Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Spar Corner Radius Integrity for the A400M Wing

The paper focuses on the structural integrity of the corner radius of the carbon fibre composite, ‘C’-section spar for the Airbus A400M wing. The corner radius is subject to opening moments generated by internal wing box fuel pressures. The low inter-lamina strength of composites makes de-lamination of the corner of prime concern. The paper describes initial development of analytical techniques to calculate the through-thickness tensile stresses and inter-lamina shear stresses developed in a corner radius under applied bending moments and transverse shear forces. A test programme is also described, aimed at the determination of the failure moment of curved laminates under pure bending moments. Using the analytical expressions developed, a through-thickness failure stress is calculated from the failure moments. A variation of the failure stress with specimen thickness is indicated, showing that thicker specimens fail at higher inter-lamina stresses – a characteristic that must be exploited in the design of the spar. Using finite element analysis of the test configuration, in conjunction with virtual crack extension techniques, it is demonstrated that, at the failure load, a constant rate of strain energy release accompanies inter-lamina crack growth in the different test specimens. A critical energy release rate for uncontrolled crack growth is thus established, which is used, in conjunction with further finite element analysis, to predict the failure stress of specimens with different values of thickness and corner radius. It is concluded that this fracture mechanics approach to integrity can be applied to the A400M spar corner and to similar aircraft structures. Recommendations for further testing and correlation with analysis are proposed to strengthen the theoretical basis for such integrity assessments.
Impact of Repeated Acute Exposures to Low and Moderate Exercise-Induced Hypohydration on Physiological and Subjective Responses and Endurance Performance

This study aimed to examine whether repeated exposures to low (2%) and moderate (4%) exercise-induced hypohydration may reverse the potentially deleterious effect of hypohydration on endurance performance. Using a randomized crossover protocol, ten volunteers (23 years, V˙O2max: 54 mL∙kg−1∙min−1) completed two 4-week training blocks interspersed by a 5-week washout period. During one block, participants replaced all fluid losses (EUH) while in the other they were fluid restricted (DEH). Participants completed three exercise sessions per week (walking/running, 55% V˙O2max, 40 °C): (1) 1 h while fluid restricted or drinking ad libitum, (2) until 2 and (3) 4% of body mass has been lost or replaced. During the first and the fourth week of each training block, participants completed a 12 min time-trial immediately after 2% and 4% body mass loss has been reached. Exercise duration and distance completed (14.1 ± 2.7 vs. 6.9 ± 1.5 km) during the fixed-intensity exercise bouts were greater in the 4 compared to the 2% condition (p < 0.01) with no difference between DEH and EUH. During the first week, heart rate, rectal temperature and perceived exertion were higher (p < 0.05) with DEH than EUH, and training did not change these outcomes. Exercise-induced hypohydration of 2% and 4% body mass impaired time-trial performance in a practical manner both at the start and end of the training block. In conclusion, exercise-induced hypohydration of 2% and 4% body mass impairs 12 min walking/running time-trial, and repeated exposures to these hypohydration levels cannot reverse the impairment in performance.
Cranes for Building Construction Projects

Cranes have come to symbolize building construction itself. They perform indispensable services in moving materials and components vertically and horizontally. Used since antiquity, their history is interrelated with the development of new power sources that replaced man and mule, first steam and later internal combustion, diesel, and electric engines. Mobile cranes can be rapidly deployed to lift heavy loads. New models with telescoping booms and all-terrain travel capability, compact urban machines, and even hybrids with tower cranes are beginning to replace the familiar lattice boom truck cranes. Mobile cranes have dominated the North American market, but a cultural change appears to be taking place toward tower cranes for building projects. Tower cranes, common in Europe for decades, are globally gaining in popularity with surging real estate developments. Ideal for dense urban environments and coming with a small footprint, they are available in a growing diversity of sizes and configurations. Sophis.
The Role of Local Government on Rural Tourism Development: Case Study of Desa Wisata Pujonkidul, Indonesia

