Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Main Group Effective Nuclear Charges for Spin-Orbit Calculations

The effective nuclear charges (Z.,ff), which are empirical parameters in an approximate spin-orbit Hamiltonian, are determined for main group elements in the second to fifth periods by using experimental results for the fine structure splittings (FSS) in II states of diatomic hydrides. All calculations use full valence multiconfiguration self-consistent field (MCSCF) wave functions with the effective core potential (ECP) basis sets proposed by Stevens et al., augmented by one set of polarization functions. These effective nuclear charges are tested by predicting the FSS in many diatomic molecules and are then applied to evaluate the relativistic potential energy curves of the methylene analogs AHz (A = C, Si, Ge, and Sn), as well as XHX and NaX (X = Br and 1). Disciplines Chemistry Comments Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Journal of Physical Chemistry 99 (1995): 12764, doi:10.1021/ j100034a013. Copyright 1995 American Chemical Society. This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/chem_pubs/297 12764 J. Phys. Chern. 1995, 99, 12764-12772 Main Group Effective Nuclear Charges for Spin-Orbit Calculations
Proxemic Peddler: A Public Advertising Display that Captures and Preserves the Attention of a Passerby

Effective street peddlers monitor passersby, where they tune their message to capture and keep the passerby’s attention over the entire duration of the sales pitch. Similarly, advertising displays in today’s public environments can be more effective if they were able to tune their content in response to how passersby were attending them vs. just showing fixed content in a loop. Previously, others have prototyped displays that monitor and react to the presence or absence of a person within a few proxemic (spatial) zones surrounding the screen, where these zones are used as an estimate of attention. However, the coarseness and discrete nature of these zones mean that they cannot respond to subtle changes in the user’s attention towards the display. In this paper, we contribute an extension to existing proxemic models. Our Peddler Framework captures (1) fine-grained continuous proxemic measures by (2) monitoring the passerby’s distance and orientation with respect to the display at all times. We use this information to infer (3) the passerby’s interest or digression of attention at any given time, and (4) their attentional state with respect to their short-term interaction history over time. Depending on this attentional state, we tune content to lead the passerby into a more attentive stage, ultimately resulting in a purchase. We also contribute a prototype of a public advertising display – called Proxemic Peddler – that demonstrates these extensions as applied to content from the Amazon.com website.
How does body
symmetry influence standing balance?

The aim of the study was to determine whether maintaining the standing balance position is influenced by athlete’s symmetric morphological characteristics. Thirty-two healthy sports students participated in this study (age 19.8±1.4 years, body height 182.9±6.8 cm, body weight 79.1±8.1 kg). Morphological characteristics are represented with differences between the left and the right body side of: forearm girth, upper arm girth, calf girth, thigh girth, long shoulder height, lean mass of legs and lean mass of arms. The standing balance result was calculated as a result of factor scores for 9 measurements of 30 seconds (3 measurements of normal standing, 3 measurements of blind standing, and 3 measurements of deaf standing) collected from the pressure insoles system and the difference in ground reaction force between the left and the right leg. Results show that the asymmetric leg load in maintaining standing balance depends on the side differences in the thigh girth and upper arm girth. The greater difference in the thigh girth in favour of the left side resulted in bigger ground reaction force on the right leg compared to the left leg and the greater difference in the upper arm girth in favour of the left side resulted in bigger ground reaction force on the left leg. To avoid one side overload, it is essential for all sports activities to be performed bilaterally.
Observational Comparison of Star Formation in Different Galaxy Types

Abstract Galaxies cover a wide range of masses and star formation histories. In this review, I summarize some of the evolutionary key features of common galaxy types. At the high-mass end, very rapid, efficient early star formation is observed, accompanied by strong enrichment and later quiescence, well-described by downsizing scenarios. In the intermediate-mass regime, early-type galaxies may still show activity in low-mass environments or when being rejuvenated by wet mergers. In late-type galaxies, we find continuous, though variable star formation over a Hubble time. In the dwarf regime, a wide range of properties from bursty activity to quiescence is observed. Generally, stochasticity dominates here, and star formation rates and efficiencies tend to be low. Morphological types and their star formation properties correlate with environment.
The temporal dynamics of deictic communication

