Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Structure and Management of Complex Stands – Key Features and Study Methodology

In even-aged single species plantation forests, it is sometimes sufficient to analyze and predict growth and yield in terms of simple stand attributes. Generally, diameter distributions and stem volume prediction is usually involved for deal with dimensions and timber products. In the management of indigenous multiple-species forests with complex structures and dynamics, the information needs are more intricate. Tree and species interaction, multiple layers and clustered spatial distributions, treatments, regeneration and other factors tend to constitute a system of mutual interactions which must be attended to in management for specific objectives. Some of the basic features, in all probability relevant for studies in miombo woodlands too, are introduced and demonstrated in terms of two studies in mixed uneven-aged stands. Outlines for potential applications in project activities are discussed.
Decomposition of perception of luck: Gamblers in Macao casino hotels

The objective of this study is to establish a conceptual model of perception of luck and empirically examine the relationships between intensity of luck and four predictors including rarity, importance, exclusivity, and proximity in the context of a casino gaming. Data collection will be conducted by surveying casino gamblers in Macao. Participants will be asked to indicate their responses to the constructs with reference to their most recent casino gaming experience. Multiple regression analysis will be employed to test the hypotheses. The findings will enrich theoretical understanding of luck and provide implications to casino marketers on how to shape their patrons’ gambling behavior through manipulating the determinants of perceived degree of luck.
Going It Alone? Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity

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Les syndromes myélodysplasiques

Les syndromes myelodysplasiques forment un groupe heterogene d’hemopathies d’origine clonale, developpees a partir d’une cellule souche multipotente myeloide. Ils affectent le plus souvent des sujets de plus de 60 ans. Leur diagnostic est principalement cytologique et repose sur la reconnaissance d’anomalies quantitatives et qualitatives de l’hemogramme et du myelogramme. Les syndromes myelodysplasiques, affections preleucemiques, qu’ils soient de novo ou secondaires a une chimiotherapie, doivent etre distingues des dysmyelopoieses secondaires a d’autres pathologies (carences en folates, vitamine B12…) ou therapeutiques. La classification FAB distingue cinq entites : l’anemie refractaire simple ou cytopenie refractaire, l’anemie sideroblastique, l’anemie refractaire avec exces de blastes, l’anemie refractaire avec exces de blastes en transformation et la leucemie myelomonocytaire chronique. Le pourcentage de blastes sanguins et medullaires, la presence et le taux de sideroblastes en couronne, et la monocytose sanguine sont les parametres determinants. L’anemie, cytopenie la plus souvent retrouvee, est typiquement normo- ou macrocytaire aregenerative et est associee dans la moitie des cas a une neutropenie et/ou a une thrombopenie. L’examen attentif du frottis sanguin permet de mettre en evidence des anomalies morphologiques cellulaires qui orientent le diagnostic : anisocytose erythrocytaire, poikilocytose, presence de ponctuations basophiles, anomalies de segmentation, de granulation ou de condensation de la chromatine des polynucleaires neutrophiles, macroplaquettes. Le myelogramme et le decompte des sideroblastes apres coloration de Perls confirment le diagnostic et permettent de typer le syndrome myelodysplasique. De la classification FAB, mais egalement de l’âge, de l’importance des cytopenies et de la blastose medullaire, des anomalies cytogenetiques et de l’existence d’un donneur HLA compatible vont dependre le pronostic et la strategie therapeutique.
de Outubro ENHANCED GROWTH OF PICHIA PASTORIS UNDER INCREASED AIR PRESSURE ON DIFFERENT CARBON SOURCES

Batch fermentations, in hyperbaric reactor, were performed to study the effect of increase total air pressure on the growth of Pichia pastoris CBS 2612 on different carbon sources and respective anti-oxidative cellular response. Pichia pastoris strain was grown in glucose, glycerol and methanol media under total air pressure from 1 bar to 5 bar. In all the experiments, the cultures reached maximum cell density at 5 bar of total air pressure. A 3-fold increase on specific growth rate was obtained at 5 bar on glycerol compared to the value at 1 bar. Biomass yield was also enhanced by air pressure rise, for all carbon sources. With 5 bar air pressure biomass yield (g cells/g carbon) was 0.97, 1.53 and 1.86 whereas at 1 bar was 0.67, 1.72 and 0.77, respectively in methanol, glucose and glycerol media. For all carbon sources tested, an increase of air pressure led to an enhance of malondialdehyde, a lipid peroxidation marker. It was also observed an induction of anti-oxidant enzymes, such as SOD, catalase and glutathione reductase, indicating that cells were able to respond to the oxidative stress caused by oxygen partial pressure increase.
OPERATIONS STRATEGIES OF ENGINE ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN BRAZIL

