Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Caterpillar communities on Chusquea sp. (Poaceae) in the Andes of southern Ecuador

Chusquea (Bambusoideae) ist eine weitverbreitete und sehr haufige Bambuspflanze in den Anden und stellt somit eine gut verfugbare potenzielle Nahrungsressource fur phytophage Insekten dar. Dennoch ist bisher noch sehr wenig uber Herbivorengesellschaften bekannt, welche diese Pflanze nutzen. Eine hohe Diversitat von Raupengemeinschaften im Bergregenwald Sudecuadors wurde bereits an anderen Pflanzenfamilien nachgewiesen. Uber Herbivorengesellschaften in dem ebenfalls im Untersuchungsgebiet gelegenen Nebelwald hingegen ist noch wenig bekannt, wobei gerade diesem Waldtyp eine besondere Artenvielfalt nachgesagt wird, die sich vermutlich durch strukturelle Eigenheiten des Waldes, wie z.B. vermehrten Niederschlag und dichten Ephiphyllenbewuchs, ergibt. Aus diesem Grund wurden die Artenvielfalt, taxonomische Zusammensetzung und Struktur der Nahrungsgilden von Raupengemeinschaften an Chusquea zwischen dem Bergregenwald (2000m u.d.M) und dem Nebelwald (3000m u.d.M.) in den Anden Sudecuadors miteinander verglichen. Raupen wurden mittels der Klopfmethode gesammelt, im Labor einem Frasversuch unterzogen und anschliesend bis zum Adulttier grosgezogen. Verstorbene Raupen wurden mittels DNA-Barcoding bestimmt. Insgesamt wurden 392 Individuen von 193 Arten in 12 Familien gesammelt, wobei die meisten Arten den Geometriden, Noctuiden, Erebiden und Nymphaliden angehorten. Ungefahr 50% der Individuen waren Herbivore, 25% Nicht-Herbivore und 25% Wechsler (d.h. Jungraupen fressen totes Laub oder Epiphylle, altere Raupen frisches Laub). Die Diversitat der Gemeinschaften, gemessen als Shannon-Index, war unerwartet hoch und ubertraf die Werte bisherig besammelter Gemeischaften auf anderen Pflanzenarten bei weitem. Die Beta-Diversitat war mit nur acht gemeinsamen Arten zwischen den beiden Waldtypen sehr hoch. Die Dominanz einer Art in den Gemeinschaften war ungewohnlich niedrig mit einem Berger-Parker Index von nur 0.04. Der Anteil von Arten, die nur einmal vertreten waren, den sogenannten „Singletons“, war mit 66% hoher als in anderen Studien. Weiters unterschieden sich die Raupengemeinschaften in Hinsicht auf taxonomische Zusammensetzung und Nahrungsgilden-Struktur auffallig voneinander. Auffallend war der deutlich hohere Anteil herbivorer Raupen im Nebelwald im Gegensatz zu den Nicht-Herbivoren, welche im Bergregenwald haufiger waren.
Ambidexterity in Service Organizations: Reference Models from the Banking Industry

This paper reviews the literature on ambidexterity in service organizations with a specific focus on the banking industry. We identify three key, cross-unit bank processes: governance (bank headquarters), sales (branch processes) and operations (ICT and facilities to support local (branch) and inter-unit (headquarters-to-branch) tasks). We suggest a framework that incorporates three main “reference models”, from an organizational design perspective. Model 1 (exploitative model) applies when the bank's headquarters work to formalize branch sales processes supported by operations processes. Model 2 (exploratory model) applies when the bank's headquarters allows flexibility in branch sales processes and uses operations processes to decentralize tasks. Model 3 (ambidextrous model) applies when a branch incorporates the characteristics of Models 1 and 2 simultaneously. We ground our claims using fieldwork conducted in 2004–2005 that involved a number of major Italian banks. We show that while large organizations, such as banks, base their ambidextrous innovation on organizational design, contextual elements such as trust and commitment, and management styles and leadership play a role in dealing with efficiency-oriented vs. flexibility-oriented tasks within the same bank branch.
Messaging infrastructure for Electronic Government: background, rationale, objectives

