Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sensitivity of Vatnajökull ice cap hydrology and dynamics to climate warming over the next 2 centuries

[1] The sensitivity of Vatnajokull ice cap to future climate change is examined using spatially distributed coupled models of ice dynamics and hydrology. We simulate the evolving ice cap geometry, mass balance, velocity structure, subglacial water pressures and fluxes, and basin runoff in response to perturbations to a 1961–1990 reference climatology. For a prescribed warming rate of 2°C per century, simulated ice cap area and volume are reduced by 12–15% and 18–25% within 100 years, respectively. Individual outlet glaciers experience 3–6 km of retreat in the first 100 years and a total retreat of 10–30 km over 200 years. For the same applied warming our results suggest a maximum increase in glacier-derived runoff of ∼25% after 130 years. Ice cap thinning and retreat alters Vatnajokull's subglacial hydraulic catchment structure in the simulations, with up to several kilometers of local hydraulic divide migration. This serves to redistribute water among the major outlet rivers and, in extreme cases, to isolate river basins from glacially derived runoff. Glacier discharge from northern and northwestern Vatnajokull (distal from the coast) appears to be the most robust to climate warming, while discharge from Vatnajokull's southern margin (proximal to the coast) is particularly vulnerable. The latter reflects pronounced changes in the geometry of the southern outlet glaciers and has implications for glacier flood routing and frequency.
Learning IS-A relations from specialized-domain texts with co-occurrence measures

Ontology enrichment is a classification problem in which an algorithm categorizes an input conceptual unit in the corresponding node in a target ontology. Conceptual enrichment is of great importance both to Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing, because it helps maximize the efficacy of intelligent systems, making them more adaptable to scenarios where information is produced by means of language. Following previous research on distributional semantics, this paper presents a case study of ontology enrichment using a feature-extraction method which relies on collocational information from corpora. The major advantage of this method is that it can help locate an input unit within its corresponding superordinate node in a taxonomy using a relatively small number of lexical features. In order to evaluate the proposed framework, this paper presents an experiment consisting of the automatic classification of a chemical substance in a taxonomy of toxicology.
Wideband Negative Permittivity and Double Negative Fishnet-Mushroom-Like Metamaterial in X-Band Waveguide

A Fishnet-Mushroom-like metamaterial electromagnetic behaviour is represented in -parameters numerically and experimentally for X-band frequencies arena. The design has introduced a dielectric substrate as a host with metallic parts. The proposed design is predicted to provide the electromagnetic band gap characterization with desired reiterative characteristic parameters, negative permittivity, and negative permeability exhibiting a double negative left-handed region, which is identified with the X-band regime with good agreement between the simulated and the measured results.
Assessing livelihood impacts of cage based fish fingerlings production on Adivasi households in north-east and north-west Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, Adivasi, the indigenous people are of the poorest sections of the society due to their vulnerable livelihoods with lack of resources. Cage based fish fingerling production (CBFFP) was promoted with Adivasi households in the north-east and north-west regions of Bangladesh. A structured questionnaire based survey was conducted with a sample size of 150 CBFFP adopting households to assess the livelihood impacts of CBFFP on the Adivasi households. Geographically, the study represents Sherpur and Netrakona districts from north-east and Dinajpur, Rangpur, and Joypurhat districts from north-west regions of Bangladesh. In terms of socio-economic characteristics, the average household size of Adivasi households was 4.21± 1.28 with day labour (40%) based primary occupation. Majority (64%) of households heads were found illiterate and the remaining with low level education attainment. Most of the Adivasi households depended on a single person’s (household head) income. The average size of ponds in which the cages were set was about 1.2±1.4 hectare with the depth of 1.5-3 m. The cage provided with Adivasi farmer was of 1 m3 in size and made of locally available materials, mainly bamboo made frame, net and plastic bottles as floats. The average cost of a cage construction was about BDT 400±85.2 (USD 5.71±1.2). The fry of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), rui (Labeo rohita), mrigal (Cirrhinus cirrhosus), bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis), common carp (Cyprinus carpio), Thai sarpunti (Barbonymus gonionotus) were stocked in the cages for fingerling production. The average stocking density was about 875±507 fry/cage (about 3.4cm in length). In average, fingerling production cost was about BDT 268±129.2/cage (USD 3.83±1.8/cage) and selling value was about BDT 431±509.1/cage (USD 6.16±7.2/cage). The major impacts of CBFFP include increased household level income (1.7%), use of this income to buy livestock for rearing further. Moreover, CBFFP impacted positively on other aspects of livelihoods such as purchasing food in lean period, saving money and paying credit. The large size fingerlings produced in the cages were used as food fish for household level consumption. The main constrains of Adivasi households to adopt CBFFP were poaching of fish from cages and variable access to ponds for cage installation.
Assessing the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Learning Capability in Private Higher Educational Institutions in Egypt and India: A Comparative Study

