Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Kurkien aiheuttamat viljelysvahingot ja niiden ennaltaehkäisy

The number of cranes nesting in Finland has increased, and hundreds even thousands of cranes yearly flock to the best resting areas during autumn. Cranes like to feed in grain fields and the damage caused to crops has increased. Compensation can be paid for the damage, but it is more worthwhile to invest in damage prevention. To plan this, information about cranes’ feeding behaviour and about the factors influencing it is needed. This report examines crop damage due to cranes and considers ways to prevent that damage. The experimental part describes investigations made in Tohmajarvi in 2003–2004, and in Soderfjarden in 2006–2008. Cranes prefer to feed in barley fields while avoiding oat fields. In both research areas crane fields or feeding grounds for cranes were grown. Tohmajarvi, cranes used these crane fields regularly. The cranes also utilized the crane fields in Soderfjarden, but infrequently and in smaller groups. The cranes in Soderfjarden used grass fields and fallow areas while resting and preening. In addition to the growth type, also the area of the field influenced the feeding habitat selection of cranes. In Tohmajarvi, the effectiveness of various deterrents was tested. It was found that cranes reacted to all deterrents employed.
A Dynamic Probabilistic Model for Heterogeneous Data Fusion: A Pilot Case Study from Computer-Aided Detection of Depression

The present paper, in the framework of a search for a computer-aided method to detect depression, deals with experimental data of various types, with their correlation, and with the way relevant information about depression delivered by different sets of data can be fused to build a unique body of knowledge about individuals’ mental states facilitating the diagnosis and its accuracy. To this aim, it suggests the use of a recently introduced «limiting form» of the kinetic-theoretic language, at present widely used to describe complex systems of objects of the most diverse nature. In this connection, the paper mainly aims to show how a wide range of experimental procedures can be described as examples of this «limiting case» and possibly rendered by this description more effective as methods of prediction from experience. In particular, the paper contains a simple, preliminary application of the method to the detection of depression, to show how the consideration of statistical parameters connected with the analysis of speech can modify, at least in a stochastic sense, each diagnosis of depression delivered by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II).
Prevalence and awareness assessment towards Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) among Saudi females in the western region of Saudi Arabia

Background: The genetic endocrine disorder known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) promotes ovarian dysfunction, there are several different morphological manifestations of this condition. Females' awareness of health issues is seen to be a key component in encouraging their attitude to seek medical help. The main objective of this study is to determine (PCOS) among Saudi females in the western region of Saudi Arabia. Methodology: In our study, the knowledge was assessed using 18 questions, where 8 were for symptoms, 5 for complications, and 5 for risk factors. A score of one for each correct answer, while a score of zero for wrong or uncertain responses. The total knowledge scores for each answered question range from 1 to 18, where a score ≥ 9 is excellent and below 9 is poor. Prior to logistic regression analysis, "sufficient knowledge" was described for scores ≥ 9, whereas scores < 9 are categorized as "insufficient knowledge". Results: This paper included 418 contributors, 53.6 percent of them were 20-30 years old. 31.8 percent of study participants were previously diagnosed with PCOV. Only 2.9% had a good awareness score, 60% had moderate awareness and 37.1% had poor awareness. Awareness of PCOS was significantly associated with age, educational level and previous diagnosis of polycystic ovary (P< 0.05). Conclusion: In summary, (PCOS) the prevalence of polycystic-ovary syndrome was relatively high among study participants compared to worldwide figures. However, participants have poor awareness of PCOS. By putting programs in place to educate women in Madinah about the importance of early detection and intervention.
Evolutionary Dynamics of FLC-like MADS-Box Genes in Brassicaceae

MADS-box genes encode transcription factors that play important roles in the development and evolution of plants. There are more than a dozen clades of MADS-box genes in angiosperms, of which those with functions in the specification of floral organ identity are especially well-known. From what has been elucidated in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the clade of FLC-like MADS-box genes, comprising FLC-like genes sensu strictu and MAF-like genes, are somewhat special among the MADS-box genes of plants since FLC-like genes, especially MAF-like genes, show unusual evolutionary dynamics, in that they generate clusters of tandemly duplicated genes. Here, we make use of the latest genomic data of Brassicaceae to study this remarkable feature of the FLC-like genes in a phylogenetic context. We have identified all FLC-like genes in the genomes of 29 species of Brassicaceae and reconstructed the phylogeny of these genes employing a Maximum Likelihood method. In addition, we conducted selection analyses using PAML. Our results reveal that there are three major clades of FLC-like genes in Brassicaceae that all evolve under purifying selection but with remarkably different strengths. We confirm that the tandem arrangement of MAF-like genes in the genomes of Brassicaceae resulted in a high rate of duplications and losses. Interestingly, MAF-like genes also seem to be prone to transposition. Considering the role of FLC-like genes sensu lato (s.l.) in the timing of floral transition, we hypothesize that this rapid evolution of the MAF-like genes was a main contributor to the successful adaptation of Brassicaceae to different environments.
Is There an Association between the Use of Social Media and Self-Rated Health?

