Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Religion and Public Conflict in the Post-COVID Era: The Case of Protestant Churches in South Korea

Governments have attempted to contain the COVID-19 outbreak with a variety of regulations, including social distancing, facemask mandates, or limits on gatherings. South Korea was concerned by the “supercluster” case of a sectarian religious organization in February 2020. Since then, some Protestant churches have periodically caused cluster infections showing antagonism against health authorities. First, we traced all 2020 cluster cases and identified their denominational characteristics. We then utilized the 2020 CISJD data and conducted a series of multivariate regressions to answer the research question, “What causes differences among denominations in attitudes toward public disease control and in-person service attendance? ” Results indicated that Protestants affiliated with liberal churches were more likely to follow public disease control guidelines and less likely to attend in-person religious services during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared with individuals from other denominations. Protestants affiliated with moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches tended to share antagonism toward public disease control, while cherishing in-person community rituals. This research highlights social implications of public conflict in Korea, where many Protestant churches have emphasized the significance of traditional worship services, claiming the constitutional right of religious freedom, while the majority of citizens, religious and non-religious, disagree with such exclusive claims against public safety.
Modelling of a floating piston expander employed in a 10 K cryocooler

A single stage of a 3-stage Collins-type cryocooler designed to provide 1 W of cooling at 10 K was constructed and tested. A single stage of the cryocooler consists of a compressor, a counterflow heat exchanger, and an expander to expand the working fluid. The work of the expanding cold gas is transmitted up a floating piston and is dissipated by gas flows in and out of a warm volume. Flow through the cold volume is controlled by smart electromagnetic valves. Models were developed to describe the thermodynamic processes that make up the expander cycle. In the first iteration, models were developed to determine the equilibrium states at various points in the cycle by assuming the thermodynamic processes that made up the expander cycle to be quasi-static. These models were used to determine appropriate values of parameters such as the cut-off volume, the recompression volume, and warm end reservoir pressures for expander operation. Experiments were done to determine the efficiency of the floating-piston expander. Tests were also done to determine the characteristics of the heat exchanger and compare them with the design characteristics. Finally, the stage was run as a refrigerator with zero heat-load. It was observed that the quasi-static models did not adequately describe the performance of the expander as most of the processes did not go to equilibrium. Therefore, these models were improved by incorporating the dynamics of the piston motion, the fluid flow through the warm and cold volumes, and the fluid flow through the high-pressure passages of the heat exchanger. Thesis Supervisor: Joseph L. Smith, Jr. Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Comparison of Effects of Change from 8 To 12 Hour Shifts on Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Workers

Abstract : This study examined the effects of converting from an 8 hour shift system to a 12 hour system on aircraft maintenance personnel. The squadron had converted its 24 hour operations from an 8 hour shift schedule to a 12 hour shift schedule in stages, changing one group first and then another. A smaller third group of workers remained on 8 hour shifts. Individual differences in job related outcomes and situational constraints were measured for all three groups. Results showed that changing from 8 to 12 hour shifts affected worker well being and morale, as indicated by an increase in hospital visits after the switch to 12 hour shifts and the difference in levels of morale between 12 hour shift personnel and those remaining on 8 hour shifts.
Anorexia and Starvation Related Duodenal Villous Atrophy in an Adult Patient

Coeliac disease is the most well-known cause of villous atrophy in duodenal biopsies. Other well recognised causes of villous atrophy include infection with Giardia duodenalis and HIV, peptic duodenitis, drug-induced enteropathy, common variable immunodeficiency, Crohn’s disease, Whipple’s disease, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, tropical or collagenous sprue and autoimmune enteropathy. While mucosal adaptation due to malnutrition, leading to villous atrophy, has been reported in paediatric populations in Africa and South America, in hibernating animals and animal models of experimental starvation, there is very little literature on adult human subjects. We report a case of a 76-year-old gentleman, presenting with chronic metabolic acidosis and anorexia who was found to have villous atrophy on duodenal biopsy, in the absence of any evidence of coeliac disease or other non-coeliac enteropathy. The nutritional state improved with correction of the underlying metabolic abnormality, and serial endoscopic assessment showed improvement in the villous atrophy. We discuss the relationship between malnutrition and villous atrophy, and suggest a potential workup for non-coeliac villous atrophy.
Analysis of the U.S. Navy's Goal-Based Awards System and Its Effect on Recruit Quality

