Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The diloggún : the orishas, proverbs, sacrifices, and prohibitions of Cuban Santería

DIVINATION / INDIGENOUS CULTURES "In this new book ocha'ni Lele has brought together information never before published for the education of serious students of divination, and for use by initiated practitioners of African traditional religions, especially those who follow La Regla de Ocha. In doing so, he has more than justified his own claim that 'one cannot overstate the academic and scholastic value' of this work. " --Edward Batchelor, Jr., Fellow in Religion, Yale University The diloggun, the cowrie-shell oracle of Cuban Santeria, is more than a tool of divination. It is the doorway to a powerful transformational process, and the forces that are set in motion when it is cast determine the future evolution of the adherent. "The Diloggun" explores this mysterious Afro-Cuban oracle from the perspective of diaspora orisha worship and includes a thorough exploration of the body of lore surrounding the oracle, which is the living Bible of one of the world's fastest growing faiths. ocha'ni Lele provides a detailed description of each of the twelve families of "odu" that exist in the diloggun--from Okana through Ejila Shebora. Within these twelve families are 192 "omo odu," the children of the odu, and each of these patterns or letters has its own lore, proverbs, meanings, prohibitions, and sacrifices, which Lele details as well. He is the first to provide the hitherto secret, but essential, information that the adept diviner needs to have in order to ensure that every element affecting a client's spiritual development is taken into account during a reading. He includes all the major indications for sacrifice, "ebo," providing the diviner with numerous ways to placate and supplicate the Afro-Cuban deities known as "orishas. " His book is also the first to detail how to properly end a session so that negative vibrations are absorbed by the orishas and fully removed from the diviner's home. For those seeking the wisdom of ancient Africa, "The Diloggun" is an indispensable guide to the mysteries of the orishas. oCHA'NI LELE has been immersed in the underground culture of orisha worship since 1989. He made Ocha in 2000 and was crowned a priest of Oya. His other books include "The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination" and "Obi Oracle of Cuban Santeria. " He lives in Florida.
Identification of in vitro responsive immature embryo size for plant regeneration in Sudan grass ( Sorghum sudanenses Piper)

Immature embryos of various sizes from six genotypes of sudan grass (Sorghum sudanenses Piper) were cultured to identify the best in vitro responsive embryo size. The immature embryos size influenced callus formation (days to callus initiation, callus induction frequency, callus growth) and plant regeneration (shoot induction frequency, shoots per callus) parameters. Immature embryos (0.7-1.5 mm) were quicker to initiate callus, induced fastly growing callus in higher frequency and regenerated shoots more frequently and intensely than immature embryos (1.6-2.5 mm) because of the initiation of callus from rapidly dividing scuttelar cells. Frequent germination and initiation of non-embryogenic callus from plumule or radicle were the main reasons for poor callus induction and plant regeneration responses from 1.6-2.5 mm size immature embryos. Thus immature embryos of 0.7-1.5 mm size may be used for embryogenic culture initiation and plant regeneration.
Turbulence Regimes and Turbulence Intermittency in the Stable Boundary Layer during CASES-99

AbstractAn investigation of nocturnal intermittent turbulence during the Cooperative Atmosphere–Surface Exchange Study in 1999 (CASES-99) revealed three turbulence regimes at each observation height: 1) regime 1, a weak turbulence regime when the wind speed is less than a threshold value; 2) regime 2, a strong turbulence regime when the wind speed exceeds the threshold value; and 3) regime 3, a moderate turbulence regime when top-down turbulence sporadically bursts into the otherwise weak turbulence regime. For regime 1, the strength of small turbulence eddies is correlated with local shear and weakly related to local stratification. For regime 2, the turbulence strength increases systematically with wind speed as a result of turbulence generation by the bulk shear, which scales with the observation height. The threshold wind speed marks the transition above which the boundary layer approaches near-neutral conditions, where the turbulent mixing substantially reduces the stratification and temperature fluc.
Hotelling's Beach with Linear and Quadratic Transportation Costs: Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria

In Hotelling type models consumers have the same transportation cost function. We deviate from this assumption and introduce two consumer types. Some consumers have linear transportation costs, while the others have quadratic transportation costs. If at most half the consumers have linear transportation costs, a subgame perfect equilibrium in pure strategies exists for all symmetric locations. Furthermore, no general principle of differentiation holds. With two consumer types, the equilibrium pattern ranges from maximum to intermediate differentiation. The degree of product differentiation depends on the fraction of consumer types
The Chen primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions

If one replaces “primes” in the statement of the Green–Tao Theorem by the set Z+ of all positive integers, then this is a famous theorem of Szemerédi [19], [5], [9]. The special case k = 3 of the Green–Tao Theorem was established by B. Green [10] using methods of Fourier analysis, and the special case k = 3 of Szemerédi’s theorem is the Roth–Bourgain theorem [18], [1]. Moreover, D. R. Heath-Brown obtained some important results for arithmetic progressions in primes [16]. On the other hand, J. R. Chen [2], [3] proved his famous theorem.
Keywords : experience goods , product differentiation , product quality , asymmetric information