The purpose of this paper is to make a comparative study between Egypt and India aiming to measure the impact of three variables, which are: Emotional Intelligence (EI), Job Satisfaction (JS) and Organizational Learning Capability (OLC) among academicians in private Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in both countries Egypt and India. Data was collected from private HEIs in Egypt and India. The study employs standardized scales for Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Learning Capability and Job satisfaction variables. Sample consists of 100 faculty members from Egypt, and 100 faculty members from India. Various standard statistical tools such as Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation, t-test and regression analysis were used to interpret the data. The findings of this paper were interesting. It was found that the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction was non-significant, however, the relationship between the Organizational Learning Capability and the Job Satisfaction was found to be significant, with regards to both countries, Egypt and India. It was also found that there is a non-significant relationship between OLC and EI in India but a significant one between OLC and EI in Egypt. Another main finding is that the OLC, in Egypt, when found to be high, the relation between EI-JS was found to be positive and almost significant. However, when having low level of OLC, the EI-JS relationship was found to be inverse and non-significant. For the limitations and implications; it is due to certain features of the sample and the use of measurement scales, that the final results should be considered with caution. Further research in other contexts using qualitative methods is needed to validate the findings. To make it more practical, it could be concluded that seeking to develop the employees in the workplace is found to be of a great importance, since that the organizational learning capability was found to be related to the Job Satisfaction and positively affecting it. For the originality of this paper, it is worth to mention that this paper is considered as the first comparative study between Egypt and India in the topic of Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction.
3D Visualization GIS Vector Layer Using Texture Mapping

This study aims to visualized 3D GIS vector data and build system operate through creating a new tool added to ArcMap Geographic Information System (GIS). This new tool automatically visualizes 3D GIS vector layer of an agricultural lands extracted from integrating GIS databases resources without needed to raster layer or any 3D drivers such as DirectX or OpenGL Dll libraries. This paper introduce a new usage for the surface flattening method that by applying it on GIS vector layer and it database. surface flattening used fast marching and classical MSD techniques to find texture coordinates. The scene is rendered using ray casting rendering. Moreover, barycentric coordinates is used as an interpolation method in texture mapping process. Some techniques like lighting, rotation and anti-aliasing, are applied to accomplish the proposed system task. The 3D scene resulted from the texture mapping method in proposed system are have minimum distortion for the textured surface compared with the scene resulted from ArcScene software and obtained a fine look. The system is developed using Visual Studio. Net C# which linked with ArcMap GIS to allowing for the system application to access to the GIS database resources.
Referenda Outcomes and the Influence of Polls: A Social Network Feedback Process

This paper proposes a model to explain the differences between outcomes of referenda and the voting trends suggested by polls. Two main effects are at stake. First, the evolution of the voters' attitudes is conditional on the public information made available to them. Second, the predisposition toward abstention among individuals within each voting group may be different. Our model describes how these two aspects of decision making may interact, showing how publicly available information may amplify the distinct tendency toward abstention between both groups and thus affect the outcome of the referendum.
Assessment of Subsidence and Riverbank Stability in Edmonton using X-band and C-band InSAR

Summary Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has been used to measure ground deformation in the City of Edmonton. Potential sources of movement include residual subsidence over abandoned coal mines, subsidence due to ground compaction and/or fluid withdrawal, and gravitational movements of unstable slopes along the river valley. Both historic and modern images have been used to assess these movements.
MEDIA MIX MODELING COMPARISON OF INTERACTION MODEL TO SIMPLE LOG-LINEAR MODEL

The objective of current study is to compare a new model for media mix problem with popular model named as simple log linear model. A modified approach proposed to improve the results of media mix model from simple log linear method includes the simultaneous effect of different media variables on sales. The combined effect caused by various media variables shows a synergy in the curve for sales and hence considering it makes the model much effective and accurate.
Development of a passive and remote magnetic microsensor with thin-film giant magnetoimpedance element and surface acoustic wave transponder

This paper presents the development of a wireless magnetic field sensor consisting of a three-layer thin-film giant magnetoimpedance sensor and a surface acoustic wave device on one substrate. The goal of this integration is a passive and remotely interrogated sensor that can be easily mass fabricated using standard microfabrication tools. The design parameters, fabrication process, and a model of the integrated sensor are presented together with experimental results of the sensor.
Energy-efficient resource allocation for OFDMA two-way relay networks with imperfect