Abstract : Commander Navy Recruiting Command (CNRC) has changed the Awards and Incentives System in recent years in an effort to increase recruiter productivity and promote recruit quality goal achievement. The latest Awards and Incentives System updates have placed increased emphasis on recruit quality in support of Navy Recruiting Command's strategic plan Recruit Force 2020. This thesis provides a detailed overview of the current Navy Awards and Incentives System. The thesis also attempts to estimate the effect of specific awards on the quality of recruit contracts. Furthermore, the thesis estimates the effect of monthly goaling targets on the quality of recruits. The objective is to determine if the current Navy Awards and Incentives System has an unintended consequence of reducing recruit quality. The analysis tests whether recruiters sacrifice quality as the end of the month approaches to meet their monthly goaling deadline. Also, the analysis tests the impact of Gold Wreath awards on recruiter productivity and recruit quality. The results indicate that recruit quality tends to fall as the end-of-the-month approaches, specifically during the last week of the month. However, the results did not support the hypothesis that recruiters sacrifice quality to obtain their first Gold Wreath award.
High impedance fault detection using combination of multi-layer perceptron neural networks based on multi-resolution morphological gradient features of current waveform

In this study a new pattern recognition-based algorithm is presented for detecting high impedance faults (HIFs) in distribution networks with broken or unbroken conductors and distinguishing them from other similar phenomena such as capacitor bank switching, load switching, no-load transformer switching (through feeder switching), fault on adjacent feeders, insulator leakage current (ILC) and harmonic load. The proposed method has employed multi-resolution morphological gradient (MMG) for extraction of the time-based features from three half cycles of the post-disturbance current waveform. Then, according to these features, three multi-layer perceptron neural networks are trained. Finally, the outputs of these classifiers are combined using the average method. Applying the data for HIF, ILC and harmonic load from field tests and for other similar phenomena from simulations has shown high security and dependability of the proposed method. Also, a comparison between the features from the proposed MMG-based procedure and the features from discrete Fourier transform, discrete S-transform, discrete TT-transform and discrete wavelet transform is made in the feature space.
Use of Emergency Medical Services: Experience 100 Days after First Case of COVID-19

Background: The spread of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), emergency medical services (EMS) work flow to be different from the normal situation such as avoid advanced airways management that perform aerosol generating. However, no studies examining EMS operation have been conducted at Srinagarind Hospital. Objective: To compare EMS operation time and procedures during COVID-19 spreading and routine period. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study examined all cases in which EMS were dispatched from Srinagarind Hospital during 13th January to 21st April 2020 compared with last year. Data were collected from the Srinagarind Hospital EMS operation database and hospital information database system. Results: Five hundred forty-five EMS operations were examined. The mean age of the patients in 2020 was 50.4+6.2 years, and 70.9% (n = 195) were male. The average times from 1669 center call receipt to arrival on scene (response time) for 2019 and 2020 were 12.44+4.12 minutes and 7.32+2.40 minutes, respectively (p = 0.016). The nebulizer mask procedure was performed in 16.1% of cases in 2019 group compared with 7.1% in the 2020 group (p<0.001). Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand effect EMS operation in age group of patients, operation time, type of patients, response time and procedures in airway and breathing. Keywords: COVID-19, Emergency medical services, Prehospital emergency care, Response time
Service reliability measurement framework using smart card data : application to the London Underground

Service reliability is an important dimension of performance to transit passengers, affecting not only their perceptions of service quality, but their travel behaviour as well. The ability of transit operators to understand and improve reliability relies on their ability to measure it. Until recently, efforts to quantify this attribute of service from the perspective of passengers were limited by the small sample sizes obtained from manual surveys, or the use of supply-side data to indirectly capture the passenger experience. With the emergence of data from automated fare media, it becomes possible under certain conditions to directly observe travel times experienced by passengers and obtain improved estimates of the reliability of transit service. A framework is developed to estimate service reliability on heavy rail transit systems with both entry and exit fare control using data from Automated Fare Collection systems. A methodology is proposed as part of the framework to classify performance into incident-related and recurrent conditions in order to both gain new insight into the contribution of the different causes of unreliability as well as develop more robust measures of service reliability. The classification methodology is validated against incident log data corresponding to three origin-destination (O-D) pairs on the London Underground. Subsequently, the proposed framework is used to characterize the reliability of 800 Underground O-D pairs representing the highest-volume journeys on the system. Furthermore, models are estimated to quantify the effects of journey length, interchanges, and incident-related disruptions on reliability. Two practical applications of the framework are also developed for the Underground. First, an extension of the existing service quality measurement system is proposed in order to quantify reliability as part of routine performance monitoring efforts. An application of this extension to the Victoria line during the morning peak reveals that reliability is an important part of service quality, with a contribution to total perceived travel times comparable to that of various average travel time components. Second, a way to provide passengers with reliability information through Transport for London’s trip planning software is presented, in order to mitigate the negative impact of uncertain journey times. The potential benefits from the provision of this additional information are found to be appreciable relative to the current ability of the trip planning software to reduce uncertainty for Underground passengers.
Auralization-An Overview

