Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Industrial Structure on LUCC in Daqing City of Heilongjiang Province

Daqing City,as a typical resource-based city that developed by petroleum,meadow and cultivated land resource,not only is a region that human beings and earth interact intensely,but also an area featured by land use change sharply.Land use and land cover change is the most remarkable symbol of the earth's surface system.It influences the structure and function of landscape ecosystem directly or indirectly,and impacts some landscape processes of the earth's surface.There are so many factors affecting land use and land cover change,including nature and human factors.Many researches in the driving force of land use and land cover change have been done in recent years,but few studies have focused on human factors in a resources-based city.Based on the land use data of Daqing City,urban area and four counties in five periods that gained by remote sense images interpreting,this paper analyzed the correlation between the production of main industries and land use in the periods and calculated the coupling coefficient of industry proportion and land use composite of Daqing City urban area and four counties from 1992 to 2001.At first,land uses were divided into six major types: cultivated land,forestland,grassland,water body,residential site and built-up land,wasted land;Secondly,the land use change data of Daqing City by remote sensing interpreting were obtained;At last,using the land use change data and statistical data,the correlation between industry and land use was analyzed and the coupling coefficient of industry proportion and land use composite were calculated.the factors that impact land use change and industry structure of Daqing City were analyzed according to the results.The results showed that the correlation between GDP of industries and LUCC in Daqing City issignificant,the coupling coefficient of industry proportion and land use of urban area in Daqing is the largest.The land use change in Daqing City is mainly affected by the GDP of industry,especially the industry involved petroleum.
The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Transnational Migrant Families: Lessons from the Case of El Salvador and the People’s Republic of China

Our study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the United States and middle class emigrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We examine the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant relations that characterize the two migration flows; explore the elite and popular narratives in which family migration experiences are embedded; and, provide a range of family biographies that capture some of the more emblematic long distance practices and livelihood strategies of transnational families. The paper examines three types of border-crossing family practices including long distance conjugal relations, spatial ruptures in mother-child relationships, and care giving arrangements that involve shuttling non-working age members of the family across locations. PRC and Salvadoran migrant families navigate dramatically different institutional and discursive landscapes, which impacts the character and quality of the resources they bring to bear on their long distance family arrangements. The findings challenge existing conceptualizations of the immigrant family, gender role performances and gender ideologies, and highlight the gendered aspects of the institutional landscapes and discursive narratives in which the livelihood and mobility strategies and long distance practices of immigrant families are embedded.
Wave Digital Emulation of an Enhanced Compact Model for RRAM Devices With Multilevel Capability

The reliable and compact modeling of RRAM devices is crucial for supporting the development of novel technologies including them. This includes a wide range of applications, such as in-memory computing or memristive logic. A major advantage of the considered HfO$_{2}$-based RRAM devices is their CMOS-compatibility, which allows them to already be utilized in present applications. However, one problem is that their fabrication still leads to device variabilities, which makes it challenging to test their functionality in an experimental fashion. This work is dedicated to the compact modeling and efficient emulation of 1T-1R RRAM devices. We aim to provide an enhanced model for multilevel capable RRAM devices, based on the Stanford-PKU model, that can be used on any simulation platform such as SPICE or VERILOG-A. Furthermore, we provide an algorithmic model, based on the wave digital (WD) concept, which allows for emulating the considered devices in real-time. Using the latter, we show the hysteresis of our enhanced model to exhibit astounding resemblance with real device measurements. Finally, we extend the WD model to describe an array composed of RRAM devices for performing vector-matrix multiplication.
Home air conditioning in Europe - how much energy would we use if we became more like American households?

Relatively few homes in Europe currently have air conditioning, which accounts for a small proportion of household electricity use by European households. In the United States of America, however, the 2001 Residential Energy Consumption (RECS) survey showed that three-quarters of all American households use electric air-conditioning and that it accounted for 16% of all household electricity use in the survey year. Much of the difference between Europe and North America may be attributed to climate but it is clear that other factors, including expectations of thermal comfort, also play a large part. The information gathered by RECS includes the number of households with central and room air conditioning, conditioned floor area, average energy consumption per household and cooling degree days. Results are given separately for each of the 9 Census Divisions of the USA and the four most populated states: California, Florida, New York and Texas. This enables the use of air conditioning to be related to cooling degree days (CDD) and floor area. Despite relating to large areas that individually encompass substantial climatic diversity, the data show a strong correlation between energy use and degree-days. Other research used data from 39 American cities to establish the relationship between degree days and uptake of home air-conditioning systems. This paper uses the relationships derived from American household data to estimate how much energy might be used at various locations in Europe if American uptake and usage patterns were to be followed. The results are compared with the projections made as part of the SAVE project on the Energy Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners (EERAC).
The Interplay of Genital Herpes with Cellular Processes: A Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Perspective

