Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Early Neolithic in Greece: The First Farming Communities in Europe

1. The land and its resources: the geographic context 2. The Mesolithic background 3. The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? 4. Foreign colonists: where from? 5. The earliest Neolithic deposits: 'aceramic', 'pre-pottery' or 'ceramic'? 6. The spread of the Early Neolithic in Greece: chronological and geographical aspects 7. A case study in Early Neolithic settlement patterns: Eastern Thessaly 8. Early Neolithic subsistence economy: the domestic and the wild 9. The Early Neolithic village 10. Craft specialization: the contrasting cases of chipped stone tools, pottery and ornaments 11. A variety of daily crafts 12. Ritual interaction? The miniature world of 'dolls or deities' 13. Interacting with the dead: from the disposal of the body to funerary rituals 14. Interactions among the living.
Documento de Trabajo 06 / 04 Flow in eBank Satisfaction Measure

We know from the literature and from experience that consumers combine utilitarian perceptions, emotions, non-logic and symbolic features to produce attitudes, affective states and ultimately, behaviour. This reasoning is valid for the Internet as well. In this work we take a hybrid approach, using several models (Technology Acceptance Model, Flow Model and Personalization Concepts) from the fields of Marketing, Psychology and Information Systems, in order to give a wider description of the eBank consumer behaviour. Flow is proposed as a possible metric of the consumer experience online, and the estimated model shows that this construct is a major determinant of satisfaction (measured as a cognitive state), positive affects and exploratory behaviour (measured as research behaviour regarding unplanned information and unplanned contracts), even in a goal-directed activity like banking. The adaptive personalization has shown to be a relevant determinant of the flow state. A specific scale has been developed and applied to an online survey at a major Portuguese online bank. Seven hundred and fifty-four valid observations have been collected and the estimated structural equation model affords an integrated perspective of perceptions and provides relevant information for cluster procedures.
Accelerating the energy transition through corporate venturing at Dutch distribution system operators

The main research question that this research seeks to answer is: What are the factors that are perceived to be important for the performance of venturing units at Dutch distribution network operators? Factors found in the literature that impact the performance of this venturing units can be divided into three parts: factors from an organizational perspective, factors related to the venturing unit and factors that relate to the venture itself. Interviews were conducted at the three largest DSO’s (Alliander, Enexis and Stedin) to assess whether these organizational and venturing unit related factors influence their corporate venturing performance. At four ventures (Allego, Hoom, EXE and LOCOL) that were initiated by Alliander interviews were conducted to find venturing unit related and venture related factors that are perceived to be important for the performance of venturing units from their perspective.
Evolution of the Cardiorespiratory System in Air-Breathing Fishes

© 2012 TERRAPUB, Tokyo. All rights reserved. doi:10.5047/absm.2012. 00501.0001 (Cameron 1989; Nilsson 2010), with varying contributions of skin as a supplementary (in many amphibians) or in some exceptional cases, exclusive gas exchange surface (e.g., lungless salamanders, Boutilier 1990; Sheafor et al . 2000). In addition to the sarcopterygian-amphibian lineage, air breathing has independently arisen numerous times in the evolutionary history of bony fishes (Graham 1997). Many of the so-called ‘primitive’ bony fishes have a lung or lung-like gas bladder, such as polypterids, gars, bowfin and lungfishes. More advanced teleostean forms have developed a vast variety of air-breathing organs in different parts of the body, such as different segments of the alimentary canal (pharynx, esophagus, stomach or intestine), various types of outgrowth from the canal (e.g., respiratory swimbladders or suprabranchial chambers), specialized structures developing from the gills (e.g., labyrinthine organs) and the skin (Graham 1997). The circulatory system of the Devonian vertebrates perhaps underwent considerable modifications in conAbstract Fishes have evolved a wide variety of air-breathing organs independently along different lineages. Of these air-breathing fishes, only some (e.g., mudskippers) venture onto land but the vast majority of them remain in water and use air as an oxygen source to different degrees. With the development of air-breathing capacity, the circulatory system of fishes has often been modified in various ways to accommodate blood to and from the newly developed air-breathing surface. However, most air-breathing fishes, except snakeheads and lungfishes, seem to lack the ability of separating O2-rich effluent blood of the airbreathing organ from O2-poor systemic venous blood during passage through the central cardiovascular system, although this has been inferred usually only from anatomical studies. Mudskippers attest to the fact that transition from aquatic to amphibious life is possible without restructuring the gross anatomy of the cardiorespiratory system, at least to some extent. Why then have some fish and ancestral vertebrates evolved the capacity of blood separation? The purpose of this paper is to review the current knowledge about the form and function of the cardiorespiratory system of selected species of air-breathing fishes (eel gobies, mudskippers, swamp eels, snakeheads and lungfishes, arranged in the order of higher specialization of the cardiorespiratory system) and discuss important issues relating to the topic. Evolution of the Cardiorespiratory System in Air-Breathing Fishes
Noncausal a Priori SNR Estimator and o o A New Improved Algorithm f Speech Enhancement Based n MCRA

