Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On the impact of Himalaya-induced gravity waves on the polar vortex, Rossby wave activity and ozone

The instability of the Northern Hemisphere polar vortex is mainly caused by the breaking of planetary-scale (Rossby) waves (RWs). However, gravity waves (GWs) may also play an important role in polar vortex preconditioning before breakdown events. Moreover, GWs affect dynamics in the stratosphere by altering the upward propagation of RWs at short time scales and therefore indirectly influence polar vortex stability. Due to the coarse spatial resolution of global chemistry-climate models, current efforts in climate research rely on simulations where the majority of the GW spectrum is parameterized. In 5 the present study, we apply a recently developed method for detecting strong orographic gravity wave (OGW) drag events in the lower stratosphere above the Himalayas. For this, we use a specified dynamics simulation of the chemistry-climate model CMAM (Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model) spanning the period 1979–2010. We show that strong OGW drag events above the Himalayas are associated with anomalously increased upward RW propagation in the stratosphere. This, in turn, is associated with an increase of the refractive index in the mid-latitude lower stratosphere, a region where the OGW drag dominates. 10 Our results also illustrate that OGW strong events have the potential to alter ozone variability via changes of mixing in the and advection from lower latitudes. we detail a preconditioning process of the polar vortex by above the and how this relates to the proximity to polar vortex breakdown.
ProfilingofPlantDerivedNaturalConstituentsbyUsingMagnetic Resonance Techniques

Department of Food Science and Technology, Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry Nauni, Solan, HP, India School of Bioengineering and Food Technology, Shoolini University of Biotechnology andManagement Sciences, Solan, HP, India University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Medicinal Plants Processing Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Liquid Metal Experiment Mimics Accretion Disks

A strophysical disks are ubiquitous objects in the cosmic landscape: we observe them aroundmatter-gobbling black holes and planet-forming stellar systems. The gas and dust in these disks slowly drift inward and eventually reach the central star or black hole. The energy released in this accretion process makes some of these disks very luminous. However, the physical mechanism responsible for this accretion remains elusive despite 40 years of active research. Now Marlone Vernet from Sorbonne University in France and his colleagues model astrophysical disks with an experimental
Very high-energy γ-ray emission from IC 310

Context. We search for persistent extragalactic sources of γ-rays with energies above 100 GeV with the Fermi telescope. Aims. We construct a systematic survey of the extragalactic γ-ray sky at energies above 100 GeV. Such a survey has not been done before by the ground-based Cherenkov γ-ray telescopes, which have, contrary to Fermi, a narrow field of view. Methods. We study a map of arrival directions of the highest energy photons detected by Fermi at Galactic latitudes |b| > 10° and search for significant point-source-like excesses above the diffuse Galactic and extragalactic γ-ray backgrounds. We identify eight significant point-source-like excesses in this map. Results. Seven of the eight sources are known TeV blazars. The previously unknown source is identified with the galaxy IC310, which is situated in Perseus cluster of galaxies. The source is detected with a significance 6σ above 30 GeV. We identify two possible scenarii for γ-ray emission from this source. One possibility is that emission originates from the base of relativistic outflow from the active nucleus, as in the BL Lacs and FR I type radio galaxies. Otherwise γ-ray photons could be produced at the bow shock that is formed as a result of the fast motion of the galaxy through the intracluster medium. The two models could be distinguished through studying of the γ-ray signal variability.
Antiplasmodial activity of rifampicin/ sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination on Plasmodium berghei infected mice

Introduction: The enormous expense of new medication production and the issue of multidrug opposition by plasmodium parasites has necessitated the exploration on drugs with potential for repurposing. In this study, the antimalarial properties of clinical doses of rifampicin administered with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine was assessed in Plasmodium berghei contaminated mice. Materials and Methods: Adult mice (25-30 g) were parasitized with Plasmodium berghei , grouped and treated per oral (p.o) with RIF, SP, and RIF/SP daily. The negative control (NC) and the positive control (PC) were treated daily p.o with normal saline (0.2 mL) and chloroquine (CQ) (10 mg/kg). The 3 rd group of mice received 21.4/1.07 mg/kg body weight of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, while the 4 th and 5 th groups were administered 15 mg/kg body weight of rifampicin and 15/21.4/1.07 mg/kg body weight of rifampicin/sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination, respectively. Groups I and II received the stated treatments for 3 consecutive days, while group III received a single dose of treatment. Group IV received treatment for 7 consecutive days while group V received a single dose of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine and the specified dose of rifampicin for 7 consecutive days. Results: There was significant reduction in parasitemia in all the studies (prophylactic, suppressive, and curative) at the drug doses used: SP (21.4/1.07 mg/kg) (p<0.001), RIF (15mg/kg) (p<0.01), RIF/SP (15/21.4/1.07 mg/kg) (p<0.0001) when compared to the negative control. There was an approximately two and half-fold decrease in percentage parasitemia in the rifampicin/sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine treatment group when compared to the chloroquine treatment group. By the 7th day post-inoculation, Percentage parasitemia in the rifampicin/sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination group had reduced to 0.68%. Conclusion: RIF may be repurposed in combination with SP for malaria treatment.
The Influence of Emotions and Beliefs on the Comprehension of Texts About Climate Change

