Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Efficiency of Alternative Best Management Practices to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB)

We conducted biophysical simulations using MAPSHED to determine the effects of adopting best management practices to reduce nutrients and sediment in a watershed dominated by row crop agriculture and poultry production. Reduction of three water pollutants nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment from adopting different BMPs are used in the cost reducing optimization model. We considered three weather scenarios (dry, normal and wet) and various levels of BMP parameter efficiencies. The nutrient management plan and vegetative buffer are the dominant cost-effective BMPs in the normal and wet weather conditions. In the dry weather scenario, vegetative buffer and stream-bank stabilization are the most cost effective BMPs. The cost of per kilogram of phosphorus reduction ranges from $10 to $40 depending on levels of desired phosphorus level reduction and efficiency parameters used in the model. It is costly to reduce phosphorus in a dry weather scenario perhaps because runoff is minimal and total costs associated with BMPs do not get distributed much on a per unit effluent basis.
EFFECT OF DATA QUALITY ON WATER BODY SEGMENTATION WITH DEEPLABV3+ ALGORITHM

Abstract. Training Deep Learning (DL) algorithms for segmenting features require hundreds to thousands of input data and corresponding labels. Generating thousands of input images and labels requires considerable resources and time. Hence, it is common practice to use opensource imagery data and labels available online. Most of these open-source data have little or no metadata describing their quality or suitability making it problematic for training or evaluating DL models. This study evaluated the effect of data quality on training DeepLabV3+, using Sentinel 2 A/B RGB images and labels obtained from Kaggle. We generated subsets of 256 × 256 pixels, and 10% of these images (802) were set aside for testing. First, we trained and validated the DeepLabV3+ model with the remaining images. Second, we removed images with incorrect labels and trained another DeepLabV3+ network. Finally, we trained the third DeepLabV3+ network after removing images with turbid water or with floating vegetation. All three trained models were evaluated with test images and then we calculated accuracy metrics. As the quality of the input images improved, accuracy of the predicted masks generated from the first model increased from 92.8% to 94.3% in the second model. The third model’s accuracy was 96.4%, demonstrating the network’s ability to better learn and predict water bodies when the input data had fewer class variations. Based on the results we recommend assessing the quality of open-source data for incorrect labels and variations in the target class prior to training DeepLabV3+ or any other DL network.
Research on app design based on persuasive design and behaviour change techniques

: The new study focus on the interaction design, behavior change techniques and persuasive design approach for weight loss purpose. A new game combining with physical activity was developed through a comprehensive user-centered research and design process which included literature review, online-questionnaire, observation, interview, usability testing and performance test. The results show the game app combining with physical activity could be an attractive way to contribute to increasing physical activity and loss weight in secondary or unintentional behavior.
Reactive strength index-modified in different plyometric tasks

The Reactive Strength Index-Modified (RSl,d) is a reliable method of measuring the explosiveness of an athlete during a range of plyometric exercises. The purpose of the current study was to measure the between-limb differences in RSlmod across three different plyometric tasks. Eleven recreationally active participants performed countermovement jumps, stop jumps and single-leg jumps. The study found no significant differences in RSlmod between dominant and non-dominant limbs across all three tasks (p>0.05), but did find RSI,d to be higher in the stop jump than a countermovement jump and single leg stop jump for both dominant and non-dominant limbs. These findings show RSlmod may not be an indicator of limb asymmetry, but may be useful for the coach when looking to develop ex@losive performance in an athlete or performer.
Regions, Spatial Strategies and Sustainable Development

1. The Re-Emergence of the Region in Policy and Politics 2. Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 3. Environmental Quality and Spatial Planning: Different Meanings in Different Regions? 4. Housing Need and Urban Form 5. Towards an Urban Renaissance? 6. Inward Investment Versus Sustainable Development: The Economic Development Imperative 7. Governance, Regionalism and Regional Planning 8. Conclusions.
Biorisk Management and Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Biofilm producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Broiler Chicken: A Public Health Concern

