Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genetic Structure and Changes of Indica/Japonica Components of Major Inbred Rice Varieties in China

A total of 39 SSR markers were used to analyze the genetic structures and compare with the changes in the indica or japonica components of 304 Chinese major inbred rice varieties planted widely from 1950s to 1990s. The results showed that the genetic structure of major inbred rice varieties in China was distinctly divided into two populations, indica and japonica. The sub-structure of indica varieties was more complex than that of japonica ones. Of which, late-season indica and early-season japonica varieties had rather simplex genetic background. The seasonal ecotypes were not quite in conformity with the subtypes of genetic structure. Moreover, 12 SSR loci with specific differentiation between indica and japonica were used to calculate the indica/japonica components. The differences of indica/japonica components among the five decades were not significant except late-season indica varieties. The japonica components of late-season indica varieties planted in 1990s were increased obviously. These results will help to understand the genetic structure of Chinese major inbred rice varieties and indica-japonica hybridization breeding in China.
Adsorption behavior of Zn (II) from amidoxime functionalized mesoporous silica SBA-15

The amidoxime mesoporous silica (AO-SBA-15) was prepared and its effects of time, temperature and initial concentration on the adsorption of the aqueous zinc ion were studied. The results indicate that the adsorption performance of zinc ion was good. When the equilibrium concentration was less than 2 mmol·L -1 , the adsorption capacity increased as the temperature increased. When the equilibrium concentration was over 2 mmol·L -1 , the adsorption capacity decreased with the increasing of the temperature. As the adsorption continued, the adsorption capacity of zinc ion increased, and tended to reach equilibrium after 120 minutes. The process of adsorption is mainly due to the electrostatic complexation at low Zn 2+ concentration, whileas it is due to cocalent complexation at high Zn 2+ concentration.
Prevalence of the Cellular and Molecular Antimicrobial Resistance against E. coli Isolated from Thai Broilers

The antimicrobial resistant characteristics both of the cellular and molecular levels of Escherichia coli in broilers were performed by disk diffusion test and polymerase chain reaction technique. Specific primers for the aadA, aac(3)-IV, cmlA, cat1, tetA, sul1, SHV, CITM, ereA and dhfrV gene were used to detect resistance to gentamicin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, cephalothin, ampicillin, erythromycin, sulfonamide+trimetroprim. The 30 samples of E. coli were found to be 100% antimicrobial disk resistant to tetracycline, ampicillin and erythromycin and revealed a 90%, 93.3% and 73.3% resistant gene to tetA, CITM and ereA, respectively. While resistance to 73.3% cephalothin and 26.7% sulfonamide+trimethoprim was revealed by disk diffusion tests, the 86.4% SHV, 100% sul1 and 100% dhfrV genes were found from PCR techniques. However, no antimicrobial resistance both in the cellular and molecular levels of gentamicin and chloramphenical were found.
A method for daily normalization in emotion recognition

Aects carry important information in human communica- tion and decision making, and their use in technology have grown in the past years. Particularly, emotions have a strong eect on physiology, which can be assessed by biomedical signals. This signals have the advan- tage that can be recorded continuously, but also can become intrusive. The present work introduce an emotion recognition scheme based only in photoplethysmography, aimed to lower invasiveness. The feature extrac- tion method was developed for a realistic real-time context. Furthermore, a feature normalization procedure was proposed to reduce the daily vari- ability. For classication, two well-known models were compared. The proposed algorithms were tested on a public database, which consist of 8 emotions expressed continuously by a single subject along dierent days. Recognition tasks were performed for several number of emotional cate- gories and groupings. Preliminary results shows a promising performance with up to 3 emotion categories. Moreover, the recognition of arousal and emotional events was improved for larger emotion sets.
Fault Testing Quantum Switching Circuits

Test pattern generation is an electronic design automation tool that attempts to find an input (or test) sequence that, when applied to a digital circuit, enables one to distinguish between the correct circuit behavior and the faulty behavior caused by particular faults. The effectiveness of this classical method is measured by the fault coverage achieved for the fault model and the number of generated vectors, which should be directly proportional to test application time. This work address the quantum process validation problem by considering the quantum mechanical adaptation of test pattern generation methods used to test classical circuits. We found that quantum mechanics allows one to execute multiple test vectors concurrently, making each gate realized in the process act on a complete set of characteristic states in space/time complexity that breaks classical testability lower bounds.
Modelling E-Government Development through the Years Using Cluster Analysis

