Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intermediate Zonal Jets in the Tropical Pacific Ocean Observed by Argo Floats

AbstractArgo float data in the tropical Pacific Ocean during January 2003–August 2011 are analyzed to obtain Lagrangian subsurface velocities at their parking depths. Maps of mean zonal velocities at 1000 and 1500 m are presented. At both depths, a series of alternating westward and eastward zonal jets with a meridional scale of 1.5° is seen at the basin scale from 10°S to 10°N. These alternating jets, with mean speeds about 5 cm s−1, are clearly present in the western and central parts of the basin but weaken and disappear approaching the eastern coast. They are stronger in the Southern Hemisphere. Along the equator at both 1000 and 1500 m, a westward jet is seen. The jets closer to the equator are remarkably zonally coherent across the basin, but the jets farther poleward appear broken in several segments. In the western half of the basin, the 1000-m zonal jets appear to slant slightly poleward from east to west. At the western boundary in the south (east of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea), the al.
Comparison of Changes in Physical Self-Concept, Global Self-Esteem, Depression and Anxiety following Two Different Psychomotor Therapy Programs in Nonpsychotic Psychiatric Inpatients

Background: The first objective of this study was to compare the changes in physical self-concept, global self-esteem, depression and anxiety after participation in one of two 16-week psychomotor therapy programs for nonpsychotic psychiatric inpatients. The second objective was to study the relationship between changes in these variables. Methods: One hundred and ninety-nine inpatients were randomly assigned to either a personalized psychomotor fitness program, consisting of aerobic exercise and weight training, or a general program of psychomotor therapy, consisting of different forms of physical exercises and relaxation training. Physical self-con cept was evaluated using the Dutch version of the Physical Self-Perception Profile at baseline, after 8 weeks, and after completion of the 16-week interventions. At the same time points, additional variables of global self-esteem, depression and anxiety were assessed by means of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Trait Anxiety Inventory, respectively. Results: After 16 weeks, both groups showed significant improvements in all outcome measures (p values ranged from 0.01 to < 0.0001), with no between-group differences. In both groups, the improvement in physical self-concept was correlated with increased global self-esteem and decreased depression and anxiety levels (p < 0.01). Conclusions: The results suggest that both psychomotor therapy programs are equally effective in enhancing physical self-concept. The relationship between improvements in physical self-concept and enhancements in global self-esteem, depression and anxiety supports the potential role of the physical self-concept in the recovery process of depressed and anxious psychiatric inpatients.
A variability study of regional alveolar oxygen tension measurement in humans using hyperpolarized 3He MRI

A systematic study of the short‐term and long‐term variability of regional alveolar partial pressure of oxygen tension (pAO2) measurements using 3He magnetic resonance imaging was presented. Additionally, the repeatability of the average evaluated pAO2 was compared with that of the standard pulmonary function tests.
Research on near-field obstacle avoidance for unmanned surface vehicle based on heading window

The paper proposes a new kind of near-field reactive obstacle-avoidance method for USV. First, the dynamic window (DW) of USV is calculated according to the kinetic characteristics. Heading window and translational velocity window are obtained by using “divide and conquer” strategy dealing with the dynamic window of USV. At second step, the constraint from obstacles are analyzed by using tangent method, and the excellent navigation angle can be gotten by solving the constraints problem of direction angle, the output rotational velocity of USV can be grasped by navigation angle and heading angle. After then, the translational velocity should be received by the model of translational velocity of USV, which is formed by rotational velocity and the distribution of obstacles. At last, experiments demonstrate that the algorithm is fast, stable and power of suitability, and could satisfy the mission of USV in complicated environment.
New Axial Laminated-Structure Flux-Switching Permanent Magnet Machine With 6/7 Poles

In this paper, one new axially laminated-structure flux-switching permanent magnet machine (ALSFSPMM) with 6/7 (stator/rotor) poles is proposed. Different from the conventional flux-switching permanent magnet machine (FSPMM), the stator and rotor of ALSFSPMM are laminated parallel to the axial direction, which can make full use of PM flux linkage, decrease part magnetic saturation, and reduce the iron loss particularly in the range of high speed. By the 2-D model prediction of finite element algorithm (FEA), ALSFSPMM has lower cogging torque, stronger flux weakening ability, greater torque density, higher efficiency, etc., and hence it is an ideal candidate for the drive system of plug-in hybrid electrical vehicle (PHEV).
Cluster based trust evaluation in ad hoe networks

