Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Authors' response to reviewers for ``Semi-Lagrangian advection in the NEMO ocean model''

Abstract. As model resolutions increase, the Courant-Frederichs-Lewy (CFL) number based on advective motion becomes the limiting factor in setting the timestep of time-explicit circulation models. Some atmospheric models escape this limit by using an implicit or semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian formulation of advection. This formulation calculates fluid properties along parcel trajectories which follow the fluid motion and end, for each timestep, at prescribed grid-points. This work is the first application of the semi-Lagrangian method to an operational ocean model. In this context, we solve the difficulty posed by the ocean's irregular, interior boundaries by calculating parcel trajectories using a time-exponential formulation. This formulation ensures that all trajectories that are solutions to a fixed-point iteration have an origin point in the valid domain, and it does not require any prescribed extrapolation of the fluid velocities into the invalid (land) portion of the domain. We derive this method in a way that is compatible with the leapfrog timestepping scheme used in the NEMO-OPA (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean, Océan Parallélisé) ocean model, and we present simulation results for a simplified test-case of flow past a model island and for 10-year free runs of the global ocean on the quarter-degree ORCA025 grid.
THE ROLE OF LAND TENANCY IN RICE FARMING EFFICIENCY IN UPLAND KARST MOUNTAINOUS

The land area of paddy has decreased every year. Karst as one of the most extensive dry land areas in Indonesia is used to raise paddy as well. This study aims to determine the role of land tenancy in rice farming efficiency and the determining factors of the efficiency of rice farming in the karst mountainous Gunungkidul. The research is located in karst mountainous area of Gunung Sewu, Gunungkidul. This study uses the stochastic frontier analysis with cost function approach. The result shows that the estimated parameter of land rent, price of urea fertilizer, labor wage, and production are significantly correlated with the cost production of rice farming. In addition, land tenancy plays an important role in increasing the efficiency of rice farming in the karst mountainous Gunungkidul. Farmers prefer to lease land in the long term between 1-4 years due to the fact that the price offered is cheaper. Other factors that improve the efficiency of rice farming are the number of household members and farm size, while the household head age decreases the efficiency of rice farming.
Cardiac Involvement in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: A Meta-Analysis of 62 Case Reports

Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare multi-systemic vasculitis, with cardiac involvement being one of its most serious manifestations. We aimed to systematically review and analyze the limited case reports of EGPA with cardiac involvement. Methods: Based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we performed a systematic literature search for the case reports of EGPA with cardiac involvement in the MEDLINE database from 2011 until 2018. For each case, clinical data including sex, age, clinical presentation, electrocardiographic and cardiac imaging findings, the type of cardiac involvement, the available laboratory data (cardiac biomarkers, white blood cell count, eosinophilic count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positivity), therapeutic regimen, and the outcome of the patients were collected and analyzed. Results: A total number of 62 cases were included. The mean age was 48.29±15.60 years, and 51.6% were male. All the cases were in the active disease state. Cardiac symptoms, electrocardiographic abnormalities, abnormal biomarkers, and abnormal echocardiography were detected in 82.3%, 68.5%, 77.4%, and 96.8%, respectively. Cardiac magnetic resonance was done in 46.8% of the patients, and it was abnormal in all. The most common abnormal findings in echocardiography were systolic left ventricular dysfunction (83.9%) and pericardial effusion (37.1%). The most common type of clinical presentation was clinical heart failure (51.6%). Only 6.5% of the patients presented with tamponade. The overall prognosis was good. Conclusion: Any part of the heart could be involved by EGPA. The results emphasize the necessity of in-depth cardiac evaluation in these patients.
Regression analysis of the impact of internal factors on return on assets: A case of meat processing enterprises in Serbia

The aim of this paper is to identify and measure the impact of internal factors on the business success of meat processing enterprises expressed through profitability. Panel analysis was constructed for the sample which includes 24 enterprises in Serbia at the period from 2007 to 2016. The accounting rate of Return on assets (ROA), as a measure of productivity, was in function of the dependent variable, while the size of the enterprise, age, debt ratio, quick ratio, inventory, sale growth and capital turnover ratio were found as independent variables. A regression model was constructed and indicated that most variables had a statistically significant influence on the dependent variable. This kind of results are very important for potential investors. They can help them to better understand impact of internal factors on profitability and make better decisions about investment in this sector.
Dividend and leverage in Indonesian intergenerational family firms

