Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Integrative taxonomy of the primitively segmented spider genus Ganthela (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae): DNA barcoding gap agrees with morphology

Species delimitation is difficult for taxa in which the morphological characters are poorly known because of the rarity of adult morphs or sexes, and in cryptic species. In primitively segmented spiders, family Liphistiidae, males are often unknown, and female genital morphology – usually species-specific in spiders – exhibits considerable intraspecific variation. Here, we report on an integrative taxonomic study of the liphistiid genus Ganthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015, endemic to south-east China, where males are only available for two of the seven morphological species (two known and five undescribed). We obtained DNA barcodes (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene, COI) for 51 newly collected specimens of six morphological species and analysed them using five species-delimitation methods: DNA barcoding gap, species delimitation plugin [P ID(Liberal)], automatic barcode gap discovery (ABGD), generalized mixed Yule-coalescent model (GMYC), and statistical parsimony (SP). Whereas the first three agreed with the morphology, GMYC and SP indicate several additional species. We used the consensus results to delimit and diagnose six Ganthela species, which in addition to the type species Ganthela yundingensis Xu, 2015, completes the revision of the genus. Although multi-locus phylogenetic approaches may be needed for complex taxonomic delimitations, our results indicate that even single-locus analyses based on the COI barcodes, if integrated with morphological and geographical data, may provide sufficiently reliable species delimitation. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London
Sweet Potato Value Chain Analysis Reveals Opportunities for Increased Income and Food Security in Northern Ghana

Sweet potato has gained prominence due to its ability to adapt to wide production ecologies and yield response to minimal external inputs. Orange-fleshed cultivars in particular have immense potential to improve household income and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the sweet potato value chain (SPVC) is not well-developed in many producing countries. The study was conducted in two regions to characterize the production operations as well as identify opportunities to propel the SPVC in Northern Ghana. Data were collected using mixed methods including structured questionnaires via face-to-face interviews. Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) was conducted at multistakeholder platforms with different actors. Gross margin profit and benefit-cost ratios were determined by using six cost variables. Overall, the industry was largely a fresh produce market, targeting food vendors, processors, and direct selling to wholesalers, retailers, and household consumers. The SWOT analysis revealed wide-ranging opportunities including favourable production ecologies, processing options, and insatiable local and international markets. The institutional actors need to network the primary actors to synergistically operate with a collective profit motive. The most prioritized production constraints such as access to seed, cost of chemical fertilizer, short shelf-life, field pests and diseases, and declining soil fertility should be addressed.
Individual differences in human-computer interaction : a review of empirical studies

In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, researchers have found evidence of performance differences which may be attributed to variation among individual users. User’s traits, cognitive styles, cognitive abilities, psychomotor abilities and culture have been investigated as levels that could help explain this variability. This literature review focuses on eleven years of empirical journal publications on individual differences in HCI in the period of 2004-2014. Using different search terms and criteria, we included a total of 98 studies to be reviewed. We describe and evaluate studies’ domains, methods and impact. In addition, this paper presents a number of gaps in current research, implications and thoughts on designing computer systems and several recommendations for future research.
LINEAR ELLIPTIC OPERATORS WITH MEASURABLE COEFFICIENTS by NEIL

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The Dark Side to Creativity: Testing an Intervention to Deter Deviance

Although creativity is commonly thought to be beneficial for businesses trying to maintain a competitive edge, a relationship has been found between creativity and deviance. Cognitive processes have been believed to be the connection between creativity and deviance, as creative people often possess the ability to think “outside of the box” and view situations differently than those who are less creative. Despite creative people having flexible thinking, however, not all engage in deviance. We sought to explore possible situational factors that may predict deviance in creative people and test an intervention aimed at deterring deviance. Results show that ambiguous ethical situations, where rules are unclear, provide more of an opportunity for creative people to engage in deviance. In ethically salient conditions, where rules are reinforced, deviance is reduced as creativity increases. Further, aspects of creativity seem to be unaffected or even slightly enhanced by ethically salient conditions. By implementing ethical saliency interventions, it may be possible to deter deviance while still allowing for creative expression.
Cyclic homology via derived functors

The cyclic, periodic cyclic and negative cyclic homologies of associative algebras are fitted into the context of cotriple homology of Barr and Beck. As applications of these results, an axiomatic description of the cyclic homology theory and the Hopf type formulas in the sense of Brown-Ellis are given.
BIOTOPE MAPPING IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT ‒ A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN PART OF TURKEY

