Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comunidades de peces de los arrecifes rocosos costeros de Galicia: ecología e impactos humanos

Los objetivos de esta tesis doctoral son: 1. Analizar la dinamica temporal y las preferencias en el uso del habitat de las comunidades de peces de arrecifes rocosos costeros. 2. Analizar los movimientos, la fidelidad al habitat, las temporalidad diaria de la actividad y el tamano del area vital de dos super-depredadores costeros, Conger conger y Dicentrarchus labrax, y el carnivoro mas frecuente y abundante, Labrus bergylta. 3. Analizar la influencia de las marcas de telemetria ultrasonica sobre el comportamiento de los peces en cautividad y cuantificar el error en el posicionamiento de los seguimientos realizados mediante telemetria ultrasonica manual. 4. Analizar las relaciones troficas de las especies de peces mas frecuentes y de mayor tamano de estos ecosistemas de arrecifes costeros. 5. Comparar la fiabilidad de tres metodos de CVS para caracterizar la estructura de la comunidad de peces: mediante buceo autonomo, mediante ROV y mediante CSR. 6. Analizar la influencia de la pesca comercial sobre las tendencias temporales a largo plazo en las abundancias, tamanos corporales y frecuencias relativas de la comunidad de peces de arrecifes rocosos costeros por medio del archivo historico de campeonatos de pesca submarina de la FEGAS. Analizar ademas la influencia del esfuerzo y de la competencia entre buceadores sobre las capturas obtenidas en los campeonatos. 7. Analizar el impacto de la pesca submarina sobre las comunidades de peces de arrecifes rocosos costeros (1) por medio de la relacion entre la tasa de cambio en las capturas de campeonatos consecutivos disputados en la misma zona y el tiempo transcurrido entre ellos; (2) por medio de CVS realizados por buceadores antes y despues de campeonatos de pesca submarina; y (3) comparando las estimaciones de las capturas obtenidas por esta pesqueria con las comerciales sobre las mismas especies. 8. Disenar y aplicar un metodo para asignar un origen geografico a las capturas pesqueras cuando no existen datos oficiales disponibles y analizar el impacto sobre las pesquerias costeras de la construccion de una gran infraestructura costera: el Puerto de Punta Langosteira (A Coruna). 9. Realizar recomendaciones para la gestion sostenible de las comunidades de peces y en general, de los ecosistemas de arrecifes rocosos costeros de Galicia.
Indonesia's Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program: Lessons Learned from Phase I and Future Directions

The Indonesian Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) is a 3 Phase, 18 year (1998 – 2016), USD 250 million national program aimed at protecting, rehabilitating and better managing Indonesia’s coral reefs and their associated ecosystems and improving the livelihoods and incomes in target coastal communities where currently 60% of the mostly fisheries-dependent households are poor. The first Phase, which piloted CBM approaches, operated in 4 pilot sites and ran from 1998 2004. The second Phase runs from 2005 2010. There are substantial shifts in the design of Phase II driven by the lessons learned in Phase I and, more importantly, from recent lessons learnt in fisheries management, most notably the value of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. The paper summarizes the key lessons learned in COREMAP Phase I and outlines how these and others have been incorporated into the design of Phase II, dubbed “the acceleration Phase” which will expand the program to a significant portion (>25%) of the country’s richest coral reef areas. There are significant risks in the approach adopted, the most important being the willingness of coastal communities to take on the responsibility for managing their coastal marine resources and the government supporting them to achieve this goal. This is the second paper on this topic in this Conference Proceedings. The first paper [1] gives an overview of the performance of the project, particularly of CBM and MCS at four pilot sites, while this paper looks more closely at the lessons learned from the whole Phase I Program.
Ergogenic aids.

In the context of sport, an ergogenic aid can be broadly defined as a technique or substance used for the purpose of enhancing performance. Ergogenic aids have been classified as nutritional, pharmacologic, physiologic, or psychologic and range from use of accepted techniques such as carbohydrate loading to illegal and unsafe approaches such as anabolic-androgenic steroid use. The efficacy of many of these techniques is controversial, whereas the deleterious side effects are clear. The purpose of this article is to review the epidemiology, administration, efficacy, pharmacology, and side effects of commonly used ergogenic aids. Physical therapists should be able to recognize the signs of ergogenic aid abuse in individuals under their care, and they should be aware of the side effects of these aids. Moreover, the physical therapist can serve as a resource for those individuals seeking information on the risks and benefits of ergogenic aids.
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

A New York Times BestsellerInstagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Saless riveting and explosive American Girls. With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, anddocumenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescenceone dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girls first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of todays teenage girls. Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges. From the Hardcover edition.
Investigation of maximal oxygen consumption capacity and body composition in children

