Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
X-ray and UV observations of nova V598 Puppis between 147 and 255 days after outburst

Aims. The launch of Swift has allowed many more novae to be observed regularly over the X-ray band. Such X-ray observations of novae can reveal ejecta shocks and the nuclear burning white dwarf, allowing estimates to be made of the ejecta velocity. Methods. We analyse XMM-Newton and Swift X-ray and UV observations of the nova V598 Pup, which was initially discovered in the XMM-Newton slew survey. These data were obtained between 147 and 255 days after the nova outburst, and are compared with the earlier, brighter slew detection. Results. The X-ray spectrum consists of a super-soft source, with the soft emission becoming hotter and much fainter between days ∼147 and ∼172 after the outburst, and a more slowly declining optically thin component, formed by shocks with kT ∼ 200–800 eV (corresponding to velocities of 400–800 km s −1 ). The main super-soft phase had a duration of less than 130 days. The Reflection Grating Spectrometer data show evidence of emission lines consistent with optically thin emission of kT ∼ 100 eV and place a limit on the density of the surrounding medium of log (ne/cm −3 ) < 10.4 at the 90% level. The UV emission is variable over short timescales and fades by at least one magnitude (at λ ∼ 2246–2600 A) between days 169 and 255.
Variable strength of top‐down effects in Nothofagus forests: bird predation and insect herbivory during an ENSO event

Predators are thought to play a key role in controlling herbivory, thus having positive indirect effects on plants. However, evidence for terrestrial trophic cascades is still fragmentary, perhaps due to variation in top-down forces created by environmental heterogeneity. We examined the magnitude of predation effects on foliar damage by chewing insects and mean leaf size, by excluding birds from saplings in ‘dry’ and ‘wet’Nothofagus pumilio forests in the northern Patagonian Andes, Argentina. The experiment lasted 2 years encompassing a severe drought during the La Nina phase of a strong El Nino/Southern Oscillation event, which was followed by unusually high background folivory levels. Insect damage was consistently higher in wet than in dry forest saplings. In the drought year (1999), bird exclusion increased folivory rates in both forests but did not affect tree leaf size. In the ensuing season (2000), leaf damage was generally twice as high as in the drought year. As a result, bird exclusion not only increased the extent of folivory but also significantly decreased sapling leaf size. The latter effect was stronger in the wet forest, suggesting compensation of leaf area loss by dry forest saplings. Overall, the magnitude of predator indirect effects depended on the response variable measured. Insectivorous birds were more effective at reducing folivory than at facilitating leaf area growth. Our results indicate that bird-initiated trophic cascades protect N. pumilio saplings from insect damage even during years with above-normal herbivory, and also support the view that large-scale climatic events influence the strength of trophic cascades.
Assessment of 50%-Propagation-Delay for Cascaded PCB Non-Linear Interconnect Lines for the High-Rate Signal Integrity Analysis

This paper presents an enlarged study about the 50-% propagation-time assessment of cascaded transmission lines (TLs). First and foremost, the accurate modeling and measurement technique of signal integrity (SI) for high-rate microelectronic interconnection is recalled. This model is based on the reduced transfer function extracted from the electromagnetic (EM) behavior of the interconnect line RLCG-parameters. So, the transfer function established takes into account both the frequency dispersion effects and the different propagation modes. In addition, the transfer function includes also the load and source impedance effects. Then, the SI analysis is proposed for high-speed digital signals through the developed model. To validate the model understudy, a prototype of microstrip interconnection with w = 500 µm and length d = 33 mm was designed, simulated, fabricated and tested. Then, comparisons between the frequency and time domain results from the model and from measurements are performed. As expected, good agreement between the S-parameters form measurements and the model proposed is obtained from DC to 8 GHz. Furthermore, a de-embedding method enabling to cancel out the connectors and the probe effects are also presented. In addition, an innovative time-domain characterization is proposed in order to validate the concept with a 2.38 Gbit/s-input data signal. Afterwards, the 50-% propagation-time assessment problem is clearly exposed. Consequently an extracting theory of this propagation-time with first order RC-circuits is presented. Finally, to show the relevance of this calculation, propagation-time simulations and an application to signal integrity issues are offered.
Christian Religion in the West: Privatization or Public Revitalization?

