Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sedimentation upon Different Carrier Liquid in Giant Electrorheological Fluid and Its Application

When giant electrorheological (GER) fluid is settled after some time, particles can precipitate out of the oil in a multistep process that involves the formation of larger particles, the aggregation of colloids, and eventual sedimentation. Colloidal stability in giant electrorheological (GER) fluid can influence the GER performance and the fluid flow steadiness. We investigated the sedimentation effect of the GER particles suspended in various carrier liquid. Different from the existing electrorheological (ER) fluids, GER particles consisting of oxalate core with urea coating are found oil synergistic. The sedimentation effect of the particles suspended in oils from the family of synthetic oil and mineral oil were checked by direct observation. The rheological behavior of the GER fluid upon electric field application was also investigated. These experiments showed that stable colloidal suspension and good GER effect can be achieved coherently by favorable particle-oil interaction. The resultant high yield stress and low sedimentation rate achieved due to the instrumental linking of hydrogen bond is showed in the hydrogenated silicone oil carrier liquid. With the anti-sedimentation characteristic upon the new carrier oil, hydrogenated silicone oil-GER fluid, we investigated their GER effect in a modified mono tube damper and the experimental result showed wide controllability range. Our investigations may broaden engineering applications.
Detection of bovine coronavirus by RT-PCR in a field study

In the present study we used RT-PCR assay for detecting of BCoV, targeting a 730 bp fragment of the nucleocapsid (N) gene of BCoV with published primers that could amplify all BCoV strains. We evaluated presence of BCoV in diarrheic and nondiarrheic samples. 108 faecal samples from diarrheic calves and 80 faecal samples from nondiarrheic calves collected. In 13 of 108 diarrheic samples both ELISA and RT-PCR detected BCoV. In 4 of 80 samples second group (non diarrheic) BCoV was detected by RT-PCR only not capture ELISA. This report is the first detection of BCoV in Iran. The results suggest that RT-PCR is more sensitive than ELISA method to detect BCoV, especially in subclinical cases. Because these animals shed a low amount of virus in faeces we need to apply sensitive techniques, such as RT-PCR, nested PCR and real time RT-PCR.
Iterated Weak Dominance in Strictly Competitive Games of Perfect Information

We prove that any strictly competitive perfect-information two-person game with n outcomes is solvable in n-1 steps of elimination of weakly dominated strategies - regardless of the length of the game tree. The derivation is based on the fact that if player i does not possess a winning strategy, then any of player j's strategies that enables i to win is eliminated by two steps of iterated dominance. The given bound is shown to be tight using a variant of Rosenthal's centipede game.
ANALISIS RASIO-RASIO KEUANGAN SEBAGAIINDIKATOR DALAM MEMPREDIKSIPOTENSI KEBANGKRUTANPERBANKAN DI INDONESIA

ABSTRACT This thesis describes the effect of the bank liquidation policy on society, especially bank customers. Recently to evaluate the bank financial report performance only used financial report published on mass media. Meanwhile, the measurement criteria of a bank performance is managed, controlled and measured by Bank Indonesia based on five aspects Camel, those are capital adequancy ratio, assets quality, management, earnings power and liquidity. From the short explanation above, it raised a question whether the existence of financial report might be used to evaluate a bank performance. This research gathered data and tested bank financial report performance ratios of one year and two year period before being announce to be liquidated (bankruptcy) and banks that are announced to keep on having activity on 2001. This research used 25 public banks as sample consist of 10 bankrupt banks and 15 non bankrupt banks. This research attempt ed to examine the financial ratios of Camel in financial report to determine the financial distress and bankruptcy. The result shows that the financial ratios to influence the determination of the financial distress and bank bankruptcy are assets quality, rentability or earning power and liquidity.ABSTRAKSI Pemikiran yang paling mendasar dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa keputusan likuidasi bank yang dilakukan pemerintah menimbulkan dampak yang luas pada masyarakat khususnya nasabah bank. Untuk menilai kesehatan suatu bank, masyarakat selama ini mengandalkan informasi dad laporan keuangan yang dipublikasikan di media massa. Sedangkan kriteria kesehatan bank saat ini diatur, diawasi dan dinilai oleh Bank Indonesia berdasarkan lima aspek yaitu permodalan, kualitas aktiva, manajemen, kemampuan laba dan likuiditas yang biasa disebut dengan Camel. Dad latar belakang ini timbul suatu pertanyaan apakah rasio-rasio keuangan dalam laporan keuangan yang dipublikasikan dapat digunakan untuk menilai kesehatan bank di masa datang sehubungan dengan adanya kesulitan keuangan dan kebangkrutan. Penelitian ini mengambil data dan menguji rasio-rasio keuangan dari laporan keuangan satu tahun dan dua tahun sebelum bank dilikuidasi (bangkrut) dan bank yang tetap beroperasi (tidak bangkrut) sampai akhir tahun 2001. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah 25 bank yang telah go public minimal 2 tahun yang terdiri dari 10 bank yang telah dinyatakan bangkrut dan 15 bank yang dinyatakan tidak bangkrut. Penelitian ini menguji rasio-rasio keuangan Camel yang didapat dari laporan keuangan untuk menganalisis kinerja keuangan bank sehubungan dengan terjadinya kesulitan keuangan dan kebangkrutan. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa rasio-rasio keuangan yang dapat mempengaruhi kesulitan dan kebangkrutan adalah kualitas aktiva, rentabilitas dan likuiditas. Kualitas aktiva diproksikan dengan return on risked assets. Rasio rentabilitas terdiri dari return on assets dan rasio likuiditas ditunjukkan oleh loan to deposit ratio.
Preparative Purification of Liriodendrin from Sargentodoxa cuneata by Macroporous Resin

