Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Revised Taxonomic Binomials Jeopardize Protective Wildlife Legislation

Due to revised phylogenies and newly discovered biogeographic distributions, scientific binomials are being amended continuously. Problematic is that wildlife protection legislation tends not to keep pace with these reappraisals, creating a wide range of legislative loopholes and potentially compromising ability to prosecute illegal wildlife trade (IWT). This serious and growing international problem proves particularly challenging in China because binomials used on China's national legislation have not been updated since 1989, alongside the enormous issues of IWT in this megadiverse nation. Here, we focus especially on mammals, because these support lucrative criminal markets and receive the greatest international policing efforts; however, all protected taxa are vulnerable to this misnaming ambiguity. To date, the names of 25 threatened species, including 18 mammals, have become incongruent with Chinese law. Additionally, two primate species, newly discovered within China, have not yet been incorporated into Chinese law. A further six mammalian species are known by different synonyms between Chinese law and CITES, hindering international policing and compilation of data on IWT. Taxonomic revisions similarly undermine legislation in other megadiverse countries; posing a critical risk to wildlife protection worldwide. We recommend that scientific binomials must be updated systematically across all 181 CITES signatory nations.
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON THE ROLE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY IN GETTING SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

This study examines the Sustainable Competitive Advantage model in the creative industries of the Visual Communication Design (DKV) sub-sector through a review of Social Capital and the mediating role of the Knowledge Management System (KMS). This research is quantitative descriptive, using cross sectional time dimension. The population in this study consisted of owners, managers, and designers in the DKV business in Riau Province, Indonesia. The research method is probability sampling using cluster sampling techniques. The samples used were 202. Data were collected through a questionnaire consisting of 41 questions. The results of this test is that there is a relationship between social capital and the knowledge management system. Knowledge Management System mediates the relationship between Social Capital and Sustainable Competitive Advantage. This research was conducted at DKV Enterprises so it needs to be extended to other creative industry sub-sectors to further validate the models that have been developed. So that the benefits obtained will be more extensive and meaningful for the creative industry holistically. Previous research has concentrated on the effect of social capital on knowledge management on the character of business organizations by not normalizing knowledge as the main competitiveness in organizations. Furthermore KMS in the creative economy is Knowledge Collaboration from various elements that support the creation of superior creative products. Penelitian ini menganalisis peran mediasi Knowledge Managemant System (KMS) dan modal sosial terhadap Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) pada industri kreatif sub-sektor Desain Komunikasi Visual (DKV). Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif, menggunakan dimensi waktu cross sectional . Populasi dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari pemilik, manajer, dan desainer dalam bisnis DKV di Provinsi Riau, Indonesia. Metode penelitian ini adalah probability , menggunakan teknik cluster sampling . Sampel yang digunakan adalah 202 responden. Data dikumpulkan melalui kuesioner yang terdiri dari 41 pertanyaan. Hasil tes ini adalah bahwa terdapat hubungan modal sosial terhadap KMS. KMS memediasi hubungan antara modal sosial terhadap SCA. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada usaha DKV sehingga perlu diperluas ke sub-sektor industri kreatif lainnya untuk lebih memvalidasi model penelitian yang telah dikembangkan. Penelitian ini memberikan manfaat bagi industri kreatif untuk dapat mengetahui dimensi atau aspek dari setiap variabel penelitian yang perlu diberi perhatian untuk diterapkan, sehingga dapat mencapai SCA. Penelitian sebelumnya telah dilakukan pada pengaruh modal sosial pada KMS pada karakter organisasi bisnis yang dimana pengetahuan tacit bukanlah sebagai daya saing utama dalam organisasi. KMS usaha dalam industri kreatif adalah kolaborasi pengetahuan dari berbagai elemen didalam ekosistem yang mendukung mulai dari penciptaan gagasan untuk menghasilkan produk kreatif sampai kepada pengembangan produk dan pemasarannya.
Endovenous laser ablation of lower limb varicose veins: report of results in proximal and distal routes

Amac:Bu calismanin amaci izole varikoz kucuk safen ven tanisi alan ve endovenoz lazer ablasyon uygulanan hastalarda vaskuler giris yolunun (proksimal veya distal) postoperatif agri uzerine olan etkilerini degerlendirmektir. Hastalar ve Yontem:Calisma varisli safen ven tanis alan 49 hastanin (35 kadin, 14 erkek) tibbi dosyalari kullanilarak yapildi. Endovenoz lazer ablasyonu 1470 nm emisyon dalga boyunda lazer enerjisi kullanilarak gerceklestirildi. Agrinin degerlendirilmesi gorsel analog skala kullanilarak 7. , 1. , 3. ve 6. aylarda yapildi. Bulgular:Kirk dokuz hastadan 30\'unda kucuk safen veninin dizalti distal kesiminden ve 19\'unda da kucuk safen venin proksimalinden giris yapildi. Bu iki grubun sonuclari varikoz venin proksimal genis olan kismindan erisilebilmesinin, varikoz venlerin endovenoz lazer ablasyon tedavisinde azalmis lokal agri skorlari ile kolay bir yol sagladigini gostermistir (p <0.001). Sonuc:Izole varikoz kucuk safen ven tanisi alan ve endovenoz lazer ablasyon uygulanan hastalarda vaskuler giris yolunun (proksimal veya distal) postoperatif agri uzerine anlamli bir etkisi olmasa da, proksimal giris yolunun daha kolay erisildigi ve bu yolla islemin daha kisa surdugu gorulmustur.
Predicting Employee Participation in, and Satisfaction With, Wellness Programs

