Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Increase the Image Search Results by Using Flickr Tags

Flickr is the largest online photo album in the world. Google crawls the contents on the Flickr, and Yahoo! also indexes the data on Flickr. Most people upload images to the Flickr with writing titles, descriptions, and tags, but some people upload images without adding any descriptions onto the images. These kinds of non-description images are not searchable by the users, because the search engine can only index the text contents. Although, human beings can easily indicate the objects or the meaning of an image, the search engine cannot identify the objects or concepts of a non-description image. The amounts of non-description images on Flickr are very huge. For example, the images titled with camera default filename (Ex: DSC_XXXX.jpg or IMG_XXXX.jpg) are over 300 million. If these non-description images can be searched, the image search database will be increased. This research uses the image recognition technology to predict the contents on the non-description images. We collect the sample images on ImageNet and use the concept hierarchical structure provided by WordNet to train the concept database. After training the concept database, we use the concept database and SVM methods to annotate the concepts for non-description images and add the annotated results onto the non-description images by using tagging system on Flickr. After the image search index updated, these non-description images will become searchable on the Yahoo! image search system. Keyword Flickr, image recognition, SVM, image search, object extraction
A survey of wildlife populations at Wassaniya forest reserve in Sokoto State, Nigeria

1 Department of Forestry and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, P. M. B. 1144 Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. 2 Department of Forestry and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. 3 Department of Forestry and Wildlife, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maiduguri, P. M. B. 1069, Maiduguri, Nigeria. 4 Department of Forest Production, Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Darulihsan Malaysia. 5 Department of Forest Management and Conservation, Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Darulihsan Malaysia.
New Records of Butterflies in Anhui Province

Based on the investigation of butterflies in Anhui Province from 2001 to 2004,this paper reports 23 butterfly species and 2 forms,which arc newly recorded in Anhui Province,among which 2 species have not been included in "Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium"and "Classification and Identification of Chinese Butterflies". Up to now,309 species,157 genera,12 families of butterflies have been recorded in Anhui Province.
O AVANÇO DOS “EUCALIPTAIS”: ANÁLISE DOS IMPACTOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS EM TERRITÓRIOS CAMPONESES NO LESTE MARANHENSE

This paper aims to analyze social and environmental impacts arising from the installation of business groups facing agribusiness forestry in Eastern mesoregion Maranhao, and think about the environmental and socio-cultural transformations that occur in rural areas. For the construction work was carried out a literature review of books, theses, dissertations, academic studies and specialized sites. For the realization of the knowledge of the empirical aspects of the study area were conducted field work in order to understand the impacts caused by the expansion of eucalyptus plantations, as well as its implications on the territories of small family farmers, their history, their culture in socioeconomic and natural resources of the area. We also consider ways of life and their variations from the characteristics of the region, traditional communities and their specific products. As we approach the field of rural communities, their socio-cultural forms and contents as well as analyze the territoritalities.
Cultural Brand as a Manifestation of Contemporaneity in the Management Theory

From the point of view of the purpose of this paper its introduction should draw attention to the most commonly recognized aspect of contemporaneity (also referred to as postmodernism or late modernity) in economics, namely the process of globalisation [Kostera 1996, pp. 22-25] for it is necessary to dispose of the still persisting common belief that the current process of globalisation concerns, first and foremost, the expansion of business activity from a geographic perspective. It is not entirely true. Globalisation understood as a phenomenon of territorial expansion occurred together with geographic discoveries and conquering of the so called overseas territories by European powers. It was then when spreading trade relations and flow of people all around the globe became popular. It is also a fact that globalisation from the perspective of geographic expansion of business activity in the 20th century displayed twofold acceleration. The first acceleration was observed after the end of World War Two when the markets of former European colonies were opened up, whereas the second one -- at the end of the 20th century along with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Therefore globalisation as a socio-economic phenomenon is not characteristic only for recent times.However, nowadays another character of globalisation is being mindfully suggested as well. Liberalization and integration of markets of goods, services and capital are described in this context. Liberalization and integration cause, in turn, the formation of a new institutional order which favours flow of products, services and money [Rymarczyk 2004, p. 19]. In fact, territorial expansion of business activity itself is something that has been to a large extent completed. However, its quality has become its major problem. This new economic view of the process of globalisation is also closely accompanied by globalisation from the social perspective.
Asc-inclusion: Interactive Emotion Games for Social Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions

Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are neurodevelopmental conditions, characterized by social communication difficulties and restricted and repetitive behaviour patterns. The ASC-Inclusion project aims to create and evaluate the effectiveness of an internet-based game platform, directed for children with ASC and those interested in their inclusion. The platform combines several state-of-the art technologies in one comprehensive virtual world, including analysis of users' gestures, facial and vocal expressions using standard microphone and webcam, training through games, text communication with peers and smart agents, animation, video and audio clips. We present the progress in realising such a serious game platform and provide results for the different modalities.
Modeling wet deposition of inorganics over Northeast Asia with MRI-PM/c and the effects of super large sea salt droplets at near-the-coast stations

Modeling wet deposition of inorganics over Northeast Asia with MRI-PM/c and the effects of super large sea salt droplets at near-the-coast stations M. Kajino, M. Deushi, T. Maki, N. Oshima, Y. Inomata, K. Sato, T. Ohizumi, and H. Ueda Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999 Richland, WA 99352, USA Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, 1182 Sowa, Nishi, Niigata, 950-2144, Japan Toyohashi Institute of Technology, 1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tempaku, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
Sinkhole precursors along the Dead Sea, Israel, revealed by SAR interferometry

The water level in the Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) has been dropping at an increasing rate since the 1960s, exceeding one meter per year during the last decade. This drop has triggered the formation of sinkholes and widespread land subsidence along the Dead Sea shoreline, resulting in severe economic loss and infrastructural damage. In this study, the spatiotemporal evolution of sinkhole-related subsidence and the effect of human activities and land perturbation on sinkhole development are examined through interferometric synthetic aperture radar measurements and field surveys conducted in Israel during 2012. Interferograms are generated using COSMO-SkyMed satellite images and a high-resolution (0.5 m/pixel) elevation model obtained from LiDAR measurements. As a result of this unique combination of high-resolution data sets, millimeter-scale subsidence has been resolved in both natural and human-disturbed environments. Precursory subsidence over a period of a few months occurred before the collapse of all three sinkhole sites reported in this study. The centers of the subsiding areas migrated, possibly due to progressive dissolution and widening of the underlying cavities. Filling of newly formed sinkholes with gravel, and mud injections into drill holes, seem to enhance land subsidence, enlarge existing sinkholes, and form new sinkholes. Apart from shedding light on the mechanical process, the results of this study may pave the way for the implementation of an operational sinkhole early-warning system.
FROST MOUNDS AT TOOLIK LAKE, ALASKA

Aggradation palsas and seasonal frost mounds can achieve topographic expression by localized pooling and freezing of water within the active layer. A distinction is drawn in this paper between palsas, which are permafrost landforms by definition, and seasonal frost mounds, ephemeral or oscillatory features surviving for less than 2 years. Subsurface water migration occurs in response to positive or negative pore water pressures generated during active-layer refreezing. Upward deformation results from stresses induced by the local addition of water and subsequent phase change and, in some cases, positive pore water pressures. In the absence of site instrumentation, processes associated with mound formation can be inferred by examination of massive ice cores, where a record of the aggradational event is preserved. Stratigraphic and petrographic characteristics of the core, ionic concentration patterns with respect to depth, and mound morphometric data were obtained for a large ice-cored frost mound which de.
Lighting and work: Light for seeing and healthy light

Abstract A critical analysis was performed of legislation regarding lighting conditions in working environments. It is shown that the Royal Decree 486/1997 uses a version of the traditional approach to lighting design as conceptual framework, in which: (1) Only the effects of light related to visual system performance are considered. (2) The quantitative effects associated with changes in type of lighting (different coloured lights) are ignored. A review was carried out of the aspects of lighting which should be taken into consideration to complement those included in the traditional approach. These aspects were: (1) Differentiation between photometric and apparent illumination. (2) The type (colour temperature) and quality (colour rendering index) of illumination. (3) The effects of lighting on the health of workers owing to its influence on the functioning of the circadian system.
The Changing Shopping Culture: Internet Consumer Behavior

Internet technology has prompted significant changes in many aspects of human life and society as well as in shopping culture. An important phenomenon, surrounding the human life as a continuum, is shopping through the Internet or e-commerce. Shopping through the Internet has interconnections with many disciplines such as law, economics, psychology, and marketing. Many academicians, researching in various disciplines, studied this issue, which is a dynamic field of study. However, the case is this, we can say that the studies about the reasons for shopping through Internet by the consumers are very new and few in number. Shopping through the Internet involves social, technological, economical, behavioral, and educational dimensions. There are many prior factors behind shopping through the Internet by the consumers. This study presents a theoretical explanation for online consumer behavior.
New material and phylogenetic position of Aidachar paludalis Nesov, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