Auralization is a term introduced to be used in analogy with visualization to describe rendering audible (imaginary) sound fields. Several modeling methods are available in architectural acoustics for this purpose. If auralization is done by computer modeling, it can be thought of as "true" acoustical computer-aided design. Together with new hardware implementations of signal processing routines, auralization forms the basis of a powerful new technology for room simulation and aural event generation. The history, trends, problems, and possibilities of auralization are described. The discussion primarily deals with auralization of auditorium acoustics andloudspeaker installations. The advantages and disadvantages of various approaches are discussed, as are possible testing and verification techniques. The possibility of using acoustic scale models for auralization is also discussed. \ Demonstrations of auralization have been made, but still the technology's ability to reproduce the subjective impression of the audible characteristics of a hall accurately remains to be verified. This limits the credibility of auralization as a design tool, and verification of auralization the foremost problem to be attacked at this time. The verification problem also applies to the basic room impulse response prediction programs. The combination of auralization with transaural reproduction, room equalization, and active noise control could make it possible to expand the applications of the technology beyond the laboratory and beyond simple headphone reproduction. A large number of interesting applications outside room and psychoacoustics research are conceivable, the most interesting of which are probably its use in information, education, and entertainment.
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR CAMCOS. A COMPUTER-ASSISTED MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND CONTROL SYSTEM,

Abstract : A description is presented of CAMCOS, an on-line, real-time computer system for Air Force base-level maintenance planning and control activities. CAMCOS is designed to provide a high-level capability for critical missions and economical performance during routine operations. A mission generator helps to select an aircraft to fulfill a sortie request, and sends the dispatch notices to ready it for its mission. The system handles planning, scheduling, dispatching, and control for flight-line, bench, and periodic maintenance on a unified basis that relates maintenance to operational requirements. The current status of all resources, workload, and aircraft is maintained in the system. An event monitor follows all flight-line jobs and other critical tasks, notifying the appropriate manager if a departure from plan occurs. Job requirements for reported malfunctions and other priority workload are matched against resources, and scheduled to meet aircraft recovery targets. Personnel in maintenance squadrons report work requirements; events such as start of job, end of job, etc.; and changes in resource availability through the control system. These data are used for planning and controlling the maintenance activity and are saved by the system for subsequent analysis and reporting. (Author)
When giants learn to dance : mastering the challenges of strategy, management, and careers in the 1990s

Part 1 Competing in the corporate Olympics: small world, big horizons - the challenge getting in shape for the contest - the reponse. Part 2 Doing more with less - strategies for post-entrepreneurial management: desperately seeking synergies - the promise and the perils of restructuring achieving synergies - value added, value multiplied becoming PALS - pooling, allying, and linking across companies putting powerinto partnerships cutting channels - the push for new business streams swimming in newstreams - mastering innovation dilemmas. Part 3 Jobs, money, people - consequences of the post-entrepreneurial revolution: from status to contribution - the changing basis for pay the new workforce meets the changing workplace - opportunity and overload from climbing to hopping - the contingent job and the post-entrepreneurial career the pursuit of skill and reputation - security and loyalty in a post-entrepreneurial world. Part 4 Beyond the cowboy and the corpocrat - a call to action.
ALD AI/sub 2/O/sub 3/ passivated MBE-grown AIGaN/GaN HEMTs on 6H-SiC

The effects of atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) Al2O3 passivation layer on AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on SiC were studied. Improved pulsed I–V characteristics and a relatively small decrease in the unity gain cutoff frequency (fT) and the maximum frequency of oscillation (fmax) were observed in the devices passivated using a 45 nm-thick ALD Al2O3 layer. For 0.12 µm gatelength devices, fT (fmax) decreased to 92 GHz (115 GHz) from 120 GHz (140 GHz), while for 0.25 µm devices, fT (fmax) decreased to 58 GHz (120 GHz) from 65 GHz (137 GHz). At a drain bias of 15 V, an output power of 3 W/mm with an associated gain of 5.0 dB and PAE of 33% were obtained for the 0.25 µm gatelength devices.
Methodologies for Synthesizable Programmable Devices based on Multi-Stage Switching Networks

