Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Compilation of Henry’s law constants

Many atmospheric chemicals occur in the gas phase as well as in liquid cloud droplets and aerosol particles. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the distribution between the phases. According to Henry’s law, the equilibrium ratio between the abundances in the gas phase and in the aqueous phase is constant for a dilute solution. Henry’s law constants of trace gases of potential importance in environmental chemistry have been collected and converted into a uniform format. The compilation contains 17092 values of Henry’s law constants for 4628 species, collected from 672 references. It is also available on the internet at http://www.henrys-law.org.
A Toolkit for Customizing the ambiX Ambisonics-to-Binaural Renderer

An open-source collection of MATLAB functions, referred to as the SOFA/ambiX binaural rendering (SABRE) toolkit, is presented for generating custom ambisonics-to-binaural decoders for the ambiX binaural plug-in. Databases of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are becoming widely available in the recently-standardized “SOFA format” (spatially-oriented format for acoustics), but there is currently no (easy) way to use custom HRTFs with the ambiX binaural plug-in. This toolkit enables the user to generate custom binaural rendering configurations for the plug-in from any SOFA-formatted HRTFs or to add HRTFs to an existing ambisonics decoder. Also implemented in the toolkit are several methods of HRTF interpolation and equalization. The mathematical conventions, ambisonics theory, and signal processing implemented in the toolkit are described.
Healthy eating in children and celebrity athlete endorsement: the effects of congruence, age and healthiness of the product

The purpose of this study is to understand the effects of celebrity athlete congruence with the endorsed product on children, and if it can be used to promote healthy eating. We analyzed the sensibility of children to the concept of congruence, their understanding of the persuasive intent, and if their exposure to an advertisement containing a celebrity athlete and a healthy food product has an effect on attitude toward healthy eating and intention to eat healthy. Research was conducted on children aged 6 to 11 years old, and a structured questionnaire was completed by a sample of 130 children. Results suggests that children 6 to 11 years old are sensible to the concept of congruence, and that celebrity athlete endorsement can influence children toward healthy eating. Furthermore, results show that children this age understand the persuasive intent in both healthy and unhealthy ad exposure.
Multimodal Symbolic Association using Parallel Multilayer Perceptron

The relation between abstract concepts and sensory input, has been extensively studied by multiple scientific communities, as it plays a fundamental role in language development. For instance, we learn to associate the abstract concept zero to the Arabic digit ‘0’. In this paper, we introduce a new model that not only learns to classify the sensory input but also learns the semantic relation and its internal representation. Our framework uses two parallel Multilayer Perceptron with an EM-training rule for learning the semantic association between two input signals that can be of the same modality or not. We assume two constraints: 1) there is a symbolic representation, 2) two input signals have the same symbolic structure. As a result, our model has less information than in the traditional classification problem where the association is fixed during training. We have tested the model using two multimodal datasets (TVGraz and Wikipedia). We observed that our model achieves similar classification accuracy compared to a single MLP with a standard training rule, despite the more challenging setup.
Distribution and seasonal variability of nutrients and dissolved-oxygen in the northeastern ionian sea

In this paper we present for the first time detailed nutrient and oxygen figures for the Ionian Sea. The data were collected during cruises in March-April 1987 and August-September 1987, in the framework of the multi-nation research programme for the exploration of the Eastern Mediterranean, POEM. The oxygen and nutrient pattern is affected by the presence of mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic gyres in the area, the most interesting feature of which is the large anticyclonic flow region southwest of Peloponnesus (Pelops gyre). The chemical characteristics of the main water masses were also determined. In the deep layer of the stations near the Otranto Strait we have found, in winter, newly formed Adriatic Bottom Water (O2 : 5.3 ml/l). This water mass has a clear evolution between winter and summer, whereas the Deep Water of the Eastern Mediterranean shows a very small seasonal variation in oxygen and nutrients. The Levantine Intermediate Water is slightly poorer in nutrients and richer in oxygen in summer. A study of the spatial evolution of water masses is also presented.
Package 'hsaur3' Title a Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (3rd Edition)

Description Functions, data sets, analyses and examples from the third edition of the book `A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R' (Torsten Hothorn and Brian S. Everitt, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2014). The first chapter of the book, which is entitled `An Introduction to R', is completely included in this package, for all other chapters, a vignette containing all data analyses is available. In addition, Sweave source code for slides of selected chapters is included in this package (see HSAUR3/inst/slides).
The influence of model resolution on the simulated sensitivity of North Atlantic tropical cyclone maximum intensity to sea surface temperature

