Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LEAN MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE THROUGH SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP AND PERFORMANCE

Purpose: The purpose of the study is evaluate the factors comprising of lean manufacturing, supply chain relationship and supplier performance and their impact the supply chain performance in the supply chain firms in Jordan. Methodology: 293 responses were collected from the supply chain professionals of Jordan using nonprobability purposive sampling technique. The PLS-SEM also known as the partial least square structural equation modeling is a type of data analysis used that enables the evaluation of difficult relationship among the variables of study. The PLS-SEM was used in the research. SmartPLS software version 3.2. 8 was used. Findings: Lean manufacturing has significant effect on supply chain relationship and supplier performance; whereas SC relationship has significant effect on supplier performance while statistically insignificant effect on SC performance. Finally, supplier performance has significant effect on SC performance. Implications: It has been also suggested to see the resource allocation that must be done over time, because delaying in this process can stop the further work that is being connected with the past stage. As all the work are interconnected here. Managers are further recommended in the following study to keenly focus on the nationalities of the supplier or customer before purchasing because it can cost higher if you are purchasing it from other countries rather than focusing the goods of own country.
Statistical properties of filaments in weak gravitational lensing

We study weak lensing properties of filaments that connect clusters of galaxies through large cosmological $N$-body simulations. We select 4639 halo pairs with masses higher than $10^{14}h^{-1}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ from the simulations and investigate dark matter distributions between two haloes with ray-tracing simulations. In order to classify filament candidates, we estimate convergence profiles and perform profile fitting. We find that matter distributions between haloes can be classified in a plane of fitting parameters, which allow us to select straight filaments from the ray-tracing simulations. We also investigate statistical properties of these filaments, finding them to be consistent with previous studies. We find that $35\%$ of halo pairs possess straight filaments, $4\%$ of which can directly be detected at $S/N\geq2$ with weak lensing. Furthermore, we study statistical properties of haloes at the edges of filaments. We find that haloes are preferentially elongated along filamentary structures and are less massive with increasing filament masses. However, the dependence of these halo properties on masses of straight filaments is very weak.
Representations of the group of smooth mappings of a manifold X into a compact Lie group

Some important nonlocal representations of the group Gx consisting of C°°-mappings of a Riemannian manifold X to a compact semisimple Lie group G are constructed. The irreducibility, as well as non-equivalence of the introduced representations corresponding to different Riemannian metrics are proved. The ring of representations is calculated. COMPOSITIO MATHEMATICA, Vol. 35, Fasc. 3, 1977, pag. 299-334 Noordhoff International Publishing Printed in the Netherlands
Appetitive and Metabolic Responses to an Exercise versus Dietary Intervention in Adults with Obesity

ABSTRACT Introduction/Purpose Dietary restriction (DIET) and aerobic exercise (AEX) interventions may affect energy balance differently. Our aim was to describe the effects of weight loss interventions via DIET or AEX on measures of energy balance. Methods Adults with overweight or obesity were randomized to 12 wk of DIET or AEX with similar calorie deficit goals. A study day was conducted before and after the intervention to assess subjective and hormonal (ghrelin, peptide-YY, glucagon-like peptide-1) appetite responses to a control meal, ad libitum energy intake (EI) at a single meal, and over 3 d of free-living conditions and eating behavior traits. Resting metabolic rate was measured with indirect calorimetry and adjusted for body composition measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Nonexercise activity was measured using accelerometers. Results Forty-four individuals were included (age, 37 ± 9 yr; body mass index, 30.6 ± 3.1 kg·m−2). Both interventions resulted in weight and fat mass loss. The DIET group lost fat-free mass, although differences between groups were not significant (DIET = −1.2 ± 1.7 kg, P < 0.001; AEX = 0.4 ± 1.5 kg, P = 0.186; P = 0.095 interaction). There were no differences in resting metabolic rate after body composition adjustment. Both interventions were associated with an increase in dietary restraint (DIET = 4.9 ± 1.2; AEX = 2.8 ± 0.7; P < 0.001 in both groups). Hunger decreased with DIET (−1.4 ± 0.5, P = 0.003), and disinhibition decreased with AEX (−1.5 ± 0.5, P < 0.001), although these changes were not different between groups (i.e., no group–time interaction). No other differences in appetite, EI, or nonexercise physical activity were observed within or between groups. Conclusions AEX did not result in compensatory alterations in appetite, ad libitum EI, or physical activity, despite assumed increased energy expenditure. Modest evidence also suggested that disinhibition and hunger may be differentially affected by weight loss modality.
Endocannabinoid control of neuroinflammation in traumatic brain injury by monoacylglycerol lipase in astrocytes

