Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENT OF A 3-D TOPOGRAPHICAL BASIN STRUCTURE BASED ON SEISMIC AND GEOTECHNICAL DATA: CASE STUDY AT A HIGH SEISMICTY AREA OF GÖLYAKA, DÜZCE, TURKEY

The near-fault situation and high seismicity of an area makes the determination of the bedrock geometry more complex, and in return, it makes this area much more critical and important for the studies of site response analysis in account of seismic hazard assessment. Without a good model of topography and basin structure, any powerful calculation method would be in lack of a well-developed basin response. The study has been conducted in the Gölyaka basin that uniquely falls within the bifurcated section of the North Anatolian Fault System. The surface rupture of the 1999 Earthquakes of Kocaeli (Mw=7.4) and Düzce (Mw=7.2) bound this tectonically formed basin, respectively. In the study area, a 3-D basin structure of the model has been developed based on the geophysical and geotechnical data along with the geology. In particular, combined active and passive surface wave methods along with the H/V microtremor measurements at 29 locations, the vertical electrical sounding at 14 locations, the geotechnical boring data at about 30 locations and one deep boring data have been used to develop the structure of the sediment basin. The high-resolution 1-D shear wave velocity profile has been obtained through surface wave methods by using active Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) and passive Microtremor Array Method (MAM), respectively. The Schlumberger Vertical electrical sounding (VES) method has been applied to evaluate the bedrock of the basin depth. Furthermore, the H/V measurements have been carried out to be correlated with the fundamental period of the deepest point of the constructed basin. Finally, geotechnical and deep boring data have also been used along with the basin geology to be cross-referenced with the 1-D Vs profile. The result of this comprehensive survey led to a well-developed 3-D geometry model of the Gölyaka basin. The 3-D basin geometry model has been developed from the seismic surface wave results and later correlated with the results of the VES, deep Gölyaka basin fundamental periods and geotechnical boring data. Based on the surface wave results and the 2-D velocity profiles obtained, a bedrock level with an average velocity of 1100 m/s was accepted as the bedrock depth limit in the region. The implemented deep and geotechnical boring data with seismic results suggested that Gölyaka basin is composed of about five to seven sedimentary layers. It was concluded that the thicknesses of the alluvial sediments within the Gölyaka basin were estimated to be about 200-350 m, with irregular basin geometry and heterogeneity due to over-step faulting near the basin boundary. Furthermore, this in return, has resulted in inclined layering and nonlinearity in the velocity profile. The constructed model can successfully be used for site effects characterization and response studies in the region.
Comparison of Quadrupole, Time-of-Flight, and Fourier Transform Mass Analyzers for LC-MS Applications

The authors investigated the analytical capabilities of quadrupole, time-of-flight, and Fourier transform mass analyzers for liquid chromatography electrospray mass spectrometry (LC-MS) applications. They studied instrument parameters - such as sensitivity, mass range, and mass resolution - and issues related to sample preparation and separation for the characterization of low molecular weight compounds in complex environmental matrices. In this article, the authors discuss the effect of sample preparation on the performance of LC-MS analytical methods.
Deadline Constrained Packet Scheduling in Wireless Networking

Third generation (3G) of wireless communication networks aim to provide quality-of-service (QoS) sensitive services to downlink users. Amongst these are real-time multimedia services like videoconferencing and live media streaming, where the packets to be delivered to the user have deadlines associated with them. Downlink packet scheduling plays a key role in efficiently allocating base station resources to meet the desired level of QoS for various users. In this paper, we study the design of a downlink wireless packet scheduler that is capable of supporting applications with packet deadlines. We use a dynamic programming (DP) approach to study a parsimonious model of the scheduling problem. We propose a heuristic scheduling policy based on the structural properties of the optimal solution to the DP. We contrast the performance of the proposed scheduler to that of standard benchmark schedulers via extensive link-level simulations. The proposed scheduler offers a significantly better trade-off between user fairness and system performance.
Squill oil for decreasing dyspareunia and increasing sexual satisfaction in menopausal women: A triple-blind randomized controlled trial

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of squill oil on dyspareunia and sexual satisfaction in menopausal women. Materials and Methods: The present triple-blind randomized two-group controlled trial was conducted on 60 menopausal women (n=30 in placebo group and n=30 in squill oil group) in Mashhad in northeast of Iran in 2019. The Sabbatsberg Sexual Self-Rating Scale and Marinoff dyspareunia scale were the main tools used in this study. The participants were randomly assigned to two groups namely, squill oil group and placebo group and they received the treatments for 4 weeks. Questionnaires were completed before and 4 weeks after the intervention in both groups. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 24 by Mann-Whitney, t-test, and repeated measures ANOVA with a significance level of less than 0.05. Results: The average age in the squill oil group and placebo group were 53.5±2.2 and 51.7±4.5 years, respectively. There was a significant difference (p<0.001) between the two groups in terms of dyspareunia score before (1±3.6 vs 1±3.5) and after intervention (0.7±0.1 vs 1.2±1.2) in two groups. Results of independent t-test indicated that there was a significant difference (p<0.001) between the two groups in terms of sexual satisfaction before (23.4±5.7 vs 23.1±2.8) and after intervention (36.5±5.6 vs 24.8±2.5) in two groups. Conclusion: Using squill oil can cause a reduction in painful sexual intercourse and an increase in sexual satisfaction in postmenopausal women.
Application of variant transfer learning in wood recognition

