Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFICIENT MODEL FOR EVALUATION OF SPECTRAL AND VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC LONGWAVE RADIATION

This work presents an analytical method designed to quantitatively evaluate the spectral and vertical distribution of atmospheric longwave radiation (0 ∼ 2500 cm−1) under clear-sky (cloud-free) conditions. A multilayer plane parallel radiative model with spectral resolution of 0.01 cm−1 is used to model the longwave radiation process in the Earth’s atmosphere. An irradiation-radiosity balance for each layer is used to solve for the fluxes for all layers. Broadband contributions of CO2 to surface downwelling flux and top of atmosphere upwelling flux for different values of water vapor content are found to range from 0.3 to 1.2 W m−2 and -0.7 to -0.5 W m−2 per 100 ppm increment, respectively. A plating algorithm is adapted for recursive and expedite calculation of modified transfer factors. This modified transfer factors include aerosol reflectance and take into consideration the vertical distribution of spectral thermal fluxes for each layer, including the ground. With the use of modified transfer factors, we found that for an atmosphere with surface relative humidity of 65% and aerosol optical depth at 479.5 nm equal to 0.1, 64.4% of the surface downwelling longwave irradiation is generated from the nearest atmospheric layer, 15.3% from the second nearest layer, 7.5% from the third nearest layer and the remainder 12.8% from other upper layers. From the first atmosphere layer to the tropopause layer, the largest irradiance contribution to each layer is from the layer itself. Above the tropopause, the largest contributor is the ground layer. Layers above the tropopause contribute less than 4.8% to the longwave radiation received by other layers.
Antimicrobial activities of lactic acid bacteria isolated from traditionally-fermented maize ( ogi ) against Candida albicans

Objectives: Candida species are among the most important and frequent opportunistic microorganisms causing nosocomial infection. The study aim was to assess the antimicrobial potentials of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) against Candida albicans. Methodology and results: Four lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 25927, L. plantarum isolated from ogi, L. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophillus from yoghurt) and an antibiotic (clotrimoxazole) were evaluated. Disc diffusion method was used by seeding blood agar plate with Candida albicans containing 106 cfu/ml LAB and 20μg/ml of clotrimozaxole. Zones of inhibition of L. plantarum (22mm), L. bulgaricus(19mm) and clotrimozaxole(21mm) were not significantly different at P< 0.05 while there was significant difference between clotrimoxazole and S. thermophillus. Conclusion and application of findings: Antimicrobial activities of lactic acid bacteria isolated from fermented maize “ogi” were revealed. Lactobacillus species can provide some protection against candidiasis. Consumption of fermented foods such as “ogi” should be encouraged in women to increase Lactobacillus population in the gastrointestinal tract and subsequently in the female genital organs.
ISOLATED SPEECH COMMANDS RECOGNITION BY USING HYBRID APPROACH

This paper presents our results obtained by experimenting with different classifiers and different types of features to combine different speech recognizers in order to increase isolated speech commands recognition accuracy. Two different speech corpora were used to evaluate classifiers and features performance: “Asmens kodai” – person code which consists of 11 digits, “Skaiciai” – digits from 0 to 9. Compared suggested speech recognizers combination method with best single recognizer accuracy increased based on corpora: “Asmens kodai” – 0.352 % and “Skaiciai” – 1.057 %. Compared with combination that was made using voting method accuracy increased based on corpora: “Asmens kodai” – 18.7 % and “Skaiciai” – 2.9 %. Classifiers that were evaluated in different speech recognizers combination task: Naïve Bayes, Random forest, Nearest neighbors, CART and Support vector classifiers. Highest accuracy increase obtained by using Random forest classifier.
Critical Thinking on Technology Use: Higher Education Course Design to Promote Personal, Professional and Societal Change

Higher education is a venue for developing critical thinking skills, dispositions and actions (Davies, 2015). With the exponential growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the last thirty years, dynamic changes and societal impacts, and evolving research findings, intentional use for personal and professional well-being depends on emerging adults’ critical thinking abilities. This paper describes the design of an undergraduate course and elements of critical thinking deployed through content, learning activities and assessments. Thematic analysis of student qualitative responses at the end of the course indicate specific areas of growth that represent gains in cognitive skills, dispositions and action orientations. These validate the selected methods of instruction and underscore the course design, content and pedagogical framework as applicable to a wide range of content areas and field domains in higher education.
The Effect Of Innovation And Learning Perspective, Internal Business Customers, External Customers, And Financial On Sustainability Model (Causal Empirical At Studies From Indonesia Case)