Deixis – a fundamental part of communication – involves combinations of speech, gesture and eye-gaze, yet little is known about the temporal dynamics of this coordination. The authors analysed eye-gaze, pointing gestures and verbal productions in 514 deictic episodes during triadic, semi-naturalistic, book-reading sessions performed by Italian children (1;08–2;07) and their caregivers. Results show three new findings. First, deictic communication is overwhelmingly preceded and accompanied by shared attention (of consistent duration) on an object, and only sometimes by disjoint attention. Second, children are synchronously multimodal (conveying information via speech, pointing gesture and eye-gaze) in their deictic communications. Third, the form of deictic communication used is not related to the complexity of the linguistic structures of the sample. Deictic communication is remarkably consistent in children ranging from approximately 1;08 to 2;07 years of age.
Infinitesimal contact transformations and their applications to abstract growth patterns

Several abstract mathematical models of two-dimensional objects or "organisms" are introduced. The objects are abstractions, created by the combination of pattern-theoretic generators. They are deformed by what are shown to be infinitesimal contact transformations. Analytical methods are utilized to determine some of the resulting forms and a computer is programmed to display graphically the developing patterns.
Design of Mobile Healthcare Monitoring System Using IoT Technology and Cloud Computing

This project presents an implementation of wearable, portable, low power consumption, real-time remote bio-signals monitoring system based on the internet of thing technology. This implementation provides an improved step-in remote health monitoring field. Numbers of people, who require health care increase year by year and the conventional bio-signals monitoring systems require patients’ attendance in person inside hospitals. This might cause an inefficient situation to take care of the patients, especially those who have critical and unstable health conditions. Therefore, internet technology along with modern electronic devices could offer promising solutions in this field. Based on that, this project utilizes a mobile application as an IoT platform to monitor remotely the live ECG signal, heart rate, SPO2, and the body temperature of patients. The signals are measured and processed by using a microcontroller-based device (Arduino). The main contribution of this paper is sending an electrocardiogram (ECG signal) to a specific smart mobile phone to be watched by a doctor. This assists in heart diseases diagnosing before the worst case can happen. Finally, the obtained results of this project are illustrated on both smartphone and personal computer (PC) as well.
Expression of the tyrosine kinase receptor EphA 5 and its ligand ephrin-AS during mouse spinal cord development

Objectives To study the expression patterns of two Eph family molecules, the receptor EphAS, and the ligand ephrin-A5. during spinal cord development. Methods The receptor expression was analyzed using beta-galactosidase knockin mice, and affinity ligand probe binding. The ligand expression was assessed using two different affinity probes, and knockout mouse tissues as controls. Results EphA5 was expressed in the ventral spinal cord, while ephrin-A5 was located in the dorsolateral regions of the spinal cord throughout development. Conclusions These results show that EphA5 and ephrin-A5 are expressed over broad developmental stages and may play important roles in establishing the dorsoventral organization of the spinal cord.
Effect of coarse‐aggregate shape on strength of hydraulic concrete

Shape is an important physical property of aggregates. However, the large amount of work required to measure with precision the size of coarse aggregate and the lack of relevant tests obscure how the shape of the coarse aggregate affects the strength of concrete. In this work, granite coarse aggregate was first divided into flaky stone and massive stone by manual screening. Next, the coarse aggregate was selected at random for size and volume measurements to obtain and analyze the aggregate shape parameters such as sphericity and flatness. Based on the selected aggregate, three aggregate combinations were designed according to the content of flaky stone. Finally, we measured the compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of hydraulic concrete (7, 28, and 60 days) with water‐binder ratios of 0.33, 0.41, and 0.5. The results show that the three aggregates clearly differ in shape, and the measured compressive strengths and splitting tensile strengths of the concrete with water‐binder ratios of 0.41 and 0.5 are similar. However, the compressive strength of the concrete with water‐binder ratio of 0.33 is significantly correlated with the three selected aggregate combinations.
University of Groningen Implementing guidelines for depression on antidepressant prescribing in general practice Franx,

Background: Internationally, guidelines for depression recommend a stepped care approach, implying that antidepressant medication should not be offered as a first step treatment to patients with sub-threshold or mild depression. In the Netherlands, antidepressant prescribing rates in general practice as a first treatment step are considered to be high. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of guideline recommendations on antidepressant prescribing. Methods: A quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent naturalistic control group and three years follow-up was performed in the general practice setting in the Netherlands. General Practitioners (GPs) participated in a national Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC), focusing on the implementation of a guideline based model for a stepped care approach to depression. The model consisted of self-help and psychological treatment options for patients with milder symptoms as an alternative to antidepressants in general practice. Changes in antidepressant prescription rates of GPs were documented for a three-year period and compared to those in a control group of GPs, selected from an ongoing national registration network. Results: A decrease of 23.3% (49.4%-26.1%) in antidepressant prescription rates for newly diagnosed patients with depressive symptoms was found within the intervention group, whereas no difference occurred in the reference group (50.3%-52.6%). The decrease over time was significant, compared to the usual care group (OR 0.44, 95% CI: 0.21-0.92). Conclusions: An implementation program using stepped care principles for the allocation of depression interventions resulted in reduced antidepressant prescription rates in general practice. GPs can change prescribing behaviour within the context of a QIC.
Consciousness : Crucial steps in mental development