Control of biosecurity and biosecurity within poultry consists of a set of practical measures meant to prevent and control the spread of disease between people and animals. Infections, caused mainly by zoonotic agents, occur frequently due to the lack of safety monitoring regulations, as well as the inappropriate use of antimicrobial products, leading to the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, often known as the MDR pathogen has evolved resistance to multiple antibiotics. Because of its propensity to build biofilms in meat and other food products, P. aeruginosa is even more resilient to the phenomenon of drug resistance which is a major public health issue. Standard microbiological and biochemical tests were used to isolate and identify P. aeruginosa from a total of 100 meat samples (20 from each district from broiler chicken meat) gathered from various butcher shops and supermarkets. The Kirby Bauer method was used to identify antibiotic resistance, while the microtiter plate test was used to monitor biofilm formation. It was found that P. aeruginosa was identified from 22% of the broiler chicken meat samples and showed resistance to Cloxacillin, teicoplanin, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, and meropenem, followed by linezolid, streptomycin, amikacin, compound sulphonamide, aztreonam and cefepime which showed intermediate resistance. Multiple Antibiotic Resistance Index (MARI) was calculated as 0.45 for a total of 11 antibiotics. Also, all 22 MDR isolates of P. aeruginosa tested positive for the presence of the biofilm. In conclusion, it was determined that chicken meat was contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and these strains that produce biofilms are more resistant to antibiotics. Thus, there is a serious threat to public health from biofilm-forming isolates found in broiler chickens.
Coexistence and Succession of Spontaneous and Planted Vegetation on Extensive Mediterranean Green Roofs: Impacts on Soil, Seed Banks, and Mesofauna

Extensive green roofs are well known to improve the urban environment, but in the Mediterranean regions, dry climatic conditions pose the problem of their sustainability when no irrigation is applied. After planting or sowing in 2012, 18 local Mediterranean plant species on different types of exposure and substrate in a non-irrigated extensive green roof in Avignon (South-Eastern France), the physico-chemical characteristics of the soil, winter and spring soil seed banks, soil mesofauna and initially sown, planted, or spontaneous vegetation expressed on the surface were studied from 2013 to 2020. In 2020, significant differences related to the exposure conditions (shade/sun) and, to a lesser extent, to the depth of substrate used (5 cm/5 cm or 10 cm with a water retention layer) were found. The deeper plots in the shade have significantly higher soil fertility, cover, and vegetation height. However, the plots in the sun have higher moss cover, planted or sowed vegetation abundance, and springtail abundance. By 2020, more than half of the initially sown species had disappeared, except for several planted perennials and short-cycle annual species. On the other hand, a significant increase in the species richness of spontaneously established species was measured over time. In the absence of a permanent and transient seed bank for the sowed and spontaneous species, the plant community is then mostly dependent on species flows via the local surrounding seed rain. Planting perennial species (Sedum spp., Iris lutescens), followed by spontaneous colonization of species present in the vicinity of the roof would then represent a more efficient strategy for the persistence of extensive non-irrigated green roofs in Mediterranean environments than sowing a species-rich local Mediterranean seed mixture dominated by annual species.
Développement d'une approche de paléosismologie géophysique par imagerie Géoradar. Applications aux failles décrochantes actives de Nouvelle Zélande

