Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of organic matter changes in the soil of the Brdo plot under different climate change scenarios through the Yasso07 model application.

The forest soil can act as an important sink for CO2 and in that respect also appears in the national Kyoto reports, where a distinction is made between carbon accumulated in litter and organic soil horizons and carbon accumulated in mineral soil layers. There is a multitude of dynamic models of organic carbon (Corg) change in the soil particularly due to different environmental and anthropogenic factors. The purpose of this paper is the Yasso07 model application on the “Brdo” plot, which is part of the ICP Forest Level II plots of Slovenia. The Yasso07 model describes the decomposition of organic matter in the forest soil by dividing litter inputs into different components with varying decomposition rates. Here, the temporal change of soil Corg in various scenarios of future climate change (increase in air temperature, change in precipitation) was predicted. The difference between the measured amount and the model-predicted amount of Corg in the soil for the current climate on the Brdo plot is 6.4 t C ha-1 (88.6 t C ha-1 measured vs. 95.0 t C ha-1 predicted). Taking into consideration the climate change scenarios for Slovenia, Corg stock is expected to decrease in the future according to Yasso07 projections in all scenarios of climate change. The estimate of 100-year decrease of Corg is the largest for scenario, when large increase of both temperature and precipitation is expected (18.2%) and smallest when small temperature increase and precipitation decrease are predicted (9.3%). Assuming stable litter input, larger influence on Corg decrease was predicted for the temperature change compared to precipitation change. However, many uncertainties are included in model estimates ranging from litter input estimates, climate change uncertainties, climate-litter production feedbacks, starting value estimates, etc. The determination of the uncertainty of model calculations is a requirement for conducting simulations and their interpretation.
Influence of fermentable carbohydrates on the intestinal bacteria and enteropathogens in broilers

The gastrointestinal tract is a complex milieu as a result of interaction between dietary ingredients and the intestinal bacteria. Following the European ban on the use of in-feed antibiotics, research has focused mainly on the potentially beneficial activities of the intestinal microbiota. Fermentable carbohydrates, or ‘prebiotics’, such as non-digestible oligosaccharides, are considered to have beneficial effects on the composition and activity of the indigenous microbiota, which can enhance the resistance of the host against colonisation of pathogenic bacteria in the GIT. Only a limited number of prebiotics has been tested in broilers that include fructo-oligosaccharides, inulin, mannan-oligosaccharides, alpha gluco-oligosaccharides, isomalto-oligosaccharides, different kestoses and lactose along with its derivatives. This review provides an overview pertaining to the potential impact of prebiotics on the intestinal bacterial population in broilers and summarizes the data regarding the role of prebiotics in preventing the colonisation of enteropathogens especially Salmonella spp. , Campylobacter spp. and Clostridium spp. Moreover, the influence of prebiotics on the intestinal bacterial fermentation profile, particularly short chain fatty acids, ammonia and lactate, is also discussed. Prebiotics have been found to affect the intestinal bacterial population particularly elevating the caecal count of Lactobacillus spp. and Bifidobacterium spp. The effect of prebiotics on the intestinal bacteria is also evident in terms of change in the total concentration or relative proportion of short chain fatty acids. The ability of prebiotics in controlling the colonisation of different enterpathogens especially Salmonella spp. , Clostridium perfringens or Campylobacter spp. showed inconsistent results depending upon the available literature.
Reconciling heterogeneous information sources

This paper discusses the results of experiments in automatic ontological reconciliation using AReXS, an implementation of the ExampleBased Frame Mapping algorithm. Modifications and extensions to the base algorithm are discussed in the context of comparing heterogeneous data from multiple on-line information sources. Consideration is given to the types of data encountered and their impact on the task of reconciling meaning. Other less automatic approaches to meaning negotiation are discussed and an argument is made for combining automatic and manual reconciliation techniques.
GaN-Based High-k Praseodymium Oxide Gate MISFETs with P 2 S 5 /(NH 4 ) 2 S X + UV Interface Treatment Technology