The aim of this contribution is mapping and analysing of biotopes sensitivity in Antakya urban city with its surroundings. The three objectives were: (1) to identify the biotope types which display the structural characteristics of the study area, (2) to map the biotopes using object-oriented classification and (3) to determine sensitivity of these biotopes using rarity and reestablishment of research area. The study mainly carried out in two stages: the first one determination of biotope types using information from field surveys and aerial images; the second stage determination of biotope sensitivity to human disturbance. The sensitivity assessment based on two parameters; the rarity and the re-establishment ability of biotopes. Based on sensitivity results, 1.581 ha of the research area –forest, river banks and river and banksis very sensitive, 454,6 ha of the research area –cemetery, settlement with site, and maquieof land sensitive.
Sustainable Pavements

The Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Canada, is committed to using technologies to help build a more sustainable transportation system that supports today's needs while protecting the environment for future generations. Cold in-place recycling (CIR) is an established pavement rehabilitation technology that processes an existing asphalt pavement, sizes it, mixes in additional asphalt cement, and lays it back down without off-site hauling and processing. The added asphalt cement is typically emulsified asphalt. A recent development in CIR technology is the use of expanded (foamed) asphalt, rather than emulsified asphalt, to bind the mix. This combination of CIR and expanded asphalt technologies is termed cold in-place recycled expanded asphalt mix (CIREAM). Both CIR and CIREAM technologies support the philosophy of a sustainable transportation system. More specifically, CIR and CIREAM meet the criteria for a sustainable pavement: safe, efficient, economic, environmentally friendly pavement that meets the needs of present-day users without compromising those of future generations.
Advertisement-Click Prediction Based on Mobile Big Data from HyXen AdLocus

The popularity of Internet has made advertisement marketing gone virtualized and location-based mobile advertising successful in recent years. Adlocus, an APP developed by HyXen Technology, is one good example to achieve this. This advertising software can tailor to the campaign needs and target users within a diameter of 1 km. However, the question is that is it possible to predict whether the user is willing to click on the advertisement. This paper adopts many ways to analyze how these relations influence in different kinds of mobile advertisement. A comprehensive performance comparison of different models is provided, and the analysis of different factors is also discussed, including click time, advertisement category, language, and mobile phone manufacturers.
Phase retrieval from carrier frequency interferograms: reduction of the impact of space-variant disturbances

Phase “extraction" by using temporal phase shifting is sensitive to vibrations and drifts, producing systematic phase errors periodic with twice the fringe frequency. This error source may be avoided by evaluating only single carrier frequency interferograms, which makes the procedure immune against vibrations and drifts provided that the integration time is short enough to freeze the fringe pattern. However, the phases extracted from single interferograms in this way often show local irregularities depending on the mean phase of the interference pattern. Such local phase irregularities are caused by local disturbances in the light path like specks and dust particles on the optical components of the interferometer. Moreover, since digitized data are gathered, there is a nonlinear processing step involved which is also responsible for the generation of such irregularities. Here, it is proposed to use a set of suitably combined phase-ramped interferograms to reduce phase dependent irregularities. The proposed averaging technique also reduces edge ringing effects known from Fourier evaluation procedures. Since the imaging optics also contributes to the phase to be measured when tilted wavefronts are used, calibration is mandatory. The calibrated state is only valid if strict rules considering fringe number per diameter as well as the position of the wedge in the interferometer are maintained in the measuring process.
In-situ observations using tagged animals

Marine mammals help gather information on some of the harshest environments on the planet, through the use of miniaturized ocean sensors glued on their fur. Since 2004, hundreds of diving marine animals, mainly Antarctic and Arctic seals, have been fitted with a new generation of Argos tags developed by the Sea Mammal Research Unit of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK. These tags investigate the at-sea ecology of these animals while simultaneously collecting valuable oceanographic data. Some of the study species travel thousands of kilometres continuously diving to great depths (up to 2100 m). The resulting data are now freely available to the global scientific community at http://www.meop. net. Despite great progress in their reliability and data accuracy, the current generation of loggers while approaching standard ARGO quality specifications have yet to match them. Yet, improvements are underway; they involve updating the technology, implementing a more systematic phase of calibration and taking benefit of the recently acquired knowledge on the dynamical response of sensors. Together these efforts are rapidly transforming animal tagging into one of the most important sources of oceanographic data in polar regions and in many coastal areas.
Efficiency of Australian TAFE and further education providers

