Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preimaginal Phases and Development of Spalangia gemina and Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae)

The development and morphology of immature phases of Spalangia gemina Boucek and Pachycrepoideus vindemiae Rondani are described from a laboratory reared culture maintained on the house fly Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae). Body width and length of pupal parasitoid were recorded. These 2 characteristics were determined for each larval instar and classified using cluster analysis in the SAS program. Developmental time from egg to adult of S. gemina and P. vindimiae was approximately 18 - 24 days and 15 - 18 days respectively at 25±3 °C and 45 - 65 % relative humidity. Eggs of S. gemina and P. vindemiae are hymenopteriform. Their incubation times are 24 - 48 h. The results show that the different numbers of larval instars in these parasitoids are well classified. The larvae of S. gemina has 3 instars with protuberances present on the last instar, whereas, P. vindemiae has 4 larval instars and the final instar lacks proturberances. The instars of P. vindemiae are morphologically similar except size and color of internal organs. Prepupae of both species are exarate and noticeably excrete meconium from the body. This information on preimaginal stages can be useful in the production and identification of parasitoids of the house fly.
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting: A connection configuration scheme to increase operational range and output power

For a conventional monolithic piezoelectric transducer (PT) using a full-bridge rectifier, there is a threshold voltage that the open-circuit voltage measured across the PT must attain prior to any transfer of energy to the storage capacitor at the output of the rectifier. This threshold voltage usually depends on the voltage of the storage capacitor and the forward voltage drop of diodes. This article presents a scheme of splitting the electrode of a monolithic piezoelectric vibration energy harvester into multiple (n) equal regions connected in series in order to provide a wider operating voltage range and higher output power while using a full-bridge rectifier as the interface circuit. The performance of different series stage numbers has been theoretically studied and experimentally validated. The number of series stages ( n ≥ 1 ) can be predefined for a particular implementation, which depends on the specified operating conditions, to achieve optimal performance. This enables the system to attain comparable performance compared to active interface circuits under an increased input range while no additional active circuits are required and the system is comparatively less affected by synchronized switching damping effect.
Electronic data collection using mobile computing technologies

Research has been conducted on a large telecommunications utility to automate an important business process of the utility, that of collecting information on its geographically dispersed network assets, using mobile computing and wireless technologies. The results of the pilot for this automated business process have been encouraging and indicate a means to improve the productivity of the data collection process, and its integrity. The research compares this automated process with the current, manual, process of sourcing the field network asset data using paper-based templates. This sourcing process is followed by a data capture process to input the data from the paper template into the utility's central GIS. The new electronic process is also a two-step process, but the second step, is a quality assurance process prior to submitting the sourced data directly into the GIS database, as the field data is already captured electronically by the PDA. The automated business process has been geared for use by low-skilled field workers, so important to improve productivity in third world economies such as those in Africa. An aspect of the research was the technology acceptability by users of the electronic data collection process.
Holocene weak summer East Asian monsoon intervals in subtropical Taiwan and their global synchronicity

Abstract. Sedimentary total organic carbon and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio records from the subalpine Retreat Lake in NE Taiwan reveal four centennial periods (~8–8.3, 5.1–5.7, 4.5–~2.1, and 2–1.6 kyr BP) of relatively reduced summer East Asian monsoon (EAM) precipitation that were superimposed on the insolation-dependent, long-term decreasing monsoon trend during the middle and late Holocene while early Holocene monsoon strength was controlled by glacial boundary conditions. Strikingly, all weak monsoon events correlate with the timings of low sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific, maxima of hematite stained-grains in the sediments of North Atlantic, reduced formation of North Atlantic Deep Water, and low concentrations of atmospheric methane over Greenland, suggesting a globally well-connected postglacial climate (from ca. 8.6 kyr BP onwards). Persistent linkage of weak summer EAM-tropical Pacific and North Atlantic cooling-reduced global wetland extent during these intervals is believed to be driven by coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions, especially reduced heat and moisture transport and enhanced El Nino-Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific, as well as solar activity. Overall similarity of summer EAM with diverse proxy records and their coincidence to abrupt changes witnessed in other paleorecords across the world imply that the centennial-scale reorganizations in the tropical Pacific climate dynamics may have been playing an important role, of course closely in phase with solar variations and North Atlantic climate, in the Holocene summer EAM and, by extension, low-latitude's monsoon instability.
The Role of Teaching Swimming in the Formation of a Conscious Healthy Lifestyle