This study sought to determine the association between social media and self-rated health. This study used the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey for American adults. A statistical analysis was conducted using Chi-square and multivariable logistic regression. Of the 6018 study participants, the majority reported that they were in excellent/very good and good health (82.9%, n = 4930). More than half (58.2%, n = 3268) of the respondents reported that they visited a social media site almost every day in the past 12 months, while 76.8% (n = 4843) reported that they never interacted with people who had similar health or medical issues on social media. There was no association between everyday visits to a social media site, interaction with people with similar health/medical issues on social media, or watching a health-related video on social media and self-rated health. Those who had full-time employment were more likely to rate their health as excellent/very good/good (AOR: 2.394, 95% Conf. Int: 1.820–3.149) compared to those with no full-time employment. Marital status, confidence in taking care of oneself, education, and current smoking were associated with self-rated health. This study showed that the use of social media which included the watching of health-related videos was not associated with self-rated health.
Thermochronologie par la méthode des traces de fission dans l'apatite : application aux massifs de l'Argentera-Mercantour (Alpes occidentales) et des Jebilet (Meseta marocaine)

Dans les apatites des roches plutoniques et metamorphiques, les Traces de Fission (TF) de l'Uranium 238 ne commencent a etre enregistrees que lorsque la temperature ambiante est inferieure a environ 130°C. Elles sont conservees quantitativement lorsque cette temperature se situe au-dessous de 60-70°C. Nous avons utilise cette propriete pour l'etude de l'histoire de refroidissement de deux massifs hercyniens: l'ArgenteraMercantour (Alpes Occidentales) et les Jebilet (Meseta Marocaine). Apres avoir, dans la premiere partie de ce travail, expose l'etat actuel de la datation par TF et discute de ses applications et de ses limites pour les apatites, on expose les resultats d'un travail de calibration mene a partir d'irradiations dans trois reacteurs nucleaires: Melusine (CEN-Grenoble), RHF (ILL-Grenoble) et Orphee (CENSaclay). Dans l'Argentera, 16 echantillons ont ete preleves selon une transversale NW-SE. Les âges TF des apatites correspondantes montrent que le massif s'est refroidi au dessous de 130°C a partir de 10 Ma et que son taux apparent de surrection-erosion entre 10 Ma et 2.8 Ma est reste sensiblement constant, de l'ordre de 0,15-0,20 mm/an. Entre 2,8 Ma et 0,3 Ma, ce taux est passe a 0,6±0,1 mm/an pour le flanc SW et 0,9±0,2 mm/an du cote NE, en accord avec les mouvements differentiels deja mis en evidence par les donnees de la geologie. Dans les Jebilet, les 7 echantillons etudies presentent des âges TF concordants. Le debut de l'enregistrement des traces, a 186±6 Ma, concorde avec l'âge de l'ouverture de l'Atlantique Central. II implique un paleogradient geothermique, au Jurassique inferieur, de l'ordre de 55-60°C/km. Le dernier evenement thermique enregistre dans ces mineraux est, a 38±3 Ma, la phase atlasique majeure.
Dosimetric Comparison of 3-dimensional Conformal Technique, Intensity-modulated, Volumetric Arc Modulation, and Helical Tomotherapy with Radixact in Patients with Breast Cancer

OBJECTIVE Adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) has been used often at breast cancer treatment. RT techniques differ from each other in terms of accessibility and applicability. We aimed to compare the dosimetric evaluations of four modern RT techniques through ten breast cancer patients that had been treated previously with intensity-modulated RT (IMRT) technique.
A global+ multiscale hybrid network for hyperspectral image classification

ABSTRACT Currently, convolutional neural network (CNN) and vision transformer (ViT) are gradually becoming the mainstream for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Although CNN and ViT can extract local and global features better respectively, they both have difficulties in expressing the context information of irregular objects. Conversely, the superpixel features can accurately represent the object context information. However, the current algorithms still generally recover superpixel features as pixel features, which ignores the significance of superpixel features as global information. To address these limitations, a bi-branch global+ multiscale hybrid network (GMHN) is proposed. In the first branch, the multiscale global features are extracted and then fed into transformer encoder to enhance their relation. In the second branch, Inception-ResNet is used as the backbone to extract the basic local features. The global and local information is integrated by our association module. Finally, a linear layer is used to convert the fused features into sample labels. Experimental results on the recent WHU-Hi-LongKou dataset and one widely-used Salinas dataset show the superiority of GMHN compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Sharks : biology and fisheries : proceedings of an International Conference on Shark Biology and Conservation, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia, 25 February-1 March 1991

"Sharks: Biology and Fisheries" contains papers from the International Sharks Down Under Conference held at Taronga Zoo, Sydney in 1991. The conference was attended by scientists from nine countries with the book representing the latest research results by scientists from Australia, USA, Spain and South Africa. The contents are reprinted from the "Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research", Volume 43, no 1. All the papers have been referred externally and edited to the usual standards of the journal.
Partnerskap för trygghet: Stadsutveckling eller social exkludering?

