Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Complete plastome sequence of Trachelospermum Jasminoides (Lindley) Lemaire (Apocynaceae)

Abstract Trachelospermum jasminoides belongs to Apocynaceae. Herein, we reported the complete chloroplast genome of T. jasminoides. To our knowledge, this is the first reported complete chloroplast genome of T. jasminoides. The complete chloroplast genome of T. jasminoides is 155,484 bp in length with a typical quadripartite structure, consisting of a large single-copy region (LSC, 85,514 bp), a single-copy region (SSC, 18,236 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 25,876 bp). There are 114 genes annotated, including 79 unique protein-coding genes, 4 unique ribosomal RNA genes, and 30 transfer RNA genes. To investigate the evolution status of T. jasminoides, as well as Apocynaceae, we constructed a phylogenetic tree with T. jasminoides and other 11 species based on their complete chloroplast genomes. According to the phylogenetic topologies, T. jasminoides was closely related to Oncinotis tenuiloba.
An Assessment of Multimedia Resources in Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

The basic goal of information Technology is to harness the information resources and information capabilities of the organization in order to enable the organization to learn and adapt to its changing environment, Multimedia technology as an innovative teaching and learning strategy in a problem-based learning environment is alternative system in developing practical learning environment by giving the students a well interactive study, project and train them in this skill set. This paper formulated an assessment of multimedia resources in teaching and learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, highlighted the general concept of multimedia systems, statement of the problems, and major finding of the research. Recommendations for functional use of multimedia systems in teaching and learning have also been given
Decolorization, Biodegradation and Detoxification of Reactive Blue Azo Dye Using Immobilized Mixed Cells

Drastic threat to the natural system is caused by the uncontrolled release of synthetic pollutants, including azo dyes. This study centered on the decolorization and biodegradation of water soluble azo dye reactive blue (RB) in a batch mode sequential anaerobic-aerobic processes. A local sewage treatment plant was the source where activated sludge was collected to be used as non-adapted mixed culture with both free and the alginate immobilized cells for RB biodegradation. Under anaerobic conditions, the free and immobilized mixed cells were proved to completely decolorize 10 mg/ L of RB within 20 and 30 h, respectively. Alginate- immobilized mixed cells, resulted in 88%, 87%, and 87% maximum COD removals with samples containing RB at initial concentration of 10, 20, and 40 mg/L, respectively. UV-vis spectra showed the biological cleavage of the azo bond in the anaerobic phase. Estimation of the phytotoxicity of the degraded metabolites suggested that the non-adapted immobilized mixed bacterial cells successfully detoxified RB azo dye.
EĞİTİMDE DRAMA VE/VEYA DRAMADA EĞİTİM

Bu calismada egitimde drama, bu kavramin egitbilimsel kazanimlari yonunden degerlendirilmistir. Kisinin sosyal, egitimsel ve psikolojik gelisiminde onemli katkilar saglayan dramanin egitbilimsel boyutundan ve drama calismalarindan soz edilmistir. Egitimde dramanin aslinda drama yoluyla egitim anlamiyla es deger tutulmasi gerektigi vurgulanmistir. Sonuc olarak, dramayi yalnizca bir alana sigdiran egitimde dramanin degil, bireye olumlu, etkin ve kalici katkilarindan dolayi dramada egitim oldugunun da alti cizilmistir.
Hard or Soft Searching? Electronic Database Versus Hand Searching in Media Research

