Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Meta-Analysis of Wheat QTL Regions Associated with Heat and Drought Stress

Heat and drought are the two most important environmental constraints to wheat production globally, are often present simultaneously and will become more severe with global climate change. This presents a unique challenge to wheat scientists who must work to develop wheat cultivars that are productive and adapted to future environmental conditions. A number of recent studies have reported quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with heat and drought tolerance, as well as QTL for stress adaptive traits such as the availability of stem carbohydrates or crop canopy temperature. The objective of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of these QTL to identify regions of the wheat genome that are consistently associated with tolerance to heat and drought. To identify Meta-QTL (MQTL), a QTL database was developed from 30 studies targeted at heat and drought stressed environments. The positions of individual QTL were projected onto a consensus genetic map based on the presence of common molecular markers and a 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated for each QTL. After positioning the individual QTL, the software ‘Biomercator v2.1’ was used to predict the location and CI of MQTL based on maximum likelihood. In total, 854 QTL were reported for 80 different traits. This included 502 for drought stress, 234 for heat stress, and 118 adaptive trait QTL in non-stressed environments. These QTL were grouped into 66 MQTL regions distributed throughout the wheat genome. Most regions co-localized for both heat and drought stress, although both drought and heat stress specific MQTL regions were also identified. Using the traits present within MQTL it was possible to genetically model Stress Trait Expression Pathways (STEPs) that can be used to identify target alleles and physiological traits for improvement through breeding. This thesis is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council.
The social construction of caves and rockshelters: Chauvet Cave (France) and Nawarla Gabarnmang (Australia)

Caves and rockshelters are a key component of the archaeological record but are often regarded as natural places conveniently exploited by human communities. Archaeomorphological study shows however that they are not inert spaces but have frequently been modified by human action, sometimes in ways that imply a strong symbolic significance. In this paper the concept of ‘aménagement’, the re-shaping of a material space or of elements within it, is applied to Chauvet Cave in France and Nawarla Gabarnmang rockshelter in Australia. Deep within Chauvet Cave, fallen blocks were moved into position to augment the natural structure known as The Cactus, while at Nawarla Gabarnmang, blocks were removed from the ceiling and supporting pillars removed and discarded down the talus slope. These are hence not ‘natural’ places, but modified and socially constructed.
Apakah Asupan Natrium Berlebih Merupakan Faktor Risiko Overweight?: Tinjauan Sistematis

Latar Belakang: Konsumsi garam dunia melebihi hingga 200% dari rekomendasi harian. Obesitas merupakan masalah kesehatan terbesar ketiga didunia. Berbagai penelitian mulai menggali mekanisme potensial hubungan antara asupan natrium dengan peningkatan berat badan, risiko kelebihan berat badan dan obesitas. Tujuan: Menganalisis hubungan antara asupan natrium dengan risiko kelebihan berat badan ditinjau dari status gizi, obesitas sentral dan komposisi tubuh pada populasi dewasa. Metode : Penelitian ini merupakan tinjauan sistematis. Proses pengumpulan data menggunakan database Pubmed dan Science Direct dengan kata kunci “obese” OR “overweight” OR “adiposity” AND “sodium” OR “salt intake” AND “adult”. Artikel dipilih melalui seleksi judul dan abstrak yang kemudian diseleksi kembali sesuai dengan kriteria inklusi dan eksklusi. Ulasan: Terdapat 11 literatur terkait status gizi, 10 literatur terkait obesitas sentral, 3 literatur terkait komposisi tubuh. Asupan natrium berhubungan dengan peningkatan berat badan dan risiko kelebihan berat badan peningkatan berat badan hingga 2,75 kg, peningkatan lingkar pinggang hingga 2,15 cm dan peningkatan massa lemak hingga 0,91 kg. Mekanisme potensial yang mendasari hubungan ini antara lain dimediasi dengan asupan energi, peningkatan volume ekstraseluler, peningkatan adipositas, dan perubahan leptin plasma. Kesimpulan: Terdapat hubungan konsumsi garam berlebih dengan peningkatan berat badan dan faktor risiko kelebihan berat badan dilihat dari status gizi, obesitas sentral dan komposisi tubuh pada populasi orang dewasa. Namun, mekanisme terjadinya hubungan tersebut masih perlu dipelajari lebih lanjut.
Progestin-primed ovarian stimulation versus GnRH antagonist protocol in ICSI cycles in patients with different ovarian reserve: A retrospective cohort study

