Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotional Intelligence of Instructors and the Quality of Their Instructional Performance

Quality of instructional performance is the key skill needed for every teaching faculty for achieving the level of pedigree in the present educational scenario. However, the truth is that there are minimal studies to analyze the competency linking emotional intelligence to quality of instructional performance. Therefore the present attempt is to study the role of E.I. among University Instructors and analyze their quality of instructional performance. A sample of 110 Professors participated in the survey from different Universities in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain. Emotional Quotient Inventory scale was developed to measure the EQ of Instructors. Statistical technique like ‘t’ test and ANOVA was used to find the test mean difference between two groups and more than two groups. The result revealed that emotional intelligence and self-efficacy had very significant relationship towards their work attitude followed by their performance.
Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of all genera of Conopidae (Diptera) based on morphological data

All global genera of the fly family Conopidae are revised here. A cladistic analysis of 117 morphological characters recorded from 154 species, including representatives of 59 genera and subgenera, recovers a phylogenetic hypothesis for the family. This hypothesis is used as the basis of a new classification for the family. Both Sicini and Zodionini are removed from Myopinae and elevated to subfamilial status. A new tribe, Thecophorini, is proposed within Myopinae to accommodate Thecophora, Scatoccemyia, and Pseudoconops. Two genera, Pseudomyopa and Parazodion, are removed from Dalmanniinae and placed in Myopinae and Zodioninae, respectively. Conopinae is divided into 11 tribes, seven of which are newly described (Asiconopini, Caenoconopini, Gyroconopini, Microconopini, Neoconopini, and Siniconopini). Some examined species are transferred to different or new genera and subgenera. A new genus, Schedophysoconops gen. nov., and subgenus Asiconops (Aegloconops) subgen. nov. within Conopinae are described. A review of character evolution and phylogeography is included in light of the new classification. A catalogue of all genus-group names is included with new emendations noted.
"What is 'the Concept'?" Sites of Conceptual Formation in a Touring Architecture Workshop

Palmyre Pierroux Associate Professor, InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway. palmyre@intermedia.uio. no English abstract This article investigates the development of conceptual understanding in adolescents as a trajectory that spans physical and institutional boundaries. The study follows a group of secondary school students as they engage in a series of museum-led workshop activities related to architecture. A sociocultural approach frames our analysis of the structuring resources that are central to the students’ emergent understanding of a key architectural design concept over a two-day period.
THE ALIGNMENT OF SOIL’S CONDITIONS FOR PLANT’S DEVELOPMENT DURING MICROBIAL DESTRUCTION OF PLANT’S RESIDUES BY MICROBIAL PREPARATIONS

of the molecular-genetic analysis of soil microbial communities after the destruction of plant’s residues using three microbial preparations: Barkon, Bags and Omug. The preparation Barkon contains the consortium of bacteria and fungi; Bugs is a consortium of cellulolytic organisms, derived from biologically active soil; Omug is the microbial fertilizer obtained after biotechnological processing of poultry manure. The functional activity of microbial networks arising during the destruction of plant’s residues with using of microbial preparations was been studied using fractal analysis of molecular genetic data of microbial communities in soil. With using of the fractal analysis was been obtained the fractal taxonomic portrait of microbial communities and the index of the functional efficiency of microbial network formations, which were formed during destruction of plant’s residues. The first experiment showed that the using of preparations for the destruction of plant's residues leads to a gradual leveling of the soil’s conditions and to reducing of the variance of plant's heights, which were been grown on these soils. Without these preparations, the dispersion of plant's heights increases with each successive year. From this, it follows that these preparations may initiate the effective microbial networks that are able to save the energy resources and the nutrients distributing them evenly in the soil. The molecular- genetic data from second experiment confirmed that the functional efficiency of the microbial networks after using preparations significantly increases due to better organization of destructive processes. The results of this study suggest that the destruction of plant’s residues by using of the special preparations is a necessary and effective complement of the modern precision agro technologies. Thus, the microbial preparations for destruction plant's residues start processes which lead to the restoration of the required level of energy resources and nutrients in the soil, to the leveling of resources in soil's space, to the in- creasing the stability of yields and to the improving the quality of plant’s products.
The experiences of mothers who lost a baby during pregnancy

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of mothers who lost a baby during pregnancy and care given by doctors and midwives during this period. Opsomming Die doel van die studie was om die ervaring van moeders met betrekking tot die dood van ‘n baba tydens swangerskap te verken en te beskryf, asook die versorging wat hulle van vroedvroue en dokters gedurende die periode ontvang het. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.
Does the Index Futures Destabilize the Underlying Spot Market? SomeEvidence from Frensh Stock Exchange