This study examines the praseodymium-oxide- (Pr2O3-) passivated AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MIS-HEMTs) with high dielectric constant in which the AlGaN Schottky layers are treated with P2S5/(NH4)2
Preferential Treatment may Hurt: Another Application of the All-Pay Auction

In many contests a subset of contestants is granted preferential treatment which is presumably intended to be advantageous. Examples include affirmative action and biased procurement policies. In this paper, however, I show that some of the supposed beneficiaries may in fact become worse off when the favored group is diverse. The reason is that the other favored contestants become more aggressive, which may outweigh the advantage that is gained over contestants who do not receive preferential treatment. Likewise, a contestant may be made better off when a subset of his competitors is granted preferential treatment. The contest is modelled as an incomplete-information all-pay auction in which contestants have heterogenous and non-linear cost functions. Incomplete information is crucial for the results.
A Meta-Analysis of Crew Resource Management/Incident Command Systems Implementation Studies in the Fire and Emergency Services

This research is a meta-analysis of studies on Crew Resource Management (CRM)/Incident Command System implementation in the fire and emergency services. After a thorough literature review, four sets of results were analyzed to determine if CRM training was effective. An aggregate total of 283 test scores were evaluated. The data indicated that CRM training was effective in all studies analyzed. Fixed and random effects models indicated significance as well. The studies had a high degree of heterogeneity probably due to different training and testing procedures used. The data support the use of CRM training in the fire and emergency services. There is evidence for the need for ongoing CRM training as well. Recommendations include designing CRM training with both initial and recurring sessions to ensure internalization of CRM concepts. Future research should also focus on studies with course outcome measures such as pre and post test scores.
Masculinities, gender-based violence, HIV and AIDS in Botswana

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant public health problem with a demonstrated link with gender ideologies, power relations, intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, and risky sexual behaviours. This paper uses the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS IV) (2013) to assess the association between masculinities, intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual risk. It studies factors that influencing violence, HIV-associated sexual risk-taking behaviours and the bidirectional relationship between violence and HIV status . BAIS IV results indicate that 24.8 % of females with early sexual debut had also reported non-consensual sex at the time of intercourse. The results have significant implications for designing public health/social work interventions that promote population health.
Beyond the Pink Ribbon: An exploration of the experience of self-compassion in Western Australian women survivors of breast cancer

9 Statement of Authorship 11 Acknowledgements 12 List of diagrams and tables 15 Abbreviations used 16 Chapter One: Motivation for the Study 18 1.1 Professional motivation 18 1.2 Personal motivation and reflection 25 Chapter Two: Introduction 30 2.1 Overview 30 2.2 The heart of this study 32 2.3 The lens of self-compassion 34 2.4 Background to the study 35 2.5 Survival: Life beyond the pink ribbon 36 2.6 Personal resourcefulness: Being self-compassionate 42 2.7 Self-criticism and mis-communication 43 2.8 Living in the ‘long shadow of breast cancer’ 44 Chapter Three: Beyond the Pink Ribbon 45 3.1 Overview 45 3.2 Cancer brings life changes 46 3.3 The public face of the ‘battle with breast cancer’ 47 3.4 Beyond the pink ribbon 48 3.5 Survival: An urgent quest 49 3.6 Adaptation: Meeting a different self 51 3.7 Suffering and emotional distress 52 3.8 A phenomenon of anti-suffering 55 3.9 Transition: Survivorship and opening to self-compassion 57 3.10 Compassion 58 3.11 Self-compassion: Challenge and opportunity 59
Cost Savings Associated with the Use of Electrical Bone Growth Stimulation to Treat Diabetic Patients in the U.S. with Fracture Nonunion

