Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genetic diversity between Italian and Greek buffalo populations

The present study is a first step of a global project aiming at the estimation of the genetic distances and relationships among buffalo breeds and sub-populations and the investigation of the production potential and adaptability of different buffalo genotypes in various environments. Genetic diversity of Italian and Greek buffalo populations was estimated on the basis of allele frequencies at nine polymorphic microsatellite loci: CSSM43, CSSM38, DRB3, D21S4, CYP21, CSSM47, CSSM60, CSSM36 and CSSM33. The number of detected alleles per locus varied from two (D21S4) to thirteen (CSSM47). Allele frequency distribution was similar in the two populations, which have the same alleles at the highest frequency at all loci, except loci CSSM47 and CSSM60. Average gene diversity over all loci was 0.60. Across-loci average gene diversity increased with the number of alleles. Observed average heterozygosity was 0.167 and 0.177 in the Italian and Greek populations, respectively. The degree of differentiation between Italian and Greek buffalo was moderate and estimated at 0.021 ± 0.009.
Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health Across Three Generations

Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in families could therefore help explain the widely discussed intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using data from three generations contained in the 1970 British Cohort Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their grandchildren. We find that the intergenerational correlation in mental health is about 0.2, and that the probability of feeling depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and grandchild mental health are strongly correlated, but this relationship appears to work fully through the mental health of the parent. Using grandmother mental health as an instrument for maternal mental health in a model of grandchild mental health confirms the strong intergenerational correlation. We also find that maternal and own mental health are strong predictors of adulthood socioeconomic outcomes. Even after controlling for parental socioeconomic status, own educational attainment, and own mental health (captured in childhood and adulthood), our results suggest that a one standard deviation reduction in maternal mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent.
Power Quality and Power Interruption Enhancement by Universal Power Quality Conditioning System with Storage Device

In this paper a novel design of Universal Power Quality Conditioning System (UPQS) is proposed which is composed of the DC/DC converter and the storage device connected to the DC link of UPQS for balancing the voltage interruption. The proposed UPQS can balance the reactive power, harmonic current, voltage sag and swell, voltage unbalance, and the voltage interruption. The performance of proposed system was analyzed through simulations with MATLAB\SIMULINK software. The proposed system can improve the power quality at the common connection point of the non-linear load and the sensitive load. Key word: Universal Power Quality Conditioning System (UPQS), voltage interruption, DC/DC converter, super-capacitor
Signal Association Approach Based on Doppler frequency Shift for Multi-Passive-Heterogeneous-Sensor System

This paper presents a signal association algorithm based on the Doppler frequency for the problem of signals inter-associated among multi-passive-heterogeneous-sensor system, radar and ultra-short wave signals are the specifically associated objects. This paper analyses the necessary and sufficient condition of signal association, by deeply analyzing, we figures out the factors and specific association probability expression. Simulation results show that method of association is effective and the associated probability maybe high under certain condition.
Overconfidence, Managerial Optimism and the Determinants of Capital Structure

This research examines the determinants of the capital structure of firms introducing a behavioral perspective that has received little attention in corporate finance literature. The following central hypothesis emerges from a set of recently developed theories: firms managed by optimistic and/or overconfident people will choose more levered financing structures than others, ceteris paribus. We propose different proxies for optimism/overconfidence, based on the manager’s status as an entrepreneur or non-entrepreneur, an idea that is supported by theories and solid empirical evidence, as well as on the pattern of ownership of the firm’s shares by its manager. The study also includes potential determinants of capital structure used in earlier research. We use a sample of Brazilian firms listed in the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) in the years 1998 to 2003. The empirical analysis suggests that the proxies for the referred cognitive biases are important determinants of capital structure. We also found as relevant explanatory variables: profitability, size, dividend payment and tangibility, as well as some indicators that capture the firms’ corporate governance standards. These results suggest that behavioral approaches based on human psychology research can offer relevant contributions to the understanding of corporate decision making.
Hybrid Quantum Device Based on N V Centers in Diamond Nanomechanical Resonators Plus Superconducting Waveguide Cavities

