Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scalable Web Technology for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered as a modern manifestation of Mark Weiser’s classic vision of ubiquitous computing where tiny networked computers become part of everyday objects interweaving the virtual world and the physical world. The concept of the IoT originated some 15 years ago from linking real-world artifacts to virtual counterparts through radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. More recently, environments have become ‘smart’ by augmenting physical objects with sensing or actuation capabilities and networking them with digital services. The ongoing standardization of Internet protocols for such IoT devices enables the seamless integration of smart things into the Internet. This trend is expected to eventually result in hundreds of billions of connected devices that need to be programmed, managed, and maintained. It has been shown that Web technology can significantly ease this process by providing well-known patterns and tools for developers and users. The existing solutions are, however, often too heavyweight for highly resource-constrained IoT devices. Indeed, most connected devices are expected to remain resource-constrained, as progress in technology witnessed by Moore’s Law is primarily leveraged to minimize dimensions, power consumption, and unit costs. This dissertation presents a comprehensive solution for the seamless integration of highly resource-constrained IoT systems into the World Wide Web. Our thesis is that existing protocols and programming models do not effectually meet the needs of the IoT. We identify two key challenges for the vision to succeed: application-layer interoperability and improved usability for both developers and users. Both requirements can be met by an approach that amalgamates results from the field of Wireless Sensor Networks and the World Wide Web. This leads to the research questions (i) how to scale Web technology down to resource-constrained devices, (ii) how to scale it up to hundreds of billions of devices, and (iii) how to use it to improve the usability of the tiny networked computers. Our work addresses the resulting challenges with the following contributions: Being actively involved in the design and standardization of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), we (i) evaluate the new Web protocol
A TAG + - Tree for Retrieval from Multiple Domains of a Publication System

It is very difficult for the researchers to collect the literature for their research. The digital libraries of the publication systems are very useful for them. Publication system has set of literatures of various domains. The effectiveness of the Publication system is measured from various aspects; especially indexing and retrieval. This paper shows how effectively the TAG-tree is used for a publication system. The results show that it performs well when compared to other existing techniques.
DEL LISTADO DE SÍNTOMAS 90 (SCL 90) Y DEL INVENTARIO DE TEMPERAMENTO Y CARÁCTER (ITC)

SUMMARY Psychometric tests are effective to measure psychological characteristics, including personality, motivation, intellectual abilities and psychopathological traits. The Psychopathological diagnostic could be supported on some of these psychometric tests, which ideally should be of simple and fast application. Two of the most common tests are the Symptom Check List 90 (SCL 90) and the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). SCL 90, developed by Derogatis, Lipman and Covi in 1973, is a 90-item self-report inventory that assesses the level of distress experienced by the subject. Items are comprised in nine dimensions: somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism. The SCL 90 has been translated into several languages and has been successfully applied in Argentina and Spain. In Mexico, CruzFuentes et al. and Lara et al. considered that this test can be well used as a psychometric instrument in clinical research. Due to its efficiency and brief time to response (12-15 min.), the SCL 90 has been administered to support psicopathological diagnostics and to complement the research of epilepsy, social-behavior disorders, physical disorders, pharmacological treatment and for the comparison of psychological features in crosscultural studies. The TCI is a self-applied test that describes personality according to Clonninger’s psychobiological model. In this model temperament is described as highly heritable and stable during lifetime, and it is divided in four dimensions: novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, and persistence. Character is described as being determined by the individual’s experience and is modifiable during life-time. It is divided in to three dimensions self-directedness, cooperativeness and self-transcendence.
Water balance of the Arctic drainage system using GRACE gravimetry products

Land water and snow mass anomalies versus time were computed from the inversion of 50 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) geoids (August 2002 to February 2007) from the RL04 GeoForschungZentrum (GFZ) release and used to characterize the hydrology of the Arctic drainage system. GRACE-based time series have been compared to snow water equivalent and snow depth climatologies, and snowfall for validation purpose. Time series of regional averages of water volume were estimated for the 11 largest Peri-Arctic basins. Strong correlations were found between the snow estimates and river discharges in the Arctic basins (0.49–0.8). Then changes in land water storage were compared to precipitation minus evapotranspiration fluxes to determine which flux of the hydrological budget controls the Arctic hydrology. Results are very contrasted according to the basin. Trends of snow and land water masses were also computed over the 2003–2006 period. Eurasian basins lose snow mass whereas North American basins are gaining mass.
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition to terrestrial ecosystems across Germany