In view of the Minimum Mean Square Error of Log-Spectral Amplitude estimator (MMSE-LSA) noise power spectrum estimation algorithm does not adapt to the actual non-stationary noise and the accuracy of the estimation of prior SNR is not high on the traditional logarithmic domain. However, most of the nonstationary noises are encountered in real world. This paper puts forward a new improved speech enhancement algorithm of MMSE-LSA. Fist, it uses Minima Controlled Recursive Averaging(MCRA) to estimate noise which can track nonstationary effectively. Then combined with non-causal prior SNR estimation, it has higher accuracy of estimation of actual speech power spectrum, eliminating noise further. The simulation results show that under the non-stationary noise, the effect of restrain background noise and music noise residual has large improvement by the improved algorithm, the signal-to-noise ratio and the voice quality have been improved. In particular it is clear that the proposed algorithm has an improved capability to retain low amplitude voiced speech components in low SNR conditions. Keywords-Speech enhancement; noncausal a prior SNR; BR-MCRA; MMSE-LSA; SNR
Generalizing ‘z‐less’ mixing length for stable boundary layers

Current research shows, recent and former research suggests, that the nature and evolution of the stable atmospheric boundary layer(s) (SABL) is still understood and modelled inadequately. The ‘classical’ SABL, almost always stratified weakly (i.e. gradient Richardson number Ri ≪ ∞, typically 0 < Ri ≤ 1), has been modelled reasonably well during the last few decades or so, but the very stable case, i.e. the VSABL (Ri ≫ 1), is generally not well understood. Excessively diffusive and much too deep VSABL flows, as often appearing in numerical models, were recently addressed; the over‐diffusion was alleviated by improving the local turbulent mixing length. This demands an explicit inclusion of the vertical shear of horizontal wind, S, in the mixing length, besides the previously known role of buoyancy frequency, N. A generalization of this recent work is given here by a simplified turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) equation and a set of subsequent parametrizations for the eddy diffusivity and conductivity, i.e. K‐parametrizations, in terms of a generalized ‘z‐less’ mixing length, Λ. The aim is to produce a parametrization that is uniformly valid for all Ri ≥ 0. It is shown that Λ ∼ (TKE)1/2/ | S | ·f(Ri, Pr), uniformly valid for 0 ≤ Ri, regardless of the other parametrization details (the details appear as corrections); Pr is the turbulent Prandtl number and f(Ri, Pr) is a simple set of derived functions depending on the parametrization properties.
Effect of polymers on rheological properties of waxy bitumens

