Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biodiversity and biogeography pattern of benthic communities in the coastal basins of India

ABSTRACT Our understanding of coastal biogeography patterns is presently limited to certain regions and marine groups. Comprehending large-scale patterns and their underlying predictors is critical due to the changing environmental conditions. The Indian coast, bounded by two contrasting seas, the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, offers an excellent opportunity to determine the most important factors influencing coastal biogeography patterns. Here we use distribution data of 2581 species belonging to three benthic groups (polychaetes, gastropods and bivalves) to evaluate the role of environmental factors and coastal currents on the biogeography patterns. Data were obtained from the bioSearch database, developed by CSIR-NIO, Goa under the Census of Marine Life programme. As measures of diversity, we used species richness as well as taxonomic distinctiveness indices. Multivariate analyses were used in identifying biodiversity patterns and correlated biogeography patterns with environmental factors. This paper points out a clear difference between the eastern and western basins of India, but also within the basins. Mainland and island fauna also showed a clear distinction. The biogeography of the Indian coast is best explained by temperature, habitat heterogeneity and coastline length. Spatiotemporal variability in the boundary currents also forms an effective barrier for the dispersal of planktonic larvae of benthic fauna. This study has identified a finer scale division of the Indian coast that can help to effectively improve conservation plans. Our study is the first to attempt to understand the benthic biogeography patterns of the Indian coast. The findings will be useful in guiding future biogeography studies of this unique and underexplored marine system.
Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography Static Imaging by Non-Optimized Compressive Sensing Framework

Electrical capacitance volume tomography is a volumetric tomography technique that utilizes capacitance and fringing to capture behavior or perturbation in the sensing domain. One of the crucial issues in developing ECVT technology is the reconstruction algorithm. In practice, ILBP is most used due to its simplicity. However, it still presents elongation errors for certain dielectric contrasts. The high undersampling measurement of the ECVT imaging system, which is mathematically defined as an undetermined linear system, is one of the most challenging issues. Compressive sensing (CS) is a framework that enables the recovery of a sparse signal or a signal that can be represented as sparse in a certain domain, by having a lower dimension of measurement data compared to the Shanon-Nyquist theorem. Thus, mathematically, this framework is promising for solving an undetermined linear system such as the ECVT imaging system. This paper discusses the possibility of developing an ECVT imaging technique for static objects based on a CS framework. Based on the simulation results, Non-optimized CS does not completely succeed in providing better ECVT imaging quality. However, it does provide more localized imaging compared to ILBP. In addition, by having fewer requirements for the measurement data dimension, the CS framework is promising for reducing the number of required electrodes.
Enquête épidémiologique à propos des usagers des débits de boissons traditionnelles (bandjidromes d'Abidjan et de sa banlieue)

•Cette etude transversale a visee descriptive a ete realisee du 10 janvier au 10 avril 2003, soit sur trois mois. Elle nous a permis de degager le profil de 120 usagers des « bandjidromes » de la ville d'Abidjan et sa banlieue. Tous les sujets interroges etaient de sexe masculin. L'âge moyen etait de 31,1 ans. La presque totalite (99,2%) des enquetes etait de nationalite ivoirienne avec comme groupe ethnique dominant le groupe Akan (86,7 %) dont 60 % de Baoule. Plus du tiers (35,9 %) des sujets etait sans activite professionnelle. Sur le plan matrimonial, les celibataires representaient 62,5 %. Toutes les personnes interrogees affirmaient frequenter les « bandjidromes » pour consommer le vin de palme malgre la vente d'autres types de boissons alcoolisees. Toutefois c'est seulement 9,2 % des sujets qui consommaient exclusivement le vin de palme. L'effet euphorisant de l'alcool et la consolidation des liens amicaux qu'entretiendraient les debits de boissons etaient surtout recherches (53,3 %). La majorite des enquetes (63,3 %) consomme l'alcool depuis plus de dix ans. Plus de la moitie (55 %) consacrait moins de trois heures par jour a s'alcooliser. La quantite de vin de palme ingeree par jour etait de deux a quatre litres pour 76,7% des usagers des «bandjidromes». Seulement 2,5% (3/120) ont presente des troubles neuropsychiatriques. La prise en compte de ces resultats pourrait contribuer a la lutte contre l'alcoolisation.
An Empirical Analysis of Local Trader Profitability