Objective: To examine the role of employee, supervisor, and organizational support in the prediction of employee participation in wellness programs. Methods: Data were collected at two-time points (T1 and T2) from 194 Australian employees. Results: Hierarchical binary logistic regressions revealed that higher levels of employee and supervisor support for wellness at T1 each predicted T2 participation, and high supervisor support was more effective when organizational support was high and did not compensate for when organizational support was low. Employees with higher perceptions of T1 poor general health had a lower likelihood of T2 participation, and higher levels of T1 supervisor support was a further deterrent to participation. Conclusions: Different sources of support for wellness predict employee attendance at wellness programs and it is important to ensure that supervisor and organizational support are aligned.
Longer School Days , Better Outcomes ? ∗

This paper presents evidence of the impact of time spent in school on different outcomes. We investigate the effects of longer school days on schooling attainment, cognitive test scores, socio-emotional variables, labor market outcomes (wages and employment), and social behavior (adolescent motherhood and participation in illegal activities), by exploiting the structure of the Chilean schooling system in which students can select between halfand full-day schools. We control for the endogenous selection into schools using propensity score matching and comprehensive sets of students’ characteristics. Our empirical analysis is carried out using new individual-level data from Chile. This data contains retrospective information on a wide range of variables for 4,497 individuals aged 25-30 years by 2008. Importantly, while the oldest cohort in the sample was enrolled in high school during the period 1992-1995, the youngest individuals were high school students between 1997-2000. This data structure allows us to investigate the impacts of the 1997 Chilean education reform, which implied a major change to the schooling system. The reform extended the length of school day in more than 30 percent. In practice, this meant that schools offering a half-day program before the reform were forced to sequentially switch to a full-time shift system. The specific analysis of this reform is a second contribution of this paper. Although our findings suggest some heterogeneity on the magnitude of the effects, we can conclude that enrollment into a full-day school has positive effects on academic outcomes and cognitive test scores. It also reduces adolescent motherhood. However, we do not find significant overall effects on employment or wages. Only individuals switching from afternoon to full-time shift seem to experience significant increases in monthly wages. This suggests that not only the school day’s length is important but also the time of the day when students attend classes. The 1997 reform increased the benefits of full-day schools by reducing the overall likelihood of adolescent motherhood. The reform also increased the positive effects of full-day school on the likelihood of high-school dropout and on the likelihood of arrest, but in these cases the difference is not significant. Since the reform also increased the percentage of students attending full-day schools, we estimate a positive effect of the reform on these three outcomes. However, the 1997 reform did not improve, in relative terms, the labor market outcomes of those “treated”. All in all, our results indicate that longer school days improve academic and social outcomes. However, in the context of the school-to-work transition, they do not translate into better labor market outcomes. JEL Classification Codes: I21, H43, H52 ∗This document is available on the web at http://
P4QCN: Congestion Control Using P4-Capable Device in Data Center Networks

Modern data centers aim to offer very high throughput and ultra-low latency to meet the demands of applications such as online intensive services. Traditional TCP/IP stacks cannot meet these requirements due to their high CPU overhead and high-latency. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is an approach that can be designed to meet this demand. The mainstream transport protocol of RDMA over Ethernet is RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), which relies on Priority Flow Control (PFC) within the network to enable a lossless network. However, PFC is a coarse-grained protocol which can lead to problems such as congestion spreading, head-of-the-line blocking. A congestion control protocol that can alleviate these problems of PFC is needed. We propose a protocol, called P4QCN for this purpose. P4QCN is a congestion control scheme for RoCE and it is an improved Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) design based on P4, which is a flow-level, rate-based congestion control mechanism. P4QCN extends the QCN protocol to make it compatible with IP-routed networks based on a framework of P4 and adopts a two-point algorithm architecture which is more effective than the three-point architecture used in QCN and Data Center QCN(DCQCN). Experiments show that our proposed P4QCN algorithm achieves the expected performance in terms of latency and throughput.
Visual localization, mapping and reconstruction using edges

