Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Uso de extrato de algas (ascophyllum nodosum) em videiras, cv. Festival.

INTRODUÇÃO 4 Atualmente, a produção de frutas busca a utilização de práticas de manejo ambientalmente 5 seguras e, ao mesmo tempo, economicamente viáveis, que favoreçam a utilização de produtos 6 orgânicos, que não apresentem restrições à sua utilização. Entre os produtos originados da natureza, 7 as algas marinhas vêm sendo utilizadas desde muito tempo na agricultura tanto como fertilizantes, 8 como bioestimulantes e/ou fitoprotetores (SANGHA et al., 2014). Das várias espécies de algas, a 9 Ascophyllum nodosum, pertencente à divisão Phaeophyta, é a mais difundida, por ser eficiente no 10 melhoramento de processos fisiológicos fundamentais nos cultivos, tais como a atividade 11 fotossintética, absorção de nutrientes, desenvolvimento radicular, possuindo atividade direta na 12 proteção vegetal contra fitopatógenos, ao promoverem a produção de moléculas bioativas capazes 13 de induzir a resistência ao estresse e ao ataque de pragas nos vegetais (TALAMINI; STADNIK, 14 2004). Plantas pulverizadas com produtos à base de A. nodosum podem sofrer um aumento da 15 atividade da nitrato redutase, uma enzima do metabolismo do nitrogênio, estimulando o crescimento 16 de plantas em condições adversas, principalmente em deficiência de nitrogênio (DURAND et al., 17 2003). Neste trabalho objetivou-se avaliar o efeito de solução de extrato de algas Ascophillum 18 nodosum sobre a produção e qualidade dos cachos de uvas, crescimento vegetativo e teor de 19 nutrientes nas bagas da cultivar Festival. 20 MATERIAL E MÉTODOS 21 O vinhedo, em que foi conduzido este estudo, é da cultivar Festival e está estabelecido no 22 espaçamento de 2,5m x 3,5m, resultando em 1120 plantas por hectare. A área, pertencente a 23 Fazenda Timbaúba, está situada na região do Submédio São Francisco, no município de Petrolina. 24 A solução de extrato de algas A. nodosum (Tabela 1) foi preparada de forma que cada planta 25 recebesse 2,5 mL do produto em cada aplicação, sendo a primeira realizada no solo com 1 L de 26 solução por planta em todos os tratamentos, um dia antes da poda; e as demais foram pulverizações 27 foliares. Os tratamentos consistiram no número de aplicações por planta: 1) Testemunha; 2) 1 28 aplicação no solo e 2 foliares de 30 em 30 dias; 3) 1 aplicação no solo e 4 foliares de 20 em 20 dias; 29
Ultra-wideband bandpass filter on aperture-backed microstrip line

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter is proposed on an aperture-backed microstrip line. With an aperture on the ground, a non-uniform resonator is constructed with the first three resonant modes occurring within the UWB band while the parallel coupling between resonator and feeders is largely enhanced. The designed filter exhibits good UWB passband behaviour with insertion loss <1.0 dB and group delay variation <0.25 ns.
Modelling of Selected Reliability Indicators of Prototype PAM Equipment

The aim of the contribution is to describe modelling of selected reliability indicators of prototype equipment with PAM. Purpose of model is maximizing overall equipment reliability by the means of optimal selection of basic elements or by proper redundancy of the elements. Further, possibilities of reliability increase by the means of active and passive reserve are described, as a higher level of reliability control in given technical equipment with PAM. Summary of particular ways of reliability increase is presented on an example of a given prototype mechatronic equipment based on artificial muscle.
Integrated Laser and Camera Sensor For Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

This paper describes a landmark based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that uses an integrated laser-camera sensor based on the Kalman filter framework. The proposed method exploits the beneficial aspects of each sensor to overcome the disadvantages of the other sensor. It is shown that through the use an integrated sensor a higher number of landmarks can be recovered from the environment to enhance the performance of the SLAM filter. Experimental results and important statistics of the filter are provided for the performance verification and characterization of the filter.
Rapid Sequence Spinal Anesthesia Vs General Anesthesia for Category-I Urgency Caesarean Section

Aims of study - Rapid Sequence spinal anesthesia Vs general anesthesia for category-I urgency caesarean section. Background - Pregnancy termination by caesarean section (CS) is rapidly increasing all over the world. Hence, it has increasingly become a greater challenge to provide care for the parturient, but this has given obstetric anesthetists a greater opportunity to contribute to obstetric services. While caesarean deliveries were historically performed using general anaesthesia, there is a recent significant move towards regional anaesthesia. Materials and Methods - As per American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status (ASAPS) I 50 patients of category 1 were included in this study and divided into two equal groups, 25 in each group. Group I received GA and group II received RSSA. Result - Time for anesthesia was more in the RSGA group than the RSSA group, which was statistically significant (P < 0.001). The time for surgical readiness was also significantly higher in the RSGA group in comparison to the RSSA group with P value of < 0.001, which was statistically significant but there was no significant difference in Incision to delivery time.
The Validation of Hand Anthropometry Using 3D Laser Scan