Wood is a material commonly found in nature and is widely used in all professions and industries. Because wood has varied growth cycles and physical properties, there are large differences in its usage and commercial price. In addition, some woods are nationally protected species. Therefore, it is of great importance to accurately identify the type of wood. Traditional wood recognition methods rely on experts and specialized equipment. To facilitate wood recognition, this paper proposes an approach for wood recognition using images. Next, a transfer learning technology was used to extract the textural features of wood, and a global average pooling (GAP) layer was used to reduce the number of features. Finally, the extreme learning machine (ELM) was used for classification. The recognition accuracy of this approach for the Wood Species Dataset was 93.07%, which was higher than the method used by the data provider. This approach had a higher recognition accuracy and a more stable recognition performance than previous approaches.
Systematic Reviews and Met a-Analysis of Therapeutic Interventions : How to Better Underst and Them ? Revisão Sistemática

In the past decade, the Era of Evidence-Based Medicine, the number of meta-analysis dramatically increased. Metaanalyses statistically combine the results of multiple studies and are considered to be the highest level of evidence when the results of high-quality randomized trials are combined in an appropriate way. Results from a meta-analysis may not correspond to reality because of the large variation in the quality of the studies that have been pooled, and clinical and methodological differences among the included studies. The growing popularity of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has made it important to better understand them. The objective of this article is to help the reader comprehend how a systematic review and meta-analysis is carried out and to be better able to interpret them. We explain some impor tant aspects of conducting a meta-analysis. A better understanding of the basic terminology and the concepts involved in generating a systematic review and meta-analysis may help the clinician better evaluate the quality of a meta-analysis and the real importance of its findings for a specific patient.
S ] 22 S ep 2 00 5 Fast and Compact Regular Expression Matching ( D RAFT V ERSION : PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE )

The use of word operations has led to fast algorithms for clas sic problems such as shortest paths and sorting. Many classic problems in stringology, notably regular expr ssion matching and its variants, as well as edit distance computation, also have transdichotomous algorithms. Some f these algorithms have alphabet restrictions or require a large amount of space. In this paper, we improve on s veral of the keys results by providing algorithms that improve on known time/space bounds, or algorithms that remove restrictions on the alphabet size.
On the Chemistry of Inorganic Free Radicals in Cloud Water

The chemistry by which the inorganic free radicals •OH, HO2•, O2•-, SOx•- (x = 3, 4, 5), NO3•, Cl• and Cl2•- lead to the formation of acid rain by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide and organic pollutants in cloud water is discussed in detail. Also considered are the sources of the radicals, their relative reactivities, their inter-conversion and the origins of the pollutants with which they react.
The Conceptual Metaphor WOMAN IS AN ANIMAL in
Montenegrin wegpages

Animals are both a common and convenient source of conceptualising and constructing metaphors related to humankind in general, and, consequently, women in particular. Thus, women's behaviour and characteristics are often described by using the words and phrases which are used to describe animals (Kövecses, 2010). This paper investigates the three most commonly used realizations of the conceptual metaphor WOMAN IS AN ANIMAL in the Montenegrin webpages (the .me domain). The paper also deals with the context in which these metaphors typically occur, as well as with the ideological values they convey, which are both positive and negative in terms of presenting women's behaviour and beauty.
A Low-Cost, Open Source IoT-Based SCADA System Design, and Implementation for Photovoltaics

—Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) has largely been proprietary, pricey, and therefore uneconomical for smaller applications. With proprietary SCADA systems, there is also the problem of interoperability with the existing system components, and communication systems. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low-cost, open source SCADA system based on the Internet of Things SCADA architecture. The proposed SCADA system consists of current and voltage sensors for data collection, an ESP32 micro-controller (Remote Terminal Unit) for receiving and processing the sensor data, and ThingsBoard IoT Server (Master Terminal Unit) for historic data storage and human machine interactions. The ThingsBoard IoT Server is locally installed on a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol is implemented for data transfer over a local Wi-Fi connection. The system design procedures, testing and the results are presented in the paper.
SETTING THE STAGE Business Units with Stand-Alone Software Packages

