Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Automated and monitored liquid filling system using PLC technology

In many industries (such as pharmaceuticals, beverage industries, etc.), bottles are required to be filled up with a pre-determined amount of liquid. Implementing systems using relay logic control can cause them to be inflexible. Programmable Logic Controllers - PLCs - are more flexible in automating various processes, since the behavior of the system can be changed without changing the electrical connections, as well as being able to monitor the system undergoing its operation. In this paper, an overflow filler model -filling to certain height - has been controlled using the SIMATIC- Siemens PLC trademark - S7-1200 PLC. It has been monitored through a wireless network to a computer runtime in the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) portal software, as well as a user webpage in smart devices.
ANALISIS FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PEMBERIAN ASI EKSLUSIF PADA BAYI DI KELURAHAN WARNASARI KECAMATAN CITANGKIL KOTA CILEGON

Pemberian ASI secara eklusif selama 6 bulan yang diteruskan sampai usia 2 tahun dengan pemberian makanan pendamping ASI secara adekuat merupakan salah satu intervensi efektif untuk menurunkan Angka Kematian Bayi akibat kurang gizi. Penelitian ini mengunakan desain cross sectional dengan teknik Probability Sampling jenis Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling. Hasil dalam penelitian ini sebagian besar ibu tidak memberikan ASI ekslusif (76.4%), 54.5% berumur ≥30 tahun, 74.5% berpendidikan tinggi, 74.5% bekerja, 78.2% berpengetahuan rendah, 70.9 tidak mendapat dukungan keluarga, 65.5% tidak mendapat dukungan dari tenaga kesehatan. Tidak ada hubungan yang bermakna antara umur dan pendidikan dengan pemberian ASI ekslusif. Ada hubungan yang bermakna antara pekerjaan, pengetahuan, dukungan keluarga, dukungan tenaga kesehatan dengan pemberian ASI ekslusif. Faktor pekerjaan, pengetahuan, dukungan keluarga serta dukungan tenaga kesehatan berhubungan dengan pemberian ASI eksklusif Kata Kunci: ASI Ekslusif, Umur, Pendidikan, Pekerjaan, Dukunga Keluarga
Demographic and lifestyle factors associated with sexual activity among adolescents in Malaysia

ABSTRACT Having a better understanding of the factors associated with sexual behaviour among adolescents is important as it may assist government in lowering the prevalence of teen pregnancy. The objective of the present study is to examine the effects of demographic and lifestyle factors on the likelihood of engaging in sexual intercourse with a focus on Malaysian adolescents. Using a nationally representative data collected by the Ministry of Health Malaysia, the present study finds that age, self-rated academic performance, parents’ marital status, alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking can significantly affect the sexual behaviour among adolescents. The present study concludes by discussing the policy implications of these findings. As a measure towards reducing underage sex, successful policies should be targeted primarily at adolescents who aged more than 16 years self-rate their academic performance as poor, have single parents, and adopt alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking behaviours.
BEHAVIOR OF ATTENUATED MYCOBACTERIA IN ORGANS OF NEONATAL AND ADULT MICE

The consequences of Calmette-Guérin bacillus (BCG) vaccination were followed in newborn and adult mice. BCG failed to multiply in the organs of adult mice when administered peritoneally. In contrast, extensive multiplication of the vaccine occurred in both splenic and pulmonary tissue after its peritoneal administration to newborn mice. This absence of tuberculostasis occurred during the period when the animal's spleen, lung, and thymus were rapidly growing. Animals achieved similar levels of resistance to virulent respiratory challenge 10 wk after vaccination irrespective of whether the vaccine had been administered when the mice were newly born and BCG had multiplied in vivo or administered when the animals were fully grown and the BCG had remained in the dormant state. Although neonatal infection with BCG was severe, as shown by the large numbers of organisms recovered from the animals' tissues, the animals suffered no mortality or overt signs of disease. Neonatal vaccination did not significantly affect either the animal's growth rate or the gross development of its organs.
Data representation methods and use of mined corpora for Indian language transliteration

Our NEWS 2015 shared task submission is a PBSMT based transliteration system with the following corpus preprocessing enhancements: (i) addition of wordboundary markers, and (ii) languageindependent, overlapping character segmentation. We show that the addition of word-boundary markers improves transliteration accuracy substantially, whereas our overlapping segmentation shows promise in our preliminary analysis. We also compare transliteration systems trained using manually created corpora with the ones mined from parallel translation corpus for English to Indian language pairs. We identify the major errors in English to Indian language transliterations by analyzing heat maps of confusion matrices.
Students’ motivational beliefs in science learning, school motivational contexts, and science achievement in Taiwan

