Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fibrinogen-Depleting Agents for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Fibrinogen-depleting agents reduce fibrinogen in blood plasma, reduce blood viscosity and hence increase blood flow. This may help remove any occluding thrombus and reestablish blood flow to the affected area of the brain after an ischemic stroke. The risk of hemorrhage may be less than with thrombolytic agents. The objective of this review was to assess the effect of fibrinogen-depleting agents in patients with acute ischemic stroke. We searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register (last searched May 2003). In addition, we searched the following electronic databases: EMBASE (1980 to October 2001), China Biological Medicine Database (CBM-disc, 1981 to December 2002), Chinese Stroke …
Eigenvalue problems for a class of bi-nonlocal equations in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

In this paper, we consider eigenvalue problems for a class of bi-nonlocal problems with weights in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. Under some suitable conditions on the nonlinearities, we establish the existence of a continuous family of eigenvalues in a neighborhood of the origin by using the Ekeland variational principle and the mountain pass theorem in critical point theory.
Flint tools and plant working : hidden traces of Stone Age technology : a use wear study of some Danish Mesolithic and TRB implements

The amount of information that can be derived from stone tools has increased dramatically during this century. One of the latest approaches to the topic is functional analysis of flint tool edges using high-power microscopy, a method developed by L. Keeley in the late 1970s. This work is based on this method, and concerns tool functions in the Danish late-Mesolithic Ertebolle culture, as well as in the Neolithic Funnel Breaker (TRB) culture. The investigations focus on evidence of prehistoric plant working, and on "gloss", a lacquer-like sheen or use-wear, well-known to most archaeologists.
Research perspectives : traffic loading on highway bridges

Introduction Historical review: Part 1, 1911-54 Histroical review: Part 2, 1954-78 Limit state design Revision of HA Type loading - 1. Shot span Revision of Type HA loading - 2. Long span Composite version of BS5400: Part 2 Short-span assessment loading Loading for assessment Abnormal Loading Collision loads Control of traffic loading Eurocodes National Application Document (NAD) Appendix - Use of OPTAX program
Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices

Building products and services that people interact with is the big challenge of the 21st century. Dan Saffer has done an amazing job synthesizing the chaos into an understandable, ordered reference that is a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs. Jared Spool, CEO of User Interface EngineeringInteraction design is all around us. If youve ever wondered why your mobile phone looks pretty but doesnt work well, youve confronted bad interaction design. But if youve ever marveled at the joy of using an iPhone, shared your photos on Flickr, used an ATM machine, recorded a television show on TiVo, or ordered a movie off Netflix, youve encountered good interaction design: products that work as well as they look. Interaction design is the new field that defines how our interactive products behave. Between the technology that powers our devices and the visual and industrial design that creates the products aesthetics lies the practice that figures out how to make our products useful, usable, and desirable.This thought-provoking new edition of Designing for Interaction offers the perspective of one of the most respected experts in the field, Dan Saffer. This book will help youlearn to create a design strategy that differentiates your product from the competitionuse design research to uncover peoples behaviors, motivations, and goals in order to design for thememploy brainstorming best practices to create innovativenew products and solutionsunderstand the process and methods used to define product behaviorIt also offers interviews and case studies from industry leaders on prototyping, designing in an Agile environment, service design, ubicomp, robots, and more.
Customer

Growing using marketplace where as online shopping is driven by the technological advances that it becomes a trend to the society. Through increase of sales, required of many companies to participate using the digitization currently. A unique and good television commercials will be easier in the mind of consumers the brand. The existence feature of online customer review can decrease received risk of possibility to consumers online shopping, therefore companies and merchants that can get of the trust while consumer of making purchase decisions.The research population is all the Shopee users in Bali with was 100 respondents of sample based on purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by distributing questionnaire by multiple linear regression analysis. The results of analysis regression show that television advertising and online customer review the partial has positive and significant effect on purchase decisions. Based on this result, we can suggested that Shopee must to increase of the frequency broadcasting television advertising and continue to improve advertising innovate and online review features to create more purchase decisions.
Effect of marihuana and alcohol on visual search performance