*‡ Abstract: This study examines the profitability of local traders on the Sydney Futures Exchange. Specifically, local income is decomposed into two central components; liquidity and position-taking profits. Liquidity profits represent the income that arises (is forgone) from supplying (demanding) liquidity, whilst position-taking profits refer to the gains (losses) resulting from price movements subsequent to a local establishing a position. The decomposition of local profitability reveals that locals on the trading floor make significant position-taking profits. Moreover, the ability of locals on the floor to derive position-taking profits is positively related to order-flow related information, and negatively related to the presence of exogenous information, local liquidity profits and the length of a locals inventory cycle. Accordingly, this paper characterises locals as active informed traders.
Political Budget Cycles: A Review of Recent Developments

This paper provides a review of recent developments in the theory and evidence of political budget cycles. Specifically, we discuss three areas where significant progress has been made. First, new theoretical explanations (models) have been proposed where political budget cycles arise as the result of a moral hazard problem between the government and the electorate. Second, more sophisticated empirical methods, in particular, time series methods appropriate for dynamic panel data regressions, have been adopted in cross-country analyses. Last but not least, the focus of recent studies has shifted from industrialized countries to all (including developing) countries, and from the existence of political budget cycles to the magnitude and composition (revenue vs. spending) of these cycles.
Trust in Online Food Purchase Behavior: An Exploration in Food Safety Problem for Produce E-retailers

This study develop a theoretical framework describing the trust-based decision making process when a consumer makes a purchase from a given food website. Online food safety problems have become increasingly prominent, which has brought great harm to online food shopping. Survey data from 374 subjects were used to test the proposed model and structural equation modeling was performed to analyze the measurement and structural models. The findings show that trust in the website and trust in the vendor are critical determinants of perceived risk and intention to purchase. Furthermore, the majority of the antecedents are positively affecting consumer trust. These findings show that the food vendor and website managers can enhance trust by providing a secure and userfriendly food shopping environment.
Teaching Software Engineering Bottom Up

A typical CS curriculum contains a course on software engineering, which introduces principles and heuristic methods for designing large software systems subject to desirable properties, such as maintainability and extensibility. The nature of this body of knowledge suggests that the best method for teaching it is to use the elaboration theory of instruction. Applying this theory to software engineering requires a complete inversion in the traditional coverage of topics. We developed a new course, CSE 370, which incorporates this "bottom up" coverage. Using this method, we are able to instill a higher level of cognitive ability in software-engineering methods than we were able to achieve using the old method.
Towards Homo Digitalis: Important Research Issues for Psychology and the Neurosciences at the Dawn of the Internet of Things and the Digital Society

The present article gives an overview on central challenges humans face at the dawn of complex digital societies and the Internet of Things (IoT), i.e., a world completely connected to the Internet. Among the many challenges to be handled in digital societies is a growing fragmented life style leading to loss of productivity as well as moments for self-reflection. In all this, it is of tremendous importance to understand the impact of digital worlds on our brains and psyches and to reveal possible unintended side-effects of technology use. Does human nature change due to constant interactions with virtual realities? In this context, we also face the challenge to design digital worlds according to our mammalian-emotional heritage deeply anchored in subcortical areas of the human brain. Here, we refer to emotional needs as carved out by Panksepp’s Affective Neuroscience Theory and how they can or cannot be fulfilled in digital worlds. Aside from a review of several key studies dealing with the raised challenges, some first solutions to successfully meet the mentioned problems are provided to achieve sustainable and healthy digital worlds, with whom humans can interact carefree on a daily basis.
Vibrational and NMR Investigation on Pharmaceutical Activity of 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethylamphetamine by Theoretical and Experimental Support

The Detailed physical, chemical, thermal and circular vibrational investigations have been made on FT-IR, FTRaman, NMR and UV-Visible spectra of 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine. The modification of the basic property (deficit hyperactivity disorder) of the base compound (Amphetamine) is favoured by the insertion of two methoxy and ethyl-methyl groups have been discussed in detail. The transitional pattern among NBO emphasized the inducement of the psychedelic activity in the compound. The strong interpretation made on the physical and chemical properties by intense observation using excitations between the electronic energy levels within the molecule have been carried out. The arrangement of the dipole moment of the bonds and the change of resultant magnetic moment were observed from the average Polarizability first order diagonal hyperpolarizability. The receptor and inhibition property of the molecule were interpreted by the identification of reactive sites from molecular electrostatic potential contour map. The chemical reaction continuity is keenly observed from thermodynamical analysis.
Defining the Critical Elements of a Mastery Learning Program.