textabstract1. Introduction “After nearly three centuries of utterly failed prophesies and misrepresentations of both present and past, it seems time to carry the secularization doctrine to the graveyard of failed theories, and there to whisper ‘requiescat in pace’” (Stark 1999: 269). Stark’s words, published just before the turn of the century, may count on much approval among sociologists of religion today. Secularization theory has been discredited because of its inability to account for religious change in the modern world (e.g., Berger, 1999; Heelas and Woodhead, 2005; Houtman and Mascini, 2002) and because of its sheer broadness and lack of specificity, as emphasized by Hadden (1987: 587), for instance, when he noted that it is a “hotchpotch of loosely employed ideas rather than a systematic theory”. Secularization theory’s two principal subtheses, the ‘decline-of-religion thesis’ and the ‘privatization thesis’ (Casanova, 1994), have both become increasingly contested and recent research even suggests that these two aspects of secularization may develop in a remarkably uneven way. That idea is put forward by Achterberg et al. (2009), who point out that the decline of Christian religion in the West spawns its public revitalization rather than its further privatization. This paper elaborates on this by assessing the empirical merits of two objections that suggest that these recent findings may after all not contradict the established notion that religious decline and religious privatization occur in tandem.
The mechanisms of North Atlantic CO 2 uptake in a large Earth System Model ensemble

Abstract. The oceans currently take up around a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activity. While stored in the ocean, this CO2 is not influencing Earth's radiation budget; the ocean CO2 sink therefore plays an important role in mitigating global warming. CO2 uptake by the oceans is heterogeneous, with the subpolar North Atlantic being the strongest CO2 sink region. Observations over the last 2 decades have indicated that CO2 uptake by the subpolar North Atlantic sink can vary rapidly. Given the importance of this sink and its apparent variability, it is critical that we understand the mechanisms behind its operation. Here we explore the combined natural and anthropogenic subpolar North Atlantic CO2 uptake across a large ensemble of Earth System Model simulations, and find that models show a peak in sink strength around the middle of the century after which CO2 uptake begins to decline. We identify different drivers of change on interannual and multidecadal timescales. Short-term variability appears to be driven by fluctuations in regional seawater temperature and alkalinity, whereas the longer-term evolution throughout the coming century is largely occurring through a counterintuitive response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. At high atmospheric CO2 concentrations the contrasting Revelle factors between the low latitude water and the subpolar gyre, combined with the transport of surface waters from the low latitudes to the subpolar gyre, means that the subpolar CO2 uptake capacity is largely satisfied from its southern boundary rather than through air–sea CO2 flux. Our findings indicate that: (i) we can explain the mechanisms of subpolar North Atlantic CO2 uptake variability across a broad range of Earth System Models; (ii) a focus on understanding the mechanisms behind contemporary variability may not directly tell us about how the sink will change in the future; (iii) to identify long-term change in the North Atlantic CO2 sink we should focus observational resources on monitoring lower latitude as well as the subpolar seawater CO2; (iv) recent observations of a weakening subpolar North Atlantic CO2 sink may suggest that the sink strength has peaked and is in long-term decline.
The Development of Manufacturing Process Analysis: Lesson Learned from Process Mining

Process analysis is recognized as a major stage in business process reengineering that has developed over the last two decades. In the field of manufacturing, manufacturing process analysis (MPA) is defined as performance analysis of the production process. The performance analysis is an outline from data and knowledge into useful forms that can be broadly applied in manufacturing sectors. Process mining, an emerge tool focusing on process perspective and resource perspective, is a way to analyze system based on the event log. The objective of this study is to extend the existing process analysis framework by considering attribute perspective. This study also aims to learn the lessons from some experiences on process mining in manufacture industries. The result of this study will help manufacturing organizations to utilize the process mining approach for analyzing their respective processes.
Wahabism: Padri Movement in Minangkabau to the Islamic Defender Organization in Indonesia