ABSTRACT Taiwanese students are featured as having high academic achievement but low motivational beliefs according to the serial results of the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Moreover, given that the role of context has become more important in the development of academic motivation theory, this study aimed to examine the relationship between motivational beliefs and science achievement at both the student and school levels. Based on the Expectancy-Value Theory, the three motivational beliefs, namely self-concept, intrinsic value, and utility value, were the focuses of this study. The two-level hierarchical linear model was used to analyse the Taiwanese TIMSS 2011 eighth-grade student data. The results indicated that each motivational belief had a positive predictive effect on science achievement. Additionally, a positive school contextual effect of self-concept on science achievement was identified. Furthermore, school-mean utility value had a negative moderating effect on the relationship between utility value and science achievement. In conclusion, this study sheds light on the functioning of motivational beliefs in science learning among Taiwanese adolescents with consideration of the school motivational contexts.
Particle Content of the (k, 3)-configurations

For all k, we construct a bijection between the set of sequences of non-negative integers a =( ai)i∈Z≥0 satisfying ai + ai+1 + ai+2 ≤ k and the set of rigged partitions (λ, ρ). Here λ =( λ1 ,. , λn) is a partition satisfying k ≥ λ1 ≥· · · ≥λn ≥ 1a ndρ = (ρ1 ,. , ρn) ∈ Z n0 is such that ρj ≥ ρj+1 if λj = λj+1. One can think of λ as the particle content of the configuration a and ρj as the energy level of the j-th particle, which has the weight λj. The total energy i iai is written as the sum of the two-body inter∞ �
Current and Emerging Cell Culture Manufacturing Technologies for Influenza Vaccines

Annually, influenza virus infects millions of people worldwide. Vaccination programs against seasonal influenza infections require the production of hundreds of million doses within a very short period of time. The influenza vaccine is currently produced using a technology developed in the 1940s that relies on replicating the virus in embryonated hens' eggs. The monovalent viral preparation is inactivated and purified before being formulated in trivalent or tetravalent influenza vaccines. The production process has depended on a continuous supply of eggs. In the case of pandemic outbreaks, this mode of production might be problematic because of a possible drastic reduction in the egg supply and the low flexibility of the manufacturing process resulting in a lack of supply of the required vaccine doses in a timely fashion. Novel production systems using mammalian or insect cell cultures have emerged to overcome the limitations of the egg-based production system. These industrially well-established production systems have been primarily selected for a faster and more flexible response to pandemic threats. Here, we review the most important cell culture manufacturing processes that have been developed in recent years for mass production of influenza vaccines.
CEPHEUS SA: a South African survey on the under-treatment of hypercholesterolaemia

Aim The aim of the CEntralised Pan-South African survey on tHE Under-treatment of hypercholeSterolaemia (CEPHEUS SA) was to evaluate the current use and efficacy of lipid-lowering drugs (LLDs), and to identify possible patient and physician characteristics associated with failure, if any, to achieve low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) targets. Methods The survey was conducted in 69 study centres in South Africa and recruited consecutive consenting patients who had been prescribed LLDs for at least three months. One visit was scheduled for data collection, including fasting plasma lipid and glucose levels. Physicians and patients completed questionnaires regarding their knowledge, awareness and perceptions of hypercholesterolaemia and the treatment thereof. Results Of the 3 001 patients recruited, 2 996 were included in the final analyses. The mean age was 59.4 years, and 47.5% were female. Only 60.5 and 52.3% of patients on LLDs for at least three months achieved the LDL-C target recommended by the NCEP ATP III/2004 updated NCEP ATP III and the Fourth JETF/South African guidelines, respectively. Being male, older than 40 years, falling into the lower-risk categories, compliance with the medication regimen, and patient knowledge that the LDL-C goal had been reached, were associated with the highest probability of attaining LDL-C goals. Conclusion The results of this survey highlight the sub-optimal lipid control achieved in many South African patients taking lipid-lowering therapy.
On Model-Selection and Applications of Multilevel Models in Survey and Causal Inference

On Model-Selection and Applications of Multilevel Models in Survey and Causal Inference Wei Wang This thesis includes three parts. The overarching theme is how to analyze multilevel structured datasets, particularly in the areas of survey and causal inference. The first part discusses model selection of hierarchical models, in the context of a national political survey. I found that the commonly used model selection criteria based on predictive accuracy, such as cross validation, don’t perform very well in the case of political survey and explore the possible causes. The second part centers around a unique data set on the presidential election collected through an online platform. I show that with adequate modeling, meaningful and highly accurate information could be extracted from this highly-biased data set. The third part builds on a formal causal inference framework for group-structured data, such as meta-analysis and multi-site trials. In particular, I develop a Gaussian Process model under this framework and demonstrate additional insights that can be gained compared with traditional parametric models.
Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market*"^

