Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of a Sustainable Forest Sector in the Russian Far East

Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of a Sustainable Forest Sector in the Russian Far East John C. Simeone Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Sergey Rabotyagov School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Twenty-three percent of global forests are contained within the Russian Federation’s nine time zones, which is more than the combined forest area of Canada and Brazil. Despite the fact that Russia contains the largest area of natural forests in the world, its current share in the trade of world forest products is below 4 percent. Russia’s forest sector is known for high transportation costs, aging infrastructure, and high instances of bribery and corruption, issues that have had widespread impacts. In 2006, Russia’s easternmost region, the Far East, had the ability to process only two percent of its regional timber harvest. While the Far East’s processing capacity was particularly low, the situation for most other regions of Russia was little better. With such a low capacity to process timber, Russia increasingly became an exporter of roundwood logs; between 2003 and 2005, Russia exported more roundwood than any other country. Beginning in 2007, the Russian government implemented a series of policies, including export tariffs on roundwood, in order to develop a more competitive timber-processing sector and increase the production and exports of value-added forest products. Yet, in 2009, 96% of the forest product exports from the Far East were in the form of unprocessed roundwood logs. Thus, the efficacy of these national forest policies in the Far East has been unclear in the short-term. Additionally, Russia’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in August 2012 is expected to alter many aspects of Russia’s forest sector development and exports. Through semi-structured interviews with people involved in the forest sector, this research investigates the most recent challenges facing the development of a sustainable forest sector in the Russian Far East.
12. REFLECTIVITY MODELING OF THE LAYER 3 GABBROIC SEQUENCE DRILLED AT THE ATLANTIS II FRACTURE ZONE1

On the basis of visual core descriptions, 43 layers of varying thickness, diagnostic mineralogy, and deformation textures were identified within the six main lithologic units drilled at Hole 735B. Compressional-wave velocities and densities of drill-core samples measured in the laboratory at selected confining pressures were used for calculating normal-incidence synthetic reflection seismograms. The synthetic seismograms show that significant reflections are produced at the interfaces between gabbroic layers of diverse chemical composition. Microcrack porosity reduces the amplitude of reflections at low pressures. The amount of SiO2 and Fe2O3 present has an inverse relationship with compressional-wave velocities, and these constituents are major factors controlling the reflectivity at higher pressures. In addition, variations in anisotropy (<10%) within fairly homogeneous sections may also produce significant reflections. However, anisotropy probably is of secondary importance for determining the reflectivity of the gabbroic sequence drilled at Hole 735B.
Discussion on the South China Sea Evolution and Lithospheric Breakup through 3D Analogue Modeling

The evolution of the South China Sea is one of the worldwide hot research spots.In order to investigate its evolution progress of tectonics,we compared three sets of analogue modeling experiments.Modeling experiments suggest that the fault patterns and orientation change of the rift zone were strongly related to the thermal situation and rheological stratification of the lithosphere.Comparing the modeling results with the fault patterns on the conjugate continental margin,we conjectured that the slope area might have born relatively hotter and thinner lithosphere than shelf area from the beginning of rifting.Due to the stretching and mantle upwelling associated with the regional extension,the initial rheological stratification was changed and therefore the rifting pattern from shelf to slope.Affected by the ductile flow of lower crust and asthenosphere,the faults became flattened,especially close to the breakup area.In the experiments,breakup developed first at isolated points,which grew and coalesced to become a single spreading area.The conjugate boundaries were either all concave or all convex.When there was a rigid massif located at the divergent boundary,the northern and southern areas of the massif thinned rapidly and developed into two deep troughs,which may finally evolve into spreading centers.The shape of the massif controls the orientation and boundary shape of the spreading area.It's supposed that the crustal breakup may go in more viscous style,and the NW sub sea basin may develop along the northern trough of the Zhongsha-Xisha massif.
A Study on the Population Size of China Old-age Poverty

Adopting different poverty lines and using Minimum Living Standard data,this paper estimates the population size of China old-age.It is showed that old-age population is more than 14 million adopting rural poverty line and "＄1 a day" in rural area,and is more than 3 million adopting urban Minimum Living Standard and "＄2 a day". Therefore,the total size of China old-age population is more than 18 million,and the poverty rate more than 10 percent.
Wilms’ Tumor: Experience of Regional Children’s Hospital in Serbia

