Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Designing transparent display experience through the use of kinetic interaction

This essay presents a study into the domain of architecture meeting new interaction design principles. The paper discusses future transparent surfaces to become programmable kinetic user interfaces, usable as information and communication channels to simplify our everyday environment. Based on the approach of using the five methodologies: Cultural Probes, Research Through Design, Grounded Theory, Star Life Cycle Model and Wizard of Oz; consistent data was collected to design and iterate on a visionary interface prototype to bridge the use of freehand gestures through motion sensing and moreover supported by RFID in a building structure on a see-through background. The objective of this paper is to unravel the main research question of how can people through kinetic interaction use organic interfaces on transparent surfaces? Several possible uses were ideated such as multiple shared user access, collaborative interaction on both sides. The primary research was answered through a final presented prototype combining a CV system with RFID for multiple and collaborative usages. User experiences and feedback makes an array of applications possible how a transparent interfaces with kinetic interaction can be applied to the interior and exterior such as fridge, mirror, doors, glass panels, alarm systems, games and the home entertainment. In today’s norm screens in the shape of a square are obsolete and support of new patterns, forms and materials are needed. Fieldwork concluded that kinetic interaction could flawlessly unite real world conditions with computer-generated substance, and become the design environment for future interactions to communicate with the user. We no longer seek to be bound to stiff shaped Graphical User Interfaces. Adding a transparent surface as background for such kinetic motion is underlying paradigm for the content to be projected into any ambience and surroundings. List of abbreviations 2D Two-dimensional image 3D Three-dimensional image AI – Artificial Intelligence AR Augmented Reality AV Audio/Video CP – Cultural probes CPU Central Processing Unit CV – Computer Vision DYI – Do-it-Yourself EC Electrochromic smart windows / Switchable glass FOLED Flexible organic light-emitting diodes GUI – Graphical User Interface HCI Human-Computer Interaction HOE Holographic optical elements HUD Head-up Display KOI Kinetic Organic Interface KUI – Kinetic User Interfaces LCD Liquid Crystal Display LED Light-emitting diodes I/O – Input/Output IR Infrared ITD Interactive Transparent Display MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MR Mixed Reality NUI – Natural User Interface OLED Organic light-emitting diodes OUI Organic User Interfaces RAM – Random Access Memory RFID Radio frequency identification Rtd Research through Design RUI Remote-use User Interface SDK – Software Development Kit SAR – Spatial Augmented Reality TUI – Tangible User Interface Ubicomp – Ubiquitous computing UI – User Interface VR Virtual Reality WYSIWYG What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
Oxidation of Unsaturated Primary Alcohols and ω-Haloalkanols with 4-Acetylamino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxoammonium Tetrafluoroborate

Unsaturated primary alcohols and ω-haloalkanols, all applied in pheromone synthesis, are oxidized to the corresponding aldehydes using 4-acetylamino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxo--ammonium tetrafluoroborate ( 1A). Three methods are compared with one another; oxidations with 1A and silica gel, oxidations with 1A in the presence of pyridine, and pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC).
Production of Pure Hinai-dori with Normal Reproductive Capability from Transferred Primordial Germ Cells

1 Akita Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station, 13-3 Kaisonumayachi, Jinguji, Daisen, Akita 019-1701, Japan 2 Division of Germ Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institute of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan 3 Graduate School of Agriculture, Iwate University, 3-18-8 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan 4 Animal Breeding and Reproduction Research Division, Naro Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, 2 Ikenodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0901, Japan
Daily Evolution of the Insect Biomass Spectrum in an Agricultural Landscape Accessed with Lidar

We present measurements of atmospheric insect fauna intercepted by a static lidar transect over arable and pastoral land over one day. We observe nearly a quarter million of events which are calibrated to optical cross section. Biomass spectra are derived from the size distribution and presented against space and time. We discuss detection limits and instrument biasing, and we relate the insect observations to relevant ecological landscape features and land use. Future directions and improvements of the technique are also outlined.
Petrology of Birimian granitoids in southern Ghana : petrography and petrogenesis

