Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The instrument transformer bridges for testing and characterizing, for harmonic measurements, instrument transformers

The modern development of electric power systems is increasingly demanding for high improvements in the accuracy of metering and testing methods in both HV and high current, namely, in testing the instrument transformers. The necessity of determining if the existing instrument transformers are usable for harmonic measurements is, at present, also required. The illustrated Instrument transformer bridges implement the, at present, used ratio transformer bridge to testing the instrument transformers and their usability for harmonic measurements. The illustrated bridges uses two ratio transformers, an instrument transformer and a decade ratio transformer. The use of the instrument transformer allows to supply the reference standard ( S ) at its secondary low rating and extends the bridges' range without extending the dynamic range of both S and decade ratio transformer. Thus the illustrated bridges undeniably appears innovative of the, at present, used ratio transformer bridge technique that in the illustrated form could find wider use. The uncertainty of 0.5 ppm, of the used ratio transformer has been achieved in the absolute and relative test of both voltage and current transformers by experimental bridges.
The implications of smallholdings of water and land for the sustainability of a community based water management system in Oman

This paper investigates the implications of smallholder farming, that is, characteristic of a community based water management system in Oman known as a falaj (pl aflaj). The aflaj are naturally sustainable, and for centuries have provided water in an arid region, supporting agriculture and livelihoods. With over three thousand active aflaj in Oman, the typical falaj is small; conveying enough water to irrigate a relatively small amount of land, and this water and land is further subdivided among many farmers. The implications of these smallholdings on the economic viability of the falaj were investigated by studying one falaj system. It is found the small holdings of water and land imply a typical farmer cannot realize economies of scale in farming, implying average costs are high and farm profits are low. As the aflaj are community managed, the low economic value of the falaj implies there may be insufficient funds for maintenance of the falaj, thus threatening their sustainability. Key words: Traditional agriculture, water management, community based natural resource management system, smallholdings.
Water intake of dairy goats in intensive systems

Data on water intake of dairy goats are scarce, especially in te mperate climates. The aim of this work was to update previous results concerning the factors of variat ion of water intake linked to the level of intake (DMI), to composition of the diet or milk production. A data base was built with 505 records obtained
Emergence of Automated Computing Technologies in Biomedical Disease and Drug Discovery

Present era is estimated as the era of technological evolution. Every aspect of human life is greatly influenced through it. Just similar like all the sectors, emergence of information computing technologies in Biomedical drug, disease, big data is worthy of remark. However, access, manipulation and analysis of biomedical data become significantly mandatory for medical disease, drug discovery. In this regard, computer technologies are being developed emerging new specialty, methods, prospects, approach to handle big data. Rather than this big data perspective is seems to be appeared increasingly in biomedical sector which have already a great obstacle for the practitioners to work efficiently. In this respect lots of research have been conducted still going on. It’s a matter of blessings that recent computing technologies are doing well discovering new trends for disease detection as well as drug discovery. However, some barrier is still in action in this path. Realizing the worth of this computing technologies in biomedical science this work encompasses some exceptionally tremendous contribution in biomedical science, what they trended to do, their perspectives, challenges, way to avoid obstacles which can be a resource for the future further research in this field. Moreover, biomedical big data computing perspectives and contributions have been also concentrated in this work. Various machine learning approaches focused on various research and their drawbacks are also receptacle for the rest portion of this contribution.
Modeling of Battery for EV using EMTP/ATPDraw

As environmentally friendly energy takes center stage, interests for Electric Vehicles/Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (EVs/PHEVs) are getting increase. With this trend, there is no doubt EVs will take large portion to penetrations of total cars. Therefore, accurate EV modeling is required. Battery is one of the main components with the power system view of aspect. Hence, in this paper, reviews and discussions of some types of batteries for EV are contained by considering energy density and weight of the batteries. In addition, simulations of Li-Ion battery are accomplished with various variables such as temperature, capacity fading and charge/discharge current. It is confirmed that temperature is the main factor of capacity fading. Validation of the modeled battery is also conducted by comparing it with commercialized battery.
Steady Flow of a Two-Dimensional Liquid Curtain Under Pressure

Abstract We use finite elements and the full-Newton iteration method to solve the steady, two-dimensional flow of a Newtonian planar film issuing from a slit under a pressure difference, in the presence of gravity and surface tension. The simulated film shapes agree with available experimental data within the range of the experimental error. The numerical calculations show that the shape of the film depends strongly on the imposed pressure difference, inertia and gravity, and is rather insensitive to surface tension.
A study of first-year chemistry students' understanding of solution concentration at the tertiary level

