Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Decomposition of sources of errors in seasonal streamflow forecasting over the U.S. Sunbelt

Seasonal streamflow forecasts, contingent on climate information, can be utilized to ensure water supply for multiple uses including municipal demands, hydroelectric power generation, and for planning agricultural operations. However, uncertainties in the streamflow forecasts pose significant challenges in their utilization in real‐time operations. In this study, we systematically decompose various sources of errors in developing seasonal streamflow forecasts from two Land Surface Models (LSMs) (Noah3.2 and CLM2), which are forced with downscaled and disaggregated climate forecasts. In particular, the study quantifies the relative contributions of the sources of errors from LSMs, climate forecasts, and downscaling/disaggregation techniques in developing seasonal streamflow forecast. For this purpose, three month ahead seasonal precipitation forecasts from the ECHAM4.5 general circulation model (GCM) were statistically downscaled from 2.8° to 1/8° spatial resolution using principal component regression (PCR) and then temporally disaggregated from monthly to daily time step using kernel‐nearest neighbor (K‐NN) approach. For other climatic forcings, excluding precipitation, we considered the North American Land Data Assimilation System version 2 (NLDAS‐2) hourly climatology over the years 1979 to 2010. Then the selected LSMs were forced with precipitation forecasts and NLDAS‐2 hourly climatology to develop retrospective seasonal streamflow forecasts over a period of 20 years (1991–2010). Finally, the performance of LSMs in forecasting streamflow under different schemes was analyzed to quantify the relative contribution of various sources of errors in developing seasonal streamflow forecast. Our results indicate that the most dominant source of errors during winter and fall seasons is the errors due to ECHAM4.5 precipitation forecasts, while temporal disaggregation scheme contributes to maximum errors during summer season.
Hunting the Sterile Neutrino A search for sterile neutrinos with the IceCube detector

N eutrinos only interact with matter through the feeblest of forces, the weak nuclear force and gravity, yet they play critical roles in an incredible range of phenomena. They influenced the formation of the early Universe and may be the reason why matter came to dominate over antimatter shortly after the big bang. They are also integral to the inner workings of stars, including during their explosive demise as a supernova. Moreover, neutrinos are practically everywhere: even a single banana emits a million neutrinos a day from the unstable potassium isotopes it contains.
of Neurotherapy : Investigations in Neuromodulation , Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience Selected E-ISNR 2004 Conference Presentation Abstracts

THIS OPEN-ACCESS CONTENT MADE POSSIBLE BY THESE GENEROUS SPONSORS To cite this article: Silvana Galderisi , Armida Mucci , Umberto Volpe , Lucio Vacca , Paola Bucci , Mario Maj , John Gruzelier PhD , Jochen Kaiser , Niels Birbaumer , Dietrich Lehmann & Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui PhD (2005) Selected E-ISNR 2004 Conference Presentation Abstracts, Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience, 9:1, 103-108, DOI: 10.1300/J184v09n01_12
PREDICTION OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS , USING METAHEURISTIC MODELS

Ahmadreza Ghasemi Assistant Professor, Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Iran. e-mail: ghasemiahmad@ut.ac. ir Mohsen Seyghali Assistant Professor, Financial Management, Faculty of Financial Management, University of Tehran, Iran, e-mail: seighali@ut.ac. ir Maryam Moradi MSc. in Business Management Financial, Ershad Damavand University, Tehran, Iran, e-mail: maryam.morady1369@yahoo.com
Nitric oxide vs Sildenafil for pulmonary artery reactivity testing in heart transplantation candidates

In idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) nitric oxide (NO) is an agent of choice for pulmonary artery (PA) reactivity testing. Contrary, currently there is no standardized protocol for PA reactivity testing in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with left heart disease and several vasodilator agents are suggested for this procedure. We aimed to assess whether standard protocol of PA reactivity testing used in IPAH is useful in patients with severe PH due to severe systolic dysfunction of a left ventricle. During right heart catheterization we assessed hemodynamic parameters in 14 patients at baseline, during NO inhalation and 30 minutes after oral administration of sildenafi l. We observed a significant decrease in PA pressure and resistance, and increase in cardiac index after sildenafil but not after NO administration. We conclude that standard protocol for PA reactivity in IPAH is not useful in patients with PH due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. JRCD 2012; 1: 7–9
Outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in high-risk prostate cancer patients: experience in 34 patients with oncologic and functional outcomes

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Academic Service Climate as a Source of Competitive Advantage: Leverage for University Administrators.

