Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Synergistic attraction of pine sawyer Monochamus saltuarius (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to monochamol and α‐pinene

Monochamus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) species are longhorn pine sawyers that serve as insect vectors of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae), which are responsible for debilitating pine wilt disease. An aggregation pheromone, 2‐(1‐undecyloxy)‐1‐ethanol (hereafter referred to as monochamol), was shown to be effective at attracting Monochamus species. However, attraction of the pine sawyers to aggregation pheromones varied depending on semiochemicals, including host plant volatiles and kairomones. In this study, we investigated the abilities of monochamol and the host‐plant volatiles α‐pinene and ethanol to attract M. saltuarius in a pine forest in Cheongsong, Gyeongsangbuk‐do, Korea. A total of 91 M. saltuarius (28 males and 63 females) were captured. The combination of monochamol (700 mg) with α‐pinene and ethanol exhibited a synergistic effect on attracting M. saltuarius (11.0 beetles per trap), whereas monochamol alone and a mixture of α‐pinene and ethanol resulted in the capture of 3.2 beetles and 3.6 beetles per trap, respectively. Our results suggest that multi‐funnel traps baited with a blend of monochamol, α‐pinene and ethanol are highly effective for monitoring M. saltuarius and M. alternatus in pine forests.
Characterization of the juvenile green turtle (Chelonia mydas) microbiome associated with the ontogenic shift from pelagic habitats to inshore resident areas

Price, James T. M.S., Purdue University, May 2016. Characterization of the Juvenile Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Microbiome Associated with the Ontogenic Shift from Pelagic Habitats to Inshore Resident Areas. Major Professors: Frank V. Paladino and Tanya T. Soule. Animal microbiomes have become increasingly regarded as a system responsible for supporting vital functions, such as digestion, amino acid production, and immune response. Despite their importance, there is limited understanding of the microbiome of sea turtles and the effect it has on their overall health. Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) provide an interesting model of change in these microbial communities since they undergo a pronounced shift from a surface-pelagic distribution and omnivorous diet to a more shallow coastal distribution and herbivorous diet. We investigated the cloacal microbiomes of juvenile green turtles before and after this recruitment to neritic waters to characterize and assess any changes in their microbial community structure. Green turtles were captured among the pelagic Sargassum habitat in the Gulf of Mexico, and within the neritic foraging grounds of St. Joseph Bay and St. Andrew Bay, FL, USA. Additionally, we captured turtles in the surf zone of Santa Rosa Island (SRI), FL, USA with the expectation that the site may harbor an intermediate stage within the shift from pelagic habitats to shallow bays since this is a relatively understudied neritic habitat for
Correlation between seismic wave velocity, rock porosity and maximum principal stress based on the laboratory test data

In order to determine the internal relationships among seismic wave velocity, axial pressure, and rock porosity, the rock samples taken from NRS170143 borehole of the Nickel Rim South mine are tested using a Hoek type triaxial cell equipped with axial linear variable differential transducers (LVDTs) and a data acquisition module. The empirical expression between seismic wave velocity and rock pressure is fitted based on the laboratory test data of rock samples. Then, P-V model P-φ model and φ-ε model are created to analyze the laboratory test data. The results show that: (1) the relationship between axial pressure and rock porosity can be represented by a new empirical equation φ=a*e-b*P-c. With an increase of axial pressure, the value of rock porosity gradually decreases below the straight line φ=1% and close to 0. The P-φ model can be a good judge if the pressure has reached the maximum compression pressure in the process of rock compression experiment; (2) The P wave velocity and S wave velocity exponentially increase with increasing axial pressure; Rock porosity and crack density parameter exponentially decrease with increasing axial pressure; (3) there is a linear positive correlation between the ratio of rock porosity to crack density parameter and the ratio of crack thickness to crack length. (4) the relationship between Vp and Vs in each compression test can be fitted to the linear equation Vp=a*Vs+b; for all different samples of NR170143, the ratios (M) of Vp to Vs ranges from 1.35 to 1.85. In summary, the P-V model, P-φ model, φ-ε model and Vp-Vs-φ model can intuitively reflect the relationship among seismic wave velocity, axial pressure and rock porosity.
Gaussian Variational Approximate Inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models

Variational approximation methods have become a mainstay of contemporary Machine Learning methodology, but currently have little presence in Statistics. We devise an effective variational approximation strategy for fitting generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) appropriate for grouped data. It involves Gaussian approximation to the distributions of random effects vectors, conditional on the responses. We show that Gaussian variational approximation is a relatively simple and natural alternative to Laplace approximation for fast, non-Monte Carlo, GLMM analysis. Numerical studies show Gaussian variational approximation to be very accurate in grouped data GLMM contexts. Finally, we point to some recent theory on consistency of Gaussian variational approximation in this context.
Design of general examination question databases based on Founder bookmaker

