Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early Homo from Dmanisi and its relationship to African and Asian Homo erectus

The Plio-Pleistocene site of Dmanisi (Georgia) has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved and morphologically diverse sample of cranial and postcranial remains of early Homo within a rich archeological and faunal context. This unique ensemble offers new comparative perspectives on the origin and dispersal of our own genus in Africa and Asia. Here we ask how patterns of morphological diversity within the Dmanisi paleopopulation, and between Dmanisi and African/Asian H. erectus, are related to processes of hominin phylogeography. Variation in size and shape within the Dmanisi sample is considerable and, like in modern human populations, a large proportion of it can be related to variation in basic developmental processes. This perspective has several implications for the interpretation of H.erectus sensu lato: (1)at its lower (Plio-Pleistocene) boundary, separation from early Homo (cf. habilis)becomes increasingly difficult; (2) during the Pleistocene, links between Dmanisi and East Asian forms are probably closer than with Africa; (3) at its upper boundary (Pleisto-Holocene), H. floresiensis is plausible as a paedomorphic dwarf from.
Simulation research on the PID Controller of Doubly-fed Induction Generator using for the TS Model

The paper researches on the design of controller of doubly-fed induction generator. The paper establishes dynamic mathematic model for doubly-fed induction generator based on the basic theory of electro mechanics. According to the nonlinear character of its mathematic model, doubly-fed induction generator based on fuzzy control of TS-PID is proposed. The theoretical research has been made on normal PID control and TS-PID algorithm, and these two control methods are simulated by introducing them into the active power control of doubly-fed induction generator on the basis of mathematical modeling. The experiment result shows that TS-PID fuzzy control has wider robustness and stability compared with the normal PID.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Crushing Candy : The Free-to-Play Game in Its Connective Commodity Form

The goal of this article is to add a complementary perspective to the study of social network sites by surveying how the political economy of social media platforms relates to the structure of free-to-play games in their commodity form. Drawing on the theory of multisided markets and critical political economy, this article surveys the political economy of game apps and investigates how it is symbiotically related to the technological and economic logic underlying connective platforms operated by Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. These social media platforms operate app stores that sustain the transformation of games as fixed, physically distributed products that follow a transaction logic, into digitally distributed, freely accessible, or “free-to-play” apps. Through a case study of the popular casual game Candy Crush Saga it is contended that the connective properties of social media platforms affect the form and format of game apps as cultural commodities. Candy Crush Saga developer King Digital Entertainment has been able to attract hundreds of millions of players and build a business model that combines the commodification of virtual items, connectivity, user attention, user data, and play. It is argued that the free-to-play commodity form comprises three commodity types: the product commodity, the “prosumer commodity,” and the player commodity. Furthermore, Candy Crush Saga’s commodity form is structured by a platformed modality of cultural production and circulation and therefore embedded in the political economy of its host platform.
Switchable Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser With Adjustable Wavelength Interval

A switchable multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on parallel dual Lyot filters is experimentally demonstrated in this paper. A new type of parallel-structure fiber filter is designed and its spectrum is simulated. The structure is simple. The spectra of the filter changes when adjusting the polarization states of the polarization controllers. Due to the characteristics of the filter spectra and wavelength competition, the output wavelengths can be single wavelength, dual wavelengths, and triple wavelengths. When the output is single wavelength, the lasing wavelength is tunable with a tuning range of ∼13 nm. The wavelength interval of dual wavelengths can be adjusted from 3.03 to 17.15 nm, which is a relatively wide range. The interval of three wavelengths also changes to some extent. Moreover, the optical signal-to-noise ratios of the output wavelengths can be up to 47 dB.
Relationships Between Black Female College Students' Relationships with Their Fathers and Adult Romantic Attachment

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACK FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS' RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR FATHERS AND ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT Nicole A. Dock The Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, 2009 Director: Dr. Michelle L. Kelley The current study examined the relationships between the quality and quantity of time that young Black female college students spent with their fathers during high school as related to romantic attachment and fear of intimacy. Although researchers have investigated the impact that early attachment bonds to mothers have for later psychosocial development, much less research has examined how attachment to fathers may be associated with psychosocial adjustment in young adulthood. In particular, there is a lack of information on how relationships to one's father or father figure may be associated with adjustment in young women from culturally diverse populations. To address this issue, a college student sample of Black women (N= 185) completed an online survey that assessed paternal attachment, the quality and quantity of time fathers' spent with respondents during high school, general attachment, romantic attachment, and fear of intimacy. Specifically, participants completed the Parental Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ; Kenny, 1987), the Father-Daughter Scale (FDS; Brown, Thompson, & Traffimow, 2002), the Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ, Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994), Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R; Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000), and the Fear of Intimacy Scale (Descutner & Thelen, 1991). It was hypothesized that women who reported better relationships with and spent more time with their fathers during high school would report more secure overall attachment, less anxious and avoidant attachment behaviors in their romantic relationships, and less fear of intimacy. As predicted, relationship to their fathers in high school significantly predicted anxiety and avoidance in romantic relationship; however, the only significant predictor of anxiety and avoidant romantic behaviors was respondents' reports of the affective quality of their relationships with their fathers. Specifically, higher affective quality predicted lower anxiety and avoidant behaviors in romantic relationships. However, results of the overall multiple regression did not yield support for the prediction that college student women who reported better relationships with their fathers would report less fear of intimacy in their romantic relationships. These results indicate that the affective quality of young Black women's relationships with their fathers is associated with the degree of anxiety and avoidant behaviors they report in their romantic relationships.
Recreating the Past

