Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Energy consumption, Performance and Stability Analysis of Articulated Vehicles Powered with Electri ed Dolly

Regarding the emission of greenhouse gases by economic activity, transportation is accounted for almost 25.8% of these emitted pollutants [1]. Moreover, the majority part of these emissions are derived from vehicles powered with Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs). To avoid future complications due to air contamination, e.g. global warming and health issues, most countries are proposing harder restrictions on vehicle emission standards. Therefore, the search for sustainable drive-trains is in the spotlight of today's automotive industry agenda. Hybridization of conventional fossil fuel trucks, using electri ed dolly, appears as a candidate solution for the problem. Unlike conventional dollies, the electri ed dolly posses an electric propulsion system (i.e. batteries and electric drive), which makes it capable of propelling its own axle and aid the tractor unit to move the system. As a consequence of this additional power source, the combination truck becomes a hybrid vehicle. Considering that electri ed dolly is a new trend in the industry and few studies were performed on this topic, the bene ts and drawbacks of the product are not well known. Hereupon, this work aims, via simulation, to assess the potential impact of the e-dolly technology on vehicle's performance, fuel efficiency and dynamic stability. Furthermore, to verify how power split decisions, made by a control unit of a hybrid vehicle, are affected when lateral stability constraints or drawbar constraints are included in the control algorithm. The objects of study are A-doubles, a class of long haul articulated vehicles, with Gross Combination Weight (GCW) of 60 and 80 tonnes. Models are proposed to simulate vehicle's longitudinal and lateral dynamics along with the control algorithm that is responsible to perform the power split decisions of the hybrid architecture. The Energy Management Strategy (EMS) of the controller is based on an adaptive Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) approach.
University of Groningen Direct numerical simulation of turbulence at lower costs

Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is the most accurate, but also the most expensive, way of computing turbulent flow. To cut the costs of DNS we consider a family of second-order, explicit one-leg time-integration methods and look for the method with the best linear stability properties. It turns out that this method requires about two times less computational effort than Adams–Bashforth. Next, we discuss a fourth-order finite-volume method that is constructed as the Richardson extrapolate of a classical second-order method. We compare the results of this fourth-order method and the underlying second-order method for a DNS of the flow in a cubical driven cavity at Re = 10. Experimental results are available for comparison. For this example, the fourth-order results are clearly superior to the second-order results, whereas their computational effort is about twenty times less. With the improved simulation method, a DNS of a turbulent flow in a cubical lid-driven flow at Re = 50; 000 and a DNS of a turbulent flow past a square cylinder at Re = 22; 000 are performed.
Diet of the Wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) inhabiting the Montpellier garrigue

We studied the diet of the Mediterranean Wild boar in two successive years, by analyzing 82 stomach contents collected during the hunting season (September-December) and 138 feces collected near feeding troughs during the rest of the year. The samples came from animals inhabiting a typical Mediterranean garrigue characteri- zed by holly oak (Quercus ilex) and situated at the edge of the extensive vine-growing plain of the Herault depart- ment. Food-habits analyses using feces and stomachs sampled during the same period yielded comparable results. The Wild boar is omnivorous, with a definite frugivorous tendancy. Plants represent 96% of the diet. The animal part (3%), however, is underestimated since snails and earthworms are quickly digested. A special investigation of the presence of mollusc mouth pieces and earthworm setae allowed us to calculate the number of individuals consu- med. Wild fruits represent 57% of the annual diet, in dry weight. Among fruits holly oak acorns are the staple food (47% in dry weight over the year) and they are consumed as soon, and as long, as available. The amount of artifi- cial food (Zea mays) is important (32% of the annual diet). Comparison of good and poor mast years showed that Wild boar may compensate a lack of acorns by feeding on grapes in the vineyards.
Distributions of Alien Invasive Weeds under Climate Change Scenarios in Mountainous Bhutan

Climate change is viewed as a cause in accelerating the rate of invasion by alien species in addition to the globalization of anthropogenic activities. Ecological niche modeling has become an instrument in predicting invasion from natural or invaded ranges to uninvaded ranges based on the presence records of organisms and environmental parameters. This study explored the changes in the distributions of globally noxious alien species (Aegratina adenophora, Ageratum conyzoides, Chromolaena odorata, Lantana camara, Mikania micrantha, and Parthenium hysterophorus) in Bhutan, to provide evidence that even a mountain environment is under the threat of invasion given the change in climatic conditions. With fairly high accuracy, the model results suggest that there will be a potential increase in the areas of invasion among most of the species, except Parthenium hysterophorus, which will experience a northerly shift and decline in distribution. The results also indicate changes in patterns of invasion, some becoming more concentrated toward a given direction, while others become more dispersed over time. This study provides a framework that can be used in the strategic control of the species, future detection surveys, and further research.
The first potential fossil record of a dibamid reptile (Squamata: Dibamidae): a new taxon from the early Oligocene of Central Mongolia

