Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
APPLICATION OF AGE-LENGTH-KEYS TO ESTIMATE CATCH-AT-AGE FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALBACORE (THUNNUS ALALUNGA) STOCK

1 SUMMARY This document presents the results of applying two different methods to estimate catch-at-age for North Atlantic albacore (Thunnus alalunga). The Spanish albacore surface fishery size frequency data from 2003 to 2005 have been analyzed by means of MULTIFAN and age-length- keys (ALKs) have been derived from readings of sections obtained from sampled dorsal spiny rays of catch landed.
La prosocialidad: estrategia de educación integral frente a la violencia

(analítico)En Colombia no existen estudios consolidados que muestren la existencia de conductas prosociales y menos indicadores que reflejen cómo estas conductas pueden influir en la reducción de los comportamientos agresivos. Lo que sí se sabe por estudios previos es que las conductas de naturaleza altruista parecen incompatibles con la agresividad. El artículo recoge los resultados de una investigación que describe las conductas prosociales de los niños de este contexto. El estudio de tipo transversal se realizó con 587 niños entre los 9 y 12 años. Los resultados evidencian niveles elevados de prosocialidad y diferencias significativas a favor de las niñas en casi todas las dimensiones evaluadas. Con la presencia de estos comportamientos se puede inferir que la prosocialidad representa un activo muy importante para prevenir manifestaciones agresivas en las escuelas. Palabras clave: Altruismo; agresión; empatía; liderazgo; prosocialidad; respeto; solidaridad.
Reanalysis and Intervention in English ‘Tough’ Constructions

Park, Myung-Kwan. 2023. Reanalysis and intervention in English ‘tough’ constructions. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 23, 980-993. This paper investigates one of the issues most intensively studied for the last decade: intervention in English ‘ tough ’ constructions. Hartman (2012) observes that an adjunct PP between a ‘ tough ’ adjective and the following infinitive clause serves as a defective intervenor for the Agree relation between the matrix subject and the null operator in the clause at hand. Showing that an adverbial DP also functions as such an intervenor, Bruening (2014) (and more recently Salzmann (2023)) attributes the offending intervention to the improper licensing of the null operator in the extraposed infinitive clause. On the other hand, Kleine and Poole (2017) and Gluckman (2022) take a semantic approach, arguing that the intervention in question results from type mismatch or improper chain indexing when an adjunct or adverbial PP/DP intervenes. Departing from these studies, this paper argues that the recasting of Chomsky ’ s (1981) reanalysis combining a ‘ tough ’ adjective with the following infinitive verb to yield a complex adjective amalgam gives a right handle in accounting for the intervention at issue. Simply, an intervening adjunct or adverbial PP/DP inhibits the formation of a complex adjective amalgam required owing to the absence of functional layers in the ‘ tough ’ infinitive clause.
Academia-Industry Linkages for Sustainable Innovation in Agriculture Higher Education in India

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the World Bank have collaborated on a project entitled the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) to improve agricultural higher education in India, paving the way for sustainable higher education in agriculture. As part of this project, the present investigation was carried out through national-level workshops involving seven State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) across India, with participants from academia and industry, to strengthen ‘academia–industry collaboration’ through effective linkages. Based on the responses of 199 respondents from academia and industry, the study demonstrates an absolute need for linkages between universities and industries (p < 0.001), which are perceived to help improve higher education sustainably. Academic institutions believe that such linkages benefit students concerning their employability, entrepreneurial skills, and financial support received. At the same time, industries believe that they would benefit from novel technologies and influencing academic curricula. This article also establishes an alliance between some parts of academia and industry in the form of MoUs in the identified areas. However, many other areas need more appropriate linkage models. Both sectors, i.e., academia and industry, concur that such exposure and collaboration between the two entities will help to improve the quality of education. Moreover, such collaborations provide financial support, increase students’ employability, and improve their entrepreneurial skills. Among the areas requiring collaboration, the ‘capacity building of students’ was rated most important by academia and industry. Overall, the present study has significant implications for university administrators and industry leaders involved in enhancing academia–industry cooperation and improving the quality and sustainability of higher education in agriculture. Further, the study greatly contributes to the National Education Policy (NEP) to promote innovation among the student communities through Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
03 - Traitement des montants numériques de chèques postaux. Une méthode de segmentation basée sur la reconnaissance

