Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Ontological Representation of Time Series Observations on the Semantic Sensor Web

Time series observations are a common method of collecting sensor data. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) provides a standard representation for time series observations within the Observations and Measurements language, and therefore is in heavy use on the Sensor Web. By providing a common model, Observations and Measurements (O&M) facilitates syntax-level integration, but lacks the ability to facilitate semantic-level integration. This inability can cause problems with interoperability between disparate sensor networks that may have subtle variations in their sensing methods. An ontological representation of time series observations could provide a more expressive model and resolve problems of semantic-level interoperability of sensor networks on the Semantic Sensor Web. In this paper, such an ontology model is proposed, as well as a real-world usecase from sensor networks currently measuring rainfall in the South Esk river catchment in the North East of Tasmania, Australia.
Deconstructing the Gender Card: An Examination of Femininity Performance in US Elections

My thesis explores the use of strategic essentialism in US electoral politics, focusing on female senatorial and gubernatorial candidates from 2000 to 2006. Using advertising data I examine in which situations female candidates for public office choose to emphasize feminine traits and qualities and determine whether gender performance is most affected by the issue area being discussed, the audience, or constant factors such as the candidate s region, opponent, background, and office being sought.
Large-sized insects show stronger seasonality than small-sized ones: a case study of fruit-feeding butterflies

Animal species have a restricted period during the year when conditions for development are optimal, and this is known as the temporal window. Duration of the temporal window can vary among species, although the causes of variation are still poorly understood. In the present study, examining butterflies, we assume that the temporal window duration is correlated with the seasonal period of flight (termed seasonality). To understand how species characteristics are correlated with this, we examine whether there is a relationship between body size and length of flight period of fruit-feeding butterflies in forest fragments, and whether these two parameters have a phylogenetic signal. Using wing size as a measure of body size and the period of adult flight as a measure of seasonality, we found significant positive correlations between body size and seasonality among subfamilies but not within subfamilies. We also found a clear phylogenetic signal in size but not in seasonality. The results obtained suggest the existence of a trade-off between insect size and seasonality, with size limiting flight period length. The relationship between body size and seasonality and the synchrony with their resources may be one factor explaining the vulnerability of large insects to forest fragmentation. © 2011 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 104, 820–827.
DEMOCRACIES AND SOVEREIGN DEFAULT

OF THE THESIS Democracies and Sovereign Default by Sebastian Kupferschmid Thesis Director: Professor Paul Poast Sovereign defaults are a relatively common feature of (international) financial markets. They highlight the credibility problem in lending to governments: Creditors have no feasible means to enforce repayment of debts. Nevertheless, lending to countries takes place. Existing theories cite domestic representation or international reputation as explanations for ongoing lending. Empirical evidence, however, is mixed. In addition, neither approach manages to include both domestic and external defaults. Building on existing research, a theory that accounts for the differences in between domestic and external defaults and lending is developed, connecting both types to countries’ regime types and putting two distinct causal mechanisms – accountability and transparency – at the core of the theory. The argument is tested using data covering the past two centuries. Transparency is measured using the availability of military expenditure data, while accountability is measured using the Polity IV data set. A positive relationship in between democracies and transparency is presented. As expected, coefficients for the change in transparency are significant and negative. However, contrary to theoretical expectations, coefficients for transparency itself are positive and significant. The coefficient of accountability yields mixed results. The analysis thus underlines the importance of transparency in explaining international sovereign lending.
Tensely strained GeSn alloys as optical gain media

This letter presents the epitaxial growth and characterization of a heterostructure for an electrically injected laser, based on a strained GeSn active well. The elastic strain within the GeSn well can be tuned from compressive to tensile by high quality large Sn content (Si)GeSn buffers. The optimum combination of tensile strain and Sn alloying softens the requirements upon indirect to direct bandgap transition. We theoretically discuss the strain-doping relation for maximum net gain in the GeSn active layer. Employing tensile strain of 0.5% enables reasonable high optical gain values for Ge0.94Sn0. 06 and even without any n-type doping for Ge0.92Sn0. 08.
Very Large Array H92α and H53α Radio Recombination Line Observations of M82