Every e-government development has its supporting factors and various limitations that hinder the implementation of e-government initiatives and further improvement of e-services. This paper examines and evaluates the specific challenges, trends and the progress of e-government between the years 2008 and 2014 in the European Union Member States based on the global e-government development indices. It is focused on the effects and consequences of the European recession, which started as the global financial crisis in 2007 and was followed by the European debt crisis since the end of 2009. The purpose of this research study is to understand the influence of selected indicators on the e-government development in order to uncover similarities and identify areas that were affected by the crisis a need further improvement. The results of this work may be used to introduce more efficient measurements and benchmarking frameworks of the e-government development. The main methods used are descriptive, correlation and cluster analysis.
Antecedents for the Success of the Adoption of Organizational ERP Among Higher Education Institutions and Competitive Advantage in Egypt

Although the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system has long been acknowledged in higher education institutions (HEIs) to improve their performance and efficiency, there are not many HEIs in Egypt that adopt ERP system and those that do are in an early stage. The research on ERP system in HEI is still limited and in the immature stage, hence little is known about the success factors for the adoption stage of ERP systems. Consequently, this article aims to understand what are the success factors for ERP adoption and further develop a conceptual model that explains the successful implementation of ERP in HEIs and its impact on competitive advantage. Based on previous studies, this paper identifies and conceptualizes success factors for ERP and further develops the proposed model for the adoption of ERP system in HEIs. This article contributes to the development of the theoretical framework of the successful implementation of the ERP system to explain the competitive advantage of HEI by merging information system (IS) success and diffusion of innovation (DOI) theories with the success factors for the adoption stage of ERP systems. The current study will provide recommendations and guidelines for both the potential adopters and the vendors on the successful ERP system adoption.
Hysteresis Modeling of Amplified Piezoelectric Stack Actuator for the Control of the Microgripper

This paper presents Bouc-Wen hysteresis modelling and tracking control of piezoelectric stack APA120S. The actuator is used to control a microgripper. A modified Bouc-Wen non-symmetric model is applied to study the behaviour of the system in static and dynamic state. The good agreement between predicted and measured curve showed that the Bouc-Wen model is an effective mean for modelling the hysteresis of piezoelectric actuator system. Subsequently, the inverse Bouc-Wen model is formulated and applied to cancel the non-linear hysteresis. In perspective of a control design, it is desirable to linearize the non-linear Bouc-Wen model to produce a static system. Finally, in order to increase damping of the actuator system and to improve the control accuracy, a cascaded PID controller is designed with consideration of the dynamics and static behaviour of the actuator. Experiment result shows that error is of only 5% if PID is cascaded with hysteresis compensation. Therefore, hysteresis compensation with PID controller greatly improves the micromanipulation accuracy of the microgripper actuated by piezoelectric stack.
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Image in contemporary culture. Hegemony of the image. The demise of imagination. Image production and the feasibility of architecture. Architecture and the spectacle. Images of control and emancipation. The sense of the real. 2 Language, thought and image. Image and language. The philosophical image. The meanings of image and imagination. The nature of imagination. 3 The many faces of the image. The lived and embodied image. Images of matter. The multi-sensory image. The image as a condensation. The archetypal image in architecture. Architecture as mandala. The reality and unreality of the artistic image. The unconscious image. The metaphor. Image, affect and empathy. The collaged image. Images of incompleteness and destruction. Images of time. Illusionary image. The iconic image. The epic image. Poetic images as worlds. 4 The anatomy of the poetic image. The dual existence of the poetic image. Ontological difference. Significance of origins. The lived metaphor. Thinking through art. Historicity of the mind and poetic time. Unity of the arts: art and life. Aestheticisation and beauty. 5 The architectural image. Architecture and the world. Architecture as metaphor. Architecture as an organising image. Architecture as a verb. The house and the body. Historicity of architectural images. Primal architectural images and archetypes. The imagery of the window and the door. Dilution of images. The fragile image. Newness and tradition. Selected bibliography. Alphabetical index. Image credits.
Progressive Subdivision Curves for Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation

This work presents a shape parameterisation method based on multi-resolutional subdivision curves and investigates its application to aerodynamic optimisation. Subdivision curves are defined as the limit curve of a recursive application of a subdivision rule, which provides an intrinsically hierarchical set of control polygons that can be used to provide surface control at varying levels of fidelity. This is used to construct a progressive aerofoil parameterisation that allows an optimisation to be initialised with a small number of design variables, and then periodically increased in resolution through the optimisation. This brings the benefits of a low dimensional design space (high convergence rate, increased robustness, low cost finite-difference gradients) while still allowing the final results to be from a high-dimensional design space. In this work the progressive refinement technique is tested on a variety of optimisation problems. For each problem a range of ‘static’ (non-progressive) subdivision schemes (equivalent to cubic B-splines) are also used as a control group. For all the optimisation cases the progressive schemes perform comparably or better than the static methods, often providing a significant computational advantage, and in many cases allowing a solution to be found when the static method would otherwise finish prematurely in a local optimum.
Internationalization, intangible assets and Taiwanese SMEs' performance: Evidence of an Asian newly-industrialized economy

