Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MATLAB/SIMULINK PACKAGE AS A ENVIRONMENT FOR RAIL VEHICLE SIMULATION STUDY

The paper sets out to present considerations and some result from track/vehicle investigations area. The goal of the investigations was to build up a modular software tool for carrying out complex study: theoretical and experimental ones, on the relations between travelling speed and forces within the wheel-rail contact zone depending on the state of track maintenance. The basic assumptions of the study were: frequency range of the interest: 0 - 25 Hz, the track is epresented by rigid rails, the state of the track maintenance is represented by geometrical irregularities of the track which were excitations of the motion in the simulation process, the passenger car with bogies type MD522 was taken as an object of the investigations.
Conceptual Design on Computer Sentencing Simulation Based on SVM

The criminal law in China is a relatively uncertain statutory punishment law, and the judge exercise the equitable discretion within the extent for discretionary action of sentencing. However, influenced by many objective and subjective factors, the punishment imparity exists inevitably. To farthest implement the justice goal that criminal law pursues and get the largest benefit from criminal penalty, the Support Vector Machine (SVM), one of the machine learning method that newly emerged in the artificial intelligence theory, is adopted for the application of measurement method research of penalty in this thesis, and the SVM measurement model of penalty (SVM sentencing model) is presented, which attempted to decrease the imparity in the measurement of penalty through the improvement of sentencing method. Based on the SVM sentencing model as the core measurement method of penalty, the machine learning based sentencing expert system’s general frame is described. Finally, the theft crime is taken as an example, the realization procedures and details of expert system are illustrated.
Rule Extraction for Automatic Question Answering Based on Structural Clustering

Summary Automatic question answering (QA) is playing an increasingly important role in intelligent answer searching. Many approaches have been employed for retrieving answers to natural language questions with rule-based approach being one of them. Traditionally, rules for automatic QA have been generated manually which may be time consuming and limited in scope. To address this issue, we present a proposed automatic rule extraction approach to generate rules for QA from training data via structural clustering.
Respiratory responses and behavioural anomalies of the carp Cyprinus carpio under quinalphos intoxication in sublethal doses

A static renewal bioassay was conducted to determine the acute toxicity (LC50) of commercial grade organophosphate insecticide, quinalphos (25% emulsified concentration) to common carp, Cyprinus carpio. The acute toxicity of quinalphos to carp fingerlings exposed for 96 h was found to be 7.5 µl/l. The fish were exposed to sublethal concentrations (0.1LC50 and 0.2LC50) for up to 15 days. Fish in toxic media exhibited irregular, erratic, and darting swimming movements, hyper excitability, and loss of equilibrium and sinking to the bottom. Caudal bending was the chief morphological alterations during the exposure tenures. The carp were found to be under stress but mortality was insignificant in both sublethal concentrations. Considerable variation in respiratory rate was observed in both sublethal concentrations. The observed alteration in respiratory rates may be a consequence of impaired oxidative metabolism and elevated physiological response by the fish against quinalphos stress. The impairments in fish respiratory physiology and behavioural response even under recovery tenures may be due to slow release of sequestered quinalphos from the storage tissues.
Molecular identification of two gobi fishes of Bangladesh using cytochrome oxidase subunit I (CoI) gene sequences

DNA barcoding has been proposed as a means of quick species identification using a short standardized segment of DNA. Two species ( Eleotris fusca and Glossogobius giuris ) from the family Gobiidae and Eleotridae were selected for DNA barcoding using samples collected from different regions of Bangladesh. Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I (COI) gene was sequenced from two different gobi fishes and compared with two previously published similar sequences from the genera Eleotris and Glossogobius . Multiple sequence alignment and the molecular systematic study were performed. The DNA barcode technique identified the two species. The study provides a good example of how DNA barcoding can build upon its primary mission of species identification and use available data to integrate genetic variation investigated at the local scale into a global framework. Bangladesh J. Zool. 44 (2): 175-184, 2016
An investigation into morphological and physiological approaches to screen maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids for drought tolerance

A pot experiment was carried out in completely randomized design (CRD) having three replications to screen out six maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids viz; FH-810, 32-F-10, FH-782, 32-B-33, YH-1898, Monsanto-6525, R-2315 and R-3304 for drought tolerance. The study was carried out with objective to screen hybrids, when exposed to drought on the early phase of their vegetative growth. The moisture treatments comprised of 100% field capacity (FC), 75% FC and 50% FC. The results exhibited that all these hybrids varied substantially in their stability against drought tolerance. However, the results pertaining to interaction of maize hybrids with three moisture levels of 100% FC, 75% FC and 50% FC revealed that 32-F-10 performed comparatively better in contrast to other maize hybrids in plant height (79.74 cm, 47.02 cm and 41.65 cm), leaf area per plant (865.10 cm2, 405.7 cm2 and 178.60 cm2), relative water contents (81.23%, 69.79% and 65.98%), at 100%, 75% and 50% FC, respectively, while YH-1898 hybrid produced lowest.
Shifting investments strategy from equity funds to money market funds – the case of Romanian open - end fund market during the financial crisis