Recent developments in computer graphics and interactive techniques are providing powerful tools for modeling multi-dimensional aspects of data gathered by archaeologists. This course addresses the problems associated with reconstructing archaeological and heritage sites with computer systems and evaluating the realism of the resultant models. The crucial questions: are the results misleading, and are we in fact misinterpreting the past. Prerequisites An interest in "recreating the past" and a basic knowledge of computer graphics. No prior knowledge of laser scanning, lighting simulation, or visual perception evaluation is assumed, although it is helpful. Topics Creating models of archaeological sites, including laser scanning; very realistic lighting simulation; quantifying the realism of the results using human visual perception and psychophysical methods; valid interpretation of the results by archaeologists and general public. All topics are illustrated by case studies. Organizers Alan Chalmers Kate Devlin University of Bristol
Quantifying coniferous subalpine tree transpiration and source water under seasonal and hydrological stress in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta

iii Acknowledgements . v List of Figures . viii List of Tables . x Chapter 1: General Introduction . 1 1.1 Background and Rationale for Research . 1 1.2 Research Objectives . 2 1.3 Thesis Structure . 2 Chapter 2: Quantifying subalpine forest water-use during two hydrologically varying growing seasons in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta . 4 2.
The Effect of Annealing Temperature Growth on Fe-TiO2 Thin Film Photoactivity in Methylene Blue

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of annealing temperature growth on Fe-TiO2 thin film photoactivity. This was made by mixing TTIP, AcAc, ethanol, and Iron Nitrate Nanohydrate, after which the obtained mixture was sprayed and annealed on the substrate for two hours using the coating method. The temperature was increased to 500°C, 550°C, and 600°C, with the thin film photoactivity determined in methylene blue using UV light for 5 hours with decreasing values of COD, BOD, and absorbance. The results show annealing temperature growth increased photoactivity of the thin film. The highest photoactivity at 600°C in degrading methylene blue with decreasing values of COD, BOD, and absorbance was 19.56%, 35.84%, and 66.70%, respectively.
Time-Variant Modeling and Analysis of Multiplying Delay-Locked Loops

This paper presents a novel time-variant model of multiplying delay-locked loops. A simple feed-forward model of the multiplexed ring oscillator mathematically describes the edge realignment process and, by providing an explicit tuning input, allows to be embedded into the time-variant multiplying delay-locked loop model without requiring approximations. Verification of the multiplexed ring oscillator model against detailed circuit simulations is presented. Closed-form expressions for the multiplying delay-locked loop phase noise, as a function of the system parameters and noise sources, are provided.
Er:Y2O3 high-repetition rate picosecond 2.7 μm laser

In this paper, we present results obtained with a compact passively Q-switched mode-locked high-repetition rate Er:Y2O3 generating radiation in mid-infrared region. The Er:Y2O3 active medium was tested in a short V-shape laser resonator and the mode-locked pulses with repetition rate 1.38 GHz were obtained. With the Er:Y2O3 ceramic the shortest 86 4 ps mode-locked pulses with pulse energy 3.55 nJ, corresponding peak power 12 W, and laser wavelength 2.74 m were generated.
Hunting Strategies with Cultivated Plants as Bait and the Prey Pathway to Animal Domestication

For various reasons related to human diet, social prestige or cosmology, hunting - especially of large preys - has always been central in foragers' societies. When pre-Neolithic foragers have given up their nomadic way of life they have faced a sink-source problem about game procurement in the resource-catchment area around their settlements. Baiting, by mean of the cultivation of wild plants in food plots, may have help them to attract herbivores, thus improving the return of hunting activities. These foragers were also motivated by the capture of wild animals alive, in order to keep fresh meat for a while, to translocate these animals or for milk exploitation. For this capture, the use of a passive form of drive hunting seems best suited. The cultivation of food plots within the funnel and the corral might have been used to attract wild herbivores into the drive. Baiting was therefore designed either to increase the hunt or to improve the capture of large wild herbivores such as the Near-Eastern wild caprines that were later domesticated. Therefore baiting should be viewed as a hunting strategy as well as an unconscious selection mechanism since it has inadvertently contributed to the prey pathway to animal domestication.
Reliability-aware Algorithms of Multipoint Relay with Application Analysis in the Flooding Broadcast of Link-16

