Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bridging the Gap between Higher Education and the Telecommunications Engineering Sector.

In this paper, the growth of the telecommunication sector in Pakistan and consequent development in the related professional education is studied. The widening gap between the telecommunication industry and associated education sector is identified. The higher educational programs in Pakistan have grown very rapidly to meet the needs of the explosive growth in the telecommunications' engineering sector but this growth is not in synchronization with the requirements of the industry due to non-existence of collaboration and co-operation between the two. The professional education in telecommunication in Pakistan and the higher educational degree programs are very precisely focused on producing quality graduates with refined technical and mathematical skills. While the telecom sector in Pakistan is in principle a service provider and a consumer market that mainly requires engineers for operation and maintenance related activities. As such the skills imparted by the education sector are rarely utilized, which results in dissatisfaction among the telecommunications' engineers. A survey of both the telecommunication sector and the academia has been conducted along with detailed discussions to explore the reasons for this ever-increasing gap, ways and means to arrest this trend and future course of action for the academia and the telecom sector to develop. A study related to other emerging technical fields like computer science has also been made for the comparison. On the basis of this extensive exercise outlined above, measures have been suggested to bridge the gap between the education and the industrial needs of the telecom sector. By adopting these measures not only our education sector will become more beneficial to the industry, but the industry would also get the advantage of immense potential of young graduates and the academic research.
Minimum-complexity helicopter simulation math model

An example of a minimal complexity simulation helicopter math model is presented. Motivating factors are the computational delays, cost, and inflexibility of the very sophisticated math models now in common use. A helicopter model form is given which addresses each of these factors and provides better engineering understanding of the specific handling qualities features which are apparent to the simulator pilot. The technical approach begins with specification of features which are to be modeled, followed by a build up of individual vehicle components and definition of equations. Model matching and estimation procedures are given which enable the modeling of specific helicopters from basic data sources such as flight manuals. Checkout procedures are given which provide for total model validation. A number of possible model extensions and refinement are discussed. Math model computer programs are defined and listed.
The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms

Microelectronics firms in the U.S. face one of the most intensely competitive business environments in the world, leading the way for all industries. In automobiles, textiles, steel, and other basics as well as service businesses, intense global competition from increasingly skilled rivals is a fact of life. In such markets, success lies in repeated, successful innovation coupled with business control.Draws on extensive field interviews to look at how five top U.S. electronics firms--Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Motorola, National Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments--manage repeated innovation while controlling the most demanding mass production process ever designed. Provides a blueprint for managing innovation by showing where innovative ideas come from, how companies nurture an innovative environment, how successful firms organize for innovation, and most importantly, how innovation can lead to competitive advantage.
'Crossing blue lines and baselines' : examining the migrations of North American workers in British professional basketball and ice hockey

This research project is a sociological examination of global athletic labour migration. Based on a figurational/process sociological analysis, and using a critical case study tracing the movements of North American athletic labourers into Britain's professional leagues in basketball and ice hockey, the research project examines four interdependent elements of the migration figuration. The study examines those processes which motivate North American migrant workers to select the British Basketball League (BBL) or Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) as their inigation destination, the processes which motivate BBL and EIHL coaches to recruit North American workers, the mechanisms by which the recruitment of North American workers is facilitated, and the effects of North American worker involvement in the leagues. Beyond the area of athletic labour migration this research project also provides a conceptual synthesis by combining research located within the sociology of sport and research from the sociology of highly skilled migration. The research project develops such a synthesis establishing that athletic migrants, who can justifiably be described as highly skilled using contemporary definItions, share many of the migratory characteristics identified for highly skilled workers in the broader employment environment. This research project both builds on existing research in the fields of athletic and highly skilled migration, and develops new knowledge and understanding. It shows that the migration of highly skilled athletic workers must be considered beyond the simple macro-level determinants of the supply and demand of human capital, or the separate, and independent, push and pull factors that have been described as facilitating migrant movement. In this respect, this research project points to multilayered, multi-dimensional, and multi-processual dynamics to better encapsulate how migratory movements are actually occurring.
Dispute Manifestation and Relationship Quality in Practice

