Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fabrication and characterization of planar Gunn diodes for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits

In the present dissertation, GaAs and GaN Gunn diodes have been investigated with respect to microwave generation in the eld of automotive intelligent radar systems. High quality planar Gunn diodes have been fabricated with two di erent hot electron injectors: a graded gap injector (GGI) and a novel resonant tunneling injector (RTI). Within the framework of the cooperation project between Forschungzentrum Jülich and Robert Bosch GmbH, GGI GaAs Gunn diodes have been studied and optimized. RF evaluation of their performance up to 110 GHz shows the e ectiveness of di erent graded gap injectors. An estimation of the possible operational modes is given for diodes used as microwave generators at 77 GHz, with application in automotive radar systems. A second hot electron injector, the GaAs/AlAs double barrier resonant tunnelling injector has been proposed and designed. GaAs Gunn diodes with RTI have been successfully fabricated and characterized. RTI Gunn diodes present clear evidence of the injector e ectiveness both in DC and RF conditions. The design, processing and characterization of a novel GaAs Gunn diode based VCOMMIC1 ful lled the second objective of this work. A simple and straightforward processing technology makes the proposed microwave generator competitive with cavity oscillators and transistor based MMICs.
Predictors of Financial Advice: An Evidence from a Developing Nation

The financial markets and products become increasingly complicated day by day, and the current pandemic is adding fuel to the fire, causing volatilities in the financial markets around the globe and a tough time to the individuals. To make better financial decisions, one needs sufficient level of financial literacy, but past studies revealed that most countries have below-average financial literacy, and it takes a long time to improve it. So, in such a scenario, financial advice is a quick way for individuals to make a better financial decision. It can be an easy and quick substitute for financial literacy in the short run. Therefore, considering the usefulness of financial advice, this paper investigates the direct effect of demographic (gender and education), financial anxiety, financial capability, financial satisfaction, and online transaction use on financial advice. The main objective of the paper is to understand the determinants of financial advice. The study is conducted in the northern part of India, collecting data through a self-reporting scale from individuals above 18. The paper applied hierarchical multiple regression with three steps in order to find the effects on financial advice. The findings indicate that financial advice is affected by financial anxiety, financial satisfaction, and online transaction use. Gender and education failed to reflect a significant effect on financial advice. Hence, this paper strengthens the existing literature of financial advice through the integrated framework, considering how an individuals' financial anxiety, financial capability, financial satisfaction, and online transaction use (being a part of digital financial literacy) drive individuals' financial advice-seeking behaviour. The novelty of the paper is the integrated framework itself, as the chosen variables combined on the individuals' financial advice are not explored yet.
Nonlinear Thermomechanical Analysis of Structures Using OpenSees

The behaviour of heated structures is strongly governed by thermal induced deformation and degradation of material properties. This thesis presents an augmentation of the software framework OpenSees to enable thermomechanical analysis of structures. The developments contributed to OpenSees are tested by series of benchmark cases and experimental results. OpenSees is an object-oriented, open source software framework developed at UC Berekeley for providing an advanced computational tool to simulate non-linear response of structural frames to earthquakes. OpenSees was chosen to be extended to enable the modelling of structures in fire. The development of this capability involved creating new thermal load classes to define the temperature distribution in structural members and modifying existing material classes to include temperature dependent properties according to Eurocodes. New functions were also added into the existing corotational beam/column element (2D and 3D) to apply temperature related loads. A new geometrically nonlinear shell element was created (based on the existing linear MITC4 shell element in OpenSees) using total Lagrangian formulation. Appropriate thermal load, material and section classes were also developed for enabling thermomechanical analysis using the nonlinear shell element. A number of benchmark tests were carried out to verify the performance of the new developments implemented in OpenSees. The benchmark tests involved subjecting beams and plates to a range of through depth temperature gradients with OpenSees results compared against closed form solutions. Further verification was also carried out by comparing OpenSees results with ABAQUS results. The extended OpenSees framework was also used to model experiments such as two plane steel frames at elevated temperatures, the Cardington Restrained Beam Test and the Cardington Corner Test and an earthquake damaged reinforced concrete (RC) frame subjected to a subsequent fire. The existing DruckerPrager material class in OpenSees was used to the model concrete in the composite floor in the Cardington tests and in the RC frame. The pinching material available in OpenSees was used to model the beams and columns in the RC frame to consider the cyclic degradation of strength and stiffness during the increasing cyclic displacements imposed on the RC frame before the fire. In all cases the results from OpenSees show good agreement with test data.
The effectiveness of lifelong learning policies on youth employment:

