Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optimization of catalyst deposition by spin-coating for synthesis of vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotube arrays

For morphology-tunable synthesis of vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotube (VA-SWNT) arrays, we present a spin-coating catalyst-deposition method as an alternative to dip-coating, where cobalt and molybdenum metals are deposited onto Si substrates by spin-coating a solution containing 0.01 %wt of each metal species dissolved in ethanol. The array height and yield of the VA-SWNTs from this method are higher than that from dip-coating, however the resonance Raman spectra in the radial breathing mode region are similar. The VA-SWNT array height was found to be independent of the thickness of the spin-coated film over the investigated range, and the uniformity was optimized by tuning the spin-coating conditions.
COBEM-2017-2568 ESTIMATION OF THE THERMAL CONDUCTANCE AT THE CONTACT INTERFACE OF A LAMINATED COMPOSITE WITH THE UNSCENTED

Abstract. The adhesion failures between the layers of a composite material are related to the thermal contact conductance, therefore this work aims to estimate this parameter in a laminated composite. To solve the direct problem, the Method of Lines was applied, while the inverse problem was solved by a Bayesian filter called Unscented Kalman Filter. The physical problem used in this study is composed of a plate with two layers, so the heat transfer problem has two spatial dimensions and a time dimension. Then, the values assigned for thermal conductance on interface layer depends on time and space. In this work, in order to analyze the proposed methodology, simulated temperature measurements were used. The results reveal the capability of the proposed approach.
AV-FUZZER: Finding Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems

This paper proposes AV-FUZZER, a testing framework, to find the safety violations of an autonomous vehicle (AV) in the presence of an evolving traffic environment. We perturb the driving maneuvers of traffic participants to create situations in which an AV can run into safety violations. To optimally search for the perturbations to be introduced, we leverage domain knowledge of vehicle dynamics and genetic algorithm to minimize the safety potential of an AV over its projected trajectory. The values of the perturbation determined by this process provide parameters that define participants’ trajectories. To improve the efficiency of the search, we design a local fuzzer that increases the exploitation of local optima in the areas where highly likely safety-hazardous situations are observed. By repeating the optimization with significantly different starting points in the search space, AV-FUZZER determines several diverse AV safety violations. We demonstrate AV-FUZZER on an industrial-grade AV platform, Baidu Apollo, and find five distinct types of safety violations in a short period of time. In comparison, other existing techniques can find at most two. We analyze the safety violations found in Apollo and discuss their overarching causes.
KOMUNITAS ZOOPLANKTON DI PERAIRAN LAMALERA DAN LAUT SAWU, NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITY IN LAMALERA SEA AND SAWU SEA, EAST

Zooplankton community was studied in Lamalera Sea and Sawu Sea during DIKTI-P2O LIPI Expedition from 19 – 30 July 2011. Besides being a potential fishing ground, the Lamalera sea and Sawu Sea have been a migration path for Cetacean (large marine mammals), particularly during the southeast monsoon season. The purposes of this study were to investigate community structure, abundance, and spatial distribution of zooplankton in the Lamalera Sea and the Sawu Sea. Plankton samples were collected from 23 stations, by NORPAC 300 µm-net that was vertically hauled from maximum 200 meter depth up to the surface water. The result showed that there were 45 taxa of zooplankton, which was dominated by copepods . The abundance of the zooplankton between 491 - 4537 individu/m 3 . Average diversity index and evenness values were 1.59 ± 0.21 and 0.50 ± 0.04, respectively. In this area, Creel has been found in all research stations but the abundance was small. Species composition was relatively the same between sampling stations suggesting that there was no different in composition between north and south parts, which virtually comprise of different water masses. It showed that spatial distribution of zooplankton was relatively wide-reaching.
A Biologically-Inspired Neural Implementation of Affect Control Theory