Fur qualitative Medienforschung ist es wesentlich, die Bedeutung ihrer Forschungsfrage fur Samplingstrategien und die folgende Datenerhebung zu beachten. Wir illustrieren dies an Erfahrungen, die wir im Zuge der Auswahl einer Methodik zum Sammeln von Artikeln zu physischer Aktivitat aus der Tagespresse gewonnen haben. Wir reflektieren die Konsequenzen von spezifischen Suchstrategien fur unser Sampling, also von manueller Suche einerseits und elektronischer Suche andererseits und betonen in diesem Zusammenhang die unterschiedlichen Konsequenzen, die hieraus fur die Reliabilitat der Ergebnisse erwachsen. Forschende sollten sich der Vor- und Nachteile, die mit solchen Entscheidungen einhergehen, bewusst sein bis hin zu der Frage, welche Informationen jeweils verfugbar sind mit folgenden Konsequenzen fur die eigentliche Forschungsarbeit. Wir schliesen, indem wir die Bedeutsamkeit dieser Uberlegungen fur die Reliabilitat einer Inhaltsanalyse veranschaulichen. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0703204
Digital Multimedia

From the Publisher: A major new textbook "Digital Multimedia" by Nigel and Jenny Chapman provides a fresh contemporary definition of the emergent discipline of multimedia. It is designed to support instructors by providing a rigorous introduction to the technical scope of this subject. With a coherent approach to its multifarious nature, the book covers all of the essential technical ground, with full awareness of the design, cultural and usability aspects of multimedia. This book will inspire students to develop the potential of multimedia for new forms of expression that are enabled by computers and networks. Concepts Covered: Descriptions of the characteristics of individual media provide the essential starting points for understanding how to combine them. Graphics, text and time-based media are introduced in the context of their digital representation and manipulation. The combination of media within the different frameworks of hypermedia and time-based authoring is described. Interactivity through scripting, and the communications technology that supports distributed multimedia are expolored in detail. Hardware, software and networking capabilities are thoroughly detailed with the backup of motivating and illuminating examples. All this and still the excitement of creating multimedia is conveyed, making this as rich and rewarding a book as the subject itself. Support for Practice through Principles and Theory: "Digital Multimedia" makes reference to the common tools and applications used for production and manipulation of media, but a companion text in development, "Digital Media Tools", due in Spring 2001, addresses the effective use of these packages in moredetail.
Output Noise Reduction Technique Based on Frequency Hopping in a DC-DC Converter for BLE Applications

In this paper, a different type of pulse width modulation (PWM) control scheme for a buck converter is introduced. The proposed buck converter uses PWM with frequency hopping and a low quiescent–current low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator with a power supply rejection ratio enhancer to reduce high spurs, harmonics and output voltage ripples. The low quiescent–current LDO voltage regulator is not described in this paper. A three-bit binary-to-thermometer decoder scheme and voltage ripple controller (VRC) is implemented to achieve low voltage ripple less than 3mV to increase the efficiency of the buck converter. An internal clock that is synchronized to the internal switching frequency is used to set the hopping rate. A center frequency of 2.5MHz was chosen because of the bluetooth low energy (BLE) application. This proposed DC-DC buck converter is available for low-current noise-sensitive loads such as BLE and radio frequency loads in portable communications devices. Thus, a high-efficiency and low-voltage ripple is required. This results in a less than 2% drop in the regulator’s efficiency, and a less than 3mV voltage ripple, with -26 dBm peak spur reduction operating in the buck converter.
Multiple‐model adaptive robust dynamic surface control with estimator resetting

A multiple‐model adaptive robust dynamic surface control with estimator resetting is investigated for a class of semi‐strict feedback nonlinear systems in this paper. The transient performance is mainly considered. The multiple models are composed of fixed models, one adaptive model, and one identification model that can be obtained when the persistent exciting condition is satisfied. The transient performance of the final tracking system can be improved significantly by designing proper switching mechanism during the parameter tuning procedure. The semi‐globally uniformly ultimately bounded stability of the closed‐loop system can be easily achieved because of the framework of adaptive robust dynamic surface control. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed multiple‐model controller. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
SINUS GRAFT AND VERTICAL AUGMENTATION OF MAXILLARY POSTERIOR ALVEOLAR RIDGE USING MANDIBULAR RAMAL BLOCK BONE GRAFT