Visual navigation is one of the fundamental problems in robotics. The last decade specifically has seen many important contributions in this field. As of today, feature point based approaches are by far the most popular. While successful in a host of applications, untextured environments can be highly problematic for these methods, since the number of reliable feature points is often low in these scenarios. Nevertheless, edges may still be abundantly available, however, remain unused. In this dissertation, we propose complementary edge-based methods for visual localization, mapping and dense reconstruction that can still operate in theoretically minimal scene configurations. Starting from sparse stereo edge matching, we propose two techniques with different performance/efficiency trade-offs that are both targeted at real-time operation. Besides a comparison to popular dense stereo techniques, we also compare the algorithms to our efficient adaptation of a line segment based stereo approach. Moving on to stereo visual odometry, we propose a line segment based reprojection optimization that is able to prevail in untextured environments where a proven state-of-the-art feature point based method fails. We argue that our approach can even cope with the theoretically minimal case, consisting merely of two nonparallel line segments. We then extend this approach to a full line segment based simultaneous localization and mapping solution. Using bundle adjustment we are able to build consistent line segment maps that have a high geometric expressiveness with respect to the underlying scene geometry. Especially our long line segment tracks are notable. These are made possible by being completely independent of photometric influences, and additionally our line segment end point estimation approach. We show that we are even able to close loops with viewpoint changes of 180◦. Finally, based on our line segment maps, we propose an efficient method for dense surface reconstruction. Without using restricting assumptions about the scene geometry, we show real-time suitable processing times that make our reconstruction approach highly applicable to robotic exploration use cases in structured environments.
Australia's Italians : culture and community in a changing society

Introduction Early Italian migration and the construction of European Australia 1788--1939 Italians in Australia during World War II Italian migration and settlement since 1945 Italians help build Australia Cappuccino capitalism: Italian immigrants and Australian business Place and community: the construction of an Italo--Australian space Community leaders in rural Australia and the construction of the "Godfather" Community networks and institutions Italo--Australians and politics Italian migrant women The second generation The Italian language in Australia: sociolinguistic aspects Narrating the migration experience Italian migration to Australia and Argentina The Italo--Australian community on the Pacific rim
Scaling of photosynthetic production of aquatic macrophytes – a review

Most studies on photosynthetic production of aquatic macrophytes have been made on detached leaves and algal thalli. This may have given the false impression that production is often saturated by light and that inorganic carbon and nutrients are more important limiting factors. However, studies on the more relevant ecological scale of macrophyte communities lead to a completely different perception because community production is light limited due to intense self-shading. Relatively high irradiances are needed for photosynthesis to balance respiratory costs and not even maximum irradiances at noon during summer saturate photosynthetic production. The fundamental importance of light is confirmed by the close coupling to community light absorptance of both maximum production in high-light environments and efficiency of light use in low-light environments. The upper boundaries of light-limited and light-saturated production are distinctly and linearly related to community absorptance. Moreover, higher diversity in the community has a positive and stabilizing influence on light absorptance and production because different species supplement each other temporally and spatially. Close predictions of actual production rates in macroalgal communities throughout the year are possible solely from determinations of incident and absorbed irradiance. Along with the increasing regulating role of light from leaves or thalli to entire communities the importance of temperature, inorganic carbon and other resources decreases. Thus, ten-fold rise of CO 2 relative to atmospheric saturation does not enhance maximum production in dense communities of efficient HCO 3 -users and only doubles production of pure CO 2 -users. A challenge therefore exists establishing the importance of light for photosynthetic production of macrophytes from individuals to communities and reevaluating the postulated main importance of inorganic carbon and temperature in the scenarios of globally rising CO 2 and temperature.
Studies on the intracellular yeast-like symbiote in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens Stål