This paper reports on students' understanding of sugar concentration in aqueous solutions presented in two different modes: a visual submicroscopic mode for particles and a verbal mode referring to macroscopic amounts of sugar. One hundred and forty-five tertiary college students studying some form of first-year chemistry participated in the study. For problems of a similar nature, students were much more successful in solving solution concentration problems that were presented verbally than were presented using a submicroscopic representation of particles. The implications of this for chemistry education are outlined in the paper. One contributing factor to the poor success rate with submicroscopic representations (SMR) was possibly the fact that the SMR were presented in multiple-choice format whereas the verbal representations required a short-answer response. While the multiple-choice format may prove deceptive, on account of the way students interpret alternatives containing visual images, students agreed it also proved instructive in highlighting the importance of accounting for volume change in concentration calculations.
SEAGRASS BEDS DISTRIBUTION AND THEIR STRUCTURE IN THE SURROUNDING COASTAL WATERS OF KAPOPOSANG ISLAND, SOUTH SULAWESI

Kapoposang Island and the surrounding waters has been appointed by Indonesian Governmet to be a part of waters tour park in South Sulawesi, implying the requirement of the marine resources, including seagrass ecosystems in this area, should be well managed in order to provide biodiversity protection and sustainable use of the seagrass ecosystems. For this purpose, one of basic required information is seagrass distribution and habitat structure. This study was aimed to 1) observe the location of continues seagrass beds, 2) identify the habitat structure in each site of continues seagrass beds. A combination of visual observation and transect method was applied to determine the sites of continues seagrass beds, while seagrass habitat structure was identified based on ecological habitat structure model. Study results revealed that continues seagrass beds were only found in five different sites of Kapoposang coastal waters. Seagrass habitat structure among the five sites were in variable and the highest seagrass cover was found in two sites, namely 1) site A in the north-west part of the island (S04 o 41'42.5"; E118 o 56'59.5") dominated by Thalassia hemprichii and 2) site E located in the north part of the island (S04 o 41'57.8"; E118 o 57'45.7") dominated by Enhalus acoroides . Both of these sites were different in heterogeneity but similar in complexity. Keywords: Thalassia hemprichii , Enhalus acoroides , continues seagrass beds, habitat structure
Tail market risk, bank equity volatility and bank …nancial structure: exploring the missing link

The recent crisis has spurred the production of market-based indicators of banks’ exposure and resilience to system-wide shocks. While such indicators, often computed using daily stock market returns, present the advantage of timeliness, they tend to look like black boxes and their outcome is di¢ cult to interpret in economic terms. We propose to explore how one recently but already popular indicator of a bank’s sensitivity to a market-wide extreme shock, the marginal expected shortfall (MES), does relate to usual balance-sheet indicators of bank …nancial fragility. We consider a quartely version of the MES developed by Brownlees and Engle (2010). Using a panel of 23 large US banks over the last decade and a half, we …nd that assets pro…tablity and asset quality, but not bank size nor leverage, are important variables to explain variations in individual banks’exposure to systemic events.
Integrating Cell Phones into a Chinese High School EFL Classroom: Students’ Attitudes, Technological Readiness, and Perceived Learning

Although explorations on cell phone-based learning (C-learning) in the field of teach - ing English as a foreign language (EFL) has been gaining increasing attention in the last 10 years, the explorations are constrained mainly to distance language teaching. Researchers have pointed out that mobile devices are most effective when combined with group activities, tradi- tional educational activities, and other information and communication technologies (Librero, Ramos, Ranga, Trinona, & Lambert, 2007; Stead, 2005). The purpose of this study was to in- vestigate the integration of a C-learning activity into a traditional EFL classroom by looking at students' attitudes, technological readiness, perceived learning, and perceived appropriateness of the activity design. A total of 96 high school students from Xiamen, China participated in the study. Students' survey responses, reflection papers, and final projects were collected and ana - lyzed. Findings of the study indicated that students enjoyed the activity. They found the activity interesting, inspiring, and effective for their English learning. Students had no technological anxieties related to the cell phone use. This study can contribute to the discussion on integrating cell phones for EFL teaching by providing a sample activity as well as students' possible percep- tions and attitudes toward the activity.
Better Life Index and Health Care Quality Indicators, Two New Instruments to Evaluate the Healthcare System

