Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Large-Scale Inversion of Gravity Gradiometry With Differential Equations

With recent advances in technology, geophysicists are able to acquire large-scale airborne gravity gradiometry data sets for oil and gas, and mineral exploration. The inversion of these data are advantageous by giving the interpreter a 3D model to interpret. The number of data and model parameters associated with these data sets make an inversion difficult to carry out without substantial computational resources. In this work, we present a finite-volume, differential-equation method for gravity gradiometry data inversion. The computation of the sensitivity times a vector and its adjoint is done by solving a fourth-order Poisson equation using a multigrid method. The forward modeling is set up as a solution of a linear inverse problem so that the sensitivities are never explicitly formed. This allows us to dramatically increase the storage capacity of the problem and invert regional problems. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we present an inversion of the Bathurst Mining Camp region on a personal computer that consists of 1.4 million data and a mesh of 24 million cells.
Strategic human resource management

1. Explain the meaning of strategic management and give an overview of its conceptual framework. 2. Describe the three levels of strategy formulation and comment on the links between business strategy and human resource management. 3. Explain the two models of strategic HRM, the matching model and the resourcebased model. 4. Comment on the various strategic HRM themes of re-engineering, workplace learning, trade unions and leadership. 5. Explain the methodological difficulties of measuring the link between HRM practices and organizational performance. chapter two
Stock Assessment of Georges Bank (5Zjmnh) Yellowtail Flounder for 2002 Bilan de 2002 de l'état du stock de limande à queue jaune du Banc Georges (5Zjmnh)

* This series documents the scientific basis for the evaluation of fisheries resources in Canada. As such, it addresses the issues of the day in the time frames required and the documents it contains are not intended as definitive statements on the subjects addressed but rather as progress reports on ongoing investigations. * La présente série documente les bases scientifiques des évaluations des ressources halieutiques du Canada. Elle traite des problèmes courants selon les échéanciers dictés. Les documents qu’elle contient ne doivent pas être considérés comme des énoncés définitifs sur les sujets traités, mais plutôt comme des rapports d’étape sur les études en cours.
Origin and Evolution of Lunettes on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico

Abstract Lunettes—isolated dunes on the lee side of playa basins—are common landforms on the Southern High Plains of northwest Texas and eastern New Mexico. The dunes contain calcareous (15–40% CaCO3) sandy loam or loamy sand, with minor amounts of sepiolite, deposited 25,000–800014C yr B.P. and derived by deflation of lacustrine carbonate in the basins. The dunes also contain low carbonate (0–15% CaCO3) sand or loamy sand that was deposited 25,000–15,000 yr B.P. and 8000–5000 yr B.P. and was derived by deflation that created the basins or deflated from sand deposited in the basins. Buried soils are common in the lunettes: A-Bk profiles characterize soils formed in the calcareous sandy loam; the sandy low-carbonate sediments contain A-Bt profiles in the oldest sand of some dunes, and A-Bw, A-Bt, or A-Btk in the early and middle Holocene sand. The dune stratigraphy, combined with carbon isotope data (derived from dated A-horizons in lunettes), suggests the following scenario for the Southern High Plains. The lunettes began forming as low-carbonate sand dunes in the late Pleistocene as playa basins were formed or deepened by wind erosion. The erosion repeatedly alternated with stability. The environment probably was cool and dry, but one or more cool and wet intervals 25,000–15,000 yr B.P. resulted in a rise in the water table and deposition of lacustrine carbonate in the deepest basins. There may have been short departures toward warmer (and probably toward drier) conditions throughout this time. Episodically dry conditions 15,000–8,000 yr B.P. resulted in deflation of the carbonate and further dune construction by repeated accretion of calcareous sandy loam or loamy sand. The low carbonate sand was deposited during widespread drought and deflation 8000–5000 yr B.P. The dunes have been largely stable in the late Holocene.
Antimicrobial Activity and Phytochemical Screening of Buchenavia tetraphylla ( Aubl . ) R . A . Howard ( Combretaceae : Combretoideae ) Ygor Lucena