We propose and analyze a hybrid device by integrating a microscale diamond beam with a single built-in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin to a superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) cavity. We find that under an ac electric field the quantized motion of the diamond beam can strongly couple to the single cavity photons via dielectric interaction. Together with the strong spin-motion interaction via a large magnetic field gradient, it provides a hybrid quantum device where the dia- mond resonator can strongly couple both to the single microwave cavity photons and to the single NV center spin. This enables coherent information transfer and effective coupling between the NV spin and the CPW cavity via mechanically dark polaritons. This hybrid spin-electromechanical de- vice, with tunable couplings by external fields, offers a realistic platform for implementing quantum information with single NV spins, diamond mechanical resonators, and single microwave photons.
Genomic , Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Characterization of Low-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes

The functional mechanisms involved in angiogenesis and the potential role of endoglin (ENG), recently described as a new marker for this process, have not been explored in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). In order to gain insight in MDS angiogenesis a combined analysis in bone marrow (BM) of gene expression levels, angiogenesis-related soluble factors and functional angiogenesis-related studies was carried out. Ninety-seven MDS patients and forty-two normal BM samples were studied. The morphology of the capillary-like structures originated by two endothelial cells lines in the BM environment of patients with refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia (RCMD) was different from those of the remaining MDS. In addition, the BM mononuclear cells fromRCMD patients displayed over-expression of VEGF, HIF1 and FN1while they showed reduced expression of ENG in contrast to the normal ENG expression of the remaining low-risk MDS and the high expression of ENG in high-risk MDS subtype. Moreover, higher soluble ENG and soluble FLT-1 levels in BM microenvironment were observed in RCMD cases, which distinguished them from other individuals. Therefore, the present study suggests that the patterns of angiogenesis are different between the MDS subtypes. The differences in angiogenesis observed in RCMD patients could be related to ENG abnormalities.
Harvest Scheduling as a Timber Appraisal Tool

Appraisers often value a forest that contains many different timber stands that can vary due to factors such as age, stocking, species, and site index. Many assumptions are possible on how the various stands will be harvested and what subsequent cash flows might be generated. We describe harvest scheduling methodology that is widely used to obtain the net present value of such a forest under optimal conditions. We illustrate how a popular software package can be used by appraisers to obtain optimal discounted cash flows using harvest scheduling and resulting timber stand values. Christopher
Os jogos digitais vistos pelo jogador : análise de aspectos narrativos = Digital games viewed by the player : analysis of narrative aspects

O presente estudo visa analisar a interpretacao de usuarios de jogos digitais sobre a narrativa existente em tal meio, procurando entender como os jogadores compreendem esta narrativa. O objetivo foi alcancado por meio de amplo estudo de conceitos da area de Game Studies, narrativas e da area de narrativas em midias digitais interativas. Foram tratados os principais autores dessas areas. Alem disso, foram amplamente analisados os principais conceitos sobre narrativa nos jogos digitais: narrativas expressivas, impositivas, emergentes, progressivas, emolduradas, embutidas e ludonarrativas. Alem da pesquisa teorica a respeito das areas ja apontadas, foi realizada pesquisa de campo com usuarios de jogos eletronicos sobre as possiveis interpretacoes de narrativas em videogames e diferentes maneiras de se jogar. A pesquisa de campo foi feita com o uso de questionarios distribuidos pela Internet, e analisou dois jogos: Every Day the Same Dream e The Company of Myself. As respostas coletadas foram analisadas com o auxilio do software de Analise Estatistica Implicativa CHIC. Foi concluido que os jogos digitais podem oferecer diferentes maneiras de se entender a narrativa, o que faz com que os jogadores possam ter diferentes experiencias narrativas em um mesmo jogo digital, alem das mudancas originadas da visao subjetiva que cada jogador traz de sua experiencia de vida e visao de mundo. Abstract
SimSo: A Simulation Tool to Evaluate Real-Time Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithms

In this paper, we present SimSo, a simulator designed for the comparison and the understanding of real-time scheduling policies. This tool is designed to facilitate the implementation of schedulers in a realistic way. Currently, more than twenty-five scheduling algorithms are available in SimSo. A particular attention is paid to the control of the computation time of the jobs therefore introducing more flexibility, for instance by taking into account cache-related preemption delays. In addition, SimSo offers an easy way to generate the tasksets, to perform simulations and to collect data from the experiments.
Cloud computing based personal health records by using data encryption

