Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assortative mating but no evidence of genetic divergence in a species characterized by a trophic polymorphism

Disruptive selection is a process that can result in multiple sub-groups within a population, referred to as diversification. Foraging related divergence has been described in many taxa, but many questions remain about the contribution of such divergence to reproductive isolation and potentially sympatric speciation. Here we use stable isotope analysis of diet and morphological analysis of body shape to examine phenotypic divergence between littoral and pelagic foraging ecomorphs in a population of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus). We then examine reproductive isolation between ecomorphs by comparing the isotopic compositions of nesting males to eggs from their nests (a proxy for maternal diet), and use nine microsatellite loci to examine genetic divergence between ecomorphs. Our data support the presence of distinct foraging ecomorphs in this population and indicate that there is significant positive assortative mating based on diet. We did not find evidence of genetic divergence between ecomorphs, however, indicating that isolation is either relatively recent or is not strong enough to result in genetic divergence at the microsatellite loci. Based on our findings, pumpkinseed sunfish represent a system in which to further explore the mechanisms by which natural and sexual selection contribute to divergence, prior to the occurrence of sympatric speciation.
Optimization and Evaluation of Rapid Methods for the Assessment of Waterborne Escherichia coli in Egypt

Three different methods were developed and evaluated for determination of water borne E. coli from two wastewater purification stations and one drinking water station at Cairo, Egypt. The most appropriate parameters used in the enzymatic method were found to be; using the substrate concentration (700 mgl), temperature of the water bath shaker (44.5o C), pH (7.2), and the time of measurement (30 minutes). Moreover, there was no significant difference between the samples’ enzymatic activity measured with or without addition of the inducer IPTG (isopropyl-ß-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside). Multiplex PCR was used to detect E. coli that enables its differentiation from biochemically and phylogenetically related bacteria. The target genes have been increased to three genes: uidA, lacZ and lacY. Evaluation of these methods indicated a significant correlation between the microbial count and the enzymatic activity of ß-D-galactosidase produced by E. coli when using chromogenic (Pearson r = 0.87) or fluorogenic substrate (Pearson r = 0.749). In conclusion, fluorometric method was suitable for detection of low contaminated samples, while colorimetric was suitable for highly contaminated sample, multiplex PCR based on three target genes was suitable for quiet identification of environmental E. coli either viable, VBNC (viable but nonculturable cells) or dead cells.
Tranformer in Semantic Parsing

Recurrent architectures have been the dominant models within the realm of neural machine translation for some time. However, recently, models with non-recurrent architectures have been out-performing RNNs in sequence-to-sequence tasks. The transformer model, which we will be looking at in depth throughout this paper, has out-performed the LSTM in several neural machine translation tasks. The transformer is based solely on attention mechanisms, which in turn, entirely gets rid of recurrence and convolutions. Throughout this paper, experiments will be presented that evaluate the performance of a Transformer architecture versus an LSTM architecture within the realm of semantic parsing.
Daily Positive A ff ect and Job Crafting : The Cross Level Moderating E ff ects of Individuals ’ Resources

Whereas past research on daily job crafting has tended to focus on how job crafting affected employee behaviors, we extend this study by examining the antecedents of job crafting and cross-level moderators such as leader-member exchange (LMX) and resilience. Using experience-sampling methodology, we examined the within-person level relationship between positive affect and job crafting as well as the moderating role of individuals’ LMX and resilience on this relationship. Finally, 105 employees completed surveys over 10 days. Results of hierarchical linear models revealed that daily positive affect was positively associated with job crafting. Also, results revealed moderating effects of LMX: the relation between positive affect and job crafting strengthened when employees had low-quality LMX relationship.
Workfare in Low Income Countries : An E ¤ ective Way to Fight Poverty ? The Case of India s NREGS

This paper analyses the impact of Indias National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on rural households. In particular, we look at the impact of the program on food security, savings and health outcomes. We have an initial baseline survey data of 1066 households (June 2007) and a subsequent panel data of 320 households (December 2008) from Andhra Pradesh. We have estimates based on propensity score matching, double di¤erence and triple di¤erence to account for non-random attrition. We nd that NREGS signi cantly increases expenditure on food by 40 percent (Rs. 96.6) and non-food consumables by 69 percent (Rs.16.3). The program improves probability of holding savings by 9 percent and reduces incidence of depression by 8 percent. The impact on food security is stronger for the poorest group. Please send comments to: shamika_ravi@isb.edu. We thank Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Malcolm Harper, Jonathan Morduch, Mudit Kapoor, Reetika Khera and Nachiket Mor for comments. Ravi acknowldges support from Ford Foundation and MFMI, DC.
SPARC CONTROL SYSTEM OPERATION

