Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Romanian national strategy for flood risk management.

Les inondations catastrophiques ont diverses consequences tant au niveau des vies humaines qu'au niveau economique et social. Elles peuvent, de plus, avoir des impacts environnementaux importants. Etant donne les risques sanitaires, economiques et environnementaux, le gouvernement roumain a decide de lancer un programme national de prevention, de protection et de limitation des effets des inondations. Son objectif est de gerer et de reduire les risques que posent celles-ci au niveau des vies humaines, de la sante, de l'environnement, des infrastructures et de la propriete. Ce programme fournit les informations de base pour une etude preliminaire des impacts des inondations ainsi qu'une cartographie du risque d'inondation dans les zones fortement exposees, conformement a la Directive on the assessment and management offlood risks de l'Union europeenne (appelee aussi Directive Inondation). On presentera ici l'approche technique et scientifique retenue ainsi que les principales etapes de la mise en place du Plan de prevention, protection et limitation des inondations au niveau des bassins versants. C'est sur la base des resultats de ce programme que seront rediges les plans directeurs d'amenagement et de gestion des inondations.
C 3 Skin Lesion Based Melanoma Disease Detection Approach for Efficient Classification of Medical Images

The problem of image classification and skin tumor detection has been well studied. There are number of approaches available for the detection of skin lesion but suffer with the classification accuracy. To improve the performance of skin lesion detection and classification, an efficient Color Coverage Correlation based classification approach is presented in this paper. The method reads the human skin image and improves the image quality with Gabor Filter and histogram equalization. Then with enhanced image, the method computes the color quantization value based on the intensity values of pixels of different skin region. Based on the color quantization, the image has been segmented. The segmented region has been identified and the features are extracted. Using the segmented region and features, the method compute the C3 lesion correlation measure with available patterns of tumors. Based on the correlation measure, the lesion detection and classification has been performed. The proposed algorithm improves the performance of classification and reduces false ratio.
Underwater Ambient Biological Noise in the Waters on the West Coast of Taiwan

Underwater ambient noise was surveyed along the shallow-water banks in the regions adjacent to the estuaries of seven major rivers on the west coast of Taiwan. Attention was paid only to the sounds which were considered to be emitted by soniferous fishes. Eight sound types were recorded from the study areas. They were compared to the hand-held disturbance sounds of nine soniferous species captured in the coastal waters of Taiwan in order to determine the origins of the sounds found in the wild. There were few cases of high matches. The sea catfish was treated as the producer of the highfrequency sound commonly occurring in these areas.
Hematopoietic growth factors: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the applications.

Despite relatively high rates of low neutrophil count during standard-dose chemotherapy regimens for malignancies other than acute leukaemias, rates of FN, other complication rates and mortality rates are relatively low for most standard chemotherapies (Table 1). These rates do not justify the systematic use of haematopoietic growth factors (hGFs) such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or its pegylated form (pegfilgrastim) in prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia unless the risk of FN exceeds 20%, or there are special circumstances as outlined below. Colony-stimulating growth factors should be avoided in patients who are not at high risk for FN or neutropenic complications. The use of hGFs for treatment of FN is also not recommended, except in settings with increased morbidity and mortality, including sepsis, tissue infection and prolonged neutropenia. These agents should be particularly avoided in patients with infections not related to neutropenia, such as communityor hospital-acquired pneumonia [I, A].
Skogsbrandens betydelse för pyrofila insekter

Branden brukade vara en naturlig del av den boreala skogens dynamik men frekvensen av brander har minskat kraftigt i Sveriges skogar sedanborjan av 1900-talet. Detta har lett till svarigheter for flera arter som ar beroende av brander for att overleva. For att se hur stor paverkan brandfrekvensen har pa pyrofila insekter samlades ett stort antal arter in efter en brand i Alaska 1999. Man valde Alaska just for att brandfrekvensen dar har varit nara ”naturlig” aven under 1900-talet. Tolv av de arter man samlade in har jag tittat narmare pa och jamfort skillnader mellan Sverige och Alaska. Arterna som valdes ut ar: Bembidion grapii, Corticaria ferruginea, C. planula, C. rubripes, Cryptophagus quadrihamatus, Melanophila acuminata, Monochamus scutellatus, Sericoda bogemannii, S. quadripunctata och Tachinus basalis. Det jag har konstaterat ar att det inte bara antalet brander som spelar in, utan svaret ar lite mer komplext an sa. Arter med valdigt nordlig utbredning i Sverige tenderade att finnas i lagre antal aven i Alaska och arter som kan leva i obrand skog fanns i valdigt stor mangd pa brandfaltet. Intressant att namna ar att den i Sverige nationellt utdoda arten S. bogemannii endast hittades i ett exemplar pa brandfaltet i Alaska, vilket tyder pa att andra faktorer ligger bakom minskningen an enbart bristen pa brander. For att gynna pyrofila arter i Sverige bor vi oka naturvardsbranningen i omraden dar det i ett naturligt tillstand brinner relativt ofta och tanka pa att branna pa inte alltfor langa avstand till tidigare brandfalt for att underlatta forflyttningen for brandberoende arter.
Accuracy Enhancement of Grid-Based SSTA by Coefficient Interpolation

