Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
State Funded Marketing and Promotional Activities to Support a State's Winery Business; Are There Economic Returns? A Case study using Texas Senate Bill 1370's support of the Texas Wine Industry

Texas wineries were surveyed regarding their participation in wine marketing activities, annual changes in gross sales, and level of sales growth attributed to Texas Department of Agriculture’s funding support. The response from the 93 registered Texas wineries was 53 wineries, which was a 57 percent response rate. Senate Bill 1370 allocated $725,000 for marketing and promotion of Texas wines. Combining the $725,000 with the normal funding of $250,000 creates $975,000 in annual support to the Texas wine industry to be used in marketing Texas wine. The most utilized funded activities are promotional materials and wineries attending TDA supported wine events. Ninety-two percent of Texas wineries recognized an increase in awareness for the Texas wine industry and attribute 49 percent of the increase to state marketing efforts and use of state funding. As previously mentioned, a portion of TDA marketing funds were directed towards supporting wine events in Texas attracting large numbers of consumers for promotional opportunities. Consumers attending these events were surveyed and one result found that 68 percent of consumers reported these events encouraged them to purchase more Texas wines. Annual economic impact results from all funding activities were $2.16 per $1 of funding of total direct sales increases, $3.93 per $1 of funding in economic impacts of increases in sales and $. 40 per $1 of funding in valued added impacts (based on IMPLAN Type II Economic Multiplier values). It is apparent that both direct and indirect economic results were positive towards program funding and created economic growth in local economies.
Characterization of the Retrocyclin Analogue RC-101 as a Characterization of the Retrocyclin Analogue RC-101 as a Preventative of Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization Preventative of Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization

Nasal colonization of Staphylococcus aureus is a risk factor for pathogenic autoinfection, particularly in postoperative patients and the immunocompromised. As such, standardized preoperative nasal decolonization of S. aureus has become a major consideration for the prevention of nosocomial infection. However, only a few treatment options for nasal decolonization are currently available, with resistance to these approaches already a concern. Here we have identiﬁed the macrocyclic (cid:1) -defensin analogue RC-101 as a promising anti-S. aureus agent for nasal decolonization. RC-101 exhibits bactericidal effects against S. aureus with the use of in vitro epithelium-free systems, while also preventing the pathogen’s proliferation and attachment in an ex vivo human nasal epithelial cell adhesion model and an organotypic model of human airway epithelia. Peptide concentrations as low as 2.5 (cid:2) M elicited signiﬁcant reductions in S. aureus growth in epithelium-free systems, with 10 (cid:2) M concentrations being completely bactericidal for all strains tested, including USA300. In ex vivo nasal colonization models, RC-101 signiﬁcantly reduced adherence, survival, and proliferation of S. aureus on human nasal epithelia. Reductions in S. aureus viability were evident in these assays,
Effects of chaotic advection on the timescales of cooling and crystallization of magma bodies at mid crustal levels

We numerically define the thermochemical evolution of a subduction‐related crystal‐bearing magmatic mass at mid crustal levels (0.7 GPa, 20–25 km). Two main dynamic mechanisms are considered: (1) a pure buoyancy‐driven system where the convective flow is induced by density changes during magma cooling; (2) a buoyancy‐driven convective system governed by chaotic advection. The non‐Newtonian rheology of natural magmas is taken into account linking the Herschel‐Bulkley formulation with the results of fractional crystallization experiments of magmas with the same composition and at the same conditions of temperature and pressure of the studied system. The latent heat of crystallization is also considered in order to address the thermal release in the system induced by the crystallization. Results indicate that the development of chaotic advection generates a complex thermochemical evolution of the system speeding up the crystallization process and the timing required to reach the jamming condition relative to the pure buoyancy‐driven convective system (nearly 2 times faster). Our results have important implications for both the rheological history of the magmatic body and the refilling of shallower magmatic systems. In particular, (1) a time‐dependent composition ranging from basalt to andesite can be extracted from an initial basaltic magmatic batch; (2) at the attainment of the maximum packing fraction (i.e., just before the jamming condition), homogeneous andesitic melts can be potentially extracted from the system; and (3) the development of chaotic advection within the system allows for the extraction of andesitic melt in shorter times compared to a buoyancy‐dominated system.
Developing a high quality intercultural relationship: expatriates and their local host

