Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Theory for Source‐Responsive and Free‐Surface Film Modeling of Unsaturated Flow

A new model explicitly incorporates the possibility of rapid response, across significant distance, to substantial water input. It is useful for unsaturated flow processes that are not inherently diffusive, or that do not progress through a series of equilibrium states. The term source‐responsive is used to mean that flow responds sensitively to changing conditions at the source of water input (e.g., rainfall, irrigation, or ponded infiltration). The domain of preferential flow can be conceptualized as laminar flow in free‐surface films along the walls of pores. These films may be considered to have uniform thickness, as suggested by field evidence that preferential flow moves at an approximately uniform rate when generated by a continuous and ample water supply. An effective facial area per unit volume quantitatively characterizes the medium with respect to source‐responsive flow. A flow‐intensity factor dependent on conditions within the medium represents the amount of source‐responsive flow at a given time and position. Laminar flow theory provides relations for the velocity and thickness of flowing source‐responsive films. Combination with the Darcy–Buckingham law and the continuity equation leads to expressions for both fluxes and dynamic water contents. Where preferential flow is sometimes or always significant, the interactive combination of source‐responsive and diffuse flow has the potential to improve prediction of unsaturated‐zone fluxes in response to hydraulic inputs and the evolving distribution of soil moisture. Examples for which this approach is efficient and physically plausible include (i) rainstorm‐generated rapid fluctuations of a deep water table and (ii) space‐ and time‐dependent soil water content response to infiltration in a macroporous soil.
Location Awareness and Positioning System Based on RFID

Location awareness refers to the services related to the location which are provided by the users. And its application can't work without the users' location information. Because the traditional positioning technology can't meet the requirements of location environment and accuracy indoors, the advantages of RFID sensor technology, such as non-contact, non-line of sight and so on make it become the first choice for the indoor positioning technology. This paper emphatically has studied the data processing from the two perspectives of object localization and target tracking, and has taken the positioning algorithm as a key question to carry on a deep discussion.
The Rise and Decline of Vocational Education.

In this paper, the expansion of and the relative emphasis on secondary vocational education is placed in a broad historical and cross-national perspective. First, the origins of technical-vocational education in both European and non-European systems are briefly outlined. Second, contemporary enrollment patterns in vocational education (1950-1975) are analyzed in light of the paper's main empirical finding: the relative share of secondary vocational education has declined in almost every national educational system. Third, a number of causal factors are introduced to account for cross-national and temporal variation in the proportion of secondary vocational enrollments. Finally, the paper discusses why the structural shift away from vocational education is best understood in the framework of recent world-system theories of educational expansion.
Novel markers for detection of CTCs without EpCAM expression

Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in the blood of a cancer patient can give information on the status of the cancer. Tumour cells that enter the blood stream can have different phenotypes. Epithelial cells express antigens that are mostly involved in cell adhesion and cell signalling. Mesenchymal cells on the other hand express antigens that are important for cell motility and movement. CTCs can express either one of the phenotypes, or reside in a state where antigens of both phenotypes are expressed. CTCs are currently isolated using the CELLSEARCH® system, which employs EpCAM and Cytokeratins to identify the tumour cells. However, since both antigens are characteristic for the epithelial phenotype, it could be that cells of the mesenchymal phenotype are lost. The purpose of this research is to give an indication of the role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in the expression of different antigens, and to identify antigens that can be used next to EpCAM and Cytokeratins in the detection of CTCs. To reach this goal, immunostaining was optimised, and the mesenchymal antigens Vimentin and Cadherin 11 were tested on cell lines with varying EpCAM expression.
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND ELEVATED C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS

Statement of problem: Periodontal disease (PD) has been linked to adverse cardiovascular events by unknown mechanisms. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a prognostic marker for cardiovascular disease, with reported elevated serum levels during PD. Purpose: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between PD and higher CRP levels in the serum of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, periodontal examinations and CRP serum levels were measured in 51 Q-wave and non-Q-wave AMI patients. All assessments were made during index hospitalization and within 72 hours of symptom onset. The patients were divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of PD and were frequency matched for sex, body mass index, smoking and traditional risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Using t-test, the results were compared between the two groups. Results: The prevalence of PD was high in patients with AMI (70.5%). AMI cases who had PD, showed significantly (P<0.05) higher CRP levels (21.88 mg/l) than AMI patients without PD (9.26 mg/l). A positive relationship was observed between PD and serum CRP levels, and after matching all the potential confounders, PD emerged as a strong and independent predictor of elevated CRP levels. Conclusion: Under the limitations of this study, periodontal disease was found to be common in patients with AMI and was associated with an enhanced inflammatory response, expressed by higher CRP levels. The relationship between PD and CRP levels in AMI patients appears to be independent of other contributing factors.
An Overview Income Management and Income Smoothing and Its Importance in Accounting