Two experiments were performed to determine the effects of alcohol and marihuana on visual scanning patterns in a simulated driving situation. In the first experiment 27 male heavy drinkers were divided into 3 groups of 9, defined by three blood alcohol levels produced by alcohol treatment: 0.0%, 0.75%, and 0.15% BAC's. Significant changes in visual search behavior including increased dwell duration, decreased dwell frequency and increased pursuit duration and frequency were found under alcohol. In the second experiment 10 male social users of marihuana were tested under both 0 mcg and 200 mcg tetrahydrocannabinol per kilogram bodyweight. Marihuana was found to have no effect on visual search behavior. The results are related to previous studies of alcohol and marihuana effects on information processing. Implications for highway safety are discussed.
First & Last

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Boston College Oceanography & Estuarine Processes Lab Chestnut Hill, MA Undergraduate Research Fellow for Gail Kineke January 2018 – March 2020 ● Analyzed 200+ fine and course mud samples with a RO-TAP and sedigraph to depict sediment deposition and river morphology in both the Huang He River Delta in China and the Connecticut River Estuary ● Calibrated sensitive field and lab equipment for optimal results during sample testing ● Streamlined lab processes, increasing lab productivity from 10 samples per week to 22 samples per week
Effectiveness Of Ear Molding In the Treatment Of Congenital Auricular Deformity

Auricular deformities are classified into structural malformation and morphological malformation [1]. The former usually refers to the hypoplasia of the auricle caused by the coloboma of skin and cartilage. The latter is the abnormal morphology of the well-developed auricle, which could cause negative effects to the psychological development and social activities of children. Unlike structural malformations, such as microtia, which must be corrected by auricle reconstruction, the auricle deformity can be reconstructed either by surgery or by ear molding. At present in China, surgical plastic surgery treatment is the mainstream. We use EarWell ear molding to treat neonatal auricle deformity and achieve positive results.
On the Power of Relaxed Local Decoding Algorithms

A locally decodable code (LDC) C : { 0 , 1 } k → { 0 , 1 } n is an error correcting code that admits algorithms for recovering individual bits of the message by only querying a few bits of a noisy codeword. LDCs found a myriad of applications both in theory and in practice, ranging from probabilistically checkable proofs to distributed storage. However, despite nearly two decades of extensive study, the best known constructions of LDCs with O (1)-query decoding algorithms have super-polynomial blocklength. The notion of relaxed LDCs is a natural relaxation of LDCs, which aims to bypass the foregoing barrier by requiring local decoding of nearly all individual message bits, yet allowing decoding failure (but not error) on the rest. State of the art constructions of O (1)-query relaxed LDCs achieve blocklength n = O (cid:0) k 1+ γ (cid:1) for an arbitrarily small constant γ . Using algorithmic and combinatorial techniques, we prove an impossibility result, showing that codes with blocklength n = k 1+ o (1) cannot be relaxed decoded with O (1)-query algorithms. This resolves an open problem raised by Goldreich in 2004.
Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning

This volume is a true shelf reference, providing a thorough overview of the entire renewable energy sphere, while still functioning as a go-to information source for professionals and students when they need answers about a specific technical issue. Crafted over the last 15 years into a problem-solving tool for engineers, researchers, consultants and planners currently working in the field, as well as a detailed map of the renewables universe for those looking to expand into new technological specialties, "Renewable Energy by Sorensen" offers the most comprehensive coverage of the subject available. The book has been structured around three parts in order to assist readers in focusing on the issues that impact them the most for a given project or question. PART I covers the basic scientific principles behind all major renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and biomass. Part II provides in-depth information about how these raw renewable sources can actually be converted into useful forms, transmitted into the grid and stored for future utilization. Finally, part III undertakes the aspects of energy planning, environmental impacts and socio-economic issues on regional and global levels. In this fourth edition update, new material includes expanded coverage of biofuels, solar conversion, biomass and fuel cells, storage and transmission, and a new chapter on integrated technologies to introduce the hybrid systems now being explored. New surveys and the most recent research findings are included throughout. It is new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of the authoritative field guide to the entire Renewable Energy universe. These are the only books to scientific principles and implementation methods, technologies and socio-economics, environmental impacts and cutting-edge advances, all in one volume. New material includes expanded coverage of biofuels, solar conversion, biomass and fuel cells, storage and transmission, and a new chapter on integrated systems.
Quality of Assessment Raw Cows’ Milk at Different Sampling Points Using Bacteriological Parameters and Other Techniques in Jimma Town, South Western Ethiopia

