Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ESTIMATING ADVISORY ISA SYSTEM SAFETY IMPACT AT VARYING IMPLEMENTATION LEVELS

This paper discusses a number of hypotheses concerning the safety effects brought about by the use of an advisory Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) system at varying levels of implementation. To date much of the research related to ISA has been concerned with the investigation of existing mandatory intervening systems and the extent to which these succeed in reducing speed and speed variance. Little attention has been paid to speed warning devices. These systems are not likely to have the same safety enhancing effects, but are more likely to receive acceptance from vehicle drivers. In order to estimate the effects of the advisory ISA system, it is also useful to know something of the unwanted behavioural adaptation effects that reduce the net safety gain. A joint project has been started with the intention of investigating and estimating the safety impact of a speed-warning device that is currently being used in a large-scale trial. The methodology of this project involves the collection of data using field studies, data logging of the ISA-equipped vehicles, instrumented vehicles, and interviews and questionnaires related to drivers' behaviour and attitudes. In order to estimate the safety (and efficiency) effects at different implementation levels, micro-simulation is used. This simulation is based on a detailed model of driving behaviour that is sensitive to the changes brought about by a speed-warning system. At the present time, the data is undergoing analysis hence the hypothetical nature of the effects that are discussed and focus on background and methodological issues.
Learning about grey literature by interviewing subject librarians: A study at the University of Rochester

During the 2003-2004 academic year, library staff at the University of Rochester studied how faculty members find, use, and produce grey literature to do their scholarly work. We formed a research team that included an anthropologist, librarians, a graphic designer, computer scientist, programmer, and cataloger, and we learned the methods of work-practice study. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), we then interviewed twenty-five faculty members in art and art history, economics, modern languages, linguistics, physics, and political science with the hope that what we learned would be useful in designing additions or modifications to our institutional repository.
Assessing the risk of blackout in the power system including HVDC and FACTS devices

SUMMARY This article proposes a method to assess the risk of blackouts in the power system, including modern devices such as HVDC and FACTS devices. In this respect, the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) was used to analyze the risk of blackouts. The linearized load flow with the model of HVDC links and FACTS devices was used. The model of cascading events and hidden failure of the protection system were also considered. The obtained results of the MCS were studied by using the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) and the probability distribution function (PDF) of the lost load data. The CCDF of the lost load data was directly calculated from the lost load data, and the Gaussian mixture method (GMM) was applied to estimate the PDF of the lost load data. The effect of different controlling strategies of HVDC links and FACTS devices on the risk of blackout was studied more in-depth. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Beekeeping

When I came downstairs the first morning of summer break after seventh grade, my father was pouring gooey pancake batter into a skillet. He called them flapjacks. “It’s your first day of freedom,” he said, smiling when he saw me. “What might the plan be? ” “Play video games, maybe,” I said. “And shoot some hoops probably. ” “Perfect,” he said. “Useless and unproductive. The way summer should be. ” It wasn’t that I had anything better to do. My best friend and one-on-one opponent Alex Kim had moved to Georgia that March. As for other school friends, word got around pretty quick at Bridgewater Middle about why the high school math teacher, Mr. Walsh, my father, was suddenly jobless. Not long after he was let go, I overheard Jackson Palermo at lunch say, “I hear he fucked her right on top of his desk. ” Others whispered in class, glancing in my direction. The guidance counselor, Mr. Leeman, called me in once for a “quick chat. ” He asked me how things were at home. “If you mean does my father sexually abuse me, you don’t have to worry about that,” I said defiantly. Teachers left me alone after that, and then the school year was over. Life was supposed to become useless and unproductive. Freedom, my father called it, a chance to try new things. I watched him flip flapjacks at the kitchen counter with a batter-caked spatula, wearing Mom’s old apron. I wanted to ask if he felt free.
COMPREHENSIVE TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE BROADBAND PHYSICALLY-CONSISTENT MATERIAL CHARCTERISTICS USING TRANSMISSION LINES