— The objective of the study was to develop a model of sustainable competitive advantage as a form of excellence in creating a college-based resource strategy; explanatory through the operational direction of research variables based on the variables of growth and learning perspective, financial perspective, customer perspective, and internal/ internal business perspective as independent variable and variables related to issues of research issue that is sustainability perspective as dependent variable ddependent. The research method uses explanatory survey method (explanatory survey method) containing the description, and relational research focused on the explanation of the relationship between variables. Otherwise Financial Sustainability are not Affect to Sustanability Perspectives because it has already fixed handled by the foundations. So the conclusin of this research can be seen from the development of that model that there are three main pilar in continous work improvement in private univwrsities through Learning measurement, Research and Community engangement.To remind this three pilar functions are supported by one work sustainability presented, together with supporting tools which can be implemented in private higher universities.
Reduction of Power Grid Losses by Using Energy Efficient Distribution Transformers

The importance of distribution transformer no-load loss on the operation of modern electrical grids is often underestimated. Internationally, distribution transformer no-load loss constitutes nearly 25% of the transmission and distribution losses of electrical grids. The losses in European Union distribution transformers are estimated at about 33 TWh/year whereas, reactive power and harmonic losses add a further 5 TWh/year. In the Greek electrical grid the no-load losses of 140,000 distribution transformers are estimated at about 490 GWh/year. This paper has two goals the first one is to illustrate the significance of distribution transformer no-load loss in periods of high electric energy cost and the second goal is the presentation of a novel numerical methodology for wound core transformers no-load loss analysis, enabling to determine the economically and technically optimum transformer for every use.
The transcription factor FOXL 2 : At the crossroads of ovarian physiology and pathology

FOXL2 is a gene encoding a forkhead transcription factor. Its mutations or misregulation have been shown to cause the blepharophimosis–ptosis–epicanthus inversus (BPES) syndrome and more recently have been associated with the development of Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumors (OGCT). BPES is a genetic disorder involving mild craniofacial abnormalities often associated with premature ovarian failure. OGCTs are endocrine malignancies, accounting for 2–5% of ovarian cancers, the treatment of which is still challenging. In this review we summarize recent data concerning FOXL2 transcriptional targets and molecular partners, its post-translational modifications, its mutations and its involvement in newly discovered pathophysiological processes. In the ovary, FOXL2 is involved in the regulation of cholesterol and steroid metabolism, apoptosis, reactive oxygen species detoxification and cell proliferation. Interestingly, one of the main roles of FOXL2 is also to preserve the identity of ovarian granulosa cells even at the adult stage and to prevent their transdifferentiation into Sertoli-like cells. All these recent advances indicate that FOXL2 is central to ovarian development and maintenance. The elucidation of the impact of FOXL2 germinal and somatic mutations will allow a better understanding of the pathogenesis of BPES and of OGCTs. 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Lokal Modell (LM) of DWD / COSMO

The German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) develops in common with his partners of the COSMO-group (Consortium for Small-scale Modelling) the mesoscale, non-hydrostatic limited-area atmospheric model ’Lokal Modell’ (LM) to be used both for operational and research applications. COSMO was formed in October 1998 and consists now of the 5 countries Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Switzerland.
Optical Maturity On Different Crater Using Chandrayaan-1 M3 Data

Optical Maturity (OMAT) is term used in moon surface for understanding the space weathering effect on the soil of craters. Space weathering is the term used to determine which portion of the lunar soil is affected by the exposure of space weathering which causes the change in their optical properties. OMAT is also used for understanding the age of the craters. In this paper we discuss four craters is used to determine the effect of OMAT on the age of craters. It is found that if the value of OMAT is high means it is immature(Fresh Crater) and If OMAT value is low means the crater is mature craters.In this work it is found that Tycho having high average OMAT value which means this is fresh carters among all other craters.
Image Content Extraction Techniques And Retrieval Systems: A Survey

: Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) emerged as a trending research area from the last decade. Due to the progressive technology in digital cameras and photography results in a collection of enormous images in day-to-day life. This leads to a need for an efficient CBIR system and its applications in different fields. The CBIR system demands a proper approach to extraction and storage of image features, similarity measurements, and retrieval of closer images which matches to the query from the large database. In this article a review is carried out on basic image features, several methods to extract the image content, existing CBIR systems, and approaches to find the similarity measurement.
The Impact of Islamic Microfinance Institutions on Poverty Alleviation in Mogadishu-Somalia

