Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Constructing the Local Wisdom Values of the Yel Lim Culture as a Historical Learning Source

This study describes the living tradition of the indigenous people who live in a cluster of small islands in the southeast and south of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, namely the Kei People. They have a robust local culture that influences in guiding and directing them to build social relations amid the onslaught of globalization with various attributes modernity that continues to go back and forth. The Yel Lim Culture, as the symbol and the identity of the Kei Community, radiates messages of humanity, tolerance, solidarity, and friendship, based on the life principle of siblings regardless of differences in ethnicity, religion, and race, it must continue to be preserved. To discover and then to elaborate on the main essence of the Yel Lim culture in the life of the Kei Community, a descriptive-analytical approach, as part of qualitative research, was taken. The results of this research showed that the Yel Lim Culture up to now was still being carried out because these cultural values were the guide, a guideline in realizing social order as a society that lived and developed in the Kei Islands. Observing the current social reality, then constructing Yel Lim 's cultural values as a source in history class is very important in preparing future generations who have integrity and youthful identity, which is not easily trapped in various negative things because it continues to lean on local cultural values as their identity. Thus, the future generation that we build is the generation that is civilized and has virtuous and noble character as well. Kajian ini mendeskripsikan tradisi masyarakat adat yang tinggal di kepulauan Kei Maluku Tenggara, dan memiliki budaya lokal dalam menuntun, mengarahkan mereka membangun relasi sosial walaupun ditengah-tengah gempuran arus modernisasi. Budaya Yel Lim sebagai simbol, identitas masyarakat Kei memancarkan pesan kemanusiaan, persaudaraan, toleransi, solidaritas dan silahturhami. Untuk menemukan, mempertahankan dan mengelaborasi budaya Yel Lim dalam kehidupan masyarakat Kei, sebagai salah satu sumber pembelajaran maka pendekatan deskriptif analitis sebagai bagian dari penelitian kualitatif ditempuh. Hasil penelitian ini memperlihatkan bahwa nilai-nilai budaya Yel Lim harus terus dimanifestasikan guna mewujudkan keteraturan sosial komunitas masyarakat adat Kei dari generasi ke generasi. Untuk itu, mengkonstruksi nilai-nilai budaya Yel Lim sebagai sumber pengembangan pembelajaran sejarah di Sekolah (SMP/SMA) sangatlah penting guna mempersiapkan generasi masa depan yang memiliki integritas, jati diri sehingga tidak muda terjerumus dalam berbagai hal negatif. Sehingga generasi masa depan yang kita bangun nantinya adalah generasi yang memiliki peradaban, budi pekerti luhur dan ahklak mulia.
Semantic Tabular Data Annotation with Knowledge Bases for Data Interoperability

Thank the Open Data movement, a large number of tabular data have been published on the Web and Open Data Portals. Such tabular data contains valuable information and could be potentially useful in various elds, such as health, food security, climate change, resource management, smart cities and so on. Additionally, our society has become data-driven, where more and more data expected to grow in the near future from large volume, variety, and velocity, as a result, it is promising for establishing transparency, improving the quality of human life, and inspiring business opportunities. Although these tabular data o ers huge potential, these data are di cult to use due to fragmentation, heterogeneous schema, missing or incomplete metadata. Therefore, the usability of tabular data is an open question and should be exploited. There are several works have been made on improving the usability of tabular data such as establishing standard policies for data providers, or performing automatic reconstruct semantic meaning for tabular data. The rst solution on standard policies takes a lot of time, and e ort and di cult to scale, while the second solution is more promising to automation, and scale-up. This thesis focuses on the automatic reconstruct semantic meaning for tabular data. The methodology is to assign the elements of tabular data into semantic concepts in knowledge bases. As a result, the meaning of tabular data could be interpreted or inferred by knowledge base concepts, therefore, it is easy to use in other downstream applications. In this thesis, we rstly review the table data annotation for data interoperability including matching tasks, challenges, possible applications. Additionally, we identify potential limitations of tabular data annotation: 1) common text-based approaches are less e ective in annotating numerical attributes; 2) entity lookup on one search
Presenting a Model for Portfolio Risk Premium Assessment: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange

This study aimed to present a model for portfolio risk premium assessment of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In order to achieve this purpose, monthly data of 150 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2007-2017 was used. In this study, the predictive powers of FamaFrench three-factor model [11], Carhart four-factor model [1], Fama - French five-factor model [24], Brousseau five-factor model [18] and Roy and Shijin six-factor model [44] have been evaluated using variables used in the mentioned models and then an optimal model has been developed for portfolio risk assessment using stepwise regression. Findings showed that the Carhart four-factor model has higher predictive ability (48.3%) than other mentioned models in the Tehran Stock Exchange. According to the results of stepwise regression, seven variables have been selected as effective variables on portfolio risk premium. The explanatory power and predictive ability of the model developed in the Tehran Stock Exchange was 55.7% indicating higher predictive ability respect to previous models on portfolio risk premium. Investigation of the coefficients of the developed model showed that market risk premium, size factor, value factor, momentum factor and accounting quality factor have positive and significant effects on portfolio risk premium while investment factor and liquidity risk factor have significant negative impacts on portfolio risk premium.
Forecasted homogenization of high Arctic vegetation communities under climate change

Climate change results in increasing temperature and modified precipitation regimes in the High Arctic. Models can help anticipate the consequences on future biotic dynamics, e.g. vegetation. In rugged terrain, forecasts should consider fine‐scale spatial variability in environmental conditions that are proximally linked to plant performance. Here, we forecasted Arctic plant community response to future climate change using high‐resolution environmental variables.
Deciphering regulatory DNA sequences and noncoding genetic variants using neural network models of massively parallel reporter assays

The relationship between noncoding DNA sequence and gene expression is not well-understood. Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), which quantify the regulatory activity of large libraries of DNA sequences in parallel, are a powerful approach to characterize this relationship. We present SNPpet, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based framework to predict and interpret the regulatory activity of DNA sequences as measured by MPRAs. While our method is generally applicable to a variety of MPRA designs, here we trained SNPpet on the Sharpr-MPRA dataset that measures the activity of ~500,000 constructs tiling 15,720 regulatory regions in human K562 and HepG2 cell lines. SNPpet’s predictions were moderately correlated (Spearman ρ = 0.28) with measured activity and were within range of replicate concordance of the assay. State-of-the-art model interpretation methods revealed high-resolution predictive regulatory sequence features that overlapped transcription factor (TF) binding motifs. We used the model to investigate the cell type and chromatin state preferences of predictive TF motifs. We explored the ability of SNPpet to predict the allelic effects of regulatory variants in an independent MPRA experiment and fine map putative functional SNPs in loci associated with lipid traits. Our results suggest that interpretable deep learning models trained on MPRA data have the potential to reveal meaningful patterns in regulatory DNA sequences and prioritize regulatory genetic variants, especially as larger, higher-quality datasets are produced.
Intervalo de evidência e pareamento fuzzy utilizando relação sinal ruído aplicados à comparação forense de locutores

