Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Does Humidity’s Seasonal Cycle Affect the Annual-Mean Tropical Precipitation Response to Sulfate Aerosol Forcing?

AbstractSulfate aerosol radiative forcing alters the distribution of tropical precipitation in climate model simulations. The annual-mean tropical precipitation change is typically described as arising from an annual-mean change in the mean atmospheric circulation. However, the seasonality of the climatology of tropical humidity may modulate the annual-mean precipitation response. Here, the role of seasonality of tropical humidity is assessed using reanalysis and idealized atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) simulations perturbed by sulfate aerosol radiative forcing. When coupled to an aquaplanet slab ocean with low thermal inertia, the seasonal cycle in GCM simulations of the “continental” regime is large and the annual-mean precipitation change depends on both the seasonally varying perturbation mean meridional circulation and the seasonally varying climatological specific humidity. When coupled to an aquaplanet slab ocean with a higher thermal inertia, the seasonal cycle in GCM simulations of t.
The impact of consumer ethnocentrism and cultural sensitivity on the intention to buy local products by Vietnamese consumers.

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of consumer ethnocentrism and cultural sensitivity on the intention to buy local products by Vietnamese consumers. Three models hypothesising the relationships between consumer ethnocentrism, cultural sensitivity, foreign product judgment and intention to buy local products were developed. A sample of 549 consumers was surveyed to test these models via a two-step approach and multi-group analysis in structural equation modelling. The results show that consumer ethnocentrism had a positive relationship not only with intention to buy local products but also with foreign product judgment. In addition, cultural sensitivity had a positive relationship with foreign product judgment but not with consumer ethnocentrism. The results also indicate that these relationships were not different in terms of product types, gender, income, and education levels. However, the difference wasfound between the young and older groups of consumers.
On the Welfare Costs of Monetary Policy

This paper analyses the implications of monetary policy changes on the welfare in the U.S economy over the pre-1984 and post-1984 periods. We use a New-Keynesian model with trend inflation based on Ascari, Phaneuf and Sims (2015). First, our results show that the welfare costs respond symmetrically to a rise and a decline in trend inflation, trend growth and the level of volatility of output, output growth and inflation over the sample periods. Second, we find that changes in monetary policy and in trend inflation across the two subsamples play an important role in the shift of macroeconomic variables volatilities unconditionally and conditionally to neutral technology, marginal efficiency of investment and monetary shocks.
Laboratory Evaluation of the Stiffness Modulus of a Modified Bituminous Concrete with PR PLAST Sahara

Uneven roads surface can be observed on bituminous pavements. This is due to moving loads and climate conditions. If the observed deformations exceed the elastic limit, important damages can occur, so new materials are used to improve the stiffness modulus of bituminous mixtures. To achieve this, a modified bituminous concrete by addition of the PR PLAST Sahara (produced by PR industries and PLAST for Plastic) mainly used in arid region has been studied. The use of this additive at various percentages 0.1, 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 by weight of bituminous concrete has been investigated to determine its stiffness modulus. An experimental design using the Taguchi tables has been elaborated to reduce the number of tests. Marshall and NAT (Nottingham asphalt tester) tests have been carried out, and a mathematical model of the stiffness modulus has been proposed.
Effect of Assertiveness Skills Training on the Level of Aggression in High School First Grade Female Students in Qorveh City

This study aimed at investigating the effect of assertiveness skills training on aggression dimensions. The research method was the pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The population of the present study consisted of all high school first grade female students in Qorveh city who were enrolled in the academic years 2013-14. The sample consisted of 30 high school first grade female students who were selected through multi-stage random sampling. Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (1992) was used for the data collection, and univariate ANOVA was used for the data analysis. The results showed that assertiveness skills training is effective on reducing students’ physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Therefore, it can be concluded that assertiveness skills training can be a useful and efficient method for reducing the aggression in female students. This information can be used for the treatment planning and clinical interventions in order to reduce the aggression in in high school female students.
The Effect of Social Justice in Self-Efficacy Development of Organizations and Institutions Employees

Self-Efficacy is one of the factors of progress in today societies, as the efforts of human resources have a deep connection with their Self-Efficacy. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of justice dimensions in the creation and enhancement of the specified sample Self-Efficacy. Data gathering tool of this study is a structured questionnaire. The statistical population of the research is all employees of Metro Operation Company. The findings of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between two mentioned concepts, i.e. the higher justice and its dimensions such as distributive, procedural and interactional justice within organizations we have, the higher self-efficacy exist among employees. Therefore, considering strategies to increase high self-efficacy and to lower the distribution difference between official and corporative resources in current societies is essential.
Tropical forest restoration: Fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks

Due to intensifying human disturbance, over half of the world's tropical forests are reforested or afforested secondary forests or plantations. Understanding the resilience of carbon (C) stocks in these forests, and estimating the extent to which they can provide equivalent carbon (C) sequestration and stabilization to the old growth forest they replace, is critical for the global C balance. In this study, we combined estimates of biomass C stocks with a detailed assessment of soil C pools in bare land, Eucalyptus plantation, secondary forest and natural old-growth forest after over 50 years of forest restoration in a degraded tropical region of South China. We used isotope studies, density fractionation and physical fractionation to determine the age and stability of soil C pools at different soil depths. After 52 years, the secondary forests had equivalent biomass C stocks to natural forest, whereas soil C stocks were still much higher in natural forest (97.42 t/ha) than in secondary forest (58.75 t/ha) or Eucalyptus plantation (38.99 t/ha) and lowest in bare land (19.9 t/ha). Analysis of δ13C values revealed that most of the C in the soil surface horizons in the secondary forest was new C, with a limited increase of more recalcitrant old C, and limited accumulation of C in deeper soil horizons. However, occlusion of C in microaggregates in the surface soil layer was similar across forested sites, which suggests that there is great potential for additional soil C sequestration and stabilization in the secondary forest and Eucalyptus plantation. Collectively, our results demonstrate that reforestation on degraded tropical land can restore biomass C and surface soil C stocks within a few decades, but much longer recovery times are needed to restore recalcitrant C pools and C stocks at depth. Repeated harvesting and disturbance in rotation plantations had a substantial negative impact on the recovery of soil C stocks. We suggest that current calculations of soil C in secondary tropical forests (e.g. IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories) could overestimate soil C sequestration and stabilization levels in secondary forests and plantations. A plain language summary is available for this article.
A Note: De-Growth Debate and New Scientific Analysis of Economic Growth

This article is a theoretical note on de-growth debate. The article includes an analysis of economic growth and alternative growth paths. The article is focused on the concepts of de-linking, re-linking and de-growth. We connected linking analysis (de-linking and re-linking) analytically to the de-growth debate. On the basis of our framework, special cases of de-growth in the linking process relate to strong re-linking, weak re-linking and recessive de-linking. This kind of theoretical approach helps us to define the special nature of de-growth. Key finding of us is that only the de-growth case of recessive de-linking meets the condition of environmental sustainability. However, this case does not fulfil the criteria of sustainable development defined in the WCSD context. In the linking process, the WCSD conditions of sustainable development are met in the strong de-linking process only. In our analytical framework, the theoretical concepts of de-growth and sustainable development seem to conflict by definition.
Sunflower Meal and Supplementation of an Enzyme Complex in Layer Diets

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the performance of 64- to 79-wk-old laying hens fed diets supplemented with an enzyme complex (EC) and containing increasing sunflower meal (SFM) levels. A total of 384 Hy-Line Brown layers were distributed according to a randomized block design in a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement (four levels of SFM, and inclusion or not of EC), with eight replicates of six birds each unit. The levels of SFM inclusion were 0, 8, 16 and 24%, utilized in two distinct diets. Diets were calculated to meet all the nutritional requirements of birds, except for the nutrients that would be made available by the nutritional matrix of the enzyme complex, with or without utilization of EC. The parameters analyzed were feed intake (g/bird/day), egg production (%/bird/day), egg weight, egg mass (g/bird/day), feed conversion ratio per egg mass, feed conversion ratio per dozen eggs, body weight gain, egg components (yolk, albumen and eggshell) and the economic efficiency index (EEI). There was no interaction between EC addition and the SFM levels in the diet. The addition of EC in the diets of laying hens did not affect egg productive or components parameters. The increase in the SFM levels in the diet presented quadratic effect on egg production and feed conversion ratio per dozen eggs, with calculated optimal sunflower meal inclusion levels of 6.72% and 5.83%, respectively, for each parameter. The best economic efficiency per dozen eggs was obtained with the diet with 16.0% SFM and EC inclusion, whereas per egg mass with the diet with of 24.0% SFM and no EC addition.
Fault Diagnosis of Power Components in Electric Vehicles

