Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Generation of Booter (black)lists

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been a very effective tool for skilled attackers to disrupt online services. In recent years a new phenomenon appeared that offers similar attack capabilities to unskilled users at the press of a button. These so called Booter websites that offer DDoS-as-a-service allow anyone to execute attacks for less than USD 5. Previous research tried to mitigate these growing concerns by dynamically generating a blacklist to prevent (or warn) the average unskilled user from getting access. Our research aims to improve the blacklist generation. A more extensive web crawler is developed to find potential online Booters from Google search engine and other sources not indexed by Google (such as black-market forums and online video-platforms). We additionally develop a more accurate Booter classifier that is improved upon with a machine learning algorithm. Finally, we update the Booter (black)list on a daily basis to give the most accurate information about Booters to security specialists and interested researchers.
Visitors’ Motivations, Satisfaction and Loyalty towards Castro Marim Medieval Fair

The study tests the relationship between motivation, satisfaction, and loyalty using a structural equation model. Data have been collected through a questionnaire applied to visitors attending a local festival, Castro Marim Medieval Fair, which hosts every year between 45.000 and 60.000 visitors. Results show that satisfaction towards controlled variables of the event within the venue’s boundaries, such as animation, gastronomy, and handicraft, influences visitors’ overall satisfaction towards the event. On the other hand, they also reveal a direct relationship between overall satisfaction and loyalty. The study contributes to a better understanding of visitors’ behaviour and provides useful guidance to festival ideation and design.
GENERAL AND NERVOUS SYSTEM EFFECTS OF LEAD APPLIED IN NANOPARTICULATE FORM INTO THE TRACHEA OF RATS

Lead is a heavy metal notoriously harmful for human health and environment. In case of leaded petrol (still in use in certain regions involved in this symposium), and in lead processing and reprocessing industries, airborne particles are emitted, exposing people by inhalation. Nervous system is a primary target of lead, with known consequences like occupational neuropathy and delayed mental development of children. In inhalational exposure, the size of particles entering the airways is crucial. In this study, submicroscopic (mean diameter ca. 20 nm) PbO particles were suspended in distilled water and instilled into the trachea of male Wistar rats (2 and 4 mg/kg), 5 times a week for 3 and 6 weeks. The treated rats’ body weight gain was significantly lower than in the controls from the 3rd week on, and the weight of their lungs was significantly increased. Spontaneous cortical activity, recorded in urethane anesthesia, was shifted to higher frequencies in the treated rats. The cortical sensory evoked potentials in the same rats had mostly increased latency, sometimes also increased duration, and decreased frequency following ability on rapid stimulation. Lead in nanosuspension form had access to the brain so the human effects of inhalation of lead nanoparticles can be modelled in rats this way.
Orally dosing steers with Lactipro (Megasphaera elsdenii) decreases the quantity of roughages fed during finishing

Introduction The cost of roughages is relatively high in comparison to their contribution of nutrients to feedlot diets. Widespread drought has affected roughage supplies in the cattle-feeding regions of the United States, further increasing the cost of roughages for feedlots. Despite their relatively high cost, roughages are incorporated into finishing diets to maintain rumen function and to manage ruminal acidosis. The greatest proportion of roughage is utilized early in the feeding period when cattle are being transitioned from forage-based diets to concentrate-based diets, allowing ruminal microbes to adapt gradually to higher levels of starch and sugars. If cattle are not properly adapted to concentrate-based diets, undesirable lactic acid-producing microorganisms, such as Streptococcus bovis, can rapidly proliferate and produce large excesses of lactic acid in the rumen. This condition can precipitate feedlot acidosis, which can have serious consequences for health and performance of cattle.
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF ANTI-SPAM FILTERS USING OUT-OF-VOCABULARY STATISTICS MEJORA DEL DESEMPEÑO DE FILTROS ANTI-SPAM USANDO ESTADÍSTICAS DE PALABRAS FUERA DE VOCABULARIO

This paper presents a feature based on out-of-vocabulary word statistics that complements the information sources used in the decision by state-of-the-art spam filters. The experiments included freely available spam filters as reference, SpamAssassin, Bogofilter, SpamBayes and SpamProbe, as well as a Naive Bayes classifier. The results show that the decision based on the proposed feature improves the performance of all spam filters under study.
Efficient Elimination of Multiple-Time-Around Detections in Pulse-Doppler Radar Systems