Trust evaluation is an important aspect in ad hoc networks. By clarifying the trust relationship, we can take security measures easily. In our paper, we propose a new trust model and trust evaluation method. Our trust model is based on the cluster. In the paper, we also explain the clustering method and show how to be applied on the various security problems
Impact of implementing national minimum wage on the Malaysian hotel employees

147 Purpose 147 Design/methodology/approach 147 Findings 147 Research limitation 147 Practical implications 148 Originality/value 148 Introduction 148 Study purpose 151 Relevance and significance of the study 152 Literature Review and Hypotheses Development 154 Methods 164 Participants and procedure 164 Measures 165 Data analysis 165 Results 166 Sample profile 166 Testing the measurement and the causal model 168 Discussion and Conclusions 175 Conclusions 175 Theoretical implications 178 Practical implications 179 Limitations and future research 180 References 181
INCLUSIVE BUSINESS MODEL – STRATEGIC CHALLENGE FOR AGRIBUSINESS CLUSTER MANAGEMENT

The aim of the article is to present the key assump tions of the inclusive business model and the justification for its application in agribusine ss cluster. Scientific considerations were conducted on the basis of theoretical and empirical esearch results. The starting point in the accepted range of considerations was a well-known s tatement that well-managed clusters can shaping the competitiveness not only of its members ut also the economy and contributing to strengthening economic, social and territorial c ohesion. The article consists of three integral parts, in wh ich the strategic dimension of an agribusiness cluster, the essence, and significance of the inclu sive business model and the existing experiences of the AgroBio Cluster in the area of imp le entation of this model were characterised. The authors show that the concept of agribusiness clusters provides a solid basis for adopting a new way of thinking about creating t he competitiveness of food economy entities, taking into account social needs and valu es. Different types of clusters, in particular, agribusiness clusters, can create inclusive groups when an open membership is ensured in their environment, and the willingness of cluster c ooperation is a decisive factor to belong to the cluster. The key factor in the development of c lusters is the inclusive ties, which connect people and organisations from different environment s. Thus, they determine the quality and intensity of partnership in the cluster, strengthen ing the involvement of the cluster community. These and other premises presented in the article, referring to the specificity of agribusiness cluster functioning, confirm emphatically that the inclusive business model may prove to be a valuable tool in the process of achieving the clu ster goals, especially in less-developed regions. Although the implementation of this model is still a strategic challenge in cluster management, its numerous practical advantages justi fy the focus of the coordinator and cluster members efforts on shaping the inclusive business a nd sustainable supply chain within the cluster. In this process, measurable public support is required, both financial and nonfinancial.
Old wine in new bottles?, an exploratory analysis of community-based policing in rural Alberta

In recent years police organizations around the worfd have made a shift in their p hilosophy and style of policing service del ivery. This shift has been away from the reactive, incident driven style of police work Iargely referred to as the professional, bureaucratic, or traditional model of policing. Instead, police agencies have adopted a cornmunity-based approach which emphasizes a police-community partnership in order to facilitate a long-term problem solving approach for dealing with community problems. As a progressive and modern police organization, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has also made this shift in their mode of policing service delivery. Since 1989 the RCMP has made the adoption and implementation of community-based policing one of its top priorities. The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an exploratory analysis of RCMP community-based policing by seeking to answer three primary questions surrounding this issue. The study itself is cornposed of three distinct stages of research using a qualitative research methodology. This study is facilitated by way of an analysis of RCMP policy documents, telephone interviews with key informants, and in-person interviews with front-line RCMP respondents in rural Alberta. The research indicates that while the adoption of community-based policing has meant a change in the practices of the RCMP at the rural detachment level, there is still room for improvement in this regard. A significant finding is that many front-line members of the RCMP steadfastly believe that community-based policing has always been practised by the Force, while other evidence clearly shows that this is not the case. It has also been found that recent rieo-Foucaultian theones of govemance and risk management provide a useful framework for the analysis of the developrnent and current state of community-based policing efforts of the RCMP. This thesis concludes that h i l e substantial progress has been made by the RCMP to adopt and implement community-based policing practices over the past several years it is important that these efforts continue. This is necessary in order to ensure that the rhetoric of community-based policing becomes a reality in the lives of the members of the RCMP across this country.
Movement Operations after Syntax

