Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SIG des Merveilles: analysing rock art distribution with a web cartographic platform

The Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Marvels), in the Mercantour National Park (France), is a major place for studying the late Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Bronze Age: since the early 20th century, more than 4000 engraved rocks have been listed, representing 40,000 carvings. The Laboratoire Departemental du Lazaret has been studying these engravings for more than forty years: a large database describes the whole rocks and figures and is still filled with new findings. But such a large amount of data from a vast archaeological site needs efficient tools for its study, such as mapping the location of the rocks. Many improvements regarding the study of the carvings and their spatial distribution were made possible by the development of a web GIS: consulting the data is made easier and clearer with a web-mapping platform and specific tools. Filtering for choosing the data to display and automatically generated maps allow an overall view of the spatial distribution of the Marvels' engravings. Using both the IGN's Geoportal data and cartographic web libraries produced an efficient and complete web service for consulting and analyzing the engraved rocks of the Valley of Marvels. This one can be used for any area in the Mercantour Park, as long as new data are added to the databases.
UTILIZATION OF SSR PRIMERS TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT SUBSPECIES OF RICE (Oryza sativa, L.)

Nine rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes of indica and japonica types were used in the present study. Total number of 274 SSR simple sequence repeats primers were used to detect the genetic variation and genetic markers specific for each rice genotype. The results showed that the 219 SSR primers were generate a total 645 amplified alleles, among them 605 alleles were polymorphic. The temperate japonica accessions showed 105 alleles at 50 polymorphic loci. Within three indica accessions, 266 alleles were detected at 122 polymorphic loci. Within the three tropical japonica accessions, 129 alleles were detected at 61 polymorphic loci, respectively. The average number of alleles per locus (A) 2.49, 1.2, 1.55 and 1.25 were observed in total, temperate japonica, indica, and tropical japonica accessions, respectively. Average number of alleles per polymorphic locus (Ap) 2.76, 2.1, 2.18 and 2.11 were observed in total, temperate japonica, indica, and tropical japonica accessions, respectively. The average number of gene diversity (PIC) was 0.51, indicating moderately high variation among the nine accessions. Twelve SSR markers were able to discriminate among the temperate japonica, indica, and tropical japonica rice accessions under the present study.
A Numerical Approach Based on Neuro-Fuzzy Systems for Obtaining Functional Inverse

In this paper, a new and easy available numerical method is presented in calculation of functional inverse. As for ANFIS (Adaptive Network based Fuzzy Inference System) model is available without great difficulty in MATLAB software also due to important of obtaining functional inverse in wide range applications, we present ANFIS-based approach for the first time for obtaining inverse of mathematical functions. The proposed approach includes two main stages, in the first step; some limited points are sampled from desired function using Monte Carlo simulation and second step contains training of ANFIS system that input system is output points of function and ANFIS desired values are input values to function. One of notes in the proposed approach is calculation of inverse of time varying functions only with tuning of generated fuzzy model with the least square and the back propagation (BP) algorithms to form of hybrid learning algorithm which able into tracking of time varying functions. Experimental results over many functions show superiority of the proposed method relative MATLAB software.
Conceptualizing child care as a population health intervention: can a strong case be made for a universal approach in Canada, a liberal welfare regime?

Child care, conceptualized as one area of social policy, is a good example of a population health intervention (PHI) that operates outside of the health sector. Exploration of child care as a PHI could help to clarify the scope of the PHI field, and contribute to a credible base from which to advocate for PHIs, yet such exploration is not yet prominent in the population health research literature. The purpose of this paper is to consider child care through the lens of PHI, and in particular, to consider whether a strong case can be made for a universal approach to child care in Canada and perhaps other liberal welfare regimes where targeted approaches are more commonly accepted. We first examine the peer-reviewed evidence on the impact of universal and targeted child care for later outcomes. We then interrogate other issues that are pertinent to making a strong case for universal child care in Canada as one example of a liberal regime; namely, (1) limitations and challenges of research on the impact of universal child care; (2) the intuitive appeal of targeting; (3) the fundamental differences between targeted and universal approaches; and (4) the values inherent in judgments about the equity of universal interventions. Notably, some of these issues do not lend themselves to empirical resolution, which raises interesting questions about the acceptable balance of ideology and empiricism in population health.
Growth performance, feed utilization and sensory characteristics of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus fed diets with high inclusion levels of copra meal