A cross-sectional study was carried out from May 2014 to February 2015 to identify potential sources of raw cows’ milk contamination and assess its bacteriological quality, and investigate the bacteriological quality of fresh cows’ milk at different sampling points, in Jimma town. A total of 348 milk samples from udder, milking bucket, storage containers and vendors were randomly collected. To determine the bacterial load in raw milk samples, standard plate count test (SPC), coliform counts (CC), somatic cell counts (SCC), and california mastitis test (CMT) were conducted. The overall mean value of total bacterial counts (TBC) and coliform counts (CC) were 6.76log10 CFU/ml and 4.57 log10 CFU/ml respectively. The mean TBC were 5.87 ± 0.09 log10 CFU/ml, 6.14 ± 0.07 log10 CFU/ml, 7.39 ± 0.13 log10 CFU/ml, and 7.63 ± 0.06 log10 CFU/ml at udder, milking bucket, storage container and milk vendor levels respectively. The mean CC from udder, milking bucket, storage container and vendor were 3.14 ±0.09 log10 CFU/ml, 4.08 ± 0.07 log10 CFU/ml, 5.07 ± 0.23 log10 CFU/ml and 6.00 ± 0.21 log10 CFU/ml respectively. The difference in the mean TBC and CC at each sampling points were statistically significant (P=0.001). Among the investigated sampling points, the highest level of contamination in terms of TBC and CC was at vendor level. Factors that contributed to poor quality of milk were unhygienic milking procedures, lack of potable water, dirty milking environment and use of unclean milking and storage containers. According to international standards, TBC, CC and SCC have values above the upper limits set. The results of the current study indicated that the cow milk produced and distributed in the study area can generally be considered as substandard in quality. Therefore, it is important to put in place an improved hygienic practice at all levels in the dairy to improve the quality of cows’ milk.
Understanding the interactions between occupants, heating systems and building fabric in the context of energy efficient building fabric retrofit in social housing

In order for the UK to meet its 2050 carbon targets there needs to be a major energy efficient retrofit of the UK dwelling stock, of which one fifth is social housing. Evidence suggests that retrofit often leads to an increase in mean internal temperature at the expense of energy savings. Research has quantified this effect but little investigation has taken place regarding why temperature increase occurs. This thesis measures the temperature change after installation of external wall insulation in social housing and attempts to separate out the causal influences of the building fabric and occupant behaviour. A longitudinal mixed physical and social methodology was used to collect data from 13 case study social housing dwellings. Physical variables of air and radiator temperature, relative humidity, secondary heating and use of space were measured in each room in the property, and combined with occupant interviews, in two consecutive winters before and after insulation was applied. Mean internal temperature was observed to increase after retrofit: the majority of this was attributed to insulated properties cooling down more slowly. Observed changes in occupant behaviour consisted mostly of reduction in daily hours of heating, and no occupants increased the thermostat setting. Only a minority of homes purposefully increased their demand for heat. This is contrary to assumptions normally made about occupants deliberately ‘taking back’ energy savings as increased comfort. However, the temperature during heated periods did increase in most dwellings. In several it appeared to have been previously constrained by the ability of the heating system to deliver sufficient heat. The current algorithms for predicting mean internal temperature in models such as SAP and BREDEM are a simplification of the complex physical and social reality in most dwellings. This research gives recommendations as to how domestic heating use could be better modelled and controlled.
Varistor models : a comparison between theory and practice

