Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Utilization of 3-d Models for Enhancing Facial Recognition over Various Angles

Aalgorithms for facial recognition PCA (Principal component analysis) encounter a dramatic performance decline when analyzing photos taken from various angles. As part of this research, a 3-D model was utilized for the sake of improving abovementioned performance. This model enables us to convert an image of somebody’s face, which was taken from a specific angle to another face. Model was tested using biometric database created on Belgrade University. Picture rotation according to model was performed before comparing with the specimen pictures from the database. Results of this study have shown accuracy in regards to biometric verification, where identification percentage has been drastically improved.
GPS Precipitable Water Vapor Dataset for Climate Science

A novel project (GPS pRecipitable wAter reSearch Project) GRASP has been launched to investigate variations of precipitable water vapor caused by the climate change. The water vapor is one of the greenhouse gases, which is more effective than CO2, so it is important to observe water vapor change for a long period. More than 1,000 points stationary data of GPS were collected globally from International GNSS Services and GPS Earth Observation Network System (GEONET) in Japan over 15 years from 1996 through 2010. Atmospheric zenith total delay (ZTD) caused by refractivity of pressure, temperature, and water vapor pressure is estimated by the GPS processing software RTNet, where fiducial coordinate of GPS position is estimated periodically in a month to absorb any un-modeled and site-specific biases. Sophisticated seamless processing is performed every month to prevent jumps of ZTD solution in day boundary as observed in historical ZTD database. The estimated ZTD is converted to precipitable water vapor (PWV) by metrological data derived from Japan Meteorological Agency or reanalysis data of NOAA with high-temporal resolution (CFSR) that have been performed altitude correction. The temporal resolution of some product is relatively high with 10 min, which is applicable to climate research within a day such as diurnal circulation of water vapor. The greatest advantage of GPS precipitable water includes high temporal resolution and high accuracy of absolute value, comparing with other data of water vapor (Radiosonde, water vapor radiometer, lidar, SSM/I, etc.). Furthermore, the dataset of GPS precipitable water will be released to public by WWW. It could not only be important information to understand behavior of long-term water vapor variability and circulation, but also to be helpful to further explain mechanism of heavy rainfall cases affected by the climate change with addition of the high quality precipitable water vapor information.
Progress in Dendroclimatic Studies in Indonesia

A 416-year (1514-1929) tree-ring width chronology of teak (Tectona grandis L.F.) from Cepu, Central Java, Indonesia (111°35'E,7°06'S), first published by Berlage over 60 years ago, remains one of the few high-resolution paleoclimatic archives available for the western equatorial Pacific. Here we present an update of this chronology from 1880-1991, which extends the original series by 63 years. As was found for the original Berlage record, the updated chronology is correlated positively with rainfall and inversely with sea level pressure during the dry monsoon season (around May to October) just prior to the period of growth in Java. This teak record is also related to several indices of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), including sea level pressure at Darwin, Australia, Wright's rainfall index for the equatorial Pacific, and the Quinn historical record of ENSO. The years 1737 and 1925,rated as strong ENSO events by Quinn, are ranked among the three lowest index years in the Berlage teak record.1967,which is not considered to bean ENSO year, has the lowest ring width index in the updated series from1880-1991,and the lowest dry season rainfall on record for Jakarta, Indonesia (since 1869). The dry monsoon drought during the extreme 1982-83 ENSO event (although devastating for much of Indonesia) was not unusually severe based on either the tree-ring or Jakarta rainfall records.
The Volume of Commerce Enigma

