Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Application of Customer Experience Management in Agriculture Bank of Iran

This article examined the role of customer experience management as a new method in understanding the customer satisfaction. This descriptive-analytic survey made use of library and documentary methods in order to examine the customer experience management in banks. Then, the determinants of customer experience and its role in customer loyalty was investigated. The conceptual model of this study indicated that there was a significant relationship between components of customer experience management (functional, humanic and mechanic components) and customer loyalty. Once such a useful link is established, one may argue that it will be easier to win the customers back to the bank and achieve the bank profitability. In sum, it can be stated that customer experience management provides some new features and platforms for economic firms so that they may maintain their customers and win their loyalty.
A review of methods used in some European countries for assessing the quality of honey bee queens through their physical characters and the performance of their colonies

Summary The term “quality” in relation to queens and drones refers to certain quantitative physical and/or behavioural characters. It is generally believed that a high quality queen should have the following physical characteristics: high live weight; high number of ovarioles; large size of spermatheca; high number of spermatozoa in spermatheca; and be free from diseases and pests. It is, however, also known that the performance of a honey bee colony is the result of its queen's function as well as of that of the drones that mated with her. These two approaches are often considered together and give a general picture of the queen production technique and selection. Here we describe the most common and well known anatomical, physiological, behavioural and performance characters related to the queens, as measured in different European countries: the live weight of the virgin queen (Bulgaria); the live weight of the laying queen (Bulgaria, Italy); the diameter and volume of spermatheca (Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia); the number of ovarioles (Greece, Italy, Slovenia); the weight of ovaries (Slovenia); the number of spermatozoa in spermatheca (Italy, Poland, Slovenia); the brood pattern (Bulgaria, Greece); the egg laying ability/fecundity (Bulgaria); the brood production (Croatia, Serbia); the colony population development (Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia); the honey production (Croatia, Denmark, Serbia, Slovakia); the hygienic behaviour (Croatia, Denmark, Serbia, Slovakia); the defence behaviour (Croatia); the calmness/sitting on the comb (Croatia, Denmark); and swarming (Croatia, Denmark). The data presented fit well with the findings of the same characters in the literature, and in general they support the argument for the term “quality characters”. Especially for the weight of the queen, the number of ovarioles, the volume of the spermatheca and the number of spermatozoa, data per country proved its own accuracy by repetition through the years. We also report that when instrumentally inseminated queens are kept under mass production conditions (in small cages in queen banks and with low number of attendants) they can transfer the semen to their spermatheca and clear their oviducts more efficiently when they have been inseminated with small amounts of semen in two or three sequences (but not four), compared to those inseminated with the same amount of semen at once (Poland). Furthermore, we had an inside view of the sanitary conditions of the colony: a. through the health status of the queen (nosema plus virus analysis) (Slovenia); and b. evaluating the nosema load of worker bees (Denmark) and of the queens (Greece). This is the first step to summarize this type of diverse data for such an important issue. The knowledge acquired can be used to fill in the existing gaps in the breeding or queen evaluation systems of each country in order to facilitate standardization of methodology for comparable results.
Do Southern Ocean Cloud Feedbacks Matter for 21st Century Warming?

Cloud phase improvements in a state‐of‐the‐art climate model produce a large 1.5 K increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, the surface warming in response to instantaneously doubled CO2) via extratropical shortwave cloud feedbacks. Here we show that the same model improvements produce only a small surface warming increase in a realistic 21st century emissions scenario. The small 21st century warming increase is attributed to extratropical ocean heat uptake. Southern Ocean mean‐state circulation takes up heat while a slowdown in North Atlantic circulation acts as a feedback to slow surface warming. Persistent heat uptake by extratropical oceans implies that extratropical cloud biases may not be as important to 21st century warming as biases in other regions. Observational constraints on cloud phase and shortwave radiation that produce a large ECS increase do not imply large changes in 21st century warming.
INVESTIGATION OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS AT DIFFERENT GOVERNORATES IN EGYPT

Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDv.) was diagnosed in oesophageal-pharyngeal fluid and tongue epithelial samples from clinically suspected cattle in some Egyptian governorates (Monofia, Kalubia, Beni-suef and Sharkia) between 2009–2010. The virus was successfully isolated on un-weaned mice and BHK-21cell line. The virus serotypes were identified using ELISA as FMD serotypes A and O. 43 out of 260 collected samples (17.2%) were positive to serotype (O) in comparison to 13 out of 260 (5.0 %) were positive to serotype (A). The identified FMDv. serotypes were confirmed by molecular identification of VP1 coding region on the viral genome with Reverse Transcription–Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) using specific primers that gave 800 bp and 402 bp amplification product for FMDv. serotypes A and O, respectively.
Behavioural evidence for social units in long-finned pilot whales

In general, mammal species show geographic or social dispersal by one or both sexes. Long-term behavioural observations and genetic evidence have confirmed that fish-eating resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, are a rare exception. Female and male offspring travel with their mothers for their whole lives: this is natal group philopatry. It is suspected that pilot whales, Globicephala spp. , also follow this social pattern, but longitudinal data on the social structure of live long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas, are rare. We observed G. melas through July and August of 19982000 off northern Nova Scotia, Canada. Estimated group sizes ranged from 2 to 135 (mean = 20, SD = 17, median = 15, n = 249). We distinguished 322 individuals on the basis of distinctive marks on the dorsal fin, with estimated mark rates of 0.336 (proportion) (SE = 0.041) and 0.352 (mean of estimates) (SE = 0.036). Permutation testing rejected the null hypothesis of random association between individuals (p < 0.0005). The best.
Codifying apparent inconsistencies in discourse The case of Hebrew ma

In this paper I examine the Modern Hebrew discourse marker ma the function of which is to help anchor new information into the discourse when it appears that the newly introduced material is inconsistent with information assumed to be already in the addressee’s knowledge store. I claim that ma is used to acknowledge and possibly rectify such incompatibilities at the service of coherence and consistency. I briefly discuss yet another discourse marker used to preserve coherence (staam), showing that it constitutes an instruction to the hearer to delete material from the discourse model in the face of a sharp contradiction between its content and information taken to be shared.
Cultural Distance-Aware Service Recommendation Approach in Mobile Edge Computing

In the era of big data, traditional computing systems and paradigms are not efficient and even difficult to use. For high performance big data processing, mobile edge computing is emerging as a complement framework of cloud computing. In this new computing architecture, services are provided within a close proximity of mobile users by servers at the edge of network. Traditional collaborative filtering recommendation approach only focuses on the similarity extracted from the rating data, which may lead to an inaccuracy expression of user preference. In this paper, we propose a cultural distance-aware service recommendation approach which focuses on not only the similarity but also the local characteristics and preference of users. Our approach employs the cultural distance to express the user preference and combines it with similarity to predict the user ratings and recommend the services with higher rating. In addition, considering the extreme sparsity of the rating data, missing rating prediction based on collaboration filtering is introduced in our approach.The experimental results based on real-world datasets show that our approach outperforms the traditional recommendation approaches in terms of the reliability of recommendation.
Radiation thermo-chemical models of protoplanetary discs - IV. Modelling CO ro-vibrational emission from Herbig Ae discs

