Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN TIETÊ-JACARÉ BASIN, BRAZIL

This paper describes a tool to assist in developing water resources management, focusing on the sustainability concept, by a Basin Committee. This tool consists of a Set of Sustainability Indicators for Water Resources Management denominated CISGRH, which was identified by a conceptual and empirical review to meet the specific needs of the study herein - the Basin Committee of Tietê-Jacaré Rivers (CBH-TJ). The framework of CISGRH came about through consecutive consultation processes. In the first consultation the priority problems were identified for the study objectives, listing some possible management sustainability indicators. These preliminary indicators were also submitted to academic specialists and technicians working in CBH-TJ for a new consultation process. After these consultation stages, the CISGRH analysis and structuring were introduced. To verify the indicators’ adaptation and to compose a group as proposed by the study, these were classified according to specific sustainability principles for water resources management. The objective of the CISGRH implementation is to diagnose current conditions of water resources and its management, as well as to evaluate future conditions evidenced by tendencies and interventions undertaken by the committee.
The Moderating Effect of Product Quality on Religiosity, Price Sensitivity, Personnel Responsiveness and Purchase Intention: an Exploratory Study

By being able to measure consumers’ purchase intention, it offers competitive advantage to a firm as it has a direct link with an actual purchase. This paper aims to explore the relationship between religiosity, price sensitivity and personnel responsiveness towards purchase intention, as per se of its predicting factors. A conceptual framework model is derived from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in explaining the predicting impact of these variables toward purchase intention, along with the moderating role of product quality. The inconsistency condition faced by the product quality might be figured out through the role of a moderator in the purchase intention relationships. The study is conceptual in nature and draws upon the marketing literatures and theories to present a number of propositions.
Introduction to Fungi

A fungus is a eukaryote that digests food externally and absorbs nutrients directly through its cell walls. Most fungi reproduce by spores and have a body (thallus) composed of microscopic tubular cells called hyphae. Fungi are heterotrophs and, like animals, obtain their carbon and energy from other organisms. Some fungi obtain their nutrients from a living host (plant or animal) and are called biotrophs; others obtain their nutrients from dead plants or animals and are called saprotrophs (saprophytes, saprobes). Some fungi infect a living host, but kill host cells in order to obtain their nutrients; these are called necrotrophs.
Fuzzy ANP Approach for New Application: Greenhouse Location Selection; a Case in Iran

Selection of the most appropriate location for investor is an important problem which requires assessment and analysis of several factors. The greenhouse locating has become one of the most important problems for investors; it is a complicated problem and a decision under a variety of factors. The selection of a location among alternative locations is a multi-criteria decision-making problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria. In this paper, we describe the research and development of hybrid FMCDM methods for greenhouse locating in Iran. Analytic network process gave us a flexibly structure for greenhouse locating, this structure found the relative weights of criteria and ranked the alternatives too.
Investigation on OLSR routing protocol efficiency

Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) is one of the most often used routing protocols for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET). MANET networks represent an up-to-date and perspective way of communication with extensive application area. Since the topology of wireless ad hoc networks can change dynamically, the accurate configuration of routing mechanisms is very important. In order to estimate proper settings of the routing protocol parameters a simulation tool can be used. The paper introduces an analytical evaluation of parameters affecting the efficiency of the OLSR routing protocol. The results of this analysis are then used to calculate optimal values for different scenarios. The impact of optimized configuration parameters have been evaluated in the OPNET Modeler simulation environment and the corresponding results are described in the paper.
Discussion on the Application of the Flipped Classroom Mode in the Program Design Course in Colleges and Universities

This paper firstly analyzes the characteristics of the program design course of computer speciality in Chinese colleges and universities and some problems existing in the current teaching mode of colleges and universities. Then this paper puts forward the application of the flipped classroom to the teaching of the program design course, and expounds the implementation link, which greatly improves the classroom teaching efficiency and effectiveness, promotes the students’ learning initiative, maximizes the role of the teacher, helps students to form professional comprehensive quality and ability and meets the needs of the society for computer software development talents. Features of Program Design Courses The training goal of the undergraduate computer major in our university is to enable students to master the basic theories, basic methods and skills of computer software and hardware, and to engage in the maintenance and application of simple software and hardware of computers. The program design is the core of the software part, and this kind of course occupies an important position in the basic teaching of computer specialty in colleges and universities. From machine language, assembly language to advanced language programming, each has its own features and strengths. From the perspective of the talent training, they have common requirements for students. It is required that students should master the grammar rules, methods, ideas and programming thinking of some programming language, and cooperate with database, network and other technologies to achieve the application of some automatic functional software. From above, it is not difficult to see that this kind of curriculum is closely related to reality, and it is necessary for students to actively participate in it and do it in person. Therefore, the suitable teaching mode and the scientific teaching method are beneficial to the program design curriculum. The Current Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities There are similar problems in the teaching mode of the program design courses in the computer major education of most colleges and universities in China. Backwardness of Teaching Methods The teaching method commonly used in the program design courses of ordinary universities is the form of the teaching of the teachers and the students’ experiment on the computer. Students’ computer experiments can only test and verify simple examples on book. They are not real development experiments, nor are they really able to exercise students’ ability to analyze and solve problems. The general planned teaching hours in colleges and universities are less, which directly leads to the lack of theory and practice hours in the actual teaching. Teachers can only imbue the students with most basic theoretical knowledge, and the students can only passively acquire knowledge and
Yield potential of Spring Wheat Influenced by Crop Residue,Tillage System and Nitrogen Rate on irrigated land

