Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. I. HD 330075 b: A new "hot Jupiter"

We report on the first extra-solar planet discovered with the brand new HARPS instrument. The planet is a typical "hot Jupiter" with m2 sini = 0.62 MJup and an orbital period of 3.39 days, but from the photometric follow-up of its parent star HD 330075 we can exclude the presence of a transit. The induced radial-velocity variations exceed 100 m s −1 in semi-amplitude and are easily detected by state-of-the-art spectro-velocimeters. Nevertheless, the faint magnitude of the parent star (V = 9.36) benefits from the efficient instrument: with HARPS less than 10 observing nights and 3 h of total integration time were needed to discover the planet and characterize its orbit. The orbital parameters determined from the observations made during the first HARPS run in July 2003 have been confirmed by 7 additional observations carried out in February 2004. The bisector analysis and a photometric follow-up give no hint for activity-induced radial-velocity variations, indicating that the velocity curve is best explained by the presence of a low-mass companion to the star. In this paper we present a set of 21 measurements of excellent quality with weighted rms as low as 2.0 m s −1 . These measurements lead to a well defined orbit and consequently to the precise orbital parameters determination of the extra-solar planet HD 330075 b.
The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - XII. A giant planet orbiting the metal-poor star HD 171028

In this paper we present the detection of a 1.8 MJup planet in a 538-day period trajectory orbiting the metal-poor star HD 171028 ([Fe/H] = −0.49). This planet is the first to be discovered in the context of a HARPS program searching for planets around metal-poor stars. Interestingly, HD 171028 is one of the least metal-poor stars in the sample. This discovery is placed in the context of the models of planet formation and evolution.
Synthesis , Characterization and Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of New Ester and Amide Derivatives of Indole-2-Carboxylic Acid

New ester and amide derivatives of indole-2-carboxylic acid (1-6) were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. The compounds 5 and 6 demonstrated scavenging effect against 2,2-diphenyl1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals. These two compounds showed excellent reducing power at 200, 150, 100 and 50 μg/ ml concentrations as compared to butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). All tested compounds also exhibited more powerful Fe2+ chelating activity than Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). With regard to antimicrobial properties, compound 2 was most active derivative against Enterococcus faecalis and also demonstrated significant activity against Candida albicans with a MIC value of 8 μg/mL. Compounds 1, 3, 5 and 6 had noticeable antifungal activities against C. albicans.
Research Proposal

Much of this work concerns d-uniform hypergraphs. The adjacency relation in such a hypergraph can be represented by an appropriate d dimensional array. Much of our work is motivated by the search of high-dimensional analogs of known results about graphs and their adjacency matrices. For example, we ask: What is a high dimensional permutation matrix? What is the higher dimensional analog of a regular graph? How many are there? Can we sample them efficiently? These questions lead us naturally to consider several well known objects in a new setting. We were already able to give upper bounds on the number of Latin hypercubes and of Steiner triple systems. 1 Background 1.1 Bounds on matchings and permanents Let A be an n × n matrix. The permanent of A is defined by P er(A) = σ∈S n n i=1 a i,σ(i). When A is the adjacency matrix of a bipartite graph G, it is easy to see that P er(A) is equal to the number of perfect matchings of G. Such a matching corresponds to a permutation matrix supported by A. The permanent is notoriously hard to compute, and has been shown to be #P-complete, even in the case of 0, 1 matrices. Following a long line of research, Jerrum, Sinclair and Vigoda [10] proposed an FPRAS for the permanent of a nonnegative matrix, based on a random walk on perfect matchings of a bipartite graph.
Inclusive Education: Examining Equity on Five Continents.

Despite the impressive growth of inclusive education around the world, questions and considerations about equity have been neglected. This edited volume makes a major contribution to the field of inclusive education by analyzing equity concerns that have emerged from the implementation of inclusive education models in nine nations on five continents. The authors examine how disparate approaches to inclusive education are mediated by the official and implicit goals of public education; by access to intellectual, human, and material resources; and by collective understanding of and educational responses to sociocultural differences. Inclusive Education provides critical reviews of research on this important education reform movement, as well as a refined theoretical understanding of the ways equity is addressed. It also offers lessons for future policy and research that are mindful of equity. Contributors include Roey Ahram, Girma Berhanu, Gottfried Biewer, Ines Dussel, Alan Dyson, Brian Edgar, Petra Engelbrecht, Edward Fergus, Lisa Jones, Roger Jeffery, Kirstin Kerr, Jessica M. Loser, Mikael Luciak, Ray McDermott, Kagendo Mutua, Nidhi Singal, Beth Scarloss, Carlos Skliar, Beth Blue Swadener, and Rolf Werning. "
Soft measurement method of phase volume fraction for oil/water two-phase flow