Objectives: Diabetic patients can suffer from poor bone quality and impaired vascularity often leading to increased fracture risk, delayed healing and potential fracture nonunion. Therefore, this study assessed healthcare resource utilization by diabetic patients receiving electrical bone growth stimulation (EBGS) versus Low-intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Stimulation (LIPUS) or neither (No-stim) for the management of their fracture nonunions. Methods: Diabetic and non-diabetic patients newly diagnosed with a fracture nonunion were identified using medical and pharmacy claims and stratified by the first treatment received after nonunion diagnosis: EBGS, LIPUS, or No-stim. Patient demographics, comorbidities, fracture characteristics, and healthcare costs were analyzed before and after nonunion diagnosis. Multivariate regression analysis was used to compare healthcare costs incurred during nonunion fracture management for the different treatment cohorts. Results: After controlling for demographic and clinical characteristics in the diabetic group, EBGS was associated with significantly lower total healthcare costs when compared with the No-stim cohort (marginal difference: -$11,834, p<0.01) and significantly lower fracture-related costs when compared to both the LIPUS (marginal difference: -$3,016, p=0.02) and the No-stim (marginal difference: -$4,783, p<0.01) cohorts. LIPUS was associated with significantly lower total healthcare costs (marginal difference: -$8,743, p=0.01), but similar fracture-related costs (marginal difference: -$1,767, p=0.23) when compared to the No-stim cohort. In the non-diabetic group a similar trend was observed as EBGS was associated with significantly lower costs when compared to the other cohorts. Conclusions: Study results suggest that EBGS is associated with lower healthcare costs in the management of fracture nonunions in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients.
Recombination velocity at oxide–GaAs interfaces fabricated by in situ molecular beam epitaxy

The recombination velocity at oxide–GaAs interfaces fabricated by in situ multiple‐chamber molecular beam epitaxy has been investigated. Ga2O3, Al2O3, SiO2, and MgO films have been deposited on clean, atomically ordered n‐ and p‐type (100) GaAs surfaces using molecular beams of Ga–, Al–, Si–, and Mg oxide, respectively. Based on the internal quantum efficiency measured for incident light power densities 1≤P0≤104 W/cm2, the interface recombination velocity S has been inferred using a self‐consistent numerical heterostructure device model. While Al2O3–, SiO2–, and MgO–GaAs structures are characterized by an interface recombination velocity which is comparable to that of a bare GaAs surface (≂ 107 cm/s), S observed at Ga2O3–GaAs interfaces is as low as 4000–5000 cm/s. The excellent Ga2O3–GaAs interface recombination velocity is consistent with the previously reported low interface state density in the mid 1010 cm−2 eV−1 range.
Embedding research principles into multimedia teaching and learning tools

Past research has shown that students with lower prior experience in a subject area benefit greatly from the use of scaffolds in their learning. In teaching first year physics students with little or no prior knowledge, a particular approach using ‘link maps’ has been recently undertaken by the physics education research group within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. The steady proliferation of multimedia into teaching practice has also seen research done on the effective use of technologies such as video presentations in teaching physics at tertiary and upper-secondary level. Studies on the use of multimedia often focus on motivational aspects of technological use, as well as the related learning outcomes. With a solid research foundation for these fields, we are interested in the synthesis of these ideas into a teaching and learning tool. Our overall research aim is to develop the fundamental ideas and research basis of link maps into the multimedia environments of video and computer simulation and investigate the effects of these tools on student achievement and motivation. In this paper, we put forth the foundation of our research, in describing how previous scholarly findings inform the embedding of link maps into multimedia presentations. Challenges in meeting the demands and requirements of the native features of each will be explored, as well as how they have been addressed. Implications for teaching and learning, in terms of the level of accommodation the environments provide are also discussed. In the process, our paper also provides an insight into the debate of the relative impact of teaching experience (or ‘craft’) compared to research findings on the design of successful teaching and learning tools, as well as the famous ‘multimedia debate’.
Voting over Taxes and Expenditure: The Role of Home Production

