Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Utilization of a nonlinear support vector machine to predict blasting vibration characteristic parameters in opencast mine

Characteristic parameters of blasting vibration (BVCP) have great effects on its damage level. The prediction of BVCP is helpful to study blasting vibration effect. In this paper, an attempt has been made to predict blast-induced ground vibration using support vector machine (SVM) to avoid the limitation of the prediction with only one index and to improve the prediction precision. A Grid search method-based SVM prediction model for BVCP was established on the basis of nonlinear model-based SVM. To construct the model, nine factors affecting blasting vibration characteristic variables are taken as input parameters, whereas, peak particle velocity (PPV), dominant frequency (Df) and its time duration (Dt) are considered as output parameters. A database consisting of 108 datasets was collected from Tonglvshan copper mine in China. From the prepared database, 93 datasets were used for the training of the model, whereas 15 randomly selected datasets were used for the validation of the SVM model. To compare the performance of the developed SVM model with that of artificial neural network (ANN) model, the same database was applied. Superiority of the proposed SVM model over ANN model was examined by calculated coefficient of determination for predicted and measured values of PPV, Df and Dt. Concluded remark is that the prediction's BVCP can reliably be estimated from the indirect methods using SVM analysis. Streszczenie. Przy przewidywaniu efektow i szkod wibracji wybuchowych wazny jest parametr BVCP - blasting vibration characteristic parameter. W artykule przedstawiono model matematyczny do prognozowania efektow drgan wybuchowych z wykorzystaniem metody SVM. (Wykorzystanie metody SVM do prognozowania parametrow wibracji wybuchowych w kopalniach odkrywkowych)
Risk Factors and Resilience in the Offspring of Psychotic Parents

We approach an integrated research-action model of the interactions between the psychosis of the parent, parenting, family relations, the child’s development, risk and resilience factors. The research objectives are: identifying the resilience factors, the research of the interaction between the risk and resilience mechanisms, predicting or not the development of psychopathology in children of psychotic parents, the dynamic evaluation of the resilience. The longitudinal study was conducted in the period 2003-2013 on a group of 75 children with a schizophrenic parent and 70 children with a parent with bipolar disorder. We applied the scales: CBCL, Vth Axis ICD 10, PANSS and CD-RISC (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale). Through PANSS for the psychotic parents, we correlated the scores for specific items with those obtained by the children through CD-RISC. Through MANOVA and the Pearson test we correlated the dependent variables with the predictive influence factors. The high PANSS scores for specific items were correlated negatively with the resilience scores of the children with psychotic parents. The maximum frequency of positive codifications on the Vth Axis, found for: rejection behavior from one parent (76, 4%), family disharmony (73, 52%), distorted family communication (70, 58%), was significantly correlated (p<0.001) with low scores of the child’s resilience for personal competency, negative effects tolerance, safe interpersonal relations, high performance. The social, family support and social connectedness proved to be relevant variables. Resilience can be modified and improved through targeted interventions, so that the understanding of the resilience process and of the concurrent factors is needed.
Observation-based 3-D view of aerosol radiative properties over Indian Continental Tropical Convergence Zone: implications to regional climate

Spatial and vertical distributions of aerosol radiative properties over Indian Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) up to 6 km altitude during the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons of 2008 have been measured and reported for the first time. Inter-seasonal and intra-seasonal comparisons of different aerosol properties below and above the boundary layer are carried out in and among different regions of CTCZ. During pre-monsoon, aerosol layers were found to be present up to altitude as high as 6 km over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Himalayan foothills. A large increase in absorption coefficients (by two to five times) near the Himalayan foothills and coastal India than the background values may be attributed to extensive biomass burning as supported by fire counts data. During monsoon, the aerosols were mostly confined to lower troposphere. However, absorbing aerosols were found to rebuild much faster than scattering aerosols after rains. Heating rates were very high over urban city of Bareilly peaking around 2 km during the pre-monsoon. The HR values over urban Kanpur during monsoon were comparable to Bareilly during pre-monsoon. Negligible latitudinal gradient of heating rate from the Himalayan foothill to central India was observed during both the seasons.
The Impact of Macroeconomic and Regulatory Factors on Bank Efficiency: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Hong Kong's Banking System

