Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Control Strategy for Five-Phase Dual-Stator Winding Induction Starter/Generator System

This paper presents an integrated control strategy for a starter/generator (S/G) system based on five-phase dual-stator winding induction machine (FPDWIM). The FPDWIM has a cage-type rotor and two sets of stator windings. One is a five-phase control winding (CW), and the other is a five-phase power winding (PW). In the starting mode, the FPDWIM works as a motor. The CW provides both active power and reactive power to drive the engine. In the generating mode, the CW mainly handles reactive power while the PW outputs active power. To achieve the integration of the starting and generating controls, indirect CW-flux-oriented control (ICWFOC) to operate in both starting and generating modes is proposed in this paper. In starting mode, the CW current and flux are controlled to output a constant starting torque; while in the generating mode, both CW and PW dc bus voltages are regulated. In this way, the principles and structures of the control strategies in both modes are compatible, resulting in a simpler implementation and improved performance. With the proposed control strategy, the system can complete the starting–generating operation with a smoother transition process. Simulation and experimental results are compared to validate the proposed control strategy.
Comparison of powered wheelchair driving performance in a real and in a simulated environment

Powered wheelchairs (PW) are instrumental in promoting participation in meaningful life activities for individuals with impaired mobility. Because of their weight and speed, training is required. It is however often difficult to provide training in the clinic, due to lack of space or concerns for safety. The McGill Immersive Wheelchair simulator has been developed to provide a robust platform for the assessment and training of PW driving skills. In this study, we compared PW driving performance, as measured by the number of joystick movements and task completion time, in real and simulated environments. We found that driving performance in the simulator was similar for simpler tasks such as forward turns. Driving performance was significantly different for the more difficult tasks and for those requiring backward driving, such as a lateral maneuver. Overall, users experienced a strong sense of presence in the simulator and felt that it adequately reflected reality. Further developments are planned to optimize the simulator and joystick control in order to provide an effective evaluation and training tool.
Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese

We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatment as binary, shows gradient effects on pronoun choice- while te is the preferred DO pronoun overall, você is the variant preferred in contrastive contexts, especially in cases of double contrast. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------EVIDÊNCIAS EXPERIMENTAIS POR PREFERÊNCIAS PRONOMINAIS DE OBJETOS DIRETOS DE 2SG EM PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIROExaminamos a competição no português brasileiro entre o pronome clítico te e o tônico você para a expressão de objetos diretos de segunda pessoa singular (Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). Apresentamos dados recolhidos de um questionário, e analizados utilizando a regressão logística de efeitos mistos, para mostrar que tanto a preferência do pronome de sujeito (você/tu) quanto o contraste têm um papel importante na escolha do pronome de objeto direto. Também, o contraste, apesar do tratamento tradicional como binário, mostra efeitos gradáveis na escolha de pronome- enquanto o te é preferido em termos globais, você é preferido em contextos contrastivos, especialmente nos casos de duplo contraste. ---Original em inglês.
Are Newer-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents More Effective in Women than Early-Generation Ones?

Evidence-based research is increasingly aimed at differentiating between no proof of difference (failed demonstration of superiority) and proof of no difference (demonstration of equivalence). The latter requires that equivalence margins are incorporated in the analysis of outcomes. We applied an analysis of equivalence to study the incremental benefit of newer-generation vs early-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) in women receiving percutaneous coronary intervention. The clinical material was derived from published data. Our equivalence testing was focused on the end-point of target-lesion revascularisation (TLR). Results were expressed as rate differences (RDs), while the equivalence margins (±2.9%) were derived from the statistical power calculations of a recent trial. Our results clearly indicated that, in women, there was an equivalent effectiveness between newer-generation and early-generation of DES.
Organizational Effectiveness Reputation in the Nonprofit Sector

ABSTRACT: Public organizations are increasingly relying on nonprofit partners for the delivery of public services, a trend that makes performance assessments of nonprofit organizations important for the allocation of government resources. However, nonprofits engage multiple stakeholders, and this leads to complex sets of organizational goals and highly subjective assessments of nonprofit effectiveness. We develop a literature-based model to understand the subjective assessments of organizational performance by stakeholders that taken together constitute an organization’s effectiveness reputation. In this model, effectiveness reputation is impacted by stakeholder trust and satisfaction, which are in turn impacted by output ambiguity and stakeholder involvement. We find support for our model with a structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis based on survey data of organizational stakeholders (n = 284). We propose further research steps and highlight practical implications for nonprofit managers and public administrators.
Methodological Considerations Concerning the Use of Bruxcore Plates to Evaluate Nocturnal Bruxism