Most of the existed works on the radio resource allocation (RRA) problem commonly assume the channel-state information (CSI) can be perfectly obtained by the transmission source. However, such assumption is not practical in the realistic wireless systems. In this work, we consider the practical implementation issues of resource allocation in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) two-way relay networks: the inaccuracy of channel-state information (CSI) available to the source. Instead, only the estimated channel status is known by the source. In this context, a joint optimization of subcarrier pairing and allocation, relay selection, and transmit power allocation is formulated in OFDMA two-way amplify-and-forward relay networks. Moreover, the objective of this work is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system. Further, to ensure the quality of service (QoS) or data rate requirement, the energy consumption must be minimized without compromising the QoS. Therefore, by applying convex optimization techniques, energy-efficient algorithms are developed with the objective to minimize the total transmit power with guaranteeing the required data rates. Through simulation studies, energy consumption performance of the systems under the proposed schemes is investigated. It can be observed that our proposed scheme can improve the energy consumption performance of the considered system.
Traffic noise and perceived soundscapes: a case study

The present study will deal with a practical problem of noise mapping: the acoustical classification of roads in the medium size municipality of San Giuliano Terme, in Tuscany (I). At first, using a common approach in literature, the main road infrastructures have been classified in three clusters, applying threshold methods to traffic flow measurements. The time history of LAeq was then acquired in selected sites over a continuous period of 24 hours and the power spectrum G(f) was then calculated from dB values of LAeq over 15 minute intervals. A power law was fitted to G(f) in the range [0.02, 0.2] Hz, obtaining two parameters B(t) and A(t) over a complete day. Hierarchical clustering was finally performed and the clusters obtained resembled the ones based on traffic flow. The values of B(t) and A(t) have been compared with other indicators: comparison with Number of Noise Event (NNE) and L10-L90 has been reported here. New fitting possibilities for G(f) has also been explored and discussed in this work. Finally, statistical analysis has been used to get further information on the meaning of B.
Assessment of the effective attenuation coefficient of scattering media illuminated by an LED array: effect of the beam size

The knowledge of the light fluence rate distribution inside a biological tissue irradiated by a Laser (or LED) is fundamental to achieve medical treatments. In this paper, we present a semi-analytical model based on the 2-D Fourier Transform of the diffusion equation. This method can be applied to any irradiation source (cylindrically symmetric or not) at the surface of the tissue. Two particular beam shapes are studied: planar irradiation and flat beam with finite radius. The total fluence rate along the depth in tissues was computed by adding the collimated and the diffuse components. The analytical solution was also used to study the effect of the beam radius on the light attenuation. Measurements were performed using a tank filled with a liquid-simulating medium (Milk), illuminated with a LED array (660 nm, 100mm×100mm). Several circular diaphragms were used to obtain uniform circular beams with well defined radii. An optical fibre (with an isotropic tip) was used to measure the fluence rate inside the medium. Preliminary experimental results are in agreement with theoretical predictions.
The Prosodic Resolution of Syntactic/Semantic Ambiguity: An Exemplar-based Account

This study tests the hypothesis that the ambiguity of a null argument construction in Korean like Lwummeituka mwusewun ka poayo (The roommate must be scared/scary) can be prosodically resolved. The null argument construction is tested with two-place psychological predicates such as mwusewun (scared/scary) and kwichanun (bothered/bothersome). A naturalness rating experiment shows the following: (1) when the NP Lwummeituka is the experiencer of the psychological predicate scare and the sentence means ‘The roommate must be scared,’ both an Accentual Phrase (AP) boundary and an Intonational Phrase (IP) boundary are equally accepted between the NP and the VP; (2) when the NP is the stimulus (The roommate must be scary), only an AP boundary is perceived natural. Reaction time and comprehension question accuracy data further display the role played by prosody in ambiguity resolution. The results are discussed within the exemplar framework.
Temporal expression pattern of myostatin transcripts during chicken embryogenesis

The myogenesis requires the precise temporal and spatial expression of multiple growth factors, which regulate proliferation and differentiation of myoblasts until the formation of the functional tissue. The identification of a new growth and differentiation factor named myostatin has provided new insights for the better understanding of the muscle mass deposition in vertebrates (McPherron and Lee, 1997). The main source of the synthesis and secretion of this growth factor is the skeletal muscle tissue and myostatin transcripts are specifically detected in the myotome during early embryogenesis (Amthor et al., 2002). Mice carrying a targeted disruption of this gene showed a drastic increase in skeletal muscle tissue, resulted by combination of muscle fiber hyperplasia and hypertrophy (McPherron et al., 1997). Additionally, mutation in the sequence of this gene has been associated with the double muscling phenotype in cattle, suggesting that myostatin gene participate actively of muscle mass deposition in these animals (Kambadur et al., 1997). Considering that the spatial expression of myostatin gene has been well characterized by whole-mount in situ hybridization assays (McPherron et al., 1997; Amthor et al., 2002), the objective of this report was to estimate the abundance of steady-state mRNA of myostatin gene in chicken embryos at different developmental stages by competitive RT-PCR analysis.
ESTRUTURA TRIDIMENSIONAL DA MAJOR SURFACE PROTEASE DE Leishmania guyanensis RESOLVIDA POR MODELAGEM COMPARATIVA