Detta kapitel har behandlat invanarnas deltagande i partnerskap for trygghet. Malet har varit att komma fram till i vilken utstrackning invanarna varit involverade i partnerskapen. Analysen visar att det har funnits en hel del invanardeltagande i de aktiviteter som initierats av partnerskapen. Daremot har invanarna inte varit delaktiga i beslutsfattande speciellt ofta. I stallet har disciplinering varit ett mer framtradande tema: invanarna blev ofta antingen fostrade av aktorer i partnerskapen, eller deltog i fostrandet av andra som bodde i grannskapet. Det framgar ocksa tydligt att flera av partnerskapen upprattade speciella strategier eller regler for att stanga ute vissa oonskade grupper. Arkitekter och planerare maste relatera till insikter som dessa och skaffa sig kunskaper for att battre forberedas pa sin roll i governance-processer – som praktiserande planerare, som tillfalliga konsulter, och som utvarderande och analyserande forskare. / This article investigates the theme of citizen participation in safety partnerships in Sweden. The aim has been to determine the extent to which citizens have been involved in the collaborations. The results show that there has existed a great deal of citizen participation in the activities the collaborations have initiated. Yet, they also show that citizens were not often involved in decision-making. Instead, the character of discipline has been more salient; citizens were either disciplined by actors in the collaborations or themselves took part in disciplining others living in the neighbourhoods. It is also significant that several of the collaborations initiated certain strategies or rules for the exclusion of unwanted groups. To summarize, this article discusses why architects and planners need to relate to such insights and gain knowledge to be prepared for taking on our role in governance planning processes.
Model Compression with Multi-Task Knowledge Distillation for Web-scale Question Answering System

Deep pre-training and fine-tuning models (like BERT, OpenAI GPT) have demonstrated excellent results in question answering areas. However, due to the sheer amount of model parameters, the inference speed of these models is very slow. How to apply these complex models to real business scenarios becomes a challenging but practical problem. Previous works often leverage model compression approaches to resolve this problem. However, these methods usually induce information loss during the model compression procedure, leading to incomparable results between compressed model and the original model. To tackle this challenge, we propose a Multi-task Knowledge Distillation Model (MKDM for short) for web-scale Question Answering system, by distilling knowledge from multiple teacher models to a light-weight student model. In this way, more generalized knowledge can be transferred. The experiment results show that our method can significantly outperform the baseline methods and even achieve comparable results with the original teacher models, along with significant speedup of model inference.
The Role of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels with and without Explanatory Videos on Parent and Child Food Choices

The aim of this research was to determine whether parent/child pairs choosing products from a grocery aisle labeled with front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels would make more healthful choices than pairs who viewed the same items without labels, and to determine the added value of viewing an explanatory video before choosing. In this experiment, 175 parent/child pairs chose USD 20 worth of packaged foods and beverages from a grocery aisle in a research laboratory and were randomly assigned to see products that either did or did not have 0–4-star FOP labels, with more stars indicating more healthful products. Among those participants with access to FOP labels, half were randomly assigned to view a 30 s video explaining the FOP labels before selecting foods. Participants who saw the explanatory video before selecting among products with FOP labels chose foods with significantly more stars than participants who saw the FOP-labeled products without the video; however, there was no significant difference in mean stars on selected products between the group that saw the videos and the control group that saw neither the video nor FOP labels. We conclude that explaining new FOP labels to consumers may be necessary for the labels to prompt more healthful choices.
Proton and Carbon Ion Irradiation Changes the Process of Endochondral Ossification in an Ex Vivo Femur Organotypic Culture Model