Battery, power electronics and electric motor are the main components of electric vehicles (EVs). Their failure in EVs may result in severe system breakdown, or even life threat. This paper gives a brief review of fault diagnoses with respect to battery, power electronics and electric motor in EVs. Current and voltage are the most commonly used detection parameters for EVs. Apart from these, temperature, vibration, power, noises, and torque are also utilized on the basis of different detecting techniques. It shows that the battery has already had a relatively well-developed diagnostic system in EVs, namely battery management system. Although much literatures has illustrated various fault diagnostic systems for electric motor and power electronics individually, a few studies have been done specifically for EVs.
Genome-wide mixed model association study in population of Slovak Pinzgau cattle

Th e aim of this study was to detect the position of genomic regions associated with milk production and milk components in Pinzgau cattle. Th e dataset consisted of milk yield records of in total 7729 cows of 35 sires representing active bulls (19 animals) and DNA material stored in gene bank (16 animals) of Pinzgau cattle in Slovakia. In total 130087 test-day records of milk, protein and fat yield were used for the association analysis. Th e Illumina BovineSNP50 BeadChip V2 was used and aft er quality control fi nal dataset consisted of 41,487 autosomal loci covering overall length 2,500,315 kb of the genome. Identifi cation of genomic regions associated with milk production and composition were performed using GEMMA soft ware with use of linear mixed model approach based on genetic-relationship matrix estimated from SNP genotypes to model correlation between the phenotypes. Based on this were found SNPs in the regions of important QTLs signifi cantly associated with milk yield, dressing percentage, protein yield, SCS score, marbling score and fat yield.
Identity in Online Personal Ads: A Multimodal Investigation

A personal advertisement constitutes a distinct form related to the small ad family of genres. While small adstraditionally offer an object or a service, the personal ad offers but, most essentially, seeks a romantic partner. Todate, studies of personal ads have mainly focused on patterns of represented traits in relation to identity, gender,age and sexuality in the verbal text. Given the self-promotional nature of the genre, image is also a powerful toolused as one of the resources for representing identity and engaging with others. Using social semiotic perspectiveand the framework of systemic functional linguistics, this study focuses on how identity is verbally and visuallyrealised in online personal ads. This paper has two aims: the first is to show how resources from verbal andvisual systems combine and complement one another to construe a variety of personal and social traits,clustering into different identity types. The second is to indicate the usefulness of these descriptions infacilitating a multimodal approach to the analysis of identity. The results revealed a convergence of verbal andvisual resources in identity performances, construing the slim and attractive woman and the funny but sensitiveguy, both aimed at invoking interest from potential partners. Identities emerged through the use of nominalgroups and processes and the categorizations associated with these resources. Images that are displayed on theprofile pages contain features that correspond to the tendered traits in the verbal description creating a holisticperformance of online identities.
Studies on the Syntheses, Characterization, Docking-, DFT Analysis, Antimicrobial-, DNA Cleaving-, and Antituberculosis Screening of Tricyclic Pyrazole Derivatives

Six pyrazole derivatives have been synthesized from the key-intermediates 2,3-dihydrothiochromen-4-one and 3,4-dihydrobenzo[b]thiepin-5(2H)-one. These compounds have been characterized by IR, 1 H-NMR, 13 C-NMR, Mass, and CHN analysis. These are subjected to antimicrobial-, antituberculosis-. and DNA cleaving studies. The docking patterns for the pyrazole derivatives with 1M17 protein have been studied. DFT calculations were performed using Gaussian 09 software. Compound 6 has a lower binding energy (-218.45 Kcal/mol) and showed the highest antimicrobial- and antituberculosis activity. Chlorine-substituted pyrazole derivatives (5, 6, 9, and 10) completely cleaved the DNA compared to their nitro-substituted counterparts.
Ambiguity in Japanese relative clause processing

Abstract In Japanese, relative clauses have initial clause-type ambiguity. Because there are no overt RC markers, the structure is realized at a locus of disambiguation, typically the head noun. While previous studies have attenuated this ambiguity, these studies have not effectively investigated the processing asymmetry between subject/object-relatives during reading. The current study investigated RC processing within different ambiguity contexts using eye-tracking on native Japanese speakers. For ambiguous RCs, ORC difficulties were primarily observed during late-processing measures after disambiguation at the head noun and RC verb. This was possibly due to the inherent difficulty of assigning thematic roles when the object appears outside the clause as the object-before-subject-bias predicts or due to factors such as expectation, structural-integration and similarity interference. Because all predict ORC difficulties in ambiguous RCs, the exact nature of the processing remains uncertain. For unambiguous RCs, ORC difficulties were instead observed during early-processing measures at the head noun. We attribute this to expectation-based processing because the clause no longer requires a structural reconfiguration. Specifically, with increased cues for the RC interpretation, expectation-based processing effects became more observable at the head. In conclusion, clause type ambiguity is an integral factor for Japanese relative clause processing.
Substitutes or Complements? Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Animal Welfare, Organic, Local and Low Fat Food Attributes

