Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ertical crustal motions from differential tide gauge observations and satellite ltimetry in southern Italy arla

Our goal is to determine vertical crustal movement rates from tide gauge and satellite altimetry measurements. Tide gauges measure sea level, but as they are fixed to the crust, they sense both sea surface height variations and vertical crustal movements. The differential sea level rates of sufficiently nearby stations are a good means to determine differential crustal movement rates, when sea level height variations can be assumed to be homogeneous. Satellite altimetric measurements determine sea surface height variations directly and can be used to separate the crustal signal from the sea surface height variations in tide gauge measurements. The correction of the tide gauge sea level rates for the sea surface height contribution requires collocation of the satellite pass and the tide gauge station. We show that even if this is not the case, the satellite altimetric observations enable correction of differential tide gauge rates for the effects of sea surface rate inhomogeneities. We apply the methodology to an area of broad scientific interest, due to its high seismic risk and its location as standpoint for a proposed major bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian mainland. We find that the Southern Calabria and the eastern Sicily tide gauges have a deficit in sea level increase of 1–2 mm/yr with respect to the north western Sicilian tide gauge. The satellite altimetric observations show that this differential movement must be caused by a tectonic component, because the sea surface rates are higher offshore eastern Sicily compared to offshore western Sicily. The satellite altimetric rates show that the sea surface rates are inhomogeneous in the Mediterranean and have larger amplitudes as we move away from the coast than immediately offshore. Our technique can be applied to any part of the bserv world where tide gauge o
Supplementary Information for Tunable Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions in Ir / Fe / Co / Pt Multilayers

NATURE MATERIALS | www.nature. com/naturematerials 1 Supplementary Information for Tunable Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt Multilayers Anjan Soumyanarayanan, 2, ∗ M. Raju, A. L. Gonzalez Oyarce, Anthony K. C. Tan, Mi-Young Im, 4 A. P. Petrović, Pin Ho, K. H. Khoo, M. Tran, C. K. Gan, F. Ernult, and C. Panagopoulos † Data Storage Institute, 2 Fusionopolis Way, 138634 Singapore Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Korea Institute of High Performance Computing, 1 Fusionopolis Way, 138632 Singapore
Role of a RhoA/ROCK-Dependent Pathway on Renal Connexin43 Regulation in the Angiotensin II-Induced Renal Damage

In various models of chronic kidney disease, the amount and localization of Cx43 in the nephron is known to increase, but the intracellular pathways that regulate these changes have not been identified. Therefore, we proposed that: “In the model of renal damage induced by infusion of angiotensin II (AngII), a RhoA/ROCK-dependent pathway, is activated and regulates the abundance of renal Cx43”. In rats, we evaluated: 1) the time-point where the renal damage induced by AngII is no longer reversible; and 2) the involvement of a RhoA/ROCK-dependent pathway and its relationship with the amount of Cx43 in this irreversible stage. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and renal function (urinary protein/urinary creatinine: Uprot/UCrea) were evaluated as systemic and organ outcomes, respectively. In kidney tissue, we also evaluated: 1) oxidative stress (amount of thiobarbituric acid reactive species), 2) inflammation (immunoperoxidase detection of the inflammatory markers ED-1 and IL-1β), 3) fibrosis (immune detection of type III collagen; Col III) and 4) activity of RhoA/ROCK (amount of phosphorylated MYPT1; p-MYPT1). The ratio Uprot/UCrea, SBP, oxidative stress, inflammation, amount of Cx43 and p-MYPT1 remained high 2 weeks after suspending AngII treatment in rats treated for 4 weeks with AngII. These responses were not observed in rats treated with AngII for less than 4 weeks, in which all measurements returned spontaneously close to the control values after suspending AngII treatment. Rats treated with AngII for 6 weeks and co-treated for the last 4 weeks with Fasudil, an inhibitor of ROCK, showed high SBP but did not present renal damage or increased amount of renal Cx43. Therefore, renal damage induced by AngII correlates with the activation of RhoA/ROCK and the increase in Cx43 amounts and can be prevented by inhibitors of this pathway.
Chronic Pain Prevalence and Exposures during Pregnancy