Objective. To compare the ICSI cycle outcomes in PPOS Vs. conventional GnRh antagonist protocol. Patients and Methods. In this retrospective cohort study, 200 patients who were administrated gonadotropins for ovarian stimulation from the second or the third day of menstruation cycle were included in this study. When the follicular diameter reached 13-14 mm, GnRH antagonist was started in the group A, while in the group B,10 mg norethisterone acetate was taken daily orally. The retrieved oocytes were fertilized in vitro by intracytoplasmic sperm. Both groups underwent freeze-all and delayed embryo transfer. The primary outcome is the clinical pregnancy rate. The secondary outcomes included the duration, dosage & form of ovarian stimulation, the number & quality of oocytes retrieved which
Culture-Led Regeneration and Creative Tourism Development in Indonesia's City Slums: Some Findings from Tangerang City

Tourism has been in the spotlight recently, especially in urban slum areas. Many studies have reviewed slum areas. However, transforming slums into creative tourism villages or kampungs is a new phenomenon that emerged in urban slums in Indonesia. Creative kampung, in particular, is a form of tourism that changes the slum area into a tourist destination. This study aims to explore the extent of the creative tourism kampung's sustainability and the role of stakeholders in ensuring the sustainability of this creative tourism village. This study employs descriptive analysis by combining in-depth interviews and literature analysis to unravel creative kampung in practice. This study found that the kampungs' transformation can be seen in physical, social, and environmental dimensions. Moreover, this study also outlines an appropriate strategy to ensure the sustainability of creative kampung. Stakeholders' collaboration to maintain social capital and economic value is proposed to sustain the creative kampung initiatives. It is because creative kampung provides a way to preserve culture and, at the same time, boost the local economy. Therefore, transforming slum villages in many cities into creative tourist villages is one of the solutions for dealing with urban slums.
Surface Texture Designs to Improve the Core–Veneer Bond Strength of Zirconia Restorations Using Digital Light Processing

Veneered zirconia ceramics are widely used for dental restorations. However, the relatively poor bonding strength between the ceramic core and veneer porcelain remains a common problem in clinical applications. To address this issue, this study focused on enhancing the core–veneer bond strength of zirconia restorations through the implementation of surface textures using digital light processing (DLP) technology. The light intensity was precisely tuned to optimize mechanical strength and minimize light scattering. Subsequently, hexagonal or square grids were printed on the surface of the zirconia ceramic core. Following veneering procedures, the shear bond strength (SBS) test was conducted using a universal testing machine. Dates were compared using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the least significant difference (LSD) test. Furthermore, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to examine the failure modes and observe the cross-sectional structures, respectively. The results indicated that the presence of a 0.09 mm high hexagon grid led to a significant 21% increase in the SBS value. However, grids with heights of 0.2 and 0.3 mm showed less improvement, owing to the formation of large defects at the interface during the fusion process. This study demonstrated the potential of DLP technology in preparing zirconia ceramics with complex structures and high mechanical strength, thereby offering promising solutions for overcoming challenges associated with dental applications.
Studying the effectiveness of deep active learning in software defect prediction

Accurate prediction of defective software modules is of great importance for prioritizing quality assurance efforts, reasonably allocating testing resources, reducing costs and improving software quality. Several studies have used machine learning to predict software defects. However, complex structures and imbalanced class distributions in software defect data make learning an effective defect prediction model challenging. In this article, two deep learning-based defect prediction models using static code metrics are proposed. In order to enhance the learning process and improve the performance of the proposed models, pool-based active learning is employed. In this regard, the possibility of using active learning to mitigate the need for a large amount of labeled data in the process of building deep learning models is investigated. To deal with imbalanced distribution of software modules between defective and non-defective classes, Near-Miss under-sampling and KNN, with different number of neighbors, are used. The reason for choosing them is their good performance in binary classification problems. Experiments are performed on two well-known, publicly available datasets, GitHub Bug Dataset and public Uniﬁed Bug Dataset for java projects. The evaluation results reveal the effectiveness of our proposed models in comparison to the traditional machine learning algorithms. In the conducted investigations on the Unified Bug Dataset, at the file level, the value of F-measure and AUC criteria have improved by 13 and 11 percent, respectively and at the class level, the values have improved by 14 and 11 percent, respectively.
Temblor esencial: ¿el gato tiene cinco pies? Síntomas no motores y temblor esencial plus

