Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Diferencias en las concentraciones de cortisol en día de partido en jugadores internacionales de fútbol: titulares vs no titulares

Objective: The hormone cortisol participates in situations of physiological and behavioral responses, preparing the body to act in a time of stress of a physical, insecure nature, or as is the sports competition, in this way, it is intended as the main objective to analyze the responses of cortisol of 20 players (starters and no starters) of international level during a match day. Method: During the 2018 Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup in Russia, 20 players from a national team were selected to obtain an individualized profile of the players, analyzed during the match day, by salivary analysis in the first 30 minutes after waking up (8.00 am). For the statistical analysis of differences between groups, t-student (Group: headlines / non-headlines) × 1 (Time: baseline) was used. Results: With the results obtained, we observed an increase in the Awakening Response of Cortisol depending on whether the players played as starters or started as no starters, there being a significant difference (p = 0.005; P = 0.105) between both groups. Conclusions: A differentiated profile was observed, with a difference in cortisol increase in the starting players, and may be due to an increase in the pre-competitive tension of their own, in many cases necessary to face the competition.
Salt-Marsh Foraminiferal Distributions from Mainland Northern Georgia, USA: An Assessment of Their Viability for Sea-Level Studies

We investigated foraminiferal distributions from two salt-marsh sites at Thunderbolt and Georgetown, in mainland northern Georgia, U.S. Atlantic coast. We analyzed modern epifaunal foraminiferal assemblages across multiple transects consisting of 54 surface samples. Multivariate statistical analysis (Partitioning Around Medoids and Detrended Correspondence Analysis) revealed that dead foraminiferal assemblages are divided into three faunal zones, which are elevation-dependent and site-specific. At Thunderbolt, an intermediate salinity marsh (17‰), high marsh assemblages are dominated by Haplophragmoides spp. with an elevational range of 1.19 to 1.68 m mean tide level (MTL) between Mean Higher High Water (MHHW) to Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT). Low marsh assemblages are dominated by Miliammina fusca and Ammobaculites spp. with an elevational range of – 0.05 to 1.14 m MTL (between MTL and MHHW). At Georgetown, a low salinity marsh (6‰), the assemblages are dominated by Ammoastuta inepta with an elevational range of 0.43 to 1.16 m MTL (between MTL and MHHW). We also enumerated living infaunal foraminiferal populations from six 50-cm sediment cores from the two salt marshes to assess implications for interpretations of sea-level change. Peak concentrations of living foraminiferal populations occur in the upper 1-cm surface sediment in five of the six cores. An exception was observed in high marsh settings of Thunderbolt, where Haplophragmoides spp. and Arenoparrella mexicana were observed living down to 40 cm depth and both the live and dead abundance peaked (32 and 520 specimens per 10 cc respectively) between depths of 15–35 cm in the core. The dominant infaunal species were similar to those observed in modern surface samples, and the total number of infaunal foraminifera was typically less than 15% compared to the total number of dead specimens in the surface samples. Finally, we com­pared the down-core patterns of living and dead foraminiferal abundance that suggest that 90% of the tests were removed within the upper 10 cm of sediment in most cores. This may be due to taphonomic alteration from bioturbation and/or microbial processes. Selective preservation between resistant species such as A. mexicana and fragile species like M. fusca and Ammobaculites spp. can change the subsurface foraminiferal assemblage. This has the potential to cause errors in sea-level reconstructions using foraminiferal assemblage from low marsh sediments. This study highlights the modern vertical distribution of salt-marsh foraminifera in mainland northern Georgia and their potential as modern analogues for fos­sil counterparts in reconstructing sea-level changes. Taphonomic processes may cause the absence of foraminiferal tests or differences between modern and fossil assemblages, which could be problematic when performing RSL reconstructions in low marsh environment.
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL REPORT: A CASE OF PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a very important role in the knowledge-based economy where Intellectual Capital (IC) as considered as important factors for creating value of economic wealth. In order to develop, maintain and manage the universities intangible resources and activities the disclosure of information on IC become necessary by the universities. The aim of this paper is measuring and managing intellectual capital report in Pondicherry University. This paper uses the framework of OEU  Strategic Matrix (The Observatory of the European University) to give some intuition for the present position of non-physical assets in Higher Education and research system and point out specific a idea and methodological considerations. This framework consists of five thematic aspects that are, funding, human resources, academic outcomes, third-mission, governance and five transversal aspects that are autonomy, strategic capabilities, attractiveness, differentiation profile, territorial embedding in the OEU strategic matrix. The data collected from the Pondicherry university web site for the year 2013-14 was used for the study. The finding helps to understand the intellectual contribution of Pondicherry University system, towards excellence.
Plant histochemistry and cytochemistry : an introduction