Global climate models (GCMs) are routinely relied upon to study the possible impacts of climate change on a wide range of meteorological phenomena, including tropical cyclones (TCs). Previous studies addressed whether GCMs are capable of reproducing observed TC frequency and intensity distributions. This research builds upon earlier studies by examining how well GCMs capture the physically relevant relationship between TC intensity and SST. Specifically, the influence of model resolution on the ability of a GCM to reproduce the sensitivity of simulated TC intensity to SST is examined for the MRI‐AGCM (20 km), the GFDL‐HiRAM (50 km), the FSU‐COAPS (0.94°) model, and two versions of the CAM5 (1° and 0.25°). Results indicate that while a 1°C increase in SST corresponds to a 5.5–7.0 m s−1 increase in observed maximum intensity, the same 1°C increase in SST is not associated with a statistically significant increase in simulated TC maximum intensity for any of the models examined. However, it also is shown that the GCMs all capably reproduce the observed sensitivity of potential intensity to SST. The models generate the thermodynamic environment suitable for the development of strong TCs over the correct portions of the North Atlantic basin, but strong simulated TCs do not develop over these areas, even for models that permit Category 5 TCs. This result supports the notion that direct simulation of TC eyewall convection is necessary to accurately represent TC intensity and intensification processes in climate models, although additional explanations are also explored.
Smart NDT Tools : Connection and Automation for Efficient and Reliable NDT Operations

Efficiency and reliability of NDT operations resul t from the combination of at least three factors: the NDT procedure, the N DT toolset and the operator. Classically, maintenance manuals provide relevant N DT procedures, NDT tools are powerful and accurate enough to play the procedures , and operators are trained to apply the procedures with the tools and interpret t h results. However, taking care of each component independently may yield to inefficie n y in the operations realization and/or scattering in the obtained resul ts. The approach presented here is to make NDT devices following the idea of smart dev ic s (ex. smartphones): connected tools with dedicated easy-to-use software applications. Following this idea the Smart NDT Tools integrate procedures with dedicated – step by step – user interfaces to minimize the possibility of making mi stakes, wrong choices, getting lost in the menus.These simplified GUIs are combine d with automation algorithms and signal processing routines to further reduce th e error rate and thus maximize the efficiency and reliability of inspections. This pap er presents examples of applications both with ultrasound and eddy currents . Potential use as connected NDT tools in an internet of things perspective is a lso discussed.
The Use of Western Brands in Asserting Chinese National Identity

Chinese consumers employ Western brands to assert competing versions of Chinese national identity. These uses emerged from findings that Chinese form meanings of Western brands, drawing from select historical national narratives of East-West relations: the West as liberator and Western brands as instruments of democratization; the West as oppressor and Western brands as instruments of domination; the West as subjugated and Western brands, by their own subjugation, as symbolically erasing China's past humiliations; and the West as partner and Western brands as instruments of economic progress. Our emergent theory elaborates processes by which Western brands are shaped by macrolevel, sociohistorical forces to motivate consumers' responses to them as political action tied to nation making.
Biotechnology influence for the production of ethyl alcohol (ethanol) from waste fruits.

The use of waste fruits of pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) banana (Musa accuminata Colla) and pawpaw (Carica papaya L.) as biomas for production of wine was investigated. Ripe, soft pineapple, banana and pawpaw fruits weighing 5.8, 3.3 and 5.8 respectively were used for microbial analysis and nutritional composition. Fungi and bacteria were isolated from the peels, pulp and juice. Ash, pH, moisture, lipid, total available carbohydrate, crude protein, iron, sodium, potassium, calcium, specific gravity, alcohol content was also determined. Seven testers evaluated the wine base on colour clarity, aroma and taste. Bacteria isolated from the fruits were Acetobacter aceti, Clostridium butyrium, Bacillus sp. and Micrococcus while the filamentous fungi include Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, Penicillium chrysogenum and Fusarium sp. The yeast involved were Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. lactis and Pichia spp. Ethanol production from the fruits ranged from 25 to 87ml on the tenth day. The nutritional composition of pineapple, banana and pawpaw juice ranged for moisture content 8.5 to 91.1%, Calcium 8.4 to 12.2%, phosphorus 6.8 to 8.7%, protein 0.44 to 1.43 and fat 0.04 to 0.5%. Pineapple juice had the best organolephic quality followed by banana then pawpaw juice. However, the most ethanol distillate was produced from pawpaw.
Business Cycle Dynamics of a New Keynesian Overlapping Generations Model with Progressive Income Taxation

