Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Normative values of functional competence, speed and lower body power for youth football players at different stages of biological maturity

Professional football clubs place great emphasis on development of young players to attain first team squad membership, yet despite extensive research on senior teams there is limited knowledge the assessment of functional competence and the development of elite youth players (Brownlee, et al. 2015). This study aimed to assess normative values of functional competence, speed and lower body power for elite youth players at different stages of biological maturity as these factors have significant value in the planning and implementation of football specific training programmes (Lloyd, et al. 2014). One hundred and thirty male soccer players (n=130) from 7 different age groups within an Elite English Premier League Academy participated in the study. Participants were assessed using the countermovement jump test, 0 to 10 meter speed test and the FMS (Cook, et al. 2006). Percentage of adult height was attained using the Khamis-Roche method (Khamis & Roche, 1994). Subjects were classified as Pre pubertal growth spurt when assessed to be 89% or less of predicted adult height, during pubertal growth spurt when between 89% and 95% of predicted adult height and Post pubertal growth spurt when past 95% of adult height. The Pre pubertal growth spurt group had forty six subjects (n=46), the Pubertal Growth Spurt group had thirty six participants (n=36), and the Post Pubertal growth spurt group had forty eight subjects (n=48). Results indicated that during the Pre Pubertal Growth Spurt there is a correlation between speed and power (r = -.706) but not between speed and FMS (r = -.233) or between jump and FMS (r = .126) results. The Pubertal Growth Spurt group showed a correlation with speed and jump (p = -.587) and FMS and jump (r = .465) but found no correlation with speed and FMS (p = -.264). There were correlations with all three elements in the final post pubertal growth spurt stage. FMS and Jump (r = -.341), jump and speed (r = -.585) and FMS and speed (r = .521). The study concluded that functional competence and movement pattern ability follow different developmental patterns to speed and power and that the higher the FMS score the greater the chance of positive longitudinal performance change in areas such as speed and power. There are also implications for the planning and implementation of football specific, maturational appropriate, training programmes.
Isolation and characteristic of an aerobic denitrifier with high nitrogen removal efficiency

Paracoccus denitrificans DL-23, isolated from aerobic domesticated activated sludge, was demonstrated to have high ability of denitrification and heterotrophic nitrification under aerobic condition. After optimization (succinate, COD/N 10, 37°C, 160 rpm), DL-23 removed 420 and 860 mg/l NO3 -N within 36 to 60 h of growth, respectively. DL-23 also removed 380 mg/l NH4 -N within 24 h with ammonia as nitrogen source. The maximum removal rate was 30.3 mg/l·h. Meanwhile, DL-23 exhibited aerobic nitrite reduction ability with 658 mg/l NO2 -N within 48 h.
Does Fitness Priming Influence Self- and Other-Judgements of Personal and Physical Characteristics?

PSI CHI JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ABSTRACT. We examined how priming the potential benefits of moderate or extreme fitness in advice articles influenced selfand other-judgments of internal and external qualities. After reading articles to activate primes of hyperfitness, moderation in fitness, or pet ownership as a control, men and women participants (N = 84) provided personality ratings of self-esteem and perfectionism, provided their attitudes toward health, fitness, dieting, and the ideal appearance of men and women, and also indicated degree of preference for muscularity and slimness in men and women. Men’s and women’s preferences for slimness in women decreased after reading articles on moderation, both ps < . 046, both η2 > . 14. Self-esteem increased as a function of article primes for hyperfitness, p = . 027, η2 = . 09. Muscularity attractiveness and perfectionism were not influenced by article primes. Results suggested that certain types of media can be a constructive influence on selfand other-ideal appearance and personal qualities. Does Fitness Priming Influence Selfand Other-Judgments of Personal and Physical Characteristics?
New type of vulnerability curve gives insight in the hydraulic capacitance and conductivity of the xylem

Drought vulnerability of trees and other woody plants is much debated in the context of climate change, which creates a high interest in understanding plant water relations. The role and functioning of internal water storage is crucial, but still insufficiently understood. Drought vulnerability is typically assessed by considering loss in conductivity in function of decreasing xylem water potential, in a so-called ‘vulnerability curve’. The xylem water potential at which a certain percentage of conductivity is lost (usually 50%) gives an indication of the vulnerability to cavitation. In a ‘desorption curve’, we can examine the release of water from internal storage tissues with decreasing water potential. Both curves are very valuable, but rely on a sequence of manual measurements (xylem water potential, hydraulic conductivity and water content) and are time-consuming. Therefore, we propose a new type of vulnerability curve that is based on continuous measurements of diameter shrinkage and ultrasonic acoustic emissions (UAE). We monitored weight loss, xylem diameter shrinkage and UAE and measured xylem water potential during the dehydration of excised branches of Vitis vinifera L. ‘Johanniter’. The vulnerability curves could be interpreted in terms of water loss in elastic and inelastic tissues. The proposed method can be a tool to assess hydraulic capacitance and conductivity of the xylem.
Board Independence, Audit Committee Effectiveness and Firms Performance: An Empirical Evidence of Manufacturing Firms in India