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between the futures and the spot frensh market. It aims to contribute in the literature by controlling for possible disturbances in the long-run equilibrium relationship between these two markets. The univariate analysis indicates that the stock prices evolve according to two different regimes: a low volatility regime and a high volatility regime. Our contribution is to determine the dynamics of the relationship which exists between spot and futures markets using the Markov-switching model. This econometric technique provides empirical and graphic evidence allowing of whether and of how the introduction of a futures market changes the variability structure of stock prices in the underlying spot market, it allows precisely to demonstrate the variabilities regimes shifts and reveals if the variability changes transitory or permanently. Our evidence from Markov switching approach suggests that futures have influence on spot market during both calm and turbulent periods, and that the introduction of the index futures has an effect of stabilizer on the stock market.
Growth and evolution of satellites in a Jovian massive disc

The formation of satellite systems in circum-planetary discs is considered to be similar to the formation of rocky planets in a proto-planetary disc, especially Super-Earths. Thus, it is possible to use systems with large satellites to test formation theories that are also applicable to extrasolar planets. Furthermore, a better understanding of the origin of satellites might yield important information about the environment near the growing planet during the last stages of planet formation. In this work we investigate the formation and migration of the Jovian satellites through N-body simulations. We simulated a massive, static, low viscosity, circum-planetary disc in agreement with the minimum mass sub-nebula model prescriptions for its total mass. In hydrodynamic simulations we found no signs of gaps, therefore type II migration is not expected. Hence, we used analytic prescriptions for type I migration, eccentricity and inclination damping, and performed N-body simulations with damping forces added. Detailed parameter studies showed that the number of final satellites is strong influenced by the initial distribution of embryos, the disc temperature, and the initial gas density profile. For steeper initial density profiles it is possible to form systems with multiple satellites in resonance while a flatter profile favours the formation of satellites close to the region of the Galilean satellites. We show that the formation of massive satellites such as Ganymede and Callisto can be achieved for hotter discs with an aspect ratio of H/r ~ 0.15 for which the ice line was located around 30 R_J.
The relationship between circulating levels of IL-18 and leptin, HsCRP, blood pressure and cardiorespiratory function in obese and lean men

ABSTRACT Introduction: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a proinflammatory cytokine that is produced in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. The circulating levels of IL-18 increases in obesity and some metabolic and cardiorespiratory diseases. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between circulating levels of IL-18 and leptin, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (HsCRP), blood pressure and cardiovascular function in obese and lean men. Methods: In a descriptive-analytical study, 19 obese men (Body Mass Index (BMI)g30 kg/m2) and 19 lean men (BMIl18) were selected as subjects. After 12 hours of fasting, blood samples were collected and general characteristics of the subjects were measured. The Pearsonrs correlation coefficient at a significance level of P<0.01 was used to analyze the collected data. Correspondence: Fatah Moradi, PhD. Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Saghez Branch, Islamic Azad University. Saghez, Iran Tel:+98 9144823733 Email: moradifatah@yahoo.com Results: Serum IL-18 levels in obese men were directly correlated with BMI and body fat percentage (BFP), but no significant correlation was observed in lean men. IL-18 in obese and lean men was directly correlated with leptin and HsCRP. But, it was inversely correlated with cardiorespiratory function (VO2max). IL-18 levels in obese men were directly correlated with systolic blood pressure (SBP), but no significant correlation was found between IL-18 levels and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). No significant correlation was observed between IL-18 levels and SBP and DBP in lean men. Conclusion: It seems that changes in anthropometric characteristics, blood pressure, cardiorespiratory function and hormones such as leptin and HsCRP can be effective in IL-18 changes. These findings reveal the role of IL-18 in some inflammatory, metabolic (including diabetes and metabolic syndrome) and cardiovascular (hypertension pressure and atherosclerosis) disorders, especially in obese patients.
Performance Evaluation of Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Chicken Manure with Algal Digestate

Dilution is considered to be a fast and easily applicable pretreatment for anaerobic digestion (AD) of chicken manure (CM), however, dilution with fresh water is uneconomical because of the water consumption. The present investigation was targeted at evaluating the feasibility and process performance of AD of CM diluted with algal digestate water (AW) for methane production to replace tap water (TW). Moreover, the kinetics parameters and mass flow of the AD process were also comparatively analyzed. The highest methane production of diluted CM (104.39 mL/g volatile solid (VS)) was achieved with AW under a substrate concentration of 8% total solid (TS). The result was markedly higher in comparison with the group with TW (79.54–93.82 mL/gVS). Apart from the methane production, considering its energy and resource saving, nearly 20% of TW replaced by AW, it was promising substitution to use AW for TW to dilute CM. However, the process was susceptible to substrate concentration, inoculum, as well as total ammonia and free ammonia concentration.
Automated Approaches for Reducing the Execution Time of Performance Tests

