Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Climate Influences on Grapevine Phenology, Grape Composition, and Wine Production and Quality for Bordeaux, France

A long-term (1952-1997) climatology was developed using reference vineyard observations in Bordeaux, France. The procedure partitioned the season into growth intervals from one phenological event to the next (budburst, floraison, veraison, and harvest) in which climatic influences were summed and assessed. The data were then used to investigate the relationships between climate and phenology, berry composition at harvest, total production, and quality. Over the last two decades, the phenology of grapevines in Bordeaux has tended towards earlier phenological events, a shortening of phenological intervals, and a lengthening of the growing season. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties have tended to produce higher sugar to total acid ratios, greater berry weights, and greater potential wine quality. Vintage ratings have shown a general increase over the last two decades paralleling the observed phenology and composition trends. The composition and quality trends were mostly described by increases in the number of warm days during floraison and veraison and a reduction in precipitation during maturation. Production variability was not as readily described by phenological-interval climate parameters, but regression modeling did indicate that rainfall during physiologically important periods (flowering and maturation) tended to decrease crop production. By variety, the relationships between phenology, climate, and composition were typically higher (both positive and negative) for Merlot than for Cabernet Sauvignon and could be an indication that, in Bordeaux, Merlot is more phenologically and climatologically sensitive. Additionally, sugar to acid ratios revealed that both Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon composition influenced Bordeaux wine quality, although variations in Cabernet Sauvignon described substantially more of the variability in ratings. This indicates that the wine industry in Bordeaux is more dependent Cabernet Sauvignon for good vintages than on Merlot.
Maturité polyphénolique du raisin mise en place d'une méthode d'analyse de routine

Jusqu'a ces dernieres annees, la determination de la date des vendanges restait plus ou moins empirique. Le suivi de la maturite technologique et physiologique du raisin a permis des progres, de maniere insuffisante cependant. En effet, les criteres de maturite etudies, sucre, pH et acidite totale du raisin, n'etant pas directement lies aux criteres polyphenoliques, aucune information quant a la maturite de ces derniers n'etait disponible. Pour cerner au mieux la periode optimale de recolte, il suffit donc de rajouter aux criteres classiques les criteres de maturite polyphenolique. Mais la maitrise de ces derniers reste difficile de part la multitude de methodes decrites dans la litterature et les informations diverses qui en decoulent. Notre objectif etait donc le suivant : mettre en place une methode de dosage des composes polyphenoliques facilement extractibles, adaptable, en temps reel, a l'ensemble des parcelles du Château Mouton Rothschild, permettant, avec les parametres classiques, de cerner encore mieux la periode optimale de vendange et de determiner le potentiel polyphenolique des raisins a date de recolte. Avant de detailler la methode mise au point par le Service Qualite Recherche et Developpement de la Societe Baron Ph. De Rothschild, nous ferons un bref rappel sur l'evolution des polyphenols en phase de maturation, puis le bilan des methodes actuellement decrites dans la litterature.
Simulation for Analog Circuit Fault Propagation with Complex Networks

Abstract—Based on complex network theory, the simulation method for analog circuit fault propagation behavior and its internal mechanism is proposed and the modeling approach for fault propagation networks is described. Taken the international standards circuit under test as an example, the network degree, clustering coefficient, average path length and other statistical parameters in the model are calculated. The small-world and scale-free properties of the analog circuit fault propagation network are verified. Therefore, efficient diagnosis information can be obtained from the constructed the network.
Influence de la tâche sur le traitement des scènes visuelles complexes : une modélisation des niveaux de représentation

Cette these examine l'influence de la tâche sur la representation en memoire de scenes visuelles complexes. Dans un premier temps, elle etudie comment sont representees les informations visuelles portees par une scene naturelle, selon qu'elles sont pertinentes par rapport a une tâche de recherche visuelle ou d'interet semantique pour la comprehension et l'interpretation de la scene. Les resultats de plusieurs experiences montrent que les informations visuelles pertinentes par rapport a une tâche de recherche visuelle sont extraites de la scene, traitees, et representees de maniere plus precise que les autres informations de la scene. Ils suggerent egalement que ces informations sont codees au sein d'un haut niveau de representation visuelle, quel que soit leur interet semantique, c'est-a-dire leur implication dans la comprehension et l'interpretation de la tâche. Dans un second temps, cette these etudie les modalites de la represenation fonctionnelle de ces informations visuelles en memoire. Les resultats de plusieurs experiences revelent que le niveau fonctionnel de nos representations est de nature transitoire, et quil ne code a chaque instant que le detail des informations visuelles qui sont immediatement requises par la tâche. Enfin, cette these propose un modele multinominal de l'influence de la tâche sur la perception et la representation d'une scene visuelle complexe. Mis a l'epreuve a partir de donnees experimentales recueillies aupres de sujets humains dont la perception d'une scene visuelle est assujettie a la realisation d'une tâche complexe, le modele prouve son adequation aux donnees. Ce faisant, il valide l'hypothese selon laquelle les representations visuelles stockees en memoire contiennent majoritairement des informations pertinentes par rapport aux exigences de la tâche, avec une priorite representationnelle allouee aux elements de la scene qui sont directement et immediatement pertinents pour la realisation de cette tâche.
Gaming behavior among dutch males : prevalence and riskfactors for addiction

As the popularity of gaming has grown in the last decades, so has concern over game addiction. In this study, prevalence and risk factors for game addiction were examined by identifying which playing variables, demographic factors, social cognitive and psychological variables are associated with playing frequency and addiction. An online questionnaire was used to examine playing variables, demographic factors, social cognitive and psychological variables. The sample consisted of 176 male adolescents and young adults. A lot of time is spend on gaming, respondents spend on average half a workweek on playing games. Online games, especially MMORPG’s, were played for much more hours than offline games. Despite the amounts of time that were spend on gaming, only a few respondents met the criteria for game addiction. Depression, self-efficacy and immersion motives were strong independent determinants of game addiction. Respondents who were more depressed, played games to escape reality and who found it difficult to control their own game behavior, experienced more addiction. Factors like psychological wellbeing determined if gaming becomes an addiction and not necessarily the amounts of time spend on gaming. These findings suggests that in general, most respondents experienced little negative consequences. For them gaming was a fun daily activity like any other. Nevertheless, gaming can be become a serious problem for a small group of players. This study identified some important factors that could form a risk for game addiction
Airborne radiation mapping: overview and application of current and future aerial systems

ABSTRACT Nuclear power and associated activities are never far from scrutiny, the apparent advantages of the technology are juxtaposed by the risk of incidents perceived as being catastrophic. If a major nuclear incident was to occur, an important aspect of the response management to any radionuclide release would be the need to rapidly establish the spatial distributions and quantities of these released radionuclides, their type in addition to their corresponding activity. The data received from surveys would directly inform evacuation plans, on-site incident management strategies as well as protecting both workforce and public from harm. The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 is perhaps the best example of the requirement for real time data collection to inform crucial decisions. Previous reviews of the event have observed that because the static on-site radiation detector network was destroyed by the 15 m high tsunami (following the magnitude 9.0 Great Tōhoku earthquake), it was not possible to immediately determine the radionuclide activity in the area and the danger presented to the responding workforce. Such preceding works have retrospectively highlighted the usefulness of unmanned aerial systems in providing real-time data within nuclear and non-nuclear settings. The establishment of an arbitrary 20 km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi plant, with the displacement of over 150,000 people, has been viewed by many as an over-reaction – with many not having been required to be evacuated. This review examines and evaluates the previous as well as current work on aerial radiation monitoring and the future improvement that might be delivered by a combined three-dimensional (3D) radiation mapping platform. Combining detailed 3D topographical mapping with radiation surveying has powerful implications for the way that radiological contamination across a site might be measured and displayed in the future, both following radiological release events and in routine site monitoring.
Summertime observations of ultrafine particles and cloud condensation nuclei from the boundary layer to the free troposphere in the Arctic

The Arctic is extremely sensitive to climate change. Shrinking sea ice extent increases 18 the area covered by open ocean during Arctic summer, which impacts the surface albedo and 19 aerosol and cloud properties among many things. In this context extensive aerosol measurements 20 (aerosol composition, particle number and size, cloud condensation nuclei, and trace gases) were 21 made during 11 flights of the NETCARE July, 2014 airborne campaign conducted from Resolute 22 Bay, Nunavut (74N, 94W). Flights routinely included vertical profiles from about 60 to 3000 m 23 a.g. l. as well as several low-level horizontal transects over open ocean, fast ice, melt ponds, and 24 polynyas. 25 Here we discuss the vertical distribution of ultrafine particles (UFP, particle diameter, dp: 5 – 20 26 nm), size distributions of larger particles (dp: 20 nm to 1 μm), and cloud condensation nuclei 27 (CCN, supersaturation = 0.6%) in relation to meteorological conditions and underlying surfaces. 28 Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. , doi:10.5194/acp-2016-701, 2016 Manuscript under review for journal Atmos. Chem. Phys. Published: 8 August 2016 c © Author(s) 2016. CC-BY 3.0 License.
Suppression of CEP 55 reduces cell viability and induces apoptosis in human lung cancer

Centrosomal protein 55 (CEP55), identified as a centrosome-associated protein, has been reported to be involved in human malignancies. However, its biological function in human lung cancer remains largely unknown. In the present study, we firstly analyzed the expression of CEP55 in 20 pairs of lung cancer and matched non-tumor tissues using quantitative RT-PCR analysis and found that CEP55 mRNA was significantly increased in lung cancer tissues compared with that in matched tumor-adjacent tissues. Then we performed a loss-of-function assay using lung cancer cell lines A549 and 95D. Functionally, knockdown of CEP55 markedly inhibited cell viability and proliferation ability as determined by MTT and colony formation assays. Moreover, CEP55-silenced cells were obviously arrested in the G0/G1 phase and presented significant cell apoptosis as determined using flow cytometric analysis. Mechanistically, western blot analysis further revealed that knockdown of CEP55 decreased the expression of CDK4, p21 and Bcl‐2, while it increased the expression of pro‐apoptotic protein, Bad, caspase‐3 and PARP in 95D cells. In conclusion, our data highlight the crucial role of CEP55 in promoting lung cancer cell proliferation in vitro and its inhibition may be a novel therapeutic strategy for lung cancer.
Long term trends in rainfall, sea level and solar periodicity: A case study for forecast of Malabar sole and oil sardine fishery

The fluctuations in abundance of a demersal fish, the Malabar sole (Cynoglossus macrostomus Norman) and a pelagic fish viz.,oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) in the Malabar upwelling ecosystem (MUE) were analysed in relation to long-term trends in rainfall in Kerala, onset time of the southwest monsoon, sea level off Cochin and solar periodicity. The abundance of these species showed a clear decadal trend comparable to such trends existing in rainfall, sea level and solar periodicity. The variations in the rainfall showed a 35-year rhythm in its inten- sity. A fishery forecast of Malabar sole and oil sardine fishery has been attempted based these trends and is a posse ad esse. The fluctuations in abundance of oil sardine, beyond doubt, are dearly influenced by the trends in rainfall during southwest monsoon. Periods of good rainfall have positive effect on its abundance and vice versa. There appear to be a decadal or long-term trend in the productivity of the upwelling zone itself. The spawning, recruitment, survival, feeding, growth, migration and the abundance of various organisms are influenced by rhythms exiting in this large marine ecosystem of the southeastern Arabian Sea.
Conditional cash transfers, female bargaining power and parental labour supply

Recent empirical evidence has indicated that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) do not have an aggregate effect on adult labour supply, however little attention has been paid to the role of other intrahousehold dynamics. This paper examines how the bargaining power structure of households affects the parental labour supply response to CCT programmes. We analyse randomized experimental designs from rural areas of Honduras (PRAF), Mexico (PROGRESA), and Nicaragua (RPS), and find that CCT programmes slightly change paternal and maternal labour supply and that this effect depends on the distribution of power in the household.
Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply

This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can freely reduce working hours with their current employer before retiring completely. However, some over-employed women are observed to leave the labor market early due to hours constraints. Despite the fact that more flexibility in hours may increase labor market participation of older women, this paper presents some explorative results which illustrate that increasing working hours flexibility does not seem to increase older workers total labor supply as has often been suggested.
RECOVERY OF PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIES DIVERSITY IN TUSSOCK TUNDRA FOLLOWINGDISTURBANCE

Tundra ecosystems appear to recover slowly from disturbance, but little long-term data concerning plant diversity has been available. We examined recovery of tundra vegetation in Alaska, U.S.A. , 23 yr after fire and 24 yr after bulldozing. Primary productivity, depth of thaw, and vascular plant diversity were compared between disturbed and undisturbed tundra to determine whether recovery was complete. Productivity, species richness, and diversity did not differ between burned and unburned plots. Depth of thaw, however, remained greater in burned relative to unburned plots. In contrast, depth of thaw was the only characteristic that did not differ between bulldozed and control plots. Productivity and species richness were greater in bulldozed plots, but diversity was less than control plots. The differences between the two disturbances suggest that, ultimately, recovery depends more on the impact of disturbance on vegetation than changes in the abiotic environment. Vegetative propagules persisted in the soil after fire, but not bulldozing. Therefore, recolonization after fire included plants from the seed bank and vegetative propagules. Vegetation on bladed plots was dominated only by seed bank species. Thus, more than two decades after disturbance, recovery of tundra vegetation appeared to be a function of the nature of the disturbance.
The Bayesian Belief Network Formalism

Recent research in software development process assessment and modelling has led to an increase demand for formalisms capable of providing reasoning under uncertainty. Such methods are used for providing decision support and build expert consensus when there is a huge degree of subjectivity. Researchers have argued that Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) is one of the most suitable formalism for this task. However, Bayesian belief networks have typically been used to allow the user to identify the most suitable software development process in light of one objective only; this is usually product quality or number of latent faults in the product. In fact, the current BBN formalism does not allow the user to identify the optimal process with respect to many objectives. In this paper we argue that multiple objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs) embedded with the BBN model of the software development process can tackle this limitation. The proposed Decision support system (DSS) searches for those solutions that maximize the confidence in the product integrity whilst minimizing the costs and the time taken to develop the product.
Biomarkers of drug-induced liver injury

Correspondence: Kai Wang Institute for Systems Biology 401 Terry Avenue North Seattle, Washington 98109, USA Tel +1 206 732 1336 Fax +1 206 732 1299 Email kwang@systemsbiology.org Abstract: The liver plays a central role in metabolizing xenobiotics; therefore, it is highly susceptible to toxicity from these chemicals. Certain drugs, when taken in overdose and sometimes even when used within therapeutic range, may cause injury to the organ. Druginduced liver injury is now not only a leading cause of acute liver failure in the US, but is also a leading reason for discontinuation of drugs in development and for regulatory actions against previously approved drugs. The current clinical biomarkers to detect and monitor drug-induced liver injury are inadequate in terms of sensitivity and/or specificity, prompting the need for more informative biomarkers. The development of high throughput proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics technologies has the potential to fulfill such demand. The discipline of systems toxicology may add to our understanding of perturbed xenobiotic networks, which may lead to network-specific surrogate markers and therapeutic means to stop or reverse xenobiotic-induced liver injury.
Celiac Disease in Adults: Report of 73 Cases Features of Eastern Algeria

The diagnosis of adult celiac disease is based on clinical, serological and histological arguments. Clinically the picture is very variable. This work aims to determine the symptoms, associated pathologies and the features of this disease in the population of eastern Algeria. This representative sample of 73 patients is characterized by a predominance of women, a disease onset between 20 and 40 years and no asymptomatic form. There was a diversity of signs and associated pathology, a variety of digestive symptoms represented mainly by chronic diarrhea and abdominal pain, extra-digestive symptoms represented mainly by asthenia and weight loss in addition to biological disorders and a series associated pathologies namely: anemia, neurological damage, the disease of the mouth, liver cirrhosis, insulin-dependent diabetes and esophageal varicose veins.
The structure of Malaysian audit market: From 2008 to 2010

The purpose of this study is to provide updated knowledge and detail on the structure of Malaysian audit market in the pre and post Audit Oversight Board (AOB) establishment.This study includes all Malaysian listed companies from 2008 to 2010.The examination of audit market structure was based on rate of audit fee per unit of size, audit market concentration and individual firm's market share. The results suggest Malaysia audit market can be described as tight oligopoly and there is slight changes in the market during the period 2008 - 2010. The noted changes ore reduction of oudit supplies and the increment of audit fee. The result suggest evidence of economic of scale enjoyed by big size companies.It is interesting to note that, while Big Four are now reducing the number of audit clients, they instead are focusing on larger clients. Focusing on big size companies possibly indicates a strategic move to avoid risky clients.Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers are the most influential among Big Four firms, meanwhile Four firms, is enlarging its market share.This study contributes to the audit market literature addressing the strategy adopted by audit firm in low litlgation risk environment.The study also examines the market power of non-Big Four firms in a developing country which is rarely investigated.