For more than ten years, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has enjoyed a sustained period of astronomical fines against corporate antitrust defendants. Before 1994, the record for the largest corporate fine ever imposed for a single Sherman Act count stood at $6 million.1 Since 1995, there have been at least fifty-six Sherman Act violations yielding corporate fines of at least $10 million, with eleven of those yielding fines of $100 million or more.2 In 1999, F. HoffmanLa Roche was fined $500 million for its participation in the vitamins cartel, and the last few years have seen fines of $300 million to Samsung, British Airways, and Korean Air.3 More astronomical fines are surely on the horizon. In large part, the Division’s success in obtaining these huge fines is due to the alternative fine provision in 18 U.S.C. Section 3571, which arguably allows the Division to obtain fines in excess of the Sherman Act maximum—now $100 million—up to “twice the gross gain or loss caused by the conspiracy. ”4 But while this statute and the Sherman Act define the uppermost limit for corporate fines, they do not prescribe the mechanism for determining the actual fine in any given case. For that, the Division uses the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG) in the same way today as it did before the Supreme Court’s Booker decision, which made the USSG advisory.5 The fine calculation for corporations is a multi-step process. The first step is determining the “base fine. ” USSG Section 2R1.1 sets the base fine at “20 percent of the volume of affected comThe Antitrust Source, June 2008. © 2008 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.
Inversión Extranjera Directa en Chile: Mecanismos de Ingreso y Compilación para la Balanza de Pagos

There are currently two data sources used to measure foreign direct investment in Chile: one is Chapter XIV of the Central Bank of Chile and the other is the Decree Law 600, managed by the Foreign Investment Committee. This paper describes their main aspects, the reconciliation and trends of both figures, in order to produce the Chilean Balance of Payments under the guidelines of the International Monetary Fund Manual. Finally, the evolution of the investment flows into the country through each channel mentioned above is analyzed.
Satisfaction, Inertia, and Customer Loyalty in the Varying Levels of the Zone of Tolerance and Alternative Attractiveness

The main aim of the present research is to investigate influence of satisfaction, inertia on customer loyalty regarding to moderating role of the Zone of Tolerance (ZOT) and Alternative Attractiveness (AA); This survey studied mobile phone industry and The model consists of satisfaction, inertia, switching barriers, trust and commitment as independent variables and customer loyalty as dependent variable and also zone of tolerance and alternative attractiveness as moderating variables. In this research, for collecting the data relevant to the under studied variable, a standardized questionnaire in the international researches was used and for studying the relationship between the research variables and hypothesis test, the path analysis model have been used. The conceptual model and hypothesis are tested using Structural Equation Models (SEM). Findings also indicate that customer inertia has a positive and significant impact on customer loyalty. In addition, as satisfaction increases, customer loyalty increases. While, trust, commitment and switching barriers have not any impact on loyalty. Finally, in case of moderating variable, zone of tolerance not only strengthens the relationship between inertia and customer loyalty but also with wider ZOT reduces that of strengthen and alternative attractiveness have not effect on relationship between satisfaction and inertia with loyalty.
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Continuous CWB GPS Array in Taiwan and Applications to Monitoring Seismic Activity

GPS observations have revealed important information for studying active tectonics and plate motion and are a useful tool for monitoring crustal deformation. The CWB continuous GPS array consists of approximately 150 stations with dense spatial coverage throughout Taiwan and can be used not only to monitor crustal deformation and seismic activity, but also to analyze the earthquake precursors in Taiwan.
Effects of Holocene Climate Change on the Historical Demography of Migrating Sharp-shinned Hawks ( Accipiter Striatus Velox ) in North America

DNA sequences of the mitochondrial control region were analysed from 298 individual sharp-shinned hawks (Accipiter striatus velox) sampled at 12 different migration study sites across North America. The control region proved to be an appropriate genetic marker for identification of continental-scale population genetic structure and for determining the historical demography of population units. These data suggest that sharp-shinned hawks sampled at migration sites in North America are divided into distinct eastern and western groups. The eastern group appears to have recently expanded in response to the retreat of glacial ice at the end of the last glacial maximum. The western group appears to have been strongly effected by the Holocene Hypsithermal dry period, with molecular evidence indicating the most recent expansion following this mid-Holocene climatic event 7000 –5000 years before present.
Structure and evolution of the intracratonic basins of central Australia