We present high angular resolution (0.″6) observations made with the Very Large Array of the radio continuum at 8.3 and 43 GHz, as well as H92α and H53α radio recombination lines from the nearby (~3 Mpc) starburst galaxy M82. In the continuum we identify 58 sources at 8.3 GHz, of which 19 have no counterparts in catalogs published at other frequencies. At 43 GHz we identify 18 sources, unresolved at 0. ″6 resolution, of which five were unknown previously. The spatial distribution of the H92α line is inhomogeneous; we identify 27 features; about half of them are associated with continuum emission sources. Their sizes are typically in the range 2-10 pc. Although observed with poorer signal-to-noise ratio, the H53α line is detected. The line and continuum emission are modeled using a collection of H II regions at different distances from the nucleus. The observations can be interpreted assuming a single-density component, but equally well with two components if constraints originating from previous high-resolution continuum observations are used. The high-density component has a density of ~4 × 104 cm-3. However, the bulk of the ionization is in regions with densities that are typically a factor of 10 lower. The gas kinematics, using the H92α line, confirms the presence of steep velocity gradient (26 km s-1 arcsec-1) in the nuclear region, as previously reported, in particular from observations of the [Ne II] line at 12 μm. This gradient has about the same amplitude on both sides of the nucleus. Since this steep gradient is observed not only on the major axis but also at large distances along a band at P.A. ~ 150°, the interpretation in terms of x2 orbits elongated along the minor axis of the bar, which would be observed at an angle close to the inclination of the main disk, seems inadequate. The observed kinematics cannot be modeled using a simple model that consists of a set of circular orbits observed at different tilt angles. Ad hoc radial motions must be introduced to reproduce the pattern of the velocity field. Different families of orbits are indicated since we detect a signature in the kinematics at the transition between the two plateaus observed in the NIR light distribution. These H92α data also reveal the base of the outflow where the injection toward the halo on the northern side occurs. The outflow has a major effect on the observed kinematics, present even in the disk at distances close to the nucleus. The kinematic pattern suggests a connection between the gas flowing in the plane of M82 toward the center; this behavior most likely is due to the presence of a bar and the outflow out of the plane.
Trophic Groups Of Demersal Fish Of Santos Bay And Adjacent Continental Shelf, São Paulo State, Brazil: Temporal And Spatial Comparisons

A variacao temporal e espacial dos habitos alimentares e dos grupos troficos de peixes demersais abundantes na baia de Santos e plataforma continental adjacente foi investigada. As amostras foram obtidas em setembro de 2005 e marco de 2006, utilizando-se rede de arrasto de fundo. A analise dos conteudos estomacais de 2.328 exemplares de 49 especies demonstrou que a maioria se alimentou de uma grande variedade de presas, destacando-se os camaroes, caranguejos/siris, anfipodes, misidaceos, poliquetas, ofiuroides, lulas e teleosteos. De acordo com as presas principais, os peixes foram agrupados em dez grupos troficos. Os camaroes foram presas importantes na baia e plataforma interna, e os ofiuroides apenas na plataforma media. Caranguejos/siris tiveram grande importância na dieta de varias especies durante o verao, em especial na plataforma media. A variacao espacial e temporal na alimentacao dos peixes esteve associada ao padrao de distribuicao e abundância de suas presas. A ingestao de camaroes e caranguejos/siris esta, provavelmente, associada a dinâmica das massas de agua na regiao. Comparacoes intraespecificas demonstraram que a maioria das especies apresenta variacao espacial e/ou temporal na dieta. A ictiofauna demersal pode ser categorizada em grupos troficos mais abrangentes: piscivoros, comedores de invertebrados nectonicos, comedores de invertebrados bentonicos e comedores de invertebrados planctonicos.
Transformation of teacher identity through a Mathematical Literacy re-skilling programme

Wenger’s community of practice theory is used to illustrate how, through careful curriculum design, teacher identity can be developed by participation in a re-skilling programme. In the context of learning, a community of practice involves the complex intersection of various components of learning, namely, meaning (learning as experience), practice (learning as doing), identity and community (learning as belonging). The Advanced Certificate in Education in Mathematical Literacy programme was designed to expose participants to knowledge and understanding of the ML curriculum (meaning), development of an integrated approach to teaching and learning, classroom didactics, lesson plans (practice), and group work activities where active participation and dialogue in lectures were encouraged (community). The programme design aimed to promote a change in the teachers’ way of being (identity). Through semi-structured interviews with teachers their journey as individuals was revealed. The findings indicate how by focusing on both content and on the teacher’s becoming a professional can assist educational specialists in their quest for improved teacher development.
Interaction of Regional Population and Employment: Identifying Short-Run and Equilibrium Adjustment Effects

We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simultaneous model, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specification distinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompasses the lagged-adjustment specification that is standard in the literature. We interpret the long-run relationship between levels of population and employment as a labour market equilibrium. The model is estimated on a panel of 1973-2000 annual data for 40 regions in The Netherlands, controlling for region and time-specific heterogeneity. Identification of the model is improved by decomposing population growth into net interregional migration and exogenous natural population developments. We find that employment growth responds quite strongly to deviations from regional labour market equilibria. Net migration is dominated by housing market developments and in the short-run only slightly affected by increases in regional employment. The main implication is that equilibrium on regional labour markets is obtained through adjustment of employment instead of population. We test and reject the lagged-adjustment specification.
On the drought in the Balearic Islands during the hydrological year 2015–2016