For the conductance fluctuating signals measured from oil /water two-phase upward flow in a vertical pipe,11 feature selections reflectin g flow characteristics of oil/water two phase flow were extracted.The feature se lections in frequency domain were derived by using the linear prediction method of speech signal processing and the feature selections in time domain were deriv ed by the time series statistical analysis.All extracted features were taken as the input of artificial neural network, at the total flow rate ranging from 10 m 3·d-1 to 60 m3·d-1 and water cut from 51% to 91%, the predict ion model of artificial neural network based on the Levenbery-Marquardt algorit hm was used and good water cut prediction results of oil/water two-phase flow w ere obtained.This study provided a new way to measure the phase volume fraction of two phase flow by soft sensor.
Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility

The present paper deals with the population of the Seleukid settlements in order to ad- dress issues about the settlers' mobility and ethnic identity. By surveying the available evidence, this study aims in particular to understand the role played by non-Greek populations in the Se- leukid Empire, trying to go beyond the thesis of an apartheid-like regime in which those ethnic groups would be socially as well as politically isolated from the Greco-Macedonian settlers.
Carbon Dots Release from Biodegradable Coatings Deposited by Aerosol-Assisted Open-Air Plasma

Open-air aerosol-assisted plasma deposition has emerged as an efficient process to deposit innovative composite coatings. In this work, it was used to investigate biodegradable polymeric coatings loaded with carbon dots (CDs) for bioengineering and biomedical applications. The structure, composition, wettability, and biodegradation of these coatings depend on the precursors used, here methacrylic anhydride and ethylene glycol di-methacrylate. The effectiveness of the deposition was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron and Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopies, i.e., polymerization of vinyl groups and integrity of hydrolysable functions. The latter allow control the CDs release over time, which were homogenously distributed in the coating, as confirmed by electronic and confocal microscopies. Both coatings were found to be non-cytotoxic to human dermal fibroblasts. This one-step open-air acrylate-based plasma deposition strategy has enabled the tuning of the coating release profile and offers new perspectives for drug delivery applications.
SPATIAL - TEMPORAL CHANGE IN INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN BIHAR, INDIA

It is well known that Bihar is one of the demographic backward state having relatively high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and this has been suggested as the reason for the high fertility and i nfant mortality observed across the district. However, the study attempt to examine spatial temporal change in infant mortality and its determinants in Bihar. The district level estimates of IMR manifests that all districts have still high infant mortalit y. The infant mortality is higher in rural areas than that of urban areas over the period. Similar differences are observed across the educational groups. Infant mortality also varied largely across the economic groups, i.e. the poorest has higher IMR than richest. All most all background characteristics have experienced decline in IMR, while only schedule caste has experienced increased in IMR. The Cox proportional hazard risk is used to understand the significant predictors of IMR. Results evidenced that once again socio - economic variables such as education of mother and household economic status emerged as key predictors in case risk of infant mortality.
Overview on the research works in the field of environmental geography and human health

In the 1960s,the Institute of Geography called for chemical process research in physical geography and set up the first department on chemical geography in China.The department has participated in all earlier national programmes on environment,which has promoted the development of environmental sciences and technologies in China.The department also has led other institutes in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct the studies on the geographic pathogeny and controlling of Keshan disease,Kaschin-Beck disease and other endemics,which has enhanced the initiation and development of medical geography in China.In 2000,the institute redistributed the department from chemical geography to environmental geography,as well as from medical geography to health geography.The expanding research works include the ecological and health risk assessment of pollutants such as heavy metals,the health risks of global environmental change,the biogeochemical cycles of carbon,nitrogen and their relationships with greenhouse gas emissions.Sets of technologies on site pollution treatment and health protection have been developed.Further research into environmental geography and human health will focus on the chemical property of geographic environment,so as to probe into the interactions among environment,human health and socio-economic development,for human safety and sustainable development.
Chapter 4 Bathy-morphological setting of the Aeolian Islands

Abstract An updated bathy-morphological setting of the Aeolian Islands is presented, based on new detailed bathymetric maps of the western, central and eastern sectors of the archipelago. In recent years, the acquisition of multibeam swath bathymetry has greatly expanded knowledge of the submarine portions of the Aeolian volcanic edifices, revealing that their submarine extension is much wider than that of the islands. Indications given by the submarine setting are fundamental for better understanding of the evolution of volcanism and the control exerted by main structural lineaments, as well as to locate large-scale flank instability events and recent submarine eruptive activity. DVD: Bathymetric maps of the eastern, central and western sectors are included on the DVD in the printed book and can also be accessed online at http://www.geolsoc. org.uk/Memoir37-electronic
Environmental and Socio-Economic impacts of Drought from the viewpoint of Guilan Paddy farmers, North of Iran