We present an automatic recognition system applied to handwritten numeral chec k amounts which is based on a segmentation–by–recognition probabilistic model . This system is descrided from the amount field localization on the document image to the generation ofhypotheses. An explicit segmentation algorithm determines potential cuts between characters and provides a spatial representation ofsegmented components . The best path for the segmentation is determined by the combinatio n of recognition scores, of segmentation likelihoods and of a priori probabilities of amounts. Training is done through a bootstrapping technique, which significantly improves the performances of the different algorithms . It also allows the use of a reject class at the recognition step . The robustness of the system was assessed on a database of 10,000 real cheques images.
FAST POINT LOCATION, RAY SHOOTING AND INTERSECTION TEST FOR 3D NEF POLYHEDRA

v vi To my parents vii viii Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank my parents Dora Inés and Luis Francisco, for always being there for me, and always supporting me in all my decisions and choices. My gratitude to all the people at the CAD/CAM/CAE Laboratory at EAFIT University, to its director, Prof. Dr. Oscar Ruiz for all his patience and dedication, always looking after our best formation, to Prof. Dr. Carlos Cadavid and Prof. Dr. Manuel García for their teaching and encouraging to see beyond, and to all my fellows whose company and moral helped me keeping it up through all this time. Special acknowledgments to the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, to Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn for welcoming me to his group, to Dr. Lutz Kettner and Dr. Susan Hert for all their teaching and guidance through the development of this project, to Peter Hachenberger and Roman Dementiev for their advice and support, and to the people back in Germany who always made me feel welcome. Finally, I would like to thank my friends, especially Manuel Piedrahita and Lina Ruiz who always make me keep the spirit up, and help me in the very important moments when I could not continue alone.
The influence of eddy viscosity formulation, bottom topography, and wind wave effects upon the circulation of a shallow bay

Abstract A three-dimensional hydrodynamic model taking account of enhanced bed stress due to wave-current interaction is used to examine the wind-induced circulation and flushing time of an idealized homogeneous bay or estuary. The model uses a spectral approach in the vertical and, hence, computes a continuous current profile from sea surface to seabed. Calculations show that in the case of an estuary of nearly constant cross-sectional depth with an along-estuary wind, the intensity of differential flow in the vertical is critical in determining the flushing time. In this case, the three-dimensional circulation and, hence, flushing time is sensitive to the formulation of vertical eddy viscosity, and in the case of a tidal estuary its variation over the spring/neap cycle and with wind intensity must be included. For an estuary with a deep central channel, horizontal rather than vertical circulations dominate, the flow is more uniform in the vertical, and, hence, the circulation is fairly insensitive to ed.
Molar Tooth Structure: a Contribution from the Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Tianjin City, North China