Abstract. During the hydrological year 2015–2016 (September to August) a severe drought affected the Balearic Islands, with substantial consequences (alleviated partially by desalination plants) on water availability for consumption from reservoirs and aquifers and also on the vegetation cover. In particular, a plague of Xylella fastidiosa reached an alarming level for almond and olive trees. The expansion of this infestation could be attributed to, or at least favored by, the extreme drought. In this paper we analyze this anomalous episode in terms of the corresponding water balance in comparison with the balance obtained from long-term climatological data. It is shown that the drought was the result of a lack of winter precipitation, the lowest in 43 years, which led to a shortage of water storage in the soil. In several meteorological stations analyzed, evaporation was greater than precipitation during all the months of the year. In terms of attribution, it is found that during the 2015–2016 winter the atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic was largely westerly and intense, with high values of the NAO index that were reflected in high pressures over the Iberian Peninsula and the western Mediterranean.
Study the Relationship between Intellectual Capital Management and Entrepreneurship in the Employees of Municipality District 10 Tehran

The main goal of this research is to identify the relationship between Intellectual Capital Management in the municipality of district 10 of Tehran and its employees’ entrepreneurship. Owing to the nature of the subject, the correlation type description has been employed. The statistical population of the research includes all personnel and managers of municipality district 10 Tehran, consisting 969 individuals. The Kergesy and Morgan table was used in selecting 274 individuals to serve as the population samples. Bontis Intellectual Capital Management (2004) and Beich entrepreneurship evaluation (2007) standard questionnaires were used in data collection in the present research. The analysis results showed significant and positive relationship between the Intellectual Capital and all its dimensions; that is, human capital, structural capital and communication capital (customer) with the entrepreneurship in municipality district 10 of Tehran. In addition, the results indicated significant differences between the entrepreneurship degrees found in the studied employees based on their age and education characteristics; nonetheless, no significant difference was found between the entrepreneurship in female and male personnel.
Abstracting Faceted Execution Static Analysis of Dynamic Information-Flow Control for Higher-Order Languages

ing Faceted Execution Static Analysis of Dynamic Information-Flow Control for Higher-Order Languages Kristopher Micinski, David Darais, and Thomas Gilray 1 Haverford College, Haverford PA, USA kris@cs.haverford. edu 2 University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA david.darais@uvm.edu 3 University of Alabama, Birmingham AL, USA gilray@uab.edu Abstract. Faceted execution is a linguistic paradigm for dynamic informationFaceted execution is a linguistic paradigm for dynamic informationflow control with the distinguishing feature that program values may be faceted. Such values simultaneously simulate multiple executions for different security labels. This enables policy-agnostic programming: a paradigm permitting expressive privacy policies to be stated independently of program logic. Although faceted execution prevents information leakage at runtime, it does not guarantee the absence of failure due to policy violations. By contrast with static mechanisms (such as security type systems), dynamic information-flow control permits expressive and dynamic privacy policies but imposes significant runtime overhead and delays the discovery of possible violations. In this paper, we present the first sound and precise abstraction for faceted values in the presence of first-class policies. We develop an abstract interpretation of faceted programs, resolving central issues inherent in static analysis of this language paradigm. The presence of first-class security labels and their policy predicates represents a significant challenge to analysis as abstract labels may conflate more than one runtime label under some circumstances—an imprecision which prevents the analysis from being sensitive to any facets on such labels. We provide a remediating technique that involves instrumenting the analysis to track its singleton abstractions. We implement our analysis in Racket, discussing its tunability and practical optimizations.
The Global Warming of Climate Science: Climategate and the Construction of Scientific Facts

This article analyses 1,073 e‐mails that were hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November 2009. The incident was popularly dubbed ‘Climategate’, indicating that the e‐mails reveal a scientific scandal. Here we analyse them differently. Rather than objecting to the exchanges based on some idea about proper scientific conduct, we see them as a rare glimpse into a situation where scientists collectively prepare for participation in heated controversy, with much focus on methodology. This allows us to study how scientists communicate informally about framing propositions of facts in the best possible way. Through the eyes of science and technology studies, the e‐mails provide an opportunity to study communication as part of science in the making across disciplines and laboratories. Analysed as ‘written conversation’ the e‐mails provide information about processes of consensus formation through ‘agonistic evaluations’ of other scientists’ work and persuasion of others to support one’s own work. Also, the e‐mails contain judgements about other groups and individual scientists. Consensus‐forming appeared as a precarious activity. Controversies could be quite resilient in the course of this decade‐long exchange, probably reflecting the complexity of the methodological challenges involved.
Research on Literature Involving Zirconia-Based on Pubmed Database:A Bibliometric Analysis