In a context of high youth unemployment rates, the employability agenda has dominated the design of European lifelong learning (LLL) policies. While the assumption of this agenda is that the causes of youth unemployment are individual and of an educational nature, our study explores to what extent regional labour market situations affect the effectiveness of these LLL policies on vulnerable young adults. Based on interviews with key regional actors and the review of relevant grey literature at the national and regional level, we identify apprenticeships (i.e. work-based training) and employability training courses (i.e. school-based learning) as the main lifelong learning policies used in five European countries to promote youth employment. The comparative analysis shows how differences in education and training provision can be explained by the different configuration of national skill formation regimes. However, the effectiveness of these provision measures on youth employment is largely affected by how the economic context is shaping the demand for skills in these regional labour markets.
NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DYNAMIC LOADING CURVES FOR DRIVEN PILES BASED ON THE ENERGY APPROACH

The dynamic loading test (DLT), making use of the Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) monitoring system applied to increasing energy hammer impacts is an alternative to get not only the dynamic load-displacement curve but also curves relating to the applied energy. This procedure allows better unnderstanding of the pile-soil load transfer mechanism. The main purpose of the DLT is to define the pile-soil system failure load, characterized by the invariance of resistance and strain energy, during two consecutive blows of increasing energy. Otherwise, from the shape of the dynamic load x displacement curve, it is possible to verify whether the soil or the structural element controls the pile behavior. Data from driven piles in Brazilian soil conditions give support to these new interpretations of the dynamic loading curves based on the energy approach.
SURVEY OF TQM IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN UPPER MIDWEST. TECHNICAL NOTE

The acceptance of total quality management (TQM) within the construction industry is an issue that is difficult to quantify. A survey of construction firms in the upper midwestern United States was conducted in order to quantify the application and use of the TQM philosophy. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to 1,500 construction firms in the Midwest who are involved in various types of construction activities (general contracting, road and highway construction, subcontracting, homebuilding, electrical and mechanical contracting). The results of the survey indicate that substantial economic benefits can be attained through the implementation of TQM techniques. However, several key educational and operational issues must be addressed prior to, and after, implementing a TQM program.
OUT-OF-POSITION VEHICLE OCCUPANTS MODELS IN A MULTIBODY INTEGRATED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT

New solutions for intelligent restraint systems, able to recognize vehicle occupants size and position, require that: suitable biomechanical models are used; initial occupant anatomical segments positions are properly set; realistic contact models are used; interactions between vehicle and occupants are accounted for; models of restraint systems are included in the simulation. Here a procedure for the evaluation of the initial positions of biomechanical models for the simulation of out-of-position occupants is proposed together with a vehicle-occupant integrated numerical environment, which allows modeling vehicle and occupants in complex crash scenarios. This methodology is demonstrated with the analysis of a vehicle rollover with occupants included. Key words: Multibody, Contact, Occupants, Photogrammetry, Rollover Accidents. Without page numbers
Children's spaces

Chapter 1 - Talking and Listening to Children, Chapter 2 - Designing for Play, Chapter 3 - Place Making and Change in Learning Environments, Chapter 4 - The Building as Third Teacher, Chapter 5 - The Classroom is a Microcosm of the World, Chapter 6 - Designing the Classroom of the Future, Chapter 7 - The Schools We'd Like, Chapter 8 - The Electronic Landscape- Mark Dudek, Chapter 9 - Children in the Public Domain , Chapter 10 - Razor Blades and Teddy Bears, Chapter 11 - The Sustainable Schoolyard, Chapter 12 - The Edible Landscape of School
Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German.

