Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION ON ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADATION OF BENZENE IN CONTAMINATED AQUIFER SEDIMENT

The objectives of this research were to document the anaerobic biodegradation of benzene in aquifer sediment recovered from a petroleum-contaminated aquifer near Rocky Point, N.C. , and to identify the microbial conditions controlling its biodegradation. Laboratory-scale microcosms were constructed with contaminated sediment recovered from a section of the plume (mid-plume) from which previously excavated sediment had exhibited benzene biodegradation. Microcosms were alsoconstructed with sediment from another section of the plume (end-plume) that had previously exhibited benzene biodegradation. Most probable number (MPN) assays were also initiated with these sediments to enumerate the total populations of iron and sulfate reducers and the sub-populations capable of benzene and toluene conversion to carbon dioxide. No benzene mineralization was measured in the microcosms constructed with mid-plume sediment, and benzene biodegradation decreased to an undetecta1? le rate with repeated benzene additions to the end-plume microcosms. The cessation of benzene biodegradation activity generally corresponded with a shift in the microcosms to methanogenic conditions, although the mechanism for this relationship could not be determined. The MPN assays showed very low populations of both iron and sulfate reducers, leading to questions about whether the commonly used MPN media employed here were appropriate for this aquifer sediment. Radiolabeled benzene and toluene were used in the MPN assays to increase their sensitivity. However, the production of 14C02 in the benzeneand toluene-specific MPN assays did not exceed the amounts that could be attributed to impurities in these substrates. Thus, the MPN data did not provide evidence for the presence of sub-populations of iron or sulfate reducers that could degrade benzene or toluene.
Application des algorithmes de haute résolution à la localisation de mobiles en milieu confiné

La diversite spatiale necessitant des reseaux d’antennes a l’emission et/ou a la reception, connue sous la terminologie MIMO pour « Multiple Input Multiple Output », est integree dans les derniers standards des reseaux sans fil et fait deja son apparition sur le marche des telephones portables et des stations Wi-Fi. Au dela des solutions offertes pour augmenter le debit des communications, les techniques MIMO offrent la possibilite de retrouver, a l’aide d’algorithmes de traitement du signal, quelques parametres physiques des signaux recus et/ou transmis. Cette propriete va etre exploitee pour offrir, par exemple aux terminaux Wi-Fi, la possibilite de se localiser dans des milieux confines ou les techniques developpees pour la localisation des mobiles en exterieur ne sont pas aisement transposables.La demande est tres forte pour ce genre d’application, notamment dans les lieux publics tels que les gares ou zones d’echanges multimodales, puisque la technologie pourrait permettre le developpement de nouveaux services en rendant le voyage « intelligent » et en proposant l’acces a une vaste gamme de services en temps reel. L’objectif general de cette these est donc de proposer une solution de localisation pour aider le voyageur dans ses deplacements dans une zone d’echanges ou des gares.Le procede de localisation developpe est base sur l’utilisation des parametres angulaires et temporels d’au moins deux trajets entre le mobile a localiser et au moins deux reseaux de recepteurs. On suppose que ces trajets ont subi au maximum une interaction avec l’environnement. L’estimation des parametres necessaires a la localisation est effectuee a l’aide d’algorithmes a haute resolution de problemes inverses tels SAGE et plus recemment RIMAX. Les etudes parametriques sur les performances des algorithmes ont permis de determiner les ressources necessaires pour l’estimation des retards et des parametres angulaires avec des precisions compatibles avec des applications de localisation. L’algorithme de localisation a ete teste et valide dans differentes configurations, en utilisant les parametres exacts des signaux ou ceux estimes par RIMAX.
Predicting delay in residents' decisions on defending v. evacuating through antecedents of decision avoidance

