Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fate of steroid estrogens in Australian inland and coastal wastewater treatment plants

A comparison of estrone (E1), 17 b -estradiol (E2) and 17 a -ethinylestradiol (EE2) removal at a coastal enhanced primary and inland advanced sewage treatment plant (STP) is reported. The average concentration of estrogens in the raw sewage is similar to reports in other studies. The sequential batch reactor at the advanced STP removed on average 85% of the incoming E1 and 96% of the E2. Further removal was observed during later microfiltration with the estrogen concentration below detection (<0.1 ng.L -1 ) after reverse osmosis. Some 6% of the influent E1+E2 was removed in the waste activated sludge. The detection of EE2 in the waste activated sludge (0.42 ng.g -1 solids dry weight), undetectable in the raw sewage, suggests that EE2 is resistant to biological treatment in the sequential batch reactor and is primarily removed due to sorption. Little estrogen removal was observed at the enhanced primary with only 7% of E1 and 0% of E2 removed. Low removal is expected based on the degree of estrogens partitioning in the organic fraction given the relatively low solids concentration, but surprisingly, some 43% of E2, 24% of E1 and 100% of EE2 remains associated with the solids fraction in the treated effluent. Further research is necessary to determine whether the low level of estrogen removal
Molecular genetic study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa DNA repair system

Bacteria Pseudomonas aurginosa , E coli and Stapthylococcus aureus were exposure to different doses of ultraviolet radiation and survival curves drawn for each type, the results show that the bacteria Pseudomonas aurginosa more resistant by UV radiation than Ecoli and Stapthylococcus aureus bacteria. The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa was irradiated with different doses of U.V light via wave length( 254 nm ) for different periods ( 50 , 100 , 150 , and 200 sec ) . It appear that part of irradiated bacterial culture was exposed to sun light and the other part was kept in the dark . The survivors of the cells exposed to the sun light was more than the dark and this ensure possessing the bacterium photoreactivating repair system investigate the excision repair system, the minimal inhibitory concentration ( MIC) of caffeine against bacteria was studied by exposing the bacterium to different concentrations of caffeine (10 , 15 , 20 and 25 mg/ml ) and the MIC was 20 mg/ml , Furthermore the bacterium was exposed to different times of U.V. light in the presence of caffeine and the studying ensure that the survivors of the cells in the medium with caffeine was less than the medium with absence of caffeine and this leads to possess the bacterium excision repair system. To detect the recombination repair system , the bacterium was exposed to the concentrations( 0.1 ,0.2 , 0.3 , 0.4 μg / ml) of acrivlavine and the MIC was 0.3 μg / ml , then the bacterium was exposed to different times of U.V. light in the presence of acrivlavine . The survivors of the cells in the medium with acrivlavine was less compared with the absence of acrivlavine. It would seem that possessing bacterium recombination repair system . sensitivity test of the bacterium against antibiotics was established and the results appeare that it was to the antibiotics Chloramphenicol, Carpencillin, Trimethoprim, Rifampicin The diameters of inhibition were (16,20,17,18) mm respectively and resistant to the antibiotics Amoxicillin, Ampicillin, Clindomycin, Cloxacillin , Nalidixic acid , Cephaloxin , Tetracyclin and Tobromycin. To study SOS repair system the bacterium was mutated with direct mutagens represented with nitrous acid and indirect mutagens represented with U.V. light to isolate Rifampicin and Chloramphenicol mutants. It is quite likely that the sensitivity of bacterium for mutagenesis then possessing SOS repair system .
A COMPACT DUAL-POLARIZED BROADBAND ANTENNA WITH HYBRID BEAM-FORMING CAPABILITIES

A broadband dual-polarized four-port (DPFP) antenna is presented in this paper, which consists of a radiation element and a feed network. It is very compact in size, with the diameter of 150.0mm and the height of 47.0mm, with the following unique properties: (1) it has hybrid beam-forming capability and operates at two modes, which depends on its excitation; (2) its operating frequency range is from 0.96 to1.78GHz, and the return loss is about 10dB; (3) its insertion loss is (3 § 0:5)dB, with its balanced power splitting over the relative bandwidths of 37% at Mode 1 (180 - § 5 - phase shifting) and 55% at Mode 2 (§5 - phase shifting), respectively; (4) an isolation of 30dB at Mode 1 is obtained between the dual polarized ports, with the gain of 7.6dBi and 42 - of the 3dB-bandwidth at 1.25GHz; and (5) the gain difierence between Modes 1 and 2 is about 7dB, within the angle of i15 - • µ • 15 - for the same polarization at 1.25GHz. For the application of DPFP, a hybrid beam forming algorithm is proposed with an angular precision of 7 - and is validated by measurement.
Response measurement of various neutron dose equivalent monitors in 134-387 MeV neutron fields