This paper investigates, first, how allowance for subsistence activities, or home production, affects the standard results in models involving the majority choice of the tax rate in a flat tax—basic income scheme. The paper extends the analysis of home production to choices regarding the composition of government expenditure, in situations where there is a tax-financed pure public good in addition to a transfer payment, conditional on a given tax rate. The effect of home production is to reduce the transfer payment in each model, but the effect is small.
Design of probe feed multi slotted 8 -shaped microstrip patch antenna

In this paper, we represent a new microstrip patch antenna.The proposed antenna consist of a rectangular patch which is slot loaded by 8 shaped.The rectangular patch is used as a main radiator.The antenna is fed by probe feed technique. The selected antenna is simulated using IE3D simulator, 12.28 version of Zeland. The impedance bandwidth (VSWR ≤ 2) at -10 dB returns loss comes out to be about 31.5%, ranging 3.172Hz to 4.359 GHz. The Wideband characteristics of antenna are shown in simulated results.
Interactive comment on “Seasonal cycle and temperature dependence of pinene oxidation products, dicarboxylic acids and nitrophenols in fine and coarse air particulate matter” by Y. Zhang

In this study a number of aerosol tracers have been measured by LC/MS using negative ion electrospray ionization in ïňĄne, coarse and total suspended particulate matter collected from Mainz, Germany, during an annual cycle, including the α-/β-pinene SOA tracers pinonic, pinic and 3-methyl-1,2,3-butanetricarboxylic acid, a number of dicarboxylic acids and nitrophenols. Very interesting results are obtained for the pinene
Induced Force Hovering of Spherical Robot by Under-Actuated Control of Dual Rotor

This chapter discusses the design and modelling of a spherical flying robot. The main objective is to control its hovering and omnidirectional mobility by controlling the air mass differential pressure between two asynchronous coaxial rotors that are aligned collinearly. The spherical robot design has embedded a gyroscopic mechanism of three rings that allow the rotors’ under-actuated mobility with 3DOF. The main objective of this study is to maintain the thrust force with nearly vertical direction. The change in pressure between rotors allows to vary the rotors’ tilt and pitch. The system uses special design propellers to improve the laminar air mass flux. A nonlinear fitting model automatically calibrates the rotors’ angular speed as a function of digital values. This model is the functional form that represents the reference input to control the rotors’ speed, validated by three types controllers: P, PI, and PID. The robot’s thrust and induced forces and flight mechanics are proposed and analysed. The simulation results show the feasibility of the approach.
Ecological determinants of annual fluctuations in numbers of breeding Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta L.) in the Camargue, S. France

The Little Egret is a common breeding bird in the Camargue, delta of the river Rhone (Southern France) . Each year 10 00 to 2500 pairs nest in copses, usually together with Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis L.), Night Herons (Nycticorax nycti corax L.), and Squacco Herons (Ardeola ralloides Scop .). Mono specific colonies of Little Egrets are rare and have only been found in the southern part of the delta, where brackish and saltwater lagoons form the main feeding area . One such mono specific colony exist ed from 19 70 to 1976 and in 1983. A proportion (0 to 30 %) of Camargue Little Egrets also win ter in the Rhone delta and the neighbouring wetlands, depending on the severity of weather conditions during that part of the year. Migra tory Little Egrets originating from the Camargue can move as far as tropical West-Af rica, but the major ity winter along the Mediterranean coast of France and Spain (Pineau, 1992) . Over the past 25 years the breeding pop ulation has fluctuated considerably on three occ asions, by a fac tor of 2 from one year to another. This paper aims to provide an insight into the variables at local scale (Camargue) aff ecting population size .
Comparative Study of the Effect of Lossy and Lossless Block Based Binary Plane Techniques on Medical Images