In the event of a wildfire, Australian residents of wildfire-prone areas have a choice to defend their home or evacuate early. However, rather than deciding on and preparing for one of these fire-responses ahead of time, most residents delay deciding on defending v. evacuating (e.g. they wait and see instead). Recent research has shown that delaying this decision is associated with reduced levels of preparedness for both responses and on the day of a fire, an increased risk to life and property. The current study empirically examined what predicts this decision delay regarding one’s fire-response by measuring two personality traits and several decision-related factors. A longitudinal survey study of residents of multiple wildfire-prone areas in Western Australia showed that the strongest predictor of delaying their decision to defend v. evacuate was a lack of difference in perceived values of defending v. evacuating. These findings have important implications for the design of interventions to reduce the risks associated with such delay. For one, agencies could utilise residents’ value base to reduce decision delay. Alternatively, they could focus on the formation of proper contingency plans and stress the necessity to prepare well for both defending and evacuating.
Étude expérimentale et numérique de l’allumage des turboréacteurs en conditions de haute altitude

Le developpement et la certification de systemes propulsifs aeronautiques necessitent une phase d'essais sur banc moteur. Ces essais permettent entre autres de caracteriser les limites d'allumage des foyers de combustion de turbomachines, mais sont extremement couteux et generateurs de delais pour l'industriel. Afin de limiter leur recours, il est necessaire de developper des methodes permettant de prevoir de la facon la plus fiable possible les performances d'allumage d'un prototype de chambre de combustion, et ce aussi bien pour des conditions de decollage au niveau de la mer que pour le cas critique de la haute altitude.L'objectif de cette these est de contribuer au developpement et a la validation d’outils numeriques pour la prevision de l'allumage des foyers de combustion a partir de donnees experimentales obtenues sur le banc MERCATO de l’ONERA. Ces travaux ont ete conduits en etroite cooperation avec TURBOMECA. Des ameliorations ont ete apportees a un modele permettant de simuler l'allumage d'un brouillard de carburant suite a un depot d'energie par bougie a arc electrique. Ce modele a ete couple a un code de calcul multiphysique (code CEDRE) afin d'etablir des cartographies d'allumage a partir d'un champ aerodiphasique moyenne, mais egalement de simuler la phase de propagation de la flamme a l’ensemble du foyer par approche RANS pseudo-stationnaire. Afin de valider ces deux approches, une caracterisation experimentale d'une maquette de chambre mono-secteur a ete realisee sur le banc d'essai MERCATO. Ces essais ont permis de constituer une banque de donnees tres fournie pour differents cas tests. La comparaison de la cartographie d’allumage experimentale a celle fournie par la simulation numerique donne des resultats tres satisfaisants et encourageants en vue d’une application a un foyer reel de turbomachine. En parallele, des resultats tres prometteurs ont ete obtenus sur une nouvelle maquette de chambre de combustion trisecteur,derivee d'un foyer industriel, permettant de comparer ses limites d’allumage a celles obtenues sur la chambre reelle. Cette configuration fera l’objet par la suite d’une etude detaillee de la propagation de la flamme intersecteurs, impossible a realiser sur la geometrie d'un foyer annulaire complet.
1 Epidemiology of VascularDisease in Diabetes

Mortality rates in people with diabetes exceed those in the general population despite many recent improvements in care. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the young, and is a substantial cause of morbidity as well as mortality at all ages. After the introduction of insulin in 1922 it was hoped that adverse consequences of diabetes might become a thing of the past, but mortality rates are still higher than those in the general population and, in addition, the late complications of diabetes, in particular cardiovascular disease (CVD), have been unmasked (Kessler, 1971; Dorman et al., 1984; Orchard et al., 1990). The St Vincent declaration of 1989, pledged by representatives of European government health departments, patient organizations and diabetes experts, set targets for improving the outlook for people with diabetes. It urged health departments throughout Europe to work towards a reduction in the heavy burden of disease in these patients by better recognition and treatment in the early stages and reduction of long-term complications. Determining the success of these health initiatives requires accurate measurement of morbidity and mortality rates, country by country.
New Bone Formation of the Guinea Pig Cochlea after Usage of Antiseptis Evaluated with a Micro-CT Scanner

