Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LASER-VISUAL-INERTIAL ODOMETRY BASED SOLUTION FOR 3D HERITAGE MODELING: THE SANCTUARY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN OF TROMPONE

Abstract. The advent of new mobile mapping systems that integrate different sensors has made it easier to acquire multiple 3D information with high speed. Today, technological development has allowed the creation of portable systems particularly suitable for indoor surveys, which mainly integrating LiDAR devices, chambers and inertial platforms, make it possible to create in a fast and easy way, full 3D model of the environment. However, the performance of these instruments differs depending on the acquisition context (indoor and outdoor), the characteristics of the scene (for example lighting, the presence of objects and people, reflecting surfaces, textures) and, above all, the mapping and localization algorithms implemented in devices. The purpose of this study is to analyse the results, and their accuracy, deriving from a survey conducted with the KAARTA Stencil 2 handheld system. This instrument, composed of a 3D LiDAR Velodyne VLP-16, a MEMS inertial platform and a feature tracker camera, it is able to realize the temporal 3D map of the environment. Specifically, the acquisition tests were carried out in a context of metrical documentation of an architectural heritage, in order extract architectural detail for the future reconstruction of virtual and augmented reality environments and for Historical Building Information Modeling purposes. The achieved results were analysed and the discrepancies from some reference LiDAR data are computed for a final evaluation. The system was tested in the church and cloister of the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Trompone in Moncrivello (VC) (Italy).
Microbial Controls on the Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Subsurface

Biogeochemical processes are of tremendous importance for determining the fate of many organic and inorganic compounds in the subsurface. Most global elemental cycles involve biogeochemical transformation, and the recycling of carbon and nutrients relies almost exclusively on biogeochemical processes. In particular, the majority of natural organic compounds are biogeochemically reactive, but also a large number of anthropogenic organic carbon compounds can be biogeochemically transformed, for instance, during the biodegradation of organic contaminants. Furthermore, inorganic compounds such as e.g., many nitrogen, phosphorus or sulfur compounds, metal compounds or minerals are directly or indirectly affected by biogeochemical reactions. To which extent and at which conditions a biogeochemical reaction takes place depends not only on the properties of the involved chemical reactants and products but also on the behavior of the microbial community (or communities) catalyzing the biogeochemical transformation. Porous media—in particular natural porous media—are complex and often heterogeneous structures, which imposes severe challenges in determining the exact physical, chemical and ecological conditions the microbial community is exposed to and to which extent it is able to provide any ecosystem service, such as the catalysis of a biogeochemical reaction.
2nd Place: Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Veteran Population: Effic acy of Complementary and Alternative Medicine The rapies (Final Research Paper)

It is estimated that a half million veterans from recent deployments in the Middle East conflicts and about 479,000 veterans deployed during the Vietnam War are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Current treatments are limited by a relatively high frequency of patients who do not continue with their therapy. With increased PTSD diagnosis and limited effectiveness of treatments, there is a growing need to research and develop new therapies to better assist affected service members. The present study assessed the clinical validity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies for the treatment of PTSD symptoms in a military population using a systematic review design. It was hypothesized that a veteran diagnosed with PTSD who is treated with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies will experience a greater improvement in their PTSD symptoms than a veteran diagnosed with PTSD who is treated with other, current evidence-based treatments (CEBT). Data were obtained from empirical articles that compared and contrasted CAM therapies against CEBT’s across commonly used PTSD symptom assessment scales. Though CAM therapies were not shown to be significantly superior to other therapies, the findings did indicate that select CAM therapies have valid, clinical implications for the reduction of PTSD symptoms in a veteran population. More research is needed to assess, isolate, and standardize CAM therapies for the treatment of PTSD in different veteran populations. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER TREATMENT 3 Table of
Acid Water–Rock–Cement Interaction and Multicomponent Reactive Transport Modeling

This work has been financed by the CGL2016-78783-C2-R and CGL2017-82331-R projects (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), with contribution of FEDER funds, and the 2017SGR 1733 Catalan Government project. We would like to thank Jordi Belles, Natalia Moreno, Rafael Bartoli and Merce Cabanas (IDAEA), Eva Pelegri and Maite Romero (SCTBarcelona University) and Jose Antonio Jimenez (CENIM) for analytical assistance. We are indebted to Francisco Macias (Huelva University) for field sampling assistance. We also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments have greatly improved the manuscript.
Using narratives to understand the psychosocial impact and meaning making of those diagnosed with a secondary cancer diagnosis