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a temporary or permanent disruption of brain function caused by external forces. TBI has been recognized as an important risk factor for the development of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia later in life. However, the mechanisms by which TBI contributes to developing Alzheimer’s disease are largely unknown. In particular, no effective therapies are currently available for the prevention and treatment of TBI-induced neurodegenerative disease. The acute brain damage after TBI results not only from primary injury, which is the result of the external mechanical force but also from secondary injury, which is associated with a complex cascade of molecular, cellular, and immune responses. Neuroinflammation associated with other processes plays a critical role in causing secondary injury following TBI (Simon et al., 2017). The extent of neuroinflammatory responses seems to be closely correlated with the outcome following TBI (Woodcock and Morganti-Kossmann, 2013). This means that while the primary injury immediately following TBI is not preventable, appropriate and timely intervention to resolve neuroinflammation following the primary injury would be the key to preventing further brain damage, neuropathological changes, and synaptic and cognitive impairments (Zhang et al., 2015).
Uniqueness of the gauge invariant action for cosmological perturbations

In second order perturbation theory different definitions are known of gauge invariant perturbations in single field inflationary models. Consequently the corresponding gauge invariant cubic actions do not have the same form. Here we show that the cubic action for one choice of gauge invariant variables is unique in the following sense: the action for any other, non-linearly related variable can be brought to the same bulk action, plus additional boundary terms. These boundary terms correspond to the choice of hypersurface and generate extra, disconnected contributions to the bispectrum. We also discuss uniqueness of the action with respect to conformal frames. When expressed in terms of the gauge invariant curvature perturbation on uniform field hypersurfaces the action for cosmological perturbations has a unique form, independent of the original Einstein or Jordan frame. Crucial is that the gauge invariant comoving curvature perturbation is frame independent, which makes it extremely helpful in showing the quantum equivalence of the two frames, and therefore in calculating quantum effects in nonminimally coupled theories such as Higgs inflation.
The outcome of partial pulpotomy in traumatized permanent anterior teeth – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Partial pulpotomy is a procedural intervention that can maintain the vitality of pulp during the management of traumatized permanent teeth with pulpal involvement. Aim: To evaluate whether partial pulpotomy can be considered a reliable conservative treatment option for treating traumatized permanent anterior teeth with pulpal involvement. Methodology: A computerized systematic search was performed in PubMed, Science Direct, Cochrane, and LILACS databases from 1980 to May 2021. Five studies were included in the final analysis. Quality assessment, Meta-analysis, and Publication bias of the studies were evaluated. This systematic review was registered in PROSPERO (ID – CRD42021262031). Result: The comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software was used. The test of the heterogeneity was analysed using Cochran's Q statistics. The Q value was 7.186 (df = 6) with a P value of 0.3 and I2 as 16.5%. The studies were considered homogenous, and the fixed-effect model showed an overall point estimate of 0.89 with a 95% confidence interval (0.86–0.91). The Begg and Egger funnel plot indicated that there was no publication bias in the included studies. Conclusion: Evidence indicates that partial pulpotomy may be considered a reliable definitive treatment option in asymptomatic traumatized permanent anterior teeth with exposed pulp rather than total pulpotomy.
PRELIMINARY CUTTING FORCE AND TOOL WEAR STUDY FOR MICRO-PATTERNED TURNING INSERTS

Ryan A. Garcia, Tony L. Schmitz, Brian K. Canfield, Alexander Y. Terekhov, Trevor Moeller, and Lino Costa Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville, TN, USA Manufacturing Science Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA Center for Laser Applications University of Tennessee Space Institute Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering University of Tennessee Space Institute Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA
Recent results from the Belle II experiment

Belle II is a flavor physics experiment at the SuperKEKB 𝑒 + 𝑒 − collider. It has accumulated 380 fb − 1 of data as of May 2022, and has obtained several results with the world’s best precision or sensitivity. Recent results mainly with 190 fb − 1 of data are presented.
Advancing 89Zr-immuno-PET in neuroscience with a bispecific anti-amyloid-beta monoclonal antibody - The choice of chelator is essential

