Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mobile motion capturing in sport session based on Inertial Measurement Units

Experimental methods in Biomechanics have been adopted for analyzing sports performance, although a systematic use has been not widely diffused. An important factor for this limitation lies in the difficulty of extending results obtained inside a laboratory, to a real sport performance. Recent technological developments in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems raise the possibility to overcome such a limitation. This work represents a feasibility study to evaluate kinematics and muscle activation during a typical elite soccer team coaching session. One professional soccer player under the S.S. Lazio was equipped with wireless Inertial Measurement Units and wireless electromyography modules. Data were acquired in real-time during running, sprinting, and jumping trials, performed on the regular team coaching field, with the aim of exploring biomechanical variables. Results showed a symmetric kinematic behavior of the lower limbs during the three activities. Conversely, electromyography highlighted an asymmetric activation of the correspondent muscles of the two sides. This study opens the way for a novel method for sport training, leveraging findings made available via micro-technology to permit a more focused training. These findings call for a more extended experimental session, enrolling more subjects, both healthy and injured, to further explore the possibility of novel approaches to athlete-specific rehabilitation.
Social Networks and Job Access for the Unemployed: Work Ties for the Upper-Middle Class, Communal Ties for the Working Class

In Europe, almost half of all jobs are found through personal contacts such as colleagues, family, or friends. We analyse whether personal contacts facilitate access to jobs for the middle or the working class. We do not treat informal ties as a homogeneous category, but distinguish work-related contacts from communal contacts such as family, friends, and acquaintances. Our analysis is based on a longitudinal survey of unemployed jobseekers in Switzerland that we match with administrative data. We find that work-related ties are disproportionately used by individuals with favourable employment prospects: middle-aged jobseekers with high prior earnings. In contrast, communal contacts chiefly help jobseekers with poor employability, notably the low-skilled working class and workers dismissed for non-economic reasons. Communal contacts thus compensate for the difficulty of finding a job through other channels. However, the different search methods do not affect how wages evolve from pre- to post-unemployment jobs. The unemployed who found a job via communal ties were earning less than those using a work tie or a formal method to begin with.
The Degree of Implementing Total quality Management by School Female Principals in Public School in Mafraq Governorate

The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of implementing total quality management by school female principals in public school in Mafraq governorate. The researcher developed a questionnaire consisted of (32) items distributed into five domains and administrated it on (30) female principals in public school in Northern Badia Educational District in Mafraq governorate. The findings of the study showed that the means of the application degree of TQM in public schools by Jordanian female principals ranged between (3.21 – 2.63) showing an average degree of application. Moreover, there are significant statistical differences at the level of (? =0.05) attributed to scientific qualification in all domains and in the tool as a whole in favor of gradate studies ( Master and PhD) against Bs degree. There are significant statistical differences at the level of (? =0.05) attributed to experience in implementing Total quality management in all domains except for school facilities domain in favor of10years and more. Based on the findings the researcher presented several recommendations. Key Words: TQM. Jordan. Public School. Female Principals.
The relationship between job insecurity, shock, and turnover intention, amongst survivors of organizational downsizing

It is often thought that survivors of a downsized organization should be thankful for remaining in their jobs, and that they should respond positively by helping the organization to achieve its goals. However, these individuals often have the intention of leaving the organization. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the turnover intention of survivors of downsized organizations. We hypothesized that survivors were more likely to think about leaving their organization when they perceived insecurity in their jobs and considered the downsizing decision taken by top management as a "shock. " We tested this hypothesis on 187 surviving employees of downsized organizations in Malaysia. The important findings of this study are that the survivors' turnover intention is significantly related to shock, job insecurity, and organizational level. Hence, organization leaders need to plan carefully before implementing their organization's downsizing, as shocks do influence survivors' turnover intention.
Analysis of Groundwater for Potability from Tiruchirappalli City Using Backpropagation ANN Model and GIS

Monitoring groundwater quality by cost-effective techniques is important as the aquifers are vulnerable to contamination due to point sources and non point sources. This paper presents Artificial neural Network (ANN) Models that might be used to predict water parameters from a few known parameters. The sample data from 112 hand pumps and hand operated tube well water samples used for drinking purposes by the local population was used. The ANN model features a back propagation algorithm and neuron members were determined for optimization of the model architecture by trial and error method. The model simulations show that the optimum network of 4-50-50-6 has mean error of –0.023% on complete data was utilized. This demonstrated that the developed model has high accuracy for predicting. Thus it has been established that the two hidden layers neural network has more efficiency than asymptotic regression in the present. This model can be used for analysis and prediction of subsurface water quality prediction.
Field Emission at Grain Boundaries: Modeling the Conductivity in Highly Doped Polycrystalline Semiconductors

