Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Excretal Near Infrared Reflectance Spectrometry to monitor the nutrient content of diets of grazing young ostriches ( Struthio camelus )

Feeding systems in which young ostriches feed on pasture but have access to concentrates provide better welfare than confined systems but are sustainable only if nutrition is carefully controlled. This study was conducted to evaluate the potential of "excretal NIRS", a methodology that associates excretal spectral information in the near infrared (NIR) region with dietary attributes, in predicting dietary quality and nutrient intake in grazing ostrich chicks. Sixty sets of excretal and dietary information from chicks fed only concentrate or also grazing lucerne, barley, sulla or natural pastures, were used. The coefficient of determination (R 2 ) and the standard error of cross validation (SECV) served to evaluate calibration quality. The prediction of dietary concentrate content ranging 420 to 1000 g/kg of DMI, was highly linear (R 2 = 0.96), with SECV of 63 g/kg. Similar R 2 values were noted for the dietary contents of crude protein (CP), acid detergent fibre (ADF) and ash; that for the prediction of neutral detergent fibre (NDF) was lower (0.87). Ash, CP, NDF and ADF were predicted with SECV values of 14.8, 5.0, 8.9 and 10.7 g/kg DM diet, respectively. The calibration for apparent total organic matter digestibility was of poor quality. Good (R 2 = 0.95) and acceptable (R 2 = 0.86) calibrations were obtained for the daily intakes of pasture and concentrate, respectively, with SECVs of 75 and 131 g/d. Predictions of ash (R 2 = 0.85, SECV = 11 g/d) and ADF (R 2 = 0.80, SECV = 19 g/d) intakes had mediocre accuracy, and calibrations for CP and NDF intakes were even poorer. These results suggest that excretal NIRS may be useful to predict dietary intake and composition for grazing ostriches when applied to a known nutritional environment attended with calibration standards. Keywords : Ratites, faecal NIRS, nutrition; pasture, herbivory South African Journal of Animal Science Vol. 36 (4) 2006: pp. 248-256
Komparasi Algoritma Klasifikasi dengan Pendekatan Level Data untuk Menangani Data Kelas Tidak Seimbang

The Problems unbalancing class dataset have an adverse effect on the accuracy of prediction data. To deal with this problem, it has been many previous studies using classification algorithms handle the data class is not balanced. This research will present the technique under-sampling and over-sampling to handle the data is not balanced. This technique is used at the level of the preprocessing to balance class condition on the data. The comparison showed neural network (NN) is superior decision tree (DT), linear regression (LR), naive Bayes (NB) and support vector machine (SVM).
Diffusion-Mediated Deposition of Proteins

OF THESIS DIFFUSION-MEDIATED DEPOSITION OF PROTEINS Gradients of proteins play a prominent role in many biological processes, from development of multicellular organisms to chemical signaling in the immune system. Deposition of surface gradients is a way to permanently modifying a surface’s properties, resulting in the creation of novel materials which have widespread applications in biologically relevant fields, such as directed cell growth, production of biocompatible implantable materials, and creation of functional biosensors. These types of surfaces can also be used as an ex vivo tool to help understand many biological processes by mimicking the environment in gradient-related phenomena in a controllable way. However, despite the large number of applications for chemically graded surfaces, creating them remains a challenge. In this work, a novel diffusion-based patterning mechanism is presented that relies on a 3D micropatterned poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEG) ‘stamps’ for the controlled deposition of fluorescently-tagged protein ‘ink’ onto pre-treated glass slides. By controlling the contact time and mechanical deformation of the PEG hydrogel on the glass surfaces, it is possible to control local concentration of protein deposition.
Optimisation de dispositifs FDSOI pour la gestion de la consommation et de la vitesse : application aux mémoires et fonctions logiques