The purpose of this study is to examine maximal oxygen consumption and body composition in children. The subjects of the study consisted 80 girls with mean age of 12.12±0.43 years old and 130 boys with mean age 12.10±0.40 years old. All of the 210 subjects joined the study volunterily. At the end of measurements, the mean values for girls found to be as follows: weight; 48.03±8.73 kg, height; 151.15±5.86 cm, body mass index (BMI); 20.93±04.20 kg/cm2, for boys weight; 43.23±7.10 kg, height; 147.90±8.26 cm, BMI; 19.53±03.43 kg/cm2. Age of children, who joined in study, was smilar characteristic. According to results statistical significant analysis performed; there is no significant differences between of the gender, in the datas, which are body weight, body size and maximal Oxygen consumption (maxVO2) (p>0.05). There is significant differences between of the gender, in the datas, which body weight (p 0.002), BMI (p 0.002) and body fat percent (p 0.002). According to results statistical significant analysis performed; there is significant differences between of gender in data of endomorphy (p<0.05), but there is no significant differences between of gender, in datas in mesomorphy and ectomorphy components (p>0.05). Endomorphy component of girls were higher than boys, because the girls' body fat percentage higher than boys. Although mesomorphy component of boys was higher than girls, there is no significant differences between of gender. Again, it is seen that the boys and girls have similar values of ectomorph components.
Estimating Vertical and Horizontal Resistivity of the Overburden and the Reservoir for the Alvheim – Boa Field.

Towed streamer EM data was acquired in October 2012 over the Alvheim – Boa Field located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. It is a challenging target consisting of a medium sized oil & gas field exhibiting an average transverse resistance located at 2,100 m below mudline. A depth model was defined for both the overburden and the reservoir interval based on an available well log, and the data was inverted as a series of 1D inversions for all common mid-points along two survey lines to form 2D resistivity sections. Both the vertical and horizontal resistivities were inverted for by minimizing the difference in the frequency responses between forward modeled data and the acquired towed streamer EM field data. Hence, the inversions were done with only a ten layer depth model as background information plus one value for the underburden. The reservoir interval itself displays high anisotropy as expected since the reservoir is a turbidite. It consists of high resistivity hydrocarbon-charged sands inter-bedded with low resistivity shales giving rise to an effective anisotropy ratio of around 5, whereas the proximal overburden layer exhibits an anisotropy of 2.6. When the anisotropy can be evaluated, the net-to-gross can be estimated facilitating a much improved quantitative estimate of the hydrocarbons in place. Further, when an anisotropic reservoir is located in proximity to or directly on top of basement it can be detected by means of the anisotropy alone. The basement is likely to be isotropic or even display inverse anisotropy due to vertical fractures being more abundant, wider and hence also better conducting than tight horizontal fractures.
STUDY ON BED-DEGRADATION AND BANK-EROSION IN STRAIGHT GRAVEL CHANNEL DUE TO CHANGES IN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

堰の撤去や河川改修といった境界条件の変化によって河床は大きく変化する. 本研究では, 側岸侵食と河床低下が同時に生じる場合の直線砂礫河道の変化過程を, 水理実験と平面2次元の河床変動解析を用いて検討したものである. 水理実験の結果, 河床低下が流路拡幅に大きく影響されることがわかった. またこのような河床低下過程は, 流路拡幅の効果を取り込むことにより, 従来から用いられている拡散型の河床変動として近似的に取り扱えることを明らかにした. さらに, これらの状況をより詳しく考察するため, 側岸の侵食や崩落に伴う砂礫河岸拡幅過程を再現できる平面2次元河床変動解析モデルを構築した. このモデルによる計算結果と実験結果との適合性は良好であった.
Fifteen Years of Marine Radar

In this paper, by the Director of the Radio Advisory Service, a comprehensive survey i s made of all the main trends of development in commercial marine radar since it first went to sea in 1946. The opinions of a representative group of seamen on the value they get from radar is analysed, and finally some views of manufacturers and seamen on what the future may hold are examined. The paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Ausschuss fur Funkortung held in Kiel on 10, 11, 12 September 1960, and is reproduced with the kind permission of that body. The last fifteen years represent almost exactly the whole life of commercial radar in merchant ships; in the United Kingdom the first commercial types were beginning to go to sea towards the end of 1946. The period has been an intensely interesting one from almost every aspect of the subject and the writer is fortunate in having been associated with merchant ships, and their owners, for thirteen of these fifteen years and with the subject of radar at sea since 1936.
Identification of optimum seedbed preparation and establishment using soil structural visualisation