Hands are the most frequently moving segments of human body. Hand tools require fitness to hand dimensions of users. Hand anthropometry has promoted the measuring from tapes, calipers, or Martin-type anthropolometers to 3D laser scan. Nevertheless, all measurements of hands were under standard postures. Prediction models for functional posture dimensions were developed to compensate for the lack of this kind of databases. The project is planned to measure 3D surface range data under six different hand postures of two hands of each 600 subjects by a laser scan system. The primary validation for this scan system is presented in this paper. The resulted precision was 3.6% and accuracy was 2.2% and 5.3% for standard and functional posture, respectively.
Nonlinear control strategy insuring contribution of PV generator to voltage and frequency regulation

This paper present a novel control scheme for a grid connected PV generator that contributes to the frequency and voltage regulation of a power system. The PV generator consists of a PV panel connected to a DC/AC converter via a DC-DC boost converter. The frequency regulator controls the boost converter and the voltage regulator controls the DC/AC converter. The proposed frequency regulator includes a frequency control module that changes the reference signal of a power control module when the frequency deviation is significant. An adaptive control scheme is employed to find the frequency control module equation and a nonlinear control scheme is used to find the active power control module equation. A backstepping control design method is employed to obtain the proposed voltage regulator equations. It consists of a module that uses the voltage deviation to generate the reference for a q-axis current controller. A module that maintains the DC-link voltage is also included. A backstepping control design method is also employed to find its equations. The proposed control system is evaluated in simulation. The results reveal that with the proposed control scheme, a PV generator behaves like a conventional synchronous generator when the grid frequency changes significantly. (5 pages)
Influence of environmental colors and long-term sex isolation on zebrafish shoaling behavior

Zebrafish has a complex social behavior and little is known about the role of sexual preference and their environmental social interactions. In this study we investigated the potential influence of environmental colors and shoaling preferences of zebrafish male and female populations, with a focus on visual communication. Males and females were kept for 7 days in gender-isolated tanks, with a specific habitat color for each group: green for males and red for females. After the pre-test period, all the animals were kept separated and 8 noninvasive behavioral tests were conducted in a T-maze, with the application of different visual stimuli. We did not observe any clear influence of environmental coloring on social zebrafish choices. Significant sex-related differences were found in shoaling partner preference (i.e. same sex vs. other sex, one fish vs. three fish) as follows: females showed a tendency to avoid other females and spent more time with males. Male fish did not display a preference between one or three fish stimuli and they shoaled more with another male and less with a potential sexual partner. There was an obvious difference between males and females in responses and selection of shoaling partners.
Régulation de la phospholipase A₂ de groupe IVA dans les neutrophiles humains

Lipid mediators of inflammation comprise several families of biologically active molecules, including leukotriene B4 (LTB4) and platelet-activating factor (PAF). These mediators appear to be very important in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases like arthritis. Indeed, they are involved in the recruitment and activation of neutrophils at the inflammatory site. The biosynthesis of LTB4 and PAF implicates the group IVA phospholipase A2 (CPLA2C1); in fact, this enzyme releases the substrates necessary for the biosynthesis of these mediators from cellular membrane phospholipids. As of now, the cellular mechanisms involved in the regulation of CPLA201 activity remain poorly understood. The goal of this present study was to identify novel aspects of the regulation of the CPLA201, the first enzyme involved in LTB4 and PAF biosynthesis in human neutrophils. Our results show that in human neutrophils, the activity of CPLA201 is inhibited by its product, the arachidonic acid (AA) and that AA promotes the translocation of the enzyme to the membranes. Our data also suggest that there is a direct interaction of the product (AA) with the enzyme and that this interaction is probably at the catalytic site. This study unraveled a novel regulatory mechanism never shown before, the negative regulation of CPLA201 by AA. The site of interaction of AA on cPLA2a in this regulatory mechanism remains to be confirmed.
Utilization of Surplus Electric Power of Photovoltaic Systems by Heat Pump Water Heaters: A Planning Method and Its Effect in an Autonomous Demand Area Power System

Large‐capacity photovoltaic (PV) systems will be installed in future power systems. According to Japan's energy outlook, the target capacity of PV systems for 2030 is about 50 GW. When large‐volume PV systems are installed in a power system, the reverse power flow from PV systems may cause a surplus of electric power. To utilize the surplus electric power without reduction of PV power generation, the operation of customer equipment such as heat pump water heaters (HPWH) according to PV power generation is expected to be one of the solutions. In this paper, a method of cooperative control of customer equipment with PV power generation is proposed, and the effectiveness of the proposed control is evaluated by simulation analyses.
Field monitoring and performance evaluation of the Whitehorse sewage lagoon