Swimming plays a particularly important role in the formation of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being and in the preservation of health. The aim of this study was to investigate whether health-based education works through swimming education. A survey was carried out by submitting an anonymous questionnaire to swimming educators (N = 46). The sample consisted of people who teach swimming to primary school pupils: physical education teachers, swimming instructors, lifeguards, and swimming coaches (PE teachers 58.7%, instructors and others 41.3%; men 58.7%, women 41.3%). Both a descriptive and a comparative approach were used to analyze data. Based on their inquiry, the authors determined that, unfortunately, those teaching swimming do not commonly consider it important to form health-conscious behavior in their students. It appears that in teaching swimming to children, the principles that are important for the preservation of health in adult age do not predominate.
Loose Legendrians and the plastikstufe

We show that the presence of a plastikstufe induces a certain degree of flexibility in contact manifolds of dimension 2nC1> 3. More precisely, we prove that every Legendrian knot whose complement contains a “nice” plastikstufe can be destabilized (and, as a consequence, is loose). As an application, it follows in certain situations that two nonisomorphic contact structures become isomorphic after connect-summing with a manifold containing a plastikstufe. 57R17
Regularization and Model Selection in the Context of Density Estimation

We propose a new information theoretically based optimization criterion for the estimation of mixture density models and compare it with other methods based on maximum likelihood and maximum a posterio estimation. For the optimization, we employ an evolutionary algorithm which estimates both structure and parameters of the model. Experimental results show that the chosen approach compares favourably with other methods for estimation problems with few sample data as well as for problems where the underlying density is non-stationary.
Adaptive Synchronization Control of Multiple Vessels with Switching Communication Topologies and Time Delay

Recently, synchronization movement control of multiple vessels has been studied broadly. In most of the studies, the communication network among vessels is considered to be fixed and the time delay is often ignored. However, the communication network among vessels maybe vary because of switching of different tasks, and the time delay is necessary to be considered when the communication network is unreliable. In this paper, the synchronization movement of multiple vessels with switching connected communication topologies is studied, and an adaptive synchronization control algorithm that is based on backstepping sliding mode control is proposed. The control algorithm is achieved by defining cross coupling error which is combination of the trajectory tracking error and velocity tracking error. And an adaptive control term is used to estimate the external disturbances, so that the unknown external disturbances can be compensated. Furthermore, the robustness of the control law to time-varying time delay is also discussed. At last, some simulations are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed synchronization control algorithm.
Effect of copper salts on performance, cholesterol, residues in liver, eggs and excreta of laying hens

Incrementando de 0 a 250 mgCu/kg en la dieta con CuSO4.5H2O o proteinato de cobre (CuP), aumento la produccion diaria de huevos y unidades Haugh y disminuyo la ingestion de pienso por docena de huevos. La concentracion de colesterol en el huevo y en la yema disminuyo y las gallinas excretaron mas colesterol en el grupo suplementado con CuP. Las concentraciones de colesterol (esteres libres y total) en el higado y plasma, suplementando con CuSO4.5H2O, fueron mayores. Los niveles de colesterol del huevo, de la yema, del plasma asi como las lipoproteinas y colesterol del higado se redujeron linealmente al aumentar Cu de 0 a 250 mg. Las gallinas con dietas CuP tuvieron mayor (p<0,05) concentracion de Cu en higado. No hubo diferencia en los valores de los residuos de Cu en las excretas, huevo y yema.
Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on IFA-ELM

Extreme learning machine (ELM) is a simple and effective feedforward neural network. It can be used in pattern recognition. But its classification ability is not good enough. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposed an improved firefly algorithm and used it in the parameters selection of ELM. After establishing the IFA-ELM model, we use UCI standard data set to verify its classification ability. Finally, the model is used in bearing fault diagnosis and obtains a good result. Keywords-firefly algorithm, extreme learning machine, pattern recognition, fault diagnosis
A comparison of the usefulness of selected neuropathic pain scales in patients with chronic pain syndromes: a short communication

The aim of the study was to compare the usefulness of selected neuropathic pain scales in the diagnosis and monitoring of pain in patients with cancer and non-cancer pain syndromes. 62 patients with symptoms of chronic pain were enrolled in to the study. Following a routine medical examination (interview and physical examination) the patients together with the investigators completed four (DN4, PainDETECT, LANSS, MPQ). In addition, all the patients were examined using von Frey filaments to confirm the presence or absence of allodynia. Neuropathic pain was diagnosed using the scales in a total of 39 patients (62.9%). In addition, examination with von Frey filaments revealed hyperalgesia in 50%, hypoaesthesia in 30.95% and allodynia in 27% of the patients. The DN4 scale turned out to be the most sensitive (confirming neuropathic pain in 78.5% of all the study patients) and the LANSS scale turned out to be the least sensitive (confirming neuropathic pain in 48.49% of all the study patients). Adv. Pall. Med. 2010; 9, 4: 117–122
Ranking Through Clustering for Webdocument Using Semantic Similarity