A Comparacao Forense de Locutor (CFL) e o exame pericial que tem como tarefa analisar duas amostras de voz e inferir sobre a compatibilidade de suas caracteristicas. Uma amostra de voz e vestigio de um fato tipico penal enquanto a segunda e de um individuo conhecido. A CFL difere-se da biometria por voz em varios aspectos. A biometria permite o controle de algumas variaveis nao disponiveis na CFL, entre elas, o dispositivo de gravacao, o ruido de canal, a quantidade e duracao das amostras e a cooperacao dos locutores. Alem disso, nao existe o risco de associar incorretamente um inocente (erro do Tipo I) ou falhar em associar um culpado (erro do Tipo II). Neste cenario, a presente tese apresenta duas linhas de trabalho experimentais motivadas pelo paradigma das ciencias forenses, o que inclui resultados quantitativos baseados em medidas estatisticas apoiadas por bancos de dados representativos. Os experimentos foram conduzidos para emular condicoes presentes na pratica da CFL. Na primeira linha desenvolveu-se uma solucao sintetica para o Teste de Significância Genuinamente Bayesiano (FBST - Full Bayesian Significance Test) sobre a media com variância desconhecida propondo uma estimativa por intervalo, denominada intervalo de evidencia, aplicavel a CFL. Os experimentos com variacao da SNR mostraram que o intervalo de evidencia reduziu as taxas de erro (Tipo I e Tipo II) em torno de 6,4%, superando os demais metodos avaliados. A segunda linha propos a utilizacao de medidas espectrais de relacao sinal-ruido S2NR (Spectrographic Signal-to-Noise Ratio) para separar as caracteristicas do sinal de voz em conjuntos nebulosos e realizar a comparacao de locutores considerando a influencia destes conjuntos. Nesta linha de trabalho propos-se ainda uma adequacao para o calculo das estatisticas de Baum-Welch. Os experimentos, baseados em conjuntos nebulosos, variaram a SNR e o tamanho das amostras. Os resultados, em relacao as outras tecnicas, reduziram as taxas de falso positivo (erro Tipo I) em 35, 7% em amostras contaminadas, e apresentaram uma acuracia 4,5% superior para amostras com limitacao de tamanho. Do ponto de vista pratico, os resultados sao promissores e estao sendo utilizados de forma experimental no Instituto de Criminalistica da Policia Civil de Minas Gerais.
Effect of Allelic Variation in Rht Loci on Plant Height and Grain Yield of Soft Red Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Plant height in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is controlled in large part by two major Rht genes, Rht-B1 and Rht-D1, which pleiotropically impact lodging and grain yield. Prior to the Green Revolution, wheat varieties contained only ‘wild-type’ Rht alleles (Rht-B1a and Rht-D1a) and were tall and prone to lodging. Introgression of a semi-dominant mutation at either of these two loci (Rht-B1b or Rht-D1b) results in a semi-dwarf phenotype and reduced plant height. When combined (Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b) an extremely short double-dwarf phenotype is observed. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of allelic variation in Rht-B1 and Rht-D1 on plant height, grain yield, and yield components in soft red winter wheat (SRWW). A doubled haploid population (n = 98) derived from the lines ‘Neuse’ (Rht-D1 dwarfing) and ‘Bess’ (RhtB1 dwarfing) segregating at the Rht loci, was evaluated in five total site-years in Arkansas. Analysis of variance across locations showed that allelic variation at the Rht loci significantly affected grain yield, plant height, and yield components (p ≤ 0.05) with no Rht x location interaction. Overall, wild-type lines were taller (87.7 cm) and lower yielding (3.38 t ha) compared to semi-dwarf lines. Rht-D1 semi-dwarfs had significantly higher grain yield (3.93 t ha) and were shorter (81.4 cm), compared to Rht-B1 lines (3.72 t ha and 83.3 cm). Higher grain yield in Rht-D1 semi-dwarf lines was due in part to significantly higher 1000 kernel weight and kernel weight spike, which resulted in higher kernel weight per spike. In addition, seven potential QTL associated with most of the traits measured were identified using a bi-parental approach. In conclusion, future breeding work should focus on the development of Rht-D1 semidwarf lines adapted to Arkansas environment. © 2018 by Habibullah Hayat All Rights Reserved
Examining Healthy Community Design Characteristics and Its Influence on Physical Health

Current trends in obesity rates associated with the community layout constitutes research towards understanding the interaction between the two in order to improve the public’s physical health. Successes in healthy community planning studies for the public can be harnessed and implemented within the microcosm of military bases to yield similar results. Four factors were recognized through an in-depth academic literature review that showed positive influence on physical health and physical activity. They are access to green space, highly connected pedestrian and bicycle networks, access to public transportation, and integrated mixed land use. The four healthy planning strategies formed the necessary background to analyze the Healthy Base Initiative survey. A priori data from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center was examined for reliability, validity, and consistency. The results uncovered the fact that the exploratory nature of the Healthy Base Initiative survey was too wide-ranged in its questions leading to an inconclusive and undesirable outcome. The new DoD Healthy Activity Public Planning Investigative survey addresses the issues of the Healthy Base Initiative survey by reducing the most applicable healthy planning factors to the four strategies highlighted from the literature review. The novel survey combines questions pertaining to existing healthy base infrastructure with a validated World Health Organization Global Physical Activity Questionnaire to examine the causal relationship between physical health and environment. Altogether, the significance of this research presents four concise healthy planning strategies for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center and the Department of Defense, as well as a recommendation for a way forward on understanding how to improve base occupant’s physical health through healthy community planning.
Protection of personal information: An experiment involving data value chains and the use of personal information for marketing purposes in South Africa