The psychological climate literature examines links between facets if climate, such as service orientation and a range if individual and organisational outcomes including work attitudes and performance. This study investigated the relationship between the service climate if an Australian university and outcomes important to its' key stakeholders. A measure if service climate was developed for use in an academic setting, and the reliability and criterion validity examined. Questionnaire data were collected from 340 staff and 1196 students. Results showed the measure if academic service climate to be internally consistent and strongly associated with employee work attitudes, and student evaluations. Implications for academic administrators are discussed.
A Sampling-based Approach to GPGPU Performance Auto-tuning

A Sampling-Based Approach to GPGPU Performance Auto-tuning Cheng Xiang Wilson Feng Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2017 We present a novel strategy for automatic performance tuning of GPU programs. The strategy combines heuristic search with regression trees, a machine learning model, to prune the optimization space. It samples configurations in the space as training data for a regression tree. It then focuses the search on the tree region with the best mean sample performance. Additional regression trees are built using the cumulative samples collected. This process is repeated until the given time budget is exhausted. We implement our strategy in OpenTuner, an open source automatic tuning framework. We evaluate the strategy using 8 benchmark GPU programs run on an Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU. We compare the effectiveness of our strategy in obtaining good performing configurations against the state-of-the-art AUC-Bandit strategy used by OpenTuner. Experimental results show that our strategy is more consistently able to obtain better performing configurations compared to OpenTuner’s strategy, by up to 34% averaged over 100 auto-tuning experiments.
Link-Based Web Analysis : PageRank and HITS Algorithms

T he Web has plenty of useful resources, but its dynamic, unstructured nature makes them difficult to locate. Search engines help, but the number of Web pages now exceeds two billion, making it difficult for generalpurpose engines to maintain comprehensive, up-todate search indexes. Moreover, as the Web grows ever larger, so does information overload in query results. A general-purpose search engine, such as Google (www.google.com) or AltaVista (www. altavista.com), usually generates thousands of hits, many of them irrelevant to the user query. Vertical search engines solve part of the problem by keeping indexes only in specific domains. Examples include LawCrawler (www.lawcrawler. com), BuildingOnline (www.buildingonline.com), and SciSeek (www.sciseek.com). However, these engines still face the challenge of collecting a set of relevant, high-quality pages from the two billion available on the Web. Further, the demand for high-quality pages is generally—and sometimes critically—more important in vertical search engines. Spiders are the software agents that search engines use to collect content for their databases. We investigated algorithms to improve the performance of vertical search engine spiders. The investigation addressed three approaches: a breadth-first graph-traversal algorithm with no heuristics to refine the search process, a best-first traversal algorithm that used a hyperlink-analysis heuristic, and a spreading-activation algorithm based on modeling the Web as a neural network. INTELLIGENT SPIDERING Most spiders use simple graph search algorithms, such as breadth-first search, to collect Web pages. Without controls, the spiders will fetch pages for any topic. There are two popular ways to control the fetch relevance and quality:
Interactive comment on “ Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century : Shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance ” by Chaoqun Lu and Hanqin

1. Both products achieve the same global resolution (0.5 x 0.5 degrees over global land areas) for approximately similar time periods (1961 to 2010 in one case, 1961 to 2013 in the other case). Both report total synthetic N applied as chemical fertiliser. One elaborates NO3 and NH4 components of the total N, the other adds total P. One starts from country self-reported fertilizer use statistics (from FAO) while the other starts from industry reported fertiliser consumption records (IFA). Both use identical third party crop
Role of Environmental Analysis in Managing Knowledge in Small-and-Medium Sized Enterprises