In this contribution, we elaborate a conductivity model for highly doped polycrystalline semiconductors. The prominent feature of the model is the description of grain-boundary scattering by field emission, i.e., quantum-mechanical tunneling of electrons through potential barriers at grain boundaries. For this purpose, we adapt a theory of Stratton [Theory of field emission from semiconductors, Phys. Rev. 125, 67 (1962)] to double Schottky barriers at grain boundaries. We provide strong evidence that field emission rather than the predominantly applied thermionic emission is the dominant transport path across grain boundaries in semiconductors with carrier concentrations exceeding approximately 10 19 cm −3 . We obtain a comprehensive conductivity model for highly doped polycrystalline semiconductors by combining field emission with two intragrain scattering mechanisms, that are ionizedimpurity and electron-phonon scattering. The model is applied to a wide range of literature data in order to show its applicability and explanatory power. The literature data comprise, in particular, transparent conductive oxides with a special emphasis on aluminum-doped ZnO.
Performance of dairy calves fed diet containing Ca-palm oil fatty acid and Sapindusrarak fruit

Calcium salts of palm oil fatty acid (Ca-FA) is a high dense energy source that is protected from degradation in the rumen. Sapindusrarak fruits (SrF) contain high level of saponin and have been reported to increase body weight sheep or cattle and reduced protozoa population in the rumen. This experiment used a combination of Ca-FA and SrF to improve the performance of weaned dairy calves. Thirty two heads of weaned Indonesian Holstein were used in factorial block design experiment (2 x 2). The first factor was Ca-FA(with 2.5% and without addition of Ca-FA) while the second factor was SrF (with 0.3% and without addition of SrF in total diet) and sex of the animal as block was applied. The feed as total mixed ration contained crude protein (CP)17%, total digestible nutrien (TDN)minimum 69%, Net energy for maintenance 1.70Mcal/kg and Net energy for gain 1.03Mcal/kg. It was fed 3% of body weight of the animals for 14 weeks included 2 weeks of adaptation period. Feces collection for measuring digestibility of feed was conducted at the end of experiment. Average daily gain (ADG) of calves received SrF was higher than without SrF (896.9 vs 853.7 g/day) while ADG received CaFA was lower than without CaFA (860.6 vs 890 g/day) but both effects were not significantly different (P>0.05). DM intake due to SrF treatment tended to be higher than control treatment (4.4 vs 4.3 kg/day). DM digestibility was not different among treatments. In conclusion,calves received supplementation of 0.3% SrF fruit in the diet had similar average daily gain with those given unsupplemented diet but had reduced diarrhea cases.
CYCLING IN UPPER EGYPT AND THE REQUIRED ACTIONS TO ENCOURAGE IT 'MINIA CITY CASE'

With increasing congestion, air pollution, fuel price and the other side effects of motorization in Egypt, an attempt to know the possibility to reach to a higher level of cycling in Upper Egypt, and the required actions to encourage cycling in Upper Egypt has been performed. Minia city-Minia governorate was selected as a case study in this research. The reasons of low levels of bicycling in Upper Egypt has been investigated, for collecting data, a questionnaire through direct interviews with students (n=925) male and female has been performed. The study results show that there are barriers for bicycles use in Upper Egypt such as (infrastructures, safety, social norms and culture, and safe parking). 58% of males and 22 % of females that participated in the interviews will be potential users for cycling, if the cycling culture is introduced and there is available safe route and safe parking places for bicycle. They may use bicycles as a mode of transport for short distances mainly because of health, economic, and environmental considerations. According to the study results the requirements to encourage cycling could be obtained, the main requirements is that, the government should has policy for cycling, and some cultures and traditions has to change by promoting cycling through media.
Incomplete markets and short-sales constraints : An equilibrium approach

