Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring Tradeoff between Distance-Minimality and Diversity of Landing Routes for Aircraft Landing Optimization

This paper focuses on the aircraft landing problem (ALP) and proposes an optimization method for ALP which addresses both the landing routes of multiple aircraft and their landing sequence. The difficulty of solving ALP is to optimize both the landing route and landing sequence of multiple aircraft, even the landing routes of the aircraft may be in conflict. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel efficient search optimization method based on novelty search, which considers a tradeoff relationship between distance-minimality (i.e., a short route of an aircraft) and diversity (i.e., a variety of landing routes of an aircraft). Through the intensive simulation on a simplified model of Haneda Airport in ALP, the following implications have been revealed: (1) The proposed method succeeded to minimize the total distances of all aircraft while optimizing the landing routes of each aircraft with keeping a diversity of its landing routes, in comparison with the single objective method based on the fitness as distance-minimality or the novelty as diversity: and (2) ven in the aircraft crowded situation, our proposed method could find feasible solutions in all trials, while the fitnessor novelty-based single objective methods could not find them.
A New Method to Identify Reservoirs in Tight Sandstones Based on the New Model of Transverse Relaxation Time and Relative Permeability

Relative permeability and transverse relaxation time are both important physical parameters of rock physics. In this paper, a new transformation model between the transverse relaxation time and the wetting phase’s relative permeability is established. The data shows that the cores in the northwest of China have continuous fractal dimension characteristics, and great differences existed in the different pore size scales. Therefore, a piece-wise method is used to calculate the fractal dimension in our transformation model. The transformation results are found to be quite consistent with the relative permeability curve of the laboratory measurements. Based on this new model, we put forward a new method to identify reservoir in tight sandstone reservoir. We focus on the Well M in the northwestern China. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging is used to obtain the point-by-point relative permeability curve. In addition, we identify the gas and water layers based on new model and the results showed our new method is feasible. In the case of the price of crude oil being low, this method can save time and reduce the cost.
WOOD THRUSH MOVEMENTS AND HABITAT USE: EFFECTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR RED-COCKADED WOODPECKERS

Abstract We monitored adult and juvenile breeding-season movements and habitat use of radio-tagged Wood Thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) at the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, central Georgia, USA. We investigated the effects that management for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers (Picoides borealis), thinning and burning >30 year old loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) habitat, had on Wood Thrushes, a ground-foraging and midstory-nesting species. Adult Wood Thrush pairs regularly moved long distances between nesting attempts (range 1 to 17,388 m). The only experimental effect we found on adult movements was a decrease in weekly emigration rates (Ψ) from thinned and burned compartments after silvicultural management. Adult males preferred riparian hardwoods with sparse to moderate cover and those preferences increased following management. Juveniles remained near their nest site (x̄ = 177 m, SE = 113) for an average 24 days (SE = 6.3), and then dispersed a mean 2,189 m (SE = 342). Before dispersal, juveniles preferred upland hardwood–pine mixed habitat (P < 0.05) with moderate overstory cover (P < 0.05). We found no management effects on dispersal distances or predispersal habitat use. However, juveniles from thinned and burned compartments dispersed to hardwood habitats with dense cover, whereas birds from control compartments dispersed to pine-dominated habitats with sparse cover. All juveniles dispersed to areas with habitat similar to what they used before dispersal. Small-scale thinning and burning for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers may have had little effect on Wood Thrush habitat use and movements because typical movements were often larger than the scale (stand or compartment) targeted for management.
The relationship between adult attachment theory, jealousy, and attitudes towards monogamy

The purpose of this study was to look at how jealousy manifests through different attachment styles, and whether an individual’s attachment style was related to their attitude toward monogamy. The participants consisted of undergraduate psychology students at Eastern Washington University. Participants were assessed and put in to categories based on how they placed in the four attachment styles: secure, preoccupied, dismissive, or fearful. Participants were evaluated on three dimensions of jealousy (cognitive jealousy, emotional jealousy, and behavioral jealousy). Finally, participants were evaluated on their attitude towards monogamy, and whether they viewed monogamy as enhancing to the relationship or a sacrifice for the sake of the relationship. Results showed that all four attachment styles experienced higher emotional jealousy than they did cognitive and behavioral jealousy. Results also showed that all four attachment styles viewed monogamy as enhancing to the relationship. This study provides us with the opportunity to further understand how individuals of each adult attachment style react and relate to their significant others in their relationships. It also allows us to further understand the nature of those relationships in which each attachment style is drawn to in their personal lives.
Intensive Margin Responses when Workers are Free to Choose: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform

We exploit a large tax reform in the Netherlands to estimate the response in weekly working hours, the ‘intensive margin’, to changes in net wages. Workers in the Netherlands are arguably more free to choose their working hours than workers in countries like France, the UK or the US. Hence, responses are more likely to reect preferences for work and leisure, rather than a mixture of preferences and demand side restrictions. Following Blundell et al. (1998) we deal with the endogeneity of net wages by using cohort-education-period dummies. We use data for the period 1999-2005. This period covers a large tax reform in 2001 which generates exogenous and heterogeneous variation in the cohort-education-period dummies. We nd rather modest intensive margin responses, ranging from essentially zero for men in couples to . 2 for single mothers. A number of robustness checks show that these elasticities remain small under a number of dierent specications,
A FIFTEEN YEARS RETROSPECTIVE

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the compet itive performance of different European countries at sector level in the intra-EU market fr om 1995 to 2011, comparing food industry and agricultural sector. In particular, we aim to asses the effect of the EU enlargement (first period) and the economic crisis (second period) on the comp etitiveness of EU countries. The data come from the Eurostat database of international trade. The competitive performance of EU countries is measured through several trade indices, such as Export and Import Market Share, Revealed Comparative Advantage, Net Export Index, and Vollra th indices, analysing their values over the last fifteen years. Our analysis showed that, in th e EU countries, agriculture and food industry do not reveal strong differences in competitive perfor mance during the last fifteen years. Among big countries, France and Spain showed a continuous wor sening competitive performance. A similar trend is found for Belgium. On the contrary, the Ne therlands revealed the best performance, both in agriculture and in food industry, together with I aly. Nevertheless, the Netherlands has lightly lost specialisation because of a rise of total expo rts that have affected the value of RCA. Italy is characterised by a smaller increase, especially in the food sector. The only country showing a significant difference in competitive trends betwee n agriculture and food industry is Germany. It became leader in the food industry of EU, with a gr owing performance over the period analysed, while it is not competitive nor specialised in agri culture. Among small countries, it is worth to highlight the performance of Austria.
Master of them all: performance specialization does not result in trade-offs in tropical lizards

Question: Does performance specialization lead to trade-offs among contrasting performance types? Predictions: Evolutionary specialization for good performance at one task should result in relatively poor performance at contrasting tasks. We predicted that species with good sprinting ability would be relatively poor at the contrasting performance tasks of climbing, clinging, and jumping. Organisms: Eighteen species of Lygosomine skinks from a diverse range of habitats in tropical Australia. Methods: We measured four ecologically relevant modes of performance (sprinting, climbing, clinging, and jumping) and relevant morphological traits (e.g. body size, fore- and hind-limb length, body flatness). Results: Contrary to predictions, phylogenetic analyses revealed a tight positive correlation between sprinting and climbing ability, climbing and clinging ability, and climbing and jumping. Sprinting, climbing, clinging, and jumping are presumably sufficiently similar tasks for scincid lizards for no trade-offs to be observed. There was no evidence that a flat body enhanced climbing in our study, but it may be related to energy efficiency in species from habitats that climb frequently on vertical surfaces. Conclusions: The absence of trade-offs among performance traits, the converse to what has been observed for arboreal lizards (e.g. Anolis), suggests that such trade-offs are not general for lizards from all habitats or groups.
Development of a Scale to Investigate Cybervictimization among Online Social Utility Members.

This study aimed to develop a scale to investigate cybervictimization among the members of an online social utility. Eight hundred ninety-six participants were recruited with a 36-item web-based survey, which was developed through literature review and expert opinions. The dataset was used for an exploratory factor analysis. After dysfunctional items were eliminated, a 28-item set emerged with a very high internal consistency coefficient explaining half of the total variance with a single-factor structure. The second administration was realized with 200 new participants to confirm the single-factor structure. Along with acceptable fit indices, higher values of internal consistency coefficient and explained variance were observed. It was confirmed that different forms of cyberbullying identified in the literature were included in the questionnaire such as flaming, harassment, cyberstalking, denigration, masquerade, outing and trickery, and exclusion. Receiving religious or politic messages, and unwanted behaviors specifically directed at participants were within the factor structure of the scale. When unwanted behaviors were directed at a larger set of audience, or when the exact target was not the users themselves, such behaviors were not within the factor structure even though somebody else was mistreated. Preliminary findings were discussed followed by implications and suggestions for further research.
The Influence of Personal Information Capability and Management Commitment on the Success of the Implementation of Accounting Information System in Baznas of District / City Level in West Java Province