The purpose of the study was to identify the foundation and strategy of Padri religious movements in Minangkabau in the 19 th mid century and the religious movement of the Islamic Defenders Organization or Fron Pembela Islam (FPI) in Indonesia in early 21 century. Phenomenology and Social constructivism approaches were used where the researcher tried to understand the world around and developed meanings in any particular point on certain object. The research finding showed that both the Padri movement and the Islamic Defenders Organization have the same foundation in the Islamic movement, and carried out the mission through a conservative approach. The movement was begun in the form of religious and social perspectives which had the same ultimate goal that empowered community life and political institutions. The Padri movement was led by Peto Syarif, a Moroccan immigrant which is known as Tuanku Imam Bonjol. Meanwhile, the movement of Islamic Defenders Organization was a purification movement of Islamic law led by a descendant of Yemeni migrants who came to Indonesia in 1935. From Perspectives of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution, Wahabi ideology that accumulated through Frugal Defenders of Islam was seen as a potentially damaging community organization of Islam and unity on ideology of Republic of Indonesia which is well-known as Pancasila as the foundation of the highest constitution in the life of nation and society in Indonesia. The rise of radical acts by the Islamic Defenders Organization reflects the structure of religious life in the public sphere which is worse than in the new era. Finally, the Islamic Defenders Organization personifies their leaders as Imam and the Qur'an. For them, an Imam is the Qur'an which is called as silent Imam. The interference with Imam means to disturb the Qur'an, and the followers would rise up to defend without reservation.
Risk and Return of Illiquid Investments: A Trade‐Off for Superannuation Funds Offering Transferable Accounts

type="main" xml:id="ecor12209-abs-0001"> This paper examines the pattern of investment by Australian defined-contribution superannuation funds in illiquid assets, using a unique but confidential database. Not-for-profit funds allocate more of their portfolios to illiquid assets, on average, than retail funds. Their allocations reflect fund size, net cash inflows and member age – factors relevant to a fund's liquidity requirements. Furthermore, the allocations reflect the extent of the fund's in-house investment management. In contrast, there is no clear relationship between these factors and allocations by retail funds. Funds with more illiquid investments experience investment returns that are commensurate with the non-diversifiable risk these assets contribute to their overall portfolios.
ODESSA at Albayzin Speaker Diarization Challenge 2018

This paper describes the ODESSA submissions to the Albayzin Speaker Diarization Challenge 2018. The challenge addresses the diarization of TV shows. This work explores three different techniques to represent speech segments, namely binary key, x-vector and triplet-loss based embeddings. While training-free methods such as the binary key technique can be applied easily to a scenario where training data is limited, the training of robust neural-embedding extractors is considerably more challenging. However, when training data is plentiful (open-set condition), neural embeddings provide more robust segmentations, giving speaker representations which lead to better diarization performance. The paper also reports our efforts to improve speaker diarization performance through system combination. For systems with a common temporal resolution, fusion is performed at segment level during clustering. When the systems under fusion produce segmentations with an arbitrary resolution, they are combined at solution level. Both approaches to fusion are shown to improve diarization performance.
Cylindrical Three-Dimensional Millimeter-Wave Imaging via Compressive Sensing

Millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging techniques have been used for the detection of concealed weapons and contraband carried by personnel. However, the future application of the new technology may be limited by its large number of antennas. In order to reduce the complexity of the hardware, a novel MMW imaging method based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed in this paper. The MMW images can be reconstructed from the significantly undersampled backscattered data via the CS approach. Thus the number of antennas and the cost of system can be further reduced than those based on the traditional imaging methods that obey the Nyquist sampling theorem. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by numerical simulations as well as by real measured data of objects.
Privacy Enhanced Fast Mutual Authentication in 5G Network Using Identity Based Encryption

