Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Inclusive Growth: Building up a Concept

Inclusive growth has become a central concern in the development literature and in policymaking in many countries. However, the literature presents several different definitions of inclusive growth, which do not converge to a consensus on the concept, let alone one on how to operationalise it sensibly. The concept of inclusive growth came to light in the context of an unfolding shift in development thinking away from seeing equity either as a toll on growth or as a byproduct of growth only setting in after a certain period during which it is eschewed in favour of growth, towards an understanding, albeit not unanimous, that not only is growth with equity possible, but also growth and poverty and inequality reduction can be instrumental to each other. This shift was the result of the progression of development thinking largely grounded on the developmental experiences of those countries that entered the second half of the 20th century outside the select group of developed countries. The process involved a collection of distinct yet somewhat concatenated developments in the understanding of the interaction of growth, poverty and inequality. (? )
STRATOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND THEIR ROLE IN CLIMATE

The 27th session of the World Climate Research Programmeʼs (WCRP) Joint Steering Committee (JSC) was held in Pune, India, 6-11 March 2006. Attending on behalf of SPARC were the co-chairs, Alan OʼNeill and A. R. Ravishankara (Ravi), and the director of the SPARC Office, Norm McFarlane. On this occasion, representatives of two of WCRPʼs funding agencies were in attendance: delegates from the International Council of Science and the World Meteorological Organisation.
Exploring the binom innovation quality and environmental management systems

1 Departament d’Organitzacio, Gestio Empresarial i Diseny de Producte. Escola Politecnica Superior. Universitat de Girona. Av. Lluis Santalo s/n 17071 Girona (Spain). josep.llach@udg.edu, marti.casadesus@udg.edu, andrea.bikfalvi@udg.edu. 2 Departament d Organitzacio. Facultat de Ciencies Economiques i Socials. Immaculada, 22, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 08017 Barcelona (Spain). fmarimon@cir.uic. es
Identification du milieu océanique : application sur des données petites échelles

La connaissance du milieu océanique est un problème crucial dans de nombreux domaines comme la géophysique, les communications sous-marines ou encore la recherche pétrolière. Nous proposons ici une méthode simple basée sur la transformée fréquence nombre d’onde et la physique de la propagation pour identifier le milieu océanique peu profond. Ces méthodes utilisent le champ acoustique créé par une source Ultra Basse Fréquence (1-100 Hz) et enregistré à grande distance sur une antenne d'hydrophones régulièrement espacés et posés sur le fond pour estimer la vitesse des ondes P dans le fond et la hauteur d’eau. Elles méthodes sont appliquées sur les données « petites échelles » pour lesquelles l’environnement est connue de manière précise afin de quantifier l’erreur d’estimation.
Chinese guidelines for the rehabilitation treatment of knee osteoarthritis: An CSPMR evidence‐based practice guideline

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is the most common degenerative joint disease in China, causing a huge economic burden on patients, families, and society. Standardized KOA rehabilitation treatment is an important means to prevent and treat the disease and promote the development of high‐quality medical services. This guideline is updated on the basis of the 2016 and 2019 editions.
Variación mensual en el aporte de hojas de cuatro especies forestales nativas del Parque Chaqueño Húmedo (Argentina) Monthly variation of the litterfall in four forestal native species from the Humid

El objetivo del trabajo fue cuantificar la cantidad anual de hojas aportadas al suelo proveniente de cuatro especies forestales nativas del Parque Chaqueno Humedo, y su relacion con algunos elementos del clima, como precipitaciones, temperaturas minimas mensuales, velocidad del viento, heliofania relativa. Se ubicaron 5 parcelas de 1000 m 2 cada una y se seleccionaron cuatro especies forestales de importancia economica: Espina Corona (Gleditsia amorphoides (Griseb) Taub. ); Guayaibi (Patagonula americana L); Mora (Maclura tinctoria Gaud.Wilad.) y Urunday (Astronium balansae Engl.) de la Reserva Natural Estricta de Colonia Benitez (Chaco, Argentina). Se llevo un registro de precipitaciones pluviales, temperaturas minimas, heliofania relativa, y velocidad del viento. Se concluye que la abscision de las hojas se produce durante todo el ano, pero con mayor intensidad entre los meses de junio a septiembre, mostrando una marcada estacionalidad. La abscision de hojas de Mora correlaciona con las precipitaciones pluviales mensuales, temperatura minima mensual, velocidad del viento y heliofania relativa. Urunday es la especie en la que no se detecto ninguna respuesta, a los elementos del clima considerados. Las precipitaciones y la heliofania relativa influyen en la abscision de las hojas de Espina Corona, y para Guayaibi correlacionan temperaturas minimas, velocidad del viento y heliofania relativa. The aim of this project was to quantify the annual amount of litterfall to the soil from four forestal native species in the Humid Chaqueno Parque and its relation to some climate elements such as rainfall, monthly minimum temperatures, wind speed, relative heliophanic. Five 1.000 m2 plots were situated and four forestal species of economical importance were selected: Espina Corona (Gleditsia amorphoides (Griseb) Taub. ); Guayaibi (Patagonula americana L); Mora (Maclura tinctoria Gaud.Wilad.) y Urunday (Astronium balansae Engl.) all of them from the Colonia Benitez Estricta Nature Research (Chaco, Argentina). The rainfall, minimum temperature, relative heliopphanic and wind speed were correctly registered. It was concluded that the leaves fall takes place during the whole year but with greater intensity between June and September, showing a marked stationary state. The fall of Mora leaves correlates with the monthly rainfall, monthly minimum temperatures, the wind speed ant relative heliophanic. Urunday was the only specie in which no answer was detected to the elements of climate considered. The rainfall and relative heliophanic have influence in the fall of Espina Corona leaves and for Guayaibi have correlation minimum temperatures, wind speed and relative heliophanic. Palabras Clave: Estacionalidad, aporte de
Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census Tract Demographics, Facility Distribution, Air Toxic Emissions and Regulation