Purpose - – The qualitative study examines the development of purposely created interpersonal relationships in an intercultural context. Contact with a local host is a way of helping expatriates deal with the challenges of an international assignment. Since the quality of contact with the host is pivotal to benefit most from this experience, the purpose of this paper is to examine which factors influence contact quality. Design/methodology/approach - – The authors conducted a case study analysis of 33 expatriates and ten accompanying partners who were put in touch with a local host, with whom they undertook a broad range of activities during a period of nine months. Findings - – Nine factors influenced the development of the contact (similarities, motivation, benefits, anxiety, expectations, busy schedules, suboptimal timing, communication breakdown, and cultural differences). Key factors were similarities, motivation, and benefits. Research limitations/implications - – While some of the factors (e.g. similarities) are predictable according to the Social Penetration Theory, four factors were uniquely applicable to purposely created relationships such as contact with a local host: motivation, expectations, anxiety, and suboptimal timing. Practical implications - – The study provides suggestions that could stimulate the contact with a local host, making the intervention more valuable for organisations who wish to support their expatriates in this way. Originality/value - – This longitudinal study is one of the first to examine in detail the process of development of purposely created interpersonal relationships in an intercultural context. Furthermore, the study is new because it also examines unsuccessful relationships.
Computing and Selecting-E ffi cient Solutions of { 0 , 1 }-Knapsack Problems

This work deals with the computation and the selection of approximate – or -efficient – solutions of {0, 1}-knapsack problems. By allowing approximate solutions in general a much larger variety of possibilities for the underlying problem is offered to the decision maker while the potential loss of these almost efficient solutions compared to related efficient ones can be adjusted a priori, depending on the given application. In this paper, we propose a novel population based stochastic algorithm for the computation of the entire set of -efficient solutions, state a convergence result, and address the related decision making problem. For the latter we propose an interactive selection process which is intended to help the decision maker to understand the landscape of the obtained solutions.
THE IMPACT OF NATURAL DISASTERS ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL IN MEXICO December , 2008

This paper seeks to analyze the impact of natural events on social indicators at the municipal level in Mexico. We focus on the impact of such events on indicators such as the human development index and different poverty levels. We control for a set of geographical and natural characteristics of location which may make more prone for occurrence of these events. We also control for a set of precondition institutional, economic and demographic characteristics to control for heterogeneity. Using an adjusted difference-in-difference regression with data for 2000 and 2005, results show a significant decrease of social indicators for general events, and especially for flood and droughts.
A PROFESSIONAL REVIEW FOR INTEGRATION OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS INTO FEWS NET DECISION SUPPORT

The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) provides early warning support to decision makers responsible for anticipating and responding to famine and food insecurity events. This early warning system utilizes a variety of data types, including satellite remote sensing data, to assess climatic hazards that threaten adverse impacts to the food security of agricultural and pastoralist livelihoods. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has recently funded activities to enhance remote sensing inputs to FEWS NET. A professional review was conducted to elicit Earth observation requirements for FEWS NET. It focused upon operational requirements of FEWS NET end-users to determine qualities of useful remote sensing data and data products. In this manner, properties of certain biophysical predictions that would be beneficial as FEWS NET supplementary inputs could be ascertained. Reviewers were asked to evaluate the importance of environmental variables and spatiotemporal requirements for Earth science data inputs, particularly for rainfall and vegetation products. The review was implemented in 2007 as an online questionnaire and was completed by more than 40 experts from around the world. This professional review questionnaire was shown to be a viable tool for the rapid derivation, compilation, and analysis of requirements necessary to enhance FEWS NET. Overall, information related to both rainfall and vegetation remotely sensed data and data products were valued most highly for providing actionable food security information. Notionally, the incorporation of this information will enhance this decision making system.
Centrifuge modelling of the influence of slope height on the seismic performance of rooted slopes

This paper presents an investigation into the influence of slope height on the role of vegetation to improve seismic slope stability. Dynamic centrifuge modelling was used to test six slope models with identical soil properties and model slope geometry within different centrifugal acceleration fields (10g and 30g, respectively) representing 1:10 and 1:30 scale slopes, that is, slopes of different height at prototype scale. A three-dimensional (3D) root cluster analogue representing a tap-root system, with root area ratio, root distribution and root length representative of a 1:10 and 1:30 scale tree root cluster (of rooting depth 1·5 m at prototype scale) was modelled using 3D printing techniques. A sequence of earthquake ground motions was applied to each model. The influences of filtering out low-frequency components of the earthquake motion, such as was necessitated at the lowest scaling factor owing to the practical limitations of the earthquake simulator, on dynamic amplification of motions within th.
Non-projective Dependency-based Pre-Reordering with Recurrent Neural Network for Machine Translation