South Africa enacted the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPI) in an effort to curb the misuse of customers’ personal information by organisations. The aim of this research was to establish whether the South African insurance industry is adhering to certain prescripts of POPI, focusing on direct marketing requirements. An experiment was utilised to monitor the flow of personal information submitted to 20 insurance companies requesting short-term insurance quotations, using new e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The results of the experiment indicate that 92% of the marketing communication received did not have prior consent from the researcher. Contact was made by companies outside the sample, indicating third-party sharing. 86% of the unsolicited short message service (SMS) communication received required customers to pay for unsubscribing from SMSs, which is not in line with regulatory requirements. The non-compliance evident in this experiment acts as an early warning to the insurance industry and South Africa, prompting a more concerted effort towards preparation of compliance with POPI. A personal information processing management framework is proposed to aid the insurance industry in understanding how personal information can be processed in line with the requirements of the Act.
Chrysochromulina andersonii sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new flagellate haptophyte symbiotic with radiolarians

ABSTRACT The haptophyte symbiont Chrysochromulina andersonii sp. nov. isolated from the polycystine radiolarian Dictyocoryne truncatum was examined using both natural and cultured materials by light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy as well as molecular phylogenetic analyses of the small subunit (SSU) and large subunit (LSU) rDNA sequences. In culture, the motile cells were saddle-shaped, 3–5 µm long and 3–4 µm wide. They possessed two equal to subequal flagella, a coiling haptonema, and two parietal golden-brown chloroplasts. The scales were arranged in two layers composed of two types: scales with flat rims, 0.19–0.26 µm in diameter, formed the inner layer; whereas, scales with upright rims, 0.25–0.45 µm in diameter, formed the outer layer. Both scales had a faint cross in the centre of the scale face, and the radiating ridges extended from the faint cross to the periphery. Molecular phylogenetic analysis indicated that the SSU and LSU rDNA sequences from our symbiont fell within the clade of Chrysochromulina. However, our symbiont differed in the details of the patterning on the scale face from the other species of Chrysochromulina. Thus, we propose C. andersonii sp. nov. for the symbiotic alga from the polycystine radiolarian D. truncatum.
Comparison of ecological, biological and anthropogenic causes of vehicle-wildlife collisions among three large herbivore species

Vehicle-wildlife collisions are of increasing concern in modern societies caracterized by a continous and accelerating anthropogenic development. Preventing and mitigating collisions with wildlife will require a better understanding of the environmental and biological drivers of collision risks. Because species of large mammals differ in terms of food requirements, habitat selection and movement, and activity patterns we tested whether vehicle collisions with red deer, roe deer and wild boar, the most abundant large herbivores in Europe, differed in terms of spatial distribution and explanatory factors, using a Bayesian statistical framework. From 20,275 documented collisions in 9 departments of France between years 1990 and 2006, we found marked differences in magnitude and in the most influential environmental factors accounting for the density of collisions among the three species, in agreement with their biology and habitat preferences. The effect of road density was higher for the red deer than for the two other species for which it was similar, and did not level off at our large spatial-scale of observation. As expected from particle collision models, the annual hunting harvest — interpreted as a proxy of population abundance — was positively associated with the density of collisions for all species, being the strongest for red deer. Overall, the effect of landscape structure on the density of collisions was weak but while the collision density did decrease with the proportion of forest in a management unit for wild boar, it increased with the fragmentation of forests for red deer that commute among forest patches between day and night. To reduce the number of vehicle-wildlife collisions actively, our results suggest to generalise road fencing for highways and motorways or a reduction of abundance of large herbivore populations as efficient action means. Overall, we call for of a greater consideration of the species9 biology in information campaigns or by using specific road signs.
Lacandonia granules are present in the cell nucleus of Welwitschia mirabilis

