Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Toxicity test for Fuller’s earth contaminated with dielectric oil using eisenia foetida earthworms and soils with different carbon contents

espanolLa tierra de Fuller es un material adsorbente utilizado en la industria electrica para la regeneracion de aceite dielectrico. La gran cantidad de hidrocarburos poliaromaticos eliminados del petroleo y adsorbidos en la tierra de Fuller hace que este material sea un desecho peligroso. Es necesario implementar una prueba de toxicidad y aplicar un tratamiento adecuado para desechar de manera segura estos desechos en un vertedero o reciclar para su reutilizacion. En este documento, la toxicidad de la tierra de Fuller contaminada con aceite dielectrico se evalua antes y despues del tratamiento. El potencial toxico de la tierra de Fuller y el aceite dielectrico extraido mediante procesos de descontaminacion se evaluo en dos tipos de suelo con diferentes contenidos de carbono, analizando los efectos en los organismos de prueba, las lombrices de tierra Eisenia Foetida. Estas pruebas mostraron que la tierra de Fuller descontaminada no es toxica, y que la toxicidad de la tierra de Fuller contaminada, o sus extractos despues del tratamiento, representada por la concentracion letal media (CL50) depende significativamente del tipo de suelo utilizado EnglishFuller’s earth is an adsorbent material used in the electric industry for dielectric oil regeneration. The high amount of polyaromatic hydrocarbons removed from oil and adsorbed in the Fuller’s earth makes this material a hazardous waste. It is necessary to implement a toxicity test and apply a suitable treatment to safely dispose of this waste in a landfill or repurpose it for reuse. In this paper, the toxicity of Fuller’s earth contaminated with dielectric oil is assessed before and after treatment. The toxic potential of the Fuller’s earth and the dielectric oil extracted through decontamination processes was evaluated in two types of soil with different carbon contents, analyzing the effects on the test organisms, Eisenia Foetida earthworms. These tests showed that decontaminated Fuller’s earth is non-toxic, and that the toxicity of the contaminated Fuller’s earth, or its extracts after treatment, represented by the median lethal concentration (LC50) depends significantly on the type of soil used.
Deliverable D4.2 – Preliminary design specifications of the adaptive compute node

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Deliverable D4.2 – Preliminary design specifications of the adaptive compute node Stefano Bernabovi, Michael Chapman, Philippe Naudin, Guillaume Devic, Abdoulaye Gamatié, Gilles Sassatelli
Evidence From A Quasi-Natural Experiment

We study the impact of higher capital requirements on banks’ balance sheets and its transmission to the real economy. The 2011 EBA capital exercise provides an almost ideal quasi-natural experiment, which allows us to identify the effect of higher capital requirements using a difference-in-differences matching estimator. We find that treated banks increase their capital ratios not by raising their levels of equity, but by reducing their credit supply. We also show that this reduction in credit supply results in lower firm-, investment-, and sales growth for firms which obtain a larger share of their bank credit from the treated banks.
Applications of Mathematics

For a second order elliptic equation with a nonlinear radiation-type boundary condition on the surface of a three-dimensional domain, we prove existence of generalized solutions without explicit conditions (like u ∣∣ Γ ∈ L5(Γ)) on the trace of solutions. In the boundary condition, we admit polynomial growth of any fixed degree in the unknown solution, and the heat exchange and emissivity coefficients may vary along the radiating surface. Our generalized solution is contained in a Sobolev space with an exponent q which is greater than 9/4 for the fourth power law.
Volcanism and geochemistry of the Kamloops Group, south-central British Columbia

The Challis-Kamloops belt (early Eocene) includes graben-fi ll volcanic and sedimentary rocks that extend for about 2000 km from Challis in Idaho to central British Columbia and possibly, into southern Yukon. Mapping and sampling of the Kamloops Group in the south-central part of the belt indicates subaerial to subaqueous (lacustrine) volcanism, with volcanic facies in the type area including mega pillows, hyaloclastites, pahoehoe and aa fl ows, domes and phreatomagmatic cones. New geochemical data indicate that the rocks are calc-alkaline to weakly alkaline basaltic andesite to trachy-andesite, with adakitic characteristics. The major element compositions are infl uenced primarily by fractionation of pyroxene and olivine. The chondrite-normalized REE patterns are uniform and LREE-enriched, with relatively fl at HREE patterns. The rocks have primitive mantle-normalized trace element patterns that are arc-like with positive LILE and negative HFSE anomalies. A preliminary comparison of Kamloops Group geochemistry (new and previously published data), and published data from other Eocene units (Princeton and Penticton groups) of the Challis-Kamloops belt in south-central British Columbia indicates distinct geographic differences. The Kamloops and Princeton group melts may have been derived from the spinel-garnet transition zone in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle and infl uenced by slab-derived fl uids, whereas the Penticton Group shows trends toward anhydrous enrichment and may have been derived from a different source. Among the three groups there is a lateral decrease in Ba/La from west to east refl ecting a declining intensity of slab-derived fl uids from an Eocene subducting margin.
Life Insurance and Demographic Change: An Empirical Analysis of Surrender Decisions Based on Panel Data