A comprehensive assessment of drought environmental and socio-economic impacts provides critical information to rational decisions supporting drought mitigation policies and programs. The objectives of this study were to survey environmental and socio-economic impacts of drought in Guilan Province, and prioritize them from the viewpoint of paddy farmers. This study was a descriptive-correlation study, and a questionnaire was the main tool used. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by a panel of experts. The reliability of the questionnaires using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 85%. The statistical population was the farmers whose basic profession was production of rice and who faced drought according to the information of Agricultural Organization (Jihad-e-Keshavarzi) in 2009. By using the proportional stratified sample method, 270 of these individuals were chosen to complete the questionnaires. The results indicated that drought, in addition to reducing the white-rice production to 312 kg per hectare, also caused some environmental and socio-economic impacts from the viewpoint of paddy farmers. Prioritizing impacts of drought were economic, environmental and social respectively. Other findings indicated that there were no statistically significant relationships between age and environmental and social impacts and between land ownership type and economic and social impacts. But, there was a statistically significant relationship between age and literacy level and economic impacts, literacy level and social and environmental impacts and between land ownership types and environmental impacts of drought.
Mapping wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: Integrating remote sensing, GIS, and biophysical modeling

Fuel maps are essential for computing spatial fire hazard and risk and simulating fire growth and intensity across a landscape. However, fuel mapping is an extremely difficult and complex process requiring expertise in remotely sensed image classification, fire behavior, fuels modeling, ecology, and geographical information systems (GIS). This paper first presents the challenges of mapping fuels: canopy concealment, fuelbed complexity, fuel type diversity, fuel variability, and fuel model generalization. Then, four approaches to mapping fuels are discussed with examples provided from the literature: (1) field reconnaissance; (2) direct mapping methods; (3) indirect mapping methods; and (4) gradient modeling. A fuel mapping method is proposed that uses current remote sensing and image processing technology. Future fuel mapping needs are also discussed which include better field data and fuel models, accurate GIS reference layers, improved satellite imagery, and comprehensive ecosystem models.
Do the Right Thing : The E ¤ ects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation

The use of moral appeals to a¤ect the behavior of others is pervasive (from the pulpit to ethics classes) but little is known about the e¤ects of moral suasion on behavior. In a series of experiments we study whether moral suasion a¤ects behavior in voluntary contribution games and the mechanisms by which behavior is altered. We nd that observing a message with a moral standard according to the golden rule or, alternatively, utilitarian philosophy, results in a signi cant but transitory increase in contributions above the levels observed for subjects that did not receive a message or received a message that advised them to contribute without a moral rationale. When players have the option of punishing each other after the contribution stage, the e¤ect of the moral messages on contributions becomes persistent: punishments and moral messages interact to sustain cooperation. We also investigate the mechanisms through which moral suasion operates and nd it a¤ects both expectations and preferences. JEL codes: C9, H41. Keywords: moral suasion, morality, cooperation, public goods, ethics. For useful comments and suggestions we thank Alberto Alesina, Rachel Croson, Erik Eyster, Botond Koszegi, John Morgan, Santiago Oliveros, Parag Pathak, Louis Putterman, Matthew Rabin, Steve Tadelis, Dustin Tingley, as well as seminar and conference participants at Berkeley, FSU, Harvard/MIT, Brown, UCLA and Ecole Polytechnique. We thank Pantelis Solomon and Justin Tumlinson for research assistance as well as Berkeleys XLab for nancial and logistic support.
Analysis of the Mw 4.3 Lorient earthquake sequence: a multidisciplinary approach to the geodynamics of the Armorican Massif, westernmost France

SUMMARY A Mw 4.3 earthquake occurred on 2002 September 30, in the Armorican Massif, NW France. Since it was one of the largest events ever recorded in this region, this was the opportunity to improve our seismotectonic knowledge of the Armorican Massif. We performed a post-seismic survey (SISBREIZH), which allowed us to locate accurately 62 aftershocks within 14 days. An analysis of the main shock using broadband records provided a normal fault mechanism with a dextral strike-slip component located at 12-km depth. The aftershock sequence exhibits: (1) a combination of almost pure right-lateral strike-slip and dominant normal faulting similar to the main shock; (2) magnitudes ranging from 0.4 to 1.9 and (3) depths ranging from 11.5 to 13.5 km, that is, close to the main shock hypocenter. The distribution of the aftershocks defines a rupture plane dipping 60° to the south with a fault length of ≈2 km consistent with the source parameters of the main shock. Beside the SISBREIZH survey, a morpho-structural analysis has been conducted: we found fault plane solutions with southward-dipping N120–150 normal fault planes. The stress tensor computed after the aftershock focal mechanisms is a strike-slip regime with a NE–SW extensional direction. The Lorient earthquake appears to reactivate Late Hercynian structures and the whole sequence is reflecting the regional-scale tectonic stress field expressed by a combination of strike-slip and normal faulting.
Lakes of the Warm Belt