Social interactions are a part of day-to-day life of most human beings. Affect, decision-making and behavior are central to it. With increase in adaptation of technology in our society, interaction between humans and artiﬁcially intelligent agents is also increasing. Large-scale brain-inspired neural models have been equipped with capabilities to fulﬁl a variety of tasks, but there has been relatively limited focus on making them capable of handling social interaction. In this paper, NeuroACT, a neural computational model and implementation of a socio-psychological theory called Affect Control Theory (ACT) is presented. This is towards building an emotionally intelligent AI agent, that can handle interactions. It takes as input a continuous affective interpretation of a perceived event, consisting of an actor, behavior and an object and generates post-event predictions of the next optimal behavior to minimize deﬂec-tion. The aim is to model the role of affect guiding decision-making in AI agents, resulting in interactions that are similar to human interactions, while inhibiting some behaviors based on the social context.
An Assessment of Tourism Climate Comfort in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Pleasant climates can be divided into two types: the comfortable summer climate and the comfortable winter climate, but existing studies rarely pay attention to the distribution characteristics and differences between the two types of climate. This study investigates the spatial distribution of comfortable summer and winter climates in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and their differences based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Re-Analysis-Interim (ERA-interim) reanalysis data from 1979 to 2018. The Universal Thermal Climate Index was used to analyze climatic suitability. The findings are as follows. First, the comfortable summer climate regions of the CPEC were mainly distributed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and some regions of Xinjiang in China and also sporadically distributed in high altitude mountains, such as the western plateau area. The comfortable winter climate regions were mainly distributed in vast areas except for Karakoram and nearby areas. Second, there are a few regions with dual attributes of comfortable summer and winter climates in CPEC. Third, according to the calculation and comparison of the regional area of different climate comfort levels in summer and winter, it is found that the comfortable summer climate is scarcer in CPEC and is a monopoly resource. The comfortable winter climate is widely distributed, belonging to the ubiquitous resources. These findings can be helpful for the tourism development of local climate resources.
Fluidized Bed Combustion

This project started during the month of September 1992 of the fourth quarter of FY 1991-92. During the fl u : stmonth a NEPA report was prepa r ed and submitted to DOE as requ i red by the grant a n d graduate student was selected to perform work for this project. The fi n 'stquarter of FY 1992-93 focused on preparing and conducting a survey of fluidi z ed bed combustor operators and modifying the laboratory scale fluidized bed combustor located at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. of and to specific
The Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter sequence: 100 000 years of Stone Age history

Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter was excavated in 1985. A long and detailed sequence of Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) stone artefacts were recovered. These provide important information on the MSA, MSA/LSA transition, the Robberg LSA, as well as the relationship between hunter-gatherers and farmers between AD 400-800. The excavation, stratigraphy, stone artefacts, animal and plant remains, worked bone tools, beads, pottery and ochre finds are described. Thereafter I interpret the remains from the site focusing on the following issues: 1. The MSA, which emphasis on the Howiesons Poort. 2. The MSA/LSA transition. 3. The origins of the Late Pleistocene LSA microlithic bladelet assemblages. 4. Interaction between hunter-gatherers and iron-producing farmers. Evidence is presented to show that the MSA/LSA transition occurred between 35000-20000 BP. This transition is gradual with MSA technology being replaced by increasing bladelet production. Pre-dating 18000 BP and post-dating 12000 BP, the bladelet-rich assemblages recovered from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter are the first of their kind to be positively identified in Natal. They show that assemblages of this nature were produced earlier in Natal than elsewhere in southern Africa. The metrical results for bladelet cores and bladelets show a progressive decrease in their mean lengths from the MSA to the LSA, as well as within the LSA sequence. Consequently it is argued that the origins of the (Robberg) bladelet-rich assemblages are to be found in the local MSA. There is also evidence that suggests that a continuation of post-10000 BP bladelet production is centred in the north-east of the country. Hunter-gatherers and farmers interacted during the final phases of the site's history, while it is argued that the final occupants of the site were iron-producing farmers who fled the upheavals of the Mfecane in the 1800s. To cite this article: Kaplan, J. 1990. The Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter sequence: 100000 years of Stone Age history. Natal Museum Journal of Humanities 2 : 1-94.
MicroRNAs as modulators of the platelet proteome

