Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Distribution and bioclimatic suitability of Duvalius hartigi,subterranean beetle from the lava caves of Mount Etna (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Trechinae)

Beetles of the genus Duvalius are widely distributed in subterranean habitats across the Palearctic, from SW Europe in the West to central Asia and China in the East. The genus is also recorded from Sicily, where nine species are currently known. Duvalius hartigi was described in 2006 on material collected in lava caves of Mount Etna and since then no one has ever reported new data about this species. During the years 2020-2022, we conducted a thorough field search in lava caves on Mount Etna, aiming at unraveling the occurrence of new populations. Our work led to the discovery of twenty-two new occurrences, which in turn, allowed us to perform species distribution modeling (SDM) and to explore the bioclimatic suitability of the species, especially in light of future targeted conservation strategies. The species covers a relatively wide altitudinal and thermic range, being found in lava caves from 615 to 1840 meters a.s. l. , with temperatures ranging from 3.48 to 14.80°C. According to the SDM results, the suitable area for the species ranges between 500 and 2200 meters a.s. l. with preference for colder and wetter sites, irrespectively to slope orientation. The relatively wide bioclimatic tolerance that we recovered for D. hartigi possibly reflects a high ecological plasticity, representing a stimulating topic for further studies.
A compact substrate integrated waveguide H‐plane horn antenna with dielectric arc lens

An H‐plane horn antenna constructed into SIW (substrate integrated waveguide) is proposed. It has a dielectric arc lens for better directivity and a simple microstrip transition as feed. The horn, the lens and the transition share the same substrate. The resulting formula from optical principles shows that the suitable dielectric lens can improve the directivity of the antenna significantly. A prototype was fabricated; the antenna size is 39.175 × 14 × 2 mm3. The frequency band is from 25.5 to 28.5 GHz. The measured gain of this antenna is about 9 dB; the bandwidth, at 10 dB return loss, is over 12%. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2007.
Biostratigraphy , paleobathymetry and paleobiogeography of Lower Cretaceous benthic 1 foraminifera from Shatsky Rise ( ODP Leg 198 ) in the central Pacific Ocean 2 3 4

19 Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in ODP holes 1207B, 1214A, 1213A, and 1213B drilled on 20 Shatsky Rise (Pacific Ocean) provided an opportunity to compare all taxa recorded from the 21 Hauterivian to the Albian. The benthic foraminiferal assemblage abundances and compositions confirm 22 an evolutionary deepening of the Shirshov and Tamu Massif during the Early Cretaceous. In the 23 Hauterivian, recovered only at ODP holes 1213A and 1213B, an outer neritic setting (100 200 m) is 24
The effect of edifice slope, detachment fault geometry, and magmatic triggers on the development of volcanic flank instability

16 Magmatism is a known driver of flank instability at volcanoes where flank slip has been 17 observed. Studies of instability at Kı̄lauea, Piton de la Fournaise, and Etna imply that 18 long-term flank motion likely requires the presence of a layer accommodating the slid19 ing, and a force, such as magma intrusion, that promotes slip. We present a paramet20 ric study using 2D Finite Element Models (FEMs), to assess how edifice aspect ratio, 21 detachment fault geometry, asymmetric buttressing, and intrusion depth affect the po22 tential for development of magma-driven flank instability at volcanoes. We quantify whether 23 the tested conditions would favor flank slip based on the Coulomb Stress Changes (CSCs) 24 associated with endmember scenarios and showcase the expected surface displacements 25 for each scenario, to highlight their deviations from half-space models. Development of 26 instability is more likely when flank slip is along a shallower-dipping receiver fault and 27 the dike intrusion spans the edifice, regardless of edifice steepness. Another favorable sce28 nario occurs in steep edifices with a steeply-dipping receiver fault when the dike is be29 neath the edifice. Buttressing slightly enlarges the region with conducive CSCs on shallow30 dipping faults when the dike is within the edifice but shrinks the region with conducive 31 CSCs in the steep edifice case with steeply-dipping faults. We also find that neglecting 32 topography yields different magnitudes and extents of surface deformation, especially for 33 steeper volcanic edifices. This topographical effect is more important when modeling hor34 izontal displacements and stress fields induced by shallower intrusions. 35 Plain Language Summary 36 Rising magma is known to influence slip on the sides of volcanoes, which can even37 tually lead to a collapse. To better understand how different volcano configurations fa38 cilitate slip, we produce two dimensional models with variable volcano slope and dip of 39 possible slip surfaces, using values for real volcanoes in nature. We apply an opening force 40 at different depths in the model to represent the rising magma and obtain surface dis41 placement predictions, to see how these are different from corresponding predictions from 42 standard models that assume a flat surface. We also calculate fault stability changes in43 side the model volcano to show where sliding is more or less likely to happen. We find 44 that slip is most likely on slip surfaces with shallow dips if opening happens within the 45 volcano, regardless of the volcano steepness, or in volcanoes with steep sides when slip 46 surfaces have steep dips and opening happens beneath the volcano. The steeper the slopes 47
A Framework for Classifying and Comparing Interactions in Cultural Heritage Information Systems

