Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A avifauna do Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca e áreas adjacentes, Minas Gerais, Brasil, com uma revisão crítica dos registros prévios e comentários sobre biogeografia e conservação

basicamente na região leste do Brasil, a primeira a ser ocupada e explorada, responde em parte pelo amplo e relativamente prematuro conhecimento qualitativo de sua avifauna quando comparado com o de outros biomas brasileiros. A grande maioria das espécies do leste brasileiro foi descrita até a primeira metade do século XIX. É significativo o número de coleções científicas e pesquisas de campo ao longo do bioma, mas uma grande parcela destes dados permanece inédita, aguardando análise e divulgação apropriadas. A ausência de uma compilação minuciosa destas iniciativas ornitológicas, históricas e recentes, compromete a avaliação geral e setorial do estado do conhecimento qualitativo da avifauna da Mata Atlântica71. A avifauna da Mata Atlântica foi uma das primeiras a ser pesquisada no Brasil. Com a abertura dos portos às nações amigas, em janeiro de 1808, diversas expedições de viajantesnaturalistas estrangeiros iniciaram suas investigações científicas, especialmente, pela região da Mata Atlântica. O Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo foram, nesta fase pioneira, os estados mais trabalhados. Os estados da Bahia e do Rio de Janeiro, mesmo antes deste ciclo de expedições, contribuíram como principais centros exportadores de material de história natural da América do Sul81. Embora seja possível afirmar para a maioria das espécies ocorrentes no bioma da Mata Atlântica que a distribuição em linhas gerais encontrase razoavelmente delineada, muito detalhamento quanto a este aspecto precisa ser divulgado, descoberto ou reavaliado. Não há clareza em diversas obras gerais e monográficas quanto aos limites de distribuição das espécies endêmicas e ocorrentes do bioma e uma parte da informação geográfica disponível na literatura aguarda uma avaliação crítica quanto à validade dos registros envolvidos68, 71. A análise biogeográfica de aves da Mata Atlântica esteve parcialmente contemplada em trabalhos de abrangência maior27,38,66,74,101. Algumas poucas análises mais específicas, onde a Mata Atlântica serviu de foco principal na discussão biogeográfica, também foram realizadas94,108,136. Localmente, análises da distribuição de aves de alguns trechos da Mata Atlântica foram recentemente divulgadas9,36, 137. A Mata Atlântica constitui um dos mais importantes centros de endemismo para diversos grupos animais. Mesmo em um grupo de notório poder de dispersão como as aves, o número de espécies endêmicas chega a quase 200 espécies, ou cerca de 12% do total existente no país e 29% do total da Mata Atlântica71,74. O chamado ‘Centro de endemismo de aves da Serra do Mar’27, que abrange A avifauna do Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca e áreas adjacentes, Minas Gerais, Brasil, com uma revisão crítica dos registros prévios e comentários sobre biogeografia e conservação
Journal of Applied Econometrics Identification and Estimation of a Class of Household Production Models

SUMMARY We consider a class of household production models characterized by a dichotomy property. In these models the amount of time spent on household production does not depend on the household utility function, conditional on household members having a paid job. We analyse the (non-parametric) identifiability of the production function and the so-called jointness function (a function describing which part of household production time is counted as pure leisure). It is shown that the models are identified in the two-adult case, but not in the single-adult case. We present an empirical application to Swedish time-allocation data. The estimates satisfy regularity conditions that were violated in previous studies and pass various specification tests. For this data set we find that male and female home production time are q-substitutes.
An Novel L-shape Active Leakly-Wave Antenna with power combining and scanning capability