This paper analyzes the relationships between family ownership and family generation toward dividend payout and leverage in publicly listed Indonesian firms from 2012 until 2016. The research contributes to explaining relationship between family generations toward dividend payouts and leverage in Indonesian family firms. Samples gathered by the purposive sampling method and random effect regression results show significant negative and positive relationships between family ownership and dividend and leverage, respectively. Family as the majority shareholder pays a lower dividend while employing additional supervision from creditors received as a result of using leverage as a control mechanism to mitigate agency problems. Research into family generation shows a significant positive relationship between descendant-controlled firms and dividend payout, which is in line with the income needs perspective, but an insignificant relationship for leverage. Limitations regarding information force this study to exclude the percentage of ownership and use only judgment to classify family-owned firms and generational stage. With proven expropriation activities toward minority shareholders, family firms can increase transparency and improve corporate governance practice.
Adding dense, weighted connections to WordNet

W ORD N ET , a ubiquitous tool for natural language processing, suffers from sparsity of connections between its component concepts (synsets). Through the use of human annotators, a subset of the connections between 1000 hand-chosen synsets was assigned a value of “evocation” representing how much the ﬁrst concept brings to mind the second. These data, along with existing similarity measures, constitute the basis of a method for predicting evocation between previously unrated pairs. Abstract W ORD N ET , a ubiquitous tool for natural language processing, suffers from sparsity of connections between its component concepts (synsets). Through the use of human annotators, a subset of the connections between 1000 hand-chosen synsets was assigned a value of “evocation” representing how much the ﬁrst concept brings to mind the second. These data, along with existing similarity measures, constitute the basis of a method for predicting evocation between previously unrated pairs.
Predicting Bicycle Theft in Milan (IT) An Aoristic Analysis

Local administrations keep creating policies to promote cycling among citizens. However, these initiatives seem to be often counterproductive for the targeted objectives because of the increase opportunities for bike-theft. So, this research aimed at exploring Milan (IT) as a case study to address temporal distribution of bike-theft at the meso-level while controlling for seasonal variation. The occurrence of certain timeframes was evaluated against the distribution of bicycle theft between 2011 and 2015 and predictive risk effects were estimated using the Aoristic analysis. The latter provided a temporal weight and gave an indication of the probability that the events occurred within a defined period between 2016 and 2018. Within this timeframe, the Aoristic analysis showed a higher level of risk stemming from specific days of the week and times of the day, which indeed were responsible of 76% of the registered bike-thefts. The results of this study point to temporal elements that need to be taken into consideration while formulating policies that promote an urban crime-controlled environment for cyclists in Milan. Indeed, since many common crimes are aoristic, techniques such as the Aoristic analysis is crucial for ensuring an effective deployment of resources at the right time to prevent crime.
A review of daily conversations and practices at home: Exploring practices that promote early literacy in Spanish-speaking homes and home-school interactions

Author(s): Valdes, Maria Cecilia | Abstract: Coming from a low-income heritage language family, like 17% of Latino families, entails important academic risk factors related to lower scores on reading tests. Considering that it is estimated that Latino students will represent 50% of the U.S. public schools’ population by 2050, their literacy learning must be supported adequately. The purpose of this literature review is to explore, from an ecocultural perspective, early literacy practices of low-income Spanish-speaking families and analyze the nature of literacy home-school interventions implemented for this group. The literature highlights non-traditional literacy practices that are strengths of the Latino families, such as a robust oral tradition focused on social cues, children’s engagement in written household chores, and the use of the Bible to pass values. Parents have mixed beliefs regarding literacy promotion: they do not feel prepared to support their children; thus, they support teachers as experts. Three types of home-school literacy interventions were found: printed material sharing; printed material exchange; family programs. As the literature posits, interventions should consider and be based on family beliefs, culture, and strengths; otherwise, effectivity and attrition are at risk. Moreover, new research should be conducted to bridge the gap regarding the role of family actors other than the mother, as well as the differences within the Latino community and immigrant generation.
Pedagogical resistance alternatives to neoliberal educational discrimination exercised by white-masculine-rich power