The present society is highly dependant on complex electronics systems, which have a low damage threshold level. Therefore, there is a high risk of partial or total loss of the system’s electronics when they are exposed to a thunderstorm environment. This calls for a deep understanding on the mechanism related to the interaction of lightning generated electromagnetic fields with various large distributed/scattered systems. To accurately represent the interaction of lightning electromagnetic fields with electrical networks, it is necessary to have return stroke models capable to reproduce the electromagnetic field signatures generated by a lightning flash. Several models have been developed in the recent past to study the field-to-wire coupling mechanism. The most popular, simple and accurate among the available models is the Agrawal et al. model. On the other hand, ATP-EMTP is a well-known transient simulation package widely used by power engineers. This package has various built-in line models like Semlyen, Marti and Noda setups. There is a difficulty in applying the Agrawal et al. model with the built-in line models of ATP-EMTP, as the voltage source due to the horizontal component of electric field in Agrawal et al. model is in series with the line impedance and not in between two transmission line segments. Furthermore, when the electromagnetic field is propagating over a finite conducting ground plane, the soil will selectively attenuate the high frequency content of the electromagnetic field; causing a change in the field wave shape. A finite conducting ground will also produce a horizontal field component at the ground level. Several approximations are available in the literature to obtain the horizontal electric field; namely the wave-tilt and the Cooray-Rubinstein approximation. Consequently, it is important to investigate the change on the induced voltage signature when the power line is located over a finitely conducting ground. Additionally, to provide protection from lightning induced transients it is necessary to use Surge Protective Devices (SPDs) capable of diverting the incoming transients and provide protection level necessary to avoid damage in the equipment. However, standard test procedures of the SPDs do not take into account sub-microsecond structure of the transients. Therefore, to provide the required protection level to sensitive equipments connected to the low voltage power network, it is essential to understand the response of SPDs subjected to high current derivative impulses. This thesis is aimed to investigate the research problems as addressed above. Special attention will be given to a new proposed return stroke model, a simple circuit approach for efficient implementation of Agrawal et al. model using ATP-EMTP, the effect of the soil conductivity on the lightning induced overvoltage signatures and the response of surge protective devices subjected to high current derivative impulses.
EVALUATION OF LABORATORY COMPACTION TECHNIQUES FOR SIMULATING FIELD SOIL COMPACTION (PHASE II)

Higher compaction efforts, routinely seen in the field, not only result in higher unit weights but also lower optimum moisture contents than those found by the Modified Proctor test. The primary objective of this project was to further the Phase I study, which was to investigate the potential of using gyratory compaction for field simulation, and try to establish the standard test procedure for compacting silty and sandy soils. The gyratory compaction was found to be the most effective compaction technique. The three variables of the gyratory compactor (angle of gyration, vertical pressure, and number of gyrations) were further evaluated and the proposed gyratory test procedure was established for popular granular soils (A-3, and A-2-4 soils) in Florida. The variable setting (Vertical Pressure = 200 kPa, Gyration Angle = 1.25 deg, Number of Gyrations = 90, Gyration Rate = 20 Gyrations/minute) was proved to be the most suitable condition to simulate the field test results.
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF GRAVITY CURRENTS TRAVELLING OVER A FISSURED BED

Gravity currents are geophysical flows having large impact on human life and on the environment. The need to prevent and mitigate their negative consequences justifies the multitude of studies carried out to understand their physics. However little has been done concerning gravity currents travelling over porous bed, which is a frequent scenario in real life. Existing studies of gravity currents over porous substrates deal with lock-exchange gravity currents. In this paper we will present preliminary results of 23 experiments reproducing continuously-fed brine currents initially developing over a flat bed and then running over a porous region of varying porosities. In correspondence of this region, 2D density maps are acquired by means of an image-analysis technique. Simultaneously an Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry Profiler allows to record a 3D instantaneous velocity profile. Results describing the effect of the bottom porosity on density and velocity profiles are presented. Surprisingly the current does not slow down while travelling over the porous substrate: the relaxation of the no-slip boundary condition together with fresh water incorporation from the bottom cavities allows high velocities in the near bed region. This modifies significantly velocity and density gradients at the lower current interface. Conversely, varying the bed porosity has no remarkable effect on the upper current interface.
Evaluation of the chemical compositions, larvicidal and antimicrobial efficacies of Zingiber castaneum and Zingiber nitens essential oils