Relative ability to reduce or increase of reported earnings by managers are introduced as manipulation of accounts. Topics such as maximizing, minimizing, or smoothly refers to who implicitly take action to manipulated of accounts. Of course manipulation of accounts be encompasses considerably broader scope. Accruals are defined as distance between operating cash flows and accounting profit. Earnings management is intentional interference in external financial reporting process with intent to obtain a benefit. Income smoothing has two forms: 1- Reduction of Earnings; It is when the expected profit will be high temporarily, 2- Incremental Earnings; It is when profits will be lower than expected profit or profits of the previous year. In this article explains to importance of accruals, earnings management, earnings management utility, income smoothing and the role that play in the accounting.
Spiritualizing effect of probiotic and spirulina on growth and biochemical performance in common carp (Catla catla)

An experiment was conducted to determine the growth and biochemical performance of Indian Major Carp Catla catla, fingerlings for period of 45 days. In the present study to investigate the effects of probiotics and spirulina on survival, feed conversion ratio (FCR), specific growth rate (SGR), and total heterotrophic microbial count and biochemical parameters such as carbohydrates, protein, lipids , DNA and RNA in common carp (Catla catla). Two probiotic organisms (the bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and a single cell protein (Spirulina maximus) were incorporated into diets at concentrations of 1%, 2%, or 3%. The control diet contained no supplement. Spirulina maximus at 3% produced the best and statistically significant (p<0.05) weight gain (9.53 ± 0.28 gm), survival (98%), FCR (1.33 ± 0.09) and SGR (0.17 ± 0.03). In general, L. acidophilus produced better growth than S. cerevisiae. The highest FCR (1.76 ± 0.12) was obtained in the control. The total heterotrophic microbial count was highest in S. cerevisiae treatments, followed by L. acidophilus and S. maximus. The present investigation shows that incorporation of a probiotic and spirulina in diets for common carp results in increased growth rate and biochemical performance. Spirulina diets were most effective in stimulating fish growth. © 2013 Universal Research Publications. All rights reserved
THE CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF TELYUSHENKOITE AND LEIFITE, A Na6 [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2], A = Cs, Na

The crystal structures of telyushenkoite, ideally Cs Na6 [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2], trigonal, space group P 3 m 1, a 14.3770(8), c 4.8786(3) A, V 873.2(1) A3, Z = 1, and leifite, ideally Na Na6 [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2], trigonal, space group P 3 m 1, a 14.361(1), c 4.8570(5) A, V 867.5(2) A3, Z = 1, have been refined to R indices of 2.4(2.9)% based on 874(837) observed (4σ F ) reflections measured with Mo K α X-radiation. Electron-microprobe analysis of the crystals used to collect the X-ray intensity data gave the following unit formulae: telyushenkoite: (Cs0.74 Na0.31 K0.14 Rb0.02) Na6 [Be2 Al2.06 Zn0.30 Si15.46 O39 F2]; leifite: (Cs0.05 Na0.57 K0.10 Rb0.11) Na6 [Be2 Al1.96 Zn0.17 Si15.74 O39 F2]. There are four tetrahedrally coordinated T sites with the following site-occupancies: T (1) = (Si,Al,Zn), T (2) = T (3) = Si, T (4) = Be, and the Be coordination is O3F with a Be–F distance of 1.576 A. There is one Na site occupied by Na and coordinated by seven anions in an augmented trigonal-prismatic arrangement with a distance of ~2.545 A. There is one A site occupied by large alkali cations with Cs dominant in telyushenkoite and Na dominant in leifite; the A site is coordinated by six O atoms in telyushenkoite in an octahedral arrangement, and by six O atoms and two (H2O) groups in leifite. The B site is unoccupied in telyushenkoite and is partly occupied by (H2O) groups in leifite. The T (1) tetrahedra link to form six-membered rings parallel to {001} that are linked together in both the {001} plane and along [001] by four-membered rings of T (2) and T (3) tetrahedra. The six-membered rings of T (1) tetrahedra stack along the c direction to form channels that accommodate the A and B sites. The Na polyhedra share edges with the T (4) (= Be) tetrahedron. The end-member formulae of telyushenkoite and leifite may be written as A Na6 [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2], where A = Cs and Na, respectively. Consideration of the possible end-members of the leifite group led to the following compositions: | | A -site | B -site | Na -site | T -sites and anions | || | Leifite | Na | (H2O) | Na6 | [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2] | | Telyushenkoite | Cs | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2] | | – | K | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Al3 Si15 O39 F2] | | – | Na | (H2O) | Na6 | [Be2 Zn1.5 Si16.5 O39 F2] | | – | Cs | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Zn1.5 Si16.5 O39 F2] | | – | K | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Zn1.5 Si16.5 O39 F2] | | – | □ | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Al2 Si16 O39 F2] | | – | □ | □ | Na6 | [Be2 Zn Si17 O39 F2] | Leifite and teylushenkoite are related by the substitution \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \[^{\mathit{A}}Cs\ +\ ^{\mathit{B}}{\square}\ {\rightleftharpoons}\ ^{\mathit{A}}Na\ +\ ^{\mathit{B}}(H_{2}O)\] \end{document} Inspection of analytical data in the literature indicate that the K end-member is represented in Nature (although not yet described as a distinct species).
Incidence, mortality and risk factors of cervical cancer in the world

