Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LOW POWER CONCEPT FOR CONTENTADDRESSABLE MEMORY (CAM) CHIPDESIGN

A Content Addressable Memory (CAM) is a memory unit that performs single clock cycle content matching instead of addresses. CAM's are vast used in look-up table functions , network routers and cache controllers. Since basic lookups are performed over all the stored memory information there is a high power dissipation. In reality there is always trade-offs between power consumption, area used and the speed. Here is presented an conceptual abstraction for content addressable memory chip at architecture level with reduced power requirements based on combination and modifications of power saving techniques.
Use of satellite tags to reveal the movements of spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias in the western North Atlantic Ocean

The use of popup satellite archival transmitting tags (PSAT) has helped to reveal horizontal and vertical movements of large, highly migratory fishes to assist in the management of their stocks. We tested the efficacy of a significantly smaller satellite tag, the X-tag, to track the move- ments of 3 spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Tag retention rates for this study ranged between 65 and 189 d. The sharks occupied waters with temperatures ranging from 5.2 to 14.9°C and had estimated average horizontal speeds between 1.36 and 2.49 km h -1 . The sharks initially moved east into offshore waters after tagging in the Gulf of Maine and then into southern waters off the coast of New Jersey, USA. Diel depth patterns indicated that each shark was equally active during both day and night. Our results suggest that spiny dogfish are more mobile, both vertically and horizontally, than previously thought and that smaller PSATs can provide useful information on the movement patterns of a relatively small species of shark.
EFFECT OF ILLNESS PERCEPTION PROMOTING INTERVENTIONS ON TREATMENT ADHERENCE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

A B S T R A C T Aims: Illness perception plays an important role in self-care behavior and treatment adherence in hemodialysis patients. So interventions that promote illness perception can cause improvement in treatment adherence of Hemodialysis patients. Hence, this study had been conducted with the aim of determining the effect of illness perception promoting interventions on treatment adherence in hemodialysis patients. Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, 71 patients undergoing hemodialysis were allocated randomly to the intervention (n=38) and control (n=33) groups. For data collection, a two-part questionnaire consists of socio-demographic questionnaire and questionnaire of treatment adherence of hemodialysis patients (ESRD-AQ) were used. After pretest, patients in intervention group received illness perception promoting interventions individually for six sessions and control group just received routine care of the unit. Posttest was done 8 weeks after the end of intervention. The data of the study were analyzed by using SPSS-16 software and independent and paired T test. Results: Results showed that patients participating in illness perception promoting interventions had significantly higher scores in the areas of adherence to medication (p=0.01), adherence to liquid limitation (p=0.001), adherence to dietary restriction (p=0.001) and shortening durance of the hemodialysis sessions (p= 0.04) than patients in control group. Conclusions: illness perception promoting interventions causes improvement in some dimensions of treatment adherence in hemodialysis patients. Considering inadequate research literature, there is a need for more research in this area.
Information Acquisition and Excessive Risk: Impact of Policy Rate and Market Volatility

Excessive risk-taking of financial agents drew a lot of attention in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Low interest rates and subdued market volatility during the Great Moderation are sometimes blamed for stimulating risk-taking and leading to the recent financial crisis. In recent years, with many central banks around the world conducting the policy of low interest rates and mitigating market risks, it has been debatable whether this policy contributes to the building up of another credit boom. This paper addresses this issue by focusing on information acquisition by the financial agents. We build a theoretical model which captures excessive risk taking in response to changes in policy rate and market volatility. This excessive risk takes the form of an increased risk appetite of the agents, but also of decreased incentives to acquire information about risky assets. As a result, with market risk being reduced, agents tend to acquire more risk in their portfolios then they would with the higher market risk. The same forces increase portfolio risk when the safe interest rate is falling. The robustness of the results is considered with different learning rules.
Some averaging methods in the micromechanics of composite materials with periodic structure