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Bruxcore Plate (BP) as a dependent measure of nocturnal bruxing activity. As part of a bruxism treatment study, we evaluated 100 nocturnal bruxers for bruxing activity before, during, and immediately after treatment and again at a six-month recall. The first 40 subjects wore both a BP and an EMG (electromyographic) unit for every night of each 14-night evaluation period (bcrseline; post-treatment; six-month recall). During the treatment period, these subjects wore the EMG unit but no Bruxcore Plates. Another 40 subjects wore the EMG unit and never used Bruxcore Plates. We evaluated a 20-subject no-treatment control group by two methods. Ten control subjects were evaluated with the EMG unit and the BP and another ten with the EMG unit alone. We hypothesized that the BP would not measure the same construct as an accepted EMG measure of bruxing activity, and that the BP would effect changes in EMG measured nocturnal bruxing activity. The results supported the conclusions that the BP did not measure the same construct as the EMG measure, and that the BP did effect changes in nocturnal bruxing activity. Correlations of BP scores with EMG data for equivalent measurement periods were low or non-existent. For the control group and the massed practice (negative practice) treatment group, there were significant interaction effects for EMG-measured bruxing episodes per hour for BP vs. no-BP Groups, with respect to measurement periods (time). Interpretation of these results indicated that BP evaluation of nocturnal bruxing activity was confounded with measurable treatment effects.
Design and analysis of on-interposer active power distribution network for an efficient simultaneous switching noise suppression in 2.5D IC

Simultaneous switching noise (SSN) occurs when clock synchronized core circuits switch simultaneously. Furthermore, a huge amount of the SSN generated by simultaneous switching current (SSC) with high power distribution network (PDN) impedance at anti-resonance can cause electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems and logic failure. In multi-core processors, the spectrum of SSC is varied by power management techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). However, conventional PDN cannot respond to these various SSC spectrum due to its passive characteristics. In this paper, an externally controllable on-interposer decoupling capacitance scheme, namely on-interposer active PDN, is proposed to efficiently suppress the SSN in 2.5D IC. The proposed scheme designed on the active silicon interposer can shift the frequency of the PDN anti-resonance peak with on-interposer decoupling capacitors controlled by external switching operation based on monitored SSN voltage. To verify the proposed scheme, it is modeled and analyzed in the frequency and time domain simulations. We have demonstrated that an efficient SSN suppression is achieved by obtaining the optimum on-interposer decoupling capacitance and the maximum ratio of the SSN suppression was 31.3%.
Common and isolate-restricted antigens of Anaplasma marginale detected with monoclonal antibodies

Anaplasma marginale-infected erythrocytes were examined for the presence of maturation, isolate-restricted, and isolate-common antigens by indirect immunofluorescence with monoclonal antibodies. A panel of 18 monoclonal antibodies was used; none of the antibodies reacted with Anaplasma ovis, Babesia bigemina, babesia bovis, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense, or uninfected bovine erythrocytes. Antigens common to all six A. marginale isolates were detected by nine antibodies. Single isolates from Florida, Southern Idaho, Northern Texas, and Virginia and two isolates from Washington state had four patterns of reactivity with a second panel of nine antibodies. Antigenically distinct stages were not detected, as sequential smears taken daily during acute infection had the same pattern of reactivity. The results demonstrate antigenic heterogeneity among isolates of A. marginale and the presence of common antigens. This information allows grouping of different isolates and, more importantly, provides a method for the identification and isolation of common antigens for diagnostic tests.
A non-parametric density kernel in density peak based clustering

Density peak (DP) based clustering algorithm is a recently proposed clustering approach and has been shown to be with great potential. This algorithm is based on the simple assumption that cluster centers have high local density and they are relatively far from each other. This observation is used to isolate cluster centers from other data. By making use of the density relationship among neighboring data, the non-center data can be grouped into their respective clusters efficiently. Local density calculation is a key step of the DP algorithm and it influences the intermediate calculation and final result. Existing density kernels usually involve parameters which impact on density values and clustering results. In this paper we present a non-parametric density kernel based on the properties of the dominant sets algorithm. We firstly show that the weights of data in a dominant set can be used as a measure of local density. Then an efficient method is proposed to reduce the computation load. We use experiments on different types of datasets and comparison with other algorithms demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Keynesian Macroeconomics and the Theory of Economic Growth: Putting Aggregate Demand Back in the Picture

The Economics of Demand-Led Growth is a collection of specially written essays that develop and apply the theory of demand-led growth. Long-run growth is usually portrayed as a supply-determined process. The contributions to this volume, however, are rooted in the theory of demand-led growth. In addition to general discussions of the role of demand in the long-run, the volume contains essays in the Kaldorian and Kaleckian traditions, and a section on the relationship between demand-led growth and structural change. The conclusion reached is that current neglect of the role of demand in analyses of long-run growth is unwarranted.
Complete Genome Sequence of Seawater Bacterium Glaciecola nitratireducens FR1064T

