Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factorial Composition of the Self-efficacy Problem Solving and Communication Scale in Mexican University Students

The present study aims to investigate whether the psychometric results proposed by [1] for the Self-efficacy Problem Solving and Communication Scale replicate. The total sample was of 2059 subjects; 891 women and 1168 men, students of the degrees offered at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, with an mean age of 18.21 years (SD = 0.74). The factorial structure of the questionnaire was analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis. The analysis shows that a two-factor structure is feasible and appropriate. The two-factor structure (problem solving and scientific communication), based on statistical and substantive criteria, has shown adequate fit indicators of reliability and validity. Furthermore, the results of the factor analysis conducted with subsamples, indicate the existence of strong evidence of the stability of the factor structure. Future research should replicate these findings in larger samples.
Synthesize and characterization of hollow boron-nitride nanocages

The boron-nitride (BN) nanocages are synthesized by nitrogenation of amorphous boron nanoparticles at 1073 K under nitrogen and ammonia atmosphere. The BN nanocages exhibit a well-crystallized feature with nearly pentagonal or spherical shape, depending on their size. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy studies reveal that they are hollow nanocages. The growth mechanism of the BN nanocages is proposed.
Effect of microclimatic variables on physiological and hematological parameters of crossbred cows in summer season

The present investigation was conducted to study the effect of climatic variables on physiological responses and haematological parameters of crossbred cows in summer season. In this study 16 crossbred cows were selected and randomly divided into two groups (G1 and G2). Cows of control group were housed in shed with sprinkler, whereas the cows of treatment group were housed in shed with fogger plus fans and mosquito net. Data on various physiological and haematological parameters were recorded and analysed statistically. Analysis revealed that, the maximum temperature and THI were significantly (P<0.05) lower in treatment shed as compared to control shed. Significantly (P<0.05) higher dry matter intake and milk yield in treatment (13.64±0.44 and 18.18±0.36 kg) as compared to control group (12.33±0.37 and 15.94±0.47 kg) were recorded during peak hot period. Rectal temperature, respiration rate and pulse rate was significantly (P<0.05) lower in treatment (38.28±0.05, 36.42±2.98 and 78.65±1.09 °C) as compared to control group (38.57±0.14, 51.15±4.34 and 83.59±0.83 °C). However, haemoglobin concentration (g/dl) and white blood corpuscles (103/cmm) was significantly (P<0.05) higher in treatment (10.54±0.36 and 12.35±0.64) as copared to control group (9.52±0.43 and10.88±0.57). Therefore, it can be concluded that fogger with fans is the fundamental mean to protect the animals from thermal stress under loose housing during summer season.
INCOME OVER FEED COST FOR SMALL- TO MEDIUM-SCALE BEEF CATTLE FATTENING OPERATIONS IN EAST JAVA

An evaluation was conducted of the returns to fattening cattle of small- and medium-scale enterprises in East Java. The objective was to analyze income over feed costs (IOFC) based on locally available feedstuffs to increase liveweight gain. The study was conducted during July-September 2010 and January-March 2011, representing relative dry and wet season. The breeds were PO and Limousin and Simmental crossed with PO (LimPO and SimPO). Small-scale farmers owning 1-2 bulls and medium-scale farmers fattening 10-20 bulls in one period. Fattening period was 58 and 46 days, respectively for dry and wet season. Monthly measurements included liveweight, feed intake, input and output prices. Mean values of growth rates and IOFC were compared using t-tests. The results indicated that, for small-scale operations, SimPO bulls gave a significantly higher return than either PO or LimPO bulls. Likewise, LimPO gave a higher IOFC than SimPO in medium-scale operations. Small-scale farmers achieved equal or higher IOFC for European-cross than medium-scale farmers in both seasons. This reflects that cash outlays for feed were about two-thirds that of medium-scale operations while daily growth rates were similar. Small-scale fattening operations using European-cross can be financially competitive with medium-scale operations in both wet and dry seasons.
Characterisation of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368 oxidative stress-resistant mutants: involvement of a potential Rgg-like transcriptional regulator

