Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Introduction to special section on Hydrologic Synthesis

The Hydrological Synthesis special section presents synthesis topics that have the potential to revolutionize hydrological sciences in a manner needed to meet critical water challenges that we now face. The special section also highlights topics that are important and exciting enough to compel researchers to engage in collaborative synthesis activities. This introductory paper provides a brief overview of nine papers that are included in this special section, which discuss the synthesis of tools, data, concepts, theories, or approaches across disciplines and scales. The wide range of topics that are explored include groundwater quality, river restoration, water management, nitrogen cycling, and Earth surface dynamics. Collectively, the special section papers illustrate that the challenge to deal effectively with complex water problems is not purely a scientific, technological, or socioeconomic one; it is instead a complex, 21st century problem that requires coordinated synthesis.
Doppler boosting effects on the radiation of relativistic jets in AGN

Active galactic nuclei are among the brightest sources in the Universe, with jets being detected in about a 10% of these objects. Studying the dynamics of these jets allows us to better understand the physics of these sources, and in particular why they are so powerful emitters. We model here the jets of active galactic nuclei as one dimensional supersonic relativistic fluids, assuming that they are described by the Bernoulli equation, plus a phenomenological prescription for their radius-height relation. With this model, we study the effects of relativistic Doppler boosting on the emitter structure and radiation intensity, which are sensitive to the viewing angle and radius-height jet relation.
Manifolds of Positive Scalar Curvature

Asking that a manifold be psc is, in some sense, the weakest of all possible curvature constraints. Incidentally, note that any compact manifold in dimension at least 3 carries a metric with strictly negative scalar curvature [1]. Psc manifolds arise in general relativity. Schoen and Yau use them in their proof of the positive mass/energy conjecture/theorem, a famous ex-conjecture in general relativity which states that the total energy (including contributions from both matter and gravity) of a nontrivial isolated system is always positive, given certain “nice” conditions (spacetime is asymptotically flat, matter with positive mass density is the only source of gravitational fields).
A Microcontroller-based HF-RFID Reader Implementation for the SD-Slot

This work describes an RFID reader system based on an emulated file system to be used in SD-capable systems. Off-the-shelf SD-compliant HF-RFID readers, generally, use the SDIO interface for connecting to computers and PDAs. Therefore, the usage of SDIO-compatible SD card readers is essential to assure correct operation. In contrast to the adoption of SDIO, this work shows an approach to be used with every SD card reader, not necessarily requiring the SDIO specification. This leads to an HF-RFID system to be applied in computer environments (PDA, PC, etc.) where independence of operating systems and special drivers is of great importance. Adding RFID functionalities to existent systems could help to minimize the gap between real and digital world. This approach offers this particular functionality to any SD-compliant host device. Keywords-Radiofrequency identification, file systems, microcontrollers, smart cards, emulation.
Existence of receding and advancing contact lines

We study a solid plate plunging into or being withdrawn from a liquid bath to highlight the fundamental difference between the local behavior of an advancing or a receding contact line, respectively. It is assumed that the liquid partially wets the solid, making a finite contact angle in equilibrium. In our hydrodynamic description, which neglects the presence of the outer gas atmosphere, an advancing dynamic wetting line persists to arbitrarily high speeds. The receding wetting line, on the other hand, vanishes at a critical speed set by the competition between viscous and surface tension forces. In the advancing case, we apply existing matching techniques to the plunging plate geometry to significantly improve on existing theories. For the receding contact line, we demonstrate for the first time how the local contact line solution can be matched to the far-field meniscus. In doing so, we confirm our very recent criterion for the vanishing of the receding contact line, leading to the formation of a film .
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance

Although changes in urban space often mean a restructuring of social relations, few studies elucidate why network-related frameworks are inherently related to residential outcomes in urban neighborhoods. By proposing a relational account of neighborhood governance, we investigate outcomes of neighborhood governance by incorporating a series of measures of network forms of organization, network-based social capital, and neighborly interactions. Based on a collaborative survey project conducted in Guangzhou, we find that neighborhood ties and neighborly interactions are positively associated with neighborhood attachment and cohesion, whereas uneven power relations between grassroots governments and civic homeowners associations are negatively associated with these two measures. These results not only reveal new social dynamics in urban space but also lend support to a relational account of neighborhood governance.
The Comment: The ‘Telomere’ of News and Public Communication