Dispersion, attenuation, and crosstalk are several major challenges that both a high-speed digital and a microwave serial link must overcome to achieve their desirable performance. These phenomena are directly related to the frequency dependency of the dielectric property of the material used in package and interconnect. The dielectric property of a material is commonly measured by its manufacturer in a particular direction at a few discrete frequencies using resonator and waveguide methodology. Since the dielectric property may vary during manufacturing processing, the measurements taken by the manufacturer might be not adequate. Moreover, the dielectric property of a material in a bandwidth that covers at least the second harmonics of the fundamental operational frequency is required to accurately predict the link performance. One of the efforts in this research is to investigate the methodology of realizing broadband characteristics of the dielectric property of a material in its “as packaged” configuration using various transmission line topologies, such as microstrip line and Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW). Transitions from CPW to other transmission line topologies are mandatory if CPW probes are used to achieve broadband and repeatable measurements. Since microstrip line is one of the transmission line topologies involved in this research, a research effort is dedicated to develop a broadband CPW-to-microstrip line transition. An effort is also expended to creating casual material models that can be used in electromagnetic simulators to appropriately model the link based on the polarization mechanism of the materials. In addition to focusing on the measurement method in
The Swedish national freight model: A critical review and an outline of the way ahead

The Samgods group - consisting of the four public administrations for air, rail, road and maritime transport, Vinnova and SIKA - has asked John Bates and Henrik Swahn to evaluate the overall outcome of the the previously made idea studies (2001) and pre-studies (2002) for the development of the Swedish national freight model. They were also asked to give recommendations on the way ahead. It was originally suggested that the two authors should provide separate assessments. However, in the course of carrying out these tasks it gradually became clear that a more substantial joint report would be required, which could be used as a basis for decisions on the further development. The process of preparing this report allowed comments from the members of the Samgods group to influence the first version of the final report, which was discussed at a meeting October 2003. Following that meeting, it was agreed that the authors would revise the document for publication, and this is the outcome of that revision. A route map for the long term development of the Swedish national freight model was also required. (A) This document is also available electronically via Internet at URL: http://www.sika-institute.se/utgivning/sam04_1. pdf
Root initiation and acclimatization of papaya plants.

Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a major tropical fruit crop worldwide with an annual production of 6 million tonnes. Although it is a model species in terms of application of biotechnology to tropical fruit species, in vitro culture is problematic. Reliable and repeatable protocols for initiation and growth of good quality root systems in vitro and acclimatization of large numbers of papaya plantlets after culture can be difficult to achieve. We micropropagate papaya by growth of axillary shoots from single node sections which have been dissected from apically dominant plants. Axillary shoots, 5 to 10 mm in length are subsequently cultured on medium containing 10 占IBA for 3 days (for root induction) before transfer to growth regulator free medium. Exposure to auxin can be controlled by addition of riboflavin to the medium as it photo-oxidises auxin when exposed to light. Riboflavin can either be added to the medium or overlayed onto the medium. Although 100% rooting can be achieved with these methods, roots produced on solidified medium are thickened and have few lateral branches and no root hairs, making them difficult to acclimatize. Use of vermiculite moistened with mineral solutions, in place of solidified medium produced roots with improved quality and structure. Plantlets produced after cryopreservation of shoot tips are much more difficult to root and acclimatize as they have a tendency to produce more callus on the cut surface compared to non-cryopreserved controls. The use of vermiculite in place of solidified medium as a last in vitro stage has proved very beneficial for acclimatization of cryopreserved shoots.
Use of Cognitive Assessments across the Continuum of Care on a Single Health Care Campus

s Background: This article describes occupational therapists’(OTs) use of cognitive assessments (standardized and nonstandardized) over 6 months on a healthcare campus. Also described are OTs’ use of the results of cognitive assessments to substantiate recommendations such as family education, safety, discharge disposition, and return to driving. Method: An anonymous, 10-question survey was emailed to over 50 occupational therapists on a healthcare campus in three practice settings: acute hospital, neurological rehabilitation, and outpatient. Survey questions included the use of standardized and nonstandardized cognitive assessments and how results influence occupational therapist’s recommendations and clinical decision-making. Results: Over 80% of the reported tests administered over 6 months were nonstandardized or screening assessments versus 14% standardized assessments. Trends for the use of nonstandardized over standardized tests appeared to be related to time constraints and productivity demands, although comments stated that limited inferences could be made from nonstandardized assessments. Additionally, themes emerged regarding the influence that practice setting has on clinical decision-making and the overall use of cognitive assessments. Conclusion: Across practice settings, OT on this healthcare campus use cognitive assessments and results to provide various recommendations that are influenced by the setting. In all practice settings, therapists more often implement nonstandardized versus standardized assessments to access cognition. Running the continuum of care on a healthcare campus Cognitive
Understanding the Impact of Patients’ Disease Types on Caregiving Time and Caregiver Burden: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey

Background: Patients with different medical conditions often have distinctive caregiving needs that could result in varying levels of caregiver burden. However, despite empirical advances in this area, little is known about how patients’ disease types interact with caregiving time and caregiver burden. To bridge this gap, we examined the impact of patients’ disease types on caregiving time and burden. Methods: Data were analyzed from the 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey 5 Cycle 2. Only participants self-identified as caregivers were included in the final analysis. Data on patients’ disease types, caregiving time (i.e., caregiving duration and caregiving hours spent per week), and caregiver burden (i.e., caregivers’ self-rated health, body mass index, and psychological distress) were examined using logistic regression analysis.Results: Patients’ disease types impacted caregiving time and burden. Caregivers of patients with neurological disease spent the greatest amount of time. For caregiver burden, caregivers of patients with cancer or aging related disease experienced worst self-rated health, caregivers of patients with orthopedic disease have the greatest likelihood to be overweight or obese, while cancer caregivers experienced greatest levels of psychological distress. Conclusions: Patients’ disease types had highly varied effects on caregiving time and burden. This study underscores the need for healthcare researchers to adopt a nuanced approach in acknowledging and addressing the burden of care experienced by caregivers, such as tailoring interventions based on both patients and caregivers’ characteristics and preferences.
Knowledge Management Tools

From the Publisher: The selections in this volume were carefully chosen to represent the strengths and weaknesses, and pros and cons of using technology to support knowledge-based activities. They acknowledge that, although tools alone are not the answer to the difficult questions surrounding knowledge management, if utilized effectively tools can open up new realms of innovation and efficiency for today's knowledge-driven businesses.
Maintenance Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Decisions

Part 1 Maintenance management fundamentals: maintenance management methodologies measurement in maintenance management data acquisition materials management optimization. Part 2 Managing equipment reliability: assessing and managing risk reliability by design - reliability centred maintenance reliability by operator - total productive maintenance. Part 3 Optimizing maintenance decisions: reliability management and maintenance optimization - basic statistics and economics maintenanceoptimization models optimizing maintenance and replacement decisions optimizing condition based maintenance. Part 4 Conclusion: achieving maintenance excellence appendix 1 -mean time to failure appendix 2 - median ranks appendix 3 -censored data appendix 4 - the 3-parameter Weibull function appendix 5 - confidence intervals appendix 6 - estimating (also called fitting) the distribution appendix 7 - Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test appendix 8 - present value appendix 9 -cost of capitalrequired for economic-life decisions appendix 10 - optimal number of workshop machines to meet a fluctuating workload appendix 11 - optimal size of a maintenance workforce to meet a fluctuating workload, taking into account subcontracting opportunities appendix 12 - fuzzy logic appendix 13 - neural nets appendix 14 - optimal interval between preventive replacements of equipment subject to breakdown appendix 15 -optimal preventive replacement age of equipment subject to breakdown appendix 16 -optimal preventive replacement age of equipment subject to breakdown, taking into account the times required to effect failure and preventive replacements appendix 17 - optimal replacement interval for capital equipment -minimization of total cost appendix 18 - optimal replacement age of an asset taking into account tax considerations appendix 19 -optimal replacement policy for capital equipment taking into account technological improvement - finite planning horizon appendix 20 - optimalreplacement policy for capital equipmnent taking into account technological improvement - infinite planning horizon appendix 21 - optimal inspection frequency - minimization of downtime.
Microbial Etiology of Acute Diarrheoa in Children Under Ten Years of Age in Diyala, Iraq / Hospital-Based Study

This study was conducted in the Al Batool Teaching Hospital in Ba’aqubah in Diyala city, from August 2019 to December 2019. In children under 10 years patients suffering from diarrhea with different gastrointestinal complaints, Stool samples were collected from each patients use for microscopic examination and Culture and sensitivity test. Diarrheal diseases are major problem of developing countries. Though precise data on childhood mortality associated with diarrheal diseases in Iraq is not available, it has been estimated that approximately 25% of child death are associated with diarrheal disease, particularly acute diarrhea. The purpose of this study was to detect causative agent of acute diarrhea in children less than 10 years of age. With the study of sensitivity to certain antibiotics. Bacterial pathogen infected cases 30 (60%) male and 20(40%) female, among the total enrolled cases the Escherichia coli was 30(60%), Klebsiella species was 17(34%) and kluyvera ascorbate species was 3 (6%). also the study detected that bacterial infection was found to be of highest percentage, 26(52%) in the age group less than 1year, The least infection2 (4%) was found in group between7-8. There were no detectable cases of bacterial infection among the age group of 9-10 years in this study.Amikacin showed efficacy in 26(96.6%) isolates of E.coli species, also showed efficacy in 16(94.1%)isolate of Klebsiella spp.Amikacin,cefepime,meropenem,gantamicin showed efficacy in 3(100%)isolate of Kluyvera ascorbate.
Rockfall shelters covered by granular layers