Yield performance in wheat (Triticum aestivum) was compared under crop residue, tillage system and nitrogen rate treatments in cereal based cropping system. The experiments were conducted at Agronomy Research Farm, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. Chopped crop residue on dry matter basis (5 t ha-1) of legume (Vigna unguicuata, var. Ebney) and cereal (Zea mays, var. Azam) was applied in main plots with no residue treatments and plowed with Mould Board (MB) and Cultivator as deep and shallow treatments, respectively. A month after the crop residue and tillage system treatments, field was uniformly plowed with cultivator and wheat was sown with drill in rows 25 cm apart in the month of November on both years. Both P2O5 and K2O (80 and 40 kg ha-1, respectively) were applied uniformly to all fields before sowing. Nitrogen as subplot treatment (0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 kg ha-1) was applied in two splits, half at 15 and the other half at 45 days after sowing with uniform cultural practices for crop growth and development. Compared to year 1, crop of year 2 showed better phenology with extended life cycle (LC). On two years average across tillage and N treatments, biological yield did not change (p<0.05) under the residue but did report lower at no-residue treatment. Nonetheless, grain yield showed a significant (p<0.05) change with the highest in legume followed by cereal and the lowest in no-residue treatments. A non-significant tiller number and significant variations in grain weight and spike m-2 were observed that influenced the grain and biological yield differently. Deep than shallow tillage resulted in better traits, which returned better biomass and grain yield. Nitrogen application from control to every increment showed a significant (p<0.05) improvement in all observations contributing in yield. The study confirms the significance of legume vs. cereal over no-crop residue incorporated through deep tillage system with optimum N (120 kg ha-1) in cereal-based cropping system for sustainable performance to sustain soil C:N for future production.
Internal quantum efficiency enhancement of GaInN/GaN quantum-well structures using Ag nanoparticles

We report internal quantum efficiency enhancement of thin p-GaN green quantum-well structure using self-assembled Ag nanoparticles. Temperature dependent photoluminescence measurements are conducted to determine the internal quantum efficiency. The impact of excitation power density on the enhancement factor is investigated. We obtain an internal quantum efficiency enhancement by a factor of 2.3 at 756 W/cm2, and a factor of 8.1 at 1 W/cm2. A Purcell enhancement up to a factor of 26 is estimated by fitting the experimental results to a theoretical model for the efficiency enhancement factor.
Tagungsbeitrag zu: Jahrestagung der DBG, Kommission II Titel der Tagung: Horizonte des Bodens

Die räumliche Verteilung von Phosphor (P) an Hängen wird oft durch Erosion und Akkumulation erklärt. Die unterirdische P-Verlagerung wird dagegen meist als vernachlässigbar betrachtet. Um das zu hinterfragen, wurden drei Hangtransekte aus Bodenprofilen angelegt und auf ihre vertikale und laterale P-Verteilung untersucht. In jedem Transekt findet man die höchsten PGehalte am Unterhang, allerdings nicht nur in Kolluvien, sondern in allen Schichten. Leicht lösliche P-Formen nehmen dabei von den Oberhängen zu den Unterhängen sukzessive zu und sind an den Unterhängen in allen erfassten Tiefen relativ häufig. Dies zeigt, dass in Hanglagen neben Verlagerungen an der Oberfläche auch P-Verlagerungen mit dem Gefälle und zunehmender Bodentiefe stattfinden. Erosion allein bildet also keine hinreichende Erklärung für die räumliche P-Verteilung an den drei Hängen. Stattdessen sollten unterirdische Transportwege und -arten stärker in den wissenschaftlichen Fokus gerückt werden.
Introduction – Rethinking Impact Evaluation for Development