Preface Introduction Part I. The General Features of the Warm Belt: 1. Geodynamic history of the Warm Belt 2. Climatological features of the Warm Belt 3. Hydrology Part II. The Aquatic Ecosystem of the Warm Belt: 4. South America 5. Central America 6. Africa 7. Middle East 8. South-East Asia 9. Australia Part III. The Dynamic Processes in Lakes of the Warm Belt: 10. Mechanisms and patterns of circulation 11. Water chemistry 12. Biological diversity 13. Food webs: case studies Appendix Bibliography Index.
MINAT PENGGUNAAN ULANG LAYANAN DIGITAL BANKING DENGAN TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM)

The rapid development of technology forces conventional banks or commercial banks to adopt digital technology in their business. Bank BTPN is one of the banks in Indonesia that has implemented digital technology in its services. Bank BTPN launched a digital banking product called Jenius. Jenius is a digital banking platform equipped with a VISA card that can help BTPN bank customers carry out financial activities via smartphones so that customers have control over their money and financial arrangements. This research was conducted to analyze behavioral intentions in using the Jenius digital banking platform services using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) method. The indicator variables used are perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, brand image, co-creation, and attitude toward using. The results of this study are that brand image and attitude toward using have a significant direct effect on behavior intention to use, and attitude toward using are influenced by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and co-creation.
The Implementation of the PNIEB's Language Teaching Methodology in Schools in Sonora 1

In this article we present findings from a qualitative study on the implementation of the Programa Nacional de Ingles en Educacion Basica (PNIEB), specifically in relation to the teaching methodology used in schools in Sonora from 2010 to 2012. Data for the study was collected through open interviews with program coordinators, school principals, English teachers, parents, and 6 th grade students. The state of Sonora, as other states in the country, had an English program in its public primary schools prior to the PNIEB. The teaching methodology in the state program was based on communicative language teaching and was characterized by different practices and issues. In 2010, a transition began to the national program which is based on a sociocultural perspective where social practices of the language and specific competencies have been defined as a basis for teacher’s planning, teaching and evaluation. Results from the study indicate that the coexistence and transition between programs brought about new teaching scenarios and challenges. In this article we describe some of the methodological practices identified during this time and some issues surrounding the application of the PNIEB’s framework and methodology in this context. Resumen En este articulo se presentan resultados de una investigacion de corte cualitativo sobre la implementacion del Programa Nacional de Ingles en Educacion Basica, especificamente en relacion a la metodologia de ensenanza usada en las primarias publicas en Sonora del 2010 a 2012. El levantamiento de datos se realizo a traves de entrevistas con preguntas abiertas a coordinadores de programa, directores, profesores de ingles, padres de familia y alumnos de 6to grado. Sonora, como otros estados del pais, contaba con un programa de ingles previo al PNIEB. La metodologia de ensenanza en el programa estatal se basaba en el enfoque comunicativo y se caracterizaba por una serie de practicas y tematicas relacionadas. En el 2010 inicio la transicion al programa nacional, el cual se sustenta en la perspectiva sociocultural y delimita practicas sociales del lenguaje y competencias especificas como base para la planeacion, ensenanza y evaluacion. Los resultados del estudio indican que la coexistencia y transicion entre programas originaron nuevos escenarios y retos para la ensenanza del ingles. En este articulo describimos algunas de las practicas metodologicas identificadas durante este tiempo, asi como diversas tematicas relacionadas con la implementacion del PNIEB y su enfoque metodologico en este contexto.
A CATCH RATE INDEX OF YELLOWFIN TUNA (THUNNUS ALBACARES) FROM THE UNITED STATES RECREATIONAL FISHERY IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, 1986-2006

SUMMARY Catch and effort data from the U.S Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistical Survey (MFRSS) of the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico (excluding Texas) were used to construct indices of abundance for Yellowfin Tuna. Standardized catch rates were estimated using a Generalized Linear Mixed modeling approach assuming a delta-lognormal error distribution. The explanatory variables considered for standardization included: geographic area, season, and fishing mode (a factor that classifies recreational fishing as charter or private/rental boat). The index suggests that the catch rates of yellowfin vary annually, largely without trend. However, recent catch rates are higher than they were during the mid 1980s and early 1990s. RESUME
Simulating natural ventilation: coupling thermal and ventilation model.

Ventilation determines the indoor air quality and has a profound effect on the energy consumption and thermal (summer) comfort of buildings. Simulation of natural ventilation leads to the prediction and evaluation of these performances. Coupling ventilation network and thermal simulation models is necessary to simulate natural ventilation as the mass and energy balance are physically linked in a naturally ventilated building. Several ways of coupling exist, each having its own possibilities and difficulties. An example of sequentially coupling the thermal model Capsol and the ventilation network simulation software AIOLOS is discussed.