MicroRNAs are short 21- to 24-nucleotide (nt) RNA species that act as key regulators of gene expression. Known primarily to modulate mRNA translation through recognition of specific binding sites located in the 3'untranslated region (UTR) of messenger RNA (mRNA) targets, microRNAs may regulate between 30% to 92% of the genes in human, thereby controlling a plethora of biological processes. Although devoid of a nucleus and lacking genomic DNA, platelets may be no exception, as recent experimental evidences indicate that they contain all the protein and RNA components and features required for microRNA-regulated mRNA translation: (i) the platelet transcriptome is astonishingly diverse, repre- senting between 15 and 32% of all human genes, (ii) platelet mRNAs can be translated into proteins, (iii) platelets contain an abundant and diverse array of microRNAs, and (iv) the host Dicer and Argonaute 2 (Ago2) complexes. The latter ones are functional in microRNA biogenesis and function, respectively. In this review article, we will summarize and discuss the experimental evidences as well as the most recent advances supporting a role for microRNAs as modulators of the pla- telet proteome. Expected to play a central role in health and disease, a dysfunctional microRNA-based regulation of gene expression in platelets may represent an important etiologic factor underlying platelet-related and cardiovascular diseases.
Organ-Forming Areas in the Early Chick Blastoderm

In attempting to locate the various organ-forming areas of the early blastoderm, a series of transverse and longitudinal cuts has been made at certain measured distances from the primitive pit in such a manner as to divide a single blastoderm of the head-process stage of development into a definite number (either 11 or 18) of median and lateral pieces. The developmental potency of each piece was tested in the chorio-allantoic membrane. Each part of the blastodisc is found thereby to have a certain capacity for development or specific organization, which becomes expressed in the form of specific tissues. Nearly 400 grafts have been examined histologically, a generalized analysis of which follows. 1. Differences in developmental capacity along the antero-posterior axis. 1 The portion of the area pellucida anterior to the head-process and that part of the area containing the posterior half of the primitive streak yield grafts much less frequently and invariably smaller ones than do those portions including either the node or the head-process. Also, the grafts from these portions exhibit a similar difference in the quantity of organ tissues produced, the node and process portions showing by far the greater variety and amount of tissues. Very striking is the demonstration that particular structures develop only from rather definite regions or areas of the blastoderm. So characteristic are some organ tissues of particular regions that we can speak of eye-forming, thyroid-forming, ear-forming, or mesonephros-forming levels or areas. The eye and thyroid-forming areas are associated with the anterior end of the head-process, ear farther posteriorly at the node level, while the center of the mesonephric area lies just posterior to the primitive pit (Fig. 1). 2. Differences in developmental capacity along the medio-lateral axis.
Effects of Inflow Shear on Wake Characteristics of Wind-Turbines over Flat Terrain

The scope of the present study was to understand the wake characteristics of wind-turbines under various inflow shears. First, in order to verify the prediction accuracy of the in-house large-eddy simulation (LES) solver, called RIAM-COMPACT, based on a Cartesian staggered grid, we conducted a wind-tunnel experiment using a wind-turbine scale model and compared the numerical and experimental results. The total number of grid points in the computational domain was about 235 million. Parallel computation based on a hybrid LES/actuator line (AL) model approach was performed with a new SX-Aurora TSUBASA vector supercomputer. The comparison between wind-tunnel experiment and high-resolution LES results showed that the AL model implemented in the in-house LES solver in this study could accurately reproduce both performances of the wind-turbine scale model and flow characteristics in the wake region. Next, with the LES solver developed in-house, flow past the entire wind-turbine, including the nacelle and the tower, was simulated for a tip-speed ratio (TSR) of 4, the optimal TSR. Three types of inflow shear, N = 4, N = 10, and uniform flow, were set at the inflow boundary. In these calculations, the calculation domain in the streamwise direction was very long, 30.0 D (D being the wind-turbine rotor diameter) from the center of the wind-turbine hub. Long-term integration of t = 0 to 400 R/Uin was performed. Various turbulence statistics were calculated at t = 200 to 400 R/Uin. Here, R is the wind-turbine rotor radius, and Uin is the wind speed at the hub-center height. On the basis of the obtained results, we numerically investigated the effects of inflow shear on the wake characteristics of wind-turbines over a flat terrain. Focusing on the center of the wind-turbine hub, all results showed almost the same behavior regardless of the difference in the three types of inflow shear.
Flood-Plain Animal Communities