Avec la percee des telephones portables et des tablettes numeriques integrant des fonctions avancees de traitement de l'information, une croissance exponentielle du marche des systemes sur puce (SoC pour System On Chip en anglais) est attendue jusqu'en 2016. Ces systemes, concus dans les dernieres technologies nanometriques, necessitent des vitesses de fonctionnement tres elevees pour offrir des performances incroyables, tout en consommant remarquablement peu. Cependant, concevoir de tels systemes a l'echelle nanometrique presente de nombreux enjeux en raison de l'accentuation d'effets parasites avec la miniaturisation des transistors MOS sur silicium massif, rendant les circuits plus sensibles aux phenomenes de fluctuations des procedes de fabrication et moins efficaces energetiquement. La technologie planaire completement desertee (FD pour Fully depleted en anglais) SOI, offrant un meilleur controle du canal du transistor et une faible variabilite de sa tension de seuil grâce a un film de silicium mince et non dope, apparait comme une solution technologique tres bien adaptee pour repondre aux besoins de ces dispositifs nomades alliant hautes performances et basse consommation. Cependant pour que cette technologie soit viable, il est imperatif qu'elle reponde aux besoins des plateformes de conception basse consommation. Un des defis majeurs de l'etat de l'art de la technologie planaire FDSOI est de fournir les differentes tensions de seuils (VT) requises pour la gestion de la consommation et de la vitesse. Le travail de recherche de these presente dans ce memoire a contribue a la mise en place d'une plateforme de conception multi-VT en technologie planaire FDSOI sur oxyde enterre mince (UTB pour Ultra Thin Buried oxide en anglais) pour les nœuds technologiques sub-32 nm. Pour cela, les elements clefs des plateformes de conception basse consommation en technologie planaire sur silicium massif ont ete identifies. A la suite de cette analyse, differentes architectures de transistors MOS multi-VT FDSOI ont ete developpees. L'analyse au niveau des circuits numeriques et memoires elementaires a permis de mettre en avant deux solutions fiables, efficaces et de faible complexite technologique. Les performances des solutions apportees ont ete evaluees sur un chemin critique extrait du cœur de processeur ARM Cortex A9 et sur une cellule SRAM 6T haute densite (0,120 µm²). Egalement, une cellule SRAM a quatre transistors est proposee, demontrant la flexibilite au niveau conception des solutions proposees. Ce travail de recherche a donne lieu a de nombreuses publications, communications et brevets. Aujourd'hui, la majorite des resultats obtenus ont ete transferes chez STMicroelectronics, ou l'etude de leur industrialisation est en cours.
Paddock Size and Stocking Density Affect Spatial Heterogeneity of Grazing

Abstract The claim that intensive rotational grazing (IRG) can sustain higher stocking rates can be partially explained by more even spatial distribution of grazing such that livestock consume forage from a greater proportion of a pasture. To test the hypothesis that utilization is more even at the higher stocking densities of smaller paddocks, mean absolute deviation (heterogeneity) of utilization estimates by plot was compared in paddocks of sizes and stocking densities representing increasing subdivision from two-paddock deferred rotation grazing (DRG) to 16-, 32-, and 64-paddock, two-cycle IRG. These 70-, 4-, 2-, and 1-ha paddocks were grazed for 7 wk, 4 d, 2 d, and 1 d, respectively, at 32 animal unit days (AUD)·ha−1 during 2000 and 34 AUD·ha−1 during 2001. Within IRG there was no response to the treatment gradient. After one cycle in the IRG paddocks, heterogeneity of use was generally lower than in the DRG paddocks, in both 2000 (3–11% [outlier 18%] vs. 14–19%) and 2001 (9–17% vs. 24–28%). After a second cycle in 2001, heterogeneity in half of the IRG paddocks (17–21%) was nearly as high as the early-grazed (24%), but not the late-grazed (28%), of the DRG paddocks. This lack of a stronger difference between systems was probably due to the fixed two-cycle IRG schedule and lack of plant growth during the nongrazing interval. Across both systems heterogeneity of utilization was strongly positively correlated with paddock size. Because utilization was not severely patchy in the largest treatment, the difference between systems would likely be greater in commercial-scale paddocks. Thus grazing distribution can be more even under intensive than extensive management, but this depends on how adaptively the system, particularly the aspects of timing and frequency, is managed.
Reifensensorik zur Reibwertschätzung Tyre Sensing Approach for Friction Estimation in FRICTI@N Project

