Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Building Awareness of the Impact of Environmental Xenobiotics in Coal-Fired Flue Gas

Dangerous and unstable situations can result from the presence of environmental xenobiotics since their harmful effects on humans and ecosystems are often unpredictable. The environmental xenobiotics in the flue gas from a fossil fuel-fired electrical generating station, such as particulate matter (PM), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxide (CO2), are analyzed in this study, since these xenobiotics are persistentent pollutants. Mathematical models of the environmental pollutant vector, estimating the emission factors specific to fossil fuel combustion, are applied to the operation of thermal units in the Turceni electrical generating station, each of which produce a net electrical power of 330 MW. For each stack gas component in the pollutant vector, emission factor and pollutant concentration are determined. A pattern is also examined depicting the mathematically modelled processes of resonant absorption of an environmental xenobiotic harmonic oscillation by an organism modulated as an absorbing oscillator structure. The xenobiotic concentration degree is represented through a spatial concentration vector, which allows further modelling and simulation of the oscillating regime of environmental xenobiotic absorption.
Tracking invasion and invasiveness in Queensland fruit flies: From classical genetics to ‘omics’

Three Australian tephritid fruit flies (Bactrocera tryoni - Q-fly, Bactrocera neohumeralis - NEO, and Bactrocera jarvisi - JAR) are promising models for genetic studies of pest status and invasiveness. The long history of ecological and physi- ological studies of the three species has been augmented by the development of a range of genetic and genomic tools, including the capacity for forced multigeneration crosses between the three species followed by selection experiments, a draft genome for Q-fly, and tissue- and stage-specific transcriptomes. The Q-fly and NEO species pair is of particular interest. The distribution of NEO is contained entirely within the wider distribution of Q-fly and the two species are ecologically extremely similar, with no known differences in pheromones, temperature tolerance, or host-fruit utilisation. However there are three clear differences be- tween them: humeral callus colour, complete pre-mating isolation based on mating time-of-day, and invasiveness. NEO is much less invasive, whereas in historical times Q-fly has invaded southeastern Australia and areas of Western Australia and the North- ern Territory. In southeastern fruit-growing regions, microsatellites suggest that some of these outbreaks might derive from ge- netically differentiated populations overwintering in or near the invaded area. Q-fly and NEO show very limited genome diffe- rentiation, so comparative genomic analyses and QTL mapping should be able to identify the regions of the genome controlling mating time and invasiveness, to assess the genetic bases for the invasive strains of Q-fly, and to facilitate a variety of improve- ments to current sterile insect control strategies for that species (Current Zoology 61 (3): 477-487, 2015). Keywords Bactrocera, Genomics, STERILE-insect-technique, Interspecific-hybridisation
Diachronic Aaalysis of the visuals in the research paper: a corpus-based study of the strategies and semiotics of visual representation in nutrition biochemistry.

This article reports a diachronic analysis of the visuals as used in the scientific research paper over a 70-year period (1929-1999). The corpus-based (72-articles) study investigates the strategies of specialists in nutrition biochemistry publishing on a single biological theme : essential fatty acids (EFA). It provides data on the various kinds of visuals as well as an inquiry into the size, positioning, nature and function of visual representation within the scientific paper considered as a genre, over the years. Based on the theoretical principle of semiotics, it then proceeds with an analysis of the concept move which underlies the use of visuals, conceived as the hard core of the paper. Readability of a scientific document depends on the number of symbolic and semi-symbolic systems at stake. A scientific visual is constructed as the article itself : It is built as a stratagem, an ambush with no way out. Visuals are used to convince. They are also the only evidence of laboratory work. Semiotic analysis shows that the descriptive nature of the visuals used in the corpus changes after the 60s to become the display of multiple relationships. It also analyzes how the techniques of foregrounding and backgrounding can apply to the study of non-verbal items in the research paper. Social semiotics gives another light on the use of visuals by showing that a scientific paper does not only contain new information. Based on the theme/rheme concepts, borrowed from systemic linguistics, the study of visuals in the corpus and especially that of tables, demonstrates that what is already known by the community (given) tends to be produced on the left-hand side of the tables, whereas the new information is placed on the right. There is also adequation between the title key-words of the tables and the right-hand side results found in these tables. However, due to the development of symbolic representation over the years, the results concerning the research theme in the 80s and 90s tend to follow logical 77 ordering. Thus, the results about essential fatty acids (EFA) are presented or staged in an order according to their chemical composition. Significant results in this case do not appear on the right, but are signalled by special symbols. Specialists can thus very efficiently find the results of interest through this deciphering process, while the layman is more and more at a loss when trying to understand the data represented in visuals. This paper stresses the interest of a diachronic prospect in the study of the visual characteristics of the scientific article, by showing that if visuals are a constant feature, and even constitute the hard core of the article, they should not be considered as stable traits in the research paper contemplated as a genre and their evolution points to changing persuasion strategies pursued by the scientific community represented here.
Can We Explain Australian Labour Productivity Growth? Some Evidence from AWIRS