Islamic microfinance has stayed as a valuable way to deal with poverty alleviation, particularly in a developed nation. The services gave by the Islamic microfinance institutions could assist the poor with adjusting their costs, improve their dangers hunger, bit by bit develop capital, grow their businesses, and improve their nature of lives. All things considered, this study inspects the roles of Islamic microfinance in reducing poverty in Mogadishu, Somalia. Primary data was gathered using a simple random sampling technique; in view of this sampling method, questionnaires were self-managed to microfinance customers in rural area of Mogadishu, Somalia. Out of 300 polls conveyed, 288 properly finished were used for the analyses performed for this examination. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) programming was used to analyse the data gathered to determine the relationships between funding satisfaction and poverty alleviation, standard of living of microfinance clients and poverty alleviation, and awareness of microfinance experience and poverty alleviation. The outcomes uncover that all independent variables employed in this study positively contributed to poverty decrease. As far as individual commitment, awareness of the microfinance experience was seen as the most significant factor that contributed to poverty mitigation, while funding satisfaction was minimal contribution to poverty alleviation in Mogadishu, Somalia. In light of these findings, implications of the study, recommendations, and proposals for future research were discussed.
Defining Normal Breastfeeding Patterns

Number 9: Riveting panel discussions expounded upon daily presentations and future research applications of milk. Bruce German noted that modern cars have over 25 diagnostics running at all times monitoring the wellness of the vehicle, but humans have no similar external around-the-clock health gauge. The future of medicine will include non-invasive diagnostics, one of which may utilize compounds found in milk.
Entanglement and quantum statistics

Entanglement is the strongest form of genuine quantum correlations, and represents the impossibility to describe portions, i.e. marginals, of a composite system with full precision when the whole systems is known with the highest precision [1]. The vast majority of the work in entanglement theory has been developed in the setting of distinguishable particles. Nevertheless, physical systems are fundamentally made of identical particles that cannot be individually addressed [2]: an observer cannot distinguish which particle is manipulated. For these reasons, the peculiarities of identical particles must be properly considered for a good definition of fundamental, genuinely quantum correlations. A consistent notion of entanglement for indistinguishable particles consistes in the identification from non-classical correlations between subsets (subalgebras) of observables [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. This approach makes evident that there are no observables addressing an individual particle leaving unchanged all the others. The above observable subsets either commute or anticommute with each other, according to the quantum statistics. Each subset is therefore individually addressable without disturbing the other, and so defines a local subsystem. This approach recovers the standard definition of entanglement for distinguishable particles, while for systems of identical particles it accounts for correlations between occupations of orthogonal modes in the Fock space, e.g., fields localised in ordinary space or in momentum space. The aim of the project is to extend the above theory of entanglement to generalised quantum statistics that are relevant in several physical scenarios. For instance, tests of deviations from the Bose and the Fermi statistics has been proposed by means of deformed commutation relations, i.e. which interpolates between bosonic fields and fermionic fields [8]. Another example is fractional statistics (anyonic particles), i.e. that acquire a complex phase under particle permutation, which emerge in many-body physics [9]. Nevertheless, the entanglement notion considered in literature is that of ordinary particles constituting the original models and not of genuinely anyonic degrees of freedom.
NanoSIMS oxygen- and sulfur-isotope imaging of primitive solar system materials