ABSTRACT This paper describes an uncoupled approach for the design of rockfall protection tunnels. More precisely, this approach concerns tunnels covered by soil layers, and it derives from the interpretation of real scale tests. Within this approach tools are provided for evaluating the impact force acting at the boulder-soil interface and for describing the propagation of stresses through the soil stratum. The experimental basis and the modelling tools are described in dedicated sections. Engineering considerations about the dynamic excitation of the sheltering tunnel are also suggested on the basis of the behaviour observed during experiments. Finally, a section is devoted to an application of the method.
CONCEPCIÓN ARENAL

O presente artigo pretende analisar a doutrina de Concepción Arenal,enquanto correcionalista, e sua posição social como visitadora decárceres na Espanha do século XIX. Inicialmente, destaca-se o contextohistórico e temporal no qual Arenal estava inserida, a fim decontextualizar seu pensamento no tocante à conjuntura criminológicada época. Nesse sentido, a leitura conduz ao desenvolvimento da EscolaCorrecionalista, tecendo breves apontamentos acerca de suas principaisideias e distinguindo-a dos entendimentos dominantes das EscolasClássica e Positiva. Ademais, tendo como base a influência doutrináriasupramencionada, resgata-se como um contributo a importância davisitação e da inspeção ao sistema carcerário na contemporaneidade.Este estudo é baseado na análise bibliográfica e documental, realizadaa partir de fichamentos feitos com obras de Arenal, bem como empesquisas póstumas desenvolvidas por outros autores a respeito da suarelevância dentro do cárcere.
Effect of Acacia Melanoxylon Fibre Morphology on Papermaking Potential

This paper reports on the relationship between the fibre morphology of six Acacia melanoxylon bleached kraft pulps, produced from wood chips with basic densities of 449, 489, 493, 505, 514 and 616 kg/m3, and their papermaking potential. Six wood samples were selected in order to provide pulps with markedly different fibre morphological properties. The pulps were beaten in a PFI mill at 500, 2500 and 4500 revolutions under a refining intensity of 1.7 N/mm and their papermaking potential evaluated. The mean values of fibre length, fibre width and coarseness ranged between 0.78 and 0.99 mm, 17.8 and 19.4 cm, and 4.8 and 6.2 mg/100 m, respectively. As expected, the fibres characteristics have very high impact on handsheet structure, including smoothness, and on mechanical and optical properties, for the unbeaten pulps. At a given beating input (same PFI revolutions), the differences between pulps remain very high. Moreover, for a given paper density, tensile and tear strength, and light scattering coefficient are very sensitive to mean pulp fibre characteristics.
Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Expansion: Costs, Resources, Production Capacity, and Retail Availability for Low-Carbon Scenarios

The petroleum-based transportation fuel system is complex and highly developed, in contrast to the nascent low-petroleum, low-carbon alternative fuel system. This report examines how expansion of the low-carbon transportation fuel infrastructure could contribute to deep reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the United States transportation sector. Three low-carbon scenarios, each using a different combination of low-carbon fuels, were developed to explore infrastructure expansion trends consistent with a study goal of reducing transportation sector GHG emissions to 80% less than 2005 levels by 2050. This goal was for analytic purposes only. These scenarios were compared to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario and were evaluated with respect to four criteria: fuel cost estimates, resource availability, fuel production capacity expansion, and retail infrastructure expansion. Initial evaluations of these four criteria enable consideration of screening-level questions about fuel infrastructure in the low-petroleum, low-carbon scenarios: 1. How do alternative fuel costs compare to conventional fuel costs? 2. Are low-carbon resources sufficient? 3. How does expansion of alternative fuel production capacity compare to conventional production capacity replacements, upgrades, and expansion? 4. How do costs of providing alternative fuel retail infrastructure compare to conventional retail infrastructure?
Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation

Biometric Systems provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers three main topics: key biometric technologies, design and management issues, and the performance evaluation of biometric systems for personal verification/identification. The four most widely used technologies are focused on - speech, fingerprint, iris and face recognition. Key features include: in-depth coverage of the technical and practical obstacles which are often neglected by application developers and system integrators and which result in shortfalls between expected and actual performance; and protocols and benchmarks which will allow developers to compare performance and track system improvements.