Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FPGA Illuminate: A Web-based Demonstration and Testing Application for Field Programmable Gate Arrays

BACKGROUND: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), being electrically programmable, offer many advantages over fixed chips. For one, they allow real-design testing and demonstration before delivery of a final design. However, software applications that provide these abilities are uncommon because chip designs vary greatly in functionality. U sing several FPGA encryption cores as a starting point, a web-based application was developed with this aim. METHODS: Several core teclmologies were chosen to implement the application. HTML and JavaScript provide an interface that is accessible by any standard web browser. Perl and CGI run on a Linuxl Apache web server to direct the user interaction. The server is secured by robust open-source software, password protection, and encryption. C/C++ drivers are called to interface to a Xilinx-based FPGA device. RESULTS: The framework was built upon to support several AES and SHA cores. Testing functions operate on inputs including strings, images, and files; additionally, the VHDL design specification can be inspected. The system is modular, allowing for future additions of features and new FPGA designs. Because of the teclmologies used, there is minimum dependence on the supporting hardware. CONCLUSION: FPGA Illuminate provides a web-based GUI for local or remote demonstration and testing of Field Programmable Gate Arrays. This ability fills a need and further increases the latent benefits of FPGAs over fixed designs.
International socially responsible funds: financial performance and managerial skills during crisis and non-crisis markets

Nofsinger and Varma (2014) provide evidence that U.S. socially responsible funds outperform conventional funds during periods of market turmoil and, therefore, grant some crisis insurance. To investigate whether the U.S.-based evidence can be transferred to international markets, the authors analyze a comprehensive sample of internationally-investing socially responsible equity funds in a period from 2000 to 2012. As abnormal returns are model-specific, the authors apply standard and q-theory based performance measurement models. At first glance, the authors observe no crisis protection for internationally-investing socially responsible funds. However, splitting their sample in funds domiciled in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific to account for biases due to the origin of a fund, the authors find that socially responsible funds from North America outperform their peers in crisis periods irrespective of the applied performance evaluation model. The authors suggest that the U.S.-based evidence is restricted to internationally-investing funds domiciled in North America, and discover that this outperformance seems to be owed to the stock-picking abilities of North American fund managers and their advantage due to the nature of the North American market.
Use of calcein to estimate and validate age in juveniles of the winged pearl oyster Pteria sterna

Determining age is an important step when assessing growth, mortality, and yield of cultivated and wild populations, but studies linking shell growth marks in the pearl oyster Pteria sterna with the age of individuals are lack- ing. Thirty juveniles (20.0 ± 1.2 mm shell height), collected from a winter spatfall, were marked with the fluorochrome calcein and kept in the field in culture containers. After day 16, the juveniles were cleaned and their shells cut along the sagittal axis to determine periodicity of micro growth bands formed in the inner shell layers and to estimate age. During this trial, fluorescent calcein marking succeeded in individuals larger than 20 mm shell height; these formed an average of 15 micro growth bands over the 16 days, representing 1 band per day. The marker created a wide fluorescent band containing three micro growth marks, suggesting that calcein was incorporated into the shell over the first three days. The use of calcein was found to be an accurate method for validating the micro growth band frequency of formation in P. sterna juveniles, which in turn can help to estimate age.
Time Management Behavior as a Predictor of Role-Related Stress: Implications for School Counselors.

School counselors' roles can be described along a continuum from reactive to proactive. Whereas reactive services respond to crises, provide counseling, and provide other interventions, proactive services include programs provided with the intent to prevent problems before they occur. As increasing demands are placed on students, and as academic tasks become more complex, students' ability to manage time and stress becomes an essential component for academic success. The present study evaluated the utility of time management behaviors for predicting role-related stress among a student sample (N.116). Students enrolled in a college sophomore-level class completed a measure of time management behaviors and an index of role-related stress. Results suggest: (1) an inverse relationship between two factors comprising the Time Management Behavior Scale and role-related stress, as well as statistically significant yet substantively modest predictive utility.for the factors; and (2) perceptions about control of time and preference for organization are predictors of role-related stress. The results are discussed relative to school-based counseling and role-related stress management. School counselors can use this information proactively in planning time and stress-management programs. (EMK) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** Running head: TIME MANAGEMENT Time Management Behavior as a Predictor of Role-Related Stress: Implications for School Counselors Irvin G. Esters and Ellen F. Castellanos The University of Southwestern Louisiana U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 0 This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or policy. Time 1 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC). '' This study was prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association, November 4-6, 1998. Address all correspondence to Iry Esters, The Ce) University of Southwestern Louisiana, P.O. Drawer 43091, Lafayette, LA 70504. C3) C\I BEST COPY AVAILABLE
Bayesian equilibrium by iterative conjectures: a theory of games with players forming conjectures iteratively starting with first order uninformative conjectures