Households buy life insurance as part of their liquidity management. The option to surrender such a policy can serve as a buffer when a household faces a liquidity need. In this study, we investigate empirically which individual and household specific sociodemographic factors influence the surrender behavior of life insurance policyholders. Based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an ongoing wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of around 11,000 private households in Germany, we construct a proxy to identify life insurance surrender in the data. We use this proxy to conduct fixed effect regressions and support the results with survival analyses. We find that life events that possibly impose a liquidity shock to the household, such as birth of a child and divorce increase the likelihood to surrender an existing life insurance policy for an average household in the panel. The acquisition of a dwelling and unemployment are further aspects that can foster life insurance surrender. Our results are robust with respect to different models and hold conditioning on region specific trends; they vary however for different age groups. Our analyses contribute to the existing literature supporting the emergency fund hypothesis. The findings obtained in this study can help life insurers and regulators to detect and understand industry specific challenges of the demographic change.
Adverse Drug Reaction extraction on Electronic Health Records written in Spanish: A PhD Thesis overview

The aim of this work is the automatic extraction of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) written in Spanish. From Natural Language Processing (NLP) perspective, this is approached as a relation extraction task in which the drug is the causative agent of a disease, the adverse reaction. This would help to increase the reporting of ADRs and their earliest possible detection, helping to improve the health of the patients. ADRextraction from EHRs involves major challenges. First, drugs and diseases found in an EHR are often unrelated or sometimes related as treatment, but seldom as ADRs. This implies the inference of a predictive model from samples with skewed class distribution. Second, EHRs contain both standard and nonstandard abbreviations and misspellings. All this leads to a high lexical variability. Third, the Spanish count with few resources and tools to apply NLP. To cope with these challenges, we explored several ADR detection algorithms (Random Forest and Joint AB-LSTM) and representations (symbolic and dense) to characterize the ADR candidates. In addition, we assessed the tolerance of the ADR detection model to external noise such as the incorrect detection of the medical entities involved in the ADR extraction.
Poisson Surface Reconstruction for LiDAR Odometry and Mapping

Accurately localizing in and mapping an environment are essential building blocks of most autonomous systems. In this paper, we present a novel approach for LiDAR odometry and mapping, focusing on improving the mapping quality and at the same time estimating the pose of the vehicle. Our approach performs frame-to-mesh ICP, but in contrast to other SLAM approaches, we represent the map as a triangle mesh computed via Poisson surface reconstruction. We perform the surface reconstruction in a sliding window fashion over a sequence of past scans. In this way, we obtain accurate local maps that are well suited for registration and can also be combined into a global map. This enables us to build a 3D map showing more geometric details than common mapping approaches relying on a truncated signed distance function or surfels. Our experimental evaluation shows quantitatively and qualitatively that our maps offer higher geometric accuracies than these other map representations. We also show that our maps are compact and can be used for LiDAR-based odometry estimation with a novel ray-casting-based data association.
JAPANSKE PRIVREDNE GRUPACIJE KEIRETSU-UZROK USPEHA ILI PROPASTI VELIKIH BANAKA

Keiretsu ili grupa kompanija predstavlja korporativno udruživanje tipično za Japan koje se javlja nakon Drugog svetskog rata. Smatra se da je keiretsu sistem imao značajnu ulogu u privrednom oporavku i rastu Japana u posleratnom periodu, a često je navođen kao jedan od faktora koji su doprineli velikoj konkurentnosti japanskih kompanija sedamdesetih i osamdesetih godina 20. veka. Međutim, ovaj sistem je u drugoj polovini osamdesetih godina pokazao svoje slabosti, a tokom devedesetih pretrpeo velike promene. Japanske kompanije i bankarski sistem su u ovom periodu bili izloženi velikim gubicima. Keiretsu grupacije se danas navode kao jedan od uzroka propasti velikih banaka, pa se uspešnost ovih grupacija dovodi u pitanje.
On our Doorstep. Simmel, Weber and the Making of Reality

Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On Our Doorstep. Simmel, Weber and the Making of Reality By Fabio D’andrea University of Perugia IntroductionWhether we like it or not, whether we believe it or not, 2020 will be the year that future historians will choose to mark as the advent of a new era. The pandemic did not simply hit us harder than any previous crisis – and God knows we had a few since the beginning of the XXI century! It left us disoriented and stranded, orphans of too many promises and proclamations, while showing us mercilessly the limits of our knowledge and the extent of our hybris, a mixture of inebriation and arrogance often found in Greek myths, where it leads heroes such as Icarus to ruin. The most powerful technology put to shame by an invisible. what? Thing? Living being? We just don’t know, four words that we’d better keep in mind while reading the following pages. The virus hasn’t fit within our worldview right from the start and still there it is, paralyzing global economies and exposing the flaws and shortcomings of the neoliberal ideology. It makes it clear that no one survives on his/her own, that “free” markets bring forth indecent inequalities and scientists hold no definite truth, but argue and squabble about numbers and theories.
Poormohammad Kiani, Seifollah and Maury, Pierre and Nouri, L. and Ykhlef, Nadia and Grieu, Philippe and Sarrafi, Ahmad QTL analysis of yield-related traits in sunflower under different water

A set of sunflower recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was used to study agronomical traits under greenhouse and field conditions each with two water treatments and three replications. The difference among RILs was significant for all the traits studied in all conditions; and water treatment · RILs interaction was also observed for most of the traits in both field and greenhouse conditions. Because of the low rate of drought stress, this part of field data are not informative. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) were identified for yield-related traits with the percentage of phenotypic variance explained by QTLs (R) ranging from 4% to 40%. Several QTLs for grain yield per plant (GYP) under four water treatments were identified on different linkage groups, among which two were specific to a single treatment (GYPN.4.1, GYPI.7.1). Three QTLs for GYP were overlapped with several QTLs for drought-adaptative traits detected in our previous study (Poormohammad Kiani et al. 2007b). The whole results do highlight interesting genomic regions for marker-based breeding programmes for drought tolerance in sunflower.
Three decades of global mangrove conservation-An overview

The ecosystem services offered by mangroves have made their protection critical. Last three decades of mangrove conservation are often relied on legal protection of existing mangroves and massive restoration/rehabilitation of degraded/reclaimed areas. Legislative protection measures are based on declaration of protected areas and descriptive regulatory measures in the form of acts or laws, whereas restoration/rehabilitation efforts are often based on mono-specific plantation. Despite various legislative protections, habitat conversion is still continuing, and ecological health of existing mangrove areas are degrading. Furthermore, the massive restoration/rehabilitation efforts could not offset for the continual destruction of established forests, but only short-term increase in area. This calls for evaluating effectiveness of the existing conservation measures and then formulating better management measures in the context of increasing pressures and threats. Land conversion and ecological degradation of coastal wetlands are the primary stressors, associated with rapid coastal developmental activities and climate change. Mangroves require desired habitat niche and hence, their conversion to other land uses may lead to permanent loss, whereas ecologically degraded areas may be resilient if supported by effective rehabilitation measures. Hence, preventing the habitat conversion and preserving the ecological health are the need of the hour to safeguard the existing mangroves and sustain the ecosystem services offered by them. Better ecological conditions also support the adaptive potential of mangroves (viz., the ability of populations or species to adapt to rapid environmental changes with minimal disruption) to cope with the climate change. Since mangroves are flow-through system, preserving the hydrological connectivity of existing mangroves, facilitating the connectivity between adjacent ecosystems and protecting the natural corridors are the potential strategies to enhance the ecological health of mangroves. This can be achieved by an effective site-specific, long-term and integrated ecosystem-based protection, management and rehabilitation strategy with sound scientific knowledge and drastic legislative measures to regularize the coastal developmental activities.
Cloud management and monitoring - a systematic mapping study

A key component of ensuring that services are available on the cloud at the right time in the right manner is adequate cloud management. This makes it possible to provide services that meets user demands. The purpose of this research is to carry out a systematic study of management and monitoring on the cloud. Three facets were applied in conducting the categorization. These are the contribution, research, and topic facets. The purpose was to determine the level of work so far carried out in the field of cloud management. This enabled the creation of a pictorial representation of the research coverage. The result of the study showed that there are no opinion research on cloud management. Generally, articles on experience research, philosophical research and metric are the lowest at 6.62%, 4.41% and 1.90% respectively, while articles on models, solution research and evaluation research are the highest with 52.38%, 46.32% and 31.62% respectively. The outcome of this study will stimulate further research in the area cloud management and systematic studies.
Experimetal study of turbulence effect on underwater optical wireless communictions

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An integrative approach for combustor design using CFD methods

