Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Merger-driven star formation activity in Cl J1449+0856 at z = 1.99 as seen by ALMA and JVLA

We use Atacama Large Millimetre Array and Jansky Very Large Array observations of the galaxy cluster Cl J1449+0856 at z = 1.99, in order to study how dust-obscured star formation, interstellar medium content, and active galactic nuclei activity are linked to environment and galaxy interactions during the crucial phase of high-z cluster assembly, We present detections of multiple transitions of (CO)-C-12, as well as dust continuum emission detections from 11. galaxies in the core of Cl J1449+0856: We measure the gas excitation properties, star formation rates, gas consumption timescales, and gas-to-stellar mass ratios for the galaxies. We find evidence for a large fraction of galaxies with highly excited molecular gas, contributing >50 per cent to the total star formation rate (SFR) in the cluster core. We compare these results with expectations for field galaxies, and conclude that environmental influences have strongly enhanced the fraction of excited galaxies in this cluster. We find a dearth of molecular gas in the galaxies' gas reservoirs, implying a high star formation efficiency (SEE) in the cluster core, and find short gas depletion timescales tau(dep) < 0.1-0.4 Gyr for all galaxies. Interestingly, we do not see evidence for increased specific SFRs (sSFRs) in the cluster galaxies, despite their high SFEs and gas excitations. We rind evidence for a large number of mergers in the cluster core, contributing a large fraction of the core's total star formation compared with expectations in the field. We conclude that the environmental impact on the galaxy excitations is linked to the high rate of galaxy mergers, interactions, and active galactic nuclei in the cluster core.
Investigation of urban growth effects on forest area by creating different simulation scenarios

Abstract. It is necessary to keep urban growth under control according to the understanding of sustainable urban management in rapidly growing cities. In other words, sustainable urban management requires estimating how the land cover will change and in which direction the urbanization will be in the coming years, as well as knowing the current structures of the cities. Therefore, simulation models are frequently used for monitoring urban growth. The results of simulation models help to obtain background information that will be the basis for the formation of a “sustainable urban life” by allowing the determination of the natural areas that can face the threat of urbanization. The cadastral structure is one of the basic variables affecting the growth of a city. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate urban growth by producing cadastral parcel-based simulation models. The land cover data required to create a simulation model were generated from cadastral maps and land registry data, in four different time periods. Within the scope of the study, cellular automata-based urban growth simulation models for the years 2030, 2050 and 2070 were produced, and the land cover changes that occurred in Sancaktepe were investigated.
Detecting Attribute by Covariate Interactions in Discrete Choice Models

This paper introduces a simple way to identify attribute by covariate interactions in discrete choice models. This is important because modelling such interactions is an effective way to account for systematic taste variation or preference heterogeneity across different consumers. Using a simulated data set to mimic a well-known phenomenon of selective attention to design attributes, we tested our proposed approach in the banking service context. Our proposed approach was successful in detecting the attribute by covariate interactions implied by the data generation process and was found to outperform both full and stepwise interaction models. Such findings have implications for both academics and practitioners of the marketing research community in general and choice modelling field in particular.
Consensus of Multiagent Systems with Directed Topology and Communication Time Delay Bases on the Laplace Transform

This paper investigates the consensus problem of multiagent systems with directed topologies. Different from the literatures, a new method, the Laplace transform, to study the consensus of multiagent systems with directed topology and communication time delay is proposed. The accurate state of the consensus center and the upper bound of the communication delay to make the agents reach consensus are given. It is proved that all the agents could aggregate and eventually form a cohesive cluster in finite time under certain conditions, and the consensus center is only determined by the initial states and the communication configuration among the agents. Finally, simulations are given to illustrate the theoretical results.
Breathing Interventions in Psychology: An Overview of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

Psychologists of diverse orientations have utilized breathing interventions for a wide range of purposes and in a myriad of contexts. In order to provide therapists with more objective knowledge on breathing interventions, this paper presents an overview of both the theoretical' and the empirical literature related to the breath. The psychological applications of breathing are present in three modalities: affect induction, affect reduction, and awareness. Theories and techniques involving affect induction were pioneered by Wilhelm Reich and his students, and are outlined in this review for consideration. Affect reduction is shown to have a much wider range of applications, many developed from ancient yogic techniques found to have contemporary validity in the treatment of panic disorders and hyperventilation. Lastly, techniques involving awareness of breath are investigated from the theoretical perspectives of Gestalt Therapy and Mindfulness Meditation practice. A summary and discussion is provided focusing on the practicality and safety components of awareness-based breathing interventions.
Psycho-Physiological Benefits in a Rehabilitative Exercise Program: A Cerebral Palsy Case Study