Pregnant women with chronic pain present a unique clinical challenge for both chronic pain and obstetrical providers, and clinical guidelines do not exist. The present study describes the prevalence and management of chronic pain during pregnancy in a perinatal mood disorder clinic. A retrospective chart review of pregnant women who presented to the Women's Mental Health Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for an initial evaluation from July 2013 to June 2016 was conducted to obtain demographic and medical information, including pharmacological exposures. Data are described using the mean and standard deviation for continuous data and frequency for categorical data. Pain complaints and medications are presented as counts and percentages. Differences between women with and without chronic pain were assessed by t-tests for continuous variables and chi-square analysis for categorical variables. Of the 156 pregnant women, chronic pain conditions were reported by 44 (28.2%). The most common chronic pain complaints included neck and/or back pain (34.1%) and headaches (31.8%). Of subjects with chronic pain, 95.5% were taking at least one prescription medication (mean = 2.6 ± 2.1, range of 0–10). Acetaminophen (43.2%) and opioids (43.2%) were the most common. The complexity of managing maternal benefits of treatment with the risks of fetal exposures presents a uniquely challenging clinical scenario for healthcare providers.
Fe b 20 19 Identification of particles with Lorentz factor up to 10 4 with Transition Radiation Detectors based on microstrip silicon detectors

This work is dedicated to the study of a technique for hadron identification in the TeV momentum range, based on the simultaneous measurement of the energies and of the emission angles of the Transition Radiation (TR) X-rays with ∗Corresponding authors Email addresses: francesco.loparco@ba.infn. it (F.Loparco), marionicola.mazziotta@ba.infn. it (M. N. Mazziotta), anatoli.romaniouk@cern.ch (A. Romaniouk) Preprint submitted to Nuclear Instruments & Methods A February 26, 2019 respect to the radiating particles. A detector setup has been built and tested with particles in a wide range of Lorentz factors (from about 10 to about 4×10 crossing different types of radiators. The measured double-differential (in energy and angle) spectra of the TR photons are in a reasonably good agreement with TR simulation predictions.
Measurement Cargo Shipment Quality through the Unit Load Device ( ULD ) PT . Garuda Indonesia SBU Cargo using Six Sigma Method

This study aims to measure for improving the quality of delivery cargo through Unit Load Device (ULD) PT Garuda Indonesia SBU Cargo. Researcher uses a mixture of qualitative and quantitative with six sigma approach. With three of the five stages of six sigmas, namely: define, measure and analyze along with some auxiliary tools, the results show that there are five factors known problem that occurs with sigma level of 4.8 which indicates the delivery process through the ULD in PT Garuda Indonesia is working normally. In addition, with fishbone diagram analysis show that the known CTQ Potential are ULD damage, delay of goods, damage to goods and not real-time Database with each having a weight of 3, and of the Pareto chart is known of CTQ key is ULD damage. The latter five why analysis using weights to each question are known root causes of the key issues, namely the SBU management policies into operating divisions in PT. Garuda Indonesia Cargo SBU by following a weight in each question.
J an 2 01 4 Moment-Based Relaxation of the Optimal Power Flow Problem

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem minimizes power system operating cost subject to both engineering and network constraints. With the potential to find global solutions, significant research interest has focused on convex relaxat ions of the non-convex AC OPF problem. This paper investigates “moment-based” relaxations of the OPF problem developed from the theory of polynomial optimization problems. At the cost of increased computational requirements, moment-bas ed relaxations are generally tighter than the semidefinite rel axation employed in previous research, thus resulting in global sol utions for a broader class of OPF problems. Exploration of the feasi ble space for test systems illustrates the effectiveness of the momentbased relaxation.
LAND DEGRADATION AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN UPPER RACOVA CATCHMENT Samoilă ( Grigoraș )