Summary. The central Australian geology is dominated by a series of parallel sedimentary intracratonic basins whose history spans time from the Late Proterozoic to the Carboniferous. The basins are separated by regions of exposed Proterozoic crust that have a history of significant uplift. The formation of the basins cannot be explained by conventional thermal or stretching mechanisms. Nor does the foreland basin model provide an adequate explanation for their occurrence. The geophysical observations, particularly gravity, point to a structure whereby the crust is considerably thicker under the basins than it is under the regions where basement rock is exposed. This suggests that the crust as a whole is involved in the process that led to the basin formation. A mechanical model is developed which is based on the supposition that the lithosphere has been in a state of horizontal compression for long time intervals, The lithosphere is considered as a viscoelastic plate that has been subjected to a small normal load, distributed in an irregular manner. Under compression, initial deflections due to this load are magnified according to the plate’s physical properties, the magnitude of the compressive force, and the wavelength spectrum of the initial perturbations. Because of the viscosity, the deflections grow with time at a rate that is determined by the balance of forces acting on the plate and by the lithosphere’s rheology. Both the elastic and viscous deformations are much enhanced if erosion of the uplifted areas occurs, with the sediments deposited into the downwarps. These deformations take place at stresses that are much less than the buckling stresses. As bending stresses increase with time, failure by thrust faulting is predicted to occur within the basins, with the exposed basement being thrust over the basins. The model has been applied to the central Australian region starting at about 900Myr ago. The first basins to develop are the Officer and Amadeus Basins with uplift occurring in the intervening Musgrave Block. Initial rates of uplift and basin subsidence are small but they can increase rapidly with time if the compressive force is main
COMPARISON OF SUCRALFATE AND HYDROCORTISONE ENEMAS IN TREATMENT OF ACTIVE ULCERATIVE PROCTITIS; A DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

Sucralfate enema has been proposed and investigated in treatment of ulcerative proctitis, but its efficacy is still a matter of debate. Hydrocortisone enema is still an established drug in treatment of ulcerative proctitis. This study was designed to compare the effect of sucralfate enema with hydrocortisone enema. Patients with active sigmoidoscopic and histologic features of ulcerative proctitis were included. All patients had clinical manifestations of proctitis for at least four weeks prior to the study and had negative parasitic stool culture. The total of 25 patients entered the study. They were randomly divided in two groups; group I (n =14) and group II (n = 11) who received sucralfate and hydrocortisone enemas respectively for 4 weeks. Both groups had a significant improvement in clinical features, histologic activity and sigmoidoscopic evaluation in comparison with the baseline. Furthermore there was no significant differences between the two groups concerning mean changes of clinical, sigmoidoscopic, and histologic grading, after treatment. Considering the low cost and minimal adverse effects of sucralfate, and almost equal efficacy in comparison with hydrocortisone enema, its usage can be recommended.
Petrology and Geochemistry of Granitoids of the Northern Part of Adamawa Massif, N.E Nigeria

The granitoids of the northern part of Adamawa Massif in northeastern Nigeria have been differentiated based on field and petrochemical data into the granodiorite and granites. Although there are slight mineralogical and geochemical differences between the granodiorite and the granites (e.g. Rb/Sr ratios lower in granodiorite than the granites), the two rock units have similar geochemical characteristics. The rocks are characterized by a wide range in SiO2, Calc-alkaline affinity, syn- to within-plate granite signatures, metaluminous to peraluminous composition and more K2O-rich and hypersthenes-poor comparable to fractionated I-type granitoids. The rocks display slightly fractionated to fractionated LREE, almost flat HREE patterns, with significant negative EU and Ba anomalies, Linear major element trends and progressive rise in SiO2, K2O, Rb and Rb/Sr ratios with depleting MgO, Fe2O3, CaO, TiO2, Sr and Ba consistent with removal of plagioclase during fractionation of basic melts to yield silicic magma. This linear trend is reflected in the normative mineralogy where orthoclase and quartz increase from granodiorite to the granites whereas other minerals behave in a reverse manner. Based on field and petrochemical features, the granodiorites and the granites of south Adamawa Massif are I-type, generated in a syn- to within-plate collision-related tectonic setting and genetically related to a common source by fractional crystallization dominated by the removal from the melt hornblende, plagioclase, biotite, K-feldspar and accessory phases such as apatie, epidote and zircon.
Microbial activity and bacterial community structure during degradation of microcystins