This paper describes the elements that most clearly identify and are most critical to a mastery learning program. Ways in which teachers can easily and efficiently implement these elements in their teaching and practices are outlined, along with procedures for evaluating their effectiveness in improving student learning. A discussion is presented on the elements most basic and crucial to the mastery learning process. These elements consist of feedback, correctives and enrichment activities, coupled with congruence with specific learning criteria and the procedures used to evaluate learning. Implications for the implementation of mastery learning are discussed: (1) mastery learning can be very broadly applied; (2) teachers need not drarmtically change what they are doing in their classrooms or the way they teach to use mastery learning; (3) mastery learning has a positive effect on most student achievement; and (4) more students can experience learning success. A brief list of references is included. (JD)
"Enseigner la controverse" : retour sur une migration conceptuelle

Les nombreux episodes lies aux offensives creationnistes pour prendre le controle des programmes scolaires peuvent souvent paraitre bien exotiques et peripheriques . Elles ne nous arrivent souvent par leurs consequences les plus etranges, comme lorsqu’un celebre musee de la creation fait coexister hommes et dinosaures , lorsque l’on s’interroge sur la presence de Kangourous au Moyen-Orient (pour qu’ils fussent embarques sur l’Arche de Noe ) ou bien encore lorsqu’un etat du Sud envisage de faire preceder toutes les mentions du fossile national --- un mammouth de Colomb en l’occurrence --- de la mention « tel qu’il fut cree au sixieme jour » . L’hypothese du present chapitre est qu’il n’en est rien et que les controverses creationnistes ont ete une forme de laboratoire conceptuel qui a ensuite essaime vers d’autres lieux.
Notification Oriented Paradigm (NOP) and Object Oriented Paradigm (OOP): A comparative study by means of a Sale Order System

This paper presents a comparative study between Notification Oriented Paradigm (NOP) and Object Oriented Paradigm (OOP) by means as an experiment. The OOP has problems which can lead the developers to build systems with low quality. These problems are related to unnecessary casual expressions evaluation (i.e. if-then statements or similar) and higher software entity coupling. In this context, Notification-Oriented Paradigm (NOP) presents an alternative for those issues. NOP proposes another way to structure software and make its inference, which is based on small, collaborative, and decoupled computational entities whose interaction happens through precise notifications. This paper presents a quantitative comparison, time evaluation performance, between two equivalent versions of a sale system, one developed according to the principles of OOP in C++ and another developed according to the principles of NOP based on a current NOP framework over C++. The experiment results have shown that OOP version has obtained better runtime perform-ance than NOP implementation. This happened because the NOP framework uses considerable expensive data-structures over C++. Thus, it is necessary a real compiler to NOP or at least a highly optimized NOP framework in order to use its potentiality indeed. Besides, in a scenario variation of approvable causal expressions, the experiment results have shown an increase in the number of causal expression unnecessary evaluated in OOP version, whereas the NOP version does not present unnecessary causal expression evaluation. Indeed, by definition, NOP application does not waste execution time unnecessarily evaluating causal expressions.
Animating Water in Chinese Painting

In this paper we present a method to animate water in Chinese painting. Our approach first detects positions of water forms in the hand drawn Chinese painting and synthesizes those forms using a parametric signal processing technique. Next, we render water forms using an image based rendering technique to produce water forms with the look of Chinese painting. Finally, water forms are animated in hand drawn environments thus we bring water forms in Chinese painting to life. Examples given in the paper demonstrate the capability of our method to capture the statistic properties associated with the sample data and to produce a variety of water forms for non-photorealistic animation.
The determinants of regional exports in Poland – a panel data analysis

The purpose of this article is to explain the strong diversification in the volume and structure of exports in Polish regions, using a set of potential determinants originating from different foreign trade theories used in country level studies. Two sets of panel models of exports are estimated for 16 regions of Poland in the years 1999–2008. Model I shows that regional export performance is positively dependent on labour productivity, share of foreign-owned companies in employment, education level of population, location in the country's border region and access to the sea, and negatively on the importance of agriculture in the region's economy and labour costs. Model II indicates that exports of agricultural and food products are positively correlated with the importance of agriculture, labour productivity in agriculture and the economy of the region as a whole, availability of employees with an appropriate level of practical skills and access to the sea, and negatively with population density and location in the country's border region. Growth of this type of export is important for improvement of living conditions in many underdeveloped regions of Poland.
WP-AD 2010-02 Strong ties in a small world *

This paper examines the celebrated “Strength of weak ties” theory of Granovetter (1973). We formalize the theory in terms of two hypotheses: one, for any three players with two links present, the probability of a third link being present is increasing in the strength of the two ties, and two, the removal of a weak tie increases average distance in the network more than the removal of a strong tie. We test these hypotheses using data on the network of coauthorship among economists. We find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, but we reject the hypothesis that weak ties reduce distance more than strong ties do. We then identify two general features of networks which explain these findings: significant inequality in the distribution of connections across individuals and stronger ties among individuals who have more connections.
The single-degenerate model for the progenitors of accretion-induced collapse events