DOI: 10.7764/RDLC.17. 2.279 The definition of bitumen wax has been formulated to facilitate the distinction between harmful wax and less harmful or non-harmful. Since exact behaviour of waxes within bitumens is not completely determined and the absence of cooperative study related to modification of bitumens involving different amounts of waxes, the values found in the study are thought to be useful in determining which content of wax and type of polymer would be better for the needs of petroleum refineries in different countries. The scope of this study is to minimize the negative effects of waxes within bitumens obtained from different sources. For this purpose, modified bitumen samples were prepared by using different types of polymers such as elastomers, plastomers and polyethylene groups. Following the determination of the contents of wax by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and TS EN 12606-1, rheological properties of waxy bitumens and polymer modified bitumens (PMB) were evaluated using dynamic shear rheometer tests. The intermediate temperature performance levels of PMB were also determined by fatigue parameters. Besides, rutting performance of PMB was evaluated using Zero Shear Viscosity and Multiple Stress Creep Recovery tests.
Minimization of Switching Devices and Driver Circuits in Multilevel Inverter

The various configurations of multilevel inverter involve the use of more numbers of switching devices, energy storage devices and/or unidirectional devices. Each switching unit necessitates the add-on driver circuit for proper functionality. Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter requires overlapped switching pulses for the switching devices in positive and negative arms of the bridge which may lead to short circuit during the device failure. This work addresses the problems in different configurations of multilevel inverter by using reduced number of switching and energy storage devices and driver circuits. In the present approach Single Switch is used for each stair case positive output and single H-Bridge for phase reversal. Driver circuits are reduced by using the property of body diode of the MOSFET. Switching pulses are generated by Arduino Development Board. The circuit is simulated using Matlab. More so, through experimental means, it is physically tested and results are analyzed for the 5-step inverter and thereby simulation is fully validated. Consequently, cycloconverter operation of the circuit is simulated using Matlab. Moreover, half bridge configuration of the multilevel inverter is also analyzed for high frequency induction heating applications.
Analyzing the Impact of Corporate Governance and Organizational Learning on Strategic Planning Effectiveness (An Empirical practice among some industrial companies in Iran)

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate relationships between corporate governance, organizational learning and strategic planning effectiveness. A total of 89 questionnaires were collected from some industrial firms working in Iran. Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Findings showed corporate governance, but not Organizational learning, is significantly associated with strategic planning effectiveness. Further, both corporate governance and organizational learning jointly enhance the effectiveness of strategic planning. Longitudinal data would be needed in order to prove that causal relationships exist. It would be useful to explore whether the results hold when other integrative variables are taken into consideration. Keywords : Strategic planning effectiveness, Corporate governance, Organizational learning
A Hybrid Structure of Dual Stators and a Pneumatic Spring for Resonance Control in an Air Mount

An active device using electromagnetic forces was constructed and examined for the purpose of minimizing the resonance in air mounts of clean rooms. The air mounts are vulnerable to low-frequency resonance due to heavy weight and low stiffness. A hybrid structure of the active device, composed of pneumatic and electromagnetic parts, was developed and tested. The pneumatic parts in the device support heavy weights under the air mounts, and the electromagnetic parts reduce the resonance. The electromagnetic parts are composed of dual stators and an armature, which surround the pneumatic parts. The resonance can decrease when electromagnetic forces are generated in the gaps between the stators and the armature. Four active devices were installed under a 3-ton surface plate for a vibration test apparatus. The vibration was detected by eddy-current sensors. Discrete P Control logic was based on displacement, and embedded in a C6713 DSP. The results from impact tests show that the peak magnitude in the resonance frequency can be reduced to –10 dB.
Fabrication of long-range surface plasmon polaritons waveguide by wet chemical etching

The fabrication of long-range surface plasmon polaritons (LRSPPs) waveguides based on a thin Au stripe embedded in poly(methyl-methacrylate-glycidly-methacrylate) polymers was investigated. By patterning the photoresist, a wet chemical etching technique was used to avoid sharp pin-like and shark-fin-like structures on the edges of the Au stripe. The surface morphology of the Au film and polymer cladding were studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), as well as by using the waveguide configuration of the Au stripe. AFM images proved the elimination of parasitic structures. A 2 cm long, 4 μm wide, and 25 nm thick Au stripe waveguide exhibited a propagation loss of approximately 4.3 dB cm−1 measured by the cut-back method and end-fire excitation of LRSPP mode guiding at 1550 nm. The demonstration of optical signal transmission indicates that the LRSPP waveguide fabricated by wet chemical etching is a potential solution to on-chip optical interconnections.
Wallenius Naive Bayes