This paper introduces a new game theoretic equilibrium, Bayesian equilibrium by iterative conjectures (BEIC). It requires agents to make predictions, starting from first order uninformative predictive distribution functions (or conjectures) and keep updating with statistical decision theoretic and game theoretic reasoning until a convergence of conjectures is achieved. In a BEIC, rationality is achieved for strategies and conjectures. The BEIC approach is capable of analyzing a larger set of games than current Nash Equilibrium based games theory, including games with inaccurate observations, games with unstable equilibrium and games with double or multiple sided incomplete information games. On the other hand, for the set of games analyzed by the current games theory, it generates far lesser equilibriums and normally generates only a unique equilibrium. It also resolves inconsistencies in equilibrium results by different solution concepts in current games theory.
NOISE LEVELS IN DENTAL OFFICES AND LABORATORIES IN HAMEDAN, IRAN

Objective: Noise pollution is one of the most important situations requiring a solution by the contemporary world. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has identified noise as one of the ten leading causes of work-related diseases and injuries. Dentists and dental auxiliaries are exposed to different noise levels while working in dental offices or laboratories. The purpose of this study was to measure the noise level made by different dental instruments in dental offices and laboratories. Materials and Methods: Measurement of the noise level was performed in 89 dental offices and nine dental laboratories. The noise levels were determined using a sound level meter; type SL-4011 (Lutron) ,which was placed at the operator’s ear level in dental offices and laboratories and also at two-meter distance from the technician’s ear in laboratories. Results: The maximum sound level was 85.8 dB in dental offices and 92.0 dB in laboratories. In dental clinics, the highest noise was produced by the ultrasonic-scaler (85.8 dB) and the lowest noise (49.7 dB) by the high-volume aspirator, whereas in the laboratory, the highest noise was caused during grinding by the stonecutter (92.0 dB) and the lowest by the denture-polishing unit (41.0 dB). Conclusion: After close evaluation, we believe that the maximum noise level in dental offices, although often beneath the damaging noise level for the human ear, is very close to the limit of hearing loss (85.0 dB). However, laboratory technicians may be at risk if they choose not to wear ear protection (earplugs or earmuffs).
Differential interferometric phases at high spectral resolution as a sensitive physical diagnostic of circumstellar disks

Context. The circumstellar disks ejected by many rapidly rotating B stars (so-called Be stars) offer the rare opportunity of studying the structure and dynamics of gaseous disks at high spectral as well as angular resolution. Aims. This paper explores a newly identified effect in spectro-interferometric phase that can be used for probing the inner regions of gaseous edge-on disks on a scale of a few stellar radii. Methods. The origin of this effect (dubbed central quasi-emission phase signature, CQE-PS) lies in the velocity-dependent line absorption of photospheric radiation by the circumstellar disk. At high spectral and marginal interferometric resolution, photocenter displacements between star and isovelocity regions in the Keplerian disk reveal themselves through small interferometric phase shifts. To investigate the diagnostic potential of this effect, a series of models are presented, based on detailed radiative transfer calculations in a viscous decretion disk. Results. Amplitude and detailed shape of the CQE-PS depend sensitively on disk density and size and on the radial distribution of the material with characteristic shapes in differential phase diagrams. In addition, useful lower limits to the angular size of the central stars can be derived even when the system is almost unresolved. Conclusions. The full power of this diagnostic tool can be expected if it can be applied to observations over a full life-cycle of a disk from first ejection through final dispersal, over a full cycle of disk oscillations, or over a full orbital period in a binary system.
Structure of the natural enemies’ community composition to Thaumetopoea pityocampa and Thaumetopoea bonjeani (Lepidoptera Thaumetopoeidae) in the Algerian cedar forests

Life cycles and composition of the natural enemies’ complex of two Lepidoptera species Thaumetopoea pityocampa and Thaumetopoea bonjeani were studied in Algerian cedar forests at the culmination period between 1987-1988 and 2011-2012 life cycles. Eggs, larvae and pupae were collected from different infested areas and placed in laboratory in ambient temperature for the emergence of adult parasitoids flies and parasitics species. Analysis of results showed that specific parasitoids have over than 15% of incidence for T. pityocampa control. While for T. bonjeani the egg parasitoid Ooencyrtus pityocampae is the main species having a high performance more than 15%. Under this study the natural enemies species moths were listed (16 parasitoids, 12 predators and 5 entomopathogenics species) and described their life cycles to develop IPM for control those insect pests.
Macroeconomic Unemployment and Structural Unemployment