The maxillary posterior area is the most challenging site for the dental implant. After missing of teeth on maxillary posterior area due to periodontal problems, the remaining alveolar ridge is usually very thin because of not only pneumatization of maxillary sinus but also destruction of alveolar bone. The maxillary sinus bone graft procedure is one of the most predictable and successful treatments for the rehabilitation of atrophic and pneumatized endentulous posterior maxilla. But, in case of severe destruction of alveolar bone due to periodontal problems, very long crown length is still remaining problem after successful sinus graft procedures. We performed vertical augmentation of maxillary posterior alveolar ridge using mandibular ramal block bone graft with simultaneous sinus graft. After this procedures, we could get more favorable crown-implant ratio of final prosthodontic appliance and more satisfactory results on biomechanics. This is a preliminary report of the vertical augmentation of maxillary posterior alveolar ridge using mandibular ramal block bone graft with simultaneous sinus graft, so requires more long-term follow up and further studies.
Study on Dynamic Multi-document Summarization System Framework Method

This paper introduced a new Internet-based dynamic multi-document summarization system framework based on natural language processing and applied for the data management of wireless sensor networks that was capable of providing computational linguistics-related technical support. We mainly studied the related model of text mining for perceptual data. Wireless sensor networks had a large number of streaming data, with real-time characteristics. After basic node operation, it generated big data can be used for data mining. In order to apply the data mining technology to information processing of wireless sensor networks, this paper tried to find a similar such as DUC2008 abstract test samples, trained model and algorithm. The system integrated subsystems with different emphases to improve system performance, combined three innovative methods. Given that to date little research on dynamic multi-document summarization has been reported, this study had great significance. The results obtained by the new framework were compared with those from the TAC2008 evaluation, demonstrated that the new system’s performance matched that of the best existing systems.
Asymptotics and fluctuations of largest eigenvalues of empirical covariance matrices associated with long memory stationary processes

Large covariance matrices play a fundamental role in the multivariate analysis and high-dimensional statistics. Since the pioneer’s works of Marcenko and Pastur (1967), the asymptotic behavior of the spectral measure of such matrices associated with N independent copies of n observations of a sequence of iid random variables is known: almost surely, it converges in distribution to a deterministic law when N and n tend to infinity at the same rate. More recently, Merlevede and Peligrad (2016) have proved that in the case of large covariance matrices associated with independent copies of observations of a strictly stationary centered process which is square integrable and satisfies some weak regularity assumptions, almost surely, the empirical spectral distribution converges weakly to a nonrandom distribution depending only on the spectral density of the underlying process. In particular, if the spectral density is continuous and bounded (which is the case for linear processes with absolutely summable coefficients), the limiting spectral distribution has a compact support. However, if the underlying stationary process exhibits long memory, the support of the limiting distribution is not compact anymore and studying the limiting behavior of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the associated large covariance matrices can give more information on the underlying process. This thesis is in this direction and aims at studying the asymptotics and the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of large covariance matrices associated with stationary processes exhibiting long memory. In the case where the underlying stationary process is Gaussian, the study can be simplified by a linear model whose underlying population covariance matrix is a Hermitian Toeplitz matrix. In the case of stationary Gaussian processes exhibiting long memory, we then show that the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues suitably renormalized are Gaussian. This limiting behavior shows a difference compared to the one when large covariance matrices associated with short memory processes are considered. Indeed in this last case, the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues suitably renormalized follow asymptotically the Tracy-Widom law. To prove our results on Gaussian fluctuations, additionally to usual techniques developed in random matrices analysis, a deep study of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors behavior of the underlying Toeplitz matrix is necessary. In particular, we show that in the case of long memory, the largest eigenvalues of the Toeplitz matrix converge to infinity and satisfy a property of “multiple spectral gaps”. Moreover, we prove a delocalization property of their associated eigenvectors. In this thesis, we are also interested in the universality of our results in the case of the simplified model and also in the case of large covariance matrices when the Toeplitz matrices are replaced by bloc diagonal matrices
Extraction de caractéristiques de texture par codages des extrema de gris et traitement prétopologique des images

