Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Photographic, magnetic, and interferometric measurements of current sheet canting in a pulsed electromagnetic accelerator

The propagation speed and canting angle of current sheets in a pulsed electromagnetic accelerator were measured using three different techniques: highspeed photography, magnetic field probes, and laser interferometry. Current sheet canting may have adverse effects on accelerator performance. The goal of the present work is to provide a database of canting angles under a variety of experimental conditions. Eight different propellants (hydrogen, deuterium, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and methane) were tested in a rectangular-geometry accelerator, at pressures ranging from 50-400 mTorr. The photographic, magnetic, and interferometric diagnostics were used to infer the spatial configuration of the current sheet by measuring the its optical emission, current density, and electron density, respectively. The three techniques gave qualitative agreement; the magnetic and interferometric measurements gave general quantitative agreement as well. The canting angle was found to depend on
The Use of Sodium Silicate as a Corrosion Inhibitor in a Saline Drilling Fluid: A Nonaggressive Option to the Environment

The function of a corrosion inhibitor in drilling mud compositions is the corrosion protection of the equipment involved in drilling operations. Many compositions involve environmentally several products such as fatty amines of high molecular weight, polyoxylated amines, amides, imidazolines, nitrogen heterocyclic products, etc. The potential advantages of the use of silicates are the effective protection of carbon steel, especially in aerated saline fluids, low costs and non-aggressive behavior to environment. Gravimetric and electrochemical tests were carried out using an aerated solution of 3.5% NaCl and the addition of sodium silicate (Na2SiO3·9H2O) as a corrosion inhibitor at concentrations of 250 to 2000 mg/L. The efficiencies of the corrosion protection of carbon steel using silicate concentrations greater than 1250 mg/L were greater than 92%.
2 Poverty and Cognitive Function

Economic growth has lifted billions out of poverty in the span of a few generations. Despite these positive trends, poverty remains entrenched for millions around the globe. One longstanding explanation for poverty’s persistence is the possibility of poverty traps, or selfreinforcing cycles of poverty. Theoretical models of such poverty traps—often centered on nutrition in the earliest cases—have been central in the development literature for over half a century (Leibenstein 1957; Mirrlees 1975; Stiglitz 1976; Bliss and Stern 1978; Dasgupta and Ray 1986). This literature has expanded in many directions to consider the varying potential underlying forces such as geographic characteristics, pecuniary externalities, and even cultural forces, as well as both theoretical and policy implications of such traps, ranging from intergenerational transmission of poverty to equilibrium unemployment (Jalan and Ravallion 2002; Sachs 2005; Fang and Loury 2005; Currie and Almond 2011; Barrett and Carter 2013; Sachs 2014; Kraay and Raddatz 2007). 1
BEHAVIOR AND SIMULATION OF DEEP CEMENT MIXING (DCM) AND STIFFENED DEEP CEMENT MIXING (SDCM) PILES UNDER FULL SCALE LOADING

A new kind of Deep Cement Mixing (DCM) pile called StiŠened Deep Mixing Pile (SDCM) is introduced to mitigate the low ‰exural strength and unexpected failures of DCM piles. A jet grouting method with a jet pressure of 22 MPa, was utilized in the installation of DCM piles. The SDCM pile consists of a DCM pile with a precast reinforced concrete core pile inserted at its center. Pile and embankment load tests were conducted, and then the results of the ˆeld load tests were simulated by a 3D ˆnite element method (FEM) to back-analyze and conˆrm the related design parameters. These parameters were then used further in numerical experiments. The ˆeld test results showed that the settlements and lateral movements of the SDCM pile using a prestressed concrete core pile with area ratio (Acore/ADCM) of 0.17 and a length ratio of 0.85 was less than those of the DCM pile by 40z and 60z, respectively. Moreover, the SDCM pile foundation increased the bearing capacity by as much as 2.2 times. The average lateral pile capacity of the SDCM piles was 15 times higher than the DCM piles. A strength reduction factor of 0.40 was obtained at the concrete core and the DCM interface from the full scale pullout test. The behavior of both the DCM and SDCM piles was conˆrmed from the subsequent 3D FEM simulations. From the 3D FEM simulations, the length of the concrete core pile had more in‰uence on the settlements of the SDCM pile than its cross-sectional area. However, both the length and cross-sectional area of concrete core pile aŠected the lateral resistance of the SDCM pile.
REGISTRATION AND ANALYSIS OF CERVICAL EMG DURING LABOUR