Purpose: The purpose of this case study was to determine whether an individualized 12-week rehabilitative exercise program involving a wheel-chair bound cerebral palsy (CP) participant could improve self-efficacy regarding barriers to exercise, while also increasing their range of motion and flexibility. Methods: Participant was a 51 year old female with Spastic Quadriplegia CP (also known as Spastic Tetraplegia). Activity sessions were designed around a wholebody experience, with five flexibility and five exercise stations utilized one time per week, for approximately 30 minutes per session. Several initial baseline/pretest assessments were taken for range of motion in the knee and elbow (knee flexion/extension; elbow flexion/extension) using a hand-held goniometer. Selfefficacy related to exercise barriers was assessed at baseline and 12 weeks. Additionally, post-test physical assessments were taken after the 12-week program, and compared with baseline measures. Results: Psychologically, the subject showed a dramatic overall increase from 56 to 102 points, almost doubling her total self-efficacy to overcome barriers score (possible range of score = 0 to 120). The subject specifically recorded positive increases in efficacy to overcome exercise barriers on all 12 questions. Results also
Clinical Trial to Comparison the Effect of Family- centered Educational-supportive Program on Mothers' Empowerment in Breast-feeding

Background: Mothers’ empowerment in breast-feeding is a key motivational and psychological factor for continuous breast-feeding. Therefore, this study was designed to examine the effects of family-centered educational-supportive program on mothers’ empowerment in breastfeeding. Materials and Methods: In this random clinical trial, pregnant women who met inclusion criteria were gradually selected and randomly put into a control and an intervention group. For the intervention group, two 2-hour educational breastfeeding sessions were held for each pregnant woman along with her key family members and breastfeeding training manual and software were given to them; then mothers and family members attended a breastfeeding counseling session one week after delivery. The control group received routine education. Mothers’ empowerment was assessed by a researcher-made questionnaire two weeks after delivery. Results: Thirty-five mothers were in the intervention group and 35 were in the control group. The mean of the total score of breast-feeding empowerment and its seven areas in the intervention group was significantly higher than that of the control group. Moreover, exclusive breast-feeding was also significantly higher in the intervention group (P<0.05). Conclusion: Results showed that family- centered education during pregnancy and post-delivery counseling and support could promote mothers’ empowerment in breast-feeding and exclusive breast-feeding. It is therefore necessary for breast-feeding promotion to begin training of mothers and their families during pregnancy period while focusing on the importance of breast-feeding and to teach breast-feeding skills and family support after delivery and resolve related problems in collaboration with key family members.
The effect of spillovers and congestion on the segregative properties of endogenous jurisdictions formation*

This paper analyzes the effect of spillovers and congestion of local public services on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdictions. Households choosing to live at the same place form a jurisdiction whose aim is to produce congested local public services, that can create positive spillovers to other jurisdictions. In every jurisdiction, the production of the local public services is financed through a local tax based on households’ wealth. Local wealth tax rates are democratically determined in all jurisdictions. Households also consume housing in their jurisdiction. Any household is free to leave its jurisdiction for another one that would increase its utility. A necessary and sufficient condition to have every stable jurisdictions structure segregated by wealth, for a large class of congestion measures and any spillovers coefficients structure, is identified: the public services must be either a gross substitute or a gross complement to the private good and the housing. JEL Classification: C78; D02; H73; R13
The Exemplification of the Concept of Born-global Enterprises by Technology Start-ups

The scientific purpose of the study is to attempt to compile the views of scholars on born-global enterprises. Attention was paid to a widely accepted conceptual apparatus associated with this phenomenon. The empirical part of the paper is based on a case study regarding technology start-ups. The author gives examples of endogenous factors influencing the early internationalization of new ventures as well as the impact of the business ecosystem on the growth of bornglobal enterprises. The qualitative case study analysis of the knowledge-based micro companies from the IT industry has shown that technology start-ups have been able to successfully compete on the global market. The provided examples confirm that endogenous factors and external environment undoubtedly play an important role in both the building of entrepreneurial orientation and the process of early internationalization. Case studies in the area of global technology startups should develop the existing theory and provide explanations of the hitherto unrecognized phenomena.
PREOPERATIVE REVELATION OF INSULIN RESISTANCE AS A CRITERION OF DEBULKING NECESSITY IN PATIENTS WITH OBESITY

The article considers the questions of a necessity of widening the list of obligatory preoperative examinations of patients with obesity for the choice of adequate operation volume, especially for simultaneous debulking of a greater omentum. The aim of research is an estimation of possibility of using an insulin resistance index (НОМА – IR) as a necessity criterion of simultaneous debulking of a greater omentum at operative interventions in patients with obesity. There were examined 60 persons from the surgical stationary, divided in 2 groups. 1 group included 20 patients with the normal body mass, 2 – 40 patients with different degrees of obesity. Insulin resistance was revealed on the base of glucose and insulin estimation, HOMA-IR index calculation. It was revealed, that glucose level in all patients doesn’t reliably exceeds the upper threshold of norm, insulin rates don’t differ from the control ones, even in patients with obesity, and rise in 20 % of patients only at 3 degree of obesity. It creates an illusion about the normal state of carbohydrate metabolism in these patients, whereas insulin resistance index estimation allows to reveal a pre-clinic stage of these disorders and to make a timely decision as to a possibility and necessity of simultaneous palliative operation as an ometnectomy that doesn’t complicate a course of operation and postoperational period, but allows to decrease an expressiveness of carbohydrate metabolism disorders at obesity. The standard preoperative estimation of glucose level in blood doesn’t allow to diagnose an insulin resistance state, that is patients of the high risk group of metabolic syndrome development (especially the ones with obesity) need the additional insulin estimation and insulin resistance index calculation in preoperational period.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL NOISE LEVEL, EXPERIENCED ANNOYANCE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTION

Do psychological annoyance and physiological reaction to a sound or to a noisy event depend, apart from the sound level, also on prior experiences of a person with the sound under concern? In an experiment, subjects (Ss) were exposed in a classical conditioning paradigm first to a sound and then either to a neutral (control group, CG) or to a provocating anger inducing instruction (experimental group, EG). Thereafter, the Ss were exposed to the sound without an instruction. Now, the Ss of the EG experienced psychologically the sound more annoying and reacted physiologically with higher arousal than the Ss of the CG. Furthermore, the Ss of the EG exhibited a tendency to adapt to the sound events slower than the Ss of the CG, and hence seem to develop a nonadapting physiological defensive reaction. Results suggest that annoyance is the output of a PLOF-detector (possible loss of fitness detector) and that this detector is also capable of learning, such that originally neutral sounds can become annoying and, if they trigger physiological stress reactions, possibly even health-impairing in the long run.
Sélection des milieux ouverts par le caribou forestier de Charlevoix, Québec: Compromis entre risque de prédation et ressources alimentaires

The use of open habitats (i.e., an environment with few or no canopy and/or ground coyer) by ungulate species inhabiting the boreal forest may result in both costs and benefits . While open habitats often provide relatively good foraging opportunities, these areas may offer fewer hiding places to shelter from predators. Alternatively, sorne highly-opened habitats could a110w a prey to detect an approaching predator more easily or facilitate escape behaviour. The dynamics of open habitats is now mostly driven by anthropogenic activities (e.g., forest management, fire control, reforestation of unproductive stands) . We therefore investigated the relationship between forest-dwelling caribou and open habitats . We fo11owed twenty females using GPS telemetry collars between 2004 and 2007 in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, Québec, Canada. We tested the impact of the annual period (season) and of calf presence (maternaI status) on the selection patterns of open habitats by females, in order to highlight the influence of limiting factors on habitat selection and the possible trade-off made by caribou in a highly-managed boreal forest. Habitat selection analyses was conducted at three spatial scales and allowed us to identify inter-seasonal and inter-individual variations in the selection of open habitats. In our study are a, which is located at the southern limit of caribou range in North America and is deeply impacted by human activities, we found forest-dwelling caribou selected open habitats at multiple scales and during aIl seasons which is an unexpected behaviour for this ecotype. At the landscape scale, annual home ranges were located in heterogeneous landscapes with relatively high proportions of open lichen woodlands, burnt areas and recent c1ear-cuts. At the home-range scale, selection patterns of solitary females appeared more oriented toward foraging resources than those of females with a calf, which mostly selected for highly-opened habitats. These differences were observed during calving, summer, rut and winter. At fine scale, aIl individuals selected for sites with lower lateral coyer that were located near a forest stand edge compared to random locations. However, while females with calves only selected for lichen in winter and grasses during calving, i.e., critical periods wh en food resources were likely more limiting, solitary females selected for various food resources a11 year long. The seasonal differences between selection patterns of females with and without ca Ives suggest that the use of open habitats could correspond to a trade-off between predation risk and food abundance. Predation risk, however, seemed to be the most important limiting factor driving the observed selection patterns. At larger scale, caribou selected open habitats that were less likely to be used by moose and its predator, the wolf, and at finer scale they selected habitat features that likely favoured visual detection of potential threats. When predation risk is higher, i.e., in the
Nutrient limitation of Philippine seagrasses (Cape Bolinao, NW Philippines): in situ experimental evidence

