Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cinématique actuelle et dynamique de l'Iran : GPS et modélisation numérique

Les travaux presentes dans ce memoire sont consacres a l'etude de la cinematique actuelle de la collision Arabie/Eurasie par la mesure de deux reseaux GPS, ainsi qu'aux mecanismes de la deformation intracontinentale par la modelisation thermomecanique 3D de la lithosphere iranienne. Le premier reseau, a l'echelle de l'Iran, permet de preciser les conditions aux limites de cette zone et de quantifier les taux de convergence accommodes par les grandes structures iraniennes. Pour cela, on calcule les poles et vitesses de rotation de la plaque arabe et du Bloc Central Iranien ainsi que la deformation de l'Alborz, du Kopet-Dag et du Zagros. Le second se concentre sur la region de l'Alborz central ; il est plus particulierement dedie a l'etude de la deformation d'une chaine de montagnes etroite. Les apports du champ de vitesse sur la tectonique actuelle, obtenu par les mesures de ces reseaux, sont detailles en tenant compte des donnees geologiques et sismotectoniques. Le champ de vitesse est ensuite analyse pour essayer de determiner si la deformation est continue ou concentree a la peripherie de blocs rigides. La modelisation mecanique est alors employee pour aider a la comprehension de la dynamique actuelle de la region ; deux modeles sont developpes dans ce sens. Le premier en 2.5D simule la collision oblique du Zagros en tenant compte de la perturbation thermique imposee par la subduction du manteau arabe sous l'Iran. Il etudie l'influence d'une faille de partitionnement sur la bordure Nord de la chaine. Le second est un modele 3D de la lithosphere iranienne. Les conditions aux limites sont imposees par le mouvement de l'Arabie par rapport a l'Eurasie determine par le GPS. Les grands accidents decrochants sont simules par des zones de contact. Le champ de vitesse modelise est alors compare aux observations GPS.
Fault Lines Ref lections on South Asian Frontiers

Why have boundaries been so changeable while frontiers and borders are relatively long-lasting? Is the experience of borders and boundaries in south Asia different from other regions of the world? This paper explores the subcontinent’s recent historical experience, marked by the colonial Raj’s geopolitical and power-centric approach to frontiers, and post-independence Nehruvian, approach to the impermanence of boundaries. It also considers India’s situation, located as she is in a region with old nations in new states, with porous borders, where nationalism is still a work in progress and boundaries are contested, and as a result, boundaries are sometimes meaningless or unenforceable in practice. The paper concludes by indicating some possible research avenues and policy paths to reconcile two seemingly opposite objectives: of clarifying and formalising borders in and around the Indian subcontinent, while at the same time using technology and other resources to make boundaries irrelevant and borders open to the communities and people who straddle them. Intellectual and infrastructural investment on South Asian frontiers and borderlands could facilitate the freer flow of people, goods, and ideas in a more integrated region and reduce the future propensity for tension and conflict.
The Abelian sandpile model on an infinite tree

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The perspective of herbal mineral formulation Kaalamega Narayana Chendhooram (KMNC) as an anti-microbiological, anti-oral carcinoma, anti-tumor evaluations (A Siddha medicine for oral cancer, lung cancer) in in-vitro studies