Multidocument summarization is a set of documents on the same topic, the output will be a paragraph length summary. So the documents often cover a number of topic themes with each theme represented by a clustering of highly related sentences, sentence cluster has been explored in order to provide more informative summaries. An existing cluster-based ranking approach that directly generates clusters integrated with ranking. We proposed an integrated approach that overcomes the drawback that we provide ranking for same meaning of different words. The basic idea of the approach is that ranking distribution of sentences in each cluster should be quite different from others, which may serve as features of clusters and new clustering measures of sentences can be calculated accordingly. As a clustering result to improve or refine the sentence ranking results. The proposed approach is demonstrated by both the cluster quality analysis and the summarization evaluation conducted on the DUC 2004-2007 datasets.
Comparison of nutritional and functional properties of BK2 foxtail millet with rice, wheat and maize flour

The proximate composition, mineral contents and functional properties of BK2 FTM flour was determined and compared with three major cereals commonly consumed in Bangladesh like rice, wheat and maize flour. The samples were cleaned of foreign materials, milled and sieved through 60 μm meshes. The results showed that the BK2 FTM flour contained significantly higher (P<0.05) amount of energy (382.01 kcal) and fat (5.01 g/100g) compared to other major cereals. It also took the second highest value of protein, 9.06%, whereas wheat contained 10.39%, Rice, 6.31% and maize, 6.86%. Similarly, BK2 FTM flour enriched with iron 7.01 mg/100g, copper 1.43 mg/100g and phosphorous 595.12 mg/100g. The foaming capacity and bulk density of BK2 FTM flour were very similar to wheat flour. However, it varied significantly (p<0.05) as compared to rice and maize flour.Progressive Agriculture 29 (2): 186-194, 2018
An economist's guide to lottery design.

This paper outlines the issues relevant to the design of pari-mutuel lottery games and makes inferences about game design effects from estimates of how rollovers affect sales. Lottery tickets sales depend positively on the proportion of revenue returned as prizes, positively on the skewness of the prize distribution (which depends largely on how much of the prize money goes to the jackpot), and negatively on the variance in the prize distribution (which depends largely on how much goes on smaller prizes). We simulate the effects of envisaged game design changes on sales revenue and find potentially large effects.
Bacterial Community Succession During in situ Uranium Bioremediation: Spatial Similarities Along Controlled Paths

Bacterial community succession was investigated in a field-scale subsurface reactor formed by a series of wells that received weekly ethanol additions to re-circulating groundwater. Ethanol additions stimulated denitrification, metal reduction, sulfate reduction, and U(VI) reduction to sparingly soluble U(IV). Clone libraries of SSU rRNA gene sequences from groundwater samples enabled tracking of spatial and temporal changes over a 1.5 y period. Analyses showed that the communities changed in a manner consistent with geochemical variations that occurred along temporal and spatial scales. Canonical correspondence analysis revealed that the levels of nitrate, uranium, sulfide, sulfate, and ethanol strongly correlated with particular bacterial populations. As sulfate and U(VI) levels declined, sequences representative of sulfate-reducers and metal-reducers were detected at high levels. Ultimately, sequences associated with sulfate-reducing populations predominated, and sulfate levels declined as U(VI) remained at low levels. When engineering controls were compared to the population variation via canonical ordination, changes could be related to dissolved oxygen control and ethanol addition. The data also indicated that the indigenous populations responded differently to stimulation for bio-reduction; however, the two bio-stimulated communities became more similar after different transitions in an idiosyncratic manner. The strong associations between particular environmental variables and certain populations provide insight into the establishment of practical and successful remediation strategies in radionuclide-contaminated environments with respect to engineering controls and microbial ecology.
The Role and Challenges of Compression in Medical Image Communication

Information represented in a digitized image format is very easy to handle. These image files contain massive amounts of information, which requires efficient storage and transfer methods. There is requirement of investigation of quality issues, transfer methods, and storage mechanisms for such large size of these image files. Image compression requires less storage space for large image files. The transfer time is reduced for compressed files, while moving over networks. The aim of image compression techniques is to reduce the amount of data needed to accurately represent an image, such that this image can be economically transmitted or archived. In the field of medical imaging the use of computers is growing. Every day, a huge amount of data is produced from different medical imaging devices. Storage and transmission of this data becomes a problem, where bandwidth constraints are a major issue. This paper discusses the different types of image compression algorithm and the importance of image compression in medical communication. Some of the basic compression algorithms are used on test data and their performance is tested for wired communication.
Risk Taking Behaviour of Investors with Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder and Bipolar