As the number of cancer survivors and the duration of survival increases in the UK, there is an increasing interest in psychosocial care, to improve outcomes for cancer patients. Previous literature reviews have focussed on research from around the world. The aim of this review was to look at the evidence for the impact of psychosocial interventions on the mental health and well-being of cancer patients, since the publication of the cCancer Rreform sStrategy in the UK in 2007. The review focused on thirteen studies of interventions, which addressed mental health and well-being in cancer patients. There was no agreement on the best method of intervention, but the studies reported give some support to the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques, psycho-education and bibliotherapy. There is also also some support for lower level interventions (e.g. self-help interventions,), exercise, less labour intensive interventions, and complementary therapiesinterventions. The quality of the reviewed studies was limited and more research in this area needs to be generated to establish an evidence base within the UK. Limitations are identified with the variety of measures used to assess mental health, well-being Formatted: No underlineFormatted: No underlineFormatted: CenteredFormatted: No underline 11 | P a g e and quality of life in these studies, and the use of more standardised measures is recommended to allow easier comparisons between studies for future research. (203)
Cognitive Status and the form of Referring Expressions in Discourse

In this chapter a case is made for six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse. These statuses are the conventional meanings signaled by determiners and pronouns, and interaction of the statuses with general conversational principles such as Grice’s Maxim of Quantity accounts for the actual distribution and interpretation of forms when necessary conditions for the use of more than one form are met. This proposal is supported by an empirical study of the distribution of referring expressions in naturally occurring discourse in five languages: English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.
Confucian Patriotism and the Destruction of the Woosung Railway, 1877

The slow growth of railways is undoubtedly one of the most astonishing features of the history of modernization in China. The Chinese government often gave as its reasons for opposition to railway development the fact that improved communications would facilitate foreign military expansion, that railways obstructed the feng-shui, that mandarin and peasant alike were opposed to the railway, and that railways destroyed the livelihood of the common people. But, until recently, these explanations have never been given serious consideration, despite the fact that Ch'ing officials discussed railway-policy in these terms in a major debate in 1866–67. This is partly because historians have found it difficult to accept Chinese objections to railway development at their face-value, and partly because Chinese officials themselves, seeing that foreigners were unimpressed by Chinese arguments against railway construction, offered others which they thought would be more acceptable to the Western mind.
Endowments at Birth and Adult Health: Childhood Socioeconomic Factors and Adult Heart Disease

Children born in lower socioeconomic strata are more likely to engage in consumption habits that are deleterious to adult health, less likely to attain higher levels of education, and more likely to have lower income and wealth as adults. More recent epidemiological studies suggest a perhaps more profound idea, that an adult's ailments may depend importantly on his physical condition on the day of his birth. Owing to conditions that characterize their prenatal period and early infancy, children born to families of lower socioeconomic strata carry a permanent marker for higher rates of adult heart disease, and perhaps other ailments as well. In this paper, I report results from the Health and Retirement Survey that are consistent with this hypothesis. Accounting for adult consumption habits, adult socioeconomic status, and numerous other potentially confounding variables, the results show that men who are shorter and born to fathers with less education are more likely to develop various manifestations of heart disease in middle age. The data suggest that adult health effects from childhood are disease and gender specific. While the data leave open the pathway by which lifetime health effects are coded early on, the results suggest a potentially high return on resources devoted to ensuring health-conscious behavior during pregnancy and healthy diets during infancy.
La "ayuda", una categoría conceptual para analizar la construcción subjetiva del trabajo en un grupo de estudiantes-trabajadores

In this article we present some issues from a research project about the subjective sense that youngsters atribute to work. After the field work, almost one hundred interviews to student-workers in Buenos Aires city, we grouped the information according to three different categories. This categories are related to the families and show another dimension of globalization.
Forming the Progenitors of Explosive Stellar Transients

Abstract Explosive stellar transients arise from diverse situations, including deaths of massive stars, a variety of thermonuclear outbursts, and compact-object mergers. Stellar interactions are heavily implicated in explaining the observed populations of events, and not only those where binarity is obviously involved. Relationships between these classes probably help to elucidate our understanding; for example; the production of double neutron-star mergers from field binaries is thought to be heavily biased towards routes involving stripped core-collapse supernovæ. As we gain an ever more synoptic view of the changing sky, theorists should be mindful of developing an ability to take robust quantitative advantage of the available population information to help constrain the physics. This is complementary to aiming for deep understanding of individual events.
The not so Gentle Push: Behavioral Spillovers and Policy Instruments