A yeast-like symbiote (YLS) was found in the fat body cells of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, being symbiotic association with every developmental stage of its host. The YLS is located in the abdomen only but never in head or thorax; measuring ca. 13–15 μ long and 5–6 μ wide, and propagates by budding. The symbiotes are distributed uniformly in the first and second instar, while they were often scattered in groups over the fat body from the third instar through adult stage. The mycetocytes harbouring YLS tended to fuse with one another into syncytia in female adults. The YLS moved into the posterior pole of the primary oocyte in the ovariole through the epithelial plug of the ovary and formed a symbiote ball in the oocyte, the symbiotes were then transmitted to the next generation by the transovarial infection. The total number of YLS increased with successive development of the host up to oviposition in female, and then gradually decreased due to egg-laying. The maximal symbiote number in male lay at the fifth nymphal instar, the population density declined after this stage. The females harboured more symbiotes than the males during the fifth nymphal and adult stage. Zusammenfassung Uber einen intrazellularen hefeahnlichen Symbionten der Braunen Heuschrecke, Nilaparvata lugens Stal. 1. Histologische Beobachtungen und Populationsveranderungen des Symbionten Ein hefeahnlicher Symbiont wurde in den Fettkorperzellen von N. lugens gefunden, der auch in allen Entwicklungsstadien vorkam. Er war nur im Abdomen, nicht in Kopf oder Thorax lokalisiert. Er ist 13–15 μ lang und 5–6 μ breit und vermehrt sich durch Knospung. Im L1- und L2-Stadium der Heuschrecke waren die Symbionten gleichmasig verteilt, von der L3 ab bis zur Adulten dagegen oft im Fettkorper gehauft. Die die Symbionten beherbergenden Mycetocyten tendierten bei den weiblichen Wirten zur Komplexbildung. Die Symbionten bewegten sich zum hinteren Pol der primaren Oozyte in der Ovariole und bildeten in der Oozyte einen Symbiontenball. Sodann wurden sie mittels der transovarialen Infektion auf die nachste Generation ubertragen. Die Gesamtzahl Symbionten nahm mit dem Entwicklungsstadium bis hin zum geschlechtsreifen Weibchen zu und danach, wahrend der Eiablage, wieder ab. Die maximale Symbiontenzahl zeigte bei den Mannchen das 5. Larvenstadium. Die weiblichen Heuschrecken enthielten maximal mehr Symbionten als die mannlichen.
Welfare issues in broiler breeders.

Under current practice, parent poultry breeding stock potentially face welfare problems. In the present review, broiler breeders are taken to illustrate welfare problems encountered at this stage of the production process. Intensive selection for production traits, especially growth rate, is associated with increased nutritious requirement and thus feed consumption, but also reproductive dysfunctions and decreased sexual activity in broiler breeders. A first resulting serious welfare problem is the subsequent severe feed restriction which is applied during rearing, in order to prevent health problems and to reach better egg production. This severe feed restriction has negative effects on bird welfare as it causes chronic stress resulting from hunger. Recent research focused on management practices to alleviate the negative effect of this feed restriction. Using both a more fibrous feed and an appetite suppressant seems thus far most successful. In many countries mutilations (beak trimming, despurring and toe clipping) are carried out in broiler breeders as a standard procedure to prevent excessive damage to the hens caused by mating. It has been reported that broiler breeder males show low libido but in the mean time aggressive and rough behavior during mating, which may cause these severe injuries to the hens. Others state that overmating causes injured hens. We suggest that probably both play a role. Current studies aim at developing management practices to reduce hen injury due to overmating and improving the sexual behavior in both males and females. In the last paragraph, we examine how breeding companies nowadays are taking welfare into consideration in their commercial selection scheme. In practice, although for example reduced mortality and some health criteria are included in selection programs, other welfare issues remain, such as the rearing environment used or the problem of feed restriction during rearing which remains, unless alternative breeds are used.
Virtual Discourse Structure: An Analysis of Conversation in World of Warcraft

Discourse in World of Warcraft poses interesting insights for the organization of conversation in text-only mediums. In my work, I show how online discourse can be analyzed using the traditional tools of Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson, 1974; Hutchby & Wooffitt, 1996). By analyzing logs of chat from within the game world, I show how turns are constructed, paying particular attention to the construction of multiple-message turns. I draw on the insights of Turn Construction Unit Continuation theory (Schegloff, 1996; Couper-Kuhlen & Ono, 2007) to illuminate the construction of these complex turns, and I show how the tools of Cohesion (Halliday & Hasan, 1976) can be used to link parts of a turn together. Finally, I show how participants in World of Warcraft use different kinds of repair functions in the discourse, namely *-repair for typographical errors and an in-group feature "get out of my head! " for overlap. Online discourse has unique and particular forms of organization, but can be analyzed in the same manner as spoken language; far from being a random and corrupted form of written language, online language use is regular and organized.
The Loss-Leading Puzzle ∗

Why do manufacturers oppose “loss leading” of their products by retailers and why do their protests receive support from consumer interest groups and policymakers? We provide a solution to this puzzle when consumers are salient thinkers, showing how in this case loss leading shifts profits from manufacturers of high-quality (branded) products to retailers and how, when the extent of one-stop shopping is sufficiently large and retail competition sufficiently intense, this crowds out high quality. We identify conditions for when a prohibition of loss leading enhances consumer and overall welfare and for when such a policy backfires. ∗We thank seminar participants at Toulouse (TSE), Zurich (ETH), Barcelona (UAB), University of Oslo, Munich (LMU) and Bergen (BECCLE) for helpful comments. A previous version was circulated under the title: “Too Much Attention on Low Prices? Loss Leading in a Model of Sales with Salient Thinkers”. †Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. E-mail: inderst@finance.uni-frankfurt.de. ‡Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. E-mail: obradovits@econ.uni-frankfurt.de. Page 3 of 76