Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
External exposure model used in the RESRAD code for various geometries of contaminated soil.

An external exposure model based on the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Federal Guidance Report No. 12 (FGR-12) dose conversion factors and the point kernel method has been developed for the residual radioactive (RESRAD) material guideline computer code. This model improves the external ground pathway dose estimation from that in earlier versions of the RESRAD code by extending FGR-12 data applicability to a wider range of source geometries. FGR-12 assumes that sources are infinite in lateral extent. In actual situations, soil contamination sources can have any depth, shape, cover, and size. A depth factor function was developed to express the attenuation of radionuclides by using regression analysis. Three independent, nuclei-specific parameters were determined by using the effective dose equivalent values from FGR-12. The depth factors derived with the new model were within 2% of the FGR-12 values for all depths for most of the radionuclides. A cover-and-depth factor function was derived on the basis of the depth factor function by considering both dose contribution and attenuation from different depths. The cover-and-depth factor was compared with FGR-12 computations for some representative radionuclides and source configurations. For thin cover thicknesses (1 cm), most of the values were within 2%; even for large cover thicknesses (5 to 15 cm), most of the values were within 10%. To further extend this model for actual geometries (finite irregular areas), area and shape factors were derived by using the point kernel method. These factors depend not only on the lateral extent of the contamination but also on source depth, cover thickness, and gamma energies. The area factor increases with source radius and approaches unity for source radii greater than 50 m. To test the integrity of FGR-12 data, effective dose equivalent values at the surface and four soil depths were compared with the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) transport code calculations for a few radionuclides. MCNP values were within 10% of the FGR values for the four soil depths. Depth and cover factors were also compared with MCNP calculations. Finally, overall comparisons were made between the new RESRAD model (Versions 5.60 and later) and the old RESRAD model (Version 5.44 and earlier).
Determining the Optimal Conditions for the Catalytic Hydrogenation of a Mixture of Tian Shan Coal and a Wide Fraction of Heavy Oil Residues with an End-Boiling Point of 300°C

The shortage of natural resources in the power industry, combined with their increasing usage, price, and negative impact on the environment necessitate the search for new techniques of producing liquid fuel. One such possibility is the production of fuel and chemical products from coal via hydrogenation. The transformation of coal into liquid fuel is a complex technical process that requires saturating the initial substance with oxygen. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the optimal conditions for the catalytic hydrogenation of a mixture of coal, primary coal tar (PCT) and heavy oil residues with an end-boiling point of 300°C. The results show the optimal conditions for producing liquid fuel. The proposed technique allows achieving a complete homogenization of all components and producing a highly stable coal paste. This technique also allows significantly reducing the negative impact on the environment.
Good practice handbook : cumulative impact assessment and management - guidance for the private sector in emerging markets

This good practice handbook proposes a six-step process to assist private sector companies in emerging markets identify cumulative impacts and guide them in the effective design and implementation of measures to manage such cumulative effects. This handbook is based on IFC's experience in applying its performance standards and is non-prescriptive in its approach. It should be used in conjunction with the Performance Standards, their guidance notes, and the World Bank Group environmental, health, and safety guidelines, which contain basic requirements and good international practices to be followed when designing, developing, and/or implementing projects. This document is not intended to duplicate requirements under the existing IFC sustainability framework. Its purpose is to provide practical guidance to companies investing in emerging markets to improve their understanding, assessment, and management of cumulative environmental and social impacts associated with their developments. For more publications on IFC Sustainability please visit www.ifc. org/sustainabilitypublications.
Tourism, conservation and livelihoods: the impacts of gorilla tracking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) initiatives that seek to incorporate human needs into protected area management have become common conservation practice. A popular ICD tool is nature-based tourism, which should deliver funding for conservation and benefits to local people, thereby encouraging them to support sustainable resource management. This "ecotourism" is attractive in theory, but its performance has been understudied in practice. In particular, little is known about how benefits and costs of tourism are distributed within host communities, how tourism influences attitudes to natural resources, the environmental impacts of tourism, and how tourists differ in their impacts. This thesis investigates all of these issues, using gorilla-tracking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in Uganda as a case study. The results show that whilst tourism at BINP resulted in measurable improvements in community development indicators, there were severe inequalities in the distribution of benefits between individuals according to age, gender, education, wealth, location and social networks. Tourism benefits generally outweighed tourism costs, encouraging positive attitudes to the industry. However, many people did not feel compensated for costs of conservation, because benefits were inappropriate or because they were not seen as linked to conservation. Tourism paid for park management, but tourists were found to represent a greater disease threat to gorillas than previously realised because encounters were illegally close and some tourists were unwell. Comparing the performance of tourists, older women were found to leave the most money in the local economy, whereas younger tourists posed the greatest disease threat to gorillas. Overall, tourism at BINP delivered surprisingly well on some of the promises of ecotourism. Nonetheless, considerable conflicts, risks and inequalities were identified. The thesis concludes by presenting a series of recommendations designed to improve the performance of tourism at BINP, and by discussing wider theoretical implications of the study.
The Chronic Protective Effects of Limb Remote Preconditioning and the Underlying Mechanisms Involved in Inflammatory Factors in Rat Stroke