We examine whether spillovers of pro-social behavior depend on how behavioral changes are induced. We conduct a large experiment using economic games, with a Dictator Game (DG) followed by either an identical game or a Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). We influence initial behavior through widely used policy instruments, either behaviorally informed (default, social norms) or with an economic/regulatory rationale (incentives, regulation). Our results provide evidence of positive spillovers to subsequent economic games (which are not treated), but only for the traditional economic/regulatory interventions and within the same game type. Specifically, inducing higher giving in the first stage leads to subsequent higher altruism in the DG, but not to more cooperation in the PD. The carry over of pro-social behavior appears to be driven by an anchoring on the initial donation. We also measure observers’ beliefs and we find that these results are not correctly anticipated by third parties, who systematically overestimate both the direct effect of behaviorally informed interventions on initial donations and their spillover to subsequent donations.
Basic Modes of Radioactive Decay

This basic modes of radioactive decay review “ Gamma Rays ” reviews some topics related to radiation, its classification and importance. In general, gamma rays interfere with our life, so we need to comprehend radiation as fact around us all the time and all the time. We live in a naturally radioactive world, but to what extent do physicians, nurses, and medical technicians, who may have to deal with urgent cases of a radiation, know about it? This chapter will address what radiation is and what is its role. This chapter will guide us toward the knowledge of ionizing radiation and its certain forms such as alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, and X-rays. as well as it will review on radioactive decay (nuclear decay) as well as help us learn about radioactivity and radiation, in addition to the types of decays, which are divided into beta decay, gamma decay, electron capture, positron decay, and alpha decay. This chapter will focus on radioactive decay, the activity and units of radioactive activity, and half-life of it. The last part of this chapter discusses attenuation as the reduction in the intensity of gamma ray or X-ray beam. The most important subtitles that are scattered from attenuation are HVL mean free path, the linear attenuation coefficient, pair production, and photoelectric scattering.
Fusion of Multiple Edge-Preserving Operations for Hyperspectral Image Classification

In this article, a novel hyperspectral image (HSI) classification method based on fusing multiple edge-preserving operations (EPOs) is proposed, which consists of the following steps. First, the edge-preserving features are obtained by performing different types of EPOs, i.e., local edge-preserving filtering and global edge-preserving smoothing on the dimension-reduced HSI. Then, with the assistance of a superpixel segmentation method, the edge-preserving features are further improved by considering the inter and intra spectral properties of superpixels. Finally, the spectral and edge-preserving features are fused to form one composite kernel, which is fed into the support vector machine (SVM) followed by a majority voting fusion scheme. Experimental results on three data sets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over several state-of-the-art classification approaches, especially when the training sample size is limited. Furthermore, 21 well-known methods, including mathematical morphology-based approaches, sparse representation models, and deep learning-based classifiers, are adopted to be compared with the proposed method on Houston data set with standard sets of training and test samples released during 2013 Data Fusion Contest, which also shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Use of Schistosoma mansoni calreticulin, a highly immunogenic parasite antigen, in diagnosis of and vaccination against schistosomiasis

Due to copyright restrictions the published article (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2010.06.014) has been removed from the appendix of the electronic version of this thesis. The unabridged version can be consulted, on request, at the University of Leicester’s David Wilson Library.
Hybrid ray-tracing/finite-difference time-domain method for human EMF-exposure assessment of a massive MIMO technology

Summary The paper presents a novel method for numerical assessment of the massive MIMO exposure. Ray-tracing is used for a site-specific propagation modeling and the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method is applied to evaluate exposure of a realistic human phantom in terms of the Specific Absorption Rate. We discuss in detail the impact of the coupling between the user equipment and the phantom on the massive MIMO channel and propose a technique to incorporate it into the ray-tracing results for a more accurate exposure estimate. We show that the coupling with the head results in up to 19 dB variation of the incident electric field.
Second-Harmonic Injection Linearization of Millimeter-Wave FET Resistive Mixers

This letter demonstrates the application of the second-harmonic injection linearization technique in a field-effect transistor (FET) resistive mixer operating at <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Ka$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band. The single-ended mixer uses a 0.15-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> gallium arsenide (GaAs) pseudomorphic high electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT) at its core. Compared to the same mixer without the second-harmonic injection, the linearized mixer achieves an improvement of up to 8 dB in the third-order intermodulation (IM3) levels while leaving the fundamental output power and noise figure unaffected. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the technique with a mixer operating at millimeter-wave frequencies.
Studies on a Ca2+- and Cyclic Nucleotide-Independent H1 Histone Kinase Purified from Rabbit Skeletal Muscle