During the 1990s, the lowest sustainable rate of unemployment (LSRU) in Canada declined from the 7.5-to-8% range to perhaps around 6%. Barring an international recession and excessive rigidity on the part of the central bank, Canada could achieve this 6% unemployment level within a few quarters. There is a good persumption that eliminating macroeconomic unemployment and keeping the unemployment rate close to the LSRU level could help reduce structural unemployment.
HAND WRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR TEACHING CHILDREN ARABIC LANGUAGE BASED ON OCR

In this paper we present a new program (On-line Arabic Language Learning System (OALLS)), that can be used to learn the children how to write the arabic characters and words, then it examine if they can write the characters and the words in correct shape. The program is based on the image processing techniques and it deals with the arabic language characters. In this system we have 40 characters and 400 words, for each character and for each word we have 4 templates and 25 squared values, and the matching prcess based on the intensity of the colors in each field. This program summarized in two main parts : a learning part, and a testing part. The character or the word which is written will be matched with its template and show the result of the test. This program shows a good results and it recognize characters in many epoches with a high accuracy (98.60% for Characters and 96.50% for words), in which the experiments were applied on children with ages between 6-11 years. keywords : Hand Writing Recognition, Arabic Language, Image Processing, Microsoft Agent, Optical Character Recognition.
Interactive comment on “ Overlooked runaway feedback in the marine nitrogen cycle : the vicious cycle ” by A

Comment: My itemized comments and questions below outline these concerns: 1. On that note, in discussing the N2 fixation pattern of the (slightly confusingly named) "CONTROL" simulation (p. 8910, lines 5-6) the authors remark that it is in close agreement with the inferences of Deutsch (2007). This reads as if the authors believe this to be a good thing, whereas current evidence suggests that the inferred N2 fixation patterns of Deutsch et al (2007), based on the divergence of the tracer P*, are rather implausible. See for example the compiled observations of Breitbarth and LaRoche (2005) and the more recent compilation of Luo et al (2012 the MAREDAT compilation). Mills and Arrigo (2010) explain how variable elemental ratios in the phytoplankton can lead to this difficulty of interpreting P* divergence.
Capabilities and Equivalence of Systems and a Preview of Related Algebraic Structure

In this paper, we propose a different approach to modeling of a system that focuses on the capability of the system to participate in interactions with its environment. Accordingly, we use a mathematical object to describe this capability. In addition, we show an equivalency (from an outer point of view) between capabilities and states. Furthermore, we more generally discuss the equivalence of systems where comparison of capabilities and bisimulation are related. Finally, we define a composite algebraic structure and then show that capabilities of the system are a solution of a system of equations in this algebraic structure.
Addressing Concerns Related to the Use of Ethanol-Blended Fuels in Marine Vehicles

Ethanol blended fuels have become increasingly prevalent in the on-road transportation sector due to the benefits they provide in energy security, sustainability and reduced environmental impact. However, ethanol usage has led to material compatibility concerns causing corrosion and degradation in materials that are commonly used in engines and fuel storage/delivery systems. The on-road transportation sector continues to study and develop alternatives to minimize potential material challenges. Although, marine vehicles represent a smaller segment of the transportation sector, they represent many vehicles, particularly in the United States. Concerns related to the use of ethanol blended fuels in the marine environment have been expressed by many individuals and groups. Unfortunately, relatively little work has gone into the study of gasoline mixed with approximately 10% ethanol usage and potential material incompatibilities in marine engines. The objective of this article is to provide some factual answers to these concerns. In order to understand the extent of material incompatibilities, a literature survey of published material compatibility data and marine engine manufacturer recommendations was conducted. Next field samples of marine fuels were gathered to estimate the extent of ethanol usage in marine gasoline. Finally, samples of new and in-use marine components were exposed to either gasoline mixed with approximately 10% ethanol or gasoline with 0% ethanol for 1,960 hours to determine whether gasoline mixed with approximately 10% ethanol presented degradation beyond that seen with gasoline (gasoline with 0% ethanol) alone. This work has shown that many marine engine manufacturers have used ethanol compatible materials in current products and that exposure of older marine engine components to gasoline mixed with approximately 10% ethanol by did not reveal any significant degradation. Finally, marine fuel samples gathered in 2013, reveal that most marine gasoline sold in the Unites States does not contain significant levels of ethanol.
Immaturity vs Paedomorphism: a rhinesuchid Stereospondyl postcranium from the Upper Permian of South Africa

