Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Complex coastal change in response to autogenic basin infilling: An example from a sub‐tropical Holocene strandplain

Thick bay‐fill sequences that often culminate in strandplain development serve as important sedimentary archives of land–ocean interaction, although distinguishing between internal and external forcings is an ongoing challenge. This study employs sediment cores, ground‐penetrating radar surveys, radiocarbon dates, palaeogeographic reconstructions and hydrodynamic modelling to explore the role of autogenic processes – notably a reduction in wave energy in response to coastal embayment infilling – in coastal evolution and shoreline morphodynamics. Following a regional 2 to 4 m highstand at ca 5·8 ka, the 75 km2 Tijucas Strandplain in southern Brazil built from fluvial sediments deposited into a semi‐enclosed bay. Holocene regressive deposits are underlain by fluvial sands and a Pleistocene transgressive–regressive sequence, and backed by a highstand barrier‐island. The strandplain is immediately underlain by 5 to 16 m of seaward‐thickening, fluvially derived, Holocene‐age, basin‐fill mud. Several trends are observed from the landward (oldest) to the seaward (youngest) sections of the strandplain: (i) the upper shoreface and foreshore become finer and thinner and shift from sand‐dominated to mud‐dominated; (ii) beachface slopes decrease from >11° to ca 7°; and (iii) progradation rates increase from 0·4 to 1·8 m yr−1. Hydrodynamic modelling demonstrates a correlation between progressive shoaling of Tijucas Bay driven by sea‐level fall and sediment infilling and a decrease in onshore wave‐energy transport from 18 to 4 kW m−1. The combination of allogenic (sediment supply, falling relative sea‐level and geology) and autogenic (decrease in wave energy due to bay shoaling) processes drove the development of a regressive system with characteristics that are rare, if not unique, in the Holocene and rock records. These findings demonstrate the complexities in architecture styles of highstand and regressive systems tracts. Furthermore, this article highlights the diverse internal and external processes and feedbacks responsible for the development of these intricate marginal marine sedimentary systems.
HIV stigma and mental health status among women living with HIV in the Western Cape

quality of life (P = 0.00). The findings from this study indicate that HIV stigma is associated with adverse mental health sequelae among black Xhosa women living with HIV. Educational and legal efforts are required to reduce HIV stigma. Moreover, a public health infrastructure that integrates HIV/AIDS treatment and mental health services may be a promising strategy for reducing the adverse mental health consequences of HIV stigma.
Cold atom–ion experiments in hybrid traps

In the last five years, a novel field of physics and chemistry has developed in which cold trapped ions and ultracold atomic gases are brought into contact with each other. Combining ion traps with traps for neutral atoms yields a variety of new possibilities for research and experiments. These range from studies of cold atom–ion collisions and atom–ion chemistry to applications in quantum information science and condensed matter related research. In this article we give a brief introduction into this new field and describe some of the perspectives for its future development.
EFFECT OF ANTI-SURGE VALVE AND BYPASS FLOW CONTROL MECHANISM ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TURBOCHARGED SPARK IGNITION ENGINE AT ALTITUDE

Today, CAD/CAM simulations as a strong tool to estimate performance of various systems, reduce costs and testing time is taken into consideration. In this study GT-POWER software have been used to model the performance of spark-ignition internal combustion engines. The result shows, engine power drops at high altitude. To solve this problem, the engine equipping by turbocharger is attended and with regard to surge and choke criteria in compressor appropriate turbocharger is selected. In accordance to avoid surge occurrence in turbocharging process, an anti-surge valve mechanism in compressor has been defined. At the last step, in order to control the amount of inlet fuel to engine, other control mechanism on anti-surge valve has been used to control the extra flow rate. In accordance to results, this mechanism increased the power of engine up to 40 percent and provides fuel consumption efficiency over performance at sea level.
Spatio-Temporal Attention based Recurrent Neural Network for Next Location Prediction