The paper introduces a new method for eliminating multiple-time-around detections in coherent pulsed radar systems with single constant pulse repetition frequency. The method includes the phase modulation of transmit pulses and corresponding phase demodulation at reception, which is matched to signals from the unambiguous range interval, and subsequent coherent integration followed by successive CFAR processing in range and Doppler domains. The performance of the proposed method is studied by means of statistical simulations. It is shown that the elimination performance can be essentially improved by optimizing the transmit phase modulation code. The optimization problem is formulated in terms of least-square fitting the power spectra of multiple-time-around target signals to a uniform power spectrum. Several optimum biphase codes are designed and used in the performance analysis. The analysis shows that the method can provide very high probability of elimination without noticeable degradation in the detection performance for targets from the unambiguous range interval.
BIOLOGY AND FECUNDITY OF THE MELON BUG ASPONGOPUS VIDUATUS (FABRICIUS), IN THE LABORATORY

The study was conducted at Elfula, South Kordofan State, Sudan to investigate the life cycle and fecundity of Aspongopus viduatus (Fabricius). Female reproductive system of the insect at aestivation period and later at the active period was examined. The results show that the females had no oocytes during aestivation, however following the termination of aestivation period oocytes developed. The total number of eggs laid by a single female averaged of 448±0.90 eggs. Most of the eggs were laid during the first two weeks following the end of the aestivation period. The main oviposition period was 64±17.7 days, pre- oviposition period and post oviposition periods were 5.17±1.7 and 10.7±1.7, respectively. The incubation period was 8.5±0.75 days and hatchability% was 94.4±3.01%, respectively. The mean developmental periods of the nymphal instars were 7.9±0.75, 10.9±1.3, 7.14±1.6, 9.8±1.1 and 13.3±1.9 for the 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th nymphal instars, respectively.
Undershooting of the Inflation Target in the Czech Republic: The Role of Inflation Expectations

This article addresses the role of the inflation target in inflation expectations using the vector error correction (VECM) and block restriction vector autoregression (VAR) models, based on the monthly data of 1999–2007 in the Czech Republic. The econometric analysis identifies nothing to support the “hypercredible” inflation target hypothesis, under which a 1 pp decrease in the inflation target would be accompanied by a decrease in inflation expectations of more than 1 pp. The results, however, do suggest that the inflation target is a major determinant of inflation expectations, its importance for the formation of inflation expectations surpassing even that of current inflation. Another conclusion is that inflation expectations decrease significantly in response to stricter monetary policy and to a lower inflation target. All in all, the results imply that Czech monetary policy has anchored inflation expectations.
Buying and non-buying motives for Citroen cars: an approach from the perspective of the Romanian dealerships

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Larval and Juvenile Fishes Occurring in Surf Zones of Western Japan

Abstract Fish larvae and juveniles were collected in the waters of wading depth along sandy beaches of western Japan with a 0.7-mm-mesh, 1.3- by 5-m seine. Presence of Chanos chanos, Salangichthys microdon, Plecoglossus altivelis, Allanetta bleekeri, Gerres oyena, Sparus sarba, Acanthopagrus schlegeli, A. latus, and Lateolabrax latus and absence of Engraulis japonica, Gonorhynchus abbreviatus, Upeneus bensasi, and Macrorhamphosus scolopax distinguished the larval ichthyofauna of surf zones from those in other known biotopes of fish nursery. The surfichthyofauna was usually more diverse in spring and summer than in autumn and winter. Monthly total catches of individuals fluctuated greatly according to the abundances of a few influential species such as Clupanodon punctatus in spring and Plecoglossus altivelis in autumn to winter. Most larval fishes seemed to inhabit surf zones only during daytime. An influence of tidal phases on occurrence of larval fishes was not apparent. Categories of pelagic and demers.
Academy for Information Systems 3-31-2009 Focus Groups For Eliciting Requirements In Information Systems Development

Traditional methods for eliciting requirements focus on specifying functional requirements for the software without putting the same effort on understanding the system scope and what the stakeholders really need. As a result, users cannot agree easily on what they want or need, and resist formalizing the requirements that many times remain undefined for the lifetime of the project. This is one of the main reasons for the high failure rate in information system projects. In this paper we propose to apply Focus Groups in order to better elicit requirements for complex information system projects. Using Action Research as the research method, we have applied Focus Groups in real-world experiments to evaluate the proposal. The preliminary results show that stakeholders actually discuss different points of view about the system as a whole before reaching consensus and agreeing to formalize the requirements. We conclude that Focus Groups help to understand both system scope and actual needs better than using traditional methods based on requirements specification.
Use of Some Bacteria and Mycorrhizae as Biofertilizers in Vegetable Growing and Beneficial Effects in Salinity and Drought Stress Conditions