Plant histochemistry or cytochemistry, as well as most areas of plant sciences, have.The blotting of fresh tissue sections onto nitrocellulose and the detection of enzyme activities on the blots for polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase, glycosidases,A HISTOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE DISTRIBUTION. OF PHOSPHATASE IN PLANT TISSUES. Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, and. This research article is aiming at histochemical investigation.
Species-specific foraging strategies of the syntopical and synchronous bees Panurgus calcaratus (SCOPOLI, 1763) and Dasypoda hirtipes (FABRICIUS), 1793 (Hymenoptera: Apidae): with 4 figures.

Die Sammelstrategie der beiden endogaischen, oligolektischen syntop und synchron auftretenden Wildbienenarten Panurgus calcaratus (Scopoli, 1763) und Dasypoda hirtipes (Fabricius, 1793) wurden im Naturschutzgebiet Wahner Heide (Rheinland, BRD) untersucht. Saisonale und diurnale Rhythmik sowie die Sammelstrategien beider Arten wurden erfast, um eventuell bestehende Trennungsmechanismen oder Nischendiffenzierung aufzudecken. Neben dem Verproviantierungsverhalten der Bienen wurde die Oligolektie durch Pollenentnahme von Weibchen und durch Beobachtung an den Pollenquellen uberpruft. Beide Arten nutzen ausschlieslich gelbe, photonastische, zungenblutige Asteraceae als Pollenquellen, praferieren sandige Flachen mit geringer Vegetation als Nistplatz und sind von Anfang Juli bis Ende August aktiv. Eine Spezialisierung innerhalb der Oligolektie auf einzelne Arten zungenblutiger Asteraceae konnte nicht erkannt werden. Dasypoda hirtipes wies eine allgemein langere diurnale Aktivitat auf und war zudem auch bei geringeren Temperaturen noch aktiv. Die Pollensammelaktivitaten werden bei beiden Arten masgeblich von den photonastischen Pollenquellen limitiert. Desweiteren ist die Bienenaktivitat von klimatischen Faktoren wie Lichtintensitat, Bewolkung und Lufttemperatur abhangig. Artspezifische diurnale und saisonale Verhaltensweisen und Aktivitatsrhythmen werden im Hinblick auf Korpergrose und -farbe, Hitzeabsorptions- und Reflektions-Fahigkeit, Uberhitzungsgefahr sowie Effekte der Ekto- und Heterothermie auf den Warmehaushalt diskutiert. Jede Art verfolgt eine eigene Sammelstrategie, welche hauptsachlich durch ultimative Faktoren wie die Physiologie der jeweiligen Bienenart beeinflust und zugleich limitiert wird. Weder Nistplatzangebot noch die Ressourcen Pollen oder Nektar sind im Untersuchungsgebiet begrenzt, so das keine Evidenz fur Konkurrenz zwischen den beiden Arten besteht.StichworterInterspecific competition, oligolecty, optimal foraging strategies, photonasty, resource partitioning, separation mechanisms.
Revisiting Cook-Levin theorem using NP-Completeness and Circuit-SAT