This paper investigates the impact of internationalization and intangible assets on the performance of Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in newly industrialized economies (NIEs). Examining a sample of 3,194 Taiwanese SMEs, we find that: (1) the relationship between internationalization and performance is characterized by an inverted U-shaped curve; (2) SMEs investing more heavily in research and development achieve greater gains in profitability; and (3) though the hypothesized linear relationship between advertising and profitability is not confirmed, further analysis indicates a U-shaped curvilinearity between the two, suggesting that a minimum level of investment is required if advertising is to be effective. Key words: Internationalization, intangible assets, performance, SMEs, NIE.
Biopreservation of tomato paste and sauce with Leuconostoc spp. metabolites

The aim of this study was to evaluate 40 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and 20 Bacillus strains isolated from the fermented tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) for their capacity to produce antimicrobial activities against several bacteria and fungi. The strain designed LBc03 has been selected for advanced studies. The supernatant culture of this strain inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Aspergilus sp. Based on the cultural, morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics, LBc03 was identified as Leuconeustoc spp. Its antimicrobial compound was determined as a proteinaceous substance, but it is possible that the bacteriocin may also be bound to other molecules like a lipid or a carbohydrate moiety. Metabolite extracts from selected LAB were more effective in preserving tomato paste and sauce stored at 4°C against spoilage bacteria like E. coli and the application of bio-preservative should be encouraged in food processing industries. Key words: Biopreservation, tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), bacteriocins, lactic acid bacteria.
Gender differences in charitable giving

This paper examines the mechanisms for giving by investigating the psychological and values differences between men and women's motivations for giving. We explored two of the eight mechanisms for giving developed by Bekkers and Wiepking as a framework for why people give—principle of care and empathic concern. Are there differences in these motives for giving by gender, and can these differences in values and the psychological benefits that people receive when making donations explain gender differences in charitable giving? Are women more likely to give and give more than men because of their higher levels of empathic concern and principle of care? We used two US national data sets to test our hypotheses. Our results for both data sets indicate significant differences in motives by gender, as well as differences in the probability of giving and amount given by gender, even after controlling for empathic concern and principle of care measures. Our findings are discussed in terms of the importance of viewing charitable giving through a gender lens as well as practical implications for practitioners. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Linking hydro‐morphology with invertebrate ecology in diverse morphological units of a large river‐floodplain system

Interdisciplinary research in the fields of ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology is becoming increasingly important as a way to understand how biological and physical processes interact with each other in river systems. The objectives of the current study were 1) to determine changes in invertebrate community due to hydrological stages, 2) to link local physical features [flow configuration, sediment composition and morphological feature) with the ecological structure between and within dissimilar morphological units (meander and confluence), and 3) to determine the existence and the origin of bed hydro‐geomorphic patches, determining their ecological structure. Results were discussed in the frame of prevailing ecological models and concepts. The study site extends over a floodplain area of the large Paraná River (Argentina), including minor and major secondary channels as well as the main channel. Overall results suggested that hydrodynamics was the driving force determining distribution patterns of benthic assemblages in the floodplain. However, while the invertebrates living in minor secondary channels seem to benefit from flooding, this hydrological phase had the opposite effect on organisms from the main and major secondary channels. We also found a clear linkage between physical features and invertebrate ecology, which caused a dissimilar fauna structure between and within the meander and the confluence. Furthermore, several sandy‐patches were recorded in the confluence. These patches were colonized by the particular benthic assemblage recorded in the main channel, supported the view of rivers as patchy discontinua, under uncertain ecological equilibrium.
Acropora cervicornis Metrics for Quantifying the Size and Total Amount of Branching Coral

of a thesis at the University of Miami. Thesis supervised by Professor Daniel Suman. No. of pages in text. (26) Acropora cervicornis, listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act, is a branching coral with a complex morphology that does not readily conform to traditional metrics of colony size and percent cover. Commonly used metrics do not reflect the functional scale of this coral’s structure nor unit requirements required by the Endangered Species Act that calls for accurate and defensible metrics to quantify and monitor change in the remaining viable populations. Existing metrics for measuring branching corals are both time-consuming and variable. Therefore, the goal is to streamline and calibrate in situ measurements of A. cervicornis colonies and explore the ability to estimate arduous metrics of colony morphology from easy-to-measure attributes. It is demonstrated, based on measurements made in the upper Florida Keys, that colony volume, surface area, percent cover, and total linear extension of branching tissue can be reliably approximated from simple in situ measurements of 1) colony height, 2) maximum branch diameter, and 3) a top-down colony photo (R > 0.90 for all estimations). Furthermore, these relationships were consistent among natural wild colonies, as well as experimentally transplanted and nursery-reared, outplanted colonies thus indicating the robustness of the relationships between colony morphometrics in both natural and restored corals in this region. This standardized, repeatable, defensible and efficient protocol for monitoring
BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR RISK ASSESMENT OF THE POSITION OF STUDY PROGRAM WITHIN THE INTEGRATED UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT AT TECHNICAL FACULTY IN BOR

