Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
- 1-Tools and indicators to assess consumption patterns

A systematic approach towards lowering the environmental load from private consumption can only be attained when the impacts of the policy can be monitored. As an example the development of such a monitoring system developed by and for the Dutch government is presented. Some results are discussed. An important innovation is the use of linked input output tables that cover the world wide trade and economy. This dataset is also implemented in an LCA tool, allowing researchers detailed analysis of for instance the distribution of environmental load over world regions. Another application is to apply this framework as a tool for designers. The paper explores some ideas on ways designers can be involved to manage impacts from consumption. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ECODESIGN Since the early nineties the concept of ecodesign was embraced as an important approach to decrease the environmental load of products. The focus of ecodesign is to lower the environmental load all through the lifecycle of the product. An important assumption was that the load should be lowered per unit of function fulfillment. For instance, an environmentally sound car is thought to be a car that pollutes less per kilometer, an environmentally sound light source is an energy efficient light source. Although this seems a logical viewpoint, it misses an important point: improved product performance will often result in a change in consumer behavior. An energy efficient car is a perfect second car for the family, and why not light your garden with the new lamps. In other words, the often claimed win-win situation (lower cost and lower load) can have an important unexpected side effect, through the consumer behavior. WHAT LIMITS THE ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD OF CONSUMPTION? When we do not look at products per functional unit, but on a macro level, we can understand that in fact there are just a few factors that limit environmental load of consumption: 1. The cost of products set an important limit on consumption. In general consumers have a more or less fixed income, that increases a few percent per year. If inflation is lower than income increase, this means they can afford more products if products become cheaper to buy or use (the fuel efficient car), it means they can purchase or use more products.
Transition metals doped CuAlSe2 for promising intermediate band materials

Introducing an isolated intermediate band (IB) into a wide band gap semiconductor can potentially improve the optical absorption of the material beyond the Shockley–Queisser limitation for solar cells. Here, we present a systematic study of the thermodynamic stability, electronic structures and optical properties of transition metals (M = Ti, V and Fe) doped CuAlSe2 for potential IB thin film solar cells, by adopting the first-principles calculation based on the hybrid functional method. We found from chemical potential analysis that for all dopants considered, the stable doped phase only exists when the Al atom is substituted. More importantly, with this substitution, the IB feature is determined by 3d electronic nature of M3+ ion, and the electronic configuration of 3d1 can drive a optimum IB that possesses half-filled character and suitable subbandgap from valence band or conduction band. We further show that Ti-doped CuAlSe2 is the more promising candidate for IB materials since the resulted IB in it is half filled and extra absorption peaks occurs in the optical spectrum accompanied with a largely enhanced light absorption intensity. The result offers a understanding for IB induced by transition metals into CuAlSe2 and is significant to fabricate the related IB materials.
Damage Effects and Fractal Characteristics of Coal Pore Structure during Liquid CO2 Injection into a Coal Bed for E-CBM

Pore structure has a significant influence on coal-bed methane (CBM) enhancement. Injecting liquid CO2 into coal seams is an effective way to increase CBM recovery. However, there has been insufficient research regarding the damage effects and fractal characteristics of pore structure at low temperature induced by injecting liquid CO2 into coal samples. Therefore, the methods of low-pressure nitrogen adsorption-desorption (LP-N2-Ad) and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) were used to investigate the damage effects and fractal characteristics of pore structure with full aperture as the specimens were frozen by liquid CO2. The adsorption isotherms revealed that the tested coal samples belonged to type B, indicating that they contained many bottle and narrow-slit shaped pores. The average pore diameter (APD; average growth rate of 18.20%), specific surface area (SSA; average growth rate of 7.38%), and total pore volume (TPV; average growth rate of 18.26%) increased after the specimens were infiltrated by liquid CO2, which indicated the generation of new pores and the transformation of original pores. Fractal dimensions D1 (average of 2.58) and D2 (average of 2.90) of treated coal samples were both larger the raw coal (D1, average of 2.55 and D2, average of 2.87), which indicated that the treated specimens had more rough pore surfaces and complex internal pore structures than the raw coal samples. The seepage capacity was increased because D4 (average of 2.91) of the treated specimens was also higher than the raw specimens (D4, average of 2.86). The grey relational coefficient between the fractal dimension and pore structure parameters demonstrated that the SSA, APD, and porosity positively influenced the fractal features of the coal samples, whereas the TPV and permeability exerted negative influences.
Differential privacy for eye-tracking data

As large eye-tracking datasets are created, data privacy is a pressing concern for the eye-tracking community. De-identifying data does not guarantee privacy because multiple datasets can be linked for inferences. A common belief is that aggregating individuals' data into composite representations such as heatmaps protects the individual. However, we analytically examine the privacy of (noise-free) heatmaps and show that they do not guarantee privacy. We further propose two noise mechanisms that guarantee privacy and analyze their privacy-utility tradeoff. Analysis reveals that our Gaussian noise mechanism is an elegant solution to preserve privacy for heatmaps. Our results have implications for interdisciplinary research to create differentially private mechanisms for eye tracking.
The bilingualism wars: Is the bilingual advantage out of (executive) control?