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case study presents an experience report on an Enterprise Modelling and Application Integration project for a young company, starting in the telecommunications business area. The company positions itself as a broadband application provider for the SME market. Whereas its original information infrastructure consisted of a number of stand-alone business and operational support system (BSS/OSS) applications, the project’s aim was to define and implement an Enterprise Layer, serving as an integration layer on top of which these existing BSS/OSSs would function independently and in parallel. This integration approach was to be nonintrusive and was to use the business applications as-is. The scope of the case entails the conception of a unifying Enterprise Model and the formulation of an implementation architecture for the Enterprise Layer, based on the Enterprise JavaBeans framework.
CREATIVITY IN DRAWINGS OF GEOMETRIC SHAPES A Cross-Cultural Examination With the Consensual Assessment Technique

This study examines whether European Americans and Chinese differ in their creation and evaluation of drawings of geometric shapes. Two hundred ninety-four drawings created by 50EuropeanAmerican and 48 Chinese college students were selected from a larger study of culture and creativity. Drawings were judged by eight Chinese and six EuropeanAmericans following the Consensual Assessment Technique. The drawings were coded by content to examinewhat the judges considered creative. Results showed high consensus betweenEuropeanAmerican andChinese judges and great similarity in the creativity of drawings generated by the two groups. Judges liked best those drawings they judged more creative. The most creative drawings typically involved representations of geometric shapes in contexts (either concrete or abstract). Results run counter to the belief that there arewide cultural variations in the evaluation of and attitudes toward creativity, demonstrate the feasibility of cross-cultural comparisons with the Consensual Assessment Technique, and provide a basis for further cross-cultural research on creativity.
Towards End-User Programming of complex Robotic Systems and Intelligent Environments Programmierung von komplexen Robotersystemen und intelligenten Umgebungen durch End-Benutzer

2 The thesis investigates the possibility to introduce End-User Programming to complex robotic systems and Intelligent Environments. ROS, the Robot Operating System 1 , is selected as middleware for distributed sensor-actuator systems that focuses on expert-users. To reach more users and make it attractive to end-users, the ROS-VP (visual programming) toolkit is developed to enable the creation of a ROS program employing a visual programming language. The toolkit's concept is based on the integration and automatic analysis of existing ROS packages, easy to use configuration and connection of software modules as well as the provision of two packages that contain operations for strings and numbers. Visually created ROS programs can be exported, stored and executed without further conversion. The prototype is implemented into Eclipse to keep a familiar user interface and simplify the integration into the existing development process. Two evaluated use cases visualize the capabilities of the application and show that it is suited for both novice and expert-users. 3 Diese Diplomarbeit untersucht die Möglichkeit, End-Benutzern die Programmierung von komplexen Robotersystemen oder intelligenten Umgebungen zu ermöglichen.
An Autonomous Trash Cleaning Robot

- Object detection is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision. A common paradigm to address this problem is to train object detectors that operate on a sub-image and apply these detectors in an exhaustive manner across all locations and scales. The exhaustive search through all possible locations and scales poses a computational challenge. The main objective of this work is to design an autonomous trash cleaning robot that could be operated in a remote place. The primary action in many repetitive tasks is picking up objects and moving them to other locations. This robot was designed as a fetching robot. It was to come with a set of objects that it was designed to detect and segregate into biodegradable and non-biodegradable, and it is able to collect these items from the environment when there are placed at random. Experimental results show that the proposed work can provide improved results than the existing machine learning algorithms.
Effectiveness of Selected Exercise Programme on Cervical Range of Motion in Patients with Thoracic Kyphosis & Forward Head Posture

Background: Altered postural behaviours result in Forward head posture and thoracic kyphosis making it amenable to correction. The biomechanical strain, in presence of reduced strength of the core stabilizing musculature, in particular, if it is repeated or prolonged, is the predominant explanation for symptoms associated with forward head posture and thoracic kyphosis i.e., neck pain and reduced cervical range of motion. Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effect of postural awareness and conventional exercises on the cervical range of motion in patients with thoracic kyphosis and forward head posture. Methodology: This experimental study was conducted on 60 subjects both male and female of age group 20-35yrs. Subjects were randomly divided into two groups consisting of 30 subjects each. Group A received hot pack and postural advice and Group B received hot pack and stretching and strengthening exercises. All the subjects received a total intervention of 4 days (alternate days) per week for 4 weeks. Results: Intra-group significant differences were obtained between pre- and post-treatment for all evaluated variables (p˂0.01) in both groups. The inter-group comparison showed significant differences (p˂0.01) between post-treatment variables of Group A and Group B where, Group B showed greater improvement than Group A. Conclusion: The treatment given to both the groups together can be used to improve cervical range of motion, thoracic kyphosis, and forward head posture. This study may serve as a guideline for physiotherapists when making decisions regarding possible interventions. KEY WORDS: Cervical range of motion, Craniovertebral angle, Forward head posture, Kyphosis index, Neck disability index, Thoracic kyphosis.
Social gradients in health vary between rural and urban Turkana