The activity of smooth musculature existing to some extent in the human cervix is interesting and it seems it is important to the course of both, pregnancy and labour. With studying electrical activity in the cervix during labour we are trying to get better understanding of smooth muscular activity and of its role in the cervical function. After building the system for EMG registration the system and software for continuous intrapartal EMG analysis was built. The system enables the registration and analysis of the activity of the smooth cervical musculature at the time of cervical dilatation during labour and enables the evaluation of various drugs effect. on the activity of these muscles.
Factors affecting satisfaction levels of customers in the Hotel Industry: A case study of the Jammu Region

The purpose of this paper was to quantify the service satisfaction levels of hotel customers in Jammu region, India. The survey collected 162 questionnaires to provide the empirical dataset for the inquiry based on descriptive statistics, factor analysis and reliability analysis. Factor analysis extracted seven dimensions and conclusion summarizes the key influences that can shape the quality of service. Currently, business travellers rate low levels of satisfaction in 20 of the total 25 components presented in the questionnaire. This investigation can contribute to hotel sector research by highlighting elements which determine service quality, and help the industry stakeholders choose appropriate improvements to sustain a year-round tourism in Jammu and near adjoining places of Jammu & Kashmir.
Explorer Planning in hybrid relational MDPs

We study planning in relational Markov decision processes involving discrete and continuous states and actions, and an unknown number of objects. This combination of hybrid relational domains has so far not received a lot of attention. While both relational and hybrid approaches have been studied separately, planning in such domains is still challenging and often requires restrictive assumptions and approximations. We propose HYPE: a samplebased planner for hybrid relational domains that combines model-based approaches with state abstraction. HYPE samples episodes and uses the previous episodes as well as the model to approximate the Q-function. In addition, abstraction is performed for each sampled episode, this removes the complexity of symbolic approaches for hybrid relational domains. In our empirical evaluations,we show thatHYPE is a general andwidely applicable planner in domains ranging fromstrictly discrete to strictly continuous to hybrid ones, handles intricacies such as unknown objects and relational models. Moreover, empirical results showed that abstraction provides significant improvements.
HDAC Inhibition by LBH 589 Affects Phenotype and Function of Human Myeloid Dendritic Cells

LBH589 is a novel pan-HDAC inhibitor which has potent antitumor activity in multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. However, its impact on immune system has not been defined. We here evaluated the effects of LBH589 on human myeloid dendritic cells (DCs) at clinically relevant concentrations. Exposure to LBH589 affected the surface molecule expression on immature and mature DCs, associated with DC maturation (CD83↓), antigen presentation (HLA-ABC↓), and T cell co-stimulation (CD40↓ and CD86↑). LBH589 decreased both protein and polysaccharide antigen uptake capacities by DCs. Importantly, LBH589 impaired DCs function to stimulate antigen-specific immune responses, resulting in the significant reduction of invariant NKT cell (CD1d-restricted) and T cell (MHC-restricted) activation in innate and adaptive immunity. LBH589 also significantly repressed the production of IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-23 and TNF-α by TLR3 and TLR4-induced DCs activation, indicating an important role of HDAC activity in immune regulation and inflammation. RelB, a component of NF-κB signaling pathway, was the key component regulated by HDAC inhibition in DCs. Together, our preclinical study demonstrates that LBH589 significantly impairs phenotype and function of DCs, indicating a need for monitoring the immune status in patients receiving HDAC inhibitor therapy. It also provides a rationale to evaluate LBH589 activity for the treatment of inflammation.
Careful prior specification avoids incautious inference for log‐Gaussian Cox point processes