Educational discrimination, educational policy, dialogue, debates & debating, narration, With the purpose of contributing to support the idea that neoliberal educational policies are discriminatory and use the educational system to exercise discrimination of race, gender and class in favor of the masculine-white-rich power, the following reflection article compiled, from the main databases and repositories, some works written in English that orbit around this subject. The purpose was to make known in Spanish speaking something of what has been discussed in English about racism in education. The review also revealed the existence of resistance educational spaces: in essence, a pedagogical perspective based on the intimacy of dialogue in classrooms, conversation, argumentation and narrative.
An Approach to Identify Circulating Tumor Cell Using Ring Resonator Type of Electrode Using Oscillation Technique at Centimeter Frequency Bands

A ring-resonator type of electrode (RRTE) has been proposed to detect the circulating tumor cell (CTC) for evaluation of the current cancer progression and malignancy in clinical applications. Main emphasis is placed on the identification sensitivity for the lossy materials that can be found in biomedical fields. At first, the possibility of the CTC detection was numerically considered to calculate the resonant frequency of the RRTE catching the CTC, and it was evident that the RRTE with the cell has the resonant frequency inherent in the cell featured by its complex permittivity. To confirm the numerical consideration, the BaTiO3 particle, whose size was similar to that of the CTC, was inserted in the RRTE instead of the CTC as a preliminary experiment. Next, the resonant frequencies of the RRTE with internal organs of the beef cattle such as liver, lung, and kidney were measured for evaluation of the lossy materials such as the CTC, and degraded Q curves were observed because the Q-factors inherent in the internal organs were usually low due to the poor loss tangents. To overcome such difficulty, the RRTE, the oscillator circuit consisting of the FET being added, was proposed to improve the identification sensitivity. Comparing the identification sensitivity of the conventional RRTE, it has been improved because the oscillation frequency spectrum inherent in an internal organ could be easily observed thanks to the oscillation condition with negative resistance. Thus, the validity of the proposed technique has been confirmed. key words: circulating tumor cell, resonant frequency, ring-resonator, primary tumor, oscillator
Signaling Effects of Monetary Policy, Working Paper 2012-05

We develop a DSGE model in which the policy rate signals the central bank's view about macroeconomic developments to incompletely informed price setters. The model is estimated with likelihood methods on a U.S. data set including the Survey of Professional Forecasters as a measure of price setters' expectations. The signaling effects of monetary policy are found to be empirically important and dampen the effects of monetary disturbances on inflation. While the signaling effects enhance the Federal Reserve's ability to stabilize the economy in the face of demand shocks, they play a small role in stabilizing the economy after technology shocks.
Market drivers of sustainability and sustainability learning capabilities: The moderating role of sustainability control systems

This study examines (i) the impact of market drivers of sustainability on the adoption of sustainability learning capabilities and (ii) the moderating role of sustainability control systems (SCS) on the relationship between market drivers of sustainability and sustainability learning capabilities. Drawing on the levers of control framework, stakeholder theory and organisational learning literature, survey data were collected from 175 large scale local and multinational companies operating in Sri Lanka. Findings reveal that market drivers of sustainability have a significant positive impact on sustainability learning capabilities. Whereas the interactive use of SCS shows a positive moderating impact, the diagnostic use of SCS shows a negative impact. The study enhances our understanding of (i) the influence of market drivers of sustainability on the adoption of sustainability learning capabilities and (ii) the use of SCS in enabling sustainability learning capabilities. The study reveals novel insights for managers responding to changing market drivers of sustainability, on how to (re)align different uses of SCS to enable sustainability learning capabilities.
Executive functions of people with drug addiction