We develop a theory of movement operations that occur after the syntactic derivation, in the PF component, within the framework of Distributed Morphology.The theory is an extension of what was called Morphological Merger in Marantz 1984 and subsequent work.A primary result is that the locality properties of a Merger operation are determined by the stage in the derivation at which the operation takes place: specifically, Merger that takes place before Vocabulary Insertion, on hierarchical structures, differs from Merger that takes place postVocabulary Insertion/linearization.Specific predictions of the model are tested in numerous case studies.Analyses showing the interaction of syntactic movement, PF movement, and rescue operations are provided as well, including a treatment of Englishdo-support.
Novel Four Cross Slot Radiator With Tuning Vias for Circularly Polarized SIW Linear Array

A substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) linear array is presented with a new circularly polarized (CP) element. The single radiator consists of four cross tilted slots. In addition, a pair of tuning metallic vias is included to improve the reflection of longest slots. A 16-element antenna prototype with -26-dB Taylor distribution and 1.5% residual power was designed, manufactured and measured to verify the new slot performance in an array configuration. A 17-dB peak gain, 1.86-dB axial ratio and 80% radiation efficiency were experimentally achieved at 17 GHz. A 3% usable bandwidth was obtained owing to frequency main beam tilt dispersion.
Theory of nondegenerate four-wave mixing between pulses in a semiconductor waveguide

We develop a perturbation theory for calculating the effects of saturation on nondegenerate four-wave mixing between short optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Saturation due to ultrafast intraband dynamics like carrier heating and spectral hole burning is found to be important for pulses on the order of 10-20 ps or less.
International Randomized Clinical Trial, Stroke Inpatient Rehabilitation With Reinforcement of Walking Speed (SIRROWS), Improves Outcomes

Background. Feedback about performance may optimize motor relearning after stroke. Objectives . Develop an international collaboration to rapidly test the potential efficacy of daily verbal feedback about walking speed during inpatient rehabilitation after stroke, using a protocol that requires no research funds. Methods . This phase 2, single-blinded, multicenter trial randomized inpatients to either feedback about self-selected fast walking speed (daily reinforcement of speed, DRS) immediately after a single, daily 10-m walk or to no reinforcement of speed (NRS) after the walk, performed within the context of routine physical therapy. The primary outcome was velocity for a 15.2-m (50-foot) timed walk at discharge. Secondary outcomes were walking distance in 3 minutes, length of stay (LOS), and level of independence (Functional Ambulation Classification, FAC). Results. Within 18 months, 179 participants were randomized. The groups were balanced for age, gender, time from onset of stroke to entry, initial velocity, and level of walking-related disability. The walking speed at discharge for DRS (0.91 m/s) was greater (P = .01) than that for NRS (0.72 m/s). No difference was found for LOS. LOS for both DRS and NRS was significantly shorter, however, for those who had mean walking speeds >0.4 m/s at entry. The DRS group did not have a higher proportion of FAC independent walkers (P = .1) and did not walk longer distances ( P = .09). Conclusions. An Internet-based collaboration of 18 centers found that feedback about performance once a day produced gains in walking speed large enough to permit unlimited, slow community ambulation at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.
Development of Virtual Reality Systems for Tests and Rehabilitation of Patients with Hemispatial Neglect

In the present study, we have developed a virtual reality system for tests and rehabilitation of patients with hemispatial neglect. The system is more compact, portable and easy to set up than the old system the authors previously proposed. Because the system can measure the subject's eyesight information online, we can make rehabilitation scenarios based on eyesight feedback. This technique enabled healthy subjects to become simulated patients with hemispatial neglect by vanishing objects existing in the left side of the point of view. In addition, two kinds of tasks of the training scenario were proposed by using the subject's eyesight information. The results of the experiment showed that the simulated patients also shifted their gazes toward the intact side and that a dynamic cue was effective for encouraging their attention to direct to the neglected side.
Investigating the competitive intelligence practices of Peruvian fresh grapes exporters

This paper reports an empirical study of Peruvian fresh grapes exporters with theaim of delineating the behavioral and operational typology of their competitive intelligencepractices. Cluster analysis was used as an exploratory tool to determine the correlation, if any,between the size of the company, grapes exports share of total exports, the percentage of theRed Globe variety in total grapes exports and the size of the grape farm with the typology andthe average price received at export between August 2016 and July 2017. The behavioral andoperational typology of competitive intelligence practices model, developed by Wright et al,(2012), was used. The findings reveal that exporters have a positive behavior towardscompetitive intelligence practices, but cannot make good use of them due to a lack of knowledge,and deficiencies in organization and in technological and IT systems support. As 37 companiesparticipated in this experiment, this study could be extended to all non-traditional Peruvianagricultural exports. It has been possible to identify areas where changes are needed to enablethese exporters to perform at a higher level of competence. In addition, it appeared that aslightly higher level of attitude and IT systems support pays off as medium-sized companiesachieved a higher price per ton compared to big companies. This study is the first to present atypology of competitive intelligence practices in Peru and is one of the very first to studycompetitive intelligence in this country and agriculture.
Code Design for Non-Coherent MIMO-OFDM Systems ∗