Aidachar paludalis Nesov, 1981 from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan is referable to the teleost order Ichthyodectiformes by combination of the following diagnostic characters: large and massive intercalar, forming part of the hyomandibular facet and a canal for the jugular vein; deep premaxillamaxilla attachment; deep dentary symphysis; angled coronoid process of the dentary; teeth forming a single series in the jaws. It shares a unique character with Aidachar pankowskii (Forey et Cavin, 2007), comb. nov., from the Cenomanian of Morocco: hyomandibular facet clearly divided into two parts.
A reduced-order power-system dynamical model and applications in design and monitoring of power systems

The widespread integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the future power system is likely to cause large and frequent excursions from its steady state. Such circumstances call for systematic methods to design DER controllers toward system-level performance goals and to estimate unexpected changes in the system. We address these challenges via the development of a reduced-order power system dynamical model in this thesis. First, we develop a reduced second-order power-system dynamical model that accounts for locational effects of load disturbances on system frequency. The locational aspects are retained in the proposed model by incorporating linearized power-flow balance into differential equations that describe synchronous-generator dynamics. Individual synchronous-generator frequency dynamics are then combined into a single aggregate frequency state via weighting factors that can be tuned to maximize the accuracy of the reduced-order model. The proposed reducedorder model is general in the sense that its parameters are related to those of the original full-order model in analytical closed form, so that it can be constructed easily for different systems. Time-domain simulations demonstrate the accuracy of the reduced-order model with various choices of weighting factors and highlight the effect of load disturbance location on aggregate-frequency dynamics. The reduced-order model offers the basic foundation on which DER controllers can be systematically designed to meet grid-level aims. Via a transfer-function representation of the reduced-order model, we relate, in analytical closed form, DER controller parameters to system steady-state and dynamic frequency response. Furthermore, time-domain simulations demonstrate that we can design DER controller parameter in order to meet system frequency-response performance requirements.
beta-Adrenoceptor density and adenylyl cyclase activity in obese rabbit hearts.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether decreased cardiac responsiveness to isoproterenol in obesity is associated with alterations in beta-receptors and/or adenylyl cyclase activity. ANIMALS AND DESIGN: After 12 weeks of control or ad libitum high-fat diets, left ventricular tissue from lean and obese female New Zealand white rabbits was assayed for beta-receptor binding density (11 lean, 11 obese) and isoproterenol-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity (eight lean, 10 obese). MEASUREMENTS Nonlinear least squares regression analysis was used to determine maximum density of beta-receptors and receptor affinity for (125)I-iodocyanopindolol. Four-parameter logistic regression was used to determine minimum, maximum, slope and EC(50) for isoproterenol-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity. RESULTS Obese rabbits had elevated resting blood pressure and heart rate, and higher ventricular weights. However, beta-adrenoceptor density and affinity were not significantly different in lean and obese rabbits. Basal and maximum isoproterenol-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity did not differ between lean and obese rabbits. In addition, maximal stimulation in response to sodium flouride did not differ between lean and obese. EC(50) for isoproterenol-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity did not differ between lean and obese rabbits. CONCLUSION Obesity-related decreases in responsiveness of the isolated heart to isoproterenol are not associated with alterations in beta-receptor density and affinity. In addition, adenylyl cyclase activity appeared unchanged in ventricular preparations from obese rabbits. Decreased responsiveness to isoproterenol in obesity may be due to defects downstream of adenylyl cyclase activation of cyclic AMP.
Observation of 1- to 5-second microtremors and their application to earthquake engineering. Part III. A two-dimensional study of site effects in the San Fernando Valley

Abstract A two-dimensional study of the influence of deep sediment on seismic ground motions was conducted by recording and analyzing long-period microtremors in the San Fernando Valley, California. The recordings were made at 50 regularly distributed sites in the valley. Three reference sites were employed at the baserock outcrop around the valley so as to observe the time-dependent characteristics of the microtremors . 1. Amplitudes in a period range of several seconds correlate with the thicknesses of the sedimentary layers . 2. A site amplification effect, which was evaluated in terms of sediment-to-rock spectral ratios, is qualitatively consistent with available geological and strong motion data . 3. The practical field observation procedure designed for this study, the two-dimensional approach, can be easily used in other surveys for estimating the spatial characteristics of earthquake ground motions in the period range of several seconds .
A Fresh Approach to Agricultural Statistics: Data Mining and Remote Sensing

