Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Insulin-like growth factor and growth hormone receptor in postpartum lactating beef cows

The objective of this study was to evaluate the plasma concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), and the mRNA hepatic expression of IGF-I and of the growth hormone receptors GHR and GHR 1A, in postpartum beef cows. Four Angus and four crossbred (Angus x Nelore) postpartum suckled beef cows were used. Liver and blood samples were collected every 10 days, from calving to 40 days postpartum, for gene expression and for β‑hydroxybutyrate and IGF‑I assays, respectively. Samples for progesterone assay were collected every other day, from day 10 to 40 postpartum. Three cows ovulated before 40 days postpartum. IGF-I concentration was higher in Angus x Nelore than in Angus cows. There was no difference in the expression of GHR, GHR 1A and IGF-I according to breed or ovulatory status. IGF-I concentrations were higher in crossbred cows, but have not changed according to postpartum ovulatory status. Moreover, changes in postpartum IGF-I concentrations are not associated with changes in liver GHR, GHR 1A and IGF-I mRNA expression in either breed.
Testing accretion disk instabilities in X-ray binaries

We study disk instabilities in black hole binaries in which X-ray novae outbursts were observed. Typically, one outburst occurs in each light curve, with total duration from 30 up to 400 days. The shape of an outburst can be very regular fast rise exponential decay (FRED) characteristic for ionisation instability mechanism that occurs in accretion disks, or irregular suggesting that, beside FRED, additional ickering occurs. We use the model which predicts time dependent evolution of ionisation instability in an accretion disk around black hole, assuming viscosity parameter to be proportional to the total pressure. We test it in detail for two objects: GX 339-4 and XTE J1818-245. The modelled light curves agree with the collected RXTE light curves, indicating that disk instability works in those objects.
The reliability of an ‘off‐the‐shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model for use in climate impact assessment: uncertainty quantification using Latin hypercube sampling

Much uncertainty is derived from the application of conceptual rainfall runoff models. In this paper, HYSIM, an ‘off-the-shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model, is applied to a suite of catchments throughout Ireland in preparation for use in climate impact assessment. Parameter uncertainty is assessed using the GLUE methodology. Given the lack of source code available for the model, parameter sampling is carried out using Latin hypercube sampling. Uncertainty bounds are constructed for model output. These bounds will be used to quantify uncertainty in future simulations as they include error derived from data measurement, model structure and parameterization.
Pattern, synchrony and predictability of spawning of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina from Heron Reef, Australia

The spawning biology of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina on Heron Reef, Australia, was investigated to identify putative environmental and endogenous factors controlling spawning. Spawnings by H. asinina were highly regular and, in comparison to most other haliotids and marine invertebrates, frequent and extremely synchronous. These events appeared to be regulated by more than 1 environmental cue. The spawning season of H. asinina extends from October to April and is associated with an increase in water temperature. During the spawning season, recently captured abalone, housed in flow-through aquaria, released gametes for 2 nights every 2 wk during the new and full moons. However, the exact date of spawning did not correlate precisely with the lunar cycle. Occasionally the spawning events between 2 populations of H. asinina on Heron Reef that were 1.5 km apart differed by 1 d, suggesting that differential tidal regimes might influence the date of spawning. The population that was exposed to slightly longer spring low tides occasionally spawned 1 d earlier. In the aquaria, the onset of male spawnings was earlier than the onset of female spawnings by an average of 31 min. The time of spawning of either sex was highly correlated with the evening high tide; males spawned an average of 19 min prior to the high tide, and females spawned 11 min after the high tide. Spawnings were highly synchronous amongst individuals, with 90% commencing spawning within 89 min of the first individual that spawned. A greater percentage of individuals spawned when in the presence of the opposite sex and the frequency of male ejaculation was greater when in the presence of females. Synchronous spawning patterns persisted for 6 wk in H. asinina maintained in aquaria; after this period, spawnings continued but were irregular and asynchronous. We propose that low tide exposure and time of high tide indirectly regulate the date and time of spawning respectively, and that these tidal elements influence the spawning biology of H. asinina by maintaining endogenous rhythms that persist in non-tidal environments for at least 6 wk.
Trophic interactions in northern Chile upwelling ecosystem, year 1997