The accelerated approval of the monoclonal antibody (mAb) aducanumab as a treatment option for Alzheimer's Disease and the continued discussions about its efficacy have shown that a better understanding of immunotherapy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases is needed. 89Zr-immuno-PET could be a suitable tool to open new avenues for the diagnosis of CNS disorders, monitoring disease progression, and assessment of novel therapeutics. Herein, three different 89Zr-labeling strategies and direct radioiodination with 125I of a bispecific anti-amyloid-beta aducanumab derivate, consisting of aducanumab with a C-terminal fused anti-transferrin receptor binding single chain Fab fragment derived from 8D3 (Adu-8D3), were compared ex vivo and in vivo with regard to brain uptake and target engagement in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer's disease mouse model and wild type animals. Methods: Adu-8D3 and a negative control antibody, based on the HIV specific B12 antibody also carrying C-terminal fused 8D3 scFab (B12-8D3), were each conjugated with NCS-DFO, NCS-DFO*, or TFP-N-suc-DFO-Fe-ester, followed by radiolabeling with 89Zr. 125I was used as a substitute for 124I for labeling of both antibodies. 30 µg of radiolabeled mAb, corresponding to approximately 6 MBq 89Zr or 2.5 MBq 125I, were injected per mouse. PET imaging was performed 1, 3 and 7 days post injection (p.i.). All mice were sacrificed on day 7 p.i. and subjected to ex vivo biodistribution and brain autoradiography. Immunostaining on brain tissue was performed after autoradiography for further validation. Results: Ex vivo biodistribution revealed that the brain uptake of [89Zr]Zr-DFO*-NCS-Adu-8D3 (2.19 ±0.12 %ID/g) was as high as for its 125I-analog (2.21 ±0.15 %ID/g). [89Zr]Zr-DFO-NCS-Adu-8D3 and [89Zr]Zr-DFO-N-suc-Adu-8D3 showed significantly lower uptake (< 0.65 %ID/g), being in the same range as for the 89Zr-labeled controls (B12-8D3). Autoradiography of [89Zr]Zr-DFO*-NCS-Adu-8D3 and [125I]I-Adu-8D3 showed an amyloid-beta related granular uptake pattern of radioactivity. In contrast, the [89Zr]Zr-DFO-conjugates and the control antibody groups did not show any amyloid-beta related uptake pattern, indicating that DFO is inferior for 89Zr-immuno-PET imaging of the brain in comparison to DFO* for Adu-8D3. This was confirmed by day 7 PET images showing only amyloid-beta related brain uptake for [89Zr]Zr-DFO*-NCS-Adu-8D3. In wild type animals, such an uptake was not observed. Immunostaining showed a co-localization of all administered Adu-8D3 conjugates with amyloid-beta plaques. Conclusion: We successfully demonstrated that 89Zr-immuno-PET is suitable for imaging and quantifying amyloid-beta specific brain uptake using a bispecific aducanumab brain shuttling antibody, Adu-8D3, but only when using the novel chelator DFO*, and not DFO, for labeling with 89Zr.
ANALYSIS OF PREFABRICATED CONSTRUCTION: PRODUCTIVITY, BENEFITS, RISKS & APPLICATIONS IN CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES

: This study analyzes the productivity of prefabricated construction methods with respect to cost and time. In addition, this study explores the main benefits and applications of prefabricated construction methods as well as identifies the major risks that could affect their use in Canada. Several interviews with experienced construction professionals were conducted. Also, surveys were conducted choosing construction managers, tradespeople, and construction workers who are familiar with prefabricated construction. The responses from construction professionals revealed that prefabricated construction methods are more advantageous than conventional construction methods due to reduced construction time, cost, and site waste. The interview results indicated that prefabrication construction methods take about 3 to 4 weeks per townhouse unit and can save around 4 to 8 weeks. Furthermore, the survey results exhibited that prefabricated construction methods decrease the overall project delivery time. The survey results also imparted that faster project delivery time and reduced labourers on site are the two most important factors, which decrease the cost of prefabricated construction. The other benefits of prefabricated construction methods are minimum risk of injury and minimization or total elimination of on-site wet trades, which became obvious from the interview results. Despite having manifold benefits, there are some risks of using prefabricated construction methods, such as fabrication errors, damage during transportation, misfits on worksite, and delays due to the shortage of skilled labourers and changed orders. Yet prefabricated construction methods are being used in Canada in the cases of trusses, exterior wall components, framing elements, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) systems.
Dynamic characterization of adobe in compression the influence of fibre fraction in soil mixtures

Adobe is one of the most ancient forms of masonry. Adobe bricks are sundried mixtures of clay, silt, sand and natural ﬁbres locally available joined together using mud mortar. Adobe structures are largely spread in areas of the world prone to earthquakes or involved in military conﬂicts. Unfor-tunately, almost no literature concerns the dynamic assessment of soil-based masonry components. From earlier research, it was derived that the mechanical behaviour of adobe in statics ﬁts in the class of quasi brittle materials. Its resemblance with cementitious materials concerns the main failure modes and the constitutive models in compression. This study deals with the experimental characterization of adobe components response in dynamics. It is aimed to study and quantify the rate sensitivity of adobe material from bricks at a wide range of strain rates, from statics up to impact con-ditions. In particular, the inﬂuence of ﬁber reinforcement in the mixture on the mechanical behaviour of the material has been addressed. Adobe bricks are commonly mixed recorded. Elaboration of results revealed clear trends in the dynamic material behaviour. Adobe, as concrete, is sensitive to the loading rate. The rate effects on the main properties of the material in strength and deformation are also analytically and numerically quantiﬁed. Rate sensitivity and failure mode are signiﬁcantly inﬂuenced by the inclusion of ﬁbers in the mixture. These effects are quanti-ﬁed, interpreted and compared with modern SFRC. This paper presents the experimental campaign and the obtained results. Moreover, physical interpretations for the observed trends are discussed. Fi-nally, new formulations for the assessment of the dynamic increase factor of the compressive strength of adobe are proposed.
Secure Federated Analytics for Set Intersection

