Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biochar and Sulphur Enriched Digestate: Utilization of Agriculture Associated Waste Products for Improved Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Content, Microbial Activity, and Plant Growth

A number of agriculture residues may be used either directly or after suitable treatment as amendments to improve soil quality. Such materials include biochar made of agriculture residues, digestate or elemental sulphur obtained from biogas desulphurisation. The joint use of these materials via pre-incubation may be more advantageous than only mixing prior the application to soil. In this study, digestates were mixed with amendments and incubated for 6 weeks before application to soil in a short-term pot experiment with lettuce (Lactuca sativa). The following treatments were tested: control digestate, digestate + biochar, digestate + elemental sulphur, digestate + biochar + elemental sulphur. The biochar-enriched digestate significantly increased soil microbial biomass, soil C:N, fresh above ground biomass, fresh and dry root biomass. Elemental sulphur-enriched digestate caused highest arylsulfatase and phosphatase, increased urease, microbial biomass in soil and fresh root biomass. Amendment of digestate + biochar + sulphur led to the significantly highest total soil carbon, microbial biomass, β-glucosidase, urease, and increased C:N ratio, arylsulfatase in soil and root biomass. It mitigated the adverse effect of either biochar or elemental sulphur on soil respiration. Properties of digestates were apparently affected by pre-incubation. This approach in digestate fertilizer production may contribute to sustainable farming.
Mathematical Modeling of Induction Heating of Waveguide Path Assemblies during Induction Soldering

The waveguides used in spacecraft antenna feeders are often assembled using external couplers or flanges subject to further welding or soldering. Making permanent joints by means of induction heating has proven to be the best solution in this context. However, several physical phenomena observed in the heating zone complicate any effort to control the process of making a permanent joint by induction heating; these phenomena include flux evaporation and changes in the emissivity of the material. These processes make it difficult to measure the temperature of the heating zone by means of contactless temperature sensors. Meanwhile, contact sensors are not an option due to the high requirements regarding surface quality. Besides, such sensors take a large amount of time and human involvement to install. Thus, it is a relevant undertaking to develop mathematical models for each waveguide assembly component as well as for the entire waveguide assembly. The proposed mathematical models have been tested by experiments in kind, which have shown a great degree of consistency between model-derived estimates and experimental data. The paper also shows how to use the proposed models to test and calibrate the process of making an aluminum-alloy rectangular tube flange waveguide by induction soldering. The Russian software, SimInTech, was used in this research as the modeling environment. The approach proposed herein can significantly lower the labor and material costs of calibrating and testing the process of the induction soldering of waveguides, whether the goal is to adjust the existing process or to implement a new configuration that uses different dimensions or materials.
A New Approach to Power-Model Regression of Corrosion Penetration Data

Corrosion penetration data have traditionally been fit with the power model using a log transformation of both the exposure time and the penetration. The transformation has several disadvantages, including (1) the resulting model gives biased estimates of the penetration, (2) the sum of the squares of the errors in penetration are not minimized even though the sum of the squares of the logarithmic errors are minimized, and (3) the logarithmic transformation results in greater emphasis being placed on the penetration for the shorter exposure times. An alternative method of fitting power models is discussed. The numerical calibration method is shown to produce better fitting and more rational power models than is provided with a logarithmic transformation. Unbiased power models can also be fitted. The fitting procedure is more complex than that for the log transform method. The two fitting methods were compared using 32 sets of corrosion penetration data. The average standard error ratio for the numerical procedure was 58 percent of that for the logarithmic analyses, which suggests that the numerical procedure consistently produced better penetration estimates for the largest measured exposure time. Thus, more accurate 75-year projections of penetration should be expected with the numerical model. Analyses of the records suggest that record lengths of at least 10 years are necessary to produce accurate model coefficients. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 857776.
Ego Depletion