Traditional event models underlying naive Bayes classifiers assume probability distributions that are not appropriate for binary data generated by human behaviour. In this work, we develop a new event model, based on a somewhat forgotten distribution created by Kenneth Ted Wallenius in 1963. We show that it achieves superior performance using less data on a collection of Facebook datasets, where the task is to predict personality traits, based on likes.
BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CACTUS WRENS AND CURVE-BILLED THRASHERS

W HILE studying the growth of nestling Cactus Wrens (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) and Curve-billed Thrashers (Toxostoma curvirostre) near Tucson, Arizona, during the late spring and summer of 1964, I made incidental observations on their behavior. A nestling of each species was removed to be raised in an artificial environment. The wren was 12 days old, the thrasher, 9. Both birds, but especially the wren, were somewhat retarded in physical growth (weight) prior to their removal from the nests. A retardation of their behavioral development may have been associated with this, but no behavioral abnormalities were observed. The birds were kept together in my room in a small cardboard carton with “nests” made of cloth-lined pint-sized containers. Other than keeping them indoors, I made no attempt to restrain them, even after they could fly. Both birds were handled regularly and became extremely tame. Most of my observations were made when the birds were placed on a large flat table for feeding. Horsemeat proved to be quite satisfactory. Other observations were made on nestlings which were being weighed daily in the field. In the Sonora Desert of the Tucson region, this wren and thrasher are two of the most conspicuous passerines and are usually associated with each other. In my study area, both use cholla cacti (Opuntia spp.) for nesting. Certainly the greatest difference between the environments of the nestlings of the two species, disregarding parental behavior, is the construction of the nest, the wren’ s being an enclosed structure with a side entrance, the thrasher’ s, open (Fig. 1).
Silicon waveguided components for the long-wave infrared regionThis article was submitted to the spe

We propose that the operational wavelength of waveguided Si-based photonic integrated circuits and optoelectronic integrated circuits can be extended beyond the 1.55 µ mt elecom range into the wide infrared from 1.55 to 100 µm. The Si rib-membrane waveguide offers low-loss transmission from 1.2 t o6 µ ma nd from 2 4t o 100µm. This waveguide, which is compatible with Si microelectronics manufacturing, is constructed from silicon-on-insulator by etching away the oxide locally beneath the rib. Alternatively, low-loss waveguiding from 1.9 to 14.7 µ mi s assured by employing a crystal Ge rib grown directly upon the Si substrate. The Si-based hollow-core waveguide is an excellent device that minimizes loss due to silicon’s 6–24 µ mm ulti-phonon absorption. Here the rectangular air-filled core is surrounded by SiGe/Si multi-layer anti-resonant or Bragg claddings. The hollow channel offers less than 1. 7d B cm −1 loss from 1.2 to 100 µm.
Genetic enhancement and conservation of aquatic biodiversity in Africa

There is a pressing need to enhance fish production in Africa through improved farm management and the use of improved fish breeds and/or alien species in aquaculture while at the same time conserve the aquatic genetic diversity. This paper presents the outcome of the Expert Consultation on Biosafety and Environmental Impact of Genetic Enhancement and Introduction of Improved Tilapia Strains/Alien Species in Africa held in Nairobi, Kenya on 20-23 February 2002. The main topics discussed were status of aquaculture in Africa and the role of genetic enhancement; potential benefits and risks involved in introduction of genetically improved strains and/or alien species with specific reference to tilapias; existing policies and legislation for the conservation of biodiversity, their strengths and weaknesses; capacity for undertaking genetic enhancement research and implementation of policies for the conservation of aquatic biodiversity.
Fault Tolerant Controller Design for a Faulty UAV Using Fuzzy Modeling Approach