With the advances in technology and smart devices, more and more attention has been paid to model spatial correlations, temporal dynamics, and friendship influence over point-of-interest (POI) checkins. Besides directly capturing general user’s checkin behavior, existing works mostly highlight the intrinsic feature of POIs, i.e., spatial and temporal dependency. Among them, the family of methods based on Markov chain can capture the instance-level interaction between a pair of POI checkins, while recurrent neural network (RNN) based approaches (state-of-the-art) can deal with flexible length of checkin sequence. However, the former is not good at capturing high-order POI transition dependency, and the latter cannot distinguish the exact contribution of each POI in a historical checkin sequence. Moreover, in recurrent neural networks, local and global information is propagated along the sequence through one bottleneck i.e., hidden states only.In this work, we design a novel model to enforce contextual constraints on sequential data by designing a spatial and temporal attention mechanisms over recurrent neural network that leverages the importance of POIs visited by users in given time interval and geographical distance in successive checkins. Attention mechanism helps us to learn which POIs bounded by time difference and spatial distance in user checkin history are important for the prediction of next POI. Moreover, we also consider periodicity and friendship influence in our model design. Experimental results on two real location based social networks Gowalla, and BrightKite show that our proposed method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art deep neural network methods for next POI prediction and understanding user transition behavior. We also analyze the sensitivity of parameters including context window for capturing sequential effect, temporal context window for estimating temporal attention and spatial context window for estimating spatial attention respectively.
Late summer distribution and abundance of ice-associated whales in the Norwegian High Arctic

This study was financed by the Norwegian Research Council ICE whales grant (No. 244488/E10), The Foreign Ministry of Norway (Norwegian-Russian programme), WWF Sweden and the Norwegian Polar Institute. T.A.M. was supported in part by CEAUL (funded by FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through the project UID/MAT/00006/2013).
Stochastic Consensus of Single-Integrator Multiagent Systems with Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics and Measurement Noises in Directed Fixed Topologies

Consensus of continuous-time single-integrator multiagent systems with inherent nonlinear dynamics and measurement noises is addressed in this paper. The consensus controller is developed for directed interaction topologies. Each agent’s control input is constructed based on its own state and its neighbors’ states corrupted by noises. The control input contains a time-varying consensus gain in order to attenuate the noises. Conditions for ensuring mean square convergence under noisy measurement and asymptotic convergence in the noise-free case are derived. Finally, some simulations were carried out to show the effectiveness of our control law and how it can solve the consensus problem.
Determinants of services FDI inflows in Asean countries

Since 1990s, there has been tremendous increase in the movement of foreign direct investment (FDI) especially to developing countries. An interesting development in the international capital flows is that the FDI is increasingly shifting towards services industry in recent years. The main concern in this regards is whether developing countries would be able to attract the services-based FDI and get benefits from the inflows. This study empirically investigates the determinants of services-based FDI in ASEAN countries using a static linear panel data analysis. The data for the empirical estimation covers from 2000 until 2010. The empirical findings indicate that services FDI is positive and significantly determined by human capital, the availability of quality infrastructures, market size and trade openness, whereas inflation (proxy for macroeconomic stability) is found to be negative and insignificant. These findings reveals that ASEAN countries should focus on enhancing growth, stock of human capital, infrastructure * Corresponding Author: E-mail: shivee@upm.edu. my Any remaining errors or omissions rest solely with the author(s) of this paper. 46 International Journal of Economics and Management and promote more liberal trade policies in order to attract FDI in service sector.
CHILDHOOD IN AUSTRIA : CASH AND CARE , TIME AND SPACE , CHILDREN ’ S NEEDS , AND PUBLIC POLICIES

This report is the result of a collaborative effort of four authors interested in childhood and social policies, representing four different institutions. The work was initiated, but not funded, by the European Cooperation Programme in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), more precisely in the frame of COST Action A 19 ‘Children’s Welfare’. Since there was no extra-funding for this report, we had predominantly to rely on available studies and data. As far as possible, we were aiming at using the most recent data available, however, between the final draft submitted in summer 2003 and the printing new studies may have appeared, which could not be considered any more. We refrained from including any general substantive statement in this preface. We leave it to the reader to draw conclusions from the material presented in this report as well as to develop a comparative perspective by confronting it with other national reports contained in this volume. On the whole, we enjoyed writing this report, and we do hope, readers will enjoy reading it.
SN 2007ax: An Extremely Faint Type Ia Supernova

We present multiband photometric and optical spectroscopic observations of SN 2007ax, the faintest and reddest Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) yet observed. With MB = − 15.9 and (B − V)max = 1.2, this SN is over half a magnitude fainter at maximum light than any other SN Ia. Similar to subluminous SN 2005ke, SN 2007ax also appears to show excess in UV emission at late time. Traditionally, Δ m15(B) has been used to parameterize the decline rate for SNe Ia. However, the B-band transition from fast to slow decline occurs sooner than 15 days for faint SNe Ia. Therefore we suggest that a more physically motivated parameter, the time of intersection of the two slopes, be used instead. Only by explaining the faintest (and the brightest) supernovae can we thoroughly understand the physics of thermonuclear explosions. We suggest that future surveys should carefully design their cadence, depth, pointings, and follow-up to find an unbiased sample of extremely faint members of this subclass of faint SNe Ia.
The Novel ps and ps-2 Specific Markers for Selection of Functional Male Sterile Tomato Lines in Breeding Programs and Hybrids Seed Production

Functional male sterility in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.), controlled by the ps-2 and ps genes can be utilized in the production of F 1 hybrid tomato seed. Two novel cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers linked to the ps-2 and ps genes were found in tomato. The C4-30 and C2-21 markers were developed based on the conserved ortholog set II (COSII) sequences C2_At3g20020 and C2_At1g65900 located on tomato chromosomes 4 and 2, respectively. The Hin fI-derived PCR restriction product C4-30 80 was applicable in the detection of functional male sterile plants. In case of the C2-21 marker, a polymorphism was revealed after digestion of the amplicon with restriction enzyme Mbo I. Specificity of the DNA markers identified was verified by scoring the tomato parental lines, F 2 progeny and F 1 hybrids, in which maternal lines possessed the ps or ps-2 gene. C4-30 and C2-21 can be used as the diagnostic tools in tomato breeding programs and in F 1 hybrid seed production.
Detection Of Malware Collusion With Static Dependence Analysis On Inter-App Communication

Abstract : Inter-Component Communication (ICC) enables useful interactions between mobile apps. It has been long believed that inter-app ICCs can be abused by malware writers to launch collusion attacks. In this project, we designed and developed two techniques for analyzing the security threats associated with inter-app ICC communications and conducted two large-scale experiments (MapReduce one with 11,996 apps and MySQL database one with over 110K apps). Our contributions are two-fold, methodology development and empirical analysis. We invented two complementary methods for efficiently screening Android app pairs against data leak and privilege escalation threats that are due to intentional collusions or vulnerable apps being exploited.
You Must Estimate Before You Indicate: Design and Model-Based Methods for Evaluating Utility of a Candidate Forest Indicator Species

vi LIST OF TABLES . x LIST OF FIGURES . xi CHAPTER 1. A PRIMER ON THE ECOLOGY AND MONITORING OF THE RED-BACKED SALAMANDER . 1 1.1 The Red-backed Salamander . 1 1.1.1 Habitat Use and Preference . 3 1.1.2 Behavioral Ecology . 7 1.1.3 Reproductive Ecology . 8 1.1.4 Ecological Role . 12 1.2 Artificial Cover Objects (ACOs) . 15 1.2.1 Current and Previous Use . 17 1.3 Spatial Capture-Recapture (SCR) . 19 1.3. 1 SCR0: The Basic Model . 19 1.3. 2 Adding Effects to SCR Models . 22 1.4 Summary and Synthesis. 23 2. INDICATOR SPECIES THEORY AND APPLICATION . 27 2.1 The Call for Indicator Species . 27 2.1.1 Surrogate Species . 28 2.1.2 Indicator Species . 29 2.1.3 Amphibians as Indicator Species . 31
Practical Application of New Forage Quality Tests