The Paleoproterozoic Birimian terrane consists of volcanic and sedimentary rocks occurring in greenstone belts and metasedimentary basins that have been intruded by two generations of granitoids. The Birimian terrane comprises a large part of the West African craton. It formed during a period of extensive juvenile magmatism that led to the creation of a large area of continental crust. Many questions remain unanswered regarding the tectonic setting in which this crust-forming event occurred. The two generations of granitoids—broadly divided into older belt and younger basin types - are an important key to understanding the geodynamic evolution of the Birimian terrane. The purpose of this thesis has been to determine in what tectonic setting granitoids - both belt and basin types - from the Birimian terrane in southern Ghana were emplaced in. The belt type granitoids were emplaced in a subduction setting between 2232-2169 Ma. They share many similarities with TTGs such as being sodic and HREE-depleted indicating that they were derived from a slab melt. However, they also show variable interaction with the mantle as well as a calc-alkaline behavior. It would therefore appear that the granitoids originated as slab melts but were the angle of the subducting slab was steep enough to allow the melt to interact with the mantle wedge. The basin granitoids formed through crustal anatexis in association with the Eburnean orogeny and have ages between 2134-2098 Ma. With the exception of the Winneba granitoid melting occurred in water-saturated conditions leading to preferential melting of plagioclase. Melting may have initiated in transcurrent deformation zones where water was supplied from dehydrating sediments. The Winneba granitoid formed through dehydration melting. This may explain why it is younger then adjacent basin granitoids given that dehydration melting occurs at higher temperatures then water-saturated melting. During the Eburnean orogeny the Birimian terrane was subjected to greenschist facies metamorphism. Two granitoids from the Sefwi and Ashanti belt has been extensively altered by hydrothermal fluids, possibly in association with the formation of hydrothermal gold mineralizations.
Inequality in mortality in Vietnam: unravel the causes

The association between socioeconomic variables and mortality for 41 000 adults Vietnamese followed from January 1999 to March 2008 are estimated using Cox's proportionally hazard models. Also, we use decomposition techniques to investigate the relative importance of socioeconomic factors for explaining total inequality in age-standardized mortality risk. The results confirm previously found negative association between mortality and income and education, for both men and women. The decomposition, however, shows that these variables together explain less than one third of the inequality, suggesting that it is important to also consider other dimensions of socioeconomic status, such as occupation and marital status. Finally, estimation results for relative education variables suggest that there exist positive spillover of education, meaning that that higher education of one's neighbors or spouse might reduce ones mortality risk.
Determinants of Adoption and Usage of ICT by Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya: The Case of Kikuyu Sub-County in Kiambu County

Purpose: Small and medium-sized firms are helping to generate employment opportunities and creation of wealth in the economies that are developing and also the developed ones. However, SMEs appear to have lagged behind and are not as fast in adopting and using ICT. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of stakeholders’ support on adoption and usage of ICT by SMEs, and to establish how training /skills of staff is a determinant of the usage and adoption of ICT by SMEs in Kiambu County. This study was carried out in the County of Kiambu, Kenya.Methodology: Descriptive research design was used in the study. To obtain primary data, a structured questionnaire was administered to the sampled population. A sample size of 153 CEOs/proprietors of SMEs was used in the study out of a target population of 1507 registered SMEs by Kikuyu Sub-county Authorities. Stratified sampling and simple random sampling were used to draw the sample-size from the study population. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the obtained data.Findings: The data findings show that taking other independent variable to be constant, an increase of one unit of Stakeholders’ support would cause a 0.877 increase in Adoption and usage of ICT by small and medium enterprises and a unit increase in training /skills of staff lead to a 0.705 increase in Adoption and usage of ICT by small and medium enterprises.Conclusion and policy recommendation: This concludes that Stakeholders’ support contribute more to the usage and adoption of ICT by small and medium enterprises followed by training /skills of staff. Therefore, the study recommends that training programs for personnel at all levels of the SMEs in Kiambu County should be conducted to help them understand their responsibilities in adoption and usage of ICT.
Using partial components to restore and use the concurrent validity of the Index of Readiness

In the presence of correlations among the dimensions of psychometric tests with summated scales, it is sometimes difficult to use the scores on the dimensions to predict their effects on various responses of interest through ordinary or generalized regression models, which can serve as concurrent validations. We will use the Index of Readiness (IR) as a case study to describe a statistical procedure to address this problem. Our solution will allow us to propose an optimal strategy of care to increase the adherence of HIV patients to treatments, as measured by a health indicator, by improving their readiness.
"Does race really matter ?" Consumer identity and advertising effectiveness in post-apartheid South Africa