Molar‐tooth (MT) structure is an enigmatic sedimentary structure consisting of variously‐shaped cracks and voids filled with a characteristically uniform, equant calcite microspar. It is globally distributed but temporally restricted to rocks from Neoarchean to Neoproterozoic age. The origin of MT structures has been debated for more than a century and the topic continues to be highly contentious. Some features of MT structure occurring in micritic limestones of the Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation (ca. 1500 Ma to ca. 1400 Ma), Jixian section, Tianjin City, North China show that: 1) there is a definite interface or lining, rich in organic material and pyrite, between the MT crack‐filling calcite microspar and the micritic host rock, which is also rich in organic matter; 2) the micritic host rocks are notable for the absence of stromatolites and microbial laminites; 3) distinctive conglomeratic lag deposits made up of intraclasts of MT microspar result from storm reworking of the MT structures; 4) the MT structure is associated with possible algal megafossils such as Chuaria; 5) the MT microspar is made up of the larger calcite crystal and the MT crack is marked by the diversity of configurations; 6) both the TOC content and the carbon‐isotopic value (δ13CPDB) among the host rock, the MT microspar and the possible algae fossil are obviously different. For the forming mechanism of the Gaoyuzhuang MT structure, these features can still indicate that: A) the MT microspar was formed by rapid precipitation and lithification; B) the MT microspar precipitated directly within the cracks; C) the decomposition of organic matter within the host micrite might be the chief mechanism producing gas bubbles; D) microscale gas‐sediment interaction led to the generation of the MT cracks and the precipitation of microspar therein; E) the MT cracks might represent the track of migration and expansion of gas bubbles, and that the recrystallization of host micrites cannot be eliminated during forming process of the MT microspar; F) the MT structure is occurred in early diagenetic period; and G) the formation of MT microspars is a complex diagenetic process. Therefore, model of the microbially‐induced gas‐bubble expansion and migration is the best interpretation for the formation of the MT structure. Effectively, MT structures are a type of sedimentary structure that is formed in the early diagenetic period and is related to microbial activities and organic matter degradation.
Undersea Simultaneous Wireless Power and Data Transfer System With Extended Communication Distance and High Rate

This letter proposes an undersea simultaneous wireless power and data transfer (SWPDT) system with extended communication distance and 1-Mb/s full-duplex communication. The proposed system operates in inductive power transfer-electric field communication mode, thus reducing the crosstalk between the power channel and communication channel. This letter proposes a novel communication channel construction method based on the single capacitor coupling principle, which can effectively extend the communication distance without additional mechanisms. The extended communication distance enables precommunication before charging and maintaining communication after completing charging, which is critical for undersea dynamic equipment. The resonant condition and transmission characteristics of the communication channel are analyzed. Two MHz communication bands are constructed to achieve full-duplex communication based on frequency division duplexing. Finally, the proposed undersea SWPDT prototype has a maximum output power of 1.2 kW and can maintain 1-Mb/s full-duplex communication within a range of 50 cm.
Explore the role of long noncoding RNAs and mRNAs in intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: From the perspective of neutrophils