The paper presents some averaging methods that authors have been used in the micromechanics of pre-impregnated composite materials like Sheet- and Bulk Molding Compounds, in order to predict their basic elastic properties. These averaging methods are applied to compute the homogenized elastic coefficients for Sheet Molding Compounds with various fibers volume fractions. A comparison between theoretical approach and experimental data is presented.
From “spaces of fear” to “fearscapes”: Mapping for re-framing theories about the spatialization of fear in urban space. Abstract The article engages with theory about the processes of spatialization of fear in contemporary Western urban space (fortification, privatization, exclusion/seclusion, fragm

The article engages with theory about the processes of spatialization of fear in contemporary Western urban space (fortification, privatization, exclusion/seclusion, fragmentation, polarization) and their relationships with feelings of fear of crime and violence. A threefold taxonomy is outlined (Enclosure; Post-Public Space, Barrier) and “spaces of fear” in the city of Palermo are mapped with the aim of exploring the cumulative large-scale effects of the spatialization of fear on a concrete urban territory. Building on empirical evidence, the author suggests that mainstream theories be re-framed as part of a less hegemonic and more discursive approach, and that theories mainly based on the analyses of global cities be de-provincialized. The author argues for the deconstruction of the concept of “spaces of fear” in favour of a more discursive concept of “fearscapes”, as the growing landscapes of fear in contemporary Western cities.
Серия ВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКОЙ И ПРИКЛАДНОЙ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ ISSUES ON THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS Series

In this paper, a frame-based description of verbal polysemy is used to answer some questions concerning syntactic behavior and argument structures associated with complex predicates in Persian. In Persian a number of CPs consisting of a light verb (LV) and a preverb (PV) participate in causative alternation. The causative variant is formed with the LV ændaxtæn 'cause to fall' and the anti-causative variant is formed with oftadæn 'fall'. In some contexts these verbs do not participate in causative alternatioin. In other words they do not have an anti-causative variant in such contexts. The peculiar behavior of these verbs in different contexts is explained in the framework of Frame Semantics [2]. I will argue that these verbs are associated with two semantic frames and just one of them is compatible with both causative and antiicausative form. The other frame is compatible with causative form but incompatibel with anticausative form hence no anticausative variant. As for the A-structure of CPs, using the notion of Frames [5] it is proposed that the whole construction including the CP determines its A-structure. It is not detrmined just by PV [9] or compositionally by PV and LV [6].
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Accurately Diagnoses Smaller Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Compared To Computer Tomography-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) at pnemoperitoneum (PP) pressures of 12-15 mm Hg is established for symptomatic gallstones. Metabolic and cardiopulmonary concerns and, pain may be minimized by low pressure PP, however, insufficient evidence exists for its routine use. Methods: A prospective, randomized, triple-blinded trial was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Delhi, India, over a 16-month period. A total of 60 patients were randomized into two groups of 30 each (8 mmHg and 12 mm Hg group). Outcome measures included intra-operative cardiopulmonary parameters, operating time, postoperative pain and morbidity, and, liver function tests. Minimally invasive intra-operative cardiovascular monitoring was used. Analysis was by Student’s t-test, ANOVA F-test and the Turkey procedure. Results: Demographic parameters, operation time, conversion rate and postoperative hospital stay were similar in both the groups. Port placement at 8mmHg pressure was difficult; in 6, pressure was increased to 12 mmHg. No significant complications or mortality were observed. Low pressure PP was significantly better in terms of pain scores (at 3, 6, 12, 24 hours; p=0.01) number of additional doses of analgesic used (0.3±0.6 vs 1.0±0.74 mg tramadol; p=0.00), and, total extra dose of analgesic used (15±29.80 vs 50±37.14 mg tramadol; p=0.00). Some differences in favour of the low pressure group were observed for arterial to end-tidal CO2 gradient, serum bilirubin and serum alanine tranferase; however, no significant differences were observed in cardiopulmonary parameters or liver function tests. Conclusions: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is feasible and safe at 8 mmHg pressure with slight modification of technique, and is associated with less pain compared to surgery at 12 mmHg. Studies with compromised cardiopulmonary or hepatic reserve are required to better quantify the benefits.
DYNAMIC HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF MIGRATION IN ITALY

