Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
TRANSLATION AND EVOLUTION: THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE THROUGH "LITERARY SELECTION"

The focus of this article concerns the intricate tradition whereby translation has been historically affecting the evolution of human cultures. The emergence of language in the social interactions of our ancestors has been decisive for the evolution of their cultural environments; so decisive that trying to separate these realms (language and culture) is currently considered virtually unfeasible. Bearing in mind that my overall intention is to reflect upon the twofold relationship between the evolution of language and that of culture, my specific one is to establish such link in the specific scope of translation practices. In practical terms, when one thinks of the selection of discourses that occur through the process of translation, it would be plausible to affirm that many of them end up working not as a natural, but as an artificial selection. These translations, in the end, do not necessarily point to a supposedly innocuous and regular path taken by cultural evolution, but actually to one directly influenced by a few subjects' interests - notwithstanding the possible social drawbacks for human culture in the long-term picture that might result from such interests.
Capacitive wire-mesh sensor measurements in oilwater flow

In this paper, a capacitive wire-mesh sensor was applied to investigate viscous-oil in water dispersed flow in a transparent acrylic section of 26-mm-i.d. and 12-m-length. The sensor was used to obtain in-situ volumetric phase fractions (holdup) and phase distributions in the pipe cross-section. Two mixture permittivity models from the literature, Maxwell– Garnett and Power–Law were applied to calculate the oil volumetric phase fractions in order to compare with the phase fraction measured via quick-closing valves technique (QCVs). In these models the relation is modified as function of a variable parameter. This paper presented a new attempt to find a suitable relation for holdup measurements in oil-water dispersed flows. Keywords—capacitive sensor; wire-mesh; oil-water flow; phase distribution; holdup, dispersed flow.
A Quality-Centered Analysis of Eye Tracking Data in Foveated Rendering

This work presents the analysis of data recorded by an eye tracking device in the course of evaluating a foveated rendering approach for head-mounted displays (HMDs). Foveated rendering methods adapt the image synthesis process to the user’s gaze and exploiting the human visual system’s limitations to increase rendering performance. Especially, foveated rendering has great potential when certain requirements have to be fulfilled, like low-latency rendering to cope with high display refresh rates. This is crucial for virtual reality (VR), as a high level of immersion, which can only be achieved with high rendering performance and also helps to reduce nausea, is an important factor in this field. We put things in context by first providing basic information about our rendering system, followed by a description of the user study and the collected data. This data stems from fixation tasks that subjects had to perform while being shown fly-through sequences of virtual scenes on an HMD. These fixation tasks consisted of a combination of various scenes and fixation modes. Besides static fixation targets, moving targets on randomized paths as well as a free focus mode were tested. Using this data, we estimate the precision of the utilized eye tracker and analyze the participants’ accuracy in focusing the displayed fixation targets. Here, we also take a look at eccentricity-dependent quality ratings. Comparing this information with the users’ quality ratings given for the displayed sequences then reveals an interesting connection between fixation modes, fixation accuracy and quality ratings.
Performance Assessment of a Wind Turbine Using SCADA based Gaussian Process Model

Loss of wind turbine power production identified through performance assessment is a useful tool for effective condition monitoring of a wind turbine. Power curves describe the nonlinear relationship between power generation and hub height wind speed and play a significant role in analyzing the performance of a turbine.Performance assessment using nonparametric models is gaining popularity. A Gaussian Process is a nonlinear, non-parametric probabilistic approach widely used for fitting models and forecasting applications due to its flexibility and mathematical simplicity. Its applications extended to both classification and regression related problems. Despite promising results, Gaussian Process application in wind turbine condition monitoring is limited.In this paper, a model based on a Gaussian Process developed for assessing the performance of a turbine. Here, a reference power curve using SCADA datasets from a healthy turbine is developed using a Gaussian Process and then was compared with a power curve from an unhealthy turbine. Error due to yaw misalignment is a standard issue with a wind turbine, which causes underperformance. Hence it is used as case study to test and validate the algorithm effectiveness.
Clasificación de distintos conjuntos de datos utilizados en evaluación de métodos de extracción de conocimiento creados para la web

Resumen. En varios artículos se han utilizado distintos textos de prueba, como datos de entrada para medir el desempeño de los métodos de extracción de relaciones semánticas para la Web (OIE): ReVerb y ClausIE. Sin embargo estos textos nunca han sido analizados para entender si ellos guardan o no similitudes o para saber si existe entre ellos un lenguaje común o pertenecen a un mismo dominio. Es la intención de este trabajo analizar dichos textos utilizando distintos algoritmos de clasificación. Y comprender si se pueden agrupar de una forma coherente, de tal suerte que a priori uno pueda identificar que textos son los que trabajan mejor con ClausIE y cuales con ReVerb.
Colloquium: The quest for high-conductance DNA