In recent years the productivity performance of the Australian economy has been extraordinary. For example, in terms of labour productivity in the market sector, over the period 1988/89 to 1997/98, labour productivity growth has increased at an average rate of 2.5 percent per year. This paper uses two large data sets to empirically test some of the theoretical determinants of labout productivity growth in the Australian context.
Green manufacturing of metallic nanoparticles: a facile and universal approach to scaling up

High-yield and continuous synthesis of ultrapure inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) of well-defined size and composition has invariably been one of the major challenges in nanotechnology. Employing green techniques that avoid the use of poisonous and expensive chemicals has been realized as a necessity for manufacturing NPs on an industrial scale. In this communication, we show that a newly developed high-frequency spark (HFS) quenched by a high-purity gas yields a series of monometallic and bimetallic NPs in large quantities, with well-defined (primary) particle size (sub-10 nm) and chemical composition. The mass production rate is linearly dependent on the operating frequency, and can reach up to 1 g h−1, providing a universal and facile technology for producing multicomponent hybrid NPs. Considering also that the methodology requires neither any specialized machinery, nor any chemical reagents, product purification, or any further waste processing, it provides a green, sustainable and versatile platform for manufacturing key building blocks toward industrial scale production.
Prediction of genotypic values of maize for the agricultural frontier region in northeastern Maranhão, Brazil

Agricultural research, mainly focused on the evaluation of maize cultivars along agricultural frontiers, are scarce. This study assessed 128 maize genotypes in the agricultural frontier region of the State of Maranhao, between 2008 and 2009. The experiment was arranged in a lattice design with two replications. The genotypes were evaluated for grain yield in a mixed model, with fixed intercept and experimental effects. The random effects were genotype, genetic class (single-, double or triple-cross hybrid and variety), and incomplete block/replication/ environment. The genotype effect was significant by the likelihood ratio test in all models, highlighting the genotypic values of the single-cross hybrids DKB177, AG8088 and DKB390, the triple-cross PL6882, the double-cross BM502 and of the open-pollinated variety SHS3031.
The influence of mitochondria in epigenetics revealed through naturally occurring fish cybrids

Epigenetic processes are important mechanisms for phenotypic changes that occur in response to the environment. As such, it is expected that the alteration of cytoplasmic composition (the immediate environment of nuclei) results in the modifica- tion of the methylome and the expression of the nuclear genome. Cytoplasmic hybrids (or cybrids) are an ideal model to study the influence of mitochondria on gene expression. In this study, we take advantage of the natural co-occurrence of two biotypes that have a similar nuclear genome type Chrosomus eos, but harbor mitochondria from different species (C. eos in wild type or C. neogaeus in cybrids) to assess the effects of mitochondria on DNA methylation profiles and protein expression of the nuclear ge- nome. Comparison between these biotypes is particularly relevant given their recent divergence and their low level of genetic dif- ferentiation. Variations of DNA methylation assessed on tissues from different embryonic origins revealed the distinct profiles of cybrid and wild type populations. Differences are more pronounced between wild type and cybrids than between populations of a given biotype. The proteome is also more different between biotypes than within a given biotype. These results indicate a strong influence of mitochondria on the nuclear genome, which remains detectable in different genetic and environmental contexts. These changes in the methylome and proteome of cybrids are expected to reflect the adjustments imposed by the coexistence of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from different species (Current Zoology 58 (1): 138-145, 2012).
A Novel Interdisciplinary Approach to Deep Web Search Engine