Public communication is extremely challenging and complex in practice. The comment as a public information and communication tool adds to that. Examining the practice of comment and its Infoganda frame by the media and government at the broadcasted news media, the public information and political communication and power frame game in the public sphere is revealed and the challenges and difficulties of public information and communication and civic awareness are indicated. The research analysis is enhanced by the semi-structured personal interviews of persons that are engaged in public information and communication in the political or the media level.
Causes of toolkit variation among hunter-gatherers: a test of four competing hypotheses

Variation in subsistence-related material culture is an important aspect of the archaeological and ethnographic records, but the factors that are responsible for it remain unclear. Here, we examine this issue by evaluating four factors that may affect the diversity and complexity of the food-getting tools employed by hunter-gatherer populations: 1) the nature of the food resources; 2) risk of resource failure; 3) residential mobility; and 4) population size. We apply step-wise multiple regression analysis to technological and ecological data for 20 hunter-gatherer populations from several regions of the world. The analyses support the hypothesis that risk of resource failure has a significant impact on toolkit diversity and complexity. The results do not support the hypothesis that the characteristics of the resources exploited for food influence toolkit structure, or that residential mobility affects toolkit diversity and complexity. They are also not in line with the hypothesis that population size has an impact on toolkit structure. While our analyses appear to strongly support the suggestion that resource failure risk is the primary influence on hunter-gatherer toolkit structure, we argue that it would be premature to discount the other factors at this stage, and outline the steps that we believe need to be taken next.
Influences bidirectionnelles entre action et évaluation émotionnelle : effets de fluence motrice

L’approche constructiviste de l’emotion considere que les traits emotionnels ne sont pas des proprietes intrinseques des objets mais se construisent « ici et maintenant » lors de l’interaction sensorimotrice individu/environnement. Notre objectif dans ce travail de these etait de mettre en evidence des effets reciproques entre l’action et l’evaluation emotionnelle, fondes sur le caractere hedonique de la fluence motrice, c’est-a-dire l’aisance avec laquelle une action est realisee. Nous avons choisi de manipuler la fluence motrice par des mouvements lateralises des mains executes lors d’une tâche de jugement de valence. En effet, il existe des liens marques entre valence et lateralite, de sorte que le cote dominant d’un individu est associe a la valence positive (Casasanto, 2009). Nous comparons des conditions de congruence et de non-congruence entre la valence des items et le geste de reponse. Nos resultats ont montre des influences bidirectionnelles des actions et de l’evaluation basees sur deux processus distincts. D’une part lors d’un jugement de valence, un effet de compatibilite facilite la realisation du geste de reponse compatible grâce a la fluence motrice. D’autre part la fluence d’un comportement moteur entraine, par un effet d’attribution, des variations dans l’evaluation de mots neutres ou connotes positivement et negativement. De plus, nos travaux ont mis en evidence le role du dispositif de reponse (echelle de jugement de valence et localisation des touches de reponse) sur l’evaluation emotionnelle, soulignant le caractere situe du jugement. Ces resultats sont discutes a la lumiere de la conception constructiviste de l’emotion en accord avec une approche incarnee et situee de la cognition.
Improved resistance switching in ZnO-based devices decorated with Ag nanoparticles

ZnO is especially attractive among the materials showing resistance switching because of its excellent properties such as light emitting and transparency for visible light. Unfortunately, the resistance switching in a ZnO-based device is usually unstable. By dispersing Ag particles of size ∼20 nm at the electrode–ZnO interface, we significantly improved the resistance uniformity, set/reset repeatability of Ag–ZnO–Pt devices. Conducting atomic force microscope analysis revealed the appearance of micro-regions where resistance switching, with an improved stability, is more easily triggered. It is suggested that Ag particles act as seeds for conducting filaments, leading to depressed randomness and reduced diameter of the conducting paths.
Another Note on Clausal Pied-Piping

At the end of my article on pied-piped infinitives in German relative clauses (Van Riemsdijk (1984)) I speculated on a possible extension of my proposal. The idea, which is not relevant in the present context, was based on a talk entitled "Predicates and Arguments" at the 1982 GLOW conference in Paris by Richard Kayne. This is not surprising, since Kayne's work is often inspirational. In fact, his recent article on antisymmetry in syntax (Kayne (1993)) has caused me to look again at pied-piping of infinitives in German.
Development of Ni-Mo, Ni-W and Ni-Co Macroporous Materials for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

