Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
AN ASSESSMENT OF MICROHABITAT VARIABLES AND CAPTURE SUCCESS OF STRIPED SKUNKS (MEPHITIS MEPHITIS)

Abstract The association of microhabitat variables and capture (= occurrence) of striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) was assessed at 3 sites in western Tennessee. Sixteen features were included in univariate and stepwise logistic regressions to investigate relationships between occurrence and habitat factors and to construct models predictive of occurrence. Accuracy of models was examined using jackknife procedures, and maps predictive of occurrence were developed through semivariance and kriging analyses. Average height of stand, hardwood snags >35 cm diameter at breast height, number of stems, distance to permanent water sources, and distance to open areas were among the habitat features most frequently found to be related to occurrence. Models derived from logistic regression predicted occurrence of the species at varying levels (56% to 75%). Overall, classification percentages appeared to be at a level useful for predicting the occurrence of M. mephitis, and mapping procedures sufficient for illustrating the association between occurrence and habitat.
Research and Application of Software Multi-state Customization Management

It put forward software multi-state customize preservation technology, which accomplished software multi-task mode quick switch and recovery, and actualized the goal of executing dissimilarity satellite model task alternatively for experiment information surveillance display software, by applied reflex technology, stored and managed one or more task environments at the same time. The foundation frame of software multi-state customized management based on reflex mechanism enormously enhanced the elasticity of application system exploitation for software multi-state customized management. Through configured the parameters for the application program by XML, and loaded it into the allocation table when system start-up, it attained the reflex infusion similar Web exploitation.
A method for using harvester data in airborne laser prediction of forest variables in mature coniferous stands

Behovet av tillforlitlig skoglig information for planering i skogsbruket har resulterat i en utveckling av olika inventeringsmetoder. Kostnaden styr ofta valet av inventeringsmetod och frekvensen av inventeringar, vilket paverkar kvaliteten pa den information som finns tillganglig for skogsforvaltare. Objektivt inventerade provytor har varit vanliga som referensdata for att skatta skogliga variabler fran fjarranalysdata. Ett alternativ till falt inventering, som annu inte har undersokts i namnvard utstrackning ar skordardata. Syftet med denna studie var att utveckla en metod for att skatta skogliga variabler med flygburen laserskanningsdata och skordaruppgifter och utvardera skattningsnoggrannheten i metoden. Studien begransades till volym/ha, aritmetisk medehojd och aritmetisk medeldiameter i brosthojd. Den area baserad metoden anvandes och skattningar med bade regressionsanalys och k-MSN utvarderades. Resultaten av denna studie var bestandsvisa skattningar med ett relativt medelfel for volym, hojd och diameter pa 11%, 5% och 8% . Tidigare studier i Skandinavien har med hjalp av flygburen laserskanningsdata och faltytor, skattat bestands volym, grundytevagd medelhojd och grundytevagd medeldiameter med ett relativt medelfel pa 11-14%, 3-6% och 9-13% for respektive variabel (Naesset 2007). Denna studie visar att bra skattningar kan uppnas utan kunskap om exakta tradpositioner genom att anvanda tillgangliga skordardata fran befintliga avverkningar och flygburen laserskanningsdata fran Lantmateriets nationella projekt. Resultaten visar med andra ord att skordardata kan vara en anvandbar kalla till referensdata for fjarranalystillampningar.
Torque Distribution Strategies for Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles With Multiple Drivetrains

The paper discusses novel computationally efficient torque distribution strategies for electric vehicles with individually controlled drivetrains, aimed at minimizing the overall power losses while providing the required level of wheel torque and yaw moment. Analytical solutions of the torque control allocation problem are derived and effects of load transfers due to driving/braking and cornering are studied and discussed in detail. Influences of different drivetrain characteristics on the front and rear axles are described. The results of an analytically derived algorithm are contrasted with those from two other control allocation strategies, based on the offline numerical solution of more detailed formulations of the control allocation problem (i.e., a multiparametric nonlinear programming (mp-NLP) problem). The control allocation algorithms are experimentally validated with an electric vehicle with four identical drivetrains along multiple driving cycles and in steady-state cornering. The experiments show that the computationally efficient algorithms represent a very good compromise between low energy consumption and controller complexity.
Anticancer and apoptosis-inducing effects of Moringa concanensis using hepG2 cell lines

