Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unramifiedness of weight one Hilbert Hecke algebras

We prove that the Galois pseudo-representation valued in the mod p^n parallel weight 1 Hecke algebra for GL(2) over a totally real number field F is unramified at a place above p if p-1 does not divide the ramification index at that place. A novel geometric ingredient is the construction and study, in the case when p ramifies in F, of generalised Theta-operators using Reduzzi-Xiao's generalised Hasse invariants, including especially an injectivity criterion in terms of minimal weights.
University of Birmingham Control of high-energy high-power densities storage devices by Li-ion battery and supercapacitor for fuel cell/photovoltaic hybrid power plant for autonomous system applications

Citation for published version (Harvard): Sikkabut, S, Mungporn, P, Ekkaravarodome, C, Bizon, N, Tricoli, P, Nahid-Mobarakeh, B, Pierfederici, S, Davat, B & Thounthong, P 2016, 'Control of high-energy high-power densities storage devices by Li-ion battery and supercapacitor for fuel cell/photovoltaic hybrid power plant for autonomous system applications', IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, no. 99. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2016. 2581138
Against the Ethnicisation of Regional Territorial Minorities: Contribution from the Basque Experience in France

This chapter explains the Basque militant experience's new contribution to thinking about modern societies' cultural future in the context of increased globalisation/pluralisation of cultural values and language use. In the 2000s, opposition to Basque institutional claims is made up by two societies, the Citoyens-en-Adour- Pyrenees Vivre-Ensemble Association and the Lissagaray Circle, to which must be added local elected representatives of traditional national parties such as the Socialist Party or the U.M. P. Richard Irazusta, a member of Abertzaleen Batasuna , stated in October 2004 that the officialisation concept means that the Basque language will benefit from the setting up of a systemized bilingual education aimed at all the school-age population in the Basque Country. It must become the language of "Basque Country Territory", promoted by the "Basque Country 2010" territorial prospect Development Scheme started by the State, and not the language of an ethnic minority or of an officially recognized political attitude. Keywords: French Basque Country; militant experience; officialisation; regional territorial minorities; Richard Irazusta; systemized bilingual education
Constructive Approximation Rates of Convex Approximation in Non-hilbert Spaces

This paper deals with sparse approximations by means of convex combinations of elements from a predetermined \basis" subset S of a function space. Speciically, the focus is on the rate at which the lowest achievable error can be reduced as larger subsets of S are allowed when constructing an approximant. The new results extend those given for Hilbert spaces by Jones and Barron, including in particular a computationally attractive in-cremental approximation scheme. Bounds are derived for broad classes of Banach spaces; in particular, for Lp spaces with 1 < p < 1, the O(n ? 1=2) bounds of Barron and Jones are recovered when p = 2. One motivation for the questions studied here arises from the area of \artiicial neural networks," where the problem can be stated in terms of the growth in the number of \neurons" (the elements of S) needed in order to achieve a desired error rate. The focus on non-Hilbert spaces is due to the desire to understand approximation in the more \robust" (resistant to exemplar noise) Lp, 1 p < 2 norms. The techniquesused borrow from results regardingmoduli of smoothness in functional analysis as well as from the theory of stochastic processes on function spaces.
pollution affects fish community structure and alters evolutionary trajectories of invasive guppies (

overstocked Mutara Rangelands of north-eastern Rwanda (upper Nile drainage), which receive pollution 31 from domestic wastewater and cattle dung. Diverse fish communities became apparent that included 32 invasive guppies ( Poecilia reticulata , Poeciliidae), and canonical correspondence analyses found significant 33 differentiation of community structures along several environmental parameters (condensed into principal 34 components), including pollution-effects. As predicted, generalized linear models found guppies to have a 35 higher likelihood of occurrence at polluted sites. Local abundances of guppies, however, decreased at 36 polluted sites. Since guppies are color-polymorphic, and color patterns have a heritable basis, they allow 37 inferences regarding both pollution-induced suppression of male ornamentation ( e.g ., through 38 xenestrogens) and evolutionary population divergence. We thus quantified different ornament types 39 (numbers and percent body surface cover). ANCOVAs uncovered several weak (based on effect 40 strengths), but statistically significant pollution-effects and interactions with other environmental 41 parameters. The direction of several interaction effects was similar for blue/black and red/orange 42 ornaments, while white/iridescent ornaments responded dissimilarly. As responses differed between 43 ornament types, they likely reflect evolutionary divergence due to site-specific alterations of selective 44 regimes rather than developmental inhibition of male secondary sexual characters. We propose that 45 pollution likely affects local fitness landscapes resulting, e.g . , from predation and mate competition (as a 46 function of local abundances), altogether driving evolutionary divergence of sexually selected traits. This 47 study highlights how human activities impact not only ecological dynamics, but—mediated by altered Eco-48 Evo dynamics—change the evolutionary trajectories of populations. 49
Edinburgh Research Explorer What is said?

It is sometimes argued that certain sentences of natural language fail to express truth conditional contents. Standard examples include e.g. Tipper is ready and Steel is strong enough . In this paper, we provide a novel analysis of truth conditional meaning ( what is said ) using the notion of a question under discussion. This account ( i ) explains why these types of sentences are not, in fact, semantically underdetermined (yet seem truth conditionally incomplete), ( ii ) provides a principled analysis of the process by which natural language sentences (in general) can come to have enriched meanings in context, and ( iii ) shows why various alternative views, e.g. so-called Radical Contextualism, Moderate Contextualism, and Semantic Minimalism, are partially right in their respective analyses of the problem, but also all ultimately wrong. Our analysis achieves this result using a standard truth conditional and compositional semantics and without making any assumptions about enriched logical forms, i.e. logical forms containing phonologically null expressions.
Learning healing relationality: Dynamics of religion and emotion

This chapter approaches religion – and specifically present-day lived religious expression – from the perspective of emotions and learning to work with emotions. The particular emphasis is an approach that understands emotions as dynamic ways to relate to the self, different kinds of others, and the world. This relationality is in many more or less subtle ways enhanced, guided and regulated by religious teachings and rituals. The dynamics of religion and emotion are also strongly present in contemporary forms of “spirituality” that are closely connected to a wider therapeutic culture offering countless methods and pedagogies for individuals to learn to tend to their emotions, and to enhance their emotional lives (see, Wilce and Fenigsen 2016). After discussing the complex conjunction of religion and emotion and several theoretical ways of framing and approaching this conjunction, I provide an ethnographic case-study involving Finnish women engaging angelspirituality as an example of a globalizing religious culture in which emotions receive attention as key to self-understanding and as dynamic relations between human and super-human others and, ultimately, with the whole universe. As June McDaniel (2004: 266) writes, emotion in religious life is not a passive response to the world, but an active engagement in it.
Aspectos selvícolas y económicos de los pinares de Pinus sylvestris L. en el Sistema Central

Despues de introducir el concepto y significado de la selvicultura y de la ordenacion forestal, se presenta la gestion que se aplica en los montes de pino silvestre (Pinus sylvestris L.) del Sistema Central, describiendo los tratamientos selvicolas mas habituales y las actuaciones de infraestructura necesarias. A continuacion se estudia el valor economico de estos pinares, para lo cual se resenan sus beneficios directos o productivos, se analizan las implicaciones productivas de la gestion, y se presentan datos monetarios de algunos de ellos (madera y lena). Tambien se analizan los beneficios o utilidades indirectas (medioambientales y sociales) de estos montes y su posible valoracion economica, en ocasiones muy superior a los beneficios directos.After introducing the concept and the meaning of silviculture and forest management, the treatments applied to Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest stands in the “Sistema Central” (Spain) are presented, describing the most usual silvicultural treatments and the necessary infrastructure performance in these woodlands. The economic value of these forest systems is analysed. Therefore, the direct profits are described and the forest production implications of the woodland management are studied. Financial information is displayed for some of them (wood and firewood). Also, the indirect benefits of these Scots pine forests (environmental and social) and the feasible economic value are studied, that, sometimes they are much higher than the direct profits.
Detección de SARS-CoV-2 en aguas residuales como alerta temprana en el Área Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (BAMA)

RESUMEN Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos S.A. (AySA) brinda servicios esenciales que abarcan la producción de agua potable y el tratamiento de aguas residuales para una población que supera los 14,5 millones de habitantes en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (AMBA), Argentina. En respuesta a la declaración de pandemia por COVID-19 por parte de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), AySA desarrolló una metodología para evaluar la carga genética viral del SARS-CoV-2 en aguas residuales sin tratar. Este enfoque tenía como objetivo aprovechar el potencial de la vigilancia epidemiológica basada en aguas residuales, basándose en experiencias internacionales. Para monitorear la carga viral en las secciones representativas del sistema de recolección de aguas residuales, empleamos una técnica de ultracentrifugación adaptada para concentrar muestras. Después de esto, se realizaron la extracción de ARN y RT-qPCR para cuantificar el gen Orf1ab del SARS-CoV-2. Este estudio se realizó de diciembre de 2020 a junio de 2021, para anticipar la segunda ola de la pandemia. Al analizar los datos de cuatro grandes plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales, identificamos asociaciones estadísticamente significativas entre la carga genómica viral log10 y los casos positivos log10 informados una o dos semanas después. En base a los resultados obtenidos, concluimos que los niveles de virus del alcantarillado podrían ser un buen predictor de futuros casos clínicos a ser diagnosticados en un futuro inmediato.
BYU ScholarsArchive BYU

