Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fish habitat availability simulations using different morphological variables

Fish habitat availability simulations using different morphological variables Fish habitat modelling results are strongly influenced by velocity and depth patterns as well as by morphological parameters of the riverbed (i.e., substrate and refuge cover). Studies regarding the use of substrate in habitat modelling are well represented in the literature, whereas the use of cover in such models is commonly neglected because it is difficult to quantify the refuges or the instream areas where fish can hide from predators. However, there is clear evidence that fish habitat use and preferences are associated with refuge cover. Ignoring this variable can lead to incorrect restoration and flow management decisions based on misleading results. To avoid this, river restoration goals should only be set with reference to habitat conditions found at undisturbed sites rather than with the aim of improving habitat heterogeneity. The aim of this study is to compare the habitat availability for two cyprinid fishes, the Southwestern arched-mouth nase (Iberochondrostoma almacai) and the Arade chub (Squalius aradensis), at undisturbed (i.e., near-natural state) and disturbed sites (i.e., sites impacted by agricultural activities that have led to nutrient enrichment, destruction of riparian woodlands, straightening of the river channel and water abstraction). This is done by alternately considering substrate or refuge cover in a weighted usable area (WUA) determination to understand the interactive effects of these morphological variables as well as their influence on habitat availability. Different outcomes were generated by the use of refuge cover and substrate in habitat simulation. The results underline the importance of considering refuge cover in habitat models and also point to the need to take into account minimally disturbed or undisturbed sites within the same river upon developing future management actions.
Epidemiologia e controle da tristeza parasitária bovina na região sudeste do Brasil

Bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis are diseases transmitted by Boophilus microplus and haematophagous diptera, respectively, occurring in endemic character in Brazil, resulting in high economic loss on livestock production. In this country a wide range of epidemiological factors influencing their occurrence, such as climate variations, husbandry practices, tick control and susceptible purebreed cattle that are regularly imported to upgrade local stocks have been described. This review focuses the epidemiological control and some aspects of bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis in Brazil, with emphasis in southeast region. Factors influencing enzootic stability and instability of both species are also discussed. The control measures employed at present are chemoprophylaxis, use of acaricides for B. microplus, premunition and vaccination.
Massive MIMO Channel Estimation Over the mmWave Systems Through Parameters Learning

In this letter, we formulate an off-grid channel model to characterize spatial sample mismatching in the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation over the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. Then, we decompose the off-grid mmWave massive MIMO channel estimation into the learning of model parameters and virtual channel estimation. Specifically, an expectation maximization (EM) based sparse Bayesian learning framework is first developed to learn the model parameters, such as bias parameters and spatial signatures, with unknown noise. With the learned model parameters, we resort to the linear minimum mean square error method to estimate the instantaneous virtual channel with less pilot overhead. Finally, we corroborate the validity of the proposed method through numerical simulations.
DNS of an Airfoil at Angle of Attack with an Elastic Trailing-Edge Extension

A framework to conduct Direct Numerical Simulations of flows around airfoils with elastic trailing-edge extensions was developed. To that end a well-validated compressible DNS-code was coupled to a newly implemented structural solver. The moving body is represented by a novel boundary data immersion method originally developed for incompressible flows and extended to compressible flows for the current work. It is demonstrated that this method is capable of representing near-wall fluid and thermodynamic fluctuations accurately. In addition the simulation of an oscillating cylinder shows that the noise generated by a moving body represented with the boundary data immersion method matches the analytical solution closely. Finally initial results of a flow around an airfoil with a flexible trailing-edge extension are presented.
Using EEG to decode semantics during an artificial language learning task

As we learn a new nonnative language (L2), we begin to build a new map of concepts onto orthographic representations. Eventually, L2 can conjure as rich a semantic representation as our native language (L1). However, the neural processes for mapping a new orthographic representation to a familiar meaning are not well understood or characterized.
Clinical, Laboratory and Echografic Evaluation of Patients with Deep Vein Thrombosis Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Introduction: Total knee arthroplasty, being a major surgery, carries a risk of post-operative deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The main objective of the present study was to elucidate the association of clinical, laboratory, and echographic findings with the occurrence of DVT. Patients and Methods: The present study was prospective and non-randomized, with restricted exclusion criteria. Forty patients were submitted to total knee arthroplasty due to osteoarthritis. Patients were clinically evaluated by laboratory tests, assessment of pain and calf circumference, and the presence of Homans’ sign. Echo Doppler was performed in each patient on postoperative day 7. The echographic evaluation divided the patients into two groups: positive (G1) and negative for thrombosis (G2). All patients received prophylactic heparin during the 7-day hospital admission. Results: Eleven patients complained of pain (analgesic medication was used during the entire admission). Leg circumference variation from the pre-operative period to post-operative day 7 was: G1, 1.70 ± 1.12 cm and G2, 0.68 ± 1.25 cm (p = 0.03). Homans’ sign was considered positive in 10 patients. Echographic evaluation was positive in 11 patients (27.5%). No cases of pulmonary embolism, infection, or death were observed. Conclusions: The incidence of DVT was 27.5%, with an increase in leg circumference being the main predictive factor (p = 0.03).
Tree Biomechanics Literature Review: Dynamics