Budgetary constraints on the public purse have led Australian Federal and State governments to focus increasingly on the efficiency of public institutions, including Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes. In this study, we define efficiency as the relationship between financial and administrative inputs and educational outputs. We employ stochastic frontier analysis in determining the efficiency of Australian TAFE institutes using data sourced from institutional annual reports, the Student Outcomes Survey and administrative databases. We found significant economies of scale effects and conclude that increasing institutional size for very small institutions may result in increased efficiencies.
Enlightened Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks. Core Theory, Validating Experiments, and Implementation in Open Software

Abstract : The objective of the research is to develop mathematical and software infrastructure in support of post-genomics research in systems biology. One objective articulated in this effort centers on a deeper understanding of the organizational principles of biological networks. A distinguishing theme of this work is its focus on scalable methods of robustness and model validation and invalidation with data, as opposed to relying purely on simulation. The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) project is a machine-readable exchange language for computational models of biochemical networks. LibSBML, an embedded software library for SBML, was developed, providing an application programming interface for working with SBML. The LibSBML library provides an interface for working with SBML in a number of programming languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, MATLAB, Lisp, and Python. It is free, open-source, and portable to Linux, Windows, MacOS and Solaris. The effort led to (1) continued development of LibSBML, (increased support of SBML features and added functionality); and (2) supported SBML use and evolution (direct support for DARPA Bio-SPICE).
Young EFL Learners’ Attributions of Perceived Success and Failure in English Language Learning

The purpose of this study is to investigate young Turkish EFL learners’ attributions of success and failure in English language learning. The instrument used in this study was A. Taşkıran’s (2010) questionnaire of attributions’ adapted version by the researcher. Adapted version had two questions: first one asking the students whether they perceive themselves as successful in English language learning or not and the second one asking students to list five causes of their (perceived) success or failure. The study took place in a primary school. The questionnaire was given to 115 in total and they all were 4th graders. The causes of success and failure listed by the students were analyzed through content analysis. Frequencies and percentages were found and tabulated and important inferences were made from them. The results showed that there are more students who perceive themselves as successful than unsuccessful. Further findings were interpreted and valuable suggestions were made.
Aspirations and Human Development Interventions

Abstract What role can aspirations play in small-scale human development interventions? In this paper, we contribute to answering that question with both conceptual and empirical work. Aspirations can play at least two roles in small-scale human development interventions: the capabilities-selecting role and the agency-unlocking role. While aspirations also face the challenge of adaptation to adverse circumstances and unjust social structures, we argue that this challenge can be met by embedding the formulation and expression of aspirations within a setting of public discussion and awareness-raising activities, and that adaptation can be further countered by including a commitment to action. We then report on field research done in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, where a group of women went through a process of voicing, examining, and then realizing their aspirations. The action research confirms our theoretical hypotheses. We also do not find any evidence of adaptation of the women's aspirations, and argue that the absence of such adaptation might be a result of active capability selection, reflection, deliberation, and the exercise of agency throughout the action research programme.
Validation and strategies to improve the Hydro-Estimator and NEXRAD over Puerto Rico

Validation of the Hydro-Estimator (HE) and the Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) during heavy storms over Puerto Rico (PR) is reported. The HE is a high resolution rainfall retrieval algorithm based on satellite and numerical whether prediction model data. The accuracy of the HE and the NEXRAD rainfall estimates can be measured by decomposing the rainfall process in sequences of discrete (rain/no rain) and continuous (rainfall rate) random variables. Validation results are based on five heavy storms that seriously impacted human life and the economy of PR during the period 2003 to 2005. The average discrete validation results indicate acceptable hit rate values for both the HE and NEXRAD (0.76 vs. 0.87) and reasonable discrete bias ratios (1.04 vs. 0.73) but a very low of probability of detection of rain for both the HE and NEXRAD (0.36 vs. 0.52). The HE shows an average overestimation whereas the NEXRAD exhibits underestimation in the continuous validation results (continuous bias ratio of 1.14 vs 0.70 for NEXRAD), which contributes to moderate overall errors for the HE and NEXRAD in terms of root mean squared error (2.14 mm vs. 1.66 mm) and mean absolute error (0.96 mm vs. 0.77 mm). The HE algorithm was designed to operate over US continental areas and satisfactory results have been reported. However, over tropical regions it was determined that warm clouds can generate substantial rainfall amounts that are not detected by the HE algorithm. Infrared band differencing techniques are using to explore the possibility of improving the detection of warm-cloud rain events over PR. We are also classifying clouds based on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Imager data in a manner that will lead to improved relationships between infrared brightness temperatures and rainfall rates.
Creativity: What Does It Mean in the Family Context?.

