Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Spatial-Temporal Structure of Bora in Yalta

Using a numerical model of the regional atmospheric circulation WRF-ARW, evolution of a strong bora in winter, 2013 (December, 2–3) near the Southern coast of the Crimea was reproduced. The features of the wind speed and temperature fields that describe formation of intensive atmospheric near-surface airflow over the leeward slope of the mountain ridge are considered. According to the results of numerical simulations carried out at high temporal resolution, strong temporal variability of the wind speed and temperature fields is observed, especially at the foot of the mountains near the coast. Vertical structure of the wind speed and temperature fields for bora is calculated. Quantitative estimates of the temperature, wind speed, stability frequency and the Froude number vertical profiles conditioning the mode of the airflow around the Crimea Mountains ridge are obtained. Fluctuations of the wind speed which are of the character of stationary internal gravity waves induced in the atmosphere behind a leeward slope of the mountains, are shown in a form of wave disturbances of the nearsurface wind speed field over the sea. It is shown that the wind speed and temperature fields are conditioned by the post-critical wave mode of the airflow in the Crimea Mountains ridge. Spatialtemporal variability of these fields is a characteristic feature of the Black Sea bora.
Differences in Mail and Telephone Responses to the CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey

To date, no published study has compared modes of survey administration for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems In-Center Hemodialysis (ICH-CAHPS®) survey. We conducted a randomized experiment comparing response rates, item missingness, reliability, and mean scores between phone-only administered and mixed phone and mail (mixed mode) administered ICH-CAHPS surveys. Patients were randomized to be administered the ICHCAHPS by telephone only mode (n=1,781) or mixed mail and telephone mode (n=1,362). Since some patients did not complete the survey in the mode they were randomized to, analysis was conducted as intent-to-treat [(ITT); as randomized] and as actually completed. The response rate was significantly higher (p<0.001) for mixed mode (56%) than for telephone only mode (39%). Small differences in internal consistency reliability were observed; e.g., the Nephrologist Communication/Caring composite differed slightly between mixed (α=0.90) and telephone-only (α=0.88) modes (p<0.01) (ITT analysis). ICH-CAHPS means were higher (more positive) for mixed mode compared to telephone-only mode for 2 of the measures: Doctor Communication and Caring (77.8 vs. 74.7; p=0.02) and Global Doctor Rating (84.7 vs. 80.7; p<0.001). However, there were also significant differences in the opposite direction (telephone-only more positive than mixed mode) for the Global Staff Rating (85.6 vs. 83.5; p=0.03) and Global Center Rating (88.4 vs. 83.4; p<0.001) measures (ITT analysis). Dialysis administrators can use these results to maximize response rates to ICH-CAHPS surveys, and public reports of ICH-CAHPS should adjust for mode of administration.
GENERALIZATION APPROACH IN ERADICATING BLURRY IMAGE

The suggested formula is strikingly simple: it performs a weighted average within the Fourier domain, with weights with respect to the Fourier spectrum magnitude. This is accomplished without clearly solving any blur estimation and subsequent inverse problem. When the professional photographer takes instant images, a modality obtainable in almost all modern digital camera models, we reveal that you'll be able to combine them to obtain a clean sharp version. The technique is visible like a generalization from the align and average procedure, having a weighted average, motivated by hands-shake physiology and theoretically supported, happening within the Fourier domain. Numerous recent approaches make an effort to remove image blur because of trembling camera, either with one or multiple input images, by clearly solving an inverse and inherently ill-posed deconvolution problem. The method’s rationale is the fact that trembling camera includes a random nature, and for that reason, each image within the burst is usually blurred differently. Finally, we present experiments in tangible high dynamic range (HDR) scenes, showing the way the method could be straightforwardly extended to HDR photography. Experiments with real camera data, and extensive comparisons, reveal that the suggested Fourier burst accumulation formula achieves state of-the-art results a purchase of magnitude faster, with simplicity for on-board implementation on camera phones.
RAPD and ISSR Methods Used for Fingerprinting Selected, Closely Related Cultivars of Aronia melanocarpa

RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) and ISSR (Inter Simple Sequence Repeats) markers were used to analyse the genetic diversity between six genotypes of Aronia melanocarpa (Hugin, Nero, N, Viking, Galicjanka 1 and Galicjanka 2), collected at the Department of Pomology at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland. Analysis of 24 RAPD and 25 ISSR primers showed very low genetic diversity between the compared cultivars. Analysis of 214 RAPD loci and 184 ISSR loci revealed that the following five genotypes: Nero, N, Viking, Galicjanka 1 and Galicjanka 2 are characterized by a very small range of diversity in comparison to the substantially different cultivar Hugin. For each genotype, specific products were generated, including 36 products generated in RAPD reactions for cultivar Hugin only, and 20 for the other five genotypes altogether. Specific products were amplified also with the use of the ISSR technique. Thirty-nine ISSR products were generated for the cultivar Hugin only, and 8 for the other five genotypes altogether. Results of the research indicate a very small range of diversity between the Aronia accessions. Analysis of mutual genotypic relationships between the compared accessions was carried out with the use of the Mantel test and found a significant correlation (r(AB)=0.531) between similarity matrices calculated on the basis of results obtained with the use of the RAPD and ISSR techniques.
Expression of Simian Retrovirus Type D Serotype 2 Envelope in Insect Cell Using Baculovirus Expression Vector System

Simian retrovirus type-D (SRV) is a causative agent of simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Asian macaques, and can serve as a viral model in understanding of retrovirus infection because of some similarities to human AIDS pathogenesis. Study of infection and pathogenesis of SRV in macaques could be a strategy of vaccine and antiviral development for preventive and therapeutic purposes. We expressed the SRV-2 envelope gene using baculovirus expression vector system and transfected it to Spodoptera frugiferda insect cell line for SRV-2 recombinant protein production. Analysis using PCR and sequencing technique of recombinant in the passage-3 viral stock indicated the occurrence of recombination between SRV-2 envelope and baculovirus genome. Purification using immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography Ni2+-NTA to recombinant protein could minimize the presence non-specific proteins. The SDS-PAGE analysis showed a specific protein for SRV-2 gp70 envelope. Western blot analysis of this purified protein indicated a specific reaction with anti-SRV-2 antibody positive of Macaca fascicularis serum shown as SRV-2 gp70 envelope band.
Aspherical electron scattering factors and their parameterizations for elements from H to Xe

The formalism for, and the values of, aspherical electron scattering factors using relativistic wavefunctions are presented. The parameterizations of electron form factors valid for a full range of scattering vectors from 0.0 to 6.0 A−1 were obtained for atoms with atomic number 1 (H) to 54 (Xe) by fitting a linear combination of Gaussian functions. Eight Gaussians were needed to achieve high-quality fittings. The tabulated aspherical p- and d-orbital parameters are invaluable for probing orbital electrons and calculating high-resolution electron microscopy images and diffractions, especially those involving interfaces and defects.
A Method for SNP Genotyping Using MoS2 and a DNA Intercalating Dye

The genotype is an association with aerobic capacity in the human sports. Therefore, a simple and rapid method for detecting SNPs was developed in this study. SG (SYBR Green I), DNA sequences, and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) were used in this sensing system. MoS2 quenched the fluorescence from SG intercalated into DNA duplex. The SG fluorescence signals from the matched and mismatched DNA duplex were significant different after the addition of MoS2. This method can clearly distinguish SNPs in DNA sequences.
Rare earth metals influence on mechanical properties and crack resistance of GP240GH and G17CrMo5-5 cast steels

This paper presents results of research on modification influence of REM on mechanical properties and crack resistance of GP240GH cast carbon steel and G17CrMo5-5 high-temperature cast steel. The tests have been performed on successive industrial melts. The rare earth metals were put into the ladle during tapping of heat melt from the furnace. Each time ca 2000 kg of liquid metals were modified. Because of this the amount of sulphur in the cast steel was decreased and the non-metallic inclusion morphology was significantly changed. There were tested mechanical properties (Re,Rm), plastic properties (A5,Z) and impact strength (KV), and on the basis of the three-point bend test the KJC stress intensity factor was evaluated. It was noticed that the REM modification brings essential increase of impact strength as well as fracture toughness determined by KJC factor.
Conservation of cytokine-mediated responses in innate immunity: a flow cytometric study investigating the effects of human proinflammatory cytokines on phagocytosis in the earthworm Eisenia hortensis

This study was aimed at determining the influence of human proinflammatory cytokines on innate immune responses in the earthworm Eisenia hortensis. Preincubation of earthworm coelomocytes in vitro with either interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GMCSF), interleukin-2 (IL-2), or tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) followed by subsequent bacterial challenge was carried out to investigate whether human proinflammatory cytokines would induce a state of enhanced responsiveness in phagocytic cells derived from the coelomic cavity of E. hortensis. The effect on phagocytosis by large coelomocytes (hyaline amebocytes) was evaluated using flow cytometry where the uptake of Escherichia coli expressing green fluorescence protein in the presence or absence of pretreatment with proinflammatory cytokines was measured. Our results show that proinflammatory cytokines enhanced phagocytosis to a statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) degree in 1018 % of earthworms tested for IL-1 beta, 20 % for GM-CSF, 20-27 % for IL-2, and 27-30 % for TNFalpha, depending on the cytokine concentration used. Our results favor the suggestion that receptorcoding genes have been conserved through evolution between vertebrates and invertebrates.
Domates seralarında Kurşuni Küf hastalığının Biyolojik ve Kimyasal Kontrolünde Borun Arttırıcı Etkisi