We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good’s quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is revealed with positive probability. To provide firms with incentives to actually deliver promised quality, prices must exceed marginal cost. We derive sufficient conditions for these incentive constraints to determine equilibrium prices, and show that under certain conditions only one or both of the extreme levels of quality, minimum and maximum quality, are available in the market. JEL classification: D82, L11, L15.
Nursing students' clinical performance and professional self-concept

Objective : Nursing professional self-concept is nurses' internalized values and beliefs and the manner they affect their thoughts and behavior. The questions of how nursing students see themselves and what qualities interest them are of great importance. The present study aims to determine the correlation between clinical performance and nursing students’ professional self-concept. Materials and Method : The present cross-sectional-analytical study was conducted on 86 nursing students at Jahrom universities of medical sciences. The study data were collected using a questionnaire which consisted of 6-Dimension Scale of Nurse Performance (6-DSNP) and Nurse Self-Concept Questionnaire (NSCQ). The data analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results : The nursing students’ clinical performance and professional self-concept scores were 2.94±1.45 and 5.46±1.11. Pearson correlation coefficient revealed a significant correlation between the students’ clinical performance and professional self-concept. Total 6-DSNP score were significantly related to two of the dimensions of NSCQ: Nursing care and communication (p<0.05). There was a relationship between academic year and professional self-concept total score (p=0.01, r= 0.26). Conclusion : The results of the study show that clinical performance and professional self-concept are related. These findings can be helpful to teachers, authorities at nursing colleges, and nursing managers. Applying techniques that will enhance students' professional self-concept are essential to improving their clinical performance. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.15(1) 2016 p.57-61
CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES – BKR Financial Systems , Financial Governance And Economic Development

In his General Theory Keynes (1936) identified “The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. ”(1936: 372) He traced these faults to the behavior of the financial system: wealth holders’ irrational demand for liquidity in the face of uncertainty about the value of their investments, and the failure of the financial system to satisfy this irrational demand for liquidity when necessary. For Keynes scarcity was not the result of insufficient resources, rather he noted the existence of “poverty in the midst of plenty” caused by the impact of excess demand for liquidity on interest rates. This would produce a scarcity of demand for labour and unemployment. But, this very same factor was also at the root of the inequitable distribution of income, because liquidity protected the investor, while it produced loss of income for the labourer. Thus, the same factor that produces unemployment for Keynes also produces inequality: the key to both insufficient demand for labour and inequality could thus be found in the fear of loss on assets and the fear of default on loans. In short, the faults were primarily caused by the behavior of creditors – thus his call for the euthanasia of the rentier, and a more active role of government in providing liquidity, either through government financial institutions or through high levels of government spending which would calm the demand for liquidity by generating higher profitability.
Localization of excitatory amino acid and neuropeptide markers in neurons of the subicular complex projecting to the retrosplenial granular cortex of the rat

Retrograde labelling was combined with immunohistochemistry to localize neurons containing glutamate and different neuropeptides such as neurotensin, leu-enkephalin, and substance P-like immunoreactivity in the projection pathways from the presubiculum and subiculum to the retrosplenial granular cortex of the rat. Injections of horseradish peroxidase conjugated to subunit B of cholera toxin (CT-HRP) into the retrosplenial granular cortex labelled large numbers of neurons in the presubiculum. A significant number of retrogradely-labelled neurons was seen in the dorsal subiculum, whereas small numbers of CT-HRP-labelled neurons were also found in the ventral subiculum. In the presubiculum, 90-95% of the CT-HRP-labelled neurons (30-32 per section) were also immunoreactive for glutamate, and small numb ers of re t rograd ely-labelled n eu ro ns also d isp layed neurotensin-, leu-enkephalin- or substance Pimmunoreactivity. In the subiculum, approximately 90-95% of the CT-HRP-labelled neurons (19-20 per section) were also immunoreactive for glutamate, and a significant number of retr ogradely- labelled neurons (70-75%, 14-15 per section) also displayed neurotensin immunoreactivity. In add ition , small numbers of CT-HRP-labelled neurons in the subiculum were immunoreactive for leu-enkephalin or substance P. These results suggest that the complexity of the neurotransmitter(s)/neuromodulator(s) of the subicular projections to the retrosplenial granular cortex of the rat should be taken into account when considering the mechanisms of the retr osplenial cortical neurons thought to play a role in memory
Restoration versus Re-flooding: Mesopotamia Marshlands