In recent decades Italy has been affected significantly by multiple, complex and varied migratory flows as a consequence of demographic and socio-economic changes in Italian society. The processes, driven by the country’s social conditions, have more or less over 20 years seen Italy change from a country of emigration into a destination country characterised by significant inflows. As a result of the economic crisis, recent years appear to show a resurgence of emigration, with numbers and conditions differing from the past. Immigration continues to be an integral part of the country’s social and demographic structure; indeed, it is the predominant factor in population growth today. To understand these dynamics, this article analyses historical official statistics taking a medium- to long-term perspective that also considers changes in migratory systems, especially in South Eastern Europe. For a better understanding of the phenomenon, we describe the Italian situation within the framework of the main theories of migration change.
Turbulence-plankton interactions: A new cartoon. Marine Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach 30: 133-150

Climate change will alter turbulence intensity, motivating greater attention to mechanisms of turbulence effects on organisms. Many analytic and analog models used to simulate and assess effects of turbulence on plankton rely on a one-dimensional simplification of the dissipative scales of turbulence, i.e., simple, steady, uniaxial shears, as produced in Couette vessels. There shear rates are constant and spatially uniform, and hence so is vorticity. Studies in such Couette flows have greatly informed, spotlighting stable orientations of nonspherical particles and predictable, periodic, rotational motions of steadily sheared particles in Jeffery orbits that steepen concentration gradients around nutrient-absorbing phytoplankton and other chemically (re)active particles. Over the last decade, however, turbulence research within fluid dynamics has focused on the structure of dissipative vortices in space and time and on spatially and temporally varying
Variation in decision making

Variation in how organisms allocate their behavior over their lifetimes is key to determining Darwinian fitness. , and thus the evolution of human and nonhuman decision making. This chapter explores how decision making varies across biologically and societally significant scales and what role such variation plays when trying to understand decision making from an evolutionary perspective. The importance of explicitly considering variation is highlighted, both when attempting to predict economically and socially important patterns of behavior and to obtain a deepter understanding of the fundamental biological processes involved. Key elements of a framework are identified for incorporating variation into a general theory of Darwinian decision making.
A Case Study of Code Switching in Trilingual Conversations

In this paper, the codeswitching patterns in two trilingual conversations between two brothers, conducted in Punjabi, Urdu, and, and English, have been analyzed. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of code switching in both speakers shows that not only the two subjects are fluent in all three languages, but the use of switching is significantly similar in both brothers across a number of features, including relative frequency of different switch types, and the incidence of hybrid constructions involving items from two languages. The subjects appear to display qualitatively similar patterns of intra-sentential and extra-sentential codeswitching in the trilingual mode. Similarities in patterns of trilingual codeswitching and the language combinations, used by the two brothers, were found due to the same linguistic, social and cultural background of the speakers. Keywords: Code switching, Code mixing, Multilingual communication, Conversation analysis, Communicative competence, Lexical convergence, Discourse strategies
Cicuta Virosa, the Disappointed Philanthropist

This article describes the homeopathic medicine Cicuta Virosa and considers the botanical, effectiveness and proper application of this homeopathic medicine. This medicine has some interesting features which are commonly overlooked, so an understanding of the basis of therapy is important to ensure appropriate usage also it has been reviewed with identification of research priorities.
Temporary/Permanent Workers' Wage Gap: A Brand-New Form of Wage Inequality?