Objectives: This study quantified new bone formation in the middle ear cavity of the guinea pig after topical antiseptic application. Materials and Methods: Adult Hartley guinea pigs were used. Three different antiseptics that are used clinically to treat chronically discharging ears were studied: povidone-iodine, methylrosaniline chloride, and 13% （w/v） aluminum acetate. Results: The temporal bones of the animals were scanned using in-vivo micro-tomography （micro-CT） before and 2 and 4 weeks after filling one of the middle ear cavities with antiseptic. Three-dimensional （3D） microCT images of the temporal bone were obtained and the thickest part of the bone defined as the region of new bone formation. After measurements were completed, the temporal bones were harvested for histopathological evaluation. Celloidin-embedded specimens were cut into 20-μm-thick slices, stained, examined microscopically, and the results compared with the micro-CT findings. Conclusions: The SkyScan 1178 enables repeated 3D observations of the temporal bone in the living guinea pig. The results were in good agreement with the histopathological findings.
Faisabilité du déroulage du bois assisté par infrarouge.

Le deroulage permet de transformer un billon en un ruban continu de bois vert (de 0.6 a plus de 3 mm d'epaisseur) appele “placage”. La production de placages joue un role important dans l'industrie du bois car les placages servent de base d'un grand nombre de produits industriels (ex : Parallel Strand Lumbers (PSL), Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL), contreplaques, emballages legers, etc.) parmi les plus utilises dans l'industrie du bois. Pour certaines essences, ce procede exige un pretraitement, appele « l'etuvage » qui consiste a chauffer au prealable le bois vert (sature en eau) par immersion dans l'eau ou dans la vapeur d'eau chaude afin de lui conferer une deformabilite remarquable tout en diminuant les efforts de coupe. Cette pratique presente cependant de nombreux inconvenients industriels et environnementaux (fentes a cœur, faible rendement, depense energetique importante, pollution des eaux, fentes a cœur, traitement immobilisant des stocks de bois importants pour des longues periodes,…). L'objectif de cette etude est de developper une innovation majeure pour les industries du deroulage et du tranchage, visant a remplacer les pratiques d'etuvage par une technologie de chauffe embarquee sur les machines de production. La technologie de chauffe par rayonnement infrarouge a ete retenue pour sa facilite de mise en place sur la machine (panneaux rayonnants peu encombrants) et sa rapidite a atteindre des temperatures source elevees pouvant ainsi suivre les cadences de deroulage rapides exigees par les industriels (de 1 a 5 m.s-1). Cette nouvelle technologie utilisant les infrarouges pour chauffer le bois vert avant le deroulage serait une innovation majeure pour les industries impliquees dans la fabrication du contreplaque, LVL, etc.Pour ce faire, l'etude a ete conduite en quatre temps:-Elaboration d'un modele numerique permettant la simulation de la chauffe de bois ronds deroule avec differents parametres du bois (humidite, proprietes thermiques),-Caracterisations thermique et optique du bois vert (en termes de profondeur de penetration et de capacite d'absorption des rayonnements infrarouge) pour alimenter le modele,-Validation du modele par des essais de deroulage avec chauffe embarquee.L'apport majeur de cette etude est d'avoir demontre que la penetration des rayonnements infrarouge dans le bois se limite a quelques dizaines de micrometres. La propagation de la chaleur jusqu'au plan de coupe situe a quelques millimetres sous la surface s'effectue donc par conduction, mode de transfert de chaleur lent dans le cas du bois aux proprietes isolantes remarquables. La chauffe embarquee semble donc inadaptee face aux cadences de deroulage imposees par les industriels. L'utilisation d'une telle technologie dans le cas du tranchage reste a etudier et en particulier l'impact de l'absence d'etuvage par immersion sur la qualite des placages (couleur, etat de surface).
Gravity Based Integral Charge Quark and Higgs Super Symmetry