Background: Cervical cancer imposes a huge global burden. To date, various studies have been conducted on the risk factors associated with cervical cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, mortality, and geographical distribution of cervical cancer and its risk factors in the world. Methods: A literature search was conducted using PubMed, Web of sciences, Scopus, and Google Scholar to search for studies published between 2000 and 2017. The keywords used included cervical cancer, cervix uteri cancer, risk factor, incidence, mortality, and a combination of these terms. Results: The results of this study showed that the incidence of cervical cancer varies considerably between developed and developing countries. The findings of this study demonstrated that several factors including sexually transmitted infections, reproductive factors, hormonal influences, genetics and host factors are responsible for the incidence of cervical cancer. Conclusion: The results of this review study suggested that combination of biological, economic and health factors contributes to the incidence of cervical cancer. A large proportion cervical cancer can be prevented by prevention programs, lifestyle enhancement, smoking cessation, and timely and effective treatment of pre-cancerous lesions.
Safety Thickness Design of Horizontal Pillars under the Synergistic Effect of Upper and Lower Backfill

Horizontal pillars are the main load-bearing elements in underground stopes. The stability of pillars directly influences the overall safety of mines, and their thickness directly affects the ore loss and the economy of mining. However, traditional design methods have shortcomings, such as shape simplification and the consideration of too few factors, which are not compatible with horizontal pillars in the filling method. An innovative method to accurately determine the safety thickness of irregular pillars under the filling condition was proposed in this study. First, the formula for calculating overlying backfill load to mine steeply inclined ore bodies was derived by analyzing the condition of irregular horizontal pillars. Support from the lower backfill body was considered further. A 3D numerical model of horizontal pillars that uses contact element was presented to study the effect of the maximum principal stress and the deflection on the pillar thickness. Finally, based on the maximal tension stress theory, the critical safety thickness with different safety factors was calculated, and the FLAC3D numerical simulation method was used to calculate the stability of mined-out areas on large-scale reserving horizontal pillars with safety thickness. Results show that the maximum tensile stress does not exceed the ultimate tensile strength of horizontal pillars under the critical safety thickness whose value obtained by the new method is smaller than the value calculated through the traditional design methods. In addition, deflections are restricted to an acceptable range. The pillars and stopes remain stable and massive destruction is not found. The validity and security of the safety thickness formed in the new design method were confirmed through the simulation experiment, which provide some reference and experience for the design of the safety thickness of horizontal pillars in similar mine sites by using the filling method.
‘Policy Scepticism’ and the Impact of Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on their Host Region: Accounting for Regional Budget Constraints under Devolution

Hermannsson K. , Lisenkova K. , McGregor P. G. and Swales J. K. ‘Policy scepticism’ and the impact of Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs) on their host region: accounting for regional budget constraints under devolution, Regional Studies. A ‘policy scepticism’ has emerged that challenges the results of conventional regional higher education institution (HEI) impact analyses. This paper provides a systematic critique of such scepticism. While rejecting its extreme form, the limiting effect of the binding public-sector expenditure constraints under devolution is noted and it is shown how conventional impact analyses can be augmented to accommodate these constraints. While the results suggest that conventional impact studies overestimate the expenditure impacts of HEIs, they also demonstrate that the policy scepticism that treats these expenditure effects as irrelevant neglects some key aspects of HEIs, in particular their export intensity.
Cranberry Expressions in English and in German

The authors describe two data sets submitted to the database of MWE evaluation resources: (1) cranberry expressions in English and (2) cranberry expressions in German. The first package contains a collection of 444 cranberry words in German (CWde.txt) and a collection of the corresponding cranberry expressions (CCde.txt). The second package consists of a collection of 77 cranberry words in English (CWen.txt) and a collection of the corresponding cranberry expressions (CCen.txt). The data included in these packages was extracted from the Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items (CoDII), an electronic linguistic resource of lexical items with idiosyncratic occurrence patterns. Each package contains a readme file, and can be downloaded from multiword.wiki. sourceforge.net/Resources.
Performance comparison between the SRP and DFP synchronization protocols in MaRTE OS