Electronic Government applications aim to deliver efficient, seamless, customer-focused services to the public using various distribution channels. One of challenges in building such applications is the requirement to rely upon preexisting, often heterogeneous government applications. In order to enable communication between such applications, middleware software is required. In this paper we present a research line for formal specification and development of programmable message-oriented middleware, a foundation for infrastructure development for Electronic Government.
Stock price forecasting model analysis based on the wavelet neural network and the data cleaning technology

Financial time arrangement, for example, stock cost and trade rates are, regularly, non-straight and non-stationary. Beforehand, numerous scientists have endeavored to conjecture those utilizing factual models and machine learning models. Measurable models expect the time arrangement to be stationary and straight, accordingly bringing about expansive factual mistakes. Examination and expectation of securities exchange time arrangement information has pulled in impressive enthusiasm from the exploration group in the course of the most recent decade. Quick advancement and development of modern calculations for measurable examination of time arrangement information, and accessibility of elite equipment has made it conceivable to prepare and dissect high volume securities exchange time arrangement information successfully, continuously. In monetary field, exceptions speak to unpredictability of securities exchange, which assumes an imperative part in administration, portfolio choice and subordinate evaluating. Along these lines, anticipating anomalies of securities exchange is of the immense significance in principle and application. In this paper, the issue of anticipating anomalies in light of versatile gathering models of Intense Erudition Machines (IEMs) is considered. We discovered that the prescribed novel model is material for exception estimating and beats the strategies in light of auto relapse (AR) Intense Erudition Machines (IEMs) models.
Nanofluidic devices for dielectrophoretic mobility shift assays by soft lithography

We report development and application of 3D structured nano-microfluidic devices that were produced via soft lithography with poly(dimethylsiloxane). The procedure does not rely on hazardous or time-consuming production steps. Here, the nanochannels were created by channel-spanning ridges that reduce the flow height of the microchannel. Several realizations of the ridge layout and nanochannel height are demonstrated, depicting the high potential of this technique. The nanochannels proved to be stable even for width-to-height aspect ratios of 873:1. Additionally, an application of these submicrometer structures is presented with a new technique of a dielectrophoretic mobility shift assay (DEMSA). The DEMSA was used to detect different DNA variants, e.g. protein–DNA-complexes, via a shift in (dielectrophoretically retarded) migration velocities within an array of nanoslits.
Texture-controlled hybrid materials fabricated using nanosecond technology

The controlled assembly of microand nano-ceramic fillers in polymer nanocomposites provides robust properties such as wetting, adhesion, thermal conductivity, electrical insulation and optical activity, and enable the extended application of these hybrid materials as thermal interfacing materials in microelectronics and for energy conversion. However, the required properties can only be obtained either by homogeneous mixing or by anisotropic orientation of a large amount (>50 vol.%) of expensive fillers, which is economically inefficient. Here we propose a strategy for tuning the orientation and assembly of ceramic boron nitride nanofillers in a polymer nanocomposite using a small amount (<5 vol.%) of filler to enhance thermal conduction. The texture of the BN fillers is tuned by application of a nanosecond pulse electric field and a superconductor magnetic field (10T); the three-dimensional structure of the products was analyzed using 3-D X-ray CT scanning. The enhanced anisotropic orientation and thermal properties of the products were assessed as a function of the structural variation of the boron nitride fillers in the polymer.
Chiral bosonic phases on the Haldane honeycomb lattice

Recent experiments in ultracold atoms and photonic analogs have reported the implementation of artificial gauge fields in lattice systems, facilitating the realization of topological phases. Motivated by such advances, we investigate the Haldane honeycomb lattice tight-binding model, for bosons with local interactions at the average filling of one boson per site. We analyze the ground-state phase diagram and uncover three distinct phases: a uniform superfluid (SF), a chiral superfluid (CSF), and a plaquette Mott insulator with local current loops (PMI). Nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor currents distinguish CSF from SF, and the phase transition between them is first order. We apply bosonic dynamical mean-field theory and exact diagonalization to obtain the phase diagram, complementing numerics with calculations of excitation spectra in strong and weak coupling perturbation theory. The characteristic density fluctuations, current correlation functions, and excitation spectra are measurable in ultracold atom experiments.
Convex Integrals on Sobolev Spaces