Particle therapy (PT) that utilizes protons and carbon ions offers a promising way to reduce the side effects of radiation oncology, especially in pediatric patients. To investigate the influence of PT on growing bone, we exposed an organotypic rat ex vivo femur culture model to PT. After irradiation, histological staining, immunohistochemical staining, and gene expression analysis were conducted following 1 or 14 days of in vitro culture (DIV). Our data indicated a significant loss of proliferating chondrocytes at 1 DIV, which was followed by regeneration attempts through chondrocytic cluster formation at 14 DIV. Accelerated levels of mineralization were observed, which correlated with increased proteoglycan production and secretion into the pericellular matrix. Col2α1 expression, which increased during the cultivation period, was significantly inhibited by PT. Additionally, the decrease in ColX expression over time was more pronounced compared to the non-IR control. The chondrogenic markers BMP2, RUNX2, OPG, and the osteogenic marker ALPL, showed a significant reduction in the increase in expression after 14 DIV due to PT treatment. It was noted that carbon ions had a stronger influence than protons. Our bone model demonstrated the occurrence of pathological and regenerative processes induced by PT, thus building on the current understanding of the biological mechanisms of bone.
Improving physical layer security jointly using full-duplex jamming receiver and multi-antenna jammer in wireless networks

The issues of the physical layer security are studied, where one transmitter (Alice), one full-duplex (FD) legitimate receiver (Bob) and one multi-antenna jammer (Charlie) are considered to defend against multiple passive and non-colluding eavesdroppers (Eves), for multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. With the assumption that the complete channel state information (CSI) for main channels and the statistical CSI for Eves' channels are available, an improved secrecy transmission design is proposed to minimise the secrecy outage probability (SOP), under the minimum secrecy rate requirement. In addition to integrating artificial noise aided transmit beamforming and multi-antenna cooperative jammer to impair Eves' channels, which is widely used in many existing works, a FD legitimate receiver is applied together to further enhance physical layer security. Based on the basic probability theory and convex optimisation, the accurate closed-form expression of the SOP is derived, and the impacts on secrecy performance are described, including the qualities of main channels, the Alice's transmit power and the number of Eves. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme using the FD Bob can significantly enhance the system security, as compared with that employing the half-duplex Bob.
Monsoon 2013: Estimating the Impact on Agriculture

This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture in India depends upon (1) investments in agriculture (private and public); (2) agricultural price incentives; and (3) rainfall. A log-linear model fitted over 1996-97 to 2012-13 period can explain 95 percent of the variations in agri-GDP with all variables being statistically significant. The model also forecasts that the agri-GDP growth rate for the agricultural year (July-June) 2013-14 is likely to be between 5.2% and 5.7%. [ICRIER working paper No. 269]
Importance of Wetlands to Streamflow Generation

Hewlett (1961) proposed the variable-source-area concept of streamflow origin in the mountains of North Carolina suggesting streamflow was produced from water leaving saturated areas near the channel. Dunne and Black confirmed this concept on the Sleepers River watershed in Vermont (1970). Areas near the river were saturated by subsurface or interflow from adjacent upland slopes. In turn, these saturated areas fed water directly to the channel. In the northern Lake States, wetlands and lakes make up 10 to 35% of the basin. These flat landscape components are surrounded by relatively steep (1015% slope) glacial moraine uplands. We investigated the importance of wetlands to streamflow production on watershed two at the Marcell Experimental Forest in north central Minnesota. A hydrograph separation technique for the entire watershed yielded hydrographs for water both from the upland alone and from the wetland alone. Additionally, selected direct measurements of upland runoff and watershed streamflow confirmed the timing of hydrograph peaks for the separated watershed components. The wetland produced 50 to 70% of the annual streamflow even though the wetland comprised only 1/3 of the basin. Storm peaks from the wetland were 5 to 10 times higher than storm peaks from the upland and occurred about 1 hour before upland runoff peaked. Saturated wetlands (and lake surfaces) are the primary source of streamflow in these glacial landscapes.
Bevacizumab-Irinotecan combination therapy in recurrent low-grade glioma, previously treated with chemo-radiotherapy: a case report

Low grade gliomas (LGGs) of pineal region are usually difficult to remove and they frequently relapse or progress after front line chemotherapy. Bevacizumab-Irinotecan (BEVIRI) combination has been successfully attempted in children with recurrent LGGs, in most cases not previously irradiated. The efficacy of bevacizumab has also been described in radiation necrosis. Considering the possible overlapping of radiation treatment effect and disease progression and difficulty in differentiating, we report on the use of BEVIRI in a case of a recurrent relapsing low-grade glioma of the pineal region, subjected to multiple neurosurgical interventions, also treated with a carboplatin-etoposide regimen and a radiation course, at present at one-year follow-up showing a stable response, with no adverse events.
New type of optical machine system for object depth sensing

An optical machine system for measuring the depth distance of an object was proposed. This system can scan a region by obtaining the relationship curve between focus distance and motor step. The depth distance was acquired by determining whether the captured objects was in focus or not by discerning the sharpness of the object’s outline, with the motor step when the object was in focus. This system has been verified its feasibility in the experiment and has the merits of a larger sensing range, lower manufacturing cost, and can be used outdoors.
Pest Detection Method Using Multi-Fractal Analysis

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