Caracterisation de mutants resistants au stress oxydant chez Streptococcus thermophilus CNZR368: implication d'un regulateur transcriptionnel putatif de type Rgg. Huit mutants de Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368, presentant un phenotype de resistance a la menadione ont ete selectionnes et le locus mute a ete identifie pour chacun d'eux. Parmi ces clones, 5 sont interrompus dans un gene de fonction inconnue, 2 sont mutes dans des genes impliques dans le metabolisme cellulaire et un autre (15H7) est interrompu dans le gene rgg codant potentiellement un regulateur transcriptionnel. Afin de determiner si rgg est un regulateur majeur de la defense contre le stress superoxyde le mutant 15H7 a ete plus amplement etudie. Les resultats de notre travail indiquent que le gene rgg, mute dans le genome de 15H7, est un pseudogene compose de deux ORF (rggA and rggB) potentiellement traduites dans deux phases de lecture differentes. De plus, l'analyse transcriptionelle demontre l'existence d'un transcrit englobant rggA, rggB et orf2. La construction des mutants ΔrggA, ΔrggB et orf2 ainsi que l'analyse de leur phenotype confirme l'implication de rggA et rggB dans la reponse contre le stress oxydant. La question concernant le role du pseudogene rgg est toujours ouverte.
Fundamentals of Music Perception in the Human Brain: Insight from Electrophysiological Recordings

Music perception has fascinated neuroscientists and psychologists for over a century. Ever since the advent of neuroimaging techniques in the second half of the 20th century, the scientific community has benefitted from a wealth of research studying the cortical mechanisms that facilitate one of the basic forms of human cognition. While hemodynamic techniques and lesion studies provide insight to the cortical structures implicated in distinct aspects of music perception, non-invasive electrophysiological equipment provides the temporal resolution necessary to track the processing of music. However, observations are usually constrained to either the spatial or temporal domain due to the limitations of each experimental method. As a result, the combined spatial and temporal dynamics of both sensory and cognitive processing of musical stimuli remain largely unknown. Intracranial recordings in neurosurgical patients have high spatial and temporal resolution, thereby providing a means to investigate some of the many unanswered questions in the music neuroscience literature. As few music perception studies to date have tapped on this valuable resource, this dissertation provides one of the first attempts at utilizing both electrocorticography (ECoG) and EEG to understand the fine-grained cortical dynamics of auditory stimulus processing and music perception at the fundamental level. Specifically, the studies reveal that: 1) the superior temporal gyrus exhibits differential processing of consonance and dissonance at a spatial resolution of 1cm; 2) the ventral temporal cortex, conventionally involved in visual recognition and categorization, exhibits neural representations of auditory target identification; 3) selective attention to either pitch direction changes or the consonant/dissonant properties of musical chords implicates a wide range of cortical networks that scale with task complexity.
A Novel WL-Integrated Low-Insertion-Loss Filter with Suspended High-Q Spiral Inductor and Patterned Ground Shields

A novel wafer level integrated low-insertion-loss filter working at 1.8 GHz (DCS LPF) with suspended inductors and patterned ground shields on the lossy silicon substrate is fabricated. Thick BCB interlayer is used as the supporting dielectric, and the backside cavity on Si wafer is formed by using a two-step back-etching process. The influence of patterned ground shields on the Q factor of the suspended inductors and the influence of low-resistivity silicon on the insertion loss of filters are analyzed by EM simulation. The fabricated 2.7 nH inductor has a maximum Q factor of 49 at 8.2 GHz and high Q factors more than 22 in the broadband frequency range from 1 GHz to 10 GHz. And the realized LPF in DCS band has the insertion loss of 0.35 dB and return loss of more than 15.5 dB at the pass band, with the second harmonic rejection being 23 dB and the third harmonic rejection being 38 dB respectively.
Upper mantle anisotropy from teleseismic SKS splitting beneath Lützow-Holm Bay Region, East Antarctica