The main purpose of this article is to identify and compare operations strategies implemented by six engine assembly plants in Brazil, taking into accou nt the possible influence of the structural and relational aspects of supply chains on the strategi es implemented by these companies. The main questions addressed in this article are: What types of operations strategies have engine assembly plants been implementing in Brazil over the last fe w years? What aspects of implemented operations strategies are influenced by the charact eristics of supply chains? Data on the companies were gathered through interviews with production ma nagers. Mature companies were found to have favored priorities such as flexibility in recent ye ars, while the competitive priorities of newcomers were more focused on cost reduction and quality enh ancement. Mature companies also showed a tendency to follow similar paths with respect to op erations and supply chain management.
Early Androgenetic Alopecia as a Predictor of Ischemic Heart Disease

Background and aim of the study: Many reports linked Androgenetic Alopecia(AGA) and ischemicheart disease. We aimed in this study to predict the relation between early androgenic alopecia and ischemic heart disease. Subject and method: This study was conducted on (100) male aged (20-30 years), suffering from early AGA> grade 2 (1) with no history of cardiac disease versus 100 apparently healthy age matched male as a control group with no history of cardiac disease. Measurement of blood Pressure, lipid profile, Resting high-quality 12 lead Electrocardiograms (ECG), Echo-cardiography were done. Results: No significant differences between patients and control group regarding age. The BMI and waist circumference of patient group were significantly higher compared with control. As regard family history: There were significant higher difference regarding positive family history of AGA and C.V. D in cases compared to control. Statistically significant higher level in systolic blood pressure(SBP), cholesterol and triglycerides (TG) in AGA group compared to control group, while no statistically significant differences in diastolic blood pressure(DBP), high and low density lipoprotein level ((HDL) (LDL))in AGA group. ECG found abnormal finding in 4 AGA patient which was statistically significant. The cases with positive ECG finding undergo ECHO two (2) of them have normal ECHO and the other two (2) cases had mitral valve prolapse, which is considered normal finding in 2-3% of population. As regard family history of AGA; there were statistically significant higher levels of SBP and LDL in 74 cases compared with 26 cases with no family history of AGA. While, there were no statistically significant difference in DBP, TG, TC, HDL and ECG between both groups. As regard risk factors, only SBP and TG were significantly higher according to severity of alopecia but, there were no statistically significant difference regarding DBP, cholesterol, HDL and LDL, as well as ECG findings with increase severity. Smokers had significantly more severe alopecia, SBP, TG, LDL and ECG than non-smoker in patients group. There was significant increase in SBP, TG and HDL in smoker when compared with non-smoker in control group. Conclusions and Recommendations: AGA could predict ischemic heart disease, all AGA patients should be screened for coronary artery disease.
An Introduction to CHERI

CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) extends conventional processor Instruction-Set Architectures (ISAs) with architectural capabilities to enable ﬁne-grained memory protection and highly scalable software compartmentalization. CHERI’s hybrid capability-system approach allows architectural capabilities to be integrated cleanly with contemporary RISC architectures and microarchitectures, as well as with MMU-based C/C++- language software stacks. CHERI’s capabilities are unforgeable tokens of authority, which can be used to implement both explicit pointers (those declared in the language) and implied pointers (those used by the runtime and generated code) in C and C++. When used for C/C++ memory protection, CHERI directly mitigates a broad range of known vulnerability types and exploit techniques. Support for more scalable software compartmentalization facilitates software mitigation techniques such as sandboxing, which also defend against future (currently unknown) vulnerability classes and exploit techniques. We have developed, evaluated, and demonstrated this approach through hardware-software prototypes, including multiple CPU prototypes, and a full software stack. This stack includes an adapted version of the Clang/LLVM compiler suite with support for capability-based C/C++, and a full UNIX-style OS (CheriBSD, based on FreeBSD) implementing spatial, referential, and (currently for userspace) non-stack temporal memory safety. Formal modeling and veriﬁ-cation allow us to make strong claims about the security properties of CHERI-enabled architectures. This report is a high-level introduction to CHERI. The report describes our architectural approach, CHERI’s key microarchitectural implications, our approach to formal modeling and proof, the CHERI software model, our software-stack prototypes, further reading, and potential areas of future research.
O sol, a praia e a pele das crianças. Conceitos essenciais