Nutrient limitation of Enhalus acoroides, Thalassja hemprichii and Cymodocea rotundata in 2 mixed seagrass beds (Sllaqui and Lucero) in Cape Bolinao, NW Philippines was investigated through a 4 mo in situ nutrient addition experiment. Leaf growth of T hernprichii and E. acoroides significantly increased by 40 to 100% and 160%, respectively, following fertilization. Leaf biomass of the 3 species also increased significantly by 60 to 240':; following nutrient additions. The increased growth and biomass with fertilization was supported by enhanced photosynthetic activity, consequently by higher chlorophyll and nutrient concentrations in the photosynthetic tissues. These results demonstrated nutnent limitation of seagrass growth and photosynthetic performance at the 2 sites in Cape Bolinao. The nature and extent of nutrient limitation, however, varied between sites and among species. T hemprichii and E. acoroides appeared to be mainly P deficient and N deficient, respectively (from significant increases in tissue P and iV concentration following fertilization, respectively). The deficiency was moderate (26 % of requirement) for T hemprichii but substantial for E. acoroides (54 % of requirement). Moreover, N and P deficiency was greater in Lucero than in Silaqui, consistent with the higher ambient nutrient concentration in the porewater and sediment nutrient and organic matter content in Silaqui. These results emphasize the importance of local differences in the factors controlling nutrient losses and gains in seagrass meadows and, more importantly, the importance of identifying the species-specific traits that generate the interspecific plasticity of nutrient status. KEY WORDSTropical seagrasses . Nutrient limitation
Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing in Distributed Multi-Agent Sensor Networks

In this paper, we exploit an integration between Compressive sensing (CS) and the random mobility of sensors in distributed mobile sensor networks (MSNs). A small number of distributed mobile sensors are deployed randomly in a sensing area to observe a large number of positions. The distributed mobile sensors sparsely sample the sensing area for data collection. At each sampling time, the sensors collect data at their random positions and exchange their readings to the others through their neighbors within the sensor transmission range to form one CS measurement at each sensor. After a certain number of rounds for moving, sensing and sharing data, each mobile sensor creates a su ﬃ cient CS measurements to be able to reconstruct all readings from all positions that need to be observed. Network performance is analyzed considering the number of sensors deployed in the networks, the convergence time and the sensor transmission range. Expressions for transmission power consumption are formulated and optimal low power cases are identified.
Leave-Out Estimation of Variance Components

We propose leave-out estimators of quadratic forms designed for the study of linear models with unrestricted heteroscedasticity. Applications include analysis of variance and tests of linear restrictions in models with many regressors. An approximation algorithm is provided that enables accurate computation of the estimator in very large datasets. We study the large sample properties of our estimator allowing the number of regressors to grow in proportion to the number of observations. Consistency is established in a variety of settings where plug-in methods and estimators predicated on homoscedasticity exhibit first-order biases. For quadratic forms of increasing rank, the limiting distribution can be represented by a linear combination of normal and non-central $\chi^2$ random variables, with normality ensuing under strong identification. Standard error estimators are proposed that enable tests of linear restrictions and the construction of uniformly valid confidence intervals for quadratic forms of interest. We find in Italian social security records that leave-out estimates of a variance decomposition in a two-way fixed effects model of wage determination yield substantially different conclusions regarding the relative contribution of workers, firms, and worker-firm sorting to wage inequality than conventional methods. Monte Carlo exercises corroborate the accuracy of our asymptotic approximations, with clear evidence of non-normality emerging when worker mobility between blocks of firms is limited.
Characteristics of out-of-field teaching: Teacher beliefs and competencies

In recent years, some efforts have been made to consolidate out-of-field-teaching as research field in mathematics education. Taking teachers' professional knowledge as reference frame, out-of-field-teachers seem less qualified regarding CK and PCK in mathematics than teachers that were especially trained to teach their subject. In this paper, we approach the phenomenon of out-of-field-teaching by focusing on both teachers' beliefs and competencies while the latter is operationalized as skills in designing mathematical tasks for written exams. Data was collected throughout a qualification program particularly focusing on out-of-field-teachers' domain-specific professional knowledge. We discuss in detail design aspects of our ongoing research and give first insights into the changes of out-of-field-teachers' beliefs reflecting their professional development in the course of the qualification program.