Effectively managing knowledge has become a vital weapon for businesses to survive or to succeed in the increasingly competitive market. But do they perform environmental analysis when managing knowledge? If yes, how is the level and significance? This paper established a conceptual framework covering the basic knowledge management activities (KMA) to examine their contribution towards organizational performance (OP). Environmental analysis (EA) was then investigated from both internal and external aspects, to identify its effects on that contribution. Data was collected from 400 Chinese SMEs by questionnaires. Cronbach's α and factor analysis were conducted. Regression results show that the external analysis presents higher level than internal analysis. However, the internal analysis mediates the effects of external analysis on the KMA-OP relation and plays a more significant role in the relation comparing with the external analysis. Thus, firms shall improve environmental analysis especially the internal analysis to enhance their KM practices.
A Signal Strength Fluctuation Prediction Model Based on the Random Forest Algorithm

This article describes the effect of the weather on radio wave propagation in a mobile telecommunication network. The research is focused on urban and countryside environments where a correlation between the received signal power level and weather conditions is found using the Random Forest algorithm as a signal level approximator. The results achieved in this paper clearly indicate that it is possible to predict the behaviour of the received power level in relationship to atmospheric phenomena. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.eee. 20.5. 7112
Scavenger receptor, class B, type I mediates the uptake and degradation of beta-VLDL particles in tissue culture

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war, die Rolle von SR-BI im Stoffwechsel von s-VLDL zu untersuchen. Da SR-BI kurzlich mit s-VLDL Aufnahme in Verbindung gebracht wurde (Van Eck et al., 2007), war es von Interesse, die Wichtigkeit und Merkmale dieses Prozesses zu analysieren. Die Verwendung von zwei verschiedenen Zellsystemen, LDL-Rezeptor positive HepG2 and CHO Zellen und LDL-Rezeptor negative ldlA7 und ldlA7-SRBI Zellen, erlaubte eine Bewertung des Einflusses von SR-BI und des LDL-Rezeptors im Metabolismus von s-VLDL. Die Experimente zeigten, dass die Mehrheit des assoziierten s-VLDL von den Zellen aufgenommen wurde und dass die internalisierten Partikel nicht wieder von der Zelle abgegeben werden, was auf eine „Holopartikel“-Aufnahme hindeutet. Wir haben weiters herausgefunden, dass SR-BI Uberexpression zu einer ~ 2-fach hoheren s-VLDL Zellassoziation fuhrt. Die hohere s-VLDL Assoziation in CHO Zellen verglichen mit ldlA7-SRBI Zellen untermauert die verhaltnismasige Wichtigkeit des LDL-Rezeptors. Diese wird bestatigt durch die Ergebnisse von SR-BI knockdown in HepG2 Zellen, welcher die s-VLDL Assoziation nicht beeintrachtigt hat. Vorherige Studien entsprechen diesen Ergebnissen bezuglich der Wichtigkeit des LDL-Rezeptors im s-VLDL Metabolismus. s-VLDL wurde von den Zellen umgesetzt, was anhand des Anstiegs des zellularen Fettgehaltes (Cholesterin, Cholesterol Ester und Triglyceride) nach s-VLDL Zufuhr gezeigt wurde. Die Abbaurate des Partikels war gering, aber messbar, was mit fruheren Ergebnissen in Makrophagen ubereinstimmt. Zusammenfassend kann gesagt werden, dass SR-BI die Bindung, Aufnahme und den Abbau von s-VLDL in Zellkultursystemen vermittelt. Dennoch scheint SR-BI eine untergeordnete Funktion zu ubernehmen, da der LDL-Rezeptor eine entscheidende Rolle im Metabolismus von s-VLDL spielt, die aber an Wichtigkeit gewinnen konnte indem er beeintrachtigte pathways kompensiert.
New localization method of U(1) gauge vector field on flat branes in (asymptotic) AdS5 spacetime

