Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-trait multi-environment genomic prediction of preliminary yield trials in pulse crops

Phenotypic selection in preliminary yield trials (PYT) is challenged by limited seeds, resulting in trials with few replications and environments. The emergence of multi-trait multi-environment enabled genomic prediction (MTME-GP) offers opportunity for enhancing prediction accuracy and genetic gain across multiple traits and diverse environments. Using a set of 300 advanced breeding lines in the North Dakota State University (NDSU) pulse crop breeding program, we assessed the efficiency of a MTME-GP model for improving seed yield and protein content in field peas in stress and non-stress environments. MTME-GP significantly improved predictive ability, improving up to 2.5-fold, particularly when a significant number of genotypes overlapped across environments. Heritability of the training environments contributed significantly to the overall prediction of the model. Average predictive ability ranged from 3 to 7-folds when environments with low heritability were excluded from the training set. Overall, the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) model consistently resulted in improved predictive ability across all breeding scenarios considered in our study. Our results lay the groundwork for further exploration, including integration of diverse traits, incorporation of deep learning techniques, and the utilization of multi-omics data in predictive modeling. Core ideas Phenotypic selection in PYT is challenged by limited seeds, resulting to few replications and environments. MTME-GP offers opportunity for enhancing prediction accuracy of multi-trait and diverse environments in PYT. MTME-GP enhances prediction by up to 2.5-fold, especially with numerous overlapping genotypes in various tested environments. RKHS MTME-GP models, excels in low-heritability, negatively correlated traits, like drought-affected conditions.
Extent and characteristics of mire habitats in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula): implications for their conservation and management

NW Iberian Peninsula hosts a variety of mire habitats linked to wet environments that contrast with surrounding regional vegetation. These wetlands are confined to locations meeting certain azonal conditions, due to local topographies that prevent or delay drainage, to the occurrence of significant rainfall, or to a combination of both. Despite of their international relevance and their designation as habitats of interest for biodiversity conservation by the EU habitats Directive, they are threatened mainly by changes in land use, particularly by agriculture intensification/abandonment and the development of wind farms. In the present work we address the mapping, description and analysis of these habitats in a spatial explicit way in the region of Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula), in order to support the development of strategies of planning and management. Results showed differences in the extent, distribution and characteristics of the different types of mire habitats with important implications in their conservation.
THE EFFECT OF CURCUMIN SUPPLEMENTATION ON LIPID PROFILES IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS

Abstract. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of curcumin on systemic inflammation and serum lipid profiles in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of curcumin on systemic inflammation and serum lipid profiles in hemodialysis patients. Then, an experimental group received 80 mg of curcumin for 2 months and the control group received placebo. Before and after intervention, after 12 hours of fasting blood cc5, blood samples were taken from patients for triglyceride, cholesterol, HDL-C and LDL-C parameters. Data were then entered into SPSS 16 software and analyzed by Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Chisquare, Fisher test and T-test. According to the results of the analyzes, the results of the assumptions under study indicated that the supplementation of curcumin reduced serum LDL-C concentrations (P 0.05). The results of this study showed that curcumin supplement can be effective in preventing heart disease and can be used as a complementary therapy. Keywords: Curcumin, Systemic inflammation, Hemodialysis, Serum lipid profile.
The relationship between wintertime extreme temperature events north of 60°N and large‐scale atmospheric circulations

The increased extreme warm and decreased extreme cold temperature events across the Arctic strongly influence the natural environment as well as the societal activities. This study investigates temporal and spatial variability of wintertime extreme high and low temperature events defined by the 95 and 5% percentiles across the Arctic and subarctic regions, respectively (north of 60°N) using data from 238 stations in the Global Summary of the Day for the period 1979–2016. Empirical orthogonal function analyses indicate that the first modes (which account for 30–35% of the total variance) are out‐of‐phase between northern Europe, western and central Russia, and northeastern North America, and that this appears to be related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Northern Atlantic Oscillation. The second modes explain about 8% of the total variance. During the positive phase of the first and second modes the anomalous northeasterly and northerly winds decrease Arctic extreme high and increase extreme low temperature occurrences; while the anomalous southerly and southwesterly winds have the opposite effect. Symmetric and asymmetric effects of the AO index on extreme temperature events refer to the difference and sum between the composite of its positive and negative phases. The symmetric components of the spatial patterns are similar to those of the first modes. The asymmetric components occur mainly over western and central Russia for extreme high and low temperatures, respectively. In addition the impacts of six other large‐scale climate modes are also explored.
Journal of Control

A load processor is a system that has a buffer which can receive load and store it while it is waiting to be processed and has a local decision-making policy for determining if portions of its load should be sent to other load processors. A load balancing system is a set of such load processors that are connected in a network so that (i) they can sense the amount of load in the buffers of neighbouring processors and pass load to them, and (ii) so that, via local information and decisions by the individual load processors, the overall load in the entire network can be balanced. Such balancing is important to ensure that certain processors are not overloaded while others. are left idle (i.e. load balancing helps avoid underutilization of processing resources). The topology of the network, delays in transporting and sensing load, types of load, and types of local load passing policies all affect the performance of the load balancing system. In this paper, we show how a variety of load balancing systems can be modelled in a discrete event system (DES) theoretic frame­ work, and how balancing properties and performance can be characterized and analysed in a general Lyapunov stability theoretic framework.
New age for quantum computing with dynamic platforms

Quantum computers are information processing devices which rely on quantum parallelism. Various physical systems such as NMR and ion traps are employed for realizing this parallelism. Speciﬁc algorithms which utilize this parallelism are in place. These algorithms make quantum computers outperform their classical counterparts in computational performance for certain class of problems. As and when e ﬃ cient quantum algorithms are developed, and with a reliable physical system in place, quantum computer are destined to become universal computing platforms in decades to come. This review sheds light on some of the fundamental aspects of quantum computing along with the physical systems which implement them in an unambiguous way.
Spatial Distribution of Groundwater Quality in Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia: A Case Study of Mulenga Informal Settlement

In most informal settlements in Zambia, access to piped water and proper sanitation system still remains a challenge. This has led to people in these settlements to rely on groundwater from shallow wells which are either protected or unprotected. In terms of human waste disposal, the majority of the people depend on traditional pit latrines. In order to help protect and sustainably manage the groundwater resources, a study was undertaken to investigate groundwater quality and its spatial distribution in Mulenga informal settlement in Kitwe district, Copperbelt Province, Zambia. A total of twenty eight (28) groundwater samples were collected from twenty eighty (28) wells in the aforementioned settlement. The samples were analysed for total dissolved solids (TDS), turbidity, total suspended solids (TSS), pH, sulphates, nitrate, total and faecal coliforms using standard techniques. Results were compared with the Zambian Bureau of Standards (ZABS) guideline values for drinking water and in some cases, with WHO guideline values. In terms of microbiological parameters, all water samples in Mulenga informal settlement tested positive for total and faecal coliforms. Parameters such as TDS, TSS and sulphate complied with ZABS drinking water guideline values. Other parameters which include turbidity ranged from 0 to 52NTU, pH from 5.1 to 6.8 and nitrates from 1.6 to 35.6mg/L did not comply with ZABS drinking water guideline values at the majority of the wells. Spatial distribution maps revealed that larger parts of Mulenga informal settlement display pH values less than ZABS and WHO minimum permissible value of 6.5 while sulphate and nitrate levels ranged from 1 to 20mg/L and 10 to 20mg/L respectively. In terms of turbidity and TDS, their spatial distribution maps display significantly high turbidity levels (>20NTU) in the south-eastern and some north-western parts of Mulenga informal settlement while slightly high TDS values (>500m/L) were displayed in south-eastern and north-western parts of the settlement. The highest numbers of total and faecal coliforms were concentrated in the north-eastern and central parts of Mulenga informal settlements.
Two-phase Taylor–Couette contactors: Holdup, axial dispersion, and droplet size

ABSTRACT The simple and robust design of Taylor–Couette contactors has been attracting interests of research and industry since it was invented in the nineteenth century. Taylor–Couette contactors provide flexible operation under harsh operation conditions, as needed in liquid–liquid extraction. Nevertheless, industrial application is rather scarce, probably dating back to the historical limitation of Taylor–Couette flow being a gap phenomenon with limited hydraulic performance. In order to improve the hydraulic performance of two-phase Taylor–Couette contactors, a research program was performed in pilot scale. Therefore, various parameters like dispersed phase holdup, residence time distribution as well as mean droplet size for varying radius ratio were related to the shaft centrifugation number.
Species Composition And Spatiotemporal Pattern Of The Seed Bank And Vegetation In Native And Degraded Florida Rosemary Scrub

3 Introduction . 4 Methods . 6 Study Site . 6 Aboveground Cover Sampling . 8 Seed Bank Sampling . 9 Greenhouse Monitoring . 9 Data Analysis . 10 Results . 12 Species Composition . 12 Vegetation . 12 Seed Bank . 14 Spatial Structure . 15 Ground cover . 15 Vegetation . 15 Seed Bank . 17 Temporal Pattern . 18 Vegetation . 18
Male vocalizations convey information on kinship and inbreeding in a lekking bird

Abstract Kinship and inbreeding are two major components involved in sexual selection and mating system evolution. However, the mechanisms underlying recognition and discrimination of genetically related or inbred individuals remain unclear. We investigated whether kinship and inbreeding information is related to low‐frequency vocalizations, “booms,” produced by males during their courtship in the lekking houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata undulata). Based on a captive breeding program where the pedigree of all males is known, we investigated the similarity of booms’ acoustic parameters among captive males more or less individually inbred and therefore genetically related with each other. In the wild, we investigated the relationship between the spatial distribution of males within leks and the similarity of acoustic parameters of their booms. In the captive population, we found (a) a relationship between the individual inbreeding level of captive males and their vocalization parameters; (b) that kin share similar frequency and temporal characteristics of their vocalizations. In the wild, we found no evidence for spatial structuring of males based on their acoustic parameters, in agreement with previous genetic findings on the absence of kin association within houbara bustard leks. Overall, our results indicate that genetic information potentially related to both the identity and quality of males is contained in their vocalizations.
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The axons of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) form topographic connections in the optic tectum, recreating a two-dimensional map of the visual field in the midbrain. RGC axons are also targeted to specific positions along the laminar axis of the tectum. Understanding the sensory transformations performed by the tectum requires identification of the rules that control the formation of synaptic laminae by RGC axons. However, there is little information regarding the spatial relationships between multiple axons as they establish laminar and retinotopic arborization fields within the same region of neuropil. Moreover, the contribution of RGC axon lamination to the processing of visual information is unknown. We used Brainbow genetic labeling to visualize groups of individually identifiable axons during the assembly of a precise laminar map in the larval zebrafish tectum. Live imaging of multiple RGCs revealed that axons target specific sublaminar positions during initial innervation and maintain their relative laminar positions throughout early larval development, ruling out a model for lamina selection based on iterative refinements. During this period of laminar stability, RGC arbors undergo structural rearrangements that shift their relative retinotopic positions. Analysis of cell-type-specific lamination patterns revealed that distinct combinations of RGCs converge to form each sublamina, and this input heterogeneity correlates with different functional responses to visual stimuli. These findings suggest that lamina-specific sorting of retinal inputs provides an anatomical blueprint for the integration of visual features in the tectum.
Applied Mathematical

The problem of contact deformation of an elastic body loaded by gravitational forces and laying on several small rigid supports is considered in the framework of the linear theory of elasticity. Using the method of matched asymptotic expansions, the limit asymptotic model for determining the support reactions and the kinematic parameters of the body settling is derived. The effect of the body surface reinforcement is discussed. The case of a uniform (symmetric) settling is considered in detail. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and 2 other anthropoids 3

Citation: Puts, David, Hill, Alexander, Bailey, Drew, Walker, Robert, Rendall, Drew, Wheatley, John, Welling, Lisa, Dawood, Khytam, Cárdenas, Rodrigo, Burriss, Robert, Jablonski, Nina, Shriver, Mark, Weiss, Daniel, Lameira, Adriano, Apicella, Coren, Owren, Michael, Barelli, Claudia, Glenn, Mary and Ramos-Fernandez, Gabriel (2016) Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and other anthropoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1829). p. 20152830. ISSN 0962-8452
BANKING-CRISIS INTERVENTIONS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

We present a new database of banking-crisis interventions from the Roman Empire to the present, covering 1,946 interventions in 20 categories across 143 countries. We demonstrate that crisis-intervention patterns are significantly related to income and fiscal variables and to measures of the political system and currency regime. GDP losses following crises are economically significant and are larger for wealthier countries, with some evidence that these losses are mitigated by democratic political systems and liberal currency regimes. Finally, intervention frequencies reached an apex during the post-Bretton Woods era, continuing a secular increase since at least the late 17 th century.
Toward sustainable development through nurturing diversity

Perception of the feeling of guilt experienced by the defendant is known to affect judicial sentencing. This influence differs depending on the defendant’s ethnic identity. We investigated the hypothesis that the perception of an out-group defendant’s level of host society’s norms adoption could mediate this mechanism. 64 native Belgian participants were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions, which differed in the presence or absence of guilt expressed by an out-group defendant during his audition, in a given scenario. Participants’ impression of the defendant’s social skills (warmth), his level of host’s society norms adoption, and the severity of the sentence they would attribute to this defendant were then measured. A double mediation was tested in order to explain the effect of perceived feeling of guilt on sentencing through the perception of both the defendant’s level of norms adoption and his warmth. Results revealed that all the hypotheses included in the double mediation were confirmed. These results emphasize the importance of inferences about the level of Norms Adoption by out-group members. An out-group member feeling guilty triggers inferences about his/her level of norms adoption, which is perceived as higher in comparison to a defendant who does not feel guilty. This inference induces a better perception of his social skills (warmth), which corresponds to a higher ability to be accepted in the group. In turn, it leads to a milder sentence. Limitations and implications are discussed.
Mechanical Properties of Thermally Annealed Cu/Ni and Cu/Al Multilayer Thin Films: Solid Solution vs. Intermetallic Strengthening

In this study, Cu/Ni and Cu/Al multilayers, with individual layer thickness varying from 25 nm to 200 nm, and co-sputtered Cu-Ni and Cu-Al single layer films were deposited at room temperature via magnetron sputtering and further annealed from 100 °C to 300 °C. The mechanical and microstructural properties of the as-deposited and annealed samples were characterized by nanoindentation, x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. Both multilayer systems exhibit an increase in hardness with increasing annealing temperature. However, the Cu/Ni system shows a gradual and moderate hardness increase (up to 30%) from room temperature to 300 °C, while the Cu/Al system displays a sharp hardness surge (~150%) between 125 °C and 200 °C. The co-sputtered Cu-Ni and Cu-Al samples consistently demonstrate higher hardness than their multilayered counterparts, albeit with distinctly different temperature dependence—the hardness of Cu-Ni increases with annealing temperature while Cu-Al maintains a constant high hardness throughout the entire temperature range. The distinct thermal strengthening mechanisms observed in the two metallic multilayer systems can be ascribed to the formation of solid solutions in Cu/Ni and the precipitation of intermetallic phases in Cu/Al. This study highlights the unique advantage of intermetallic strengthening in metallic multilayer systems.
Advancing Face Parsing in Real-World: Synergizing Self-Attention and Self-Distillation

Face parsing, the segmentation of facial components at the pixel level, is pivotal for comprehensive facial analysis. However, previous studies encountered challenges, showing reduced performance in areas with small or thin classes like necklaces and earrings, and struggling to adapt to occlusion scenarios such as masks, glasses, caps or hands. To address these issues, this study proposes a robust face parsing technique through the strategic integration of self-attention and self-distillation methods. The self-attention module enhances contextual information, enabling precise feature identification for each facial element. Multi-task learning for edge detection, coupled with a specialized loss function focusing on edge regions, elevates the understanding of fine structures and contours. Additionally, the application of self-distillation for fine-tuning proves highly efficient, producing refined parsing results while maintaining high performance in scenarios with limited labels and ensuring robust generalization. The integration of self-attention and self-distillation techniques addresses challenges of previous studies, particularly in handling small or thin classes. This strategic fusion enhances overall performance, achieving computational efficiency, and aligns with the latest trends in this research area. The proposed approach attains a Mean F1 score of 88.18% on the CelebAMask-HQ dataset, marking a significant advancement in face parsing with state-of-the-art performance. Even in challenging occlusion areas like hands and masks, it demonstrates a remarkable F1 score of over 99%, showcasing robust face parsing capabilities in real-world environments.
Antecedents of knowledge management: The case of professional employees in Indonesia

This study aims to evaluate and test the impact of knowledge, trust, unity, and self-efficacy on knowledge management of employees in Indonesian businesses in the education sector. This empirical study also examines the relationship between knowledge management among employees in Indonesian education sector businesses and conformity through knowledge self-efficacy, trust, and unity. A quantitative causality technique was employed in the study using a sample of workers from Indonesian companies involved in the education sector (at least 35 years old and engaged). The primary data consisted of 220 replies from respondents with varying educational backgrounds. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling software was used to analyze the data. The Likert scale is used to determine each answer’s value. Empirical evidence shows that knowledge self-efficacy does not affect the knowledge management of employees in these companies (T Statistics = 0.992); on the other hand, knowledge self-efficacy influences conformity, harmony, and confidence, which in turn affects the knowledge management of employees in these companies. The indirect effect demonstrates that agreement can moderate the influence of knowledge self-efficacy on the knowledge management of employees in these companies (T Statistics = 5,959); conversely, conformity mediates the strong impact of trust on the knowledge management of employees in these businesses. The empirical results show that employees need to have a high level of knowledge for diverse expertise to function well. Conversely, trust will make people more eager to share their information. Lack of confidence might impede the dissemination of knowledge. Acknowledgment We acknowledge the partial publication funding provided by Indonesia school of Economic (STIESIA), Surabaya, Indonesia