This study aimed to see the impairments of executive functions in people with drug dependence. Participants were selected using a purposive sampling method and the sample size was 120, among them 60 were in drug user group and 60 were healthy control. Neuropsychological assessment tools were used – Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) and Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test (RCFT), for assessing the executive functioning of the participants. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, version 20. Independent-Samples t-test was carried out and the result has shown that the control group performed better in all tests. In FAB, significant difference was found in performance between the drug users and control group, t (90.9) = 9.89, p = 0.00, α = 0.01. Both in copy and immediate recall phase of RCFT, there were significant differences of performance between the drug users and control group, t(70.9) = 8.11, p = 0.00, α = 0.01 and t (118) = 11.9, p = 0.00, α = 0.01, respectively. Results indicate that the executive functions of drug dependent people are significantly impaired. Therefore, this issue should be taken in consideration for creating individualized treatment programs and can also assist in taking preventive measures.
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Fang Guo 1,2 Yuan Yuan 1 1Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Oncology, PLA Cancer Center, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China Abstract: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is the first cytokine used in tumor biotherapy, but TNFrelated drugs are limited by the lack of specific targets. Tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced proteins (TNFAIPs), derived from TNF, is a protein family and participates in proliferation, invasion and metastasis of tumor cells. In order to better understand biological functions and potential roles of TNFAIPs in malignant tumors, this paper in the form of “Gene–Protein–Tumor correlation” summarizes the biological characteristics, physiological functions and mechanisms of TNFAIPs by searching National Center of Biotechnology Information, GeneCards, UniProt and STRING databases. The relationship between TNFAIPs and malignant tumors is analyzed, and protein–protein interaction diagram in members of TNFAIPs is drawn based on TNF for the first time. We find that TNF as a key factor is related to TNFAIP1, TNFAIP3, TNFAIP5, TNFAIP6, TNFAIP8 and TNFAIP9, which can be directly involved in activating TNFAIP1, TNFAIP5, TNFAIP8 and TNFAIP9.We confirm that themechanism of TNFAIP1, TNFAIP2 and TNFAIP3 inducing tumors may be related to NF-κB signaling pathway, but the mechanism of tumor induction by other members of TNFAIPs is not clear. In the future, translational studies are needed to explore the mechanisms of TNF-TNFAIPs-tumors.
DNO Distribution Network Operator EFR Enhanced Frequency Response ENTSO-E European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity EPS Electric Power System ESS Energy Storage System FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FFR Fast Frequency Response FFR-AUS Fast Frequency Response of Aus

Electric power systems foresee challenges in stability due to the high penetration of power electronics interfaced renewable energy sources. The value of energy storage systems (ESS) to provide fast frequency response has been more and more recognized. Although the development of energy storage technologies has made ESSs technically feasible to be integrated in larger scale with required performance, the policies, grid codes and economic issues are still presenting barriers for wider application and investment. Recent years, a few regions and countries have designed new services to meet the upcoming grid challenges. A number of grid-scale ESS projects are also implemented aiming to trial performance, demonstrate values, and gain experience. This paper makes a review on the above mentioned aspects, including the emerging frequency regulation services, updated grid codes and grid-scale ESS projects. Some key technical issues are also discussed and prospects are outlined.
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Nevin FW Zaki 1,2 Yomna M Sabri Omar Farouk Amany Abdelfatah David Warren Spence Ahmed S Bahammam 6,7 Seithikurippu R PandiPerumal 8 1Sleep Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; 2Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; 3Mansoura University Oncology Center, Mansoura, Egypt; 4Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; 5Independent Researcher, Toronto, ON, Canada; 6University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 7The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 8Somnogen Canada Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada Background: Chronobiological changes have been detected in various physiological functions of patients with breast cancer, suggesting dysregulation in the pineal gland and melatonin secretion. This study aimed to assess and measure serum melatonin levels preand postoperatively in patients who had been diagnosed for the first time with breast cancer. Methods: A sample of first-time breast cancer patients, consisting of 45 women aged 25–65 years, was evaluated and psychometric assessment was completed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Insomnia Severity Index (White, Weinberg et al) and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (Cardoso, Spence et al). The Morningness-Eveningness questionnaire (MEQ) was used to assess the chronotype. Serum melatonin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay. Results: Morning and moderately morning chronotypes were prevalent among the sample (25%, 45.8%, respectively). The finding of a mean BDI score of 13.5±11.2 indicated that depressive symptoms were prevalent among the sample. Despite the finding that a mean of the participants apparently had no symptoms of daytime sleepiness (the mean and standard deviations of the ESS were 7.5±4.4), scores on the ISI (a mean of 16.7±SD 7.3) indicated that insomnia symptoms were prevalent in the sample. Melatonin levels showed an inverse relationship with insomnia severity as measured by the ISI and depression severity, as assessed by the BDI. The postoperative melatonin levels were higher than the preoperative levels. Additionally, the psychometric profile differed among various pathological types of breast cancer according to their hormone receptor profile. Conclusion: Serum melatonin levels correlated significantly with self-reported sleep quality and psychometric profiles of depression in the present sample of breast cancer patients. The melatonin assay, which is relatively easy to carry out, provided a convenient, objective measure of an important biological correlate of sleep quality and depression. This assay thus represented a confirmatory alternative to the self-report instruments, which may sometimes be unreliable. Future studies should further evaluate the utility of melatonin measures in psychiatric and sleep complaints of breast cancer patients.