We recently demonstrated that limb remote preconditioning (LRP) protects against focal ischemia measured 2 days post-stroke. Here, we studied whether LRP provides long-term protection and improves neurological function. We also investigated whether LRP transmits its protective signaling via the afferent nerve pathways from the preconditioned limb to the ischemic brain and whether inflammatory factors are involved in LRP, including the novel galectin-9/Tim-3 inflammatory cell signaling pathway, which induces cell death in lymphocytes. LRP in the left hind femoral artery was performed immediately before stroke. LRP reduced brain injury size both at 2 days and 60 days post-stroke and improved behavioral outcomes for up to 2 months. The sensory nerve inhibitors capsaicin and hexamethonium, a ganglion blocker, abolished the protective effects of LRP. In addition, LRP inhibited edema formation and blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability measured 2 days post-stroke. Western blot and immunostaining analysis showed that LRP inhibited protein expression of both galectin-9 and T-cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3), which were increased after stroke. In addition, LRP decreased iNOS and nitrotyrosine protein expression after stroke. In conclusion, LRP executes long-term protective effects against stroke and may block brain injury by inhibiting activities of the galectin-9/Tim-3 pathway, iNOS, and nitrotyrosine.
Accumulation, Ablation, and Oxygen Isotope Variations on the Queen Elizabeth Islands Ice Caps, Canada

Abstract Measurements made on traverses over ice caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands show that there is a region of very high accumulation (>40 g cm–2 year–1) on the slopes facing Baffin Bay and one of low accumulation (<15 g cm–2 year–1) in the interior parts of northern Ellesmere Island. Ablation rates in summer show much less regional variation over the same ice caps except for lower rates along the north-west edge of the islands and possibly on the Baffin Bay slopes as well. However, there is a stronger relationship between ablation and elevation which is exponential below the firn line. From the fractional 18O content of the snow it is shown that Baffin Bay contributes significant amounts of moisture (>20% of the total) to the Baffin Bay slopes. In addition the Arctic Ocean is seen as another, but much less significant, moisture source. The δ18O data show two effects on the condensation processes—an orographic one (i.e. adiabatic cooling) and a distance-from-source effect (isobaric cooling) where the source is somewhere to the south-east of the islands.
Magnetic Exploration of the Upper and Lower Benue Trough for Metallic Deposits and Hydrocarbons using 2D/3D

Digital Aeromagnetic data for Lower Benue Trough (Afikpo and Nkalagu) have been analyzed to locate specific basement targets for investigation using seismic methods in deep hydrocarbon exploration. This is motivated by the call of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to re-investigate all the basins in the country for hydrocarbon accumulation. In the Lower Benue Trough depths of the intrusive range from 3.2km to 3.9km while depths of deep structures range from 8.7km to 19.2km. The susceptibilities of the intrusive suggest that they are composed of granite, basalt, dolerite and rhyolite. Depths of deep structures in the Lower Benue Trough show thick sedimentary deposits that have potential for hydrocarbon exploration. Keywords: Cretaceous age, megastructure, forward and inverse modeling, geometrical shapes
The value relevance of accounting information moderated by earnings management: Evidence from listed companies in the developing market

This research aims to investigate the value relevance of accounting information (VRAI) and the effect that earnings management (EM) has on the VRAI. Research on the VRAI is generally carried out using the model introduced by Ohlson (1995). Problems will occur when the VRAI as a company performance measurement tool is faced with the practice of manipulation by managers. This study’s population is all manufacturing companies listed on the LQ45 Index. Sampling-based on purposive sampling; the research sample obtained as many as 16 samples over three years, so the number of observations is 48 companies per year. The data analysis technique used multiple linear regressions with moderating variables or moderated regression analysis (MRA). The results show that earnings per share (EPS) have value relevance (VR), and book value (BV) has VR. Operating cash flow (OCF) has no VR. Management weakens the VR of earnings, EM is not moderating BV relevance, and EM strengthens the VR of OCF.
“ All Things Considered ” : Transcriptional Regulation of Th 2 Differentiation from Precursor to Effector Activation