ABSTRACT Glaciecola nitratireducens strain FR1064T was isolated from seawater and described as a new species by Baik et al. in 2006. The genome size is about 1.01 to 1.26 Mb smaller than two reported Glaciecola genomes, indicating the gain or loss of large genome segments in the evolution of Glaciecola strains.
Towards a distributed connectionist account of cognates and interlingual homographs: evidence from semantic relatedness tasks

Background Current models of how bilinguals process cognates (e.g., “wolf”, which has the same meaning in Dutch and English) and interlingual homographs (e.g., “angel”, meaning “insect’s sting” in Dutch) are based primarily on data from lexical decision tasks. A major drawback of such tasks is that it is difficult—if not impossible—to separate processes that occur during decision making (e.g., response competition) from processes that take place in the lexicon (e.g., lateral inhibition). Instead, we conducted two English semantic relatedness judgement experiments. Methods In Experiment 1, highly proficient Dutch–English bilinguals (N = 29) and English monolinguals (N = 30) judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs that included a cognate (e.g., “wolf”–“howl”; n = 50), an interlingual homograph (e.g., “angel”–“heaven”; n = 50) or an English control word (e.g., “carrot”–“vegetable”; n = 50). In Experiment 2, another group of highly proficient Dutch–English bilinguals (N = 101) read sentences in Dutch that contained one of those cognates, interlingual homographs or the Dutch translation of one of the English control words (e.g., “wortel” for “carrot”) approximately 15 minutes prior to completing the English semantic relatedness task. Results In Experiment 1, there was an interlingual homograph inhibition effect of 39 ms only for the bilinguals, but no evidence for a cognate facilitation effect. Experiment 2 replicated these findings and also revealed that cross-lingual long-term priming had an opposite effect on the cognates and interlingual homographs: recent experience with a cognate in Dutch speeded processing of those items 15 minutes later in English but slowed processing of interlingual homographs. However, these priming effects were smaller than previously observed using a lexical decision task. Conclusion After comparing our results to studies in both the bilingual and monolingual domain, we argue that bilinguals appear to process cognates and interlingual homographs as monolinguals process polysemes and homonyms, respectively. In the monolingual domain, processing of such words is best modelled using distributed connectionist frameworks. We conclude that it is necessary to explore the viability of such a model for the bilingual case. Data, scripts, materials and pre-registrations. Experiment 1: http://www.osf. io/ndb7p; Experiment 2: http://www.osf. io/2at49.
How Narcissistic Employees Respond to Abusive Supervision: Two Roles of Narcissism in Decreasing Perception and Increasing Deviance

Abusive supervision, a type of interpersonal mistreatment from direct supervisors toward subordinates, has received growing attention in leadership research. However, the role of narcissism related to abusive supervision is still unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of narcissism with subordinates' perceptions of abusive supervision and deviance toward the supervisor. Ratings on the aforementioned variables were collected from 403 full-time employees at two different times with one week in between (95 men, 308 women; M age = 26.0 yr.; M tenure = 5.1 yr.). The results of regression analyses showed that narcissism was significantly and negatively related to abusive supervision. Moreover, narcissism moderated the positive relationship between abusive supervision and deviance toward the supervisor.
Accessing flexibility of electric vehicles for smart grid integration

The rising awareness of the limitation of resources and the environmental impact of CO2 emissions in combination with the technological progress in the last decades brought electric vehicles back on the market. Contrary to the still mainstreaming passenger cars with internal combustion engine, electric cars do not necessarily depend on a CO2-emmitting process as power source if they are equipped with a charging interface for the internal battery. The fact that an infrastructure for electricity already exists is beneficial in terms of power availability and the possibility to use renewable energy sources for charging. But the challenging aspect is that the capacity of the electrical grid was originally neither designed for the additional load by electric vehicles nor for the simultaneously ongoing energy transition from conventional to renewable energy generation. However, the fact that an average vehicle is most of the time parking and potentially connected to the grid makes an electric vehicle flexible regarding the charging time schedule. This flexibility can be utilized in a smart grid context. Researchers are involved with this topic for several years now and many findings have already been published. The objective of this paper is to give an overview over already investigated problems and developed solutions. Therefore a general map of aspects which outline the problem of grid integration and the utilization of the electric vehicles flexibility is presented. The report on the review of papers shows which topics have been investigated and what methods have been used.
New Designs for Deep Brain Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