Local health companies have been trying to report quantitative and qualitative information through social reporting tools for a long time. The OECD has been questioning for quite some time how to evaluate satisfaction and quality by not considering the economic aspect alone in the quest for satisfying the needs of the citizen. The aim of the work is to evaluate how the compound indicator of well-being perceived by the population and the composite indicator of the quality of health services can be used to define health policies considering the incidence of other variables. In the analysis, it is therefore assessed how much the two indicators are related and linked to other variables that need to be considered and how independent indicators are used without further evaluations to target policies. The data are updated to October 18, 2017. All statistical analyses were performed using STATA V.13 (Stata Corp, College Station, Texas, USA, 2013) and p value <0.05 was considered significant for all analyses. The sample is made up of 35 OECD countries.
Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)

turbulent dissipation rates are found to increase from O 1 � 10 � 10 Wk g � 1 �� in the Southeast Pacific to O 1 � 10 � 9 Wk g � 1 �� in the Scotia Sea, typically reaching 3 � 10 � 9 Wk g � 1 within a kilometer of the seabed. Enhanced levels of turbulent mixing are associated with strong near-bottom flows, rough topography, and regions where the internal wavefield is found to have enhanced energy, a less-inertial frequency content and a dominance of upward propagating energy. These results strongly suggest that bottomgenerated internal waves play a major role in determining the spatial distribution of turbulent dissipation in the ACC. The energy flux associated with the bottom internal wave generation process is calculated using wave radiation theory, and found to vary between 0.8 mW m � 2 in the Southeast Pacific and 14 mW m � 2 in the Scotia Sea. Typically, 10%–30% of this energy is found to dissipate within 1 km of the seabed. Comparison between turbulent dissipation rates inferred from finestructure parameterizations and microstructurederived estimates suggests a significant departure from wave-wave interaction physics in the near-field of wave generation sites.
COMPATIBILITY OF AN ISOLATE OF TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM WITH FUNGICIDES AND ORGANIC AMENDMENTS

Tanbir Rubayet and M. K. A. Bhuiyan. 2012. Compatibility of an Isolate of Trichoderma harzianum with fungicides and organic amendments. Bangladesh J. Plant Pathol. 28 (1&2): 63-66. An in-vitro study was undertaken to determine the effect of three fungicides namely Provax-200 (Carboxin), Rovral 50 WP (Iprodione) and Bavistin 50 WP (Carbendazim), and four organic materials namely mustrard oilcake, heat meal, chickpea meal, rice bran and tea waste on mycelium growth and sporulation of an isolate of Trichderma harzianum (T-10) following "poison food technique". The fungicides were used at 50, 100, 250 and 500 ppm concentrations. At different concentrations, inhibition in colony diameter ranged 2.2218. 89%, 7.78-22.22% and 90.00-100.00% under Provax-200, Rovral 50 WP and Bavistin 50 WP, respectively. The inhibition in sporulation was 4.52-11.76, 10.07-21.04% and 90.50100.00%, respectively. At the concention of 10, 20 and 30%, inhibition of mycelium diameter due to amendment of PDA with mustard oilcake, tea waste, rice bran, chickpea meal and wheat meal ranged 0.00-36.30, 2.22-54.07 and 6.30-72.96%, respectively. Similarly inhibition of sporulation of T. hazianum at different concentration was 6.02-53.01, 15.66-71.08 and 25.30-79.52%, respectively. The rate of inhibition was corroborated with concentrations of fungicides. The findings of the study indicate that T. harzianum isolate T-10 was compatible with Provax-200 and Rovral 50 WP only at ower concentration. The biocontrol fungus showed insensitivity to all organic amendments at their lower concentrations except tea waste.
The Existence of Equilibrium Asset Price Under Diverse Information

We investigate the effects of diverse information on the price of risky assets in rational expectation model. The expected cash flows innovation is considered as private information where informed trader knows it. It is assumed that the high informed trader has smaller variance error regarding the cash flows innovation than the low informed trader and uninformed traders. We found that the cash flow innovation influences the demand of informed trader. The market depth is a linear function of the demand of uninformed trader and weighted average of total variance error of information. Our finding supports previous research done by Spiegel and Subrahmanyam (1992). Our model shows that the more diverse the information, the higher the lambda coefficient which means the market becomes less liquid. The models consistent with Miller (1977) who found that the bigger the gap of private information is, the less liquid the market will be. If both informed traders have the same information they will demand the same amount of risky asset and it turns out to be similar as in the Kyle (1985) model.
GluN2B-NMDA Receptors in Alzheimers Disease: What Do they Got to Do with AD?

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most devastating and debilitating diseases affecting the aging population. Dementia is the most widely known deficit in AD patients, typically starts with loss of recent memory (minutes to hours), and progresses to loss of long-held memories and unable to recognize their loved ones. People with AD eventually lose their ability to take care of themselves. As a consequence the cost of care is huge, and it also takes a tremendous emotional toll on the family of AD patients. Two hallmarks of AD are senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, which are composed of amyloid β (Αβ) and tau, respectively. Despite extensive search for effective treatment over the past decades, available drugs have limited efficacy without affecting the course of AD.
The characteristics of subject matter in different academic areas.