Le sujet de cette these s'inscrit dans le domaine de l'analyse des images a niveaux de gris. Ce rapport se divise en deux parties : dans la premiere partie, nous developpons une nouvelle approche destinee a caracteriser les textures a l'aide des extrema de gris. Ensuite, dans une deuxieme partie, nous sortons du cadre de l'analyse de texture pour aller vers un cadre plus general de modelisation : nous construisons de nouvelles structures mathematiques permettant des transformations d'images a l'aide d'une base de voisinages. La premiere partie est consacree a l'analyse de textures par codage des extrema de gris. Le codage consiste a affecter a chaque pixel de l'image une valeur codant une certaine information locale autour de ce pixel. L'analyse de texture est ensuite realisee a partir de ce codage. Nous proposons 5 codages differents : les deux premiers sont bases sur deux nouvelles definitions d'extrema, les deux suivants ne sont composes que de 9 codes representant des degres d'extremalite de pixels, tandis que le dernier code la position des maxima et minima de gris autour de chaque pixel. Nous montrons que ces codages sont de bons resumes de l'information texturelle. Les resultats de classification obtenus a l'aide des codages sont meilleurs et plus rapides que ceux obtenus directement a partir des images non codees. La deuxieme partie de cette these presente la construction d'espaces pretopologiques pour la manipulation des images a niveaux de gris. Ces espaces utilisent la notion de base de voisinages afin de creer de nouvelles transformations d'images basees sur une utilisation fine des extrema de gris. Ils permettent la construction de nouveaux operateurs mais aussi de retrouver tous les operateurs existants, en particulier ceux de la morphologie mathematique. Ce travail propose et ouvre de nouveaux axes de recherche en matiere de traitement et d'analyse d'images.
Mhande dance in kurova guva and mutoro rituals : an efficacious and symbolic enactment of Karanga epistemology.

This thesis is an ethnography of mhande dance as a dynamic phenomenon that enunciates Karanga belief and normative values that are enacted through performance of mhande dance in its chief indigenous contexts: the kurova guva (settling the spirit of the dead) and the mutoro (rain making) rituals. Approached from an emic perspective, the study draws data from field research conducted between 2008 and 2010 among the rural Karanga of Shurugwi district in Zimbabwe. This study is an explication of mhande dance which provides the reader with cognitive understanding of this indigenous spiritual dance that embraces music, dance and gestures. The dance features symbolize and spiritualize Karanga culture. Karanga scheme of life (chivanhu) embodies two worlds: the natural and the supernatural in which the natural is explained by the supernatural. The supernatural is the world of the spirits with God (Mwari) being the Supreme Spirit. According to the Karanga, the deceased become spirit beings that maintain the quality of life of their human nature. Thus the Karanga spiritual world is populated with good and bad spirits where the good are referred to as ancestors (vadzimu) and the bad are identified differently, for example, sorcerers (varoyi), alien (mashavi) and avenging spirits (ngozi). The Karanga believe in God who they venerate through their ancestors. Ancestors are empowered to overcome bad spirits and hence their siblings appease them in order that the spirits assist the humans to deal with challenges of life for which the natural world provides no solution. Karanga reality of the existance of spiritual beings is made to be a part of everyday life through the conduct of spiritual ritual ceremonies: kurova guva and mutoro ceremonies wherein performance of mhande dance occasions spirit possession. Thus, through its efficacious and symbolic features, mhande dance is experienced reality of Karanga epistemology (chikaranga).
Mobilité, enjeux et risques dans le District Métropolitain de Quito (Equateur)