Yoshihiro Nakane, Masayuki Hagiwara, Yosuke Iwamoto, Hiroshi Iwase, Daiki Satoh, Tatsuhiko Sato, Hiroshi Yashima, Tetsuro Matsumoto, Akihiko Masuda, Tomoya Nunomiya, Yukio Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nakashima, Atsushi Tamii, Kichiji Hatanaka and Takashi Nakamura Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 319-1195, Japan; High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-0801, Japan; Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, 2 Asashiro-Nishi, Kumatori-cho, Sennan-gun, Osaka, 590-0494, Japan; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8561, Japan; Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., 1 Fuji-machi, Hino-shi, Tokyo, 191-8502, Japan; ATOX Co., Ltd., 1201 Takada, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-0861, Japan; Research center for Nuclear Physics, 10-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka University, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan; Tohoku University, 6-6 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
RF AMPLITUDE MODULATION TO SUPPRESS LONGITUDINAL COUPLED BUNCH INSTABILITIES IN THE SPS

Without specific counter measures, the LHC type beam in the SPS suffers from longitudinal coupled bunch instabilities. To get rid of them, the SPS impedance has been decreased in the last years and the operation of a high frequency Landau damping system has been established. In case of the absence of this Landau damping system one may alternatively introduce an RF amplitude modulation to stabilize the beam. We present results obtained by this method in the SPS and considerations for a potential increase of the longitudinal stability of the LHC.
Intention to Quit and the Demand Control Model: A Case of Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor Status Companies

In the fast paced global economy where trades are being conducted everywhere and at any time, the focus of organizations has shifted from the traditional view of producing what they think are needed by the market to a new paradigm whereby they are now to produce products or services that the markets desire literally. One requirement of surviving in such challenging business environment is to be able to retain performing employees whereby employee loyalty has been a thing of the past. This study will look into three critical factors that are often associated with unwelcome behaviors in the organizations such as low motivation, low organizational commitment, less satisfaction which in turn will lead to lower productivity, creativity and innovations and may result in employees quitting. The main objectives of this particular study are to explore the degree of intention to quit, examine relationships between job demands; job control; social support with turnover intention; also to examine the ability of the demand control variables (Karasek, 1979) in explaining turnover intention among IT executives. The sector which is being investigated is the small and medium companies which operate in the IT related businesses particularly Small and Medium companies in Malaysia. Results showed that only job demand and job control have significant associations with turnover intention and subsequently the demand control model is unable to explain the variances in turnover intention. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016. v7n2p217
Lossless Adjustment in Software Defined Survivable Network:A Simulation Study

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, it is critical to increase the survivability of the networks. A software-defined network based disruption recovery approach is proposed. It employs a centralized survivable controller to detect damage to network such as link disconnection or node broken, then it recomputed the transmit path of every influencing routing. In the first fastest recovery phase, local recovery routing would be investigated between damaged links and areas; in the second lossless adjustment phase, shortest routing path would be searched to replace local recovery routing in a lossless manner. Simulation experiments were demonstrated and showed that software-defined network based disruption recovery has a more rapidly recovery ability and has low influence on up layer transport protocol. Keywords-survivable network; software defined networks; network simulation; lossless adjustment
Band structure of CuMnAs probed by optical and photoemission spectroscopy

The tetragonal phase of CuMnAs progressively appears as one of the key materials for antiferromagnetic spintronics due to efficient current-induced spin-torques whose existence can be directly inferred from crystal symmetry. Theoretical understanding of spintronic phenomena in this material, however, relies on the detailed knowledge of electronic structure (band structure and corresponding wave functions) which has so far been tested only to a limited extent. We show that AC permittivity (obtained from ellipsometry) and UV photoelectron spectra agree with density functional calculations. Together with the x-ray diffraction and precession electron diffraction tomography, our analysis confirms recent theoretical claim [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094406 (2017)] that copper atoms occupy lattice positions in the basal plane of the tetragonal unit cell.
Do Oil Prices Matters for Indian Stock Markets? An Empirical Analysis

This paper investigates the long run relationship between oil prices and stock prices for India over the period April 2000June 2011. We employ Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model that takes into consideration the long run relationship. The results obtained suggest that volatility of stock prices in India have a significant impact on the volatility of oil prices. But a change in the oil prices does not have impact on stock prices.
A Thoroughgoing Detail of Surgical Enrichments