The purpose of this study is to establish a beautiful and simple operated examination question database system that meets the requirements for complex formats such as scientific and technological symbols and the needs of different disciplines. Aiming at this, combining with batch processing mode for texts of Founder bookmaker system, sample files that conform to syntax norms of Founder system are stored in the examination question tables. Then, examination paper tables satisfying requirements of all disciplines are generated in the double-scan mode and the examination papers generated are proof files of Founder system. It is convenient to browse, print and output these files. Therefore, this examination question database has strong generalization.
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING 1 Assessing Teacher Understanding of Student Executive Functioning and Predictions to Academic Achievement

This study examined elementary school teachers’ judgments of their students’ executive function (EF) skills. We collected surveys from teachers in four elementary schools in Southeastern Michigan. Questions adapted from the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) along with original questions about working memory skills were included in the surveys. Using a structural equation model (SEM), we confirmed the internal consistency of teacher-reported EF measures, explored whether these measures were related to lab-based measures of EF, and tested if teacher or lab-based EF measures predicted academic achievement. Chi square test of model fit (χ (223) = 168.1, p = . 000), root mean square error of approximation (.05), Comparative Fit Index (.95), and Tuker-Lewis Index (.94) indicated excellent model fit. Survey responses strongly loaded onto three distinct latent factors, which were identified as attention control, response inhibition, and working memory. These factors also loaded strongly onto a hierarchically generated latent score of teacher-rated EF. Teacher-rated EF was significantly related to a latent lab-measured EF score. The lab-based EF score significantly predicted both math and literacy achievement, while the teacher-reported EF score did not. This final result contradicted our hypothesis, and discussion focused on potential reasons for this surprising pattern of results.
Bandwidth Inference Based On Node-Centric Clusters

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH INFERENCE BASED ON NODE-CENTRIC CLUSTERS by Seetharam Samptur End-to-End Available Bandwidth (AB) is a real-time network metric that is useful for a wide range of applications including content distribution networks, multimedia streaming applications and overlay networks. In a large network with several thousand nodes, it is infeasible to perform all-pair bandwidth measurements as AB measurements could induce traffic overhead along the path. Also because of its dynamic nature, the measurements have to be performed frequently thus imposing significant probe traffic overhead on the network. In this paper, we discuss a clustering based distributed algorithm to infer the AB between any pair of nodes in a large network based on measurements performed on a subset of end-to-end paths. The algorithm was validated on Planet-Lab and for some nodes, 80% of the inferences were within 50% of the actual value.
Gunung Kidul Personal hygiene , parents ’ characteristics and worm infection among elementary school students in Gunung Kidul

Purpose: The study aimed to analyze the correlation between individual hygiene of the students and characteristics of the student’s parents, and the worm infestation infection among state elementary school students in Gunung Kidul Regency. ​Methods: ​The design of the study was cross-sectional while the sampling technique was by purposive sampling. Respondents of the research were the third to fifth grade students from four elementary schools. Primary data gathering was conducted from April to May 2016, using observation and questionnaire pages as the instruments. The data analysis was performed using Fisher Exact test with confidence level of 95% and alpha= 0.05. ​Results: ​The results of the research show the prevalence of STH in Belik, Kropak, Gesing and Tepus I students, which was 2.7%. In the bivariate analysis, the variable which has significant relation with worm infestation infection is mother’s knowledge with PR= 0.91 (95% CI=0.82-1.02; p​=0.035). ​Conclusion: ​This research suggests that public health center and school need to improve health promotion in elementary school children and mothers about clean and healthy life behavior.
Studies of Au Clusters on a Graphene Covered Ir(111) substrate: Cluster Growth and CO Adsorption

The chemical properties of 0.2-1 ML Au clusters have been studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). By exposing the clusters to CO, at 10^-7 mbar, in periods of two minutes, while systematically increasing the cluster size, a correlation between cluster size and CO adsorption was found. Furthermore, the most probable adsorption sites on the Au cluster were identified. The clusters were grown, using Ir seeding, on a Ir(111) crystal covered by a monolayer of Graphene. The Au growth sites on the Graphene surface have been studied using low energy electron diffraction (LEED). In addition, the Graphene lattice constant as well as the distance between the Au adsorption sites have been calculated using LEED images and known values of the Ir lattice constant as a reference.
Study, development and characterization of aluminum based materials by additive manufacturing