<p><strong>Background:</strong> <em>Lacandonia</em> granules are extranucleolar ribonucleoprotein (RNPs) particles, 32 nanometers in diameter that were first described in the nucleus of <em>Lacandonia schismatica</em>. Cytochemical and immunocytochemical studies suggest that these particles are equivalent to perichromatin and Balbiani ring granules described in mammals and salivary glands cells of the insect <em>Chironomus tentans, </em>respectively. <em>Lacandonia</em> granules are also present in the related <em>Triuris</em> <em>brevystilis</em>,<em> </em>and they were later described in the gymnosperm <em>Ginkgo biloba</em>. These findings suggest that <em>Lacandonia </em>granules have a wider distribution in the plant kingdom. </p><p><strong>Species study:</strong> The plant <em>Welwitschia mirabilis, </em>a gymnosperm of the order Gnetales. </p><p><strong>Hyphotesis: </strong><em>Lacandonia</em> granules are present in the cell nucleus of <em>W. mirabilis</em>. <strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Plants were cultivated<strong> </strong>in a germination chamber and samples of leaves were processed for transmission electron microscopy. Thin sections were stained with the EDTA technique preferential for ribonucleoproteins and osmium amine specific for DNA and observed with a microscopy. </p><p><strong>Results:</strong> Light, electronic and atomic force microscopy revealed that cell nuclei of <em>W. mirabilis</em> display a reticulated arrangement of chromatin. Moreover, granules of 32.17 ± 1.7 nm in diameter were observed among strands of reticulated chromatin. </p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Our results indicate that <em>Lacandonia</em> granules are present in the nuclei of the gnetal <em>W. </em> <em>mirabilis. </em></p>
Contribucion al conocimiento de los Malofagos Argentinos XIII. Dos nuevas especies del genero Incidifrons Ewing, l929 (Mallophaga-Philopteridae) parasitas del genero Fulica (Aves-Gruiformes) de Argentina

Hasta el presente no hay un. estudio comprensivo del género J72w. dí/ro#s Ewing, 1929 sobre las Fzf/z. " americanas ya que solo se conocen dos especies de este género : J#cidifrons transpositus Kellogg,1896 sobre Fulica americana e lncidifrons fulicae (Ljmné 1758) sobre Fz£/z.ccz ¢£rflL De esta última especie, Clay,1951 ha hecho una excelente rc+ descripción. Gracias a la amabilidad del Dr. K.C. Emerson (Florida, USA) nos fue posible examinar ejemplares de ambos sexos de las dos especies anteriormente citadas. Describimos en este trabajo dos nuevas especies del género J72c£. dz/ro7# Ewing, 1929: J. w77? z. //¢£z# e J. c77? c7iso7%. realizándose un estudio comparado de las cuatro especies, anexándose una clave de identificación a nivel especi'fico. Debe destacarse que la diferenciación a este nivel resulta en algunos casos sumamente difícil dado la absoluta uniformidad del grupo. Las caracteri'sticas diagnósticas más significativas son : 1. forma de la cabeza, la que puede presentar la región preantenál ensanchadao angostada; la placa anterior dorsal puede ser de dimensiones compensadas o notablemente más larga que ancha; su borde anterior puede ser anchamente escotado o serlo brevemente. 2. quetotaxia tergal; pese a su uniformidad presenta en una especie setas postespiraculares accesorias en los segmentos V-VIl en ambos sexos. 3. genitalia del macho; puede presentar parámeros de grosor uniforme o bien estar cstrechados entre su tercio medio y apical ; el largo de los mismos, las proporciones del complejo endomeral (largo/ancho) y el tamaño relativo entre estas estructuras es variable en las distintas especies. 4. placa subgenital de la hembra; presenta diferencias en sus bordes laterales que pueden ser paralelos o divergentes, el contorno de la misma también ofrece diferencias