Abstract. Biodiversity is strongly affected by the deposition of nitrogen and sulfur on terrestrial ecosystems. In this paper we present new quantitative estimates of the deposition of atmospheric nitrogen to ecosystems across Germany. The methodology combines prognostic and empirical modelling to establish wet deposition fluxes and land use dependent dry and occult deposition fluxes. On average, the nitrogen deposition in Germany was estimated to be 1057 eq ha−1 yr−1. The deposition maps show considerable variability across the German territory with highest deposition on forest ecosystems in or near the main agricultural and industrial areas. The accumulated deposition over Germany of this study is systematically lower (27 %) than provided in earlier studies. The main reasons are an improved wet deposition estimation and the consolidation of improved process descriptions in the LOTOS-EUROS chemistry transport model. The presented deposition estimates show a better agreement with results obtained by integrated monitoring and deposition modelling by EMEP than the earlier results. Through comparison of the new deposition distributions with critical load maps it is estimated that 70 % of the ecosystems in Germany receive too much nitrogen.
MIMO Radar Imaging Based on Smoothed l 0 Norm

For radar imaging, a target usually has only a few strong scatterers which are sparsely distributed. In this paper, we propose a compressive sensing MIMO radar imaging algorithm based on smoothed l 0 norm. An approximate hyperbolic tangent function is proposed as the smoothed function to measure the sparsity. A revised Newton method is used to solve the optimization problem by deriving the new revised Newton directions for the sequence of approximate hyperbolic tangent functions. In order to improve robustness of the imaging algorithm,main valueweightedmethod is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP), smoothed l 0 method (SL 0 ), and Bayesian method with Laplace prior in performance of sparse signal reconstruction. Two-dimensional image quality of MIMO radar using the new method has great improvement comparing with aforementioned reconstruction algorithm.
Telecom Italia at TRECVID2014 - Instance Search Task

MPEG CDVS is a forthcoming standard for representing images for visual search, both as queries and as database entries, with very short ﬁles, on the order of a kilobyte. The key advantages are interoperability and compactness. Interoperability ensures that data and equipment from diﬀerent sources are mutually compatible, compactness allows for inexpensive object retrieval in terms of transmission and storage. In the Instance Search Task of TRECVID2014, CDVS performs well on rigid and detailed objects. For queries that depict persons, animals, or objects of poor detail, CDVS may not be suﬃcient as a standalone technique.
Reasons behind Spousal Aggression in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The theme of the study was in-depth study of reasons behind spousal (in this study husband-to-wife) aggression from the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. In this study, reasons behind Rasheed's aggression were taken as the central attention, and illustrated different theories related to aggression. The study applied psychological approach to assess reasons behind husband-to-wife aggression in the novel. The researcher applied the ethological theory, social learning theory and drive theory to assess reasons behind the kinds of aggression that Rasheed commits on his wives. The findings of the study indicate that Rasheed is a man with a big body and possesses a gun, which provides more chances for him to commit aggression over his wives. The drive theory addressed in this matter provides an understanding that aggression is produced by frustration. In other words, frustration-aggression hypothesis is the reason proposed by drive theory. Herein Rasheed’s aggression analysis, this theory helps to yield two findings that Rasheed’s sources of frustration are first, his encounter with his old-painful experience of losing a son, and the second is his sad condition over losing all his jobs and lacking foods to eat. The last but not least is the social learning theory, which proposes a help to see the surrounding of aggression as also the consideration for its initiation. The conclusion of this view is male domination-especially in the marriage system – in Afghanistan provide more spaces for man to aggress against woman as a wife. The story implies that it has been common in Afghanistan to find polygamous husband living under one roof. The second conclusion is that Taliban’s ruling is a possible role model for the male Afghans to commit harassment towards woman, as Taliban tends to force women into corner by enacting many banning and restriction upon them. Without termination on that, this group sets a deadly punishment to a-find-guilty woman by stoning them to death on a football field surrounded by large of people (men) who favour to Taliban.
Contemporary range expansion of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) impacted by humans and snow cover

Range expansions are key demographic events driven by factors such as climate change and human intervention that ultimately influence the genetic composition of peripheral populations. The expansion of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792) into Michigan has been documented over the past 200 years, indicating relatively new colonizations in northern Michigan. Although most contemporary expansions are a result of shifts in climate regimes, the opossum has spread beyond its hypothesized climate niche, offering an opportunity to examine the compounding influence that climate change and humans have on a species’ distribution. The genetic consequences of two range expansions were investigated using genotypic data for nine microsatellite markers from opossums collected in Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, USA. Two genetic clusters were identified: one on either side of Lake Michigan. Using general linear models, we found that measurements of genetic diversity across 15 counties are best explained b.
Exploring the role of the human resource function in the South African information technology industry

The Information Technology (IT) industry is one that is characterised by rapid change and a heavy reliance on human skills. A study was conducted to qualitatively explore the role of the Human Resource (HR) function in the South African IT industry. Semi-structured individual and focus group interviews with professionals in this function highlighted many opportunities for HR to render a more strategic role in an environment where a skills shortage and many related problem areas exist. The implications of these findings are discussed and proposals for redefining the role of HR in the specific industry are offered.
Mechanical Properties of Basalt Filaments

tion of some structural parts (plagioclase, magnetite, pyroxene) and due to the non-homogeneity of melt. Utilisation of the technology of continuous spinning overcomes the problem of unevenness and the resulting filament yarns are appli cable in the textile branch. It is possible to use these yarns for the production of planar or 3D textile structures for composites, special knitted fabrics and also as the sewing threads. The application of basalt yarns as sewing threads is especially attractive. It is possible to use these threads for the joining of filtering bags for hot media, and for very aggressive chemical environments, etc. In this contribution selected properties of basalt filaments are presented. As starting material the laboratory prepared filaments were used by us. Mechanical properties were investigated at room temperature, and then tempered to 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 °C, and in some experiments up to 800 °C. The analysis of the fibrous fragment evolved during the abrasion of basalt weave is presented.
Sustainable production of organic wheat

The aim of the project is to use an ecological approach to analyse the interactions of a range of key agronomic variables in organic wheat production (wheat genotype, spatial arrangement of seed, seed density and wheat/white clover bi-cropping) to determine an optimal approach to improved and stabilised production. The fi rst set of data revealed that seedling competition was infl uenced by seed rate and drilling arrangement. Furthermore, the variety Hereward had increased emergence and establishment to Aristos. An interaction exists between wheat variety, seed rate and drilling arrangement on the level of canopy cover at different developmental stages – these factors are important for the suppression of weeds. The input of farmers in the selection of trial variables ensures results have a direct application to the industry. The results of yield and quality at harvest will provide further insights into the interaction of agronomic variables.
Understanding the Impact of Oil Shocks

This paper provides new empirical evidence on and theoretical support for the close link between oil prices and aggregate macroeconomic performance in the 1970s. Although this link has been well documented in the empirical literature and is further confirmed in this paper, standard economic models are not able to replicate this link when actual oil prices are used to simulate the models. In particular, standard models cannot explain the depth of the recession in 1974-75 and the strong revival in 1976-78 based on the oil price movements in that period. This paper argues that a missing multiplier-accelerator mechanism from standard models may hold the key. This multiplier-accelerator mechanism not only exacerbated the impact of the oil shocks in 1973-74 but also helped create the temporary recovery in 1976-78. This paper derives the missing multiplier-accelerator mechanism from externalities in general equilibrium. Our calibrated model can explain both the recession in 1974-75 and the revival in 1976-78.
Transport properties of finite and infinite composite materials and Rayleigh's sum

THE TRANSPORT properties of a regular array of cylinders embedded in a homogeneous matrix material have been studied by the following method. Let us bound a part of the infinite material by a closed curve γ. Knowing the transport properties of this finite amount of material, we can evaluate the transport properties of the infinite material when γ tends to infinity. This method allows us to justify the method of Lord RAYLEIGH [1] for rectangular arrays of cylinders. Moreover, it is shown that in order to improve the Clausius-Mossotti approximation for a rectangular array, it is necessary to evaluate Rayleigh's sum.
Chemical constituents of the essential oil, antioxidant and antibacterial activities from Elettariopsis curtisii Baker.

Elettariopsis curtisii Baker, the culinary and medicinal herb, was investigated to elucidate its chemical constituents and determine antioxidant and antibacterial activities. The essential oil of E. curtisii was obtained by steam distillation of fresh rhizomes in a maximum yield of 0.63%. GC-MS data indicated the presence of six compounds, of which trans-2decenal (78.03%) was the principal constituent. The essential oils and also the hexane, dichloromethane and methanol extracts from the rhizomes and leaves were assessed for antioxidant and antibacterial activities. In an evaluation of antioxidant activity, the crude dichloromethane extract of the leaves exhibited the highest scavenging effect on the DPPH radical with an EC 50 of 0.28+0.01 mg/mL. The leaf dichloromethane extract also had the highest total phenol concentration, (73.4+ 2.80 mg GA/g of extract) whereas the crude methanol extract from the rhizomes had the highest reducing power with an EC 50 of 2.07+0.06 mg/mL. In terms of antibacterial activity, the essential oil (distilled from either the leaves or the rhizomes) displayed the highest inhibitory activity, with the same MID value of 1 mg/disc against 5 strains of bacteria, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Sarcina sp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Rydberg polaritons in a thermal vapor