The treated effluent from a four-cell (predominantly anaerobic) sewage lagoon in Whitehorse, the Yukon Territory, Canada, does not meet the quality guidelines of the Yukon Territory Water Board. The inflow rates and the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and suspended solids (SS) on 24-h composite samples of municipal wastewater influent and effluent were monitored from August 1989 to September 1990 to assess the performance and to estimate the first-order BOD5 removal coefficient, K. This study in northern Canada included a measurement of solar energy (photosynthetically active radiation, PAR) using a quantum radiometer which recorded the duration as well as the magnitude of PAR, for 1 year. Moreover, pH, conductivity, and temperature of influent and effluent, coliforms and chlorophyll of effluent, as well as dissolved oxygen (DO), temperature, and SS of the lagoon contents at various depths were recorded. The value of K ranged from a low of 0.036/d in December (at 2.4 °C) to a high of 0.097/d in October (.
Automatic Target Recognition in SAR Imagery Using a MLP Neural Network

Abstract : In this report, a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) Neural Network is used for recognizing military ground vehicles imaged by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). In particular, the classifier is applied to SAR images taken from the MSTAR (Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition) data set, which has been made available to the public. Signatures are extracted from the imagery using a Fourier Transform method and features are selected to feed the neural network. A 4-layer (including input and output layers) Neural Network with 38 input nodes, 13 first hidden nodes, 11-second hidden nodes and 3 output nodes, is implemented for this task. Standard delta rule back-propagation algorithm has been used to train the neural network. The MLP neural network is evaluated according to the MSTAR standard evaluation criteria. Training of 3 vehicle classes occurs using a set of SAR images at a 17-degree depression angle with 0-360 degree azimuthal angles, while the testing set contains images at a 15-degree depression angle with 0-360 degree azimuthal angles. The testing set contains both target vehicles that belong to the 3 trained classes and confuser vehicles that do not. Results of MLP neural network evaluation are shown using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves and Confusion Matrices.
Dual band dielectric resonator antenna for high-speed applications

The antennas for wireless communication devices have undergone a tremendous expansion from the external monoband resonant antenna to the internal non-resonant multi-band antenna. In this paper, a dual-band dielectric resonator antenna for high-speed applications is proposed. Due to the complex edge-shaped boundary between the dielectric and air in a rectangular dielectric resonator antenna, a complex closed form of expression is difficult to achieve. To address this problem a half-cut cylinder is placed over the rectangular dielectric to achieve excellent radiation characteristics. This proposed antenna provides a wide dual-band response with fractional impedance bandwidth of 21.92% and 19.09%while operating from7.32 GHz to 9.12 GHz and 10.71 GHz to 12.95 GHz. It provides an average gain of 3dBi with high gain stability in the entire operating frequency band. The radiation efficiency is found to be 96% due to low ohmic and dielectric losses. The cross-polarization is around 20 dB lesser than the co-polarization. Its gain and directivity can further be enhanced by implementing serial and parallel array structures. This design uses HFSS 14.0 commercial electromagnetic simulation tools.
Compatibilidad de Beauveria bassiana y Metarhizium anisopliae con el Parasitismo Natural de Anagyrus kamali1 en Nayarit, México

Resumen. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto de hongos a base de Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin y Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), cepa Ma143 (M. anisopliae), cepa Ma65 (M. anisopliae), y cepa Bb122 (B. bassiana) sobre el parasitismo natural de Anagyrus kamali (Moursi) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) a la concentración de 1 x 108 conidios ml-1. Para cada cepa, cinco plantas de Hibiscus rosa-sinensis fueron infestadas con ovisacos de Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) y puestas en campo. El diseño experimental fue completamente al azar con 12 tratamientos y 5 repeticiones. El parasitismo de A. kamali fue evaluado a los 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, y 50 días después de la aplicación de los hongos. El parasitismo de A. kamali no fue afectado por los hongos. Beauveria bassiana y M. anisopliae son compatibles con el parasitoide A. kamali, permitiendo así la asociación de esas dos formas de control.
Writing and Reading Innovative Organizations: An Empirical Research on Vertical Dance