In this work, two AM technologies were utilized to compare the effectiveness of fabricating a simple electronic device with a conductive trace and hollow cylinder representative of ‘printed packaging’ that would survive harsh environmental conditions. The printed packaging cylinder delineates printed potting for electronics packaging. An nScrypt direct write (DW) system was the primary manufacturing system but a developing technology—coined large area projection sintering (LAPS)—manufactured a subset of samples for comparison. The tests follow Military Standard (MIL STD) 883K and include resiliency evaluation for die shear strength, temperature cycling, thermal shock, and high G loading by mechanical shock. Results indicate DW Master Bond epoxy devices show resilience to extreme temperatures, thermal shock, and mechanical shocks while also surpassing the die shear strength failure criteria specified by the MIL STD. LAPS sintered Nylon devices also show mechanical resilience to thermal shock and surpass the die shear strength failure criteria. However, there were some open circuits, increases in resistance, and delamination when LAPS Nylon devices were subjected to extreme temperatures and 20,000 G shock loading normal to the substrate. The thermal effects are likely due to the thermal expansion mismatch between Nylon and the conductive paste while the mechanical shock effects may be attributed to the geometry differences of the LAPS Nylon printed packaging. Further studies are required to understand these failure modes in some of the LAPS Nylon samples and refine the process to address them.
Information systems outsourcing success factors: a review and some results

Purpose – This paper aims to offer the results of a survey about information systems (IS) outsourcing.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is a questionnaire survey of 357 IS managers in Spanish firms.Findings – IS outsourcing is a widespread activity that has been growing on a worldwide basis in recent years. The main outsourcing success factors for large Spanish firms are, in order of priority, the provider's understanding of clients' objectives, choosing the right provider, and the client's clear idea of what is sought through outsourcing.Originality/value – Identifies the most important outsourcing success factors from the client point of view and present the relationships they have with certain characteristics of the firm like, for instance, its size.
A Graph-Based Decoding Model for Incomplete Multi-Subject fMRI Functional Alignment

As a successful application of multi-view learning, Hyperalignment and Shared Response Model are two effective functional alignment methods of neural activities across multiple subjects. Though they have been studied widely and can significantly improve functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) analysis, they are not able to tackle various kinds of fMRI datasets today, especially when they are incomplete, i.e., some of the subjects probably lack the responses to some stimuli or different subjects might follow different sequences of stimuli. In this paper, a cross-view graph that assesses the connection between any two samples across subjects is taken as an anchor for developing a more flexible framework that suits an assortment of fMRI datasets. To handle large-scale datasets, a kernelbased optimization that allows for non-linear feature extraction is theoretically developed for the proposed framework. Further, the proposed optimization allows us to do Principal Component Analysis, which can filter a specific Gaussian noise, in the new feature space with any kernel. Empirical studies confirm that the proposed method under both incompleteness and completeness can achieve better performance than other state-of-the-art functional alignment methods without incompleteness
Computer Vision and Image Understanding Manuscript Draft Title: Lattice Boltzmann Model for Fast Level Set Algorithm Using the Multiple Kernel Fuzzy C-means *highlights (for Review) Lattice Boltzmann Model for Fast Level Set Algorithm Using the Multiple Kernel Fuzzy C-means

Over the last decades, the development of high dimensional large-scale imaging devices increases the demand of fast and accurate image processing techniques. Due to its intrinsic advantages which allows to handle complex shapes and topological changes, the level set method (LSM) is an promising technique but is computational expensive. As a fast alternative approach for solving the level set equation, the highly parallelizable lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has attracted much attention. Nevertheless, nearly all the level set image segmentation methods based on LBM employ the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision model. In this paper we firstly demonstrate that there is no necessary to use the BGK model in the level set image segmentation and the method is faster with almost the same result when considering zero collision. Experimental comparison results with four image segmentation methods based on level set using LBM-BGK confirm this theoretical analysis. We secondly propose a fast and efficient LBM-based level set method which incorporates intensity and texture information of the image. From the partition matrix of a multiple kernel fuzzy c-means (MKFCM), we design a multiple kernel fuzzy stop function (MKFSF) for the LBM solver based on the zero collision model. The method is fast, accurate and highly parallelizable. Experiments on natural and medical images demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in term of speed and efficiency comparing with five image segmentation methods based on level set. Highlights:  We demonstrate that there is no necessary to use the BGK model in the level set image segmentation.  We propose a fast and efficient LBM-based level set method which incorporates intensity and texture information of the image.  We design a multiple kernel fuzzy stop function for the LBM solver based on the zero collision model. Abstract Over the last decades, the development of high dimensional large-scale imaging devices increases the demand of fast and accurate image processing techniques. Due to its intrinsic advantages which allows to handle complex shapes and topological changes, the level set method (LSM) is an promising technique but is computational expensive. As a fast alternative approach for solving the level set equation, the highly parallelizable lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has attracted much attention. Nevertheless, nearly all the level set image segmentation methods based on LBM employ the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision model. In this paper we firstly demonstrate that there is no necessary to use the BGK model in the level set image …
in Cognition over a 16.1 km Cycling Time Trial using Think Aloud Protocol:

Objectives: This study investigated cognitions of cyclists during a competitive time trial (TT) event using Think Aloud (TA) protocol analysis. Design: Single group, observational design. Method: Fifteen male and three female cyclists from the North West of England verbalised their thoughts throughout an outdoor competitive 16.1 km cycling time trial (Level 2 TA). Verbalisations were recorded using iVue Horizon 1080P camera glasses. Data was transcribed verbatim, analysed using deductive content analysis and grouped into themes: (i) Pain And Discomfort (Fatigue, Pain), (ii) External Feedback (Time, Speed, Heart Rate), (iii) Environment (Surroundings, Traffic and Other Cyclists), (iv) Pace and Distance (Pace, Distance). The number of verbalisations within each theme were analysed by distance quartile using Friedman tests to examine changes in cognitions over time. Results: Associative themes, including Fatigue and Pain, were verbalised more frequently in the earlier stages of the TT and less in the final quartile, whereas verbalisations about Distance significantly increased in the last quartile. Conclusions: This study demonstrates how a novel data collection method can capture in-event cognitions of endurance athletes. It provides an important extension to previous literature, showing how individuals may process and attend to information over time during an exercise bout. Future research should establish the relationship between performance and cognitive processes.
Hybridation et goulots d'étranglements induits par l'activité humaine : génétique des populations, morphométrie et parasitologie appliquées au tilapia envahi et envahissant Oreochromis mossambicus (Teleostei, Cichlidae)

Les invasions biologiques sont reconnues comme un facteur evolutif important sur une echelle de temps courte. Elles affectent notamment la structure genetique des populations, les patrons d’evolution phenotypique et la richesse des faunes de parasites associees aux populations envahissantes. Cette etude se propose de quantifier les consequences d’une invasion biologique suivant ces trois niveaux (genetique, phenotypique et parasitologique) en prenant pour exemple le cas du tilapia du Mozambique Oreochromis mossambicus. Ce cichlide africain presente un statut remarquable en biologie de la conservation puisqu’il est a la fois (i) l’une des especes les plus envahissantes au monde car dispersee a l’echelle globale au cours du XXeme siecle et (ii) une espece « quasi-menacee » (UICN) sur son aire native (partie du sud-est de l’Afrique) du fait de son hybridation massive avec d’autres Oreochromis sp. introduits. La demarche generale employee ici est de decrire l’histoire recente des populations a l’aide de marqueurs nucleaires (AFLP) et des sequences de l’ADN mitochondrial (ADNmt), puis de mettre en relation ces resultats genetiques avec la diversite morphologique et la parasitologie des populations. Deux systemes differents ont ete etudies : Au sein de l’aire native, l’etude se focalise sur le Limpopo inferieur et le sous-bassin de la Changane (Mozambique). Des patrons d’introgression incluant trois especes en presence sont detectes, mais les hybrides sont peu frequents et leur expansion limitee. Ces resultats sont de plutot bonne augure pour la conservation d’O. mossambicus et ils permettent d’identifier deux zones de conservation prioritaires. L’etude des parasites indique une plus grande diversite parasitaire mais de faibles prevalences dans les sites de moindre valeur en conservation, ce qui pourrait favoriser le succes des especes introduites et de leurs hybrides. Parmi les territoires envahis, les AFLP et l’ADNmt soutiennent une homogeneite generale et une diversite genetique faible, qui sont interpretees comme le resultat d’un fort goulot d’etranglement precedant l’expansion a l’echelle mondiale. Une structure des populations en lien avec la geographie a large echelle (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Guadeloupe, Jamaique) est cependant detectee. La variation de la forme du corps est egalement structuree a large echelle geographique, ce en depit des fortes variations environnementales enregistrees a l’echelle locale. Cela suggere un effet des contraintes genetiques sur la diversification morphologique contemporaine. L’absence de parasites monogenes sur les populations introduites en Nouvelle-Caledonie peut etre mise en relation avec un evenement fondateur, et est propose comme l’un des facteurs ayant pu favoriser le succes de l’espece. En conclusion, une faible diversite genetique ne contraint vraisemblablement pas un potentiel envahissant eleve et une diversification rapide chez les tilapias.