This study examines the effects of consumers' multiple identities on advertising effectiveness. Based on the In-group Bias Theory, the study investigates how the race of an advertisement model, in comparison to another social identity (i.e. socioeconomic position), influences advertising effectiveness. Results indicate that, even though race "matters", the socioeconomic position of the model also predicts advertising effectiveness depending on viewers' racial group. Findings suggest ways to design successful cross-cultural advertising strategies in post-apartheid South Africa.
Frames in places: visual common sense knowledge in context

One of the goals of Computer Vision is to be able to understand real-world situations at the level humans can do. In order to adapt to a constantly changing world, we use common sense to comprehend and react to events even if we have never experienced them before. Despite progress made in many Computer Vision tasks, a deeper level of visual understanding still needs to be addressed in order to reach these capabilities. In this work, we propose Frames in Places, a dataset inspired by Minsky's Frame Theory which is aimed at harvesting visual common sense knowledge by containing descriptors of situations that are prototypical for a context. We further introduce a system designed to identify the situation happening in a given image and show how it is able to recognize events even when it has not seen them before.
An Analytical Agenda for the Study of Decentralized Resource Regimes

Abstract This paper seeks to shed new light on the study of decentralized natural resource governance by applying institutional theories of polycentricity—the relationships among multiple authorities with overlapping jurisdictions. The emphasis on multi-level dynamics has not penetrated empirical studies of environmental policy reforms in nonindustrial countries. On the contrary, many of today’s decentralization proponents seem to be infatuated with the local sphere, expecting that local actors are always able and willing to govern their natural resources effectively. Existing studies in this area often focus exclusively on characteristics and performance of local institutions. While we certainly do not deny the importance of local institutions, we argue that institutional arrangements operating at other governance scales—such as national government agencies, international organizations, NGOs at multiple scales, and private associations—also often have critical roles to play in natural resource governance regimes, including self-organized regimes.
Investigation of simple sequence repeats (SSR) marker- assisted genetic diversity among upland Bt- and non Bt-cotton varieties

Genetically modified with insect resistance gene (Cry1AC) and hybrid Bt-cotton genotypes were developed to redress cotton leaf curl virus epidemic. In this study, genetic diversity of 6 Bt- and 14 nonBt upland cotton genotypes was detected using simple sequence repeats (SSR) or micro-satellite markers. Out of 31 primer pairs, only 7 (22.6%) yielded polymorphic amplicons of 80 to 340 bp. The average loci per primer were 3.16 and 78.6% of them were informative. The unweighed pair-group method with arithmetic averages (UPGMA) dendrogram placed Bt- and non-Bt cotton varieties into four major groups. With the exception of 4 accessions (being similar), genetic dissimilarity coefficient among all other genotypes ranged from 0.50 to 0.98 suggesting a wide genetic heterogeneity among the selected collection. The lowest similarity was found between BH-160 and CIM-482, CIM-496 and MNH554, BH-160 and CIM-473, SARMAST and BH-160 (non-Bt cultivars), respectively as were some Btcultivars. In contrast to previous reports, these results show that some Bt- and non-Bt-cotton cultivars form a genetically diverse population. They could be used in future breeding programmes to develop new elite cotton cultivars.
In-vitro plantlet propagation and microtuberization of meristem culture in some wild and commercial potato cultivars as affected by NaCl.

The effects of in vitro salinity (NaCl) on plantlet growth, microtuberization and genetic diversity was investigated under saline and non-saline conditions using twelve cultivars (clones) of potato named Ranger-russet,� AGB-69-1,� MEX-32,� Maine-28, Loman, Araucana INTA, Surena INTA, American-INTA, Aracy, FLS-5, Agria and Marphona, which were planted in the greenhouse. Young shoots were cut and transferred to tissue culture laboratory of agricultural biotechnology research institute. Apical and axillary meristems were cultivated on MS medium and samples were subcultured every four weeks on the same medium for plantlet production. Then plantlets were propagated through single nodal culture. To study the effects of salinity (NaCl) on the growth of single nodal explants and on microtuberization, cultivation on MS media with different concentrations of NaCl (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 mol l -1 ) was carried out. Growth of single nodal explants on the saline media indicated that all the characters of the cultivars studied, the salinity levels and the studied interaction effects had significant difference at P < 0.01. These characters were also shown to have different responses to salinity levels. Microtuberization responses on different saline media was also different and indicated that all the studied characters, except the number of microtubers and the mean of minimum microtuber diameter, had significant difference at P < 0.01 for cultivars, salinity levels and interaction effects. Genetic diversity on the basis of microtuberization using analysis of cluster among potato cultivars and phenotypic correlations among characters under saline and non-saline conditions were also studied.
The Dance of the Dynamics : The Interplay of Trade and Growth