Acknowledgements I would to thank my thesis chair Dr. Fuller for her guidance not only on this project, but throughout my entire MPH program. Thank you for always encouraging me and making me continue to strive to great heights even when I didn't think I could do it. I would also like to thank my co-chair Dr. White for always being there when I needed her assistance. Thank you! In presenting this thesis as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for an advanced degree from Georgia State University, I agree that the Library of the University shall make it available for inspection and circulation in accordance with its regulations governing materials of this type. I agree that permission to quote from, to copy from, or to publish this thesis may be granted by the author or, in his/her absence, by the professor under whose direction it was written, or in his/her absence, by the Associate Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences. Such quoting, copying, or publishing must be solely for scholarly purposes and will not involve potential financial gain. It is understood that any copying from or publication of this dissertation which involves potential financial gain will not be allowed without written permission of the author. All theses deposited in the Georgia State University Library must be used in accordance with the stipulations prescribed by the author in the preceding statement. Users of this thesis who not regularly enrolled as students at Georgia State University are required to attest acceptance of the preceding stipulation by signing below. Libraries borrowing this thesis for the use of their patrons are required to see that each user records here the information requested. ABSTRACT Background and Purpose Low socioeconomic status (SES) populations as well as minorities are often exposed to a disproportionate number of hazardous chemical including hydrogen fluoride, benzene and formaldehyde (Bullard, 2008). The sources of these hazards may include noxious land uses such as incinerators and landfills, Superfund sites, Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, sewer and water treatment plants, and other locally unwanted land uses (Choi, Shim, Kaye, & Ryan, 2006). The disproportionate burden often results in increased exposure to harmful environmental conditions for affected communities (Wilson et al., 2014). The objectives of this study are to evaluate the relevance of demographic characteristics to (1) TRI facility location, (2) TRI chemical emissions, and (3) incidence and resolution of facility complaints. Methods …
Détermination de la constante de dissociation de l'hybridation ADN / ADN aux interfaces solide/liquide par trois techniques différentes : résonance de plasmon de surface, biopuce par mesure de cartographie de fluorescence et par mesure de fluorescence par champ évanescent

Les biocapteurs sont des outils de detection et d'analyse puissants qui ont ete largement utilises dans les domaines de la sante, de la recherche biomedicale et de l’environnement. Cependant, differents biocapteurs utilisent differents transducteurs qui varient par la nature des substrats utilises et par la chimie de surface. Tous ces parametres peuvent avoir un effet sur les reactions biomoleculaires aux interfaces et conduire a des variations de la mesure de la constante de dissociation Kd. Dans ce contexte, ce travail de these visait a comparer trois techniques differentes : biopuce avec une detection par fluorescence, biocapteur a fluorescence par champ evanescent et biocapteur par resonance de plasmon de surface (SPR). Ces trois techniques ont ete comparees pour la determination de la constant de dissociation de l'hybridation de l'ADN. Pour la biopuce a fluorescence classique, le substrat est une lame de verre et la mesure est effectuee a la fin de l'experience. Dans le cas du biocapteur a fluorescence a champ evanescent, le polystyrene est le substrat et une detection en temps reel est realisee. La SPR est realisee sur un film d'or mince. C'est une technique en temps reel et sans marquage. Les deux techniques basees sur la fluorescence necessitent de marquer les cibles avec un fluorophore avant la mesure. Un facteur important determinant la performance de l'analyse est la chimie de surface du capteur. Ici, nous avons optimise la chimie de la surface de l'or pour le greffage d'ADN modifie thiol. Nous avons etudie deux methodes de nettoyage: la solution de piranha et le plasma d'oxygene, dans le but d'obtenir une surface d'or propre sans oxydation de l'or. Ensuite, nous avons optimise les parametres lors de la mesure SPR comme par exemple la structure interfaciale du capteur, la force ionique . Enfin, ces trois techniques ont ete utilisees pour mesurer la constante de formation du duplex ADN/ADN. Les resultats ont montre que les Kd sont du meme ordre de grandeur pour les trois techniques. De plus, pour les trois techniques, une augmentation de la densite de sonde de surface a entraine une baisse d’affinite telle que mesuree.
Numerical modelling of the impact of climate change on the morphology of Saint-Lawrence tributaries