Background: The low cost and wide-availability of copra meal in many tropical countries where aquaculture is practiced have generated much interest in its potential inclusion in fish diet formulations. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of very high inclusions of autoclaved copra meal on the growth and feed utilization parameters as well as the sensory qualities of the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Methods: Fish were fed three experimental diets, a control (CTRL) diet which had fishmeal as the main protein source at an inclusion of 365 gkg-1 and two test diets which contained copra meal at 680 g kg-1 inclusions for a 6-week period. One of the copra meal diets contained sesame meal supplementation (CM+S) as a natural high source of methionine which is the first limiting essential amino acid in copra meal. Results: The dietary treatments had no differential effects on growth, feed intake, or feed utilization parameters in O. niloticus. With the exception of the significantly higher lipid content of the CM+S group, the whole body compositions of the different fish groups were not significantly affected by the different dietary treatments. Remarkably, the high dietary inclusions of copra meal did not have any significant effects on fillet sensory attributes. Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrate that it is possible to include autoclaved copra meal up to 680 g kg-1 in Nile tilapia diets without any deleterious effects on fish growth or on flesh sensory characteristics.
STUDY OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS LENTUS ISOLATED FROM END STAGE RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS AND THEIR ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERNS

During the period from beginning of June 2014 tell end of December 2015, isolation and identification of S.lentus from end stage renal failure patients under haemodialysis therapy. A total of 400 clinical samples from 100 patients included (100 for each Skin, Urine, Blood, arterial Fistula, While 200 hospital environmental specimen included dialysis device (100), bed (100) from Nephrology department ALSadder Medical City in AL-Najaf province. Out of these samples, 50 isolates were confirmed as S.lentus by conventional bacteriological methods and vetik 2 compact system. Rest of these samples showed growth of other microorganism like as Klebsiella species, Staphylococcus species, E.coli etc. The antibiotic resistance of S.lentus bacteria has profound clinical implications. Hence, this research was aim for the first time in Iraq to isolation and study prevelance of S.lentus. From clinical and hospital environmental sources then determines their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, the results revealed that S.lentus. isolated from Skin10 Urine 5, Blood 4 and arterial Fistula10. While 200 hospital environmental specimen included dialysis device12, bed 9. At the same time the results found that S.lentus were greatly resistant to antibiotics that most commonly used, so regard as multi-drug resistant (MDR), S.lentus isolates exhibited high resistance to Penicillin, Ceftazidime, Erythromycin, Clindamycin and Methicillin. While other antibiotics exhibited different activity against isolates. Furthermore, most isolates appeared low resistance to Tetracycline well Sulfamethoxazole / Trimthoprim and Levofloxacin while the isolates were sensitive to Vancomycin. Conclusion: The increase number of S.lentus isolated from humans indicates that S.lentus is an opportunistic pathogen and consider as one of nosocomial World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 7.523 Volume 6, Issue 7, 186-196. Research Article ISSN 2277– 7105 *Corresponding Author
Kenaf seed oil from supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction shows cytotoxic effects towards various cancer cell lines

Hibiscus cannabinus (Kenaf) from the family of Malvaceae is a valuable fiber source and medicinal plant. It has long been prescribed as traditional folk medicine in Africa and India to treat various diseases. Nevertheless, little research has been carried out on the potentials of this plant as treatment for cancer. This study was designed to determine the cytotoxicity of kenaf seed oil from two varieties (Quiping 3 and V36) extracted by supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction (SFE) with different combinations of pressure (bars) and temperature (°C) towards breast cancer (MCF-7, MDA-MB-231, 4T1), cervical cancer (HeLa), lung cancer (A549) and leukemic (MOLT-4) cell lines. Even though kenaf seed oil from both varieties were cytotoxic to all the cancer cells, kenaf seed oil variety V36 extracted by SFE at 600 bars 40°C (V600/40) was the strongest towards MOLT-4 and MDA-MB-231, with the IC 50 values of 153.26 and 483.35 μg/ml, respectively. MOLT-4 and MDA-MB-231 cells treated with V600/40 exhibited typical characteristics of apoptosis such as blebbing, chromatin condensation and nuclear fragmentation as viewed under an inverted light microscope and a fluorescence microscope. In conclusion, V600/40 was the most cytotoxic towards the MOLT-4 and MDA-MB-231 cells in a dosedependent manner possibly via the induction of apoptosis. Key words : Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction, cytotoxicity, apoptosis.
Cancellation of acoustic reverberation using adaptive filters