Multidimensional scaling was performed on scholars' judgments about the similarities of the subject matter of different academic areas. One hundred sixty-eight scholars at the University of Illinois made judgments about 36 areas, and 54 scholars at a small western college judged similarities among 30 areas. The method of sorting (Miller, 1969) was used in collecting data. Three dimensions were common to the solutions of both samples: (a) existence of a paradigm, (b) concern with application, and (c) concern with life systems. It appears that these dimensions are general to the subject matter of most academic institutions.
Electrical field profile and doping in planar lead halide perovskite solar cells

Hybrid lead halide perovskites (PVKs) have emerged as novel materials for photovoltaics and have rapidly reached very large solar to electricity power conversion efficiencies. As occurring with other kind of solar technologies establishing the working energy-band diagram constitutes a primary goal for device physics analysis. Here, the macroscopic electrical field distribution is experimentally determined using capacitance-voltage and Kelvin probe techniques. Planar structures comprising CH3NH3PbI3−xClx PVK exhibit p-doping character and form a p-n heterojunction with n-doped TiO2 compact layers. Depletion width at equilibrium within the PVK bulk has an extent about 300 nm (approximately half of the layer thickness), leaving as a consequence a significant neutral zone towards the anode contact. Charge collection properties are then accessible relying on the relative weight that diffusion and drift have as carrier transport driven forces.
Analysing the UK Science Education Community: The contribution of informal providers

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Hearing Impairment in a Semi-urban Community in North-Western Nigeria

Population based studies to measure the burden of hearing impairment are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa due largely to lack of allocation of resources. This study aims to report the prevalence and possible causes of hearing impairment in a semi-urban community. A cross-sectional community based survey using the World Health Organization Ear and Hearing disorders survey protocol was conducted in 2013. Adults and children hearing assessment was conducted via Pure-tone audiometry for air conduction thresholds at 0.5-4kHz with otoscopy. Ambient noise level was at 45dB. A total of 91 participants were tested with a hearing loss prevalence of 29(31.9%). Fifty three (58.2%) were females, population age range was 5-60years, with a mean age of 14.13years (SD: 13.51). Ear diseases were a major contributor to hearing loss 61(67.0%) affecting 5-14year old age-group, followed by unknown causes 19(20.9%). Other major causes of hearing impairment in this cohort were infectious diseases 8(8.8%), genetic conditions 2 (2.2%) and non-infectious conditions 1(1.1%) respectively. There was a significant difference in mean audiometric thresholds for the right and left ears respectively. The prevalence of hearing impairment in this community may indeed be quite high and calls for concerted efforts by relevant authorities to reduce the burden in our communities.
Use of historical information in extreme-surge frequency estimation: the case of marine flooding on the La Rochelle site in France

Abstract. Nuclear power plants located in the French Atlantic coast are designed to be protected against extreme environmental conditions. The French authorities remain cautious by adopting a strict policy of nuclear-plants flood prevention. Although coastal nuclear facilities in France are designed to very low probabilities of failure (e.g., 1000-year surge), exceptional surges (outliers induced by exceptional climatic events) have shown that the extreme sea levels estimated with the current statistical approaches could be underestimated. The estimation of extreme surges then requires the use of a statistical analysis approach having a more solid theoretical motivation. This paper deals with extreme-surge frequency estimation using historical information (HI) about events occurred before the systematic record period. It also contributes to addressing the problem of the presence of outliers in data sets. The frequency models presented in the present paper have been quite successful in the field of hydrometeorology and river flooding but they have not been applied to sea level data sets to prevent marine flooding. In this work, we suggest two methods of incorporating the HI: the peaks-over-threshold method with HI (POTH) and the block maxima method with HI (BMH). Two kinds of historical data can be used in the POTH method: classical historical maxima (HMax) data, and over-a-threshold supplementary (OTS) data. In both cases, the data are structured in historical periods and can be used only as complement to the main systematic data. On the other hand, in the BMH method, the basic hypothesis in statistical modeling of HI is that at least one threshold of perception exists for the whole period (historical and systematic) and that during a giving historical period preceding the period of tide gauging, only information about surges above this threshold have been recorded or archived. The two frequency models were applied to a case study from France, at the La Rochelle site where the storm Xynthia induced an outlier, to illustrate their potentials, to compare their performances and especially to analyze the impact of the use of HI on the extreme-surge frequency estimation.