This IDS Bulletin is the first of two special issues presenting contributions from the event ‘Impact Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the Future’, organised by IDS in March 2013. The initiative, as well as these two issues, represent a ‘rallying cry’ for impact evaluation to rise to the challenges of a post‐MDG/post‐2015 development agenda. This introduction articulates first what these challenges are, and then goes on to summarise how the contributors propose to meet these challenges in terms of methodological and institutional innovation. Increasingly ambitious development goals, multiple layers of governance and lines of accountability require adequate causal inference frameworks and less ambitious expectations on the span of direct influence single interventions can achieve, as well as awareness of multiple bias types. Institutions need to be researched and become more impact‐oriented and learning‐oriented .
Shifting sentiments in firm investment: an application to the oil industry

Recent developments in the oil and gas industry suggest that investment behaviour is not necessarily changeless over time. We propose a micro-econometric procedure to investigate the stability of investment behaviour at the firm level. Applying system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) on a panel data set for 253 oil and gas companies over 14 years, we estimate accelerator models of investment with error-correction. Robust econometric evidence indicates a structural break in oil and gas investment in 1998. The process of capital formation over the last few years is more flexible than before, with significant and material changes in the role of explanatory factors like cash flow and uncertainty.
An Ontology-Based Semantic Similarity Measure Considering Multi-Inheritance in Biomedicine

Computation of semantic similarity between words for text understanding is a vital issue in many applications such as word sense disambiguation, document categorization, and information retrieval. In recent years, different paradigms have been proposed to compute semantic similarity based on different ontologies and knowledge resources. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure combining both superconcepts of the evaluated concepts and their common specificity feature. The common specificity feature considers the depth of the Least Common Subsumer (LCS) of two concepts and the depth of the ontology to obtain more semantic evidence. The multiple inheritance phenomenon in a large and complex taxonomy is taken into account by all superconcepts of the evaluated concepts. We evaluate and compare the correlation obtained by our measure with human scores against other existing measures exploiting SNOMED CT as the input ontology. The experimental evaluations show the applicability of the measure on different datasets and confirm the efficiency and simplicity of our proposed measure.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE ANALYTICAL CALCULATION OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD PRODUCED BY PERMANENT MAGNET RINGS

In this paper, we present an improved Coulombianbased analytical calculation of magnetic fields created by permanentmagnetic rings. The 3 dimensional (3D) components of two types of magnetized rings (axially and radially) were analytically evaluated. The obtained components of the magnetic field are expressed over complete elliptical integrals of the first and second kind, as well as by Heuman’s Lambda function. These expressions permit fast and accurate calculations of the magnetic field at any point of interest, for both regular and singular cases. The presented method gives an improvement of already known expressions for calculating the magnetic fields of the aforementioned magnetized rings, and we consider that these improved analytical expressions are more extendable to numerical applications.
Transcriptome Profiling and Long Non-Coding Rna Identification in Grapevine

Next-generation sequencing technologies have provided access to vast quantities of nucleic acid sequence data. The resulting wealth of information enables biologists to address complex biological questions in species for which a high-quality well-annotated reference genome sequence has yet to be generated. The cultivated grapevine, Vitis vinifera, has a relatively poorly annotated reference genome. In addition, it is a highly heterozygous species which further hinders the annotation of its genome and the characterization of its transcriptome. Here, I annotated Version 2 of the 12X V. vinifera genome using RNA-seq data derived from the variety ‘Riesling’ by employing the most up-to-date computational methods. The results provide the first annotation of ‘Riesling’ and the first profile of its transcriptome in relation to the reference transcriptome of the model grape variety ‘Pinot Noir’. In addition, I develop a computational pipeline for the identification of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in non-model plant species that lack well-sequenced reference genomes. This pipeline was then applied to ‘Riesling’ RNAseq data for the first analysis of lncRNAs in that variety.
COST OF SEVERE ASTHMA FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM AND FOR FAMILIES

Rosana Franco1;2 , Hisbello Campos3, Emanuel C. Sarinho4, Alcindo Cerci Neto5 1Programa para o Controle da Asma e da Rinite Alérgica na Bahia (ProAR) Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA; 2Social Change Allergy and Asthma in Latin America (SCAALA) Study Group; 3Centro de Referência Prof. Helio Fraga, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (ENSP/ MS); Campo Grande, MS; 4Departamento de Pediatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Receife, PE; 5Programa Respira Londrina, Secretaria Municipal de Saude de Londrina. Universidade Estadual de Londrina-Setor de Pneumologia; Londrina, PR, Brasil
MODELLING OF QUEUING PROCESS AT AIRPORT CHECK-IN SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF MANCHESTER AND LEEDS-BRADFORD AIRPORTS