We study the interaction of endogenous growth and Ricardian trade working solely through comparative advantage. The model is built to be consistent with several facts about technical progress, R&D activity, industrial organization, and trade. We obtain a full characterization of the transition dynamics and trade's welfare e ects. We nd that trade a ects growth and that growth a ects trade in ways previously unexplored. The model can explain in a single framework several phenomena usually analyzed separately. We show that trade's e ect on growth may involve a previously unexplored dynamic ine ciency arising from the interplay of trade, growth, and the economy's industrial structure. Trade can lead to equal growth rates under certain circumstances or permanently unequal growth rates under other circumstances. In the latter case, the world's distribution of growth rates is one of twin peaks. Trade leads to e ective technology transfer, with a country having the same growth rate as if it had adopted its trading partner's R&D technology even though no technology transfer ever occurs. E ective technology transfer o ers a new interpretation of the evidence on productivity gains from trade. Economic growth can change the trading regime endogenously by moving the world economy across the boundary between the standard Ricardian interior (complete specialization) and corner (incomplete specialization) solutions. Through its e ects on economic dynamics, trade may raise or lower social welfare in the short run, the long run, or both. For all results, the model speci es the conditions under which each possible outcome occurs. The model yields many testable implications.
A pilot study of road lighting, cycle lighting and obstacle detection

This paper investigates cyclists’ detection of an obstacle on the surface of the road ahead, observed in peripheral vision, and how this is affected by variations in light level from road and cycle lighting. The data analysed were the height at which a rising obstacle was detected, this simulating an approaching irregularity in the road surface. The results suggest that when cycling on a lit road, cycle lighting frequently offers no benefit for peripheral detection and may make it worse. It was demonstrated that position matters: At low illuminances, a hub-mounted lamp improved detection over a handlebar-mounted lamp. This benefit was sufficient to offset the reduction in detection found when decreasing road lighting from 2.0 lux to 0.2 lux.
CHARACTERIZATION AND MAPPING OF THE GENE CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS HEPATIC DISEASE

Characterization and Mapping of the Gene Conferring Resistance to Rift Valley Fever Virus Hepatic Disease in WF.LEW Rats. (December 2008) Ralph Jennings Callicott, D.V.M., Louisiana State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. James Womack Rift Valley Fever Virus is a plebovirus that causes epidemics and epizootics in sub-Saharan African countries but has expanded to Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is susceptible to RVFV and has been shown to manifest the characteristic responses of humans and livestock. The rat has frequently been used as a model to study RVFV pathogenesis. Several strains have been infected and some found to be resistant to hepatic disease while others were not. This resistance was found to be associated with a dominant gene inherited in Mendelian fashion. The congenic rat strain WF.LEW and several substrains of the parental strains were used to try and locate the resistance gene. Microsatellites and single nucleotide polymorphisms were used to characterize the genomes of various rat substrains in an attempt to map the gene. Breeding and viral challenge experiments were used to further characterize the strains and assign a location to the resistance gene. The LEW/SsNHsd rats showed approximately 37% genomic difference as compared with LEW/MolTac rats, and 8% difference as compared with LEW/Crl rats. WF/NHsd rats demonstrated a difference of approximately 8% as compared with
Effects of nanometric hydrophobic layer on performances of solar photovoltaic collectors

The study refers to the experimental investigation of solar photovoltaic collectors' behaviour when the glazed surface is treated with a nanometric layer of hydrophobic solution. The experiment was carried out on two photovoltaic collectors, of which one was considered as reference and the other one was coated with a commercial hydrophobic solution. It was studied the evolution of the following electrical parameters: current, voltage, power, efficiency and daily energy production. The voltage was almost unaffected, but for all the others parameters, important drop were recorded. The preliminary conclusion of the study is that the use of hydrophobic solutions, for the treatment of glazed surfaces of solar collectors is not recommended. This hypothesis needs supplementary investigations and measurements in the context of reduced available information concerning the optical properties of hydrophobic solutions.