Statistical timing analysis for manufacturing variability requires modeling of spatially-correlated variation. Common grid-based modeling for spatially-correlated variability involves a trade-off between accuracy and computational cost, especially for PCA (principal component analysis). This paper proposes to spatially interpolate variation coefficients for improving accuracy instead of fining spatial grids. Experimental results show that the spatial interpolation realizes a continuous expression of spatial correlation, and reduces the maximum error of timing estimates that originates from sparse spatial grids For attaining the same accuracy, the proposed interpolation reduced CPU time for PCA by 97.7% in a test case.
Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Elastic Pipeline

We propose an elastic pipeline that can apply dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) to hardwired logic circuits. In order to demonstrate its feasibility, a hardwired H.264/AVC HDTV decoder is designed as a real-time application. An entropy decoding process is divided into context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) and syntax element decoding (SED), which has advantages of smoothing workload for CABAC and keeping efficiency of the elastic pipeline. An operating frequency and supply voltage are dynamically modulated every slot depending on workload of H.264 decoding to minimize power. We optimize the number of slots per frame to enhance power reduction. The proposed decoder achieves a power reduction of 50% in a 90-nm process technology, compared to the conventional clock-gating scheme. key words: H.264/AVC, DVS (dynamic voltage scaling), elastic pipeline, low power, divided entropy decoder
Active and Reactive Power Control for Grid-Connected PV Systems Using Cascaded Multilevel Converters

Photovoltaic (PV) panels generator module is the widely used system solar generated powers are cascaded and connected to the grid with a constant AC supply . pv cell which gets subjected to various intensities of sun light cannot supply a constant DC voltage. A traditional method to avoid this problem is to control either of active or reactive power to control this voltage. This paper concentrates on the control of both active and reactive powers using DC-DC Converters with MPPT technique to keep the output DC voltage without fluctuations. PI controller is used to apply this MPPT technique. A comparative study of the traditional method with the proposed system has been made with the help of MATLAB Simulation
Assessment of Skeletal Maturity and Prediction of Adult Height (TW2 Method).

Paediatricians may be glad to have their attention drawn to this book. The following is an extract from the preface. 'In 1962 Tanner, Whitehouse, and Healey produced a new method for assessing skeletal maturity (TW1), believed to be more flexible and deriving from a more solid mathematical base. In it each bone of the hand and wrist was classified separately into one of eight or nine stages, to which scores were assigned. These scores were summed to give the skeletal maturity. The present system (TW2) is a revised version of this and supersedes it. '
On Resource Extraction Under the Threat of a Climate Change

A wide spectrum of scientific evidence on climate change and its impact on natural resources has generated more risk in the minds of many people and, thus, has altered the general perception of the future. We study how this risk modeled as changes in the characteristics of natural resources has an effect on the behavior of agents extracting a common resource in a dynamic Cournot-Nash game. We show that the risk of a deterioration of the quality of a resource induces agents to extract more today, while the risk of a less renewable resource induces agents to extract less today. The overall effect of both sources of risk is ambiguous. We also show that the anticipation of a climate change has an ambiguous effect on the tragedy of the commons.
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era

Introduction: 1. Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era Part 1: Commitments and Contexts: Ethnicity and religion 2. Democracy, Ethnic Diversity and Nationalism 3. Transnational Ethnicity and Subnational Religion in Africa's Political Experience 4. Are Islamists Nationalists or Internationalists? Part 2: The Iron Curtain Rising 5. From Internationalism to Nationalism? Poland 1944-96 6. Nationalism, Internationalism, and Property in the Post-Cold War Era 7. The Little Nation: Minorities and majorities in the context of shifting geographies Part 3: Attachments and Arrangements 8. The Grounds of the Nation-State: Identity, violence and territory 9. From Khartoum to Quebec: Internationalism and nationalism within the multicommunity state 10. To Be a European Citizen: Eros and civilisation Part 4: Images of World Order 11. Nationalism and World Order 12. Why Secession Is Not Like Divorce 13. Who's Afraid of a Global State?
Locked Out: Why Work Stoppages in Major League Sports are Frequent in North America but Rare in Europe