This paper assesses the relative technical efficiency of institutions operating in a market that has been significantly affected by environmental and market factors in recent years, the Hong Kong banking system. These environmental factors are specifically incorporated into the efficiency analysis using the innovative slacks-based, second stage Tobit regression approach advocated by Fried et al (1999). A further innovation is that we also employ Tone's (2001) slacks-based model (SBM) to conduct the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in addition to the more traditional approach attributable to Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) (1984). The results indicate: high levels of technical inefficiency for many institutions; considerable variations in efficiency levels and trends across size groups and banking sectors; and also differential impacts of environmental factors on different size groups and financial sectors. Surprisingly, the accession of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, episodes of financial deregulation, and the 1997/98 South East Asian crisis do not seem to have had a significant independent impact on relative efficiency. However, the results suggest that the impact of the last mentioned may have come via the adverse developments in the macro economy and in the housing market.
Exploring phage-bacterium interactions : new ways to combat a fish pathogen

Laanto, Elina Exploring phage-bacterium interactions – New ways to combat a fish pathogen Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2014, 58 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Biological and Environmental Science ISSN 1456-9701; 290) ISBN 978-951-39-5825-1 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-5826-8 (PDF) Yhteenveto: Faagi-bakteeri -vuorovaikutusten tutkiminen – Uusia keinoja kalapatogeenin torjuntaan Diss. The risks associated with antibiotic use, including development of antibiotic resistant pathogenic strains and the spreading of resistance genes, have caused a search for novel therapeutics. After being forgotten because of the ease brought by antibiotics in disease control in the Western world, phage therapy has enjoyed reviving interest. Aquaculture is one of the major users of antibiotics and contributes greatly to the leakage of antibiotics into the surrounding environment. Increased severity of disease outbreaks caused by a common fish pathogen, Flavobacterium columnare, has led to concerns on its management by antibiotics and instigated a search for efficient alternatives. In this thesis, phages infecting F. columnare were isolated from fish farms, and their impact to the host bacterium as well as their efficiency as therapeutics was studied. Phages infecting F. columnare were shown to be host-specific compared to phages infecting Flavobacterium sp. isolated from fresh waters across Finland. Flavobacterium sp. phages with variable host-ranges were characterized, providing more information on the known diversity of fresh water bacteriophages. The first F. columnare phage genome was sequenced and annotated. The genome showed similarities to marine phages of Cellulophaga, a close relative of Flavobacteria. Resistance to phage had clear costs for the F. columnare, as the abilities of bacteria to cause disease and, in parallel, to move was lost. In a comparative study between virulent and phage induced non-virulent morphotypes new virulence factors for F. columnare were suggested. Finally, addition of phage in aquaria with experimentally infected fish had a significant influence on the longevity of fish in a flow-through system. These results suggest great potential for using phages in aquaculture against common fish disease. In the future new phages are needed and their properties well characterized but above all, strict legislation needs to be overcome before the actual production of therapeutics can begin.
Economic Geography and Wages

This paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. We identify the agglomeration benefits off the spatial variation in firms' nominal wages. Using unusually detailed intermediate input data, we take account of the location of input suppliers to estimate cost linkages; and the location of demand from final consumers and other firms to estimate demand linkages. The results show that the externalities that arise from demand and cost linkages are quantitatively important and highly localized. An increase in either cost or demand linkages from the 10th to the 90th percentile increases wages by more than 20.
IN VITRO EFFECTS OF CANINE WHARTON’S JELLY MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS AND NANOPARTICLES ON CANINE OSTEOSARCOMA D17 CELL VIABILITY by KIMBERLY REEDS