Self-control all too often fails. Despite people’s best intentions and considerable negative outcomes, people often find themselves at the losing end of resisting temptation, combating urges, and changing their behavior. One reason for these failures may be that exerting self-control depletes a limited resource (ego depletion) that is necessary for the success of self-control. Hence, after exerting self-control, individuals are less able resist temptations, fight urges, or stop a behavior that results in a loss of self-control. This chapter reviews the evidence for this theory in a wide variety of domains and examines what behaviors appear to deplete ego strength and how depletion affects behavior. A comprehensive theory that examines how depletion operates is put forth and used to examine some factors that might moderate the depletion effect.
Assessing Defined-Substrate Technology for Meeting Monitoring Requirements of the Total Coliform Rule

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for drinking water analyses for approximately 2,200 public water utilities serving more than half the state's population. The recently developed defined-substrate technology (DST, commercially known as Colilert), which simultaneously enumerates both total coliforms and Escherichia coli and does not require confirmatory tests, was compared in this geographic area with the membrane filter (MF) procedure from Standard Methods, Overall, there were no differences between MF and DST. Subcultures of positive DST tubes demonstrated this technology's specificity. Yellow (total coliform-positive) tubes yielded species consistent with total coliforms, and fluorescent (E. coli- positive) tubes contained E. coli. The DST system was easy to use and is compatible with new drinking water regulations that will increase monitoring and resampling requirements, mandate a fecal indicator (either an E. coli or fecal coliform analysis), and use a maximum contaminant level in the frequency-of-occurrence mode. DST also has several important advantages for state regulators, including its ability to help utilities comply with new transportation and storage requirements.
Automation Guidelines for Introducing Survivability Analysis in Future Fighter Aircraft

Pilots of fighter aircraft are often exposed to the risk of being hit by enemy fire from ground-based threats. It has been argued that the pilots could be aided by a tactical support system that automatically assesses the danger posed by such threats and analyzes the survivability of the mission. It has also been argued that the automation design of such system must be properly adapted according to the pilots' needs. In this paper, empirical results are presented regarding the characteristics of an operator-centered survivability support system in the fighter aircraft domain, where both the development of the system and its automation design are discussed. The results indicate a strong potential for the survivability model and the automation guidelines within the fighter aircraft domain, but also a need for further refinements of the model and the guidelines to reflect the specific characteristics of the domain.
GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AS A MEANS OF QUALITY CONTROL FOR SOIL SURVEYS

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) can be used to chart the presence, depth to, and lateral extent of diagnostic subsurface soil horizons. During the part 7 yr, USDA-Soil Conservation Service and participants in the National Cooperative Soil Survey have tested GPR in diverse physiographic regions on a wide variety of soils. The principal use of GPR has been to estimate the taxonomic composition of soil map units and to determine the accuracy of soil mapping completed by conventional sampling procedures. As the users of soil surveys become more diverse, demands are being made for more detailed and quantitative information, and often to depths greater than are presently being attained in most modern surveys. Ground-penetrating radar techniques have been used to supply more detailed and quantitative analysis of soil variability. Compared with conventional surveying methods, GPR provides continuous spatial data of subsurface features, greater depth and lateral coverage per area sampled, and higher levels of confidence in site evaluations. However, the relative success of GPR investigations remains highly site- and interpreter-dependent.
Linking entrepreneurial agency to the early life stages of innovative firms : the case of the biotechnology sector

The aim of this thesis is to further the understanding of the entrepreneurial process, from opportunity recognition to the development of start-ups. Various literatures are used, such as those of entrepreneurship, innovation studies and theories of organisations. The theoretical framework also introduces the concept of entrepreneurial agency. This framework is tested through thirteen case studies of biotech start-ups. The results are presented in three analytical chapters. The first develops the impact of involving financiers on entrepreneurial agency and firm evolution. The second aims at observing the effects of a change of leadership throughout the entrepreneurial activity, and links the background of the founder with the strategy of the firm. The final chapter attempts to understand the steps that a research project goes through when transitioning from the incubating organisation to a newly created enterprise.
Benefit of contextual cues for the perception of temporally degraded speech