CONTEXT: Circulating neutrophils and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play various roles in intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS). OBJECTIVE: Our study aimed to detect differentially expressed (DE) lncRNAs and mRNAs in circulating neutrophils and explore the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis from the perspective of neutrophils. METHODS: Nineteen patients with ICAS and 15 healthy controls were enrolled. The peripheral blood of the participants was collected, and neutrophils were separated. The expression profiles of lncRNAs and mRNAs in neutrophils from five patients and five healthy controls were obtained, and DE lncRNAs and mRNAs were selected. Six lncRNAs were selected and validated using quantitative reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and ceRNA and lncRNA-RNA binding protein (RBP)-mRNA networks were constructed. Correlation analysis between lncRNAs and mRNAs was performed. Functional enrichment annotations were also performed. RESULTS: Volcano plots and heat maps displayed the expression profiles and DE lncRNAs and mRNAs, respectively. The qRT-PCR results revealed that the four lncRNAs showed a tendency consistent with the expression profile, with statistical significance. The ceRNA network revealed three pairs of regulatory networks: lncRNA RP3-406A7.3-NAGLU, lncRNA HOTAIRM1-MVK/IL-25/GBF1/CNOT4/ANKK1/PLEKHG6, and lncRNA RP11-701H16.4-ZNF416. The lncRNA-RBP-mRNA network showed five pairs of regulatory networks: lncRNA RP11-701H16.4-TEK, lncRNA RP11-701H16.4-MED17, lncRNA SNHG19-NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit V1, lncRNA RP3-406A7.3-Angel1, and lncRNA HOTAIRM1-CARD16. CONCLUSIONS: Our study identified and verified four lncRNAs in neutrophils derived from peripheral blood, which may explain the transcriptional alteration of neutrophils during the pathophysiological process of ICAS. Our results provide insights for research related to the pathogenic mechanisms and drug design of ICAS.
Short-term risk and long-term incidence rate of infection and malignancy with IL-17 and IL-23 inhibitors in adult patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The risk of infection and malignancy may be a concern for patients with psoriasis receiving interleukin (IL)-17 and IL-23 inhibitors, particularly with long-term treatments. We aimed to estimate the short-term risks and long-term incidence rates of infection and malignancy with IL-17 or IL-23 antagonists in adult patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis through this comprehensive meta-analysis (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42022363127). We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science and ClinicalTrials.gov until May 17, 2023 for randomized placebo-controlled trials and long-term (≥ 52 weeks) open-label extension studies. The estimates of short-term risk ratios (RRs) and long-term exposure-adjusted incidence rates (EAIRs) were pooled using R software 4.1. 1 and STATA 16.0. This review included 45 randomized placebo-controlled studies and 27 open-label extension studies. Short-term RRs of serious infection, overall infection and malignancy were 1.45 (95% confidence intervals, 95% CI: 0.81-2.59), 1.20 (95% CI: 1.06-1.35), 0.83 (95% CI: 0.41-1.71) with IL-17 inhibitors; and 0.68 (95% CI: 0.38-1.22), 1.13 (95% CI: 1.00-1.28), 0.87 (95% CI: 0.37-2.04) with IL-23 inhibitors. Increased short-term risks of nasopharyngitis and Candida infection with IL-17 inhibitors were found. Long-term EAIRs of serious infection, overall infection, nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), malignancies excluding NMSC, nasopharyngitis and upper respiratory tract infection were 1.11/100 patient-years (PYs), 57.78/100PYs, 0.47/100PYs, 0.24/100PYs, 15.07/100PYs, 8.52/100PYs, 3.41/100PYs with IL-17 inhibitors; and 1.09/100PYs, 48.50/100PYs, 0.40/100PYs, 0.43/100PYs, 10.75/100PYs, 5.84/100PYs with IL-23 inhibitors. Long-term EAIR of Candida infection was 3.41/100PYs with IL-17 inhibitors. No active or reactivated tuberculosis was ever reported in all the trials, and only a few cases of latent tuberculosis, hepatitis, and herpes zoster were reported during the long-term extension periods. No evidence of increased EAIRs of infection and malignancy with longer durations was found. Our study suggested that short-term risk and long-term incidence of infections and malignancies in psoriasis patients receiving IL-17 inhibitors and IL-23 inhibitors are generally low. However, close monitoring is required for nasopharyngitis and Candida infection with IL-17 inhibitors. Systematic Review Registration https://www.crd. york.ac. uk/PROSPERO/, identifier CRD42022363127.
Surveying Nutrient Assessment with Photographs of Meals (SNAPMe): A Benchmark Dataset of Food Photos for Dietary Assessment

Photo-based dietary assessment is becoming more feasible as artificial intelligence methods improve. However, advancement of these methods for dietary assessment in research settings has been hindered by the lack of an appropriate dataset against which to benchmark algorithm performance. We conducted the Surveying Nutrient Assessment with Photographs of Meals (SNAPMe) study (ClinicalTrials ID: NCT05008653) to pair meal photographs with traditional food records. Participants were recruited nationally, and 110 enrollment meetings were completed via web-based video conferencing. Participants uploaded and annotated their meal photos using a mobile phone app called Bitesnap and completed food records using the Automated Self-Administered 24-h Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24®) version 2020. Participants included photos before and after eating non-packaged and multi-serving packaged meals, as well as photos of the front and ingredient labels for single-serving packaged foods. The SNAPMe Database (DB) contains 3311 unique food photos linked with 275 ASA24 food records from 95 participants who photographed all foods consumed and recorded food records in parallel for up to 3 study days each. The use of the SNAPMe DB to evaluate ingredient prediction demonstrated that the publicly available algorithms FB Inverse Cooking and Im2Recipe performed poorly, especially for single-ingredient foods and beverages. Correlations between nutrient estimates common to the Bitesnap and ASA24 dietary assessment tools indicated a range in predictive capacity across nutrients (cholesterol, adjusted R2 = 0.85, p < 0.0001; food folate, adjusted R2 = 0.21, p < 0.05). SNAPMe DB is a publicly available benchmark for photo-based dietary assessment in nutrition research. Its demonstrated utility suggested areas of needed improvement, especially the prediction of single-ingredient foods and beverages.
Will Climate Change Lead to More Urban Violence? Urbanization, Urban Environmental Problems, and Social Disorder in Cities