Objectives – To isolate and maintain canine Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stromal cells (WJMSCs) in culture, to determine the effects of micellar nanoparticles containing doxorubicin (DOX) on WJMSCs and canine osteosarcoma (OSA) D17 cell viability, and to determine the effects of conditioned media from WJMSCs loaded with micellar nanoparticles containing DOX on OSA D17 cell viability. Sample Population – Canine WJMSCs containing various concentrations of DOX micelles and canine OSA D17 cells. Procedures – WJMSCs were isolated from canine umbilical cords. Micellar nanoparticles containing DOX were prepared and added to culture plates containing canine OSA D17 cells to determine micelle effects on cell growth and viability. Conditioned media from culture plates containing canine WJMSCs incubated with various DOX micelle concentrations was added to OSA D17 cells for conditioned media experiments. A 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay was performed to assess OSA D17 cell viability. A trypan blue stain was also utilized to perform cell counts to determine the effect of the DOX micelles on stromal cell growth. Results – WJMSCs were successfully isolated and maintained in culture. Micellar nanoparticles containing DOX decreased OSA D17 cell viability. OSA D17 cell viability was also decreased following incubation with conditioned media from canine WJMSCs loaded with micellar nanoparticles containing DOX. Significant decreases with the conditioned media of canine WJMSCs loaded with 10μM micelles occurred at 48 hours (p < 0.005) and at 72 and 96 hours (p < 0.0001). Significant decreases were also observed with the 1 μM DOX micelles at 72 hours (p < 0.005) and 96 hours (p < 0.0001). WJMSC numbers decreased in a dose dependent manner following incubation with DOX micelles. Changes in WJMSC number was not caused by increased cell death as all variables produced similar percentages of dead cells. Conclusions – Canine WJMSCs were successfully isolated and maintained in culture. Stromal cells containing DOX micellar nanoparticles induced OSA D17 cell cytotoxicity while inducing an anti-proliferative, rather than cytotoxic effect, on the WJMSC. These data support future in vivo experiments utilizing canine WJMSCs and micellar nanoparticles.
Microwave Assisted Hydrodistillation - An Overview of Mechanism and Heating Properties

The efficiency of heating mechanism of microwave assisted hydrodistillation (MAHD) in the extraction of essential oil is presented. The theoretical study on the microwave heating mechanism is also reported in terms of dielectric properties, volume rate of heat generation and penetration depth. MAHD extraction method has the advantages of being rapid, less solvent consuming, environmental friendly and green technology. Detailed information on the heating mechanism of MAHD is therefore presented herein alongside the potential of MAHD.
Mine Occupational Safety and Health Leading Practice Adoption System (MOSH) examined - the promise and pitfalls of this employer-led initiative to improve health and safety in South African Mines

Synopsis This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Mine Occupational Health and Safety Leading Practice Adoption System (MOSH) and its potential to improve mine health and safety in South African mines. Developed by the Chamber of Mines, which represents the majority of the country's large scale mining employers, MOSH was devised to accelerate progress towards achieving health and safety milestones, which were set by tripartite agreement in 2003. The paper documents and builds on the findings of a study conducted by the Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) in 2011 that evaluated MOSH strategy, structures, and process of implementation. The study found that MOSH operated across the mining sector, was directed and dominated by experts and, despite best efforts to include other stakeholders, was led by employers. Statutory worker health and safety representatives and structures were not integrated into the complex change process developed by MOSH. The Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate (MHSI) and organized labour were ambivalent about direct involvement in MOSH and preferred regulatory measures to enforce the participation of mines. MOSH interventions were not targeted at mines with a poor health and safety record, and MOSH lacked a baseline from which to track impacts on sector-wide health and safety performance. The leading practices most widely adopted by mines were designed to improve, rather than fundamentally alter, existing practice. Although the depth of engagement with MOSH among stakeholders and on mine sites varied, mining companies, labour representatives, and the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate (MHSI) saw the programme as significant.
Multiply-deuterated species in prestellar cores.