We describe the control system operation for the new injector project built at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN (SPARC [2]). The injector started the operation in the autumn of the 2007 and the control systems has been full operating since the start of commissioning and integrate all tools to help the machine operation. The SPARC control system must follow all evolution in the continuous machine installation and evolution. To allow us a rapid develop of the control system we have made some choices: Labview as developing system due to its diffusion in the laboratory and it because is standard in the acquisition software; Gigabit Ethernet as interconnection bus (in order to have sufficient bandwidth in the data exchange); PC as front-end CPU and operator console. We developed control applications for magnetic elements, vacuum equipments, RF cavities, all diagnostics, laser and some experimental apparatus have been developed and debugged on line. We developed an automatic process to store all information.
Advice in Discourse

This peer-reviewed series offers a selection of high quality work covering the full richness of Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field within language sciences. It is committed to innovative research and includes monographs and thematic collections of articles. We welcome submissions with a focus on language use without predefined boundaries for the field and with an explicit interest in work that interacts with other fields such as sociology, anthropology, semantics, historical linguistics, and so on. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Advice in discourse Miriam A. Locher and Holger Limberg Part I: Advice in academic, educational and training settings 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisions Sanna Vehvilainen 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writing Ken Hyland and Fiona Hyland 4. ‘It wouldn’t hurt if you had your child evaluated’: Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching context Andrea DeCapua and Joan Findlay Dunham 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American university Hansun Zhang Waring 6. ‘Yes that’s a good idea’: Peer-advice in academic discourse at a UK university Jo Angouri 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace Bernadette Vine, Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra Part II: Advice in medical and health-related settings 8. Advice giving - terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors John Heritage and Anna Lindstrom 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital Olga Zayts and Stephanie Schnurr 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: A comparative analysis of some Australian-based helplines Michael Emmison and Alan Firth 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects Christopher Pudlinski Part III: Advice in computer-mediated settings 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forum Phillip R. Morrow 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo! Respuestas Maria Elena Placencia Part IV: Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice 14. ‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective Anna Wierzbicka 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course…’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English Catherine Diederich and Nicole Hohn
Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Treatment for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has dramatically improved with the innovative use of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Drs. McGinn and Sanderson have developed a comprehensive method of treatment that combines psychoeducational and cognitive restructuring with traditional exposure and response prevention techniques. A detailed session-by-session guide is presented to help clinicians assess and treat OCD with this unique blend of therapies. Using a composite case example, the authors demonstrate exactly how to implement various strategies from the initial interview to the conclusion of treatment.
SAGGI EDUCATIOn AnD DIVERSITY : THEORETICAL AnD PRACTICAL ISSUES

This paper tackles a complex discussion surrounding interculturalism and its translation and implementation into the context of education. The first part of the paper focuses on a critical analysis of interculturalism as a conceptual and political framework. We propose an analysis of interculturalism and its stated multilayered goals, which are often ambiguous, in tension with one another, and divergent. In the second part of the paper, we focus our analysis on the sociological, educational philosophy, and pedagogical extensions and manifestation of the intercultural framework. Here, too, we focus on problematizing the conceptual framework illustrating parallel problem dynamics. Finally, we conclude our paper with a third part, an empirical case study in Italian schools. The qualitative study we highlight was carried out in nineteen Italian schools with 87 educators (68 teachers and 19 administrators) and takes an in-depth look both at intercultural education as practiced by Italian educators.
CEO Compensation and Concurrent Executive Employment of Outside Directors

In many advanced countries, most outside directors are executives, active or retired, at other firms; in other words, executives from other companies make executive compensation decisions. This situation may hinder the board of directors (BOD) in their efforts to optimize executive compensation levels objectively. Using a panel data analysis of the S&P 1500 companies, we provide supplemental evidence of whether, and to what extent, the concurrent executive employment of outside directors distorts the executive pay decisions at a given company. An unbiased fixed-effect estimation confirms that a $1.00 increase in CEO pay at outside directors’ primary companies results in an approximate increase of $0.22 in CEO pay at the given company. From a policy perspective, this added agency problem — caused by the BOD and not by management — is noted as difficult to control; although a firm may establish board independence, the inherent concurrent employment of directors on a board continues to exist.
VERSUS PERCUTANEOUS ACHILLES TENDON REPAIR : A REVIEW