Introduction Routine evaluation of forage quality by the grower, crop consultant, feeder, or nutritionist has generally been related to the fiber content of the forage measured in a commercial forage testing laboratory and the energy content of the forage predicted from its fiber content. Indexes of forage quality, relative feed value (RFV; Rohweder et al., 1978) and milk per ton of forage dry matter (Undersander et al.; 1993), were based on energy content of the forage predicted from acid detergent fiber (ADF) content and dry matter (DM) intake potential of the forage predicted from neutral detergent fiber (NDF) content. The RFV index has evolved to the point where it is commonly available on commercial forage test reports, used routinely in evaluations and comparisons of hay-crop forage quality, and used in the marketing of hays. Data from Wisconsin quality-tested hay auctions show that hay buyers pay $0.90 per point of RFV above the RFV of a base quality alfalfa (Undersander, 2002). The milk per ton index has evolved to the point where it is commonly used in agronomic performance trials, because an estimate of forage DM yield often obtained in these types of trials multiplied times the estimate of milk produced per ton of forage DM provides an estimate of the milk produced per acre which combines yield and quality into a single term. This index, milk per ton or per acre, has become the focal point of corn silage commercial hybrid performance trials (Lauer et al., 2001; Lauer et al., 1997) and the corn silage hybrid-breeding program (Coors et al., 2001) at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
The hydrogen storage capacity of metal-containing polyacrylonitrile-based electrospun carbon nanofibers

Polyacrylonitrile-based carbon nanofibers (CNFs) containing Ti and Mn were prepared by electrospinning. The effect of metal content on the hydrogen storage capacity of the nanofibers was evaluated. The nanofibers containing Ti and Mn exhibited maximum hydrogen adsorption capacities of 1.6 and 1.1 wt%, respectively, at 303 K and 9 MPa. Toward the development of an improved hydrogen storage system, the optimum conditions for the production of metalized CNFs were investigated by characterizing the specific surface areas, pore volumes, sizes, and shapes of the fibers. According to the results of Brunauer-EmmettTeller analysis, the activation of the CNFs using potassium hydroxide resulted in a large pore volume and specific surface area in the samples. This is attributable to the optimized pore structure of the metal-containing polyacrylonitrile-based electrospun CNFs, which may provide better sites for hydrogen adsorption than do current adsorbates.
Towards a general signal interpretation system-signal-to-symbol conversion level

The signal-to-symbol conversion level of a generic signal interpretation system is presented. Using an application-independent structure, the system can compile user-supplied application-specific task descriptions to generate programs capable of performing statistic and structural pattern recognition, and reasoning in a given application domain. The computation of three types of symbols, quantitative symbols, qualitative symbols, and compound symbols, is outlined. The notion of context of symbols and its use in the system are discussed. In this system, symbolic processing, signal processing routine, and similarity measure can be specified in terms of situations. An evaluation of the system performance in an application of nondestructive testing of a steam generator using eddy current signals is given. <<ETX>>
The Youth Experience Gap: Explaining Differences across EU Countries

This note aims to provide a theoretical framework to think of the youthunemployment problem and a classification of EU countries according to the way they address it.The key factor to explain youth unemployment is what we call the youth experience gap. To helpyoung people fill it in and ease school-to-work transitions, every EU country provides a mix ofpolicy instruments, including different degrees and types of labour market flexibility, of educationaland training systems, of passive income support schemes and fiscal incentives. Five differentcountry groups are detected whose outcomes in terms of youth unemployment are dramaticallydifferent: a) the North-European; b) the Continental European; c) the Anglo-Saxon; d) the South-European; e) New Member States. The Lisbon strategy provides guidelines in line with thetheoretical framework discussed here, but it is costly and hard to implement.
The Effect of the Left-Field Eye Patching on Left Spatial Neglect

This report is the first study to investigate the effect of neglectedfield eye patching for a patient with hemispatial neglect. In previous studies [1-6], right-field eye patching has been reported as technique to improve left spatial neglect. This technique was based on the concept of making left space attention easier by reducing excessive rightward attention. However, a definite opinion about the effect of the right-field eye patching has not been obtained.
Modelling Optional Infinitive Phenomena