Agriculture has evolved from mule and plow into a high-tech business. Likewise, cutting-edge techniques to produce agricultural statistics used to guide policies and standards that bring our nation’s food from the farm to shelf have sprouted from the innovation of statisticians at the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Recent use of remote sensing has been the crux of the development of a “Census by Satellite” (Cropland Data Layer Program), and data mining techniques have excavated statistics utilized in ensuring the quality of data from collection to estimation. The CDL Program integrates the traditional enumerator collected ground survey data with satellite imagery to produce indications of acreage for major commodities and statewide mosaicked categorized maps. Data mining uncovers otherwise hidden information NASS uses to improve its own operations. With its ease of use and ability to illustrate complex results in simple terms, data mining proves to be fertile ground for future innovations in agricultural statistics.
IMPROVING THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF THE ALOS PRISM TRIPLET USING A FUSION TECHNIQUE

We developed a fusion technique to improve the spatial resolution of the triplet of the ALOS PRISM data. The technique used a maximum a posteriori estimation framework to obtain a high resolution image from the triplet, and it was the combination of the blur identification and high resolution image reconstruction. In particular, an iterative scheme based on the alternating minimization was developed to estimate the blur and high resolution image progressively, and a hybrid optical flow registration method was then used to estimate the deformation coming from hypsography. Results showed that the fusion technique was effective, and improved the resolution.
Structural ultraviolet ornamentation in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina L. (Nymphalidae): visual, morphological and ecological properties

Many butterflies exhibit structurally coloured wing patches that are stunningly bright and iridescent in their appearance, yet functionally obscure. These colours are often exaggerated in males, which suggests a sexually selected origin. We studied the visual properties, morphological basis, and interindividual variation of structural wing colouration in the common eggfly, Hypolimnas bolina L. (Nymphalidae). Males of this territorial species possess highly directional UV/violet colouration that fully overlaps smaller white patches on their dorsal wing surfaces. We sampled 56 males, including territorial residents and non-resident ‘floaters’ and assessed the properties of their structural colour using reflectance spectrometry and scanning electron microscopy. The patches reflect strongly in the UV range (300–400 nm), with a peak of ~360 nm, and the wing scales in these regions exhibit a ridge-lamellar surface architecture that has known function in other species as a multiple thin-film interference mirror. Peak UV brightness was variable, and both brightness and peak hue varied systematically across age classes. UV brightness was also related to hue independently of the age-related variation. Territorial residents possessed duller UV markings than their non-resident contemporaries, which is not consistent with exaggeration due to male–male competition. The high phenotypic variance is, however, consistent with a putative role for this male-limited trait as a sexual ornament.
Sentiment Analysis Using Natural Language Processing

: In this paper, stock prediction has been achieved using machine learning techniques and sentiment analysis. Use of web scraping techniques is done on tweets from twitter to collect large amounts of data required for sentiment analysis. Furthermore, implementation of modern machine learning techniques like Logistic regression for analysis and Random forests for making accurate decisions has been taken into account. This has given promising results with an accuracy of 91.96%.
Delamination in the Betic Range: Deep structure, seismicity, and GPS motion

Subduction comes to an end when all oceanic lithosphere is consumed and continental or transitional crust, with positive buoyancy, becomes involved. During continental collision, the final stage of subduction may be characterized by slab breakoff, limited continental subduction, and delamination below the fold-and-thrust belt. We report receiver function images, constructed from a dense array of seismic broadband stations, that reveal the underthrusting of Iberia beneath the Alboran plate. The underthrusted crust is delaminating beneath part of the Betic mountain range, still connected to the foreland lithosphere on one side, and interrupted discontinuously along the other side. Intermediate deep earthquakes associated with the delamination process do not respond to downdip stresses like subduction earthquakes. The GPS velocity field and source mechanisms for shallow earthquakes demonstrate ongoing active shortening on top of the hinge of delamination, and localized perpendicular extension on top of the edge of delamination, introducing independent motion of the overriding crustal block. Delamination beneath the Betic Range drives seismicity by inducing fundamental changes in deformation patterns within the collision orogen.
Comparison of Software Quality Models: An Analytical Approach

With the objective of presenting qualitative software system most of the software producers have endeavoured and infact this is their main purpose. Software quality is having multi-dimensional content which may be distinguished and measured easily. To be specific, with the idea of determining the multidimensional content in a more exact pattern various qualitative models have been presented by virtue of which different aspects of this matter have been attempted to be investigated properly. Practically as because there are existences of different models which have used different expressions the comprehension of this basic content have become to some extent hard or difficult. Attempts have been made in this particular paper to introduce some models that have been mentioned and more clearly analysis the qualitative characteristics and side-by-side determine the software quality along with the analytical comparison of these models. This paper may serve the purpose of a reference for investigating software quality and its related models.