Industrialization and rapid population growth, especially after the second half of the twentieth century, have also revealed significant environmental problems in the world. The consistent and alarming increase in the human population has again threatened the world’s food security. It is becoming increasingly clear that conventional agricultural prac tices cannot sustain the production base, a healthy plant-soil system, for too long. There is a growing worldwide demand for compatible environmentally friendly techniques in agriculture, capable of providing adequate nourishment for the increasing human pop - ulation and of improving the quality and quantity of certain agricultural products. For these reasons, the application of beneficial microorganisms is an important alternative to some of the traditional agricultural techniques which very often severely alter the agro-ecosystem balance and cause serious damage to health. Beneficial microorganisms can play a key role in this major challenge, as they fulfill important ecosystem functions for plants and soil. Utilization of these microorganisms affects plant’s growth and yield in a positive way. Besides, their favorable effects on root growth help plants to deal with both biotic and abiotic stress factors. PGPR and mycorrhizae can influence higher plants response to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity through different mechanisms.
On the visibility of stellar oscillations

Context. Recently our ability to study stars using asteroseismic techniques has increased dramatically, largely through the use of space based photometric observations. Work has also been done using ground based spectroscopic observations and more is expected in the near future from the SONG network. Unfortunately, the intensity observations have an inferior signal to noise ratio and details of the observations do not agree with theory, while the data analysis used in the spectroscopic method has often been based on overly simple models of the spectra. Aims. The aim is to improve the reliability of measurements of the parameters of stellar oscillations using spectroscopic observations and to enable the optimal use of the observations. Methods. While previous investigations have used 1D models, I use realistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, combined with radiative transfer calculations, to estimate the effects of the oscillations on the spectra. I then calculate the visibility of the oscillation modes for a variety of stellar parameters and using various fitting methods. In addition to the methods used in previous investigations, I use a Singular Value Decomposition technique, which allows one to determine the information content available from the spectral perturbations and how that can be expressed most compactly. Finally I describe how the time series obtained may be analyzed. Results. It is shown that it is important to model the visibilities carefully and that the results deviate substantially from models previously used, especially in the presence of rotation. Detailed spectral modeling may be exploited to measure the properties of a larger number of modes than possible using the commonly used cross-correlation method. With moderate rotation, there is as much information in the line shape changes as in the Doppler shift and an outline of how to extract this is given.
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF STRUCTURE FOR GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL GROUP

The Milky Way did not form in isolation, but is the product of a complex evolution of generations of mergers, collapses, star formation, supernovae and collisional heating, radiative and collisional cooling, and ejected nucleosynthesis. Moreover, all of this occurs in the context of the cosmic expansion, the formation of cosmic laments, dark-matter haloes, spiral density waves, and emerging dark energy. This paper summarizes a review of recent attempts to reconstruct this complex evolution. We compare simulated properties with various observed properties of the Local Group. Among the generic features of simulated systems is the tendency for galactic halos to form within the dark matter laments that dene a supergalactic plane. Gravitational interaction along this structure leads to a streaming ow toward the two dominant galaxies in the cluster. We analyze this alignment and streaming ow and compare with the observed properties of Local-Group galaxies. Our comparison with Local Group properties suggests that some dwarf galaxies in the Local Group are part of a local streaming ow. These simulations also suggest that a signicant fraction of the Galactic halo formed at large distances and arrived later along these streaming ows.
Recognizing low/high anger in speech for call centers

Automatic multi-level anger recognition in speech is an important factor to enhance user satisfaction for call centers. In this research, three emotional states, namely, neutral, low anger, and high anger of acted corpora with telephone quality are specified for emotion recognition. The corpora are collected from amateur actors and, thereafter, verified by the actors themselves. The emotion recognizer is implemented by using Back-propagation Network (BPN) with acoustic features of speech examples. Due to the variation of expression methods by different person, the feature values of the training examples used are too complex to make the BPN model convergent. To overcome the problem, a codified method is developed to simplify the feature values. With the codified inputs, the BPN model and a comparative Decision Tree C5.0 give quite satisfactory test performances for anger recognition. Therefore, they can be used as a part of a decision support system for proper applications in call centers.
Different regulation paths towards cognitive radio technologies: Cases of Finland and Chile