We consider a general discrete-time dynamic financial market with three assets: a riskless bond, a security and a derivative. The market is incomplete (a priori) and at equilibrium. We assume also that the agents of the economy have short-sales constraints on the stock and that the payoff at the expiry of the derivative asset is a monotone function of the underlying security price. The derivative price process is not identified ex ante. This leads the agents to act as if there were no market for this asset at the intermediary dates. Using some nice properties of the pricing probabilities, which are admissible at the equilibrium, we prove that it suffices to consider the subset of the risk-neutral probabilities that overestimate the low values of the security and underestimate its high values with respect to the true probability. This approach greatly reduces the interval of admissible prices for the derivative asset with respect to no-arbitrage, as showed numerically.
Bilayer Graphene as the Material for Study of the Unconventional Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) discovered experimentally in 1982 is still myste- rious, not fully understood phenomenon. It fundaments are linked with a nontrivial topological effects in 2D space going beyond the standard description of FQHE with local quantum mechanics. The study of integer and fractional QHE in graphene might be helpful in resolution of this fundamental problem in many body quantum physics. FQHE has been observed both in monolayer and bilayer graphene with an exceptional accuracy due to advances in experimental techniques and purity of graphene samples. Recent experimental observations of FQHE in the bilayer graphene reveal different FQHE behavior than in the monolayer samples or in conventional semiconductor 2D materials. This unexpected phenomena related to Hall physics in the bilayer systems allows to better understand more than 30 years old puzzle of FQHE. In the chapter we will summarize the recent and controversial experimental observations of FQHE in bilayer graphene and describe the topology foundations which may explain the oddness of correlated multiparticle states in the bilayer system. These topological arguments shed also a new light on understanding of heuristic CF concept for FQHE and deeper the topological sense of the famous Laughlin function describing this strongly correlated state.
Relationship of Slaughter Age and Carcass Traits of Hanwoo Cattle

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the relationship of slaughter age and carcass traits of Hanwoo cattle. A total number of 11,284 heads of cattle (4,624 bulls, 6,120 steers, and 540 females) were used in the experiment (Exp.) 1. In the Exp. 2, 3,887 heads of steers slaughtered at age of 24-36 mon were used. After 24 h post-slaughter chilling, the carcasses were weighed and evaluated by an official grader of carcass traits according to the Korean carcass grading standard. Backfat thickness was the main variable in yield index and grade whereas marbling score was the main variable in carcass quality grade. Meat color was an important factor affecting carcass quality grade of bulls; fat color was an important factor affecting those of steers and females; and maturity was an important factor affecting that of females. After 24-mon-old, extension of slaughter age did not automatically increase the quantity and quality of meat. However, 29 mon of age can be regarded as the optimum time to slaughter steers to attain the highest take home money for farmers.
Disclosing the caffeine dose to be administered that restores insulin sensitivity in prediabetes animal

The results discussed in this thesis originated the following communications in International and National congresses: Sacramento JF, Coelho JC, Melo BF, Guarino MP and Conde SV. (2014) Assessment of caffeine dose and time of administration required for resetting insulin sensitivity in high sucrose diet in rats. 50th Meeting of EASD (European Association for the study of Diabetes), 14-19 September, Vienna, Austria Coelho JC, Melo BF, Sacramento JF, Guarino MP and Conde SV (2014). Establishing the caffeine dose that chronically restores insulin sensitivity in animal model of prediabetes. Fundacao Astrazeneca Innovate Competition, iMed conference 6.0®, 10-12 October, Lisboa, Portugal Also, during the last year I was involved in other ongoing projects that originated the following communications: Coelho JC, Melo BF, Sacramento JF, Ribeiro MJ, Guarino MP and Conde SV (2014). Are the effects of carotid sinus nerve resection on insulin sensitivity mediated by an increase in Glut4 expression in skeletal muscle? XLIV Reuniao Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia, XXXII Reuniao de Farmacologia Clinica e XIII Reuniao de Toxicologia, 5-7 February, Coimbra, Portugal Sacramento JF, Rodrigues T, Coelho JC, Matafome P, Ribeiro MJ, Seica RM, Guarino MP, Conde SV (2014). Elucidating the mechanism by which carotid sinus nerve resection restores insulin sensitivity in pre-diabetes animal models. International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) XIX University of Leeds, 29th June - 3rd July, Leeds, United Kingdom
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How Did Crew Resource Management Take-Off Outside of the Cockpit? A Systematic Review of How Crew Resource Management Training Is Conceptualised and Evaluated for Non-Pilots

Crew resource management (CRM) training for flight crews is widespread and has been credited with improving aviation safety. As other industries have adopted CRM, they have interpreted CRM in different ways. We sought to understand how industries have adopted CRM, regarding its conceptualisation and evaluation. For this, we conducted a systematic review of CRM studies in the Maritime, Nuclear Power, Oil and Gas, and Air Traffic Control industries. We searched three electronic databases (Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus) and CRM reviews for papers. We analysed these papers on their goals, scope, levers of change, and evaluation. To synthesise, we compared the analysis results across industries. We found that most CRM programs have the broad goals of improving safety and efficiency. However, there are differences in the scope and levers of change between programs, both within and between industries. Most evaluative studies suffer from methodological weaknesses, and the evaluation does not align with how studies conceptualise CRM. These results challenge the assumption that there is a clear link between CRM training and enhanced safety in the analysed industries. Future CRM research needs to provide a clear conceptualisation—how CRM is expected to improve safety—and select evaluation measures consistent with this.
Egg-yolk androgen and carotenoid deposition as a function of maternal social environment in barn swallows Hirundo rustica