Law No. 23 of 2011 has become the most important partof making changes towards a professional BAZNAS. These changes should be supported by good personal information capabilities and management commitment in supporting those changes towards the better, especially in the development of integrated accounting information systems as an easy form of making financial reports that can provide timely, relevant and accurate information. BAZNAS integrated accounting information system is very important to build and create quality information and transparencythat can lead to the increase of public trustfor the managers of National Zakatorganization. Especially in districts and cities of West Java. This research's objective is to test and analyze the influence of personal informationcapability and management commitment on the successful implementation of accounting information systems. Explanatory research method is used for this research. Data collection is through survey techniques by distributing questionnaires and interviews on BAZNAS in district and city level in West Java.Meanwhile the observation unit is the users of accounting information system. The research instruments are validity and reliability tests. Data analysis is performed descriptively and verified using SEM-PLS. The result of the research shows that at the significant level of 5% , the capability of personal information and management commitment have a significant influence on the successful implementation of zakat accounting information system in BAZNAS of Regency / city level in West Java Province with the influence of 77.5%. Meanwhile 22.5% are influenced by other factors that have not been studied.
Molecular Cloning, Segmental Distribution and Ontogenetic Regulation of Cationic Amino Acid Transporter 2 in Pigs

The goal of this study was to elucidate the expression and segmental distribution of the glomerular cationic amino acid metabolism transporter-2 (CAT-2) and thus to improve our understanding of porcine cationic amino acid transporters and amino acid absorption. Porcine CAT-2 was cloned, sequenced and characterized. The predicted amino acid sequence of porcine CAT-2 shared 86.1% and 92.1% identity with human and mouse CAT-2A, respectively. The tissue distribution patterns and ontogenic changes of CAT-2 mRNAs were determined by real-time Q-PCR. The results showed that porcine CAT-2 was highly expressed in the heart and intestinal tract (duodenum, ileum and jejunum). In addition, the mRNA of CAT-2 was found in liver, lung, kidney, brain and muscle. Within the intestinal tract, CAT-2 mRNA was most abundant in the ileum and rarely expressed in the duodenum. In the duodenum, the levels of CAT-2 mRNA reached their peak on day 7 (p<0.05) while in the jejunum, levels were low on day 1 and 7 and increased rapidly after day 26 before peaking on days 30 and 60 (p<0.05). The levels then dramatically decreased by day 90 (p<0.05). In the ileum, levels achieved their maximum on day 30 and then decreased significantly on day 60 (p<0.05).
Combining tree kernels and text embeddings for plagiarism detection

The internet allows for vast amounts of information to be accessed with ease. Consequently, it becomes much easier to plagiarize any of this information as well. Most plagiarism detection techniques rely on n-grams to find similarities between suspicious documents and possible sources. N-grams, due to their simplicity, do not make full use of all the syntactic and semantic information contained in sentences. We therefore investigated two methods, namely tree kernels applied to the parse trees of sentences and text embeddings, to utilize more syntactic and semantic information respectively. A plagiarism detector was developed using these techniques and its effectiveness was tested on the PAN 2009 and 2011 external plagiarism corpora. The detector achieved results that were on par with the state of the art for both PAN 2009 and PAN 2011. This indicates that the combination of tree kernel and text embedding techniques is a viable method of plagiarism detection. ii Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
Spatial Instability Of Two‐Phase Mixing Layers

The initial stage of liquid atomization by a fast gas stream is considered by means of spatial stability analysis of two–phase shear layers. We solve the viscous linear stability problem for parallel flow modelled by error–function profiles. The unstable modes known from temporal theory are recovered in the convectively unstable case for fluid properties close to the air/water system. The most unstable wavelength depends only weakly on the absolute velocity relative to the laboratory system. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Molecular studies of forage prickly-pear cactus from the semiarid of

M. C. C. P. de Lyra, M. L. R. B. da Silva, A. C. E. S Mergulhao, C. Mondragon-Jacobo, E. Martinez-Romero 1 Laboratorio de Genomica. Instituto Agronomico de Pernambuco-IPA. Av. Gal San Martin 1371 Bonji, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Fellowship Posdoctor PNPD/CAPES. Laboratorio de Genomica, Instituto Agronomico de Pernambuco-IPA. Av. Gal San Martin 1371 Bonji, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Laboratorio de Genomica, Instituto Agronomico de Pernambuco-IPA. Av. Gal San Martin 1371 Bonji, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias-INIFAP. Av. Luis Pasteur 414, 1er. piso, Valle Alameda, QueretaroQueretaro-Mexico. Ecological Genomics Program, Research Group Environmental and Symbiotic Microbiology Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Ciencias Genomicas Av. Universidad s/n Col. Chamilpa 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping for growth traits on bovine chromosome 14