It has been suggested that the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of an oxygen-neon white dwarf (ONe WD) to a neutron star is a theoretically predicted outcome in stellar evolution, likely relating to the formation of some neutron star systems. However, the progenitor models of AIC events are still not well studied, and recent studies indicated that CO WD+He star systems may also contribute to the formation of neutron star systems through AIC process when off-centre carbon ignition happens on the surface of the CO WD. In this work, I studied the single-degenerate (SD) model of AIC events in a systematic way, including the contribution of the CO WD+He star channel and the ONe WD+MS/RG/He star channels. Firstly, I gave the initial parameter space of these SD channels for producing AIC events in the orbital period--secondary mass plane based on detailed binary evolution computations. Then, according to a binary population synthesis approach, I gave the rates and delay times of AIC events for these SD channels based on their initial parameter space. I found that the rates of AIC events in our galaxy are in the range of $\sim0.3-0.9\times10^{-3}$\,yr$^{-1}$,and that their delay times are $>$30\,Myr. I also found that the ONe WD+He star channel is the main way to produce AIC events, and that the CO WD+He star channel cannot be ignored when studying the progenitors of AIC events.
Introducing Atomic Separation Axioms on Atomic Measure Space – An Advanced Study

A study on atomic separation axioms on atomic measure space (R , τ, Σ, μA) has been introduced in this paper. The key feature of this study is that, the atomic separation axioms like AT2 , AR are not only invariant under homeomorphism but they are invariant under measure invariant transformation on an atomic measure space (R , τ, Σ, μA ).
Autism - A Neurological Disorder in Children

Summary Autistic disorder are the group of related conditions defined as chronic neurodevelopmental disorders that typically affects a person's ability to communicate, form relationships with others and respond appropriately to the environment starting in early childhood and affecting a significant number of children and families. These disorders mainly affect the children at the age of 3 years. Although various causes have been postulated the exact cause of the disease is still unknown. In this review we will discuss about the various causes, diagnosis, clinical features, pathophysiology and treatment approach of this disorders.
Blame in primary care incident reports: A cross- sectional mixed methods analysis of the frequency and nature of blame in incident reports

Word Count: 274 Objectives –To explore the frequency and nature of blame, a major cultural barrier to learning, within primary care patient safety incident reports from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). Design A cross-sectional mixed methods study with sequential exploratory analysis of a random sample of primary care incident reports with free text narratives submitted between April 2005 and September 2013. Setting – NHS primary care settings across England and Wales. Participants Healthcare professionals, administrative staff, patients, family members, carers, and others involved in submitting patient safety incidents into the NRLS Main Outcome Measures – Types and frequency of blame attributions evident in incident reports. Associations between the nature of the safety incident (incident type, type of contributory factors, severity of harm of the outcome) and frequency of blame. Results Of 2148 incident reports, 975 (45%, 95% Confidence interval 43.2% to 47.5%) attributed blame, with 894 (92%) of these blaming someone other than the reporter. Blame occurred mostly in incidents involving poor communication and co-operation between different clinical teams and was least likely in routinely reported incidents (e.g. pressure ulcers). Blame was more likely to occur where staff or organisational factors contributed to an incident than for incidents where patient or equipment factors were involved. Blame was more likely in incidents where the severity of outcome was no harm. Conclusions Blaming others is common in primary care incident reporting with relatively little focus on systems failures. This is likely to limit the learning that can be achieved to improve safety for patients in primary care. Clinical staff need better training in human and systems factors to reclaim incident reports as a tool for improving patient safety.
Cross-selling models for telecommunication services

Cross-selling is a strategy of selling new products to a customer who has made other purchases earlier. Except for the obvious profit from extra products sold, it also increases the dependence of the customer on the vendor and therefore reduces churn. This is especially important in the area of telecommunications, characterized by high volatility and low customer loyalty. The paper presents two cross-selling approaches: one based on classifiers and another one based on Bayesian networks constructed based on interesting association rules. Effectiveness of the methods is validated on synthetic test data. Keywords— cross-selling, telecommunication service, classifier, association rule, Bayesian network.
Compact Branch Line Coupler using Step Impedance Transmission Lines(SITLs)

A compact branch line coupler is proposed by using the optimized Step Impedance Transmission Lines (SITLs). The proposed branch line coupler has an area reduction of more than 50% at 1GHz. The measured results of the fabricated power coupler are in good agreement with the simulation results.