The effect of contextual cues on the understanding of distorted speech was studied. Two groups of subjects, aged 20-25 and 50-59 years participated. Three lists of 50 sentences that were continuous or interrupted at rates of 8/s and 2/s were presented to each ear. In half the sentences within list, the final word was highly predicable from the context, and in half, poorly predicted. Final word recognition scores decreased with interruption, more so for the 2/s rate. Context was compensatory. Middle-aged subjects did not perform more poorly. Factors possibly accounting for this outcome are discussed.
Improving Freight Roadway Transportation with Dedicated Truck Lanes: Opportunities and Issues

Truck traffic on highways in the United States has greatly increased, contributing to traffic congestion and higher costs due to delays and damage to pavement from heavy vehicles. Dedicated truck lanes (DTLs) could address these problems. Instead of every lane being constructed to withstand heavy axle loads, for example, only the dedicated lanes would have to be built to a higher standard. Operational issues involving lane changes and other maneuvers will present challenges. A business case is presented for funding dedicated truck lanes with financing from tolls and fees, or possibly from public-private partnerships. Intelligent transportation system applications could lead to virtual DTLs.
PENGARUH PENGETAHUAN, DUKUNGAN KELUARGA, DAN MINAT MAHASISWA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN MAHASISWA DALAM MEMILIH KULIAH DI JURUSAN AKUNTANSI PADA SEKOLAH TINGGI ILMU EKONOMI (STIE) PANCASETIA BANJARMASIN

E-commerce sebagai bentuk pemanfaatan teknologi informasi banyak diminati oleh kalangan pelaku bisnis Usaha Mikro, Kecil dan Menengah (UMKM). Kementerian Koperasi dan Usaha Kecil Menengah (Kemenkop UKM) melaporkan di bulan November 2017 sebanyak 3,79 juta usaha mikro, kecil, dan menengah (UMKM) sudah memanfaatkan platform online dalam memasarkan produknya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui potensi penerapan pajak e-commerce, perkembangan peningkatan jumlah UMKM berbasis e-commerce dan seberapa besar dampak penerapan pajak e-commerce terhadap kelangsungan usaha pada UMKM di Kota Tangerang Selatan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan menggunakan data yang diperoleh berdasarkan observasi melalui wawancara dan dokumentasi dengan tulisan yang sistematis kemudian ditafsirkan dan ditarik kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa para pelaku UMKM di Kota Tangerang Selatan sebagian besar telah memanfaatkan platform e-commerce dalam usahanya namun potensi pajaknya belum dapat digali secara maksimal akibat dari belum adanya database UMKM.
Submerged Porous Plate Wave Absorber

In the present paper, the wave absorbing performance of the fully submerged horizontal porous plates has been investigated, numerically and experimentally. The submerged porous system is composed of multi-layered horizontal porous plates that are clamped at the vertical setwall, which are slightly inclined and placed vertically, in parallel, with spacing. The hydrodynamic interaction of incident waves with the rigid porous multi-layered plates was formulated within the context of linear wave-body interaction theory and Darcy's law. In order to validate the effectiveness of the present computing code, the numerical results were compared with the analytical and experimental results. It is found that triple horizontal porous plates with slight inclination, if properly tuned for wave energy dissipation against the standing waves in front of the vertical wall, can have high performances in reducing the reflected wave amplitudes against the incident waves over a wide range of wave frequency.
The Two-dimensional and Three-dimensional T2 Weighted Imaging-based Radiomic Signatures for the Preoperative Discrimination of Ovarian Borderline Tumors and Epithelial Cancer.