The quality of statistical machine translation performed with phrase based approaches can be increased by permuting the words in the source sentences in an order which resembles that of the target language. We propose a class of recurrent neural models which exploit sourceside dependency syntax features to reorder the words into a target-like order. We evaluate these models on the Germanto-English language pair, showing significant improvements over a phrase-based Moses baseline, obtaining a quality similar or superior to that of hand-coded syntactical reordering rules.
More than just side effects: the role of clinical and psychosocial factors in non-adherence to tamoxifen

measure the proportion of variance Model fit also by the -2 Log Liklihood statistic (-2LL). Lower -2LL values superior model fit, if the addition of variables reduces the -2LL value, the improved the model fit. The reduction in the -2LL statistic for each step is represented by chi-squared. T-tests using Bonferroni correction were used to compare women in their first year of treatment to women who were later on in treatment.
High-Resolution Global Climate Simulations with the ECMWF Model in Project Athena: Experimental Design, Model Climate, and Seasonal Forecast Skill

AbstractThe sensitivity to the horizontal resolution of the climate, anthropogenic climate change, and seasonal predictive skill of the ECMWF model has been studied as part of Project Athena—an international collaboration formed to test the hypothesis that substantial progress in simulating and predicting climate can be achieved if mesoscale and subsynoptic atmospheric phenomena are more realistically represented in climate models.In this study the experiments carried out with the ECMWF model (atmosphere only) are described in detail. Here, the focus is on the tropics and the Northern Hemisphere extratropics during boreal winter. The resolutions considered in Project Athena for the ECMWF model are T159 (126 km), T511 (39 km), T1279 (16 km), and T2047 (10 km). It was found that increasing horizontal resolution improves the tropical precipitation, the tropical atmospheric circulation, the frequency of occurrence of Euro-Atlantic blocking, and the representation of extratropical cyclones in large parts of th.
The Influence of Climate and Grazing on Spring-Fall Sheep Range in Southern Idaho

Page Significance of spring-fall range studies 1 Study area 2 Methods of study 5 Climatic influences 7 Climate during the period of study 7 Influence of climate on grazing periods 11 Influence of climate on forage production. 14 Influence of climate on range sheep 16 Qrazinginfluences 21 Range depletion resulting from heavy continuous spring and late fall grazing 22 Depletion from heavy early spring and late fall grazing 25 Page Grazing influences—Continued. Depletion from heavy late spring and late fall grazing 27 Depletion from moderate late spring and heavy fall grazing 30 Range improvement from late fall grazing only. 32 Significance of range depletion through overgrazing. , 35 Range maintenance by conservative spring and fall grazing 36 Summary and conclusions 39 Literature cited _ 42
Inflammatory reaction induced by Floridosentis mugilis (Acanthocephala, Neoechinorhynchidae) in the intestine of Mugil liza

Lebranche mullet, Mugil liza , is an important economic resource and has been recommended for aquaculture in South America. Also, this is the only mullet that breeds in Argentina. In the course of our routine investigations on the parasitic fauna of fishes from brackish waters of Samborom-bón Bay, Buenos Aires province, an infection of acanthocephalan worms, identified as Floridosentis mugilis was observed in juvenile lebranche mullets. These parasites were attached deeply into the intestinal wall but without piercing it. In this study we analysed the intestinal damage that F . mugilis inflicts on their hosts through the evaluation of histological sections. In the pathological analysis we observed that these parasites cause a non-specific cellular response that leads to the degranula - tion of eosinophilic granular cells and, consequently, the formation of a fibrous core with oedema, vascular congestion, and lymphocytic infiltration.
Ammonoid Abundance Variations Related to Changes in Trophic Conditions Across the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d (Latest Albian, SE France)

Abstract Macrofauna abundance has been quantified across the Breistroffer interval (OAE 1d, Latest Albian) in the Vocontian basin (southeast France). This interval is characterized by a high abundance of ammonoids showing significant morphologic disparity. Twenty ammonoid genera are recognized and assigned to seven morphostructural groups. The aims of this study are to: (1) interpret abundance variations of ammonoid taxa in terms of taphonomic processes, sedimentary dilution, and paleoenvironmental factors; and (2) discuss the habitat and mode of life of some Late Albian ammonoids with respect to their morphology and abundance variations. Most variations in ammonoid absolute abundance are not the result of post-mortem shell transport. High abundance within the Breistroffer interval is due partly to a low accumulation rate, which is related to a maximum-flooding stage. The different trends observed among ammonoid taxa can be interpreted partly in terms of response to changes in trophic conditions inferred from the study of calcareous nannofossils. Heteromorphs, which are dominant during mesotrophic conditions, could have been more competitive than involute/evolute planispirals (normal coiling) when paleoenvironmental conditions become more unstable. Lechites (orthocone), the most abundant taxon, probably inhabited epipelagic, distal paleoenvironments. This genus, interpreted as a vertical migrant in the water column, would have been able to move up when trophic conditions were good in surface waters, and down in order to avoid oligotrophic surface waters and to exploit food-rich layers in deeper waters. Turrilitoides and Mariella (torticones) may have been quasiplanktic, and inhabited mainly neritic paleoenvironments. These forms could have occupied more distal paleoenvironments when mesotrophic conditions prevailed in the surface water column. Anisoceras and Hamites (quasiplanktic U-shaped heteromorphs) mainly lived in distal, epipelagic habitats, and could have been more competitive compared with the torticones when oligotrophic conditions prevailed in surface waters. Among involute/ evolute planispiral ammonoids, Mortoniceras probably had a deep-nektonic mode of life and inhabited the lower part of the epipelagic zone. A stylized panorama of some Late Albian ammonoid habitats is proposed.
Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Shallow Marine Macrofossil Assemblages in a Collisional Setting (Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene, Western Emilia, Italy)