Land degradation has been recognized as an important environmental threat in the Moldavian Plateau of eastern Romania. This study was designed to estimate the magnitude of land degradation and to review land management in a small catchment in the Central Moldavian Plateau. Several methods were deployed to estimate soil erosion losses, gully distribution, landslide inventory and reservoir sedimentation rates. Results obtained in the study area of 7,766 ha, of which 31% is arable and 32% native forest, show that the mean value of soil losses by water erosion on agricultural land is 19.0 t hay. By adding the woodland contribution, this value significantly decreases to 12.8 t hay. Then, a large proportion of land (58%) is covered by landslides. Most of them are shallow and dormant (stable), and the active ones form only ~2% of the total landslide area. Siltation rates determined using Cs reflect the impact of land management on deposition patterns in reservoirs. Proper conservation measures were applied over a 20-year time-span from 1970-1990. Since 1991 the contour farming system collapsed and returned to the traditional ‘up-and-down slope’ farming system on very small plots.
SPARSE: Structured Prediction using Argument-Relative Structured Encoding

We propose structured encoding as a novel approach to learning representations for relations and events in neural structured prediction. Our approach explicitly leverages the structure of available relation and event metadata to generate these representations, which are parameterized by both the attribute structure of the metadata as well as the learned representation of the arguments of the relations and events. We consider affine, biaffine, and recurrent operators for building hierarchical representations and modelling underlying features. We apply our approach to the second-order structured prediction task studied in the 2016/2017 Belief and Sentiment analysis evaluations (BeSt): given a document and its entities, relations, and events (including metadata and mentions), determine the sentiment of each entity towards every relation and event in the document. Without task-specific knowledge sources or domain engineering, we significantly improve over systems and baselines that neglect the available metadata or its hierarchical structure. We observe across-the-board improvements on the BeSt 2016/2017 sentiment analysis task of at least 2.3 (absolute) and 10.6% (relative) F-measure over the previous state-of-the-art.
Performance and Nutrient Digestibility of West African Dwarf Goats Fed Corncob-Poultry Dropping Silage

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance and nutrient digestibility of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats fed corncob-poultry dropping silage comprising corncob-cassava peel mixtures ensiled with varying percentages of poultry droppings. Diet 1 (control) is concentrate feed. Sixteen WAD goats were allotted to four (4) dietary treatments (Diet 1 – diet 4) in a completely randomized design. The crude protein, ether extract and ash increased with increasing proportion of poultry dropping in corncob-cassava peel mixtures, while the Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF), Acid Detergent Fiber (ADF), and Acid Detergent Lignin (ADL) declined from Diet 4 to Diet 2. Feed Intake (FI) was highest in goats fed control diet (588g/day) and lowest in goats fed diet 4 (457 g/day). However, Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), and Final Weight Gained (FWG) of goats fed diet 2 (13.75 and 11.66 kg) and diet 3 (15.83 and 11.14 kg), respectively, were better and statistically comparable to (P>0.05) with goats fed diet 1, even though diet 1 gave the best FCR (13.64) and FWG (12.15kg). Weight gain (g/day) of goats fed diet 1 (43.1g/day) and diet 2 (38.57g/day), respectively, were also remarkable (P>0.05). Dry matter digestibility was highest in goats fed diet 2 (85.14%) and lowest in goats fed diet 4 (76.68%). Crude protein digestibility was highest in goats fed diet 1(89.49%) and followed by goats fed diet 2 (84.80%). Nitrogen (N) balance among the goats differed (P<0.05) significantly. N-intake (2.57 and 2.42 g/day), Percentage N-absorbed (42.23 and 36.23%), Percentage N-retained (26.46 sand 20.66%), and apparent N-digestibility (62.64 and 57.02) values were highest in goats fed concentrate (diet1); and followed by those fed diet 2 respectively. It can be concluded that goats fed corncob-cassava peel mixtures ensiled with 25% poultry dropping (diet 2) had FI, FCR, Nretention and FWG relatively comparable with goat fed control (concentrate) diet. Hence, poultry dropping could be harnessed as alternative nitrogen supplement to reduce the cost of feed production and enhanced optimal performance of WAD goats. (
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AFTERBURNING OF THERMOBARIC EXPLOSIVE PRODUCTS IN AIR