Degradation of realistic microcystin concentrations in lake water with indigenous bac- teria was studied in laboratory and field experiments following inoculation with lysed toxic algal material containing microcystin primarily from Microcystis sp. or purified commercial microcystin-LR to microcosms. It was hypothesised that the bacterial community from a lake with frequent occur- rence of toxic cyanobacteria can degrade microcystin along with other organic compounds. The ini- tial dissolved microcystin concentrations ranged between 10 and 136 µg l -1 (microcystin-LR equiva- lents) in the laboratory experiment, using toxic natural algal material from 3 lakes and purified microcystin-LR, and between 2 and 54 µg l -1 in the field experiment, using toxic natural algal mater- ial and material from a highly toxic culture. Lysed material from a non-toxic algal culture (Scenedesmus sp.) was included in the latter experiment to evaluate the effects of organic lysates on bacterial proliferation in the absence of microcystin. An exponential decline of the dissolved toxins was observed in all cases with toxins present, and the degradation rates ranged between 0.5 and 1.0 d -1 . No lag phases were observed but slow initial degradation rates occurred in 2 out of 7 cases. Microcystin was almost eliminated from the water after around 8 d. Results from concomitant mea- surements of bacterial abundance and net production showed an elevated bacterial activity within 1 to 2 d after the inoculation with algal lysates including microcystins, and this resulted in a net accu- mulation of bacterial cells. The heterotrophic nanoflagellates responded quickly to the bacterial growth and probably consumed a considerable amount of the bacteria. The microbial activities returned to initial values within 5 to 6 d as the toxins and other dissolved organic substrates (mea- sured as dissolved organic carbon (DOC)) were degraded. The degradation of DOC correlated with the degradation of microcystin, which suggests that these processes are coupled. The diversities of the bacterial communities from the laboratory and field microcosm experiments were analysed by polymerase chain reaction-density gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) of 16S rDNA, which showed that the indigenous bacterial community responded quickly to the addition of lysates. Our study confirms that bacteria can efficiently degrade microcystins in natural waters with previous cyanobacterial histories and that the degradation process can run quickly and without lag phases.
Metacognitive Therapy, Neurofeedback and Treatment With Fluvoxamine on Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Background: Due to the lack of enough researches on the impaired underlying mechanisms in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and also existence of new psychological therapies such as metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback, the application of mentioned mechanisms in the new therapies can be introduced as a possible effective option with more long term effects to treat
Detection and Analysis of Coherent Structures within and above Tall-vegetated Canopies

This study applies acoustic sounding to observe coherent structures in the proximity of tall vegetated surfaces. Data were collected on 22 days of measurements during two different field experiments in the summer 2003. A quality control scheme was developed to ensure high data quality of the collected time series. The data analysis was done using the wavelet transform. Coherent structures were successfully observed in the vertical wind and the backscatter intensity. They can be subdivided into small-scale events with typical time scales of 20 s 30 s and largescale events with typical time scales of 190 s 210 s. Both were found to coexist close to the canopy, but show different temporal and spatial patterns. The small-scale coherent structures are dominant, constantly present and most likely generated by dynamical instabilities originating from the inflected wind profile. The large-scale coherent structures show an intermittent occurrence, largely vary with incoming solar radiation and are thus assumed to be generated by thermal processes. The maximum height of the roughness sublayer was estimated to 5 times the canopy height.
Using Disulﬁde Bond Engineering To Study Conformational Changes in the (cid:2)(cid:3) 260–309 Coiled-Coil Region of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase during (cid:4) 70 Binding