This work was supported by Generalitat Valenciana (Project PROMETEO/2010/023) and Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (PAID-06-10-2227). I. Herraiz-Cardona is grateful to Fundacion Iberdrola for the financial support.
BIM modeling for contractors - Improving model takeoffs

As industry stakeholders investigate on the best uses for Building Information Modeling (BIM), its shortcomings begin to be realized, the need for modeling parameterization becomes more evident and methods to better approach these issues developed. Automatic quantity takeoff is one of the most important BIM-based features. Research conducted by the authors shows that in order to be successfully used, quantity takeoff requires specific model definition. Adapting a model for quantity takeoff, may, however, affect the design for other purposes. This paper surveys different approaches to BIM design, exploring the implications of each method on the outputs of the model, and taking in account the two most important types of takeoff for contractors: drawings and quantities.
Securing User Location in Social Applications Using Direct Conversions

Utilizing geo-social applications, just like foursquare, thousands of people interact with their particular area via their own good friends along with their particular affiliates. Without ample solitude security, even so, such programs is usually effortlessly taken advantage of. In this unique paper, many of people add, a method that will delivers place secrecy with out putting action around the altered information or perhaps on the info entry. Difficulty directly into problem benefits. All of our idea here is that you should safeguarded user-specific, one on one alteration to all or any place information distributed towards the server. The actual good friends of any person share this type of user’s solution key so they can apply the the same alteration. This permits quite a few spatial concerns to be examined properly while using server, but the isolation parts guarantee by which computers cannot notice or perhaps infer the
Hexagonal Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis

The synthesis of textures of arbitrary size from smaller samples is a much-noticed problem in the field of computer graphics. While the proposed solutions deliver very good results for regular and near-regular textures, the synthesis of irregular textures is in need of improvement. In this paper, the well-known Image Quilting algorithm is analyzed and its idea is enhanced by replacing the square shape of the patches by a hexagonal shape. In addition, rotation and mirroring of patches are introduced. A penalty map is used to enforce even usage of source data and transformations to make feature repetition less noticeable and improve synthesis from multiple source images. This leads to considerably better results for complex textures like wood, smoke or water waves.
The Effects of Psychological Contract Violations in Organizations on Organizational Trust and Alienation: An Application in the Healthcare Sector

Concepts such psychological contract, trust, and alienation are of great importance for organizations today. Due to the unique characteristics of healthcare services in particular, healthcare employees are adversely affected by such concepts, which may result in an even heavier burden. The objective of this research was to determine the effects of healthcare employees’ perceptions toward psychological contract violations on their organizational trust and alienation levels. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 110 employees working in a public hospital in the province of Konya, Turkey. According to this study’s findings, while organizational trust was found to decrease and organizational alienation increased as participants’ perceived psychological contract violation increased, organizational alienation was found to decrease as trust in one’s manager and colleagues increased.
Dialogue Homme-Machine : Modélisation de multisession

Cette these porte essentiellement sur la modelisation de dialogues multisessions, et sur la negociation, sous l'angle de la resolution d'un conflit entre plusieurs utilisateurs. Un dialogue multisession est un dialogue qui engage plusieurs utilisateurs et le systeme de dialogue. Il est defini comme un ensemble successif de sous-dialogues, chacun d'entre eux representant une session specifique entre un seul utilisateur et le systeme. L'enchainement d'un dialogue multisession est divise en trois phases : emergence, processus de negociation et notification. En se fondant sur le modele strategique de dialogue et sur la theorie des jeux, une gestion generique de dialogue, qui offre plusieurs avantages par une reduction maximale de la dependance entre le modele du dialogue et le modele de la tâche, a ete proposee. Cette gestion n'utilise que trois elements principaux : acte de dialogue, but de dialogue et strategie de dialogue, afin de diviser un dialogue en des themes differents, determines dans un agenda de dialogue. L'incomprehension est egalement traitee dans cette gestion en utilisant des marqueurs dialogiques d'incomprehension. La modelisation, ainsi que la gestion de dialogue multisession, sont developpees en se fondant sur cette gestion. L'experimentation, effectuee avec le systeme de dialogue Melina, dedie au service d'organisation d'une reunion, a permis de valider et de prouver notre approche.
Reflections in bounded symmetric domains

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Seasonal wound presence and susceptibility to Neonectria ditissima infection in New Zealand apple trees.