In this paper, an active-integrated leaky-wave antenna with power combining scanning capability is presented. This leaky-wave antenna with the novel perpendicular L-shape topology is integrated with a varactor-tuned high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) on the same plane. Changing the VCO frequency, we can control not only the dual-beam scanning angle but also derive the power combining effect with the sum (/spl Sigma/) or difference (/spl Delta/) radiation patterns. The power combing effect of difference mode, which is the dual-beam pattern and the sum mode pattern, which is a 3-beam pattern, with the 3rd beam located along the middle direction (45/spl deg/, 135/spl deg/) of the X and Y axes. The measured scanning angle is steered over a range of 24-46/spl deg/ for the right beam and 127-148/spl deg/ for the left beam. Compared with single microstrip leaky-wave antenna, the L-shape LWAs configuration has the advantages of switchable radiation patterns as the VCO varied from 10GHz to 10.6GHz.
Synthesis, Characterisation, and Preliminary In Vitro Studies of Vanadium(IV) Complexes with a Schiff Base and Thiosemicarbazones as Mixed Ligands

[VO(Sal-L-tryp)(H2O)] 1 (where sal-L-tryp = N-salicylidene-L-tryptophanate) was used as a precursor to produce the novel complexes, [VO(Sal-L-tryp)(MeATSC)]. 1.5C2H5OH 2 (where MeATSC = 9-Anthraldehyde-N(4)-methylthiosemicarbazone), [VO(Sal-L-tryp)(N-Ethhymethohcarbthio)]. H2O 3 (where N-Ethhymethohcarbthio = (E)-N-ethyl-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)hydrazinecarbothioamide), and [VO(Sal-L-tryp)(acetylethTSC)]. C2H5OH 4 (where acetylethTSC = (E)-N-ethyl-2-(1-(thiazol-2-yl)ethylidene)hydrazinecarbothioamide), by reaction with the respective thiosemicarbazone. The chemical and structural properties of these ligands and complexes were characterised by elemental analysis, ESI MS, FT-IR, UV-visible, ESR, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. DMSO and DMSO-d6 solutions of compounds 1-4 were oxidised in air to produce vanadium(V) species which were verified by ESI MS and 51V NMR spectroscopy. Anti-cancer properties of compounds 2-4 were examined with three colon cancer cell lines, HTC-116, Caco-2, and HT-29, and also with non-cancerous colonic myofibroblasts, CCD18-Co. Compounds 2-3 exhibited less inhibitory effects in the CCD-18Co cells, indicating a possible cytotoxic selectivity towards colon cancer cells. In general, those compounds which exhibited anti-proliferative activity on cancer cells, but did not affect non-cancerous cells, may have a potential in chemotherapy.
Habitat utilisation and sexual segregation of impala in the Gaborone Game Reserve

We examined habitat utilization and sexual segregation in a population of impala Aepyceros melampus at Gaborone Game Reserve (GGR), Botswana. Our main objective was to compare patterns of habitat use across environmental correlates to test the hypothesis (Ho) that habitat used is proportional to habitat area. During the dry period impala utilised habitats according to the following proportions: Artificial wetland (43%), Riverine woodland (30%), Floodplains (20%), Acacia shrubland (4%) and Acacia savanna woodland (3%). Proportional wet-period habitat utilisation by impala was as follows: Acacia shrubland (65%), Acacia savanna woodland (18%), and floodplains ( 1 7%). There was no evidence for utilization of the Artificial wetland and Riverine woodland during the wet period. For both sampling periods, the null hypothesis was rejected because habitat utilization was not proportional to habitat area. Male:female sex ratios did not considerably depart from unity during the dry period, as opposed to the uneven sex ratios recorded for the wet period in the various habitat types. During the wet period the sex ratio was skewed towards females (1:7) in the Acacia savanna woodland and floodplains, while in the Acacia shrubland, the situation was reversed with the sex ratio being biased in favour of males (10: 1). In the absence of compelling evidence for predation in GGR, we conclude that the primary determinants of observed impala distribution in GGR were neither predation nor habitat size. We therefore submit that habitat utilization and sexual segregation in A. melampus in the present study was primarily determined by seasonal changes in vegetation production (reproductivestrategy hypothesis), as well as intraspecific interactions. We further outline a prospectus for subsequent investigations on the subject.
Chapter 5 Granites