Emotions and beliefs play a critical role in our everyday lives and may even interact to influence our processing of information. Prior research has proposed numerous models of emotion, belief, and comprehension processes that intersect in their methodology. The present study examines this interaction between emotions and beliefs on the comprehension of texts about the controversial topic of climate change. Given an emotion induction to elicit a positive or negative emotion, the comprehension of controversial texts about climate change is measured through the use of Inference Verification Tasks developed by Strømsø et al. (2010). It was anticipated that prior beliefs would interact with emotions to influence comprehension. In alignment with the results of Fiedler and Beier (2014), it was found that participants who held neutral beliefs about climate change that were induced to feel sad emotions performed better than happy-induced participants on questions assessing within-text inference verification. Beliefs removed the effects of emotions in the other conditions. The results provide insight into the implications of emotions and beliefs on the comprehension of controversial topics. EMOTIONS, BELIEFS, AND COMPREHENSION 4
and Fill-in-the-blank-emotion in dogs? Evidence from brain imaging. Animal Sentience

: What is needed to make meaningful claims about an animal’s capacity for subjective experience? Cook et al. (2018) attempt to study jealousy in dogs by placing them in a particular context and then seeing whether they display a particular brain state. We argue that this approach to studying jealousy falls short for two related reasons. First, the relationship between jealousy and the selected context is unclear. Second, the relationship between jealousy and the selected brain state (indeed, any single brain state) is unclear. These and other issues seriously limit what this study can show. It is important not to see this study as showing more than it does. Alexandra Horowitz is adjunct associate professor of Psychology and English and head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College. She studies the perceptual experience of dogs as well as aspects of the human-dog relationships. Website Becca Franks is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University. She studies well-being and motivation, with a particular focus on aquatic animal welfare. of Environmental Studies; affiliated professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy; and director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program at New York University. He studies bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics.
A bilinear systems approach with input saturation to control the agreement value of multi-agent systems

—While reaching an agreement in multi-agent systems (MAS) can be ensured by enforcing some connectivity properties between agents, the consensus depends on their initial conditions and the network topology. In this context, our main objective in this paper is to sway the consensus value of multi-agent systems towards a desired value. The asymptotic stability and maximization of the domain of attraction for the bilinear model representing the opinion dynamics in the presence of limited control action for a ﬁxed and connected network are investigated. By using algebraic graph theory and linear matrix inequality (LMI), we provide sufﬁcient conditions guaranteeing the convergence of agents toward the desired consensus. Furthermore, examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Facing the Challenge? Creative Tourism in Croatia

In the last decade, creativity has become a buzz word in developmental context, from creative industries, creative classes, creative economy, creative cities, creative business, creative governance to creative tourism. Creative industries have often been used in the context of creative cities’ development creating their image internationally especially through tourism. In order to attract visitors, a new type of tourism has been developed: creative tourism. The article questions its definition as it also questions the need of cities to be re-branded through creative tourism. Two Croatian case studies are featured as to re-think the position of creative tourism in local development: the city of Dubrovnik which relies on heritage as it main resource and the city of Zagreb which still needs to define its main tourism resource but has a lot of potential in cultural/creative industries. The article argues that creativity does not always mean introducing new types of trendy developments in the destination but rather knowing how to develop new development models which suit the local context.
JRIRD at the NTCIR-16 QA Lab-PoliInfo-3 Budget Argument Mining

The JRIRD team participated in the budget argument mining sub-task of the NTCIR-16 QA Lab-PoliInfo-3. This paper reports on our approach to solving this problem and discusses the official results. Our system consists of two BERT models that work independently toward two objectives: argument classification (AC) and related ID detection (RID). The results show that our system performs well, especially for argument classification.
(How) Visual properties affect the perception and description of transitive events