Subscription privacy of a user has been a historical concern with all the previous generation mobile networks, namely, GSM, UMTS, and LTE. While a little improvement have been achieved in securing the privacy of the long-term identity of a subscriber, the so called IMSI catchers are still in existence even in the LTE and advanced LTE networks. Proposals have been published to tackle this problem in 5G based on pseudonyms, and different public-key technologies. This paper looks into the problem of concealing long-term identity of a subscriber and presents a protocol based on identity based encryption (IBE) to tackle it. The proposed solution can be extended to a mutual authentication and key agreement protocol between a serving network (SN) and a user equipment (UE). We name the protocol PEFMA (privacy enhanced fast mutual authentication). The SN does not need to connect with the home network (HN) on every PEFMA run. In PEFMA, both the user equipment (UE) and the SN has public keys. A UE sends the IMSI after encrypting it using the SN’s public key. Since both the UE and SN have public keys, PEFMA can run without contacting the HN. A qualitative comparison of different techniques show that our solution is Journal of ICT, Vol. 5 1, 69–90. doi: 10.13052/jicts2245-800X.514 This is an Open Access publication. c © 2017 the Author(s). All rights reserved. 70 M. Khan and V. Niemi competitive for securing the long-term identity privacy of a user in the 5G network.
Exploring big-data analysis using integrative systems biology approaches for kidney renal clear cell carcinoma studies

Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas Little Rock College of Engineering and Information Technology, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 USA wxyang1@ualr.edu and kxyoshigoe@ualr.edu Division of Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02140 USA aniemieko@partners.org & jyang@hadron.mgh. harvard.edu
New multituberculate teeth from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco

Three new multituberculate teeth are described from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco. Denisodon moroccensis gen. et sp. nov. is established for a second lower molar which differs from that of Hahnodon taqueti, from the same locality, by a preserved posterior buccal cusp, a smaller posterior lingual cusp and the less indented lingual wall of the crown. The sec− ond tooth is a posterior upper premolar. It is represented by the posterior portion of its crown on which is present only one row of cusps, similar to the conditions in Kielanodon, Eobaatar, Bolodon, and the Pinheirodontidae. The third tooth is a lower incisor, similar to that in Kuehneodon. Both teeth are grouped as „Hahnodontidae, gen. et sp. indet. ” Paulchof− fatioidea new superfamily is established for the Paulchoffatiidae, Hahnodontidae, and Pinheirodontidae. It is character− ized by the following autapomorphies: premolarisation of I2−C, presence of a third row of cusps on the posterior upper premolars and the basin−like structure of the m2. Hahnodontidae and Hahnodon are redefined.
Recent browsing damage by moose on Scots pine, birch and aspen in young commercial forests - effects of forage availability, moose population density and site productivity

Moose browsing damage from the winter preceding the study (recent damage) on Scots pine, birch and aspen was examined in relation to forage availability, an index of moose population density and site productivity in young forests in the hemiboreal zone. Recent damage was observed for 4.1 ± 0.54% (mean ± SE; Scots pine), 16.8 ± 1.89% (birch) and 67.6 ± 13.76% (aspen) of the trees. Amultip leregressionwithfiveindependentvariablesexplained �19% �(Scotspine) �14% �(birch) � and 33% (aspen) of the variation in recent damage. Cover of Scots pine browse was the most important variable for predicting damage to Scots pine and accounted for 44% of the explained variation. �Whenbirchwasovertoppingpinetherewasasignificantincreaseindamagetopine. � Mooseindexwastheonlysignificantvariabletoexplainrecentdamagetobirch, �andaccounted � for 64% of the explained variation. For aspen, damage was negatively correlated to coverage of Scots pine and birch browse, each variable accounting for 38% of the explained variation. For Scots pine, increasing the number of pines ha -1 and performing pre-commercial thinning in such a waythatpinesarenotovertoppedmaybeefficientwaysofreducingdamageproportions, �whereas� birch needs to be protected from moose (by a reduction of the moose population or otherwise) in order to escape damage. Increased amounts of Scots pine browse and birch browse may also reduce damage levels to aspen, according to this study.
Climatic Impact on Wheat Production in Terai of Nepal