The multipoint relay (MPR) flooding broadcast in Link-16 is a multi-objective network programming problem with multi-constraints. Trying to obtain the fewest nodes in MPR set and the maximum reliability is seldom considered in existing flooding broadcast algorithms under the multiple QoS (Quality of Service) constraints. According to the different objectives considered preferentially, two reliability-aware heuristic algorithms of flooding broadcast RA-MPR-N and RA-MPR-R are proposed in this paper. Comparing with the paired-slot flooding relay, RA-MPR-N selects as few neighbor nodes as possible to cover all two-hop nodes, while RA-MPR-R guarantees the maximum reliability. Both theoretical analysis and simulation show that the number of nodes in MPR set obtained by RA-MPR-N and the average reliability obtained by RA-MPR-R are satisfactory.
The media of Consumption and the Consumption of time: How a consumer in fast-paced economy use traditional and new media tools

Research is ongoing about how the New Media impact on Traditional Media. Despite rapid change in the options for how we can interact with and consume media, some of our preferences for needs to consume have not shifted dramatically. This research aims to investigate the patterns of media consumption, and assesses the amount of time people allocate to different media. The study is informed by uses and gratifications theory (UGT), channel complementarity theory and time allocation theory. The article looks at the amount of time spent reading newspapers and magazines, watching television, listening to the radio, using the old or new media, and activities online and offline while at work or out of the work. It investigates whether traditional media are still relevant in this new media environment and identifies consumption practices. A survey was held among consumers who have various media experiences (N = 400) – and for the first time in Zimbabwe. Differences between consumers (media users) using traditional media channels and those using new media platforms are identified and discussed. However, some challenges exist, such as the limited number of Apple iPads and tablets. These findings implied that targeting the millennials remains a challenge as respondents are fragmented across various media platforms.
Sports Medicine for Coaches- A Coaching Clinic

Sports medicine is a vast area of medicine, and expecting a coach to understand all of the medical knowledge is improbable. A coaching clinic that entails basic knowledge of first aid and injury prevention for coaches is critical in today’s age where young athletes are put at risk of injury. By utilizing the knowledge and skills of the area clinic, Affiliated Communities Medical Centers, the coaching clinic aims to educate coaches with the latest techniques in injury treatment and prevention. Using local venues to educate the coaches allows for easy access, and small size to ensure quality learning. The coaching clinic will use clinic resources and area high schools to promote the importance of attending the clinic to improve any athletic program. By providing quality information, that is easily accessed and affordable, coaches are able to gain skills and knowledge that will improve their respective athletic programs. The capstone project detailed components of the coaching clinic including hosting organization, site, budget, marketing plan, risk management plan, ethical analysis, and personal reflection.
Deﬁcit irrigation model-based control of plant growth

In the ﬁeld, irrigation is commonly implemented by the control of water availability in the soil, or in more recent approaches also by measuring the joint water consumption of plant and soil (evapotranspiration) to derive irrigation time and quantity. Here, plant dynamic behavior is not (thoroughly) considered, neglecting the plants’ ability to cope with hostile conditions (deﬁcit irrigation). Plant-based approaches have the potential to reﬂect plant dynamics but are still subject of scientiﬁc studies. Here, the target is mostly to detect stress incipience indicating the moment of irrigation initiation, irrigation quantiﬁcation is is not (yet) possible based on these approaches. Applying control engineering perception to the irrigation task, the introduction of a suitable model of plant dynamics into irrigation approaches allows directly for plant growth control by means of water input variation. Existing (crop) models (input: agricultural inputs (soil, fertilizer etc.), output: growth/yield) consider plant dynamics due to water deﬁcits very restrictively in form of linear yield reduction functions. A model of plant adaptive behavior including the ability to memorize stress is not available. Hence, a deliberately planned deﬁcit irrigation is not feasible. In this thesis a novel approach to control plant growth based on water stress training is presented. Here, training is denoted as intended sequencing of water deﬁcit events to control growth behavior. The presented approach is based on deﬁcit irrigation control experiments resulting in a state machine model. In this model, plant adaptive behavior is described in terms of stress level (water deﬁcit detected by the plant), stress memory level (adaptive response aimed at future stresses), and damage level (upper boundary of productive water stress). A quantitative distinction between stress levels is introduced by two new plant-based thresholds: response and recuperation threshold. Open-loop control options are based on the sequencing of two experimentally detected growth performance ranges, i.e. ’hydrological time’-based growth in not memorized states, and ’usage-bound growth’ in states with memory. Growth performance in ’usage-bound’ range is 47 % higher than in ’hydrological time’-based range. The memorization is proved to be reversible after three days. Statistical hypothesis testing resulted in a proof of concept for the proposed approach. Additionally, the potential of leaf temperature oscillation analysis for remote water stress state identiﬁcation is presented. The application of explorative frequency analysis methods on leaf temperature data from the same control experiments resulted in a detection of diﬀerent superimposed oscillation frequencies. An assumed inference to stomatal oscillation behavior due to water stress could not be proved. However, new insights into leaf temperature behavior based on standard frequency analysis tools are given and discussed regarding application for irrigation purposes.
Enabling a Paging Mechanism in Network-Based Localized Mobility Management Networks