: This paper explores whether examine leadership structure of the board of directors of the listed Indian companies, manifested through the combination or the separation of the roles of the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors and audit committee effectiveness has an impact on corporate financial performance such characteristics can be effectively mitigated by sound corporate governance mechanisms. The sample comprises listed manufacturing firms in BSE 100 Indices between 2006 and 2015. Empirical results indicate that CEO Duality is significantly and negatively related to market based financial performance indicator (Tobins’Q) of large scale firms. Further test for the moderating effect of audit committee effectiveness confirms that corporate governance mechanisms can mitigate such positive impact of corporate financial performance. The relationship between Audit Committee Combined Score and Firms performance is found to be positive and insignificant in the Indian context. The empirical results support the argument of previous literature that corporate governance has both agency theory and stakeholder theory effects on agency costs. Due to the agency problem, managers’ investment decisions may be affected by investor sentiment and deviate from the goal of maximizing firm value.
Sex‐Ratio Bias in Populations of the Phytopathogenic Fungus Microbotryum violaceum from Several Host Species

The present study explores the maintenance of a segregation distortion in the phytopathogenic fungus Microbotryum violaceum (anther smut). Some individuals of this species produce spores with completely biased sex ratio because of the presence of haplo‐lethal alleles linked to the mating‐type gene. To test the different hypotheses proposed to explain the maintenance of these haplo‐lethal alleles (diploid advantage to counterbalance haploid deleterious effects, neutrality of haplo‐lethal alleles only in populations with high interstrain competition, and complete neutrality), sex‐ratio bias was investigated in natural European populations of M. violaceum from Silene latifolia and other species of Caryophyllaceae. The negative relationship observed between proportions of strains expressing a sex‐ratio bias and disease prevalence was opposite the one predicted by the second hypothesis. On the contrary, the pattern of the variances, with proportions of biased strains more extreme in smaller populations, fitted perfectly with the prediction of the third hypothesis. Experimental studies are now needed to confirm the complete neutrality of the haplo‐lethal alleles linked to the mating‐type gene in M. violaceum.
FRENDY: A new nuclear data processing system being developed at JAEA

JAEA has provided an evaluated nuclear data library JENDL and nuclear application codes such as MARBLE, SRAC, MVP and PHITS. These domestic codes have been widely used in many universities and industrial companies in Japan. However, we sometimes find problems in imported processing systems and need to revise them when the new JENDL is released. To overcome such problems and immediately process the nuclear data when it is released, JAEA started developing a new nuclear data processing system, FRENDY in 2013. This paper describes the outline of the development of FRENDY and both its capabilities and performances by the analyses of criticality experiments. The verification results indicate that FRENDY properly generates ACE files.
Transnationalism and immigrant assimilation in France : between here and there ?

One-third of those interviewed for the Trajectories and Origins survey agreed that "to be accepted in France you have to forget your origins". This reflects the assimilationist idea that to integrate, immigrants and their descendants must break their ties with their country of origin. On the other hand co-development policies, currently enjoying a boom in France and the European Union, seek to make migrants the chief players in developing their home countries' economies. Caught between these contradictory pressures immigrants must choose between here and back there. What can be said today of transnational practices among immigrants living in metropolitan France?
Machining Variables Influence on the Fatigue Life of End-Milled Aluminium Alloy

Machining involves the thermal, elastic and plastic deformations of the surface layer which result in strain hardening, structural changes and development of residual stresses. These cause surface irregularities which may increase the risk of fatigue failure of material during usage. This study involves the investigation of the influence of cutting speed, feed rate and tool geometry on the fatigue life of end-milled specimens of 2024-aluminium alloy using a design of experiment approach. The experimental design constructed was such that the specimens were subjected to different machining conditions. Data analysis was carried out with Relia Soft OfficeTM 7 DOE++ software and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The study showed that by decreasing the feed rate (from 60mm/min to 7mm/min) and increasing the cutting speed (from 3.77m/min to 48.25m/min) significantly resulted in a higher fatigue life (from 1.93x103 cycles to 2.53x103 cycles). Whereas, the rake angle had the least significant effect on the fatigue life, it was discovered that the feed rate was found to be the most influential factor.
Evaluation of antibacterial effect of green tea extract on bacterial isolated from patients with vaginal infection

