Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF HELIOSEISMOLOGY RESEARCH IN UZBEKISTAN

The Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute was involved in the IRIS helioseismology project from the mid-1980s through to the end of the project in 2001. This project aimed to study the deep interior of the Sun using Doppler spectral line shift measurements integrated over the whole solar disk. In order to obtain long, continuous observational data showing periodicity a network of six stations more or less regularly distributed around the globe and equipped with identical spectrophotometers was deployed. One of these instruments was installed on Mt Kumbel in Uzbekistan in 1988. In addition, from 1996 to 2002 the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute was involved in observations for the TON project, which was aimed at carrying out helioseismic studies of the subsurface structure of the Sun and its dynamics. The participation of the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute in both projects was crucial not only for obtaining long- term observational data, but also for the scientific analyses of the observational data and the preparation of the resulting research papers. Many scientific results came out of these two projects, but more importantly, many graduate students used these projects to obtain their Ph.D.s.
Spatiotemporal features of the Earth's background oscillations observed in central Europe

We present a continuous analysis of the background oscillations of the Earth. We processed five years of vertical recordings from the German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN) and estimated the directions of arrival (DOA) of the background Rayleigh waves in the frequency range between 5 and 8 mHz. We find clear seasonal variations in the direction of propagation and a striking rate of recurrence in these seasonal patterns. This seasonality provides evidence of an excitation of the background oscillations by large‐scale atmospheric and/or oceanic processes which confirms previous studies.
Beyond Amplitudes ’ Positivity and the Fate of Massive Gravity

Brando Bellazzini, 2 Francesco Riva, Javi Serra, and Francesco Sgarlata Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Saclay, CEA, CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland SISSA International School for Advanced Studies and INFN Trieste, via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste, Italy
Green entrepreneurship inclination among Generation Y: the road towards a green economy

Green entrepreneurship is considered as one of the major drivers for the green economy. Due to the sustainable development issue, the concept of green entrepreneurship is gaining a significant momentum. This study investigates the inclination towards green entrepreneurship among 100 business students who represent the Generation Y cohort. Specifically, it aims to examine the effects of sustainable orientation, sustainable education and general self-efficacy on green entrepreneurship inclination. An empirical test was carried out and the findings showed that sustainable orientation and sustainable education are found to have statistically significant relationships with the inclination towards green entrepreneurship among generation Y. Self-efficacy on the one hand was found to be non-significant. It is anticipated that the findings of the study could serve as a guideline for the educators and policymakers in formulating curriculum and policies that are aligned with the go-green avowal.
Which Soils are Comfortable for Oilseed Rape Seeds ( Brassica napus ) to Survive

The study should reveal the effects of soil texture and of seed characteristics of oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) on seed survival in the soil by a burial experiment. Seeds of 58 conventional and new trait accessions (genetically modified and/or with altered seed ingredients) were buried for six months in sandy loam (SL), clay (C) or silty clay loam (SICL) in the seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 in Germany. Between 84-93% (2008/2009) and 64-87% (2009/2010) of the conventional seeds survived in the soil, and so did 41-67% and 8-44% of the new trait seeds. Significantly more seeds were found in C and SICL compared to SL. Seed survival also significantly depended on the genotype, with high and low seed survival in both conventional and new trait accessions. Seed survival rates are probably linked with moisture and oxygen provided by different soils. As soils with good water storage conditions seem to have a higher probability for oilseed rape seeds from harvest losses to survive, other measures such as growing low dormancy varieties and proper soil tillage are especially relevant to avoid volunteers on these soils.
VALUE RELEVANCE OF KEY ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: HIGH-TECH VERSUS LOW-TECH FIRMS

This paper examines the value-relevance of primary accounting information and the size of earnings management concurrently for high-tech versus low-tech firms. Specifically, the results reveal that earnings and changes in earnings of high-tech firms reflect lower levels of security price reactions and associations than those of low-tech firms. In addition, consistent with evidence from prior research, greater levels of earnings management, measured by modified Jones and performance-matched discretionary accruals (proxies for earnings management), exist for high-tech firms vis-à-vis low-tech firms over the sample period. More importantly, this paper also documents that the association between cumulative adjusted returns and key financial variables, including earnings, changes in earnings, sales, and changes in sales, remains weaker for high-tech firms than for low-tech firms even after levels of earnings management have been controlled for.
Modeling and Forecasting Population Growth of Bangladesh

Information about the population growth of a country is an important issue that helps keeping the gross domestic product at a standard level without accelerating inflation rate. This is the condition demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) for allocating funds for the development of the underdeveloped countries like Bangladesh. The population growth is the main target of Bangladesh government to keep the level of growth at a manageable level. This paper proposes an autoregressive time trend (ARt) model for forecasting population growth of Bangladesh. Using data from 1965 to 2003 and using the proposed ARt model this paper finds a downward population growth for Bangladesh for the extended period up to 2043.
MISSING DATA ANALYSIS IN CYCLOSTATIONARY MODELS

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in modeling cyclostationary time series. The survey of Gardner and others [5] is quoting over 1500 different recently published papers that are dedicated to this topic. Data that can be reasonable modeled with such time series is often incomplete. To our knowledge, no systematic research has been conducted on that problem. This paper attempts to fill this gap. In this paper we propose to use EM algorithms to extend estimation for situation when some observations are missing.
A Paradigm Shift in Intervention Approaches for Children with Attention-Deficits/ Hyperactivity Disorders: A Systematic Review of Psycho-Behavioral Interventions

Objectives: This systematic review examines the literature of psycho-behavioural interventions for individuals diagnosed with AD/HD between 2005 and 2015 in order to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the underlying theoretical perspectives of AD/HD in the intervention design? (2) What are the measures used to assess the various AD/HD interventional approaches? (3) How effective are the identified AD/HD interventions? Method: 18 studies involving approximately 1200 participants met the selection criteria under the psycho-behavioural framework and went through the systematic review procedures. Results: Three approaches to intervention are identified, namely, ability-specific training focusing on enhancing working memory and attention, skills-building intervention aiming at improving organizational and social skills, and, interaction oriented programs targeting at mediating relationships between parents and their children. The interaction-oriented interventions tend to demonstrate the highest efficacy in improving the psycho-behavioural performance of individuals with AD/ HD. Conclusion: Different intervention approaches are founded on different underlying theoretical perspectives of the psycho-behavioural performance in AD/HD. There has been a paradigm shift from the management of dysfunction to the acquisition of functions based on the behavioural management theories and pharmaceutical knowledge-base to those of an ability-specific approach and skill-building approach to interventions for individuals with AD/HD with the dominance of the theory of executive functioning in the last decades. It is speculated that the trend of AD/HD intervention will continue to shift from that of a uni-directional childcentred approach to those of a multi-directional ecological systems perspective. This implication calls for more efforts in developing valid assessment measures to evaluate the new constructs assessing the inter-personal relationships within the AD/HD individual's ecological systems.
Disorder structural predictions of the native EWS and its oncogenic fusion proteins in rapport with the function

The Intrinsic structural disorder (ISD) of native EWS and its fusion oncogenic proteins, including EWS/FliI, EWS/ATF1 and EWS/ZSG, was estimated by different Predictors. The ISD difference between the wild type and the oncogenic fusions found in the CTD is due to the fusion partner, usually a transcription factor (TF). A disordered region was found in the sequence (AA 132 - 156) of the NTD (EAD) of EWS, consisting of the longest region free of Y motifs. The IQ domain (AA 258 - 280), a Y-free region, flanked by two Y-boxes, is also disordered by all used Predictors. The EWS functional regions RGG1, RGG2 and RGG3 are predominantly disordered. A strong dependence was found between the structure of EWS protein and its oncogenic fusions, and their estimated ISD. The oncogenic function of the fusions is related to a decreased ISD in the CTD, due to the fused TF. The Predictors shown that the different isoforms have similar profiles, shifted with some amino acids, due to the translocations. On the bases of the prediction results, an analysis was made of the EWS sequence and its functional regions with increased ISD to make a relationship sequence-disorder-function that could be helpful in the design of antitumor agents against the corresponding malignances.
A Survey on Methods of Image Processing and Recognition for Personal Identification

The network of blood vessels possesses several properties that make a good biometric feature for personal identification: (1) they are difficult to damage and modify; (2) they are difficult to simulate using a fake template; and (3) vein information can represent the liveness of the person. In the process of recognition of the network of blood vessels, we encounter two main difficulties: the first difficulty concerns the enhancement of the image of blood vessels obtained from the camera working in visible and/or infrared light, and the second one concerns the process of extraction of features and methods of classification. In the first part, this chapter presents the basic methods of preprocessing biometric images. In the second part, we discuss the process of feature extraction with particular emphasis on the feature extraction from images depicting the network of blood vessels. This applies to texture analysis using the co-occurrence matrix, Gabor filtration, moments, and topological features using cross points. In the third part, we present the methods of processing images of the blood vessel network of dorsal part of the hand and wrist. We also discuss the process of reducing the dimensionality of a feature vector using the principal compo- nents analysis method. The results of the recognition of the network of blood vessel patterns show the suitability of the method for biometric identification purposes.
The RINGS Survey. III. Medium-resolution Hα Fabry–Pérot Kinematic Data Set