A choice experiment was carried out in Scotland to assess consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for four popular food attributes (i.e. animal welfare, organic, local and low fat attributes) and determine whether these attributes are independent, complement or substitutes. The results showed that the majority of consumers have positive preferences and are willing to pay a price premium for the four attributes. Furthermore, the results from the interactions between attributes showed that labelling organic pork as local could significantly increase its demand. The results also show that the co-existence of animal welfare and organic/local/low fat labels is likely to generate a discounting effect on consumers’ total premium for these bundles of food attributes (i.e. these attributes are perceived by consumers as overlapping). Organic and local attributes were found to be independent.
Fuzzy AHP, DEA, and Managerial Analysis for Supplier Selection and Development; From the Perspective of Open Innovation

Supplier management is critical for supply chain management (SCM). The aim of supplier selection is to find an order of preference among potential suppliers. However, the ranking results for supplier selection may not be important, particularly when the performances are conflicting or have minor differences. Different criteria may have different impacts on the ranking results, and different decision makers may place different priorities on multiple criteria. Relatively worse suppliers may still have to be used for many practical reasons. One alternative is supplier development, but it has been focused on categorizing individual suppliers for possible action plans. A new framework is proposed in this research to address supplier selection and supplier development at the same time in the publishing and printing industries. First, the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) are sequentially performed to rank and select the best supplier(s) of a publishing company. In addition to ranking suppliers, a managerial analysis is proposed to assess the impact of important criteria on supplier selection in more detail. Finally, the results of the DEA are provided for direct supplier development without supplier categorization. This research shows that the proposed framework effectively addresses supplier development as well as supplier selection in the publishing and printing industries.
The Right Approach in Practice: A Discussion of the Applicability of EFL Writing Practices in a Saudi Context

The aim of this paper is to describe the different approaches applied to teaching writing in the L2 context and the way these different methods have been established so far. The perspectives include a product approach, genre approach and process approach. Each has its own merits and objectives for application. Regarding the study context, it may be noted throughout previous researches that the product approach is the most common way of teaching EFL writing. In this regard, L2 teachers are mostly concerned with grammatical accuracy and the final written product. However, this paper shifts the emphasis more towards the process approach and how this is more appropriate for the Saudi context. A further description of measuring elements in this approach is provided. Finally, this means of providing feedback is considered in relation to the teaching of writing. As a result, it is hoped that this paper will provide insights for developing writing practices in EFL teaching in Saudi Arabia.
Children of women in SUD treatment 1

Background: While parental substance use disorder (SUD) has been recognized as a risk factor for child outcomes, past research seldom focused specifically on children whose mothers suffer from alcohol and drug use disorders. Are these children at risk for elevated psychosocial problems, and would such risk be reduced if maternal substance use was reduced? Aims: Children of substance-abusing mothers (COSAM, N = 130) were compared to a demographically matched comparison sample, and examined at baseline soon after their mothers entered SUD treatment and in the 18 months after treatment entry. We expected to observe elevated symptomatology among COSAM before maternal treatment entry, followed by a decreasing trend after maternal treatment in general, and remission in particular. Results: Children’s psychosocial problems were assessed through maternal reports on the Pediatric Symptom Checklist. Soon after their mothers entered SUD treatment, COSAM exhibited significantly greater overall and clinical-level psychosocial problems than the children from the matched comparison sample. However, at the end of the 18-months study period, these two groups no longer differed in terms of problems. Results from the longitudinal growth models revealed reductions in COSAM’s overall and clinical-level problems following their mothers’ SUD treatment. However, these reductions were similar for all COSAM, regardless of whether their mothers relapsed or remitted. Conclusion: Psychosocial problems were significantly reduced in COSAM following maternal SUD treatment, such that COSAM did not significantly differ from children from the matched comparison sample by the end of the 18-month study period.
Low-amplitude and long-period radial velocity variations in giants HD 3574, 63 Cygni, and HD 216946

Aims. We study the low-amplitude and long-period variations in evolved stars using precise radial velocity measurements. Methods. The high-resolution, fiber-fed Bohyunsan Observatory Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) was used from September 2004 to May 2014 as part of the exoplanet search program at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO). Results. We report the detection of low-amplitude and long-period orbital radial velocity variations in three evolved stars, HD 3574, 63 Cyg, and HD 216946. They have periods of 1061, 982, and 1382 days and semi-amplitudes of 376, 742, and 699 m s −1 , respectively.