We present a pulsed four-wave mixing scheme via a Rydberg state to create, store, and retrieve collective Rydberg polaritons. The storage medium consists of a gas of thermal Rb atoms confined in a $220\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{m}$-thick cell, which is heated above room temperature. The experimental sequence consists of a pulsed excitation of Rydberg polaritons via the ${D}_{1}$ line, a variable delay or storage time, and a final retrieval pulse via the ${D}_{2}$ line. The lifetime of the Rydberg polaritons is around 1.2 ns, almost entirely limited by the excitation bandwidth and the corresponding motional dephasing of the atoms. The presented scheme combined with a tightly confined atomic ensemble is a good candidate for a deterministic single-photon source, as soon as strong interactions in terms of a Rydberg blockade are added.
Macroeconomic determinants of permanent emigration from Romania. a Bayesian approach

Th e aim of this research is to identify some macroeconomic determinants for permanent emigration from Romania, in order to alleviate the negative consequences of this phenomenon in the origin country of the emigrates. For identifying the most relevant macroeconomic factors explaining the growth in the number of emigrants, the stochastic search variable selection was applied for various acceptance probabilities. Low increases in real earnings and the growth in poverty headcount ratio at $3.10 a day encouraged Romanian people to permanently leave the country in the period 1991-2014 in order to improve their life conditions. Moreover, the taxes on income, profi t and capital also created considerable pressure. On the other hand, unemployment was not felt as a crucial problem for emigrants. Th e economic policies should focus on the solutions aimed specifi cally at diminishing poverty.
Advancing road ecology in Africa with robust analyses and cautious inferences: a response to Jackson et al. (2017)

Jackson et al. (2017) have written an extensive commentary on our published study of ungulate behavioral responses to roads and traffic in South Africa (Mulero-Pazmany, D’Amico & Gonzalez-Suarez, 2016). We welcome the opportunity to engage in discussion regarding road ecology in Africa and how to best assess impacts and interpret findings. We all agree that understanding anthropogenic impacts, including those of roads and traffic, on wildlife and protected areas is important and that speculative inferences should be avoided. However, we find Jackson et al.’s criticism largely unsubstantiated and affected by statistical misconceptions and errors. We comment on the key points made by Jackson et al. (2017) below.
Random regression models for genetic evaluation of performance of the Hungarian show-jumping horse population

The aim of the study was to estimate genetic parameters for show-jumping competition performance using random regression model. Show-jumping competition results collected between 1996 and 2009 were analyzed. The database contained 272 951 starts of 8020 horses. Identity number and gender of the horse, rider, competition date, the level of the competition and placing were recorded in the database. Competition levels were categorized into five groups. Weighted – competition level used – square root transformed placing was used to measure performance of horses. The random regression model included fixed effects for gender, year and place of competition, and random effects for rider, animal and permanent environment. Later performance of show-jumping horses measured with weighted square root ranks is less influenced by rider and permanent environmental effects than performance at the beginning of a horse’s sporting career. Heritability increased continuously from 6.3 years of age (2296 age in days), values were in the range of 0.07 and 0.37. Higher heritability was found in later ages. Weak genetic and phenotypic correlation was found between the early 4–5–6 years of age and older (7, 8, 8+) age classes. From 8.5 years of age (3132 days old) there were strong genetic and phenotypic correlations between neighboring age groups. For the same age classes moderate and strong genetic and phenotypic correlation was found. Genetic correlation between 13.5 years of age and older horses was very strong.
Absolute frequency measurement of the 2S1/2–2F7/2 electric octupole transition in a single ion of 171Yb+ with 10−15 fractional uncertainty

An absolute frequency measurement has been made of the 2S1/2–2F7/2 electric octupole transition in a single ion of 171Yb+. The implementation of a diode-based probe laser stabilized to this highly forbidden transition has resulted in an improvement of more than one order of magnitude upon the lowest published uncertainty. After correcting for systematic shifts, the frequency was determined to be 642 121 496 772 646.22 (67) Hz. This corresponds to a fractional uncertainty of 1.0 × 10−15.
Geant 4 Developments and Applications

Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection. Its functionality and modeling capabilities continue to be extended, while its performance is enhanced. An overview of recent developments in diverse areas of the toolkit is presented. These include performance optimization for complex setups; improvements for the propagation in fields; new options for event biasing; and additions and improvements in geometry, physics processes and interactive capabilities.