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in livestock allows the identification of genes that determine the genetic variation affecting traits of economic interest. We analyzed the birth weight and weight at 60 days QTL segregating on bovine chromosome BTA14 in a F2 resource population using genotypes produced from seven microsatellite markers. Phenotypes were derived from 346 F2 progeny produced from crossing Bos indicus Gyr x Holstein Bos taurus F1 parents. Interval analysis to detect QTL for birth weight revealed the presence of a QTL (p < 0.05) at 1 centimorgan (cM) from the centromere with an additive effect of 1.210 ± 0.438 kg. Interval analysis for weight at 60 days revealed the presence of a QTL (p < 0.05) at 0 cM from the centromere with an additive effect of 2.122 ± 0.735 kg. The region to which the QTL were assigned is described in the literature as responsible for some growth traits, milk yield, milk composition, fat deposition and has also been related to reproductive traits such as daughter pregnancy rate and ovulation rate. The effects of the QTL described on other traits were not investigated.
Causal Links Between Trade And Economic Growth Evidence From Turkey And European Union Countries

Openness and economic growth is discussed by heavy concentration on the deterministic relationship running from trade flows to economic growth. While traditional motive of export promotion based growth strategies is heavily discussed, it is the modern growth theories that define possible alternative mechanisms. Technology transfer, place of innovation and spillovers are at the center of the debate. However it is the more contemporary studies that also underline the possible reverse relationship. Originating from such a discussion the study aims to search for the causal relationship by working on a new European Union candidate country, Turkey. Results point out that short term dynamics illustrates a two way relationship.
PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR TSUNAMI-WAVE ELEVATION ALONG THE ALBORAN SEACOAST

In this study the tsunami-wave run-up along the Alboran Seacoast (Spain) have been evaluated. An indirect statistical method has been used to estimate the tsunami risk along the southeastern Spanish coast. This method can be summarized as: (1) analysis of the global neotectonic setting, the geodynamic processes as well as seismicity of the region; (2) tsunami source model; (3) generation, propagation and run-up numerical models; and (4) the risk model. The purpose of this study is to establish tsunami-wave elevation at the shoreline versus the return period curves for different locations along the Alboran seacoast. It is concluded that, the tsunamis generated in the Alboran basin have a medium-to-low intensity, with the most important elevations in the Malaga, Adra and Melilla areas.
A local asymptotic analysis of the discrete first Painleve equation as the discrete independent variable approaches infinity

The first discrete Painleve equation (dPI), which appears in a model of quantum gravity, is an integrable nonlinear nonautonomous difference equation which yields the well-known first Painleve equation (PI) in a continuum limit. The asymptotic study of its solutions as the discrete time-step n —>> oo is important both for physical application and for checking the accuracy of its role as a numerical discretization of PI. Here we show that the asymptotic analysis carried out by Boutroux (1913) for PI as its independent variable approaches infinity also can be achieved for dPI as its discrete independent variable approaches the same limit.
The detached dust shells around the carbon AGB stars R Sculptoris and V644 Scorpii

Context. The morphology of the circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars gives information on the mass-loss process from the star, its evolution and wind, and on the effect of binary interaction. However, determining the distribution of dust in the circumstellar envelopes is difficult. Observations of polarised, dust-scattered stellar light in the optical have produced images with high-spatial resolution of the envelopes around evolved stars. For sources with detached shells in particular, this method has proven extremely successful. Detached shells are believed to be created during a thermal pulse, and studying them can constrain the time scales and physical properties of one of the main drivers of late stellar evolution. Aims. We aim at determining the morphology of the detached shells around the carbon AGB stars R Scl and V644 Sco. In particular, we attempt to constrain the radii and widths of the detached dust shells around the stars and compare them to observations of the detached gas shells. Methods. We observed the polarised, dust-scattered stellar light around the carbon AGB stars R Scl and V644 Sco using the PolCor instrument mounted on the ESO 3.6 m telescope. Observations were done with a coronographic mask to block out the direct stellar light. The polarised images clearly show the detached shells around R Scl and V644 Sco. Using a dust radiative transfer code to model the dust-scattered polarised light, we constrained the radii and widths of the shells. Results. We determine radii of 19 ''. 5 and 9 ''. 4 for the detached dust shells around R Scl and V644 Sco, respectively. Both shells have an overall spherical symmetry and widths of approximate to 2 ''. For R Scl, we can compare the observed dust emission directly with high spatialresolution maps of CO(3-2) emission from the shell observed with ALMA. We find that the dust and gas coincide almost exactly, indicating a common evolution. The data presented here for R Scl are the most detailed observations of the entire dusty detached shell to date. For V644 Sco, these are the first direct measurements of the detached shell. Also here we find that the dust most likely coincides with the gas shell. Conclusions. The observations are consistent with a scenario where the detached shells are created during a thermal pulse. The determined radii and widths will constrain hydrodynamical models describing the pre-pulse mass loss, the thermal pulse, and postpulse evolution of the star.