Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The AdS 5 non-Abelian T-dual of Klebanov-Witten as a N = 1 linear quiver from M 5-branes

In this paper we study an AdS5 solution constructed using non-Abelian Tduality, acting on the Klebanov-Witten background. We show that this is dual to a linear quiver with two tails of gauge groups of increasing rank. The field theory dynamics arises from a D4-NS5-NS5’ brane set-up, generalizing the constructions discussed by Bah and Bobev. These realize N = 1 quiver gauge theories built out of N = 1 and N = 2 vector multiplets flowing to interacting fixed points in the infrared. We compute the central charge using a-maximization, and show its precise agreement with the holographic calculation. Our result exhibits n3 scaling with the number of five-branes. This suggests an eleven-dimensional interpretation in terms of M5-branes, a generic feature of various AdS backgrounds obtained via non-Abelian T-duality.
A retweet prediction method of micro-blog big data users based on Map/Reduce

In all kinds of social network software, retweet is a common behavior and a important mechanism for information dissemination. Especially retweet prediction of microblog users is very important to deep research. However traditional method can’t be effectively applied to big data. To solve this problem, in this paper, first study the most relevant features of retweet, such as proximity social network, retweet activity, etc. Second, use Map/Reduce programming framework to achieve the extraction of feature set and an improved random forests algorithm. Third, gives a distributed approach based on Hadoop platform and use this algorithm for parallel retweet prediction of user's concern edge. Finally, do some experiment by using real data sets of Sina’s Micro-blog. Experiments show that this distributed approach based on hadoop platform is better than traditional design, it can effectively predict retweet of Micro-blog user in less time.
Pellets independent of or associated with Bohemian Ordovician body fossils

Clusters of small cylindrical pellets occur sporadically in Ordovician strata in Bohemia. They are assigned to the ichnogenus Tomaculum and occur in lenticular or elongated accumulations. Similar accumulations are associated with body fossils including the cephala of the trilobites Ormathops atavus, Pricyclopyge binodosa, and Parabarrandia crassa. The clusters are situated under the glabella and in the anterior parts of the cephalon but their exact position is variable in different cases. Accumulations of pellets have also been studied inside shells of hyoliths, bellerophontids, and echino− derm thecae. They probably represent the faeces of either scavengers feeding on soft parts or organisms using cephalic shields and other shells as hiding places. An interpretation of these pellets as trilobite eggs is highly improbable.
Interpolating Binary and Multivalued Logical Quantum Gates

A method for synthesizing quantum gates is presented based on interpolation methods applied to operators in Hilbert space. Starting from the diagonal forms of specific generating seed operators with non-degenerate eigenvalue spectrum one obtains for arity-one a complete family of logical operators corresponding to all the one-argument logical connectives. Scaling-up to n-arity gates is obtained by using the Kronecker product and unitary transformations. The quantum version of the Fourier transform of Boolean functions is presented and a Reed-Muller decomposition for quantum logical gates is derived. The common control gates can be easily obtained by considering the logical correspondence between the control logic operator and the binary logic operator. A new polynomial and exponential formulation of the Toffoli gate is presented. The method has parallels to quantum gate-T optimization methods using powers of multilinear operator polynomials. The method is then applied naturally to alphabets greater than two for multi-valued logical gates used for quantum Fourier transform, min-max decision circuits and multivalued adders.
Critical Review and Analysis of Air-Travel Demand: Forecasting Models

Air transportation is a mode in which demand increases continuously at a significant, yet highly variable rate. It is thus very hard to estimate the magnitude of demand at future points in time, no matter how critical this might be for a number of components of the air transportation industry. One of the most important components of the overall air transportation system is the airports. Airports have developed over the years to become huge and very costly projects that provide the basis for a country’s financial development. It is estimated that the passenger terminal component of an airport can be as expensive as US $200 million, which was the cost of the new International Terminal Building (ITB) for Sydney, amounting to US $25 million per gate. It is obvious that the need for adequate forecasting in such a capital-intensive industry is of critical importance. Besides the terminal area configuration a planner is required to provide valid forecasts for facilities on the airside of an airport (Figure 1). Such facilities are the gates, the aprons, and the runaways. Forecasts of this type are not based on passenger traffic, but rather on total aircraft movement for the airport. A combination of the previous two types of forecasts and a breakdown of these numbers will ABSTRACT
SILVER-POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES

A series of new polyurethane acrylates were prepared by in situ free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid or 2,2bis[5(methacryloyloxyethylcarbonylaminomethyl-1carbamoyloxymethyl)-3,3-trimethyl-ciclohexyl] propionic acid (UMA-1) into a polyurethane matrix, accompanied by the total/partial ionization of the carboxyl groups from the acrylic component with the amino groups from the macromolecular chain. For a set of samples, silver nitrate was added so that through an in situ electron transfer reaction, atomic silver was formed in the metal particles/polymer composites. The characterization of the polyurethane acrylates and hybrid composites was achieved through thermal methods (TGA) and surface analysis (contact angle), whereas the presence of silver nanoparticles was confirmed by energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and UV-vis spectroscopy. The mechanical parameters of the polymeric materials were investigated comparatively to the precursors as well as to the silver/polymer composites by tensile stress. Antibacterial properties of such hybrid composites were determined by using an agar diffusion test against both Gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae) cultures, the results showing a significant effect of these materials to inhibit the growth of bacteria on surface by silver nanoparticles.
Changes in the Structure of Pedagogical Knowledge of Middle School Preservice Teachers.

This study was conducted to examine how the organization of preservice teachers' (N=23) knowledge about teaching changed during the last year of their undergraduate program which included a teaching methods course and student teaching. In order to explore cognitive organization three tools were combined: multidimensional scaling, concept mapping, and interviews. Subjects received instruction on how to draw concept maps and were asked to draw them four times--before the senior year, at the end of the fall semester, in the middle of student teaching, and at the end of student teaching. Following each phase. the previous map was returned and subjects were to decide if they would organize their knowledge diff cently. Prior to a interview they were asked to draw a new map, modify their old one, or redraw the old map as it was. Drawings were coded and scored and the sample concepts of "flexibility" and "planning" were selected for further analysis through multidimensional scaling and student interviews. Data analysis revealed that during student teaching the preservice teachers' pedagogical knowledge underwent radical reconstruction, involving a reorganization of prior knowledge, theories, and beliefs. Figures depicting concept maps and students' multidimensional scaling are included. (Contains 22 references.) (LL) **********************:c *. **::*************. AAAA::***A:-4-************ Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * *********************************************************************** Changes in the Structure of Pedagogical Knowledge of Middle School Preservice Teachers M. Gail Jones Associate Professor School of Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 Elizabeth Vesilind Visiting Assistant Professor School of Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOI,URCES INFORMATION (_,ENTER ! ERIC, U 3 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CINo e of Educeteorfe, POS,W, h end 1,,,pto. ,e,nent EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC, `rhos dor orneni has been rorodur ed as rN eyed ,rom the person or orgenitalfoo °A; ng o'r act eegn e s hive been maJf. IG 0,0rove reproduroon Quellly Prams of Or o0.0 005 slated ,n 10.s dor rnent do not neceSSAray tenresent officra. OF RI posiloon or W. ( rr Paper presented at the 1994 AERA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 4-8, 1994.
The Preservation and Persistence of Human DNA in Soil during Cadaver Decomposition

Recent decades have seen a marked increase in the amount of research concerning the impact of human cadaveric decomposition on the grave soil environment; however, despite such advances, the fate of important biological correlates in grave soil, including human DNA, have remained relatively understudied. This study redresses the current lack of knowledge regarding the preservation and persistence of human DNA in the soil during cadaveric decomposition, with the purpose of enhancing forensic identification efforts including the detection of primary burial sites. This study assessed the preservation (i.e., presence or absence) of human nuclear and mitochondrial DNA and evaluated the quantity and quality of recovered DNA from grave soil over the course of decomposition of four human cadavers placed at the University of Tennessee’s Anthropological Research Facility (ARF). End-point and real-time quantitative PCR were used to assess quality and quantity of human DNA extracted from the grave soil environment. The presence of human cadaveric DNA from soil samples was verified by aligning and comparing sequences from the human mitochondrial DNA control region (HVI and HVII) between cadaver blood samples taken prior to placement at the ARF and soil samples taken from below each cadaver following placement and the initiation of decomposition processes. Results indicate that human nuclear DNA from the cadavers was largely unrecoverable throughout decomposition. Conversely, cadaver mitochondrial DNA was detectable in the grave soil throughout all decomposition stages. Mitochondrial DNA copy number increased as decomposition progressed, peaked during the “Active Decay” stage of decomposition, and declined throughout the remainder of the decomposition process. The results of this study suggest that human mitochondrial DNA can be recovered from soil and is of a high enough quality to be used for exclusionary purposes during identification efforts. Therefore, the presence and persistence of this biomarker will prove useful in those forensic contexts in which DNA is not recoverable from a discovered set of remains or in the event that a cadaver is removed from its burial location.
Reform of the Electricity Supply Industry

Electricity markets around the world are becoming more competitive, partly in response to technological changes. Successful restructuring requires an understanding of the sources of monopoly power in the industry, and separation of competitive from natural monopoly elements. Competitive wholesale electricity markets require transparent regulatory and cross-subsidy mechanisms. Such changes in turn make public ownership less relevant for protecting consumers. Competitive markets are also more risky for owners, and governments are not ideally suited to financing large and very risky business ventures. The arguments are illustrated by reference to the reforms undertaken in Australia in the last decade.
Syddansk Universitet Dimensional testing for reverse k-nearest neighbor search

Given a query object q, reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) search aims to locate those objects of the database that have q among their k-nearest neighbors. In this paper, we propose an approximation method for solving RkNN queries, where the pruning operations and termination tests are guided by a characterization of the intrinsic dimensionality of the data. The method can accommodate any index structure supporting incremental (forward) nearest-neighbor search for the generation and verification of candidates, while avoiding impractically-high preprocessing costs. We also provide experimental evidence that our method significantly outperforms its competitors in terms of the tradeoff between execution time and the quality of the approximation. Our approach thus addresses many of the scalability issues surrounding the use of previous methods in data mining.
AnALySIS Of mItOChOnDrIAL DnA In ADrIAtIC SArDIne (Sardina pilchardus): A preLImInAry StuDy 1

to determine the phylogenetic history of sardines researchers use mitochondrial D nA (mtD nA). mitochondrial DnA contains highly informative polymorphic sites. The cytochrome b (cyt b) gene has been especially used by investigators because of its sufficient point mutation rate, enabling discrimination of closely related fish species, and determination of interspecific variability in pelagic fish species for population identification. Scientific surveys based on meristic, morphometric, and reproductive data suggested that two subpopulations of sardines coexisted in the northern-m iddle Adriatic Sea. mitochondrial D nA analysis of sardines from the Adriatic Sea has never been conducted in the republic of Croatia. This study included 14 sardine samples from three separate locations, as well as 30 different haplotype sequences retrieved from GenBank. The aim of this study was to determine the number of haplotypes in sardine populations from the Adriatic Sea, as well as to determine differences between populations. mitochondrial D nA sequence analysis revealed 11 different haplotypes of sardines from the Adriatic Sea. The differences between samples from different locations were not scientifically significant, and the results of this study indicate homogeneity in the Adriatic sardine stock. however, three parsimony informative mutations found in our samples produce a clearly visible distinction between the Adriatic sardine samples and samples obtained from the seas adjacent to the Adriatic. This distinction of the Adriatic sardine samples can have applications in fisheries and fishery product quality testing.
A radio frequency source for the preparation of quantum states

The present Diploma thesis was motivated by the need for a versatile radio frequency source to be used in experiments with cold atoms. The working principles and the design of said source are presented including its characterization and an example of its evaluation in an experiment. The desired experimental uses impose a set of strict requirements on the design such as highly stable output phase and frequency as well as reproducible and precisely controllable profiles of phase, frequency and output power. The device developed in this thesis features output frequencies from 5MHz up to 500MHz, phasecontinuous operation, fast linear frequency sweeps with very small frequency jumps, phase synchronized output of two frequencies and arbitrary sweep profiles with update rates of up to 8 kHz. All parameter and profile controls can be are accessed and adjusted using a graphical user interface that is integrated into the experiment control framework. Validating the features experimentally, RubidiumBose-Einstein condensates were transported over distances of a few centimeters in a moving interference pattern of two counterpropagating laser beams. The frequency difference of the laser beams was controlled by the device, permitting precise and reproducible positioning of the atoms. Further possible applications include generation of radio frequency sweeps to drive Landau-Zener transitions or generation of Ramsey type pulses. The required precise control of timing and phase of multiple pulses is achievable with the present design approach.
Estimating the uncertainty of using GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Intercomparison of CHAMP refractivity climate records from 2002 to 2006 from different data centers

[1] To examine the suitability of GPS radio occultation (RO) observations as a climate benchmark data set, this study aims at quantifying the structural uncertainty in GPS RO-derived vertical profiles of refractivity and measured refractivity trends obtained from atmospheric excess phase processing and inversion procedures. Five years (2002–2006) of monthly mean climatologies (MMC) of retrieved refractivity from the experiment aboard the German satellite CHAMP generated by four RO operational centers were compared. Results show that the absolute values of fractional refractivity anomalies among the centers are, in general, ≤0.2% from 8 to 25 km altitude. The median absolute deviations among the centers are less than 0.2% globally. Because the differences in fractional refractivity produced by the four centers are, in general, unchanging with time, the uncertainty of the trend for fractional refractivity anomalies among centers is ±0.04% per 5 years globally. The primary cause of the trend uncertainty is due to different quality control methods used by the four centers, which yield different sampling errors for different centers. We used the National Centers for Environmental Prediction reanalysis in the same period to estimate sampling errors. After removing the sampling errors, the uncertainty of the trend for fractional refractivity anomalies among centers is between −0.03 and 0.01% per 5 years. Thus 0.03% per 5 years can be considered an upper bound in the processing scheme–induced uncertainty for global refractivity trend monitoring. Systematic errors common to all centers are not discussed in this article but are generally believed to be small.
A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines ( extented abstract )

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Rechargeable Li-Air Batteries with Carbonate-Based Liquid Electrolytes

Rechargeable Li-air battery is a candidate for post Li-ion battery with high energy density. In this paper, the rechargeability of Li-air battery over 100 cycles was confirmed and its capacity retention over 60% was achieved. Nevertheless, a large voltage gap between the discharge-charge profiles was observed. Here, a discharged product formed on a cathode was investigated by TEM observation and FT-IR spectroscopy. It was found that the main product formed in discharge was not an ideal compound, Li2O2, but was carbonate species issued from the decomposition of carbonate-based electrolyte solvent.
Decomposition vectors: a new approach to estimating woody detritus decomposition dynamics

A chronosequence of three species of logs (Pinus sylvestris L., Picea abies (L.) Karst, and Betula pendula Roth. ) from northwestern Russia was resampled to develop a new method to estimate rates of biomass, volume, and density loss. We call this resampling of a chronosequence the decomposition-vector method, and it represents a hybrid between the chronosequence and time-series approaches. The decomposition-vector method with a 3-year resampling interval gave decomposition rates statistically similar to those of the one-time chronosequence method. This indicated that, for most cases, a negative exponential pattern of biomass, volume, and density loss occurred. In the case of bio - mass loss of P. sylvestris, however, polynomial regression indicated decomposition rates were initially low, then in - creased, and then decreased as biomass was lost. This strongly suggests three distinct phases: the first when decomposers colonized the woody detritus, a second period of rapid exponential mass loss, and a third period of slow decomposition. The consequences for this complex pattern of decomposition were explored at the ecosystem level us- ing a simple model. We found that a single rate constant can be used if inputs vary within a factor of 10, but that this approach is problematical if inputs are more variable. Resume : Une chronosequence des billes appartenant a trois especes (Pinus sylvestris L., Picea abies (L.) Karst et Be-
Chapter 11 Substrate Specificities and Kinetic Parameters of Recombinant Drosophila melanogaster Glutathione S-Transferases E 6 and E 7

D. melanogaster glutathione transferases E6 and E7 (DmGSTE6 and DmGSTE7) were successfully cloned, purified, and biochemically characterized. The recombinant proteins were readily purified using the combination of both anionic and BSP/GSH-agarose affinity chromatography. Although both GSTs have significant identity in their amino acid sequence, each enzyme displayed unique biochemical characteristics. Both recombinant proteins were only active toward 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB), 1,2-dichloro-4-nitrobenzene (DCNB), and p-nitrobenzyl chloride (p-NBC) with significant difference in catalytic activities. The findings have shown that neither GSTE6 nor GSTE7 was able to counter oxidative stress. Comparatively, GSTE7 was a more efficient enzyme at turning over DCNB and p-NBC, based on its kcat/Km values which were of 0.183 and 2.25 min−1 mM−1, respectively. Thin-layer chromatography analysis showed that both isoforms were not able to conjugate several tested insecticides. The inhibition kinetics of natural products and dyes toward GSTs in vitro revealed that phenol red possessed inhibition effects only on GSTE6 while rose bengal and cardiogreen inhibit significantly on both GSTE6 and GSTE7. In contrast, methylene blue dye and trans-chalcone have been shown to stimulate GSTE7 activity toward CDNB.
Miconazole Microsponges based topical delivery system for diaper dermatitis

Aim: The current investigation was aimed to develop and optimize the microsponges of miconazole nitrate for treatment of diaper dermatitis for enhanced therapeutic effect. Material and Methods: Microsponges were developed by emulsion solvent diffusion technique using 23 factorial design. Fabricated microsponges were optimized in order to analyze the effects of independent variables on the encapsulation efficiency, particle size, surface topography and in vitro drug release. The optimized formulation was then incorporated into the gel and evaluated. Results: Particle size of all formulations was found to be uniform and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) indicates spherical shape and porous nature of microsponges. In vitro drug release studies of all formulations revealed the release rate within the range of 67%±0.09 to 80.6%± 0.68 at the end of 12 hours. On its basis, formulation F8 was selected and incorporated into the gel (CF8) which was evaluated for pH, viscosity, spreadability, in vitro drug diffusion studies, in vitro anti fungal studies and stability studies. Conclusion: The formulated microsponge-based gel of miconazole nitrate would be a capable substitute to traditional treatment for reliable and economical cure of diaper dermatitis.