From gravity point of view, so far no model succeeded in understanding the link between strongly interacting massive fermions and strongly interacting massive bosons/mesons. One should not forget the fact that, strongly interacting massive fermions are only playing a major role in the formation of observable luminous and non-luminous massive celestial objects. By interconnecting the strong coupling constant and gravitational constant via the Schwarzschild interaction, in this paper, the authors reviewed the basics of strong nuclear interaction and also reviewed the previously published “integral charge Quark and Higgs super symmetry” results and proposed a very simple mechanism for understanding the observed unstable baryons. For the unstable hadronic particles and unstable electro weak particles- ‘classification scheme', ‘mass spectrum' and ‘charge spectrum' are the three vital factors and these three things can be understood with ‘integral charge super symmetry’. Here the authors would like to stress the fact that, the observed Mesonic mass spectrum, Baryonic mass spectrum and Higgs mass spectrum can be reproduced with ‘integral charge Quark and Higgs super symmetry’. Important point to be noted is that without considering the currently believed ‘color' charge concept, observed unstable baryons ‘mass' and ‘charge' spectrum can be understood. By any chance if any light quark boson having integral charge couples with any integral charge baryon, then a neutral baryon can be generated. This idea is very much similar to the ‘photon absorption’ by electron. In this context, the authors produced many clear cut evidences.
In vitro Comparison of Marginal Fit of Cad-Cam Zirconia, SMLS Co-Cr, Pressable Lithium Disilicate, and Cast Ni-Cr Copings

Context: Clinically acceptable marginal fit of crowns has been the focus of various investigations. There is limited literature comparing marginal accuracy CAD-CAM zirconia, SMLS Co-Cr, Pressable Lithium Disilicate, and cast Ni-Cr copings. Aim: Evaluate and compare marginal accuracy of CAD-CAM zirconia, SMLS Co-Cr, Pressable lithium Disilicate, and cast Ni-Cr copings. Methods and Material: Forty copings were fabricated (Ten each in Group I CADCAM zirconia, Group II SMLS Co-Cr, Group III lithium disilicate, and Group IVcast Ni-Cr copings) on a standardized stainless steel model with long chamfer finish line. Four areas around the tooth surface namely mesial (M), distal (D), buccal (B) and lingual (L) surfaces were digitally analyzed for marginal fit under the stereomicroscope. Stastical Analysis: Comparison between groups was done by using one-way ANOVA test followed by a Post Hoc Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons test. Results: The mean marginal gap (in μm) for Group I on lingual, buccal, mesial and distal surface was 37.05, 38.54, 37.61 and 36.09 respectively. The mean marginal gap (in μm) of Group II on lingual, buccal, mesial and distal surface was 48.48, 50.88, 50.12, and 49.5 respectively. The mean marginal gap (in μm) of Group III on lingual, buccal, mesial and distal surface was 63.04, 64.07, 64.97 and 65.81 respectively. The mean marginal gap (in μm) of Group IV on lingual, buccal, mesial and distal surface was 75.68, 74.75, 73.86, and 72.78 respectively. Conclusion: The marginal fit of CAD-CAM zirconia copings is more accurate as compared to SMLS Co-Cr, pressable lithium disilicate and cast Ni-Cr alloy copings on a standardized metal model.
An Implementation of the Programming Language DML in Java: Runtime Environment

DML is an experimental language that has emerged from the developement of the Oz dialect Alice. DML is dynamically typed, functional, and concurrent. It supports transients and provides a distributed programming model. To translate DML to the Java Virtual Machine, a runtime environment is needed. This work presents a simple and secure implementation of the basic DML runtime classes and elaborates on relevant improvements. Pickling, a mechanism to make higher order values persistent, is provided on top of the Java Object Serialization. Finally, a high-level distributed programming model for DML is implemented based on Java’s Remote Method Invocation architecture. Finally, the implemented compiler and the runtime environment of DML are compared to similar projects.
Increasing Long Tail in Weighted Lexical Networks