Gray mold disease caused by Botyritis cinerea is a pathogen of which control is possible by frequently spraying of chemicals in tomato greenhouses. In the present study, the inhibitory effect of boron by three different doses (0, 30, 60, 90 ppm) was tested to determine the chemical and biological control of Gray Mold disease on tomato. Each boron dose was tested with iminoctadine (450 ppm), fenhexamide (1 ppm) and cyprodinil (%37). + fludioxonil (%25) (600 ppm) in vitro conditions in order to determine the effect of boron-fungicide combination on mycelium growth of the pathogen. Furthermore, the effect of three different boron doses (30, 60 ve 90 ppm) alone was also tested to evaluate the effect on B. cinerea growth and a siginificantly inhibition by 36.47%, resulted from 90 ppm application, on mycelium growth was determined, compared to control. An ascending inhibitory effect resulted from Bacillus subtilis Y 1336 in medium containing boron by 90 ppm to pathogen was also observed. The doses decreased up to 25% of Fenhexamide and Cyprodinil (%37). + Fludioxonil (%25) by combination with 90 ppm boron resulted in statistically significant less infection ratio in naturally infected greenhouses than control plots where the fungicides were sprayed alone. Moreover, combination of B. subtilis Y 1336 and 90 ppm of boron resulted in significantly lower infection ratio than that of control plots where the biological control agent were applied alone in greenhouses where the infection was not also observed.
Electrical Machine Design for use in an External Combustion Free Piston Engine

The work is focused on investigating the performance of a linear alternator for use with external combustion - free piston engine. This family of engine can be powered either from renewable sources, scavenging waste energy from other sources of heat, or bespoke combined heat and power plants. Finite element analysis optimisation techniques followed by development of a Matlab/Simulink model were used to investigate the effects of electrical machine inductance and the combined electromagnetic loading of the machine on the resulting force. Cogging force is showed to have the most effect on the resultant force fluctuation, whereas machine inductance has showed its effect at loads exceeding (76 %) of machine rating besides reshaping the resulting force profile. The model also accounts for machine loading and total efficiency variation over mechanical cycle. This enables the system designer to investigate the effect of actual machine model thrust force on the engine performance rather than assuming the electrical machine behaves as a simple damper.
Anti-Thrombotic Therapy: Implications for Invasive Outpatient Procedures in Dentistry

This article reviews the implications of traditional and novel anti-thrombotic medications in dentistry, focusing on areas relating to the prevalence of significant post procedure bleeding, measures that should be taken to minimize and manage bleeding; and current opinions regarding need for alteration of anti-thrombotic regimens prior to dental procedures in dentistry. Based on the current literature, discontinuation of anti-platelet medications, warfarin therapy, dabigatran and Factor Xa inhibitors is not needed in majority of in office dental procedures. However, it is important that treating clinician must use discretion based on the patient’s risk profile (e.g. presence of comorbidities) and extensiveness of planned dental procedures to assess each patient’s risk for significant bleeding.
Special Considerations When Reviewing Industry Sponsored Trials

Pharmaceutical and device manufacturers regularly fund clinical trials to determine treatment efficacy. Are these sponsored trials designed to satisfy the marketing needs of the industry or to answer important clinical questions which will improve patient outcomes in healthcare? There exist incentives to industry funders to report clinically important results and conceal results which are not statistically significant. Industry sponsored studies are usually well planned and executed to minimize the conventional aspects of bias seen in randomized controlled trials (randomization, concealment allocation, blinding, intention to treat analysis). It is important to consider the possibility of different causes of bias when interpreting the results of industry sponsored studies.
Microbiological and physicochemical characterization of the natural fermented camel meat sausage

In this study, fermentation of camel meat was followed by microbiological and physicochemical analyses. The sausages were characterized by the presence of lactic acid bacteria that resulted in a product with a final pH of about 5.06. No Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp. and sulfite reducing clostridia were ever isolated from the raw materials or the fermented sausages during the maturation, underlining the safety of this product. The final water activity of the product was 0.91. Identification showed that the majority of lactobacilli isolated from MRS agar strains were assigned to Lactobacillus plantarum.
IN VISUAL RECOGNITION MEMORY, INTERFERENCE REFLECTS PROXIMITY IN MULTIDIMENSIONSAL SPACE

Over short intervals, the passage of time seems to have little impact on memory for basic visual attributes —spatial frequency, orientation, and direction of motion (e.g., Magnussen et al., 1991). This robustness contrasts sharply with memory’s fragility in the face of interference from succeeding inputs. We set out to examine such interference using Sternberg’s (1966) recognition memory procedure. In this procedure, subjects see a series of n stimuli followed by a single probe. They then judge whether the probe stimulus had been in the series. Performance, percent correct or latency, varies with n, the number of items in the series, and, when the probe had been in the series, with the position that the probe occupied (more recent positions produce better recognition).
The Study of Advanced Manufacturing Strategy and Its Effect on Financial Performance in Tehran's Stock Exchange