Acquerir des informations sur les forts seismes passes est crucial pour anticiper les caracteristiques des forts seismes futurs. Une partie des traces laissees par les forts seismes passes sont enfouies dans les premiers metres du sol et sont en general revelees par des tranchees de quelques metres de profondeur ouvertes a travers les failles sismogenes. Bien que pertinente, cette methode est destructive. L'objectif a ete de developper une nouvelle forme de paleosismologie, non destructive, basee sur l'imagerie georadar pseudo 3D, capable de retrouver ces traces enfouies des seismes passes. Dans ce travail, cinq sites d’etude sont presentes, situes le long de failles actives decrochantes de Nouvelle Zelande. Notre nouvelle approche debute, dans un premier temps, par l’analyse ‘classique’ de la morphologie de surface a partir de donnees LiDAR et de MNT GPS haute resolution. Ceci nous permet d’identifier l'ensemble des marqueurs morphologiques preserves a la surface et les deplacements horizontaux qu’ils ont enregistres. Dans un second temps, l’analyse des profils GPR pseudo-3D acquis en chacun des sites revelent des reflecteurs principaux dans les premiers 5-10 m du sol recoupes par un grand nombre de marqueurs morphologiques, partiellement ou totalement invisibles en surface. La plupart de ces marqueurs enfouis sont coupes et decales par la faille consideree. Les mesures de ces decalages fournissent des collections denses de deplacements cumules sur chacune des failles investiguees avec generalement un nombre de mesures effectues en sub-surface 10 a 20 fois plus important qu’en surface et couvrant une plus large gamme de valeurs. L’application sur la faille de Hope de cette approche a notamment permis de mettre en evidence un deplacement lateral caracteristique de 3.2 ± 1 m lors des 30-35 derniers forts seismes. Ce travail demontre le potentiel de l'imagerie georadar pseudo-3D a detecter une partie de l'histoire sismique des failles et, ce faisant, a fournir des informations sur les caracteristiques des forts seismes passes.
Fructosamine is Not a Reliable Test for the Detection of Hyperglycemia: Insight from the Africans in America Study

Objective To improve detection of abnormal glucose tolerance (Abnl-GT), attention has moved beyond the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), to non-fasting markers of glycemia, specifically, HbA1c, fructosamine (FA) and glycated albumin (GA). Emerging data suggest that in African descent populations, the combination of HbA1c and GA is superior to the combination of HbA1c and FA. However, the diagnosis of Abnl-GT is usually based on tests which are performed only once. As reproducibility of Abnl-GT diagnosis by HbA1c, fructosamine (FA) and glycated albumin (GA) is unknown, reproducibility of Abnl-GT diagnosis by HbA1c, FA and GA were assessed in 209 African-born Blacks living in America. Methods At Visits 1 and 2 (9 ± 4 days apart), samples were obtained for HbA1c, FA and GA levels. Glucose tolerance status was determined at Visit 1 by OGTT. Reproducibility was based on the К-statistic and paired t-tests. Thresholds for the diagnosis of Abnl-GT by FA and GA which corresponded to an HbA1c of 5.7% were 235umol/L and 14.6%, respectively. Results Abnl-GT occurred in 38% (80/209). Diagnostic reproducibility was excellent for HbA1c (К≥0.86) and GA (К≥0.89), but only moderate for FA (К=0.59). Neither HbA1c nor GA levels varied between visits (both P≥0.3). In contrast, FA was significantly lower at Visit 2 than Visit 1(P<0.01). Conclusion As HbA1c and GA provided similar diagnostic results on different days and FA did not, HbA1C and GA are superior to FA in both clinical care settings and epidemiologic studies.
Track Deflection of Typhoon Nesat (2017) as Realized by Multiresolution Simulations of a Global Model

Typhoon Nesat (2017) headed west-northwestward toward Taiwan but took a relatively larger northward deflection about 300 km away and then a leftward deflection after landfall at northern Taiwan. A global model MPAS, employing a multiresolution of 60–15–3 km mesh, is used to investigate the underlying mechanisms of the track changes. The global model simulations are capable of resolving the detailed topographical effects of the Central Mountain Range (CMR) in Taiwan, giving reasonable 5 day tracks in agreement with the observations for Typhoons Soudelor (2015) and Megi (2016), and comparing better with the observed deflection of Nesat (2017) than the regional model simulation of WRF. Sensitivity experiments indicate that flattening the CMR only partially reduces the track deflection of Nesat, while the elimination of the initial cyclone over the South China Sea disables the possible Fujiwhara effect and leads to a southward-biased track with much weaker northward deflection. The northward deflection of Nesat is mainly in response to the wavenumber-1 (WN-1) horizontal PV advection as the southerly flow east of the typhoon center is enhanced by convergence with the outer cyclonic typhoon flow and the large-scale southwesterlies. Upward motions and PV in the troposphere thus are much stronger to the east of the center than to the west, resulting in westward translation induced by negative WN-1 vertical PV advection but eastward translation induced by positive WN-1 vertical differential latent heating to the east. Near landfall, with stronger upward motions produced over the northern CMR, vertical differential latent heating averaged in 3–8-km height becomes negative and thus retards the westward translation.
Serum interleukin-17 as a biomarker in paediatric bronchial asthma: A case control study 