Background and objectives: Low socioeconomic status (SES) is consistently associated with chronic stress, poor health, and premature death in high income countries (HICs). However, the degree to which SES gradients in health are universal, or even steeper under contemporary, post-industrial conditions, remains poorly understood. Methodology: We quantified material wealth and several health outcomes among a population of traditional pastoralists, the Turkana of northwest Kenya, who are currently transitioning toward a more urban, market-integrated lifestyle. We assessed whether SES associations with health differed in subsistence-level versus urban contexts. We also explored the causes and consequences of SES-health associations by measuring serum cortisol, potential sociobehavioral mediators in early life and adulthood, and adult reproductive success (number of surviving offspring). Results: High SES predicts better self-reported health and more offspring in traditional pastoralist Turkana, but worse cardiometabolic health and fewer offspring in urban Turkana. We do not find robust evidence for either direct biological mediators (i.e., cortisol) or indirect sociobehavioral mediators (e.g., adult diet or health behaviors, early life experiences) of SES-health relationships in either context. Conclusions and implications: While social gradients in health are common in non-human primates, small-scale human societies, and HICs, we find that relationships between wealth and health can vary dramatically within a single population. Our findings emphasize that under different economic and societal circumstances, social status effects on health may manifest in very different ways.
DYNAMIC SHEAR MODULUS AND DAMPING RATIO OF CORAL SAND FROM THE NANSHA ISLANDS, SOUTH CHINA SEA

Coral sand is the main geotechnical medium of coral reef, whose major ingredients are calcium minerals. Compared with terrigenous sands, coral sand has unexpected physical and mechanical properties due to its origin and fabric. The surface of coral sand grains is rough, the shapes are irregular and angular. The particles of coral sand can be easily crushed and have the property of cementation. All the characteristics of coral sand mentioned above lead to a considerable difference in physical and mechanical characteristics from the terrigenous sands. A series of undrained multistage strain-controlled cyclic triaxial tests was conducted at different confining stress levels on saturated coral sand from Nansha Island, South China Sea with different relative densities Dr using GCTS triaxial apparatus. Then the characteristics of shear modulus G, small-strain shear modulus G0, shear modulus ratio G/G0 and damping ratio D of coral sand are analyzed. It is concluded that the properties of coral sand in terms of shear modulus and damping ratio are significantly different from terrigenous sandy soils. A series of empirical equations were proposed for the prediction of G0, G/G0 and D of coral sand.
DRAFT VERSION : PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 3 2 The SPLASH-2 Application Suite

We have recently released the SPLASH-2 suite of parallel applications for the study of centralized and/or distributed shared-address-space multiprocessors. In this regard, this paper has two main goals. One is to quantitatively characterize the SPLASH-2 programs in terms of fundamental properties that are important to understanding these parallel programs, and to describe how these properties vary with problem and machine parameters. The properties we study include the concurrency and load balance behavior, the communication-to-computation ratio, the sizes and scaling of the important working sets, and issues related to spatial locality. The other, perhaps more important, goal is methodological: to assist people who will use the programs for architectural evaluations to prune the design space of machine parameters in an informed and meaningful way. For example, by characterizing the working sets of the applications, we describe which operating regions in terms of cache size and problem size are representative of realistic situations and which are not (as well as which are redundant). Using SPLASH-2 as an example, we also hope to convey the importance of understanding the interplay of problem size, number of processors, and working sets in designing experiments and interpreting their results.
Immunolocalization of decorin, a small leucin-rich proteoglycan, in the normal and injured horse tendon

Article history: Received May 02, 2020 Accepted July 14, 2020 Available online June 23, 2021 The aim of this study was to evaluate the intensity of decorin in normal and the injured equine cadaver limbs. The study was carried out using superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) samples harvested from equine cadaver limbs. Randomly assigned left or right equine distal forelimbs were collected in normal (7 14 years old ± 2.86 SD) and injured (6 16 years old ± 3.64 SD) SDFT. Small pieces of approximately 5 x 5 x 3 mm were collected from normal and the injured areas at the mid-most metacarpal regions and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde at room temperature. They were routinely prepared for H&E staining in order to confirm whether they were normal or injured. Then they were prepared for immunological assay, the primary and the secondary antibodies were prepared in a standard ratio. The results showed that the distribution of decorin was varied between fascicles and the interfascicular matrix (IFM), and the latter showed greater intensity than the fascicles. The injured tendons showed up-regulation of decorin, it was intensively expressed in all the cases of injured tendon, particularly fascicles showed significant up-regulation when compared to the normal tendon. It was concluded that decorin was varied regionally, and the injured tendons presented a significant up-regulation.