Recently, the use of coherent space-frequency coding in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based frequency-selective multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) antenna fading channels has been proposed [1, 2]. Acquiring knowledge of the fading coefficients in a MIMO channel is already very challenging in the flat-fading case. In the frequency-selective case, estimating the MIMO channel becomes significantly more difficult due to the presence of multiple paths, which results in an increased number of channel coefficients. In this paper, we address code design for non-coherent frequency-selective MIMO-OFDM fading links, where neither the transmitter nor the receiver knows the channel. We derive the design criteria and quantify the maximum achievable diversity gain. We demonstrate that unlike in the coherent case, non-coherent space-frequency codes designed to achieve full spatial diversity in the flat-fading case can fail completely to exploit not only frequency diversity but also spatial diversity when used in frequency-selective fading environments. Such codes are termed “catastrophic”. Finally, we provide explicit constructions of full-diversity (space and frequency) achieving codes and assess their performance through simulation results.
Enhanced recovery of subsurface geological structures using compressed sensing and the Ensemble Kalman filter

Recovering information on subsurface geological features, such as flow channels, holds significant importance for optimizing the productivity of oil reservoirs. The flow channels exhibit high permeability in contrast to low permeability rock formations in their surroundings, enabling formulation of a sparse field recovery problem. The Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used technique for the estimation of subsurface parameters, such as permeability. However, the EnKF often fails to recover and preserve the channel structures during the estimation process. Compressed Sensing (CS) has shown to significantly improve the reconstruction quality when dealing with such problems. We propose a new scheme based on CS principles to enhance the reconstruction of subsurface geological features by transforming the EnKF estimation process to a sparse domain representing diverse geological structures. Numerical experiments suggest that the proposed scheme provides an efficient mechanism to incorporate and preserve structural information in the estimation process and results in significant enhancement in the recovery of flow channel structures.
Strategic management : an analytical introduction

Part I: The Business Policy Framework. 1. Introduction to Business Policy. 2. Strategic Managers and Strategic Planning. 3. Values Culture and Power. 4. Mission and Objectives. Part II: External Analysis. 5. Environmental Analysis. 6. Customer and Competitor Analysis. 7. Understanding Industries and Markets. Part III: Analysing Resources and Capabilities. 8. Internal Audit. 9. Financial Analysis. 10. Analysing Performance. 11. Sources of Competitive Advantage. Part IV: Identifying Strategic Alternatives. 12. Strategic Direction. 13. Global Strategies. 14. Strategies for Declining Industries. 15. Corporate Collapse and Turnaround. Part V: Strategic Choice. 16. Acquisition and Divestment. 17. Strategic Alliances. 18. Competitive Strategies. 19. Deciding on Future Strategy. Part VI: Implementing Strategies. 20. Implementing Strategy.
Three-phase voltage regulation using variable reactors

Dispersed generation and its connection to distribution networks have attracted the attention of many researchers. The connection causes voltage deviation beyond prescribed voltage quality criteria, which is not only the magnitude but also the imbalance of three-phase voltage, since distributed generators with rather small capacities adopt single-phase connections. We investigate the voltage regulation with variable reactors, and we propose the "optimum phase difference algorithm" to decide each reactance for a typical radial distribution system with three-phase and three-wire. The characteristics of the control with this algorithm are also discussed using computer simulation studies.
Multiport Railway Power Conditioner and Its Management Control Strategy With Renewable Energy Access

To achieve the mutual benefits between railway systems and renewable energy systems, a multiport railway power conditioner (MP-RPC) with the renewable energy access is proposed to realize the on-site power consumption and negative-sequence compensation. Its power-flow management strategy with five classic operation modes is proposed and analyzed for MP-RPC. The key part of MP-RPC is three-port isolated dc/dc converters, which can be used for the isolation and power transmission. Through the small-signal modeling and analysis of the three-port converter, the port power control strategy with feed-forward decoupling is applied. The coupling system is decoupled into two independent control loops based on the feed-forward decoupling matrix, which can effectively improve the dynamic performance of system. Finally, the traction power platform and simulated prototype are built in the Laboratory, and the topology and control methods of MP-RPC are verified effectively.