The Optional Infinitive hypothesis proposed by Wexler (1994) is a theory of children’s early grammatical development that can be used to explain a variety of phenomena in children’s early multi-word speech. However, Wexler’s theory attributes a great deal of abstract knowledge to the child on the basis of rather weak empirical evidence. In this paper we present a computational model of early grammatical development which simulates Optional Infinitive phenomena as a function of the interaction between a performance-limited distributional analyser and the statistical properties of the input. Our findings undermine the claim that Optional Infinitive phenomena require an abstract grammatical analysis.
ANTESEDEN DAN KONSEKUEN SIKAP NASABAH DALAM MENGGUNAKAN INTERNET BANKING DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN KERANGKA TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM) (SURVEY PADA PENGGUNA KlikBCA)

Dunia saat ini telah memasuki era globalisasi yang menuntut segala informasi dapat diakses secara cepat, praktis dan instan. Industri perbankan menawarkan internet banking sebagai solusi masalah ini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh persepsi kemudahan penggunaan (perceived ease of use) dan persepsi manfaat (perceived usefulness) terhadap sikap (attitude) dan intensi perilaku (behavior intention) nasabah dalam menggunakan internet banking. Sampel penelitian diambil menggunakan metode purposive sampling. Responden adalah para pengguna internet banking BCA (KlikBCA) sebanyak 127 nasabah. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah regresi linear sederhana serta regresi linear berganda. Penelitian ini menggunakan uji validitas, uji reliabilitas dan uji asumsi klasik dilanjutkan dengan pengujian hipotesis. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa persepsi kemudahan penggunaan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap persepsi manfaat dan sikap nasabah dalam menggunakan internet banking. Intensi perilaku dalam menggunakan internet banking merupakan konsekuen dari sikap nasabah. Persepsi manfaat dalam penelitian ini tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap sikap dan intensi perilaku nasabah dalam menggunakan internet banking. Dengan demikian persepsi kemudahan penggunaan merupakan variabel anteseden sikap nasabah dalam menggunakan internet banking. Sedangkan persepsi manfaat bukan merupakan variabel anteseden sikap nasabah dalam menggunakan internet banking. Kata kunci: Internet Banking, Technology Acceptance Model
Semiarid Rangeland Is Resilient to Summer Fire and Postfire Grazing Utilization

Abstract Most wildfires occur during summer in the northern hemisphere, the area burned annually is increasing, and fire effects during this season are least understood. Understanding plant response to grazing following summer fire is required to reduce ecological and financial risks associated with wildfire. Forty 0.75-ha plots were assigned to summer fire then 0, 17, 34 or 50% biomass removal by grazing the following growing season, or no fire and no grazing. Root, litter, and aboveground biomass were measured before fire, immediately after grazing, and 1 yr after grazing with the experiment repeated during 2 yr to evaluate weather effects. Fire years were followed by the second driest and fifth wettest springs in 70 yr. Biomass was more responsive to weather than fire and grazing, with a 452% increase from a dry to wet year and 31% reduction from a wet to average spring. Fire reduced litter 53% and had no first-year effect on productivity for any biomass component. Grazing after fire reduced postgrazing grass biomass along the prescribed utilization gradient. Fire and grazing had no effect on total aboveground productivity the year after grazing compared to nonburned, nongrazed sites (1 327 vs. 1 249 ± 65 kg · ha−1). Fire and grazing increased grass productivity 16%, particularly for Pascopyrum smithii. The combined disturbances reduced forbs (51%), annual grasses (49%), and litter (46%). Results indicate grazing with up to 50% biomass removal the first growing season after summer fire was not detrimental to productivity of semiarid rangeland plant communities. Livestock exclusion the year after summer fire did not increase productivity or shift species composition compared to grazed sites. Reduction of previous years' standing dead material was the only indication that fire may temporarily reduce forage availability. The consistent responses among dry, wet, and near-average years suggest plant response is species-specific rather than climatically controlled.