1-Department of Microbiology,School of Medicine,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran,Iran 2-Pediatric Infections Research Center, Mofid Children's Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran,Iran 3-Molecular Microbiology Research Center (MMRC), Shahed University, Tehran, Iran 4-Msc Student of Microbiology,Islamic Azad University of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Tehran,Iran 5-Ph.D Student in Molecular and Cell Biology,Student in Research Committee,Molecular and Biology Research Center,Faculty of Mazandaran,Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences,Sari,Iran
A forward-backward algorithm for image restoration with sparse representations

A number of recent approaches to image deconvolution and denoising in Hilbert spaces consist of minimizing the sum of a residual energy and of a function promoting a sparse decomposition in an orthonormal basis. Using convexanalytical tools, we provide a systematic analysis of this generic problem. We first present general properties of the problem, and then propose a flexible forward-backward algorithm to solve it. These results bring together and extend various results found in the literature and make it possible to devise new sparsity-promoting restoration schemes. Such schemes are illustrated via numerical simulations. 1. PROBLEM FORMULATION We consider the standard problem of restoring an image x in a real Hilbert space H from the observation of an image
AN EVALUATION OF VALIDATION CRITERIA ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEM VALIDATION PROCESS

In the software development cycle, validation is the important stage which is held in final stage especially in intelligent system. Validation obtains the validity, credibility and trustworthy of the system. It is needed to ensure that the intelligent system has same manner as human expertsâ€™. Whilst with the importance of validation stage, determining the validation criteria is also important. This paper presents the evaluation of validation criteria which is commonly used in intelligent system validation process. The evaluation is carried out by reviewing the literature of intelligent system validation process. The result shows that the validation criteria have its own characteristic so it requires for understanding the validation criteria characteristics, purposes of validation and also the intelligent system itself to hold validation process.
Legumes reduce fungal biomass in soil

We tested the effect different legumes on soil fungal and bacterial biomass in a field experiment with Lolium perenne in monoculture and in binary combinations with the legumes Trifolium repens, Trifolium pratense and Medicago sativa. Fungal biomass was higher in grass monocultures than in grass-legume mixtures, which coincided with lower inorganic N availability and potential N mineralization in grass monocultures. We conclude that grasslegume mixtures induced a shift towards a more bacterial based soil food web by increasing N availability through their higher litter quality.
RANKL expressions in preservation of surgical tooh extraction treated with Moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaf extract and demineralized freeze-dried bovine bone xenograft

Background: Preservation of sockets is a procedure aimed to reduce bone resorption after tooth extraction. One of the most commonly used xenograft materials is demineralized freeze-dried bone bovine xenograft (DFDBBX). Meanwhile, one of the key regulations in osteoclast genesis process is RANKL bond. A decrease in the number of RANKL expressions can suppress the osteoclast genesis process so that bone resorption can be prevented. The combination of Moringa leaf extract and DFDBBX, as a result, is expected to decrease the number of RANKL. Purpose: This study aimed to measure RANKL expressions in tooth extraction socket treated with Moringa leaf extract combined with DFDBBX. Methods: Fifty six Cavia cobaya rats were divided into eight groups. The first group was a control group with PEG administration onto their extraction sockets. The second group was a treatment group with DFDBBX administration. The third group was a treatment group with Moringa leaf extract administration. The fourth group was a treatment group induced with a combination of DFDBBX and Moringa leaf extract. Examination then was performed on days 7 and 30. After 7 and 30 days, those Cavia cobaya rats were executed and tested with immunohistochemical techniques. Further research data collected then were tested with one-way ANOVA. Results: There were significant differences between the control group and the groups induced with the combination of Moringa leaf extract and DFDBBX. On days 7 and 30, the groups induced with the combination of Moringa leaf extract and DFDBBX had the lowest number of RANKL expressions. Conclusion: The combination of Moringa leaf extract and DFDBBX can decrease the number of RANKL expressions in Cavia cobaya rats on the day 7 and day 30 after tooth extraction.
Effects of oil on macroeconomic activity in developing countries: a cointegration analysis

The paper reports the results of a simple cointegration analysis applied to bivariate causality models and quarterly data on crude oil consumption, GDP and inflation in Thailand to investigate the long-term relationships in the sense of Granger between oil and these two major macroeconomic aggregates. For the period 1966:1 to 1991:1, the empirical evidence indicates that oil consumption, output growth and inflation rate as formulated in our models are not random walks. In addition, oil consumption is significantly cointegrated with economic growth and, unfortunately, inflation rate. The research is supported in part by an Economics Department Research Grant in 1992. Associate Professor Keith Maclaren, Department of Econometrics, Monash University, was kind enough to provide some data for the project
A future for robots in schools: Fact or fantasy?