This PhD thesis work was pursued in a context of investigation and development of different kind of materials by DMLS, in particular aluminum alloys. Among these, AlSi10Mg0.3 casting alloy was investigated and characterized from both mechanical and microstructural (through optical and electron microscopy) point of view. It was previously fundamental to study the process parameters (in particular scan speed, laser power and hatching distance) in order to obtain samples with density near to the theoretical one for the different characterizations. In addition, processing of composite materials has attracted interest due to the potential of the process in freeform fabrication of intricate articles in a reduced supply chain. For this reason, the studied alloy was used as a matrix to fabricate two different "ex-situ" Aluminun Matrix Composites (AMCs): starting from AlSi10Mg powders and mixing them with submicrometric SiC and nanometric MgAl2O4 . It was fundamental to investigate the effect of the main process parameters to obtain composites with the highest density, to be then characterized
The Impact of Message Length and Medium on Imitation Attack Creation and Detection by Humans

It’s important to know who the true author of an electronic document is in an age where cybercriminals can steal a person’s identity by impersonating them in electronic communication. This is known as an imitation attack​. Current human ability to detect deception is generally poor, though automatic techniques relying on linguistic features fare better at identifying authorship deception like imitation attacks. However, it is unknown how accurate either these authorship techniques or humans are on messages of shorter lengths and with different communicative goals (e.g., tweets, texts, and emails). To evaluate authorship techniques in shorter messages, we first require a dataset of imitation attacks on these different message types. I asked Amazon Mechanical Turk participants to generate samples of their own writing style as well as imitations of previously generated samples. With these data in hand, I assessed (i) how well humans can detect imitations across different message length and medium types, and (ii) whether the imitations differ by 51 linguistic features used previously in automatic detection. In Aim 1, an investigation of human detection, participants were asked to read samples from a given target author and judge if an additional message was from the target author or an imitator. I found that shorter messages are easier to imitate and also make detection harder. People performed at about random chance when attempting to detect imitations in shorter mediums (texts and tweets) and only a little bit better in longer mediums (emails). Automatic detection on the other hand, historically performs better than humans at detecting imitations. In Aim 2, automatic linguistic feature analysis, I looked at linguistic feature usage to examine how much people were able to change their natural writing style to look more like that of the target when creating an imitation. This allowed me to determine which of these features are easier/harder to shift and if this varies across mediums. This research provides the foundation for future automatic linguistic-feature-based techniques that can detect imitation attacks robustly across different message types.
ff ectiveness of telenutrition in a women ’ s weight loss program

Objective. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of telenutrition versus traditional nutritional consultations for female obese patients in need of nutritional treatment. Methods. A comparative clinical study was conducted among 233 obese or overweight women (including 20 who dropped out and 60 who failed) who consulted a nutrition clinic in Barranquilla (Colombia) for nutritional assessment and chose either telenutrition or a traditional consultation that included a weekly follow-up consultation over 16 weeks, food consumption patterns, Body Mass Index (BMI, kg/m2) registeration and waist and hip circumference registeration. Treatment responses and differences between telenutrition and the traditional consultations were made according to BMI, waist, hip and initial-waist/height ratio (iWaist), calculating for the relative risk. Results. In 68 (29.2%) women who chose traditional attention, 9 (37.5%) dropped out, 24 (40%) failed and 35 (23.5%) were successful, showing 1.4% (1.0 SD) BMI loss, 5.8% (3.4 SD) in waist circumference, 4.5% (2.8 SD) in hip circumference and 0.04% (0.02 SD) in iWaist/height ratio. In 165 (70.8%) women who chose telenutrition, 15 (62.5%) dropped out, 36 (60%) failed and 114 (76.5%) were successful, showing 1.1% (1.0 SD) BMI loss, 5.0% (3.2 SD) in waist circumference, 3.5% (3.1 SD) in hip circumference and 0.03% (0.02 SD) in iWaist/height ratio. A significance level of p < 0.05 is considered. Conclusion. Telenutrition has a failure or dropout risk factor of about half of the value of traditional consultation, and showed slight, statistically significant differences. This study concludes that telenutrition can support or sometimes replace traditional consultations when developing weight loss programs for obese women. Subjects Global Health, Nutrition, Public Health
Tree Species , State of Decay , and Orientation in Relation to Woodpecker Cavity Nesting

Many bird species construct nests to protect and incubate their eggs. Woodpeckers construct thd1r nests in tree cavities they excavate themselves, and therefore can control what type of tree they are nesting in and where the entrance is oriented. Unhealthy trees of softer wood may be easidr to excavate than healthy hardwood, and sunlight may assist parents in keeping their young i t a stable incubation temperature. Based on historical accounts at the University of Michigan Biblogical Station and current observations, we hypothesized that woodpeckers favor dead or dyin~ aspen trees, and their morning activity indicates that eastward facing holes would be the most favorable for sun exposure. We searched several northern Michigan forests for woodpecker lnesting cavities and recorded the tree's state of decay and direction. Through our observations we determined that woodpeckers favor dead aspen trees, but there was no discernable wreference for cavity direction. This data can inform future studies about the reproductive behavior of northern Michigan woodpeckers. I grant the Regents of the University of Michigan the non-exclusive right to retain, reproduce, and distributb my paper, titled in electronic formats and at no cost throughout the world. I The University of Michigan may make and keep more than one copy of the Paper for purposes of I security, backup, preservation and access, and may migrate the Paper to any medium or format for the purpdse of preservation and access in the future. Signed, Kaitlyn Hines, Rebecca Clemons, Isabel Maternowski, and Yeaeun Park
Correcting The Frequency Deviation And Time-Sensitive Telecommunications Smt