Stephen Cook and Leonard Levin independently proved that there are problems called NonPolynomial-complete (NP-complete) problems. The theorem is today referred to as Cook-Levin theorem. The theorem states that Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete. That is to say, any problem in NP can be reduced in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine to the problem of determining whether a Boolean formula is satisfiable. Therefore, if there exists a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for solving a Boolean satisfiability, then there exists a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for solving all problems in NP. Thus Cook-Levin theorem provides a proof that the problem of SAT is NP-complete via reduction technique. In this paper, we revisit Cook-Levin Theorem but using a completely different approach to prove the theorem. The approach used combines the concepts of NP-completeness and circuit-SAT. Using this technique, we showed that Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete through the reduction of polynomial time algorithms for NP-completeness and circuit-SAT.
Social capital in encouraging the food security enhancement for fishermen families

One of the indicators in society poverty assessment is the realization of the families’ food security which consists of (1) the food availability for families, (2) food accessibility for families, and (3) food consumption for families. The high dependence of fishermen on the marine resources leads to income vulnerability. In such condition, social capital is often considered as a lifeline in providing food for the fishermen, both in quantity and quality. This study, which was conducted in Cipatujah and Cikalong Sub-district, Tasikmalaya, West Java Province, involved 50 samples of fishermen from each of those sub-districts. The study aims at examining the differences of the social capital as well as testing the effect of the social capital in the two sub-districts on the food security of fishermen families. To test whether there is a difference between the social capital of the fishermen in Cipatujah and Cikalong, the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test is used for cases of large samples (n_1, n_1≥10), while simple regression is employed to identify the effect of social capital. The result of the study shows that there are differences in the social capital in each sub-district and there is an effect of the social capital on family food security in both Cipatujah and Cikalong Sub-districts.
A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi

The copulative construction in Sepedi is very complex, as is evident from the detailed and lengthy discussions that occur in standard grammar reference works of Sepedi. This article proposes a decision tree format to guide users through binary or multiple choices at various levels to choose the correct options and eventually arrive at the correct copulative construction. After a brief introduction to writing tools, the complexity of copulative constructions in Sepedi is discussed in detail, illustrating this complexity by means of examples. Thereafter, the prototype decision tree structure is discussed, illustrating the visual presentation of the system through a number of screen captures. The system focuses on text production, i.e. someone who intends writing a text. It presupposes a very basic knowledge of the copulative. If the user is unsure about terminology or content, the option exists, at each node, to drill down and obtain more information, including example sentences. The system therefore provides information on demand, and does not overload the user with information that may either be known or that may not be required to solve the specific information need in context. A detailed usability study will be undertaken as future work.
Análisis de la postura del tronco en terapias de rehabilitación mediante robots

espanolConocer la postura del tronco de los pacientes durante las terapias de rehabilitacion, permite al terapeuta realizar un analisis mas exhaustivo de su estado de recuperacion funcional y adecuar los ejercicios a sus necesidades. Sin embargo, la mayoria de los robots de rehabilitacion de miembros superiores, no poseen la capacidad de monitorizar la postura del tronco de los usuarios. Ante esta situacion, este trabajo presenta un innovador software de rehabilitacion que permite al terapeuta conocer la postura del tronco del paciente, la posicion de la extremidad afectada y el porcentaje de movimiento realizado con el tronco. El software propuesto se ha implementado en el robot de rehabilitacion de extremidades superiores UHP. Con la intencion de evaluar su uso, se han llevado a cabo diferentes pruebas experimentales con un grupo de 25 personas sanas. Los resultados muestran que el software propuesto funciona correctamente al medir el movimiento del tronco. EnglishThe knowledge of the trunk posture of patients with reduced mobility during rehabilitation therapies, allows better analysis of their recovery state and decrease the recovery times. However, most of upper limb rehabilitation robots are not capable to measure the posture of the trunk. In view of this situation, this work presents an innovate rehabilitation software that allows to therapist to know trunk and affected limb postures of the patient and estimate the percentage of movement performed with the trunk. The proposed software has been implemented in the UHP upper limb rehabilitation robot. Different experimental tests have been carried out with a group of 25 healthy people to demonstrate the validity of the approach. The results show that the proposed software performs correctly when measuring trunk movement.
Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities and Its Effect on Nonperforming Loans in Indian Commercial Banks