In this paper, we report the chemical constituents, larvicidal and antimicrobial activities of essential oils from Zingiber castaneum Škorničk. & Q.B. Nguyễn and Zingiber nitens M.F. Newman growing in Vietnam. The main constituents of Z. castaneum leaf were bicyclogermacrene (24.8%), germacrene D (12.9%), cis -β-elemene (11.2%) and β-pinene (10.3%), while the pseudo-stem contained bicyclogermacrene (15.8%), cis -β-elemene (9.8%) and germacrene D (9.2%). The significant compound of the rhizome oil was sabinene (22.9%), along with α-pinene (7.8%), β-pinene (6.5%), bornyl acetate (6.1%) and γ-terpinene (5.5%). However, β-pinene (45.8%), α-pinene (10.7%) and bicyclogermacrene (7.8%) were the dominant compounds in the leaf oil of Z. nitens . Terpinen-4-ol (77.9%) occurred as the compound occurring in higher amount in the rhizome oil. The rhizome oil of Z. castaneum exhibited 100% mortality towards Ae. aegypti (concentration, 200 µg/mL; 24 h and 48 h) and Ae. albopictus (concentration, 100 µg/mL; 24 h and 48 h). However, mortality of 81.3% was observed against Cx. quinquefasciatus at 48 h (concentration 100 µg/mL). The leaf also exhibited 100% mortality against Ae. aegypti (concentration, 100 µg/mL; 24 h and 48 h) and Cx. quinquefasciatus (concentration, 150 µg/mL; 24 h and 48 h). The rhizome oil displayed a minimum lethal concentration LC 50 of 121.43 µg/mL and 110.31 µg/mL against Ae. aegypti respectively at 24 h and 48 h while values of 49.85 µg/mL and 43.93 µg/mL at 24 h and 48 h were observed against Ae. albopictus respectively. In addition, LC 50 values of 88.86 µg/mL and 48.08 µg/mL were recorded respectively against Cx. quinquefasciatus . Also, the leaf oil displayed significant larvicidal activity against Ae. aegypti with LC 50 of 39.30 µg/mL (24 h) and 31.78 µg/mL (48 h) while LC 50 values of 84.97 µg/mL (24 h) and 47.40 µg/mL (48 h) were recorded respectively against Cx. quinquefasciatus . The leaf oil of Z. nitens exhibited 100% mortality against Ae. aegypti at 24 h and 48 h period (concentration 50 µg/mL) while the rhizome oil displayed maximum mortality at concentration of 100 µg/mL. The rhizome oil attained only mortality of 93% against Cx. quinquefasciatus at test period. No significant mortality was recorded against Cx. quinquefasciatus by the leaf oil. The LC 50 values of 17.58 µg/mL (24 h) and 15.12 µg/mL (48 h) were displayed by the leaf oil against Ae. aegypti while values of 29.60 µg/mL (24 h) and 26.21 (48 h) were exhibited by the rhizome oil. Only the rhizome oil was toxic against Cx. quinquefasciatus with LC 50 of of 64.18 µg/mL (24 h) and 59.06 µg/mL (48 h). The pseudo-stem oil of Z. castaneum inhibited the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 25923) with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 12.5 µg/mL, while all other tested samples recorded MIC of 50 µg/mL. However, only the pseudo-stem oil of Z. castaneum displayed antimicrobial activity against Aspergillus niger (ATCC 9763) and Fusarium oxysporum (ATCC 48112) with MIC of 50 µg/mL.
PERFORMANCE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR INCIDENT DETECTION IN ITS

In this paper, the authors produce a new incident detection model based on a modified form of the Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) that utilizes the concept of statistical distance. Results using both simulation and real incident data demonstrate its competitiveness with the Multi Layer Feed Forward (MLF) architecture which was found in previous studies to yield superior incident detection performance.