Introducción. La existencia de síntomas no motores en el temblor esencial (TE) y la aparición de una nueva entidad, el TE plus, son dos temas controvertidos. Objetivos. Exponer una revisión del estado actual de estos dos temas. Desarrollo. Análisis de los estudios sobre síntomas no motores en el TE, y de los artículos favorables y contrarios al término TE plus. Conclusiones. Los síntomas no motores han aumentado su reconocimiento como un dato acompañante del TE. Varios estudios han documentado su presencia en comparación con controles pareados. Ahora bien, no está claro si estos síntomas no motores formarían parte del espectro de síntomas del TE (fenómeno primario), o si se trataría de síntomas que aparecen como consecuencia de la discapacidad física o psíquica producida por la propia sintomatología del TE (fenómeno secundario). De momento, su evaluación y su tratamiento no forman parte de la valoración estándar de los pacientes con TE. Ante el fenotipo heterogéneo, el término TE plus intenta mejorar la homogeneidad fenotípica de cara a los estudios genéticos o terapéuticos. Ahora bien, no existe una base patológica y existen numerosos inconvenientes para los estudios de investigación epidemiológicos, genéticos y terapéuticos. En ausencia de biomarcadores objetivos claros, la distinción entre TE y TE plus únicamente por distinción clínica es muy compleja. Debemos ser cautos a la hora de utilizar nuevos términos que no están todavía soportados por una base científica.
Stabilizers for REBCO Conductors for High Performance SFCL

Resistive REBCO fault current limiter (FCL) is a promising solution to the fault current issue in electric grids, which is not fully satisfactorily solved. However, the cost of the superconducting (SC) REBCO conductor should be lowered to facilitate the deployment of this innovative device. What we refer to as REBCO conductor is usually a bare REBCO tape bonded to a stabilizer. The design of the stabilizer is fundamental to optimize the conductor and lower the superconducting FCL (SFCL) cost. The goal is to limit the temperature rise for any fault conditions, notably for any amplitude of the prospective fault current. The specificities of SC tapes, including critical current inhomogeneities along the length, must be considered in the design. Here, we study various stabilizer configurations. First, the case of “dielectric stabilizer,” electrically insulating is presented. The theoretical performances are interesting in terms of electric field under limitation, but the low thermal diffusivity remains an issue, as well as the implementation. Some experimental investigations are shown. The results are compared with classical metallic stabilizer designs, which are simpler to implement. To enhance the electric field under limitation, a variant of metallic stabilizer is then introduced, using a corrugated structure. A design showing an electric field under limitation of 200 V/m (clearing time of 50 ms) is presented. Further optimizations and higher electric fields seem achievable even if practical implementation remains very challenging.
Social capacity and visitor satisfaction in national park tourism

National parks around the world are increasingly attracting visitors to experience pristine and unique natural environments. While increases in national park tourism provides business opportunities both in the parks and in adjacent communities, there are several social and ecological aspects that need to be monitored in order to sustain high quality visitor experiences. Crowding is often viewed as the most direct social impact of outdoor recreation and it is fundamental to the recreation experience since it is a negative evaluation of a certain user density. It can be closely linked to the concept of recreational carrying capacity which is the level of use beyond which social impacts exceed acceptable levels. Crowding is of interest both to recreation managers and researchers because it can be controlled through proper management actions. This paper reports a study of perceived crowding and visitor satisfaction in a front country recreation environment along with the effects of trail design and hiking patterns. Visitors to Njupeskar waterfall in Fulufjallet national park in the Swedish mountain region were surveyed between June and September 2001. Approximately 36,000 visitors during the summer did the three kilometer long round hike to the waterfall. The results show that 25 percent of the visitors reported some degree of perceived crowding. Positive relationships were found between actual use levels, perceived encounters and crowding, while the level of perceived crowding had a negative effect on visitor satisfaction. This suggests that the satisfaction model is applicable at a high use nature tourism site with front country characteristics. Both the choice of trail and reported encounters had an effect on perceived crowding � suggesting that proper management actions and trail design can increase visitor satisfaction and benefit visitor experiences in national park tourism.
Modélisation du comportement mécanique et thermique des silices nano-architecturées

Les silices nanostructurees sont des materiaux ultra-poreux (plus de 80% de porosite) utilises pour la confection de Panneaux Isolants sous Vides (PIV). Elles possedent des proprietes thermiques exceptionnelles, mais de pietres proprietes mecaniques.L’enjeu de cette these est d’etudier ces materiaux aux echelles de la particule (quelques nm), de l’agregat de particules (quelques dizaines de nm) et de l’agglomerat d’agregats (quelques centaines de nm), afin de mieux comprendre les comportements mecanique et thermique a l’aide de simulations, et de proposer des pistes pour ameliorer le compromis thermique / mecanique. La nature particulaire du materiau et son caractere multi-echelle justifient l’utilisation de methodes de simulations discretes (DEM : Discrete Element Method). Un modele original permettant de generer des agregats a morphologiecontrolee (dimension fractale, rayon de giration, porosite) est propose. Le comportement a la compaction des agregats est ensuite etudie par simulations DEM. Une approche par cyclage a faible densite a ete developpee pour obtenir des arrangements initiaux realistes d’agregats. La preponderance des phenomenes adhesifs dans le systeme rend en effet celui-ci tres sensible a l’arrangement initial. La reponse en traction des structures generees par compaction est egalement evaluee.L’influence de la morphologie des agregats, de l’adhesion et du frottement ont ete etudiees. L’accent est mis sur la comparaison de deux types de silices (pyrogenees et precipitees) presentant des morphologies differentes et pour lesquelles des donnees experimentales permettent une confrontation avec les simulations. Les simulations presentees permettent d’apporter des reponses sur l’origine des differences de comportement mecanique observees experimentalement pour ces deux types de silice.Une modelisation de la conductivite thermique du materiau, avec une focalisation sur la conductivite solide, est egalement proposee.
Variable density groundwater flow: from modelling to applications