Summary In this paper, we will discuss on the strategic issues of exploring, harvesting and integrating the Deep Web. We will then develop a novel interdisciplinary stochastic model for a Deep Web Search Engine which can detect and rank the contents optimally. Our efforts aim at opening up to users by building Generator. On this information grand voyage, the Generator will address the challenges of exploring, harvesting and integrating of the Deep Web. First, to make the Web systematically accessible: our Generator will focus on the discovery, modeling and structuring of databases on the Web to develop a search engine, in order to help users find sources useful for their information need. Second, to make the Web uniformly usable: the Generator will help users to make optimal choice of keywords. Based on these insights, we design a stochastic model and employ an interdisciplinary approach consisting stochastic and optimization techniques. In addition, we consider three types of keywords: text-based, image-based and hybrid-based. Experimental and simulation results are given for illustrations.
Census versus morphological slums derived from EO data - A spatial comparison of locations and structures for two megacities in Brazil

Today more than half of the global population lives in cities and until 2050 this proportion is expected to rise to 66%. This rapid urbanisation puts pressure on the cities and policy makers to ensure the provision with basic services and infrastructure. Furthermore, a growing native population and the migration into the cities leads for example to urban sprawl or the emergence as well as expansion of slums. It is estimated that around one billion people live in slums. In order to understand the inherent dynamics of these settlements as well as to monitor and evaluate policies, there exists an utter necessity of up-to date data with an areawide coverage. In contrast to this need, consistent spatial or statistical data are often lacking or obsolete. The present thesis classifies slums in the metropolitan region of São Paulo (Brazil) based on morphological characteristics. The applied parameters are summarized and presented in a slum ontology which facilitates the comparability as well as transferability of the data. Furthermore, the average building density as well as building height are determined for every slum. In general, slums can be described as heterogeneous, complex and context-specific urban phenomenons. In order to examine the influence of different definitions, parameters and methods on the classification of slums and their spatial distribution, the created dataset together with a similar dataset for Rio de Janeiro are compared to the spatial data of the demographic census of Brazil. The analyses are executed on three dimensions: area, time and location. The results show that the geography and structures of the slums differ depending on the applied criteria and classification method. Moreover, the present thesis displays differences between the two cities and concludes that they are mainly resulting from historic development and due to topographical characteristics. In essence, the slums classified by the different methods should not be seen as the complete mapping of the existing slums in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro rather do they represent a snapshot of the cities and their settlements showing predefined criteria in the moment of classification.
What's in a Grammar? Modeling Dominance and Optimization in Contact.

Muysken's article is a timely call for us to seek deeper regularities in the bewildering diversity of language contact outcomes. His model provocatively suggests that most such outcomes can be subsumed under four speaker optimization strategies. I consider two aspects of the proposal here: the formalization in Optimality Theory (OT) and the reduction of contact outcomes to four basic strategies.
Extracting Information from the Business Outlook Survey Using Statistical Approaches

Since the autumn of 1997, the regional offices of the Bank of Canada have conducted quarterly consultations with businesses across Canada. These consultations, summarized in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS), are structured around a survey questionnaire that covers topics of importance to the Bank, notably business activity, pressures on production capacity, prices and inflation, and credit conditions. The author aims to enhance our understanding of the survey’s information content by extending the early work of Martin and Papile (2004) in two key ways. First, since all BOS questions are designed to capture some aspect of economic activity and are therefore interrelated, various approaches were considered to extract the common underlying variations among the indicators: a subjective approach (a simple average), principal-component analysis and factor analysis. Second, the information content of these common movements is assessed, using regression analysis and a forecasting assessment. The results suggest that all approaches to extract the information from the BOS provide very similar measures of underlying common variations. This underlying variable appears to be a useful indicator of economic activity, particularly for providing information on investment spending. However, the balance of opinion on future sales growth remains a better indicator than any measures of common movements for the growth of real GDP.
Driver Behaviour Model Based Threat Assessment for Forward Collision Warning Systems

Forward Collision Warning systems warn the driver when there’s a risk of a collision with a car or truck in front of the equipped vehicle. Different drivers have different driving styles, and an attempt is made to come up with a conceptual design of such a system that adapts to these differences. The aim of this thesis was to develop a threat assessment algorithm that estimates the driver’s “comfort zone” by continuously analyzing vehicle signals, and uses it to decide when to issue a forward collision warning to the driver. A literature survey of relevant driver behaviour models for braking was performed for this application, and estimation schemes were designed and developed for a looming threshold based, and an evidence accumulation based model. Further, a test track study was conducted to collect driving data, and the developed estimators were tested on this data. Qualitative comparisons of the two driver behaviour models were made, and used to propose conceptual designs for threat assessment algorithms. Due to the design of the test track study which used professional test drivers, and involved repetitive tasks, the data collected was not suitable to draw conclusions on the performance of the developed estimators. A comparison of the obtained estimates of driver model parameters, and parameter values reported in literature showed potential but this needs to be verified with a larger naturatlistic driving dataset.
UNSTABLE PLANETARY SYSTEMS EMERGING OUT OF GAS DISKS