Genital herpes, primarily caused by herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), remains a pressing global health concern. Its remarkable ability to intertwine with cellular processes, from harnessing host machinery for replication to subverting antiviral defenses like autophagy and programmed cell death, exemplifies the intricate interplay at the heart of its pathogenesis. While the biomedical community has extensively researched antiviral interventions, the efficiency of these strategies in managing HSV-2 remains suboptimal. Recognizing this, attention has shifted toward leveraging host cellular components to regulate HSV-2 replication and influence the cell cycle. Furthermore, innovative interventional strategies—including drug repurposing, microbivacs, connecting the host microbiome, and exploiting natural secondary metabolites—are emerging as potential game changers. This review summarizes the key steps in HSV-2 pathogenesis and newly discovered cellular interactions, presenting the latest developments in the field, highlighting existing challenges, and offering a fresh perspective on HSV-2’s pathogenesis and the potential avenues for its treatment by targeting cellular proteins and pathways.
AVALIAÇÃO DO DESEMPENHO DE UM ALGORITMO BASEADO NO COMPORTAMENTO DE FORMIGAS EM PROBLEMAS DE CAMINHO DE MÍNIMO CUSTO EM AMBIENTES RASTER Ant colony algorithm performance assessment on solving least-cost-path problems in raster environments

Ant colony optimization is a set of heuristic optimization techniques that emulate real ant’s colony foraging behavior to find the shortest path between its nest and a food source. Those techniques have been widely used in order to solve least-cost-path problems based on vector’s representations. This study presents an adaptation of the traditional Max-Min Ant System algorithm to solve least-cost-path problems on the grid or raster structure, usually used in Geographical
Mixing rates across the Gulf Stream, Part 1: On the formation of Eighteen Degree Water

Microstructure profiles taken in February 2007 across the Gulf Stream (GS) measured the temporal and spatial variability of the intense mixing that forms Eighteen Degree Water (EDW). Strong winds, gusting to 60 kt, and heat fluxes up to 1000 W m produced moderate-to-strong mixing in the surface mixed layer and the entrainment zone, as well as in the thermocline. In the limit of a vertically balanced heat budget, EDW formation is driven primarily by surface heat loss to the atmosphere across a region extending O(100) km south from the GS core, where entrainment heat fluxes based on dissipation rates were relatively low, O(10~100) W m. Near the GS core, much larger entrainment fluxes, O(100~1000) W m, contribute significantly to cooling the mixed layer, but less so to overall EDW formation due to its smaller volume. Below the mixed layer near the GS, diapycnal diffusivities in the thermocline averaged about O(10) m s , and are approximately 10 times levels previously observed in the GS during other seasons. Banded shear structures in velocity profiles, dominated by shoaling phase coherence and clockwise rotation, indicate that downward-propagating near-inertial waves are responsible for much of this enhanced subsurface mixing.
Soil-structure interaction of Huge RC Box Culvert under High Embankment

Two huge RC concrete box culverts are constructed underneath the Dhoho Kediri airport runway embankment. These multi-cell culverts serve as the main infrastructure facilitating the diversion of two crossing rivers and several irrigation channels, and one of them is under 24-meter-high fill, penetrating the slope at a skewed angle and creating huge unbalanced soil pressure. The seismic design loads for underground structures are characterized in terms of the deformations and strains imposed on the structure by the surrounding soil. Soil-structure interaction plays an important role in defining static and seismic loads. Finite element method with dynamic time history analysis considering three selected and modified ground motions has been performed for the seismic design of the RC box culverts, in addition to the racking deformation method. A comparison of both methods is presented.
Upscaling the orange-fleshed sweetpotato in East and Central Africa.

The Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) is a wonder crop – 125 g supply the recommended daily vitamin A for a child below five years of age. This would combat vitamin A deficiency, estimated in 27 million children in East and Central Africa. However, OFSP has not readily been available among resource-poor farmers. The Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa (DONATA) project aimed at popularising OFSP uptake and utilisation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The project employed a multistakeholder approach to promote proven OFSP technologies. Twenty Innovation Platforms for Technology Adoption (IPTAs) comprising national agricultural research institutions, non-governmental organisations, farmer organisations, the private sector and extension agents availed vines, roots and processed products along the production-consumption continuum. The project addressed availability of quality seed through a three-tier seed system. Twelve varieties were disseminated to 100,000 farmers. About 26,000 farmers and 1040 trainers of trainers were trained in agronomy, processing and marketing technologies. This led to increased production and marketing of OFSP products, envisaged by fulfilment of ten contracts. Over 500,000 people were sensitised through the media, schools, hospitals, field days and exhibitions. The initial narrow focus of the IPTAs was a challenge addressed through value-chain development. Other challenges included: institutional rules of leading organisations, which curtailed the IPTA process; loss of key members on platforms and limited activity monitoring. Lessons learnt include harmonising and leveling IPTA member expectations, and the importance of the media and traders on the platform. Future applications would benefit from adopting gender-transformative approaches within IPTAs and value chains.
Bird is the word – on the importance of ethical and effective scientific communication

Back in 1963, the proto-punk band The Trashmen released the single Surfin’ bird (written by Frazier, White, Harris & Wilson Jr. and released in November 1963 by Garrett label; https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ZThquH5t0ow). Fifty years later and despite the obscure lyrics, the song remains iconic in western pop culture; e.g. through the recurrent appearance in the TV show Family Guy (e.g. I dream of Jesus episode, released on 5 October 2008; https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=2WNrx2jq184). It is thought that the line ‘everybody knows that the bird is the word’ was inspired by a highly successful and catchy radio jingle released/commissioned in post prohibitionist USA by the Gallo brothers to boost the sales of their inexpensive fortified Thunderbird wine: ‘What's the word? Thunderbird’ (http://www.absurdintellectual.com/2009/06/05/everybodys-heard-that-the-bird-is-the-word-but-its-not-what-they-think/). This illustrates how a simple and catchy message can have a profound and long-lasting influence on society.
Activity-Based Travel Demand Modeling for Metropolitan Areas in Texas: Model Components and Mathematical Formulations

The goal of this project is to comprehensively model the activity-travel patterns of workers as well as non-workers in a household. The activity-travel system will take as input various land use, socio-demographic, activity system, and transportation level-of-service attributes. It will provide as output the complete daily activity-travel patterns for each individual in the household. In addition to the short-term activity-travel decisions, longer-term decisions about household location, employment, and auto ownership will also be considered. The implementation procedure will recognize the dynamic land use-transportation interactions. This report presents an overall conceptual framework for integrated land use-transportation modeling. The modeling of short-term activity-travel decisions and medium-term household decisions is discussed in detail. A conceptual framework is developed and is followed by representation frameworks for the modeling of short-term activity-travel patterns that will be implemented in the project. The mathematical structures of the alternate model types that are proposed for use in the project are also presented.
La biorremediación en la era post-genómica

Fil: Morelli, Irma S. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - la Plata. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Fermentaciones Industriales. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Cs.exactas. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo En Fermentaciones Industriales; Argentina. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernacion. Comision de Investigaciones Cientificas; Argentina
4th International Symposium of IGCP507: “Paleoclimates of the Cretaceous in Asia and Their Global Correlation”

The fourth international symposium of IGCP507, “Paleoclimates of the Cretaceous in Asia and their global correlation” was held in Kumamoto, on December 1-6, 2009. The purpose of the symposium, which was organized by the Scientific Committee of the IGCP507 Symposium, was to investigate Cretaceous biodiversity, faunal changes, environments, and climate in Asia through geological analyses of rock and fossil records. Seventy participants registered to attend the conference from 10 countries, and gave 28 oral and 28 poster presentations, two keynote speeches, one workshop “Cretaceous to Recent bryozoans”, and five sessions addressing (1) Vertebrate evolution in Asia during the Cretaceous (thematic session), (2) Paleontology, (3) Paleoclimate, (4) Sedimentology, and (5) Tectonics, on December 4-5. There was a pre-symposium field excursion, “Cretaceous non-marine and shallow marine facies and fossils in western Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan”, to northern parts of Amakusa Islands (December 1-3). The excursion focused on sedimentary processes, faunal changes in benthic molluscan fossils, and biostratigraphy in the mid-Cretaceous Goshoura and the Upper Cretaceous Himenoura groups. During the post-symposium field excursion, “Mifune Dinosaur Museum and Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur site in the Mifune Group, Kumamoto (December 6)”, participants visited a typical terrestrial vertebrate site and museum exhibitions.
Study and Application of Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Technology