: With the mass digitization of cultural heritage and the increase of people accessing the digitized memory objects, it becomes crucial to develop meaningful interaction patterns in cultural heritage information systems. This explorative study is based on an investigation of 50 websites from the cultural heritage domain. It derives a framework for classifying user interactions with digital cultural heritage. The framework has two dimensions; the first one is a classification of the interactions and the second one describes their degree of complexity. The strength of this framework is the ability to compare complexity, scope and purpose of interactions across different websites while offering a meaningful vocabulary for discussing different interaction features.
Spoilt for choice: Diverse endocytic pathways function at the cell surface

Endocytosis has long been identified as a key cellular process involved in bringing in nutrients, clearing cellular debris in tissue, and maintaining cell membrane compositional homeostasis. While clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) has been the most extensively studied, a number of clathrin-independent endocytic (CIE) pathways are continuing to be delineated. Here we provide a current survey of the different types of endocytic pathways available at the cell surface and discuss a new classification and plausible molecular mechanisms for some of the less characterized ones. Along with an evolutionary perspective of the origins of some of these pathways, we provide an appreciation of the distinct roles these pathways play in various aspects of cellular physiology, including the control of signalling and membrane tension.
Power Relations: The Politics of Risk and Procedure in Nuclear Waste Governance

This paper develops a critical perspective on the ‘new’ governance of science and the environment which is increasingly evident in practical attempts to build more constructive relations between science and democracy through hybrid ‘analytic–deliberative’ processes. The focus is on recent institutional and participatory experiments in the governance of nuclear waste, specifically the work of the UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and the trialling of a novel participatory, multicriteria, options appraisal tool called Deliberative Mapping undertaken by the authors as part of this process. Drawing on these attempts to build relations and make connections between citizens, specialists, stakeholders and policy makers, radioactive wastes, and possible courses of action for their long-term management, the methodological performance of analytic–deliberative practices and the contextual influences that frame and govern them is evaluated. The paper demonstrates powerful framing effects operated at the level of specific participatory practices, procedural politics surrounding the design of ‘new’ governance institutions, and institutional behaviour linked to wider politics of environmental risk and energy futures which narrowed down and marginalised particular discourses, knowledges, meanings, and forms of expression. Unless these often tacit power relations are acknowledged, accounted for, and exposed by all involved, but especially vested interests, analytic–deliberative institutions may well undermine public trust, credibility, and legitimacy rather than promote these democratic virtues as is widely claimed.
Motion detection or time lapse? A comparison of camera trap triggers in the monitoring of elusive ground dwelling birds

Wildlife cameras have emerged over the recent years as an eﬀective research tool for collecting various types of data on wild animals, and they are used increasingly also in avian studies. However, choosing the best method to collect data depends on the aim of the research and the characteristics of the target species and its habitat. Here, we compared the performance of game cameras taking images by passive infrared motion sensitive (PIR) and time-lapse triggering in gathering occurrence and relative abundance data of the taiga bean goose (Anser fabalis fabalis) in peatlands across Finland in 2020-2021. We found the time lapse trigger mode to be more eﬃcient in collecting data on goose presence than PIR triggering. However, there was no signiﬁcant diﬀerence in the goose numbers between the two trigger modes. We also found the capture probability and relative abundance to vary between years, but this could be attributed to random inter-annual variation. In general, we ﬁnd time lapse to be a more suitable method to study elusive ground dwelling birds like the taiga bean goose due to fewer required visits to camera sites compared to motion triggered cameras that may produce a lot of empty images due to false triggering. This reduces the disturbance to the geese and other wildlife during the sensitive breeding period.
Cost Compression between Asphaltic Concrete and Stone Mastic Asphalt Pavements

: Many pavements and surfacing types are available for road engineers to choose from. The selection of pavement structure, either flexible or rigid, should be based mainly on construction and life cycle cost analysis. However, a number of factors should be considered such as past performance, materials and machinery availability, and contractor’s capability. In the selection of road surfacing, many new and conventional mixes are available to choose from; such as stone mastic asphalt (SMA), porous asphalt, and polymer modified asphalt asphaltic concrete (A, C), and conventional asphalt. The factors such as technical factors or economic factors will be used to decide which pavement type to be constructed. It is the aim of this project to study the cost factors affecting choosing between two types of pavements, asphaltic concrete pavement and SMA pavement. The study was done by collecting information through a questionnaire that was distributed to highway companies in Selangor, Malaysia, the study shows that the initial cost for asphaltic concrete pavement is higher than the initial cost for SMA pavement. However, for long life, a comparison of the cost shows that the asphaltic concrete pavement has a low compared with the SMA pavement
Graph alignment exploiting the spatial organization improves the similarity of brain networks