Among main individual differences of the investors, risk taking tendency stands out. The risk taking behavior of investors with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder are surveyed with this research. Risk taking behavior can be measured with financial methods. In this study, beta is used as the metric of risk taking behavior. Turkish and Greek investors participated for this research which is performed with 187 participants. Stock exchange simulation is used to form collect the data. The results are compared to each other by using independent t-test, one way analysis of variance, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests. The healthy controls are compared to controls with bipolar and ADHD in each country, different results appeared in each country.
Handrail Support Define Handrail Support Prevalence Physiological Response to Handrail Support Hemodynamic Response to Handrail Support Hemodynamic Response to Load Carrying While Walking Hemodynamic Response to Voluntary Contraction During Walking

Physiological and hemodynamic responses to handrail support during treadmill walking have shown a blunted response when compared to non-handrail support. The effects of treadmill walking, with the inclusion of “heavy” upper limb and torso activation through handrail support is yet unreported. The effect of “heavy” support through side handrail support (SHRS) and front console support (C) versus no handrail support (NHRS) treadmill walking was studied utilizing both slow/low (2.5 mph & 3% elevation) and high/fast (3.5 mph & 11% elevation) energy expenditure levels. Seventeen healthy adults (43.89 +/6.07 years) completed trials at both energy expenditure levels incorporating all three handrail support conditions within 1 week, separated by at least 1 day. SBP, DBP, HR, and RPE were measured. SBP was 8.6% and 5.9% lower during C compared to NHRS (p<0.001) and SHRS (p=0.005), respectively, in the slow/low trials and 17.9% lower compared to NHRS (p<0.001) in the fast/high trials. SBP was 15.6% lower during SHRS compared to NHRS (p<0.001) during the fast/high trials. DBP was 10.9% and 9.1% lower during C compared to NHRS (p<0.001) and SHRS (p<0.001), respectively, during the fast/high trials. HR was 10.3% and 5.8% lower during C compared to NHRS (p<0.001) and SHRS (p=0.006), respectively, during the fast/high trials. No gender effect was noted. The amount of decrease in each variable was intensity dependent, which may be practically significant when prescribing exercise to a participant who relies on handrail support. Likewise, the removal of handrail support during treadmill walking in the healthy exerciser is no contraindicated.
Feeding the Robotic Milking Herd

Robotic milking has gained widespread acceptance, particularly in western Europe, as a way to reduce labor on dairy farms, increase production per cow, and improve the lifestyle of dairy farm families milking 40 to 250 cows (De Koning 2010). The growing popularity of this technology is evident in its rapid rate of adoption. In 2009, the estimated number of robotic dairy farms worldwide was 8000 (De Koning 2010). Just 6 years later, in 2015, Barkema et. al. (2015) suggest this number has more than tripled to 25,000 dairy farms worldwide. The percentage of herds using this technology is highest in Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands (Barkema et. al. 2015). Widespread adoption in these countries suggests at least a measure of success in helping dairy farmers achieve greater labor efficiency and a better lifestyle, but field experience suggests there is wide variation in the amount of labor saved and in the overall satisfaction of early adopters.
Climatic controls on water vapor deuterium excess in the marine boundary layer of the North Atlantic based on 500 days of in situ, continuous measurements

Abstract. Continuous, in situ measurements of water vapor isotopic composition have been conducted in the North Atlantic, at the Bermuda Islands (32.26° N, 64.88° W), between November 2011 and June 2013, using a cavity ring-down spectrometer water vapor isotope analyzer and an autonomous self-designed calibration system. Meticulous calibration allows us to reach an accuracy and precision on 10 min average of δ18O, δ D, and d-excess of, 0.14, 0.85, and 1.1‰, verified using two parallel instruments with independent calibration. As a result of more than 500 days with 6-hourly data the relationships between deuterium excess, relative humidity (RH), sea surface temperature (SST), wind speed, and wind direction are assessed. From the whole data set, 84 % of d-excess variance is explained by a strong linear relationship with relative humidity. The slope of this relationship (−42.6 ± 0.4‰ % (RH)) is similar to the theoretical prediction of Merlivat and Jouzel (1979) for SST between 20 and 30 °C. However, in contrast with theory, no effect of wind speed could be detected on the relationship between d-excess and relative humidity. Separating the data set into winter, spring, summer, and autumn seasons reveals different linear relationships between d-excess and humidity. Changes in wind directions are observed to affect the relationships between d-excess and humidity. The observed seasonal variability in the relationship between d-excess and relative humidity underlines the importance of long-term monitoring to make accurate conclusions.
Asian-style export-led growth and the role of law

This paper analyses the growth of Asian economies through its export-led industrialisation policies. Such growth has been uniquely achieved without greater reliance to law, which the neoliberal approach considers integral to development. Among others, this approach relies on private laws for the protection of property and contractual rights for the efficient and smooth functioning of the market where the state has little or no intervention. In this regard, the paper discusses the role of law in development and economic growth. It is submitted that the instrumental use of law and active state intervention in the Asian examples considered in this paper raises significant doubts on the necessity of law for economic growth.