The study of aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) technology emphasizes on problems such as water quality variation,well clogging,and project risk etc.Besides underground water storage and regulation,ASR is applied widely in environmental protection and remediation,water quality improvement and wastewater management etc.For cities with very high degree of land development in China,ASR is of significance for stable water yield and achieving the sustainable utilization of medium and deep aquifers in these areas.
Local climate variability associated to sustainable agriculture at rain shadow areas of mount Rinjani and Tambora in West Nusa Tanggara

Climate is driven by solar energy received on the earth surface and local factor, such as mountains. The solar energy affects climate variables namely, temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind and rain. In addition, mountains perform rain shadow areas and affect variability of local climate. A descriptive research was conducted to study variability of those variables associated to direct normal solar irradiation (DNI), and its possible impact on sustainable agriculture at rain shadow areas of Mt. Rinjani in Lombok and Tambora in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara. The results show that the DNI was relative similar at both sides of the Mt. Rinjani which was 13.15±2.6 MJ m−2day−1 on average. While at Mt. Tambora, the DNI at rain shadow area (southern part) was higher than northern part which were 15.6±2.07 MJ.m−2.day−1 and 13.6±3.2 MJ m−2.day−1 respectively. The DNI was relatively high in low lands and it successively decreased through medium and high lands. ETo, air and soil surface temperature were relatively high at rain shadow areas. In conclusion, the intensity of DNI was not significantly affected by aspect factor of incoming light relative to the Mt Rinjani and Mt. Tambora. The mountains had affected the variability of local climate and performed rain shadow areas to the north from Mt Rinjani and to the south from Mt. Tambora, where there had established typical dry land agriculture of semi arid tropics.
A downscaling approach for geological characterization of the Raditladi basin of Mercury

Abstract In this work, we combined multi-scale geological maps of Mercury to produce a new global map where geological units are classified based on albedo, crater density and morphological relationships with other units. To create this map, we used the 250 m/pixel mosaic of images acquired by the narrow- and wide-angle cameras onboard the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its orbital phase. The geological mapping is supported by digital terrain model data and surface mineralogical variation from the global mosaic of MESSENGER Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer observations. This map comprises the global-scale intercrater plains, smooth plains and Odin-type units as reported in previous studies, as well as units we term bright intercrater plains, Caloris rough ejecta and dark material deposits. We mapped a portion of the Raditladi quadrangle (19–35°N, 106–133°E) at a regional scale at a resolution of 166 m/pixel. We characterized the geological context of the area and evaluated the stratigraphic relationships between the units. To obtain a representative geological section, we analysed and corrected available topographical data. The geological cross-section derived from our regional mapping suggests that volcanic emplacement of Raditladi's inner plains followed the topography of the basin after the deposition of impact-related units (i.e. melts, breccias and rim collapse) and was driven by low-viscosity flows. Hollows that appear on Raditladi's peak ring were possibly formed from low-reflectance intercrater plains materials exposed through the peak ring unit. Supplementary material: Cleaner, larger version of the global-scale geological map and a local-scale map for comparison are available at http://www.geolsoc. org.uk/SUP18741.
Origin of Li+ Solvation Ability of Electrolyte Solvent: Ring Strain

Developing new organic solvents to support the use of Li metal anodes in secondary batteries is an area of great interest. In particular, research is actively underway to improve battery performance by introducing fluorine to ether solvents, as these are highly compatible with Li metal anodes because fluorine imparts high oxidative stability and relatively low Li-ion solvation ability. However, theoretical analysis of the solvation ability of organic solvents mostly focuses on the electron-withdrawing capability of fluorine. Herein, we analyze the effect of the structural characteristics of solvents on their Li+ ion solvation ability from a computational chemistry perspective. We reveal that the structural constraints imposed on the oxygen binding sites in solvent molecules vary depending on the structural characteristics of the N-membered ring formed by the interaction between the organic solvent and Li+ ions and the internal ring containing the oxygen binding sites. We demonstrate that the structural strain of the organic solvents has a comparable effect on Li+ solvation ability seen for the electrical properties of fluorine elements. This work emphasizes the importance of understanding the structural characteristics and strain when attempting to understand the interactions between solvents and metal cations and effectively control the solvation ability of solvents.