O objetivo deste trabalho foi gerar e caracterizar a estrutura tridimensional da Major Surface Protease (MSP) de L. guyanensis (LgMSP). A obtencao do modelo estrutural foi realizada por modelagem comparativa, empregando o programa Modeller, a partir da sequencia de aminoacidos da LgMSP depositada no GenBank. Os resultados obtidos apontaram que a LgMSP possui todos os elementos necessarios para o processamento pos-traducional e de funcionamento, tais como: peptideo sinal; pro-peptideo; sinal de adicao da âncora de glicosilfostatidilinositol (GPI); e os aminoacidos envolvidos na composicao do sitio catalitico, motif HE XX H. A estrutura da LgMSP, apresentou as mesmas caracteristicas estruturais da proteina molde, MSP de Leishmania major (LmMSP). O alinhamento entre as estruturas de LgMSP e LmMSP revelou grande conservacao estrutural, sobretudo dos subdominios onde esta localizado o sitio catalitico. O estudo das cargas parciais aponta a mesma distribuicao das cargas de superficie, indicando que ambas as proteinas possam clivar os mesmos substratos. De acordo com os resultados, sugerimos que a LgMSP seja um excelente alvo para o tratamento profilatico e/ou curativo da leishmaniose tegumentar americana, atraves do desenho racional de farmacos baseado na estrutura gerada. Palavras-chave: MSP, modelagem comparativa, Leishmania guyanensis, estrutura, cargas de superficie, conservacao estrutural.
Expression Level of Circulating miR-93 in Serum of Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy

Zanjan University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Zanjan, Iran *Tehran University Faculty of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran, Iran **Tehran University Faculty of Medicine, Diabetes Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran, Iran Original Article Turk J Endocrinol Metab 2018;22:78-84
The Design of Sub-0.7V 5-GHz CMOS Direct-Conversion Receiver Front-End for Wireless LAN Applications

A sub-0.7V 5-GHz direct-conversion receiver for low-power and wireless applications is proposed in this thesis. The receiver composed of a low-noise amplifier, a set of I/Q downconverters with a DC compensation circuit, and a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator is realized in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology supported by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company via Chip Implementation Center. The proposed receiver is completely designed, fabricated and tested. Measured results exhibit that the receiver can operate well under supply voltages of 0.65 V and 0.7 V even though it doesn’t achieve adequate performance due to an oversight of parasitic effects. The receiver performs a conversion gain of 12.6 dB, a noise figure of 24 dB, a 1-dB compression point of -24 dBm, and a DC offset of less than 3 mV with an injected input power of -50 dBm, while draining 8.14 mW and covering 4.4 mm. The problem of frequency shift in measurement is discussed and modified, and a re-designed receiver, which is able to fit the IEEE 802.11a specification, is completed.
Local model of a qubit in the interferometric setup

We consider a typical realization of a qubit as a single particle in two-path interferometric circuits built from phase shifters, beam splitters and detectors. This framework is often taken as a standard example illustrating various paradoxes and quantum effects, including non-locality. In this paper we show that it is possible to simulate the behaviour of such circuits in a classical manner using stochastic gates and two kinds of particles, real ones and ghosts, which interact only locally. The model has built-in limited information gain and state disturbance in measurements which are blind to ghosts. We demonstrate that predictions of the model are operationally indistinguishable from the quantum case of a qubit, and allegedly ‘non-local’ effects arise only on the epistemic level of description by the agent whose knowledge is incomplete due to the restricted means of investigating the system.
Subjective outcomes of psychotherapeutic interventions: a naturalistic follow-up study among Finnish adolescent psychiatric outpatients

In adolescence, the prevalence of mental disorders doubles compared to childhood and the need for interventions to reduce psychological symptoms increases. Most evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions are focused on single conditions, but in clinical practice most patients suffer from psychiatric comorbidity. However, research on effective treatment interventions for adolescents in a naturalistic setting is scarce. The aim of this three-month follow-up study was to investigate subjective outcomes of psychotherapeutic interventions in a naturalistic setting among adolescent psychiatric outpatients. The intention was to also find out if verbally performed psychotherapies were more effective than art and occupational therapies in symptom reduction. Further, to investigate whether the frequency of intervention or the severity of self-reported depressive symptoms were related to treatment effect. This study was conducted at the Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Adolescent Psychiatry. The study is part of an ongoing longitudinal study focusing on the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions, started in February 2012. The sample comprised 58 adolescents, with a mean age of 14.2 years, referred to psychotherapy or to art and occupational therapies. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Clinical Outcomes in Routine EvaluationOutcome-Measure (CORE-OM) were used as self-assessments both at baseline and the follow-up.