Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optical and Radio Observations of the T Tauri Binary KH 15D (V582 Mon): Stellar Properties, Disk Mass Limit, and Discovery of a CO Outflow

We present VRIJHK photometry of the KH 15D T Tauri binary system for the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 observing seasons. For the first time in the modern (CCD) era, we are seeing Star B fully emerge from behind the trailing edge of the precessing circumbinary ring during each apastron passage. We are, therefore, able to measure its luminosity and color. Decades of photometry on the system now allow us to infer the effective temperature, radius, mass, and age of each binary component. We find our values to be in good agreement with previous studies, including archival photographic photometry from the era when both stars were fully visible, and they set the stage for a full model of the system that can be constructed once radial velocity measurements are available. We also present the first high-sensitivity radio observations of the system, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the Submillimeter Array. The respective 2.0 and 0.88 mm observations provide an upper limit on the circumbinary (gas and dust) disk mass of 1.7 MJup and reveal an extended CO outflow, which overlaps with the position, systemic velocity, and orientation of the KH 15D system and is certainly associated with it. The low velocity, tight collimation, and extended nature of the emission suggest that the outflow is inclined nearly orthogonal to the line of sight, implying it is also orthogonal to the circumbinary ring. The position angle of the radio outflow also agrees precisely with the direction of polarization of the optical emission during the faint phase. A small offset between the optical image of the binary and the central line of the CO outflow remains a puzzle and possible clue to the jet launching mechanism.
Quantitative Convergence for Cerebral Processing of Information within the Geomagnetic Environment

Human cerebral systems are immersed in the earth’s magnetic field. To be consistent with the results of several correlational studies, we found that the most accurate detection of information at 50 m occurred when the geomagnetic activity was ~5 nT. The corresponding magnetic energy within the cerebral volume is equivalent to approximately 3 million bits of Landauer Limit quantum which is equivalent to low resolution photographs. Non-linear analyses indicated that the induced electric fields from the typical time variation of geomagnetic intensity converged with the Adey voltages for the threshold for background entropy. The relevance of signal/noise ratios and the recent evidence indicate that imagery and cognition may actually reflect fields of biophotons within a fixed volume, which indicates that a natural processing system may be occurring under very specific conditions that involves detection of recondite information at a distance.
STATISTICS AND CONTROL OF CHAOTIC ATOMIC TRANSPORT IN AN OPTICAL STANDING-WAVE FIELD

Centre-of-mass atomic motion in an optical lattice is shown to be near the resonance a chaotic walking due to the interplay between coherent internal atomic dynamics and spontaneous emission. Statistical properties of chaotic atomic motion can be controlled by the single parameter, the detuning between the atomic transition frequency and the laser frequency. We derive a Fokker-Planck equation in the energetic space to describe the atomic transport near the resonance and demonstrate numerically how to manipulate the atomic motion varying the detuning.
A review of prescribed burning effectiveness in fire hazard reduction

Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simula- tion, case studies, and analysis of the fire regime in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally indicate that this fuel management tool facilitates fire suppression efforts by reducing the intensity, size and damage of wildfires. However, the conclusions that can be drawn from the above approaches are limited, highlighting the need for more properly designed experiments addressing this question. Fuel accumulation rate frequently limits prescribed fire effectiveness to a short post-treatment period (2-4 years). Optimisation of the spatial pattern of fire application is critical but has been poorly addressed by research, and practical management guidelines are lacking to initiate this. Furthermore, adequate treatment efforts in terms of fire protection are con- strained by operational, social and ecological issues. The best results of prescribed fire application are likely to be attained in heterogeneous landscapes and in climates where the likelihood of extreme weather conditions is low. Conclusive statements concerning the hazard-reduction potential of prescribed fire are not easily generalised, and will ultimately depend on the overall efficiency of the entire fire management process.
Analysis of the intermediate-state contributions to neutrinoless double beta-minus decays

A comprehensive analysis of the structure of the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) of neutrinoless double beta-minus decays to the 0^+ ground and first excited states is performed in terms of the contributing multipole states in the intermediate nuclei of neutrinoless double beta-minus transitions. We concentrate on the transitions mediated by the light (l-NMEs) Majorana neutrinos. As nuclear model we use the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) with a realistic two-nucleon interaction based on the Bonn one-boson-exchange G matrix. In the computations we include the appropriate short-range correlations, nucleon form factors, higher-order nucleonic weak currents and restore the isospin symmetry by the isoscalar-isovector decomposition of the particle-particle proton-neutron interaction parameter g_{pp}.
A 35-year old man with dyspnea on exertion, history of acute pulmonary embolism and ischaemic stroke

We present a case of a 35-year old man with a history of an acute pulmonary embolism and ischaemic stroke, who after several weeks of adequate antithrombotic treatment experienced functional deterioration with severe dyspnea and haemoptysis. Detailed evaluation reveled chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, deep vein thrombosis of his right thigh and patent foramen ovale. No laboratory signs of a hypercoagulable conditions were found. After through assessment the patient was referred for pulmonary endarterectomy and patent foramen ovale closure. Both procedures were performed successfully with the significant improvement in patient’s clinical status. Patient remained clinically stable with no signs of right ventricle dysfunction in the follow-up. This article provides details regarding etiopathogenesis, clinical features and diagnostic evaluation of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension related to an acute pulmonary embolism. It covers the latest guidelines for screening and therapy as well as information regarding innovations in health care, and social care. JRCD 2012; 1: 24–29 Key words: Pulmonary embolism; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary endarterectomy
Long Dialysis Time is the More Important Factor of Erythropoietin Response in Hemodialysis Patients with Diabetes than Kt/V

Background: Though inadequate dialysis is a known risk factor for resistance to erythropoietin (EPO) therapy, there is no consensus about the relationship between hemodialysis (HD) time and EPO requirement. Our study sought to explore the relationship between EPO dosage and dialysis time in HD patients with diabetes. Methods: We report a cross-sectional analysis of the relationship between EPO dosage and dialysis time in HD patients with diabetes. A total of 77 patients with diabetes receiving maintenance HD at three outpatient HD facilities in Japan were included. At one such facility, HD time was 6 hours (n=37), and at the other facilities, HD time was 4 hours (n=40). In 6-hour HD patients and 4-hour HD patients, we studied parameters of weekly EPO requirement, Kt/V, hemoglobin, ferritin, albumin, C-reactive protein and intact parathyroid hormone. These parameters were analyzed with JMP9TM statistical software (SAS Institute). Results: Means for hemoglobin, ferritin, albumin, C-reactive protein and intact parathyroid hormone were not significantly different between the 6-hour and 4-hour HD patient groups. The EPO requirement was significantly lower among 6-hour HD patients (3111.8 ± 2360.8 versus 5682.9 ± 3863.3 U/week. P=0.0007). Kt/V was not significantly different between the two groups. Multiple regression analysis with EPO requirement as the dependent variable showed that dialysis time was the only significant independent variable (P=0.0001). Conclusions: Six-hour HD without a significant increase in dialysis dose, as judged by Kt/V, can reduce the dose of EPO in HD patients with diabetes.
INTERAURAL DIFFERENCE VALUES OF VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL IN MIGRAINE PATIENTS

Migraine is a neurologic disease, which often is associated with a unilateral headache. Vestibular abnormalities are common in migraine. Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) assess otolith function in particular functional integrity of the saccule and the inferior vestibular nerve. We used VEMP to evaluate if the migraine headache can affect VEMP asymmetry parameters. A total of 25 patients with migraine (22 females and 3 males) who were diagnosed according to the criteria of IHS-1988 were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Control group consisted of 26 healthy participants (18 female and 8 male), without neurotological symptoms and history of migraine. The short tone burst (95 dB nHL, 500 Hz) was presented to ears. VEMP was recorded with surface electromyography over the contracted ipsilateral sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle. Although current results showed that the amplitude ratio is greater in migraine patients than normal group, there was no statistical difference between two groups in mean asymmetry parameters of VEMP. Asymmetry measurements in vestibular evoked myogenic potentials probably are not indicators of unilateral deficient in saccular pathways of migraine patients. © 2015 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved. Acta Medica Iranica, 2015;53(1):33-38.
Deliberate house-burning in the prehistory of central and eastern Europe.

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Teaching macroeconomics after the crisis

It is often said that after the crisis economic textbooks have to be rewritten. However, as surveys show, almost all professors continue using the standard IS-LM/AS-AD model as the workhorse for undergraduate training. This paper shows that the IS-LM/AS-AD model is not only full of obvious inconsistencies, e.g. using two aggregate demand and two aggregate supply curves, it also presents the economy as an inherently stable system which is only destabilized by wage rigidities and policy shocks. Thus, it cannot explain involuntary unemployment and it pretends that deflation is a self-stabilizing mechanism if an economy is affected by a negative demand shock. This paper shows that it is relatively easy to reinterpret the basic model in a way that inconsistencies can be avoided and the inherent instability of macroeconomic processes which underlies the Keynesian paradigm can be demonstrated. It also allows a discussion of monetary policy in a more topical way than the traditional LM-curve.
DIHARD-CPqD-Hybrid System

We used the publicly available AMI [1] and ICSI [2] datasets as additions to the provided development data from the DIHARD challenge. Both datasets are composed of multi-party meeting recordings, from which we used the headset mixes as monaural data. The AMI corpus had poor quality in their original mix due to the noise in some channels being louder than speech in others, so we used the SoX tool [3] to apply dynamic range compression and amplitude normalization in the individual channels before mixing. We split those datasets in training, validation and test sets in roughly estimated proportions of 80%, 10% and 10%, respectively. All three partitions have disjoint sets of speakers.
Quality of Life and Nutrition During Pregnancy

A community’s transition towards modernity and urbanization leads to lifestyle changes that influence an individual’s health through modifications in physical activity and nutritional habits. Women of childbearing age, particularly during pregnancy require special attention with regards to nutrition because their health potentially affects the well being of the entire community beside herself and the fetus. The aim of this study was to explore the association between quality of life and the nutrition knowledge and dietary intake among a group of pregnant women in Malaysia. A cross sectional survey was carried out to explore the association of knowledge, attitudes and healthy nutritional practices with quality of life during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. In this study, nutritional habits during pregnancy were significantly associated with social functioning, vitality and physical functioning. A basic understanding of the influence a healthy lifestyle has on physical and emotional well being during pregnancy helps the mother and family members to have a positive attitude towards the need for healthy behaviors in regard to nutrition and physical activity. The findings of this study show the importance of nutritional intake and behavior with respect to their effects on dimensions of health quality.
Fin whales Balaenoptera physalus and minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata exploit a tidally driven island wake ecosystem in the Bay of Fundy

Marine predators forage in tidally induced oceanographic features, where they exploit predictable aggregations of prey. Very little, however, is known about how the physical forcing within these features affects their behaviour at a fine scale. During the summers of 2000 and 2002, we combined a series of cliff-top observations and boat-based surveys to describe the movements of fin whales Balaenoptera physalus and minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata within a predictable island wake occurring near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. We recorded the loca- tion of fin and minke whales as they surfaced in or near the wake. We also examined the movements of individual fin whales using focal follow techniques to assess their habitat use within 3 distinct oceanographic regions (non-wake habitat, eddy habitat and free stream habitat) of the study area. Fin and minke whale occurrence was highest during flood tides and lowest during the mid-ebb phases. Fin (33) and minke whale (64) sightings were concentrated in areas characterised by slower current velocities — the region influenced by the eddy system formed within the wake. Nine individ- ual fin whales, identified through photographs, spent a disproportionate amount of time within the eddy habitat portion of the study area, with occasional forays into free stream habitat. Foraging in the high-vorticity regions of the wake likely allows whales to exploit higher prey concentrations than in the free stream habitat or non-wake habitat.
Environmental factors and progeny affecting milk yield and composition during the first lactation

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the milk yield (MY) of primiparous cows is affected by their housing to weaning, the method of providing liquid feed, sire (S) line, and season of birth and calving. Thirty-two heifer-calves were used in the experiment; 19 heifers were kept in individual housing (IH) and 13 in loose housing (LH) from the second day of life. On the seventh day the IH heifers were divided according to feeding milk replacer (MR) or milk: 10 were relocated from IH to a pen with a computer-controlled feeder (CCF) providing automatic feeding of MR (AF), 9 heifers stayed in IH with bucket drinking (BF). The LH heifers were moved to a nursing cows pen (UF). Heifers were kept in free-stall housing after the first calving. The cows were also divided according to the sire, season of birth and calving. LH primiparous cows produced more milk throughout the first eight months of lactation, more MY, FCM and protein for 305 d lactation (P<0.05). UF cows had the highest MY throughout the first lactation and reached the significantly highest milk yield and FCM (6894.1; 6541.9 kg), whereas AF cows, the lowest (5757.5; 5820.9 kg; P<0.01) for 305 days of lactation. The contents of fat and total solids (TS) were the highest in group AF. Sire lineages differed in the contents of fat, protein, lactose, non-fat solids (NSF), TS, and MY, lactose and NFS. Cows born and calved in the summer showed lower MY and FCM yields. The most productive cows were born and calved in the winter and spring.
KNEE JOINT LOADINGS OF ATHLETES PERFORMING THE SIDE-STEP CUTTING MANOEUVRES UNDER TWO DIFFERENT CONDITIONS