Background: Accurate discrimination between ovarian borderline tumors (BOTs) and malignancies with imaging play an important role in management.Methods: A total of 95 patients with pathologically proven ovarian BOTs and 101 patients with malignancies were retrospectively included in this study. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of the signatures derived from T2WI-based radiomics in their ability to differentiate between BOTs and malignancies and compared the performance differences in the 2D and 3D segmentation models. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator method (LASSO) was used for radiomics feature selection and machine learning processing.Results: The radiomics score between BOTs and malignancies in four types of selected T2WI-based radiomics models differed significantly at the statistical level (p < 0.0001). For the classification between BOTs and malignant masses, the 2D and 3D coronal T2WI-based radiomics models yielded accuracy values of 0.79 and 0.83 in the testing group, respectively; the 2D and 3D sagittal fat-suppressed (fs) T2WI-based radiomics models yielded an accuracy of 0.78 and 0.99, respectively.Conclusion: Our results suggest that T2WI-based radiomic features were highly correlated with ovarian tumor subtype classification. 3D-sagittal MRI radiomics features may help clinicians differentiate ovarian BOTs from malignancies with high accuracy (ACC).
Ten years of German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)

Zusammenfassung (H. Berckhemer). The History of the Development of the German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN) (M. Henger, et al.). The Seismological Concept of the GRSN within the Global Seismic Network. Data Acquisition, Data Processing and Seismogram Interpretation. Seismic Sensing and Seismic Noise. Earth Structure. Source Mechanism Studies. Quo Vadis GRSN? (M. Korn & F. Scherbaum). Appendix A: Publications with GRF/GRSN and GDSN data 1990 to 2001. Appendix B: Projects with GRF/GRSN data 1990 to 2001 funded by DFG. List of Authors.
Helicopter Flight Dynamics: The Theory and Application of Flying Qualities and Simulation Modelling

The behavior of helicopters is so complex that understanding the physical mechanisms at work in trim, stability and response, and thus the prediction of flying qualities, requires a framework of analytical and numerical modeling and simulation. Good flying qualities are vital for ensuring that mission performance is achievable with safety and, in the first edition of Helicopter Flight Dynamics, a comprehensive treatment of design criteria was presented. In this second edition, the author complements this with a new chapter on degraded flying qualities, drawing examples from flight in poor visibility, failure of control functions, and encounters with severe atmospheric disturbances. Fully embracing the consequences of degraded flying qualities during the design phase will contribute positively to safety.
PERFORMANCE OF RECYCLED ASPHALT CONCRETE OVERLAYS IN SOUTHWESTERN ARIZONA

Recycled asphalt concrete overlay is a routine rehabilitation strategy for most highway agencies. In 1981 the Arizona Department of Transportation constructed an experimental asphalt concrete overlay project on Interstate 8 in southwestern Arizona. The project consisted of eight test sections comparing long-term performance of recycled and virgin asphalt concrete overlays in an arid climate. Mays meter roughness, Mu meter skid number, and percentage cracked data were collected on different test sections over the service life of the project. A visual distress survey was conducted on each section at the end of service life. Rut depth and falling weight deflectometer measurements were also taken before rehabilitation of the 1981 project. Analysis of roughness, skid, and cracking data indicates that the recycled and virgin asphalt concrete overlays have performed similarly. The poor condition of one virgin overlay section at the end of the service life appeared to be caused by weaker subgrade support. The thicker overlays performed better than did the thinner overlays. Considerable rutting was observed on the thicker overlay sections partly because of densification of asphalt concrete mixes under traffic load. The average annual maintenance costs for different test sections were similar.
Influences of Work-Related Variables on Organizational Commitment of Nepalese Employees