A food web model is constructed to describe predator-prey interactions, community structure and trophic flows in northern Chile upwelling ecosystem (18°20'S, 24°S), for the year 1997. The model is built using the Ecopath with Ecosim software version 6.4, and encompasses 21 functional groups, ranging from primary producers (phytoplankton) to top predators (birds and marine mammals), the principal fishing resources and the fishery. Input parameters required to build the model were gathered from specialized literature, grey literature and our own estimates. The results indicated that the total biomass (BT) was estimated at 624.7 ton km -2 . The combined biomass of small pelagic fish represented 26% of BT, while the combined biomass of demersal fish represented only 0.1% of BT. These results highlight the importance of pelagic fish in this system. Predation mortality resulted to be the main source of mortality. Nevertheless, fishing mortality was important in anchovy, mackerel, common dolphinfish and jack mackerel. The mean trophic level of the fishery was estimated as 3.7, with landings sustained mainly by anchovy. Primary production required to sustain the landings (PPR) was estimated at 7.5% of calculated total net primary production, which is lower than PPR estimates in other upwelling ecosystems. The average trophic transfer efficiency was 18%, which is in the range (10-20%) informed for marine ecosystems. Results indicate that in 1997 the northern Chile marine ecosystem was characterized for being a system far from maturity, dominated in terms of biomass and flows by the pelagic realm.
Transparent boundary condition for acoustic propagation in lined guide with mean flow

A finite element analysis of acoustic radiation in an infinite lined guide with mean flow is studied. In order to bound the domain, transparent boundary conditions are introduced by means of a Dirichlet to Neumann (DtN) operator based on a modal decomposition. This decomposition is easy to carry out in a hard‐walled guide. With absorbant lining, many difficulties occur even without mean flow. Since the eigenvalue problem is no longer selfadjoint, acoustic modes are not orthogonal with respect to the L2‐scalar product. However, an orthogonality relation exists which permits writing the modal decomposition. For a lined guide with uniform mean flow, modes are no longer orthogonal but a new scalar product allows us to define the DtN operator. We consider first the case of an infinite rectangular two‐dimensional lined guide with uniform mean flow in order to present the methodology. Then, some extensions will be presented: non‐uniform two‐dimensional geometries by calculating potential mean flow, and cylindric.
Assessing Consumers' Perceived Quality Using formative and Reflective Measures at the Destination Level

This study was conducted exploring the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic cues, and perceived quality using formative and reflective measures at the destination level. A conceptual quality model was developed and tested by a field study for making the model context specific. Then Partial Least Square (PLS) based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach was used to test four hypotheses of proposed model on a sample of 602 visitors. Three hypotheses were supported at different significant levels. It is expected that the outcomes of this study will help the policymakers in tourism planning and implementing effective marketing strategies. Theoretically, this study will contribute in enhancing the causal relationships among formative and reflective constructs which have not been extensively studied yet in the tourism literature. KEYWORDS: Perceived Quality Cues, Formative and Reflective Measures __________________
Mining hierarchical uml sequence diagrams from event logs of SOA systems while Balancing between abstracted and detailed models

In this paper, we consider an approach to reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams from event logs of information systems with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). UML sequence diagrams are graphical models quite suitable for representing interactions in heterogeneous component systems; in particular, the latter include increasingly popular SOA-based information systems. The approach deals with execution traces of SOA systems, represented in the form of event logs. Event logs are created by almost all modern information systems primarily for debug purposes. In contrast with conventional reverse engineering techniques that require source code for analysis, our approach for inferring UML sequence diagrams deals only with available logs and some heuristic knowledge. Our method consists of several stages of building UML sequence diagrams according to different perspectives set by the analyst. They include mapping log attributes to diagram elements, thereby determining a level of abstraction, grouping several components of a diagram and building hierarchical diagrams. We propose to group some of diagram components (messages and lifelines) based on regular expressions and build hierarchical diagrams using nested fragments. The approach is evaluated in a software prototype implemented as a Microsoft Visio add-in. The add-in builds a UML sequence diagram from a given event log according to a set of customizable settings.
2 An Impure Public Good Approach

Terrorist models often focus on one kind of agent as well as one motive to pursue terrorism. Our model diverges from such standard approaches by taking account of the reasoning of the terrorist-organization leader as well as of the reasoning of the individual terrorist. This allows us to observe the influence of the leader on the individual terrorist. Furthermore, we distinguish different motives which influence the individual agent’s activities. More precisely, we consider terrorist support as an impure public good generating different characteristics. Moreover, we allow the leader to influence the individual terrorist’s activities via different technologies and finally, we take account of the fact that individual terrorists may develop a strong feeling of belonging-ness to the organization. In our framework, it is possible to explain why rational terrorists support terrorism and even commit suicide attacks. In line with empirical findings, income levels play no decisive factor in terrorists’ readiness to commit such attacks.
User acceptance of m-banking application: Indonesian cases

M-banking is one of the emerging banking facilities lately. Indonesian bank has been offering m-banking services for several years. However, the use of Indonesian m-banking users is still not as expected. This study aims to observe user acceptance of Indonesian m-banking application using the approach of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). 205 participants are involved in this study voluntarily by filling out the user acceptance questionnaires with regards to two different m-banking application from bank A and bank B. Result shows that Indonesian banks need to give more promotions related to its m-banking, especially about the usefulness, the security system, and the risk that may be faced by the consumers.
The effects of hygroscopicity on ice nucleation of fossil fuel combustion aerosols in mixed-phase clouds