This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an 'Accepted Article', doi: 10.1111/imm.12121 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received date: 06-May-2013 Revised date: 08-May-2013 Accepted date: 09-May-2013 Article type: Review
Identifying Nutrient Pathways to Streams: Sediment and Phosphorus Loads from Streambank Erosion and Failure in the Illinois River Watershed (Final Technical Report)

vi I. Problem and Research Objectives . 1 II. Methodology . 3 III. Principle Findings and Significance. 6 IV. Conclusions and Future Work . 11 V. Acknowledgements . 11 VI. References . 11
Social organisation and the rise of civilisation in the Mun River Valley, Thailand

As one of the most extensively excavated and archaeologically interesting areas of Thailand, the Upper Mun River valley is central to archaeologists‘ interpretations of Southeast Asian prehistory. In this area there is demonstrable growth in social complexity from first occupation to eventual annexation by the state society of Angkor in the mid first millennium AD. The exact nature of social evolution, however, is still not fully understood. Debate rages over the factors upon which social stratification was based, whether hierarchy or heterarchy was in place, the timing of agricultural intensification and impact of external populations. In this thesis isotopic studies are combined with osteological indicators of kinship and population affinity to shed light on these and other archaeological problems which remain unanswered in the Upper Mun River Valley. Isotopic analysis has allowed the identification of migrants in the cemetery of Ban Non Wat, and shown changes in subsistence strategy through time relating to the onset of social inequality and climate change. Analysis of cranial shape has shown that most migrant individuals have similar genetic backgrounds to local people, but with the notable exception of one of the only adult jar burials at the site. The combination of dental non-metric techniques, isotopic analysis and cranial shape analysis has also added evidence to the debates over the presence of hunter-gatherers at the site, and the nature of social organization.
International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing 2015 ( ICRTC-2015 ) Human Motion Analysis by Fusion of Silhouette Orientation and Shape Features

This paper presents a simple and competent approach for Human Activity Recognition based on the hypothesis that every action/activity has some kind of rotation information with translation. The average energy silhouette images give the structural and translation information integrated it with the rotational information. The shape information of the human activities is extracted using Edge distribution of Gradients and Directional pixels and orientation information obtained from –transform. The proposed method provides the advantage of merging the local and global features of the silhouette and thus provides the discriminative feature representation for human activity recognition. The combined information is classified by a multi-class SVM classifier. Experimental results on the two publically available datasets i.e. Weizmann and KTH show the superior performance and accuracy of our method. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing 2015 (ICRTC-2015).
Swine influenza: then and now.

While everybody is worrying about when the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus will adapt well enough in human to cause a pandemic, the emergence of a novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV) has shocked the world. On 29 April 2009, the World Health Organization raised the pandemic alert level from phase 4 to 5. As of 15 May, there have been 7503 laboratory-confirmed cases of S-OIV infections and 65 confirmed deaths globally, with more than 95% of the confirmed cases and all the deaths from the American continent. The S-OIV genome is made up of a unique combination of gene segments that had not been observed in previously known influenza A viruses as a result of genetic reassortment.
Learning Inverse Rig Mappings by Nonlinear Regression

We present a framework to design inverse rig-functions-functions that map low level representations of a character's pose such as joint positions or surface geometry to the representation used by animators called the animation rig. Animators design scenes using an animation rig, a framework widely adopted in animation production which allows animators to design character poses and geometry via intuitive parameters and interfaces. Yet most state-of-the-art computer animation techniques control characters through raw, low level representations such as joint angles, joint positions, or vertex coordinates. This difference often stops the adoption of state-of-the-art techniques in animation production. Our framework solves this issue by learning a mapping between the low level representations of the pose and the animation rig. We use nonlinear regression techniques, learning from example animation sequences designed by the animators. When new motions are provided in the skeleton space, the learned mapping is used to estimate the rig controls that reproduce such a motion. We introduce two nonlinear functions for producing such a mapping: Gaussian process regression and feedforward neural networks. The appropriate solution depends on the nature of the rig and the amount of data available for training. We show our framework applied to various examples including articulated biped characters, quadruped characters, facial animation rigs, and deformable characters. With our system, animators have the freedom to apply any motion synthesis algorithm to arbitrary rigging and animation pipelines for immediate editing. This greatly improves the productivity of 3D animation, while retaining the flexibility and creativity of artistic input.
Bibliometric Analysis: Research on Batik in International Publications

