Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Onshore sandbar migration in the nearshore

This thesis is about the hydrodynamic processes that occur when a nearshore sandbar migrates towards the shore driven by the waves. These processes are relevant because process-based morphological models have difficulty simulating coastal accretion events in contrast to erosion events. Simulating accretion events is important for engineering purposes, for example, to optimize shoreface nourishment for the conservation of beach and dunes of the Netherlands. During onshore sandbar migration, sediment is dominantly transported at the bed where the orbital wave motion applies friction on the bed. This transport, known as bedload, may result in a cross-shore net transport due to various hydrodynamic processes. First off, the orbital motion under waves in the nearshore are not sinusoidal but asymmetric as waves have steep fronts and flat backs. The wave shape is reflected back in the orbital motion which has two consequences, first, the largest flow velocities are found under the wave crests, and second, the largest horizontal pressure gradients are found under the wave fronts. Numerical modeling results have shown that in the wave bottom boundary layer the shape of the orbital motion is altered due to flow deceleration. However, there have not been any observations to validate this. Another set of hydrodynamic processes are the time-averaged currents generated by the waves. In the wave bottom boundary layer these processes are ‘progressive wave streaming’ and ‘wave shape streaming’. In addition, mass flux by waves (Stokes drift) and wave breaking processes also generate currents that have an affect on the time-averaged bottom shear stress. Although the time-averaged bed shear stress is relatively small compared to the time-varying component it may have a large impact on the net sediment transport. The accumulative effect of the aforementioned processes on the time-averaged bed shear stress is not well understood.
Influence of a homeopathic product on performance and on quality flour and cookie (Grissini) of Nile tilapia

Animals can also benefit from homeopathic remedies by having their immunological system and organic responses to stress reduction stimulated, as well as their balance reestablished. In this context, the objective of this study was to assess the performance of Nile tilapias (Oreochromis niloticus) treated with food containing a homeopathic product (Homeopatila 100®), as well as the physical, chemical, technological and sensory quality of flour and cookie (grissini) based on the fish co-product. An eighty-four days assessment was conducted on two types of diet for fishes with sexual inversion: control (CT), added with 40 ml of hydroalcoholic solution (alcohol 30° GL) per kilo of food; and homeopathic treatment (HT) added with 40 ml of homeopathic product Homeopatila 100® per kilo of food. The flours (NTF) were obtained using the head and neck-ends of Nile tilapias with subsequent physical, chemical and technological analyses. In order to assess the applicability of the flours from both treatments, we formulated the grissini (cookies) added with 10% NTF substituting wheat flour; physical, chemical, technological and sensory characteristics were assessed. Considering the studied period, the fish treated with food containing the homeopathic product Homeopatila 100® presented final total weight significantly higher (p < 0.05) than fish in the control group. The homeopathic product had no significant influence (p < 0.05) on the physical and chemical of the NTF, as well as the results of the assessments on cookies (grissini) produced with the addition of 10% NTF, including the sensory test.
Education for peace and democracy in the Literature and Language class: action researches in the Japanese Saturday School in London

This thesis is built around three pedagogical action researches relating to education for peace and democratic citizenship. These researches were conducted in three successive school years in the department of literature in the Japanese Saturday School in London (JSSL), with the collaboration of my departmental teaching colleagues and of the students in the senior division (15-18 years old), who we were teaching. They involved significant episodes of cross-age-group teaching and learning. The research questions are: 1) How could we, Language and Literature teachers of senior students, use Literature to develop effective curriculum and pedagogy units around the theme of war and peace? 2) How, more generally, could we develop and teach Language units that would nurture democratically-minded citizens who would become voluntarily and independently involved in society? The research draws throughout on the JSSL students’(atypical) experience of both Japanese and British life and education, and the thesis begins with points of comparison between Japanese and British society and education, bringing out Japan’s ‘seniority’ system and culture, its difficulty with its growing multi-culturalism, and its traditionally centralized education system. The first, and most prolonged, action research involved a sustained engagement with literature texts, approved for senior school use in Japan, to raise serious questions about war and peace, and more specifically about invasions of other countries. The second engaged the students in investigating Media reporting of wars and other matters to raise questions about the citizen’s news-consumer responsibilities. The third reflected on cultural differences between Britain and Japan and how we can ‘understand’ each other. It was helped by an extended session with a Japanese WWII veteran, who was famous for his reconciliation work with Japanese and British soldiers. The study uses a range of methods including a planning, teaching and research diary, semistructured interviews with teacher colleagues and students, student questionnaires and evaluations, and video records to track and evaluate: (a) the impact of the action researches on students (including the cumulative impact on students who experienced all three researches), and (b) the impact on teachers’ pedagogical development of working collaboratively and with cross-age-groups of students.
Modification of Manila Grass Activated Carbon for Reactive Dye Adsorption from Textile Printing Wastewater