This paper defines issues involved with the Integrated University (IU) from the aspect of the positioning of study program (SP) as the basic component of modern IU. Model for the risk assesment of the SP position in IU is developed on the principles of Bayes' theorem of conditional probability. In the proposed model, a priori probability is updated with previous events (evidence nodes) ei, whose occurrence caused a final posterior probability of the position of SP in IU. Defined model was developed based on the example of SP - Engineering management (EM) within the Technical Faculty in Bor, in order to assess the probability of its position in the future IU in Belgrade. The results show that SP-EM has a probability above 99% with its current structure and new activities, to be a part of the IUB. Defined model has a universal character and can be applied to analyze the posterior probability of any SP's position and risk assesment with the variation of the number and content of the evidence nodes e i .
Rotating and Infalling Motion around the High-Mass Young Stellar Object Cepheus A-HW2 Observed with the Methanol Maser at 6.7 GHz

Context. Proper motion observations of masers can provide information on dynamic motions on scales of a few milliarcseconds per year (mas yr −1 ) at radii of 100–1000 au scales from central young stellar objects (YSOs). Aims. The 6.7 GHz methanol masers are one of the best probes for investigations of the dynamics of high-mass YSOs, and in particular for tracing the rotating disk. We have measured the internal proper motions of the 6.7 GHz methanol masers associated with Cepheus A (Cep A) HW2 using Very Long Baseline Interferometery (VLBI) observations. Methods. We conducted three epochs of VLBI monitoring observations of the 6.7 GHz methanol masers in Cep A-HW2 with the Japanese VLBI Network (JVN) over the period 2006–2008. In 2006, we were able to use phase-referencing to measure the absolute coordinates of the maser emission with an accuracy of a few milliarcseconds. We compared the maser distribution with other molecular line observations that trace the rotating disk. Results. We measured the internal proper motions for 29 methanol maser spots, of which 19 were identified at all three epochs and the remaining ten at only two epochs. The magnitude of proper motions ranged from 0.2 to 7.4 km s −1 , with an average of 3.1 km s −1 . Although there are large uncertainties in the observed internal proper motions of the methanol maser spots in Cep A, they are well fitted by a disk that includes both rotation and infall velocity components. The derived rotation and infall velocities at the disk radius of 680 au are 0.5 ± 0. 7a nd 1.8 ± 0. 7k m s −1 , respectively. Conclusions. Assuming that the modeled disk motion accurately represents the accretion disk around the Cep A-HW2 high-mass
Paleogenetic Studies in Guajajara Skeletal Remains, Maranhão State, Brazil

In the early 17th century, French and Portuguese colonizers and Jesuit priests settled in the state of Maranhao and made contact with the Guajajara, an ethnic group that lived along the margins of the Pindare River. The Guajajara maintained contact with Brazilian national society over the centuries, including with Brazilian admixed populations, and with African slaves that flocked towards the region from the 18th century onwards. The present study investigates the origins of this admixture using mitochondrial genetic variability. The bones of 12 individuals investigated, which are currently part of the collection of the National Museum, were tested for genetic diversity. aDNA was extracted by the phenol-chloroform method and by DNA IQ (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). Amplification of the HVS I region was performed by PCR, followed by direct sequencing using the Big Dye kit (Life Technologies, Foster City, CA, USA). This region was found to represent haplogroups of Amerindians (A, C, and D) and Africans (L, L1b, L1c, and L3). The presence of African haplogroups in Guajajara bones from as early as the 18th century is consistent with historical and anthropological data, suggesting the admixture with Africans and/or Afrodescendants. Therefore, this study demonstrates that women with African haplogroups were introduced into the Guajajara population.
Controlling Information Flows in Net Services with Low Runtime Overhead

This paper presents the information flow control model NetIFC to prevent information leakage when a net service is being executed. NetIFC offers the following features: (1) it blocks at least statements as possible and (2) it reduces runtime overhead. To achieve the first feature, NetIFC strictly controls output statements because only output may leak information. To achieve the second feature, NetIFC is executed in parallel with a service in different sites to monitor the service. This monitoring style substantially reduce runtime overhead when comparing with embedding a model in a net service.