The Deadline Floor Protocol (DFP) is a mutual exclusion synchronization protocol designed as an alternative to the Baker's Stack Resource Protocol (SRP) to access shared resources in a system scheduled under the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) policy. We have implemented both protocols in the real-time operating system MaRTE OS and we have compared their performance. Overall, DFP is easier to implement and performs better than SRP for the same data structure, a doubly-linked list (DLL). More signi cantly, there is a more e cient data structure (the binary heap) that cannot be used with SRP and outperforms the DLL with both protocols.
Behavioral Disturbance From Suspected Frontotemporal Dementia And Comorbid Paraphilia: A Case Report

Frontotemporal dementia is a degenerative disorder of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain which results in disturbances in behavior, personality, and language. Onset usually occurs between 45-60 years of age. Presentation occurs as one of three types: a behavioral variant, a semantic dementia, or a progressive non-fluent aphasia. Behavioral disinhibition can be a prominent disturbance of this condition. Paraphilias are a group of recurrent behaviors or stereotypic urges with sexually arousing objects or situations. These activities are aberrant and impulsive and often involve humiliation to oneself or others. Such actions can result in considerable social impairment. This is the only report known to the authors of a patient with suspected comorbid frontotemporal dementia and paraphilia and illustrates a case with a complex differential diagnosis.
Demand for beef in Malaysia: preference for quantity, quality or lean?

Using the Malaysian Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005 data, this study investigated Malaysian consumers’ preference for beef quantity, quality, and lean beef. Demand and price models that incorporated consumer socio-economic variables were estimated via two-stage least squares (2SLS). This study showed that Malaysian consumers tend to demand for more quantity rather than quality of beef products. Malaysian consumers are also more responsive to price changes rather than fat reduction in beef products. It is more profitable for beef market players to increase their production as Malaysian consumers are expected to consume increasing amounts of beef products.
How are cities working in the Spanish territorial development? ( 1985-2000)

The economic regional convergence process has attracted much attention through the last decade by regional scientists. This paper tries to deep in this topic, taking into account as a unit of analysis the role that cities have in regional convergence. Sigma and beta convergence are measured following a method based on a production function of the main spanish cities( 124 cities bigger than 50.000 inhabitants.
Lowering the bar for robotic development : driver generation for ubiquitous robotic systems

Robotics has developed, technologically, to a level where it becomes a ﬁeld of both interest and importance to other disciplines, either as a proof-of-concept or demonstrative tool, or else as the main focus for implementation of theories. This is particularly evident in the areas of computational and theoretical cognitive science where, despite this progress, robotics remains suﬃciently inaccessible to non-specialists as to dissuade its use. This is due in no small part to the issue of code re-usability across diﬀering hardware platforms and the lack of low-level support for developing suitable drivers for the main robotics development tools. To address this issue, this work presents ACorDE: Autonomous Control Development Environment. This development environment takes in data pertaining to the robotic platform and generates suitable driver and behavioural code in a standardised format.
Comparison of feeding inorganic sulfate trace minerals to partial substitution of organic trace minerals on gilt development, production and longevity and progeny growth performance

A trial was conducted to compare the effect of partial substitution of INO trace minerals (Cu, Zn and Mn) by an ORG source on performance and physiological status of sows over 2 parities, and their progeny up to the end of nursery phase. The trace mineral substitution provided 10, 50 and 20 ppm of Cu-AA, Zn-AA and Mn-AA respectively. These levels represented a substitution of 60%, 33% and 40% of the respective INO minerals in barley-DDGS based diets. A total of 1976 gilts of similar age and weight were allotted to one of two dietary treatments and followed during development phase (35 to 100 kg) from which a representative sample of 360 gilts were selected at the end of gilt development phase to be followed through 2 parities during gestation and lactation as well as their progeny. Average daily gain was improved for ORG trace mineral fed gilts during development phase (P<0.05). For the 2 first parities, sows from both treatments farrowed similar total and live piglets (P>0.10). During lactation, mummies tended to be reduced (P<0.10) in ORG trace minerals treated sows, but mortality tended to be increased during 0-2d (P<0.10) and also during 2-17d (P<0.05) associated with lower piglet birth weights (P<0.10). The number of weaned pigs was similar between treatments. Back-fat thickness loss during lactation was reduced for both parities (P<0.05) and feed intake tended to increase in parity 2 sows (P<0.10) using ORG trace mineral. Milk composition, plasma antioxidant enzymes, claw lesion or lameness in sows were similar between treatments. Although there was a difference in piglets’ birth weight, by the end of the nursery phase there was no carry over effect shown on weights (P>0.10). Implications: These results suggest that partial substitution of trace minerals by an ORG source reduces back-fat thickness loss of sows during lactation, but during the