Malignancy in children presents the major cause of death due to disease between the ages of 1 and 15 year. Tumors differ from tumors in adult age in their nature, localization and prognosis. The basic challenge of pediatric oncology is adjustment of therapy to the biological nature and stage of malignant process, while not interfering with growth and development of the child. The most frequent tumors in children are acute lymphoblast leukemia, tumors of the central nervous system and sarcomas. Tumors of the kidney present 10% of tumors in the first 5 years of life and 5% of tumors between the 5-9 years of age. Pediatric oncology management in Europe is according to the SIOP protocols. SIOP (Société Internationale d’Oncologie Pédiatrique) is international association of pediatric oncologist which was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1960 [1,2].
Influence of Graupel/Hail Parameters on the Simulation of a Convective System over Coastal South China in Summer

Abstract This paper discusses the effect of graupel/hail parameters on a convective system in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. The simulation results using the original model settings were similar to observations in terms of radar reflectivity and sea level pressure, as well as the identification of hydrometeor particle classification by X-band dual-polarization radar data. Sensitivity tests using changed parameters of graupel/hail indicated that a size distribution with larger and denser but fewer hail hydrometers resulted in a weaker development of the convective system in the horizontal and vertical directions. With a large terminal velocity of hail, the melting rate of graupel and evaporation rate of rain were the lowest. Hail could reach the ground and the mixing ratio of rain was the largest near the ground. Precipitation, including rainwater and hail, was the largest. However, a size distribution with smaller and lighter but numerous graupel hydrometers resulted in a stronger development of the convective system. The melting rate of graupel and evaporation rate of rain were the largest. More graupel particles were stranded in the air for a longer time—and the maximum mixing ratio of rain was the largest. The precipitation amount, including rainwater only, was the smallest. The changes to graupel parameters also led to differences in microphysical processes.
Announcement of Population Data STR data for the AmpF'STR identifier loci from an old settlement in northwestern Turkey

The polymorphism of 15 STR loci has been studied in a population sample of 193 healthy unrelated individuals from the population of Duzce, a city in the northwestern Turkey. The most valuable loci, from forensic point of view according to their power of discrimination values, were D2S1338, D18S51, FGA, and D19S433 where CSF1PO appeared to be the least powerful one. From paternity point of view, FGA, D21S11 were found to be the loci with highest exclusion value whereas D3S1358 and TPOX were the locus with the lowest exclusion. # 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Geoid Determination Based on a Combination of Terrestrial and Airborne Gravity Data in South Korea

The regional gravimetric geoid model for South Korea is developed by using heterogeneous data such as gravimetric measurements, a global geopotential model, and a high resolution digital topographic model. A highly accurate gravimetric geoid model, which is a basis to support the construction of the efficient and less costly height system with GPS, requires many gravimetric observations and these are acquired by several kinds of sensors or on platforms. Especially airborne gravimetry has been widely employed to measure the earth’s gravity field in last three decades, as well as the traditional measurements on the earth’s physical surface. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the characters of each gravimetric measurement, such as the measurement surface and involved topography, and also to integrate these to a unified gravimetric data base which refers to the same gravitational field. This dissertation illustrates the methods for combining two types of available gravity data for South Korea, one is terrestrial data obtained on the earth’s surface and another is airborne data measured at altitude, and shows an accessible accuracy of the geoid model based on these data.It is found that there exists some bias between terrestrial and airborne gravimetric data probably due to their different properties, and the bias is significantly reduced by the terrain effects determined by the Bouguer reduction. Therefore, the gravimetric data should be merged to a unified data base in terms of the Bouguer gravity anomaly. The reductions are the important roles not only to combine gravimetric data, but also to satisfy the boundary conditions of the Stokes’s integral. The Stokes’s integral is applied to the unified gravimetric data set in order to model the geoid undulation for South Korea. Also the systematic effects on the fundamental equation of physical geodesy are numerically demonstrated on the gravity anomaly and geoid undulation. These are shown to be negligible. In addition, the limitations of the Stokes’s integral caused by truncation of the integration area and discontinuity of data are reduced by the empirical application of the Stokes’s kernel modification and the Remove-Compute-Restore technique.The demonstration of accuracy of the developed geoid model, which is compared to GPS/leveling, shows the model based on the gravity anomaly with respect to the terrain effects have better accuracy than the model based on the free-air gravity anomaly. The achievement on the precision of geoid undulation, computed on a 2 arcmin grid, is 5.6 cm in standard deviation. This model is based on the airborne-only gravity data considering not only the terrain effects but also the downward continuation. The bias in the gravimetric geoid of about 15.5 cm, determined from the comparison with the GPS/leveling data, agrees with previously determined values.
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Power cycles using carbon dioxide in a supercritical state (sc-CO2) can be used in both the nuclear and non-nuclear power industry. These systems are characterized by their advantages over steam power cycles, e. g. , the sc-CO2 turbine is more compact than the steam turbine with a similar performance. The parameters and lifespan of the system are influenced by the purity of the CO2 in the circuit, especially the admixtures, such as O2, H2O, etc., cause the enhanced structural materials to degrade. Therefore, gas purification and purity control systems for the sc-CO2 power cycles should be proposed and developed. The inspiration for the proposal of these systems could stem from the gas, especially the CO2-cooled nuclear reactors operation. The first information concerning the CO2 and sc-CO2 power cycle chemistry was gathered in the first period of the project and it is summarized in the paper.
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We present a novel hp-adaptive space-time discontinuous Galerkin (hp-STDG) method for the numerical solution of the nonstationary Richards equation equipped with Dirichlet, Neumann and seepage face boundary conditions. The hp-STDG method presented in this paper is a generalization of a hp-STDG method which was developed for time dependent non-linear convective-diffusive problems. We describe the method and the single ring experiment, and then we present a numerical experiment which clearly demonstrates the superiority of the hp-STDG method over a discontinuous Galerkin method based on a static fine mesh.
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The presented work summarizes the results of the measurement of solid particle emissions from an experimental 30 kW combustion unit. This unit has been used for the research of oxy-fuel combustion of biomass in a fluidized bed, which, when accompanied with carbon capture technologies, is one of the promising ways for decreasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. To implement a carbon capture system, it is first needed to separate various impurities from the flue gas. Therefore, the goal of this work was to identify solid particles contained in the flue gas. Part of the apparatus used for this measurement was an ejector dilutor. To evaluate the results of this measurement, it is key to know the dilution ratio of the dilutor. For this purpose, a method for determining the dilution ratio of an ejector dilutor was proposed and experimentally verified.
Transforming an EROS Humanoid Soccer Robot: A Study of Velocity Input and IMU-Managed Heading