Context. The carbon monoxide (CO) ro-vibrational emission from discs around Herbig Ae stars and T Tauri stars with strong ultraviolet emissions suggests that fluorescence pumping from the ground X 1 Σ + to the electronic A 1 Π state of CO should be taken into account in disc models. Aims. We wish to understand the excitation mechanism of CO ro-vibrational emission seen in Herbig Ae discs, in particular in transitions involving highly excited rotational and vibrational levels. Methods. We implemented a CO model molecule that includes up to 50 rotational levels within nine vibrational levels for the ground and A-excited states in the radiative-photochemical code ProDiMo. We took CO collisions with hydrogen molecules (H2), hydrogen atoms (H), helium (He), and electrons into account. We estimated the missing collision rates using standard scaling laws and discussed their limitations. We tested the effectiveness of ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence pumping for the population of high-vibrational levels (v = 1–9, J = 1–50) for four Herbig Ae disc models (disc mass Mdisc = 10 −2 ,1 0 −4 and inner radius Rdisc = 1, 20 AU). We tested the effect of infrared (IR) pumping on the CO vibrational temperature and the rotational population in the ground vibrational level. Results. UV fluorescence and IR pumping impact on the population of ro-vibrational v> 1l evels. Thev = 1 rotational levels are populated at rotational temperatures between the radiation temperature around 4.6 μm and the gas kinetic temperature. The UV pumping efficiency increases with decreasing disc mass. The consequence is that the vibrational temperatures Tvib, which measure the relative populations between the vibrational levels, are higher than the disc gas kinetic temperatures (suprathermal population of the vibrational levels). The effect is more important for low-density gases because of lower collisional de-excitations.The UV pumping is more efficient for low-mass (Mdisc 10 −3 M� ) discs. Rotational temperatures from fundamental transitions derived using optically thick 12 CO v = 1−0 lines do not reflect the gas kinetic temperature. Uncertainties in the rate coefficients within an order of magnitude result in variations in the CO line fluxes up to 20%. CO pure rotational levels with energies lower than 1000 K are populated in local thermodynamic equilibrium but are sensitive to a number of vibrational levels included in the model. The 12 CO pure rotational lines are highly optically thick for transition from levels up to Eupper = 2000 K. The model line fluxes are comparable with the observed line fluxes from typical Herbig Ae low- and high-mass discs.
How skew distributions emerge in evolving systems

Despite the ubiquitous emergence of skew distributions such as power law, log-normal, and Weibull distributions, there still lacks proper understanding of the mechanism as well as relations between them. It is studied how such distributions emerge in general evolving systems and what makes the difference between them. Beginning with a master equation for general evolving systems, we obtain the time evolution equation for the size distribution function. Obtained in the case of size changes proportional to the current size are the power law stationary distribution with an arbitrary exponent and the evolving distribution, which is of either log-normal or Weibull type asymptotically, depending on production and growth in the system. This master equation approach thus gives a unified description of those three types of skew distribution observed in a variety of systems, providing physical derivation of them and disclosing how they are related.
Heavy Metals Bioaccumulation in Edible Marine Bivalve Mollusks of Tudor Creek Mombasa Kenya

The bioaccumulation of heavy metals and their distribution were investigated in selected marine bivalve mollusks of genus (saccostreacucullata) oysters, (Mytilus edulis) mussels and donax at Tudor creek in Mombasa Kenya. An atomic absorption spectrometer was used in this study to determine the concentration levels of heavy metals in the organisms’ flesh and shell, water, sediment and rock samples. Heavy metals concentration level among the bivalve mollusks was as follows: mussels: Zn> Fe> Cr>Pb> Cu>Mn>Cd, oysters: Zn> Fe> Cu>Pb>Mn> Cr> Cd and donax: Zn>Fe >Cu >Pb> Cr>Mn> Cd. Heavy metals varied with location, genus, size, tissue and shells of the mollusks. The results showed that of all the metals analyzed Fe and Zn were the most abundant. Pb and Cd were detected in the shell samples but occurred in levels below the detection limit in the flesh samples of all bivalves except oyster samples. Mussels had the highest concentration of Zn overall. The results suggested that mussels are good accumulators of Zn whereas oysters accumulate Cd and donax were poor accumulators of all metals except Cd in shell samples. The shells had high concentration of the toxic heavy metals Cd and Pb while the flesh had high concentration of the essential metals like Cu, Zn and Fe. The bivalves had a high concentration of the heavy metals therefore, could pose a health risk to humans if consumed. It was concluded that bioaccumulation of heavy metals varied with location, species type, body part and size of bivalve. It was further concluded that the marine bivalve were better accumulators of heavy metals than water, sediment and rocks samples.
Feasibility of Generating Peaks of Bioaerosols for Laboratory Experiments