Abstract Whether bilingualism has an effect on the executive function of non-verbal representations is probably one of the most controversial issues in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. As bilinguals have to alternate between two languages that compete for selection in their daily lives, they make use of selection, inhibition, and monitoring (i.e., components of executive function) more often than monolinguals. Thus, it would not be surprising that these highly trained abilities at selecting and monitoring the linguistic processes would also help the processing of non-linguistic representations. Although the “bilingual advantage” in executive control (Bialystok, 1999) has been repeatedly demonstrated, a number of recent studies—in particular since the publication of the Paap and Greenberg (2013) study—have questioned this effect. Both positive and null findings are currently being published from each of the two sides, thus making it difficult to reach consensus in the scientific community. Here, we propose a plausible solution to this debate: a group of independent researches should carry out a carefully planned large-scale study.
Polymer/polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POOS) nanocomposites

The aim of this Bachelor thesis was the summary of information POSS (Polymer Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes) compound. Firstly, the attention was paid to the POSS history and the way of POSS preparation. The POSS preparation have two sections, incompletely and completely condensation. POSS can be modified with other compounds. This modification substantially influences POSS attributes. In this thesis POSS modification with metal, low molecular compounds, high molecular compounds and polymer are described.
MEMBRANE AND NON-MEMBRANE PROTEINS - A COMPARISON

Membrane and non-membrane proteins (MPs & nMPs) constitute the total cellular protein content. The correlation between the amino acid composition of these two classes of proteins within the same and different major class of organism is interesting to know. Amino acid composition analysis of two classes of proteins indicates that the prokaryotic and eukaryotic MPs and nMPs are unique. Furthermore, the composition analysis of essential amino acids in prokaryotic and eukaryotic MPs and nMPs shows the occurrence of high overall percentage frequency of essential amino acids in pkMPs. The high occurrence of essential amino acids in pkMPs may be exploited for medicinal purpose. Received on: 24 th -Dec-2014 Revised on: 27 th
Initiating Buprenorphine/Naloxone for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

The opioid crisis continues to affect individuals across the country, and requires a multifaceted approach to minimize the impact of this public health crisis. Through the chronic consumption of opioids, many individuals can become dependent on opioids and develop opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine/naloxone is the recommended treatment for patients living with opioid use disorder. The Emergency Strategic Clinical Network™ within Alberta Health Services is targeting the crisis through emergency departments by implementing a provincially standardized program. The Buprenorphine/Naloxone Initiation in Emergency Departments program includes screening for opioid use disorder, treatment initiation with the medication buprenorphine/naloxone, and providing rapid and reliable referrals to community clinics for titration and continuing patient care. This paper provides an overview of opioids, opioid use disorder, opioid agonist treatments such as buprenorphine/naloxone, and specifically details the program and protocol available in Alberta.
Winter Cover Crop Growth and Weed Suppression on the Central Coast of California1

Winter cover crops are increasingly common on organic and conventional vegetable farms on the central coast of California between periods of intensive vegetable production. A 2-yr study was conducted in Salinas, California, to quantify (1) cover crop and weed biomass production during cover cropping, (2) early-season canopy development of cover crops, (3) weed seed production by burning nettle during cover cropping, and (4) weed emergence following cover crop incorporation. The cover crops included oats, a mustard mix, and a legume/oats mix that were planted in October and soil-incorporated in February. Weed and cover crop densities, early-season cover crop canopy development, above-ground weed and cover crop biomass production, seed production by the burning nettle, and postincorporation weed emergence was evaluated. Mustard produced more early-season biomass than oats and the legume/oats mix. There were no differences in above ground biomass production by the cover crops at the end of their growth period. Suppression of weed biomass and seed production of burning nettle was greatest in mustard, and least in oats and the legume/oats mix. The weed suppressive ability of each cover crop was affected by early-season canopy development and was highly correlated with cover crop plant density. Weed emergence following cover crop incorporation was in order of legume/oats mix > oats > mustard in yr 1, but was not different in yr 2. This study provides initial information on cover crop effects on weed management in irrigated and tilled vegetable production systems in the central coast of California. The results suggest that the legume/oats mix could exacerbate weed problems in subsequent vegetable crops. Nomenclature: Burning nettle, Urtica urens L. #3 URTUR; bell beans, Vicia faba L. ; common vetch, Vicia sativa L. ; lana vetch, Vicia villosa ssp. dasycarpa Roth; mustards, Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. , Brassica hirta Moench; oats, Avena sativa L. ; peas, Pisum sativum L. Additional index words: biomass production, canopy development, weed seed production, weed-suppressive ability. Abbreviations: DAI, days after incorporation; DAP, days after planting.
Re-Mediation of Academic Knowledge: Reporting and Evaluating Prior Research in Archaeology Abstracts