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Demografía floral de Ferocactus robustus

En este trabajo se evaluo el desarrollo de botones florales de Ferocactus robustus hasta la formacion de frutos maduros con semillas, en una estacion reproductiva en el ano de 1998. Esta es una especie que produce estructuras reproductivas durante todo el ano, sin embargo tiene un pico floral en los meses donde la precipitacion pluvial es mayor. Con respecto al comportamiento floral se encontro que la antesis de F. robustus es diurna y dura dos dias. Los botones iniciados durante el pico floral desarrollan hasta fruto en porcentajes bajos (14.9%). A pesar de que ocurren perdidas importantes en el paso de boton iniciado a boton de 10 a 20 mm, las perdidas mas significativas se dan en las fases posteriores a la formacion de las flores. Muchas flores (54.4%) se abortan inmediatamente despues de la antesis, lo que sugiere que los recursos pueden tener un papel importante. Se observa una fuerte depredacion de frutos inmaduros lo que reduce aun mas la formacion de frutos con semillas viables. En comparacion a otras angiospermas tiene un asentamiento de frutos alto, pero en relacion a otras cactaceas es muy bajo
A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF JOB STRESS IN ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS

Today, occupational accidents are considered among the potential threats because of their serious humanitarian, economic, social, and environmental consequences. Occupational accidents and injuries are the third cause of mortality in world and the second one in Iran. In addition, the economic and environmental damages of occupational accidents are catastrophic too.According to International Labor Organization (ILO) report in 1999 the average estimated fatal occupational accident rate was 140/100 000 workers and the number of fatal accidents was 335000. Though the registered number of accidents in Iran cannot be a faultless account of all the accidents happened, but in 2000, about 12000 work related accidents have been registered by the Department of Social Security. Calculations indicated that approximately 345000 fatal occupational accidents occurred in 1998 and that over 260 million occupational accidents causing at least 3 days absence happened in the same year. This work aims to study the relation of occupational stress of workers and the accidents in a rice milling industry. The data was collected using questionnaire. The questionnaire contained 30 questions to measure the perception s of the employees about the management practices. A five point likert scale was used. This was prepared based on review of related literature . The contents of this draft questionnaire were discussed with senior safety professional in the industry. Data was analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software. Descriptive statistics and correlations of the studied variables were first analyzed. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to verify the reliability of the management practices. Regression analysis was conducted to test the goodness of fit of the various models.
Experimental Facilities at the High Energy Frontier

The main theme of the lectures covered the experimental work at hadron colliders, with a clear focus on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and on the roadmap that led finally to the discovery of the Higgs boson. The lectures were not a systematic course on machine and detector technologies, but rather tried to give a physics-motivated overview of many experimental aspects that were all relevant for making the discovery. The actual lectures covered a much broader scope than what is documented here in this write- up. The successful concepts for the experiments at the LHC have benefitted from the experience gained with previous generations of detectors at lower- energy machines. The lectures included also an outlook to the future experimental programme at the LHC, with its machine and experiments upgrades, as well as a short discussion of possible facilities at the high energy frontier beyond LHC.
Dietary Fluted Pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) Improves Reproductive Indices in Male African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) Broodstock

The effect of dietary aqueous extract of fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) leaf powder on growth and reproductive indices of male catfish, Clarias gariepinus bloodstocks was investigated. Fish fed experimental diets showed significantly improved reproductive indices over the control fish. Significantly higher (P < 0.05) gonadosomatic index was recorded for the fish fed diets of aqueous extract of T. occidentalis leaf powder compared to fish fed on control diet. These results revealed that supplement diets with medicinal plant (T. occidentalis) improve gonadosomatic index, and reproductive indices of male C. gariepinus broodstocks and this plant has a potential pro-fertility property which can be exploited in fish fingerling production by hatchery operators.
Can the Auditor’s Professional Skills Improve the Quality of the Result of Inspection? Empirical from the Local Government of North Sulawesi, Indonesia