Knowledge of the granites of Sumatra has been gathered mainly as the result of systematic mapping programmes conducted with the aim of identifying mineral resources and providing a geological data base for more detailed studies. Mapping programmes were conducted principally by Dutch and Indonesian geologists prior to the second world war, mainly in southern Sumatra and the Tin Islands. In the 1970s a combined Indonesian Directorate of Mineral Resources (DMR)/British Geological Survey (BGS) project was set up to map the geology of Sumatra to the north of the Equator. On completion of this project in the mid-1980s geological and geochemical maps for the region were published at the scale of 1:250 000, together with descriptive sheet bulletins. Another useful compilation which may be refered to is the 1:2.5 million scale geological map for the whole of the Indonesian Archipelago which includes Sumatra (Clarke 1990). Subsequently BGS undertook a similar but smaller project in southern Sumatra in order to upgrade geological mapping and mineral exploration programmes which were being conducted by the Indonesian Geological Research and Development Centre (GRDC) and DMR. As part of this programme a specific effort was made to investigate the granites of this region. A combined granite workshop/regional mapping programme resulted in the identification of many granite units within batholiths such as Lassi, Bungo and Garba, as well as numerous isolated plutons. Full geochemical and isotopic analyses were provided for these granites (McCourt & Cobbing 1993; McCourt et al. 1996). Gasparon & Varne (1995) have provided further
Predation by Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish on Atlantic Coral Reef Fishes: Patterns, Processes, and Consequences

Predicting and mitigating the effects of invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish on Caribbean fish communities requires a thorough understanding of the species’ predation behaviour in the invaded range, including the types and amounts of prey consumed and how foraging patterns vary in relation to extrinsic conditions. We studied the activity levels and prey consumption rates of lionfish on 12 shallow coral reefs in the Bahamas in relation to time of day and prey availability. Lionfish predation rates and activity levels were significantly higher during crepuscular (dawn and dusk) periods than at mid-day. Available prey fish biomass was highest at dawn but lower at mid-day and dusk, suggesting that lionfish predation activity is not limited by prey availability alone. Our calculated average daily mass-specific prey consumption rates, which incorporated daily variation, was ~3 times the estimates obtained from studies of captive lionfish in their native range and of invasive lionfish observed only during the day. Our results will help to predict more accurately the effect of predation by invasive lionfish on native reef fish communities.
International and Comparative Employment Relations

Earlier editions of this book have become the standard reference for a worldwide readership of students, scholars and practitioners in international agencies, governments, companies and unions. In this fifth edition, comparative analysis examines globalisation, trends and theories across such economies, including an evaluation of varieties of capitalism ideas. Chapters on employment relations in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and South Korea have been fully updated. It also includes new chapters on China, India and Denmark.
Determinants of adoption and intensity of use of balance nutrient management systems technologies in the northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria

As part of a major effort to address soil fertility decline in West Africa, an integrated soil fertility management project promoted two technology packages: a combined application of inorganic fertilizer and manure (BNMS-manure) and a soybean/maize rotation practice (BNMS-rotation) in the northern Guinea savanna (NGS) of Nigeria. This study used a tobit regression model to examine factors that influence the adoption and intensity of use of the technologies. Empirical results showed that within five years of introduction, the adoption of BNMS-rotation had reached 40% while that of BNMS-manure had reached 48%. In terms of land area, BNMS-manure occupied 35% and BNMS-rotation covered 12% of the total maize land in the zone. Factors such as access to credit, farmers’ perception of the state of land degradation, and assets ownership were the significant determinant factors of BNMS-manure, whereas offfarm income was found to be significant in determining farmers’ adoption decisions on BNMS-rotation.
Granulocyte-Colony–Stimulating Factor Mobilizes Bone Marrow Stem Cells in Patients With Subacute Ischemic Stroke