Performance issues are one of the primary causes of failures in today’s large-scale software systems. Hence, performance testing has become an essential software quality assurance tool. However, performance testing faces many challenges. One challenge is determining how long a performance test must run. Performance tests often run for hours or days to uncover performance issues (e.g., memory leaks). However, much of the data that is generated during a performance test is repetitive. Performance testers can stop their performance tests (to reduce the time to market and the costs of performance testing) when the test no longer offers new information about the system’s performance. Therefore, in this thesis, we propose two automated approaches that reduce the execution time of performance tests by measuring the repetitiveness in the performance metrics that are collected during a test. The first approach measures repetitiveness in the values of the performance metric, e.g., CPU utilization, during a performance test. Then, the approach provides a recommendation to stop the test when the generated performance metric values become repetitive and the repetitiveness is stabilized (i.e., relatively little new information about the systems’ performance is generated). The second approach also recommends the stopping of a performance test, by measuring the repetitiveness in
A language for modeling the morphogenesis process of biological system using MAS

The biological systems are Complex Adaptive Systems that can build a complex structure using interaction between cell and its environment. The process is called morphogenesis, it is study by developmental biology and ap- plied by tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Computational models are used by researchers to organize and communicate ideas, test hypotheses and abstractly represent behaviors, etc. Although, Agent Based Models are used in biological systems, it is necessary appropriate domain-oriented language. This work shows the progress made in the definition of a language for modeling and simulation of such systems, in order to hide details of implementation and exe- cution of a simulation. The language concepts are demonstrated using, as study case, the morphogenesis of a heart valve in vitro.
ASSESSMENT OF THE REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS TO THE ESTIMATION OF EXTREME STORM SURGES

Regional frequency analysis (RFA) is performed to estimate extreme storm surges along the French coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel and the Southern part of the North Sea. An insight on the formation of physically homogeneous regions from a criterion of propagation of storms is provided. The treatment of the pairwise dependence structure within a given region through a spatial extreme value copula is also considered, leading to a model coupling physically-based RFA and spatial dependence to describe the probabilistic behavior of extreme storm surges.
MODELING CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT AND EXPLANATION FOR TWEETS BASED ON SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

Credibility is one of the main issues when dealing with information obtained from Online Social Networks (OSNs). Although a significant number of prior works have addressed many issues in this topic, only a few that have worked on methods for automatic credibility measurement for OSN messages and almost none who has addressed a specific problem in explaining the credibility information. This paper proposes a new approach for modeling credibility of tweets and explaining it to users. We model tweet credibility based on other independent tweet contents that support and oppose the topic issue in question. We also consider the opinions of tweets’ followers who either confirm or deny, along with their reputations. This method is based on assumption that the more community is who agree with the claim, the more credible is the claim. Explanation of the credibility measure is based on the tweet content itself. We provide users with representative tweets that can be progressively zoomed-in for more detail explanation. To achieve this goal, all tweets are hierarchically structured and tweet representatives on each node are selected from the ones that are most similar to the centroid. Our evaluation results indicate the feasibility of the proposed methods.
Sense of Community in Gated Communities in Doha: The Case of Al-Ein Compound in Ein Khaled Neighborhood

Neighborhoods are designed to contribute towards establishing and maintaining community bonds. Gated communities, a recognizable form of housing developments in the Gulf Region, have an impact on neighborhoods and cities’ livability-namely on the quality of life of residents. In the city of Doha, gated communities are widely diffused and considered as one of the most common types of housing, which greatly influence residents’ social interactions. This research study aims to investigate the sense of community in Al-Ein compound in Ein Khaled neighborhood. Oral and Visual data was collected through (A) in-depth interviews with residents and (B) site visits, observation and photographs of the compound’s physical settings. The findings reveal that the sense of community measured in Al-Ein compound is high due to the robust community’s ties and connections among residents. Also, the findings provide guidelines to policy makers, urban planners and designers for the implementation of residential compounds’ settings in Doha.
Estimation of future ground vibration levels in Malmberget town due to mining-induced seismic activity

