Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia

The heterobranch gastropod family Glacidorbidae (? Pulmonata) is known only from temperate Australia and Chile. The Australian taxa are reviewed and three new genera, Benthodorbis, Striadorbis and Tasmodorbis are described based on differences in their shells, especially the protoconchs, and in their opercula and radulae. Nineteen species of Australian glacidorbids are recognised, all but four of them new. Of the four Australian species previously included in Glacidorbis, only two, G. hedleyi (Iredale) from New South Wales and Victoria, and G. occidentalis Bunn & Stoddart from south Western Australia, are retained in that genus. Eleven new species of Glacidorbis are described, seven from Tasmania (G. bicarinatus, G. catomus, G. atrophus, G. decoratus, G. costatus, G. tasmanicus and G. circulus), one (G. isolatus) from New South Wales, two (G. otwayensis and G. rusticus) from Victoria and one (G. troglodytes) from South Australia. Striadorbis contains the Tasmanian S. pedderi (Smith), and two new species, S. spiralis from western Victoria and S. janetae from Tasmania. Benthodorbis contains two species, both from old lakes in Tasmania; B. pawpela (Smith) from Great Lake and B. fultoni from Lake Sorell. Tasmodorbis contains a single species found in western Tasmania, T. punctatus, unique in having internal shell pores. Glacidorbis costatus is known only from Pulbeena Swamp in NW Tasmania and appears to be recently extinct, possibly as a result of draining of the swamp in the early part of this century. A cladistic analysis with the South American member of the family, Gondwanorbis, as the outgroup, supports the monophyly of the genera recognised.
Antioxidant Activities of the Methanol Extract of Cardiospermum halicacabum.

Abstract Cardiospermum halicacabum. Linn. (Sapindaceae) is a climber, commonly found as a weed throughout India, used as vegetable as well as traditional medicine for rheumatism, lumbago, and nervous diseases and as demulcent in orchitis and in dropsy. In the current study, we investigated the antioxidant potency of methanol extract of C. halicacabum. (CHE) employing various established in vitro. systems, such as the β. -carotene-linoleate model system, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH)/superoxide/nitric oxide radical scavenging, reducing power, and iron ion chelating activity. CHE showed noticeable inhibitory activity toward β. -carotene–linoleate model system. Furthermore, CHE exhibited a moderate concentration-dependent inhibition of DPPH radical. The multiple antioxidant activity of CHE was evident as it also possessed reducing power, superoxide scavenging ability, nitric oxide scavenging activity, and also ferrous ion chelating potency. The data obtained in the in vitro. models clearly establish the antioxidant potency of methanol extract of C. halicacabum.
Massively Parallel Algorithms for Data Ingestion on New Hardware

As the creation and transmission of digital data continues to increase at an astonishing pace, data management systems are confronted with an unparalleled in ux of data. While data needs to be ingested at an unprecedented rate, processors are seeing only moderate improvements in sequential processing performance. While performance had increased by more than 50% per year for nearly two decades, CPU advancements have drastically decelerated in 2003, declining to annual improvements of only 3.5% in recent years. In order to continue the trend of exponentially increasing computational throughput, manufacturers have progressively turned towards scaling hardware parallelism. Yet, CPU cores remain complex, devoting a considerable share of chip area to optimising serial execution, which limits the number of cores that can economically be integrated on a single chip. GPUs, in contrast, have been designed for parallel execution ever since. While core counts of modern CPUs are still in the double-digit range, today’s GPUs integrate as many as 5 120 cores. In order to exploit the computational throughput and superior memory bandwidth of GPUs to accelerate data ingestion, however, algorithms must be designed for parallel execution from the ground up. According to Amdahl’s law, even a small fraction of serial work considerably limits the speedup that an algorithm can achieve when trying to scale to thousands of cores. Another challenge is posed by the comparably slow interconnect. Data transfers add to the end-to-end processing duration and have to be amortised. This thesis aims to accelerate data ingestion on GPUs by providing multiple massively parallel algorithms. By considering the essential building blocks that are required to accelerate the ingestion process, our algorithms contribute towards making GPUs selfsu cient and enabling a coalesced ingestion pipeline that passes along intermediary results on the device. The massively parallel algorithms contributed by this work are designed for scalability from the ground up to address the fundamental shift towards increasingly parallel processors and bene t from this new direction of processor advancement. By employing ne-grained data parallelism, we ensure that the presented algorithms are load-balanced and provide robust performance in spite of input variance.
Customization in Luxury Brands: Can Valentino Get Personal?

Luxury brands have started to offer consumers the opportunity to customize their exclusive products by making certain aesthetic decisions, such as the color, fabric, or cut of their products. A robust finding in the marketing literature is that consumers place a greater value on customized than on standard products because these unique products better fit and communicate their tastes, preferences, and identity. However, the majority of focal products in these studies fall outside the luxury segment. The authors demonstrate that consumers’ customization preferences differ between mainstream and luxury brands. In the luxury segment, consumers pay a premium for the designer’s expertise and the status that it can convey. As such, the consumers’ desire for self-expression can potentially erode the product’s signaling value. Through a series of four experiments, the authors demonstrate that luxury brands can benefit from customization but they can also take customization too far. Their findings suggest that brand managers should allow consumers to make fewer design decisions for luxury versus mainstream brands to preserve the signal value created by the designer.
Intervention Strategies on the Wastewater Treatment Behavior of Swine Farmers: An Extended Model of the Theory of Planned Behavior

Untreated swine wastewater pollutes rivers and harms the environment. The pollution can be minimized if swine farmers take wastewater treatment (WWT) action before the wastewater is discharged into rivers. Thus, the WWT behavior of swine farmers is key to environmental sustainability. However, WWT behavior, characterized by high costs and inconvenience, has received little attention from previous studies. Due to the high cost, some intervention strategies are helpful in ensuring that farmers behave in a pro-environmental manner. Therefore, this study compares the effects of two intervention factors, i.e., environmental knowledge and perceived effectiveness of enforcement, on the WWT behavior of swine farmers in Taiwan. The comparisons and empirical tests are based on an extended model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The findings reveal that all three classic factors in the TPB, i.e., attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, had significant and positive effects on the intention of farmers to perform WWT behavior. Contradicting most previous studies, behavioral intentions did not have a significant effect on WWT behavior; however, perceived behavioral control did. The total effects of both intervention factors on WWT behavior were significant and positive. Moreover, the total effect of environmental knowledge was larger than that of the perceived effectiveness of enforcement. The findings suggest that a combination of the two strategies of increasing the environmental knowledge of individuals and enhancing the enforcement of environmental regulations will be helpful in inducing the sustained WWT behavior of farmers. Policy makers can allocate more resources to increasing farmers’ environmental knowledge than to enhancing the enforcement of environmental regulations. Finally, future research directions are discussed.
Haematological and serum biochemical indices of broiler chickens fed roselle seed (Hibiscus sabdariffa l.) cake based diet as replacement for soyabean meal

Feeding trial experiment was carried out to evaluate the haematological and serum biochemical parameters of broiler chickens fed graded levels of Roselle Seed Cake (RSC) as replacement of a conventional protein source. Proximate composition was done to determine the nutrient content of RSC and experimental diets. The experiment contained graded levels of RSC replacing soya bean cake (SBC). One hundred and twenty (120) day old Ross broiler chickens were used in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The broiler chicks were assigned to five dietary treatments with three replicates each with 8 birds per replicate and 24 birds per treatment. Five isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets were formulated for the broiler straight diet. Diet 1 served asthe control diet while diets 2, 3, 4 and 5 contained 8%, 16%, 24% and 32% RSC respectively. Data were collected and analyzed using analysis of variance and the mean was separated using Duncan multiple range test. The findings from the study showed that there were no significant (P? 0.05) differences in all the parameters measured for haematology across dietary treatment means except for the white blood cell. The blood biochemical composition showed no significant (P? 0.05) differences in total protein, high density lipoprotein, low density lipoprotein and creatinine across dietary treatments. RSC as an alternative feedstuff can replace soya bean cake at 24% in the diet of broiler chickens for improved haematological and blood biochemical of broilers. Roselle seed cake can replace SBC at the broiler chicken straight ration at 75% (24% dietary RSC) inclusion for better performance.
Fair Clustering Using Antidote Data

Clustering algorithms are widely utilized for many modern data science applications. This motivates the need to make outputs of clustering algorithms fair. Traditionally, new fair algorithmic variants to clustering algorithms are developed for specific notions of fairness. However, depending on the application context, different definitions of fairness might need to be employed. As a result, new algorithms and analysis need to be proposed for each combination of clustering algorithm and fairness definition. Additionally, each new algorithm would need to be reimplemented for deployment in a real-world system. Hence, we propose an alternate approach to group-level fairness in center-based clustering inspired by research on data poisoning attacks. We seek to augment the original dataset with a small number of data points, called antidote data. When clustering is undertaken on this new dataset, the output is fair, for the chosen clustering algorithm and fairness definition. We formulate this as a general bi-level optimization problem which can accommodate any center-based clustering algorithms and fairness notions. We then categorize approaches for solving this bi-level optimization for two different problem settings. Extensive experiments on different clustering algorithms and fairness notions show that our algorithms can achieve desired levels of fairness on many real-world datasets with a very small percentage of antidote data added. We also find that our algorithms achieve lower fairness costs and competitive clustering performance compared to other state-of-the-art fair clustering algorithms.
GAN-based method for cyber-intrusion detection

Ubiquitous cyber-intrusions endanger the security of our devices constantly. They may bring irreversible damages to the system and cause leakage of privacy. Thus, it is of vital importance to promptly detect these intrusions. Traditional methods such as Decision Trees and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are used to classify normal internet connections and cyber-intrusions. However, the intrusions are largely fewer than normal connections, which limits the capability of these methods. Anomaly detection methods such as Isolation Forest can handle the imbalanced data. Nevertheless, when the features of data increase, these methods lack enough ability to learn the distribution. Generative adversarial network (GAN) has been proposed to solve the above issues. With its strong generative ability, it only needs to learn the distribution of normal status, and identify the abnormal status when intrusion occurs. But existing models are not suitable to process discrete values, leading to immense degradation of detection performance. To cope with these challenges, in this paper, we propose a novel GAN-based model with specifically-designed loss function to detect cyber-intrusions. Experiment results show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models and remarkably reduce the overhead.
Оптимизация одностадийных процессов получения микрокристаллической целлюлозы пероксидной делигнификацией древесины в присутствии катализатора TiO2

The traditional method for obtaining microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) from wood raw material is multi-stage and it is based on the integration of environmentally hazardous processes of pulping and bleaching of cellulose and acid hydrolysis of amorphous part of cellulose. The paper describes an improved one-stage catalytic method of microcrystalline cellulose obtaining from softwood and hardwood based on peroxide delignification of wood in acetic acid-water medium under the mild conditions (100 °C, atmospheric pressure) in the presence of an environmentally safe solid catalyst TiO 2 . Experimental and mathematical optimization of the processes of MCC preparation by peroxide catalytic delignification of various types of wood was carried out. The following optimal modes of obtaining MCC with the yield 36.3–42.0 wt. % of abs. dry wood and residual lignin content ≤1.0 mas. %, hemicellulose ≤6.0 mas. % was established: for aspen – 5 wt. % H 2 O 2 , 25 wt. % CH 3 COOH, hydromodule = 10; for birch – 5 wt. % H 2 O 2 , 25 wt. % CH 3 COOH, hydromodule = 15; for abies – 6 wt. % H 2 O 2 , 30 wt. % CH 3 COOH, hydromodule = 15; for larch – 6 wt. % H 2 O 2 , 30 wt. % CH 3 COOH, hydromodule = 15.
Superfluid pairing between fermions with unequal masses

We consider a superfluid state in a two-component gas of fermionic atoms with equal densities and unequal masses in the BCS limit. We develop a perturbation theory along the lines proposed by Gorkov and Melik-Barkhudarov and find that for a large difference in the masses of heavy (M) and light (m) atoms one has to take into account both the second-order and third-order contributions. The result for the critical temperature and order parameter is then quite different from the prediction of the simple BCS approach. Moreover, the small parameter of the theory turns out to be (pF? a? )? M? m? 1, where pF is the Fermi momentum and a the scattering length. Thus, for a large mass ratio M? m the conventional perturbation theory requires significantly smaller Fermi momenta (densities) or scattering lengths than in the case of M? m, where the small parameter is pF? a? 1. We show that three-body scattering resonances appearing at a large mass ratio due to the presence of three-body bound Efimov states do not influence the result, which in this sense becomes universal.
Handbook of model rocketry

Preface to the Seventh Edition. Preface to the First Edition. 1. This Is Model Rocketry. 2. Getting Started. 3. Tools and Techniques in the Workshop. 4. Model Rocket Construction. 5. Model Rocket Motors. 6. Ignition and Ignition Systems. 7. Launchers and Launching Techniques. 8. How High Will It Go? 9. Stability. 10. Model Rocket Aerodynamics. 11. Multistage Model Rockets. 12. Recovery Devices. 13. Glide Recovery. 14. Building and Flying Large Models. 15. Payloads. 16. Scale Models. 17. Altitude Determination. 18. Model Rocket Ranges. 19. Clubs and Contests. 20. Where Do I Go from Here? Epilogue. Bibliography. Appendix I: Important Addresses. Appendix II: Model Rocket CP Calculation. Appendix III: Rocket Altitude Simulation: Computer Program RASP-93. Appendix IV: Static Stability Calculation: Computer Program STABCAL-2. Appendix V: The Triple-T rack Tracker. Appendix VI: Two-Station Alt-Azimuth Tracking Data Reduction Program MRDR-2. Appendix VII: Three-Station Elevation-Angle-Only Tracking Data Reduction Tables. Appendix VIII: Sample NAR Section Bylaws. Index.
Avoiding fiber axial compression fatigue in the design and use of tension members

Fiber axial compression fatigue is a unique form of damage which can occur in ropes, cables and other tension members. It can occur during cyclic tension loading, when some fibers go into compression as overall tension on the rope is relaxed. It can also occur under other circumstances, such as when the rope is bent or rotated. In most forms of fatigue, the mechanism is progressive, meaning it increases in intensity as fatigue damage develops. A familiar example is crack propagation fatigue during tension cyclic loading of metals. But the mechanism in fiber axial compression fatigue is regressive, meaning it decreases in intensity as fatigue damage develops. Axial compression fatigue only takes place in those fibers which become slack and go into compression. As this occurs when tension on the rope is relaxed, further axial compression fatigue is arrested because additional fibers do not become slack after those initially slack fibers fail. Thus axial compression fatigue usually does not progress to complete failure of the rope. However, if a significant number of fibers fail due to axial compression fatigue, tension in the remaining fibers increases, and the overall rope strength decreases. Fiber axial compression fatigue can therefore increases the tendency for a rope or cable to fail due to other causes, including the more common forms of fatigue.
Chronic constipation: modern view on the problem. A review

Chronic constipation is a frequently diagnosed heterogeneous pathology that significantly impairs the quality of life in all population groups and its frequency increases with age. It commonly affects up to 10 — 15 % of the population. There are numerous classifications of constipation due to a great number of disorders that cause it. The types of constipation are identified based on the etiology or mechanism of its development. Different criteria are used to specify the categorization of constipation, but it is still difficult to find one general classification including all types of constipation. The Rome IV criteria categorize disorders of chronic constipation into four subgroups. The treatment depends on the subtype. The significant increase of constipation cases is observed nowadays. This disorder is facilitated by a sedentary lifestyle, insufficient amount of fiber and fluid in the diet, a wide range of diseases that directly lead to the development of chronic constipation, congenital and acquired pathologies, abnormal intake of laxatives and opioids or a combination of these factors. Despite numerous publications on slow transit constipation, the latter is still the subject of research for many specialists. A lot of recent scientific works have been dedicated to the immunohistochemical studies of interstitial pacemaker cells. The numbers of markers they express were found. Consequently, the investigations of modern scientists are aimed to develop and implement new laboratory methods for determining the indications for surgical treatment depending on a diagnosed disorder of the intestinal neurophysiology. These methods will ensure a differentiated selection of patients for surgical treatment. The step approach to the diagnosis of chronic constipation allows choosing an adequate treatment method in order to improve symptoms, the quality of life, and patient satisfaction. The literature review indicates that surgery still remains the most radical treatment method for patients with slow transit constipation.
Sources of Labour Productivity Growth in Large Scale Industries in Malaysia

ABSTRAK Indllstr; skel besar (158) berperanan pentiug da/am. pemballgullall illdustri di Malaysia. la me1l),umballg lebih kurallg 60 peralUs terhadap gwwtenaga dan 70 pemtus masillg-masingllya bagi Ililai ditambah dan aset (etap. Industr; illi juga menyediakan salt/ran pemasamn kepada industri kecil dall sederhalla yang setemsnya mewujudkan rantaiaH bagi keselurulwlI seklOr indust,. ;. Selain ilu, 158 juga mellyediakal/ (lsas bagi kemasukall pelaburan langsullg asing yang seterusllya meng­ ga/akkan pemindahan lekn%gi. Mell/andcmgkan pellfingnya industri saiz ini da/am pembangullCl1l, makn amat pellling bagi kita mellgenalpasti dan memalwmi sllmber perlUmblihan produkliviIi dalam industri ber­ kenoan Kertas illi bertujualllllengallalisis sumber perllll1lbulum produk­ tiviti buruh dalam indllstr; bersaiz besar di Malaysia. Tiga sIll1lber pertwnbululIl yang dikellalpasti dalam kertas ini iaitu lIisbah modal­ buruh, kuclIltiti burllh dan kecekapan. Analisis da/am kertas ini mellg­ gllllakall data tinjauQIl tahwwn industri pembuatan lllllllk tempoh 1982 hingga 1994 yang dikul11pulkan oleh Jabman Peral1gkaan Malaysia.