Dibamid reptiles have a known current distribution on two continents (Asia and North America). Although this clade represents an early-diverging group in the Squamata and thus should have a long evolutionary history, no fossil record of these peculiar burrowing squamate reptiles has been documented so far. The fossil material described here comes from the early Oligocene of the Valley of Lakes in Central Mongolia. This material consists of jaws and is placed in the clade Dibamidae on the basis of its morphology, which is further confirmed by phylogenetic analyses. In spite of the fragmentary nature of this material, it thus forms the first, but putative, fossil evidence of this clade. If correctly interpreted, this material demonstrates the occurrence of Dibamidae in East Asia in the Palaeogene, indicating its distribution in higher latitudes than today. The preserved elements possess a unique combination of character states, and a new taxon name is therefore erected: Hoeckosaurus mongoliensis sp. nov. The dentary of Hoeckosaurus exhibits some characters of the two extant dibamid taxa. However, the open Meckel’s groove, together with other characters, show that this group was morphologically much more diverse in the past.
Mercator: An R Package for Visualization of Distance Matrices

Summary Unsupervised data analysis in many scientific disciplines is based on calculating distances between observations and finding ways to visualize those distances. These kinds of unsupervised analyses help researchers uncover patterns in large-scale data sets. However, researchers can select from a vast number of different distance metrics, each designed to highlight different aspects of different data types. There are also numerous visualization methods with their own strengths and weaknesses. To help researchers perform unsupervised analyses, we developed the Mercator R package. Mercator enables users to see important patterns in their data by generating multiple visualizations using different standard algorithms, making it particularly easy to compare and contrast the results arising from different metrics. By allowing users to select the distance metric that best fits their needs, Mercator helps researchers perform unsupervised analyses that use pattern identification through computation and visual inspection. Availability and Implementation Mercator is freely available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Mercator/index.html) Contact Kevin.Coombes@osumc.edu Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Financial transaction taxes: Announcement effects, short-run effects, and long-run effects

We analyze the impact of the French 2012 financial transaction tax (FTT) on trading volumes, stock prices, stock liquidity and volatility. We extend the empirical research by the identification of FTT announcement and short-run treatment effects, which may distort difference-in-differences estimates. In addition, we account not only for the intraday volatility but also for long-term volatility measures. While we find strong evidence for a positive FTT announcement effect on trading volumes, there is almost no statistically significant evidence for a long-run treatment effect. Thus, existing evidence on a strong reduction of trading volumes resulting from the French FTT might be biased by FTT announcement effects. We also find an increase of intraday volatilities in the announcement period and a significant reduction of weekly and monthly volatilities in the treatment period. Therefore, our findings support theoretical considerations suggesting a stabilizing impact of FTTs on financial markets. While some of our results suggest a reduction of stock prices in the announcement period, our results on bid-ask spreads and daily returns are not fully conclusive.
Landscape Dynamics Determine the Small-Scale Genetic Structure of an Endangered Dune Slack Plant Species

Abstract Bonte, D. ; Breyne, P.; Brys, R. ; de la Peña, E. ; D'hondt, B. ; Ghyselen, C. ; Vandegehuchte, M.L. , and Hoffmann, M. , 2012. Landscape dynamics determine the small-scale genetic structure of an endangered dune slack plant species. Understanding the processes that determine genetic variation within landscapes is a crucial factor for successful management of threatened plant species that are sensitive to both environmental and genetic bottlenecks. While current insights point to the importance of historical landscape processes for the genetic structure of populations at large spatial scales, their relevance at small spatial scales has been largely neglected. In this context, coastal dunes are a typical example of dynamic and geologically young landscapes in which current and historical sand drift may have strong impacts on the spatial dynamics of a large number of plant species. One of these is the endangered plant species Parnassia palustris, typically inhabiting dune slacks formed by recent sand displacements in parabolic dune landscapes. Dune slacks originating from the same sand drift process are located within the same parabola unit. The species is known to suffer from dispersal limitation and from inbreeding when genetic exchange between populations is restricted. By means of amplified fragment length polymorphism, we demonstrate that the species shows a genetic substructuring both at the level of the metapopulation and the local landscape. Populations located within the same parabola unit are much more closely related than expected on the basis of geographic distance. Moreover, population size is related to genetic diversity within populations. The species' population genetic structure should consequently be regarded as a shifting mosaic of genetic variation, mediated by sand drift driven landscape formation. Therefore, the maintenance of sand dynamics is essential to preserve genetic diversity in dynamic dune landscapes.
Price Relationships For Mexican Fresh Tomatoes In U.S. And Mexican Terminal Markets