This thesis investigates the impacts of climate-induced changes in discharge and base level on the morphology of Saint-Lawrence River tributaries for the period 2010–2099. The selected tributaries (Batiscan, Richelieu, Saint-Maurice, Saint-François and Yamachiche rivers) were chosen because of their differences in size, flow regime and morphological setting. Not only will these tributaries experience an altered hydrological regime as a consequence of climate change, but their base level (Saint-Lawrence River water level) will also change. A onedimensional (1D) morphodynamic model (SEDROUT), originally developed for aggrading gravel-bed rivers, was adapted for the specific context of the Saint-Lawrence lowland tributaries in order to simulate sand-bed rivers with variable daily discharge and downstreamwater level fluctuations. A module to deal with sediment routing in channels with islands was also added to the model. The enhanced model (SEDROUT4-M), which was tested with smallscale simulations and present-day conditions in four tributaries of the Saint-Lawrence River, can now simulate a very wide range of river morphodynamic problems. Changes in bed elevation and bed-material delivery to the Saint-Lawrence River over the 2010–2099 period were simulated with SEDROUT4-M for the Batiscan, Richelieu and Saint-François rivers for all combinations of seven tributary hydrological regimes (present-day and those predicted using three global climate models (GCM) and two greenhouse gas emission scenarios) and three scenarios of how the base level provided by the Saint-Lawrence River will alter (no change, gradual decrease, step decrease). The effects on mean annual sediment delivery and bed elevation differ between GCM and seem to be related to whether the river is currently aggrading, degrading or in equilibrium, which highlights the importance of investigating several rivers using several climate models in order to determine trends in climate change impacts. Despite the fact that mean daily discharge and mean annual maximum discharge remain close to their current values in the three GCM scenarios for daily discharge, marked changes occur in the mean annual sediment transport rates in each simulated tributary. This is due to the important effect of more frequent large individual flood events under future climate as well as a shift of peak annual discharge from the spring towards the winter, which results in increased variability of bed-material transport rates. Some complications with the 1D modelling approach to capture the complex geometry of the Saint-Maurice and Saint-François rivers suggest that iv the use of a two-dimensional (2D) approach should be seriously considered to accurately simulate the discharge distribution at bifurcations around islands. The Saint-François River is used as a test case for the 2D model H2D2, which performs well from a hydraulics point of view but which needs to be adapted to fully simulate morphological adjustments in the channel.
Efficient data retrieval using corrugated search technique

Internet has a wide collection of information which encompasses both relevant and irrelevant data. In general, search engines provide abundant information for any search term which is keyed in. Some of the search results may be relevant and some others may be irrelevant. Therefore, it is tedious and time consuming for the knowledge seeker to filter out the relevant details from the huge pile of search results. Current web search engines are built to serve all users, independent of the special needs of any individual user. User profiling helps in filtering out the unwanted information and presents only the relevant results to the user. In this paper, an efficient Information Retrieval System (IRS) is developed to extract the relevant and most appropriate information for any particular search term. An efficient database that covers important terms in engineering curriculum has been designed and personalization of search process is carried out based on the user interests. Corrugated Search (CS) is employed in which relevant search results are filtered and presented to the user based on user profile and search context.
Grid scheduling algorithm based on application diversity

Grid computing was initially proposed to harness huge amounts computational resources. In grid and parallel systems, backfilling has proven to be very efficient method when parallel jobs are considered. Backfilling is nonFCFS job scheduling policy that allows the jobs to move ahead in queue, given they don’t delay previously submitted jobs. We present an extension to the existing conservative backfill by creating multiple queues for jobs based on their runtime along with earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduling policy, which improves the performance of the algorithm in terms of Average weighted response time (AWRT) and average slowdown of the jobs.
Insight into the prebiotic concept: lessons from an exploratory, double blind intervention study with inulin-type fructans in obese women