Copyright © 2006 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online Stroke is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 DOI: 10.1161/01.STR. 0000248763.49831. c3 2006;37;2979-2983; originally published online Nov 2, 2006; Stroke Walker, Martin S. Dennis and Nigel Russell Nikola Sprigg, Philip M. Bath, Lian Zhao, Mark R. Willmot, Laura J. Gray, Marion F. (ISRCTN 16784092) EnhanceMent After Stroke (STEMS) Pilot Randomized, Controlled Trial Patients With Subacute Ischemic Stroke: The Stem Cell Trial of Recovery Granulocyte-Colony-Stimulating Factor Mobilizes Bone Marrow Stem Cells in http://stroke.ahajournals. org/cgi/content/full/37/12/2979 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is
Effects of 1-year treatment with cyclophosphamide on outcomes at 2 years in scleroderma lung disease.

RATIONALE The Scleroderma Lung Study enrolled 158 patients with scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease in a placebo-controlled trial of oral cyclophosphamide (CYC). Although treatment-related benefits in pulmonary function, skin scores, and patient-centered outcomes were demonstrated after 1 year of therapy, the duration of benefit beyond 1 year was unclear. OBJECTIVES A second year of follow-up was performed to determine if these effects persisted after stopping treatment. METHODS A detailed analysis of data obtained over the two years of the study was performed. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Using a longitudinal joint model, we analyzed FVC, total lung capacity, transitional dyspnea index, Rodnan skin scores, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index during the second year, after adjusting for baseline values, baseline fibrosis score, and nonignorable missing data. Evaluable subjects (72 CYC; 73 placebo) included 93 who completed all visits plus 52 who completed at least 6 months of therapy and returned at 24 month or had their 24-month data imputed. The beneficial effects of CYC on pulmonary function and health status continued to increase through 18 months, after which they dissipated, whereas skin improvements dissipated after 12 months. In contrast, the positive effect on dyspnea persisted through 24 months. Adverse events were uncommon. CONCLUSIONS One year of CYC improved lung function, skin scores, dyspnea, and health status/disability, effects which either persisted or increased further for several months after stopping therapy. However, except for a sustained impact on dyspnea, all of these effects waned and were no longer apparent at 24 months. Treatment strategies aimed at extending the positive therapeutic effects observed with CYC should be considered. Clinical trial registered with www.clinicaltrials. gov (NCT 000004563).
International Finance and Growth in Developing Countries : What Have We Learned ?

Despite an abundance of cross-sectional, panel, and event studies, there is strikingly little convincing documentation of direct positive impacts of financial opening on the economic welfare levels or growth rates of developing countries. The econometric difficulties are similar to those that bedevil the literature on trade openness and growth though, if anything, they are more severe in the context of international finance. There is also little systematic evidence that financial opening raises welfare indirectly by promoting collateral reforms of economic institutions or policies. At the same time, opening the financial account does appear to raise the frequency and severity of economic crises. Nonetheless, developing countries continue to move in the direction of further financial openness. A plausible explanation is that financial development is a concomitant of successful economic growth, and a growing financial sector in an economy open to trade cannot long be insulated from cross-border financial flows. This survey discusses the policy framework in which financial globalization is most likely to prove beneficial for developing countries. The reforms developing countries need to carry out to make their economies safe for
Seismic azimuthal anisotropy in the oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere from broadband surface wave analysis of OBS array records at 60 Ma seafloor