Leukaemia, one of the most lethal illnesses of the twentieth century, is becoming one of the most common illnesses of the twenty-first. The most common carcinoma among those under the mandatory age of 20 is oral also tumor cancer. Siddha herbal mineral formulation's perspective this study aims to assess the anti-microbiological, anti-oral cancer, and anti-tumor activities of Kaalamega Narayana Chendhooram in vitro experiments. As well as to measure anti-tumor activity against KB cell lines as well as anti-cancer activity (MTT assay) and validate the therapeutic effects of KMNC in order to evaluate the therapeutic effects of KMNC. In the modern medical setting, oral cancer must be effectively treated. The percentage of KB cell viability in the MTT experiment was 69.46%, 55.06%, 51.67%, 40.33%, and 35.34% at concentrations of 62.5 µg/mL, 12.5 µg/mL, 25 µg/mL, 50 µg/mL, and 100 µg/mL, respectively. The results of the present study support the anti-cancer activity of the formulation KMNC. The results of the present study support the anti-cancer activity of the formulation KMNC. KMNC is demonstrating its effectiveness as a tumor and oral carcinoma cancer prevention. Numerous pharmacological actions, including as antibacterial and anticancer properties, are present. This cancer treatment is inexpensive and doesn't have any negative side effects. The anticancer properties of KMNC have been documented in scientific journals. In this paper, the anticancer activity of KMNC is discussed in the context of several in-vitro researches.
Overview of Hazards in Fresh‐Cut Produce Production: Control and Management of Food Safety Hazards

6.1 Fresh-Cut Products 156 6.2 Food Safety Systems in the Fresh-Cut Produce Industry 156 6.3 Fresh-Cut Produce Production 158 6.3. 1 Raw Material Receiving and Storage 158 6.3. 2 Preliminary Washing and Sorting 158 6.3. 3 Peeling 160 6.3. 4 Size Reduction/Cutting 160 6.3. 5 Size and Defect Sorting 161 6.3. 6 Washing/Cooling 161 6.3. 7 Dewatering 162 6.3. 8 Weighing and Packaging 162 6.3. 9 Storage and Transportation 163 6.4 Potential Microbial Risk of Fresh-Cut Product Operation 163 6.4. 1 Pathogens in Fresh-Cut Produce 163 6.4. 2 Contamination During Processing, Packaging, and Storage 167 6.5 Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Hazards in Fresh-Cut Products 172 6.5. 1 Temperature 172 6.5. 2 Washing and Sanitizing Agents for Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables 174 6.5. 3 Packaging: Controlled and Modified Atmospheres 194 6.6 Conclusions 198 References 198
Complementary therapies and integrative medicine in lung cancer: Diagnosis and management of lung cancer, 3rd ed: American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

BACKGROUND Physicians are often asked about complementary therapies by patients with cancer, and data show that the interest in and use of these therapies among patients with cancer is common. Therefore, it is important to assess the current evidence base on the benefits and risks of complementary therapies (modalities not historically used in modern Western medicine). METHODS A systematic literature review was carried out and recommendations were made according to the American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines development methodology. RESULTS A large number of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, as well as a number of prospective cohort studies, met the predetermined inclusion criteria. These trials addressed many different issues pertaining to patients with lung cancer, such as symptoms of anxiety, mood disturbance, pain, quality of life, and treatment-related side effects. The available data cover a variety of interventions, including acupuncture, nutrition, mind-body therapies, exercise, and massage. The body of evidence supports a series of recommendations. An evidenced-based approach to modern cancer care should integrate complementary therapies with standard cancer therapies such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and best supportive care measures. CONCLUSIONS Several complementary therapy modalities can be helpful in improving the overall care of patients with lung cancer.
International liquidity

: Global or international liquidity has moved to centre stage in recent international policy, research and market discussions. Contrary to the approach of major international organisations, which focus particularly on cross-border credit, this paper discusses five dimensions of international liquidity that are all of interest to central banks and should be subject to appropriate surveillance. It describes how they have evolved before, during and after the financial crisis. No general shortage of liquidity is found for the recent past and diverse developments can be explained, in part, by a small number of factors. The paper also raises salient policy issues related to these international liquidity developments. For example, financial regulation needs to be designed in a way that preserves incentives for market-making in major international assets. Data need to be made available for properly analysing to which extent global collateral re-use “lubricates” the financial system and to which extent it may act as a conduit for contagion. Ways need to be found how soaring corporate cash hoarding can be brought back into real investment. International spillovers of unconventional monetary policies suggest revisiting the current consensus on international monetary policy coordination. As the economic recovery in advanced economies strengthens consolidating public finances may be a more sustainable approach to re-increasing the availability of liquid and safe international assets than the further issuance of sovereign bonds by large countries that have already high levels of debt.
6 GHz to 40 GHz CubeSat Radiometer Antenna System