Hyperprior specifications for random fields in spatial point process modelling can have a major influence on the results. In fitting log‐Gaussian Cox processes to rainforest tree species, we consider a reparameterized model combining a spatially structured and an unstructured random field into a single component. This component has one hyperparameter accounting for marginal variance, whereas an additional hyperparameter governs the fraction of the variance that is explained by the spatially structured effect. This facilitates interpretation of the hyperparameters, and significance of covariates is studied for a range of hyperprior specifications. Appropriate scaling makes the analysis invariant to grid resolution.
Human Capital Planning of Faculties in Higher Education Institutions with Analytic Hierarchy Process Model

This paper proposed a human capital planning model based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), with which the dimension for faculty number of each school in university could be obtained according to the performance assessment of teaching, research, and service. Pair-wise comparisons and the judgmental matrix were carried out considering the relationship between human capital and achievement on evaluation items of different schools. The convenient application of this estimating system was thoroughly discussed via a given example, which provided helpful information and reference to authority department when deciding the dimension of faculties.
Potential Use of Mobile Phone Applications for Self-Monitoring and Increasing Daily Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Systematized Review

A wide range of chronic diseases could be prevented through healthy lifestyle choices, such as consuming five portions of fruits and vegetables daily, although the majority of the adult population does not meet this recommendation. The use of mobile phone applications for health purposes has greatly increased; these applications guide users in real time through various phases of behavioural change. This review aimed to assess the potential of self-monitoring mobile phone health (mHealth) applications to increase fruit and vegetable intake. PubMed and Web of Science were used to conduct this systematized review, and the inclusion criteria were: randomized controlled trials evaluating mobile phone applications focused on increasing fruit and/or vegetable intake as a primary or secondary outcome performed from 2008 to 2018. Eight studies were included in the final assessment. The interventions described in six of these studies were effective in increasing fruit and/or vegetable intake. Targeting stratified populations and using long-lasting interventions were identified as key aspects that could influence the effectiveness of these interventions. In conclusion, evidence shows the effectiveness of mHealth application interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Further research is needed to design effective interventions and to determine their efficacy over the long term.
The CompWHoB Corpus: Computational Construction, Annotation and Linguistic Analysis of the White House Press Briefings Corpus

English. The CompWHoB (Computational White House press Briefings) Corpus, currently being developed at the University of Naples Federico II, is a corpus of spoken American English focusing on political and media communication. It represents a large collection of the White House Press Briefings, namely, the daily meetings held by the White House Press Secretary and the news media. At the time of writing, the corpus amounts to more than 20 million words, covers a period of time of twenty-one years spanning from 1993 to 2014 and it is planned to be extended to the end of the second term of President Barack Obama. The aim of the present article is to describe the composition of the corpus and the techniques used to extract, process and annotate it. Moreover, attention is paid to the use of the Temporal Random Indexing (TRI) on the corpus as a tool for linguistic analysis. Italiano. Il CompWHoB Corpus, in sviluppo presso l’Università di Napoli Federico II, è un corpus di parlato ingleseamericano comprendente le conferenze condotte dai segretari statunitensi per i rapporti con la stampa, definite come Press Briefings. Allo stato attuale il corpus è composto da più di 20 milioni di parole e si estende dal 1993 sino a fine 2014. L’obiettivo di questo articolo è di descrivere la composizione del corpus, le tecniche utilizzate per estrarre ed annotare i testi, e mostrare come possa fungere da fonte di analisi linguistica attraverso l’utilizzo del Temporal Random Indexing (TRI).
Flexible Simulation Platform for Multilayer Piezoelectric MEMS Microphones with Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) Evaluation