Abstract The current labour dispute in the National Hockey League raises the question of why work stoppages in North American team sports happen frequently, while in European sports no serious labour disputes have been observed to date. The long history of work stoppages in major North American leagues such as Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and the National Hockey League is related to industrial organization in these leagues. The monopsonistic environment in North American professional sports leagues enables employers to restrict the mobility of players, while on the European sports labour market restrictions have largely been abolished since the Bosman ruling in 1995. Players in Europe therefore do not have to fight for their labour rights, while in North America professionals have to fight to prevent further restrictions. The industrial organization of leagues therefore plays a crucial role in the compensation of players and differs between Europe and North America, especially through the relegation system which governs most European leagues. It is concluded that industrial structure in European sports limits monopolistic power in the labour market. An “Americanization” of European sports would make labour disputes more likely than they are now.
Note de synthèse [Le "problem-based Learning", un révolution ou un progrès attendu ?]

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A consumption-based model of the term structure of interest rates $

This paper proposes a consumption-based model that accounts for many features of the nominal term structure of interest rates. The driving force behind the model is a time-varying price of risk generated by external habit. Nominal bonds depend on past consumption growth through habit and on expected inflation. When calibrated to data on consumption, inflation, and the aggregate market, the model produces realistic means and volatilities of bond yields and accounts for the expectations puzzle. The model also captures the high equity premium and excess stock market volatility. r 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G12
Optimized bandwidth allocation with fairness and service differentiation in multimedia wireless networks

In this article we present an optimal Markov Decision-based Call Admission Control (MD-CAC) policy for the multimedia services that characterize the next generation of wireless cellular networks. A Markov decision process (MDP) is used to represent the CAC policy. The MD-CAC is formulated as a linear programming problem with the objectives of maximizing the system utilization while ensuring class differentiation and providing quantitative fairness guarantees among different classes of users. Through simulation, we show that the MD-CAC policy potentially achieves the optimal decisions. Hence our proposed MD-CAC policy satisfies its design goals in terms of call-class-differentiation, fairness and system utilization. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Efek Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)Terhadap Penurunan Tekanan Darah

Latar belakang Hipertensi merupakan salah satu penyebab tersering kematian di dunia. Data penelitian Departemen Kesehatan RI menunjukkan hipertensi dan penyakit kardiovaskular cenderung meningkat seiring dengan gaya hidup yang jauh dari perilaku hidup sehat, mahalnya biaya pengobatan hipertensi, disertai kurangnya sarana dan prasarana penanggulangan hipertensi. Pengobatan dengan bahan alam merupakan salah satu solusi yang baik untuk menanggulangi masalah kesehatan. Bahan alam yang sering digunakan adalah buah-buahan. Terdapat berbagai macam buah yang memiliki kandungan yang dapat menurunkan tekanan darah, salah satunya adalah strawberry. Tujuan Penelitian Untuk mengetahui apakah strawberry menurunkan tekanan darah. Metode Penelitian Bersifat quasi-eksperimental. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap 30 orang laki-laki dan perempuan berusia 18-25 tahun. Tekanan darah diukur dengan mengukur tekanan darah sistolik dan tekanan darah diastolik dalam mmHg setelah dan sebelum meminum jus strawberry. Analisis data menggunakan uji t berpasangan dengan α= 5%. Hasil Rata-rata tekanan darah setelah minum jus strawberry sebesar 103.90/68.87 mmHg lebih rendah dari sebelum minum jus strawberry sebesar 114.67/82.03 mmHg (p<0.01). Simpulan Strawberry menurunkan tekanan darah.
New Methods for Surface Reconstruction from Range Images

The digitization and reconstruction of 3D shapes has numerous applications in areas that include manufacturing, virtual simulation, science, medicine, and consumer marketing. In this thesis, we address the problem of acquiring accurate range data through optical triangulation, and we present a method for reconstructing surfaces from sets of data known as range images. The standard methods for extracting range data from optical triangulation scanners are accurate only for planar objects of uniform reflectance. Using these methods, curved surfaces, discontinuous surfaces, and surfaces of varying reflectance cause systematic distortions of the range data. We present a new ranging method based on analysis of the time evolution of the structured light reflections. Using this spacetime analysis, we can correct for each of these artifacts, thereby attaining significantly higher accuracy using existing technology. When using coherent illumination such as lasers, however, we show that laser speckle places a fundamental limit on accuracy for both traditional and spacetime triangulation. The range data acquired by 3D digitizers such as optical triangulation scanners commonly consists of depths sampled on a regular grid, a sample set known as a range image. A number of techniques have been developed for reconstructing surfaces by integrating groups of aligned range images. A desirable set of properties for such algorithms includes: incremental updating, representation of directional uncertainty, the ability to fill gaps in the reconstruction, and robustness in the presence of outliers and distortions. Prior algorithms possess subsets of these properties. In this thesis, we present an efficient volumetric method for merging range images that possesses all of these properties. Using this method, we are able to merge a large number of range images (as many as 70) yielding seamless, high-detail models of up to 2.6 million triangles.
The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