This study examines the climatic impact on wheat production in Terai of Nepal. This paper employs a Ricardian cross-sectional approach to estimates the relationship between wheat production and net revenue associated with wheat production in the plain area of Nepal (i.e. Terai) with different temperatures (average, maximum and minimum), precipitation and other traditional inputs like population density, seed, fertilizer, human labour, bullock labour and tractor. By using district level secondary data of 25 years, this study finds significant positive impact of the average and maximum temperature and significant negative impact of the minimum temperature on net revenue and wheat yield of the Terai region. Similarly, precipitation has mixed impacts. With the maximum temperature, increase in precipitation reduces net revenue and wheat yield whereas with average and minimum temperature, precipitation increases wheat yields as well as revenue. Other traditional inputs like population density, seed, manure, human labour and tractor used are positively associated with climatic change and increase net revenue as well as wheat yield whereas fertilizer and bullock used are negatively associated with climatic change and reduce net revenue and wheat yield. The Journal of Development and Administrative Studies (JODAS), Vol. 23(1-2), pp. 1-22
MODELLING POPULATION HETEROGENEITY IN EPIDEMICS USING CELLULAR AUTOMATA

Compartmental models are very popular in epidemiology. One of the reason for such popularity is the excellent results obtained when the populations satisfy the building hypotheses (large populations, individual uniformity and appropriate structure), while the complexity of the resulting model is low. Besides, the ease of analysis, the wide variety of analysis tools available and the " intuitive reason-ableness " make this kind of models very attractive. However, in many situations they ignore important factors inherent to the problem, such as the nature of contacts between individuals and the heterogeneity of the population. Cellular models are adequate to describe natural systems consisting of a massive collection of simple objects. They are a special case of models based on individuals, which represent the global system behavior from the description of the behavior of individuals within it. In this paper we study the time evolution of a heterogeneous population through the various stages of disease resulting from the individuals interactions (epidemic). The objectives of this work are i ) the development of a model that includes the effects of heterogeneity and individual contacts in the evolution of the epidemic, ii the implementation of the proposed model through a cellular automaton and iii its validation with data from the 1918 inﬂuenza pandemic in the Geneva.
The Language-invariant Aspect of Compounding: Predicting Compound Meanings Across Languages

English. In the present study, we investigated to what extent compounding involves general-level cognitive abilities related to conceptual combination. If that was the case, the compounding mechanism should be largely invariant across different languages. Under this assumption, a compositional model trained on word representations in one language should be able to predict compound meanings in other languages. We investigated this hypothesis by training a word embeddingbased compositional model on a set of English compounds, and subsequently applied this model to German and Italian test compounds. The model partially predicted compound meanings in German, but not in Italian. Italiano. In questo lavoro abbiamo investigato quanto la composizione sottenda abilità cognitive generali relata alla combinazione concettuale. Se questo fosse il caso, il meccanismo composizionale dovrebbe variare in maniera limitata tra diverse lingue. Di conseguenza, un modello composizionale basato su rappresentazioni lessicali in una data lingua dovrebbe essere in grado di predire significati composizionali in altre lingue. Abbiamo testato questa ipotesi addestrando un modello composizionale sui word embeddings di un set di composti inglesi, e successivamente testato lo stesso modello su composti tedeschi e italiani. Il modello è in grado di predire in modo parzialmente corretto le rappresentazioni dei composti in tedesco, ma non italiano.