The current water physiological and chemical parameters in the re-flooded marshes of the Mesopotamia are investigated from March 2005 to August 2008. Generally, desiccation, among the several natural and anthropogenic activities (water shortage, dams’ constructions), had the worst damage sequences that led to destroy the Mesopotamian’s ecosystem. Understanding the current physicochemical structure of the re-flooded marshes are important in order to evaluate the ecological function of the newly wetlands. This study will assess the ecological function of some of the re-flooded marshes based on their historical status in the 1970’s. The assessment will observe the overtime changes of water quality parameters, nutrients and major ions concentrations of the Mesopotamian marshlands before and after desiccation in thirty re-flooded marshes. During the study period, and under the stagy hydrological situation of Iraq, the average salinity concentration of the marshes was increased from 0.5 ppm to 1.6 ppm. The pH values were mostly in the basic range which is similar to previous studies. High range of dissolved oxygen concentrations were recorded that mostly related to the seasonal differences and photosynthesis. The significant differences between the major ions concentrations among the three marshlands indicate the differences in the water resources of each marshland, which mainly related to the tidal effect of Arabian Gulf via Shatt Al-Arab River. The early monitoring of PO4, NO2, NO3, and SiO2 concentrations were high and then their concentrations started to decline overtime, which is good indicator that the marshlands are naturally are recycle and remove the extra concentrations of nutrients and avoid nitrification. Also the principal component analysis indicates that the historical conditions of the marshlands were changed dramatically overtime even before the desiccation period.
Succession of the richness, abundance and species composition of frugivorous insects in Psidium guajava (L.)

The maintenance of species diversity is a comple xphenomenon whose determinant factors can act in many spatial scales from local habitats to the regional level. We analyzed the habitat use by frugivorous insects in three categories of Psidium guajava fruits. We found 2,140 individuals of 22 morphospecies, of which Diptera (6 spp.), Hymenoptera (6 spp.), and Coleoptera (5 spp.) were the richest orders. Diptera was the most abundant order, with 93% of the total collected individuals (1,986 ind.). The greatest richness occurred in the fruits on the litter: 19 spp. , contrasting with 7 spp. in ripe fruits and 2 spp. in unripe fruits on the tree. Diversity was significantly higher in fruits on the litter. Similarity was greatest between unripe and ripe fruits on the tree (0. 50). Abundance (r2 = 0.08; r = 0.29, p = 0.00) show a positive and significant relation with total volume of the all fruit categories Abundance (Log10) in unripe fruits correlated positive and significantly with total diameter of these fruits (r2 = 0.12; r = 0.35, p = 0.04). Variations in invertebrate richness, abundance, diversity, and density in the three fruit categories suggest different community establishment restriction levels. The physical and biological change gradients in the P. guajava fruits represent a heterotrophic succession. The temporal and spatial position of the fruits promotes variations in their physical and chemical properties. This variation in resource quality creates microhabitat heterogeneity and makes the presence and co-existence of many species of frugivorous invertebrates possible. Key words: diversity, microhabitat heterogeneity, heterotrophic succession, Psidium guajava
Advanced techniques for fast offset cancellation limit amplifiers

As the need for higher data rates to end users increases, new technologies are required. Passive optical networks promise a vast improvement over previous methods, but they require amplifiers which can quickly adapt to changing input power levels. This thesis proposes two methods for addressing this problem, which are implementable in pure CMOS. Advanced modeling techniques allow for improvements on previous analog designs, resulting in a 50x improvement in signal acquisition time to 20ns. A novel digital design reduces this acquisition time even further. Results were verified using behavioral and component-level simulators Thesis Supervisor: Michael H. Perrott Title: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Is there an Ethnic Disparity ?

Advances in controlling communicable diseases, made the non-communicable ones including cancers as one of the most important challenge in health systems. As other parts of the world, cancers are major public health problems in Iran. According to reports of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME), cancer is the third cause of death in following coronary heart disease and accidents (Goya, 2007; Naghavi et al., 2009). Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women representing 1.38 million new cases (23% of all reported cancer cases in women) in 2008 worldwide (Ferlay et al., 2010). It is the leading cause of cancer death in women (Mathers et al., 2008; Ferlay et al., 2010). The range of mortality rates (approximately 6-19 per 100,000), made overall (Mathers et al., 2008; Ferlay et al., 2010). Since 1990, mortality from breast cancer in the United States and other industrialized countries has been decreasing at
Introducción y algunos usos de los códigos QR

Los codigos QR son un modo facil de lectura de informacion para dispositivos moviles y permiten el acceso directo o indirecto a recursos informativos. Para las bibliotecas, este elemento permite extender los servicios y el acceso a usuarios en movilidad de un modo sencillo y barato: guias de recursos, informacion practica, descarga directa de documentacion, acceso a informacion multimedia, etc. Se ofrecen ejemplos de uso asi como herramientas para la creacion de codigos.
Interactive comment on “ On the Thermodynamic and Dynamic Aspects of Immersion Ice Nucleation ” by Donifan Barahona