RNA polymerase of Escherichia coli is the sole enzyme responsible for mRNA synthesis in the cell. Upon binding of a sigma factor, the holoenzyme can direct transcription from speciﬁc promoter sequences. We have previously deﬁned a region of the (cid:1) (cid:1) subunit ( (cid:1) (cid:1) 260–309, amino acids 260 to 309) which adopts a coiled-coil conformation shown to interact with (cid:2) 70 both in vitro and in vivo. However, it was not known if the coiled-coil conformation was maintained upon binding to (cid:2) 70 . In this work, we engineered a disulﬁde bond within (cid:1) (cid:1) 240-309 that locks the (cid:1) (cid:1) coiled-coil region in the coiled-coil conformation, and we show that this “locked” peptide is able to bind to (cid:2) 70 . We also show that the locked coiled-coil is capable of inducing a conformational change within (cid:2) 70 that allows recognition of the (cid:3) 10 nontemplate strand of DNA. This suggests that the coiled-coil does not adopt a new conformation upon binding (cid:2) 70 or upon recognition of the (cid:3) 10 nontemplate strand of DNA. The DNA-dependent RNA polymerase cysteine a predicted disulﬁde (cid:9) 90° optimal for a disulﬁde bond). An overexpression vector containing (cid:2)(cid:3) 240-309 with the L268C and L306C mutations was created through QuikChange mutagenesis (Stratagene) using plasmid pTA545 as a template. The L268C mutation was by the upper primer 5 (cid:3) TCTGACCTGAACGATT and the L306C mutation was by the (cid:3) se-quencing the region to rule out secondary mutations may during BL21(DE3)pLysS
Substrate recognition through modular domains : protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 and tail-specific protease (TSP) /

The nature of two domain regulated enzymes Tail-specific protease (Tsp) from E. coli and SHP-1 protein tyrosine phosphatase from humans has been examined. Tail specific protease (Tsp) is a periplasmic enzyme which selectively degrades proteins bearing a nonpolar C-terminus. To facilitate the study of this enzyme, a continuous tluorimetric assay using a fluorescence donor/quencher system, in which 5-[(2aminoethyl)amino]naphthalene-l-sulfonic acid (ED ANS) and 4-(4dimethylaminophenylazo)benzoic acid (DABCYL) are attached to the N-terminus and the lysyl side chain of peptide AARAAK-(6-aminocaproyl)2-ENYALAA. respectively was developed. Using this assay along with photoaffinity labeling, further analysis of the protease was carried out in which it was demonstrated that a PDZ domain mediates substrate recognition of Tsp. The use of a separate substrate recognition domain such as a PDZ domain may be a general mechanism for achieving selective protein degradation. In a similar manner. SH2 domains mediate the activity of SHP-1 and the specificity of theses domains holds the key to the functional activity of the enzyme. To closely analyze these domains and how they may direct the activity o f SHP-1. a synthetic phosphotvTosyl peptide library was constructed and screened for binding to both the SH2(N) and SH2(C) domains. The N-terminal SH2 domain is most selective for a leucine at the -2 position: at the C-terminal side of the pY residue, it can recognize two distinct classes of peptides with consensus sequences o f LXpY(M/F)X(F/M) and LXpYAXL (X = any amino acid), respectively. The C-terminal SH2 domain exhibits almost exclusive selectivitv' for peptides of the consensus sequence, (V/I/L)XpYAX(L/V). Several representative sequences selected from the library were individually synthesized and tested for binding to the SH2 domains by surface plasmon resonance and for their ability to stimulate the catalytic activity of SHP-1.
Katib: A Distributed General AutoML Platform on Kubernetes

Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) is a powerful mechanism to design and tune models. We present Katib, a scalable Kubernetes-native general AutoML platform that can support a range of AutoML algorithms including both hyperparameter tuning and neural architecture search. The system is divided into separate components, encapsulated as microservices. Each micro-service operates within a Kubernetes pod and communicates with others via well-defined APIs, thus allowing flexible management and scalable deployment at a minimal cost. Together with a powerful user interface, Katib provides a universal platform for researchers as well as enterprises to try, compare and deploy their AutoML algorithms, on any Kubernetes platform.