Will the adoption of robots by the education system mirror its earlier adoption of Personal Computers (PCs)? A future in which education may need to accommodate robots is explored. Examples of current advances in robotics are given which suggest that there is a realistic potential for robots to successfully contribute within the four functional areas of an educational system: learner-teacher, knowledge-problem, control subsystems and support subsystems.
Responses of harbour porpoises to pile driving at the Horns Rev II offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea

Pile driving during offshore windfarm construction goes along with considerable noise emissions that potentially harm marine mammals in the vicinity and may cause large scale distur- bances. Information on the scale of such disturbances is limited. Therefore, assessment and evalua- tion of the effects of offshore construction on marine mammals is difficult. During summer 2008, 91 monopile foundations were driven into the seabed during construction of the offshore wind farm Horns Rev II in the Danish North Sea. We investigated the spatial and temporal scale of behavioural responses of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena to construction noise using passive acoustic monitoring devices (T-PODs) deployed in a gradient sampling design. Porpoise acoustic activity was reduced by 100% during 1 h after pile driving and stayed below normal levels for 24 to 72 h at a distance of 2.6 km from the construction site. This period gradually decreased with increasing distance. A negative effect was detectable out to a mean distance of 17.8 km. At 22 km it was no longer apparent, instead, porpoise activity temporarily increased. Out to a distance of 4.7 km, the recovery time was longer than most pauses between pile driving events. Consequently, porpoise activity and possibly abundance were reduced over the entire 5 mo construction period. The beha- vioural response of harbour porpoises to pile driving lasted much longer than previously reported. This information should be considered when planning future wind farm construction.
Applied Science Safety of Lap Lengths Prediction in Reinforced Concrete Structures

ENGLISH/ANGLAIS] Affiliations: 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, ZARIA 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, ZARIA 3 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, ZARIA Address for Correspondence/ Adresse pour la Correspondance: fatinoyi2007@yahoo.co.uk Accepted/Accepté: March, 2011 Citation: Sarki YA, Murana AA, Abejide SO. Assessing safety in predictions of lap lengths in reinforced concrete structures. World Journal of Engineering and Pure and Applied Sciences 2012;2(3):98-106. The recommendations for lap lengths of steel bars in reinforced concrete as specified by the pseudoprobabilistic design codes the British Standards Institution in about the past four decades and the current relevant Eurocode have been reviewed and evaluated for their safety implications in the bar curtailment and detailing. Results indicate that the implied safety is not uniform especially when the bar size factor in the prevailing specified equations for lap length design is about half its value for all the codes. Also, the earlier provision of the British codes gave the best safety indices in all the cases evaluated. However, it is suggested herein that an adequate lap length of bars in reinforced concrete design could be about 50 times the smallest bar size in the reinforced concrete member as opposed to the Eurocode’s provisions of 40times the smallest
I Predict a Riot: Making and Breaking Rules and Norms in League of Legends

This paper examines the relationships between player community norms and developer-created rules of play in the competitive team game, League of Legends (Riot Games, 2009). Since the game’s release, players have established their own sets of strategic norms – much like player positioning systems in sport – which are used as a de facto baseline for play at all levels of competition. Since these norms are distinct from the game developer’s rules concerning online behaviour, however, it is unclear as to whether individual players have the ‘right’ to enact experimental game strategies that fall outside of the pre-existing framework. In November of 2016, however, it was revealed in one of the game’s online community hubs that a player had been threatened with a permanent account ban after repeatedly engaging in one such experimental strategy. A study of the following discussion as it played out within the player community shows that players are aware of larger issues concerning meaning-making in competitive League of Legends , and that they identify the game developer as a key figure in this ongoing process.
ALLIANCES, TERRITORIAL DISPUTES, AND THE PROBABILITY OF WAR Testing for Interactions

For centuries international relations thinkers have mused on the role of alliance in peace and war. Thucydides, in the Melian dialogue, relates how the Athenians counsel the Melians not to rely on the Spartans to save them. Similarly, ancient China saw alliances play an important role (Chi 1968; Ciofa-Revilla and Lai 1995). This is not surprising since coalition building has deep, if not primordial, roots within humans going back at least to our primate cousins (see de Waal 1989). Despite this history, it was not until the work of J. David Singer and Melvin Small that systematic scientiacally replicable data on interstate alliances were collected (Singer and Small 1966a; Small and Singer 1969). Those data and their initial statistical analysis of them remains the single most important watershed in our collective attempt to understand the role of alliances in international politics. Prior to their work there was much theorizing and speculation on alliances, but little evidence. Some of this work, particularly in diplomatic history, was very important (see Langer 1935, 1950), but much of it that tried to generalize about patterns relied on anecdotal evidence and followed a method David Singer characterized as an attempt to “ransack history for those cases that seem to support our hypotheses” (2000, 4; see also 1969b, 79) without regard, and sometimes with disregard, for those examples that did not. Singer and Small (1966b) provided the arst systematic evidence on the relationship between alliance making and war involvement. They