1 Laboratório de Produtos Naturais, Departamento de Bioquı́mica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rêgo, s/n Cidade Universitária, 50670-420 Recife, PE, Brazil 2 Laboratório de Glicoprotéınas, Departamento de Bioquı́mica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rêgo, s/n Cidade Universitária, 50670-420 Recife, PE, Brazil 3 Faculdade de Farmácia e Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Ipiranga, CEP 90610-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 4 Laboratório de Genética de Microrganismos, Departamento de Antibióticos, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rêgo, s/n Cidade Universitária, 50670-420 Recife, PE, Brazil
Clinical Study Body Mass Index : A Risk Factor for Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

1 Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Avenija Gojka Šuška 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 2 Department of Ophthalmology, University Clinic Vuk Vrhovac, Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zajčeva 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 3 Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital Dubrovnik, Dr. Roka Mišetića 2, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia 4Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinic Vuk Vrhovac, Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zajčeva 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 5 University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, Zagrebačka Cesta 5, 10410 Velika Gorica, Croatia
The neural and behavioural organization of goal-directed movements

An investigation of a subject at the boundaries of psychology and physiology. The author's account is based upon experimental data from human and animal work with particular emphasis on illustrative clinical cases. The organization of goal-directed movements is a problem central to the relations of brain and behaviour in humans and other animals. Movement represents a clue to the study of brain mechanisms and psychological functions. The use of behaving animals in neurophysiological laboratories has allowed direct investigation of the role of discrete neural mechanisms in controlling motor output. The contribution that these mechanisms make can be assessed by reproducing experimentally the motor syndromes observed in man. Kinematic description of motor responses may be directly transferable to theoretical models of motor systems and to their technological applications such as artificial intelligence and robotics. Finally, the use of concepts derived from cognitive psychology in the study of motor control has opened new fields of investigation concerning the mental representation of goal-directed movements.
Spotlight On : Simulator Sickness A Literature Survey for Virtual Environments : Military Flight Simulator Visual Systems and Simulator Sickness

Oleg Belyakov, PhD, is DSLS’ newest team member. Dr. Belyakov graduated from the Department of Biology at St. Petersburg State University and obtained a MSc in Radiobiology from St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMW, University of London, UK. His PhD work entailed a collaborative project between the Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK (today the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology at the University of Oxford) and the Radiation and Environmental Science Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Risk Sharing , Finance and Institutions in International Portfolios

We develop a standard model to show how transaction costs in international investment affect conventional tests of consumption risk sharing, both in a multilateral and a bilateral setting. We implement the tests in a novel international dataset on bilateral holdings of equity, bonds, foreign direct investment and bank loans. International consumption risk sharing increases with foreign capital holdings; this is especially true of investment in equity or bonds, but not of foreign direct investment or bank loans. In our model, this implies transaction costs are higher for FDI and international loans. The discrepancy may reflect technological differences across asset classes, but also the prospect of expropriation, perhaps most stringent for FDI or loans. We argue that expropriation risk is endogenous to both the borrower’s institutions and its openness to international markets. The detrimental impact of poor institutions is muted in open economies, where the possibility of subsequent exclusion from world markets deters expropriation of foreign capital. We show the implied non-linear effects of institutions prevail in both the cross-section of consumption risk sharing, and in observed international investment patterns.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Theory and Practice of Gvar Modeling Alexander Chudik Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

The Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) approach has proven to be a very useful approach to analyze interactions in the global macroeconomy and other data networks where both the cross-section and the time dimensions are large. This paper surveys the latest developments in the GVAR modeling, examining both the theoretical foundations of the approach and its numerous empirical applications. We provide a synthesis of existing literature and highlight areas for future research. The views in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the Federal Reserve System.
The formation of pockmarks and their potential influence on offshore construction

Abstract Pockmarks are craters formed in the soft seabed by gas and, in some cases, liquid expulsion. They were described on the Scotian Shelf in 1970 (King & MacLean 1970) and have since been mapped in a range of shallow seas including the North Sea and the Arabian Gulf. Pockmarks range in size from less than one metre to about 200 m across and up to 20 m deep. There are assumed to be three phases of pockmark development: the pressure build-up phase, in which gas accumulates below the seabed; the eruption phase when liquids and solids are ejected into the water column; the post-eruption phase, which can either be a dormant phase or one where gas is continually seeping through the pockmark floor. The paper discusses triggering of pockmark eruptions which may be by earthquakes, by seabed pressure perturbations caused by tidal or gravity waves or, in deep water, by a combination of tidal waves and low atmospheric pressure and storm waves. The relevance of pockmarks in relation to seabed construction sites is also considered.
Why intracontinental basins subside longer: 3‐D feedback effects of lithospheric cooling and sedimentation on the flexural strength of the lithosphere