The aim of this research is to focus on the activated carbon modification for the elimination of Novacron Brilliant Red EC-3GL which is a reactive red dye onto Manila Grass carbonaceous as an adsorbent with chemical activation. The Manila grass waste from the football field was obtained to carbonize at 400 °C. Three-types of chemicals, such as sodium chloride (NaCl), potassium hydroxide (KOH), and phosphoric acid (H3PO4) were used to soak for 1 h before pyrolysis at 700 °C for 2 h. The analysis of activated carbon properties and effects of dye adsorption, such as pH of the feed solution, time to adsorb, the amount of adsorbent, concentration and temperature were studied. Langmuir isotherm and Freundlich isotherm were applied to consider the adsorption mechanism. From the analysis, activated carbon with sodium chloride activation was a high surface area of 148.6 m2/g and a low porosity of 25.72 °A. From the experiments were found that pH for adsorption of 2, absorption time 90 minutes, concentrations used in the adsorption of 50 ppm and the adsorption temperature 30 °C were optimum for dye adsorption. The NBR adsorption percentages from aqueous solution and textile printing wastewater were 77.87 and 85.52, respectively. The adsorption mechanisms of activated carbon were consistent with Langmuir isotherm for an aqueous solution and Freundlich for textile printing wastewater.
Effects of Age, Weight, Gender and Renal Function in a Pooled Analysis of Four Phase III Studies of Rivaroxaban for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism after Major Orthopedic Surgery

The RECORD program comprised four pivotal phase III trials comparing the oral direct Factor Xa inhibitor, rivaroxaban, with subcutaneous enoxaparin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after total hip and knee replacement (THR and TKR). A total of 12,729 patients were randomized to receive rivaroxaban 10 mg once daily (od) starting 6–8 hours after surgery, or enoxaparin 40 mg od (RECORD1–3) starting the evening before surgery, or 30 mg every 12 hours (RECORD4) starting 12–24 hours after surgery. In RECORD1, patients undergoing THR received extended prophylaxis for 31–39 days. In RECORD2, patients undergoing THR received rivaroxaban for 31–39 days, or enoxaparin for 12±2 days followed by placebo up to 35 days. Patients undergoing TKR in RECORD3 and 4 received prophylaxis for 12±2 days. In all four trials the rivaroxaban regimens showed superior efficacy to the enoxaparin regimens with no significant increase in bleeding. The RECORD1–4 pooled analysis showed that rivaroxaban was significantly superior to enoxaparin for the primary endpoint, symptomatic VTE and all-cause mortality (0.8% vs 1.6%, respectively; p 75 yrs), weight (≤70, >70–90, >90kg), gender, or renal function (CrCl >80, 50–80, 80 and 30 ml/min CrCl) groups studied. Similar trends were seen in the smaller subgroups of body weight extremes (>110 kg subgroup - total VTE: 5/100 [5.0%] vs 8/119 [6.7%], respectively; ≤50 kg subgroup - any bleeding: 12/147 [8.2%] vs 8/162 [4.9%], respectively). These results suggest that age, body weight, gender and renal function (>30 ml/min CrCl) have no clinically relevant effect on the efficacy or safety of rivaroxaban as thrombroprophylaxis following major orthopedic surgery.
Values and preferences for the protection of the Ethiopian wolf and the impact of protected areas on local livelihoods

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------II ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ----------------------------------------------------------------VI AUTHORSHIP DECLARATION ------------------------------------------------------IX TABLE OF CONTENTS -----------------------------------------------------------------XI LIST OF TABLES ------------------------------------------------------------------------XV LIST OF FIGURES ----------------------------------------------------------------------XVI Chapter 1 : Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1 Protected areas and biodiversity conservation --------------------------------1 1.2 Biodiversity valuation and impact of protected areas ------------------------6 1.2. 1 Stated preference choice experiments and valuation of species -------------10 1.2. 2 Impact of biodiversity conservation on livelihoods ----------------------------12 1.3 Study context, research questions and framework and methods ----------14 1.3. 1 Study context and problem statement --------------------------------------------14 1.3. 2 Research questions and theoretical framework ---------------------------------17 1.3. 3 Study areas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------20 1.3. 4 Data and methods -------------------------------------------------------------------22 1.4 The significance of the study -------------------------------------------------------25 1.5 Thesis outline --------------------------------------------------------------------------26 1.6 References -----------------------------------------------------------------------------29 Chapter 2 : Paper-1 What are tourists’ willingness to pay for securing the survival of a flagship species? The case of protection of the Ethiopian wolf ----39 Abstract -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------39 2.
Full Waveform Ambient Noise Inversion