In an attempt to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of microsomal function by protein phosphorylation, one of the major protein kinases obtained during the preparation of the microsomal fraction of rabbit skeletal muscle was partially purified and characterized. This enzyme was a protein serine/threonine kinase and showed similar, but not completely same properties as those of Ca2+-phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C), judging from its elution profile from an anion-exchange column, molecular mass, responses to protein kinase activators or inhibitors and the substrate specificity. These results suggest a possible implication of this Ca2+and cyclic nucleotideindependent H1 histone kinase in protein phosphorylation of microsomal protein(s), although the exact role and the mechanism of regulation of this enzyme are not clear at this time.
Volumetric 3D display in real space using a diffractive lens, fast projector, and polychromatic light source.

We present a method for realizing a solid-state volumetric display based on the chromatic dispersion properties of a 150 mm diffractive lens that images a series of planar patterns presented by a digital micro-mirror device projector. The projector is driven by a narrowband polychromatic source, where the position of each image plane is defined by a distinct wavelength of light. The volumetric display system achieves 20 image planes at a volume refresh rate of 20 Hz, creating a volume of 17.4 cm3 with 13 mm of depth and a field of view of 10° floating 145 mm above the lens in real space.
Photokinetics of azaarenes and toxicity of phototransformation products to the marine diatom Phaedactylum tricornutum

UV radiation is absorbed by PAHs, structurally altering these compounds into a variety of oxygenated products. Until recently, only hazards of parental PAHs in the environment were investigated. This study aims to determine the fate and effects of azaarenes (N-heterocyclic PAHs) together with their photoproducts in marine environments. Photoreaction kinetics of eight azaarenes, ranging from two-ringed to five-ringed structures, were examined using two different light sources: one with an emission peak at 300 nm (UV−B) and the other with an emission peak at 350 nm (UV−A). Azaarenes degraded rapidly in the presence of short-waved light, UV−B being more effective than UV−A. Especially preexposure of azaarenes to UV−A radiation led to products toxic to the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Since UV−A constitutes a larger fraction of sunlight at the earth surface and in the water column, photolysis by UV−A may increase the toxic risk of aromatic compounds in the marine environment.
Cross helicity and magnetic helicity cascades in MHD turbulence

The high Reynolds number turbulence of an electrically conducting fluid along with energy transfers two additional quadratic quantities within the inertial range: cross helicity and magnetic helicity. We study the role of these two quantities in forced and freely decaying turbulence using a shell model of MHD turbulence. We show that the presence of helicities strongly affects the scenario of evolution of the turbulence decay at late stages. With forced MHD turbulence, the stationary injection of cross helicity reduces the spectral energy transfer and leads to energy accumulation, whereas the injected magnetic helicity condenses at largest scales.
Evaluasi potensi kebangkrutan perusahaan pertambangan minyak dan gas bumi indonesia periode 2013-2015

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kondisi keuangan perusahaan pertambangan minyak dan gas bumi dengan menggunakan metode altman z-score, springate dan zmijewski pada periode 2013-2015, sehingga mampu memprediksi potensi terjadinya kebangkrutan yang terjadi pada perusahaan. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian berupa laporan keuangan yang telah dipublikasikan di BEI selama 2013-2015. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari beberapa perusahaan, terdapat satu perusahaan yang memiliki potensi kebangkrutan disetiap tahunnya dikarenakan perusahaan tersebut memiliki kondisi keuangan yang tidak stabil yang terlihat dari laporan keuangan perusahaan tersebut.
What makes full-time employed women satisfied with their working hours?

In spite of extended parental leaves, tremendous improvement in day-care availability, and a cultural climate that is supportive of women's full-time work, Norwegian women still have one of the highest female part-time rates in Europe. Longer working hours among women would clearly alleviate the lack of labour in many sectors of the economy, but this reserve may be difficult to mobilise as previous research have shown that large proportions of female full-time workers are discontent with their working hours. In this article we examine whether this is true even today, and identify factors that may facilitate or impede working-hours satisfaction among female full-timers based on recent data from the Norwegian Labour Force Surveys. Contrary to past research, we find that most women are satisfied with their full-time hours. Still, young children in the household are a strong deterrent of full-time contentment, as is long working hours for the spouse, if women are married. Full-time contentment also varies with occupation, but the main job-deterrent seems to be non-standard working hours such as shift and rota.