Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The properties of the star-forming interstellar medium at z = 0.84-2.23 from HiZELS : mapping the internal dynamics and metallicity gradients in high-redshift disc galaxies.

We present adaptive optics assisted, spatially resolved spectroscopy of a sample of nine H�-selected galaxies at z =0.84–2.23 drawn from the HiZELS narrow-band survey. These galaxies have star-formation rates of 1–27M⊙ yr−1 and are therefore representative of the typical high-redshift star-forming population. Our �kpc-scale resolution observations show that approximately half of the sample have dynamics suggesting that the ionised gas is in large, rotating disks. We model their velocity fields to infer the inclination-corrected, asymptotic rotational velocities.We use the absolute B-band magnitudes and stellar masses to investigate the evolution of the B-band and stellar mass Tully-Fisher relationships. By combining our sample with a number of similar measurements from the literature, we show that, at fixed circular velocity, the stellar mass of star-forming galaxies has increased by a factor 2.5 between z =2 and z =0, whilst the rest-frame B-band luminosity has decreased by a factor �6 over the same period. Together, these demonstrate a change in mass-to-light ratio in the B-band of �(M/ LB) / (M/ LB)z=0 �3.5 between z =1.5 and z =0, with most of the evolution occuring below z =1. We also use the spatial variation of [Nii] /H� to show that the metallicity of the ionised gas in these galaxies declines monotonically with galactocentric radius, with an average �log(O/H) /�R=−0.027±0.005 dex kpc−1. This gradient is consistent with predictions for high-redshift disk galaxies from cosmologically based hydrodynamic simulations. Key words: galaxies: evolution – galaxies: formation – galaxies: high-redshift
Pinwheels and Crystalline Structures Induced by Atropa Mild Mosaic Virus, a Plant Virus with Particles 925 nm. Long

Summary Atropa mild mosaic virus is transmissible from tobacco to tobacco, both by green peach aphids and by inoculation of sap. It causes mosaic symptoms and has elongated slightly flexuous particles with a modal length of about 925 nm. It induces the formation of pinwheels resembling those elicited by viruses of the potato Y group (potyviruses), and infected cells also contain crystalline structures resembling hexagonal arrays of tubules.
Grain Reduction in Scanned Image Sequences under Time Constraints

This thesis is about improving the image quality of image sequences scanned by the film scanner GoldenEye. Film grain is often seen as an artistic effect in film sequences but scanned images can be more grainy or noisy than the intention. To remove the grain and noise as well as sharpen the images a few known image enhancement methods have been implemented, tested and evaluated. An own idea of a thresholding method using the dyadic wavelet transform has also been tested. As benchmark has MATLAB been used but one method has also been implemented in C/C++. Some of the methods works satisfactory when it comes to the image result but none of the methods works satisfactory when it comes to time consumption. To solve that a few speed up ideas are suggested in the end of the thesis. A method to correct the color of the sequences has also been suggested.
Aggregation dynamics in penaeid fisheries: Banana prawns (Penaeus merguiensis) in the Australian Northern Prawn Fishery

In the Gulf of Carpentaria, banana prawns (Penaeus merguiensis) form dense aggregations that are targeted by trawl vessels with the help of small aeroplanes and colour sounders. Such aggregat- ing behaviour is rare in penaeids and may lead to a change in catchability when stock abundance changes. Commercial logbook data containing trawl-tow records have been used to identify the location, time of capture and biomass of over 600 banana prawn aggregations during 1991n92. The number of aggrega- tions decreased by 83% in the first three weeks of the fishing season. The average biomass of an aggre- gation decreased even more rapidly than the number of aggregations and, after three weeks of fishing, it had been reduced by 93%. The apparent decrease in the biomass of aggregating prawns during the first three weeks of the season is, therefore, in the order of 99%. This is considerably greater than the 66% decrease that can be estimated from catch per unit of effort data. It also suggests that catchability is directly related to stock abundance. Assessment models that assume that catchability is independent of stock size may not be appropriate for the assessment of the status of common banana prawns in this fishery.
Financial controls and the perceived performance of the sugar factory in a family business enterprise: evidence from the Madhvani sugar factory in Uganda

