Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Palaeoflora and Climate of Lignite-bearing Lower−Middle Miocene Sediments in the Seyitömer and Tunçbilek Sub-basins, Kütahya Province, Northwest Turkey

1 Dumlupınar University, Department of Geological Engineering, TR−43270 Kütahya, Turkey (E mail: serkanakkiraz@dpu.edu.tr) 2 Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Geological Engineering, Buca, Tınaztepe Campus, TR−35160 İzmir, Turkey 3 Institute für Geologie, Nusalle 8, 53115 Bonn, FRG, Germany 4 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
LAS CONCESIONES DE CARRETERAS EN LOS PAISES EN VIAS DE DESARROLLO. EL CASO DE ARGENTINA Y DE MEXICO

Este articulo ofrece una vision panoramica de la evolucion reciente de los programas de concesiones de carreteras en los paises en desarrollo, con especial atencion a Iberoamerica. Se analizan con detenimiento el caso de Argentina y de Mexico, dos de los paises iberoamericanos con mayor desarrollo del sistema concesional junto con Chile, pais que se analiza con detalle en otro articulo de este mismo numero. Se exponen los principales resultados obtenidos en estos dos paises en el desarrollo del sistema concesional en carreteras y se presentan las principales lecciones que pueden extraerse. Muchos de los aspectos que resultaron criticos en ambos paises son analizados al comentar los diversos aspectos de la nueva Ley Reguladora de Concesiones de Obras Publicas. Este nuevo marco legislativo permitira que el impulso que se de a la participacion privada pueda servir de ayuda al desarrollo del sistema concesional en los paises en desarrollo, principalmente en Iberoamerica. (A). Resumen en ingles:The present article gives an overview of recent developments in road concession programmes in developing countries and particularly focusing on Latin America. The author provides a detailed study of the cases of Argentina and Mexico. These countries together with Chile (which is the subject of analysis in a further article within this issue) being two of the Latin American countries where the concession system is more widely developed. The article describes the main results obtained in these countries as a result of the development of the road concession system and indicates the main lessons which may be gathered from the same. Many of the aspects which are critical in these two countries are analyzed in the light of the new law of Public Works Concessions. This new legislative framework provides an impetus to private participation which may well serve to further develop the concessionary system in developing countries and particularly those in Latin America. (A).
Redundancy and Diversity in Wireless Networks to Support Mobile Industrial Applications in Industry 4.0

 Abstract —Factories are evolving into fully digitalized and networked structures for more adaptive and agile production ecosystems in the context of the Industry 4.0. Wireless communications will be a technical pillar of this evolution as it improves the reconfigurability of factories and the integration of mobile robots and objects. The integration of industrial wireless networks into the Industry 4.0 requires solutions capable to support highly reliable and deterministic low latency communications. This is particularly challenging for mobile industrial applications with constantly changing link quality conditions. This study experimentally evaluates for the first time the capacity of diversity and redundancy to improve the reliability and latency of wireless networks for mobile industrial applications. To this aim, a prototype is built in a collaborative robotics experimental facility. The prototype wirelessly connects a dual-arm robot and a mobile robot that collects and supplies components to the dual-arm robot. The prototype implements redundancy and diversity (using multipath TCP) for the wireless connections between both robots. The conducted trials show that both techniques improve the reliability of mobile industrial wireless communications even under the presence of interference. However, redundancy achieves lower latency levels and represents then the most attractive solution to support mobile industrial applications.
Knowledge and Social Capital: Drivers for Sustainable Local Growth

The research topic is the one of public finance company whose core business is focused to support investment projects to overcome enterprises technological and structural gap. The research question is: If and how a public finance company is able to create and favor value creation processes sustainability for agro-food enterprises, highlighting the positive emerging externalities for different categories of stakeholders. They have results with particular evidences allow comparisons between the private investments and the support of institutional public investors. In such perspective, the mode of disbursement of soft loans and investment operations made by a public financing company will be examined. The methodological approach used, following a deductive-inductive perspective, is based on the case study. Such technique able to formulate theories about a little known phenomena in their context, allows the study of recent events on which the researcher has little control. To this, a qualitative analysis on both primary and secondary data adds. From data analysis, it resulted that the Institute of Agribusiness Development (ISA) initiatives facilitated, just for example, the technological innovation of production department and consequent production capacity, the acquisition of production assets for row material processing and optimization of internal logistics, through an innovative automated warehouse. As a result, the case study finds sustainability at multiple levels reached by the activities promoted by ISA and the subsequent co-creation of value for stakeholders involved, small agro-food businesses innovation, and/or internationalization processes. As long as practical implications are concerned, such highlight the importance and the need for public and private institutions in their effort to continue to invest in projects to support the economy of the country. The originality of the paper lies in the proposed interpretation of more integrative paradigms (viable system approach, sustainability, and, value creation), analyzing a financial institution for the development of the Italian food industry. At the same time, authors stress the research limit that is the analysis of the input of only one organization and consequent limited data in quantity and time span.
Systematic Errors in Stereo PIV When Imaging through a Glass Window