Not until recent years have studies been made of biotic communities. Shelford's work (1913), was one of the earliest Oil animal communities in relation to plants and othcr enivironmental factors. More recently, interest has been taken in this work, especially by zoologists. The interrelations of animal and plant communities have been shown by Cameron (1917), Watt (1923), Weese (1924), Blake (1926), Shlackleford (1929), Smith (1928), and Bird (1930). Some plant ecologists have been reluctant to take animal effects on community and plants into consideration but fortunately this is not true of all. Vestal (1913) states, "Plant and animal associations are co-existent and to a large extent interdependent, the animals being entirely dependent upon the plants, broadly speaking, and the plants being partly dependenit upon the animals. "
Aviation Battery Monitoring Electronics for Li-Ion Battery Systems in Electrified Gliders and Aircrafts

This paper presents the hardware and software design of a battery monitoring circuit developed to be used in aviation applications employing lithium-ion batteries in their electrified powertrain. The considered aircraft is a manned glider able to take-off and land by using its electric propulsion system supplied by NCA/Graphite lithium-ion batteries. The battery monitoring electronics was developed with the highest considerations in terms of fail-safe and fail-operational requirements. The electronic design of the battery monitoring circuit integrates the battery busbars and uses new passive balancing components with an innovative busbar cooling solution, thus increasing the reliability and the robustness of the whole battery system. The software also contributes to the high safety level by employing crosscheck and plausibility check mechanisms. Keywords—Lithium-Ion Battery; Fail-Operational; HighAvailability; Redundant Architecture; Electrified Powertrain; Electrical Energy Storage System; Electric Aircraft; Aviation
APPLICATION OF RUMEN-PROTECTED LYSINE TO LOWER CRUDE PROTEIN DIETS FOR LACTATING DAIRY COWS

The study objective was to evaluate the application of supplemental rumen-protected lysine (RP Lys) to maintain milk production when reducing the crude protein levels in a lactating dairy cow diet. Twelve lactating multiparous Holstein cows, averaging 129 DIM, 50.2 kg milk yield, 3.6% fat and 2.9% true protein were randomly assigned to one of four 3x3 Latin squares. Each 14-d period had 11 d for adaptation followed by 3 d of data collection. Cows were offered one of three experimental treatment rations formulated with CPM Dairy (v3.0); Positive control (PC) — formulated to meet all nutrient requirements; Test diet (Test) — negative control diet formulated to meet nutrient requirements, except deficient in metabolizable protein (MP) (approximately 200 g/d) and first limiting in metabolizable Lys (approximately 10 g/d); and Test+RPL — same basal diet as negative control + RP-Lys to provide 14.5 g/d of MP-Lys. For Test+RPL, 45g of RP-Lys (AminoShure-L®; Balchem Corp., New Hampton, NY, containing 23.4g Lys) was top-dressed on the TMR once daily. The PC diet resulted in lower dry matter intake (P = 0.03) as compared to either the Test or Test+RPL diet. PC, Test, and Test+RPL cows averaged 42.6, 42.9, 43.6 kg/d of milk and 27.3, 28.4, 28.8 kg/d of DMI, respectively. Crude protein intake for the PC, Test, and Test+RPL diets was 4.83, 4.67, and 4.74 kg/d respectively. MUN decreased (P < 0.01) for cows on Test and Test+RPL diets as compared to PC diet (12.5, 12.5 and 14.9 mg/dL, respectively). Milk yield, milk components, milk component yields, FCM, ECM, SCM and production efficiencies (milk, ECM, SCM and FCM) did not differ (P > 0.05) among treatments. A post-study CPM Dairy evaluation using final chemical composition analyses of the feedstuffs and average production data from the animals predicted that diets supported more than 47 kg of milk and Lys was not limiting. Cows on the study produced slightly less milk, however DMI was 5-8% more than predicted by initial formulations. Formulation accuracy of the MP and Lys deficient diet may have been improved if data had been available from an initial adjustment period measuring DMI, body weight, milk yield and milk composition. It is also possible that the bioavailability of the RP Lys was not as great as thought during the diet formulation process. However, given the fact that the post-trial CPM analysis did not indicate a deficiency of Lys, it is not very likely that this impacted the results of this trial.
Atomic processes of shear-coupled migration in 
{112}
 twins and vicinal grain boundaries in bcc-Fe

Tilt {112} grain boundaries (GBs) in bcc metals perform shear-coupled grain boundary migration by the creation and glide of disconnections. Disconnection dipoles may be created at the pristine GB at high stresses or may be generated at the core of a GB dislocation that acts as a source of disconnections. We characterize this source in terms of its Burgers vector, denoted ~b1/−1, and describe the mechanism that allows the source to move conservatively with the GB. The ~b1/−1 grain boundary dislocation is created, for instance, during the absorption of a crystal dislocation by the {112} grain boundary. In addition, ~b1/−1 accommodates {112} vicinal grain boundaries that are formed by segments of {112} planes separated by ~b1/−1 grain boundary dislocations. The presence of these ~b1/−1 dislocations facilitates the conservative displacement of both, the pristine and the vicinal GBs. We show that the creation of disconnections is the key for the absorption of edge and screw dislocations by the GB and the drag of mixed dislocations by the GB during its migration. These conservative processes are efficient ways to accommodate plastic deformation by the growth and shrink of {112} twins, and shear-coupled motion of the {112} GB and its vicinal GBs.
Studies on Qualitative and Quantitative Phytochemical Constituents of Moringa oleifera leaf Meal

Medicinal plants and herbs are great importance to the health of the animals and also humans. Plants are composed of complex mixtures of secondary metabolites, which exhibit therapeutic effect. These are called phytochemicals and include alkaloids, glycosides, terpenoids and phenols. Moringa oleifera referred as ‘Drum stick tree’ belongs to the family of Moringaceae is considered as a native plant of India, Pakistan and Africa (Zvinorova et al., 2015). It can survive in harsh climatic condition including destitute soil without being much affected by drought. Every part of the Moringa oleifera tree, from the roots to the leaves has beneficial properties. The Moringa oleifera leaf contains Plants have served animals and humans as a natural source for therapies from ancient times, amongst them medicinal herbs have gain attention because of its wide use and less side effects. In the recent years plant research has increased throughout the world and a huge amount of evidences have been collected to show immense potential of medicinal plants used in various traditional systems, thus in the present investigation the phytochemical analysis of Moringa oleifera leaf meal was carried out as these plants have been proved to be one of the important nutritional and medicinal plant. The phytochemical analysis was carried out for the Moringa oleifera leaf meal extracted with aqueous and alcoholic solvents. The qualitative showed that presence of flavonoids, tannins, total phenols, saponins, and alkaloids were mainly seen in aqueous and alcoholic extract of leaf meal. In quantitative analysis showed that the level of flavonoids, tannins, total phenols, saponin and alkaloids in aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera leaf meal were 3.60, 1.25, 2.02, 0.59 and 1.12 per cent respectively. The presences of high amount of phytochemical constituents suggest that the Moringa oleifera plant has higher medicinal value and can be extensively studied to extract the natural compounds which are beneficial to animals and humans. K e y w o r d s