To predict the blast performance of thermobaric warhead, numerical modeling of secondary burning after detonation of thermobaric explosives is investigated. We select TNT containing small quantity of aluminum as a candidate thermobaric explosive. The combustion process is modeled by the fast reaction for gas and aluminum vapor and the finite-rate burning for aluminum particle. The simulations are performed by the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element, or CESE method, which is a state-of-art CFD technology to solve conservation laws.
Currency Substitution and Monetary Policy under the Incomplete Financial Market Masao Kumamoto

Currency substitution is a phenomenon that domestic residents use a foreign currency as a medium of exchange. It is a common feature of many developing and transition countries. Many literatures concern the role of currency substitution on the effects of monetary policy and on the real exchange rate fluctuations. In this paper, we analyze the extent to which the degree of currency substitution influences on the effects of monetary policy. Especially, we will focus on the role of real exchange rate in the transmission of monetary policy. To attain this objective, we develop a small open economy general equilibrium model which has a standard New Keynesian framework. Our model also assumes incomplete financial markets in which risk sharing conditions and uncovered interest rate parity condition do not hold and net foreign assets play a role. We derive a tractable model in terms of the output gap, domestic inflation rate and the real exchange rate gap. Our impulse responses and unconditional variances analyses show that the degree of currency substitution does not have serious influences on the effects of domestic monetary policy. This is because the real interest rate channel dominates the marginal utility of consumption channel. On the other hand, it influences on the transmissions of foreign monetary policy shock to the domestic economy. Moreover, in the incomplete financial market, different degree of currency substitution has different permanent effects on the domestic economy through the net foreign assets.
Three-dimensional dendritic morphology and branching mechanism in directionally solidified Mg-Zn alloy

The three-dimensional α-Mg dendritic morphology and branching mechanisms of directionally solidified Mg-Zn alloy were studied. Different microstructures were obtained under different pulling velocities various from 30μm/s to70μm/s. Directional growth tissue of α-Mg dendrite was obseved in the specimen solidified under the pulling velocity of 30μm/s, while in the samples solifdified in other pulling velocities α-Mg dendrites tend to exhibit equiaxed morphologies without any directional growth structure. Coupled with a novel method X-ray synchrotron tomography and trational metallographic technique, the threedimensional morphology and topology structure of the α-Mg in the sample with the pulling velocity of 30μm/s were characterized. The result show that the morphology of α-Mg dendrites are diversity and complicated in three-dimensional space. Through the analysis we demonstrated that the α-Mg dendrite grows with seven secondary dendrite arms around the trunk which is different from what have been observed in the directionally solidified AZ91 [1][2] and non-directional solidified Mg-Zn [3] or Mg-Al [4] alloys. In addition, the angles between the secondary dendrite arms and the trunck are different, with an angle of 53~54o for three arms, 80~82o for two and 60o for the rest of the two arms. A hypothetical model of topological structure in α-Mg dendrites is proposed and the crystallography of the branches and advancing dendrite is discussed.
INVESTIGATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN rs1800796 VARIANTS OF INTERLEUKINE-6 GENE AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