The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of education background, professional skills , continuing education, to the quality of the result of inspection the internal auditor (Inspektorat) governmental of Sulawesi Utara. Independent variables in this study were education background, professional skills, and continuing education. Dependent variable of this study was the quality of the result of inspection. The data in this study was the primary data that has obtained from the spreading questioner directly to all of Aparat Pengawasan Intern Pemerintah (APIP) staff of the Inspectorate. Data analysis conducted with multiple regression models. The hypotheses tested are revealed as that education background, professional efficiency, and continuing education to the quality of the result of inspection as well as partially and simultaneously. The result of this study has shown that the education background, professional skills, and continuing education, were simultaneous affected significantly to the quality of the result of inspection at Inspectorate. In this study education background and professional efficiency that not affected significantly to the quality of the result of inspection at North Sulawesi Inspectorate. Furthermore the continuing education affected significantly to the quality of the result of inspection. Keywords: Education background, professional Skills, continuing education, and quality of the result of inspection
Characterization of the bacterially-active particle fraction in the Columbia River estuary

The Columbia River estuary is dominated by a detrital food web that feeds primarily on river-borne particulate organic material in the estuarine turbidity maxima (ETM). Approximately 90% of the bacterial activity and most of the extracellular enzyme activity in the water column of the estuary were associated with particles captured by a 3 µm filter. Earlier studies determined that the relation- ship between particle-attached bacterial activity and suspended particulate mass (SPM) was variable, suggesting that some particles supported a larger fraction of bacterial activity. In order to characterize these bacterially-active particles, suspended particulate material from the estuary was fractionated by size and in situ settling velocity, and analyzed for 3 H-thymidine incorporation rate, total particle mass and particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration. The location and movement of bacterially-active particles in the estuary was traced by measuring 3 H-thymidine incorporation rate and SPM in near- bottom depth profiles collected at 4 or 5 time points during ETM resuspension events. The smallest particle size fraction (3 to 10 µm) supported 87% (SE = 13) of bacterial activity, but contained only 38% (SE = 5) of total POC and 38% (SE = 6) of total particle mass. However, when particles were separated by in situ settling velocity using a method that preserved the integrity of aggregated particles, the set- tling velocity of the majority of bacterially-active particles varied from 0.75 mm s -1 . Microscopic analysis of bacterially-active particles revealed that they were aggregates of smaller (<10 µm) particles held together by a transparent matrix. This study shows that small, slow- settling particles host most of the bacterial activity in the Columbia River estuary, and suggests that they contain the most rapidly consumed pool of organic matter in the system. Furthermore, it demon- strates that the configuration of these particles may be highly dynamic as they are regularly aggre- gated and disaggregated in ETM. In the estuary, these particles often appeared in the water column early during developing flood tides prior to the appearance of the most turbid part of ETM, and some- times remained in the water column after most ETM particles had settled back to the bed. This cycle places bacterially-active particles in the water column longer than most ETM particles, making them more likely to be washed out of the estuary, but also making them more available to suspension-feeding detritivores. Formation of large, fast-settling macroaggregates during the late stages of flood and ebb tides and during slack tides is probably the mechanism by which bacterially-active particles are trapped in the ETM, and may be essential to maintaining the estuarine community of particle-attached bacteria.
Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities

Ecosystems support biodiversity and also provide goods and services that are beneficial to humans. The extent to which the locations that are most valuable for ecosystem services coincide with those that support the most biodiversity is of critical importance when designing conservation and land management strategies. There are, however, few studies on which to base any kind of conclusion about possible spatial patterns of association between ecosystem services and biodiversity. Moreover, little is known about the sensitivity of the conclusions to the quality of the data available, or to the choice and size of the region used for analysis. Here, we first present national-scale estimates of the spatial covariance in areas important for ecosystem services and biodiversity (richness of species of conservation concern), using Britain as a case study. We then explore how these associations are sensitive to the spatial resolution of the available data, the spatial extent of our study region and to regional variation across the study area. Our analyses reveal a mixture of negative and positive associations. In particular, the regionalization analysis shows that one can arrive at diametrically opposing conclusions about relationships between ecosystem services and biodiversity by studying the same question within different areas, even within a moderately small island. Synthesis and applications. In a policy context, the location-specific nature of relationships between ecosystem services and biodiversity underscores the importance of multi-scale environmental decision-making, so as to reflect both local conditions and broader-scale priorities. The results also suggest that efforts to establish general patterns of congruence in ecosystem services and biodiversity may offer a less constructive way forward than do more regional approaches