The DNA molecule, well known from biology for containing the genetic code of all living species, hasrecently caught the attention of chemists and physicists. A major reason for this interest is DNA’spotential use in nanoelectronic devices, both as a template for assembling nanocircuits and as anelement of such circuits. Without question, a truly conducting form of DNA would have a majorimpact on developments in nanotechnology. It has also been suggested that extended electronic statesof DNA could play an important role in biology, e.g., through the processes of DNA damage sensingor repair or through long-range charge transfer. However, the electronic properties of DNA remainvery controversial. Charge-transfer reactions and conductivity measurements show a large variety ofpossible electronic behavior, ranging from Anderson and band-gap insulators to effective molecularwires and induced superconductors. Indeed, understanding the conductance of a complicatedpolyelectrolytic aperiodic system is by itself a major scientiﬁc problem. In this Colloquium, the authorssummarize the wide-ranging experimental and theoretical results and look for any consistenciesbetween them. They also pose simple questions regarding the electronic states of DNA within theframework of generalized Hu¨ckel and Slater-Koster theories. The Colloquium provides a quantitativeoverview of DNA’s electronic states as obtained from density-functional theory, focusing ondependence on structure, on molecular stretching and twisting, and on water and counterions. Whilethere is no clear theoretical basis for truly metallic DNA, situations are discussed in which very smallenergy gaps might arise in the overall DNA/water/counterion complex, leading to thermally activatedconduction at room temperature.
The discounting confusion: an ecological economics perspective

Factors impacting on the discounting process are mirrored in every aspect of human activities, be it the philosophical, the aesthetic, the religious through to the environmental and scientific experiences. In short, discounting is a controversial concept, and yet, the economic profession seems to ignore that issues related to “long-term” discounting are complex, multifaceted, and far from settled. The environmental community in particular has expressed reservations about discounting, because this process —an inherently myopic one— embodies a built-in bias against the future generations. It will be argued here that the danger to ecological sustainability is of a specific nature, namely, it relates to the lack of substitutability between human-made capital and natural capital. If this ssumption is accepted, then it follows that using a discount rate is an inadequate instrument for achieving sustainability. Thus, it will be argued that the implementation of the precautionary principle, e.g., in form of “safe minimum standards” of ecosystem protection, provides a successful approach for achieving sustainability.
Massive star cluster formation under the microscope atz = 6

We report on a superdense star-forming region with an effective radius (R-e) smaller than 13 pc identified at z = 6.143 and showing a star formation rate density Sigma(SFR) similar to 1000 M-circle dot yr(-1) kpc(-2) (or conservatively > 300 M-circle dot yr(-1) kpc(-2)). Such a dense region is detected with S/N greater than or similar to 40 hosted by a dwarf extending over 440 pc, dubbed D1. D1 is magnified by a factor 17.4(+/- 5.0) behind the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACS J0416 and elongated tangentially by a factor 13.2 +/- 4.0 (including the systematic errors). The lens model accurately reproduces the positions of the confirmed multiple images with a rms of 0.35 arcsec. D1 is part of an interacting star-forming complex extending over 800 pc. The SED-fitting, the very blue ultraviolet slope (beta similar or equal to -2.5, F-lambda similar to lambda(beta)), and the prominent Lya emission of the stellar complex imply that very young (<10-100 Myr), moderately dust-attenuated (E(B - V) <0.15) stellar populations are present and organized in dense subcomponents. We argue that D1 (with a stellar mass of 2 x 10(7) M-circle dot) might contain a young massive star cluster of M less than or similar to 10(6) M-circle dot and M-UV similar or equal to -15.6 (or m(UV) = 31.1), confined within a region of 13 pc, and not dissimilar from some local super star clusters (SSCs). The ultraviolet appearance of D1 is also consistent with a simulated local dwarf hosting an SSC placed at z = 6 and lensed back to the observer. This compact system fits into some popular globular cluster formation scenarios. We show that future high spatial resolution imaging (e.g. E-ELT/MAORY-MICADO and VLT/MAVIS) will allow us to spatially resolve light profiles of 2-8 pc.
The Taming of Content: Some Thoughts About Domains and Modules

Peter Wason invented the Selection Task in 1966. Thirty years and many, many experiments later, two results are evident for me. First, the view that sound reasoning can be reduced to propositional logic (or first order logic) is myopic. Human thought operates in more dimensions than entailment and contradiction (Strawson, 1952). We need to work out how the mind infers the meaning of a conditional statement from the content of the Ps and Qs and the social context in which the statement is uttered, rather than exclaiming “Cognitive illusion! Hurrah! Error! ” whenever human reasoning cannot be reduced to propositional logic. Second, the hope that these “errors” or their flip-side, the “facilitation” of logical reasoning, would be the royal road to discovering the laws of human reasoning did not materialise. This hope was fueled by the (mislead
The Development of Lexical Organization in Chinese EFL learners at Tertiary Level