In a non-verbal aesthetic judgement task and a pre-registered production task, we tested how the orientation of the patient relative to the agent in a visual scene affects the perception and description of the depicted transitive event. Previous research has shown that a visual property like the position of the patient relative to the agent can affect speakers’ verbalization of events. Here, we investigated whether orientation constitutes another factor besides position that affects scene description. While speakers of German displayed an overall preference for scenes in which agent and patient faced each other, these scenes needed more time for sentence planning than the same scenes that showed the patient looking in the same direction and thus away from the agent. Moreover, we elicited more patient-initial sentences for face-to-face scenes than for same-direction scenes. The increase in patient-initial sentences was comparable to the increase in patient-initial sentences for scenes with left-positioned patients as compared to right-positioned patients. Based on our findings, we argue that manipulations of both position and orientation can change the prominence of the patient. The more prominent the patient (facing the agent, being placed to the left of the agent), the more likely speakers are to choose the patient as the sentence-initial subject. Hence, subtle changes of visual properties may affect not only how speakers perceive an event but also how they describe an event. Our findings are of relevance for a range of tasks that use visual materials.
Master Computer Science Automatically testing libraries symbolically

Automatically testing libraries is a critical task. Libraries offer programmers the net-benefit of being able to reuse existing code to solve diﬀicult problems faster and with less bugs; in the off-chance the library contains a security vulnerability, however, this code-reuse feature potentially renders every program incorporating the library vulnerable as well. For this reason, it is of utmost importance to verify the correctness of libraries through testing. Automatic testing techniques allow library authors, as well as programmers incorporating the library in their own programs, to easily verify the library before shipping any code; potentially detecting and mitigating problems ahead of time. Depsite its criticality, automatically testing libraries remains a challenging task as library functions can expect complex, pointer-rich datastructures as input. Moreover, it might be the case that there are internal dependencies among library functions, where one function sets some state required for another function to operate correctly. This thesis presents a novel method for addressing these challenges by making use of something we call the “batteries included”-assumption, which states that libraries provide all the prerequisites for valid use. Additionally, we evaluate the effectiveness of our method on a set of empirical experiments representing real-world code. This is done by evaluating our method on three libraries of differing sizes, of which two are taken from open-source code repositories. Based on the results of these experiments we discuss the strengths and limitations of our method, and compare our method with the related literature on state-of-the-art automatic testing techniques.
Ödipus, ein traumatologisch-orthopädischer Fall? a Traumatological-orthopaedic Case?

Der Name „Ödipus“ ist eng mit der Psychoanalyse verbunden, denkt man doch gleich an den Ödipus-Komplex, der von Sigmund Freud beschrieben wurde und seinen festen Platz in der Psychoanalyse hat. Von dem Mann, der seinen Vater getötet und seine Mutter geheiratet hat, wird schon von Homer in der Odyssee berichtet. Im 11. Gesang, der Nekyia, erscheint dem Odysseus in der Unterwelt Epikaste (gleichbedeutend mit Iokaste), die Mutter des Ödipus. Die Geschichte wird dort in 10 Versen erzählt ([1], S. 170). Die Odyssee kann in das Jahr 700 v. Chr. datiert werden ([2], S. 123; [3], S. 77). Schadewaldt berichtet auch über Vorstufen der Sage, die ins 2. Jahrtausend vor Christus zurückreichen ([2], S. 123). Sophokles (496–406 v. Chr. ([4], S. 40) stellte als etwa 70-Jähriger das Stück „König Ödipus“ zwischen 429 und 425 v. Chr. in einer Zeit schwerer staatlicher und politischer Krisen im Rahmen des Tragödienagons vor. Er gewann zwar nicht den ersten Preis damit, aber das Stück wurde schon von Aristoteles (389–322 v. Chr. ([5], S. 110) als vollkommenes Bühnenwerk angesehen und es wurde „zum Muster der Tragödie überhaupt“ ([3], S. 78). Ödipus ist nach Gemoll mit „Schwellfuß“ zu übersetzen ([6], S. 532). Aus dem Namen und der Geschichte dieses griechischen Heroen lassen sich verschiedene orthopädisch-unfallchirurgische Krankheitsbilder sowie psychische Reaktionen herleiten und in Diagnosen fassen, die im Folgenden analysiert und vorgestellt werden sollen.
Behavior of Some Hypothesis Tests for the Covariance Matrix of High Dimensional Data

The study of the structure of the covariance matrix when the dimension of the data is much greater than the sample size (high dimensional data) is a complicated problem, since we have many unknown parameters and few data. Several hypothesis tests for the covariance matrix, in the high dimensional context and in the classical case (where the dimension of the data is less than the sample size), can be found in the literature. It has been of interest the tests for the null hypothesis that the covariance matrix of Gaussian data is equal or proportional to the identity matrix, considering the classical case as well as the high dimensional context. Since it is important to have a wide comparison between these tests found in the literature, and for some of them it is difficult to have theoretical results about their powers, in this work we compare several tests by simulations, in terms of the size and power of the test. We also present some examples of application with real high dimensional data found in the literature.
Redundancy and RestRiction in the deRivation of Relative clauses ∗