Tree biomechanics studies using dynamic methods of analysis are reviewed. The emphasis in this review is on the biomechanics of open-grown trees typically found in urban areas, rather than trees in forests or plantations. The distinction is not based on species but on their form, because open-grown trees usually grow with considerable branch mass and the dynamic response in winds may be different to other tree forms. Methods of dynamic analysis applied to trees are reviewed. Simple tree models have been developed to understand tree dynamic responses, but these largely ignore the dynamics of branches. More complex models and finite element analyses are developing a multimodal approach to represent the dynamics of branches on trees. Results indicate that material properties play only a limited role in tree dynamics and it is the form and morphology of the tree and branches that can influence the dynamics of trees.
Future Imperfect: Climate Change and Adaptation in the Carpathians

This synthesis report is directed at policy makers and the public in the Carpathian region. It brings together important findings and recommendations about cli- mate change impacts and adaptation from three linked research studies funded by the European Commission: - Climate of the Carpathian Region (CARPATCLIM), led by the Hungarian Meteorological Service, har- monized historic climate data from 1961–2010. Its main aim was to improve climate data to inves- tigate how the regional climate has changed over this period. It produced a high-resolution database for the Larger Carpathian Region, freely available at www.carpatclim-eu.org. - Carpathian Integrated Assessment of Vulnera- bility to Climate Change and Ecosystem-based Adaptation Measures (CARPIVIA) assessed the vulnerability to climate change of the Carpathian region’s main ecosystems. The project produced an inventory of climate change effects and ecosys- tem-based adaptation measures. For further infor- mation see www.carpivia. eu. - Climate change in the Carpathian Region (CarpathCC) examined the vulnerability of water, soil, forests, ecosystems and related production systems. It pro- posed concrete ecosystem-based adaptation mea- sures, and it assessed their costs and benefits. For further information see www.carpathcc. eu.
The Challenges of Managing Bomb Blasts Victims in Nigeria

Bomb blasts have become a recurring decimal since its first appearance in the criminological scene in Nigeria in 1986. The paper examined the nature and patterns of Bomb Blasts in Nigeria; the effects on the victims and the citizenry, the treatment of the victims and the challenges which the victims of Bomb blast face in Nigeria. The author relied on personal observation and secondary sources for the data embedded and used the Life Style and Routine Activities Theories as guide for the research. The paper noted that bomb blast in the country has been in the form of parcel bombs, suicide bombing, planted Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and the targets so far had been churches, mosques, highways, telecommunication masts, military installations/police stations, government buildings, schools, soccer viewing centres and car parks to mention but a few. The effects of bomb blasts on the victims include death, permanent incapacitation, body injuries and psychological trauma and on the larger Nigerian society are development of crime/attack fear, lull on social and business activities. The paper noted that much is needed to be done to alleviate the sufferings of bomb blasts victims by government, private individuals and organizations which should include financial and medical compensation, increase in security surveillance, proper rehabilitation of the victims and adequate funding of Disaster Management Agencies. Keywords: Psychological trauma, blast victims, insurgents, victimization, rehabilitation.
Changes in zooplankton and the phenology of the spiny water flea, Bythotrephes, following its invasion of Harp Lake, Ontario, Canada

The crustacean zooplankton community of Harp Lake, Ontario, Canada, has changed appreciably since the invasion by the spiny water flea, Bythotrephes. Crustacean species richness has declined, large-bodied Cladocera have replaced small-bodied ones, and there has been a downward trend in the total abundance of zooplankton because copepod abundance has remained stable while Cladoceran abundance has declined. Although the zooplankton community has now been stable for 4 years (1995-1998), the biology of the invader has changed dramatically. In particular, there have been 10-fold differences in the mean annual abundance of Bythotrephes in this 5-year period and substantial changes in the timing of population maxima. We attribute these changes to two factors: (i) transition from a summer to a fall switch from parthenogenesis to gametogenesis and (ii) interannual differences in the thickness of a warm, dark stratum in the lake. We hypothesize that this stratum provides a refuge for Bythotrephes from predation by lake herring, Coregonus artedii.
Agregação Dinâmica de Enlaces em Ambientes de Redes Definidas por Software