AbstractThere is a need to investigate the causes and sources of conflict and dispute in association with construction working relationships. How relationship quality may be affected by these causes and sources, and subsequently dispute is triggered, is still unexplored or at least unclassified. The research reported in this paper uses a three-stage approach to identify the sources of dispute and then explore the variation of relationship quality during a dispute event. A comprehensive literature search and then a review of litigation cases in New Zealand during the past 5 years were performed. Finally interviews with dispute resolution and construction experts are conducted. It is observed that three sources of (1) project uncertainties, (2) contract and processes, and (3) people and behavior are the common causes of conflict and dispute. However dispute triggers are different from the causes which created the conflict at the beginning. It is also acknowledged that three factors of (1) contract provision.
Performance evaluation of self propelled rice transplanter.

Direct seeding of rice and transplanting are the two common methods of rice establishment. Transplanting method is more popular among farmers due to higher yield and less weed growth as compared to direct seeded rice. Transplanting of paddy completely depends on manual labour in India. Rice transplanting is done manually and requires about 306 man-h/ha, which is roughly 42% of the total labour requirement of rice production. A study was conducted to evaluate the performance of eight row self-propelled rice transplanter at ICAR-National Rice Research Institute. The field capacity, field efficiency of self-propelled rice transplanter were 0.234 ha h, 75.16% respectively. It was observed that, the percentages of missing, floating and buried hills were 9.5%, 3.0% and 2.0% when self-propelled rice transplanter working in the field. The depth of transplanting was 6 cm. At the time of operation depth of standing water was 2.5-3 cm. The number of seedlings per hill was 2-3.
First record of scalloped ribbonfish Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1819) at Chennai

On 5.9. 2009, a catch comprising 15 specimens of pompano dolphinfish, Coryphaena equiselis (Linnaeus, 1758) was landed at Chennai Fisheries Harbour by mechanised gillnet. The mechanised gillnets operated usually at a depth between 30 and 50 m at a distance of 30-40 km north of Chennai towards Andhra Pradesh. Since, trawlnets and mechanised gillnets are the main fishing gears operated off Chennai coast, fishes belonging to the family Coryphaenidae formed part of regular landings by these two gears. Normally common dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus formed regular fishery along this coast.
Cyclicality of Shadow Economy

This article investigates the behaviour of the size of the shadow economy over the business cycle. To this end, it uses a panel dataset of 152 countries and finds strong evidence towards the counter-cyclicality of the informal sector size, that is, the size of the shadow economy as a ratio of gross domestic product (GDP) is reduced in booms and becomes bigger in busts. Empirical results are robust to different econometric specifications. This has serious consequences over the business cycle as it implies that the presence of the shadow economy increases the amplitude of the business cycles.
Circumspective use of equipment: The case of bicycle messengers

This thesis presents an interpretative study of technology use. It attempts to deepen our understanding of the relationship between users and the equipment they use. In particular, it tries to address the ways in which the equipment in use is visible for users. The research presented here aims at dwelling on the concept of circumspective use, i.e. a kind of awareness in the situation of use. The distinction between visible and invisible equipment in use has been central within the field of HCI. These concepts are used both to inform design and as concepts to describe and analyze the use of equipment. However, the distinction visible/invisible has its limitations for providing accurate descriptions of everyday use. The dichotomy suggests that either the equipment is visible for the user, or the equipment is invisible to the user. The notion of “invisible” equipment in use is particularly problematic, according to this thesis, since it alludes to the perspective that the activity of use is a “blind activity” where the equipment in use is not there for the user. In order to find out about ways of encountering and relating with equipment in use, an empirical investigation of bicycle messenger operations was conducted. By biking together with bicycle messengers, empirical evidence for a different perspective than the visible/invisible perspective was collected. Participant observation and interviews are the main methods that have been used in this study. Circumspective use is an important theoretical concept for this thesis. The concept of circumspection (Umsicht) is from Heidegger, and is used to describe a kind of awareness in a situation. The phenomenon of everyday use of equipment is described and analyzed with this concept, and doing so has led me to go beyond the visible/invisible dichotomy. I suggest the concept of circumspective use to provide a theoretical perspective for describing everyday use situations. This concept directs attention to the user’s awareness of equipment, alternatives and the environment of use. The perspective provided by the concept of circumspective use suggests that the user always has an awareness of the
Performance of diversity handover in DS-CDMA cellular systems