Private set intersection (PSI) is a popular protocol that allows multiple parties to evaluate the intersection of their sets without revealing them to each other. PSI has numerous practical applications, including privacy-preserving data mining and location-based services. In this work, we develop a new approach for the PSI problem within the federated analytics framework. In particular, we consider a setting where a server wants to determine (query) which among its local set of data identifiers appears coupled with the same value in at least K of N parties. Applications for this framework include: double-filing insurance verification and credit scoring. The proposed setting does not lend itself directly to state-of-the-art PSI approaches based on Oblivious Transfer, since the server does not have a complete representation of a datapoint (only the identifier, but no value). To address the proposed setting, we propose a new protocol Fed-K-PSI that allows the server to answer this query while being oblivious to the data of identifiers not satisfying the distributed query at the parties or the parties that contain these identifiers. We show that Fed-K-PSI achieves a strong information-theoretic privacy guarantee and is re-silient to collusion scenarios among honest-but-curious parties. We also evaluate Fed-K-PSI via extensive experiments to study the effect of different system parameters.
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

We study the capabilities of speech processing systems trained simply to predict large amounts of transcripts of audio on the internet. When scaled to 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervision, the resulting models generalize well to standard benchmarks and are often competitive with prior fully supervised results but in a zero-shot transfer setting without the need for any fine-tuning. When compared to humans, the models approach their accuracy and robustness. We are releasing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for further work on robust speech processing.
BLOCK HYBRID METHOD FOR SOLVING HIGHER ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION USING POWER SERIES ON IMPLICIT ONE-STEP SECOND DERIVATIVE

: Our focus in this research is to developed block method for solving higher order ordinary differential equation using power series on implicit one-step. In order to achieve the aim and objective of this research, we used interpolation, collocation and evaluate a power series approximation at some chosen grid and off-grid points to generate an implicit continuous hybrid one-step method. As requirement of any numerical analyst, the properties of one-step block method was done and results showed that it is consistent, convergent, zero stable and with region of absolutely stable. The method was tested with numerical examples solved using the existing methods and our method was found to give better results when compared with the existing method. Obviously, the solution graphs show the convergence of the method with exact solutions.
A Step Towards Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes: Habitat Evaluation for Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) in North-Western Pakistan

Due to the expanding human population and subsequent developmental processes, it is crucial to evaluate habitats to design robust conservation strategies. We used maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) to identify suitable habitats for red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) in Nowshera district, Pakistan. MaxEnt was applied to 62 red fox occurrence points and topographical and current bioclimatic variables. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) values obtained in the present study, i.e., the area under the curve (AUC: 0.828), showed that the results were good and valuable. Of the total area studied (1747 km 2 ), 272 km 2 (20.15%) and 366 km 2 (25.25 %) were highly and moderately suitable areas, respectively. The highly suitable areas comprised the protected areas (PAs) and their buffer zones; however, the moderately suitable areas mainly occurred in the peri-urban zones and were avoided by red fox. Results revealed that global land cover (glc2009) and poultry (ch_2010da) were the most influential factors defining red fox suitable habitats. Based on the results obtained in the current study, we strongly recommend focusing preservation of highly and moderately suitable areas for red fox in the study area and ensuring the conservation of these near-threatened ecologically important meso-carnivores by reducing human impacts on wild habitats.
The Impact of Operating Cash Flows on Financial Stability of Commercial Banks: Evidence from Pakistan

This study aims to examine whether operating cash flows influence banks’ financial stability in Pakistan. The study employed annual panel data collected from annual reports of 20 commercial banks listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange for the year 2011 to 2019. Free cash flow yield was taken as the dependent variable while cash flow ratio was selected as the independent variable, and net interest margin, income diversification, asset quality, financial leverage, the cost to income ratio, advance net of provisions to total assets ratio, capital ratio, financial performance, breakup value per share and bank size were taken as control variables. The study performed ordinary least square technique, random and fixed effects models, Hausman test, Lagrange multiplier test, descriptive and correlation analysis. Results showed that operating cash flows and net interest margin significantly and positively influenced banks’ financial stability while the cost to income ratio and advances net of provisions to total assets ratio significantly and negatively associated with banks’ financial stability. To improve financial stability, banks should become more cost-effective and enhance their liquidity levels by lowering lending activities. In the future, it would be useful to compare commercial and investment banks, also Islamic and conventional banks in the same research setting.