Mutual funds are one of the key suppliers of liquidity in Romanian capital market. This paper uses quarterly data on Romanian openend funds starting with 2006 until 2010. We find that significant negative flows (outflows) were registered beginning with the end of 2007 (equity funds), during 2008 (equity funds, balanced funds, other funds and bond funds in the last 2 quarters of the year) and from 2009 to 2010 (in the case of money market funds). There is evidence that the changing market conditions attract differently the incoming flows in these mutual funds. This is the reason why such perturbations affect investors’ confidence for these investment vehicles and impose the reorientation of the investment funds and of their investors to other alternatives in order to preserve their capital.
Contribution SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF FOOD PRODUCTION

The level of production intensity is influenced by the price of input factors and the price of output factors. If the price of output factors increases because of an increasing demand for agricultural products worldwide, the level of intensity expressed as increasing use of means of production will increase. This intensification can cause a lot of environmental damages like high values of nitrate in groundwater. Sustainable intensification means that realizing higher yields is possible without causing additional environmental damages. But most often there are interactions between an increasing intensity and the occurrence of environmental damages. Some examples for sustainable intensification are presented in the paper. To realize sustainability different political instruments can be used, like tightening of minimum requirements, more expensive inputs, e.g. in forms of nitrogen levy or prohibition of particular inputs, e.g. a pesticide and compensation payments for better protection of resources. But to decide which measures and instruments should be used it seems to be necessary to survey and evaluate the trade-offs between “intensification” and “sustainability”.
Institutional Repository Feasibility of a fully autonomous wireless monitoring system for a wind turbine blade

Condition monitoring (CM) of wind turbine blades has significant benefits for wind farm operators and insurers alike. Blades present a particular challenge in terms of operations and maintenance: the wide range of materials used in their construction makes it difficult to predict lifetimes; loading is stochastic and highly variable; and access can be problematic due to the remote locations where turbines are frequently located, particularly for offshore installations. Whilst previous works have indicated that Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers are viable devices for measuring the vibrations from which diagnostic information can be derived, thus far there has been no analysis of how such a system would be powered. This paper considers the power requirement of a self-powered blade-tip autonomous system and how those requirements can be met. The radio link budget is derived for the system and the average power requirement assessed. Following this, energy harvesting methods such as photovoltaics, vibration, thermal and radio frequency (RF) are explored. Energy storage techniques and energy regulation for the autonomous system are assessed along with their relative merits. It is concluded that vibration (piezoelectric) energy harvesting combined with lithium-ion batteries are suitable selections for such a system. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Use of hyperimmune serum for passive immunization of chicks experimentally infected with newcastle disease virus.

La Sota strain and Incomplete Freund’s Adjuvant (IFA) were inoculated in adult chicks to raise hyper immune serum. The serum was purified and used to reduce the morbidity and mortality in experimentally infected broiler chicks with Newcastle disease virus (NDV). 120 day-old broiler chicks were divided into four groups i.e. A, B, C and D. At 14
Evolution of security transaction tax in India

Securities Transaction Taxes have received much attention over the last few years with countries and global organizations trying to control the level of speculations, especially since the Global Financial Crisis. This study examines the impact of an increase in the level of securities transaction tax on traded quantity of shares and time series behaviour of stock returns using data from two prominent national stock exchanges of India. We find that when the tax on equity transactions increases from 0.1% to 0.125%, the quantity of traded shares (volume) decreases by more than twenty five percent. Since the volatility of returns on stocks is not constant through time, conditional heteroscedasticity models are used to estimate the volatility of stock returns. The impact of tax on volatility of return on indices is insignificant.
Isolation and identification of 3-chloropropionic acid degrading bacterium from marine sponge

Synthetic haloalkanoic acids often applied as active components in herbicides are toxic to the environment and harmful to the living organisms. These compounds are widely released to the environment due to their routine use by agricultural activities. In recent years, accumulation of haloalkanoic acids was emerged in marine environment. In this study, a 3CP-degrading bacterium which designated as strain H4 was successfully isolated from marine sponge Gelliodes sp. that capable of degrading 3CP as the sole carbon and energy source. The bacteria growth on solid minimal media containing 3CP was the evident for the presence of dehalogenase enzyme. In liquid medium, the doubling time of the cells for strain H4 was 56.82 ± 0.1 h while the maximum chloride ion release was 2.03 ± 0.01 mM. The 16S rDNA sequence of strain H4 was obtained via 16s rRNA gene analysis (1000 bp) and it was closely related to Bacillus aryabhattai B8W22 (99% similarity). To the best of knowledge, this report is the first report detailing haloalkanoic acid degrading bacteria from marine sponge in coastal area of Malaysia.
The impacts of precipitation increase and nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a semiarid temperate steppe