Arid and semi-arid climates are mainly characterised as those areas where precipitation is less (and often considerably less) than potential evapotranspiration. These climate regions are ideal environments for salt to accumulate in natural soil and groundwater settings since evaporation and transpiration essentially remove freshwater from the system, leaving residual salts behind. Similarly, the characteristically low precipitation rates reduce the potential for salt to be diluted by rainfall. Thus arid and semi-arid regions make ideal ‘salt concentrator’ hydrologic environments. Indeed, salt flats, playas, sabkhas and saline lakes, for example, are ubiquitous features of arid and semi-arid regions throughout the world (Yechieli and Wood,2002). In such settings, variable density flow phenomena are expected to be important, especially where hypersaline brines overlie less dense groundwater at depth. In contrast, seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers is a global phenomenon that is not constrained to only arid and semi-arid regions of the globe and is inherently a variable density flow problem by its very nature. These two examples make it clear that variable density flow problems occur in, but importantly extend beyond, arid and semi-arid regions of the globe. The intention of this chapter is therefore not to limit ourselves to modelling arid zone hydrological systems, but rather to present a more general treatment of variable density groundwater flow and solute transport phenomena and modelling. The concepts presented in this chapter are therefore not climatologically constrained to arid or semi-arid zones of the world, although they do apply equally there.
Integrated turbulence parameters' estimation from NAOMI adaptive optics telemetry data

Monitoring turbulence parameters is crucial in high-angular resolution astronomy for various purposes, such as optimising adaptive optics systems or fringe trackers. The former are present at most modern observatories and will remain significant in the future. This makes them a valuable complementary tool for the estimation of turbulence parameters. The feasibility of estimating turbulence parameters from low-resolution sensors remains untested. We perform seeing estimates for both simulated and on-sky telemetry data sourced from the new adaptive optics module installed on the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. The seeing estimates are obtained from a modified and optimised algorithm that employs a chi-squared modal fitting approach to the theoretical von K\'arm\'an model variances. The algorithm is built to retrieve turbulence parameters while simultaneously estimating and accounting for the remaining and measurement error. A Monte Carlo method is proposed for the estimation of the statistical uncertainty of the algorithm. The algorithm is shown to be able to achieve per cent accuracy in the estimation of the seeing with a temporal horizon of 20s on simulated data. A 0.76"+/- 1.2%$|_\mathrm{stat}$ +/- 1.2%$|_\mathrm{sys}$ median seeing was estimated from on-sky data collected from 2018 and 2020. The spatial distribution of the Auxiliary Telescopes across the Paranal Observatory was found to not play a role in the value of the seeing.
Power Allocation with QoS and Max-Min Fairness Constraints for Downlink MIMO-NOMA System

SUMMARY Non-orthogonal multipe access based multiple-input multiple-output system (MIMO-NOMA) has been widely used in improving user’s achievable rate of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. To meet different requirements of each user in multi-user beams, this paper proposes a power allocation algorithm to satisfy the quality of service (QoS) of head user while maximizing the minimum rate of edge users from the perspective of max-min fairness. Suppose that the user who is closest to the base station (BS) is the head user and the other users are the edge users in each beam in this paper. Then, an optimization problem model of max-min fairness criterion is developed under the constraints of users’ minimum rate requirements and the total transmitting power of the BS. The bisection method and Karush-Kuhn-Tucher (KKT) conditions are used to solve this complex non-convex problem, and simulation results show that both the minimum achievable rates of edge users and the average rate of all users are greatly improved significantly compared with the traditional MIMO-NOMA, which only consider max-min fairness of users.
Designing Immersive Labs and Programs for Higher Education

Immersive learning tools and technologies such as augmented and virtual reality are set to disrupt learning technology support and learning lab design for educational institutions and campuses. Campus facilities such as computer labs may not be properly equipped to utilize these new technologies to support emerging technologies as the design of these spaces, the implementation strategies, and technology requirements can be very different from more traditional computer-aided learning. This paper outlines a strategic approach to design and implement immersive learning labs in higher education settings, with a focus on virtual and augmented reality-enhanced content. It begins with a clarification of design concepts and initial program suggestions and ends with a range of setup and management tools for these labs. Keywords: Immersive Learning, Learning Laboratories, Collaborative Online International Learning, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality