Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fisheries management for different angler types

On-site survey data from coarse and game angling sites in Ireland is used to estimate count data models of recreational angling demand. To investigate the existence of preference heterogeneity across angler-types, three demand functions are estimated according to angler type; coarse, game and a combination of both. Comparison of these demand functions indicates that the fishery characteristics which drive demand differ depending on angler-specific characteristics. For example treating all anglers as an homogeneous group led to results suggesting angling demand is higher where there is a greater provision of angling services (such as guide-hire and tackle shops). While this relationship pertained for the game angling demand function, angling service levels had no effect on coarse angling demand. Water quality, which was not found to be significant in driving demand in the combined case, was identified as a significant determinant of angling demand in game fisheries. Overall the results strongly support the need to specifically address angler characteristics when analysing angler preferences. Improved survey design that attains more detailed information such as anglers' quarry-type, skill level, etc. will improve the ability of analysts to understand angler preferences and provide more effective policy recommendations.
Decision Tree Construction based on Rough Set Theory under Characteristic Relation

Several approaches based on rough set have been proposed for constructing decision tree in complete information systems. In fact, many information systems are incomplete in practical applications. In this paper, a new algorithm, Decision Tree Construction based on Rough Set Theory under Characteristic Relation (DTCRSCR), is proposed for mining classification knowledge from incomplete information systems. Its idea is that the attribute whose weighted mean roughness under the characteristic relation is the smallest will be selected as current splitting node. Experimental results show the decision trees constructed by DTCRSCR tend to have simpler structures and higher classification accuracy.
Numerically Stable and Efficient Implementation of a Continuous-Discrete Multiple-Model Estimator

This paper deals with the problem of implementing adaptive radar tracking filters based on continuous-time models of target motion and on discrete-time models of measurement process. The particular difficulties addressed include: nonlinear and non-stationary target movement models with uncertain parameters, and low data rate due to a rotating radar antenna. The proposed tracking filter relies basically on the continuous-discrete variant of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), the probabilistic data association (PDA) technique and the interacting multiplemodel (IMM) state estimation scheme. Numerical properties of the algorithm are discussed and a software implementation is developed using the open-source BLAS library. Several design concepts are combined to assure numerical stability, convergence and efficiency of the estimator.
Does Parenting Moderate the Relation between Stress and Children’s Emotion Regulation?

Author(s): Lopez-Villegas, Karina; Quinones-Camacho, Laura; Davis, Elizabeth | Abstract: Parenting behaviors greatly influence children’s ability to regulate their emotions and handle stressfulsituations. Stressful life events can be particularly problematic for children as they are less able toeffectively manage these situations. Parenting behaviors that are warm and focus on directly helpingthe child handle negative emotions may serve as protective factors against the negative effects ofstress on children’s regulatory abilities. The aim of this study was to explore the role of parentalwarmth and parents’ emotion-focused reactions as moderators of the effect of stress on children’semotion regulation. A total of 184 children between the ages of three to eleven years old (M = 7.66,SD = 2.30) participated in this study. Parents reported on their child’s emotion regulation, exposure tostressful life events, and on how they, as parents, deal with their child’s negative emotions. Parentalwarmth was coded from an interactive task. Results showed that parental warmth moderated therelation between stress and child emotion regulation, such that children of highly warm parentshad better emotion regulation even when experiencing high stress. Parents’ reactions to theirchild’s negative emotions moderated the effects of parental warmth on child emotion regulation,such that parental warmth was particularly important for children of parents who place less focuson their child’s emotions when they experience a negative event. Our findings partially supportedour hypotheses and offer new insight into the importance of parental warmth as a protective factoragainst the negative consequences of stress on children’s emotional functioning.
Evaluation of fourth-grade primary school students attitudes and self-efficacy towards physical education course using socio-cultural approach

Changes in the national education system in Turkey have negative effects on the development of sports. Because, as classroom teachers teach Physical Education courses themselves, instead Physical Education teachers teach the course. This was because of a recent legislation released by the Ministry of National Education related to 4+4+4 compulsory schooling and the last resort for compulsory schooling model was made as 4+4+4 on 2012 to 2013 education season. In this context, the purpose of this research is to evaluate fourth-grade primary school students’ attitudes and self-efficacy towards physical education course based on socio-cultural approach. Physical Education Predisposition Scale (BEYO in Turkish) was used as the data collection tool and “Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA)”, “Cronbach Alpha Coefficient” and “Item-Total Correlation Analysis” were conducted on fourth-grade students in order to maintain validity and reliability of the data collected. In the normality hypothesis analysis of the collected data, it is thought that “Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test” along with skewness and kurtosis coefficients will contribute to existing literature. Key words: Attitude, self-efficacy, physical education, primary school.
Black holes as self-sustained quantum states, and Hawking radiation

We employ the recently proposed formalism of the “horizon wave-function” to investigate the emergence of a horizon in models of black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. We start from the Klein-Gordon equation for a massless scalar (toy graviton) field coupled to a static matter current. The (spherically symmetric) classical field reproduces the Newtonian potential generated by the matter source, and the corresponding quantum state is given by a coherent superposition of scalar modes with continuous occupation number. Assuming an attractive self-interaction that allows for bound states, one finds that (approximately) only one mode is allowed, and the system can be confined in a region of the size of the Schwarzschild radius. This radius is then shown to correspond to a proper horizon, by means of the horizon wave-function of the quantum system, with an uncertainty in size naturally related to the expected typical energy of Hawking modes. In particular, this uncertainty decreases for larger black hole mass (with larger number of light scalar quanta), in agreement with semiclassical expectations, a result which does not hold for a single very massive particle. We finally speculate that a phase transition should occur during the gravitational collapse of a star, ideally represented by a static matter current and Newtonian potential, that leads to a black hole, again ideally represented by the condensate of toy gravitons, and suggest an eective order parameter that could be used to investigate this transition.
Design of Wideband PBG Antenna for New Generation Communication Systems through Simulation

In modern wireless communication system, demand of high bandwidth antennas with low cost are increased. In proposed paper, these requirements have been fully justified by using PBG based wideband antenna. Although, metamaterial is one more option to build this idea, sometimes, negative permittivity or negative permeability or both does not permit to allow easy fabrication and maintaining low cost. An antenna with several periodic rods and organic magnetic materials substrate made it possible to enhance the bandwidth and think off using it for 5G communication systems. Proposed antenna is designed and fabricated for frequency range of 40 GHz - 50 GHz, and 12 × 9 periodic rods with substrate having organic magnetic materials property. Antenna is designed and analyzed using commercial simulation software CST microwave studio (CST STUDIO SUITE 2014) and measured for return loss and VSWR for fabricated design. Obtained results meet the requirement of wider bandwidth of 1.5 - 2 GHz and return loss, ? 35 dB, and directivity is 61 dBi with efficiency of 61%.
Expression of Canavalia gladiata lectin in leukemic cells

In this study an attempt was made to find out new tissue specific lectin from the seeds of Canavalia gladiata and to investigate whether this could be used as biological markers in haematological malignancies. Lectin binding studies showed that Lymphoid leukemias such as ALL (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) and CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) cells did not show any reactivity with CGL (Canavalia gladiata lectin). Blast cells of myeloid leukemias showed varying intensities of staining. Kruskal Wallis One Way ANOVA showed significance in expression of the lectin with different types of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Lectin cytochemical studies in leukemia revealed its usefulness in differentiating lymphoid leukemias from myeloid leukemias.
White popular (Populus alba L.) - Litter impact on chemical and biochemical parameters related to nitrogen cycle in contamined soils

Aim of study: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of litter from Populus alba on chemical and biochemical properties related to the N cycle in soils with different pH values and trace element contents. We hypothesized that this litter would influence several parameters related to the N cycle and consequently to soil health. Area of study: we collected two reforested contaminated soils of different pH values (AZ pH 7.23 and DO pH = 2.66) and a non-contaminated soil (RHU pH 7.19). Materials and methods: Soil samples were placed in 2,000 cm 3 microcosms and were incubated for 40 weeks in controlled conditions. Each soil was mixed with its corresponding litter, and soils without litter were also tested for comparison. Ammonium (NH4 -N) and nitrate (NO3 -N) content, potential nitrification rate (PNR), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), protease activity, and several chemical properties such as pH, available trace element concentrations (extracted with 0.01 M CaCl2) were determined at different times of incubation. Main results: Values of available trace elements did not vary during the incubation and were always higher in acid soil. In neutral soils litter presence increased values of Kjeldahl-N, NO3 -N content, potential nitrification rate (PNR), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN) and protease activity. Presence of trace elements in neutral soils did not alter the parameters studied. However, acidic pH and high content of available trace elements strongly affected NH4 + -N and NO3 ‐ -N, microbial biomass N and protease activity.
Rapid Flaring in the Galactic-plane Gamma-Ray Transient Fermi J0035+6131

We investigate the gamma-ray and X-ray emission from the transient gamma-ray source Fermi J0035+6131, which was discovered with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) near the Galactic plane at b = 1. °3, and we discuss potential multi-wavelength counterparts of the gamma-ray source. Our analysis of over 9 years of Fermi LAT data revealed two flaring events lasting 10–30 hr during which the gamma-ray flux increased by a factor of >300 compared to the long-term average. We also analyzed X-ray data obtained with XMM-Newton and Swift and identified several sources with a hard X-ray spectrum inside the Fermi LAT confidence region. The two brightest X-ray sources have known counterparts at other wavelengths and are associated with the compact radio source VCS4 J0035+6130 and the B1 IV:nn star HD 3191, respectively. VCS4 J0035+6130, which is also detected in the near infrared, is likely an active galaxy serendipitously located behind the Galactic disk and is the most compelling candidate for the counterpart of the gamma-ray source. HD 3191 appears to be part of an X-ray binary with a compact companion and is unlikely to be associated with Fermi J0035+6131.
Adoption of Perioperative Lidocaine Infusion for the Reduction of Postoperative Pain

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . iv DEDICATION . v LIST OF TABLES . ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . xi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION . 1 Background . 1 Significance. 2 Purpose . 2 Statement of the Problem . 3 Impact to Body Systems . 3 Needs Assessment . 7 Clinical Question . 8 Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials . 8 CHAPTER II – REVIEW OF LITERATURE . 11 Relevant Literature. 1
Testing the viability of the Sharpe Hollow Cavity Model in modelling explosive pressure sources

Summary We investigate the viability of utilizing the Sharpe Hollow Cavity Model (SHCM) for modelling explosive pressure sources, specifically dynamite. The SHCM is used to make several predictions regarding the frequency content and amplitude responses for test charges used in two recent CREWES field experiments. It was found that the SHCM was able accurately predict the behaviour of the emitted waves in both field experiments, suggesting that this model could be a very useful tool in designing field experiments.
Social Medicine in Eastern Europe

Richard Weinerman, with the collaboration of Shirley Weinerman, has organized an abundance of facts on a subject of importance—the organization of health services and educa­ tion of medical personnel in three Eastern European countries. The book is a tidy compilation about medical resources, human and material, about social security coverage and indices of the state%f health in these countries. The list of places and people visited is impressive. It is a source book, an excellent reference with organization of material that assists the reader looking for specifics about each of the three systems. The brief descriptions of relevant historical, political and demographic factors that have influenced each of the health service programs is a necessary background for making sense of indices of health and health services. The administration and the organization of the services are clearly oudined and special aspects are noted. Programs of social insurance and wel­ fare are also sketched. Then, the system of medical education is spelled out, including number of medical schools, their affiliations, length of training, number of applicants per open­ ing, the portion of students who fail, the per cent of matric­ ulants who are women and the number of graduates per year. Centralized planning in each of these socialist countries fa­ cilitates orderly summary. How much more difficult would be the task of a Soviet visitor who hoped to describe our health
Development of Beekeeping: An Analysis Using the Technique of Principal Components

Beekeeping is an economic activity of the Brazilian agricultural sector and a powerful tool to achieve sustainable development. However, beekeeping still remains a modest activity compared to other areas, with a lack of technical knowledge and beekeeping practices that need to be standardized. This study represents a proposal for the diagnosis of beekeeping, to facilitate decision-making and to provide a faster development of the beekeeping activity. We investigated the process of adoption of beekeeping practices of 28 beekeepers and the quality of the honey produced by them in the Western region of Paraná, using the technique of Principal Components Analysis after the construction of apicultural indexes. Specifically, the honey produced in the Western region of Paraná be included in the require - ments of national and international legislation, but the beekeeping practices adopted still require standardization so that the beekeepers have higher honey production. Also, the transformation of variables into apicultural indexes for later use in the analysis of principal components proved to be efficient to draw a beekeeping profile. Our research proves to be efficient in accurately diagnosing beekeeping bottlenecks, which may enable better decision-making and thus attract new entrepreneurs and increase their relevance to achieve sustainable rural development.
Outcome measurement in patients with intermittent claudication

In dit proefschrift vergelijken we ten eerste de endovasculaire revascularisatiestrategieen die momenteel worden toegepast voor patienten met perifeer arterieel vaatlijden, met een bijzondere focus op de uitkomstmaten die toegepast werden in de betreffende studies. Uit twee systematische reviews blijkt dat er momenteel geen overtuigend bewijs bestaat voor het toepassen van strategie anders dan PTA met optionele stentplaatsing voor laesies boven de knie, en PTA voor laesies onder de knie. Ook laat dit proefschrift zien dat de verwachtingen van patienten met claudicatio intermittens omtrent hun behandeling ver uiteenloopt. Daarnaast heeft dit proefschrift als doel om de kwaliteit van de beschikbare patient-gerapporteerde uitkomstmaten (patient-reported outcome measures, PROMs) vast te stellen. PROMs meten direct de mening van een patient over een ieder willekeurig aspect van diens gezondheid, zonder tussenkomst of interpretatie van de antwoorden van de patient door een arts of andere betrokkene. In een systematische review tonen we aan dat er een grote varieteit aan PROMs beschikbaar is, echter dat deze stuk voor stuk onvoldoende gevalideerd zijn. Hierop worden aanbevelingen gedaan voor verder onderzoek. Ten slotte heeft dit proefschrift als doel de klinimetrische kwaliteit en interpretatie van de Vascular Quality of Life Questionnaire (VascuQol) te verbeteren. Om dit te bereiken worden de test-hertest betrouwbaarheid en meetfout van de Nederlandse VascQol onderzocht, welke uitstekend blijken te zijn. Ook de structurele validiteit van de Nederlandse VasquQol wordt nagegaan. Ten slotte wordt de Minimally Important Difference (MID) geintroduceerd, om PROMscores op een nuttige manier te interpreteren.
Population biology of sparid fishes in qatari waters : 4. Growth and mortality of longspine sea bream (argyrops spinifer)

تمت دراسة معدلات النمو والوفاة في أسماك الكوثر في المياه القطرية خلال الفترة من نوفمبر 1992 حتى أكتوبر 1993 . وقد أوضحت نتائج هذه الدراسة أن أقصى عمر يمكن أن تصل إليه هذه الأسماك هو 18 عاما. وأظهرت الدراسة أيضا أن معدلات النمو كانت أعلى ما يمكن عند نهاية السنة الأولى من العمر ثم أخذت تتناقص تدريجيا مع التقدم في العمر . من ناحية أخرى كانت قيم معدلات الوفاه اللحظية والوفاة الطبيعية والوفاة الناتجة عن الصيد هي التوالي هي 0.43، 0.29، 0.14، في حين بلغ معدل الإعاشة 0.65 .
LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Predicting Insulin Dosage for Diabetic Patients To Reach Optimal Glucose Levels : Machine Learning Approaches

Endocrinologists treating diabetes mellitus find it overwhelming to keep track of the enormous amount of data gathered from the multiple measurements retrieved daily by their patients, throughout the years. This makes it hard for them to find a certain pattern in the data that could help them assign, to each patient, the optimal insulin dosage. This forces them to seek trial and error until they find the individualized insulin doses, required by each patient, to reach their optimal glucose levels. Hence, there is a great read to automate the process of estimating the glucose level. For this, we propose two machine learning techniques and one heuristic. In particular, we present C4.5, Case-Based Reasoning and genetic algorithms. We validate our approach on a data set obtained from the UCMI online machine learning repository. Obtained results are promising. Case-Based Reasoning outperformed both C4.5 and Genetic Algorithms.
Ab Initio Study of the Electronic and Phonon Band Structure Of the Mixed Valence Silver Oxide

We have performed the electronic band structure and the Phonon dispersion spectra of the mixed valence Silver oxide in the density functional theory (DFT) framework. We used the LDA+U and the HF methods in computing the electronic band structure while the LDA was used for the phonon dispersion calculation. Our structural optimization results agree well with experiment. The LDA+U predicted AgO to be semimetal nature while the HF calculation predicted a semiconductor nature with a fundamental band gap of 1.53 eV which is in good agreement with experiment. In the phonon calculation, we see that the longitudinal optical and the transverse optical split is very small for higher modes corresponding to oxygen. This is the reason while the Raman spectroscopy was not able to observe these modes. Keywords- Density functional theory, density perturbation functional theory, direct and indirect band gap, electronic band structure, Hartree Fock and local density approximation.
Empirical measures of symmetry of market sentiments

Abstract The analysis of asset return series of equity prices and stock indices is a well-researched problem tackled by economists, business and financial analysts in the last few decades. It has captured the fancy of financial economists, global and local portfolio investment consultants, foreign investment institutions and the trading man in the street. In this paper a strong case is made to follow a new approach for any investor to foray into an unknown stock market. This approach is the market sentiment approach. We introduce the concept of market sentiments, their definitions and different constructs one may propose vis-a-vis asset return series. We formulate several concepts of symmetry of market sentiments and propose empirical measures to validate such types of symmetric market sentiments. The efficacies of these measures are evaluated using extensive simulation studies and the efficient measures are identified. As an application, we explore the nature of absolute market sentiments that prevailed in weekly mean asset returns of two domestic companies registered in Botswana Stock Exchange during the trading period: 4 January 2016 to 30 December 2016. Our analysis indicates that both companies are characterised by the presence of complete symmetric absolute market sentiments.
Plasma Nesfatin-1 Levels and its Relationship With Anxiety Levels in Obesity Diagnosed Population: A Controlled Study

Objective: Nesfatin-1 is a satiety neuropeptide involved in the regulation of metabolic pathways and food intake. Some studies have shown nesfatin-1 to be also associated with stress responses and stress-related behaviors. In the present study, we evaluated nesfatin-1 levels in obese individuals and investigated whether nesfatin-1 levels could be associated with anxiety levels in obese populations. Methods: Fifty-eight obese (29 anxious and 29 non-anxious) patients and 25 healthy control subjects between 18 and 65 years old were enrolled in the study. Plasma nesfatin-1 levels were measured with a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and anxiety levels were measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Results: Plasma nesfatin-1 levels were significantly lower in both obese and anxious subjects and obese and non-anxious subjects than in the control group. No significant differences were found between the obese+anxious group and the obese+nonanxious group. Conclusion: Our results suggest that plasma nesfatin-1 levels are decreased and not associated with anxiety levels in obese populations