Tourism has contributed significantly to economic growth, and the government is the leading actor in the tourism development process. This article aims to discuss the role of village government in rural tourism development. The research was conducted qualitatively with a case study in Pujonkidul, a tourist village that is growing and developing into a rural tourism destination rapidly in Indonesia. The research data were collected through a series of in-depth interviews with village governments and main actors in the rural tourism development process. Observation and study of document also carried on during the process of collecting data at the village. The result of study show that the local government is able to carry out all government functions in tourism development (coordination, planning, regulation and legislation, entrepreneurship, stimulus and promotion, social tourism role and boarder role of interest protection). This study also found a new function of government in tourism development which is the main finding of this study, namely institutional development. Therefore, the authors argue that the village government can conduct rural tourism development locally and effectively with its functions and authorities. This finding of study can be adopted and developed in the other villages in the process of rural tourism development. The limitation of this study has ignored the discussion of villagers' participation in the rural tourism development process that is the essential form of rural development issues. This limitation is an important topic for future research.
Distributed amplifier signal shaping strategy for multigigabit digital optical transmission

A novel technique is presented for using the distributed amplifier (DA) as an active pulse shaping/filtering network by effectively constructing a transversal filter. This technique is versatile, and judicious selection of the effective stage delays and gains allows a variety of filtering functions to be implemented. The capability of the technique is illustrated with reference to a GaAs MMIC design for 10 Gbit/s.
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of social capital in the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion in the Malang Raya region. The unit of analysis used in this study is the people in Malang City, Malang Regency, and Batu City. The sampling technique used was proportionate stratified random sampling. Data analysis in this study used Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of this study indicate that financial literacy has a significant effect on financial inclusion. Financial literacy has a significant effect on social capital, social capital significantly affects financial inclusion, and social capital mediates the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion. This result shows that social capital has a partial mediating role, meaning that the effect on financial inclusion goes through the main predictor variable, financial literacy and social capital. Therefore, the local government can take advantage of policies related to social capital to impact efforts to improve financial inclusion in the community and regional economic conditions. This study also explained that, in general, the people in the Malang Raya region had good financial literacy. Future studies should use qualitative exploration by conducting interviews with respondents to explain other phenomena, especially for people geographically unbankable.
A concurrent engineering system to integrate a production simulation and CAD system for FTL layout design

In this paper, we propose a Concurrent Engineering System (CES) to find a Flexible Transfer Line (FTL) layout design. CES integrates a Production Simulation (PS) module and a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) module. CES uses a PS module to determine the buffer size in front of the bay of each machine in the FTL and initialises a CAD module to draw the FTL layout. A PS module consists of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a discrete simulator. A CAD module has two submodules: a calculation and optimisation submodule and a drawing submodule. CES modules have been integrated into a single framework, in accordance with the practice of Concurrent Engineering (CE), to find the FTL buffer size and efficient layout design for FTL simultaneously. CE involves the cooperation of these activities. It is expected that the developed CES can improve production engineers' decision on the buffer size and determine an efficient FTL layout design. We applied an original developed CES to design some examples of FTLs. After a number of operations based on CES, the FTL layout could be drawn. As a result, it could be ascertained that the proposed CES is useful.
Impact of Self-Heating on Linearity Performance of In0.53Ga0.47As-Based Gate-All-Around MOSFETs

In<sub>0.53</sub>Ga<sub>0.47</sub>As based gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs are very promising for high frequency applications because they deliver higher current and transconductance compared to their Si counterparts. In ultra-short GAA nanowire (NW) and nanosheet (NS) MOSFETs, heat accumulation in the channel region has become a serious issue as it raises the average lattice temperature several degrees above the ambient temperature (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{T}_{\text A}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>). The increment in the average lattice temperature, also known as self-heating, degrades current driving capability and the linearity behaviour of the devices. In this work, the impact of self-heating on the linearity performance of In<sub>0.53</sub>Ga<sub>0.47</sub>As based GAA NW and NS MOSFETs has been investigated with the assistance of thermally calibrated TCAD simulation results. The effects of structural parameters of NW and NS MOSFETs, like gate oxide thickness (T<sub>OX</sub>), the diameter of nanowire (d), the width of nanosheet (W), and the number of nanowires/nanosheets (N) on linearity performance have been extensively studied using the linearity figure of merits, such as VIP<sub>3</sub>, and IIP<sub>3</sub>. Moreover, the impact of self-heating mitigating techniques on the linearity performance of devices has also been explored in this work.
Numerical and experimental analysis of a circular slot antenna for UWB communications