Abstract. Let j0, j1 : R 7→ [0,∞) denote convex functions vanishing at the origin, and let Ω be a bounded domain in R with sufficiently smooth boundary Γ. This paper is devoted to the study of the convex functional J(u) = ∫ Ω j0(u)dΩ+ ∫ Γ j1(γu)dΓ on the Sobolev space H(Ω). We describe the convex conjugate J∗ and the subdifferential ∂J . It is shown that the action of ∂J coincides pointwise a.e. in Ω with ∂j0(u(x)), and a.e on Γ with ∂j1(u(x)). These conclusions are nontrivial because, although they have been known for the subdifferentials of the functionals J0(u) = ∫ Ω j0(u)dΩ and J1(u) = ∫ Γ j1(γu)dΓ, the lack of any growth restrictions on j0 and j1 makes the sufficient domain condition for the sum of two maximal monotone operators ∂J0 and ∂J1 infeasible to verify directly. The presented theorems extend the results in [6] and fundamentally complement the emerging research literature addressing supercritical damping and sources in hyperbolic PDE’s. These findings rigorously confirm that a combination of supercritical interior and boundary damping feedbacks can be modeled by the subdifferential of a suitable convex functional on the state space.
Academia-Industry Linkages and the Role of Active Innovation Policies – Firm-level Evidence in Hong Kong

This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main academia-industry linkages: academic institutions as training bases, as innovation sources and as innovation partners for companies. Our analysis results show that HK companies tend to rely on hiring highly-qualified labour trained by academic institutions to gain access to advanced academic knowledge. In contrast, they do not yet perceive academic institutions as important sources or partners for their innovation activities; however, their willingness to do so seems to be positively affected by the active innovation policies on site.
Development and characterization of microsatellite loci of Microglanis cottoides (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) and cross-species amplification

Eigenmann 1912, also known as bumblebeecatfishes (Shibatta, 2003a), is a genus of small South Americancatfishes that do not exceed over 110 mm in standard length(Shibatta, 2003a; Shibatta & Benine, 2005). Initially regardedas a member of the pimelodids (Eigenmann, 1912), this genuswas subsequently included in the small Pseudopimelodidaefamily (Shibatta, 2003b), which is considered a monophyleticgroup (Lundberg
Rigorous Modeling of a CO2-MEA Stripping System

Rigorous Modeling of a CO2-MEA Stripping System Claudio Madeddu*, Massimiliano Errico, Roberto Baratti Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali, Via Marengo 2, 09123, Cagliari, Italy University of Southern Denmark, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark c.madeddu@dimcm.unica. it
etrital zircon provenance and paleogeography of the Pahrump roup and overlying strata , Death Valley , California

The Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic Pahrump Group of Death Valley, California spans ca. 1300–635 Ma and provides a >500 million-year record of geologic events in southwestern Laurentia. The strata analyzed include preserved sequences separated by unconformities recording syn-Rodinia basin development (Crystal Spring Formation); Rodinia stability; regional extension culminating in Neoproterozoic rifting of the Laurentian margin of Rodinia (Horse Thief Springs through Johnnie Formations); and multiple phases of glacial sedimentation and subsequent cap carbonate deposition (Kingston Peak Formation and Noonday Dolomite). U-Pb detrital zircon analyses were conducted on samples from the entire Pahrump Group and the Noonday Dolomite in the southeastern Death Valley region (20 samples, 1945 grains) to further constrain hypotheses for regional basin development during the development of the southwestern Laurentian margin. Our interpretation of provenance data expands upon and clarifies previous models defining a series of tectonostratigraphic units including: (A) the <1400 Ma basal conglomerate of the Crystal Spring Formation, comprised of metasedimentary quartzite clasts, and exhibiting a unimodal detrital zircon sample distribution at 1690 Ma with northerly source; (B) the ca. 1320–1080 Ma Crystal Spring Formation exhibiting unimodal zircon distributions derived from southerly, local Paleoproterozoic basement sources punctuated by a ca. 300 Ma duration unconformity; (C) the ca. 780–740 Ma sequence of the Horse Thief Springs Formation, Beck Spring Dolomite, and KP1 unit of Kingston Peak Formation deposited in a marine basin with mixed southwestern Laurentian provenance; (D) a ca. 710–635 Ma glaciogenic sequence (KP2-KP4 members of Kingston Peak Formation), recording the onset of Rodinia rifting, and Sturtian and Marinoan “Snowball Earth” intervals with provenance data suggesting derivation from erosion and recycling of older Pahrump Group strata; (E) the ca. 635 Ma cap dolostone of the Sentinel Peak Member of the Noonday Dolomite, representing post-glacial drainage reorganization with more regional provenance; followed by (F) the <635 Ma strata of the Radcliff Member of the Noonday Dolomite, showing a marked shift to bimodal age distributions, indicating derivation from local basement sources. These data synthesize and complement previous provenance studies from overlying units and result in the addition of ca. 500 Ma of new provenance analysis for the southwestern Laurentian margin. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ∗ Corresponding author. Present address: University of Wyoming, Department of eology and Geophysics, Dept. 3006, 1000 University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, nited States. Tel. : +1 406 241 1026. E-mail address: rmahon1@uwyo.edu (R.C. Mahon). ttp://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.precamres. 2014.06. 005 301-9268/© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG OVERALL SERVICE QUALITY , TRUST , SATISFACTION AND LEARNER ’ S LOYALTY WITHIN THE SUPPORTIVE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

It is seen that education institutes use many techniques to increase the quality of the services being provided. However, as competition in the education sector has been rising dramatically, it is hard to differentiate the services offered. In this perspective, it is becoming hard to attract and keep loyal learners in education institutes. So, lifelong learning and continuing professional development are the two tools that enhance the level of loyalty to the education institutes. In this study, an attempt has been made to understand the factors that define learner’s loyalty in the Vocational Education Institutes. In addition, the relation of trust to the Institute, satisfaction, and learner’s loyalty variables to the service quality will be researched. In this sense, 184 questionnaires have been conducted to students who have attended the Public Oversight Board Education Program offered by Istanbul Commerce University’s Lifelong Learning Center. Data has been analyzed by Structural Equation Modelling. According to the results of the study, education institutes who deal solely with the issue of trust, satisfaction, and learner’s loyalty can have the potential to keep their learners on hand on a life-long basis thereby earning their loyalty to the fullest extent.
Approximating Periodic Solutions of Autonomous Delay Differential Equations

Machine tool chatter has been characterized as isolated periodic solutions or limit cycles of delay differential equations. Determining the amplitude and frequency of the limit cycle is sometimes crucial to understanding and controlling the stability of machining operations. In Gilsinn [9] a result was proven that says that, given an approximate periodic solution and frequency of an autonomous delay differential equation that satisfies a certain non-criticality condition, there is an exact periodic solution and frequency in a computable neighborhood of the approximate solution and frequency. The proof required the estimation of a number of parameters and the verification of three inequalities. In this paper the details of the algorithms will be given for estimating the parameters required to verify the inequalities and to compute the final approximation errors. An application will be given to a Van der Pol oscillator with delay in the nonlinear terms. A MATLAB m-file implementing the algorithms discussed in the paper is given in the appendix. AMS (MOS) Subject Classification. 34K11, 34K13, 34K28.
Crustal structure of the northwestern Vizcaino Block and Gorda Escarpment, offshore Northern California, and implications for postsubduction deformation of a paleoaccretionary margin