Abstract. Fossil fuel black carbon and organic matter (ffBC/OM) are often emitted together with sulfate, which coats the surface of these particles and changes their hygroscopicity. Observational studies at cirrus temperatures (≈−40 °C) show that the hygroscopicity of soot particles can modulate their ice nucleation ability. Here, we implement a scheme for 3 categories of soot (hydrophobic, hydrophilic and hygroscopic) on the basis of laboratory data and specify their ability to act as ice nuclei at mixed-phase temperatures by extrapolating the observations using a published deposition/condensation/immersion freezing parameterization. The new scheme results in significant changes to anthropogenic forcing in mixed-phase clouds. The net forcing in our offline model studies varies from 0.111 to 1.059 W m −2 depending on the ice nucleation capability of hygroscopic soot particles. The total anthropogenic cloud forcing and whole-sky forcing with the new scheme are 0.06 W m −2 and −2.45 W m −2 , respectively, but could be more positive (by about 1.17 W m −2 ) if hygroscopic soot particles are allowed to nucleate ice particles. The change in liquid water path dominates the anthropogenic forcing in mixed-phase clouds.
Performance tests of an evacuated flat plate solar collector under a virtual image solar simulator

An evacuated flat plate collector has been built and tested in a solar simulator. A vacuum of <0.1 Pa was used to eliminate heat losses through convection and gas conduction. CFD and stress calculations for the hydro-formed panels determined the material thickness and through-hole sizes. The simulator used a reflecting tube to generate uniform illumination via multiple virtual images of four halogen floodlights. Tests with and without vacuum over a range of illumination powers demonstrate the efficiency benefits of vacuum insulation when providing heat at elevated temperatures or with weak insolation. INTRODUCTION Evacuating a flat-panel solar collector will reduce its heat loss coefficient [1]. Reducing the pressure below 3500 Pa can prevent convection currents forming [2], with the result that heat losses through the gas are purely due to conduction. A further pressure reduction to below 0.5 Pa results in the molecular mean free path exceeding the separation of absorber and glass, so that conduction is largely eliminated also [3]. The principle is already widely applied in evacuated tube collectors [4] and offers the potential to deliver fluid at high temperatures (150-200°C) without the severe loss of efficiency that would occur at these temperatures if gas were present. Concentrating systems that focus light onto the tube can achieve high overall efficiencies but rely upon direct sunlight and a tracking system; non-concentrating tubes generally have a poor spatial fill factor. Flat plate collectors have a high fill factor and offer the potential for working at high temperature even with diffuse illumination. A 0.5*0.5m solar collector has been built and tested under a solar simulator.
A simulation-based nonlinear goal programming model for groundwater remediation systems design

This study proposes an integrated method that simulates and optimizes groundwater design and management in combination with goal programming, which establishes the equilibrium between technical and environmental constraints in a pump-and-treat system. This method is applied to a petroleum-contaminated site in Western Canada to identify optimal remediation strategies given a set of remediation scenarios. The significant influential factors are remediation duration, standard concentration levels, and total pumping rate. Results indicate that goal programming can greatly enhance the remediation effect under low contaminant concentrations. In the pump-and-treat system, wells I2, E1, and E3 are the dominant components, whereas wells M7 and M5 are sensitive to variations in the identified influential factors. These wells must therefore be monitored intentionally. Moreover, these factors influence one another in interaction. Thus, high total pumping rates do not always generate favorable outcomes, and a long remediation period is unnecessary. In conclusion, the three identified factors should be spontaneously considered in the general goal-programming framework.
Governance and Foreign Aid in ASIAN Countries

This paper examines the determinants of flow of foreign aid in the 20 ASIAN countries in a panel framework. The model includes the foreign aid, foreign direct investment, six measures of governance, along with the purely economic variables which have been taken as control variables. Estimation analysis was carried out by using pooled annual time series data from 2002 to 2008 in the framework of fixed and random effect model. Relevance of GMM (1991) and GMM (1998) estimates were also evaluated. We find that there is strong evidence of significantly positive impact of past year's aid flow and regulatory quality on the current year's aid flow while significantly negative impact of exports of goods and services, political stability and control over corruption on the current year's aid flow, weak evidence of the negative impact of population, voice and accountability, and rule of law on the current year's aid flow and weak evidence of significantly positive impact of government effectiveness on the current year's aid flow.
Text Analysis for Product Reviews for Sentiment Analysis using NLP Methods