Lexical networks can be used with benefit for semantic analysis of texts, word sense disambiguation (WSD) and in general for graph-based Natural Language Processing. Usually strong relations between terms (e.g.: cat --> animal) are sufficient to help for the task, but quite often, weak relations (e.g.: cat --> ball of wool) are necessary. Our purpose here is to acquire such relations by means of online serious games as other classical approaches seems impractical. Indeed, it is difficult to ask the users (non experts) to define a proper weighting for the relations they propose, and then we decided to relate weights with the frequency of their propositions. It allows us to acquire first the strongest relations, but also to populate the long tail of an already existing network. Furthermore, trying to get an estimation of our network by the very users thanks to a tip of the tongue (TOT) software, we realized that they rather tend to favor the relations of the long tail and thus promote their emergence. Developing the long tail of a lexical network with standard and non-standard relations of low weight can be of advantage for tasks such that words retrieval from clues or WSD in texts.
The "Why" of Who We Are: Exploring the "Culture of Practice" of Ministry of Education, Special Education Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.

This qualitative study sought to describe the shared „culture of practice‟ of a group of Ministry of Education, Special Education occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Data from individual semi-structured interviews, enriched by insider observations, were thematically analysed within a cultural constructs framework. An ethos of practice underpinned by notions of collaborative practice, occupational practice, social justice and building inclusive society was revealed, with core attitudes, values and beliefs commensurate with practice within an inclusion philosophy and organisational culture. That ethos is distilled into seven guiding principles. Also emphasised was the enormity of the attitudinal shift entailed in leaving biomedical philosophies behind and embracing inclusion philosophy. The findings highlight the need for therapy-specific induction, supervision and mentoring for entering therapists, and the importance of preparing graduates for practice in non-medical settings.
Control of Multi-Agent Systems via Event-based Communication

Abstract In this paper, the average consensus problem for multi-agent systems is addressed. A novel event-based control strategy is proposed which renders both control signals and state measurements, which are broadcast over the network, piecewise constant. This enables implementation on digital platforms such as microprocessors. Different triggering conditions guaranteeing convergence to an adjustable region around the average consensus point or asymptotic convergence to this point, respectively, are discussed. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of this approach, outperforming traditional time-scheduled control in terms of load on the communication medium. Both single- and double-integrator agents are covered.
Psychosocial Aspects of Living With Diabetes Mellitus: An Enhancement of Diabetic Program of Primary Health Care in Doha, Qatar

Diabetes mellitus has a detrimental impact on one's well-being. Psychological and social aspects play a significant role in diabetes care and it is believed that these issues are important in the overall health of Qatari patients with diabetes mellitus. This descriptive cross-sectional research was conducted to determine the psychological and social aspects of living with diabetes mellitus. Two hundred eighty patients with diabetes mellitus were included as respondents of the study. It has shown that the respondents were, in general, psychologically and socially well. They were satisfied with their own selves and lived in a purposeful manner, however, they were anxious about the complications of the disease. Family members were concerned about their condition wherein they could talk freely about diabetes mellitus. Educational attainment and living arrangement were significantly correlated with psychological well-being. Presence of illnesses not related to diabetes was significantly correlated with both psychological and social well-being. To conclude, despite having diabetes mellitus, the patients still feel good about themselves, maintain healthy relationships and exhibit good psychological health and social well-being. To achieve the goals of diabetes care and to meet the challenges of diabetes, psychosocial interventions should be included as part of ongoing diabetes management. Keywords: diabetes mellitus; psychosocial aspect of diabetes mellitus; diabetic program; primary health care
Geographical distribution of phonological complexity

Atkinson’s intriguing article in Science suggests that there is a signal to be found in the global distribution of the richness of phonological contrasts across a large sample of languages which reflects the process of the spread of anatomically modern humans across the habitable areas of our planet from an origin in Africa. In our commentary we will focus on three principal issues. The first has to do with what the signal is based on and whether it seems to be reliable. The second has to do with whether the concept of a serial founder effect is a persuasive explanation for the global patterns found. The third has to do with considering whether there are alternative explanations which might account for the patterns found.1
McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy

This title helps you map out all of the key structures of the human body with examples of real human dissections.and easily place them in a clinical context! This popular atlas incorporates an unrivalled collection of cadaveric, osteological, and clinical images with surface anatomy models, interpretive drawings, orientational diagrams, and diagnostic images emphasising a well-rounded visual perspective of a real human body as seen by modern doctors.