We have studied the ortho, para, and, in the case of D + , meta forms of the multiply-deuterated isotopes of H + , under physical conditions believed to be appropriate to pre-protostellar cores. As deuterons have integral nuclear spin, I = 1, Bose-Einstein statistical laws apply. Having extended the network of chemical reactions used in our previous study (Walmsley et al. 2004), we have calculated the population densities of ortho- and para-D2H + and of ortho- and meta-D + . In the former case, comparison is made with the recent observations of para-D2H + in the prestellar core 16293E (Vastel et al. 2004). Using radiative transition probabilities computed by Ramanlal & Tennyson (2004), we have predicted the intensities of the near infrared vibrational transitions of the deuterated isotopes of H + . Many of these transitions can be observed, in absorption, only from above the Earth's atmosphere, but some might be detectable through atmospheric windows.
Application of Benchmark Concentration (BMC) Analysis on Zebrafish Data: A New Perspective for Quantifying Toxicity in Alternative Animal Models

Over the past decade, the zebrafish is increasingly being used as a model to screen for chemical-mediated toxicities including developmental toxicity (DT) and neurotoxicity (NT). One of the major challenges is lack of harmonization in data analysis approaches, thereby posing difficulty in comparing findings across laboratories. To address this, we sought to establish a unified data analysis strategy for both DT and NT data, by adopting the benchmark concentration (BMC) analysis. There are two critical aspects in the BMC analysis: having a toxicity endpoint amenable for BMC and selecting a proper benchmark response (BMR) for the endpoint. For the former, in addition to the typical endpoints in NT assay (eg, hyper/hypo- response quantified by distance moved), we also used endpoints that assess the differences in movement patterns between chemical-treated embryos and control embryos. For the latter, we standardized the selection of BMR, which is analogous to minimum activity threshold, based on intrinsic response variations in the endpoint. When comparing our BMC results with a traditionally used LOAEL method (lowest-observed-adverse-effect level), we found high active compound concordance (100% for DT vs 74% for NT); generally, the BMC was more sensitive than LOAEL (no. of BMC more sensitive/no. of concordant active compounds, 43/50 for DT vs 16/26 for NT). Using the BMC with standardized toxicity endpoints and an appropriate BMR, we may now have a unified data-analysis approach to comparing results across different zebrafish datasets, for a better understanding of strengths and challenges when using the zebrafish as a screening tool.
Fusion of 3D models derived from TLS and image-based techniques for CH enhanced documentation

Abstract. Recognizing the various advantages offered by 3D new metric survey technologies in the Cultural Heritage documentation phase, this paper presents some tests of 3D model generation, using different methods, and their possible fusion. With the aim to define potentialities and problems deriving from integration or fusion of metric data acquired with different survey techniques, the elected test case is an outstanding Cultural Heritage item, presenting both widespread and specific complexities connected to the conservation of historical buildings. The site is the Staffarda Abbey, the most relevant evidence of medieval architecture in Piedmont. This application faced one of the most topical architectural issues consisting in the opportunity to study and analyze an object as a whole, from twice location of acquisition sensors, both the terrestrial and the aerial one. In particular, the work consists in the evaluation of chances deriving from a simple union or from the fusion of different 3D cloudmodels of the abbey, achieved by multi-sensor techniques. The aerial survey is based on a photogrammetric RPAS (Remotely piloted aircraft system) flight while the terrestrial acquisition have been fulfilled by laser scanning survey. Both techniques allowed to extract and process different point clouds and to generate consequent 3D continuous models which are characterized by different scale, that is to say different resolutions and diverse contents of details and precisions. Starting from these models, the proposed process, applied to a sample area of the building, aimed to test the generation of a unique 3Dmodel thorough a fusion of different sensor point clouds. Surely, the describing potential and the metric and thematic gains feasible by the final model exceeded those offered by the two detached models.
nMASE – A Search Engine for Network Trace