The discovery of over 400 extrasolar planets allows us to statistically test our understanding of the formation and dynamics of planetary systems via numerical simulations. Traditional N-body simulations of multiple-planet systems without gas disks have successfully reproduced the eccentricity (e) distribution of the observed systems by assuming that the planetary systems are relatively closely packed when the gas disk dissipates, so that they become dynamically unstable within the stellar lifetime. However, such studies cannot explain the small semimajor axes a of extrasolar planetary systems, if planets are formed, as the standard planet formation theory suggests, beyond the ice line. In this paper, we numerically study the evolution of three-planet systems in dissipating gas disks, and constrain the initial conditions that reproduce the observed a and e distributions simultaneously. We adopt initial conditions that are motivated by the standard planet formation theory, and self-consistently simulate the disk evolution and planet migration, by using a hybrid N-body and one-dimensional gas disk code. We also take into account eccentricity damping, and investigate the effect of saturation of corotation resonances on the evolution of planetary systems. We find that the a distribution is largely determined in a gas disk, while the e distribution is determined after the disk dissipation. We also find that there may be an optimum disk mass which leads to the observed a–e distribution. Our simulations generate a larger fraction of planetary systems trapped in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) than the observations, indicating that the disk's perturbation to the planetary orbits may be important to explain the observed rate of MMRs. We also find a much lower occurrence of planets on retrograde orbits than the current observations of close-in planets suggest.
Application of the time-of-igh t neutron scattering method to texture determination of geological samples: preliminary results ?

Textures are ngerprin ts of the history of geological samples and as such they are object of recent research using various neutron diraction techniques. Due to the low absorption of neutrons it is possible to acquire data of global volume textures. While the interest in structure investigations is growing, the implementation of the time-of-igh t method at the SKAT texture diractometer in Dubna is opening possibilities for fast measurements of multiple textures. Although recent diraction experiments indicate interference-prone detectors, doubts can be discarded as the past has shown that textures of many geological samples can be measured in appropriate quality within reasonable time. Final evaluation of the problem is still outstanding.
Klepto for post-quantum signatures

Online communication is important to digitally express thoughts, ideas and actions to others. Therefore, everybody should be able to do that in a secure, and if needed private, way. People also should have the possibility to verify the identity of the other communicating party. This is where cryptography comes in. Signature schemes provide authentication and non-repudiation. There could be a third party involved, that wants to gain secret information, like the secret signing key or the message. This party could modify the scheme in such way that it leaks the information exclusively to this party every time the user signs a document. The study of designing private backdoors such that the user does not notice them is called kleptography. In this thesis, kleptography is investigated in post-quantum signature schemes. First a short introduction is given on the subject. After that, the basic terminology of cryptography is explained. Also the title of this project is illustrated by an overview of the most important developments. Then the necessary mathematical background is given, in order to understand the technical parts in this thesis. The next section is about lattice-based signature schemes. Two well-known schemes are described in detail. In the central part, new backdoors in NTRU Signature Schemes are given, along with an analysis. At the end, the conclusions are presented.
Interactive comment on “ Northern Hemisphere storminess in the Norwegian Earth System Model ( NorESM 1M ) ” by

Please note that since Figs. A-E are given in the Appendix and not the main body of the manuscript, none of these figures shows significant change or p-values indicating significant change relative to the historical time period for future time periods and scenarios. We believe that Figs. A-E are more compelling without the overlay of the additional information, which complicates the visual presentation of the results.
IMPACT OF CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT ON BRAND EQUITY

This research intends to explore the empirical relationship between endorsers credibility and consumer based brand equity in the presence of mediating role of brand credibility and moderating role of type of celebrities i.e. National or International was also examined. This paper uses two theories to explain the relationship; associative learning was used to explain the relationship between endorser and brand equity, and brand signaling to explain the relationship about the mediating role of brand credibility. The data was collected from Islamabad, the Federal capital of Pakistan and analyzed using SPSS. Results suggest that endorsers credibility has positive impact on brand equity and brand credibility mediates this relationship. The moderating role of type of celebrity was also discussed in this paper. The past literature suggests that celebrity endorser is one who is perceived as attractive, expert and trustworthiness. This research study examined the relationship of construct in the context of non-durable goods and measured the effectiveness of celebrity i.e. National or International proved to build brand equity.