Nowadays the rise of non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs associated with complexity is becoming a major factor in SoC design, limiting both scaling opportunities and the flexibility advantages offered by the integration of complex computational units. The introduction of embedded programmable elements can represent an appealing solution, able both to guarantee the desired flexibility and upgradabilty and to widen the SoC market. In particular embedded FPGA (eFPGA) cores can provide bit-level optimization for those applications which benefits from synthesis, paying on the other side in terms of performance penalties and area overhead with respect to standard cell ASIC implementations. In this scenario this thesis proposes a design methodology for a synthesizable programmable device designed to be embedded in a SoC. A soft-core embedded FPGA (eFPGA) is hence presented and analyzed in terms of the opportunities given by a fully synthesizable approach, following an implementation flow based on Standard-Cell methodology. A key point of the proposed eFPGA template is that it adopts a Multi-Stage Switching Network (MSSN) as the foundation of the programmable interconnects, since it can be efficiently synthesized and optimized through a standard cell based implementation flow, ensuring at the same time an intrinsic congestion-free network topology. The evaluation of the flexibility potentialities of the eFPGA has been performed using different technology libraries (STMicroelectronics CMOS 65nm and BCD9s 0.11μm) through a design space exploration in terms of area-speed-leakage tradeoffs, enabled by the full synthesizability of the template. Since the most relevant disadvantage of the adopted soft approach, compared to a hardcore, is represented by a performance overhead increase, the eFPGA analysis has been made targeting small area budgets. The generation of the configuration bitstream has been obtained thanks to the implementation of a custom CAD flow environment, and has allowed functional verification and performance evaluation through an application-aware analysis.
AZOTLU GÜBRELEMENİN KOLZANIN VERİM VE VERİM ÖĞELERİNE ETKİSİ

This research was carried out in 1998 at the experimental fields of the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Ankara . The aim of this research was to determine the effect of nitrogen doses on plant height, number of axillary branch on main stem, number of pods on main stem, pod length, number of seeds per pod, 1000 seed weight, oil ratio, protein ratio and seed yield of some winter rape seed cultivars. In the study, Licord, Liberator and Capitol winter rape seed cultivars and 4 different nitrogen doses (0, 8, 12, 16 kg/da) were used. According to the results of this research; the highest plant height (140.93 cm) was determined with N 12 nitrogen dose in cv. Capitol and the lowest plant height (115.93 cm) was found with No (control) in cv Liberator. In terms of oil ratio, the highest value (51.17 %) was obtained from cv. Capitol with N 8 nitrogen dose. Oil ratio decreased by increasing of nitrogen doses, the highest protein ratio (36.65 %) was determined with N l6 nitrogen dose in cv. Licord. The seed yields increased by increasing of nitrogen doses too. The highest seed yield (290.49 kg/da) was obtained from cv. Liberator with N 12 nitrogen dose and the lowest seed yield was found with N 0 (control) in cv. Licord.
MtDNA D-loop genetic diversity of common quail (Coturnix coturnix) migrating through Ukraine and Spain

Atlantic All applicable Abstract: Populations of common quail ( Coturnix coturnix ) have recently been declining in Europe. This is the first study of common quail in eastern Europe using molecular markers. The mtDNA D-loop genetic diversity of common quails migrating through Ukraine was analyzed and compared with that of birds migrating via northern Spain in 2017–2018. In samples from 77 birds, 32 polymorphic sites and 30 haplotypes (H1–H30) were identified, only 4 of which were common for birds sampled in both Ukraine and Spain. Phylogenetic analysis indicated 2 well-supported clades. Found were 3 haplotypes clustered in 1 phylogenetic clade only in common quails sampled in Ukraine. The results can be used for the identification of different flyways, particularly for common quails of eastern European origin.
Dictionary of Accounting

This comprehensive dictionary covers a wide range of topics related to accountancy, including personal finances, investments and company accounts. Ideal for accountancy professionals, bookkeepers, student of accountancy and all those working in company accounts departments. 'Clear as day.This dictionary provides an extremely thorough guide to the terms we use in accounting.For students beginning the AAT qualification and people from a non-accounting background, this book will be extremely useful. ' - Accounting Technician