Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR AERIAL IMAGES AND AIRBORNE LASER ALTIMETRY DATA REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

Photogrammetry is one of the traditional methods and sources of obtaining digital surface models (DSMs). Airborne Laser Altimetry (also widely known as LIDAR – Light Detection and Ranging), on the other hand, is a newer, highly automated, still improving and an accurate method providing coordinate measurements. The two methods deliver complementary surface information where the disadvantages of one method can be compensated by the advantages of the other method, if they are used together, in order to extend the range and the utilization of the information gathered due to the data fusion that can occur. This paper describes the accurate co-registration between the two data sets which takes place through a 3D transformation. This co-registration is the prerequisite step for the fusion of the two data sets. The theoretical framework of the algorithm which is presented is based on the minimization of the distances between points of one surface to surface patches of the other surface, parallel to the corresponding surface normals as per the research of Schenk et al. (2000). In this research, the performance of this algorithm is evaluated on the sets which would be used to create the surface patches and on the processing levels of data sets. Moreover, the paper includes the description of the available data of the Espoonlahti area. The entire area is covered by a block of aerial images and a 3D laser point cloud taken in the same time period. Also, the results and the effects on registration using images and laser point cloud are described. The aims of the research were to investigate the geometric stability of the transformation, the analysis of the results, the effects on the registration and the accuracy of the derived parameters through an own developed and self-executable software script using real data and under real conditions.
The design of practice and the practice of design

Design has grown into the center of the information systems (IS) discourse. There has of course, since the advent of the scientific discipline of IS, existed a great interest for the design of information systems. However, through the articulation of design science (DS) as a specific research approach within IS, there has been a tremendous growth of research and publications concerned with design issues and explicitly adhering to such a research orientation. There are many papers that apply a design science approach and there are also many papers that are trying to elaborate principles and procedures of such research approach. The former can be seen as design of artifacts within IS practices. The latter can be seen as design of the design science practice. In this editorial I will reflect on such practices and how the notion of design should be interpreted as its essences. In a DS approach it is presumed that its essence lies within the function of designing artifacts; being IT artifacts or other types of related artifacts such as methods and models. I think that this conception needs to be nuanced. Instead of a limited focus on artifact design, I will argue in section 2 below for a broader view: the design of practices. In section 3 I will discuss the practice of design science. There seems to be a confusion concerning how to conceive this kind of practice; mainly as a design practice or mainly as a research practice. I will make some elaborations with the purpose of clarification. In section 4, this special issue will be introduced. The papers included in this special issue on “Design & Practice” will be briefly described.
Optimization of the adsorption of a textile dye onto nanoclay using a central composite design

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of montmorillonite clay for the adsorption of C.I. Basic Yellow 2 (BY2) dye from aqueous media. The experimental results were processed by response surface methodology based on a central composite design (CCD). The effect of four main variables, including initial BY2 concentration, adsorbent dosage, reaction time, and temperature on the removal of BY2 was evaluated by the model. The accuracy of the model and regression coefficients was appraised by employing analysis of variance. The results demonstrated a good agreement between the predicted values obtained by the model and the experimental values (R$^{2\, }$= 0.972). Accordingly, the maximum BY2 removal of 97.32% was achieved with an initial BY2 concentration of 60 mg/L, adsorbent dosage of 0.6 g/L, reaction time of 10 min, and initial temperature of 25 $^{\circ}$C. The results demonstrated the high efficiency of montmorillonite clay for the adsorption of BY2 dye from aqueous solution based on the data processed by CCD approach. The adsorbent dosage was found to be the key factor that controlled dye adsorption. The adsorption kinetic and isotherm were also investigated. The rate of adsorption showed the best fit with the pseudo-second order model (R$^{2}$ = 1). The results of the isotherm study fit the Freundlich model (R$^{2} >$ 0.9). The physicochemical properties of the sample were determined by XRF, XRD, FT-IR, and N$_{2}$ adsorption--desorption.
Similarity Methods in Elasto-Plastic Beam Bending

In industrial metal forming processes a large number of parameters has to be considered. As is well known, this number can be reduced by a non-dimensional representation. Based on the example of an elasto-plastic cantilever beam, the non- dimensional form is derived in the framework of the Bernoulli-Euler theory. In the second step, a Finite Element analyis of a drop-test experiment is performed, and the results are presented in non-dimensional form. The results illustrate the advantage of the normalization.
Information Production, Misconduct Effort, and the Duration of Financial Misrepresentation

