Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A high-level interface to a relational database System

J.Mende S. Bennan and L. Walker K.G. van der Poel and I.R. Bryson P.J.S. Bruwer and J.M. Hattingh P. Machanick S.P. Byron-Moore R.F. Ridler C.W. Carey, C. Hattingh, D.G. Kourie, R.J. van den Heever and R.F. V erkroost D.G. Kourie Laws and Techniques of Information Systems · A High-Level Interface to a Relational Database System Protection of Computerised Private Information: A Comparative Analysis Models to Evaluate the State of Computer Facilities at South African Universities Low-Cost Artificial Intelligence Research Tools What's Wrong with CP/M? In Praise of Solid State Discs The Development of an RJE/X.25 Pad: A Case Study
The Integrative Neuropsychological Theory of Executive-Related Abilities and Component Transactions ( INTERACT ) : Best Predictors of Performance Across the Adult Lifespan

Supervisory Committee Dr. Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera, Department of Psychology Supervisor Dr. Holly Tuokko, Department of Psychology Departmental Member Recent neuropsychological research has stressed the sensitivity of the Prefrontal Cortex, mostly the Dorsolateral region, in relation to aging (Darowski et al., 2008). Prefrontal Cortex functions, such as Inhibitory Control (IC), are thought to wane steadily after the ages of 60-65 (Craik & Bialystok, 2006). Little is known about what changes occur between the stages of prefrontal optimal performance (i.e., ages 20-25), and the later periods of functional decline. The present study aimed to investigate performance differences between younger (ages 30-40; n=9), middle-aged (ages 50-60; n=10), and older adults (ages 70 and up; n=13), on five tasks of Executive Functions (EFs); specifically, assessing the abilities of problem representation, shifting, updating working memory, inhibition, and integrating valence and rewards into pursuing a goal. It was hypothesized that (a) quantitative age trends differentiating the three groups on the tasks would be found, (b) IC would be particularly targeted by the hypothesized age trends, and (c) the devolution of IC across the adult lifespan would be linear. MANOVA tests with all tasks of EFs representing the Dependent Variables and age serving as the Independent Variable revealed no significant main effect. Follow-up separate ANOVA tests however, suggested a statistically significant difference between the means of Groups 2 and 3 for the Updating Working Memory task, F(2,29)=5.374, p=. 010, Scheffe (p=.012) and Bonferroni (p=.010). The contributions of interactions among EFs to the present results, recruitment challenges, and potential age effects are discussed.
Shared mental models and shared temporal cognitions

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The best ( and worst ) of air Emission Trading Schemes : comparing the EU ETS with its followers

The European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is generally considered as the prototype system for the other Emission Trading Schemes (ETSs) that are rapidly spreading around the world. To get a deeper understanding on the actual capacity of the EU ETS to stand as a model for the other ETSs, the present paper discusses the differences and similarities of the EU ETS with respect to the other main ETSs and the emerging trends that these systems seem to share, comparing the different cap and trade regimes in order to identify the best practices and the desirable features that future ETSs should have. As emerges from the comparative analysis performed in this article, although the followers share some common flaws with the EU ETS, they have also shown the capacity to innovate and possibly devise alternative ways to manage their own ETS regimes, which may in the long term jeopardise the EU leadership in the ETSs context.
ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY SCREENING OF MUNTINGIA CALABURA L LEAVES METHANOL EXTRACT ON THREE BACTERIAL PATHOGENS

Screening of natural products for drug development, especially for antibacterial, is very important to find alternatives solution to overcome infectious diseases as well as antibiotic-resistance. Muntingia calabura L also known as Talok in Indonesia has been known to have a lot of health benefits. This study was conducted to screen the antibacterial activity of methanol extract of Muntingia calabura L leaves against Staphylococcus aureus FNCC 0047, Staphylococcus epidermidis FNCC 0048 and Escherichia coli FNCC 0091. Powdered air-dried plant material was extracted by maceration in methanol solvent. Minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) were determined for the extracts that showed total growth inhibition using broth microdilution method. Phytochemical tests were carried out through Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) method. The results showed that the MIC values of the methanol extract of Muntingia calabura L leaves on Staphylococcus aureus FNCC 0047, Staphylococcus epidermidis FNCC 0048, and Escherichia coli FNCC 0091 are 0.5 mg/mL, 1 mg/mL, and 2 mg/mL, respectively. While the MBC values are 1 mg/mL, 2 mg/mL, and 4 mg/mL, respectively. The phytochemical test of extract suggested the presence of flavonoid, tannin, as well as saponin. The overall results of this study indicate that the methanol extract of Muntingia calabura L leaves has potential as an antibacterial.
Hedging with Life and General Insurance Products

In this study, a hybrid portfolio that combines life and general insurance aspects is considered. There has been intense research on hedging of an insurance company’s portfolio when the risk is incoming from life insurance only or general insurance only, but little on both in the same portfolio. However, most large multiline insurance holding companies have separate legal entities that can and do issue both products. We assume there are one risk-free asset and one risky asset in the financial market, and the investor may choose the proportion of investments for each of them. In addition to the inflows and outflows from trading, the insurance cash flow account has inflows from premiums and outflows from losses of life and general insurance. Once the portfolio of the insurance company is set, the dynamic programming principle is applied to derive a partial differential equation for the optimal function, and the corresponding optimal trading strategy can be obtained.
1 Label-free Optical Single-Molecule Micro-and Nano-Sensors

Single-molecule techniques continue to transform imaging, biophysics and, more recently, optical sensing. Label-free optical sensor systems have emerged that exhibit extraordinary sensitivity for detecting physical, chemical, and biological entities at the micro/nanoscale. Particularly exciting is the detection and analysis of molecules on micro and nanoscale optical transducers that can be integrated and multiplexed on miniature sensing devices and that have many possible applications in health, environment, and security. It is also becoming increasingly clear that in order for us to better understand the functionality of complex bio-molecules, we need to investigate their dynamics. X-ray crystallography and dramatic advances in electron microscopy have led to the structural identification of a large number of biomolecules. However, accessing the dynamic information has been more challenging owing to the wide timescales and range of motions involved. Nonetheless, a variety of techniques such as small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry have provided critical information on biomolecular conformational dynamics in the past three decades. However, these techniques are mostly ensemble methods, which require a large number of molecules for measurement. Hence, these methods
How does Brain Matter? The Case of Dignified Mind and Law

What does the brain mean in a legal domain and how the integration of neuroscience and law goes beyond the practical difficulties highlighted by the social scientists and legal theorists? On the one hand, the legal theorists took it as a conceptual error and on the other hand, advocates of neurosciences took it as a promising emerging field of integration. Some scholars took an alternative route considering it as a fascinating element of scientific discourse. The present article aims to show that the coming of “brain language” in comparison to the other forensic languages in the everyday legal discourse is not going to become a reality, as truth inferred through the everyday experiences and the interpretations of scientific knowledge by the judges. Scientific knowledge through the mapping of active brain area by the available brain visualising techniques shows the correlation between brain and behaviour and not the causation. So its use in the legal domain seems less institutionalised, showing the determinism of the brain as less authentic in itself when compared with the intuitive path embedded in the culture and history.
a good practice model in terms of both language and methodology training . 2 Methodology : the CLIL environment Following

This article follows research carried out by the author on the semiotics and pragmalinguistics of restaurant menus. The context is a training experience about how to teach LSP (Language for Special Purposes) in a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) environment with teachers in Istituti Alberghieri. The final output is the compilation of a multilingual menu, in the shared conviction that a communicatively effective menu in different languages can enhance the quality of restaurants and make them successful with tourists. The “little texts” composing dish names prove to be interesting under the lexical and the syntactical viewpoints: these are the language levels playing the most significant role in the info-marketing strategies adopted by menus and the ones presenting the greatest difficulties in translating from Italian into French or English. A careful Error Analysis conducted on a corpus of a hundred menus from the Italian region of Lazio proves a successful scaffolding strategy and a practical metalinguistic tool
jmbReview Induced Tolerance to Salinity Stress by Halotolerant Bacteria Bacillus aryabhattai H 19-1 and B . mesonae H 20-5 in Tomato Plants

Several environmental factors, such as drought, salinity, water flooding, and extreme high and low temperature can affect plant growth and development; thus reducing crop productivity [1, 2]. Among these stresses, soil salinity is one of the most critical environmental stresses that constrains agricultural productivity [3]. It is known that 20% of all irrigated agricultural land as well as 10% of land surface and 50% of arable land are affected by soil salinity [4]. Furthermore, it is expected that 50% of the agricultural area will be salinized by 2050 [5]. Therefore, studies on strategies of crop management against salinity stress are essential. Breeding of new cultivars and stress tolerant plants are studied as common crop management strategies against salinity stress [6]. Moreno-Limon et al. [7] and Mano and Takeda [8] developed salt tolerant cultivars of bean and wheat, respectively, with higher root growth and accumulation of mineral nutrients under salinity stress [9]. Moreover, genetic engineering approaches to improve tolerance to abiotic stress were attempted in rice and tomato by controlling plant signal transduction and regulation of biosynthesis and phytohormone pathway [10, 11]. However, these are long-term strategies, and many governments have not embraced them widely [12]. Therefore, use of microorganisms, including plant growthpromoting bacteria (PGPB) can be an alternative to avoid Received: April 15, 2019 Revised: June 18, 2019 Accepted: June 19, 2019
ADBI Working Paper Series THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF INDONESIA’S STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES

This study analyzes the impact of government support on the financial performance of Indonesia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). I employ the ordinary least square (OLS) method with firm and year fixed effects in addition to clustered standard errors. The findings show that government support for SOEs does not have a significant effect on their financial performance. This study finds that the government should examine its investment policy to support SOEs and consider designing a proper government support policy to generate higher SOE financial performance.
Times Are Changing: Investigating the Pace of Language Change in Diachronic Word Embeddings

We propose Word Embedding Networks, a novel method that is able to learn word embeddings of individual data slices while simultaneously aligning and ordering them without feeding temporal information a priori to the model. This gives us the opportunity to analyse the dynamics in word embeddings on a large scale in a purely data-driven manner. In experiments on two different newspaper corpora, the New York Times (English) and die Zeit (German), we were able to show that time actually determines the dynamics of semantic change. However, there is by no means a uniform evolution, but instead times of faster and times of slower change.
European Regional Knowledge Spillovers and Technological Convergence : A Maximum Entropy Markov Model

This paper uses a Maximum Entropy Markov methodology to study the cross regions knowledge spillovers and the technological convergence across the European Union regions. The analysis draws on regional patents distribution in the period 1995-2006. Regions absorb knowledge created in their public domain that is knowledge created in regions with similar technological production. High technological regions exchange knowledge themselves, the middle class regions have a deeper public domain and the low technological regions have a narrower public domain. Technological convergence is not observed either in the total sample or between the five quintiles.
CHANGE MAPPING USING A COMBINATION OF SENTINEL-1 DATA AND MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY : A CASE STUDY OF SANANDAJ COUNTY , KURDISTAN , IRAN

Land Cover Maps (LCMs) represent the integrated information about general status of a specific region, which are widely used as a baseline for many related purposes. This study aims to extract the land covers of Sanandaj County, Kurdistan, Iran, along with to highlight the occurred changes compared with an old map prepared by the Iranian Institute of Water and Soil in 2010. The combination model of Sentinel-1 and Landsat-8 satellite imageries was used for the dates 10/05/2017 and 11/05/2017, respectively. It is noted that based on the location of the study area we acquired Sentinel-1 data (S1A, IW, Tien Bui et al.: Land cover change mapping using a combination of Sentinel-1 and multispectral satellite imageries: a case study of Sanandaj County, Kurdistan, Iran 5450 APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 17(3):5449-5463. http://www.aloki. hu ● ISSN 1589 1623 (Print) ● ISSN 1785 0037 (Online) DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.15666/aeer/1703_54495463  2019, ALÖKI Kft. , Budapest, Hungary and GRD) and a pair of Landsat-8 images. Using Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and Environment for Visualizing Image (ENVI) softwares all images were corrected, co-registered and stacked. The combination of RADAR, NDVI and thermal bands was utilized as the best combination for the visual interpretation, with which all land covers can be easily differentiated. However, with help of the Google Earth images the land covers (polygon by polygon) were checked and digitized. Results indicate that the visual interpretation of the combination model with the assist of Google Earth is a robust way to extract land covers, provided that the researchers have enough knowledge on the land covers of the study area. This study can be applicable for decision makers of Sanandaj City.
Free-Standing and Heteroatoms-Doped Carbon Nanofiber Networks as a Binder-Free Flexible Electrode for High-Performance Supercapacitors

Flexible and heteroatoms-doped (N, O and P) activated carbon nanofiber networks (ACFNs) have been successfully prepared with a mixture of polyamic acid (PAA) and poly(diaryloxyphosphazene) (PDPP) as a solution through electrospinning, followed by a heat post-treatment. The resultant heteroatoms-doped ACFNs can be used as binder-free electrodes for high-performance flexible supercapacitors (SCs) due to lightweight, three-dimensional open-pore structure and good mechanical strength. Despite its surface area being lower than 130.6 m2·g−1, the heteroatoms-doped ACFNs exhibited a high heteroatoms (N, O and P) content of 17.9%, resulting in a highly specific capacitance of 182 F·g−1 at a current density of 1 A·g−1 in 6 M KOH electrolyte in a two-electrode cell and an excellent rate capability of 74.7% of its initial capacitance from 1 A·g−1 to 10 A·g−1 under the mass loading of 1.5 mg·cm−2. The electrical double-layer (EDL) capacitance and pseudocapacitance can be easily decoupled in the heteroatoms-doped mesoporous ACFNs. SCs device based on heteroatoms-doped ACFNs exhibited a high energy density of 6.3 W·h·kg−1 with a power density of 250 W·kg−1, as well as excellent cycling stability with 88% capacitance retention after 10,000 charge–discharge cycles. The excellent electrochemical performance was attributed to the mesoporous structure of ACFNs and pseudocapacitive heteroatoms.
A novel method with which to visualize the human sinuatrial node: Application for a better understanding of the gross anatomy of this part of the conduction system

For various clinical/surgical procedures, it is important to accurately understand the location of the sinuatrial node (SAN). Therefore, this study's goal was to develop a new and simple method to visualize the SAN in human hearts. A total of 16 formalin‐fixed human hearts were used in the study. After the epicardium was removed, the fat tissue on the myocardium's surface was brushed and removed in a solution of 40°C water with a surfactant to show the SAN's location. Once the structure considered to be the SAN was observed, histological observation was conducted with Masson's trichrome staining to confirm its identity. The working myocardium, SAN branch of the coronary artery, and the structure believed to be the SAN were observed in all specimens. Histological analysis confirmed this structure to be the SAN. We believe that the method described herein might contribute to a better understanding of the SAN's morphologic features and serve as an improved teaching aide. Clin. Anat. 33:232–236, 2020. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Concerns of Patients With Cancer on Accessing Cannabis Products in a State With Restrictive Medical Marijuana Laws: A Survey Study.

PURPOSE Several states, particularly in the Southeast, have restrictive medical marijuana laws that permit qualified patients to use specific cannabis products. The majority of these states, however, do not provide avenues for accessing cannabis products such as in-state dispensaries. METHODS We conducted a survey of patients registered for medical marijuana (low tetrahydrocannabinol [THC] oil cards) in an ambulatory palliative care practice in Georgia (one of the states with restrictive medical marijuana laws). RESULTS We had a total of 101 responses. Among our sample of patients who use cannabis as part of a state-approved low THC oil program, 56% were male and 64% were older than age 50 years. Advanced cancer was the most common reason (76%) for granting the patients access to a low THC oil card. Although patients reported cannabis products as being extremely helpful for reducing pain, they expressed considerable concerns about the legality issues (64%) and ability to obtain THC (68%). Several respondents were using unapproved formulations of cannabis products. For 48% of the patients, their physician was the source of information regarding marijuana-related products. Furthermore, they believed that their health care providers and family members were supportive of their use of cannabis (62% and 79%, respectively). CONCLUSION Patients on Georgia's medical marijuana program are most concerned about the legality of the product and their ability to obtain marijuana-related products. Therefore, we recommend that states with medical marijuana laws should provide safe and reliable access to cannabis products for qualifying patients.
Deuterium-Depleted Water Influence on the Isotope 2H/1H Regulation in Body and Individual Adaptation

This review article presents data about the influence of deuterium-depleted water (DDW) on biological systems. It is known that the isotope abundances of natural and bottled waters are variable worldwide. That is why different drinking rations lead to changes of stable isotopes content in body water fluxes in human and animal organisms. Also, intracellular water isotope ratios in living systems depends on metabolic activity and food consumption. We found the 2H/1H gradient in human fluids (δ2H saliva >> δ2H blood plasma > δ2Hbreast milk), which decreases significantly during DDW intake. Moreover, DDW induces several important biological effects in organism (antioxidant, metabolic detoxification, anticancer, rejuvenation, behavior, etc.). Changing the isotope 2H/1H gradient from “2H blood plasma > δ2H visceral organs” to “δ2H blood plasma << δ2H visceral organs” via DDW drinking increases individual adaptation by isotopic shock. The other possible mechanisms of long-term adaptation is DDW influence on the growth rate of cells, enzyme activity and cellular energetics (e.g., stimulation of the mitochondrion activity). In addition, DDW reduces the number of single-stranded DNA breaks and modifies the miRNA profile.
The Enhanced Adhesion of Eosinophils Is Associated with Their Prolonged Viability and Pro-Proliferative Effect in Asthma

Before eosinophils migrate into the bronchial lumen, they promote airway structural changes after contact with pulmonary cells and extracellular matrix components. We aimed to investigate the impact of eosinophil adhesion to their viability and pro-proliferative effect on airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells and pulmonary fibroblasts during different asthma phenotypes. A total of 39 individuals were included: 14 steroid-free non-severe allergic asthma (AA) patients, 10 severe non-allergic eosinophilic asthma (SNEA) patients, and 15 healthy control subjects (HS). For AA patients and HS groups, a bronchial allergen challenge with Dermatophagoides pteronysinnus was performed. Individual combined cells cultures were prepared between isolated peripheral blood eosinophils and ASM cells or pulmonary fibroblasts. Eosinophil adhesion was measured by evaluating their peroxidase activity, cell viability was performed by annexin V and propidium iodide staining, and proliferation by Alamar blue assay. We found that increased adhesion of eosinophils was associated with prolonged viability (p < 0.05) and an enhanced pro-proliferative effect on ASM cells and pulmonary fibroblasts in asthma (p < 0.05). However, eosinophils from SNEA patients demonstrated higher viability and inhibition of pulmonary structural cell apoptosis, compared to the AA group (p < 0.05), while their adhesive and pro-proliferative properties were similar. Finally, in the AA group, in vivo allergen-activated eosinophils demonstrated a higher adhesion, viability, and pro-proliferative effect on pulmonary structural cells compared to non-activated eosinophils (p < 0.05).