Tomato trade between the U.S. and Mexico has grown significantly during the past decade, with significant implications for markets in both countries. This work examines how terminal market prices for Mexican fresh tomatoes are being affected by price dynamics in distant, integrated markets by analyzing reaction patterns to various innovation shocks. We conclude that a high interdependence in the price formation process between Mexican markets and Los Angeles, as well as among Mexican markets, exists.
FSI Simulation of Common Carotid under Normal and High Blood Pressures

There has been a tremendous progress in most of the computational domains in recent times. One of the key areas is analyzing the complex interaction of blood flow through elastic artery. Such study will aid in predicting the progression and behaviour of diseases like atherosclerosis and hypertension. In the present investigation, a simple straight common carotid artery having an eccentric blockage is analyzed for normal as well as high blood pressure condition. The clinical data has been obtained from ultrasound measurements on a volunteer patient and a model is generated, ANSYS, a commercially available Finite Element Analysis software. The ANSYS Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) solver is used to perform the coupled field transient analysis for three pulse cycles and the obtained results demonstrate the pulsatile flow. The simulation shows that the influence of hypertension has high deformation than normal case, severely altering the flow dynamics in downstream of the stenosis. The results obtained agree very well with available clinical observation of normal blood pressure condition.
Extensive phenotypic diversity in the cultivated Florist’s Gloxinia,
 Sinningia speciosa
 (Lodd.) Hiern, is derived from the domestication of a single founder population

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2019 The Authors. Plants, People, Planet © New Phytologist Trust 1School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA 2Department of Biosciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy 3Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center (KTRDC), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Forms of Hybridity in Travel Blogs

The technological revolution has changed considerably not only the way people travel and but also how they narrate their experiences. In this respect, the analysis of travel blogs can offer insights into the discursive and communicative practices which characterize this hybrid genre. This study is based on the investigation of a corpus of highly visited travel blogs and aims to observe their hybridity from a multitude of perspectives. More specifically, hybridity is seen in terms of genre, (a)synchronicity, collaboration, modes of communication and level of multimodality, style, orientation, levels of subjectivity and pragmatic functions. From a lexical perspective, specific attention is devoted to evaluative adjectives. In particular, the use of adjectives belonging to conceptual classes such as ‘assessment’ or ‘deviance’ is a widespread tool to express the blogger’s subjectivity and may assume different communicative and pragmatic functions.
Effect of Drought Stress Levels on Seedling Morpho-physiological Traits of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Populations grown in Glasshouse

In order to study the effect of drought stress on seedling morpho-physiological traits of alfalfa (Medicago sativa), the seeds of ten populations were collected in their natural habitats from different parts of the Fars province, Iran in 2013. A factorial experiment was conducted using 10 alfalfa populations and four water stress treatments of 100, 75, 50, and 25% Field Capacity (FC) based on a completely randomized design with three replications in the glasshouse of agriculture and natural resources research center of Fars province, Iran. Data collected for shoot and root fresh and dry weight, root and stem length, Root/Stem length ratio (RS) and free proline content. Data were subjected to analysis of variance, cluster analysis, principle component analysis. The main effect of population and water stress treatments were significant for all of traits (P<0.01) and population by water stress interaction effects were significant only for proline and root dry weight (P<0.01). The results showed high variation among populations under different water stress treatments. The means comparison among populations for all the water stress treatments showed that population of Kamal Abad Neiriz had high seedling growth coupled with long root length and was considered as drought tolerance to water stress that could be used to improve new varieties. The higher heritabilities were obtained for stem length (h2=0.52), root length (h2=0.48.8) and proline content (h2=0.47.7). According to cluster analysis, the four populations of Deh Kohneh, Dozkord, Kamal Abad, and Komhar that were placed into cluster 2 had higher mean values for many traits than other populations/clusters. This high variation could be used for breeding programs and making synthetic populations for improving alfalfa productivity.
Mobility Management in Japan

This study examined the history, current situation, and characteristics of mobility management (MM) in Japan and quantitatively analyzed the effectiveness of MM in Japan by extending a previous meta-analysis to include data until 2003. The most frequently used MM method in Japan involves travel feedback programs (TFPs). For the meta-analysis, all reports and research papers describing TFP implementations in Japan published in or before December 2005 were collected. Thirty-one cases of MM had been implemented in residential areas, schools, and workplaces. This study focused on TFPs implemented in residential areas, for which many reports and larger sample sizes exist. The analysis results indicate that TFPs in residential areas of Japan reduced car use by 7.3% to 19.1% and increased public transport use by 30.0% to 68.9% on average. Analysis of the effectiveness of TFP techniques indicated that goal setting leads to significant changes in travel behavior from car use to more sustainable transport.
Application of Metabonomics Approach in Food Safety Research-A Review