Batik is an Indonesian cultural tradition that carries profound philosophical meanings embedded in its patterns and high artistic value. This is evident from its early origins when batik was used within a very limited keraton environment. Now it has become a commodity of the Indonesian creative industry that has ventured into the global market. This paper addresses the following issues: the annual number of international scholarly publications in the field of batik to be published in Scopus, the productivity of researchers working in the field of batik, and the methodology for using keywords to map the development of international research publications on batik. Based on the discussion and simulation using VOSviewer software, it can be concluded that the development and growth, especially in the field of batik, from 2012 – 2022, indexed in Scopus, reached 213 publications (18.73%) in 2020. The majority of publications in the field of batik were published in the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Diponegoro University is the institution that has published the most research in the field of batik, and Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest contributors. The researcher with high productivity in the field of batik is Widiaty, I, with a total of 15 publications from 2012 to 2022, specifically in the field of batik. Regarding the development map of the field of batik based on co-word analysis, there are 7 clusters, where new research topics are identified that can still be further developed, especially in the field of batik.
Providing in RDBMSs the flexibility to Work with Various Non-Relational Data Models

The inability of pure relational DBMSs to meet the new requirements of the applications that have emerged on the web has led to the advent of No SQL DBMSs. In the last few years, significant progress has been made in integrating into relational DBMSs the features that are essential to consider those new requirements that primarily concern flexibility, performance, horizontal scaling, and very high availability. This paper focuses on the features that can enable relational DBMSs to provide applications with the flexibility to work with various non-relational data models while providing the guarantees of independence, integrity, and performance of query evaluation.
The Genomic Basis of the Streptococcus Thermophilus Health-Promoting Properties

Emeline Roux Université de Lorraine, CALBINOTOX, Nancy Aurélie Nicolas INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes Florence Valence INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes Grégoire Siekaniec Université de Rennes, INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes Victoria Chuat INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes Jacques Nicolas Université de Rennes, INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes yves Le Loir INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes Eric Guédon (  eric.guedon@inrae.fr ) INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes
THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORT AND ROAD TRAFFIC SPEED ON HEALTH

The direct and indirect impacts of road traffic speed on health include casualties, reduced opportunities for physical activity and restriction of social interaction/quality of life. Deprived groups are most likely to be physically inactive, suffer severance from health-promoting facilities or to be involved in traffic accidents. Good evidence was found of the effectiveness of area-wide engineering measures and 20mph zones for reducing accidents, particularly among child pedestrians and cyclists. Walking and cycling remain the most desirable forms of physical activity for promoting health because they can be fitted into an existing lifestyle. Traffic restraint projects from several localities across the world are described. The co-ordination of local action for the future is discussed.
Interferon- (cid:1) Induces Fas Trafficking and Sensitization to Apoptosis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells via a PI3K- and Akt-Dependent Mechanism

Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) apoptosis occurs in advanced atherosclerotic plaques where it may contribute to plaque instability. VSMCs express the death receptor Fas but are relatively resistant to Fas-induced apoptosis due in part to the intracellular sequestration of Fas. Although inflammatory cytokines such as interferon (IFN)- (cid:1) present in plaques can prime VSMCs to FasL-induced death, the mechanism of this effect is un-clear. We examined Fas expression and FasL-induced apoptosis in human VSMCs in response to IFN- (cid:1) . IFN- (cid:1) induced Fas trafficking to the cell surface within 24 hours, an effect that required Jak2/Stat1 activity. IFN- (cid:1) also stimulated Akt activity, and both Fas trafficking and Stat1 activation were inhibited by blocking PI3K, Akt, or Jak-2. IFN- (cid:1) increased Fas-induced apoptosis in vitro by 46 (cid:2) 8% (mean (cid:2) SEM, P (cid:3) 0.04), an event that could be abrogated by inhibition of PI3K, Akt, or Jak-2. IFN- (cid:1) also increased Fas-induced
PREVALENCE OF NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN COMPLAINT AMONG COMPUTER USERS IN UWANI, ENUGU SOUTH, ENUGU STATE NIGERIA

-The increase I the complaint and discomfort in different part of the body of computer users is linked with the increase in computer use. The objective of the study is to investigate the prevalence of neck and shoulder pain complaint among computer users in Uwani , Enugu south, Enugu state. Ninety four questionnaire was shared to ninety four persons, eighty six was returned ( response rate). The mean weight, height and BMI was 64.28 ±1.24, 1.54± 1.32 , 27.05 ± 8.3 respectively. A cross sectional survey study design was employed in the distribution of the twenty nine item questionnaire which collected information on the Biodata, educational statues, use of computer, experience of neck/shoulder complaint, year and duration and level of computer training. The collected data was analyzed using statistics of mean, standard deviation, and percentages. Result was also illustrated using bar diagram. The