This paper examines what it takes for family businesses to succeed with a focus on the Madhvani group sugar factory in Uganda. A sample of thirty (36) supervisors was used to determine the effect of financial control practices on the perceived performance of the factory. The main purpose of the study was to examine the effect of financial controls in predicting the performance of the sugar factory which has been a success story for the family for decades now. The specific objectives were; (1) to determine the relationship between compliance with financial policies and procedures and the perceived performance of the sugar industry; (2) to establish the relationship between the application of adequate financial and management controls and the perceived performance of the sugar factory; and (3) to ascertain the effect of safeguarding assets on perceived performance of the sugar factory. Results reveal that; (i) there is a significant and positive correlation between compliance with financial policies and procedures and the perceived performance of the sugar factory [r = . 774**, p<0.0001]; (ii) there is a significant and positive relationship between adequate financial and management controls and the perceived performance of the sugar factory (r = .894**,p<0.0001). Similarly, the research indicated a significant and positive correlation between safeguarding assets and the perceived performance of the factory [r = . 844**, p<0.0001]. In addition, Anova results also support the tested hypothesis that there is a significant and positive main effect of financial controls on the perceived performance of the sugar factory [F = 135.921, p<0.0001]. It was concluded that family firms that strive to be well-managed with strong financial controls succeed because they are built with the financial discipline to last and survive generations. Therefore, the need for a professional administrative business approach is arguably critical for a successful family enterprise.
Intelligent Transport Systems: Co-Operative Systems (Vehicular Communications)

In turn, Co-operative Systems are the most promising technology within the ITS framework. The word “co-operative” indicates that vehicles are collaborating with each other and with the infrastructure, exploiting wireless communications, in order to increase their awareness about the road environment. There are two types of communication in co-operative systems, namely vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I).
0 Generative grammar , neural networks , and the implementational mapping problem

The target article proposes to use neural networks to model learning within existing grammatical frameworks. This is easier said than done. There is a fundamental gap to be bridged which does not receive attention in the article: how can we use neural networks to examine whether it is possible to learn some linguistic representation (a tree, for example), when, after learning is finished, we cannot even tell if this is the type of representation that has been learned (all we see is a sequence of numbers)? Drawing a correspondence between an abstract linguistic representational system and an opaque parameter vector which can (or perhaps cannot) be seen as an instance of such a representation is an implementational mapping problem. Rather than relying on existing frameworks that propose partial solutions to this problem, such as harmonic grammar, I suggest that fusional research of the kind proposed needs to directly address how to “find” linguistic representations in neural network representations.1
HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION OF 26Al AT THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

It is believed that 26Al, a short-lived (t1/2 = 0.73 Ma) and now extinct radionuclide, was uniformly distributed in the nascent solar system (SS) with the initial 26Al/27Al ratio of ∼5.2 × 10−5, suggesting an external, stellar origin rather than local, solar source. However, the stellar source of 26Al and the manner in which it was injected into the SS remain controversial: the 26Al could have been produced by an asymptotic giant branch star, a supernova, or a Wolf–Rayet star and injected either into the protosolar molecular cloud, protosolar cloud core, or protoplanetary disk. Corundum (Al2O3) is predicted to be the first condensate from a cooling gas of solar composition. Here we show that micron-sized corundum condensates from 16O-rich (Δ17O ∼ −25‰) gas of solar composition recorded heterogeneous distribution of 26Al at the birth of the SS: the inferred initial 26Al/27Al ratio ranges from ∼6.5×10−5 to <2×10−6; 52% of corundum grains measured are 26Al-poor. Abundant 26Al-poor, 16O-rich refractory objects include grossite- and hibonite-rich calcium–aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in CH (high metal abundance and high iron concentration) chondrites, platy hibonite crystals in CM (Mighei-like) chondrites, and CAIs with fractionation and unidentified nuclear effects CAIs chondrites. Considering the apparently early and short duration (<0.3 Ma) of condensation of refractory 16O-rich solids in the SS, we infer that 26Al was injected into the collapsing protosolar molecular cloud and later homogenized in the protoplanetary disk. The apparent lack of correlation between 26Al abundance and O-isotope composition of corundum grains constrains the stellar source of 26Al in the SS.
The Arrested Agulhas Retroflection

Paleoceanographic proxy data indicate that the Agulhas leakage into the South Atlantic was dramatically reduced during glacial times. In our former papers, we suggested that this was due to a northward shift of the zero wind stress curl that, in turn, forced the retroflection to occur farther north, where the slant of the coastline relative to the north is steep. In the present paper, we propose that strong westerlies (0.4 Pa, implying a wind speed of ∼12 m s−1 at zero degrees centigrade), which were supposedly common during glaciations, can also arrest the leakage. This arrest occurred because the wind stress opposed the momentum flux associated with the retroflection; such an arrest did not require the retroflection to shift in latitude. We use a simple, nonlinear, “reduced gravity” model to show analytically and numerically that, under the above conditions, the eastward wind stress compensates for the zonal westward flow-force associated with the retroflection, thus avoiding the development and shedding of rings. For a nearly zonal wall, westerly winds, and small upper layer thickness along the wall, the arresting wind stress is found, theoretically, to be, τ = 0. 042α3/2ρf0[(2f0Q)3/g′]1/4, where α is twice the retroflection eddy vorticity, ρ is the water density, Q is the Agulhas Current volume flux, and the remaining notation is conventional. A few words on Stern’s contribution to the field of eddies Eddies, the oceanic analogs of tornadoes and hurricanes, were one of Melvin’s specialties. In an elegant paper that most people originally referred to as “esoteric” (1974, JMR), Melvin showed that much can be learned about eddies by looking at groups of two adjacent vortices, each spinning in a different direction. For reasons known only to him, he coined this counter-spinning vortex a “Modon”. (A modon actually means a collection of cities in Arabic.) Despite the initial skepticism by some (evidently, one editor of a respectable 1. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, U.S.A. 2. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, U.S.A. 3. Corresponding author. email: doron@fsu.edu 4. Center for Oceanic-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, U.S.A. 5. Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 44242, U.S.A. 6. Department of Atmospheric Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. 7. Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Electricity Price Forecasting: A Comparative Analysis with Shallow-ANN and DNN