Every brain is unique, having its structural and functional organization shaped by both genetic and environmental factors over the course of its development. Brain image studies tend to produce results by averaging across a group of subjects, under the common assumption that it is possible to subdivide the cortex into homogeneous areas while maintaining a correspondence across subjects. We investigate this assumption: can the structural properties of a specific region of an atlas be assumed to be the same across subjects? This question is addressed by looking at the network representation of the brain, with nodes corresponding to brain regions and edges to their structural relationships. Using an unsupervised graph matching strategy, we align the structural connectomes of a set of healthy subjects, considering parcellations of different granularity, to understand the connectivity misalignment between regions. First, we compare the obtained permutations with four different algorithm initializations: Spatial Adjacency, Identity, Barycenter, and Random. Our results suggest that applying an alignment strategy improves the similarity across subjects when the number of parcels is above 100 and when using Spatial Adjacency and Identity initialization (the most plausible priors). Second, we characterize the obtained permutations, revealing that the majority of permutations happens between neighbors parcels. Lastly, we study the spatial distribution of the permutations. By visualizing the results on the cortex, we observe no clear spatial patterns on the permutations and all the regions across the context are mostly permuted with first and second order neighbors.
Socioeconomic position, growth and physical activity: associations with adult fat and lean mass in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

Fat and lean mass have important implications for adult health and physical functioning, but few studies have examined their determinants. This thesis used a life course perspective to examine how explanatory factors across life relate to adult measures of fat and lean mass. The MRC National Survey of Health and Development was used—a British birth cohort study originally comprised of 5362 babies born in March 1946. At 60–64 years, 746 males and 812 females had fat and lean mass measures taken using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Linear regression was used to examine associations between prospectively ascertained explanatory variables (socioeconomic position, measures of growth, and physical activity) with these masses. Lower childhood and adult socioeconomic position, greater weight gains in childhood and adolescence (7-20 years), and lower current physical activity levels (measured objectively and by self-report) were all associated with higher fat mass, with evidence in females of cumulative benefits of leisure time physical activity across adulthood (36 to 60–64 years) in leading to lower fat mass. Higher childhood (females only) and adult (both sexes) socioeconomic position, higher birth weight, greater weight gain from birth to 20 years, and physical activity participation across adulthood were all associated with higher lean mass; associations with socioeconomic position and physical activity were found after adjustment for fat mass. Associations between lower childhood socioeconomic position and higher fat mass were partly mediated by weight gain from 7–20 years; associations with higher fat and lower lean mass were partly mediated by leisure time physical activity measures. Factors operating in both early and adult life were associated with adult fat and lean mass. These factors could be potential targets for public health strategies which seek to reduce fat mass and increase lean mass in the population.
The influence of age on prognosis of de novo acute myeloid leukemia differs according to cytogenetic subgroups.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the presented study the effect of age and cytogenetics on clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was evaluated. The 1225 patients with de novo AML were separated according to age as follows: A1: 16 to 49 years (n=442), A2: 50 to 59 years (n=246), A3: 60-69 years (n=333), A4: 70 years and older (n=204). DESIGN AND METHODS Patients were categorized with respect to cytogenetics into 5 groups: C1: t(15;17) (n=107), C2: CBF-AML/inv(16)/t(8;21) (n=171), C3: 11q23/MLL (n=42), C4: complex aberrant karyotype (n=130), C5: other: normal, other abnormalities, 5q-/-5, 7q-/-7, inv(3)/t(3;3), other 3q abnormalities (n=746). For each age category univariate cox regression analysis was performed using age as a continuous variable and C1 to C5 as dichotomous variables. RESULTS In cohort A1 all parameters were significantly associated with overall survival (OS). However, in multivariate analysis all cytogenetic parameters were independently correlated with OS, while age was not. In cohort A2 only CBF and complex aberrant karyotype were significantly correlated with OS. In A3 t(15;17), complex karyotype and age, and in A4 only complex karyotype and age were significantly associated with OS in univariate and multivariate analyses. Within all cytogenetic subgroups except AML 11q23/MLL there were significant associations between age and OS. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS (i) Both age and cytogenetics are independent prognostic parameters in AML;(ii) up to the age of 49 years age has no major impact on prognosis while the karyotype has; (iii) in patients 50 years and older the influence of age on outcome increases, and (iv) cytogenetics show an independent effect on survival also in patients over 60 years old.
Scheduling DNNs on Edge Servers