Computer networks have been largely adopted in small and big settings in corporate and residential environments. With explosion of mobile traffic and ever increasing use of software defined networking, network traffic monitoring holds a key position in detecting network errors and security failures. Monitoring big networks has become a herculean task with having to deal with huge magnitude of data which is prohibitive for proper leverage considering the time and space required to exploit it. Much of the current work in this domain is focused on techniques to efficiently analyze and classify network traffic. Rule based classification or filtering of traffic is the first major step in any analysis procedure so that analysis is performed on focused set of packets. However defining, constructing and application of such rules involve considerable level of difficulty. In this paper we address this issue. We believe that searching for relevant content in network trace should be as easy as searching for relevant web pages through search engine. In this paper we touch upon this much neglected area by introducing concept of network search engine and ranking of network traffic. “nMASEA Search Engine for Network Trace” is built upon Boolean model of information retrieval and is capable of finding relevant content from a huge network trace based on simple natural language queries. This leads to significant reduction in the time that network administrators spend in scanning through colossal network activity.
Animatronic Humanoid Robot System That Responsively Interacts with Humans

Animatronic humanoid robot system is an integration of robot body with high mobility, information processing concerning with the motion management of a large-scale dynamical system, and motor control handling with underactuated articulated body, which are even individually still challenging problems. This paper provides key technologies towards all those requirements. A reliable miniature robot body is tolerable against large accelerations. A combination of realtime motion capture and Mimetic Communication model works as a quick decision-making module. Dynamical motion retouch modi es physically inconsistent referential trajectories to consistent ones only within one footstep. Finally, they are built into a responsive autonomous humanoid system in a style of virtual ghting between a real human and the robot.
Effect of Polysorbate 80 Through Rabbit's Skin Using Transdermal Patch Loaded with Bisoprolol Fumarate as Model Drug

A B S T R A C T An optimized matrix transdermal patch of bisoprolol fumarate was formulated with different concentrations of polysorbate 80 to evaluate the effect of permeation enhancer at different concentration through the excised rabbit’s skin. PEG 400 was used as a plasticizer with Eudragit RS100 and HPMC (8:2) as polymers. The patches were prepared by solvent evaporation technique and analyzed for weight variation, thickness, drug content, swelling index, moisture content, moisture uptake, water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) and water vapor permeability (WVP). In vitro skin permeation studies were done in Franz diffusion cell using rabbit skin as a model membrane. The cumulative drug release and flux were determined to compare the result of test patches with a control patch. The greatest enhancement ratio (ER) was obtained in F06 with 35% polysorbate 80. F06 seemed to follow zero order kinetics with super case II mechanism of drug release. Tukey’s multiple comparison test suggested that there was a significant difference in steady flux, cumulative permeation rate and ER at different polysorbate 80 concentrations Thus Bisoprolol fumarate transdermal patch may give a better flux rate with 35% polysorbate 80 through model skin.
Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

FOREWORD BY ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. - Charting a New Direction 2. - Do Nonwarring Societies Actually Exist? 3. Overlooked and Underappreciated: The Human Potential for Peace 4. Killer Apes, Cannibals, and Coprolites: Projecting Mayhem onto the Past 5. The Earliest Evidence of War 6. War and Social Organization: From Nomadic Bands to Modern States 7. Seeking Justice: The Quest for Fairness 8. Man the Warrior: Fact or Fantasy? 9. Insights from the Outback: Geneva Conventions in the Australian Bush 10. Void if Detached from Reality: Australian "Warriors," Yanomamo Unokais, and Lethal Raiding Psychology 11. Returning to the Evidence: Life in the Band 12. Darwin Got It Right: Sex Differences in Aggression 13. A New Evolutionary Perspective: The Nomadic Forager Model 14. Setting the Record Straight 15. A Macroscopic Anthropological View 16. Enhancing Peace APPENDIX 1: ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTACT APPENDIX 2: NONWARRING SOCIETIES NOTES SUGGESTED READING INDEX