Soil respiration, Rs, is strongly controlled by water availability in semiarid grasslands. However, how Rs is affected by precipitation change (either as rainfall or as snowfall) especially under increasing nitrogen (N) deposition has been uncertain. A manipulative experiment to investigate the responses of growing season Rs to changes in spring snowfall or summer rainfall with or without N addition was conducted in the semiarid temperate steppe of China during three hydrologically contrasting years. Our results showed that both spring snow addition and summer water addition significantly increased Rs by increasing soil moisture. The effect of spring snow addition only occurred in years with both relatively lower natural snowfall and later snowmelt time. Summer water addition showed a much stronger effect on Rs by increasing plant root growth and microbial activities, but the magnitude also largely depended on the possible legacy effect of previous year precipitation. Our results indicated that precipitation increase in the form of snowfall had weaker effects than that in the form of rainfall as the former only accounted for less than 30% of total precipitation. Compared with other ecosystem processes, Rs was less responsible for increase in N deposition as it did not increase root productivity and microbial activities in the soils. Our results provided field data constraints for modeling the ecosystem carbon balance under the future global change scenarios in semiarid grasslands.
Eight centuries of volcanic signal and climate change at Talos Dome (East Antarctica)

[1] During the 1996 Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide-International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition traverse, two firn cores were retrieved from the Talos Dome area (East Antarctica) at elevations of 2316 m (TD, 89 m long) and 2246 m (ST556, 19 m long). Cores were dated by using seasonal variations in non-sea-salt (nss) SO42− concentrations coupled with the recognition of tritium marker level (1965–1966) and nss SO42− spikes due to the most important volcanic events in the past (Pinatubo 1991, Agung 1963, Krakatoa 1883, Tambora 1815, Kuwae 1452, Unknown 1259). The number of annual layers recognized in the TD and ST556 cores was 779 and 97, respectively. The δD record obtained from the TD core has been compared with other East Antarctic isotope ice core records (Dome C EPICA, South Pole, Taylor Dome). These records suggest cooler climate conditions between the middle of 16th and the beginning of 19th centuries, which might be related to the Little Ice Age (LIA) cold period. Because of the high degree of geographical variability, the strongest LIA cooling was not temporally synchronous over East Antarctica, and the analyzed records do not provide a coherent picture for East Antarctica. The accumulation rate record presented for the TD core shows a decrease during part of the LIA followed by an increment of about 11% in accumulation during the 20th century. At the ST556 site, the accumulation rate observed during the 20th century was quite stable.
Sero-Epidemiology of Toxoplasmosis among the People of Khorram Abad, Iran

Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic, zoonotic pathogen with a worldwide distribution. There are large variations in the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma infection in different regions of the world. Although toxoplasmosis became a notifiable sectional study aimed to survey the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma infection and its risk factors among people in Khorram Abad. In the present study, simple random sampling was carried out on the referents to 6 medical diagnostic laboratories (from among the 9 laboratories available in the city). The tests were performed on the 1000 blood serum samples using the IFA (immunofluorescent antibody assay) method and the effects of three variables including place of residence, occupation, and marital status were considered. Of the 1000 Khorram Abad studied, 831 (83.1%) were positive for Anti-T. gondii IgG antibody and 169 (16.9%) were negative. Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma infection did vary with residency, material status, and occupation (P<0.05). Our results demonstrate serological evidence of Toxoplasma exposure among Khorram Abad which may be impacting their health. Results of this first study of Toxoplasma infection in Khorram Abad may be useful for the design of optimal preventive measures against infection with Toxoplasma.
n the operational performance of by the implementation of a quality

The purpose of this study is to of a quality management system and through the acquisition of an ISO 9001 certification, effect of process operational performance of Incheon International Airport with passenger and baggage quality management Incheon International Airport implemented a system to achieve the goals of shortening the arrival and departure processing times and minimizing the rate of mishandled baggage. The results of this study present performan improved performance achieved using the process approach. Therefore, this study provides evidence of superior airport operations and encourages airport operators worldwide to implement quality management s insights to help airport operations for achieve of
The Relationships among In‐Channel Sediment Storage, Pool Depth, and Summer Survival of Juvenile Salmonids in Oregon Coast Range Streams