This thesis deals with the development and application of a novel method for seismic interferometry, referred to as full waveform ambient noise inversion. It incorporates the heterogeneous nature of ambient noise sources in space and frequency, and models the full wave propagation physics. By dropping the principle of Green’s function retrieval, the basis of traditional ambient noise tomography, we establish correlation functions as selfconsistent observables. A more accurate description of the physics of the problem allows us to extract additional information, to advance our understanding of correlation wavefields and to quantify inherent source-structure trade-offs. We generalize the theoretical formulation, thus facilitating the application of adjoint techniques, and investigate the prerequisites for its application to real data in a synthetic 2-D study. We then follow with a framework for modeling correlations in 3-D attenuating media with arbitrary noise source distributions and for the computation of sensitivity kernels for changes in source and structure. In a pilot use case, we look into a commonly encountered difference between the observation of body waves and surface waves, and reveal fundamentally different conditions for their reconstruction. For a final synthesis of all results and a proof of concept we invert a global dataset focusing on the long-period ambient noise field, called the Earth’s Hum, for the distribution of ambient noise sources, and for Earth structure. We confirm existing models for the source power-spectral density and recover tomographic features well known from global Earth models.
Source Apportionment of Nutrient Loads to a Mediterranean River and Potential Mitigation Measures

The aims of the study were to quantify nutrient loads from point and diffuse pollution sources in the Rio Mannu stream and to simulate mitigation measures for reducing nutrient loads delivered to the Santa Gilla wetland. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool model was used for simulating hydrology, nutrient balance and water quality. At the basin scale, the input from fertilisers was 80.3 kg ha−1 year−1 total nitrogen (TN) (87.6% of the total input) and 27.6 kg ha−1 year−1 of total phosphorus (TP) (99.8% of the total input). Atmospheric deposition and biological N-fixation together accounted for about 12% of the total TN input. The TN and TP from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were about 14.2 t year−1 and 3.1 t year−1, respectively. Nutrient loads delivered to the river system differed among the sub-basins, with TP ranging from 0.2 kg ha−1 year−1 to 2.7 kg ha−1 year−1, and the sum of organic N and NO3-N ranging from 1.8 kg ha−1 year−1 to 22.9 kg ha−1 year−1. Under high flow conditions, NO3-N and TP accounted for 89% and 99% of the total load, respectively. The low flow contribution to the total load was very low, with NO3-N and TP accounting for 2.8% and 0.7%, respectively. However, the natural hydrological regime in the study area is intermittent, and low flow represents a critical condition for the water quality due to the high concentrations of TP and NO3-N from WWTP discharge. To improve the water quality, the reuse of treated wastewater from three WWTPs for irrigation purposes on olive cultivation, coupled with a 20% reduction in fertiliser application, was simulated. The results showed a reduction in nutrient loads at the outlet for all hydrological conditions. However, additional measures are needed for improving water quality.
Security Enhancement Using a Novel Two-Slot Cooperative NOMA Scheme

In this article, we propose a novel cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme to guarantee the secure transmission of a specific user via two time slots. During the first time slot, the base station (BS) transmits the superimposed signal to the first user and the relay via NOMA. Meanwhile, the signal for the first user is also decoded at the second user from the superimposed signal due to its high transmit power. In the second time slot, the relay forwards the signal to the second user while the BS retransmits the signal for the first user as interference to disrupt the eavesdropping. Due to the fact that the second user has obtained the signal for the first user in the first slot, the interference can be eliminated at the second user. To measure the performance of the proposed cooperative NOMA scheme, the outage probability for the first user and the secrecy outage probability for the second user are analyzed. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Multilayer Observations and Modeling of Thunderstorm‐Generated Gravity Waves Over the Midwestern United States

We present multilayer observations and numerical simulations of gravity waves (GWs) generated by a series of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the midwestern United States. Strong semiconcentric GWs were observed and modeled, which couple from their tropospheric sources to the thermosphere, displaying strong nonlinearity indicated by instability, breaking, and formation of turbulent vortices. GWs in the stratosphere display a large range of horizontal scales from 34–400 km; however, the smaller wavelength waves break rapidly in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. Larger‐scale (≥150 km) waves dominate in the thermosphere and display northwestward propagation at 200–300 km altitude, opposing the mean winds. Despite strong molecular viscosity and thermal conductivity in the thermosphere, steepened wave fronts, which may indicate nonlinearity, is identified in 630 nm airglow imagers. The agreement between model and data suggests new opportunities for data‐constrained simulations that span multilayer observables, including mesosphere and lower thermosphere‐region airglow not captured for this event.
Major QTLs for seedling traits in barley using a DArT-based linkage map

Seed vigor is considered as the most critical stage for barley production, and cultivar with high early seedling vigour (ESV) allow plants to form a canopy more quickly. In this study, the QTLs of seedling vigour related-traits were investigated using 185 RILs derived from Xena and H94061120 using DArT approach. In total, 46 significant QTLs for ESV related-traits were detected. The total map length was 1075.1 cM with an average adjacent-marker distance of 3.28 cM. Fourteen QTLs for BY were found on all chromosomes, two of them co-located with QTLs on 1H for GY. The related-traits; LL1, LL2, LA1 and LDW1 had high heritability (>60%). Meanwhile, a significant correlation was observed between GY and BY, which provide the clear image of these traits in the selection process. Our results demonstrate that a pleiotropic QTL related to SLA2, BY, and GY was linked to to the DArT markers bPb-9280 and bPb-9108 on 1H, which could be used to significantly improve the seed vigor by marker-assisted selection and possible future map-based cloning of the gene of intrest.
Patient Monitoring System Based on Internet of Things

The increased use of mobile technologies and smart devices in the area of health has caused great impact on the world. Health experts are increasingly taking advantage of the benefits these technologies bring, thus generating a significant improvement in health care in clinical settings and out of them. Likewise, countless ordinary users are being served from the advantages of the MHealth (Mobile Health) applications and E-Health (health care supported by ICT) to improve, help and assist their health. Applications that have had a major refuge for these users, so intuitive environment. The Internet of things is increasingly allowing to integrate devices capable of connecting to the Internet and provide information on the state of health of patients and provide information in real time to doctors who assist. It is clear that chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart and pressure among others, are remarkable in the world economic and social level problem. The aim of this article is to develop an architecture based on an ontology capable of monitoring the health and workout routine recommendations to patients with chronic disease.
Direct assimilation of measured soil water content in Root Zone Water Quality Model calibration for deficit‐irrigated maize

Funding information National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 31671627 Abstract Correct soil water simulation is critical for water balance and plant growth in agricultural systems. Crop production simulation errors have often been attributed to a lack of accuracy in soil water content (SWC) estimates. However, only a few studies have quantified the effects of SWC estimate errors on crop production and evapotranspiration (ET), especially under different irrigation treatments. The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of direct assimilation of measured SWC during model calibration for deficit irrigated maize (Zea mays L.) on simulated ET, leaf area index (LAI), biomass, and yield. The CERES-Maize model within the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) was calibrated using the automatic parameter estimation (PEST) software. Simulation results showed that, using PEST-optimized crop parameters, RZWQM was able to adequately predict crop yield (relative root mean squared error, rRMSE, of 4.8%) and biomass (rRMSE of 7.1%) in response to irrigation levels, in spite of the bias in SWC and ET simulation. However, with the same crop parameters but replacing simulated SWC with measured data, simulations of crop yield and biomass became worse, with higher rRMSE values (14.5% for yield and 21.5% for biomass). This unexpected model performance with SWC assimilation was mainly associated with the water addition and removal from the soil, which was improved only by recalibration of both soil and crop parameters. This study suggested compensating effects between soil and crop parameters during model calibration. Caution should be applied when using measured SWC as model inputs, especially under water stress conditions.
Spoken word performance as activism: Middle school poets challenge American racism

Abstract This study explored how middle-level teachers can combine a public platform for student voice, content related to the American Dream, and pedagogy informed by Tatum’s racial identity development to prompt students to: explore their racial and civic identities; engage in critical, inclusive dialogue; complicate traditional narratives about America; and practice advocacy and activism within-and-beyond the classroom. The primary research questions addressed were: 1) When given a platform, what do racially diverse students say about the American Dream? 2) What pedagogy prepares students to engage in advocacy and activism within-and-beyond the classroom? 3) What is the effect of using spoken word pedagogy? We used inductive coding and thematic analysis of student poems and teacher reflections to derive findings. This study evidenced that students used their voices as activists to confront American racism, seek racial identity affirmation, advance racial equality, and question racial oppression. Further, it demonstrated how the concept of the American Dream and the use of spoken word pedagogy have the unique ability to help students and teachers build understanding across lines of racial difference, engage in dialogue that increases learning, and make the classroom a place of liberation. We provide Implications for racial identity work in middle-level teacher preparation and among middle-level students.