Leaf scar wounds are important sites for Neonectria ditissima infection of apple trees. Monitoring leaf fall in 'Scilate'/Envy™ and 'Braeburn' trees to estimate leaf scar wound presence showed maximum leaf scar incidence occurred in June (early winter). Wounds detected in New Zealand apple orchards were bud scale scars, fruit thinning and picking wounds, leaf scars and pruning cuts. Picking wounds are caused during harvest where the pedicel is detached from the shoot. Susceptibility of these different types of wounds was determined using artificial inoculation of N. ditissima conidia during the season. Pruning cut wounds were the most susceptible, followed by fruit picking and thinning wounds and the least susceptible were leaf scar wounds. No infections were observed when bud scale wounds were inoculated. There was no difference in wound susceptibility between cultivars, but overall 'Scilate'/Envy™ wounds developed more lesions than 'Braeburn' wounds.
DESIGN AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF A SMALL SCALE SOLAR CHIMNEY USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

In the current study, a solar shimney is analyzed and designed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The optimal dimensions of the chimney is determined. The chimney has a rectangular cross section and it is modeled in three-dimenstional space. The chimney has been modeled in various dimensions and with various geometric sections and impact of chimney geometries have been investigated on internal air flow and its performance. In addition to the geometry of the chimney effect, impact of change heat flux received from environment, entrance positive pressure and inlet air temperature were studied on outlet air mass flow rate from the chimney. The results indicated that there is optimum width in order to maximize air flow rate in the chimney. Optimum width is increased with Increase in inlet cross section, entrance pressure and chimney height in addition to increased air mass flow rate and performance improvement. The results of this plan can be used for appropriate design of a solar chimney and finally making it.
DNA origami as a tool for single-molecule fluorescence studies

Single-molecule fluorescence studies have become a routine practice in laboratories worldwide. As an experimental tool, especially fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) has helped to unravel conformational changes and interactions of biomolecules. With the DNA origami method a new technique to create nanoscale shapes with DNA as a building material was recently introduced. As shown in this work, DNA nanotechnology can be readily combined with single-molecule FRET experiments, opening up new scientific prospects. With the progress of single-molecule techniques, the limiting factor for many applications is the quality of individual dye molecules. For successful single-molecule experiments, an understanding of the photophysical properties of dyes is essential. The first part of this thesis is devoted to providing fundamental insights into characteristic properties of fluorescent molecules. The common feature of single-molecule blinking is studied for the homologous series of cyanine dyes. A model is presented that allows predicting the blinking behavior of fluorophores, based on parameters such as the redox potential and chromophore size. The predictions are experimentally verified by evaluating fluorescence time transients of immobilized dye molecules. To characterize the distance dependence of FRET, in the past several approaches have been made to build a molecular ruler, including double stranded DNA and the polypeptide polyproline as spacer molecules. It is demonstrated that the DNA origami technique allows creating tailored molecular spacers that are specifically engineered to meet experimental requirements. A rigid DNA origami block was designed that can be used as a reliable FRET ruler on the single-molecule level. This approach offers distinct advantages compared to previous systems that suffered from limited persistence lengths and sample heterogeneity. The final project in this thesis was guided by the vision to use a DNA origami structure as a breadboard for molecular photonic circuits. In the future, light-based circuitry could help tackling limitations of current electronics. Exploiting the remarkable addressability of DNA origami objects, four spectrally distinct fluorophores were incorporated into a rectangular DNA origami at specific positions to create a spectroscopic network. The unique feature of this arrangement is that the energy transfer path can be manipulated by a mediator dye that guides the light to two spectrally distinct outputs. To visualize this control over the energy transfer path and for sorting of the subpopulations, a new experimental four-color FRET technique is developed, based on alternating laser excitation.
TOPIC-DRIVEN DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION USING ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE by SONU SWAIKA

by SONU SWAIKA (Under the Direction of Krzysztof J. Kochut) ABSTRACT Topic-driven summarization aims at extracting a summary from a single document or a document collection based on a given topic. This thesis presents an extractive, ontology-based approach to topic-driven summarization. We make use of an ontology formed out of the information present in Wikipedia. Given a document and one or more topic terms/phrases, our summarization system generates a topic-related summary. To produce a good summary which contains information related to the topic, it is important to understand the topic. We first expand the initial topic by using the Wikipedia ontology. The document is represented as a graph using entities from the Wikipedia ontology. A Spreading activation algorithm is applied to find all nodes in the document graph that are semantically related to the expanded topic terms. This determines the relative importance of nodes by assigning a weight to each node. These weights are used to decide which sentences should be included in the extractive summary.