Advanced driver assistance systems would benefit from accurate information on tyre operating states. An optical tyre sensor was developed in the EC project APOLLO, and it has been further developed in the FRICTI@N project. Many steps forward have been taken and the optical tyre sensor can at the moment deliver tyre forces for the CAN bus in real time. Real-time capable algorithms are presented, which are tested on several cars and a truck. The tyre sensor signal waveforms are compared to the FEM simulations and force estimations are compared to the test rig measurements. Some results concerning optical tyre sensor behaviour in aquaplaning are also presented.
Examining the Relationship between Forgiveness and Subjective Well-Being as Moderated by Implicit Religiousness and Spirituality

Forgiveness is thought to contribute to subjective well-being (SWB), which has been associated with a variety of beneficial physical and mental health outcomes. However, it remains unknown whether the relationship between forgiveness and SWB may vary depending on types of forgiveness, and may be strongest for those who endorse religiosity/spirituality as important. The current study tested whether forgiveness of oneself, others, and situations predicted SWB, as well as whether these links were moderated by implicit religiousness/spirituality (R/S). A cross-sectional on-line survey was provided to interested students attending a small private liberal arts college. Participants (N = 134) were largely women (83%) and Caucasian (75%), with a mean age of 20.53 (SD = 1.59). Participants completed validated measures of forgiveness, SWB (i.e., satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect), and R/S, including an implicit association test of R/S. Multiple regression results indicated significant main effects for total forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and situational forgiveness on SWB constructs. Otherforgiveness demonstrated significant main effects only with positive affect. In addition, there were significant interactions of forgiveness and R/S for two of the three components of SWB (i.e., negative affect and satisfaction with life): negative affect with total forgiveness (β = -.24, p = .002), self-forgiveness (β = -.2, p = .012), and situational forgiveness (β = -.29, p < .001) as well as satisfaction with life and total forgiveness (β = .17, p = .037). Analysis of simple slopes indicated the relationship between forgiveness and SWB facets was greater for high-forgiveness, as hypothesized. Results suggest that
First‐principles study of density, viscosity, and diffusion coefficients of liquid MgSiO3 at conditions of the Earth's deep mantle

[1] Constant-pressure constant-temperature ab initio molecular dynamics simulations at high temperatures have been used to study MgSiO3, the major constituent of the Earth's lower mantle to conditions of the Earth's core-mantle boundary. The calculated equilibrium volumes and densities are compared with simulations using an orthorhombic perovskite configuration under the same conditions. For molten MgSiO3, we have determined the diffusion coefficients and shear viscosities at different thermodynamic conditions. Our results provide new constraints on the properties of molten MgSiO3 at conditions near the core-mantle boundary. The volume of the liquid is greater than that of the solid throughout the pressure-temperature conditions examined, and the volume change on fusion ranges from 5% at 88 GPa and 3500 K to 2.9% at 120 GPa and 5000 K. Existing experimental constraints on solid-liquid partition coefficients for Fe suggest that Fe is preferentially partitioned into the liquid. Such enrichment of Fe increases the density of the liquid, thus allowing the possibility of negatively buoyant melts from (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite compositions at deep lower mantle conditions for plausible values of solid-liquid partition coefficients for Fe. At 120 GPa and 4500–5000 K, the diffusion coefficient of liquid MgSiO3 is 2–3 × 10−5 cm 2/s and the diffusion rates of the different chemical species are similar. The shear viscosity is estimated using Zwanzig's formula to be 19–31 cP under these conditions. On the basis of our calculated diffusivities, MgSiO3 is above the glass transition temperature at 120 GPa and 4500 K.
Determination of Suitability of Screw Compressor Waste as an Alternative to Soluble Oil in Machining Operations