The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of work-related variables (organizational climate, supervisory behavior, role conflict, and role clarity) on organizational commitment (attachment, internalization, normative, and continuance). Data was gathered from 10 Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) listed companies. In total, 250 questionnaires were provided to these companies' employees and a response rate of 71.60 percent was achieved. For data analysis purposes, descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis with stepwise methods were adopted. Organizational climate, supervisory behavior, role conflict, and role clarity were found to have major impacts on organizational commitment. Out of these, the organizational climate was found to be a common predictor of all the commitment components. Therefore, it is required to focus on creating a sound and effective organizational climate to enhance organizational commitment to companies.
The Applicability Scope of (L1) in The Teaching-Learning of The Skills, Sub-skills and Components of (L2): The role of (L1)-translation as A Vehicle Technique to Carry Out such A Scope

The aim of this study was twofold: First, I will identify the domains of the applicability scope of (L1) in the teaching–learning of skills, sub-skills and components of (L2). Second, I will find out the technique employed to carry out such an applicability scope of (L1) in the teaching-learning of skills, sub-skills and components of (L2). To achieve the purpose of this study, the researcher followed an argumentative analytical methodology while digging throughout the available related literature that was presented and arranged into a relative chronological format. Findings of this study indicate that those skills, sub-skills and components of (L2) , which can be taught or learnt within such an applicability scope of (L1) , are surprisingly very limited and not as wide as they thought to be because they constitute only (6) out of the sum of (37) other applications of this applicability scope which were categorized into two other domains of the (L1) applicability scope: the first constitutes (11) domains that are indirectly related to the teaching –learning of skills, sub-skills and components of (L2), and the second domain represents the sum of (20) other applications that are remotely and barely connected with the teaching –learning of skills, sub-skills and components of (L2). Findings of this study also indicate that (L1)-translation technique is the central, if not the lone, vehicle to be enhanced in order to implement such an applicability scope of (L1) in the teaching –learning of skills, sub-skills and components of (L2); in addition, this study concluded that (L1)-translation is practically enhanced as a method of assessment and testing to evaluate students or learners' achievement in (L2). As a result, this study came out with various related recommendations.
A Crisis within a Crisis: COVID-19 Knowledge and Awareness among the Syrian Population—A National Survey Assessment

Background: COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that emerged from a wet market in Wuhan China and quickly exploded into a global pandemic. This coronavirus has overwhelmed public health systems worldwide, and forced governments to impose draconian lockdowns of entire populations. With no vaccine or treatment to date, it is of paramount importance to assess the public’s awareness about COVID-19 so that knowledge gaps among the population can be targeted with prevention-focused educational campaigns. The aim of this study is to examine the Syrian public’s awareness and knowledge regarding COVID-19. Methods: This web-based cross-sectional study was distributed randomly in March 2020, nearly 10 year into the Syrian war crisis. The survey consists of a series of questions about socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge of the causative agent, incubation period, treatment, transmission pathways, clinical features, and prevention methods. Data was analysed using the statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25.0. Results: Of the 3586 participants, 68.2% were females, 50.8% were unemployed, and 79.2% were at college-educated. The study revealed good awareness regarding COVID-19 (mean 75.6%, SD±9.4%). Multiple linear regression analysis correlated knowledge scores with gender, education level, occupation, economic status, and the number of household members.Conclusion: This study revealed some potentially troubling knowledge gaps which underscore the need for a vigorous public education campaign. This campaign must reinforce the public's awareness, knowledge, and vigilance towards precautionary measures against COVID-19 and, most importantly aid in controlling the worldwide spread of the disease.
SURVEY METHODS FOR TRANSPORT PLANNING

This book provides a framework for carrying out transport surveys. The first seven chapters are concerned with: (a) the planning of the survey; (b) survey methods commonly used in transport and land-use planning; (c) sample selection; (d) the design of questionnaires and interviews; (e) the value of pilot surveys; and (f) the design of administrative procedures for surveys. Working with the data is then considered. This covers: (a) coding, editing and data entry; (b) data weighting techniques; and (c) the variety of data analysis techniques which can be used. The final chapter provides guidelines for the preparation of survey reports. A special feature of the book is the Survey Design Checklist included at the end.