We present a single‐layer circular‐slot antenna, fed by a microstrip ending with a rectangular stub, which is suitable for wireless ultra‐wideband (UWB) communications. The antenna is fully characterized in terms of impedance bandwidth, phase linearity, gain, and radiation pattern. The time‐domain pulse response versus azimuth and elevation is also studied numerically. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 44: 465–470, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20669
Isolation, Expansion, and Characterization of Placenta Originated Decidua Basalis-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) were isolated from Decidua Basalis (DB) and studied for their final cellular product measures, such as safety, purity, quality, quantity, and integrity that are ascribed as cellular products. This research aimed to isolate MSCs for expansion under the clinical scale level with potency, secretion of cytokines, growth factors secreted by DB-MSCs, and their role in wound healing. Placentas isolated from DB were expanded up to the 10th passage, and their characteristics were assessed by phenotypic characterization using a flow cytometer and analyzed for trilineage differentiation by cytochemical staining. Growth factors (GF), interleukins (IL), chemokines, and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP) were measured with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. The harvested cells from the placenta yield 1.63–2.45 × 104cells/cm2 at P(0), 3.66–5.31 × 104cells/cm2 at P(1), 4.01–5.47 × 104cells/cm2 at P(2), and 3.94–5.60 × 104cells/cm2 at P(10) accordingly; up to 4.74 × 109 P(2) DB-MSCs were harvested within 9–11 days. The viability of the freshly harvested cells was greater than 90% in all cases. It is able to differentiate into chondrocytes, adipocytes, and osteogenic cells, proving their ability to differentiate into a trilineage. Thus, this study put an insight into a secure and conventional approach toward their ability to differentiate into multiple lineages and secrete factors related to immune regulation, making DB-MSCs a potential source in various therapeutic applications.
Interruption Recovery Tools for Team Collaboration

Interruptions and situation awareness recovery are important issues in many task domains. Here, we explore the extent to which cognitive design principles for situation awareness recovery that were developed in the air warfare domain can be applied to team mission execution. We developed a tool, called team-CHEX, for presenting and managing messages and for helping users recover situation awareness following interruptions. We report two experiments that compared team-CHEX with two commonly employed mission execution recovery tools – chat and shared whiteboards. The results of the first experiment were used to refine specific interface features of team-CHEX. The final tool was superior to common chat designs and equal to, and in some respects superior to, common whiteboard designs. The revised and extended interruption recovery principles should be useful for the design of both monitoring tasks, such as air warfare, and team collaboration tasks, such as mission execution.
Risks, Contracts and Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure

This article examines how risk is reflected in infrastructure regulatory contracts, using examples from water utilities to illustrate key points. Partnerships between public and private sectors in capital intensive network services require risks to be assigned to the contractual party that is better able to mitigate them or to bear them. After identifying risks that must be addressed in infrastructure contracts, their classification, allocation, and impact are presented along with the measures to minimize risks. We analyze two contracts in the water sector in Portugal. One arrangement corresponds to a public-private partnership (PPP) of purely contractual type (concession arrangement) and the other to an institutionalized PPP (mixed company). We conclude that risk is a key issue in contracts with the private sector: an appropriate allocation of risks is a necessary condition for successful contracts.
PRBM_A_336900 2059..2069

Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Purpose: Self-forgiveness requires a cognitive reframing of one’s views of the self. It may be a positive situational strength, and it has been shown that higher levels of self-forgiveness are related to well-being and a specific personality type. However, the concept, per se, and the inner healing process of self-forgiveness are still unclear because of a lack of cultural awareness in this research field. The current research aimed to conduct a conceptual analysis in a collectivist context and create an optional measurement scale for assessing selfforgiveness in a target population. Methods and Results: In Study 1, using multidimensional scaling (MDS), the findings suggested that the conceptual structure of self-forgiveness among Taiwanese participants (N = 232) can be categorized into three dimensions: embodied awareness, positive change, and wisdom growth. The scale was created by using item analysis, factor analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and correlation analyses in Study 2 (N = 231) and Study 3 (N = 805), the scale was found to have adequate reliability and validity, and the scores correlated with measures of self-control and resilience. Conclusion: The constructs of self-forgiveness among a sample in Taiwan have three basic psychological meanings. The measure designed here is supported by adequate psychometric evidence. Further research will be necessary to increase the understanding of self-forgiveness cross-culturally, provide additional empirical validation and methodological refinement within different target groups, and investigate intra-individual positive strength change for the improvement and practical application of the current measurement tool.
Maximum-Weight Matching in Sliding Windows and Beyond