We develop and test a model linking the duration of financial fraud to information produced by auditors and analysts and efforts by managers to conceal the fraud. Our empirical results suggest fraud termination is more likely in the quarter following the release of audited financial statements, especially when reports contain explanatory language, indicating auditors’ observable signals reduce fraud duration. Analyst attention increases the likelihood of fraud termination, but the marginal effect beyond the first analyst is negative, possibly due to free riding and herding behavior impairing analysts’ ability to illuminate misconduct. Finally, evidence suggests managerial concealment significantly increases fraud duration.
The cat's cradle of responsibility: assigning and taking responsibility for companion animals in natural disasters

Responsibility is often regarded as a unified concept. However in everyday language, the term refers to a cat's cradle of related ideas and perceptions. Although there might be consensus that individuals should be ultimately responsible for their own animals during crises, individuals and groups may disagree about the norms and obligations we ought to adopt and what we owe to animals that are dependent on our care. A coherent account of responsibility for companion animals, or pets, in disasters is yet to be articulated. At the same time, there is good evidence showing that individuals and communities cope better during and after natural disasters when companion animals receive protection alongside their human families. Against this backdrop, the concept of responsibility is increasingly invoked in public communication as a motivation for pet owners to comply with emergency management plans. While top-level emergency managers seem clear on their responsibilities, studies have shown that operational-level emergency responders and service providers are less likely to know who is responsible for pets and in what ways. In this paper, we undertake a structured examination of how different concepts of responsibility are enacted around human-companion animal relationships in the context of natural disasters. Case examples from the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission are used to examine issues and challenges in the effective translation of the concept of responsibility into operational practice. We explore how a more structured approach, with sensitivity to both human and non-human vulnerabilities, may help frontline responders, service providers and policy-makers to better engage with owners concerning responsibility for their companion animals during disasters.
Free-Living Protists as a Model for Studying Heat Shock Proteins in the Cell

Heat shock proteins (HSP) are closely involved in response of organisms to adverse natural and anthropogenic factors. Within one of the recent directions of HSP studies, attempts are made to uncover mechanisms underlying the organisms' adaptation to various stresses. Promising model objects for this research are protists - lower eukaryotes that are at the same time a cell and a fully fledged organism. In this paper, we present some results of our studies on HSP70 level in intact cells of several free-living protists and on the characteristics of its dynamics in the cells in response to the changes in natural environmental factors, salinity and temperature. The protists chosen for the study, the amoebae and the ciliates, possess an essentially different organization of the cell and belong to the most phylogenetically distant groups. In many cases, a high constitutive level of HSP70 was recorded in intact cells under normal (non-stressful) conditions. It may be considered as a universal pre-adaptation of these protists to possible drastic environmental changes. The strains of Amoeba proteus and several related species were very similar as to the level of HSP70 and the position of the stained zone on the blots, despite differences in geographic provenance, temperature conditions in natural habitats the strain was isolated from, and the strain age. Species of other genera of freshwater lobose amoebae studied, though close to Amoeba, differed considerably in the HSP70 level.
Gastrointestinal Malignancy Presenting with a Virchow's Node in a Patient with Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome

Rothmund-Thomson syndrome is a genetic disorder with characteristic findings in childhood as well as a predisposition to osteosarcoma, skin cancer, and hematological malignancy. We present the first reported case of duodenal malignancy in a patient with Rothmund-Thompson syndrome. An enlarged Virchow's node was noted and an advanced duodenal adenocarcinoma was diagnosed shortly thereafter. The features of Rothmund-Thomson syndrome are discussed, as well as current management and screening guidelines for duodenal adenocarcinoma.
Mechanical Properties of Thermoelectric Materials for Practical Applications

Thermoelectric (TE) direct conversion of thermal energy into electricity is a novel renewable energy conversion method currently at a technological readiness level of 3–5 approaching laboratory prototypes. While approaching practical thermoelectric devices, an increase in the thermoelectric element’s efficiency is needed at the entire service temperature range. Yet, the main focus of research was concentrated on the electronic properties of the materials, while research on the mechanical properties was left behind. As it is shown in this chapter, knowing and controlling the mechanical properties of TE materials are paramount necessities for approaching practical TEGs. The material’s elastic constants, strength and fracture toughness are the most crucial parameters for designing of practical devices. The elastic constants provide understanding about the material’s stiffness, while strength provides the loading conditions in which the material will keep its original shape. Knowing the fracture toughness provides the stress envelope in which the material could operate and its susceptibility to inherent fabrication faults. The characterization methods of these properties are varied and may be physical or pure mechanical in nature. It is the authors opinion to prefer the mechanical methods, so the results obtained will describe more accurately the material’s response to mechanical loading.
Polymorphism of stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD1) gene in Indonesian local cattle