This study redefines the navigation of humanoid soccer robots by incorporating velocity input and heading, akin to controls utilized in mobile robotics. Leveraging ZMP (Zero Moment Point) and IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) data, a critical segue into velocity-controlled locomotion was achieved. Key insights into the applied velocity, mode of direction, and heading manipulation offered enhanced intention-oriented navigation and precise alignment capabilities. Enhanced by this methodology, the robotic maneuverability transcended to a new standard, showcasing improved agility, stability, and scoring efficacy. These transformations assert the possibility of bridging the gap between humanoid and mobile robotics, revolutionizing the sphere of humanoid soccer robotics and beyond. The result of our experiment experienced demonstrates enhanced robustness and agility features in humanoid soccer robots demonstrating effective improvements rendered with this approach. Our study further fostered progress in robotics research conducting concerning autonomous' system improvement soccer playing among humanoid soccer robots concerned with advanced techniques for modeling and enhancing walking dynamics.
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We show the importance of observing low-mass binary (LMXB) X-ray sources with the X-ray monitors onboard satellites. This enables us to study the physical processes governing the longterm activity of LMXBs. They are excellent targets for monitoring because of their strong activity. We recall that various physical processes operating in LMXBs produce specific large-amplitude variations of X-ray luminosity which can be investigated even in a single-band X-ray light curve as often provided by the monitors. We also emphasize the role of the spectral region of the X-ray monitor. Choosing the spectral region often strongly influences the profile of the observed intensity curve because different emission components may dominate in different X-ray energy ranges. We show several examples of LMXBs which undergo various types of unpredictable activity (e.g. outbursts, superorbital cycles).
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The aim of this paper is to present a design and a development of a heat simulator, which will be used for a flow research in data centers. The designed heat simulator is based on an ideological basis of four-processor 1U Supermicro server. The designed heat simulator enables to control the flow and heat output within the range of 10–100%. The paper covers also the results of testing measurements of mass flow rates and heat flow rates in the simulator. The flow field at the outlet of the server was measured by the stereo PIV method. The heat flow rate was determined, based on measuring the temperature field at the inlet and outlet of the simulator and known mass flow rate.
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a Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University, Galglaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium b Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA c Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3J7 ∗ corresponding author: Hendrik.DeBie@UGent.be
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This research analyses the influence of some design features of an undercarriage of a tram on the energy efficiency in terms of mechanical energy losses during its operation. The work includes the comparison of results of the research from two main points of view, namely from a running gear design and a railway wheel design. Two variants of a tram’s bogie are investigated. A standard bogie and a bogie with a system that allows a radial adjustment of the wheelsets in curves. Two designs of a railway wheel are compared, a wheel with the traditional construction scheme and a wheel with a perspective construction scheme. The values of mechanical energy losses due to slippage in the contact between the wheels and rails are analysed. These losses are obtained with reference to a specific route and the value of the average power dissipated. Moreover, an analysis of advantages and disadvantages of bogie designs has made it possible to consider the most appropriate bogie design in terms of ensuring the energy efficiency. In this case, the bogie design with the wheels with the perspective construction scheme can be considered as the optimal option.
A survey on some physical properties of the Date Palm tree