INTRODUCTION The Rhinesuchidae are a little-studied group of large, semi-aquatic stereospondyls, with a temporal range from the Late Permian to the Early Triassic. They are one of the most basal taxa in the diverse, mainly Mesozoic, group of temnospondyls known as the Stereospondyli (Yates & Warren 2000, Fig. 1). The postcranial skeleton of most of the derived stereospondyls is considered to be paedomorphic (sensu McNamara 1986), and adapted to an aquatic existence, as evidenced by the reduced, imperfectly ossified postcranial skeleton commonly seen in these taxa (Watson 1919). In distinct contrast, what is known of the postcranial skeleton of some basal stereospondyls is well-ossified and presumably capable of extended terrestrial locomotion (Panchen 1959; Pawley & Warren 2005; Yates 1999). While the postcranial skeleton of some of the more derived stereospondyls is well described, the description of the most basal stereospondyls is insufficient for comprehensive comparison and determination of the character polarities of many postcranial characteristics. While many specimens of rhinesuchids have been collected (Kitching 1978), few of these have associated postcranial skeletons. Those that do are: Uranocentrodon senekalensis (Haughton 1915; Van Hoepen 1915); Broomistega putterilli BP/1/3241 (Shishkin & Rubidge 2000); an unnamed rhinesuchid, field no. M460, consisting of a skull and articulated anterior pectoral girdle; and SAM-PK-K10021. Uranocentrodon and M460 have large skulls, the skull fragment of SAM-PK-K10021 is of medium size, while the specimens of Broomistega are small and considered by Shishkin & Rubidge (2000) to be paedomorphic compared to other rhinesuchids. To date, the only rhinesuchid postcranial skeleton described is that of the two-metre-long Uranocentrodon (Haughton 1915; Van Hoepen 1915), prepared from the dorsal side, however neither of the descriptions of this material provides sufficient detail for cladistic analysis. All known rhinesuchid specimens are of Gondwanan origin, with the majority found in the Karoo Basin in South Africa, where they are an uncommon component of the fauna (Kitching 1978; Shishkin & Rubidge 2000). Most specimens have been found in Late Permian deposits, but they also represent one of the few higher level taxa to survive the end-Permian mass extinction, with one genus, Broomistega, found in the Early Triassic (Shishkin & Rubidge 2000). Uranocentrodon has previously been considered to have come from the Early Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (Kitching 1978; Groenewald & Kitching 1995), but is now firmly placed in the Late Perm-
REACTION OF THE PITUITARY-ADRENAL GLANDS CHAIN DURING ADAPTATION IN INDUSTRIAL PIG BREEDING

The expression of many inducible genes involved in cell growth and differentiation as cytokine genes is regulated mainly by mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK)-signaling pathways. In this study we examined how JNK(SP600125) and p38(SB202190) MAPKs inhibitors influenced the inducible IL-12p40, IL-12p70 and IL-23 production. The quantity determination of these cytokines was performed by ELISA in culture supernatants. The inhibition of both JNK and p38 increased IL-12p40 production induced by all stimuli. The inhibition of p38MAPK downregulated IL-23 production and upregulated IL-12p40/p70 production in stimulated cells. We suggest the benefit of p38 control in the treatment of inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases.
Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration

The optimal matching (OM) algorithm is widely used for sequence analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences but is also widely used for life-history data, which are continuous in time. Life-history data are arguably better dealt with in terms of episodes rather than as strings of time-unit observations, and in this article, the author examines whether the OM algorithm is unsuitable for such sequences. A modified version of the algorithm is proposed, weighting OM’s elementary operations inversely with episode length. In the general case, the modified algorithm produces pairwise distances much lower than the standard algorithm, the more the sequences are composed of long spells in the same state. However, where all the sequences in a data set consist of few long spells, and there is low variability in the number of spells, the modified algorithm generates an overall pattern of distances that is not very different from standard OM.
Are Thousands of Samples Really Needed to Generate Robust Gene-List for Prediction of Cancer Outcome?

The prediction of cancer prognosis and metastatic potential immediately after the initial diagnoses is a major challenge in current clinical research. The relevance of such a signature is clear, as it will free many patients from the agony and toxic side-effects associated with the adjuvant chemotherapy automatically and sometimes carelessly subscribed to them. Motivated by this issue, Ein-Dor (2006) and Zuk (2007) presented a Bayesian model which leads to the following conclusion: Thousands of samples are needed to generate a robust gene list for predicting outcome. This conclusion is based on existence of some statistical assumptions. The current work raises doubts over this determination by showing that: (1) These assumptions are not consistent with additional assumptions such as sparsity and Gaussianity. (2) The empirical Bayes methodology which was suggested in order to test the relevant assumptions doesn't detect severe violations of the model assumptions and consequently an overestimation of the required sample size might be incurred.