It is well known that the U ( 1 ) ? > gauge vector field, with standard five-dimensional (5D) action, cannot be localized on Randall–Sundrum-like braneworlds with an infinite extra dimension. In this paper, we propose a modified 5D action to localize the U ( 1 ) ? > gauge vector field on flat branes with an infinite or finite extra dimension. The localization method is realized by adding a dynamical mass term into the standard 5D action of the vector field, which is proportional to the 5D scalar curvature. It is shown that the vector zero mode is localizable if the 5D spacetime is (asymptotic) AdS5. Moreover, the massive tachyonic modes can be excluded.
Screening of Cyanobacteria from Black Cotton Soil and Evaluate their Potential to Survive under Wet and Dry Condition for Biofertilizer Production

A Cyanobacterium is only oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria having nitrogen fixing ability. Therefore, it is used as biofertilizer in agriculture and grassland fields for improvement of soil fertility. Cyanobacterial strains were isolated from Black Cotton soil by serial dilution method and used to screen out best strain to survive in wet and dry conditions in laboratory. These strains were isolate from agriculture and grasslands soil on the basis of filamentous thalli and presence of heterocyst. Three isolates i.e. DR1, DR2 and NB1 were selected out of six isolates. DR1 and DR2 was heterocystous filament while NB1 was only filamentous strain. Maximum carbon, nitrogen and protein were increased by DR1 and DR2 than NB1 but amount of nitrogen was increased by NB1 was very low in both wet and dry conditions. Results showed that in 60-80% moisture, cyanobacterial strains were well grown and increased amount of carbon, nitrogen and protein. These BGA strains will be used for biofertilizer preparation to improve soil fertility of agriculture
A 3D Face Model For Driving An Automobile

This paper proposes an inexpensive vision-based system to exactly identify Eyes Off target (EOR). The device has three primary components: 1) robust facial feature monitoring 2) mind pose and gaze estimation and 3) 3-D geometric reasoning to recognize EOR. Within the video stream from the camera put on the controls column, our physiques tracks facial features within the driver’s face. While using the supervised landmarks plus a 3-D face model, the device computes mind pose and gaze direction. Distracted driving is probably the primary causes of vehicle collisions within the United States. States. Passively monitoring a driver’s activities comprises the building blocks from the automobile safety system that could potentially reduce the quantity of accidents by estimating the driver’s focus of attention. Your brain pose estimation formula is robust to no rigid face deformations due to modifications in expressions. Finally, employing a 3-D geometric analysis, the device reliably detects EOR. The recommended system does not need any driver-dependent calibration or manual initialization and works instantly (25 FPS), during the day and night. Our physiques accomplished above 90% EOR precision for individuals examined situations. To validate the performance in the system in the real vehicle atmosphere, we transported out a comprehensive experimental evaluation under all types illumination conditions, facial expressions, and individuals.
Efficient in vitro regeneration of biodiesel plant Jatropha curcas .L

In the present investigation, in vitro propagation of Jatropha curcas L. was achieved employing nodal explants. Axillary shoot bud proliferation was best initiated on Murashige and Skoog's (MS) medium supplemented with 20 μM N6-benzyl- adenine (BA) and 50 μ M adenine sulphate, in which cultures produced 8.2 ± 0.56 shoots per nodal explant with 3.0 cm length after 3-5 weeks. The rate of shoot multiplication was significantly enhanced after transfer to MS medium supplemented with 2.5 μ M 6-furfuryl amino purine (Kn), 0.5 μ M indole- 3-butyric acid (IBA) and 25 μ M adenine sulphate for 4 weeks. Internode explant segments of Jatropha curcas plants responded in vitro and formed callus tissue when cultured on Murashige-Skoog (MS) full strength nutrient medium supplemented with 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D - 4 mg/L) and N6-Benzyl adenine (BA- 4 mg/L). The internode-derived callus tissues were found non-embryogenic and hence did not regenerate into shoot and root, respectively. The internode segments when cultured on MS (full strength) media supplemented with BA - 5 mg/L) were found to grow forming two to three buds. However, these shooting explants did not form roots upon hormonal regulation. On the contrary, endosperm tissue cultured on full strength MS media supplemented with 3 mg/L BA and 1 mg/L Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) along with activated charcoal (100 mg/L) and ascorbic acid (50 mg/L) yielded simultaneous shooting and rooting response after four weeks of incubation.
Comparison of Large Surfaces from Scanned 3-D Objects