A tecnica de agregacao de enlaces e uma solucao para o problema de saturacao do enlace. Essa tecnica combina varias interfaces fisicas para criar um enlace virtual, somando as respectivas bandas existentes. Visto que a utilizacao das Redes Definidas por Software (SDN) em ambientes coorporativos aumenta a cada dia, a proposta deste trabalho e permitir o controlador SDN configurar a agregacao de enlaces de forma dinâmica e autonoma. Para tanto, definimos e implementamos uma arquitetura que permite agregar enlaces de forma automatica, escalavel e auto-adaptavel. Como forma de avaliar nossa implementacao, criamos tres algoritmos com diferente premissas de agregacao de enlaces: tabela hash, analise de trafego e round-robin virtual. Todas as implementacoes foram testadas em ambientes virtuais e reais. Em ambos, a plataforma aberta Open vSwitch foi utilizada para a comutacao de pacotes, enquanto que o controlador Ryu foi a escolhido para controlar os switches. A proposta deste trabalho e apresentar os testes da tecnica de agregacao de enlaces em ambientes SDN, tecnica que ate o momento nao e muito abordada no ambiente academico. Com isso, atraves dos resultados obtidos espera-se promover uma discussao sobre o assunto em trabalhos futuros.
Perceived Self-Efficacy of Preservice Agriculture Teachers toward Specific SAE Competencies.

Since its inception, school-based agricultural education in the United States has utilized the home project method, later known as a supervised agricultural experience program (SAE), as a way to provide students with contextual, hands-on learning experiences outside of class that complement classroom learning. While most teachers realize the benefits of SAE programs, the use of SAE has declined over time, and many agriculture teachers new to the profession may not be as proficient in implementing SAE programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine preservice agriculture teachers’ self-efficacy of the AAAE-SAE Competencies. Results indicated that 95% of the respondents considered SAE to be important or somewhat important components of agricultural education. Additionally, all respondents reported to have moderately high efficaciousness for their ability to perform all of the SAE competencies. What is more, few differences were found between preservice teachers who possessed SAE and agricultural education experience versus preservice teachers who had little or no experience with SAE and agricultural education. The researchers recommend that teacher preparation program in agriculture continue to provide instruction over SAE and should implement learning experiences in SAE that provide authentic, relevant instruction to preservice teachers on developing, implementing, maintaining, sustaining, evaluating, and supervising an SAE program.
Detection of Indonesian Vehicle Plate Location using Harris Corner Feature Detector Method

— Intelligent transportation systems are now starting to develop. One aspect of the intelligent transportation support system is how to recognize a vehicle. Vehicle plate recognition is an important function of this system. Plate detection systems have two problems, namely where the plate is located and how large the size is. Harris, Eigen and FAST methods have a high production value in detecting the number plate location. This is because the theoretical background is relatively focused on the angle. The Harris Corner detection system is often used because it can produce consistent values in rotating image and which has a lot of noise in an image. Morphological filters openings and closings can be seen as transformations with a structuring element which locally adapts its shape to the image structures, and therefore have lovely filtering capabilities. In this paper, we present the Indonesian plate localization based on text segmentation of unstructured standard plates with morphology filters openings and closings on pre-processing and feature detector Harris Corner method. Harris Corner method is used to detect corner points of the text, as well as using the Euclidean Distance algorithm to match features. The proposed result method produces an accuracy of 98.98%, a precision of 65.57% and a recall value of 73.55%. For further research, it needs to be compared with other methods to get the best results.
Are TNF-α inhibitors Infliximab and Certolizumab pegol effective in treating adults with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) or PsA patients who have previously failed disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy?

Objective: The objective of this selective EBM review is to determine whether “TNF- inhibitors Infliximab and Certolizumab pegol are effective in treating adults with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) or PsA patients who have previously failed disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy Study Design: Review of three randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trials published after 2006. Data sources: Three articles were found on PubMed and chosen based upon patient oriented outcomes relevant to the patient population. The population study was adults with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and patients with PsA who failed prior DMARD therapy. Infliximab and certolizumab pegol were analyzed for treatment efficacy. Outcomes: There were three outcomes measured, looking at different angles to assess the efficacy of infliximab and/or certolizumab pegol. ACR 20 response was the endpoint chosen in one study, household productivity was chosen for another study, and PASI 75 response was the primary outcome in the last study. Results: Atteno et al showed a statistically significant ACR 20 response in patients treated with infliximab. Kavanagh et al demonstrated a statistically significant increase in household productivity in patients treated with certolizumab pegol. Torii et al evidenced a statistically significant PASI 75 response in patients treated with infliximab. Conclusions: The evidence shows that TNF- inhibitors infliximab and certolizumab pegol are effective in treating adults with psoriatic arthritis as well as PsA patients with prior failure of DMARD therapy. They have been shown in these trials to effectively reduce symptoms of arthritis and psoriasis, and improve quality of life with minimal adverse events compared to control. Prompt treatment of PsA with TNF- inhibitors may impact the disease progression and joint destruction in patients with PsA.
A Study of Satisfaction with and Loyalty to the Mobile Phone Brand and its Relationship with the Brand Image