A key aspect of the condition of soil as a medium for growing plants is the soil physical environment under which germination, growth and establishment occur. Crucially this affects factors such as water content, oxygen availability and soil strength. The dynamics of soil physical properties, and in particular soil structure, of a range of soils and how they relate to plant establishment are considered in this thesis. By engineering a variety of seedbeds and contrasting soil structures using different cultivation techniques, from intensive (plough) to reduced (disc) strategies, significant differences in the physical properties of the soils in terms of volumetric water content, soil strength and bulk density and interactions with plant establishment were identified. A model for Soil Quality of Establishment (SQE) was developed to predict plant establishment based upon soil bulk density and cultivation practices which significantly accounted for c. 50% of the variation occurring across contrasting soil types and environmental conditions. It was hypothesized from this that the precise porous architecture (i.e. soil structure) plays a crucial role in plant establishment given soil bulk density was a significant factor in the SQE model. Utilizing X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) both at a macro (c.300μm) and meso (c.65μm) scale soil structure (in terms of: porosity, pore area and perimeter, elongation, nearest neighbour distance, ECD and pore distribution) were determined in a quantitative manner. Results showed significant decreases in plant populations with associated increases in the soil porosity, with strong links to the pore size, roughness and spatial distribution (accounting for soil-seed contact, water storage / flow and ease of plant / root movement within the soil). Preferred porosity conditions for establishment and yield occurred between 12 - 20 % porosity (at the meso scale). SQE prediction was significantly improved with the addition of structural properties accounting for c. 70 % variation in crop establishment across soil texture and seasonal variation. The further 30 % variation in crop establishment may be explained by unforeseen circumstances such as disease and weather but equally this may also be related to crop genetics, soil chemistry and or the biological activities within the soil.
Water Quality Monitoring and Trophic status classification of Karanji Lake, Mysore

Large and growing population and rapid pace of development have led to the degradation of natural water system. Lakes are inland bodies of water that lack any directexchange with an ocean. Lakes may contain fresh or saltwater (in arid regions), shallow or deep, permanent or temporary lakes of all types share manyecological and biogeochemical processes.Lake ecosystems are influenced by their watersheds i.e., thegeological, chemical and biological processes that occuronthe land and streams upstream. Lakes play multiple roles in an urban setting. It is essential to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of water bodies to achieve the required water quality, which ensure protection and propagation of fish, wildlife, plants and also recreation in and on water. The overall goal of this study is to monitor the water quality and assess the trophic status ofKaranjiLake in Mysore city, Karnataka. The trophic status was assessed by using multivariate indices including Carlson trophic status index, Sakamoto, Academy and Dobson index and USEPA-NES which primarily used total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a andsecchi depth parameters. This study showed that the Karanji Lake is in moderate Eutrophic condition during the study period (Feb, 2013 to May, 2013).
Haptic holography: an early computational plastic

This dissertation introduces haptic holography, a combination of computational modeling and multimodal spatial display, as an early computational plastic In this work, we combine various holographic displays with a force feedback device to image free-standing material surfaces with programmatically prescribed behavior. We present three implementations, Touch, Lathe, and Poke, each named for the primitive functional affordance it offers. In Touch, we present static holographic images of simple geometry, reconstructed in front of the hologram plane (in the viewer's space), and precisely co-located with a force model of the same geometry. These images can be visually inspected and haptically explored using a hand-held interface. In Lathe, we again display holo-haptic images of simple geometry, this time allowing those images to be reshaped by haptic interaction in a dynamic but constrained manner. Finally in Poke, we present a holo-haptic image that permits arbitrary reshaping of its reconstructed surface. As supporting technology, we offer a new technique for incrementally computing and locally updating interference-modeled holographic fringe patterns. This technique permits electronic holograms to be updated arbitrarily and interactively, marking a long-held goal in display holography. As a broader contribution, we offer a new behavior-based spatial framework, based on both perception and action, for informing the design of spatial interactive systems. Thesis advisor: Stephen A. Benton, E. Rudge ('48) and Nancy Allen Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Laboratory Doctoral Dissertation Committee
Systematic HDL Design of a S-? Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop for Wireless Applications

This paper presents a systematic HDL design of a Sigma-Delta fractional-N phase-locked loop based on behavioral modeling. The proposed design consists in describing the mixed behavior of this PLL architecture starting from the specifications of each building block. The HDL models of critical PLL blocks have been described in VHDL-AMS to predict the different specifications of the PLL. The effect of different noise sources has been efficiently introduced to study the PLL system performances. The obtained results are compared with transistor-level simulations to validate the effectiveness of the proposed models.
Genetic Diversity of Dolly Varden Populations in Norton and Kotzebue Sounds