A multi-carrier communication system of the disadvantages is sensitivity to synchronization errors. These systems are more sensitive than single carrier systems are synchronization errors. The most important of these errors can be noted when the error frequency and error. Frequency deviation due to the difference between the oscillation frequency transceiver devices or Doppler shift occurs due to the occurrence of the phenomenon. The resources can be offset by the delay in receiving the signal in the receiver's publishing phenomenon. One of the other problems systems, sensitivity to received signal is frequency shift. This could be due to the frequency difference between the transmitter and receiver oscillators or caused by time-dependent channels. In this paper, multi-carrier communication systems and their structure is checked. After the introduction of SMT, impact, estimating and correcting deviations in the system investigated. To estimate the frequency deviation and the time before the DFT, SMT system can be intermittent or continuous auxiliary data can be used. However, estimates of frequency deviation using auxiliary data after DFT is desirable alternative. This method applies to systems SMTMA mode range is limited, but the disadvantages of this method is to estimate the frequency deviation. On the other hand, however, the method of estimating the frequency deviation and the time before the DFT auxiliary data can be generalized to non-periodic SMTMA system, but the frequency deviation estimator performance was not desirable.
A Virtual Sculpting System Based on Triple Dexel Models with Haptics

AbstractThis paper presents the development of a Virtual Sculpting system and addresses the issues of interactive freeform solid modeling with haptic interface. The workpiece and the sculpting tool are both represented by triple-dexel models and a sculpting tool is controlled by a force-reflective input device. Virtual sculpting is implemented via a series of Boolean operations that computationally subtract/unite successive tool volumes from the workpiece. The haptic device PHANToM Omni is used as an input device to provide the position and orientation data of the sculpting tool, and it is also used as an output device to provide force feedback during sculpting. The freeform workpiece can be converted into triangular mesh models using a novel triple-dexel surface reconstruction method.
Applying Continuous Integration for Increasing the Maintenance Quality and Efficiency of Web App

In order to project resource management and time control, software system needs to be decomposed into subsystems, functional modules and basis components. Finally, all tested components have to integrate to be the complete system. Applying IID (Iterative Incremental Development) mechanism, agile development model becomes the practical method to reduce software project failure rate. Continuous integration (CI) is an IID implementation concept which can effectively reduce software development risk. Web app with high change characteristic is suitable to use agile development model as the development and maintenance methodology. The paper depth surveys CI operating environment and advantages. Introducing CI concept can make up the moving target problems to impact of Web app. For this, the paper proposes a Continuous Integration based Web Applications Maintenance Procedure (CIWAMP) to assist the system integration operating. Based on CI characteristics, CIWAMP makes Web app can be deployed quickly, increase stakeholder communication frequency, improve staff morale, and effectively reduce Web app maintenance quality and efficiency
Suggestibility: A History and Introduction

The 1970s and early 1980s heralded a new era in the study of suggestibility in legal contexts, an area that had been largely neglected since the early twentieth century. Using experimental studies, Elizabeth Loftus in the USA demonstrated how easy it was, under certain circumstances, to mislead people into remembering incorrect details about a witnessed event (Loftus, Miller, & Burns, 1978 ). Loftus’s was an experimental approach. In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson
Cloud Drives Forensic Artifacts

This research proposed in this paper focuses on gathering evidence from devices with Windows 10 operating systems in order to discover and collect artifacts left by cloud storage applications that suggest their use even after the deletion of the Google client application. We show where and what type of data remnants can be found using our analysis which can be used as evidence in a digital forensic investigations. Keywords— Cloud Storage Forensics, Cloud Application Artifacts, Data Remnants, Data Carving, Digital Forensic Investigations
Pelvic trauma Coccolini , Federico 2017-01-18

Complex pelvic injuries are among the most dangerous and deadly trauma related lesions. Different classification systems exist, some are based on the mechanism of injury, some on anatomic patterns and some are focusing on the resulting instability requiring operative fixation. The optimal treatment strategy, however, should keep into consideration the hemodynamic status, the anatomic impairment of pelvic ring function and the associated injuries. The management of pelvic trauma patients aims definitively to restore the homeostasis and the normal physiopathology associated to the mechanical stability of the pelvic ring. Thus the management of pelvic trauma must be multidisciplinary and should be ultimately based on the physiology of the patient and the anatomy of the injury. This paper presents the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) classification of pelvic trauma and the management Guidelines.