The distributions of stars, gas, and dark matter in disk galaxies provide important constraints on galaxy formation models, particularly on small spatial scales (<1 kpc). We have designed the RSS Imaging spectroscopy Nearby Galaxy Survey (RINGS) to target a sample of 19 nearby spiral galaxies. For each of these galaxies, we obtain and model Hα and H i 21 cm spectroscopic data as well as multi-band photometric data. We intend to use these models to explore the underlying structure and evolution of these galaxies in a cosmological context, as well as whether the predictions of ΛCDM are consistent with the mass distributions of these galaxies. In this paper, we present spectroscopic imaging data for 14 of the RINGS galaxies observed with the medium spectral resolution Fabry–Pérot etalon on the Southern African Large Telescope. From these observations, we derive high spatial resolution line-of-sight velocity fields of the Hα line of excited hydrogen, as well as maps and azimuthally averaged profiles of the integrated Hα and [N ii] emission and oxygen abundances. We then model these kinematic maps with axisymmetric models, from which we extract rotation curves and projection geometries for these galaxies. We show that our derived rotation curves agree well with other determinations, and the similarity of the projection angles with those derived from our photometric images argues against these galaxies having intrinsically oval disks.
Measurements of the Flow in Backshroud/Casing Clearance of Precessing Centrifugal Impeller

Detailed flow measurements have been made to clarify the unsteady flow in the backshroud/ casing clearance of a precessing centrifugal impeller. The unsteady pressure was integrated to obtain the fluid force moment on the precessing impeller shroud for various precessing frequencies. It was shown that the fluid force moment can become rotordynamically destabilizing for small forward precessing motion as originally found by Ohashi et al. The effects of leakage flow in the backshroud/casing clearance and a gap between impeller side plate and casing at the impeller outlet are clearly shown, and the discussions are also made based on the unsteady velocity and pressure measurements.
Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of human and dog diet in the Okhotsk culture: perspectives from the Moyoro site, Japan

The Okhotsk people were sedentary hunter-gatherer-fishers who lived and prospered in Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and the Kurile Islands during the fifth–thirteenth centuries AD. They expanded rapidly along the north-eastern coast of Hokkaido where archaeological evidence suggests an increasing dependence on hunting marine mammals. In this study, we present the results of carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of 18 faunal (including two domesticated dogs) and 58 adult human skeletons excavated from the Moyoro site of the Okhotsk culture in eastern Hokkaido. Although the mean human isotope ratios did not differ between sexes, the variances of carbon isotope ratios were significantly greater in males. Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios suggest that the Moyoro humans and dogs heavily depended on marine foods for their dietary protein intake. The Bayesian mixing model suggests that humans obtained a maximum of 80–90% of their dietary protein from marine mammals, whereas domesticated dogs obtained 2–33%, 3–40%, and 5–45% of dietary protein from brackish-water fish, marine fish, and marine mammals, respectively. This suggests an avoidance of significant dietary overlap between the sympatrically living humans and dogs at the Moyoro site. Significant maritime adaptation would have enabled the subsistence of the Okhotsk people in the harsh northern environment of Hokkaido.
Validation of two‐channel VIRS retrievals of aerosol optical thickness over ocean and quantitative evaluation of the impact from potential subpixel cloud contamination and surface wind effect

[1] TRMM/CERES-VIRS Single Satellite Footprint (SSF) data and AERONET Sun/sky radiometer observations from 1998 have been combined to validate SSF aerosol optical thickness (τ) retrievals over ocean along with a quantitative evaluation of the effects of potential subpixel cloud contamination and surface wind on the satellite τ retrievals. Potential subpixel cloud contamination is verified in Visible/Infrared Scanner (VIRS) SSF aerosol retrievals and constitutes a major source of systematic and random errors of the retrieval algorithm as determined from comparisons with AERONET observations. A positive correlation between the surface wind speed (which determines the roughness of the ocean surface) and the SSF τ has been observed for large surface wind speed. The validation results imply this correlation represents the real relationship between the surface wind and the wind-driven aerosols rather than the disturbing effect of the surface reflectance associated with the rough ocean surface. After the potential subpixel cloud contamination is minimized and the effects of large surface wind are removed in the τ match-ups, the positive biases in the SSF τ (compared to AERONET τ) for mean conditions have been reduced from 0.05 to 0.02 in VIRS channel 1 (0.63 μm) and 0.05 to 0.03 in channel 2 (1.61 μm). Random errors have also been reduced from 0.09 to 0.06 at 0.63 μm, and from 0.06 to 0.05 at 1.61 μm. The validation results support the application of the SSF aerosol data in radiation and climate studies as well as supply useful guidance for the adjustment and improvement of the aerosol retrieval algorithm.
RefSoil: A reference database of soil microbial genomes