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various video analytic tasks. These tasks demand real-time responses. Due to the limited processing power on mobile devices, a common way to support such real-time analytics is to ofﬂoad the processing to an edge server. This paper examines how to speed up the edge server DNN processing for multiple clients. In particular, we observe batching multiple DNN requests signiﬁcantly speeds up the processing time. Based on this observation, we ﬁrst design a novel scheduling algorithm to exploit the batching beneﬁts of all requests that run the same DNN. This is compelling since there are only a handful of DNNs and many requests tend to use the same DNN. Our algorithms are general and can support different objectives, such as minimizing the completion time or maximizing the on-time ratio. We then extend our algorithm to handle requests that use different DNNs with or without shared layers. Finally, we develop a collaborative approach to further improve performance by adaptively processing some of the requests or portions of the requests locally at the clients. This is especially useful when the network and/or server is congested. Our implementation shows the effectiveness of our approach under different request distributions ( e.g. , Poisson, Pareto, and Constant inter-arrivals).
Erratum: ``Antarctic sea ice and the control of Pleistocene climate instability''

A hypothesis is presented for the origin of Pleistocene climate instability, based on expansion of Antarctic sea ice and associated changes in the oceans' salinity structure. The hypothesis assumes that thermohaline overturning is dominated by the reconfigured conveyor of Toggweiler and Samuels [1993b], in which deepwater upwelling is restricted to high southern latitudes. The reconfigured conveyor is shown to be potentially stabilized in an “on” mode by precipitation at high southern latitudes and potentially destabilized into “on” and “off” modes by the counteracting influence of Antarctic sea ice. The mechanism is clarified by the use of a hydraulic analogue. We hypothesize that this mechanism accounts for dominant patterns of thermohaline overturning and climate instability between Pleistocene warm and cold periods. The hypothesis is shown to be consistent with a range of paleoceanographic evidence and to potentially account for details of observed rapid climate changes during glacial and interglacial periods, including aspects of interhemispheric timing.
Effect of Mbuja Oil Consumption Compare to Palm Olein and Corn Oils on Lipid Parameters in Rats

: Mbuja ( Bikalga; dawadawa botso; datou; Furundu ) is a food condiment obtained by a traditional uncontrolled fermentation of Hibiscus sabdariffa seeds in African countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Sudan). This condiment is known for its nutritive values and for its health properties. In spite of its nutritional and healthy properties the consumption of Mbuja is less appreciated in urban areas. This is due to its strong smell, to its bad condition of manufacturing practices which leads to the rapid alteration of nutritive values. The main problem now is how to lead people to consume Mbuja which nevertheless contains bioactive molecules, which can help in the treatment or in the prevention of some cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. In order to valorize its nutraceutic property, a study on physicochemical characterization and on nutraceutic value of its oil were carried out. Mbuja was purchased in Mokolo market (Far-North, Cameroon); oil extracted from it was assessed on its various components by using classical methods. Nutraceutic aspect was conducted after feeding male rats with different diets containing Mbuja , corn and palm oils for 50 days. The results had shown that the main constituent of Mbuja oil was polyunsaturates fatty acids (C18:2). Feeding rats with this oil had shown good hypocholesterolemic activities in their blood compared to corn and palm oils. Which is characterized by reduction of triglyceride, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and increasing of HDL cholesterol. Consumption of Mbuja oil need to be encouraged and can be adviced as nutraceutic and therapeutic diet to persons suffering from hypertension.
A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Relationship Between BMI and Nursing Students’ Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background Having a weight problem can cause emotional distress, especially in students, who suffer from both issues at a high rate. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s negative impact on society, these problems can be significantly impacted. The study aims to investigate the relationship between nursing students’ BMI and their mental well-being. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 423 students from the second through fourth baccalaureate years of Science of Nursing program – KSA. The instrument for the study was an online questionnaire distributed to the students via Google Forms during the academic year 2021–2022 to collect data on the emotional state of students directly as a result of COVID-19 restrictions and limitations. The statistical analysis was carried out through Chi-square test was used to compare categorical data between groups and the Pearson coefficient is used to determine the correlation between two quantitative variables with normal distribution. Results There is a significant correlation between BMI with depression score, anxiety score and stress score. Higher BMI indicated 6.4 times more likeliness to have depression than lower BMI (OR = 6.4). Students who had higher BMI were 2.7 times more likely to have anxiety than those who had lower BMI (OR = 2.7), and 9.4 times more likely to have stress than those who had lower BMI (OR = 9.4). Conclusion Study findings indicate that nursing students’ BMI increases as depression, anxiety, and stress increase. During the COVID-19 pandemic, participants reported increased weight due to increased stress levels and increased eating. Students in nursing should be aware of the importance of adopting healthy habits and following a healthy lifestyle.