The contrast between restrictive and appositive relative clauses (RCs) is often analyzed as a structural difference between low and high modification of a DP. In this paper, we consider how this familiar analysis might explain novel constraints on the distribution of two relative clause constructions in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. “Bare relative clauses” (BRCs) in the language cannot modify proper names or demonstrative descriptions. Taking BRCs to be restrictive, we derive their constrained distribution from a semantic constraint on DP-internal RCs, No Redundant Restriction. In contrast, the freer distribution of “complex relative clauses” (CRCs) comes from their status as nominal appositives, higher modifiers free from this constraint. We conclude with a puzzle for this classical division: CRCs can exhibit atypical restrictive interpretations without violating No Redundant Restriction, raising questions about the nature of this constraint and posing a problem for a tight connection between the position and interpretation of a modifier.
High-resolution radar imaging

Abstract : The goal of this project is to formulate and investigate new approaches for forming images of radar targets from spotlight-mode, delay- doppler measurements. These measurements could be acquired with a high- resolution radar-imaging system operating with an optical- or radio-frequency carrier. Two approaches are under study. The first is motivated by an image- reconstruction method used in radionuclide imaging called the confidence- weighted algorithm; here, we refer to this approach as the chirp-rate modulation approach. The second approach is based on more fundamental principles which starts with a mathematical model that accurately describes the physics of an imaging radar-system and then uses statistical-estimation theory with this model to derive methods for producing target images; we refer to this as the estimation-theory approach.
Unlocking Sneak Path Analysis in Memristor Based Logic Design Styles

Memristors or Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) are emerging non-volatile memory devices that can be used for both storage and computing. In this type of memory the information is stored in memory cells in the form of resistance. One of the very important challenges in memristive crossbars is the existence of Sneak Paths, which result in erroneous reading of memory cells. Most of the logic in-memory techniques have emphasized on improving the logic design perspective, but have given minor importance to the sneak path issue. In this paper we show the effect of sneak paths on crossbars of various sizes, and then try to analyze the logic design approaches like MAGIC and MAJORITY with respect to their immunity to sneak paths. Experimental result shows that with some extra overhead we can eliminate the sneak path effect in various logic design methods.
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DEVELOPMENT OF AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT USING PMS7003 SENSOR

Pencemaran udara menjadi salah satu permasalahan lingkungan secara global. Salah satu parameter kualitas udara yang menjadi perhatian yaitu Particulate Matter 2.5 ug/m (PM2.5) karena mengakibatkan gangguan kesehatan pada pernafasan. Informasi kualitas udara PM2.5 tersebut sangat terbatas karena terkendala jumlah dan operasional dari instrumennya, sehingga dilakukan pengembangan peralatan pengukuran kualitas udara menggunakan sensor PMS7003. Pengujian dilakukan di SPAG Bukit Kototabang selama 1 bulan, instrumen dibandingkan dengan peralatan referensi MetOne BAM 1020 untuk konsentrasi PM2.5 dan PM10. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan model pengembangan Plomp. Hasil yang diperoleh sensor PMS7003 layak digunakan untuk pengukuran konsentrasi PM2.5 dibandingkan PM10. Hasil pengujian PM2.5 dengan instrumen referensi diperoleh yaitu korelasi 0,68, RMSE 3,83, bias -0.43, MAE 2.91, ketepatan 0.92 dan konsentrasi PM2.5 pada sensor PMS7003 meningkat saat kelembaban diatas 90%.
Lossy Compression of Climate Data using Convolutional Autoencoders

Climate model simulations, coupled with the increasing computing power of highperformance computing (HPC) centres, are generating huge amounts of climate data. Preserving such data presents a challenge as storage resources are mostly limited. Techniques like limiting the simulation length have been used to reduce the amount of climate data. However, such techniques can have a negative impact on scientific goals. This problem underlines the importance of data compression, the process in which the size of the data is reduced by removing redundant information. In this work, we present a novel lossy compression algorithm. Lossy compression, unlike lossless compression, does not allow an exact reconstruction of the original data. However, this type of compression has the advantage that data volumes can be reduced further. As long as no statistically significant effects are caused, lossy compression can effectively reduce climate data without compromising scientific conclusions. The proposed method uses convolutional autoencoders to compress selected ERA5 weather data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The algorithm is compared with current state-of-the-art lossy compression algorithms. Our results show that convolutional autoencoders in combination with lossless residual compression are superior to state-of-the-art algorithms for lossy compression at almost all error-bounds tested. We show that for absolute errors between 0.3 and 1.0 Kelvin, the compression algorithm achieves 1.3 to 4 times higher compression factors than state-of-the-art.