This document assesses the magnitude of velocity measurement errors that may arise when performing stereo particle image velocimetry (PIV) with cameras viewing through thick, refractive window and where the calibration is performed in one plane only. The effect of the window is to introduce a refractive error that increases with window thickness and the camera angle of incidence. The calibration should be performed while viewing through the test section window, otherwise a potentially significant error may be introduced that affects each velocity component differently. However, even when the calibration is performed correctly, another error may arise during the stereo reconstruction if the perspective angle determined for each camera does not account for the displacement of the light rays as they refract through the thick window. Care should be exercised when applying in a single-plane calibration since certain implicit assumptions may in fact require conditions that are extremely difficult to meet in a practical laboratory environment. It is suggested that the effort expended to ensure this accuracy may be better expended in performing a more lengthy volumetric calibration procedure, which does not rely upon the assumptions implicit in the single plane method and avoids the need for the perspective angle to be calculated.
Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, 6 | 2016

Both humans and other animals attribute the qualities of living matter and agency to what we call tools and other cultural objects. In both cases a paradox may arise when autonomy is attributed to the object at the same time that it is recognized that its life-like characteristics are motivated by human actions. Nuaulu people in eastern Indonesia describe many kinds of objects as having the qualities we might otherwise reserve for biological organisms. They also distinguish entities that have many of the qualities of life but which ordinarily have no corporeal existence (spirits). While all cultural objects are potentially regarded in this way, in practice some objects are more alive and have more agency than others. I argue that part of the problem with existing anthropological treatments of the category “living things” is that they are either logical extrapolations through polythetic extension or based on formal taxonomic deduction/ induction (ethnoscience). Using examples of meat-skewers, outboard motors, coconut graters, and sago-processing devices, together with certain forms of biological life such as fungi and algae, I demonstrate how Nuaulu ideas of what is animate and agentive are always fuzzy and contingent, and that by combining data from different kinds of ethnographic context, using different elicitation procedures, a more complex picture emerges.
Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010

In this year’s IWSLT evaluation campaign (TALK task), we applied three adaptation techniques: (1) training data selection based on information retrieval approach, (2) subsentence segmentation, and (3) language model adaptation using source-side of the test set. We also applied a sequential labeling method based on conditional random fields for restoring punctuation markers in the ASR input condition. We present and discuss these techniques in this paper, based on the automatic evaluation results.
Descontaminación de la carne de ave. II. Tratamientos físicos de descontaminación y situación dentro de la Unión Europea

This review examines some chemical treatments for decontamination of poultry carcasses (chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, organic acids, ozone, bacteriocins, inorganic phosphates.) with emphasis placed on recent advances and commercial applications. The different opinions held in the EU and USA in relation to the poultry meat decontamination is too explained.
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ROAD SALTS ON SOILS

This document explores the possible effects of road salt on the soil biota. The metabolic adaptations required for microbial salt tolerance, and on the effect of high soil salinity on agriculturally important processes are reviewed. A brief discussion is provided of the response of soil faunal species and communities to the application of road salt in Europe.
Spatial Justice for an Open City