Abstract The late Pliocene to early Pleistocene siliciclastic succession of western Emilia (northern Italy) forms part of the infill of the Po Plain-Adriatic foredeep, a collisional basin with active thrusting during deposition, and is characterized by 5-to-20-m-thick fining-upward sedimentary cycles. Late Pliocene cycles were deposited in an inner-to-middle shelf setting at the end of a long-term uplift-denudation cycle controlled by tectonics. Cycles are characterized by shell beds of biogenic origin, particularly abundant in the middle of each cycle. The stacking pattern of paleocommunities, with particular reference to their paleodepths, reflects that each cycle is the product of sea-level variation. In particular, early transgressive deposits are marked by a Nuculana community, indicating a shelly-sand bottom of the inner shelf; late transgressive deposits and the condensed section are marked by a shelly bottom Timoclea community developed at times of lowered clastic input; highstand deposits are characterized by a muddy soft bottom Pinna community. The situation changed near the boundary of the early Pleistocene, when a new uplift-denudation cycle started, renewing sediment availability and increasing the slope of the nearby mountain front. Local climatic conditions periodically triggered the sudden delivery on the shallow shelf of large amounts of sediment through hyperpycnal flows and related turbidity currents generated by catastrophic river floods. Sandy shelfal lobes form the lower reaches of the delta front. These are characterized by densely packed shell beds and the occurrence of echinoderm obrution deposits. Recurring sedimentological assemblages from sandstones, characterized by the sandy bottom Spisula and Ditrupa communities, and in situ faunas from intervening mudstones, characterized by the muddy-bottom, hypoxic Arctica (and Corbula? ) community, suggest that the lower part of a cycle formed during deglaciation following glacial maxima, at times of high input of freshwater and river-borne nutrients and high summer pelagic productivity. Mudstones from the upper part of the cycle, with dispersed remains of the muddy-bottom Venus community, indicate return to full interglacial conditions and to humid, low seasonality climates. Thus, early Pleistocene cycles could be correlative to sapropel-non sapropel cycles typical of the eastern Mediterranean deep water successions. Moreover, the western Emilia fossil and sedimentary records suggest that cyclic deposition was controlled by factors other than eustasy, providing a case study for future sequence stratigraphic modeling in active tectonic settings.
Stress in western Canada from regional moment tensor analysis

More than 180 regional moment tensor (RMT) solutions for moderate-sized earthquakes (M ≥ 4) are used to examine the contemporary stress regime of western Canada and provide valuable information relating to earthquake hazard analysis. The overall regional stress pattern shows mainly NE–SW-oriented P axes for most of western Canada with local variations. In the northern cordillera, the maximum compressive stress direction (σ1) varies from east–west to north–south to NE–SW from south to north. The stress direction σ1 is consistent with the P axis direction for the largest earthquakes, except in the central and northern Mackenzie Mountains where there is a 16° difference. The Yakutat collision zone shows a steady change in σ1 from east–west in the east to north–south in the west. In the Canada – United States border region, RMT solutions suggest a north–south compressional regime may extend through southern British Columbia and northern Washington to the eastern Cordillera. In the Vancouver Island – Puget Sou.
Observed interannual variability of zonal currents in the equatorial Indian Ocean thermocline and their relation to Indian Ocean Dipole

Interannual variability of zonal currents in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean thermocline is significantly correlated with sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern pole of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). This relationship is more significant than for zonal currents and the Dipole Mode Index, the latter of which measures zonal SST anomaly gradient. The variability of zonal currents in the thermocline is consistent with the variations of eastward pressure gradient force in the thermocline and the equatorward geostrophic thermocline flows associated with the shallow meridional overturning circulations in the eastern tropical Indian Ocean. Our analysis suggests a positive feedback between zonal currents in the thermocline and SST in the eastern pole of IOD. The combination of equatorial wind and off‐equatorial wind stress curls associated with SST anomalies in the eastern pole of the IOD drives interannual variability in equatorial zonal thermocline flows and its covariability with the shallow meridional overturning cells.