A 6–40 GHz antenna system for the CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation mission is presented. The antenna system includes three bottom-tapered helical antenna elements that cover 6–12, 12–22, and 22–40 GHz, respectively. The design procedure for achieving continuous gain coverage versus frequency from 7 dBic at 6 GHz to 21 dBic at 40 GHz is discussed. The helical antenna elements are supported by a carefully designed meshed radome made of 1 mm-thick Ultem 1000 material for minimizing impacts to antenna performance. The entire antenna system has a volume of 2 cm (height) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times7.3$ </tex-math></inline-formula> cm (width) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times25$ </tex-math></inline-formula> cm (length), or 365 cm<sup>3</sup>, which is less than 0.5 U (500 cm<sup>3</sup>). The total mass of the antenna payload is 116 g. Comparisons between the simulation and measurement performance show good agreements. The final fabricated antenna/radome payload also passed typical CubeSat temperature, vacuum, and vibration requirements and was successfully deployed in space in August 2018.
Near-Optimal Cache Block Placement with Reactive Nonuniform Cache Architectures

The growing core counts and caches of modern processors result in data access latency becoming a function of the data's physical location in the cache. Thus, the placement of cache blocks determines the cache's performance. Reactive nonuniform cache architectures (R-NUCA) achieve near-optimal cache block placement by classifying blocks online and placing data close to the cores that use them.
Genetics Characterization of Aceh Cattle Utilizing Microsatellite DNA Analyses

The aims of this study were to describe the variation of microsatellite alleles of Aceh cattle. The blood samples (160 samples) were collected from Aceh Besar, Pidie, North Aceh district and Banda Aceh city. For the outgroup comparison, the blood samples were collected from 10 Bali cattle, two samples of each collected from Madura, PO and Pesisir cattle. Sixteen markers were used for genotyping microsatellite DNA. The molecular data were analyzed using Minitab 14.13, Mega4 and Arlequin 3.11 and Excel software. The result of microsatellite analyses showed that the averages allele number per locus was 10,25 ± 2,07. The percentage of the heterozygosity of Aceh cattle was higher than those of Bali Cattle, but lower compared to those of Madura, PO and Pesisir cattle. Based on the microsatellite alleles analyses, the Aceh cattle were in the same cluster as PO cattle and were in the same branch of the phylogeny tree as Pesisir and Madura cattle. Keywords: Aceh cattle, Allele, DNA, Microsatellite
THE MILLENNIUM CITIES DATABASE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT. DATABASE

UITP has compiled a database of 100 of the world's cities, known as the "Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport", in collaboration with Murdock University, Australia. The collected data looks at population, the economy and urban structure, the number of road vehicles, taxis, the road network, parking, public transport networks, individual mobility and choice of transport mode, transport system efficiency and environmental impact. In total, over 200 indicators were collected for each of the 100 cities for 1995. This database has allowed UITP to draw up a set of arguments in favor of sustainable mobility and public transport, and this information will allow mobility providers to evaluate the performance of cities and public transport networks and construct an argument adapted to their own particular situation. The environment and social benefits of sustainable transportation have always been recognized but not considered to be key components of a dynamic urban economy; however, today they have a growing influence and they need to become mainstream to ensure future growth.
Here Is Not There: Measuring Entailment-Based Trajectory Similarity for Location-Privacy Protection and Beyond