The Vizcaino block is an anomalously shallow region of the western U.S. continental margin located southwest of the Mendocino triple junction. It originated as part of the accretionary prism of the North America plate and was transferred to the Pacific plate in the Miocene as the Pacific-North America plate boundary migrated ∼130 km eastward, forming the Gorda Escarpment at its northern boundary. We present hybrid crustal models for the northwestern part of the Vizcaino block derived from marine seismic and gravity data. The velocity and density structure of the northwestern Vizcaino block are compatible with paleoaccretionary complex material similar to San Simeon/Patton terrane overlying oceanic crust or a mafic layer. The most significant result of our modeling is an abrupt increase in Moho dip from ∼5° to ∼20–30° beneath the western edge of the Oconostota ridge along the northwestern margin of the Vizcaino block. This Moho dip is steeper than observed anywhere along the Cascadia subduction zone, indicating postsubduction deformation. We suggest that the paleotrench was deformed by compression, which reactivated preexisting thrust faults in the upper crust and thickened the crust within this apparent weak zone. At least part of the deformation predates late Pliocene Pacific-North America plate convergence and may result mainly from north-south compression between the Pacific-Juan de Fuca plates across the Mendocino transform fault. North-south compression continues today and may dynamically support the uplifted northern margin of the Vizcaino block, although the primary locus of deformation shifted to the relatively weak Gorda plate sometime prior to 3 Ma.
VIMOS mosaic integral-field spectroscopy of the bulge and disc of the early-type galaxy NGC 4697

We present an integral field study of the internal structure, kinematics and stellar population of the almost edge-on, intermediate luminosity ($L_ {*}$) elliptical galaxy NGC 4697. We build extended 2-dimensional (2D) maps of the stellar kinematics and line-strengths of the galaxy up to $\sim 0.7 $ effective radii (R$_{eff}$) using a mosaic of 8 VIMOS (VIsible Multi-Objects Spectrograph on the VLT) integral-field unit pointings. We find clear evidence for a rotation-supported structure along the major axis from the 2D kinematical maps, confirming the previous classification of this system as a `fast-rotator'. We study the correlations between the third and fourth Gauss-Hermite moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution (LOSVD) $h_3$ and $h_4$ with the rotation parameter ($V/\sigma$), and compare our findings to hydrodynamical simulations. We find remarkable similarities to predictions from gas-rich mergers. Based on photometry, we perform a bulge/disk decomposition and study the stellar population properties of the two components. The bulge and the disk show different stellar populations, with the stars in the bulge being older (age$_{\rm bulge}=13.5^{+1.4}_{-1.4}$ Gyr, age$_{\rm disk}=10.5^{+1.6}_{-2.0}$Gyr) and more metal-poor ($\mathrm{[M/H]_{bulge}} = -0.17^{+0.12}_{-0.1}$, $\mathrm{[M/H]_{disk}}=-0.03^{+0.02}_{-0.1}$). The evidence of a later-formed, more metal-rich disk embedded in an older, more metal-poor bulge, together with the LOSVD structure, supports a mass assembly scenario dominated by gas-rich minor mergers and possibly with a late gas-rich major merger that left a previously rapidly rotating system unchanged. The bulge and the disk do not show signs of different stellar Initial Mass Function slopes, and both match well with a Milky Way-like IMF.
A comparison of buffered propionic acid and Propionibacterium acidipropionici as additives for high oil maize stover silage

High oil maize stover upon removal of ears was ensiled in 3 L volume glass jars for 1, 3, 6, 9 weeks to investigate the effects of buffered propionic acid and propionic acid bacteria on fermentation and aerobic stability of the silage. Treatments were: 1. control (no additives added), 2. buffered propionic acid added at 5 L/t fresh high oil maize stovers, and 3. propionic acid bacteria from Propionibacterium acidipropionici added at 105 cfu/g of fresh high oil maize stovers. The addition of buffered propionic acid and propionic acid bacteria had little effect on final pH or concentrations of total lactic acid and ammonia N. Final concentrations of residual water soluble carbohydrate and propionic acid and the percentage of D-lactic acid of total lactic acid were higher in buffered propionic acid treated silage. Aerobic stability of the silages was investigated after opening the laboratory silo jars at 9 wk postfilling. Silage treated with propionic acid bacteria had more yeasts than other silages after 7 d of aerobic exposure. Molds were only found at 5 d of aerobic exposure in control. Butyric acid was not detected with exception of untreated silage at the end of 7 d of exposure. After 7 d of aerobic exposure, pH of control increased from 3.39 to 5.30, while the corresponding pH values were increased from 3.5 to 4.11 in propionic acid bacteria and from 3.56 to 3.65 in silage treated with buffered propionic acid. Both buffered propionic acid and propionic acid bacteria used as silage additives improved the aerobic stability of high oil maize stover silage, but buffered propionic acid was more effective.