By easing restrictions on the use of short-term contracts, the 30/2003 act represents contemporaneously the more extensive and the more radical policy aimed at introducing flexibility in the Italian labour market. By virtue of a difference-in-differences estimator, the paper provides an estimate of the impact of the 30/2003 reform on the wage gap across fixed-term and long-term employees. It will be given evidence that the policy has widened the wage differentials and the effect is particularly stronger to skilled workers compared with unskilled workers. These findings would suggest the existence of a possible brand-new form of wage inequality.
Possible consistent extra time dimensions in the early universe

Gravity cannot be quantized unless the quantized theory is cast on a manifold whose concomitant number of physical space dimensions and number of physical time dimensions correspond to physical reality, and not simply to the perception of reality. At present, the accepted number of physical time dimensions is dictated more by folklore than by science. In this paper we discuss a model of the early universe in which the number of physical time dimensions is four, and formulate Theorem[\ref{tj}], which underlies an explanation of why the extra time dimensions do not source unphysical effects. In this paper we describe a new model of gravitational inflation that is driven by dark energy and "mediated" by a real massless scalar inflaton field $\varphi$ whose potential is identically equal to zero. The coupled Einstein gravitational and inflaton field equations are formulated on an eight-dimensional spacetime manifold of \textbf{four space} dimensions and \textbf{four time} dimensions. We find explicit solutions to these field equations that exhibit temporal exponential \textbf{deflation of three of the four time dimensions}, and then study the dynamics of a massive complex scalar field $\psi$ that propagates on the background ground state Einstein gravitational field to determine whether its quantum fluctuations $\delta \psi$ are stable or unstable. We compute explicit approximate solutions to the $\delta \psi$ field equations that are \textbf{stable}, meaning that the quantum fluctuations $\delta \psi$ of the field $\psi$ do not grow exponentially with time. \textbf{Instabilities} driven by the momenta associated to the three extra time dimensions do not appear in the physical solutions of the field equations of this model.
Postpartum Reproductive Management Based on the Routine Farm Records of a Dairy Herd: Relationship between the Metabolic Parameters and Postpartum Ovarian Activity

The aim of this study was 1) to confirm the practical efficiency of a routine milk P4 monitoring system for postpartum reproductive management of a dairy herd, and 2) to evaluate the relationship between the blood metabolic profiles, milk quality and body weight of individual cows in the farm records, which may reflect the postpartum nutritional condition, and the time of postpartum resumption of ovarian activity of dairy cows. A total of 116 Holstein cows was used in the present study. First, during the period of Experiment 1, postpartum reproductive management based on weekly measured milk P4 concentration from individual cows was conducted. Compared with the reproductive records of the past two years without P4 monitoring, although the day from calving to first AI did not change, both the number of AI until pregnant (with P4; 1.9 times vs. without P4; 2.9 times) and the days open (with P4; 95.1 days vs. without P4; 135.8 days and 133.8 days) were significantly decreased. In Experiment 2, the measurement of blood constituents such as albumin, blood urea nitrogen, packed cell volume, ammonia, glucose, total cholesterol, non-esterified, AST and γ-GTP was performed on the blood samples taken once approximately 14 days postpartum, to monitor both health and nutritional conditions. The milk constituent parameters, such as milk protein (MP), milk fat (MF), SNF and lactose, collected from the monthly progeny test of individual cows, were used to monitor the postpartum nutritional status. Furthermore, the data obtained from the routine measurements of body weight were used to calculate the rate of peripartum body weight loss. The resumption day of the postpartum estrous cycle was assumed from the milk P4 profiles of individual cows. There was no clear relationship between each parameter from blood examination and those from resumption time. However, the cows had low values of MP, and SNF, which significantly affected the resumption of the postpartum estrous cycle. Similarly, a higher rate of body weight loss indicated a significant delay (more than 1 month) in the resumption of the postpartum estrous cycle, compared with the groups that had a medium or lower rate of body weight loss. The results of the present study demonstrated that the implementation of routine milk P4 monitoring-based postpartum reproductive management, together with milk quality parameters and routine BW data available in field conditions may be utilized as a practical approach for increasing the postpartum reproductive efficiency of a high yielding dairy herd. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2005. Vol 18, No. 6 : 787-
Notes & Tips Application of the DNA-speciWc dye EvaGreen for the routine quantiWcation of DNA in microplates