This study aims to explore the development of L2 lexical organization through a word association test on the part of 200 Chinese EFL learners at tertiary level. The general developmental pattern is that the subjects at higher learning stages produce more semantic associations than those at lower learning stages. The syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift, however, is not detected in this study. The associations also evince the mediation and interference of L1 semantic system and the deviation of L2 lexical organization from that of L1. The results and the implications are discussed from the perspectives of depth of vocabulary knowledge, the importance of overcoming the L1 semantic mediation and constructing a well-structured mental lexicon.
The Returns to Observable and Unobservable Skills over time: Evidence from a Panel of the Population of Danish Twins

This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins which we obtain from Danish population registers. Our estimation exploits the fact that our data is a long panel. We show that the rising inequality, which we observe in the raw data, is due to rising returns to observable skills. Indeed, our results suggest that the inequality associated with unobservable skills appears to have fallen since the late 1980’s. The fact that we have both MZs and DZs allows us to separate the rising residual variance into changes in returns to unobservables and changes in the variance in unobservables across successive cohorts. Measurement error has been a concern in the twins literature since the usual methodology is based on within-twin differences. We exploit two instruments that provide additional measures of the within twin schooling difference, differences in when the twins first join the labour force on a full-time basis, which comes from a register that is independent of the education registers; and the strong assortative mating in the data which allows us to use twins spouse’s education as an instrument. We also address a further concern in the literature, that differencing between twins fails to remove individual fixed effects as opposed to family fixed effects resulting in schooling differences being correlated with the residual. This would induce the within twin schooling difference coefficient to be biased. Here we exploit the Danish equivalent of Maimonides’ rule which generates potential variation in education within twin pairs associated with being placed in different classes if they attended a small school in a larger than average cohort. This different experience across twin pairs is shown to generate differences in within twin schooling. Our baseline estimates suggests that correcting for selfselection in schooling, and measurement error, gives returns that are about two fifths higher than OLS for men and about one fifth higher for women.
Misconceptions of cell division held by student teachers in biology: A drawing analysis

The purpose of this study was to identify biology student teachers’ misconceptions of cell divisions using drawings and interviews. Data were collected from 124 biology student teachers. An analysis of drawings and interviews suggested that biology student teachers have a series of significant problems and misconceptions regarding cell division and structuring of concepts in a meaningful manner. These problems were mainly associated with meiosis rather than mitosis. The students confused the stages of the cell division process and the events occurring at these stages. Some misconceptions identified from this study included that DNA replication occurs in the prophase during the cell division, interphase is the resting phase of mitosis, the chromosome number is doubled in prophase of mitosis and halved in anaphase of mitosis, the chromosome number remains the same during meiosis-I and it is halved during meiosis-II, and a chromosome has always two chromatids during cell division. These results were compared with related literature and recommendations were made for teachers and researchers for future studies to overcome students’ misconceptions.
A GENERAL DIFFERENTIATION THEOREM FOR MULTIPARAMETER ADDITIVE

Let (L, ‖ · ‖L) be a Banach lattice of equivalence classes of real-valued measurable functions on a σ-finite measure space and T = {T (u) : u = (u1, . . . , ud), ui > 0, 1 ≤ i ≤ d} be a strongly continuous locally bounded d-dimensional semigroup of positive linear operators on L. Under suitable conditions on the Banach lattice L we prove a general differentiation theorem for locally bounded d-dimensional processes in L which are additive with respect to the semigroup T .
Use of RNA Domains in the Viral Genome as Innate Immunity Inducers for Antiviral Strategies and Vaccine Improvement

This chapter will focus on the role of innate immunity induction on antiviral responses with an emphasis on nucleic acids as type-I interferon (IFN) inducers and their use as antiviral compounds and vaccine adjuvants. A general and up-to-date view of the different mechanisms operating in the host cell for sensing viral genomes will be given, as well as viral strategies counteracting this response through immune evasion or specifically targeted antagonism. Our own recent data describing the ability to induce IFN and mediate protection against viral infection in vivo of synthetic RNA transcripts enclosing structural domains present in the 5 ́and 3 ́-terminal regions of the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) genome will be sum‐ marized and discussed in this context. New vaccine formulations including innate immunity inducers are being developed for improvement of current vaccines. The potential of exogenous nucleic acids as modulators of immune response outcomes and vaccine adjuvants will be reviewed and discussed. A schematic summary of the interrelated topics addressed in this chapter is shown in Figure 1. Additionally, a glossary of all the acronyms and abbreviations used in the text and figures is shown in Table 1.
vidence for plant traits driving specific drought resistance . A community field xperiment

Drought is known to be a major bottleneck for woody-community recruitment. The species-specific resistance to drought and factors involved in its variation are of special interest to forecast community fate. We performed an experiment under natural field conditions from winter 2006 to end summer 2008 to investigate the structural responses of woody saplings to nine combinations of light (three habitats differing in plant cover: forest, shrubland, and open) and water (three climate scenarios: drier, current and wetter summers). Our working hypothesis is that plant strategies to cope with drought are determined by habitat characteristics and/or variation of plant traits, and that these different strategies may determine community composition and dynamics. Eight woody species with different life forms and successional stages (trees, mid-successional shrubs, and pioneer shrubs) were selected for the comparison, including therefore species representative of the entire woody community. We explored drought resistance at the population level (DS), the relations of the different morphological traits to DS, and the potential importance for plants of inter-specific trade-offs. DS ranged from 0% to 99% for the different species, depending on the habitat. Some structural traits were found to be related to DS: positively with total biomass and leaf mass ratio (LMR) and negatively with leaf area-root mass ratio (LARMR). Contrary to previous studies, the present work revealed no evidence of trade-offs, such as survival in forest vs. growth in open, or growth in forest vs. growth in open. Accordingly, some species with low DS values (Acer opalus and Pinus sylvestris) would be threatened under the future climate conditions, while species having structural characteristics to increase their resistance under expected dry years in coming decades (i.e., high LMR and total biomass or low LARMR, such as Quercus ilex and the shrub Cytisus scoparius)
MAPPING TRAFFIC FLOW FOR TELEMETRY SYSTEM PLANNING Grant Rivera ( Student ) and Kurt Kosbar ( Advisor )

Telemetry receivers must typically be located so that obstacles do not block the signal path. This can be challenging in geometrically complex indoor environments, such as factories, health care facilities, or offices. An accurate method for estimating the paths followed by typical telemetry transmitters in these environments can assist in system planning. It may be acceptable to provide marginal coverage to areas which are rarely visited, or areas which transmitters quickly transit. This paper discusses the use of the ant colony optimization and its application to the telemetry system planning problem.
Effects of Different Environment Temperatures on Some Motor Characteristics and Muscle Strength.

The aim of this study was determine the effects of different environment temperatures on motor characteristics and muscle strength. 15 athletes participated to study. Flexibility, vertical jump, hand grip-leg strength,30m sprint, 20-meter shuttle run and coordinationagility tests were measured in five different environment temperatures. (22°C, 10,5°C, 0°C, -5,5°C ,-11°C). Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine whether the data showed normal distribution. ANOVA was used to compare the data for normal distribution and Kruskal-Wallis-H test was used for showing not normal distribution. Additionally, Tukey test and Mann-Whitney U test were used for meaningful difference. The significance levels were taken as 0.01 and 0.05. Significant changes were found all measured parameters compared to cold environment and Significant differences were found in all motor scores except anaerobic capacity (p<0.05). In all sport activities done in hot environment, higher efficiency is obtained compared to those done in cold environment and therefore, performances of athletes increase depending on the environment temperature.
Optimised sensor configurations for a MAGLEV suspension system

This paper discusses a systematic approach for selecting the minimum number of sensors for an Electromagnetic suspension system that satisfies both optimised deterministic and stochastic performance objectives. The performance is optimised by tuning the controller using evolutionary algorithms. Two controller strategies are discussed, an inner loop classical solution for illustrating the efficacy of the evolutionary algorithm and a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) structure particularly on sensor optimisation.
Nemesis Team Description 2010

In our study, we tried to develop our teams in such a way that machine learning techniques and advanced artificial intelligence tools have the main role in improving skills and increasing team performance. We consider soccer simulation platform as an uncertain and dynamic environment, so we develop learning algorithms according to this important feature and agent's partial observability.
Modelling political support among Women with political actors in Northern States

Problem statement: Women in Asia are making their mark with distinct styles of leadership, but have a long way to go to reach the critical mass needed to level a political playing field that remains much easier for men to take part. Yet far from being included in the decision-making process, women find themselves under-represented in political institutions. Approach: Numerous challenges confront women entering politics. Many feel that Malaysian society is still male dominated and men are threatened by the idea of women holding senior posts. Thus the objective of this study tries to identify the model of political support of women by looking at relationship with political parties in the northern states. The result of findings shows that there is a significant relationship between them. Results: The recommendations were proposed such as women should be more participate in political parties activities from the women wings from the grass-root and women representatives should be given more opportunities in voice their idea as men in political arena. Conclusion: In future research, political parties and government should open widely the platform for women active in politics and give them an opportunity to exercise the political power as men earned in decision-making process.