Introduction In this paper, we develop a model of the dividend process for the aggregate stock market which fits the data rather well. Previous research has focused almost exclusively on dividend behavior at the micro level of the Individual firm. Hence, to motivate the focus here on aggregate dividend behavior, we begin with a brief review of these earlier micro studies, this to be followed by a discussion which locates the place of our aggregate analysis within this body of research. In Sections 2-5, we derive and fit our econometric model of the dividend process. In Section 6, we compare the performance of the model with other models in the literature. Although long a staple of financial management textbooks, corporate dividend policy remains a topic on which the field has failed to arrive at even a local sense of closure. Fischer Black (1976) has aptly described this lack of closure as the "dividend puzzle. " The pivotal point in this puzzle is the classical work of Miller and Modigliani (1961) which demonstrated the irrelevance of dividend policy for determining the firm's cost of capital. Miller and Modigliani showed that when investors can create any payout pattern they want by selling and purchasing shares, the expected return required to induce them to hold these shares will be invariant to the way in which firms "package" gross dividend payments and new issues of stock (and/or other zero net present value transactions). Since neither the firm's expected future net cash flows nor its discount rate is affected by the choice of dividend policy per se , its current market value cannot be changed by a change in that policy. Thus dividend policy "does not matter. " Although, under the MM proposition, there are no £ priori reasons for firms to follow any-3-systematic dividend policy, there are also no penalties If they choose to do so. Exceptions to the MM view are, of course, to be found in the literature. claimed that dividend policy does affect the firm's cost of capital, and provided some early evidence to support the view that a higher dividend payout reduces the cost of capital (i.e. Investors prefer dividends). Others argue that personal and corporate taxes cause dividend policy to affect the firm's cost of capital, but in the direction that a higher payout raises the cost of capital (i.e., investors prefer capital gains), and Lltzenberger and Ramaswamy (1979) and Pcterba …
Human Neuroscience

also can be presented within the ongoing task (e.g., an animal word that does not begin with the letter " C " ; Taylor et al., 2004). The inclusion of lures provides an additional avenue for comparison of neural components associated with true prospective cues (West et al., 2003). The extent to which strategic attentional processes are required for detecting and properly responding to event-based cues are topics of debate in the PM literature. Smith (2003) posits that for an event-based cue to elicit an intention, Preparatory Attentional and Memory processes must be either activated or in a state of readiness (PAM theory; Smith and Bayen, 2004). Alternatively, the multi-process view (MPV) specifi es that successful PM performance can occur without resource demanding attentional processes; that is, event-based cues can sometimes be automatically or spontaneously noticed (e.g., when the ongoing task processing directly overlaps with the processing necessary to notice the cue or the cue is highly salient). In other instances, however, MPV assumes that preparatory attention is necessary (McDaniel and Einstein, 2000; Einstein and McDaniel, 2005). In both theories, relying on preparatory processes to strategically monitor for a cue is ostensibly resource demanding. The costs are typically exhibited in slower responding to the ongoing task (i.e., task interference) when an intention is activated and the person is monitoring for the intention-related cue. Preparatory attention requires some additional allocation of attention towards the PM component of the task (Marsh et al., 2002b, 2003). Some research has examined the neural correlates of the task interference that results from preparatory attention (Simons et al., with the lateral anterior prefron-tal and parietal cortices appearing to be the main brain regions involved in this process (Simons et al., 2006; Reynolds et al., 2009).
A Uniform Analysis of the Lyα Forest at z = 0-5. II. Measuring the Mean Intensity of the Extragalactic Ionizing Background Using the Proximity Effect