—Electricity prices have sophisticated features such as high volatility, nonlinearity and high frequency that make forecasting quite difﬁcult. Electricity price has a volatile and non-random character so that, it is possible to identify the patterns based on the historical data. Intelligent decision-making requires accurate price forecasting for market traders, retailers, and generation companies. So far, many shallow-ANN (artiﬁcial neural networks) models have been published in the literature and showed adequate forecasting results. During the last years, neural networks with many hidden layers, which are referred to as DNN (deep neural networks) have been using in the machine learning community. The goal of this study is to investigate electricity price forecasting performance of the shallow-ANN and DNN models for the Turkish day-ahead electricity market. The forecasting accuracy of the models has been evaluated with publicly available data from the Turkish day-ahead electricity market. Both shallow-ANN and DNN approach would give successful result in forecasting problems. Historical load, price and weather temperature data are used as the input variables for the models. The data set includes power consumption measurements gathered between January 2016 and December 2017 with one-hour resolution. In this regard, forecasting studies have been carried out comparatively with shallow-ANN and DNN models for Turkish electricity markets in the related time period. The main contribution of this study is the investigation of different shallow-ANN and DNN models in the ﬁeld of electricity price forecast. All models are compared regarding their MAE (Mean Absolute Error) and MSE (Mean Square) results. DNN models give better forecasting performance compare to shallow-ANN. Best ﬁve MAE results for DNN models are 0.346, 0.372, 0.392, 0,402 and 0.409.
Challenge on the Relationship Between Momentum Trading and Options Strategies

To investigate the relation between momentum trading and options strategies on the S&P 500, we implement a simple momentum filter known as moving-average crossover and the Black-Scholes option pricing formula to construct four portfolios over the period from January 2007 to December 2017. Several risk metrics are used to quantify return performance relative to the S&P 500 momentum strategy. Other aspects of momentum trading and the associated risks are subsequently examined.
SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF RADIATION AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE RHIZOMA TYPHONII ETHANOL EXTRACTS DEPENDS ON P53 EXPRESSION IN TREATMENT OF LEWIS MOUSE LUNG CANCER CELLS

Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death, and it is the most common cancer in terms of both incidence and mortality. There is an urgent need on novel therapeutic strategies for lung cancer. Traditional Chinese herbal medicines (CHM) have potential valuable for cancer treatment. Materials and Methods: Lewis mouse lung cancer cell line and Lewis cells tumors xenograft were used in this experiment. MTT assay was used to detect cell proliferation, flow cytometry (FCM) analysis and Western blotting to detect cell apoptosis, and colony formation assay to evaluate the effect of combined therapy of RT+IR. Results: Our data showed that Rhizoma typhonii (RT) obviously inhibited the proliferations of Lewis cells in time and dose dependent manners by MTT assay and enhanced radiosensitivity by colony formation assay. The effects of RT to Ionizing radiation (IR) therapy were demonstrated radiosensitivity on tumors xenograft experiment. In our study, RT induced apoptotic in Lewis cells directly and enhanced the pro-apoptotic effect of IR by regulating the expression of p53. Conclusions: These data suggested that RT may be a great potential anti-tumor medicine and the combination of RT and IR may provide a new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Lewis lung cancer.
Characterization of isolates of Flavobacterium psychrophilum associated with coldwater disease or rainbow trout fry syndrome I: phenotypic and genomic studies