Stearoyl-Coa desaturase ( SCD1) gene is one of genes that involves in converting saturated fatty acids to unsaturated fatty acids. SNP at exon 5 in SCD1 gene that changes amino acid valine to alanine (V293A) has an influence to meat fatty acid composition. The aim of this research was to analyze SCD1 gene polymorphisms based on SNP V293A at exon 5 of three Indonesian local cattle. The identification of SCD1 gene polymorphisms was done by using 98, 20 and 7 DNA sample from Ciamis, Bali/Banteng, and Ongole Grade (PO) cattle, respectively. PCR_RFLP method with AciI enzim was carried out to identify SNP Val293Ala. Allelic frequencies and heterozygosity value were analyzed by using POPGENE32. The result showed that SCD1 gene at Ciamis local cattle and PO cattle were polymorphic. Their frequencies were 74.5% and 71.4% for T and 25.5% and 28.6% for C, respectively. There were three genotypes on Ciamis local cattle i.e TT, CT and CC with their frequencies were 52%, 44.9% and 3.10%, respectively. There were two genotypes on PO cattle i.e TT and CT with their frequencies were 42.9% and 57.1%, respectively. Meanwhile, SCD1 gene in Bali cattle was monomorphic. Heterozygosity value of SCD1 gene in Ciamis and PO cattle were 0.38 and 0.44, respectively. Their heterozigosities were categorized as medium.
Lymphoma Allograffs Abrogate Immune Privilege Within the Anterior Chamber of the Eye

Immune privilege is extended to allogeneic tissues placed into the anterior chamber of the eye and results in part from the induction of anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID)—a condition in which the host is capable of making humoral antibodies and cytotoxic T cells specific for the antigens in question, but is selectively suppressed in its capacity to generate delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH). Privilege is extended only transiently to tissue differing at the major histocompatibility complex; by contrast, privilege is complete for tissues offering multiple minor H incompatibilities, but no MHC disparity. During examination of host responses to tumor cell lines in this latter category, it was observed that privilege was extended to all histologic categories of tumors examined except T cell lymphomas. Moreover, the capacity of minor H incompatible tumors to maintain immune privilege and sustain prolonged survival within the anterior chamber could be abrogated if T cell lymphomas were placed into the anterior chamber of the contralateral eye. Thus, T cell lymphomas exert a systemic influence which robs the anterior chamber of its immune privilege. It is concluded that this systemic effect is intimately related to lymphokines produced by T cell lymphoma allografts. Since immune privilege seems to be a physiologic property of the anterior chamber, it is suspected that local features within this site conspire to insure that antigens placed therein interact with the immune system in a manner that bypasses lymphokine production, thus allowing for the induction of ACAID and selective suppression of DTH. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 27:1235-1243, 1986
The spectrum of a Riemannian manifold with a unit Killing vector field

Let (P, g) be a compact, connected, C°° Riemannian (n + l)-manifold (n > 1) with a unit Killing vector field with dual 1-form tj. For t > 0, let g, = i~'g + (f" — f"')t)|8>r),a family of metrics of fixed volume element on P. Let X,(f) be the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace operator on C0O(/>) of the metric g,. We prove that if dj\ is nowhere zero, then A|(/) -» oo as t -» oo. Using this construction, we find that, for every dimension greater than two, there are infinitely many topologically distinct compact manifolds for which X, is unbounded on the space of fixed-volume metrics. 0. Introduction. Let F be a compact, oriented, connected C°°(« + l)-manifold (« > 1) with Riemannian metric g. We suppose (P, g) has a nowhere zero Killing vector field £. By replacing g by g(¿, £)~'g, we can (and do) assume g(£, ¿) = 1, henceforth. Let rj be the 1-form dual to £; r/(-) = g(£, •). For / > 0, set g, = t'^g + (t" — F1)? ] ® 7), the coefficients being chosen so that the volume element is independent of t. When (P, g) is also assumed to be homogeneous, Muto and Urakawa [6], Tanno [7] and Urikawa [8] have proved (in certain cases) that the first eigenvalue X,(/) of the Laplace operator A, of g, goes to oo as / -» oo, even though vol(g,) is constant. In this way, the question posed by Berger [1], on whether X, is bounded for metrics of fixed volume, is answered negatively. Here we drop the assumption (among others) of homogeneity, and establish that X,(/) -* oo when t -» oo, under the less restrictive condition that dr¡ is nowhere 0. In this setting, the proof that X,(i) -» oo is quite different and does not require any facts about spherical representations, root systems of semisimple Lie algebras, etc. Let Lé: CX(P) -» CX(P) denote Lie differentiation with respect to £, and let L\ = Lç o Lt. In §2, we prove that if m G C°°(P) is an eigenfunction of the Laplace operator A (for g), say Aw = Xu (X > 0), and L\u = -k2u (k > 0), then X k2 > 0. Equality occurs iff dv\ — 0 and each integral submanifold of £x= {X G TP\ g(£, X) = 0} meets each integral curve of £ in equally spaced points of spacing an integral multiple of 27r/c"'. In the case dr\ is nowhere zero (i.e., |í/tj|>0), we prove that there is a constant O 0 (independent of À and k) such that X — k2 > Ck, and X — k2 -* oo as X — oo, which is used in proving X,(i) -» oo as t -» oo. In §3, we examine more closely the case where £ is the generator of a free U(\) (circle) action. Then tt: P -> P/U(\) = M is a principal i/(l)-bundle and g is a Received by the editors February 2, 1982. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 53C20.
Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants

Understanding the determinants of nutrient intake and the influence of nutrition on performance is critical in designing policies to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. A series of studies undertaken by the authors, which are synthesized here, analyzes the influence of prices, income, and women's schooling on the nutrient intake of those in developing countries and the effect of nutrition on health, productivity, wages, and fertility. These studies suggest that the impact of food price increases may be strong, particularly among those with the lowest incomes, that the growth of income may be less likely to improve nutrient intake than has been suggested by others, and that womzen's schooling is important in improving nutrition. These studies also indicate that nutrition exerts a positive influence on wages, productivity, and fertility. Our limited knowledge of the role and determinants of nutrition is reflected in the finding of unduly strong effects of seasonalitv on price-nutrition relations and the lack of a direct association between nutrition and health. The nutrition of poor populations is of substantial interest because of the widespread and plausible presumption that better nutrition improves the welfare of individuals in such populations. Nutrition also is of interest because of the common conjecture that better nutrition improves productivity. A series of our studies have analyzed the relations between nutrition and health, labor productivity, and fertility and the relations between prices, income, women's schooling, and nutrition intake. Here we synthesize the results of these studies and address some of the puzzles and policy implications that have arisen. '
Subcloning of VHH Single Domain Antibody & its transformation into Tobacco mediated Using Agrobacterium ( C 58 GV 3101 )

Functional VHH single domain antibody lacking light chains occur naturally in Camelidae.The single domain nature of VHH gives rise to several unique features as compared to antigenbinding derivatives of conventional antibodies. The level of expression in E.coli was found to be too low for therapeutic purposes so we have to use the other production systems like plants. Several Plants are the facile and economic bioreactor for large-scale production of industrial and pharmaceutical agents like proteins and antibodies, and tobacco was our target plant because of large scale production and many other advantages. In this study we have subcloned VHH gene into pBI 121 using phasmid pCANTAB5E. The new construct was used to transform the Agrobacterium strain C58GV3101. Transgenic tobaccos (NC25) Plants were then developed by introducing VHH gene under the control of CaMV 35S promoter. The presence of the VHH antibody gene in the plant genome was verified both by selection of the resistant plants on selective media and by PCR analysis. Key-words: VHH antibody fragment; subcloning; Plantibodies; Transgenic tobacco; Bioreactor; MUC1
Evaluation of the spatial dependence of dendrometric characteristics for an Eucalyptus plantation

Geostatistics evaluates the spatial dependence between two or more variables in order to estimate unknown values in space. The objective of this study was to evaluate, using geostatistical techniques, the spatial variability of dendrometric characteristics for a commercial plantation of Eucalyptus grandis x Eucalyptus urophylla located in eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil (19o28' S and 42o49' W). The diameter at breast height (DBH) and commercial height (H) of 60 trees was measured in a forest inventory plot at two, five and seven years old. The volume of each tree in the plot was estimated from allometric equations and values of DBH and H. Spatial dependence of the three dendrometric variables at different ages was evaluated by fitting the experimental semivariogram. Validation of the semivariograms was performed using the jackknife test. The dendrometric variables analyzed presented normal distribution throughout the entire production cycle according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The spherical model adequately represented the spatial distribution of dendrometric characteristics for the planted forest. The dendrometric characteristics of the analyzed plantation had an average spatial dependence, making the use of geostatistical techniques for characterization of the plantation very important.