Injury to the skin provides a unique challenge, as wound healing is a complex and intricate process. Acute wounds have the potential to move from the acute wound to chronic wounds, requiring the physician to have a thorough understanding of outside interventions to bring these wounds back into the healing cascade. Surgical enrichment/dressings are applications for wounds, burns, and ulcers. They should be regarded as supportive of healing; are desirable but not essential in an emergency. There are currently plenty of dressings available in the market to aid in wound healing. Before choosing a dressing for a specific injury, a physician must assess carefully the needs of the wound to understand which dressing would ensure maximum interest. Basically, there is nothing called best choice, and it is crucial that the merits/demerits of each dressing system be understood. This article has provided a framework to assist in dressing assessment. This article reveals measurement of wound healing and the functions of wound dressings. A variety of dressings and their respective details are detailed.
Anti-Submarine Warfare With Continuously Active Sonar TNO Tests the Principle of Continuously Active Sonar With the Interim Removable Low-Frequency Active Sonar System

ty of detection increases in the case of continuous illumination. Another advantage of continuous illumination is that there are no gaps of information. With pulsed sonar, the operator only sees new information for the period of time the target is illuminated, whereas the update rate with CAS can be continuous. One can assume this will provide opportunities for improving the tracking performance. Furthermore, it is expected that CAS can be used for the suppression of false alarms, one of the main problems in shallow-water ASW. In addition to continuous illumination, there are also environmental considerations. With CAS, the same amount of
NIDCAP and developmental care

Perinatal mortality in very low birth weight infants has dramatically decreased during the last decades. However, 15-25% of these infants will show neurodevelopmental impairment later on. The aim of implementing early developmental care (EDC), emerged as a new field in neonatology, is to create an intervention program designed to provide support for optimal neurobehavioral development during this highly vulnerable period of brain growth. The theoretical framework, which underlies the approach, is supported by research in different scientific fields, including neuroscience, psychology, medicine and nursing. EDC utilizes a range of medical and nursing interventions that aim to decrease the stress of preterm neonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care Assessment Program (NIDCAP) is an integrated and holistic form of family-centered developmental care. Changing the traditional NICU towards an EDC-NICU includes training nursing and medical staff, investing in their quality and most importantly keeping parents in proximity to the infants. The new challenge of modern neonatology is to restore the mother-infant dyad applying “couplet care” starting at birth until discharge. Most of the European NICUs apply some elements of EDC, but it is more consistent in northern Europe. The development of NIDCAP training centers in Europe demonstrates the evolution of care. It is likely that future research and intervention programs will optimize our practices. Developmental care could prove to be an important recent step in improving outcome in extremely preterm neonates. Proceedings of the 10 th International Workshop on Neonatology · Cagliari (Italy) · October 22 nd -25 th , 2014 · The last ten years, the next ten years in Neonatology Guest Editors: Vassilios Fanos, Michele Mussap, Gavino Faa, Apostolos Papageorgiou
The relationship between consumer characteristics and attitude toward online shopping

The purpose of the experiment reported here was to examine Internet user concerns and perceptions of online shopping. The attitude of Internet users toward online shopping was measured using the Fishbein model. The relative factors influencing user attitudes toward online shopping and the relationship between the attitude and the influence factors were explored. The results show that the Fishbein model can effectively measure consumer attitudes and the examined consumer characteristics were important influence factors on consumer attitudes and online shopping decisions.
Video Retrieval System using Shot detection and Analysis of Frame Dissimilarities using Different Parameters

Today, nearly above 400million of population uses internet. Internet is mostly used for search engines like google, where an individual search for information. Roughly 100million hours of videos are uploaded over internet daily (Viz. YouTube, Netflix, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Metacafe, etc.) due to this tremendous amount of data is generated. Semantic/context based search is use which matches fast but only with correct tags. Each and every video is assigned with tags, the desired video is retrieved if and only if correct tags are used. Due to involvement of large number of frames in videos, it is difficult to extract desired video using context based matching. The proposed system is developed to extract desired video from huge data base. Algorithm consists of content based shot detection method and features are extracted for each data set of videos. Further, the frames dissimilarities are analyzed by different parameters like entropy, probability, color, etc. User can search desired video by using image as an input to the system. Proposed system successfully achieved 100% accuracy in content based search. This algorithm also reduces the search time than the existing one that is roughly 0.3ms/video, which is much faster and reliable. Expectation oof system is algorithm fits for content based video search and also gives alternative to context based search (e.g. Netflix, YouTube).
Search for sdB/WD pulsators in the Kepler FOV