The objective of the present investigation is focused on the anticancer activity of the ethanolic crude extract of Moringa concanensis leaf and bark against HepG2 cell line. The study was facilitated by collecting the plant sample and subjected to ethanol crude extraction. The anticancer activity of the crude extracted sample against HepG2 cell line was examined by MTT assay. The study confirms that the leaf crude extract of M. concanensis has pronounced anticancer potential against HepG2 cell lines while compared to that of the bark extract. The plant investigated possesses remarkable anticancer activity and hence isolation of the compound contributing to the activity may lead to develop at a novel and natural phytomedicine for the disease. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/bjp.v9i4. 20481
MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UPPERSIDE AND UNDERSIDE LEAF-MINING LARVAE OF PHYLLOCNISTIS UNIPUNCTELLA (STEPHENS, 1834) (LEP.: GRACILLARIIDAE) AND ITS CHANGING PHENOLOGY

Larvae of Phyllocnistis unipunctella (Stephens) mining the upperside and underside of leaves of Populus spp. were compared in terms of gross morphology and the COI DNA barcoding section of mitochondrial DNA. It was discovered that larvae feeding on the underside did not show the dark pigmentation of the prothoracic plate as described in the literature. Larvae were found feeding two months earlier than normal and at least one extra generation was observed. More work isrequired to determine the possibility ofspeciation.
Comparison of Estimated Planetary Boundary Layer Height over North Africa Using Three Different Methods

Planetary boundary layer (PBL) height is an essential parameter in atmospheric modeling due to its ability to impact on energy, water vapor, and pollution in the atmosphere. Estimation of PBL height is not easily available and often come from radiosonde observations at 0000GMT and 1200 GMT. In this paper PBL height is computed by three methods at afternoon over Egypt and Sahara Desert. The first method is based on bulk Richardson number, while the second method depends on the existence of the Inversion Layer. The third method is based on a simplified turbulent kinetic energy equation and accounts for the temperature difference across the top of the mixed layer. The results of PBL height by the three methods are compared with those corresponding of The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the ERA-Interim reanalysis from ECMWF. The comparisons illustrate that the estimated PBL height are differ by some hundreds of meters. The simulations with the first and third methods give much less PBL heights than the second method. Finally, the variation of PBL heights estimates are discussed for each method.
The main attributes for improving service quality – a healthcare institution’s case study

The purpose of this paper is to present the real implementation of a Portuguese project in a Private Healthcare Institution, using a tool called CustomerFriendly Service (LAC), described in a previous paper. Through this case, the authors have tried to evaluate the existence of a dynamic between four attributes: Consumer Protection Law, store presentation, staff presentation and service elements evaluation. It provides an observation relating to the importance of tangible and intangible attributes in obtaining improvement in service quality.
COMPOSITION OF THE SPIDER ASSEMBLAGE IN AN URBAN FOREST RESERVE IN SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL AND EVALUATION OF A TWO SAMPLING METHOD PROTOCOLS OF SPECIES RICHNESS ESTIMATES

Fue evaluado la composicion y riqueza de las especies de la assemblea de aranas colectados por trampa de caida y batedor en una reserva localizada en la region metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Fueran colectados 10.823 aranas (2.310 adultos y 8.513 inmaturos). Los adultos constituyen 223 especies distribuidas en 30 familias. Fueran colectadas 94 especies con trampa de caida y 153 especies con batedor. Una mayor porcentaje de adultos (61,3%) y machos (43,2% de todos los individuos) fue encontrada en las trampas de caida cuando comparado con batedor (13,2% de adultos y 5,1% de machos, respectivamente). Solamente 24 especies fueran colectadas con ambos los metodos. La complementariedad de estos metodos fuera 89,2%. Las curvas de acumulacion de especies basada en individuos no alcanzaran la asintota. La trampa de caida combinada con batedor es una buena opcion para inventarios breves y con bajo custo.
Production of a map of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use from Australian agriculture