The aim of this study is to reevaluate the character and evolution of the large‐scale subsidence of intracontinental basins using 3‐D thermomechanical numerical simulations accounting for the coupling between sedimentation, rheology‐dependent lithospheric flexure, and thermal contraction by lithospheric cooling. The flexural rigidity of the lithospheric plate is controlled by elastic‐brittle‐plastic rheology, enabling the computation of thermal and mechanical feedback processes occurring during basin subsidence. Numerical results show that depending on the sediment loading history, a rheological stratified lithosphere can subside over geological time scales without imposition of ad hoc geometric and kinematic initial conditions. Three‐dimensional feedback effects of sedimentation on the thermomechanical structure of the plate result in a weakened lower crust mechanically decoupled from the underlying mantle and therefore easily reactivated even under low background stresses. Our results explain the first‐order characteristics of the subsidence in intracontinental basins and reconcile basic observations of their deformation history.
Celebrating Community: Local Music Festivals and Sustainable Relocalization in Southern Manitoba

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iii Acknowledgements---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iv Dedication ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------v List of Tables -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ix List of Figures -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x List of Acronyms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------xi 1.0 INTRODUCTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1 MODERNITY’S LIMITS, COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND THE PROMISE OF LOCAL FESTIVALS: A RATIONALE FOR EXPLORATORY STUDY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1.1.1 Assumptions and Rationale-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 1.1.2 Research Questions and Objectives ---------------------------------------------------------------------------5 1.2 INTRODUCING THE RESEARCH DESIGN: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES OF TWO MUSIC FESTIVALS IN SOUTHERN MANITOBA -------------------------------------------------------------------------5 1.2. 1 Constructivism, Exploratory Case Study, and Grounded Theory ------------------------------------------5 1.2. 2 Situating the Case Studies --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 1.3 RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS AND GAPS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------10 1.3. 1 Academic Contributions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 1.3. 2 Practical Contributions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11 1.3. 3 Research Boundaries and Limitations ----------------------------------------------------------------------12 1.4 OUTLINING THE THESIS STRUCTURE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 2.0 COMMUNITY AND LOCALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL MODERNITY: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RATIONALE FOR LOCALIST INQUIRY -----15 2.
APPLICATION OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY IN PLANNING OF GARDEN GREENING IN HIGH SCHOOLS

Landscap-building of college is the main method which can improve the ecological environment of the campus and meet the requirements of the scenery enjoyment.It aims at building beautiful landscape both naturaly and artificialy by planning and constructing the campus community gardens.This paper use the theory of landscape ecology to analyze the college landscape functions,features,constructing principles and make university landscape-building recommendations on the basis of landscape ecology.
Learning Design: Reflections upon the Current Landscape

The mounting wealth of open and readily available information and the accelerated evolution of social, mobile and creative technologies call for a re-conceptualisation of the role of educators: from providers of knowledge to designers of learning. This call is reverberated by the rising trend of research in learning design (LD). Addressing this, the Art and Science of Learning Design workshop brought together leading voices in the field, and provided a forum for discussing its key issues. It focused on three major themes: (1) practices, methods and methodologies, (2) tools and resources and (3) theoretical frameworks. This paper proposes a definition of LD, reviews the main contributions from the workshop, and suggests some challenges for future research. Keywords: learning design; epistemology; design methods; design frameworks; theory development; representations (Published: 30 August 2012) http://dx.doi. org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0. 19196
Learning to Estimate Multivariate Uncertainty in Deep Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

With the advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs), it is mandatory to care for pedestrians’ integrity, as they are one of the most vulnerable entities in transit. Therefore, the AVs must anticipate their actions and predict their trajectories to improve tasks such as active perception, predictive path planning, predictive control, and human-robot interaction. The literature presents deep learning methods to predict pedestrian trajectories from the perspective of an onboard camera. However, only one study modeled the uncertainties involved in the model prediction. Thus, we address the problem by proposing a method to model both aleatoric and epistemic multivariate uncertainties in deep pedestrian trajectory prediction. We are the first to model the multivariate predictive uncertainty in pedestrian trajectory prediction by incorporating mathematical conditions to ensure stability during training. Our methodology can be applied to any deterministic method with minimal adjustments and present more accurate results than the BayesianLSTM.
Dendritic Cells Collaborate Efficiently in the Absence of Naive Idiotope-Specific B and T Cells