Evidence is mounting that female animals use egg-yolk compounds (e.g. steroids, antioxidants) to adaptively engineer the quality of their offspring as a function of several maternal and environmental factors. Though adjustments to yolk allocation have been well-characterized as a function of parental phenotypes, we know very little about how an individual’s social environment influences yolk composition. Here, we consider how two types of yolk compounds, androgens and carotenoids, relate to the maternal social environment during the egg-laying period, controlling statistically for known correlations between various aspects of parental quality and egg yolk compounds. Barn swallows Hirundo rustica erythrogaster breed in groups of highly variable size and spacing, allowing us to test whether or not the social environment is correlated with these maternal effects. We found no relationship between carotenoid levels in eggs as a function of colony size, colony density, or nearest-neighbor distance. However, eggs from females in larger groups had lower concentrations and total amounts of yolk androgens than those from females in smaller, less dense social settings. Our results counter previous predictions and literature, showing that females breeding in large groups deposit more androgen in eggs, mechanistically, because they compete more with conspecifics and have higher circulating androgen levels themselves and, functionally, because it could be advantageous for their offspring to show high androgen-mediated competitive abilities early in life. Instead, because group size in this species is governed largely by site fidelity and the availability of old nests for re-use, and because reproductive output does not differ as a function of group size, it may be that competition is greater for limited nests in small groups, thus elevating androgen levels. Further, yolk androgens were previously shown to be affected by male quality, and the greater concentrations and amounts of yolk androgens in smaller sites may reflect differential allocation to darker males found at these sites.
Mathematical Modelling of Thin-layer Drying Kinetics of Cassava Meal in a Conductive Rotary Dryer

A conductive rotary dryer was developed for indirect drying of cassava meal in gari and cassava flour production. Drum temperature, Td, batch quantity, Qb and vapour extraction rate, Rv, of the dryer influenced drying kinetics of cassava meal. Drying data of cassava meal under different dryer conditions were fitted with seven thinlayer drying models and the Logarithmic model had the best goodness of fit with R˃0.97 for each of the parameters. Model constants, a, k and c were generated as functions of each parameter and three Logarithmic models relating moisture ratio, MR as a function of each parameter were developed. Predicted and experimental values of MR correlated well at R˃0.97 for each model. Gradients of drying curves of moisture loss, ML, against drying time, t, were linear between t = 0 and a critical time tc when drying actually stopped. A mathematical model based on the linearity of drying rate, DR, was developed to predict MR as function of Td, Qb, Rv and t. The model was validated by comparing experimental and predicted values of MR at various combinations of dryer parameters. Drum temperature and batch quantity had greater effects on drying kinetics than vapour extraction rate. At Td = 200°C the cassava meal was gelatinized and gari with swelling index, SI˃2.0 was produced. Cassava flour with SI˂2.0 was produced at Td = 140°C.
Deposit money banks’ efficiency in three years after, during and before the 2004–2005 consolidation in Nigeria: the puzzle on size

In this paper, the authors examined the efficiency of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria in three years after, during and before the 2004–2005 capital consolidation in Nigeria. This consolidation period was the last period the Central Bank of Nigeria im-plemented an official recapitalization policy of the deposit money banks in the country. The authors predicated the study on a modified intermediation and efficiency measurement frameworks. It utilizes deposits, fixed assets and employees as inputs, whose costs are interest payments, depreciation and staff expenses. Performing loans and advances, investments and liquid assets constituted the output variables. The authors computed the efficiency scores, using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The data used were obtained from the DMBs that retained their identities and controlled over 75% of the banking industry’s total assets. They were purposively selected to maintain data consistency, and were size-classified by total assets. The findings show that small banks tend to be more cost efficient than medium and big banks. More so, medium sized banks tend to be more cost efficient than big banks, while big banks take the lead in cost efficiency score in post consolidation period. Cost efficiency of the banks was the highest during consolidation, followed by pre-consolidation and least in three years after consolidation. management was drastic cost-cutting and ‘fat’ trimming, which often con-stitutes part of the immediate policies of management to address an x-inefficiency problem. However, it is not all the time that cost-cutting exercises are due to x-inefficiency. Perhaps, the need for re-optimiza-tion may call for such exercises. This involves input and/or output re-sponses to alterations in some factors, such as input and output prices which are exogenous in nature. There are also situations where costs are cut due to reductions in profits.