For the quantiWcation of DNA, most laboratories rely on the direct determination of the optical absorption of DNA at 260 nm [1]. This method is insensitive, susceptible to interference, and diYcult to be carried out automatically. For the quantiWcation of proteins, similar techniques have long since been superseded by indirect methods based on dye incorporation or chemical modiWcations [2]. The Xuorescent dye PicoGreen has been developed for the quantiWcation of DNA by Xuorescence spectroscopy [3,4]. Here we employed the DNA-speciWc Xuorescent dye EvaGreen (Biotium, www.biotium.com) for the setup of a costeYcient alternative dye association assay for the routine quantiWcation of DNA. This dye originally was intended for use in quantitative PCR. EvaGreen–DNA complexes exhibit an intense Xuorescence with an excitation maximum at 503 nm and a broad green emission with a maximum at 527 nm. For establishing the detection range of this dye, commercial DNA standards of known concentration were diluted to 95 l with assay buVer (10 mM Tris, 1 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA],1 20 mM NaCl, pH 8.0) supplemented with 5 l of a 20-fold concentrated stock of EvaGreen and incubated at 72 °C for 5 min. Subsequently, the Xuorescence emission was recorded with a Xuorescence spectrometer equipped with 3 £ 3-mm cuvettes. The observable signals displayed a DNA concentration-dependent increase that saturated at approximately 0.5 g DNA (Fig. 1A). The Xuorescence signal was intensive and susceptible to fading, eVectively requiring a signiWcant reduction in the intensity of the excitation
An Improved Composite Forecast For Realized Volatility

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a superior forecast for security volatility can be derived by finding a balance between historical data, implied volatility and an empirical implied distribution. Data are evaluated from option contracts and historical prices sampled on the first trading day of every month over a five year period from 2007 to 2012. These data are analyzed to determine the value of a weighted combination of the three sources of information and to uncover if this approach provides a forecast with a higher correlation to realized volatility. A linear optimization solution is formulated to determine the best possible composite volatility forecast. The results of the test show that there is statistically significant evidence in which the composite volatility forecast is preferred at a 95% confidence level over individual forecasts. With a better predictor for security volatility, this optimization process could be applied to the creation of portfolios that better meet investor risk preference.
Specific Features of the Accumulation and Distribution of Heavy Metals in Soils of the Floodplain and Deltaic Landscapes of the Don River

The purpose of this work was to study specific features of the accumulation and distribution of the total content and mobile forms of Heavy Metals (HM) in soils of the estuarine ecosystems of the floodplain and deltaic landscapes of the Don River. The results allowed us to detect regional specific features in the formation of HM compounds in floodplain soils of the Don River estuarine region and the changes that occur with soil pollution and to detect the influence of different factors on the transformation of metal compounds in the soils and estimate them ecologically. It was shown that the distribution of total HM content in the investigated soils is determined primarily by their content in pedogenic species of the Don river floodplain, as well as by soil factors: The organic matter content and particle-size fractions. The system of chemical element compounds forms a relationship of different compound groups, with strongly bound metal forms predominating. The soils can be ordered by their ability to strongly retain Cd, Pb, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni: Alluvial-meadow heavy-loam > alluvial meadow light-loam > meadow alluvial-deposited > alluvial-meadow sandy and sandy-loam > alluvial-stratified sandy. This series completely corresponds to the decrease in their HM buffering capacity. Regional characteristics of HM behavior in Lower Don floodplain and delta soils include the weakly bound compounds Cd, Pb, Mn, Cu, Ni, which are represented mainly by specifically absorbed forms on carbonates and Fe-Mn (hydr) oxides.