We analyzed seismic ambient noise and teleseismic waveforms of nine broadband ocean bottom seismometers deployed at a 60 Ma seafloor in the southeastward of Tahiti island, the South Pacific, by the Tomographic Investigation by seafloor ARray Experiment for the Society hotspot project. We first obtained one‐dimensional shear wave velocity model beneath the array from average phase velocities of Rayleigh waves at a broadband period range of 5–200 s. The obtained model shows a large velocity reduction at depths between 40 and 80 km, where the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary might exist. We then estimated shear wave azimuthal anisotropy at depths of 20–100 km by measuring azimuthal dependence of phase velocities of Rayleigh waves. The obtained model shows peak‐to‐peak intensity of the azimuthal anisotropy of 2%–4% with the fastest azimuth of NW–SE direction both in the lithosphere and asthenosphere. This result suggests that the ancient flow frozen in the lithosphere is not perpendicular to the strike of the ancient mid‐ocean ridge but is roughly parallel to the ancient plate motion at depths of 20–60 km. The fastest azimuths in the current asthenosphere are subparallel to current plate motion at depths of 60–100 km. Additional shear wave splitting analysis revealed possible perturbations of flow in the mantle by the hot spot activities and implied the presence of azimuthal anisotropy in the asthenosphere down to a depth of 190–210 km.
Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement

We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures these links in order to explain why homeownership in Germany is so low. Our simulation results indicate that the public long-term care as well as the pension system reduce the homeownership rate in Germany by 10-15 percentage points.
The role of the leukemia-associated ETO homologue repressors in hematopoiesis

The fusion protein AML1-ETO is observed in acute myeloid patients with the chromosomal translocation t(8;21). Cells with this chimeric protein have impaired granulocytic and erythroid differentiation with accumulation of myeloblasts. The transcriptional co-repressor ETO (Eight Twenty One) was identified from the cloning of AML1-ETO. Subsequently, MTGR1 (Myeloid Translocation Gene-Related protein 1) and MTG16 (Myeloid Translocation Gene on chromosome 16) were found to be homologues to ETO, all these proteins being transcriptional co-repressors present in complexes together with other co-repressors such as SIN3, N-CoR and SMRT, and histone deacetylases. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the role of the ETO-homologues in hematopoiesis and leukemia. First, the finding of physical interactions between ETO homologues suggested a possible cooperation. Second, a ubiquitous expression was observed for MTGR1 and MTG16 in hematopoietic lineages. We also discovered that the expression of ETO was restricted to the erythroid lineage suggesting a role for ETO in erythroid development. Furthermore, we found that MTG16 was downregulated during erythroid and granulocytic differentiation, which also implements a role for MTG16 in the regulation of hematopoietic differentiation. Additionally, cells expressing AML1-ETO showed downregulation of MTG16, which possibly can contribute to the impaired differentiation of these cells. Finally, we studied the transcriptional repression of the ETO-homologues in a reporter gene system. MTG16 was found to be a potent co-repressor. Despite a physical interaction, the co-repressors N-CoR and hSIN3B did not augment MTG16-mediated repression. Collectively, our data suggests that the ETO homologues may have differential roles in the regulation of hematopoietic differentiation.
Cognitive models of speech processing : the Second Sperlonga Meeting

Overview, Shillcock, Altmann. Introduction to the Chapters by Werker and Jusczyk, Clifton. How Word Recognition may Evolve from Infant Speech Perception Capacities, Jusczyk. Developmental Changes in Cross-language Speech Perception: Implications for Cognitive Models of Speech Processing, Werker. The Time Course of Prelexical Processing: The Syllabic Hypothesis Revisited, Dupoux. Language-specific Processing: Does the Evidence Converge? Cutler. Representation and Access of Derived Words in English, Tyler, Waksler, Marslen-Wilson. What Determines Morphological Relatedness in the Lexicon? Comments on the Chapter by Tyler, Waksler, and Marslen-Wilson, Burani. Modularity and the Processing of Closed-class Words, Shillcock, Gurman Bard. Issues of Process and Representation in Lexical Access, Marslen-Wilson. Bottom-up Connectionist Models of 'Interaction', Norris. Competitor Effects During Lexical Access: Chasing Zipf's Tail, Bard, Shillcock. Connections, competitions, and Cohorts: Comments on the Chapters by Marslen-Wilson, Norris, and Bard & Shillcock, Tabossi. More Oncombinatory Lexical Information: Thematic Structure in Parsing and Interpretation, Tanenhaus et al. Reconsidering Reactivation, Nicol.