The agriculture and forestry sector accounts for approximately 24% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Australia. Over the years researchers have produced new knowledge about agricultural GHG emissions and energy use patterns and opportunities to decrease them, albeit in small-scale studies or large-scale ones with coarse resolution. Linking the multiple, diverse and rich datasets around agricultural production in Australia into one dataset that allows for an estimate of GHG emissions and energy use related to agriculture at a national scale and high resolution has not been done before. The approach we describe here is based upon a link between operational data sourced from gross margin (GM) handbooks and life cycle assessment (LCA) process data. We have collected and processed these datasets to produce a comprehensive database of typical agricultural operations covering 72 commodities grown in 42 regions across Australia. We have also created a system that estimates the GHG emission and energy use patterns of the aforementioned commodities using the best available LCA process data. To capture GHG emissions of non-domestically produced fertiliser, we queried the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (COMTRADE) to analyse the fertiliser and pesticide import patterns for Australia between 2000-2010. This analysis determined the average country energy-mix for fertiliser and pesticide manufacturing and allowed linking the associated GHG emissions to Australian agricultural production. Finally we spatialised agricultural operational data, emissions and energy use at the national scale using the latest Australian Land Use Map (2005/06). Our findings suggest that in 2005/06 greenhouse gas emissions related to Australian agricultural production equate to a total of 95.8 Mt CO2-e using 75.7 GWh of energy. According to our results 29.4% of these emissions come from sources that were categorised as nonagricultural (e.g. industrial processes or energy use) in the Australian National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) 2006. We find that the provision of transparently modeled GHG emissions and having them linked to a spatially explicit component helps identifying new opportunities for emission reduction and facilitates an assessment of their effects. For example, our findings suggest production of ethanol from corn stover and sugarcane bagasse could have avoided 4.37 Mt CO2-e emissions (4.56% of total) without affecting food production.
Al-Al thermocompression bonding for wafer-level MEMS sealing

Al–Al thermocompression bonding has been studied using test structures relevant for wafer level sealing of MEMS devices. Si wafers with protruding frame structures were bonded to planar Si wafers, both covered with a sputtered Al film of 1 μm thickness. The varied bonding process variables were the bonding temperature (400 °C, 450 °C and 550 °C) and the bonding force (18, 36 and 60 kN). Frame widths 100 μm, 200 μm, with rounded or sharp frame corners were used. After bonding, laminates were diced into single chips and pull tested. The effect of process and design parameters was studied systematically with respect to dicing yield, bond strength and resulting fractured surfaces. The test structures showed an average strength of 20-50 MPa for bonding at or above 450 °C for all three bonding forces or bonding at 400 °C with 60 kN bond force. The current study indicates that strong Al-Al thermocompression bonds can be achieved either at or above 450 °C bonding temperature for low (18 kN) and medium (36 kN) bond force or by high bond force (60 kN) at 400 °C. The results show that an increased bond force is required to compensate for a reduced bonding temperature for Al-Al thermocompression bonding in the studied temperature regime.
QUANTIFICATION OF GUIDED WAVE INTERACTION EFFECTS WITH LOCALISED STRUCTURAL NONLINEARITIES IN COMPLEX, COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

The extensive usage of composite materials in modern industrial applications implies a great range of possible structural failure modes for which the structure has to be frequently and thoroughly inspected. Nonlinear guided wave inspection techniques have been continuously gaining attention during the last decade. This is primarily due to their sensitivity to very small sizes of localized damage. A number of complex transformation phenomena take place when an elastic wave impinges on a nonlinear segment, including the generation of higher and sub-harmonics. Moreover, the transmission and reflection coefficients of each wave type become amplitude dependent. In this work, a generic Finite Element (FE) based computational scheme is presented for quantifying guided wave interaction effects with Localized Structural Nonlinearities (LSN) within structures of arbitrary layering and geometric complexity. Amplitude dependent guided wave reflection, transmission and conversion is computed through a Wave and Finite Element (WFE) method. The scheme couples wave propagation properties within linear structural waveguides to a LSN and is able to compute the generation of higher and sub-harmonics for each wave type through a harmonic balance projection. A Newton-like iteration scheme is employed for solving the system of nonlinear differential equations. Numerical case studies are exhibited for a set of waveguides coupled through a joint exhibiting nonlinear mechanical behaviour. 4766 Available online at www.eccomasproceedia. org Eccomas Proceedia COMPDYN (2017) 4766-4777 © 2017 The Authors. Published by Eccomas Proceedia. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of COMPDYN 2017. doi: 10.7712/120117.5760. 17000 V. Thierry, D. Chronopoulos and I. Ashcroft
Association of Two Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (rs1805087 and rs1801131) with Coronary Artery Disease in Golestan Population

Objectives: New risk factors, such as plasma homocysteine level, have been rencetly recognized as independent risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). Mutations in some genes, affecting plasma homocysteine level, may be associated with CAD. Association studies in many populations have demonstrated a significant association between the development of CAD and 2 polymorphisms, rs1801131 and rs1805087. Methods: In this case-control study (case group, 120 cases; control group, 130 controls), performed in Golestan province, Iran, rs1801131 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was genotyped in 5, 10-methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), and rs1805087 SNP was genotyped in 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase (MTR). Tetraprimer amplification refractory mutation system-polymerase chain reaction (tetraprimer ARMS-PCR) method was applied to analyze these 2 sites. Results: In the rs1801131 site, genotype frequencies of AA, AC, and CC were 51%, 34%, and 15%, respectively in the case group, while the corresponding frequencies in the controls were 43%, 38%, and 19%, respectively. The results indicated that the difference in A and C allele distribution of rs1801131 was not significant among the controls and patients (OR, 1.34). Genotyping of rs1805087 demonstrated no variety at this position in the population. Conclusions: We conclude that the presence of C allele does not increase the risk of CAD in the population of Golestan province. In addition, MTR rs1805087 SNP is not a suitable marker for population-based studies related to CAD. However, further studies are needed in larger populations to confirm these findings.
STRATEGIC INTERACTION, AID EFFECTIVENESS AND THE FORMATION OF AID POLICIES IN DONOR NATIONS