Radio spectrum regulation progresses in parallel on global and local levels. The European Union harmonizes the spectrum in its member countries, defining the type of service and the technology to be used. In the Americas, standard and infrastructure competition struggles to use the spectrum for mobile services. This paper develops a framework to analyze country regulations, its status and future development paths. Chile and Finland present market and demographic similarities along with regulatory and cultural differences. The paper analyzes both countries, trying to summarize lessons for future spectrum regulation in a scenario of introduction of Cognitive Radio technologies. We observe that the development of these technologies will depend on the market structure of each country; in concrete, on the level of spectrum decentralization and on the level of industry openness.
Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum

The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO2 decay model to allow fuels to be compared for policy decisions on the basis of their real warming effects with a variety of user-supplied parameter values. The model also allows economic discounting of climate effects extended far into the future. Compared to approaches that simply sum greenhouse gas emissions over time, recognizing the physics of atmospheric CO2 decay significantly increases the deficit relative to fossil fuel of any biofuel causing land use change.
Supervised Project Report ( ANTA 604 ) Title : Seabird tracking in the Southern Ocean Name :

executive summary (ca. 200 words): Terrestrial animals have a long history of being studied although have only relatively recently begun to detail due to the challenges involved in studying them. Compared to other marine species seabirds are relatively easy to study and are potentially sensitive to changes in the marine environment. As a result of this they are often used as bio-indicators. In the Southern Ocean a number of different devices created by a number of different manufacturers are used, with each type having advantages and disadvantages. When selecting a device to undertake a study it is therefore necessary to consider the biological question being asked, the size of the study species and the budget of the research. The data which is collected in these studies can be used for both conservation and fisheries management purposes and has been used so by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. However, there are a number of ethical considerations to be taken into consideration, including the weight of the device and potential impacts upon breeding success. Tracking and monitoring technologies are continually being improved, allowing for increasingly complex biological questions to be answered, which allows for a greater understanding of the ecology of seabirds. PCAS 15 2012/13ANTA604 Seabird tracking in the Southern Ocean Kathleen Smiley, 86644068
Diversity assessment of Malaysian rice germplasm accessions for drought tolerant grain yield QTLs.

Diversity among 80 Malaysian rice accessions was assessed based on 119 Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers. The Polymorphic Information Content (PIC) values of 89% of the SSR markers were above 0.50 indicating that those markers were highly informative. The presence of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) was assessed based on 45 markers linked to drought grain yield QTLs. Five drought grain yield QTLs were present in the 80 Malaysian rice accessions. The highest frequency was 10.6% found in qDTY12.1 present in Way Rarem, Boewani, Pulut Malaysia 1, CI–9534, IR1561–243–5–6, CICA4, IR2797–156–3, Chianung Sen Yu, MR 142 and Huma Wangi Lenggong. Second highest was qDTY3.1 present in 8.5% of the germplasm, observed in Apo, Mokwoo, Way Rarem, CICA 4, Biris, MR 185, Tainan and Q70. Two UPGMA cluster analysis were performed based on 119 SSR markers and 45 specific SSR markers which linked to QTLs for grain yield under drought. The rice accessions were grouped at 77% similarity coefficient and produced 7 clusters using 119 SSR markers and 9 clusters using 45 specific SSR markers. Keywords: SSR markers; PIC; similarity coefficient; cluster analysis
Intensity modulation response of injection-locked quantum cascade lasers

The intensity modulation (IM) property of an optical injection-locked quantum cascade (QC) laser is theoretically investigated via a three-level rate equation model. The locking regime is obtained based on the local bifurcation theory. It is shown that the injection-locked QC laser exhibits a rather flat modulation response at zero detuning, whose bandwidth increases with the injection level. In contrast to interband lasers, both positive and negative detunings enhance the modulation bandwidth. Besides, a large linewidth enhancement factor (LEF) can increase the peak amplitude in the response. Moreover, it is found that no frequency dip occurs in the IM response of injection-locked QC lasers.
Research on the Influence of Enterprise Innovation Network on Its Technology Innovation Performance-A Case in Electronic Information Listed Enterprises

From the perspective of Social Network, a firm’s innovation network is deemed as the integration of both internal and external relations of a company. Those two relations play a pivotal role in the process of technology innovation. Based on the analysis of literature, The hypothesis on the influence of innovation network on enterprise innovation performance is put forward from the two dimensions of internal network and external network.Via an empirical study with data from electronic information listed enterprises in Shenzhen, it has been proved that both internal and external relations of companies have exerted a positive impact on their companies’ performance.