The present economic and financial crisis stressed the focus on innovation as a key process, imagined to support organizations facing the problem of how to produce value in a radically changed milieu. Given this context, the management literature has been looking for innovative practices, investigating those contexts where words such as change, subversion of traditions and innovation have been given a strategic role. This happens, among the others, in artistic productions, where the artistOs creative process has a deeply innovative nature (Frankelius, 2011). The present study aims to investigate the processes of value creation taking place in one of these artistic organizations: Il Posto, an Italian company of vertical dance founded by Wanda Moretti. The choice of Wanda Moretti as an object of observation has a double meaning. As a dancer and a choreographer, her creative process is made of creative thinking and action, such as thinking and action are the main components of the managerial perspective. Secondly, her artistic project is an innovative project in the perspective of modern dance. We then aim to observe and identify the innovative dimension of her language, analysing the processes through which her creative thinking takes place, inducing action. The paper adopted a qualitative approach, using a process of interpretation based on a narrative model. To explore this narrative dimension, giving room to the interpretation of the processes in the specific context where they took place, the case study has been followed by three in-depth observations, where three main activities of the choreographer have been put under the lens of a conceptual microscope. The paper ends with the identification of the main processes, through which innovation takes place in the context of observation.
Transparent 3D display for augmented reality

Two types of transparent three-dimensional display systems applicable for the augmented reality are demonstrated. One of them is a head-mounted-display-type implementation which utilizes the principle of the system adopting the concave floating lens to the virtual mode integral imaging. Such configuration has an advantage in that the threedimensional image can be displayed at sufficiently far distance resolving the accommodation conflict with the real world scene. Incorporating the convex half mirror, which shows a partial transparency, instead of the concave floating lens, makes it possible to implement the transparent three-dimensional display system. The other type is the projection-type implementation, which is more appropriate for the general use than the head-mounted-display-type implementation. Its imaging principle is based on the well-known reflection-type integral imaging. We realize the feature of transparent display by imposing the partial transparency to the array of concave mirror which is used for the screen of reflection-type integral imaging. Two types of configurations, relying on incoherent and coherent light sources, are both possible. For the incoherent configuration, we introduce the concave half mirror array, whereas the coherent one adopts the holographic optical element which replicates the functionality of the lenslet array. Though the projection-type implementation is beneficial than the head-mounted-display in principle, the present status of the technical advance of the spatial light modulator still does not provide the satisfactory visual quality of the displayed three-dimensional image. Hence we expect that the head-mounted-display-type and projection-type implementations will come up in the market in sequence.
Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within

Preface Part One: Deep Change or Slow Death 1. Walking Naked into the Land of Uncertainty 2. Confronting the Deep Change or Slow Death Dilemma Part Two: Personal Change 3. The Fear of Change 4. The Heroic Journey 5. Finding Vitality 6. Breaking the Logic of Task Pursuit 7. A New Perspective 8. Confronting the Integrity Gap 9. Build the Bridge as You Walk on It Part Three: Changing the Organization 10. Denying the Need for Change 11. Finding the Source of the Trouble 12. When Success Is the Engine of Failure 13. The Tyranny of Competence 14. The Internally Driven Leader Part Four: Vision, Risk, and the Creation of Excellence 15. Overcoming Resistance 16. From Manager to Leader 17. Why Risk is Necessary 18. The Transformational Cycle 19. Excellence is a Form of Deviance 20. Confronting the Undiscussable 21. A Vision from Within 22. The Power of One 23. The Power of Many
Trap state characterization of Al2O3/AlInGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor heterostructures

Frequency-dependent conductance measurements were carried out to investigate the trap states in Al2O3/AlInGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) heterostructures. From the electrical measurements, an improvement in trap state characteristics was observed for the device fabricated with lower In composition in quaternary nitride layers. In the presence of higher In composition, segregation of In atoms was observed in AlInGaN layers. Because of this In-segregation, surface quality of the quaternary-N deteriorated that led to the formation of trap states at and near the oxide/semiconductor interface. Therefore, in the presence of lower In composition, an improvement in trap characteristics was observed for the AlInGaN/GaN-based MIS devices.
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

From the Publisher: Steven Johnson bridges the gap that yawns between technology and the arts. Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, he not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and historical tableau in which today's interfaces take their rightful place in the lineage of artistic innovation. With Interface Culture, Johnson brilliantly charts the vital role interface design plays in modern society. Just as the great novels of Melville, Dickens, and Zola explained a rapidly industrializing society to itself, he argues, Web sites, Microsoft Bob, flying toasters, and the landscapes of video games tell the digital society how to imagine itself and how to get around in cyberspace's unfamiliar realm. The role once played by novelists is now fulfilled by the interface designer, who has bridged the gap between technology and everyday life by providing a conceptual framework for the vast amounts of information and computation that surround us. Johnson boldly explores the past - a terrain hardly any tech thinker has dared enter and one that throws dazzling light on the modern interface's roots. From the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages to the rise of perspective drawing in the Renaissance, from Enlightenment satire to the golden age of television, Interface Culture uses a wealth of venerable "interface innovation" to place newfangled creations like Windows 95 and the Web in a rich historical context. Interface Culture also looks at the future - from what PC screens will look like in ten years to how new interfaces will alter the style of our conversation, prose, and thoughts. With a distinctively accessible style, Interface Culture brings new intellectual depth to the vital discussion of how technology has transformed socie