 Abstract This paper explains different methods for sentiment analysis and showcases an efficient methodology. It also highlights the importance the product reviews are of utmost importance for the buyers to decide based on their concerns regarding product's various aspects for example a monitor, processor speed, memory etc. Hence this sentiment analysis of product review provides nearly accurate statistics regarding a product, providing an ease to the customers for analyzing the product and zero down his/her search for an online product. The key focus here is efficient feature extraction, polarity classification thereby summarizing positive and negative or neutral polarity. The proposed work is able to collect information from various sites and perform a sentiment analysis of a user reviews based on that information to rank a product. Also these reviews suffer from spammed reviews from unauthenticated users. In this paper, we can show that the statistical methods are often combined with traditional linguistic rules and representations. In view of these facts, we argue that the Naive Bayes classification model and Hidden Markov Models is applied to analyze the polarity of the sentiment on online product reviews due to its computational simplicity and stochastic robustness.
Annealing effects on the structural and optical properties of vanadium oxide film obtained by the hot-filament metal oxide deposition technique (HFMOD)

Vanadium oxide films amorphous, nonstoichiometric and highly absorbing in the optical region were deposited on ITO-coated glass and on silicon substrates, by the hot-filament metal oxide deposition technique (HFMOD) and oxidized by ex-situ annealing in a furnace at 200, 300, 400 and 500 oC, under an atmosphere of argon and rarefied oxygen. X-ray diffraction, Raman and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy as well as optical transmission were employed to characterize the amorphous and annealed films. When annealed at 200 and 300 oC the as-deposited opaque films become transparent but still amorphous. Under treatments at 400 and 500 oC a crystalline nonstoichiometric V2O5 structure is formed. All the annealed films became semiconducting, with their optical absorption coefficients changing with the annealing temperature. An optical gap of 2.25 eV was measured for the films annealed at 400 and 500 oC. The annealing in rarefied oxygen atmosphere proved to be a useful and simple ex-situ method to modulate the structural and optical properties of vanadium oxide films deposited by HFMOD technique. This technique could be applied to other amorphous and non-absorbing oxide films, replacing the conventional and sometimes expensive method of modulate desirable film properties by controlling the film deposition parameters. Even more, the HFMOD technique can be an inexpensive alternative to deposit metal oxide films.
Transformation of the public administration system in the context of integration of the national innovation systems of the Union State

Actuality of the article is the integrative processes that require significant development and progressive unity to obtain a synergistic effect. Innovation thus defined as the leading framework for defining collaboration between States. It is shown that the feature of development and formation of the national innovation system in the framework of the Union State is based on the principles of administration in public space. The authors show that innovation in public administration form the special form for the design of future construction of a single economic space. It is noted that integration within the Eurasian Union is largely disproportionate and leads only to the division of innovation on infrastructure and private nature. The subject of the research is the innovation system of Russia and Belarus and the potential of a single innovation system in the framework of the Union state. RESUMEN: El artículo estudia los procesos integradores que requieren un desarrollo significativo y una unidad progresiva para obtener un efecto sinérgico. La innovación así definida como el marco líder para definir la colaboración entre los Estados. Se muestra que la característica del desarrollo y la formación del sistema nacional de innovación en el marco del Estado de la Unión se basa en los principios de la administración en el espacio público. Los autores muestran que la innovación en la administración pública es la forma especial para el diseño de la futura construcción de un espacio económico único. Se observa que la integración dentro de la Unión Euroasiática es en gran medida desproporcionada y solo conduce a la división de la innovación en la infraestructura y la naturaleza privada. El tema de la investigación es el sistema de innovación de Rusia y Bielorrusia y el potencial de un sistema único Novelty of the work is the provision that public administration is a support function for the formation of innovation system in the state. The authors note that each of the participants for innovative cooperation may use only a few forms of participation. It is noted that full development of the capacity to form a holistic integrated innovation system is possible if the process provided by the public administration. The prospect of further studies is to predict the quality of cooperation between States: increasing the share of innovative products in the total turnover of the Union State and planning of joint production of innovative products.
Majorana fermions of a two-dimensional p x + i p y superconductor

To investigate Majorana fermionic excitations of a ${p}_{x}+i{p}_{y}$ superconductor, the Bogoliubov\char21{}de Gennes equation is solved on a sphere for two cases: (i) a vortex-antivortex pair at opposite poles and (ii) an edge near the south pole and an antivortex at the north pole. The vortex cores support a state of two Majorana fermions, the energy of which decreases exponentially with the radius of the sphere, independently of a moderate disorder potential. The tunneling conductance of an electron into the superconductor near the position of a vortex is computed for finite temperature and is compared to the case of an $s$-wave superconductor. The zero-bias conductance peak of the antivortex is half that of the vortex. This effect can be used as a probe of the order-parameter symmetry and as a direct measurement of the Majorana fermion.