This study built a Simulation Model (SM) using SimEvents toolbox in MATLAB for implementing Analytical Models (AM) of queuing process at airport check - in system. Air travel demand data for Manchester and Leeds - Bradford airports in 2014 were adopted for validation of the model. There was no statistical differenc e between utilisation factor (UF) and service times of AM and SM outputs. Differences in AM and SM outputs for average queue length, average waiting time on queue and average number of arrivals and throughputs were attributed to variations in discrete time events considered by SM in contrary to the AM which assumed constant values for the process. The SM exhibited stochastic behaviour which actually depicts reality hence produces more reliable results. Stochastic analysis methods are therefore recommended for queuing analysis to achieve accurate results. The SM is therefore recommended to give Airport managers prior knowledge of system performance for planning and improved level of service (LOS) at airports. Key words : Airport check - in system , discrete tim e events, analytical models, simulation model, SimEvents toolbox
An ALMA study of the Orion Integral Filament: I. Evidence for narrow fibers in a massive cloud

Abridged. Are all filaments bundles of fibers? To address this question, we have investigated the gas organization within the paradigmatic Integral Shape Filament (ISF). We combined two new ALMA Cycle 3 mosaics with previous IRAM 30m observations to produce a high-dynamic range N$_2$H$^+$(1-0) emission map of the ISF tracing its high-density material and velocity structure down to scales of 0.009 pc. From the analysis of the gas kinematics, we identify a total of 55 dense fibers in the central region of the ISF. Independently of their location, these fibers are characterized by transonic internal motions, lengths of ~0.15 pc, and masses per-unit-length close to those expected in hydrostatic equilibrium. The ISF fibers are spatially organized forming a dense bundle with multiple hub-like associations likely shaped by the local gravitational potential. Within this complex network, the ISF fibers show a compact radial emission profile with a median FWHM of 0.035 pc systematically narrower than the previously proposed universal 0.1 pc filament width. Our ALMA observations reveal complex bundles of fibers in the ISF, suggesting strong similarities between the internal substructure of this massive filament and previously studied lower-mass objects. The fibers show identical dynamic properties in both low- and high-mass regions, and their widespread detection suggests a preferred organizational mechanism of gas in which the physical fiber dimensions (width and length) are self-regulated depending on their intrinsic gas density. Combined with previous works, we identify a systematic increase of the surface density of fibers as a function of the total mass per-unit-length in filamentary clouds. Based on this empirical correlation, we propose a unified star-formation scenario where the observed differences between low- and high-mass clouds emerge naturally from the initial concentration of fibers.
Performance Analysis of Ambiguity Resolution with Combined GPS/BDS Observations

BDS regional system has been officially announced to provide positioning services over the Asia-pacific region at present. We investigate the performance of ambiguity resolution with combined GPS/BDS observations under this condition. Using observation data of the different-length short baselines and PANDA software analyze the success rate of ambiguity-fixing of GPS single system, BDS single system and GPS/BDS combined system, we find that the ambiguity of GPS/BDS combined system relative to each single system can be quickly fixed even if with L1 observation. Combine the theory of ambiguity resolution to analyze experimental results, and interpret the experimental conclusions in theory. The impact of system bias on ambiguity resolution of GPS/BDS combined system has been discussed. According to the experiment, we find the difference among fractional parts of the between-receiver SD-ambiguities is very small in the each single system, but the fractional parts of DD-ambiguities between GPS and BDS are big, however, which are stable. This provide a possibility to form DD-ambiguities by mixing SD-ambiguities of GPS and BDS by calibrating the system bias, which is highly beneficial for positioning under severe environment.
Subharmonic functions in sub-Riemannian settings

In this note we present mean value characterizations of subharmonic functions related to linear second order partial differential operators with nonnegative characteristic form, possessing a well-behaved fundamental solution Γ. These characterizations are based on suitable average operators on the level sets of Γ. Asymptotic characterizations are also considered, extending classical results of Blaschke, Privaloff, Rado, Beckenbach and Reade. The results presented here generalize and carry forward former results of the authors in [6, 8]. 1 L-subharmonic functions
INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAND MANAGEMENT

The need for a company to properly coordinate its marketing communications elements/tools in order to achieve a clear, consistent and competitive message about itself and its branded products has become an important issue for every result driven firm. The current paper is aimed at examining the impact of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) at different stages of the product life cycle(PLC). More specificly, the objectives of this paper are: * to establish the level of understanding about PLC; * to define IMC and its use; * to ascertain whether the use of IMC in the context of brand management can bring about profitable long term customer relationships with a certain brand.