5 Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center (NIED), 1-5-2 Wakinohama-Kaigandori, Chuo, Kobe, 651-0073, Japan (negishi@bosai.go.jp) Abstract Investigations of SKS wave splitting of teleseismic events from digital seismographs recorded at eight stations around the Lutzow-Holm Bay Region have lead to understanding the evolution of the Antarctic Plate. The observed delay times of SKS splitting are up to 1.3 s, which are generally equal to the global average. A two-layer model reveals that the lower layer anisotropy is caused by the recent asthenospheric flow, as compared with the Absolute Plate Motion by the HS3-NUVEL1 model. The upper layer anisotropy corresponds well to polarization of NE-SW convergence direction between East and West Gondwana in Pan-African age. We suggest that the upper layer anisotropy was formed during Pan-African orogeny and was possibly influenced by the preexisting structure during Gondwana break-up. The origin of anisotropy is the Lattice Preferred Orientation of olivine which was caused by both paleo-tectonic events and the recent asthenospheric flow.
On the role of the Kerr-Newman black hole in the GeV emission of long gamma-ray bursts

X-ray Flashes (XRFs), binary-driven hypernovae (BdHNe) are long GRB subclasses with progenitor a CO$_{\rm core}$, undergoing a supernova (SN) explosion and hypercritically accreting in a tight binary system onto a companion neutron star (NS) or black hole (BH). In XRFs the NS does not reach by accretion the critical mass and no BH is formed. In BdHNe I, with shorter binary periods, the NS gravitationally collapses and leads to a new born BH. In BdHNe II the accretion on an already formed BH leads to a more massive BH. We assume that the GeV emission observed by \textit{Fermi}-LAT originates from the rotational energy of the BH. Consequently, we verify that, as expected, in XRFs no GeV emission is observed. In $16$ BdHNe I and $5$ BdHNe II, within the boresight angle of LAT, the integrated GeV emission allows to estimate the initial mass and spin of the BH. In the remaining $27$ sources in the plane of the binary system no GeV emission occurs, hampered by the presence of the HN ejecta. From the ratio, $21/48$, we infer a new asymmetric morphology for the BdHNe reminiscent of the one observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN): the GeV emission occurs within a cone of half-opening angle $\approx 60^{\circ}$ from the normal to the orbital plane of the binary progenitor. The transparency condition requires a Lorentz factor $\Gamma \sim 1500$ on the source of GeV emission. The GeV luminosity in the rest-frame of the source follows a universal power-law with index of $-1.20 \pm 0.04$, allowing to estimate the spin-down rate of the BH
Kalman Filtering in the Theory of Gyroscopic Systems

The substitution of equations of motion of gyroscopic systems for the so-called precessional equations is commonly used in mechanics. This procedure gives, in many cases, favorably compatible with the experiment results. This approach was justified with the help of the method of integral manifolds. But this very method reveals that the use of precessional equations instead of original ones within calculating the filtering error may lead to a intolerable error if the motion is performed by the action of random forces of the Gaussian white noise type. This conclusion is ascertained by the example analyzing the flow of the plane gyroscopic pendulum on the moving foundation.
The Effects of Trade on Unemployment: Evidence from 20 OECD countries

This study empirically investigates if international trade has an impact on aggregate unemployment in the presence of labour market institutions. Using data for twenty OECD countries for the years 1961-2008, this study finds that an increase in trade leads to higher aggregate unemployment as it interacts with rigid labour market institutions, whereas it may reduce aggregate unemployment if the labour market is characterised by flexibility. In a country with the average degree of the labour market rigidities, an increase in trade has no significant effect on unemployment rates.
Studies on the physicochemical characteristics of the sandwich spread at ambient temperature in view with its stability

Pork sandwich spread is a convenience meat product which constitutes with various standardized additional ingredients like honey, vitamin – C and nisin with their respective role during the physicochemical storage study. The study is focused to standardize the formulation of spread which should make it stable at ambient temperature (25± 1 °C). Results of ANOVA revealed non significant effect (P≤0.05) of the nisin treated pork sandwich spread up to 5 day storage. The pH values ranged from 5.5 to 5.6. Results of ANOVA revealed a highly significant difference (P≤0.01) in TBA values between the days of storage.
04 Addison-Smyth article_ESRI Vol 41-2