In this article we present the preliminary results of an observational search for subdwarf B and white dwarf pulsators in the Kepler field of view (FOV), performed using the DOLORES camera attached to the 3.6 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). Individual Objects: KIC10 05807616, KIC10 02020175
Working Paper 2007 | 17 Macroeconomic shocks and financial vulnerability

The aim of this paper is to identify the relationship between macroeconomic shocks and financial vulnerability in the Argentine case for the period 1977-2004, by using VEC models. The results show that falls in the deposit-currency ratio (indicator of crisis or financial vulnerability) would be associated with capital outflows, drops in the terms of trade, contractions in real GDP, depreciations in real exchange rates, and increases in international real interest rates. Economic recessions Granger-cause deposit-currency ratio declines; whereas real GDP would behave like a (weak and strong) exogenous variable.
Examining the relationship between job security, compensation and training among professional sport coaches in South Africa

Sport organizations are mainly in the business of providing a service – for example sport coaching. For coaches to perform at the optimal level they need, among other things, to be provided with appropriate training and development opportunities to develop their skills, adequate compensation which will lead to greater job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job security. The sport organization therefore needs to shape and align its HRM system to suit the needs of coaches so that it can attract, nurture and retain one of its most precious resources – the sport coach. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between job security, compensation and training among professional sport coaches in South Africa. A quantitative research approach was used for the study. A non-probability convenience sampling method was used to recruit a sample of human resources managers for the study. A two-section structured questionnaire was developed to collect data from potential participants in all provinces in South Africa. Frequencies were used to report on the demographic data and correlations and regressions were used to report on the relationship between job security, training and compensation of sport coaches. A positive practical significant relationship was found between training and compensation (medium effect). A practically significant relationship with a positive large effect was found between training and job security. A positive statistically significant effect was found between compensation and job security. The results of the regression analysis revealed that training predicted positively towards job security, implying that if employees receive more training their job security is higher. The current study provides crucial evidence of the influence of both compensation and training on the job security of sport coaches. From the findings it is evident that training makes a larger contribution to the job security of coaches than compensation.
Increasing Isotropy of Intrinsic Compliance in Robot Arms through Biarticular Structure

Abstract In human-robot interaction passive compliance is fundamental for safety, however stiffness is necessary for performance. These two factors motivate intrinsic compliance modulation in robots interacting with humans. Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSAs) allow for simultaneous position and stiffness control of a joint, therefore they have been implemented in the realization of intrinsically compliant and high performance robot arms. Most applications employ VSAs in a monoarticular structure, that is one actuator produces torque about one joint. In the biological world however, bi-articular muscles (muscles spanning two joints) play a fundamental role in motion control for humans, not only reducing link inertia, but also increasing isotropy of end effector force and compliance. In this work, a robot arm with VSAs and two interchangeable actuation structures (the traditional monoarticular and human-like biarticular) is built. The end effector intrinsic compliance in both the actuation structures is measured. Experimental results suggest that the biarticular VSA structure is more suitable for compliant robot arms.
Butterflies (Lepidoptera) highlight the ecological value of shrubland and grassland mosaics in Cypriot garrigue ecosystems

We used butterfly assemblages to evaluate the ecological value of habitat mosaics within garrigue ecosystems in Cyprus. To understand the importance of the local plant communities for Cypriot butterflies, five plots in each of two habitat types (grass- dominated or shrub-dominated) were surveyed weekly for a period of five months in order to assess the abundance, species richness and diversity of butterflies. A total of 810 butterflies of 16 species were recorded. Indices of butterfly diversity, calculated across the whole season, were similar between grassland and shrubland dominated mosaics. However, species richness of all butterflies was consistently higher in grassland dominated mosaics throughout the whole season. The peak abundance of all butterfly species occurred during mid-season (late April - early May), with similar numbers observed in both habitat types. However, a greater abun- dance was observed during early and late season in grassland patches. The abundance of endemic species (Maniola cypricola, Hip- parchia cypriensis, Glaucopsyche paphos) peaked earlier in the season in shrubland patches, but was higher in grassland patches in late season. This difference in seasonal timing of endemic abundance was dominated by the seasonal dynamics of M. cypricola. These results suggest that, while garrigue is characterised by its shrub flora, management to maintain a mosaic of grassland and shru- bland could act to maximise the abundance and richness of indicator species groups of conservation importance.