The purpose of this study was to determine differences in knee joint loading of athletes performing the side-step cutting manoeuvres under two different conditions (fatigued vs. non-fatigued). Lower limb joint kinematics and kinetics of 12 inter-varsity soccer players (6 males and 6 females) performing side-step tasks in two conditions were quantified using 10 optical cameras and Kistler™ force-platform. Fatigue conditions elicited significantly higher sagittal knee joint loadings (Mext, FPeak_GRF_Z, FPeak_AP_GRF and ? °GRF_Z_IC) then non-fatigued suggesting that athletes when fatigued adopted different strategies to compensate the changes to their environment.
Automatic Curriculum Vitae Creator Using a Virtual Human Speech Interviewer

An application that takes in speech, analyzes it, andturns it into a Curriculum Vitae is an innovative approach.This study aims to create such application usingtext-to-speech, speech recognition, and natural languageprocessing. The user is asked about his/her personal andeducational background in an orderly manner using atext-to-speech module. The order of the questions dependson the format of the Curriculum Vitae. With theSpeechRecognition python library, the user's speech input iscaptured and converted into text which will be furtherprocessed and analyzed. Word tokenization is used to dividea sentence into list of words. Each element in this list ofwords is labeled with their corresponding part-of-speech tag.These tagged words will then make it easier for theprogram to identify the actual user input, which will bewritten in a Word or LibreOffice document(.docx, .doc, .odt) using the python-docx library. Using thisapproach, the study was successful in creating suchapplication. Speech-to-text, speech recognition, and naturallanguage processing can be integrated to create a virtualhuman interviewer capable of conversing with the user tocreate a Curriculum Vitae. Although the tools used provedto be very effective and efficient, the python-docx librarydoes not provide a tool for editing written text in the eventof the user giving a wrong input, creating an area for futureresearch.
THE IMPACTS OF TOURISM ON SOCIETY

Tourism is one of the most important components of the global economy. It generates billions of dollars in revenues and millions of jobs worldwide. It is considered by many communities, especially in emerging countries the only tool for development, and the only chance for increasing the quality of life. Thus the tourism industry has stretched from seaside to mountain resorts and from small villages to big metropolises. But at the same time, tourism started to show its uglier side. Both the actions of investors and of tourists are having negative impacts on the socio-cultural values and environmental assets of host communities all over the world. In the present paper we are trying to observe the impacts of tourism on society from three perspectives: economic, social and cultural, and environmental. From the economic perspective, tourism generates wealth and jobs, but the wealth leaks from the community and the jobs are mainly lowincome. From the socio-cultural perspective, tourism brings together people from different backgrounds, cultures and traditions and promotes peace. But at the same time, due to globalization, many communities have lost their cultural identity and gave way to a Disneyfication of their village or town. Last but not least, tourism helped create national parks and protected areas, where unique examples of flora and fauna can be found. But tourists have been proven to be a problem, because of the pollution they generate. Tourist entrepreneurs can also be blamed for a total disrespect to local traditions and the environment. The main problem from these negative impacts is that the local community is the only side that picks up the check for all the damages on the culture, tradition and, most importantly on the environment.
N A ] 5 M ar 2 01 8 Stochastic Subspace Correction in Hilbert Space

We consider an incremental approximation method for solving variational problems in infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces, where in each step a randomly and independently selected subproblem from an infinite collection of subproblems is solved. We show that convergence rates for the expectation of the squared error can be guaranteed under weaker conditions than previously established in [9].
Closing the Gender Gap? Life Competences and Social Environment

This paper investigates whether adult proficiency formation is affected by social environments. Using the Italian sample of the ALL survey conducted in 2003, which includes cohorts born between 1938 and 1988, we exploit temporal and regional variations in indicators of women empowerment to assess whether more progressive environments favour the reduction dynamics of the gender gap. Results suggest that environmental factors matter but they do not have a gender differential effect. Adult proficiency is higher for individuals grown in more progressive societies in terms of female labour market participation, women political empowerment, female sexual emancipation and laity. [JEL classification: J16, J24, I2]
The Community-Level Consequences of Seed Dispersal Patterns

▪ Abstract Because it lays the template from which communities develop, the pattern of dispersed seed is commonly believed to influence community structure. To test the validity of this notion, we evaluated theoretical and empirical work linking dispersal kernels to the relative abundance, distribution, dispersion, and coexistence of species. We found considerable theoretical evidence that seed dispersal affects species coexistence by slowing down exclusion through local dispersal and a competition-dispersal trade-off, yet empirical support was scant. Instead, most empirical investigations examined how dispersal affects species distribution and dispersion, subjects with little theory. This work also relied heavily on dispersal proxies and correlational analyses of community patterns, methods unable to exclude alternative hypotheses. Owing to the overall dichotomy between theory and empirical results, we argue that the importance of dispersal cannot be taken for granted. We conclude by advocating experimen.