Reviewer: This paper proposes a new theoretical model for immersion nucleation, by investigating the thermodynamic and kinetic impact of the solid particle on nearby water molecules and its consequences for ice nucleation within the liquid droplet. Although immersion freezing is one of the main pathways of ice formation in the atmosphere, it is still poorly understood and the topic addressed in the paper is of great relevance for cloud physics. Furthermore, the paper puts together an important number of previous works in an attempt to make progress on our understanding of immersion nucleation. It is overall rather clearly written and the reasoning is supported by high C1
Inconsistency Detection in Software Component Source Code using Ant Colony Optimization and Neural Network Algorithm

Objectives: Inconsistency detection is one of the major challenges in source code for the software developers. There is the need of consistent identifiers to reduce the code inconsistencies. So, developers should either have the knowledge to create conceptual identifiers or the knowledge to detect the inconsistencies in source code. Methods/Statistical Analysis: There is the availability of a list of tools for the detection of different types of inconsistencies. But the existing tools are not much appropriate for Semantic, Syntactic Inconsistencies and Part of Speech tagging. Findings: In the paper, an autonomous tool Automatic Bad Code Detector (ABCD) is developed to detect semantic, syntactic and part of speech inconsistency in the source code. ABCD tool identifies the inconsistencies in the source code based on the detected Code Clones. These Clones are detected by matching the test code with Code Repository. A java project based code repository is considered for experimentation. ABCD is evaluated for different java projects in order to find inconsistencies in source code. In ABCD tool main inconsistency detector are Ant Colony Optimization and Neural Network Back Propagation algorithm. Further, ABCD is useful in re-implementing the new versions of the java code. Applications/Improvements: The current concept is evaluated for the Semantic, Syntactic, POS-Word and POS-Phrase inconsistencies based on evaluation parameter of precision. The efficiency of ABCD is evaluated as an overall value for the precision, recall and f-measure.
To Save or not to Save the Kidney: Relieving Unilateral Obstruction May Significantly Improve an Initially Low Split Renal Creatinine Clearance

Otuz hasta prostpektif olarak çalışmaya dahil edilmiştir. Hepsinin üreter taşı olup 24’ünde (%80) üst üreter ve 6’sında (%20) orta üreter yerleşimliydi. Tüm hastaların ileri düzeyde hidronefrozu olduğu için perkütan nefrostomi takılması planlandı. Nefrostomi takıldıktan sonra 1. haftada etkilenen böbrek nefrostomiden ve diğer böbrek üretral kreatinin klirensi ölçümü ile değerlendirilmiştir. Değişikliği saptamak için de 1. ayda nefrostomi ve üretral kreatinin klirensleri hesaplanıp 1. haftadaki sonuçlar ile karşılaştırılmıştır.
Trademark statistics as innovation indicators?-A micro study

This study explores the possibility of using trademark statistics as an indicator of new-to-thefirm innovation. It compares registrations of trademarks and the launch of new-to-the-firm products for a number of Swedish companies in the electromechanical, automotive and pharmaceutical industries. The results show considerable differences between these sectors. For the studied companies in the electromechanical and automotive industries, trademarks are generally unreliable as an indicator of new products. However, the results from the pharmaceutical industry are different. A comparison between trademarks and the number of new products show that a high and fairly stable percentage of the new products have been trademarked. The number of trademarks is also mutually co-integrated with the number of registered (approved) new drugs over the time period 1935-1996. Short term variations are not correlated, possibly due to the extreme uncertainty of the development process in the pharmaceutical industry, where many projects fail even in the final testing, as well as the often lengthy registration process. A comparison between the number of trademarks and patents nevertheless suggests that the trademark statistics carries information about product development activities prior to registration. The study also suggests that the use of trademarks as an indicator of new-to-the-firm innovation is likely to be most successful in industries with frequent use of trademarks and with products targeting consumers or professional end-users, but with less uncertain development process than the pharmaceutical industry’s.
LAW , CULTURE , AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES : EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENCE

The cultural context of law both promotes and subverts efforts at legal change. Profound social and cultural transformations often lead to the creation of new law by legislator or judge. The passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA)l in 1975, for example, resulted from changes in popular conceptions of "handicaps," political activism by and on behalf of persons with disabilities, recognition of the importance of public education to integrate disempowered groups into society, and an increased willingness to perceive persons with disabilities as a minority group to whom the civil rights paradigm should be applied. In this sense, the EHA was a watershed event in a broader process of social and cultural change. Yet, law can also be altered or even subverted by the social and cultural environment that fostered it. In the case of the EHA, the extraordinary nullifying effect of culture arose not merely from the persistence of stigma, stereotype, and discrimination in the society as a whole, but also from distinctive features of the statute itself. The EHA's ap-