While the paths humans take play out in social as well as physical space, measures to describe and compare their trajectories are carried out in abstract, typically Euclidean, space. When these measures are applied to trajectories of actual individuals in an application area, alterations that are inconsequential in abstract space may suddenly become problematic once overlaid with geographic reality. In this work, we present a different view on trajectory similarity by introducing a measure that utilizes logical entailment. This is an inferential perspective that considers facts as triple statements deduced from the social and environmental context in which the travel takes place, and their practical implications. We suggest a formalization of entailment-based trajectory similarity, measured as the overlapping proportion of facts, which are spatial relation statements in our case study. With the proposed measure, we evaluate LSTM-TrajGAN, a privacy-preserving trajectory-generation model. The entailment-based model evaluation reveals potential consequences of disregarding the rich structure of geographic space (e.g., miscalculated insurance risk due to regional shifts in our toy example). Our work highlights the advantage of applying logical entailment to trajectory-similarity reasoning for location-privacy protection and beyond.
Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences Comparative Efficacy of Choline Vs Clitoria Ternatea Aqueous Root Extract Supplements in Attenuating Maternal Separation Stress Induced Alterations in Postnatal Rat Hippocampus

Perinatal maternal separation stress (PMSS) causes brain deficits that last through ageing. Choline is essential for brain development. Alternately, Clitorea ternatea aqueous root extract (CTR) is proved to enhance neural plasticity in rat hippocampus. The present study is designed to elucidate the comparative efficacy of choline and CTR in attenuating PMSS induced neural cell deficits in CA1, CA3 and DG sub-regions of hippocampus. Inbred Wistar rat pups were divided into 4 groups-Control, PMSS, PMSS + Choline, PMSS + CTR [n=6 pups/group]. All pups were subjected to PMSS for 6 hours/day from postnatal day (PND) 2 to 21 except the controls. Choline and CTR were supplemented to appropriate groups during the same period. PMSS caused significant neural deficits in all sub-regions of hippocampus compared to the same in normal controls, whereas supplementation of CTR to these rats significantly preserved (p<0.001) these cells in all sub-regions of hippocampus, while choline supplementation preserved (p<0.001) neural cells only in CA3 and DG. Moreover preservation of neural cells in CA1 (p<0.05) and DG (p<0.01) was significantly greater in PMSS + CTR as compared to the same in PMSS+ choline. Thus, supplementation of CTR, compared to choline during developmental periods is more effective in attenuating neural deficits in hippocampus.
Tobacco smoking in treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients is associated with impaired cognitive functioning, more severe negative symptoms, and poorer social adjustment

: Tobacco smoking is common in schizophrenia patients. It has been reported that schizophrenia patients who are tobacco smokers have better cognitive performances compared to those who are nonsmokers. However, little is known on the effects of tobacco smoking in treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) patients. The aim of this study was to compare cognitive performances, psychotic symptoms, and social adjustment in tobacco smoker TRS patients compared to nonsmoker TRS patients. Smoker and nonsmoker TRS patients did not differ in demographics and in mean daily antipsychotic dose. Smoker TRS patients had significantly higher scores than nonsmoker patients on the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) and on the negative symptoms subscale. These patients also performed worse than nonsmoker patients on problem-solving cognitive domain. Social adjustment was not significantly different between the two groups. In both groups of patients, worse cognitive performances were mostly predicted by higher severity of negative symptoms. Worse performances on the verbal memory and problem-solving cognitive domains were correlated with social-functioning impairment in tobacco smoker TRS patients but not in nonsmoker ones. The results showed that tobacco smoking was not significantly associated with better cognitive performances in TRS patients, while it was significantly associated with higher negative symptoms. Even if a direct causative mechanism cannot be inferred and despite the fact that these patients may use tobacco to self-medicate, it could be speculated that these associations may, at least partially, be related to a tobacco-smoking–induced worsening of abnormal dopamine dysfunction, which has been suggested to occur in TRS patients.
Aprender Matemática haciendo Matemática: modelo de enseñanza centrado en el estudiante