The objective of this work was to anticipate the suitability of screw compressor waste as an alternative to soluble oil in machinery. Analysis was carried out to ascertain the properties of the samples collected from functional and operational water cooled screw type compressor. Parameters for a typical cutting fluid obtained from three lubricant manufacturing companies were used as reference for this study. The result showed that waste obtained from the screw type water cooled compressor can be used as cutting fluid in a machine shop especially for mild steel material.
The Impact of Accounting Information on Stock Prices: Evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange

Past empirical research indicates that, in an increasing number of countries, certain accounting parameters affect the course of stock prices. Moreover, that this effect becomes stronger with time. The present study examines the impact of earnings and book value in the formulation of stock prices on a sample of 38 companies listed in the Athens Stock Market during the 1996-2008 period. The resulting evidence suggests that the joint explanatory power of the above parameters in the formation of στοck prices increases over time. However, the impact of earnings is diminishing, compared to the book value, while investors strive towards analysing the fundamental parameters of businesses. Finally, multicollinearity was traced between the earnings and book value variables.
The Physical Hazards of Police Work Revisited

This study examines the extent to which injuries to police officers have changed from 1996-1998 to 2006-2008. Data were obtained from injury reports filed by sworn officers of the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Police Department. Results indicated that the frequency and rate (injury incidents per officer) of officer assaults, other suspect-related injuries, and accidents declined during the study period. While the specification of the reasons for these changes remains a topic for future research, the decline in assaults and suspect-related injuries may well be a function of the increased availability and more routine use of less lethal technology, enhanced training, and the more common use of protective equipment.
Privatization Effects on the Stock Return and Performance of Listed Companies Tehran Stock Exchange

One of the main goals of privatization in different countries is to improve the performance and efficiency. Therefore, this study titled "Privatization effects on stock return and performance of listed companies Tehran Stock Exchange" is written as experimental. The purpose of this research is to measure the success of the companies subject to privatization and in case of failure, find reasons and solutions for it. Researcher, According to the literature related to privatization and theoretical foundations related to the performance and stock return, researchs hypotheses in order to test presented on 10 hypotheses. Research Methodology is from the type Inductive-deductive. Financial information is collected, by using Computational models and statistical techniques, hypotheses have been tested. Statistical population includes Companies that from 2004 -2010 on the implementation of the privatization policy have been transferred and at the end of 2012 has been a member of the Stock Exchange. According to the length of time, ownership of 19 companies private has been diagnosed and as population was investigated. The results show that, privatization did not affect improving performance of companies which transferred to the private sector. In other words, the research hypotheses based on improving the performance of companies after the transferring have been rejected.
Techniques For Efficient Short Text Understanding: A Survey on Related Literature

The trend of social media and various online applications has rapidly increased over the past few years. These computer-mediated communications has resulted in the generation of large amount of short texts. A short text refers to the text with limited contextual information. Lots of interest lies in analyzing and conceptualizing short text for understanding user intents from search queries or mining social media messages. Consequently, the task of understanding short text is crucial to many online applications. But it is not ease to handle enormous volume of short texts, since they are relatively more ambiguous and noisy than normal data. The short texts do not follow the syntax of natural language. Thus, point out the necessity for an efficient text understanding technique. The task of short text understanding or conceptualization can be divided into three, as text segmentation, type detection, and concept labeling. In text segmentation, initially the input text is processed and removes all the stop words if any. Then it is divided into a sequence of terms. POS tagging decide the lexical types (i.e. POS tags) of terms in a text. Type detection is incorporated into the framework for short text understanding and it help to conduct disambiguation based on various types of contextual information that present in the text. Finally, concept labeling is performed to discover the hidden semantics from a natural language text. The conceptualization can benefit from various online applications such as automatic question-answering, recommendation systems, online advertising, and search engines. All these applications requires an information extraction phase in which the prior step is to extract the concepts from the input text. Now-a-days conceptualization is used to develop machine learning techniques for information extraction. Hence the task of conceptualization or short text understanding plays a vital role in the area of machine learning, which is an active area of research. In this paper, the current techniques used for text segmentation, type detection, and concept labeling are reviewed. Keywords: Short text understanding; conceptualization; semantic labeling; text segmentation; part-of-speech tagging
Symmetry torques muscles responsible for the rotation of the spine in Judo