This paper examines some of the issues associated with the aid donor process arising from the theory of agency or principal-agent models and endogenous policy determination. The principals may be viewed as legislators and the agents as the aid agency. In addition to adverse selection and moral hazard the paper considers intrinsic sources of motivation for agents and the trade-off between adverse selection and moral hazard. It also considers multiple task agents, and situations where there are many principals with divergent objectives. The principals might be better off by making the tasks more complementary and trading in their differing objectives. The paper also considers the determinants of sustaining compromise over aid policies when different political factions in donor nations have competing interests with regard to recipients or overall aid strategy.
Effects of mesoscopic-scale fault structure on dynamic earthquake ruptures: Dynamic formation of geometrical complexity of earthquake faults

[1] We develop a new hierarchical earthquake rupture model that takes into account mesoscopic-scale fault structure; shear branches nucleated on the main fault are specifically assumed as an example of mesoscopic-scale fault structure. We numerically investigate dynamic formation of fault geometry and its effects on dynamic earthquake rupture process based on this rupture model. As long as the length of the main fault is below a certain threshold Lm, the growth of these branches is shown to be arrested spontaneously soon after their nucleation. The spatial distribution of arrested branches is shown to form a self-similar geometrical structure. This suggests the existence of a simple scaling relationship between small and large events as long as the length of the main fault is below the threshold Lm. However, once the length of the main fault exceeds Lm, a limited number of branches begin unstable growth, and their sizes soon become comparable to that of the main fault. In other words, mesoscopic-scale branches are spontaneously transformed into macroscopic-scale ones. This finding indicates the critical importance of the consideration of mesoscopic-scale fault structure in understanding rupture dynamics: Once macroscopic-scale branches are formed, they change the fault geometry, which will considerably affect the rupture dynamics. The emergence of macroscopic branches suggests that the above mentioned simple scaling relation is never valid above a critical length Lm. Our study thus indicates that relationship between small and large earthquakes is complicated by the spontaneous transformation of a mesoscopic-scale fault structure into a macroscopic-scale one.
Reading Instruction in Lower Primary Classes: A Second Observational Study

Introduction 1985 marked the beginning of the implementation of the Reading and English Acquisition Programme (REAP)—a programme aimed at retraining lower primary English teachers in reading and English language instruction. This programme covering 90 schools in 1986 evolved from research conducted by the Institute of Education personnel. The Reading Skills Project (see Ng, 1984), a 3-year study, examined pupils' reading progress from Primary 1 to 3 in 35 schools; a teacher-observation study looked into reading instructional activities in 24 of the above schools. There was simultaneously a search for reading instruction approaches suitable for the Singapore classroom followed by a small feasibility survey on a chosen approach; a re-examination of in-service reading courses and a literature search for strategies for programme implementation. The present study attempts to discuss only the teacher-observation facet of the total research work behind REAP. In view of the fact that Singapore-based teacher-obser.
Variation of entanglement entropy and mutual information in fermion-fermion scattering

We study the behavior of entanglement between different degrees of freedom of scattering fermions, based on an exemplary QED scattering process $e^+e^-\longrightarrow\mu^+\mu^-$. The variation of entanglement entropy between two fermions from an initial state to the final state was computed, with respect to different entanglement between the ingoing particles. This variation of entanglement entropy is found to be proportional to an area quantity, the total cross section. We also study the spin-momentum and helicity-momentum entanglements within one particle in the aforementioned scattering process. The calculations of the relevant variations of mutual information in the same inertial frame reveals that, for a maximally entangled initial state, the scattering between the particles does not affect the degree of both of these entanglements of one particle in the final state. It is also found that the increasing degree of entanglement between two ingoing particles would restrict the generation of entanglement between spin (helicity) and momentum of one outgoing particle. And the entanglement between spin and momentum within one particle in the final state is shown to always be stronger than that for helicity-momentum for a general initial entanglement state, implying significantly distinct properties of entanglement for the helicity and spin perceived by an inertial observer.