Immoderate and uncontrolled sun-exposure in childhood is related to harmful effects on skin that may be avoided by a correct photoprotective attitude. This article deals with distinct aspects of sun protection ‐ solar radiation, skin and seaside exposure, exploring every and each of them, with the purpose to systematize an approach to a healthy attitude under the sun. Concerning solar radiation, ultraviolet B and A have the most biologically active wavelengths and we summarize both their advantageous and the damaging effects to the skin. Amongst benefic effects, Vitamin D photosynthesis should be mention even if, in most children, on purpose sun exposure is documented to be unnecessary to its pro duction. Types of damage are considered as immediate (sun burn, photosensitization photo-induced and photoaggravated dermatoses) and late (photoaging and oncoge nesis). It is well established that highest the number of life course sun burns, greater the risk to develop malignant melanoma, laying stress upon the need of efficient sun protection in childhood. Taking the fact that the highest incidence of sunburns occurs in youth, this protection becomes even more essential.
Loop-Adaptive Execution in Weld

We investigate the implementation and benefits of loop-adaptivity in Weld, a data-centric JIT-compiling data processing framework. Loop-adaptivity is inspired by micro-adaptivity, where a DBMS is able to pick the best operator (in terms of performance) for a given combination of hardware, runtime environment and data, even when this changes over time. Micro-adaptivity was proposed in Vectorwise, a vectorized-interpreted DBMS, but does not fit the data-centric approach where the granularity of execution is not an operator, but an entire for-loop that implements a full pipeline of operators. Loop-adaptivity therefore adapts entire loops, rather than operators. Integrating this kind of adaptivity in a JITcompiling system is challenging because the amount of code that needs to be generated increases exponentially in the number of adaptive decisions. This is (i) at odds with the already high pressure to keep compilation times down, and (ii) can make it challenging to find the best implementation in time. Moreover, to keep overheads down, getting runtime statistics cannot be done on a tuple-at-a-time basis, which is again at odds with the datacentric approach. In this thesis we show how to tackle most of these problems, but leave the challenge of finding the best variation as future work. We investigate the opportunities for loop-adaptivity in Weld, which appears to be more limited than micro-adaptivity in Vectorwise. We evaluate how loop-adaptivity performs using both micro-benchmarks and the TPC-H benchmark suite, and find that we can gain modest improvements, limited to higher scale factors.
Apitherapy Have a Role in Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

Abstract AIM: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged. We Study the effect of Apitherapy in treatment of MS. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty patients with MS, their ages ranged between 26-71 years, were subjected to complete clinical and neurological history and examination to confirm the diagnosis. All cases were under their regular treatment they were divided into two main groups, Group I received honey, pollen, royal jelly and propolis and were treated with apiacupuncture 3 times weekly, for 12 months, in addition to their medical treatment, while group II remains on their ordinary medical treatment only. Apiacupuncture was done by bee stings for regulating the immune system. RESULTS: Results revealed that 4 patients showed some improvement regarding their defects in gait, bowel control, constipation and urination, while 12 cases, showed some mild improvement in their movement in bed, and better improvement in bed sores, sensation, and better motor power, only two cases of them were able to stand for few minutes with support. CONCLUSION: Although Apitherapy is not a curable therapy in MS, but it can be used to minimize the clinical symptoms of MS, and can be included among programs of MS therapy.
Design of a Real-Time Simulator for an Electric Vehicle

A cost-effective Real-time Simulator (RT-Sim) for academic research and education has been developed to simulate the subsystems of an electric vehicle with both Software-/Hardware-in-the-loop (SIL/HIL). The RT-Sim including the associated software/hardware components was developed for intuitively and swiftly managing different levels of scale and complexity of design while providing sufficient accuracy to satisfy the real-time constrains. The RT-Sim suite consists of a multi-core computer, a hardware platform including an FPGA/microcontroller board, and a console. A methodology was also developed for organizing simulation procedures, managing simulation modules, and achieving simulation accuracy. The RT-Sim suite was evaluated with the Simulink/VHDL models of the electric vehicle after configuring the software/hardware models. The RT-Sim was evaluated by performing SIL/HIL simulations and by analyzing the simulation results. This RT-Sim suite is expected to bridge the various design tasks that span different disciplines by providing intuitive model configurations and management, and precise model simulation and rapid analysis of the results.
Genetic variation for secondary seed dormancy in a set of current European winter oilseed rape cultivars