Diversity handover (DHO), which can reduce the transmit power and interference through the site diversity effect, is essential for high capacity DS-CDMA cellular systems. System capacity depends on how diversity handover is applied. This paper describes reverse and forward link system capacity for several typical handover schemes under transmit power control (TPC) based on SIR as determined by computer simulations. First, both link system capacities are shown under perfect TPC. These results give an ideal upper limit of capacity. We examine the increase in system capacity achieved by maximal-ratio-combining (MRC) and sectorization. Next, we consider TPC error, which leads to more realistic capacity values. This shows that system capacity with DHO is larger than with hard handover (HHO) in both links. Especially with MRC-DHO in the forward link, there is an optimum threshold for DHO that maximizes the capacity.
Recent Progress in Slow Sand and Alternative Biofiltration Processes

Slow sand filtration is typically cited as being the first “engineered” process in drinking-water treatment. Proven modifications to the conventional slow sand filtration process, the awareness of induced biological activity in riverbank filtration systems, and the growth of oxidant-induced biological removals in more rapid-rate filters (e.g. biological activated carbon) demonstrate the renaissance of biofiltration as a treatment process that remains viable for both small, rural communities and major cities. Biofiltration is expected to become even more common in the future as efforts intensify to decrease the presence of disease-causing microorganisms and disinfection by-products in drinking water, to minimize microbial regrowth potential in distribution systems, and where operator skill levels are emphasized. Recent Progress in Slow Sand and Alternative Biofiltration Processes provides a state-of-the-art assessment on a variety of biofiltration systems from studies conducted around the world. The authors collectively represent a perspective from 23 countries and include academics, biofiltration system users, designers, and manufacturers. It provides an up-to-date perspective on the physical, chemical, biological, and operational factors affecting the performance of slow sand filtration (SSF), riverbank filtration (RBF), soil-aquifer treatment (SAT), and biological activated carbon (BAC) processes. The main themes are: comparable overviews of biofiltration systems; slow sand filtration process behavior, treatment performance and process developments; and alternative biofiltration process behaviors, treatment performances, and process developments. This title belongs to Water Research Foundation Report Series ISBN: 9781843391203 (Print) ISBN: 9781780402451 (eBook)
Layered Object Recognition System for Pedestrian Sensing

There is a significant need to develop innovative technologies to detect pedestrians or other vulnerable road users at designated crossing locations and midblock/unexpected areas and to determine potential collisions with pedestrians. An in-vehicle pedestrian sensing system was developed to address this specific problem. The research team used stereo vision cameras and developed three key innovations, namely, the detection and recognition of multiple roadway objects; the use of multiple cues (depth, motion, shape, and appearance) to detect, track, and classify pedestrians; and the use of contextual information to reject a majority of the typical false positives that plague vision-based pedestrian detection systems. This report describes the approach and tabulates representative results of experiments conducted on multiple video sequences captured over the course of the project. The conclusion derived from these results is that the developed system is state of the art when compared to the best approaches published in literature. The false positive rates are still higher than desired for the system to be ready for commercialization. This report also provides steps that can be taken to improve the performance in this regard. A real-time system was developed and demonstrated in a test vehicle.
Development of a Performance-Based Laboratory Test Method for Evaluating Geosynthetic-Soil Confinement

Interaction between geosynthetics (geogrid and geotextile) and aggregates under traffic wheel loading has been considered as one of high-priority problems by the Transportation Research Board. The practical use of geosynthetics above the subgrade or in base course has demonstrated the benefit of reducing rut depths and prolonging pavement life. However, no standard test method is available to appropriately evaluate the geosynthetic-soil confinement effect and distinguish the benefits of the different types of geosynthetics and soils. This proposed test method is performance-based and to modify the Asphalt Pavement Analyzer to evaluate geosynthetic-soil confinement. In this test, a geosynthetic sheet is placed within a base course to form a reinforced base, which is subjected to wheel loading. The measured rut depth with the number of cycles of wheel loading can be used to evaluate the geosynthetic-soil confinement. In this study, two different base course materials and four different geosynthetics were used. The experimental results clearly show that this proposed new performance-based test method can distinguish the benefits of rut reduction among different types of geosynthetics and base course materials.
A Post Occupancy Evaluation of a green rated and conventional residence hall