The aim of the present study is to analyse a corpus of 163 research article abstracts in archaeology, an academic domain which, so far, has encountered little attention by linguists. The abstracts and the accompanying articles were published between 2007 and 2012 in the quarterly issues of three leading journals in the field, i.e. the Journal of Archaeological Research , the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , which rank at the first three places in the SCOPUS database for the domain of archaeology. The study investigates the way archaeology abstracts report prior research, including the presence/absence of implicit/explicit evaluation, how archaeology authors structure this evaluation, the linguistic expressions they use, the place occupied by evaluation of prior research in the in the abstract’s rhetorical macrostructure. Results from the present work are analysed against already existing research on other academic disciplines in order to collocate archaeology along the disciplines’ continuum that includes the hard and the soft sciences at its extremes. Data show that abstracts in archaeology, as in other disciplines, tend to avoid open confrontationality, favouring criticism toward abstract entities.
Anurans from the Middle Jaguaribe River Region, Ceara State, Northeastern Brazil

The Middle Jaguaribe River region is a poorly sampled area in the Caatingas domain, located in the eastern Ceara State, northeastern Brazil. The Brazilian government agencies considered this region as a priority area for conservation and inventories. In order to fill this biodiversity knowledge gap, we conducted a ten-day rapid inventory of the anuran fauna from April 11 to 20, 2014, surveying different physiognomies of the region. We recorded 19 anuran species belonging to five families: Bufonidae (2), Hylidae (5), Leptodactylidae (9), Microhylidae (2) and Odontophrynidae (1). Most inventories of Caatinga amphibians published to date have been conducted inside protected areas and/or of high altitude (mesic areas known as "brejos de altitude"). The list we present herein contributes to the knowledge of lowland Caatinga sites outside protected areas. We discuss our results in light of taxonomic and geographic features of the anurans sampled.
Live and let die: why fighter males of the ant Cardiocondyla kill each other but tolerate their winged rivals

Unlike most social insects, many Cardiocondyla ant species have two male morphs: wingless (ergatoid) males, who remain in the natal nest, and winged males who disperse but, strangely, before leaving may also mate within the nest. Whereas ergatoid males are highly intolerant of each other and fight among themselves, they tend to tolerate their winged counterparts. This is despite the fact that these winged males, like ergatoid males, represent mating competition. Why should ergatoid males tolerate their winged rivals? We developed a mathematical model to address this question. Our model focuses on a number of factors likely to influence whether ergatoid males are tolerant of winged males: ergatoid male‐winged male relatedness, number of virgin queens, number of winged males, and the number of ejaculates a winged male has (winged males are sperm limited, whereas ergatoid males have lifelong spermatogenesis). Surprisingly, we found that increasing the number of virgin queens favors a kill strategy, whereas an increase in the other factors favors a let-live strategy; these predictions appear true for C. obscurior and for a number of other Cardiocondyla species. Two further aspects, unequal insemination success and multiple mating in queens, were also incorporated into the model and predictions made about their effects on toleration of winged males. The model is applicable more generally in species that have dimorphic males, such as some other ants, bees, and fig wasps. Key words: alternative dispersal tactics, ants, Cardiocondyla, ergatoid males, fighting, male dimorphism, toleration. [Behav Ecol 14:54–62 (2003)]
Empirical tests for ecological exchangeability