For the first time in history, the majority of the world population now lives in cities. Global urbanization will continue at high speed; the world ’s urban population is expected to increase by more than 3 billion people between 2007 and 2050. W hile urban populations generally enjoy a higher quality of life compared to populations in r ural areas, many cities in the developing world have large slums with populations that are largely excluded from access to resources, jobs, and public services. In the environmental security lite ra ure, great rural resource scarcity, causing rural to urban migration, is seen as an important s ource of violent conflict. This study investigates how population growth and environmenta l conditions affect patterns of public unrest in urban centers in the context of crucial interven ing factors like democracy, poverty, economic shocks, and ongoing armed conflict. It utilizes a n ewly collected event dataset of urban social disturbance covering 55 major cities in Asia and Su baharan Africa since 1960. The empirical analysis provides little support for the notion tha t environmental scarcity leads to a higher risk or frequency of social disorder. Instead, we find that urban disorder is primarily associated with a lack of consistent political institutions, economic shocks, and armed intrastate conflict.
U-Pb ages of zircon from metamorphic rocks of the Gaoligongshan Group in western Yunnan and its tectonic significance

The Gaoligongshan Group,which has long been interpreted as Precambrian basement of the Tengchong-Lianghe block in western Yunnan,but the forming ages of their protolith and subsequent deformed and metamorphic ages has been an issue of little consensue.Petrograpic and geochemical analyses indicates that biotite monzonite gneiss,biotite amphibolic-plagioclase gneiss and feldspar fels which consisting of the Gaoligongshan Group metamorphosed rocks are orthometamorphites.U-Pb SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS zircons dating of these metamorphosed rocks were carried out firstly and yields ages 497.8 ± 7.2Ma ～ 500 ± 14Ma,83.5 ± 0.9Ma as the timing of their emplacement and 459 ± 5Ma,55.2 ± 1.1Ma as that of metamorphism,respectively.Based on these results,together with the regional comparison and detrital zircons ages obtained from adjacent metamorphic rocks,it is concluded that the sedimentary body of the Gaoligongshan Group had been formed during the Neoproterozoic and then intruded by Cambrian granites formed during the circum-Gondwana orogeny.The Gaoligongshan Group initially experienced an Andean-type orogenesis through the subduction of the Neo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere during Late Mesozoic and then the India-Eurasia continental collision in the Cenozoic and the strike-slip shearing during the extrusion of the Indochina Block.The Indochina Block has resembles with the Lhasa Block in terms of Paleozoic to Mesozoic magmatism and detrital zircon ages.
Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Diseases: An Update

Vitamin D is a vital nutrient that plays a significant part in several physiological processes within the human body, including calcium metabolism, bone health, immune function, and cell growth and differentiation. It is obtained mainly through exposure to sunlight but can be acquired from certain foods and supplements as well. Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) could be the risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as heart disease and stroke. In blood vitamin D low levels have been linked with an enhanced risk of developing CVDs. However, it is unclear whether vitamin D levels are the leading cause or consequence of these conditions. While some studies highlight that taking vitamin D supplements could decrease the risk of CVD; however, more research is required to better understand the association between vitamin D and cardiovascular health. In this review, we aimed to summarize the currently available evidence supporting the association between vitamin D and CVDs and anesthesia considerations.