Abstract The influence of channel aggradation on water availability and salmonid survival was investigated during the summer dry season in two Oregon Coast Range streams. Deep pools and a deformable streambed of coarse gravel were present in highly aggraded stream reaches. However, these thick, highly porous alluvial deposits caused surface flow to become intermittent, which stranded fish in drying channels. In gravel-bed reaches with thinner alluvial deposits, pool depth was limited by the underlying bedrock, but pools were sustained by hyporheic flow throughout the summer dry season. In these moderately aggraded reaches, pool depth and area decreased throughout the summer, resulting in severe crowding of fish trapped in pools formed over small patches of exposed bedrock and isolated by dry, gravel-bed riffles. Bedrock-dominated stream reaches had slightly smaller pools but were most likely to contain continuous surface flow throughout the summer dry season; these reaches exhibited the smallest decreases.
Metabolic profiling of millet (Panicum miliaceum) using gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-TOFMS) for quality assessment.

Gas-chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-TOFMS) as used to determine the diversity among primary metabolites and phenolic acids in three varieties of millet (Panicum miliaceum L ) Three cultivars of millet seeds were germinated in a greenhouse, and the seedlings were transferred to the field and allowed them to grow for a period of 4 months A total of 48 metabolites were identified from millet, including 43 primary metabolites and five phenolic acids The metabolite profiles were subjected to principal component analysis (PCA and partial least-squares discriminate analysis (PLS-DA to evaluate the differences among varieties PCA and PLS-DA fully distinguished the three vaneties tested Joongjuk millet as separated from the other varieties based on the high levels of metabolites, and appears to be a good candidate for future breeding programs because of its high phenolic acids levels This GC-TOFMS-based metabolic profiling approach is a viable alternative method for evaluating food quality.
Eunophora gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Tasmania and New Zealand: description and comparison with Eunotia and amphoroid diatoms

A new raphid pennate diatom genus, Eunophora, and three new species are described from highland lakes and streams in Tasmania and New Zealand. Eunophora tasmanica and E. indistincta are only found in Tasmania; E. oberonica and a fourth species (Eunophora sp. 1) also occur in New Zealand. The presence of polar rimoportulae in E. tasmanica and E. oberonica, the relatively simple structure and arrangement of the raphe system and the stria pattern indicate that Eunophora belongs to the subclass Eunotiophycidae. However, it differs from the other genera in this subclass in the amphoroid symmetry of the cells, the length of the raphe slits and the non-coaxial internal central raphe endings; also unusual are the position of the raphe on the valve face instead of on the ventral mantle and the presence of many small discoid or band-like chloroplasts. Eunophora may represent a link between the Eunotiophycidae and the amphoroid genera of the Bacillariophycidae. Eunophora is characteristic of dystrophic to (ultra-)ol.
Mobile Data Warehousing: A Survey

Capturing mobile data is becoming feasible thanks to the frequent and widespread use of mobile devices embedded with positioning technologies. This phenomenon raises the need to handle efficiently, for decision making purposes, data becoming more and more mobile. The data warehouse technology constitutes the core of modern decision making systems, however, it must be adapted to handle mobile data specificities which bear the mobile data warehousing subfield. The goal of this paper is to explore, through a survey, mobile data warehousing domain in order to provide to research community an overview about main issues handled in this new area by concentrating on conceptual modeling one.
Measuring plagiarism: researching what students do, not what they say they do

Student plagiarism in colleges and universities has become a controversial issue in recent years. A key problem has been the lack of reliable empirical data on the frequency, nature and extent of plagiarism in student assignments. The aim of the study described here was to provide this data. Patterns of plagiarism were tracked in two university business studies assignments involving over 500 students and over 1000 scripts. Turnitin software was used to facilitate the identification of plagiarised material in assignments. The findings confirmed some common assertions about the nature of student plagiarism but did not provide support for a number of others.
Utilising Arabic-origin Loanwords in Teaching Malay as a Foreign Language

After Sanskrit, Arabic is the second-largest donor language to the Malay vocabulary. Through a vocabulary survey containing 40 Arabic-origin Malay loanwords, this study examines the utility of explicit presentation of Arabic-origin Malay loanwords and their etymologies in teaching Malay as a foreign language to Arabic speakers. The participants included 20 Arabic-speaking students at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The participants averaged 24.4 correct answers and 17.6 newly learned vocabulary items. At 5% significance level, a clear significant difference was found in participants’ scores before and after the presentation of the loanwords’ Arabic etymologies (p = .000). This study concluded that the explicit presentation of Arabic-origin Malay loanwords containing one or more modified consonants or vowels and their etymologies benefits Arabic speakers who are learning Malay as a foreign language.