In our dynamic optimizing sticky price model, agents are heterogeneous with regard to their age and their productivity. We find that the business cycle dynamics in the OLG model in response to both a technology shock and a monetary shock are similar, but not completely identical to those found in the corresponding representative-agent model. In particular, working hours in the OLG model decrease in response to a positive technological shock, since for young workers the income effect dominates the substitution effect. This is in line with the adverse effect of productivity shocks on employment found in structural vector autoregressions.
Diagnosability of fair discrete event systems

Failure diagnosability has been widely studied using discrete event system (DES) models. It is, however, shown in this work by means of a counterexample that the diagnosability condition, which has been shown to be necessary and sufficient in the DES context, fails to hold for many real‐world hybrid systems. This is because the abstraction employed in formulating the DES models obliterates the continuous dynamics. In the present work, a new failure diagnosability mechanism has been developed for discrete time hybrid system (DTHS) models to alleviate this problem. A new diagnosability condition is proposed and its necessity and sufficiency with respect to the diagnosability definition are established formally. Finally, the method of A‐diagnosability, which can also be used to circumvent this problem and which needs additional probabilistic information for diagnosability analysis, has been shown to have a higher computational complexity than the DTHS model based method proposed in this paper. Further, it is also highlighted that the DTHS model based diagnosability analysis technique is capable of diagnosing faults that degrade the temporal performance of the system, which cannot be handled by the A‐diagnosability analysis mechanism. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society
Two-Photon Fluorescence Vascular Bioimaging with New Bioconjugate Probes Selective Towards the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2

We report the synthesis and characterization of two amine reactive fluorescent dyes with efficient two-photon absorption (2PA) properties and high fluorescence quantum yields. Bioconjugation of these dyes with the DC-101 antibody proved to be useful for selectively imaging the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) in cells expressing this receptor in vitro and in “whole” mounted excised tumors (ex vivo) by two-photon fluorescence microscopy (2PFM). The penetration depths reached within the tumors by 2PFM was over 800 μm. In addition, the concentration of dye required for incubation of these bioconjugates was in the picomolar domain, the probes possessed very good photostability, and the 2PFM setup did not require any additional means of increasing the collection efficiencies of fluorescent photons to achieve the relatively deep tissue imaging that was realized, due, in large part, to the favorable photophysical properties of the new probes.
Cooperative Transmission in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Carrier Frequency Offsets: A Double-Differential Approach

As a result of the rapidly increasing mobility of sensor nodes, mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) would be subject to multiple carrier frequency offsets (MCFOs), which result in time-varying channels and drastically degrade the network performance. To enhance the performance of such MWSNs, we propose a relay selection (RS) based double-differential (DD) cooperative transmission scheme, termed RSDDCT, in which the best relay sensor node is selected to forward the source sensor node’s signals to the destination sensor node with the detect-and-forward (DetF) protocol. Assuming a Rayleigh fading environment, first, exact closed-form expressions for the outage probability and average bit error rate (BER) of the RSDDCT scheme are derived. Then, simple and informative asymptotic outage probability and average BER expressions at the large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime are presented, which reveal that the RSDDCT scheme can achieve full diversity. Furthermore, the optimum power allocation strategy in terms of minimizing the average BER is investigated, and simple analytical solutions are obtained. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed RSDDCT scheme can achieve excellent performance over fading channels in the presence of unknown random MCFOs. It is also shown that the proposed optimum power allocation strategy offers substantial average BER performance improvement over the equal power allocation strategy.
Proceeding Structural Properties Ni 20 Cr 10 Al 2 Y Coatings for Geothermal Conditions †

The chromium carbide hard phases powders are used for the high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) coating technique. This paper investigates samples coated with Ni20Cr10Al2Y on carbon steel plates. The coatings were designed to improve the erosion corrosion properties of carbon steel. The specific agglomerated nanosized Cr3C2 particles on the coated layer provide new physical, mechanical and chemical properties. The multilayer composite technique could be successfully used to protect turbine working in geothermal system. The samples were investigated using nanoindentation to determine the coated samples mechanical properties. The experimental procedure involved obtaining X-ray diffraction patterns of the specimens, micro mechanical tests and SEM investigation to provide detailed information about adhesion of protective layers and morphological modifications.
Stochastic Optimization and Numerical Simulation for Pumping Management of the Hersonissos Freshwater Coastal Aquifer in Crete