The speed and severity of the decline in the Irish fiscal position in recent years raises a number of important issues regarding the assessment of fiscal policy within the EU. From a position of relative strength, with large surpluses and a low debt to GDP ratio, the Irish public finances have rapidly deteriorated, culminating in an Excessive Deficit Procedure being launched in early 2009. In hindsight, it is evident that tax revenues were on an unsustainable path in recent years due, in large part, to structural imbalances within the economy, mainly associated with the housing market. The excess growth in the latter culminated in large and transitory tax revenue windfalls, which ultimately proved unsustainable. These windfalls contributed to large general government and cyclically adjusted budget surpluses. This paper seeks to quantify the windfall gains associated with property taxes through modelling housing related tax receipts over the period 2002 to 2009. From this, estimates are derived as to the underlying or property adjusted fiscal position, which is found in various years, to have diverged greatly from actual outturns.
AS PROTECTIVE FOR CHILDRENEXPOSED TO VIOLENCE : EXPLORING UNDERLYING MECHANISMS

SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS AS PROTECTIVE FOR CHILDRENEXPOSED TO VIOLENCE: EXPLORING UNDERLYING MECHANISMS Jessica L Houston, M.S. Marquette University, 2016 The present study examined supportive relationships with parents, teachers, peers, and neighbors as protective for youths exposed to violence. To explore how support promotes resilience, four potential mediators were examined: secure attachment, adaptive coping, processing traumatic experiences with a supportive person (parent, teacher, friend, or community adult), and an optimistic outlook on life. An at-risk sample of 107 students (71% male) aged 8-19 years (M=15) who were predominantly African American completed measures of violence exposure, social support, attachment security, coping ability, trauma-processing, and optimism. Resilience was assessed with multiple measures that included self-esteem, competence in several domains (social, scholastic, athletic, and creative), and lower levels of externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Together, social support from parents, teachers, peers, and neighbors accounted for significant variance in resilience. Additionally, attachment security, processing trauma with a parent, processing trauma with a friend, adaptive coping, and optimism significantly predicted resilience. Of the four mediators that were examined, processing trauma with a parent and having a more optimistic outlook mediated the relationship between social support and resilience. These results highlight seeking out a parent to process a traumatic or stressful life event and having a positive outlook as a first step in understanding how supportive others can help promote adaptive functioning in youths exposed to violence.
Exploring the BOFFFF hypothesis using a model of Southern African deepwater hake (Merluccius paradoxus)

The Big Old Fat Fecund Female Fish (BOFFFF) hypothesis is explored quantitatively using an age-structured stock production model in which the usual stock:recruit relationship is replaced by a three-stage recruitment process based on maternal age. The recruitment process is decomposed into three age-dependent stages: 1) number of eggs spawned per batch per female, 2) number of batches spawned per year (related to the length of the spawning season), 3) increased survival of young stages with maternal age. The first two stages together give the stock recruitment potential and can be well justified by experimental observation in many fish species. The third stage is affected by both maternal age and also environmental conditions. The results indicate that the number of batches spawned per year is the most important component. They also indicate that a few old fish potentially contribute many times more recruits to the population than many younger fish. It is argued that the concept of spawner stock biomass (which is heavily weighted by the large numbers of young first time spawners, especially in heavily exploited populations) should be replaced by the concept of stock recruitment potential, which takes the age-structure of the population in to account. The conclusion is that for many long-lived fish populations such as hake and cod, management should aim to maintain the age-structure of the population, rather than encouraging, or even targeting, exploitation of large, old fish.
The Impact of Motivation, Processing Difficulty and Cognitive Resources on the Use of Base-Rates in Social Judgment