Results of physical properties showed that there is an appropriate relation between height of trunk based on age while there were no acceptable relations between the lowest green leaves distance till fruit, crown height and circumference of trunk in various sections based on age. The correlation coefficient of height based on age was obtained as R 2 =0.94. These results can be useful for determining the size, reach and general requirements of a special date palm service machine.
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The PETAL system (PETawatt Aquitaine Laser) is a high-energy short-pulse laser, currently in an advanced construction phase, to be combined with the French Mega-Joule Laser (LMJ). In a first operational phase (beginning in 2015 and 2016) PETAL will provide 1 kJ in 1 ps and will be coupled to the first four LMJ quads. The ultimate performance goal to reach 7PW (3.5 kJ with 0.5 ps pulses). Once in operation, LMJ and PETAL will form a unique facility in Europe for High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). PETAL is aiming at providing secondary sources of particles and radiation to diagnose the HED plasmas generated by the LMJ beams. It also will be used to create HED states by short-pulse heating of matter. Petal+ is an auxiliary project addressed to design and build diagnostics for experiments with PETAL. Within this project, three types of diagnostics are planned: a proton spectrometer, an electron spectrometer and a large-range X-ray spectrometer.
What Type of Advice does Change Decisions on Moral Dilemma Effectively?

While the development of artificial intelligence is promising and may bring us prosperity, it is not without serious problems. For example, how should an autonomous vehicle system judge moral dilemmas? How can and should people be encouraged to accept the advice of AI in such situations? In order to implement acceptable and explainable AI, it is important to study how people accept the advice of others. In the present study, we focused on everyday moral dilemmas and investigated which advice is more likely to be accepted. The study was conducted in three steps. In Step 1, a list of moral dilemma advice was created, which was evaluated by another group of people in Step 2. In Step 3, the moral dilemmas were presented together with one of the created pieces of advice. There were four types of advice (emotional or rational $\times$ altruistic or egocentric directions). Participants were instructed to read the advice and make their judgements about the dilemmas. The results showed that the advice that included guidance in an altruistic direction changed the judgments in an altruistic direction. However, the egocentric advice did not change the judgments to egocentric, suggesting that it is more difficult to encourage egocentric judgments than altruistic judgments. Future research should also focus on how AI should provide advice when it determines that all risks can be avoided by prioritizing the driver's own protection.
Archeohandi: protocol for a national disabilities database in archaeology in France

The archaeology of disability is a relatively recent and little-known approach in France. While the study of palaeopathology now goes hand in hand with funerary archaeology and osteoarchaeology, the French study of disabilities and disabling pathologies remains marginal and unevenly treated, depending on location, chronology and researcher’s interest. This paper focuses on highlighting the compatibility between this new research area, the obligations of osteoarchaeology, and the benefits of developing a national, diachronic, and interdisciplinary study. A database is designed within an interpretive, consensual framework, that can be adapted to overcome limitations and promote open-minded research on the care of the disabled in their own communities. A preliminary category selection of disabling pathologies has been made. These are trepanation, completely edentulous and/or compensating denture, neuronal impairment, severe scoliosis, Paget's disease, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH), rickets, dwarfism, infectious diseases, unreduced fracture, amputation, severe degenerative disease and others. This list has been critically reviewed by experts in the field; it will evolve in a somewhat Darwinian fashion. Our database is hosted on the Huma-Num platform, with a management interface and quick access based on multiple tabs. The data includes information about archaeological operations, subjects, and pathologies; it is complemented by pictorial data stored on the Nakala platform. The development involved creating a prototype using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and PHP, with features to display, add, modify, and delete operations and subjects. Enhancements have been made, including search optimization, charts, and the ability to export data in CSV format. The database, whose administrative interface can be accessed at archeohandi.huma-num.fr, contains so far 211 existing operations with a total of 1232 registered subjects spread throughout metropolitan France. These initial data reveal numerous research perspectives in osteoarchaeology that can be combined with other research topics, such as virtual reality.