Secondary seed dormancy in oilseed rape is a phenomenon that allows seeds to survive in the soil for many years without germination. Following soil cultivation, dormant seeds may germinate in subsequent years and they are the main reason for the occurrence of volunteer oilseed rape plants in successive crops. Genetic reduction of secondary dormancy in oilseed rape could provide a mean to reduce the frequency of volunteer plants and especially the dispersal of transgenic oilseed rape. However, little is known about the genetic variation for and the environmental influence on the secondary seed dormancy of current winter rapeseed cultivars. The aim of the present study was to analyse secondary seed dormancy in a set of 28 current winter rapeseed cultivars tested in 2008/2009 in field experiments at six different locations in Germany. Bulked seeds samples obtained from open pollinated plants from 4 replicates (yield plots) were used for the analysis of secondary seed dormancy, applying an in vitro laboratory test. In the ANOVA highly significant effects were found for the influence of the locations and for the variation among the genotypes. Among the genotypes, secondary seed dormancy ranged from 8% to 56% and the heritability was high (0.97). The means for the six locations ranged from 13% to 37%. The large genetic variation and the high heritability indicate that an effective breeding for reduced secondary seed dormancy could be performed.
The benefits of increasing resolution in global and regional climate simulations for European climate extremes

Abstract. Many climate extremes, including heatwaves and heavy precipitation events, are projected to worsen under climate change, with important impacts for society. Future projections required for adaptation are often based on climate model simulations. Given finite resources, trade-offs must be made concerning model resolution, ensemble size, and level of model complexity. Here we focus on the resolution component. A given resolution can be achieved over a region using either global climate models (GCMs) or at lower cost using regional climate models (RCMs) that dynamically downscale coarser GCMs. Both approaches to increasing resolution may better capture small-scale processes and features (downscaling effect), but increased GCM resolution may also improve the representation of the large-scale atmospheric circulation (upscaling effect). The size of this upscaling effect is therefore important for deciding modelling strategies. Here we evaluate the benefits of increased model resolution for both global and regional climate models for simulating temperature, precipitation, and wind extremes over Europe at resolutions that could currently be realistically used for coordinated sets of climate projections at the pan-European scale. First we examine the benefits of regional downscaling by comparing EURO-CORDEX simulations at 12.5 and 50 km resolution to their coarser CMIP5 driving simulations. Secondly, we compare global-scale HadGEM3-A simulations at three resolutions (130, 60, and 25 km). Finally, we separate out resolution-dependent differences for HadGEM3-A into downscaling and upscaling components using a circulation analogue technique. Results suggest limited benefits of increased resolution for heatwaves, except in reducing hot biases over mountainous regions. Precipitation extremes are sensitive to resolution, particularly over complex orography, with larger totals and heavier tails of the distribution at higher resolution, particularly in the CORDEX vs. CMIP5 analysis. CMIP5 models underestimate precipitation extremes, whilst CORDEX simulations overestimate compared to E-OBS, particularly at 12.5 km, but results are sensitive to the observational dataset used, with the MESAN reanalysis giving higher totals and heavier tails than E-OBS. Wind extremes are somewhat stronger and heavier tailed at higher resolution, except in coastal regions where large coastal grid boxes spread strong ocean winds further over land. The circulation analogue analysis suggests that differences with resolution for the HadGEM3-A GCM are primarily due to downscaling effects.
Socio-Demographic and Programmatic Determinants of Obstetric Morbidity and Related Care Seeking Behaviour in Nepal

Maternal mortality and morbidity is used as a key indicator for the monitoring of maternal health in international literature. Care seeking patterns in terms of obstetric morbidity in Nepalese context is scanty. The objective of this study is to examine if there is variation of obstetric morbidity and care seeking behaviour across the clusters and to investigate the association of sociodemographic, programmatic and community factors with obstetric morbidity and related care seeking behaviour. The findings show that 21 perreru women reported having experienced obstetric morbidity during pregnancy and of them 65 percent sought care for the morbidity. Women living in mountain were more likely to report morbidity but less likely to seek care compared to those living in Terai. While age, education, alcohol consumption and exposure of radio program on maternal health were significant predictors of obstetric morbidity, age. education, receipt of iron tablet and smoking were significant predictor for care seeking behaviour. Both the obstetric morbidity and care seeking behaviour varied across the clusters, however, only a small portion of the cluster-level variation were explained by explanatory variables. Key words: Care seeking; Maternal health; Obsteric morbidity; Nepal Economic Journal of Nepal A Quarterly Publication of the Central Department of Economics T.U. , Kirtipur Vol. 31, No. 4 October-December 2008, Issue No. 124 Page: 212-221 Uploaded date : 5 July 2011
On the Formulation of the Magnetic Particle Imaging System Function in Fourier Space

IWMPI 2018 1 On the Formulation of the Magnetic Particle Imaging System Function in Fourier Space Marco Maass a,* and Alfred Mertins a a Institute for Signal Processing, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany * Corresponding author, email: maass@isip.uni-luebeck.de