The aim of this research is to examine the effect of advanced manufacturing strategies and information technology on financial performance of the companies which have been accepted in Tehran stock exchange. The sample is includes manager of these companies. The necessary information has been collected by using the questionnaire and financial lists. Reliability has been controlled by suit test. This research is based on this hypothesis: there is significant relationship between advanced manufacturing strategies and financial performance indicator in Tehran stock exchange. For analyzing data Principle component, regression analysis and correlation have been used. The results show that advanced manufacturing strategies and information technology affected the financial performance.
Modeling Material Heterogeneity by Gaussian Random Fields for the Simulation of Inhomogeneous Mineral Subsoil Machining

In general, tools used in concrete machining operations are not adapted to the particular machining processes whereas tool wear and production time are the main cost causing factors. A geometrical simulation model describing cutting forces and wear of both diamond and workpiece had been proposed in the past. This model takes the abrasive nature of the machined material into account by modeling the microparts of diamond and workpiece as delaunay tessellations of points randomly distributed within the workpiece and simulating the process iteratively. By fitting the model to a series of real experiments, the general appropriateness of the model had been shown. An implicit assumption of these fittings is that the connected processes are stationary. However, after investigating real process data in the time domain, it turns out that this assumption does not hold. Instead, the forces are obviously affected by material heterogeneity which is not taken into account in the first stage model. To fill this gap, now, an extension of the simulation model is introduced, where the material heterogeneity is modeled and simulated by Gaussian Random Fields. Keywords-Machining; Numerical Simulation; Gaussian Random Fields.
Integral Equation Analysis of EM Scattering from Multilayered Metallic Photonic Crystal Accelerated with Adaptive Cross Approximation

A space-domain integral equation method accelerated with adaptive cross approximation (ACA) is presented for the fast and accurate analysis of electromagnetic (EM) scattering from multilayered metallic photonic crystal (MPC). The method directly solves for the electric field in order to easily enable the periodic boundary condition (PBC) in the spatial domain. The ACA is a purely algebraic method allowing the compression of fully populated matrices; hence, its formulation and implementation are independent of integral equation kernel (Green’s function). Therefore, the ACA is very well suited for accelerating integral equation analysis of periodic structure with the integral kernel of the periodic Green’s function (PGF). The computation of the spatial-domain periodic Green’s function (PGF) is accelerated by the modified Ewald transformation, such that the multilayered periodic structure can be analyzed efficiently and accurately. An effective interpolation method is also proposed to fast compute the periodic Green’s function, which can greatly reduce the time of matrix filling. Numerical examples show that the proposed method can greatly save the frequency sweep time for multilayered periodic structure.
Discreet Openness: Scholars’ Selective and Intentional Self-Disclosures Online

Research into emergent forms of scholarship focuses on academics’ use of technology for learning, teaching, and research. Very little attention has been paid in the literature to scholars’ uses of social media to disclose challenging personal and professional issues. This article addresses the identified gap in the literature and presents a qualitative investigation into the types of disclosures that 16 scholars made online and their reasons for doing so. Results identify wide-ranging personal and professional disclosures. Participants disclosed not only about academia-related issues but also about challenges pertaining to family, mental health, physical health, identity, and relationships. Some scholars disclosed as a way to grapple with challenges they faced; others disclosed tactically, sharing information for political rather than personal reasons. Yet others disclosed as a way to welcome care in their lives. In all instances, though, disclosures were selective, intentional, and approached with foresight.
The dynamics of price adjustment and relationships in the formal and informal beef markets in Namibia

ABSTRACT Beef prices have increased significantly in Namibia in recent years. The main reason for the increase in beef producer prices is the high input cost and drought, leading to excessive culling of breeding herds among commercial farmers. Johansen multivariate test of co-integration and multivariate vector error correction model are used to investigate the price adjustment and the existence of long-run relationship among the beef prices at various stages of the value chain. The results show that the beef cattle prices are integrated and exhibit a long run relationship. Formal (for grade A) and informal (grade C) beef cattle prices suggest that they adjust to long-run equilibrium at different speeds. For instance, prices in the formal markets adjust to disequilibrium at about 81 per cent, while prices in informal markets adjust to disequilibrium at 63 per cent. Granger causality results indicates the log price of grade C beef cattle in the informal market does not cause Granger log price of grade A beef cattle in the formal market, log of wholesale beef price of grade A beef and log of export beef price of grade A unidirectional at the 1 per cent level of significance. The adjustment can be attributed to the objectives and the nature beef markets understudy, coupled to the lack of efficient price information linkages between formal and informal beef cattle markets.