L'objectif de cette these de geographie est de proposer une reflexion sur les risques encourus par le District Metropolitain de Quito –DMQ– (Equateur) en considerant la question de la mobilite des personnes et la vulnerabilite des reseaux de transport attribuable, en partie, aux aleas en presence (seisme, eruption volcanique, inondation.). Inspiree des methodes d'analyses anterieures du risque realisees par des geographes de l'Universite de Savoie sur les villes de Nice et d'Annecy, cette recherche elaboree de facon a etre reproductible, ciblee sur les enjeux, propose une base de reflexion utile aux differents acteurs urbains dans une perspective de planification preventive ; elle fournit des pistes pour la reduction des vulnerabilites et apporte des orientations pour la gestion de crise. Sur le plan conceptuel, on demontre l'interet d'evaluer les reductions d'accessibilite qui peuvent se produire en cas de perte d’integrite des reseaux, afin d'evaluer, suivant une grille de lecture spatiale, les risques auxquels un territoire pourrait avoir a faire face. La demonstration se fonde sur un travail de terrain realise durant deux ans et demi a Quito, dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Systeme d'Informations et Risques dans le District Metropolitain de Quito » initie en 1999 par l'Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) en collaboration avec la Municipalite de Quito. Ce travail, avant tout methodologique, a necessite la constitution d'une base de donnees georeferencees structuree grâce au Systeme d'Information Geographique « SavGIS » developpe par l'IRD.
STUDI PERTUMBUHAN DAN HASIL PRODUKSI JAMUR TIRAM PUTIH (Pleorotus ostreatus) PADA MEDIA TUMBUH JERAMI PADI DAN SERBUK GERGAJI

Tujuan dari percobaan ini adalah mempelajari perbedaan pertumbuhan dan produksi jamur tiram putih antara baglog jerami padi dan serbuk kayu gergaji, dan mendapatkan perbandingan campuran komposisi antara serbuk gergaji kayu dengan jerami padi yang tepat sehingga dapat digunakan sebagai media tumbuh jamur tiram putih. Penelitian ini menggunakan Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL) dengan sembilan perlakuan dan tiga ulangan. Perlakuan M8 dengan komposisi serbuk gergaji kayu 700 g, jerami padi 100 g, bekatul 50 g, dan kompos sampah hijau 150 g. Perlakuan M8 menghasilkan lama penyebaran miselium pada substrat 35,19 HSI; saat muncul badan buah (Pin head) pertama 65,63 HSI; rata-rata diameter tudung buah 6,57 cm; frekuensi panen 9,33 kali; rata-rata bobot segar badan buah 58,71 g; interval panen 3,34 hari. Perhitungan analisis usaha tani, M8 menghasilkan total keuntungan Rp 820.600,00 dengan BEP volume produksi 390,63Kg; (B/C) Ratio 1,26; ROI sebesar 0,26 %.
Functional Modeling View on Product and Process Engineering in Design and Operations

Recent significant developments within process systems engineering demonstrate a need for more-flexible tools to handle the many diverse model-based tasks within product and process synthesis, design, innovation, and operation. Consequently, it is relevant to have a closer look at one of the modeling methodologies that have emerged. This paper addresses functional modeling for the purpose of the object system under investigation. The purpose of functional modeling is to represent the relationsships between the system goal and the underlying phenomena. The role of different aspects of functional modeling within the ongoing development of process systems engineering is analyzed. The fundamental principles of functional modeling for the object under investigation are presented and functional modeling hermeneutics are defined as translating the modeling goal into desired system properties, identifying the theory needed to model the system to represent these properties and identifying criteria for evaluation o.
“They said I came back Americanized”: cosmopolitanism and mediation in the trajectory of Carmen Miranda

This paper analyzes Carmen Miranda’s trajectory by situating it in the broader context of the disputes about Brazilian nationality between 1920 and 1940. At the intersection between her career and the Brazilian political culture of her time, the paper discusses her role in mediating the symbols that contributed to a particular national project that made the samba the country’s unmistakable trademark.