In the present study, the well known Princeton Transport Code (PTC), a groundwater flow and contaminant transport simulator, is being used to simulate the dynamics of the freshwater coastal aquifer located in Hersonissos area of the Greek island of Crete, and guided by the Algorithm of Pattern Extraction (ALOPEX), a real time stochastic optimization method, to optimally manage area’s main pumping activities and prevent saltwater contamination. Main objective of this hybrid coupling of the PTC’s finite-element (FE)/finite-difference (FD) routines to the ALOPEX stochastic optimization technique, is to create an optimal pumping management plan, for the Hersonissos aquifer, that maximizes the total extracted freshwater volume from the aquifer and, at the same time, keeps all pumping locations safe from saltwater intrusion. For this, we utilize the recently adopted version of the ALOPEX unconstrained optimization algorithm accompanied by an efficient penalty system designed for the aquifer pumping management problem. The numerical simulations conducted led to summer and winter pumping plans that considerably improve the total extracted freshwater volume from the aquifer while the active pumping locations remain safe from seawater even if a 2% increase of the proposed pumping plan is applied. Keywords—ALOPEX stochastic optimization, penalty system, PTC code, finite elements, coastal aquifers, saltwater intrusion, pumping management.
Scenarios for f-learning

In this paper we take the idea of e-learning a step further, from '' e '' to '' f '', indicating that the post-e-learning is on the doorstep. The '' f '' stands for freedom focusing on the freedom of the f-learner. As we will show, the demand for the freedom of the f-learner imposes certain boundaries to the freedom of the f-teacher - this is what we propose to handle by adopting the f-learning scenarios. For this quest we have developed a systems-description of the increase of personal knowledge, we analyze the interaction of the individual and organizational value systems, and we examine the possibilities of standardization of the user inter-faces to finally be able to offer scenarios for f-learning. More precisely, we do not offer instant scenarios applicable in any situation but a conception of how scenarios can be developed, what they should contain and what should be taken into consideration during the development. The outcome of this research also indicates some new problems regarding the roles identified in f-learning.
The effect of olive or linseed oils supplemented with pure saturated fatty acids on serum cholesterol levels in the rat

A 6-week experiment on rats was performed to evaluate the growth-promoting and cholesterolaemic activity of olive and linseed oils mixed with pure myristic, palmitic or stearic acids. Each oil was mixed with each acid in a 1:1 w/w ratio. At the end of the experiment, blood was collected by cardiac puncture and total serum cholesterol (TC), HDL and LDL fractions, and serum triacylglycerols (TAG) were estimated. Mixing oils with pure fatty acids resulted in higher body weight gains. The longer the carbon chain of the acid, the higher were the body weight gains of the rats (1.99, 2.39 and 2.57 g per day for C14, C16 and C18, respectively). Myristic acid gave the highest level of TC (84.5 mg dl-1), while its mean content in pure fatty acids was only 77.34 mg dl-1. Myristic acid also accounted for the largest increase of TAG content in the case of both oils.
348 The Development of 12-hourly 4 D-Var

The 12-hourly 4D-Var assimilation was implemented operationally in September 2001 after thorough validation. It is essentially a straightforward doubling of the time window used in the 4D-Var analysis. Preliminary testing has suggested that a time window of 12 hours has some advantages over a 6-hour window, but a 24-hour window would not be appropriate for the current data assimilation system. The doubling of the time window exacerbates some weaknesses of the existing incremental 4D-Var system and several refinements have been developed in order to alleviate them.
Strategi Pengembangan Ekowisata di Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen Provinsi Papua Ecotourism Development Strategy in the Yapen Islands, Papua Province

Yapen Islands Regency has a very potential and feasible capital to be developed as a tourism attraction object. However, its ecotourism management does not optimal because of several constraints such as lacking institutional capacity of ecotourism management, weak attraction management, less spatial planning of tourism, and ineffective promotion and marketing, as well as problems on regional security. This research was conducted to formulate strategies to develop the islands ecotourism. The results showed that most of the tourism attractions (sea, water, and land ecotourism objects) in Yapen were feasible for further development ecotourism attractions. However, some of the potential tourism objects were not yet possible to be developed due to some barriers and constraints, i.e. unsupportive market potential, bad access due to location of the objects, below-standard management and services, poor accommodation, and high similarity with other objects. The research, therefore, recommends that pessimistic strategy should be applied in overcoming the problems. The strategy should be supported by arrangement of the tourism space, development of attractions management, development of promotion and marketing, development of regulations and management in ecotourism organization, and creation of a conducive and secure situation, both within and outside the tourism area.
In Situ Freeze‐Capturing of Fracture Water using Cryogenic Coring

Current methods do not allow for sampling of in situ water from unsaturated fractures in low‐moisture environments. A novel cryogenic coring technique based on a previously developed method is used to collect in situ water in unsaturated fractures. This method uses liquid nitrogen as the drilling fluid, which can freeze the fracture water in place while coring. Laboratory experiments are conducted to demonstrate that water in an unsaturated fracture can be frozen and collected using cryogenic coring.