In this paper theoretical foundations of a student centered teaching model are introduced. The main objective of the model is to develop in students a Basic Culture that, in School Mathematics, consists of a mathematical thinking, mainly in its deductive aspect; problem solving skills, through mathematical modeling; and the use of technology, mainly Dynamic Geometry software, CAS calculators, and Internet. Another relevant aspect of this model is the fostering in students of positive attitudes not only toward mathematics, but in daily life situations; and the fostering of positive human values. All this in a suitable Teaching Environment. Activity examples with Sketchpad are presented.
Globally Consistent Map Generation in GPS-Degraded Environments

Globally Consistent Map Generation in GPS-Degraded Environments Paul William Nyholm Department of Mechanical Engineering, BYU Master of Science Heavy reliance on GPS is preventing unmanned air systems (UAS) from being fully integrated for many of their numerous applications. In the absence of GPS, GPS-reliant UAS have difficulty estimating vehicle states resulting in vehicle failures. Additionally, naively using erroneous measurements when GPS is available can result in significant state inaccuracies. We present a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solution to GPS-degraded navigation that allows vehicle state estimation and control independent of global information. Optionally, a global map can be constructed from odometry measurements and can be updated with GPS measurements while maintaining robustness against outliers. We detail a relative navigation SLAM framework that distinguishes a relative front end and global back end. It decouples the front-end flight critical processes, such as state estimation and control, from back-end global map construction and optimization. Components of the front end function relative to a locally-established coordinate frame, completely independent from global state information. The approach maintains state estimation continuity in the absence of GPS measurements or when there are jumps in the global state, such as after map optimization. A global graph-based SLAM back end complements the relative front end by constructing and refining a global map using odometry measurements provided by the front end. Unlike typical approaches that use GPS in the front end to estimate global states, our unique back end uses a virtual zero and virtual constraint to allow intermittent GPS measurements to be applied directly to the map. Methods are presented to reduce the scale of GPS induced costs and refine the map’s initial orientation prior to optimization, both of which facilitate convergence to a globally consistent map. The approach uses a state-of-the-art robust least-squares optimization algorithm called dynamic covariance scaling (DCS) to identify and reject outlying GPS measurements and loop closures. We demonstrate our system’s ability to generate globally consistent and aligned maps in GPS-degraded environments through simulation, hand-carried, and flight test results.
Influence of Dietary Supplementation of Medicinal Plants Mixture (Ziziphora, Menta Pulagum and Peppermint) on Some Serum Biochemical and Immunological Measures in Broiler Chickens

: An experiment for investigation on effects of dietary supplementation of Ziziphora ( Thymyus valgaris ) , Menta pulagum ( Oreganum valgare ) and Peppermint ( Lamiaceae mentha piperit) on some of serum biochemical and immunological measures of broiler chickens has been conducted. 240 ROSS strain broiler chicks were selected and divided into 4 treatments and 3 replicates based on completely randomized design. Groups as group1 or control (fed basal diet, without medicinal plant supplementation), group2 (fed 1%Ziziphora, 0.5% Menta pulagum and 0.5% Peppermint), group3 (fed 1%Menta pulagum, 0.5 Ziziphora and 0.5% Peppermint) and group4 (fed 1%Peppermint, 0.5% Ziziphora and 0.5% Menta pulagum). At day-42 (end of rearing period), two chicks from each replicate were selected and blood samples (whole blood for hematological measures and serum for biochemical measures) were taken. Supplementation of medicinal plant mixture didn’t have significant effect on biochemical measures. About immunological measures, highest lymphocyte counts (94%) and lowest H/L rate (0.05%) were observed in group3 (p<0.05). But lowest lymphocyte count (87%) and also highest H/L ratio (0.15) were found for control group. It is concluded that mixture of Menta pulagum, Ziziphora and Peppermint didn’t have any considerable effect on serum biochemical measures such as total cholesterol, triglyceride, glucose, total protein and albumen, but whenever mixed as 1%: 0.5:0.5% respectively, could stimulate immune system.