A flexible simulation platform to design new piezoelectric MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) microphones with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) evaluation is presented. The platform is made of two blocks: a multiphysical FEM model, in order to study the acoustic, mechanical and electrical behavior of the MEMS structure, and an equivalent electro-mechanical-acoustic lumped-element model, which allows studying the microphone system, i.e. the MEMS-package-ASIC interaction. The platform gives precise estimation of sensitivity and SNR, key parameters of a microphone.
Physical strength as a determinant of persuasion

This master work project focuses on the different r oles that physical strength might play in persuasion. While the research stream of embodied p ersuasion points to an influence of various bodily variables on persuasion, the present study i s the first to examine the effects of physical strength on the formation of attitude. The Elaborat i n Likelihood Model of persuasion and the Persuasion Knowledge model served as theoretical fo undation. The variables argument strength, salience of manipulative intent and sense of power were hypothesized to impact the influence of physical strength on attitudes and tes ted in an experimental design. The study obtained no significant results in relation to an i nfluence of physical strength on persuasion. This might be due to the unsuccessful manipulation of the salience of manipulative intent in the presented persuasion message. JEL Classification:
Supplementary Information : Coulomb Enhanced Superconducting Pair Correlations in the Frustrated Quarter-Filled Band

Exact diagonalization using the valence bond basis. The valence bond (VB) method is a well known numerical technique for studying correlated quantum systems [S1][S2][S3]. In the present work it is used for computing pair-pair correlation functions and relative weights of nearest and next-nearest neighbour VB diagrams for the 4× 4 lattice. The VB basis is complete and non-orthogonal. The main advantages of the the VB method are that it allows, first, visualization of wavefunctions in terms of the dominant VB diagrams, and second, conservation of total spin S. We have used this method to calculate correlation functions for the 4×4 lattice within the lowest S = 0 state for all values of tx+y; for number of electrons 4, 8 and 12 the single-particle wavefunctions are degenerate, and for these cases calculations targeting specific total S states would be difficult for methods conserving only Sz.
Frequency-dependent phonon mean free path in carbon nanotubes from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics

Owing to their long phonon mean free paths (MFPs) and high thermal conductivity, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are ideal candidates for, e.g., removing heat from electronic devices. It is unknown, however, how the intrinsic phonon MFPs depend on vibrational frequency in nonequilibrium. We determine the spectrally resolved phonon MFPs in isotopically pure CNTs from the spectral phonon transmission function calculated using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics, fully accounting for the resistive phonon-phonon scattering processes through the anharmonic terms of the interatomic potential energy function. Our results show that the effective room temperature MFPs of low-frequency phonons ($fl0.5$ THz) exceed $10\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{m}$, while the MFP of high-frequency phonons ($f\ensuremath{\gtrsim}20$ THz) is in the range 10--100 nm. Because the determined MFPs directly reflect the resistance to energy flow, they can be used to accurately predict the thermal conductivity for arbitrary tube lengths by calculating a single frequency integral. The presented results and methods are expected to significantly improve the understanding of nonequilibrium thermal transport in low-dimensional nanostructures.
H 3 K 4 me 3 demethylation by the histone demethylase KDM 5 C / JARID 1 C promotes DNA replication origin firing