The preparative purification of liriodendrin from Sargentodoxa cuneata using macroporous resin combined with crystallization process was evaluated. The properties of adsorption/desorption of liriodendrin on eight macroporous resins were investigated systematically. X-5 resin was selected as the most suitable medium for liriodendrin purification. The adsorption of liriodendrin on X-5 resin fitted well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir isotherm model. Dynamic adsorption/desorption tests were performed using a glass column packed with X-5 resin to optimize the separation process of liriodendrin. After one treatment with X-5 resin, the content of liriodendrin in the product was increased 48.73-fold, from 0.85% to 41.42%, with a recovery yield of 88.9%. 97.48% liriodendrin was obtained by further crystallization and determined by HPLC. The purified product possessed strong antioxidant activity. In conclusion, purification of liriodendrin might expend its further pharmacological researches and further applications in pharmacy.
RFIC chip set employing silicon CMOS technology for applications to millimeter-wave system

This paper presents a low-power front-ended 24 GHz receiver resistive mixer and buffer amp, which were fabricated using 0.13 μm RF CMOS technology for application to automotive radar. For resistive receiver mixer, single-ended resistive mixer was designed for high linearity characteristic and low power consumption. According to measured results, the proposed resistive mixer showed an improved linearity and low power consumption characteristic. At 24 GHz, the resistive receiver mixer showed a conversion loss of −9 dB and an input 1-dB gain compression point of −1 dBm at a low bias voltage of 0.3 V. The buffer amplifier showed a gain of 4.5 dB at 24 GHz.
Factors influencing eHealth adoption by Dutch hospitals: An empirical study

This study aims at understanding the factors influencing the organisational adoption of eHealth by Dutch hospitals. This study proposes a model for organisational eHealth adoption based on the Technological-Organisational-Environmental (TOE) framework and elements of the Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory. The following factors were identified and included in the model for examining their influence on organisational eHealth adoption: centralisation, size, organisational readiness, top management support, and absorptive capacity. A cross-sectional survey was developed and distributed to hospitals in the Netherlands. Data analysis was performed using the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) approach. The study’s findings indicate that size, organisational readiness and top management support significantly influence the organisational adoption of eHealth by Dutch hospitals. The findings of this study can be used to derive organisational strategies or governmental policies to foster the organisational adoption of eHealth.
Reassessing Function Points

Accurate estimation of the size and development effort for software projects requires estimation models which can be used early enough in the development life cycle to be of practical value. Function Point Analysis (FPA) has become possibly the most widely used estimation technique in practice. However the technique was developed in the data processing environment of the 1970's and, despite undergoing considerable reassessment and formalisation, still attracts criticism for the weighting scoring it employs and for the way in which the function point score is adapted for specific system characteristics. This paper reviews the validity of the weighting scheme and the value of adjusting for system characteristics by studying their effect in a sample of 299 software developments. In general the value adjustment scheme does not appear to cater for differences in productivity. The weighting scheme used to adjust system components in terms of being simple, average or complex also appears suspect and should be redesigned to provide a more realistic estimate of system functionality.
Please Scroll down for Article International Journal of Production Research an Improved Version of the Production Switching Heuristic for the Aggregate Production Planning Problem an Improved Version of the Production Switching Heuristic for the Aggregate Production Planning Problem

This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. The production switching heuristic (PSH) is recognized as an effective solution method for the aggregate production planning problem in industries where production is limited to discrete levels. However. we find that the PSH is not sufficiently responsive to demand fluctuation and tends to make belated decisions. This shortcoming stems mainly from the switching mechanism. This paper proposes an improved version of the PSH. The heuristic uses an improved switching mechanism which can be shown to dominate the PSH. The effectiveness of the proposed heuristic is investigated with several well known problems including the paint factory problem. The results are compared with those of the linear decision rule and the linear programming model as well as the PSH. I. Introduction The aggregate production planning problem (APP) has been recognized as an important problem in the operations management area as the quality of the decision can be of great importance to the profitability of an individual company. The descriptive definition of the APP is: given the demand forecast for each period, determine the production, inventory and workforce levels over time which minimize relevant costs over the specified planning horizon. The production system is assumed to be a single facility that produces a single aggregated product with continuous operation. Since Holt et al. (1955) suggested the linear decision rule (LDR) for the APP with quadratic cost function, a number of research papers taking differenl solution methods have appeared in the literature (Saad 1982). Unfortunately, despite the presence of the excellent and various solution methods available to managers, they have not had a significant influence on operating practice, This is mainly due 10 some rigid and unrealistic assumptions on the cost function and forecast accuracy that each model adopts …
Virtual Microstructure Generation of Asphaltic Mixtures

This thesis describes the development and application of a virtual microstructure generator incorporated with post-processing image analysis methods that can be used to fabricate a virtual, two-dimensional microstructure of asphaltic mixtures. In the generator, geometrical characteristics such as aggregate gradation, aggregate area fraction, angularity, orientation, and elongation were used to transform data from a three-dimensional (3D) mixture into its two-dimensional (2D) microstructure. The 2D virtual microstructures were generated from real 3D mixture information of asphaltic composites. Resulting virtual microstructures were then compared to real cross-sectional microstructure images obtained from actual samples for validation. Comparison presented a good agreement between the virtual and real microstructures, which demonstrates that the new 3D-2D transformation algorithms were properly developed and implemented into the virtual microstructure generator. Although much future work is required, the current development is at least sufficient to demonstrate the benefits and potential of this effort. Virtual fabrication and testing can result in significant time and cost savings compared to more expensive and repetitive laboratory fabrication and performance tests of actual specimens. i DEDICATION To the savior of the world ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Yong Rak kim, for his admirable guidance during this research, which contributed extensively to my education. His determination and focus on challenging research projects motivated me as a research assistant. I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Maria Szerszen and Dr. Terry Stentz. I appreciate the contribution of their time and efforts. and productive conversations about our research topics. Thanks also go out to all friends that I made during this journey as a graduate student, especially Mr. Seyed Mahdi Alavizadeh for his support. Thanks are also due to the staff of the College of Engineering, of the Civil Engineering department and of the Nebraska Transportation Center (NTC). I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my parents and my sister for their love and encouragement. Their love and support were greatly significant to give me strength to conclude this research.
Patch-Clamp Recordings from Lateral Line Neuromast Hair Cells of the Living Zebrafish

Zebrafish are popular models for biological discovery. For investigators of the auditory and vestibular periphery, manipulations of hair cell and synaptic mechanisms have relied on inferences from extracellular recordings of physiological activity. We now provide data showing that hair cells and supporting cells of the lateral line can be directly patch-clamped, providing the first recordings of ionic channel activity, synaptic vesicle release, and gap junctional coupling in the neuromasts of living fish. Such capabilities will allow more detailed understanding of mechano-sensation of the zebrafish.
The Appropriate Use of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates

This paper deals with the problem of achieving internal stability and balance-of-payments equilibrium in a country that considers it inadvisable to alter the exchange rate or to impose trade controls. It is assumed that monetary and fiscal policy can be used as independent instruments to attain the two objectives if capital flows are responsive to interest-rate differentials, but it is concluded that it is a matter of extreme importance how the policies are paired with the objectives. Specifically, it is argued that monetary policy ought to be aimed at external objectives and fiscal policy at internal objectives, and that failure to follow this prescription can make the disequilibrium situation worse than before the policy changes were introduced. The practical implication of the theory, when stabilization measures are limited to monetary policy and fiscal policy, is that a surplus country experiencing inflationary pressure should ease monetary conditions and raise taxes (or reduce government spending), and that a deficit country suffering from unemployment should tighten interest rates and lower taxes (or increase government spending). 2
Environment-aware real-time crowd control

Real-time crowd control has become an important research topic due to the recent advancement in console game quality and hardware processing capability. The degrees of freedom of a crowd is much higher than that provided by a standard user input device. As a result most crowd control systems require the user to design the crowd movements through multiple passes, such as first specifying the crowd's start and goal points, then providing the agent trajectories with streamlines. Such a multi-pass control would spoil the responsiveness and excitement of real-time games. In this paper, we propose a new, single-pass algorithm to control crowds using a deformable mesh. When controlling crowds, we observe that most of the low level details are related to passive interactions between the crowd and the environment, such as obstacle avoidance and diverging/merging at cross points. Therefore, we simplify the crowd control problem by representing the crowd with a deformable mesh that passively reacts to the environment. As a result, the user can focus on high level control that is more important for context delivery. Our algorithm provides an efficient crowd control framework while maintaining the quality of the simulation, which is useful for real-time applications such as strategy games.
Cognitive Health of Older Indians: Individual and Geographic Determinants of Female Disadvantage

India is experiencing a rapid demographic and epidemiologic transition. Among a growing aging population, non-communicable diseases, including dementia, are increasingly prevalent, but our understanding of cognitive health is quite limited. Recent studies suggest that women in developed countries perform as well or better than men on cognitive functioning tests, though research from developing countries shows the opposite. This gender disparity in developing settings may be attributable to that fact that women are traditionally not given equal access to education, health services, economic opportunity, and social engagement. Furthermore, in countries such as India, discrimination against women may play a role in the gender disparity. To address this issue, the authors examine cognitive function of older Indians, using cross-sectional data from the 2010 pilot round of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, fielded across Punjab and Rajasthan in the north and Kerala and Karnataka in the south. They found gender disparities in cognitive function and suggest that female cognitive disadvantage could be explained by disparities in education, health and social engagement in southern India. However, female disadvantage persisted in northern states where discrimination against women has been notably acute even after controlling for education and other key risk factors of poor cognitive function.
The Challenges of Refugee Students Encountered in Science Courses: A Phenomenological Study

In recent years, because of some factors such as, wars and unemployment, refugee and migrant people population have been increasing in Turkey. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors effect refugee students’ learning process within the scope of science course. It was focused on to gain the data deeply, which were taken from the refugee students within science course to understand the reason of failure in science. This study was conducted in a middle school, which is located in Ankara, and was carried out with middle school students, whose ages are from 11 to 14 years old. The study was conducted with seven refugee students in 2016-2017 education fall term, for six months. In this study, qualitative method was used, within this scope this study is a phenomenological study. To collect data of the study, interviews, observations and document analyse techniques were used. A triangulation was provided to vary the data of the study. Content analysis and descriptive analysis techniques were used to obtain of the results of the study. It has been understood from the observations that students could not understand science teachers’ statements while they were in science lesson. Science teachers stated the reasons of students’ failure in science that students do not know Turkish well (20%), they do not belong themselves to Turkey (20%), economic conditions (13,33%) and negative school climate (13,33%). Students pointed out some factors of their failure in science that they are language problems (11,66%), their family can not help to them within science course (11,66%) and so on. It can be recommended taking additional science courses after school will be more useful for refugee students in terms of effective learning science.
Host Susceptibility to Brucella abortus Infection Is More Pronounced in IFN-γ knockout than IL-12/β2-Microglobulin Double-Deficient Mice

Brucella abortus is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes abortion in domestic animals and undulant fever in humans. IFN-γ, IL-12, and CD8+ T lymphocytes are important components of host immune responses against B. abortus. Herein, IFN-γ and IL-12/β2-microglobulin (β2-m) knockout mice were used to determine whether CD8+ T cells and IL-12-dependent IFN-γ deficiency would be more critical to control B. abortus infection compared to the lack of endogenous IFN-γ. At 1 week after infection, IFN-γ KO and IL-12/β2-m KO mice showed increased numbers of bacterial load in spleens; however, at 3 weeks postinfection (p.i.), only IFN-γ KO succumbed to Brucella. All IFN-γ KO had died at 16 days p.i. whereas death within the IL-12/β2-m KO group was delayed and occurred at 32 days until 47 days postinfection. Susceptibility of IL-12/β2-m KO animals to Brucella was associated to undetectable levels of IFN-γ in mouse splenocytes and inability of these cells to lyse Brucella-infected macrophages. However, the lack of endogenous IFN-γ was found to be more important to control brucellosis than CD8+ T cells and IL-12-dependent IFN-γ deficiencies.