Introduction: Bronchial asthma (BA) is a chronic childhood disease causing significant morbidity and mortality. A novel and suitable biomarker is needed for early diagnosis of BA. Objectives: To establish the association of serum interleukin-17 (IL-17) levels in children with BA and to determine the diagnostic performance of IL-17 in predicting severity of BA. Method: This was a case control study conducted at the Institute of Child Health and Research Centre, Government Rajaji Hospital & Madurai Medical College, Madurai, India from August 2020 to July 2021. Cases were selected according to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines and controls were healthy siblings or age and sex matched controls The associations of IL-17 with BA were statistically analysed using Epi info v7 and SPSS 20. Analysis was done using one way ANOVA and t-test. ROC curve was used to find the diagnostic cut-off point. p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Mean age of the participants was 8.74±2.21 years; 55.8% were males. Mean IL-17 level was significantly higher among cases (2.5±2.7) as compared to controls (1.31±0.96) (p=0.0043). There was a significant increase in mean IL-17 levels with increase in severity (p=0.00). The area under curve for IL 17 levels in diagnosing severe persistent asthma was 0.870 (95% CI=0.708-1.000). The best diagnostic cut-off point was 3.26pg/ml with a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 90%. The best diagnostic cut-off point of IL 17 was 1.12pg/ml in predicting asthma with a sensitivity of 60% and a specificity of 50%. Conclusions: IL 17 level can used as a biomarker for identifying patients with severe persistent asthma.
Geology of the Christmas quadrangle, Gila and Pinal Counties, Arizona

_______________-__-__________________-___-_-___-_-___. _ El Introduction ______________________________________________________ 2 Location and accessibility______________________________________ 3 Physical features ______________________________________________ 4 Climate. _____________________________________________________ 5 Previous work_________________________________________________ 6 Acknowledgments. ____________________________________________ 8 Regional geologic setting. __________________________________________ 8 Precambrian rocks_________________________________________________ 9 Older(? ) Precambrian rocks___-___________________-_--_------_-_ 9 Schist______________________. ___________-_ 10 Metavolcanic rocks___________________-_______-_-__-_-_---. 10 Granite __________________________________________________ 11 Granodiorite. _ ___-___-_________-___________--__--_---_---12 Apache Group. _______________________________________________ 12 Pioneer Formation_________________________-___-----_---_ 13 Scanlan Conglomerate Bed_____________-_-__------_--_13 Dripping Spring Quartzite____----_---_---__---__----------14 Barnes Conglomerate Member_________-___----_---_----15 Upper members of Dripping Spring Quartzite_________---_ 15 Mescal Formation_______-___________________-_-___-__----16 Basalt. ______________________________----___---17 Troy Quartzjte___-__ ______________________________________ 17 Diabase and diorite_________. ___________-___________----_-__--19 Cambrian rocks, undivided_________________________________________ 20 Devonian rocks. __________________________________________________ 22 Martin Formation. ____________________________________ 22 Mississippian rocks. _______________________________________________ 23 Escabrosa Limestone____________________-________-__--_-----_ 23 Pennsylvanian rocks. ______________________________________________ 24 Naco Limestone. ____________________________________________ 24 Cretaceous rocks__________________________________________________ 25 Unnamed sedimentary rocks____________________. _______________ 25 Unnamed volcanic and sedimentary rocks. _________________-_--. 26 Cretaceous(? ) or Tertiary rocks_________________. __________--_-_---_ 27 Microdiorite. _________________________________________________ 28 Feldspar-mica porphyry_-_______________________-_-_----_-_---28 Hornblende andesite_____-__-______________--__--___-_-_-_----30 Tertiary rocks___________________________________-. -__-_ 32 Conglomerate. _---_______________________________-__--__--_--32 Older volcanics___________________________-_--__-_-----_32 Intrusive rhyolite_________________________________________34 Gravel. ______________________________________________ 34 Basalt and andesite___-_________. ___. ____________-----_-_-----_ 35 Tuff and rhyolite_____________________________ 35
Identifying sources of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment using the microbial Find, Inform, and Test framework

Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing public health concern for humans, animals, and the environment. However, the contributions of spatially distributed sources of AMR in the environment are not well defined. Methods To identify the sources of environmental AMR, the novel microbial Find, Inform, and Test (FIT) model was applied to a panel of five antibiotic resistance-associated genes (ARGs), namely, erm(B), tet(W), qnrA, sul1, and intI1, quantified from riverbed sediment and surface water from a mixed-use region. Results A one standard deviation increase in the modeled contributions of elevated AMR from bovine sources or land-applied waste sources [land application of biosolids, sludge, and industrial wastewater (i.e., food processing) and domestic (i.e., municipal and septage)] was associated with 34–80% and 33–77% increases in the relative abundances of the ARGs in riverbed sediment and surface water, respectively. Sources influenced environmental AMR at overland distances of up to 13 km. Discussion Our study corroborates previous evidence of offsite migration of microbial pollution from bovine sources and newly suggests offsite migration from land-applied waste. With FIT, we estimated the distance-based influence range overland and downstream around sources to model the impact these sources may have on AMR at unsampled sites. This modeling supports targeted monitoring of AMR from sources for future exposure and risk mitigation efforts.
ON-LINE SHORT TERM SIMULATION AND FORECAST OF MOTORWAY TRAFFIC PATTERNS: FIELD RESULTS OBTAINED ON ASF NETWORK IN FRANCE

On-line short term traffic forecasting (1 hour to 2 hours in advance) is a major concern for motorway traffic managers, especially in case of incidents during heavy traffic conditions. In such situations, models based on pure statistical methods are not well suited, and explanatory models (based on the knowledge of traffic laws) should be used. The paper describes the developments made during a several years research programme on the Autoroutes du Sud de la France motorway network, resulting in real-time application of an Origin Destination matrix forecasting model (MITHRA) linked with a flow simulation model (SIMRES). Results obtained from real operation tests during Summer '95 are presented and discussed. The potential of such tools for the provision of aid-to-decision to the traffic operator is addressed.
Transcriptome Analysis and Novel EST-SSR Marker Development for Pinus tabuliformis Seedlings from Four Provenances

Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) is a conifer species endemic to the temperate, warm temperate, and semi-arid regions of China. It has important ecological and economic values, but lacks suitable molecular markers for genetic studies. In this study, we collected open-pollinated progeny seeds from four provenances: Ningcheng (Nc), Qinyuan (Qy), Weichang (Wc), and Pingquan (Pq). We sequenced the transcriptomes of open-pollinated progeny seedlings from four provenances and annotated 18,244 unigenes. We analyzed the expression of genes involved in the auxin indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), cytokinin (CTK), and gibberellin (GA) signaling pathways among the provenances. Additionally, we detected 2811 expressed sequence tag simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) loci in 2360 unigenes, with a frequency of 14.83% and an average of one locus per 14,556 base pairs (bp). We developed 10 polymorphic primers from 67 pairs and tested them on 56 samples from the four provenances. These primers exhibited moderate to high polymorphism and distinguished all samples clearly. Our study reveals variation in growth and development among open-pollinated progeny seedlings from different provenances of Chinese pine and provides novel markers for its genetic diversity study and marker-assisted breeding.