A CFD-based integrative approach for combustor design is presented and applied to a pilot-scale 147 kW down-fired combustor (DFC) unit for maximum NOx reduction. The approach is based on synergistic integration of several NOx control methods, including burner optimization, air staging, and reburning. The performance of coal, coal-water slurry, and biomass as reburn fuels was predicted using numerical simulations and compared with measurements. Reduction of NOx levels was targeted at every stage, the results being coupled with the optimized parameters for mixing and injection configuration. A sensitivity analysis was conducted in order to evaluate the variation of predictions with respect to model parameters. Modeling results show that improved mixing and burner optimization can contribute significantly to lowering the primary zone NOx levels. Validation results for natural-gas and coal−water-slurry reburn on optimized injection configurations are included and show important NOx emissions reduction. Differ.
Local and global controls on carbon isotope chemostratigraphy

Over million-year timescales, the geologic cycling of carbon controls long-term climate and the oxidation of Earth's surface. Inferences about the carbon cycle can be made from time series of carbon isotopic ratios measured from sedimentary rocks. The foundational assumption for carbon isotope chemostratigraphy is that carbon isotope values reflect dissolved inorganic carbon in a well-mixed ocean in equilibrium with the atmosphere. However, when applied to shallow-water platform environments, where most ancient carbonates preserved in the geological record formed, recent research has documented the importance of considering both local variability in surface water chemistry and diagenesis. These findings demonstrate that carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of platform carbonate rarely represent the average carbonate sink or directly records changes in the composition of global seawater. Understanding what causes local variability in shallow-water settings, and what this variability might reveal about global boundary conditions, are vital questions for the next generation of carbon isotope chemostratigraphers.
Uptake, Toxicity, and Trophic Transfer of Mercury in a Coastal Diatom

The primary mechanisms controlling the accumulation of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in aquatic food chains are not sufficiently understood. Differences in lipid solubility alone cannot account for the predominance of methylmercury in fish because inorganic mercury complexes (e.g., HgCl2), which are not bioaccumulated in fish, are as lipid soluble as their methylmercury analogs (e.g., CH3HgCl). Mercury concentrations in fish are ultimately determined by methylmercury accumulation at the base of the food chain, which is governed by water chemistry, primarily pH and chloride concentration. Our studies of mercury speciation, toxicity, and phytoplankton uptake demonstrate that passive uptake of uncharged, lipophilic chloride complexes is the principal accumulation route of both methylmercury and inorganic mercury in phytoplankton. The predominance of methylmercury in fish, however, is a consequence of the greater trophic transfer efficiency of methyl- mercury than inorganic mercury. In particular, methy.
CBL-Interacting Protein Kinases (CIPKs) in Chickpea: Genome-Wide Identification, Structure and Expression Analysis under Abiotic Stresses and Development

Calcineurin B-like proteins (CBL)-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) by interacting with CBLs regulate developmental processes, hormone signalling transduction and mediate stress responses in plants. Although the genome of chickpea is available, information of CIPK gene family has been missing in chickpea. Here, a total of 22 CIPK encoding genes were identified in chickpea and characterized by in silico methods. We found a high structural conservation in chickpea CIPK family. Our analysis showed that chickpea CIPKs have evolved with dicots from common ancestors, and extensive gene duplication events have played an important role in evolution and expansion of CIPK family in chickpea. Most chickpea CIPK proteins localize in cytoplasm and nucleus. Promoter analysis revealed various cis-regulatory elements related to plant development, hormone signaling and abiotic stresses. Expression analysis indicated that CIPKs are significantly expressed in a spectrum of developmental stages, tissue/organs that hinted their important role in plant development. Several CIPK genes had specific and overlapping expressions in different abiotic stresses and seed development stages, suggesting the important role of CIPK family in abiotic stress signaling, and seed development in chickpea. Thus, this study provides the avenue for detailed functional characterization of CIPK family in chickpea and other legume crops.
Centre Emile Bernheim

This paper analyzes the role of patent ﬁling fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention (EPC). We provide a ﬁrst empirical evidence showing that the fee elasticity of the demand for priority applications is negative and signiﬁcant. Given the strong variation in absolute fees and in fees per capita across countries, this result witnesses a suboptimal treatment of inventors across European countries and suggests that fees should be considered as an integral part of an IP policy, especially in the current context of worrying backlogs. In addition, we show that the transfer rate of domestic priority ﬁlings to the EPO increases with the duration of membership to the EPO and the GDP per capita of a country, suggesting that member states experience a learning curve within the EPC. The high heterogeneity in the transfer rates casts some doubts on the practice that consists in relying on ﬁlings at the EPO or at the USPTO to assess innovative performance of countries.