We describe the genetic stock structure of Dolly Varden, Salvelinus malma, in Norton and Kotzebue Sounds to develop a method to quantify contributions of Dolly Varden stocks harvested in subsistence fi sheries in the Wulik River. We surveyed genetic variation at seven microsatellite loci in 12 population samples from Norton and Kotzebue Sounds and four additional populations from the North Slope and the Togiak River. Signifi cant differences in allele frequencies were detected among all pairwise combinations of populations and evidence of a closer genetic similarity was detected between Dolly Varden in the Imuruk Basin and Norton Sound, despite the size distribution and life history similarities Imuruk Basin Dolly Varden share with Kotzebue Sound Dolly Varden. Mean contribution estimates from analysis of simulated mixtures from individual tributaries ranged from 82% to 98%, suggesting that robust stock composition estimates for regional groups, and in some cases, individual tributaries can be obtained. Dolly Varden were sampled from the Wulik River subsistence fi shery in October 2001. Two hundred individuals were randomly selected from the fi shery samples with size information and Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo estimates of regional stock proportions were made: North Slope 0.0369 (SD 0.0357), Kotzebue Sound 0.6726 (SD 0.0597), Cobblestone River 0.0035 (SD 0.0097), Norton Sound 0.2785 (SD 0.0571), and Togiak River 0.0085 (SD 0.015). The majority of Dolly Varden used in the mixture analysis was less than 325 mm fork length (FL), suggesting that at least some Dolly Varden are migrating into the Chukchi Sea basin during their fi rst or second seaward migrations.
Resolution Analysis of Imaging with l1 Optimization∗

We study array imaging of a sparse scene of point-like sources or scatterers in a homogeneous medium. For source imaging, the sensors in the array are receivers that collect measurements of the wave field. For imaging scatterers, the array probes the medium with waves and records the echoes. In either case the image formation is stated as a sparsity promoting l1 optimization problem, and the goal of the paper is to quantify the resolution. We consider both narrow-band and broad-band imaging, and a geometric setup with a small array. We take first the case of the unknowns lying on the imaging grid and derive resolution limits that depend on the sparsity of the scene. Then we consider the general case with the unknowns at arbitrary locations. The analysis is based on estimates of the cumulative mutual coherence and a related concept, which we call the interaction coefficient. The latter complements recent results in compressed sensing by deriving deterministic resolution limits that account for worst-case scenarios in terms of locations of the unknowns in the imaging region, and also by interpreting the results in some cases where uniqueness of the solution does not hold. We demonstrate the theoretical predictions with numerical simulations.
Left ventricular aneurysm with normal coronary angiogram: A case report and literature review

Most left ventricular aneurysms (LVA) develop in the atherosclerotic occlusive coronary artery disease following a transmural myocardial infarction. However, occasionally, LVA associated with normal coronary artery was found as well in dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Chagas's disease, sarcoidosis, chest trauma, and congenital malformation. We report a 53-year-old male who had systolic heart failure owing to a posterior wall aneurysm of the left ventricle, which was found unintentionally during echocardiographic examination. Subsequent stress thallium scan revealed irreversible defects in the inferolateral wall and apex, and coronary angiography showed normal coronary arteries. The patient remained well under medical control for a follow-up period of 40 months. Previously undiagnosed inferoposterior wall myocardial infarction caused by thromboembolism with spontaneous reperfusion may be considered in this patient.
S-genotyping of 25 sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars from the Czech Republic

ABSTRACT Sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) is a self-incompatible species. Determination of the S-genotypes of cherry cultivars is crucial for breeding and to select appropriate cultivars for cross-fertilisation and fruit set. In this study, we characterised the S-genotypes of 25 sweet cherry cultivars, some of which had being bred at the Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology (RBIP), Holovousy, Czech Republic, and others were European cultivars in the RBIP collection. S-genotyping was carried out by polymerase chain reaction using consensus primers for the S-RNase and SFB genes, and capillary electrophoresis. Nine different known S-haplotypes (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S9, S13, and S16) were identified and the cultivars were assigned to 12 incompatibility groups. One local cultivar, ‘Ptačka z Plzně’, originated from a wild forest seedling and used as a pollinator, was assigned to Group 0 of universal donors. The pedigree of some cultivars was confirmed by their S-genotype. This study represents the ﬁrst comprehensive S-genotype screening of sweet cherry genetic resources in the Czech Republic and will be useful for the design of crossing programmes and orchard management of these sweet cherry cultivars.
Lithostratigraphical nomenclature of the Lias Group in the Yorkshire Basin

SUMMARY The lithostratigraphical nomenclature of the Lias Group in the Yorkshire Basin is revised; two new formations, the Redcar Mudstone Formation and the Whitby Mudstone Formation, respectively replace ‘Lower’ and ‘Upper’ Lias (as used in a lithostratigraphical sense). This revised classification can be applied throughout the basin, including the Hambleton Hills, where the Felixkirk Borehole, recently drilled, has provided a cored sequence through the Lias.