Limited incision techniques for acute Achilles tendon ruptures have been developed in recent years to improve recovery and reduce postoperative complications compared with traditional open repair. Open repair of Achilles tendon rupture has been associated with higher levels of wound complications than those associated with percutaneous repair. However, some studies suggest there are higher rerupture rates and sural nerve injuries with percutaneous repair. The purpose of this study is to compare the postoperative clinical and functional results of percutaneous versus open repair of acute Achilles tendon ruptures. The two types of repairs is being compared in terms of (1) function (muscle strength, ankle ROM, calf and ankle perimeter, single heel rise tests, and work return), (2) cosmesis (length scar, cosmetic appearance), and (3) complications. This literature will provide a brief overview on the current scenario of these procedures and will compare the efficacy and safety of these two procedures.
The 45 Years ’ Evolution of a Genre : Commodification of the University Textbook Prefaces in China

This paper investigates diachronic changes of the university textbook prefaces in China over the past 45 years (from 1966 to 2010). Applying genre analysis, a discussion of generic structure potential, appraisal theory, as well as multimodal discourse analysis, this paper examines the changes in generic structure, the lexical-grammatical and paralinguistic features of the genre with a detailed analysis of 60 sample texts over three time periods namely 1966-1980, 1981-1995, and 1996-2010. The analysis reveals that the university textbook prefaces feature distinctive changes with the development of the times, pointing to the intertextual mix of academic discourse and promotional discourse, thus undergoing a process of commodification. It argues that the ideological influence of promotional culture, the powerful position of advertising discourse and fierce professional competition are the most conceivable contextual factors contributing to the commodification of the genre in question.
Joint Surface Reconstruction from Monocular Vision and LiDAR

In recent years, dense reconstruction gains popularity because of its broad applications in inspection, mapping and planning. Cameras or LiDARs are generally deployed for 3D dense reconstruction. However, current reconstruction pipelines based on cameras or LiDARs have significant limitations in achieving an accurate and complete scene reconstruction in certain environments due to the properties of LiDARs and cameras. In this thesis, we propose a new surface reconstruction pipeline that combines monocular camera images and LiDAR measurements from a moving sensor rig to reconstruct dense 3D mesh models of different scenes accurately, especially of scenes that are challenging for visual-only or LiDAR-only reconstruction. In particular, we exploit the advantages of the multi-view stereo algorithm in the reconstruction and integrate with the LiDAR measurements to further improve the robustness and accuracy. Current approaches employing cameras and LiDARs mainly focus on texture mapping with the color information from the camera images or improving camera depth estimation with the LiDAR. However, such methods only exploit the geometric information from single sensor measurements instead of fusing the geometric information from both sensors. In contrast, the proposed pipeline uses a two-stage approach to fuse the structural measurements from LiDAR with the camera images to generate a surface mesh. In the first stage, LiDAR measurements are integrated into a multi-view stereo pipeline to help with the visual point cloud densification. After combining the dense visual point cloud with LiDAR point cloud, a graph-cut algorithm is applied to extract a watertight surface mesh. To validate the proposed pipeline, we collect data from different kinds of scenes and compare results from our method with state-of-the-art reconstruction methods. The experimental results show that our method outperforms both the camera-only and LiDAR-only reconstruction pipelines in terms of accuracy and completeness.
P o S ( L a t t i c e 2 0 1 0 ) 0 5 9 Dimensional reduction and confinement from five dimensions

We study non-perturbatively five-dimensional SU(2) gauge theories by means of the mean-field expansion on the lattice. On the anisotropic torus we show th at a continuum limit can be defined where the anisotropy is a relevant parameter. The analysis o f the static force supports the fact that the four-dimensional hyperplanes decouple from each other in the continuum limit. Clear signs of confinement are found in the static potential along the hyper planes. We present first results from Monte Carlo simulations on the phase diagram.
Decomposing the Growth of Portugal : A Case for Increasing Demand , not austerity , in a Small European Economy

This paper presents an analysis of Portugal's economy from 1999 to 2015, providing an alternative to explanations that present the situation faced by Southern European countries after the Great Recession as a matter of excessive expenditure or loss in competitiveness. Based upon the Sraffian Supermultiplier model, we look at how demand components evolved along the analyzed period, in a growth accounting setting. This assessment evidences that insufficient effective (public) demand -not balance-ofpayments constraints nor an alleged excess of public expenditure -is what explains Portugal's low-to-negative growth rates from 2001 forward. Given the limited productive structure, a labor market that is not strong enough to guarantee a solid internal credit expansion and the present institutional setting (which makes fiscal expenditure an also limited source of effective demand), we conclude that the only way for Portugal to abandon the low growth path would be a more cooperative fiscal stance from the European Union.
Verifpal: Cryptographic Protocol Analysis for Students and Engineers