Isolates of Flavobacterium psychrophiluln (formerly Cytophaga psychrophila and Flexlbacter psychrophilus) mainly originating from clinical outbreaks of either coldwater disease (CWD) or rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS) were studied for selected biochemical, physiological, rnorphological and genomic characteristics, and compared with previously characterized French and American strains. DNA hybridization studies showed that the Danish isolates were highly related to the type strain, F. psychrophilum NCIMB 1 9 4 7 ~ Plasmid profiling of Danish isolates and those from other European countries revealed differences, which might be related to differences in pathogenicity. European ~solates originating from clinical outbreaks of either RTFS or CWD usually harboured one plasmid of 3.2 kb, whereas isolates originating from fish with different or no disease slgns had other profiles. Phenotypically, the Danish isolates appeared very homogeneous and shared most characteristics with the type strain, and with French and American strains studied by other authors. Further studies on the importance of the plasmids and the proteolytic activities of the bacterium might help in elucidating possible virulence factors.
Linear, no Threshold Response at Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: Ideology, Prejudice and Science

The linear, no threshold (LNT) response model assumes that there is no threshold dose for the radiationinduced genetic effects (heritable mutations and cancer), and it forms the current basis for radiation protection standards for radiation workers and the general public. The LNT model is, however, based more on ideology than valid radiobiological data. Further, phenomena such as 'radiation hormesis', 'radioadaptive response', 'bystander effects' and 'genomic instability' are now demonstrated to be radioprotective and beneficial. More importantly, the 'differential gene expression' reveals that qualitatively different proteins are induced by low and high doses. This finding negates the LNT model which assumes that qualitatively similar proteins are formed at all doses. Thus, all available scientific data challenge the LNT hypothesis.
Post Disaster Relief Operations Communication Using Grid Location Services in Smartphone

: During any large-scale disasters like flood and cyclone have severe impact on communication Infrastructure. The availability of the Internet is ruled out in this case, mobile phones are not fully usable in some selected regions. Devices for maintaining minimal services are mostly expensive satellite phones or specialized point to point radio communication systems. One of the major problems during disasters is that the rescue and relief operations are not coordinated well. For this reason, there is a need of system that will help in the efficient distribution of rescue and relief to disaster-affected areas. In contrast to the vulnerable fixed network infrastructure, it is very likely that battery powered wireless personal mobile communication devices will survive in disasters. Currently, those devices are having powerful processors and high storage capacity with GPS and multi radio interfaces. Such devices are therefore, promising candidates to contribute in forming peer-to-peer wireless network structure to support disaster communication. Mobile nodes communicate with each other in peer to peer mode. At the same time the mobile volunteers also exchange information among one another in a peer to peer mode, thus integrating field information intelligently and autonomously using auto configurable mobile-phone-based peer to peer communication.
USING NANOPARTICLES FOR ENHANCING THE FOCUSING HEATING EFFECT OF AN EXTERNAL WAVEGUIDE APPLICATOR FOR ONCOLOGY HYPER- THERMIA: EVALUATION IN MUSCLE AND TUMOR PHANTOMS

A technical challenge in hyperthermia therapy is to locally heat the tumor region up to an appropriate temperature to destroy cancerous cells, without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) is a novel, minimally invasive therapy aiming at concentrating heat inside cancerous tissues. This therapy is based on the injection of different superparamagnetic nanoparticles inside the tumor. In our study, superparamagnetic nanoparticles, which we developed and characterized, consisted of iron oxide nanoparticles stabilized with polyethylene glycol. Moreover, a new technique for MFH using a specially designed external electromagnetic waveguide as applicator is presented. Three magnetite concentrations were used for making the tumor phantoms, which were embedded in muscle phantoms. The phantoms were radiated and located at three different distances from the applicator. Furthermore, two volumes of tumor (2.5mL and 5.0mL) were assayed. Heating curves, as a function of time, allowed the establishment of a more appropriate nanoparticle concentration for obtaining the temperature increase suitable for hyperthermia therapy. The results shown in this Received 29 September 2011, Accepted 19 October 2011, Scheduled 1 November 2011 * Corresponding author: Citlalli Jessica Trujillo-Romero (ctrujillo@cinvestav.mx). The technical contribution of the second author to this work was as significant as the first
The Darfur Conflict : Assessing Assessments

There are a number of bodies of knowledge concernin g Darfur about which assessments can, and should, be made. These include: ecological dynamic s relevant to the conflict, mortality levels resultant from it, the war itself, its representati on n different media, humanitarian efforts to mitigate the violence, peace negotiations and confl ict resolution measures to resolve it, health issues generated by combat, migration/refugee probl ems consequent upon war, plus wartime changes in cultural dynamics, influencing questions f identity formation. This is an enormous corpus of knowledge to inspect, beyond the confines of a thirty minute talk. So my goal in what follows is to highlight particular areas of assessm ent of especial importance -the ecology, war, and its mortalitiesto suggest research initiative s of significance, both with regard to understanding the Darfur situation and more general issues. Other areas of assessment are considered in Appendix A. Let us begin with the eco logical dynamics.