Summary Introduction. Due to the limited number of publications and reports on strength of the muscles responsible for trunk rotation and the growing interest in the problem of symmetry in sport, an attempt was made to determine torque symmetry in muscles responsible for trunk rotation. The aim of the study was to recognize asymmetries in the torque of muscles responsible for trunk rotation and handgrip in Polish National Judo Team. Material and methods. The sample comprised the members of the Polish National Judo Team. The study group included 16 males participating in the meeting at the Centre of Olympic Training in Zakopane. The applied approach involved measurements of torque developed during trunk rotation under static conditions and handgrip strength. Devices specially constructed for this purpose were used for the measurements. Statistical analysis was conducted using ANOVA test. The measurements also included handgrip strength in the right and left arm using an electric dynamometer. Results. The analysis of the collected material showed no differences in torque values in muscles responsible for spinal rightsided and left-sided rotation, and in handgrip strength between the right and the left arm. Conclusions. In the studied sample no apparent asymmetry of torque was observed in the muscles responsible for trunk rotation and handgrip strength. Balancing the strength of muscles responsible for trunk rotation can undoubtedly extend the opportunities for using tactical skills by the competitors. The higher the competitors level of training, the lower the differences are in torque of muscles responsible for handgrip strength.
Tidal evolution of eccentric orbits in massive binary systems. II. Coupled resonance locking for two rotating main sequence stars

We extend our study of the tidal evolution of elliptic binary systems to the case of a system consisting of two $10 M_\odot$ uniformly rotating main sequence stars. Previous work showed that in a system consisting of a $1.4 M_\odot$ compact object in orbit about a $10 M_\odot$ main sequence star stellar oscillation modes were prone to be excited nearly resonantly for prolonged periods of time. This resonance locking was shown to constitute an effective mechanism for orbital decay in moderately eccentric orbits. In this work we investigate in what ways the locking mechanism is altered if also the companion is tidally perturbed, also inducing orbital changes and potentially also being locked in resonance. We show that simultaneous locking can intensify the tidal excitations, and that resonance locking is a common phenomenon during the tidal evolution of eccentric double main sequence binary systems which speeds up the secular evolution significantly.
Einfluss von Fragmentierung und Isolation auf die Populationsbiologie und Diasporenbank von Kalk-Magerrasen (Mesobrometum erecti) in Südwestdeutschland

Zur Untersuchung der Effekte von Fragmentierung und Isolation auf Arten der Kalk-Magerrasen wurden vier Arten ausgewahlt, deren Fitness durch die Untersuchung von sechs Parametern dargestellt wurde. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass die Keimrate bei allen untersuchten Leitarten signifikant mit steigender Populationsgrose zunimmt sowie die Keimlingsdichte im Freiland bei zwei Arten. Bei allen anderen Fitnessparametern wurden nur wenige signifikante Ergebnisse festgestellt. Die Untersuchungen der vorliegenden Arbeit zeigen, dass artspezifische Reaktionen auf die Veranderungen von relevanten Parametern wie die Populationsgrose fur das Fortbestehen einer Art von groser Bedeutung sind. Die Ergebnisse der Diasporenbankuntersuchungen bestatigen die Aussagen aus der Literatur, dass die uberwiegende Anzahl der typischen Kalk-Magerrasenarten nicht in der Lage ist eine dauerhafte Diasporenbank aufzubauen. Es bedeutet, dass artenreiche Kalk-Magerrasen fur ihr Fortbestehen auf einen dauerhaften Diasporennachschub aus der aktuellen Vegetation angewiesen sind.