The main objective of this project is to combat social exclusion in Greater Paris urban area, while the French government is keen on new strategies for transportation and densification to make a Greater Paris. This project turns its orientation to the social question. An important question that is either scarcely been put into consideration by planners or is faced in a naive way. The question for us planners is that how densification is possible with less deprivation and marginalization of the poor to happen, without inequality and injustice to take over? This project tries to find strategies to open the fragmented Metropolitan region of Paris to become a whole that can bring city life for all, to break the barriers to movement for chances of different people to co-appear in public, to walk freely in the (Greater) Parisian streets and to be seen. To bring spatial justice for all, by ‘politics of difference’ and ‘politics of presentation’. To combat segregation and social exclusion. While focusing and testing the strategies in the Northern Banlieues of Paris, the project addresses the problem with large scale intervention, to bring city life to the first ring of Paris, and connect people to the centre, once again break the walls for the sake of movement. But as the project argues the walls are not just a Peripherique Boulevard, the actual peripheral wall that disconnects people is a Metropolitan scale continuous set of barriers as thick as three times the city of Paris, housing millions inside. Regarding the regional scale problem, the project aims to open this multi layered closed Metropolis, providing access to urban space, to integrate space and prepare infrastructural ground for other resources to come and take part in city life: Jobs, services, cultural monuments. This city life is not a new model; it is already there in the 19th century fabric of Paris. Where access to resources such as jobs, shops, monuments, culture and health care is easy to achieve and is visible by walking and through multimodal public transport. This project is based on a presupposition that integration of all parts of the whole society to the principles of the French Republic is the ideal, even if this ideal could be seriously criticised as in practise there has been evidence of the opposite happening. The open city is a translation for this ideal, that there should be an infrastructural base ground for such a unified whole.
A literature review of the mechanical behavior of the stratum corneum, the living epidermis and the subcutaneous fat tissue

After a description of the structure and function of human skin, including the underlying fat layer, both in vitro and in vivo studies on the mechanical properties of separate skin layers are discussed: e.g. those of stratum corneum, living epidermis and the subcutaneous fat layer. Since the properties of the dermis are already widely known, this skin layer is left out of consideration. In addition, models on the mechanical behavior of human skin are considered.
: more than FSH regulators A special section consisting of proceedings from the Journal of Endocrinology Symposium

When McCullogh first described inhibin in the 1930s (McCullogh 1932) it is unlikely that he could have envisaged the turn of events that has resulted in the publications from the first Journal Symposium. In spite of a lack of enthusiasm from most of the reproductive endocrine groups around the world, some groups took up the challenge of purifying the inhibin material defined as a substance that specifically suppressed follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion by a direct action on the pituitary. A major breakthrough came when Frank de Jong and Richard Sharpe in the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit in Edinburgh, UK discovered that fluid from cow ovarian follicles contained high amounts of a substance that suppressed FSH secretion (de Jong & Sharpe 1976). This provided the source for the eventual purification of inhibin by groups in Australia, Japan and the USA (Ling et al. 1985, Miyamoto et al. 1985, Robertson et al. 1985). It soon emerged that inhibin was a dimer consisting of an á and a â subunit, and subsequently that there were two forms of the â subunit, âA and âB. Thus inhibin could exist as both inhibin A, the á subunit combined with the âA subunit, and inhibin B, the á subunit combined with the âB subunit. Phil Knight in Reading first showed that a substantial amount of inhibin immunoreactivity detected in the first radioimmunoassays was free á subunit (Knight et al. 1989). The biological significance of the inhibin molecules only became apparent with the development of 2-site IRMAs specific for inhibin A and inhibin B by Nigel Groome at Oxford Brookes University, UK (Groome et al. 1996). It emerged that in most male mammals the testes produce only inhibin B, whereas in most female mammals the ovaries produced both inhibin A and B, the amounts varying with different stages of follicle development. It was also shown by immunoneutralisation that circulating inhibin was part of the feedback control of FSH secretion. While these studies were concentrating on the inhibin molecule, it soon emerged that the â subunits also had a life of their own. Fractionation of ovarian follicular fluid and analysis using an in vitro pituitary cell culture system identified a material with FSH-stimulating activity. This activity was identified as homodimers of two ‘inhibin’ â subunits. This substance was named activin, and a whole new family of signalling molecules was born. Soon after this a further molecule that had weak FSH-inhibiting activity was identified, named follistatin. However, follistatin was soon shown to be a major binding protein of activin and has subsequently been shown to be a modulator of the action of activin. In 177
Self-assembly, Self-organization, Nanotechnology and vitalism

: Over the past decades, self-assembly has attracted a lot of research attention and transformed the relations between chemistry, materials science and biology. The paper explores the impact of the current interest in self-assembly techniques on the traditional debate over the nature of life. The first section describes three different research programs of self-assembly in nanotechnology in order to characterize their metaphysical implications: -1- Hybridization ( using the building blocks of living systems for making devices and machines) ; -2- Biomimetics (making artifacts mimicking nature); -3- Integration (a composite of the two previous strategies). The second section focused on the elusive boundary between self-assembly and self-organization tries to map out the various positions adopted by the promoters of self-assembly on the issue of vitalism?
on sustainability

A digital institution is a set of computer-based rules that perform intermediating roles upon which one or more person’s well-being depends. This article argues that governance, the processes and customs by which rules are agreed, is critical to the sustainability of the digital institution and therefore of society more broadly. The objective of this work was to interrogate whether emerging decentralised architectures (blockchain) can offer new perspectives on digital sustainability in the form of decentralised governance. Firstly, the literature on decentralised modes of governance was synthesised. Then, existing digital institutions were reviewed, categorised and mapped onto a multi-domain layered conceptual framework that draws out three distinct modes for enactment of changes to digital institution rules; direct, integrated, and fork-based. We concluded that the coupling of decentralised governance approaches with fork-based or integrated enactment stands to enhance digital sustainability through increased perception of trustworthiness afforded through independently verifiable and cryptographically secure audit trails.
The Gulf takes charge in the MENA region

El mundo arabe tiene un nuevo lider para el siglo XXI: los Estados del Golfo. Sin embargo, la crisis ha supuesto un duro reves para la economia y las perspectivas de integracion de la region. El Consejo de Cooperacion del Golfo (GCC) se ha lamentado de no haber sido consultado por la UE sobre la Union por el Mediterraneo, pero tampoco ha sido capaz de ofrecer una alternativa al resto de paises de Oriente Medio y Norte de Africa (MENA). El GCC es el unico actor con recursos suficientes para mitigar las crecientes presiones politicas y economicas que afectan a la region, ya sea aumentando o distribuyendo mejor la ayuda al desarrollo y las inversiones para fomentar la creacion de empleo. Los donantes del Golfo deberian revisar sus politicas de cooperacion, y mas alla de otorgar prestamos y subvenciones, comenzar a implementar programas nacionales de asistencia al desarrollo.
Achilles tendon moment arm length is smaller in children with cerebral palsy than in 1 typically developing children 2

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Collection of local Kyrgyzstan Melon genotypes and Collection of local Kyrgyzstan Melon genotypes and determination of morphologicalrelationships between some determination of morphologicalrelationships between some Anatolian Melons Anatolian Melons

studies Abstract: Collection, characterization, and protection of genetic resources are among the high-priority issues of increasing importance throughout the world, especially for the breeding and release of novel cultivars. To understand and describe the characteristics of germplasm, the morphological status of genetic resources must accurately represent their agricultural applications. In this study, the genotypes of melon in Kyrgyzstan were collected by visiting several regions and contacting farmers. The genetic diversity of 35 Kyrgyz and 13 Turkish melon accessions was characterized based on the corresponding phenotypes. The morphological characterizations were largely based on the IPGR and, to some extent, UPOV standards. The genotypes from the collections of both countries were separated into three main clusters using the ward method. It was demonstrated that among the 40 morphological parameters, the fruit-related characteristics contributed most significantly to the separation of genotypes in the PCA analysis, and the results of the PCA analysis also validated the cluster analysis. According to the squared eigenvalues, the accessions Kg-G and C-09 were observed to be the clos-est related genotypes, whereas the accessions Kav-3 and YYU-13 were the most distantly related. Accessions YYÜ-22, C-02, and C-03 were observed to have the heaviest fruits, Manas-6 and Os-02 were observed to have the highest fruit flesh thickness, and C-08 was determined to have the highest SSC contents among all the accessions. It was observed that the characteristics of melon fruits from both countries differed
2016). Multi-View Semantic Temporal Video Segmentation. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

In this work, we propose a multi-view temporal video segmentation approach that employs a Gaussian scoring process for determining the best segmentation positions. By exploiting the semantic action information that the dense trajectories video description offers, this method can detect intra-shot actions as well, unlike shot boundary detection approaches. We compare the temporal segmentation results of the proposed method to both single-view and multi-view methods, and also compare the action recognition results obtained on ground truth video segments to the ones obtained on the proposed multi-view segments, on the IMPART multi-view action data set.
Networked Children, Commercial Profiling and the EU Data Protection Reform

have to strike their own balance between safe and controversial, between socially and financially valuable, between niche and wide appeal. And, as with broadcasting and publishing, their choices about what makes it onto the platform, how it is organized, how it is monetized, what can be removed and why, and what is technically possible or prohibited, are all real and substantive interventions into the contours of public discourse. (2010: 409-410)