium, copper and iron in the surface soil layers and litters was not significant. On the contrary, statistically significant correlations were found in case of zinc and manganese in litter and their available ions in the surface soil layers (Zn: r = 0.884, P < 0.001; Mn: r = 0.501, P < 0.05). Limit values of available cadmium and zinc content were exceeded in the soil for yews, Cd for Himalayan pines and lead for spruces. Higher contents of mentioned heavy metals in soil were attributed to bioaccumulation, as well as to atmospheric deposition.
A Robust Tracking System Using GPS Augmented by IMU Sensors

A robust tracking system using a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, low-cost inertial sensors, and rule-based data fusion has been developed. An inertial measurement unit tends to accumulate errors over time. A GPS receiver, on the other hand, does not accumulate errors over time, but the augmentation with other sensors is needed because the GPS receiver fails in stressed environments such as beneath the buildings, in tunnels or forests, and indoors. This limits the usage of a GPS receiver as a navigation/tracking system for automobiles, unmanned vehicles, and pedestrians. The objective of this work is to augment GPS signals with low-cost inertial sensor data and a novel data fusion method. A minimized inertial augmentation board for GPS receiver has been designed and developed. The performance of the receiver with a mobile experimental platform under both indoor and outdoor circumstances has been tested. Results show that the system can provide a superior performance in comparison with either a GPS receiver alone or an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) alone.
Chapter 2 Plasma Treatment of Graphene Oxide

Plasma treatment of graphene oxide (GO) is of interest for many applications such as gas sensors, flexible electrodes, biological applications, supercapacitors, batteries, etc. Plasma treatment is a high-tech process of processing materials in combination with efficiency, economy and environmental friendliness. At the same time, plasma treatments can lead to an increase in the defectiveness of the surface of GO. Therefore, it is important to know how the treatment in various gas media affects the properties of GO. This is necessary for the correct selection of processing parameters in order to reduce the negative impact of plasma treatment. The review presents the results of experimental studies of the effect of plasma in gases of oxygen, nitrogen, ammonia, sulfur hexafluoride, carbon tetrafluoromethane, hydrogen and methane on the properties of GO. Plasma treatments were used for the functionalization, reduction, doping of graphene oxide, and also for the obtaining GO from graphene by oxidation in oxygen plasma. The effects of plasma treatment are largely determined by the type of ions used and processing conditions: plasma power, processing time and temperature, pressure, as well as the location of the samples in the reaction chamber and their distance from the plasma ignition zone.
Recovery of the coefficients of the elastodynamics equation using two statistical estimators

In this paper, we are interested in the estimation of the mechanical parameters of a solid that are nonlinearly associated with the solution of a marine geosciences problem governed by a system of partial differential equations. Such estimation requires studying an “inverse wave propagation problem” consisting in the determination of the properties of solid elastic medium in contact with a fluid medium. The two-dimensional model being used is based on measuring the variation of the pressure in the fluid while propagating a seismic wave. Two stochastic methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) with an accelerated version and Stochastic Perturbation Simultaneous Approximation (SPSA), are implemented and compared with respect to cost and accuracy.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS OF AQUATIC FERN SALVINIA NATANS FLOATING AND SUBMERGED FRONDS

We analyzed chloroplast ultrastructure, microstructure of fronds surfaces, pigment`s content and efficient use of light by photosynthetic apparatus in floating and submerged fronds of water fern Salvinia natans at different stages of development. In parenchymal cells of floating fronds average chloroplast cross-section area at intensive growth stage (June) was 5.56 μm 2 . Well-developed system of thylakoid membranes formed numerous granа. Up to four starch grains occurred. In submerged fronds chloroplasts cross-section area was 2.16 μm 2 . Degradation of grana thylakoid membrane and disruption of intergranal connections were revealed in fronds in stage of sporocarp formation (September). Rows of plastoglobules were found in chloroplasts of floating frond. Starch grains were almost entirely absent in stroma. Adaxial surface of floating fronds had simple structure stomata. The abaxial surface had no stomata and the cuticle was not developed. Pigment`s content in floating fronds was twice higher than that of submerged ones. During development of fern a content of pigments raised up in the floating leaves. At stage of sporocarps formation the chlorophyll and carotenoid content reduced. Floating fronds showed an effective operation of chloroplast photosynthetic electron-transport chain. Submerged fronds exposed to intensive light were characterized by decrease of efficiency of PSII and increase of nonphotochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence.
The decisions support scenarios in the first phases of the strategic environmental evaluation : the Barzio territory government plan experience

The complex legislation framework, of the environmental assessment, introduces a thick interpretation of the scoping document made of contents of immediate application upon the plan strategy: in this way the union of the strategy and operational dimensions will fall on the “Plan Document” choices, evaluated inside the final phase of the Environmental Report regarding: i) the physic components state; ii) the entity of the pressures inducted; iii) the suitability of the responses taken with respect to the environmental framework emerged, for completeness/appropriateness of the mitigation and compensation measures identified for the environmental sustainability of the choices made. It is in this direction that the Barzio Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Document goes (Barzio is located in the Lecco Lombardy valleys); this document has offered a concrete support to the decision that have permitted the creation of the reconnaissance-programmatic framework of the Plan Strategic, explicating the local suggestions emerged, the expectations thought, the possible modes of composition of the general interests with those of privates, highlighting the critical dynamics in place, from which deriving the draft plan through new settlements whose limits are generated by the wider government plans, the environmental law restrictions, the peculiar character of the local reality; finally the area of influence of the plan has been identified, following the space-time scale of the transformation, reorganization and upgrading of the environmental and settlement choices.
Sequent Calculi for Logic that Includes an Infinite Number of Modalities

Multimodal logic has been studied for various purposes. Although some studies have considered an infinite number of modalities, propositions for the quantification of modalities, such as “For all modalities [i] in an infinite set of modalities S, [i]p is true” have not been discussed in general. In this paper, a simple method for expressing these propositions is discussed and deduction systems for new logic are established. The conditions on Kripke frames that include these notions are also discussed.
Briefs designed to bring research findings to policy makers Conducting research with Indigenous people and communities Brief 15 , January 2013

Past critiques of the social sciences focused primarily on the identity of the researcher and his or her relationship with the ‘subject’ Indigenous person, but over time more sophisticated and practical approaches have emerged related to participantfocused methodologies and design. More specifically, past research involving Indigenous people has been criticised as inherently biased and disempowering (Henry et al 2004; Davey and Day 2008; Kidman 2007; Sherwood 2010). Recent responses that seek to improve all forms of research practice involving Indigenous people in Australia and internationally, include funding for Indigenous-specific research institutes, dedicated funding for Indigenous academics and research networks, and ethical guidelines. Some of the most interesting and substantial Indigenous-led or informed research that has emerged in the past 20 years has often related to health, although such innovative approaches remain under-developed in the criminological domain. Today, Indigenous researchers argue the focus should be on working with Indigenous people who hold the knowledge and expertise of their circumstances past and present, and on positive change (Smith 1999; Sherwood 2010).