ABSTRACT With increasing international trade, food safety is becoming a global health concern, the requirement for food quality increases constantly. There is an urgent need for a new method to identify the potential problems and support policies for regulations. Metabonomics is an advanced tool suitable for the analysis of food safety. This paper shows that metabonomics has favorable prospects for applications in veterinary drugs, banned substances, safety evaluation of genetically modified food, food adulteration, and foodborne illnesses. Although metabonomics has been proven as a useful tool for food safety risk monitoring and assessment, there are still some significant challenges existing in its application.
Panel Data Estimation Techniques and Mark Up Ratios

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the market power of the Greek manufacturing and services industry over the period 1970-2007. In particular, the empirical model, estimates the mark-up ratio following the Roeger (1995) methodology, separately for the two industries by using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Two Stage Ordinary Least Squares (TSLS) in two unbalanced panel data sets. The sample comprises a total of 23 and 26 two-digit NACE codes. The empirical results indicate the existence of significant market power in the Greek manufacturing and services industry. Moreover, mark-up ratios vary significantly between the two industries, with services having higher mark ups than manufacturing.
The Location Selection for Roundabout Construction Using Rough BWM-Rough WASPAS Approach Based on a New Rough Hamy Aggregator

An adequately functionally located traffic infrastructure is an important factor in the mobility of people because it affects the quality of traffic, safety and efficiency of carrying out transportation activities. Locating a roundabout on an urban network is an imperative for road engineering to address traffic problems such as reduction of traffic congestion, enhancement of security and sustainability, etc. Therefore, this paper evaluates potential locations for roundabout construction using Rough BWM (Best Worst Method) and Rough WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment) models. Determination of relative criterion weights on the basis of which the potential locations were evaluated was carried out using the Rough BWM method. In this paper, in order to enable the most precise consensus for group decision-making, a Rough Hamy aggregator has been developed. The main advantage of the Hamy mean (HM) operator is that it can capture the interrelationships among multi-input arguments and can provide DMs more options. Until now, there is no research based on HM operator for aggregating imprecise and uncertain information. The obtained indicators are described through eight alternatives. The results show that the fifth and sixth alternatives are the locations that should have a priority in the construction of roundabouts from the perspective of sustainable development, which is confirmed throughout changes of parameter k and with comparing to other methods in the sensitivity analysis.
The Impact of Educational Intervention on Aggression Level among High School Students in Ilam-Iran

Background Management and control of adolescence aggression improves constructive relationships, quality of life, and academic achievement. This research aimed to study the impact of educational intervention on reduction of aggression among male high school students in Ilam city, Iran. Materials and Methods This quasi-experimental intervention study using the pretest-posttest method was conducted on 70 aggressive male high school students in Ilam who were selected using the convenience sampling method. First, students were asked to fill out the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) and 70 of them with the highest score of aggression were selected as the sample. They received educational intervention for eight 90-minute sessions during one month. Then post-test data were collected and follow-up at three months after the intervention and statistically analyzed using SPSS-20. Results The mean age of subjects was 15.81+/-1.24 years old. 83 belonged to the urban community and 12.5 belonged to the rural community. The results showed that the educational intervention was effective in reduction of aggression levels and its four subscales (P<0.05). The results of the within-subject ANOVA indicated that the mean score of overall aggression, verbal aggression, physical aggression, anger, and hostility, follows a linear and descending trend from the posttest to the follow-up (P<0.05). Conclusion: The study findings suggest that development of educational interventions can lead to improved management of aggression and mental health of students.
Paleontological Notes on some Foraminifera from the Cretaceous of the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia

Se reportan foraminiferos obtenidos de las Quebradas Bambuca y Ocal y de la seccion Girardot-Melgar en el Valle Superior del Magdalena. Foraminiferos planctonicos obtenidos de algunas muestras permiten la datacion de las mismas. En la Quebrada Ocal, tres muestras pudieron ser datadas como de edad Albiense temprano, Albiense tardio, y de una edad cercana al limite Santoniense/ Campaniense. Una muestra de la Quebrada Bambuca se asigna al Albiense temprano. De la seccion Girardot-Melgar, tres muestras son del Campaniense tardio y otras dos del Maastrichtiense. Se discuten aspectos taxonomicos y cronologicos de especies con significado cronologico, especialmente de los generos Marginotruncana, Rugoglobigerina y Ticinella, asi como su ocurrencia en Colombia. Se senalan las implicaciones estratigraficas de las dataciones aqui presentadas.