KHi-\. LIFE, JOSEPH T. Cancellation of Acoustic Reverberation Using Adaptive Filters. (Under the direction of Dr. S. T. Alexander) The hollow sound of speech is one of the main problems limiting the consumer acceptance of the hands-free telephone (speakerphone). The hollow sound is the result of the microphone picking up not only the speech coming directly from the talker but reflections from walls, floor and furniture as well. The speech signal 3 (n) picked up by the microphone is the result of many reflections each of which contributes a waveform similar in shape to the original speech signal x(n}. However, since all the waveforms are overlapping it is extremely difficult to recover the original speech signal. An adaptive filter based on the method of predictive deconvolution is derived and used to remove the reverberation from reverberant speech signals. In order to improve the performance of the dereverberation filter, the incorporation of a relatively simple pitch tracker is investigated. The two algorithms used to update the coefficients of the adaptive filter are the Least Mean Squares algorithm (LNlS) and the Fast Transversal Filter algorithm (FTF). The L~fS is one of the simplest algorithms; however, one disadvantage of the use of LMS is its slow convergence time. The FTF algorithm overcomes the convergence problem but requires more arithmetic computations. As a metric of the degree of cancellation the signal to noise ratio of the processed speech is computed and compared to that of the reverberant speech signal. Results of computer simulations verify the ability of the proposed dereverberation filter to reduce reverberation. The incorporation of a relatively simple pitch tracker slightly improved the performance of the filter. Results also show that in stationary conditions more reverberations were removed using the FTF filter. However, in nonstationary cases the FTF filter is shown to be more subject to divergence than the Lj\tlS filter.
International Strategy Alliance: Macro-Institutional Environment Perspective

The strategic alliance has become the business model that international enterprises generally conduct in an era of global competition. While in cooperation, however, multinational enterprises face a changing global environment. In addition to the pursuit and control of their competitive advantage, they must adopt a more in-depth thinking of the impact and influence that the institutional environment brings. This study proposes an integrated conceptual framework to explore the impact of the overall institutional environment on international strategic alliances and departs from the institutional theory perspective, on the basis of three kinds of system types and isomorphic forces, to analyze the individual effects of the five stages of the lifecycle of international strategic alliances. Using the system environmental factors and the alliance lifecycle issues, the many propositions developed can provide the theoretical bases for future empirical studies of related topics and also provide the industry a reference for practical operations.
Dialogue and Persuasion in the Islamic Tradition: Implications for Journalism

As the dominant global media, Western media face constant ethical challenges. In a fast-paced, fast-changing world post-9/11, Western media have been accused of misrepresenting Islam and Muslims through biased reporting and misinformation. Muslims are often depicted as a homogenous group prone to acts of terrorism. Unsurprisingly, Muslims are cautious, if not resentful, of Western media that perpetuate Islamophobia. There needs to be more discussion on intercultural views of ethical communication if journalists and media outlets are serious about building trust and upholding ethical standards in reporting. Other cultural paradigms in media studies are needed to inform our practice for culturally diverse environments. This paper explores Western perspectives of dialogic and persuasive communication that are taught in the foundation year of media and communication tertiary study and compares them with the Islamic perspective, offering an insight into this untapped area. Unlike the traditional Western conceptual framework of dialogue and persuasion as separate entities that are potentially unethical, the Islamic perspective identifies both models as ethical and not mutually exclusive. One Anglo-based innovative study that applied quantum theory to communication on social media, argued for an interconnected relationship between dialogue and persuasion where the two can become entangled while existing in a state of superposition. It echoes the Islamic view except for the unethical potential and ambivalent application of either model. This preliminary study has implications for the practice of peace and conflict journalism, investigative journalism, and development journalism, which report on issues relating to Islam and the Muslim environments.
Existence and approximation of a nonlinear degenerate parabolic system modelling acid-mediated tumour invasion

We consider a nonlinear parabolic system of reaction–diffusion equations modelling acid-mediated tumour invasion. The system couples potentially degenerate equations for the cell densities of the normal and tumour populations to a parabolic equation for the concentration of HC ions. We obtain an existence result for the system by constructing a suitable finite element approximation and analyzing its convergence. Finally, we report on corresponding numerical experiments.
Porqpine: a peer-to-peer search engine