This work investigates laryngeal and supralaryngeal correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German. It further studies laryngealoral co-ordination observed for such productions. Three different positions of the obstruents are taken into account: the stressed, syllable initial position, the post-stressed intervocalic position, and the post-stressed word final position. For the latter the phonological rule of final devoicing applies in German. The different positions are chosen in order to study the following hypotheses: 1. The presence/absence of glottal opening is not a consistent correlate of the voicing contrast in German. 2. Supralaryngeal correlates are also involved in the contrast. 3. Supralaryngeal correlates can compensate for the lack of distinction in laryngeal adjustment. Including the word final position is motivated by the question whether neutralisation in word final position would be complete or whether some articulatory residue of the contrast can be found. Two experiments are carried out. The first experiment investigates glottal abduction in co-ordination with tongue-palate contact patterns by means of simultaneous recordings of transillumination, fiberoptic films and Electropalatography (EPG). The second experiment focuses on supralaryngeal correlates of alveolar stops studied by means of Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) simultaneously with EPG. Three German native speakers participated in both recordings. Results of this study provide evidence that the first hypothesis holds true for alveolar stops when different positions are taken into account. In fricative production it is also confirmed since voiceless and voiced fricatives are most of the time realised with glottal abduction. Additionally, supralaryngeal correlates are involved in the voicing contrast under two perspectives. First, laryngeal and supralaryngeal movements are well synchronised in voiceless obstruent production, particularly in the stressed position. Second, supralaryngeal correlates occur especially in the post-stressed intervocalic position. Results are discussed with respect to the phonetics-phonology interface, to the role of timing and its possible control, to the interarticulatory co-ordination, and to stress as ‘localised hyperarticulation’.
Concurrent Development of Product and Packaging - Towards an Integrated Development Procedure

The global company operates from a number of locations worldwide, which entails geographical distances and logistical implications for product and parts transported, as well as the choice of product variety because of numerable worldwide consumer preferences. In these companies, packaging becomes a frequently used object to complement product features and achieve an effective and efficient means of transportation. In this context, it is interesting to integrate packaging development in the product development process to improve development decisions on e.g. manufacturing, assembly and distribution, and also to reduce repeated changes in product design and other development processes. To corroborate these thoughts, the overall objective for this thesis is to explore the potential of improving resource utilisation in the development of product and packaging by an integrated development of product and packaging. In three surveys in Swedish mechanical, pharmaceutical and food industries, which account for approximately 74% of all packaged products produced in Sweden, the potential for the concept was explored and positively validated. By comparisons across survey results and additional information provided by literature reviews of mechanical, pharmaceutical and food product development, the possibility of introducing integrated product and packaging development into an integrated procedure model has been established. Note that the packaging developer’s perspective is excluded in this thesis. Duc to extensive diversity in composition and organisation for product development across the product areas surveyed, an integrated product and packaging procedure model is heavily dependent upon product area. For the integration of product and packaging it is (1) important to include packaging in the product mission statement, (2) preferable to consider the function decomposition of product and packaging when specifying the product and (3) beneficial to also decide upon packaging hierarchy and packaging materials when deciding on detailed product systems and subsystems. Note that when the product area is known, relevant methods and techniques for the integration of product and packaging activities on an operational leve1 in the procedure model may be developed Future research should implement a preliminary suggestion into one or more of the surveyed product areas’ product development activities to achieve a final and verified integrated product and packaging development procedure model. (Less)
New Thinking About Mental Health and Employment

Part 1: Work with security when you can, security when you can't. Sheep and goats: new thinking on employability. What do service users want? Working wounded. What's kept me working? Part 2: Hitting the bottom and getting back. Up. Getting back to work: what do we know about what works? Employment support in the UK: where are we now? Recovering a life: an in-depth look at employment support in the UK. Putting the community back in community care. A whole system approach. Unlocking potential in Sheffield. Unlocking the potential of young black men. What's worked for us. Part 3: Avoiding the slippery slope. Getting off the slippery slope: what do we know about what works? Getting off the slippery slope: an example from the UK. Early intervention: a hand up the slippery slope. Conclusion: the end of all our exploring.
Identifying pavement deterioration by enhancing the definition of road roughness

Current road roughness deterioration modelling and analysis tends to focus on the prediction of roughness progression in terms of change in the international roughness index (IRI) over time. Since the IRI is simply a summary index of the actual roughness, which simulates the response of a specific type of vehicle (quarter-car), it is difficult to identify the factors that contribute to the deterioration of road roughness. Understanding the factors that lead to the deterioration of roads and identifying the actual mode of road roughness deterioration will help road controlling authorities refine their specifications on road roughness requirements for road design, construction and maintenance to reduce their adverse influence on roughness. This research project looked at an alternative method to analyse and define the roughness deterioration modes of different pavement sections of the New Zealand road network by analysing the characteristics of the longitudinal profile of the road surface using wavelet analysis. This characterisation process was used to analyse the effects of pavement type, traffic loading, environment and maintenance regime on the deterioration of road roughness and ultimately should lead to the development of a strategy for maintaining road roughness of different pavement types commonly found in New Zealand road networks.
Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics

HumanRobot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the field of social robotics, it draws on contributions by researchers working on the Robovie project at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, a world leader in humanoid interactive robotics. The book brings together, in one volume, technical and empirical research that was previously scattered throughout the literature. Taking a networked robot approach, the book examines how robots work in cooperation with ubiquitous sensors and people over telecommunication networks. It considers the use of social robots in daily life, grounding the work in field studies conducted at a school, train station, shopping mall, and science museum. Critical in the development of network robots, these usability studies allow researchers to discover real issues that need to be solved and to understand what kinds of services are possible. The book tackles key areas where development is needed, namely, in sensor networks for tracking humans and robots, humanoids that can work in everyday environments, and functions for interacting with people. It introduces a sensor network developed by the authors and discusses innovations in the Robovie humanoid, including several interactive behaviors and design policies. Exploring how humans interact with robots in daily life settings, this book offers valuable insight into how robots may be used in the future. The combination of engineering, empirical, and field studies provides readers with rich information to guide in developing practical interactive robots.
Performance in psychiatry undergraduate finals

Aims and method This study investigated the effects of gender and nationality on performance in various aspects of the undergraduate final examination in psychiatry. Results in all sections of the final examination were analysed in the case of 140 students from the same year. Results There were no statistically significant differences between performances by males and females, however non-nationals performed less well in all aspects of the examination. Clinical implications Teaching programmes need to identify which aspects of the undergraduate course cause particular difficulty for non-nationals. This information would usefully inform future developments in undergraduate teaching.
SPEED CONTROL THROUGH FREEWAY WORK ZONES: TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

In this paper, the implementation and evaluation of four techniques for improving the effectiveness of speed zoning in construction areas on multilane freeways are presented. The techniques are (a) the flagging procedure of the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices" (MUTCD), (b) the use of the MUTCD flagging procedure plus having the flagger point at a nearby speed limit sign with the free hand after motioning motorists to slow, (c) a marked police car with cruiser lights and radar active, and (d) a uniformed police officer to control traffic. Each of the techniques was applied continuously on a six-lane freeway for a period of 10 to 15 days. The results of the analysis indicate that all four techniques can provide significant reduction in traffic speed through highway construction zones. The flagging methods were effective in construction areas where one lane remained open to traffic. The law enforcement methods demonstrated a stronger speed reduction capability, particularly when the lane closures result in two or more lanes open. The construction projects used for the collection of field data required speed reduction from the regulatory 55 mph to an advisory 45 mph. Although the law enforcement techniques were determined to be effective, their implementation requires a high degree of administrative coordination and cooperation involving police departments, highway officials, and construction contractors.
The Image of Urban Politics: Turkish Urban Professionals and Urban Representation as a Site of Struggle

Abstract This article analyzes the politics of visual representations of the city in the postwar Turkish context. In this period, marked by rapid urbanization, urban problems entered into the realm of daily politics and the city turned into a terrain of struggle. A major component of this struggle was the representations of the city. Particular interest is given to the role played by Turkish architects and urban planners in producing visual representations of the city that became components of a counterhegemonic urban politics during the 1960s and 1970s.
The accuracy of velocity change estimates in small overlap frontal crashes

Small overlap frontal crashes are defined by a damage pattern with most of the vehicle deformation concentrated outboard of the main longitudinal structures. These crashes are prominent among frontal crashes resulting in serious and fatal injuries, even among vehicles that perform well in regulatory and consumer information crash tests. One of the critical aspects of understanding these crashes is knowing the crash speeds that cause the types of damage associated with serious injuries. Laboratory crash tests were conducted using 12 vehicles in three small overlap test conditions: pole, vehicle-to-vehicle collinear, and vehicle-to-vehicle oblique (15-degree striking angle). Field reconstruction techniques were used to estimate the delta V for each vehicle, and these results were compared with actual delta V values based on vehicle accelerometer data. Estimated delta Vs were 50 percent lower than actual values. Velocity change estimates for small overlap frontal crashes in databases such as NASS-CDS significantly underestimate actual values. (A) Paper to the session "Car Accidents" of the 4th International Conference on ESAR "Expert Symposium on Accident Research", 16th to 18th September 2010 in Hannover. For the covering abstract of the conference, see ITRD D366702.