Green buildings increasingly attract attention in the real estate sector, and the US sector is no exception. Studies indicate that green rated buildings may bring higher rents and sales prices. One reason for this inequity is that the indoor environment of these buildings may outperform conventional buildings. The main objective of this paper is to conduct a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to compare the indoor environment in a LEED certified, on-campus residence hall with a similar, non-green rated hall. Results are evaluated to determine if green buildings really outperform. The results suggest that the green rated building outperformed the conventional building in the majority of the indoor environmental aspects, but not all. These results can inform a cost-benefit analysis of green features for new construction and renovation.
Dietary Strategies for Mitigation of Methane Production by Growing and Finishing Cattle

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of diet and monensin on performance, digestibility, and methane production in steers fed forage-based diets. In Exp. 1, 72 individually fed steers (300 ± 25 kg) were used in a randomized block design arranged as 2 separate 2 × 2 factorials with two common treatments, thus 6 diets were fed with 12 steers per treatment. Factors included high (HQ) or low (LQ) quality forage with 0 or 200 mg/steer daily of monensin. An additional two HQ diets with 0% modified distillers grain plus solubles (MDGS) were fed with or without monensin to create another 2 × 2 factorial of 0 or 40% MDGS and monensin. Calan gate bunks were partially enclosed and outfitted with a small air pump that was used to gradually fill a gas collection bag at time of feeding. In diets containing 40% MDGS, monensin in a LQ diet tended to decrease DMI (forage x monensin interaction; P = 0.06) and ADG (P = 0.08), but had no impact on performance in HQ diets (P > 0.05). A forage x monensin interaction was observed for CH4:CO2 and for L of CH4 produced per day and per kg of DMI (P < 0.05) where monensin decreased CH4 in LQ, however no effect was observed in HQ diets. In Exp. 2, 6 crossbred steers (369 ± 17 kg) were used in a 3-period switchback calorimetry study to evaluate CH4 production by steers fed HQ or LQ forage with 20% MDGS. Intake of DM, OM, and ADF were greater for cattle fed HQ forage compared to LQ forage (P ≤ 0.01). Apparent total tract digestibility of DM tended (P = 0.08) to be greater for those cattle fed HQ forage compared to LQ forage. Methane and CO2 production (L/d) were also greater (P < 0.01) for cattle fed HQ forage. In Exp. 3, 60 individually fed steers (310 ± 28 kg) were used in a randomized block design with 6 treatments: 4 diets containing differing forages (cornstalks, sorghum silage, husklage, and
Recombinant Human Thrombomodulin for Pneumonia-Induced Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Complicated by Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Children: A feasibility study

Background Recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin (rTM) has been used to treat disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Recent studies have shown the efficacy of rTM through its anti-inflammatory effects for treatment of adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, the safety and efficacy of rTM in children with severe ARDS complicated by DIC have not been reported. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of using rTM for the treatment of pneumonia-induced severe ARDS complicated by DIC in children. Methods Six children (age: median 10 month-old) with pneumonia-induced severe ARDS complicated by DIC were enrolled in this feasibility study. rTM (380 U/kg) was administered for a maximum of 6 days, in addition to conventional therapies including cardiopulmonary support, antibiotics and/or antivirus drugs administration, steroid administration and intravenous immunoglobulin after diagnosis of severe ARDS complicated by DIC. After administration of rTM, we measured changes in the plasma TM concentration and evaluated the clinical course, status of DIC and ARDS, and other laboratory findings, including levels of cytokines, chemokines, and biomarkers. Results In all six children, the plasma concentration of TM increased and DIC scores decreased after administration of rTM. Four of the six children recovered from the severe ARDS complicated by DIC after treatment in the pediatric intensive care unit, and were discharged from the hospital with no complications. In surviving children, levels of soluble receptors for advanced glycation end products, interleukin-6, interleukin-8 and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 decreased after administration of rTM. Conclusions The rTM administration is feasible as a therapeutic strategy for children over 2 months with pneumonia-induced severe ARDS complicated by DIC.