In this paper, we present a fully distributed and collaborative search engine for web pages: Porqpine. This system uses a novel query-based model and collaborative filtering techniques in order to obtain user-customized results. All knowledge about users and profiles is stored in each user node? s application. Overall the system is a multi-agent system that runs on the computers of the user community. The nodes interact in a peer-to-peer fashion in order to create a real distributed search engine where information is completely distributed among all the nodes in the network. Moreover, the system preserves the privacy of user queries and results by maintaining the anonymity of the queries? consumers and results? producers. The knowledge required by the system to work is implicitly caught through the monitoring of users actions, not only within the system? s interface but also within one of the most popular web browsers. Thus, users are not required to explicitly feed knowledge about their interests into the system since this process is done automatically. In this manner, users obtain the benefits of a personalized search engine just by installing the application on their computer. Porqpine does not intend to shun completely conventional centralized search engines but to complement them by issuing more accurate and personalized results.
Evaluation and Modification of Processes for Bioethanol Separation and Production

This paper concerns on process evaluation and modification for bioethanol separation and production by applying pinch technology. Further, the paper is also focused on obtaining a most energy-efficient process among several processes. Three basic process configurations of bioethanol separation and production were selected for this study. The three separations and production systems are Othmer process, Barbet process and a separation process that operates under vacuum condition. Basically, each process is combination of Danish Distilleries process with a separation system yielding 95% (v/v) bioethanol. The production capacity of the plant is estimated about 4 x 107 litre of bioethanol 95% (v/v) per year. The result of the studies shows that the most energy efficient process among the three processes evaluated is the Othmer process, followed by the Barbet process and the process involving vacuum operation. The evaluation also shows that further energy saving can be carried for Barbet and Othmer process configuration when Tmin = 10oC for heat exchange possible.
Does Dividend Policy Follow the Capital Structure Theory

Decisions concerning the most optimal choice of financing sources and dividend policy are some of the most difficult financial decisions. This article presents the results of research concerning relationships between two capital structure theories (hierarchy theory and substitution theory) and dividend payment policies in Polish stock companies of the agricultural and foodstuff sector (2001–2006). The research hypothesis was verified positively; company management limits dividend payment according to the hierarchy theory and prefers internal sources of financing economic activities. In order to verify the hypothesis, the methods of descriptive analysis, financial analysis and descriptive statistics were applied, together with a fixed effects model.
Firm‐Level Evidence on Gender Wage Discrimination in the Belgian Private Economy

In this paper we explore a matched employer–employee data set to investigate the presence of gender wage discrimination in the Belgian private economy labour market. Contrary to many existing papers, we analyse gender wage discrimination using an independent productivity measure. Using firm-level data, we are able to compare direct estimates of a gender productivity differential with those of a gender wage differential. We take advantage of the panel structure to identify gender-related differences from within-firm variation. Moreover, inspired by recent developments in the production function estimation literature, we address the problem of endogeneity of the gender mix using a structural production function estimator alongside instrumental variable-general method of moments (IV-GMM) methods where lagged value of labour inputs are used as instruments. Our results suggest that there is no gender wage discrimination inside private firms located in Belgium, on the contrary.
Creating a More Efficient Financial System: Challenges for Bangladesh

While Bangladesh has embarked on a path to reform its financial system, most prominently by privatizing its government-owned banks, the Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs), a sustainable long-term expansion of the financial system requires a more substantial change in the role of government. Using recent research and international comparisons, this paper argues that the government should move from its role as an operator and arbiter in the financial system to a facilitator role. This implies not only divestment from government-owned banks, but also de-politicization of the licensing process and a market-based bank failure resolution framework that focuses on intermediation and not on the rescue of individual institutions. Most important, the government should move away from the implicit guarantee for depositors and owners to applying the existing limited explicit deposit insurance for depositors, while simultaneously relying more on market participants to monitor and discipline banks instead of micro-managing financial institutions. This redefinition of government's role should not be limited to the banking system, but applies to other segments of the financial system, such as capital markets and the micro-finance sector, and should be seen as an essential element in the governance reform agenda and in the movement from a relationship-based economy to a market and arms-length economy.
Plants used by the Tsonga people of Gazankulu

A study was undertaken in part of the Tsonga homeland, Gazankulu, to identify plants used by these people. A list of Tsonga plant names was extracted from a Tsonga-English dictionary and this was used as a basis for the study. The uses of almost 200 plants were recorded, including medicine, food, building materials, firewood, household utensils, implements, implement handles and toys. This information is presented in the form of an annotated list of the plants. This is followed by a discussion of some of the more important uses. Some of the aspects of Tsonga taxonomy are briefly discussed and illustrated with examples.