Section I: Cities and Environmental Risk - tracing the Roots of Urban Risk and Vulnerability * Cities as Sites for Disaster * Social Vulnerability in the City * Urban Governance and Disaster * Section II: The Case Studies - Maintaining Civil Society in a Liberal Democracy: Bridgetown, Barbados * Post-Socialism and Barriers to Building a Civil Society: Georgetown, Guyana * Patrimonal Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic * Section III: Towards Safer Cities - Action for Safer Cities * Appendix * References * Index
Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics

In this article, we test a hypothesis about the influence of sunspot cycles on cycles of agricultural lending on example of wheat market. Analyzing data on Russian wheat market for period from 1990 to 2015 we test a hypothesis of solar activity’s impact on cycles in agricultural lending in the short and long run. Using a vector error correction approach to the sample, we obtain the following results: in the long run, sunspots, wheat yield, world wheat prices, and non-performing loans (NPL) for wheat market are related. In the short run, level of non-performing wheat loans depends only on wheat yields. However, results of Granger causality test confirm that wheat yield dynamics and sunspots Granger cause non-performing bank loans in Russia, which confirms our hypothesis of solar activity importance for agricultural lending activity.
Disaster recovery: the role of pre-planning and temporary housing

Disasters, both natural and unnatural are capable of destroying cities in a matter of seconds. The built environment of a city can take years to develop and within moments be taken away. Disasters obviously have enormous human costs, but for those who survive there are huge amounts of work to restore what was taken away. This research focuses on identifying how the construction industry is currently dealing with the disaster recovery projects. A questionnaire survey was conducted in order to understand stakeholders‟ perceptions on disaster recovery. Particular focuses were placed on the role of preplanning and temporary housing during the disaster recovery process. The results found that both temporary housing and preplanning play a critical role in a speedy recovery from disaster and more importantly to improve the resilience of the community to disasters.
No one-size-fits-all: Both general and 1 particular processes shaped the mega- 2 diverse flora of Eastern South 3 American mountains 4

10 Aim The astonishing diversity of ancient mountains was likely shaped by multiple parallel 11 evolutionary processes. However, there is an ongoing debate on what were the main processes 12 driving the assembly of campos rupestres, the mega-diverse flora of Eastern South American 13 mountains. Although the ancient nature of these mountains suggests their flora should be 14 composed by relatively older lineages, they harbour a number of recently diverged clades. Whilst 15 this contradiction could be explained by a spatial compartmentalisation of community assembly 16 processes across the heterogeneous montane landscapes, little is known about the distribution of 17 old and recent lineages in this vegetation. To better understand the evolution of ancient mountains’ 18 floras, we tested if the campos rupestres are mainly composed by relatively old or recent lineages 19 and if angiosperm diversity is geographically structured using analyses of diversity and endemism. 20 21 present. 22 23 Methods To answer our questions, we used analyses of diversity and endemism for 10% of 24 the campos rupestres flora. We obtained distribution data from online databases, and well-sampled 25 phylogenetic hypothesis from the literature. With these datasets, we estimated alpha and beta 26 metrics of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity, and conducted categorical analyses of neo- and 27 paleo-endemism. 28 Results We found phylogenetic overdispersion predominates in the campos rupestres. However, 29 this general pattern is permeated by both lineage- and site-specific phylogenetic clustering, 30 suggesting that recent diversification events depend on particular regional conditions and on the 31 overall maintenance of old lineages. Although endemism patterns vary among different campos 32 rupestres sites, Main conclusions Our results reinforce the idiosyncratic nature of diversification patterns in ancient 38 mountains and suggest that old, climatically buffered, infertile montane ecosystems not only 39 include both relatively old and recent lineages, but that recent diversification is lineage and 40 spatially dependent. 41
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America

List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Garden Patches in American Cities Part I. Early Garden Programs, 1890s to 1917 Introduction 1. An Alternative to Charity: The Vacant-Lot Cultivation Association 2. The School Garden Movement 3. The Goodness of Gardening: Gardens as Civic Improvement Part II. National Urban Garden Campaigns, 1917 to 1945 Introduction 4. Patriotic Volunteerism: The War Garden Campaign 5. An Antidote for Idleness: Garden Programs of the 1930s Depression 6. Victory Gardens of World War II Part III. Gardening for Community, 1945 to the Present Introduction 7. The Community Garden Movement of the 1970s and 1980s 8. Community Greening: Urban Garden Programs from 1990 to the Present 9. A Look at Gardens Today Conclusion. Sustaining a City Bountiful Notes Index