For a long time, philosophers have considered the conundrums of consciousness, self-awareness and free will. Much more recently, scientists have joined in and begun to unravel the secrets of mind. Biologists, physicians and psychologists, studying the human brain, but also physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, working on organizational principles of intelligent information processing systems, have contributed to the subject. This contribution explains several “roads to self-awareness”, all of them based on the natural sciences. The first one follows our bio-psychological evolution. The second road starts with the engineer’s point of view and mainly builds on information science and technology, in particular robotics. The third road taken is the most abstract; it exploits complex dynamic systems and their emergent properties. Despite their different origins and methods, these lines of investigation converge. That is, the findings of various fields can be combined into a unified theory of mind and self-awareness, which is the main purpose of this paper. This overall synthesis suggests that the mind results from a multi-hierarchical organizational structure, and self-reflexive flows of information in embodied systems. In addition to this, stable self-awareness appears spontaneously in sufficiently complex robots, when the system’s capability of describing itself crosses the level of conceptually clear information processing (thinking). As an application, one obtains a number of construction principles for mentally developing systems that are explained towards the end of this contribution.
Robust Macroprudential Policy Rules under Model Uncertainty

Against the backdrop of elevated model uncertainty in DSGE models with a detailed modeling of financial intermediaries, we investigate the performance of optimized macroprudential policy rules within and across models. Using three canonical banking DSGE models as a representative sample, we show that model-specific optimized macroprudential policy rules are highly heterogeneous across models and not robust to model uncertainty, implying large losses in other models. This is particularly the case for a perfect-coordination regime between monetary and macroprudential policy. A Stackelberg regime with the central bank as leader operating according to the rule by Orphanides and Wieland (2013) implies smaller potential costs due to model uncertainty. An even more effective approach for policymakers to insure against model uncertainty is to design Bayesian model-averaged optimized macroprudential rules. These prove to be more robust to model uncertainty by performing better across models than model-specific optimized rules, regardless of the regime of interaction between the two authorities.
The intergenerational transmission of education. Evidence from the World War II cohorts in Europe

The negativ e long-term effects of World War II on those directly exposed to it are well documented, but there is no evidence whether these effects extended to subsequent generations. Our paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing the intergenerational effects of World War II in terms of educational attainments. We focus on parent-children dyads in which parents were born between 1926 and 1949, and show two things. First, parents who suffered the war, that is, were exposed to major war events or personally experienced war-related hardship, ended up with less schooling than parents with similar characteristics who did not. Second, the children of parents who suffered the war have lower educational attainments than the children of parents with similar characteristics who did not suffer the war. Our reduced form results allow us to derive instrumental variables estimates of the coefficient of intergeneration transmission of education, which show that the effect of parental education is stronger for mothers than for fathers. They also show that the mother's education matters more for daughters than for sons.
PERANAN GURU TERHADAP PEMBINAAN PERILAKU PRO SOSIAL SISWA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peranan guru terhadap pembinaan perilaku prososial siswa SMP Negeri 1 Kendari. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Informan penelitian ini delapan orang,yakni kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah bidang kesiswaan, tiga orang guru, dan tiga orang siswa. Data dikumpulkan melaluiwawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Data dianalisis melalui reduksi, display, dan verifikasi data. Hasil penelitian ini adalaha) pembinaan perilaku prososial siswa dilakukan melalui tindakan preventif, represif, dan kuratif, b) tindakan preventif untuk membina perilaku prososial diselenggarakan melalui arahan saat apel pagi dan/ atau upacara bendera, memberi contoh dalam kegiatan belajar, serta melakukan bimbingan kelompok, c) tindakan represif dilakukan untuk menimbulkan efek jera pada siswa, dan d) tindakan kuratif dilakukan sebagai sarana penyembuhan melalui konseling. Kata Kunci: Perilaku Prososial
Statistical Evaluation of the Effect of Elapse time on the Strength Properties of Lime-Bagasse Ash Treated Black Cotton Soil