The most important characteristic of coronary artery disease, which is one of the most common and most important health problems today, is that it can lead to life-threatening myocardial infarction in advanced stages. It is more important to take protective preventions by knowing the risk factors that cause the disease rather than the treatment of this disease. This study was performed on coronary artery disease (CAD) to determine the frequency of the interleukin-6 gene (IL-6) 572G/C polymorphism and to examine the role of this polymorphism in CAD development. Genomic DNA obtained from 185 persons (103 CAD patients, 82 controls) was used in the study. IL-6 572 G/C polymorphism genotypes were determined using PCR, RFLP and electrophoresis. The results were statistically analyzed. The frequencies of 572 G/C genotypes, in controls GG 83%, GC 17%, CC 0% and in CAD patients GG 72% , GC 28% and CC 0% were found. There was no significant difference between the control group and the patient groups in genotype frequencies. It was determined that GG genotype frequency increases significantly in patients according to control group. Based on the results of our study, we may suggest that there is no association between CAD and IL-6 572G / C polymorphism.
Clairvoyant targeted attack on complex networks

Complex networks' resilience against attacks represents a crucial issue in terms of network structure integrity. We investigate the effect of removing nodes on the network diameter in the case of a simultaneous targeted attack and sequential targeted attack. The analysis has been implemented on several network instances, taking into account different centrality measures and clustering coefficients values. Empirical networks have also been observed to compare the effects of the two removal schemes. According to classical literature, we assume that the network attacker has a wide-ranging knowledge of the system. It can be defined as clairvoyant since it knows, a priori, of all the characteristics of the problem's instances. This awareness is not always applicable when real networks are characterised by a dynamic environment. Hence, we distinguish between clairvoyant and non-clairvoyant attacks.
Reviving a psychometric measure: Classification and prediction of the Operant Motive Test

Implicit motives allow for the characterization of behavior, subsequent success and long-term development. While this has been operationalized in the operant motive test, research on motives has declined mainly due to labor-intensive and costly human annotation. In this study, we analyze over 200,000 labeled data items from 40,000 participants and utilize them for engineering features for training a logistic model tree machine learning model. It captures manually assigned motives well with an F-score of 80%, coming close to the pairwise annotator intraclass correlation coefficient of r = . 85. In addition, we found a significant correlation of r = . 2 between subsequent academic success and data automatically labeled with our model in an extrinsic evaluation.
1 Second-Generation Research in the Field of Early Intervention

THE 25-YEAR period between 1970 and 1995 was a rriost remarkable time for the field of early intervention. Evolving from a collection of disparate activities and therapeutic approaches, far more coherent, highly visible, and well-established programs of early intervention supports and services for children and families have emerged. Accompanying the emergence of these contemporary early intervention programs has been a· set of principles and values that are beginning to achieve consensus. At one level, most professionals, parents, advocates, and policy makers now agree that it is a societal responsibility to provide needed early intervention programs for children with established disabilities and for those whose development may be compromised as a result of biological or environmental factors. Similarly, most agree that the early years constitute a unique opportunity for influencing child development and supporting families, an opportunity that may well maximize long~term benefits for all concerned. Apparent as well is a strong preventive philosophy in which the goal of intervention is to prevent or minimize developmental problems for children at risk as a result of biological or environmental factors. In addition, this preventive philosophy extends to children with established disabilities, as interventions seek to minimize related problems that may further compromise development. Finally, consensus appears to have been achieved with respect to broad principles that guide early intervention programs. In particular, it is agreed that successful early in-
Optimising PLINK

Every year the amount of genetic data increases greatly, creating the need for the tool capable of analysing large data sets in a fast and efficient manner. One such software package, providing a wide range of functionality required in whole-genome association studies is PLINK. Although, it does not limit the size of the data sets, the time needed to process them is often a bottleneck. This master project was focused on improving the performance of two functionality options: epistasis analysis and haplotype blocks estimation. It has been determined that the g++ compiler and –O2 flag provide the optimal performance for both options. The epistasis analysis has been parallelised using OpenMP. The parallel for schedule directive has been used and dynamic schedule with the chunksize of the size 128 provided the best scaling. When executed on 12 threads the epistasis analysis was 10.5 times faster than when executed on 1 thread. Haplotype blocks option has been serially optimised. Introduced optimisations improved the execution time by about 30%.