Anti-idiotope (anti-Id) Abs have a role in therapy against B cell lymphomas as inhibitors of pathogenic autoantibodies and as surrogate Ags for immunization. Despite these observations, the mechanism by which Id + Ig generates anti-Id Abs is essentially unknown. To address this issue, we generated a double knock-in mouse that expresses V regions of a somatically mutated anti-Id mAb with intermediate afﬁnity (afﬁnity constant [K a ] = 0.77 3 10 7 M 2 1 ) for the myeloma protein M315. The anti-Id mice have normal peripheral B cell populations, and allelic exclusion is efﬁcient. Anti-Id B cells from BCR knock-in mice, together with Id-speciﬁc CD4 + T cells from previously established TCR-transgenic mice, enabled us to study Id-speciﬁc T cell–B cell collaboration by dilution of transferred cells into syngeneic BALB/c recipients. We show that previously unstimulated (naive) Id-speciﬁc B and T cells collaborate efﬁciently in vivo, even at low frequencies and in the presence of low amounts of Id + Ig, resulting in germinal center formation, plasma cell development, and secretion of isotype-switched anti-Id Abs. We further demonstrate that Id-speciﬁc T cell–B cell collaboration occurs readily in the absence of adjuvant and is not dependent on Id-presentation by dendritic cells. The results underscore the potency of anti-Id B cells in MHC class II–restricted presentation of Id + Ig and suggest that Id-speciﬁc T cell–B cell collaboration is of physiological relevance. The Journal of Immunology , 2014, 192: 000–000. together facilitating migration into B cell follicles (30, 34, 40). In addition, costimulatory recep-tors that are upregulated during the initial T cell priming, such as CD40L, OX40, and ICOS, have been implicated in efﬁcient migration into the B cell follicles (53, 54). As a second stage of APC–Th cell interaction, B cells are required to complete Fo Th differentiation (55, 56). Recent studies showed that the entry of CD4 + T cells into follicles and Fo Th cell differentiation can be independent of B cells (54, 57). Our results suggest that initial DC priming of T cells may be dispensable for Id + Ig–dependent T cell–B cell collaboration and Fo Th development. This initial T cell–B cell contact and priming could occur in lymphocyte re-tention around high endothelial venules (58) or during the time when B cells crawl through the T cell area before entering the B cell follicle (59). Our ﬁndings are in agreement with another study (50), using hen egg lysozyme–speciﬁc BCR KI mice, which also demonstrated that T cell–B cell collaboration can proceed in the absence of DCs as APCs.
Numerical modeling of mudflows

To predict mudflow dynamics a numerical model based on shallow-water equations is developed. Previous work has shown that mudflow behavior can be well represented by a Herschel-Bulkley model. In a laminar regime, generally observed in practice, a wall friction force expression has been theoretically deduced for steady uniform flows. For unsteady flows the wall friction force is assumed to be equal to the resistance of a steady uniform flow with the same depth and mean velocity. The numerical model parameters, directly deduced from Herschel-Bulkley model, are determined independently by rheological measurements. Because of the lack of precise field data, experimental results obtained on a physical model are used in order to validate the numerical model. The main features of the experimental transient flows carried out in a laboratory flume are, for some identified conditions, in fairly good agreement with numerical model predictions, without any additional parameter fitting.
The Effect of Including Biospheric Responses to CO2 on the Impact of Land-Cover Change over Australia

Abstract Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the resulting change in temperature affect vegetation physiologically and structurally. These physiological and structural changes are biospheric feedbacks that may enhance or moderate the impacts due to human-induced land-cover change. It is therefore potentially important to include these biospheric feedbacks in experiments that explore the impact of land-cover change on climate. In this paper, it is shown that the vegetation response to higher carbon dioxide concentrations and warmer temperatures moderates the impacts of historical human-induced land-cover change in Australia. The magnitude of these biospheric feedbacks is explored, and it is shown that including them in climate simulations results in smaller land-cover change impacts on latent heat flux (by about 10–20 W m−2) and temperature (by about 0.3°C), irrespective of the direction of change caused initially by land-cover change. Further, the magnitude of the feedback on temperatu.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The functional and evolutionary context in phenomenology and a compassionate mind

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