In this research paper we investigate satisfaction with and loyalty to mobile phones and its relationship with the brand image among a number of people in the city of Zahedan. The advantages of the brand image, that is experimental, social, symbolic and functional advantages, have been discussed. For this research task the data has been obtained from 384 customers who always consumed products with the selected brands. The result shows that among the four advantages of the brand image its three dimensions, that is functional, experimental and social dimensions, are positively and notably related to customer satisfaction and loyalty; the other type, that is the symbolic dimension, doesn't have a considerable impact on the customer satisfaction and loyalty. On the other hand, the results show that there is a positive relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty. The result indicates that marketing managers must focus on the brand image in order to create satisfaction among customers so as to create customer loyalty regarding their products and services.
A Precocious Presentation of B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia as Infiltrated Plaques on the Face

Leukemia cutis, or infiltration of leukemic cells into the skin, occurs rarely in B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Herein, we have described a rare, precocious presentation of B-cell ALL presenting as indurated facial plaques in a 69-year-old man. Biopsy of the facial plaques revealed precursor B-cell leukemia/lymphoma in the skin and prompted urgent hematologic-oncologic evaluation. Bone marrow biopsy yielded a final diagnosis of B-cell ALL. The patient underwent induction therapy, and at the last available follow-up, a matched unrelated donor transplant was planned.
Optimal radio resource allocation to achieve a low BER in PD‐NOMA–based heterogeneous cellular networks

In this paper, the problem of downlink radio resource allocation for a power‐domain nonorthogonal multiple‐access–based heterogeneous cellular network is investigated. We propose two scenarios: (1) resource allocation with exclusive subcarrier allocation and (2) resource allocation considering intercell interference. The aim of this paper is to obtain joint subcarrier and power allocation for the two considered system models by addressing the maximization of the users' sum rate subject to the bit error rate constraint, the successive interference cancellation constraint, subcarrier constraints, and the transmit power restriction of each base station. To solve the corresponding optimization problems, an alternating method is applied by decoupling the proposed problems into two subproblems, namely, subcarrier allocation problem and power allocation problem, where they are solved by using the mesh adaptive direct search algorithm and different successive convex approximation methods, respectively. Moreover, to evaluate the optimality gap of the alternating method, the proposed problems are solved using an optimal method, namely, monotonic optimization with high complexity as a benchmark. As the results show, with the bit error rate constraint, the link‐level performance, at the cost of a decreasing system sum rate, is improved.
Spatial relationships between swift foxes and coyotes in northwestern Texas

Interspecific competition among canids can result in mortalities and spatial displacement of smaller canids by larger canids. To investigate mortalities and spatial relationships of swift foxes (Vulpes velox) and coyotes (Canis latrans), we captured and radio-tracked both species at Rita Blanca National Grasslands in northwestern Texas. At least 89% of swift fox mortalities were caused by coyotes, resulting in a relatively low annual survival of 0.47 for swift foxes. Annual home ranges of swift foxes occurred near the periphery and outside coyote home ranges, and did not overlap or only slightly overlapped coyote core areas. Thirty-three of 36 known swift fox dens occurred outside coyote core areas. When swift foxes established dens within coyote core areas (n = 3), they were killed by coyotes shortly thereafter. Our data indicated that spatial displacement of swift foxes was not due to behavioral avoidance of coyotes but rather to increased killing of swift foxes within coyote core areas. Most mortalitie.
Design of an In-pipe Inspecion Robot

This paper deals with a design and motion planning of an In-pipe robot. The robots which are currently on move don’t possess ability to travel in pipe while medium is on stream, thus this robot is planned with a specific end goal to conquer this issue. This is an amphibious robot hence it can travel in both liquid and gaseous environment. Keywords—Inspection Robot, Kinematics, Optimal Design, Pipeline Robot, Reconfigurable robot, Motor drives, Aurdino, Amphibian robot. Service robot.
Spraying effect of maternal plants with nano-iron oxide on germination indices and electrical conductivity of produced soybean seeds.

In order to evaluate the effect of maternal plants foliar spraying with different levels of Nano-iron oxide (0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1 gr lit -1 ) on germination indices and electrical conductivity of soybean seeds, an experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with three replications at research station of Urmia University. Results indicated that spraying with 0.5 and 0.75 gr lit-1 of nano iron oxide were not differed with each other on germination rate, coefficient of germination rate and germination rate index, but they showed significant difference with control in 1% probability level. The least electrical conductivity was related to seeds produced from maternal plants which sprayed with 0.5 gr lit -1 nano iron oxide that had significant difference with control. Seed lots with low exudation of electrolytes (low electrical conductivity) are known as vigorous seeds with high emerging potential.