Contemporary research in symbolic formal veriﬁcation has led to conﬁrming security guarantees (as well as ﬁnding attacks) in secure channel protocols such as TLS and Signal. However, formal veriﬁcation in general has not managed to signiﬁcantly exit the academic bubble. Verifpal is new software for verifying the security of cryptographic protocols that aims is to work better for real-world practitioners, students and engineers without sacriﬁcing comprehensive formal veriﬁcation features. In order to achieve this, Verifpal introduces a new, intuitive language for modeling protocols that is easier to write and understand than the languages employed by existing tools. Its formal veriﬁcation paradigm is also designed explicitly to provide protocol modeling that avoids user error. By modeling principals explicitly and with discrete states, Verifpal models are able to be written in a way that reﬂects how protocols are described in the real world. At the same time, Verifpal is able to model protocols under an active attacker with unbounded sessions and fresh values, and supports queries for advanced security properties such as forward secrecy or key compromise impersonation. Verifpal has already been used to verify security properties for Signal, Scuttlebutt, TLS 1.3 and other protocols. It is a community-focused project, and available under a GPLv3 license.
Competence-Based Communication : theoretical insights and empirical findings in the Initial Public Offering setting

Competence-Based Communication (CBC) is a recent stream of research developed to explain the particular marketing communication that occurs in the Business-to-Business context (Golfetto, 2004a, 2004b). In the B2B environment, a business customer certainly seeks for a product of good quality, but above all it searches for a partner, a reliable competence provider, that is a supplier of solutions, a firm that has the capability to align its offer to the specific needs of the customer, a supplier that has the skills to be a valid reference for the customer’s problems. That is particularly true for relevant and new purchases, but it is valid for routine purchases as well. Our aim is to extend CBC into the B2C realm.
On Processability of Lemke ’ s Algorithm

Lemke’s algorithm is a pivotal kind of algorithm which is developed based on principal pivot transform. We consider several matrix classes to study the relationship among them in the context of linear complementarity problem. These classes are important from Lemke’s algorithmic point of view. In this article we discuss about the processability of Lemke’s algorithm with respect to some selective matrix classes.
Reducing CPU Power Consumption with Device Utilization-Aware DVFS for Low-Latency SSDs

Emerging solid state drives (SSDs) based on a nextgeneration memory technology have been recently released in market. In this work, we call them low-latency SSDs because the device latency of them is an order of magnitude lower than that of conventional NAND flash SSDs. Although low-latency SSDs can drastically reduce an I/O latency perceived by an application, the overhead of OS processing included in the I/O latency has become noticeable because of the very low device latency. Since the OS processing is executed on a CPU core, its operating frequency should be maximized for reducing the OS overhead. However, a higher core frequency causes the higher CPU power consumption during I/O accesses to low-latency SSDs. Therefore, we propose the device utilization-aware DVFS (DU-DVFS) technique that periodically monitors the utilization of a target block device and applies dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to CPU cores executing I/O-intensive processes only when the block device is fully utilized. In this case, DU-DVFS can reduce the CPU power consumption without hurting performance because the delay of OS processing incurred by decreasing the core frequency can be hidden. Our evaluation with 28 I/O-intensive workloads on a real server containing an Intel R © OptaneTM SSD demonstrates that DU-DVFS reduces the CPU power consumption by 41.4% on average (up to 53.8%) with a negligible performance degradation, compared to a standard DVFS governor on Linux. Moreover, the evaluation with multiprogrammed workloads composed of I/O-intensive and non-I/O-intensive programs shows that DUDVFS is also effective for them because it can apply DVFS only to CPU cores executing I/O-intensive processes. key words: low-latency SSDs, CPU power consumption, DVFS, device utilization
Version The potential of Russia to increase its wheat production through cropland expansion and intensification Global Food Security

Russia is a major player in the global wheat market, but extensive unused land resources and large yield gaps suggest that wheat production can be substantially increased. We combined time series of cultivated cropland, abandoned cropland and yield gap estimates to assess the potential production of wheat in European Russia. Current wheat production is constrained by volatile inter-annual precipitation patterns and low applications of nitrogen fertilizers. We demonstrate that modest increases in the crop productivity and the recultivation of the recently abandoned croplands could increase wheat production by 9–32 million tons under rainfed conditions. Increases in the wheat yields, particularly within the fertile black soil belt in southern European Russia, will contribute the major share of the prospective production increases. Frequently recurring droughts, likely exacerbated by future climate change, and adverse market conditions jeopardize the exploitation of the production potentials. Improved adaptation to the volatile climate conditions and substantial institutional and political reforms in the agricultural sector are necessary to leverage the agricultural production potential of Russia. & 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).