Objective To highlight the contribution of the gut microbiota to the modulation of host metabolism by dietary inulin-type fructans (ITF prebiotics) in obese women. Methods A double blind, placebo controlled, intervention study was performed with 30 obese women treated with ITF prebiotics (inulin/oligofructose 50/50 mix; n=15) or placebo (maltodextrin; n=15) for 3 months (16 g/day). Blood, faeces and urine sampling, oral glucose tolerance test, homeostasis model assessment and impedancemetry were performed before and after treatment. The gut microbial composition in faeces was analysed by phylogenetic microarray and qPCR analysis of 16S rDNA. Plasma and urine metabolic profiles were analysed by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Results Treatment with ITF prebiotics, but not the placebo, led to an increase in Bifidobacterium and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii; both bacteria negatively correlated with serum lipopolysaccharide levels. ITF prebiotics also decreased Bacteroides intestinalis, Bacteroides vulgatus and Propionibacterium, an effect associated with a slight decrease in fat mass and with plasma lactate and phosphatidylcholine levels. No clear treatment clustering could be detected for gut microbial analysis or plasma and urine metabolomic profile analyses. However, ITF prebiotics led to subtle changes in the gut microbiota that may importantly impact on several key metabolites implicated in obesity and/or diabetes. Conclusions ITF prebiotics selectively changed the gut microbiota composition in obese women, leading to modest changes in host metabolism, as suggested by the correlation between some bacterial species and metabolic endotoxaemia or metabolomic signatures.
Diagnostic Accuracy Under Congestion

In diagnostic services, agents typically need to weigh the benefit of running an additional test and improving the accuracy of diagnosis against the cost of delaying the provision of services to others. Our paper analyzes how to dynamically manage this accuracy/congestion trade-off. To that end, we study an elementary congested system facing an arriving stream of customers. The diagnostic process consists of a search problem in which the service provider conducts a sequence of imperfect tests to determine the customer's type. We find that the agent should continue to perform the diagnosis as long as her current belief that the customer is of a given type falls into an interval that depends on the congestion level as well as the number of performed tests thus far. This search interval should shrink as congestion intensifies and as the number of performed tests increases if additional conditions hold. Our study reveals that, contrary to diagnostic services without congestion, the base rate i.e., the prior probability of the customer type has an effect on the agent's search strategy. In particular, the optimal search interval shrinks when customer types are more ambiguous a priori, i.e., as the base rate approaches the value at which the agent is indifferent between types. Finally, because of congestion effects, the agent should sometimes diagnose the customer as being of a given type, even if test results indicate otherwise. All these insights disappear in the absence of congestion. This paper was accepted by Martin Lariviere, operations management.
Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value

Music Was My First Love Why do human beings enjoy music? Salimpoor et al. (p. 216) combined behavioral economics with brain scanning to explore how a piece of music is considered rewarding to an individual when it is heard for the first time. They discovered that neural activity in the mesolimbic striatum during listening to a novel piece of music was the best predictor of the money listeners were willing to spend on buying the piece. These observations implicate sensory cortical areas in reward processing, which the authors attribute to the aesthetic nature of the judgment. Activity in the mesolimbic striatum and its interaction with auditory cortices determines the hedonic response to new music. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate neural processes when music gains reward value the first time it is heard. The degree of activity in the mesolimbic striatal regions, especially the nucleus accumbens, during music listening was the best predictor of the amount listeners were willing to spend on previously unheard music in an auction paradigm. Importantly, the auditory cortices, amygdala, and ventromedial prefrontal regions showed increased activity during listening conditions requiring valuation, but did not predict reward value, which was instead predicted by increasing functional connectivity of these regions with the nucleus accumbens as the reward value increased. Thus, aesthetic rewards arise from the interaction between mesolimbic reward circuitry and cortical networks involved in perceptual analysis and valuation.
A nui wave encountering psychology from the shores of the Pacific

Siautu Alefaio Monash University The world­view of Pacific nations which lie within the vast ocean of the South Pacific is yet to be uncovered in the world of psychology. Since the first wave of migrants to the shores of Aotearoa,/New Zealand, many differing pathways have evolved for the children of the Pacific sojourners. Pasefika youth are emerging as an influential force in youth culture today. However, these highly visible pockets of Pasefika talent mask the reality of overcrowded housing, poor health, low­incomes, tail­end educational achievement, and the frequent experience of issues to do with cultural identity and values (Tiatia, 1988; Taule’alea’usumai, 1997). Within these areas of concern Pasefika people will encounter ‘helping professions’ such as psychology. It is a discipline which has historically been devoted to understanding the human ‘psyche’ or ‘soul’. Most of this body of knowledge however is derived from European contexts. The South Pacific has now produced a generation of Pasefika academics that are criss­crossing the globe with pioneering theoretical frameworks specific to our region. It is within this framework that I present to you my current thinking and its intent of ‘claiming our legitimate space’. “World views are best understood as we see them incarnated, fleshed out in actual ways of life. They are not systems or thought, like theologies or philosophies. Rather, world views are perceptual frameworks. They are ways of seeing. If we want to understand what people see, or how well people see, we need to watch how they walk” (Walsh and Middleton, 1984, p17).