This study explores the panel data of 27 public sector banks, 21 private sector banks, 5 SBI &amp; associates banks along with 49 foreign banks covering the period from 2000-2018. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of macroeconomic variables on nonperforming loans by categorizing the Indian schedules banks into four categories namely public, private, foreign and SBI associate banks. Altogether five macroeconomic variables are taken focusing on economic growth, unemployment, interest rates, inflation and exchange rate vulnerabilities. Using GMM model the findings shows that macro-economic variables differ differently for all the categories of banks as for public sector banks including state banks and its associates all the variables are significant whereas for private banks inflation, growth rate and interest rate are significant factor, contrary foreign banks are more effected by exchange rate fluctuations apart from other macroeconomic variables. <br><br>Findings of the study provides an insight that how this relationship between macroeconomic variables and NPA’s changes among the different categories of banks on the basis of ownership, thus assisting bankers and policy makers in taking precautionary measures while drafting banking and monetary policies as ownership of the banks plays a key role in banking overall management, which we can also see from the analysis that over the years private and foreign banks have considerable reduced their share of nonperforming loans from the overall share of NPA’s in Indian commercial banks.
Soft-Aligned Gradient-Chaining Network for Height Estimation From Single Aerial Images

Extracting elevation information from single aerial images is an important and challenging task in photogrammetry and remote sensing. The difficulty lies in the ambiguity and ill-condition of the 2-D–3-D projection. As neural networks show advantages in solving ill-posed problems, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have been applied to this task and have achieved worthwhile results. However, the previous works simply focus on the application of the neural network structures originally applied to monocular depth estimations or semantic segmentations to single-image elevation estimations. This procedure ignores the task-specific weak correlation problem between the elevation systems of training labels and outputs and the one between heights of adjacent pixels. To address these problems, we use the FCN to generate height differences between adjacent pixels in specific orientations (i.e., oriented elevation gradients), instead of directly generating the elevation values. Subsequently, the elevation gradients in the two orients of XY are combined to form a huge relationship chain, and the relative elevation of each pixel is calculated using the maximum likelihood method. Finally, a new surface-based soft alignment method is used to establish the correlation between the elevation systems of training labels and predicted outputs robustly. The quantitative evaluation on the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Potsdam data set reveals a significant improvement of the bare FCN. The visual contrast evaluation indicates that the soft-aligned gradient-chaining network can retain more surface features, and its outputs are more reasonable and visually pleasing than the bare FCN.
An Intelligent Technique for Optimal Power Quality Enhancement (OPQE) in a HRES Grid Connected System: ESA Technique

Power Quality is the major problem in the distribution system where most of the loads currently used are nonlinear. Further, the increase in the huge demand for usage of renewable energy sources is rapidly increased to satisfy the consistently rising energy demand, which differs from the existing network systems and control radically. This paper presents the control, modeling, and design for optimal power quality enhancement of hybrid connected grid systems such as PV array, wind and battery storage using the intelligent technique. The proposed hybrid system is implemented using an Extended Search Algorithm(ESA)and hence said to be ESA Technique. The important objective of the proposed hybrid system is to stabilize the voltage, reducing power loss and mitigating the harmonic distortion. In an Extended search algorithm may parameters are considered to define the power quality issues, for example, Voltage, real and reactive power and current respectively. In light of the achieved dataset, ESA predicts the most optimal control signals. The proposed system is performed in MATLAB/SIMULINK and execution is compared with the existing technologies such as PI.
Innovative Mobility: Carsharing Outlook Carsharing Market Overview, Analysis, And Trends.