Title of Document: THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION, PROCESSING DIFFICULTY AND COGNITIVE RESOURCES ON THE USE OF BASE-RATES IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT Shira F. Fishman, M.A. 2005 Directed By: Distinguished University Professor, Arie W. Kruglanski, Department of Psychology This study explores the impact of motivation, cognitive resources and difficulty of processing on social judgment. We hypothesized and found all three variables influence the type of information used to render judgment. Only when the information was easy to process, cognitive resources were ample and motivation was high were subjects able to use difficult information as a basis for their judgment. Furthermore, contrary to the common notion that statistical information tends to be utilized when resources are high, we were able to show that subjects relied on statistical information when their motivation was low, the information was difficult to process and/or cognitive resources were limited. These results add to the growing body of evidence attesting that the contents of information as such do not affect the likelihood of their being made use of in judgment. Both base-rates and representativeness (“heuristic”) information seem to be used in accordance with their subjective relevance – when such relevance is discerned given that the individuals’ resources are sufficient to cope with the difficult posed by the cognitive task at hand. THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION, PROCESSING DIFFICULTY AND COGNITIVE RESOURCES ON THE USE OF BASE-RATES IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT
Measurement Models for Event Data

Event data, the sequences of dated categorised events between identifiable actors typically harvested from newswire, are a vital source of information about interacting political actors (Quarterly, 1983; Schrodt and Gerner, 2001; Schrodt, 2012). They offer a finer time scale and greater actor and spatial specificity than perhaps any other systematic data source. From a statistical perspective they are also undeniably awkward (see Schrodt, 1994, for useful discussion).
Drought occurrence and its impact on olive production and cereals in Tunisia

This study addresses the impact of drought events on olive production and cereals, particularly durum wheat in Tunisia. In the case of olive production, during three decades since the seventies the frequencies of wet, normal and dry years were calculated for several locations in central and southern Tunisia according to a five levels scale. The same trend was observed for all the studied locations (8) with an increase of dry and particularly extremely dry years. Dry episodes were identified. According to locations specificities and vulnerability it was accepted that a sequence of one dry spring and one dry autumn could be qualified as drought. After identification of drought episodes, their impacts on olive production were assessed. During the last drought episode (1999-2002), the decrease of olive production was more than 90% affecting farmers' income. In the case of cereals, a comparative analysis of durum wheat vulnerability to the drought phenomena in rainfed areas is underta ken in three bioclimatic stages, through an assessment of the output and farmers' income variability between normal and dry years, as identified through the standardized precipitation index. Durum wheat is revealed to be vulnerable, especially in the semi-arid stage, and has a negative impact on farm's budget. Expanding irrigated cereal areas would be an alternative and a promising practice to enhance and stabilize cereal production.
FULLY AUTOMATIC AFFINE REGISTRATION OF PLANAR PARAMETRIC CURVES

A new, fast and fully automatic algorithm for registration of 2D parametric curves is proposed in this paper. Two functionals, expressing difference between given curves are defined and minimized. The first one is based on difference in signed curvature of curves. Its optimization leads to optimal curve parametrization offset. The second one is based on distances between corresponding points and leads to optimal affine transformation parameters. Optimization of the parametrization offset is necessary in order to identify points correspondence of given curves. Numerical experiments on real data are presented and discussed.
Effect of Kombucha Tea on Aflatoxin B1 Induced Acute Hepatotoxicity in Albino Rats-prophylactic and Curative Studies

Kombucha tea is sugared black tea fermented with a consortium of bacteria and yeasts which forms tea fungus (Medusomyces gisevii) for 14 days. Kombucha tea is claimed to have various beneficial effects on human health but very less scientific evidences are available in the literature. In the present study, the prophylactic and curative effect of black tea (unfermented black tea) and kombucha black tea (KBT) on aflatoxin B1 induced liver damage was studied in male albino rats by analyzing hepatotoxicity markers (aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, gammaglutamyl transpeptidase), lipid peroxidation, reduced glutathione and antioxidant enzymes (glutathione-S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, catalase and superoxide dismutase). Histopathological analysis of liver tissue was also carried out. Results revealed that kombucha tea is more potent in preventing hepatotoxicity than unfermented black tea. The mechanism of hepatoprotection offered by KBT treatment may involve the facilitation of both antioxidant and detoxification processes in the liver.