A laboratory study of the effect of elapse time on compaction, UCS and durability of black cotton soil treated with 4 % lime and 0 to 8 % bagasse ash was carried out. Compaction and unconfined compressive strength tests were carried out to determine the effect of elapse time on maximum dry density, MDD, optimum moisture content, OMC and unconfined compressive strength, UCS, of the mixes. The results obtained show a decrease in MDD, OMC, UCS and resistance to loss in strength, RLS (Durability), as elapse time increased. A statistical analysis of the results carried out to determine the effect of elapse time, curing period and bagasse ash content on MDD, OMC, UCS and RLS shows that the effect of elapse time and bagasse ash content on MDD are statistically significant at 5 % level. The effect of elapse time on OMC is statistically significant while the effect of bagasse ash content is not, the p-value being greater than α = 0.05. The relative contribution of bagasse ash, curing period and elapse time on UCS and RLS was statistically significant at α = 0.05. Of the three variables, the contribution of curing period was observed to be comparably more significant. From the combine results of the UCS and RLS, it can be concluded that elapse time exceeding 1 hour could result in significant strength lost for all practical purposes.
Photo‐induced surface transformations of silica nanocomposites

The photo‐induced, physicochemical surface transformations to silica nanoparticle (SiNP) ‐ epoxy composites have been investigated. The silica nanocomposites (SiNCs) were prepared using a two‐part epoxy system with a 10% mass fraction of SiNPs and exposed to varying doses of high intensity, ultraviolet (UV) radiation at wavelengths representative of the solar spectrum at sea level (290 nm to 400 nm) under constant temperature and humidity. Visibly apparent physical modifications to the SiNC surface were imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Surface pitting and cracking became more apparent with increased UV exposure. Elemental and surface chemical characterization of the SiNCs was accomplished through X‐ray energy dispersive spectroscopy and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, while attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed changes to the epoxy's structure. During short UV exposures, there was an increase in the epoxy's overall oxidation, which was accompanied by a slight rise in the silicon and oxygen components and a decrease in overall carbon content. The initial carbon components (e.g. aliphatic, aromatic and alcohol/ether functionalities) decreased and more highly oxidized functional groups increased until sufficiently long exposures at which point the surface composition became nearly constant. At long exposure times, the SiNC's silicon concentration increased to form a surface layer composed of approximately 75% silica (by mass). Published 2012. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
Issues on Collaborative Product Design and Development

1.1 What is collaborative product design and development Collaborative product design and development (CPD) is also known as collaborative product definition management (cPDM). It is about business strategy, workflow and collection of software applications that facilitates different vendors to work together on development/design of a product. The early participation of vendors in the design process is considered critical in order to improve the product quality and reduce the development cycle time. CPD is becoming more valuable because of the increasing coordination and management complexity of organizational information, responsibilities, schedules, deliverables, product information, and business process. As outsourcing and globalization increase the number of design chain participants, a CPD speeds up the decision-making of trusted partners, employees, suppliers, and customers in design chains. Design chain is a subset of supply chain. The major collaborative activities between suppliers and manufacturers are design activities. Therefore, how to manage the design flow in a design chain is as important as how to manage the material flow in a supply chain.
Anatomy Structure and zonal expression of olfactory receptors in the olfactory epithelium of the goat , Capra hircus

The mammalian olfactory system employs sophisticated mechanisms to detect and recognize an extensive range of smells. In rodents, the olfactory epithelium (OE), situated within the nasal cavity, mainly comprises four defined endoturbinates and several ectoturbinates. Olfactory receptors (ORs) belong to a large family, comprising over 1,000 genes in rodents, which are expressed in olfactory sensory neurons in the OE that detect odor molecules. The rodent OE is divided into four topographically distinct zones, defined by individual OR distribution. However, although the structural complexity and the zonal organization of mammalian OE may contribute to successfully interpreting olfactory information, it remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the nasal cavity structure and zonal organization of the OE in goats. Morphological observations revealed that the goat nasal cavity possessed well-developed endoturbinates and ectoturbinates and had a structure similar to that of rodents and sheep, previously reported in other studies. In situ hybridization was used to analyze the expression pattern of ORs, NADPH:quinone oxidoreductase 1, and olfactory cell adhesion molecules as markers of zonal organization in the goat OE. Based on the expression patterns of these genes, we concluded that the goat OE was divided into four zones. The well-developed structure of the nasal cavity and distribution of each OR in the OE were similar to those found in rodents, suggesting that these features were highly conserved between mammals and may have fundamental roles in discriminating among numerous odor molecules in the environment.