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 112, NO. 6, 25 MARCH 2017 1134 Huiyan Yu and Huazhe Yang are in the Department of Biophysics, School of Fundamental Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China; Zhuangzhi Zhi is in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medical Devices, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China and Chunxia Zhang is in the Department of Ophthalmology, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military District, Fuzhou, Fujian 350025, China. *For correspondence. (e-mail: hzyang@mail.cmu.edu.cn) Research on literature involving zirconia-based on Pubmed database: a bibliometric analysis
Treating Internet Users as 'Audiences': Suggesting some Research Directions

Within the last decade the Internet 'has emerged out of nowhere' (Ba" 2000, back cover) to monopolise much of the domestic time, intellectual interest, and financial resources that had previously been lavished upon film, television, and (specialist console) game consumption, So far, research on the Internet appears to be following a similar evolutionary pattern to research on broadcast media-displacement studies (what have people 'given up' to make time for the Internet? ), effects studies (is it addictive, bad, bankrupting, and whyn ratings data, and response to moral panics (Internet gambling and pornography). Arguably, applied research involving Internet partidpants treats users as 'audience/s', Is this a legitimate perspective, however, when members are often content creators as well as consumers? The concept of the active audience recognises that all consumption is also produc. tion but the production of meaning for the individual television audience member differs sign;f. icantly from that which occurs when people engage in interactive exchanges on the Internet, creating content for themselves and others. This paper addresses these issues, suggesting pass;· ble research trajectories. Lelia Green, School of Communications and Multimedia, fdith Cowan University, Perth, Westem Australia. INTRODUCTION This paper interrogates the notion of the Internet audience and its characteristics by examining the relevance of the domestic context, and the relationship of consumption to Internet activity. One focus of the enquiry is the notion of an Internet 'audience', given that much interaction via the Internet concentrates upon content production, as well as upon the production of meaning through the consumption of content created by other people. This dynamiC creates a significant difference between the consumption of traditional broadcast mass media and the activ~ Tr,'satilnft Internet users as 'audiences'
VOYNO-YASENETSKY Valentin Feliksovich (1877-1961). To the 140th of the birthday

Voyno-Yasenetsky Valentin Feliksovich (Archbishop Luka) Archbishop of Crimea and Simferopol, Russian and Soviet surgeon, the author of works in anesthesiology, doctor of medical Sciences (1916), Professor (1917); doctor of theology (1959), winner of the Stalin prize, first degree (1946). F. Voino-Yasenetsky was born 27 APR 1877. After graduating from high school and Kiev art school, studied painting in Munich. In 1898 he became a student of the medical faculty of Kiev University, after which he worked as a surgeon in Chita, the town of Ardatov in Simbirsk province S. Verkhniy Lyubazh, Kursk region, town of Fatezh, Moscow. In 1915 he published in Saint Petersburg the book "Regional anesthesia", and in 1916 he defended it as his thesis and received the degree of doctor of medicine. Until 1917 the doctor in some of the provincial hospitals of Russia, and later the chief doctor of Tashkent city hospital, Professor of Central Asian state University. In 1921 he was ordained to the diaconate, a week a priest in 1923 he was tonsured a monk and consecrated a Bishop with the name Luca, a week later arrested. In 1926 V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky returned to Tashkent, but in 1930 he was arrested again and transported to Arkhangelsk. In 1934 he published a monograph "Sketches of purulent surgery". In 1937 he was arrested for the third time. Since 1940, works as a surgeon in the link in Bolshaya Murta, 110 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk. 1941 – consultant to all hospitals in the Krasnoyarsk territory and the chief surgeon of the hospital. In 1942 was elevated to the rank of Archbishop and appointed to the chair of Krasnoyarsk. In 1944, published the monograph "On the course of chronic empyema and hundreth" and "Late resections of infected gunshot wounds of the joints. " In 1944, Archbishop Luke was headed by the Department of Tambov. In 1945, awarded the Patriarch Alexy I right to wear the diamond cross, wrote the book "Spirit, soul and body. " In 1946 he headed the Crimean Department in Simferopol. In 1946 he was awarded the Stalin prize. In 1955, was blind. Died V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky June 11, 1961, Archbishop of Crimea and Simferopol. Author of 55 scientific papers on surgery and anatomy, ten volumes of sermons. His most famous book "Sketches of purulent surgery". Awarded Pointscore (1916), the diamond cross from the Patriarch of all Russia (1944), medal "For valiant labor in the great Patriotic war" (1945), Stalin prize first degree (1944). Archbishop Luka monuments in Krasnoyarsk, Tambov, and Simferopol, is an honorary citizen of Pereslavl-Zalessky (posthumously). In 1995, St Luke canonized as locally venerated saints of the Crimean diocese, in 2000, the definition of the Council of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church glorified as a Confessor (Saint) in the Assembly of new martyrs and Confessors of Russia. His relics are installed for worship at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Simferopol.