Proxy Mobile IPv6, which surmounts limitations of host-based mobility protocols, provides an efficient network-based mobility service in wireless mobile networks. In Proxy Mobile IPv6, new mobility entities such as the mobile access gateway and the local mobility anchor have been introduced. These mobility entities eliminate the burden of implementing host-based mobility stack and signaling cost concentrated to mobile hosts. However, there has been no attempt to apply paging technologies, which can also reduce the signaling cost focusing to the local mobility anchor, into Proxy Mobile IPv6. In this paper, we propose a paging mechanism for Proxy Mobile IPv6 to enable an efficient mobility management that reduces the location update signaling cost for the mobile hosts in the idle mode. The results of performance analysis are presented to demonstrate that the proposed paging mechanism provides the reduced signaling cost compared to Proxy Mobile IPv6 and improves the scalability by supporting large numbers of mobile hosts with the decreased signaling cost under various system parameters.
Fine-grained Indoor Localization: Visible Light Communication

An indoor positioning system where trichromatic white Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are used both for illumination proposes and as transmitters and an optical processor, based on a-SiC:H technology, as mobile receiver is presented. On-Off Keying (OOK) modulation scheme is used, and it provides a good trade-off between system performance and implementation complexity. The relationship between the transmitted data and the received digital output levels is decoded. LED bulbs work as transmitters, sending information together with different identifiers, IDs, related to their physical locations. A triangular topology for the unit cell is analysed, and a 2D localization design, demonstrated by a prototype implementation, is presented. Fine-grained indoor localization is tested. The received signal is used in coded multiplexing techniques for supporting communications and navigation concomitantly on the same channel. The location and motion information is found by mapping the position and estimating the location areas. Keywordsa-SiC: H technology; optical sensor; transmitter; receiver; demultiplexer; WDM; indoor positioning.
Climate change adaptation in the planning of England’s coastal urban areas: priorities, barriers and future prospects

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society and the spatial planning system plays a crucial role in ensuring that important adaptations to the built environment are evaluated. Drawing upon a mixed-methods research approach, this paper explores the progress that has been made by the planning system in England in addressing the challenge of climate change adaptation in coastal urban areas. The results indicate that the adaptation produced through the planning system remains incremental rather than transformative. It is focused on experienced hazards, especially flooding, and there is a lack of attention being paid to wider impacts of climate change, such as rising average temperatures. Furthermore, it was found that the contemporary contribution of planning to climate change adaptation is seriously limited by the government’s emphasis on housing and economic growth and by the development industry’s emphasis on economic viability.
Geochemical data for produced waters from conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells: Results from Colorado, USA

Geochemical data for more than 120,000 oil and natural gas wells from the major sedimentary basins in the USA are listed in the USGS National Produced Waters Geochemical Database [1]. In this summary, we report and discuss the geochemical data on produced waters obtained from published literature and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) from close to 4,000 new oil and gas wells in Colorado. We emphasize geochemical data of produced waters from shale and tight reservoirs that have increased dramatically in Colorado since 2011, due to deep horizontal drilling, downhole telemetry and massive multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. These operations require large volumes of fresh water, but contamination of groundwater is the major environmental concern. Also, induced seismicity caused by water injection has been reported from several areas in Colorado, including Trinidad, Raton basin, and Greely, Denver basin. Produced water salinities in Colorado obtained from unconventional oil and gas wells are relatively low, generally less than 30,000 mg/L TDS. Produced water salinities from conventional oil and gas wells overlap those from unconventional wells, but many wells have higher salinities (up to 90,000 mg/L TDS) and different chemical compositions.