Problem statement: The general and medical images in specific contain different regions holding information of different significances. To elaborate medical information, the doctor prefers t o focus on certain selected region (s) of interest. S o for medical images the diagnostically important regions must be preserved at high quality, whereas the rest of the image is required only in a context ual sense. In this context, the study of compression technique s needed to maintain quality in reconstructed image. Approach: This study proposed the Lossless and lossy block ba sed binary plane techniques and implemented on different medical images with respect to compression rate and quality. This technique divides the image into blocks of 3◊3 size before the main process is started. At the edges i f the block is not of 3◊3 dummy rows and columns are added to make the block suitable for processing. Results: The proposed the Lossless Block Based Binary Plane Technique is to reconstruct the chestx- ray.raw image with 100%, no loss and it achieves moderate compression rate. The lossy Block Based Binary Plane Technique compresses the image with high compression rate. The loss in this technique can be controlled by varying the threshold value to have compromise between the compression rate and quality in reconstructed image. The results are compared with popular compression technique i.e JPEG. Conclusion/Recommendations: This technique can be applied for region based com pression of image. The region with significant information can be applied with Loss Less Block Based Binary Plane. The regions with insignificant information c an be applied with lossy Technique to achieve more compression. This technique also extended for color images with few modifications.
DESIGNING OF ORDER FIVE LOW PASS MICROSTRIP FILTER USING PHOTONIC BAND GAP

Signals have to be filtered at a certain frequency with a specific bandwidth. In microwave region, PBG is used to improve radiation pattern, increase efficiency along with the design of filters.In this paper the design of filter is done in the without rectangular photonic band gap (PGB) and with rectangular photonic band gap (PGB) The development of the Micro strip low pass filters are simulated by using IE3D simulator software.
The Effect of Pregnancy-related Religious Training on Religious Attitudes among Pregnant Women

Background & aim: Many researchers believe that religious doctrines have persistent effects on the mental and physical health and other aspects of human life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of pregnancy-related religious training on religious attitudes among pregnant women. Methods: This interventional study was conducted on 84 pregnant women with low and medium levels of religious attitudes in 2013. The study population was randomly divided into two groups of intervention (n=42) and control (n=42). The intervention group received religious education within the gestational weeks of 20-28 in six sessions. The control group received routine hospital trainings. The two groups filled out the religious attitude questionnaires before, immediately after, and two months following the intervention. The data were analyzed with SPSS, version 16, using t-test. Results: The results of the independence t-test revealed no significant difference between the two groups regarding the level of religious attitudes before the intervention (P=0.936). However, there was a significant difference between the two groups in this regard immediately after the intervention (P=0.001) and two months post-intervention (P=0.001). The level of religious attitudes increased from weak and moderate to a high rate following the intervention. Conclusion: Given the positive impact of religious education on religious beliefs and attitudes, it is recommended to use this potential in prenatal care planning.
Treatment of Neurocysticercosis

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is defined as infection of human central nervous system caused by Taenia solium in its larval stage. The total of all people suffering from NCC, including symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, would be estimated somewhere between 2.56-8.30 million [1], based on the range of epilepsy prevalence data available, which is between 4-13/1000 for sub-Saharan Africa [2,3], and the contribution of NCC to epilepsy in approximately 30% of cases [4]. This is frequent in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, where it is considered as a poverty indicator and serious public health problem [5,6]. In 70-90% of patients with neurocysticercosis, the most common presentation is seizures; other manifestations are headache, hemiparesis, arachnoiditis and meningoencephalitis, depending on number, type, size, stage and location [7-10].
EFFECT OF CONSUMPTION EXPERIENCE ON BRAND AND LOYALTY: RESEARCH IN THE REPURCHASE OF POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS

The study examines three factors: the customer, the product and the experience. The results show that: (1) customer expectations of entertainment experiences do not have a significant positive correlation with customer satisfaction and loyalty; (2) experience expectations have a negative correlation with customer loyalty; (3) the effects of experience programs directed at loyalty and other variables vary according to the type of experience product and the related industry; and (4) the environment of the experience has the most significant positive correlation with customer satisfaction and loyalty, especially for consumer entertainment industries such as KTV. In such industries, the impact is more significant than that of its core products and services.