Registration of three-dimensional objects has vast applications in many areas of science. This research is linked to the international PRESIOUS project, concerning measurement of erosion effects on cultural heritage objects. The data in question is several magnitudes larger than found in research so far, often reaching several hundred million points. This thesis presents a novel approach to registration of such large data sets by co-dividing the sets into corresponding parts and registering them locally. The same division algorithm can be used to precisely measure the distance between the data sets. We test experimentally how the local registration results can be used to obtain an optimal global transformation for the entire data set.
Wheat Protein Disulfide Isomerase (PDI) Promoter Sequence Analysis in Triticum aestivum cv Chinese Spring and its Wild Relatives

Protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) is an oxidoreductase enzyme abundant in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Plant PDIs has been shown to be involved in the folding and deposition of seed storage proteins, which makes this enzyme particularly interesting in wheat, as flour quality is strongly affected by composition and structure of seed storage proteins. Promoter sequences of three homoeologous genes encoding typical PDI, located on chromosome group four of bread wheat, and PDI promoter sequence analysis of Triticum urartu, Aegilops speltoides and Aegilops tauschii had also been reported previously. In this study, we report the isolation, cloning and sequencing of a ~1450 bp region, comprising ~1350 bp of the putative promoter region and 88 bp of the first exon of the typical PDI gene, from Triticum urartu (AA), Aegilops speltoides (BB) and Aegilops tauschii (DD). Sequence analysis indicated close similarity was found within each species and with the corresponding homoeologous PDI sequences of Triticum aestivum cv. CS (AABBDD) resulting in an overall high conservation of the sequence in proximal region then distal region of promoter conferring endosperm-specific expression.
Dynamics and bacterial colonization of microaggregates in a large mesotrophic lake

We studied the occurrence and dynamics of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and 4'-6'-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI)-stained microaggregates (MA) and the bacterial colonization of the latter by fluorescence in situ hybridization with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides in Lake Constance, Germany, from June to December 1996. MA were categorized into the size classes 8 to 20, 20 to 60 and >60 µm. Total abundance of TEP varied between 71 and 2554 ml -1 and that of MA between 310 and 1526 ml -1 with the largest proportion in the size class 8 to 20 µm (140 to 959 ml -1 ). Numbers of TEP and of MA >60 µm, never exceeding 100 ml -1 , decreased with depth and were cor- related to the biomass of total phytoplankton, diatoms, chrysophytes and dinoflagellates. Numbers of the smaller-sized MA did not systematically decrease with depth. Four types of DAPI-stained MA were identified: aggregates composed of bacterial and of cyanobacterial colonies, aggregates fluo- rescing yellow (DAPI yellow particles), and phytoplankton and zooplankton fragments fluorescing faintly blue after DAPI staining. The latter and DAPI yellow particles were most abundant. The majority of MA was densely colonized by bacteria. At least 20% of the DAPI-stainable cells were detected by the Bacteria-specific probe EUB338 and a mean between 44 and 56% of the various types of MA. β-Proteobacteria dominated aggregates composed of remains of diatoms and often also on fragments. On DAPI yellow particles bacteria of this phylogenetic lineage and the Cytophaga/Flavobacteria cluster were equally abundant. γ-Proteobacteria usually constituted only minor proportions except on fragments of Dinobryon spp. and of zooplankton origin on which they constituted up to 62% of the DAPI-stainable cells. α -Proteobacteria were not detected at all. Together, all group-specific probes constituted >95% of the bacteria detected by the EUB338 probe on MA except for bacterial aggregates on which only 59% were detected. The different spatio-tem- poral dynamics of TEP and MA and the bacterial colonization of the latter suggested that TEP and MA > 60 µm were early decomposition products mainly of diatoms and other algae whereas smaller MA were more degraded stages of detrital particulate organic matter.