DNA replication is a tightly regulated process that initiates from multiple replication origins and leads to the faithful transmission of the genetic material. For proper DNA replication, the chromatin surrounding origins needs to be remodeled. However, remarkably little is known on which epigenetic changes are required to allow the firing of replication origins. Here, we show that the histone demethylase KDM5C/JARID1C is required for proper DNA replication at early origins. JARID1C dictates the assembly of the pre-initiation complex, driving the binding to chromatin of the pre-initiation proteins CDC45 and PCNA, through the demethylation of the histone mark H3K4me3. Fork activation and histone H4 acetylation, additional early events involved in DNA replication, are not affected by JARID1C downregulation. All together, these data point to a prominent role for JARID1C in a specific phase of DNA replication in mammalian cells, through its demethylase activity
Effect of ultra violet irradiation on life table of Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Three age groups of eggs of the stored grain pests, Ephestia kuehniella (1, 2, and 3days old) were exposed to ultraviolet irradiation with 254 nm wavelength (UV-C) for different exposure times (0.5- 40 min.) under controlled conditions to determine irradiation effect on egg-hatching. The effect of UVC-irradiation on reproduction and population growth parameters was investigated for eggs irradiated for 0.5, 1 and 1.5 minutes. An increase in time of exposure to irradiation caused a gradual decrease in percentage of hatching off eggs in all age groups of eggs. In all treatments, the older eggs were more sensitive to UV-rays than younger ones. The results indicated that different exposure periods of UV-irradiation could affect the reproduction and population growth parameters. The highest value of net fertility rates was observed in 1, 2, and 3-days-old eggs which were treated with 0.5 min exposure time (26.69 ± 4.66, 5.99 ± 0.57 and 1.55 ± 0.16 eggs/female, respectively). Both the intrinsic rate of increase ( r m ) and the net reproductive rate ( R 0 ) decreased with increasing the exposure time from 0.5 to 1.5 min while the mean generation time ( T c ) and doubling time ( D T ) increased within this irradiation range. The lowest amount of r m was determined in 1, and 2 days-old eggs at 1.5 min and in 3-day-old eggs at 1 min exposure times (0.037 ± 0.0025, 0.004 ± 0.0016 and 0.006 ± 0.0008 day -1 , respectively). UVC-irradiation may be used as an alternative approach to control of stored product pests.
Information Diffusion-Based Modeling of Oil Futures Prices

This paper investigates an information diffusion-based oil futures pricing model developed by Li et al. (2012) to analyze its credibility and evaluate its potential. It examines two important aspects of the model (information innovation and rate of information diffusion) and the two methods used to derive proxies for them (Bry and Boschan (1971) algorithm and ARMA(1,1) – GARCH(1,1) process, respectively). Implementation of both methods provided results similar to those of Li et al. (2012). Closer investigation into the methods, however, revealed some of the models weaknesses and limitations. Bry and Boschan’s (1971) algorithm introduced inconsistencies and subjectivity to the model, while the ARMA(1,1) – GARCH(1,1) model revealed that other conditional mean and variance processes may deliver better results than the component-GARCH model chosen in the original paper. In spite of these weaknesses, however, the model still seems promising and offers a fresh alternative approach to modeling oil futures prices. With the weaknesses addressed, the full potential of the model can be achieved.
A Comparative Study of Reflective Experiences of Primary School Specialist Teachers in Iran and Iraq to Explain and Identify Reflective Topics

The purpose of this study is to investigate reflective experiences of primary school specialist teachers in two Kurdish cities of Paveh (Iran) and Sulaymaniyah (Iraq) in order to identify and explain reflective topics. The research method is qualitative comparative using narrative approach, the level of analysis is “district “and the level of observation is “individual”. The strategy of "similar systems, similar outputs" was used to select countries under study and sampling method was convenience sampling. Data collection tool was in-depth interview and data analysis method is thematic analysis. This article is divided into several sections: In the Introduction section, past and current situation of the Iranian educational system, the importance of lived experiences and narratives of teachers, and the reasons for the comparison of the lived experiences of the teachers in these two cities are discussed. In the second part, the research method is explained. The third part refers to the research results. The findings of the research showed that the themes that are the main organizers of teachers'' narratives in both societies are largely influenced by the active role of social systems. Also, five universal themes (Cognition, learning, teaching, evaluation, and classroom management) were identified in the deeper narratives of teachers. From a comparative perspective, the research findings showed that the similarities of teachers'' lived experiences are high in both communities and minor differences can be ignored.