A database of curated genomes is needed to better assess soil microbial communities and their processes associated with differing land management and environmental impacts. Interpreting soil metagenomic datasets with existing sequence databases is challenging because these datasets are biased towards medical and biotechnology research and can result in misleading annotations. We have curated a database of 922 genomes of soil-associated organisms (888 bacteria and 34 archaea). Using this database, we evaluated phyla and functions that are enriched in soils as well as those that may be underrepresented in RefSoil. Our comparison of RefSoil to soil amplicon datasets allowed us to identify targets that if cultured or sequenced would significantly increase the biodiversity represented within RefSoil. To demonstrate the opportunities to access these underrepresented targets, we employed single cell genomics in a pilot experiment to sequence 14 genomes. This effort demonstrates the value of RefSoil in the guidance of future research efforts and the capability of single cell genomics as a practical means to fill the existing genomic data gaps.
Centralities in the city border: a method to identify strategic urban-rural interventions

City borders perform an essential role in connecting towns and their surroundings. Being more a fuzzy area than a thin line, these urban borders gather together residential, tertiary and infrastructural uses, places awaiting development, agricultural fields, brown-field sites, abandoned areas etc. all named as ‘b-sites’. Within this context, we propose a method to identify places for strategic urban-rural interventions based on the assessment and identification of centralities in the urban-rural transition. Multiple centrality assessment is here presented as an innovative application considering both urban streets and rural road networks as a mixed network with identified central nodes. This innovative method has been tested in the city of Granada (Spain) allowing us to identify high centrality ‘b-sites’ where landscape project design and, urban-rural interventions could contribute to creating urban-rural transition continuity.
THERMOCAPILLARY EFFECTS IN LIQUID SYSTEMS OF VARIABLE MASS CONFINED IN A NON-ISOTHERMAL CONTAINER

Interface deformation and thermocapillary rupture in a non-isothermal cavity with free upper surface is investigated. Temperature variations along the interface are induced by differentially heated walls. The dynamics of the process is modulated by changing mass of the liquid. The results determined for the large Biot and zero Marangoni numbers show the existence of limit points beyond processes leading to the interface rupture set in. Evolution of the limit point as a function of the liquid mass is investigated. The topology of the flow field is very similar regardless of whether the cavity is over-filled or only partially filled. It is shown that the cavity over-filling may, in general, extend the range of admissible capillary numbers and thus it can be used as a tool for prevention of rupture.
Distress resolution strategies in the banking sector: Implications for global financial crises

This chapter investigates the effectiveness and the motivation behind the choice of different types of distress resolution strategies in the banking sector. This is a global study that analyzes key financial characteristics of distressed banks that were either acquired by other banks, divested assets, or were subject to government intervention, as well as the change in the financial profile of those distressed institutions from one year pre-deal to three years post-deal. The results show that governments intervene in the (relatively) best performers that only underperform in liquidity ratios, an indication of critical short-term flow problems. Distressed sellers, the underperformers of the three groups, enjoy much improved performance, in particular in cross-border deals. There is some evidence of foreign acquirers “cherry picking” the least distressed banks, though no significant differences in target performance remain post-deal between cross-border and domestic deals. These findings provide some useful guidance for policy makers globally and for future financial crises that impact the banking sector.
MHD modeling of rotating arc under restrike mode: dynamics and stability

This paper focuses on the 3D MHD modeling on an arc plasma in a Kvaerner-type torch made of two concentric electrodes. The spots are displaced with an external magnetic field. We observe different phenomenologies in arc movement, ranging from a gliding arc on the electrodes surfaces to jumping arc foot. The former mode induces a lower heat flux at the electrodes surfaces in comparison to the latter. Besides those dynamics which are indebted to gas nature, current and flow rates, arc stability is also investigated with a theoretical model based on an energy principle.
SEMI-AUTOMATED FEATURE EXTRACTION USING SIMULATED ANNEALING

An efficient semi-automatic feature extraction technique that integrates the principles of the active contour models (Kass et al 1988) with simulated annealing (Kirkpatrik et al 1983) is proposed in this article. The methodology in its initial phase requires the application of appropriate image processing techniques, computation of the energy image and a rough delineation of the feature of interest by the user. Subsequently, B-splines are used to model the initial user delineated points and a window containing both the spline and the feature of interest is considered. The searching capability of simulated annealing is then exploited for evolving a minimum energy state in a rectangular window around the delineation for extracting the feature appropriately. Comparison of the performance of the proposed algorithm with snakes, another common feature extraction technique based on energy minimisation, demonstrates the superiority of the former for situations where the initial delineation does not closely approximate the feature of interest.