Bioaerosol concentration peaks are frequently encountered in real-life atmospheres (indoor, outdoor, workplace, etc.), where they can be caused by several factors. However, evolution over time and variability of microbiological pollutant concentrations remain under-documented. The contribution of such peaks in the onset or the worsening of respiratory symptoms – in particular immuno-allergic reactions – has yet to be extensively studied. Although experimental bioaerosol generators are increasingly used, the intentional and controlled production of concentration peaks of biological agents has not yet been utilized in laboratory experiments. The main objective of this study was to show that it is possible to produce experimental bioaerosol concentration peaks with defined characteristics. Experiments were performed with a ‘Liquid Sparging Aerosoliser’-type generator. With this system, peaks can be created by increasing the bubbling airflow through a film of bacterial (Escherichia coli) or fungal (Penicillium brevicompactum) liquid culture. The higher the set point value of the bubbling airflow, the greater the maximum bioaerosol concentration during the generated peak. Similarly, longer-lived peaks can be created by maintaining the increased airflow for a longer period of time. For both studied species, the relative size distribution was constant over time, regardless of modifications to the bubbling flow rate. The operator can monitor and control peak formation with this system thanks to real-time measurement of the number concentrations, targeting the appropriate particle size classes corresponding to diameters of the aerosolised microorganisms. This generator, characterized by gentle aerosolisation and a capacity to produce bioaerosol peaks, may contribute to enrich laboratory experiments for numerous applications.
E-Mail Spam Detection Using Refined MLP with Feature Selection

Electronic Mail (E-mail) has established a significant place in information user’s life. E-Mails are used as a major and important mode of information sharing because emails are faster and effective way of communication. Email plays its important role of communication in both personal and professional aspects of one’s life. The rapid increase in the number of account holders from last few decades and the increase in the volume of emails have generated various serious issues too. Emails are categorised into ham and spam emails. From past decades spam emails are spreading at a tremendous rate. These spam emails are illegitimate and unwanted emails that may contain junk, viruses, malicious codes, advertisements or threat messages to the authenticated account holders. This serious issue has generated a need for efficient and effective anti-spam filters that filter the email into spam or ham email. Spam filters prevent the spam emails from getting into user’s inbox. Email spam filters can filter emails on content base or on header base. Various spam filters are labelled into two categories learning and non-machine learning techniques. This paper will discuss the process of filtering the emails into spam and ham using various techniques.
Fast-convergence blind separation of more than two sources combining ICA and beamforming

Summary form only given. We propose a new blind source separation (BSS) algorithm for multiple source signals. Independent component analysis (ICA) and beamforming are combined to resolve the slow-convergence problem through optimization in ICA. The proposed method consists of the following three parts: (a) frequency-domain ICA with direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using a Lloyd clustering algorithm; (b) null beamforming based on the estimated DOA; (c) integration of (a) and (b) based on the algorithm diversity in both iteration and frequency domain. The separation matrix obtained by ICA is temporally substituted by the matrix based on null beamforming through iterative optimization, and the temporal alternation between ICA and beamforming can realize fast- and high-convergence optimization. Experimental results reveal that the source-separation performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to that of the conventional ICA-based BSS method, even under reverberant conditions.
Sweden - From Macroeconomic Failure to Macroeconomic Success