Introduction: Primitive meteorites and interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) contain nmto μm-sized presolar dust grains that formed in the winds of evolved stars or in the ejecta of supernova and nova explosions [1-3]. Silicates are the major constituent of O-rich dust around young stars and in outflows from evolved red giant stars [4]. Although the first presolar minerals, namely diamond and SiC, were identified already in 1987 in carbonaceous meteorites, presolar silicates were discovered only recently, first in IDPs and later also in primitive meteorites [5-8]. The identification of presolar silicates was based on the application of improved measurement techniques and the invention of the NanoSIMS ion microprobe with its superior lateral resolution (<100 nm) and capability for the search of in-situ presolar dust in slices of IDPs and meteorites has played a key role in this respect. In a previous study we reported the discovery of abundant in-situ presolar silicate and spinel grains in the matrix of the Acfer 094 meteorite [8]. The finding of these grains was based on O-isotope mapping of several matrix areas with the NanoSIMS ion microprobe at MPI for Chemistry. In an attempt to further characterize presolar minerals in IDPs and meteorites we report here results from an Oand S-isotope imaging survey of the Acfer 094 meteorite and of two IDPs. Experimental: The O-isotopic measurements were performed on a polished thin section of Acfer 094 and on 11 microtome sections of IDPs U2071J2 and U2071C9 using the NanoSIMS at MPI for Chemistry. For the O-isotopic measurements in Acfer 094 we selected 40 different matrix areas. A focussed Cs ion beam (<100 nm) of ~0.5 pA was rastered over the selected areas, each 9×9 μm in size. Negative secondary ions of the three O isotopes, Si, and AlO were simultaneously measured in multi-collection and 256×256 pixel image sequences (total integration time of ~30 minutes to ~1 hour per image set) were acquired. Microtome sections of the two non-cluster IDPs, 9×5 μm (U2071J2) and 12×8 μm (U2071C9) in size, were prepared. These particles are part of a comprehensive consortium study of particles from collection surface U2071 [9,10]. The O-isotope imaging was done on four (U2071J2) and seven (U2071C9) microtome sections using similar analytical conditions as for Acfer 094, except that raster sizes varied from 8×8 to 14×14 μm and that AlO was not included in the measurements. The S-isotopic measurements were done on three areas in the matrix of Acfer 094 which were studied for O-isotopic compositions before. A focused Cs ion beam of ~0.5 pA was rastered over the three areas, 8x8 to 10×10 μm in size. Negative secondary ions of O, S, S, S, and S were simultaneously measured in multi-collection and 256×256 pixel image sequences (total integration time of ~1 to ~1.5 hours per image set) were acquired.
Endovascular Coiling Versus Neurosurgical Clipping for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Background Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a frequently devastating condition with a reported incidence of between 10 and 15 people per 100,000 in the United States. Currently, according to the best of our knowledge, there are not enough meta-analyses available in the medical literature of the last five years which compare the risks and benefits of endovascular coiling with neurosurgical clipping. Methods Twenty-two studies were selected out of the short-listed studies. The studies were selected on the basis of relevance to the topic, sample size, sampling technique, and randomization. Data were analyzed on Revman software. Results Mortality was found to be significantly higher in the endovascular coiling group (odds ratio (OR): 1.17; confidence interval (CI): 95%, 1.04, 1.32). Re-bleeding was significantly higher in endovascular coiling (OR: 2.87; CI: 95%, 1.67, 4.93). Post-procedure complications were significantly higher in neurosurgical clipping compared to endovascular coiling (OR: 0.36; CI: 95%, 0.24, 0.56). Neurosurgical clipping was a 3.82 times better surgical technique in terms of re-bleeding (Z = 3.82, p = 0.0001). Neurosurgical clipping is a better technique requiring fewer re-treatments compared to endovascular coiling (OR: 4.64; CI: 95%, 2.31, 9.29). Endovascular coiling was found to be a better technique as it requires less rehabilitation compared to neurosurgical clipping (OR: 0.75; CI: 95%, 0.64,0.87). Conclusion Neurosurgical clipping provides better results in terms of mortality, re-bleeding, and re-treatments. Endovascular coiling is a better surgical technique in terms of post-operative complications, favorable outcomes, and rehabilitation.
THE BELIEF SYSTEM OF THE PEOPLE OF KAJANG: A PERSPECTIVE IN RELIGION ANTHROPOLOGY Sistem Kepercayaan orang Kajang dalam Perspektif Antropologi Agama

Indigenous peoples of Kajang is an indigenous community that inhabit Kajang subsdistrict in Bulukumba regency in South Sulawesi province. They adopt a belief system that called Jenne'Talluka'and Sambajang Tattappu. Jenne talluka means ablution water that never canceled, while sambajang tattappu means always remembering the God almighty one Kajang Indigenous peoples, especially those inhabited inside kajang (inside Embayya) still embrace and keep up the belief system as mention above until now. Almost all of them do not carry out and shari'aand the pillars of the Islam: uttering syahadat (confession) words, establishing prayer five times and the Sunnah, fasting in Ramadan month, contribute to zakat, and fulfilling hajj worship. I use the Anthropology of Religion approach to study the belief system of such Kajang community. Through this approach, I will be focusing on a system of worship and religious behavior of Kajang indig- enous peoples.
Contribution of alternative splicing to breast cancer metastasis

Alternative splicing is a major contributor to transcriptome and proteome diversity in eukaryotes. Comparing to normal samples, about 30% more alternative splicing events were recently identified in 32 cancer types included in The Cancer Genome Atlas database. Some alternative splicing isoforms and their encoded proteins contribute to specific cancer hallmarks. In this review, we will discuss recent progress regarding the contributions of alternative splicing to breast cancer metastasis. We plan to dissect the role of MTDH, CD44 and their interaction with other mRNA splicing factors. We believe an in-depth understanding of the mechanism underlying the contribution of splicing to breast cancer metastasis will provide novel strategies to the management of breast cancer.