Moderate-resolution data for 40 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) at z ≈ 2 were combined with spectra of comparable resolution of 59 QSOs with redshifts greater than 1.7 found in the literature to form a large, homogeneous sample of moderate-resolution (∼1 Å) QSO spectra. These spectra were presented and the statistics of the Lyα forest were discussed in Paper I. In this analysis, we demonstrate that a proximity effect is present in the data; i.e., there exists a significant (5.5 σ) deficit of lines at zabs ≈ zem. Within 1.5 h-1 Mpc of the QSO emission redshift, the significance does depend on QSO luminosity, in accordance with the theory that this effect is caused by enhanced ionization of hydrogen in the vicinity of the QSO from UV photons from the QSO itself. The photoionization model of Bajtlik, Duncan, & Ostriker permits an estimate of the mean intensity of the extragalactic background radiation at the Lyman limit. We compare the results of this standard analysis with those obtained using a maximum likelihood technique. If the spectrum of the background is assumed to be identical to that of each individual QSO, and if this background is assumed to be constant over the redshift range 1.7 < z < 3.8, then the best-fit value for J(ν0) is found to be 1.4 × 10-21 ergs s-1 cm-2 Hz-1 sr-1, using QSO redshifts based on the Lyα emission line. Systemic QSO redshifts based on the [O III] λ5007 emission line for 19 objects in our sample show an average redshift of ∼400 km s-1 with respect to Lyα emission. Using redshifts based on [O III] or Mg II for the 35 objects for which they are measured and adding 400 km s-1 to the remaining QSO Lyα redshifts gives a lower value of J(ν0), 7.0 × 10-22 ergs s-1 cm-2 Hz-1 sr-1. This value is in reasonable agreement with the predictions of various models of the ionizing background based on the integrated quasar luminosity function. Allowing for the fact that individual QSOs have different spectral indices that may also be different from that of the background, we use the standard methods to solve for the H I photoionization rate, Γ, and the parameters describing its evolution with redshift. The best-fit value for the H I ionization rate we derive is 1.9 × 10-12 s-1, in good agreement with models of the background that incorporate QSOs only. Finally, we use simulated Lyα forest spectra including the proximity effect to investigate curve-of-growth effects in the photoionization model used in the analysis. We find that the presence of lines on the saturated part of the curve of growth could cause our estimates of the background intensity to be overestimated by a factor of 2-3. This large absorption-line sample and these techniques for measuring the background and understanding the systematics involved allow us to place what we believe are the firmest limits on the background at these redshifts.
Adenosine uptake sites in brain: regional distribution of putative subtypes in relationship to adenosine A1-receptors

Adenosine uptake sites have been characterized and localized in guinea pig and pointer dog brain by in vitro autoradiography, using as probes 3H-nitrobenzylthioinosine (3H-NBI) and the recently available 3H- dipyridamole (3H-DPR). In guinea pig brain and, to a lesser extent, in pointer dog brain, 3H-DPR was found to label more high-affinity binding sites than 3H-NBI and NBI inhibited 3H-DPR binding having pseudo-Hill coefficients smaller than 0.5. 3H-DPR and 3H-NBI labeled brain structures with different intensities in guinea pig brain, as was revealed by quantitative analysis. While the intensity of 3H-DPR binding varied about 4-fold in neuron-containing structures, 8-fold differences were observed for 3H-NBI binding with phylo- and ontogenetically older brain areas such as hypothalamus and various brain stem structures showing relatively higher densities. These findings raise the interesting possibility of adenosine uptake site heterogeneity (NBI-sensitive and insensitive) in guinea pig brain, complementing the well-established adenosine receptor heterogeneity (A1 and A2). As adenosine's neurodepressant effects are believed to be mainly mediated by adenosine A1-receptors, these were localized using 3H-cyclohexyl-adenosine (3H-CHA) as a ligand probe. In guinea pig brain, the highest receptor densities were seen in hippocampus and claustrum, while only relatively low levels were found in hypothalamus and various brain stem structures. As was previously described for rat brain, major discrepancies in the regional distribution of adenosine A1- receptors and adenosine uptake sites, as labeled by 3H-NBI, were seen in guinea pig brain. These discrepancies were only partly abolished (e.g., in cerebellum) by the use of 3H-DPR as an additional ligand probe for adenosine uptake sites. Adenosine uptake site heterogeneity, therefore, probably does not explain the previously described discrepancies in rodent brain between the distribution of adenosine A1- receptors and uptake sites. Because of the low affinity of 3H-DPR for adenosine uptake sites in rat and mouse brain, these species could not be investigated with this new radioligand probe. In pointer dog brain, as compared to guinea pig brain, a more similar distribution pattern of adenosine A1-receptors and adenosine uptake sites in the brain structures investigated (e.g., hippocampus) could be observed. The situation in guinea pig brain can, therefore, not be universalized to other species. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Proceedings Teem'13 Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality Volume Editor Steering Committee Conference Chair Organizing Committee Scientific Committee Technological Advances and Teaching Innovat

The following text presents the results of a content analysis study focusing on the image of immigration in Spanish prime-time television fiction with Cultivation theory as a reference. Two representative samples were recorded in 2011, out of the six main national channels. The analysis derived from the analysis of these fiction programs (series and films) derived provided results showing that: (1) Immigrant/foreign characters were underrepresented when taking into account real [14] data; (2) Immigrant/foreign characters were usually presented in nonprotagonist (mainly antagonist or villain) narrative roles; and (3) Socio-demographic features of immigrant/foreign characters such as their education, socio-economic status, or occupation tended to entail lower levels than those in natives. The results are discussed considering the importance of the reduction of prejudice in television fiction.
Recognition of acoustic noise mixtures by combined bottom-up and top-down processing

In this paper, a system is described for the recognition of mixtures of noise sources in acoustic input signals. The problem is approached by utilizing both bottom-up signal analysis and top-down predictions of higher-level models. The developments are made using musical signals as test material. Validation experiments are presented both for self-generated sound mixtures and for real musical recordings.