Major economic reforms have been carried through in Sweden during the last two decades. Most of the reforms have been made in response to long-standing rather than to acute problems. There has usually been a strong perception among economists, policy makers and the general public of the problems that the reforms have sought to address. Reforms in other countries have sometimes provided inspiration. Most of the reforms were based on a broad political consensus. A heavy input from economic research has often been used as a basis for change.
Causal Effects of the Timing of Life-course Events: Age at Retirement and Subsequent Health

In this article, we combine the extensive literature on the analysis of life-course trajectories as sequences with the literature on causal inference and propose a new matching approach to investigate the causal effect of the timing of life-course events on subsequent outcomes. Our matching approach takes into account pre-event confounders that are both time-independent and time-dependent as well as life-course trajectories. After matching, treated and control individuals can be compared using standard statistical tests or regression models. We apply our approach to the study of the consequences of the age at retirement on subsequent health outcomes, using a unique data set from Swedish administrative registers. Once selectivity in the timing of retirement is taken into account, effects on hospitalization are small, while early retirement has negative effects on survival. Our approach also allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. We show that the effects of early retirement differ according to preretirement income, with higher income individuals tending to benefit from early retirement, while the opposite is true for individuals with lower income.
Biogenic Chemical Elements Isotope Ratios in Living Organism as a New Potential Indicator of Physiological State

This article considers theoretical questions regarding the role of intramolecular isotopes ratios in living organism functioning, human body in particular. Special attention is given to isotopes fractioning of carbon in human body as the most studied. The aim of this investigation is to identify and to study strategic connection between features of metabolic transformations in human body, its functional status and intramolecular isotopes ratios, peculiar to this organism. The relation between intramolecular isotopes ratios values of human body separate tissues and human organism functional status is observed.
Recommandations pour les EHPAD accueillant des patients atteints de maladies d'Alzheimer (ou syndromes apparentés). Consensus du Cercle Aquitaine Alzheimer.

Du fait de l'augmentation de la preualence de la maladie d'Alzheimer dans la region Aquitaine, il existe une forte demande d'accueil des patients atteints dans les etablissements d'hebergement pour personnes âgees dependantes (EHPAD) lorsque les possibilites de maintien a domicile sont epuisees. De ce fait, le pourcentage de patients atteints de maladie d'Alzheimer ou syndromes apparentes dans les EHPAD augmente et est maintenant estime a 80%. Le Cercle Aquitaine Alzheimer, rassemblant 160 professionnels intervenant directement aupres des patients atteints de maladies d'Alzheimer, a decide d'etablir de maniere consensuelle des recommandations de structure et de fonctionnement pour les EHPAD desirant accueillir ces patients. Ces recommandations sont basees sur le constat que tous les EHPAD doivent etre capables aujourd'hui d'accueillir ces patients et non pas seulement de les cantonner dans de petites unites specifiques. Elles portent sur l'integration obligatoire d'un projet de specifique de soins et de vie adapte a ces residents dans le projet d'etablissement, sur les exigences d'un ratio de personnel qualifie suffisant, sur la necessite de sa formation, sur le besoin d'une architecture adaptee.
Mechanisms Forcing an Antarctic Dipole in Simulated Sea Ice and Surface Ocean Conditions

Abstract The mechanisms forcing variability in Southern Ocean sea ice and sea surface temperature from 600 years of a control climate coupled model integration are discussed. As in the observations, the leading mode of simulated variability exhibits a dipole pattern with positive anomalies in the Pacific sector associated with negative anomalies in the Atlantic. It is found that in the Pacific ocean circulation changes associated with variable wind forcing modify the ocean heat flux convergence and sea ice transport, resulting in sea surface temperature and sea ice anomalies. The Pacific ice and ocean anomalies persist over a number of years due to reductions in ocean shortwave absorption reinforcing the initial anomalies. In the Atlantic sector, no single process dominates in forcing the anomalies. Instead there are contributions from changing ocean and sea ice circulation and surface heat fluxes. While the absorbed solar radiation in the Atlantic is modified by the changing surface albedo, the anomalies.