Early age children is nation next generation. Government gives serious attention toward early childhood education which is pointed out by PP No. 60 th. 2013 about the integrative and holistic service of early childhood development. Children violence might be occurred everywhere, it could be in the family, on the street and children trafficking. Children violence is a social problem that has a big impact toward psychological, physical, mental, and the growth of children. To prevent this violence, government, society, teachers and parents must involve intensively. Government has issued the law no. 35 th. 2014 about children care. Early childhood must be protected from any kinds of violence. Education for early childhood must be done using learning approach through play games, interactive, children centered, and in joyful atmosphere. Keywords: fun education for early childhood, anti violence, psychology. Anak usia dini adalah generasi penerus bangsa. Pemerintah memberikan perhatian yang serius terhadap pendidikan anak usia dini yang ditunjukkan dengan Peraturan Presiden Nomor 60 tahun 2013 tentang Pelayanan Pengembangan Anak Usia Dini Holistik Integratif. Kekerasan terhadap Anak dapat terjadi dimana-mana, seperti dalam lingkungan keluarga, di jalanan, dan perdaganagan anak. Kekerasan terhadap anak merupakan masalah sosial memiliki dampak besar terhadap psikologis, fisik, mental, dan tumbuh kembang anak. Untuk pencegahan kekerasan terhadap anak, dituntut peran aktif orang tua, pendidik, masyarakat, dan Pemerintah. Pemerintah menerbitkan Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2014 tentang Perlindungan Anak. Anak usia dini harus dilindungi dari segala bentuk kekerasan. Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dilakukan dengan pendekatan belajar melalui bermain, interaktif, berpusat pada anak, dan dalam suasana yang menyenangkan. Kata Kunci: PAUD Menyenangkan, Anti Kekerasan, Psikologi.
Applying lean startup methodology for mobile application development : an Ethiopian context

The original purpose of a mobile phone was designed for basic communication. Today, phones are used to perform different advanced activities, for example, to access location via GPS, to take photos, as media players, and to access the internet. The growing usage of smartphones highly contributed to the emergence of advanced mobile applications. In developing countries mobile phones are the most common device used to access the Internet. This study aims to provide train timetable mobile application for the new developed Addis Ababa light rail transportation system. The purpose of developing a train scheduling app is to help users find train timetables easily and to improve time efficiency. Technology and mobile usage in Ethiopia are assessed to understand the current Information and Communication Technology (ICT) situation in Ethiopia. The study utilized the lean startup method for designing and developing the mobile application. In addition, the PSD model and a system’s selfreferential persuasion concept provided the theoretical framework. Persuasive system design’s primary task support principles are utilized strongly in the design and development of the app by reducing complexity and providing a meaningful content. Design science research integrated with lean software development principles was used to carry out this research. A literature review was conducted to support the thesis with background knowledge. Interviews were also conducted to gather user feedback with regards to the process of designing and developing the app. The study found that waiting for public transportation is time-consuming. The mobile application improves time efficiency and enhances punctuality. Evaluating the mobile application on the actual market is one of the limitations of this study as the developed app was only evaluated between test groups. The newness of the train system in Addis Ababa and bureaucratic management has limited the present study’s ability to gain accurate information about the train schedule and related information.
Changes in metabolic nutrients utilization and alterations in biochemical and haematological indices in broilers fed graded levels of dietary Moringa oleifera

Graded levels of full-fat undecorticated Moringa oleifera seed meal (MOSM) were evaluated in diets of 96-day old broilers at 2.5, 5.0 and 7.5% while a maize-soybean diet was used as a reference diet. Nutrients utilization by the broilers and effects of the virgin dietary MOSM on serum chemistry, haematology and some bio-data- protein efficiency ratio (PER) and nitrogen metabolism (NM) were used as response criteria for the evaluation. The metabolic utilization of nutrients, most of the serum chemistry and haematological parameters decreased in response to increasing dietary levels of MOSM except values on products of metabolism like creatinine, uric acid, bilirubin and conjugated bilirubin that tended to elevate with increasing levels of dietary unprocessed MOSM. Since no mortality was recorded in this experiment even at 7.5% MOSM inclusion, further research is on-going to determine the lethal level to poultry including other monogastric animals. Keywords: MOSM, broilers, nutrient utilization, serum and haematological indices
Analytical velocity potentials in cells with a rigid spherical wall

By using Kelvin's inversion, we construct analytical harmonic functions satisfying the zero‐Neumann condition on the inner spherical wall everywhere except a single point where the velocity is infinite. This set of functions can be used to construct approximate velocity potentials associated with liquid sloshing in a spherical tank, and in other hydrodynamic problems.