Author(s): Shaheen, Susan, PhD; Cohen, Adam | Abstract: Since 1998, 94 carsharing programs have been deployed in North America - 40 are operational and 52 are defunct. As of January 1, 2018, there were 18 active programs in Canada, 21 in the United States (U.S.), and one program in Mexico. In North America, carsharing membership totaled approximately 2,110,111 members sharing 23,376 vehicles. The three largest carsharing operators in the U.S. and Canada accounted for 91% and 86% of the total membership, respectively. Only one operator provided service in Mexico as of January 2018.
DDC protocol to protract network lifetime of wireless sensor networks

Efficient energy consumption of sensor nodes is the prime design issue for wireless sensor networks because the energy of sensor nodes is the scarcest resource. Clustering has been examined as an energy-efficient approach for wireless sensor networks. Performance of a clustering method is highly dependent upon the way it selects cluster heads. Most of the existing clustering methods, for selecting cluster heads, depend upon a random number generated by each sensor nodes. Dependency of different methods on this random number may result in the selection of low energy nodes as cluster head over high energy nodes which makes network load unbalanced and affects network lifetime. In this paper, a Distributed Dynamic Clustering (DDC) protocol has been proposed that capitalizes the node energy heterogeneity to recondition the random number generated by nodes in such a manner that the reconditioned number of high remaining energy nodes is small while the number of low remaining energy node is large, consequently the nodes having high remaining-energy get selected as cluster heads. Performance of the proposed DDC protocol has been compared to important existing clustering methods namely Low Energy Adaptive Cluster Hierarchy, Stable Election Protocol, and Distributed Energy-Efficient Clustering for both homogeneous and heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. The analysis of simulation results shows that the network lifetime is longer and throughput is higher in the case of DDC protocol in comparison of other methods.
Assessing E-learning Readiness of Human Resources in Iranian Universities

هدیکچ تیفرظ تاعلاطا يرواّنف ۀعسوت زا یـکی . تـسا هدرـک مهارف یلاع شزومآ ةزوح يارب ار يدیدج ياه نیا تیفرظ اه » یکینورتکلا يریگدای « تسا هب يروط هک هدایپ يزاس ماظن ياـه هـب یـکینورتکلا يریگداـی مهم زا یکی هیامرس ياهدنور نیرت . تسا هدش لیدبت فلتخم ياهروشک يراذگ پ ی هدا زاـس ي ا قـفوم ـ ی ن ماظن نامز اه ی ققحت درک دهاوخ ادیپ هک گدامآ ی ناسنا فلتخم داعبا رظن زا هاگشناد رد مزلا ی ، ز ی تخاسر ی و ییاوتحم مهارف وش . د هاگشناد یناسنا عبانم یگدامآ هلاقم نیا رد دـنهددای لماـش اه ه و (ناداتـسا) ناـگ (نایوجشناد) ناگدنریگدای هب مهم زا یکی ناونع هاگشناد رد یکینورتکلا يریگدای یگدامآ ناکرا نیرت ياه روشک رربدروم یس هب . تسا هتفرگ رارق هرهب اب لیلد نیمه ،ناـگربخ رـظن و يدانـسا تاـعلاطم زا يرـیگ هجنس و اهرایعم اه نزو و نییعت یناسنا عبانم یگدامآ یبایزرا ي کیره سپـس و هدش هبساحم اهرایعم زا رب عماج هاگشناد تشه رد یناسنا عبانم یگدامآ نازیم لصاح وگلا ساسا روشک . تسا هدش یسررب جیاتن یم ناشن لصاح دهد زا شیب رد هک 25 نایوجـشناد یگداـمآ هـب طوـبرم ياهرایعم دصرد و دودـح 40 هب طوبرم ياهرایعم زا دصرد ناداتسا یگدامآ ، زایتما لصاح رتمک زا دح طسوتم هب ؛تـسا هدـمآ تـسد
Multi-Cuspon Solutions of the Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa Equation by Riemann-Hilbert Problem Method

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for a complete integrable equation introduced by Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa (WKI). The solution is reconstructed in terms of the solution of a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem via the asymptotic behavior of the spectral variable at one non-singularity point, i.e., . Then, the one-cuspon solution, two-cuspon solutions and three-cuspon solution are discussed in detail. Further, the numerical simulations are given to show the dynamic behaviors of these soliton solutions.