The concept of ecological exchangeability, together with genetic exchangeability, is central to both the Cohesion Species Concept as well as to some definitions of Evolutionarily Significant Units. While there are well‐established criteria for measuring genetic exchangeability, the concept of ecological exchangeability has generated considerable confusion. We describe a procedure that uses the complementary strengths, while recognising the limitations, of both molecular genetic data and ecological experiments to determine the ecological exchangeability of local populations within a species. This is the first synthesis of a combined approach (experiments and genetics) and the first explicit discussion of testing ecological exchangeability. Although it would be ideal to find functional genes that interact to influence quantitative traits resulting in ecological differences (e.g. growth, size, fecundity), we suggest that our current knowledge of functional markers is too limited for most species to use them to differentiate adaptively different local populations. Thus, we argue that ecological experiments using whole organisms combined with neutral markers that indicate evolutionary divergence, provide the strongest case for detecting adaptive differences among local populations. Both genetic divergence and ecological experiments provide the best information for infering ecological exchangeability. This procedure can be used to decide which local populations should be preserved to maintain intraspecific variation and to determine which populations would enhance captive‐breeding programs, augment endangered local populations and could best be used to re‐introduce native species into historically occupied areas.
A final report for MODELING THE JOVIAN AURORA Submitted

The Jovian aurora is the most powerful planetary aurora in the solar system; to date, however, it has not been possible to establish conclusively which mechanisms are involved in the excitation of the auroral emissions that have been observed at ultraviolet, infrared, and soft X ray wavelengths. Precipitation of logenic heavy sulfur and oxygen ions, downward acceleration of electrons along Birkeland currents, and a combination of both of these mechanisms have all been proposed to account for the observed auroral emissions. Modeling results reported here show that precipitating auroral electrons with sufficient energy to be consistent with the Voyager UVS observations will produce bremsstrahlung X rays with sufficient energy and intensity to be detected by the Solar Flare X Ray and Cosmic Ray Burst Instrument (GRB) on board the Ulysses spacecraft. The detection of such bremsstrahlung X rays at Jupiter would provide strong evidence for the electron precipitation mechanism, although it would not rule Out the possibility of some heavy ion involvement, and would thus make a significant contribution toward solving the mystery of the Jovian aurora.
The Nehari manifold for a ψ-Hilfer fractional p-Laplacian

In this paper, we discuss the existence and non-existence of weak solutions to the non-linear problem with a fractional p-Laplacian introduced by the ψ-Hilfer fractional operator, by combining the technique of Nehari manifolds and fibering maps. Also, we obtain some results on the ψ-Hilfer fractional operator and the Nehari manifold via the Euler functional.
Reviewing Organizational Design Components for Digital Business Strategy

The view on information technology strategy has changed significantly. In the past, a functional-level view was prevailing, where information technology (IT) strategy was subordinate to a deliberate business strategy and needed alignment. Recently, rapid developments in digital technologies leaves no industry untouched and IT becomes an enabler and differentiator for businesses. Therefore, IT strategy exceeds the view of alignment towards a fusion of businessand IT-strategy– coined as digital business strategy (DBS). Yet, strategies are inextricably linked to organizational design in order to function well. Consequently, a DBS requires a suitable underlying organizational design. This paper aims to explore the very organizational design components for DBS by examining the state of the art literature. Specifically, this paper sheds light on the organizational design components of strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people. The research method is a review of relevant literature at the intersect of information systems (IS) and management. Conclusions, implications for research and practice are presented.
Optical-NIR spectra of quasars close to reionization (z̃ 6)

X-shooter, with its characteristics of resolution, spectral coverage and efficiency, provides a unique opportunity to obtain spectra of the highest-redshift quasars (z ∼ 6) that will allow us to carry out successful investigations on key cosmological issues, from the details of the re-ionization process, to the evolution of the first galaxies and AGNs. In this paper, we present the spectra of three z ∼ 6 quasars: one obtained during the commissioning of X-shooter and two in the context of our ongoing GTO programme. Combining this sample with data in the literature, we update the value of the C IV cosmic mass density in the range 4.5 ≤ z ≤ 5, confirming the constant trend with redshift between 2.5 and 5 (© 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
A pragmatic approach for identifying and managing design science research goals and evaluation criteria

The effectiveness of a Design Science Research (DSR) project is judged both by the fitness of the designed artifact as a solution in the application environment and by the level of new research contributions. An important and understudied challenge is how to translate DSR project research goals into discrete and measurable evaluation criteria for use in the DSR processes. This position paper proposes an inclusive approach for articulating DSR goals and then identifying project evaluation criteria for these goals. The goals are organized hierarchically as utilitarian goals, safety goals, interaction and communication goals, cognitive and aesthetic goals, innovation goals, and evolution goals. Goals in a DSR project are identified pragmatically by considering the components of the context coupled with the hierarchy of goals. Based on the identified goals, the associated evaluation criteria are determined and organized along the same hierarchy. These criteria measure the ability of the artifact to meet its goals in itscontext (immediate fitness). Moreover, our approach also supports the innovation and research contributions of the project. The apex of the goal hierarchy addresses the identification of criteria measuring the fitness for evolution of the designed artifact, to accommodate for changes in goals or context.