We address a fault tolerant control (FTC) issue about an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under possible simultaneous actuator saturation and faults occurrence. Firstly, the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models representing nonlinear flight control systems (FCS) for an UAV with unknown disturbances and actuator saturation are established. Then, a normal H-infinity tracking controller is presented using an online estimator, which is introduced to weaken the saturation effect. Based on the normal tracking controller, we propose an adaptive fault tolerant tracking controller (FTTC) to solve actuator loss of effectiveness (LOE) fault problem. Compared with previous work, this approach developed in our research need not rely on any fault diagnosis unit and is easily applied in engineering. Finally, these results in simulation indicate the efficiency of our presented FTC scheme.
How to Formulate Relevant and Assessable Learning Outcomes in Statistics

Course syllabuses, outlines or similar academic documents specifying the content of a course will often be a helpful tool both for teachers and students to grasp the content and purpose of a course. In many cases, however, the compilation of such documents is a painstaking process for the educator designing it, and is a task that many teachers will shun. In this paper we propose a fairly simple pedagogical model for designing specific learning outcomes that the students are expected to attain after completion of a course.
Antibiotic Resistance Patterns and Prevalence of PER and VEB Resistance Genes among Clinical Isolates of ESBL-Producing Acinetobacter Baumannii

Background and Objectives : Acinetobacter species are responsible for a wide range of clinical complications in hospitalized patients. Antimicrobial treatment of clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii may be compromised due to multiple-drug resistance to  -lactams. Aim of this study was to determine antibiotic resistance patterns and frequency of PER and VEB genes in A. baumannii isolates from hospitalized patients. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 clinical strains of A. baumannii were isolated from patients hospitalized in Qom (Iran) using specific culture media and biochemical tests. The disk diffusion method was performed to determine resistance to some antibiotics. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for cefepime and ceftazidime was evaluated. Identification of ESBL-producing strains and presence of the PER and VEB genes were determined by combined disk test and polymerase chain reaction, respectively. Results: The isolates were highly resistant against cefixime, ceftriaxone and cefepime. Lowest level of resistance was against polymyxin B. In addition, 70% of the isolates were multi-drug resistant. MIC<128 µg/ml to ceftazidime and cefepime was observed in 84% and 91% of the strains, respectively. Moreover, 21% of the strains were ESBL-positive and frequency of the PER and VEB genes was 47% and 32%, respectively. Conclusion: Majority of A. baumannii isolates are highly resistant to the tested antibiotics. Due to presence of the PER and VEB genes in the isolated strains, there is the possibility of resistance spread to other bacteria. Therefore, it is recommended to modify the consumption pattern for antibiotics and pay more attention to standards of nosocomial infection control.
Selection of Reference Stream Gauges at the River Ufa Catchment

The paper is devoted to the problem of selection of reference stream gauges to estimate the average daily streamflow for ungauged catchments. Daily streamflow data are crucial for several fields such as water management, rational resource utilization, hydropower energy production, but the number of ungauged watersheds is still big and it is needed a large scale of regional approaches as a practical response to this problem. In the following, results of an application to the catchments of the rivers: Ufa, Ai, Bolshoj Ik, Tjuj, Sars and Jurjuzan are presented. The map correlation method has been performed [1], where differences is made between the “closest” stream gauge and the “best correlated” stream gauge criterion for reference station selection. It was found that selection of the nearest stream gauges do not usually provide high correlation between their daily streamflow values. Whereas choosing most correlated stream gauge as a reference perform better results in case of goodness of fit parameters (lower errors and higher NSE), compared to the nearest stream gauge.
Determining News Category with JAVA and MySQL

Existing news portals on the WWW have aim to provide users with numerous of articles that are categorized into specific topics. Such a categorized procedure improves presentation of the information to the end-user [1]. Classifying of news article is determined by editor. The category of news article is easily to determine if we do manual edition. But how the computer will perform their task, and how it can determine the category? In a fact we can create a tool to determine the news category (the news in Indonesian language) by using the JAVA Programming Language that combined by WF and MySQL database. We can implement some text mining techniques in the application that we have created. Hopefully it electronically can help the editorial staff system to classify or to know the article’s category, so that it will reduce cost and time consuming.