We study the maximum-weight matching problem in the sliding-window model. In this model, we are given an adversarially ordered stream of edges of an underlying edge-weighted graph G ( V, E ), and a parameter L specifying the window size , and we want to maintain an approximation of the maximum-weight matching of the current graph G ( t ); here G ( t ) is defined as the subgraph of G consisting of the edges that arrived during the time interval [max( t − L, 1) , t ], where t is the current time. The goal is to do this with ˜ O ( n ) space, where n is the number of vertices of G . We present a deterministic (3 . 5 + ε )-approximation algorithm for this problem, thus significantly improving the (6 + ε )-approximation algorithm due to Crouch and Stubbs [5]. We also present a generic machinery for approximating subadditve functions in the sliding-window model. A function f is called subadditive if for every disjoint substreams A , B of a stream S it holds that f ( AB ) ⩽ f ( A ) + f ( B ), where AB denotes the concatenation of A and B . We show that given an α -approximation algorithm for a subadditive function f in the insertion-only model we can maintain a (2 α + ε )-approximation of f in the sliding-window model. This improves upon recent result Krauthgamer and Reitblat [14], who obtained a (2 α 2 + ε )-approximation.
Investigation on single-particle impact breakage functions of a « shaba » hybrids variety of maize kernel by drop-weight technique

Physical properties and impact breakage functions for a « Shaba » variety hybrid of maize kernel was estimated. About the investigation of impact breakage functions, a new modified manual version of a JK Tech drop-weight test device was used. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of specific comminution energy (Ecs) on impact breakage distributions. The main results in this study can be summarized as follows : for physical properties of maize kernels : length (L), width (l), and thickness (E) was 12.56, 9.67, and 4.83 mm respectively, the geometric mean diameter (Dg) 8.32 mm, arithmetic diameter (Da) 9.03 mm, equivalent diameter (Dp) 8.72 mm, the percentage of sphericity (Sp) is 66.76 % and the mass of 1000 maize grains is 359.43 gr. For impact breakage distributions, relationship between specific comminution energy and grindability index (t10) was establised. Ecs t10 model given in the literature was successfully fitted to the single impact breakage test results, the value of constant was respectively A and b. And in the end of this research, t-family curve approach was established to estimate single particle breakage functions of the « Shaba » variety hybrid maize kernel.
New outlook to vitamin D functions in dairy cows: non- classical roles

In addition to the well-studied effects in regulating calcium and phosphorus balance, vitamin D has many non-calcemic effects that include acting as an immune modulator or an antioxidant. Cows acquire vitamin D either from photosynthesis in the skin or through swallowing fungi in the forage or vitamin D supplements. Although vitamin D deficiency is rare, today we are facing an increasing number of vitamin D deficiencies in cows due to the indoor housing away from sunlight exposure. According to the NRC recommendation, to maintain the vitamin D serum concentration in the range of 20 to 50 ng/ ml, it is necessary to administer 21,000 IU/ d of vitamin D in cattle. In addition, considering the involvement of vitamin D in various calcemic and non-calcemic effects, it seems that previously recommend levels of vitamin D supplementation have not been enough for preventing many diseases and disorders in cattle. Vitamin D toxicity may also occur due to over-supplementation of vitamin D or overgrazing in plants with high amounts of vitamin D metabolites. This review article will discuss various roles of vitamin D in dairy cattle health, normal physiology, and disease prevention.
Performance of Broiler Birds Managed on Recycled Litter Treated with Graded Levels of Aluminium Sulphate (Alum)

The study was carried out at the poultry unit of the Department of Animal Science teaching and research farm, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to determine the evaluate Performance of Broiler Birds Managed on Recycled Litter Treated with Graded Levels of Aluminium Sulphate (Alum)Two hundred and forty (240) day old Marshall Strain broiler chicks of mixed sexes were used for the study. The birds were fed a common diet during this period and were subsequently weighed and randomly assigned to four treatment groups. The treatments were replicated three times with 20 birds per pen. They were housed under a deep litter system with 15kg recycled litter per pen in a completely randomised design. Aluminium sulphate (alum) was applied to the wood shavings by mixing it with alum thoroughly using hands covered with hand gloves. The rates of alum application was as follows: T1 control (normal with no alum), T2 (5% alum), T3 (10% alum) and T4 (15%).
CMAR_A_327596 9209..9223

1Department of General Surgery, The First Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General Surgery, The Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Experimental Pathology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Medical Division, HaploX Biotechnology, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of Radiotherapy, The Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China