Malmberget town (Figure 1) is located in northern Sweden, approximately 70 km north of the Arctic Circle. The Malmberget iron-ore deposits have been known for centuries. The ore was initially transported from the mine by horses and reindeer, until the railway to the coastal city of Luleå was completed in 1888 and large-scale production began. Today most of the refined iron ore products from Malmberget such as fines and pellets are transported to Luleå for use in steel mills mainly within the Baltic Sea region. The mine consists of around 20 orebodies of varying sizes and shapes (Figure 2). Production in 2012 was 14 Mt of crude ore from 12 of the orebodies mined to a maximum depth of approximately 850 m below surface. The main mineral is magnetite, but there are also smaller quantities of haematite. The mine is operated by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB). The town of Malmberget has existed in close relationship with the mine for well over a hundred years. The first houses were built by miners who wanted to live close to their place of work. More miners followed and soon a shanty town resembling those found in Klondike during the gold rush era was established on the hill slopes of Malmberget (Figure 3). The rich ore deposits were not depleted, and as the town grew the old shacks were eventually replaced by modern buildings. Mining started in open pits, but by the 1920s more than 90% of all mining was performed underground (Forsström, 1973). Many orebodies dip to the southwest, which gradually brings mining activities closer to the town itself. Since the 1960s sublevel caving has been the predominant mining method. This is a large-scale method, in which different activities take place on several levels simultaneously (Figure 4). This method makes it possible to efficiently mine deposits at great depth at competitive cost. The main disadvantages are subsidence of the ground surface and, for Malmberget town, vibrations caused by seismic events due mainly to the caving of hangingwall areas (Figure 5). Estimation of future ground vibration levels in Malmberget town due to mining-induced seismic activity
Construction of the Remote Sensing Systems V3.2 Atmospheric Temperature Records from the MSU and AMSU Microwave Sounders

Abstract Measurements made by microwave sounding instruments provide a multidecadal record of atmospheric temperature change. Measurements began in late 1978 with the launch of the first Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and continue to the present. In 1998, the first of the follow-on series of instruments—the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSUs)—was launched. To continue the atmospheric temperature record past 2004, when measurements from the last MSU instrument degraded in quality, AMSU and MSU measurements must be intercalibrated and combined to extend the atmospheric temperature data records. Calibration methods are described for three MSU–AMSU channels that measure the temperature of thick layers of the atmosphere centered in the middle troposphere, near the tropopause, and in the lower stratosphere. Some features of the resulting datasets are briefly summarized.
DO RECASTS PROMOTE NOTICING THE GAP IN L2 LEARNING

This paper reports the effects of implicit negative feedback in the form of recasts on noticing. Twenty Japanese-speaking learners of English were assigned to an experimental group (the recast group, n = 10) or a control group (the no-feedback group, n = 10). They engaged in an information gap task, during which the recast group received recasts to their erroneous utterances or non-corrective repetition of their targetlike utterances, whereas the no-feedback received no corrective feedback. The participants’ verbal reports about noticing about their errors were elicited through stimulated recall. Both groups noticed errors or problems at the moment of production about 10% of the time. Further, the recast group noticed their errors through recasts 21.6% of the time. Results suggest that recasts alone did help L2 learners notice their errors.
Extending Topological Abelian Groups by the Unit Circle

A twisted sum in the category of topological Abelian groups is a short exact sequence where all maps are assumed to be continuous and open onto their images. The twisted sum splits if it is equivalent to . We study the class of topological groups G for which every twisted sum splits. We prove that this class contains Hausdorff locally precompact groups, sequential direct limits of locally compact groups, and topological groups with topologies. We also prove that it is closed by taking open and dense subgroups, quotients by dually embedded subgroups, and coproducts. As means to find further subclasses of , we use the connection between extensions of the form and quasi-characters on G, as well as three-space problems for topological groups. The subject is inspired on some concepts known in the framework of topological vector spaces such as the notion of -space, which were interpreted for topological groups by Cabello.
Effects of Microalgal Species on the Settlement and Survival of Haliotis discus hannai Larvae

Although culture techniques for the abalone Haliotis discus hannai are well known, mass culture of the benthic microalgae that are essential live food for the abalone larvae is still not practiced. This study was conducted to identify the microalgal species suitable for the growth of early larvae of H. discus hannai. The growth and attachment rates of 31 microalgal species were examined. Acrylic plates were used as the substrate. Among the 31 microalgal species, nine showing high growth and attachment rates were selected and tested for their dietary values via factors including settlement, metamorphosis, and survival rates of abalone larvae. Tetraselmis hazeni and Rhaphoneis sp. induced the highest settlement rate (65-69%) in abalone larvae. The metamorphosis rate was highest (57%) in larvae fed Rhaphoneis sp. and was also significantly higher in larvae fed Oscillatoria splendida (29%) and T. hazeni (22%) than in those fed other species. The highest survival rate of the larvae during the 15 days after metamorphosis was 67% in those fed Rhaphoneis sp. , followed by T. hazeni (42%) and O. splendida (35%). In conclusion, Rhaphoneis sp. is the most suitable diatom for use as a live food for the culture of early larvae of H. discus hannai. In addition, T. hazeni and O. splendida are also potential species to be further developed and utilized in larval culture.