New applications for transcranial magnetic stimulation are developing rapidly for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Therefore, so is the demand for improved performance, particularly in terms of the ability to stimulate deeper regions of the brain and to do so selectively. The coil designs that are used presently are limited in their ability to stimulate the brain at depth and with high spatial focality. Consequently, any improvement in coil performance would have a significant impact in extending the usefulness of TMS in both clinical applications and academic research studies. New and improved coil designs have been developed, modeled, and tested as a result of this work. A large magnetizing coil, 300 mm in diameter and compatible with a commercial TMS system, has been constructed to determine its feasibility for use as a deep brain stimulator. This coil, used in a Helmholtz configuration, can produce 105 V/m at the surface of the head and 93 V/m at a depth of 15.2 mm compared to a single turn 60 mm coil which produces 82.6 V/m at the surface and only 15 V/m at 15.2 mm. The results of this work have suggested directions that could be pursued in order to further improve the coil designs.
Comparative study of physico-chemical parameters with national and international standard and the insect community of Erelu Reservoir in Oyo town, Oyo State, Nigeria

Assessment of water bodies is very crucial to determine its quality and proffer solution before it has an adverse impact on its biota and direct users of the water body. Insect communities and physico-chemical parameters in comparison with national and international criteria of Erelu Reservoir were investigated to determine their impacts on insect community of the reservoir. Water and insect macro-invertebrates sampling was done once in every month from June 2013-May 2015 from each station of Erelu Reservoir. Insects were collected using net of mesh size of 250 µm to swap the surface of water. Insects collected were identified with standard identification guide. Water samples were analyzed using standard method. Data collected from physico-chemical parameters were analysed using descriptive statistics. Relationship between physico-chemical parameters and insect macro-invertebrates was determined using pearson’s correlation coefficient (r). Species diversity, evenness and richness were examined using Margalef, Shannon Weinner and Equitability indexes. The results of physico-chemical parameters revealed that turbidity values (12.48±3.00 Ntu) were higher than the required limits of WHO and NESREA (5.00 Ntu) criteria, while nitrate (1.14±0.15 mg/L) and phosphate (0.21±0.08 mg/L) values were below the recommended standard of NESREA (9-10 and 3.50 mg/L). A total of 4 orders (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and Odonata) having 72,276 individual insect macro-invertebrates were collected. Hemiptera were the most abundant (91.57%) among the insects encountered. Transparency had positive significant relationship with Hemiptera (0.880) and Odonata (0.675), Ca2+, Mg2+, DO, TDS, NO3-, TA. Turbidity, pH, Temp. and EC had negative correlation with orders of Coleoptera, Diptera and Odonata at (P<0.05). Turbidity had direct correlation with Diptera (0.0731) at (P<0.05). The present study revealed that the water quality parameters value were within standard limits and had little impacts on the insect abundance and richness. The low nutrients and high turbidity indicate low productivity of water body, thus, tending towards deterioration if proper management of the reservoir is not adopted. Key words: Water quality parameters, macro-invertebrates, richness, diversity, nesrea, turbidity.
C1q nephropathy: a variant of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

BACKGROUND C1q nephropathy is a poorly understood and controversial entity with distinctive immunopathologic features. In order to better define the clinical-pathologic spectrum, we report the largest single-center series. METHODS Nineteen biopsies with C1q nephropathy were identified from among 8909 native kidney biopsies received from 1994 to 2002 (0.21%). Defining criteria included (1). dominant or co-dominant immunofluorescence staining for C1q, (2). mesangial electron dense deposits, and (3). no clinical or serologic evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). RESULTS The 19 patients were predominantly African American (73.7%), female (73.7%), young adults and children (range, 3 to 42 years; mean, 24.2 years). Presentation included nephrotic range proteinuria (78.9%), nephrotic syndrome (50%), renal insufficiency (27.8%), and hematuria (22.2%). No patient had hypocomplementemia or evidence of underlying autoimmune or infectious disease. Renal biopsy revealed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in 17 (including six collapsing and two cellular) and minimal-change disease (MCD) in two. All biopsies displayed co-deposits of immunoglobulin G (IgG), with more variable IgM (84.2%), IgA (31.6%), and C3 (52.6%). Foot process effacement varied from 20% to 100% (mean, 51%). Twelve of 16 patients with available follow-up received immunosuppressive therapy. One patient had complete remission of proteinuria and six had partial remission. Four patients with FSGS pattern had progressive renal insufficiency, including two who reached end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Median time from biopsy to ESRD was 81 months. On multivariate analysis, the best correlate of renal insufficiency at biopsy and at follow-up was the degree of tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis (P = 0.0495 and 0.0341, respectively). CONCLUSION C1q nephropathy falls within the clinical-pathologic spectrum of MCD/FSGS. Although further studies are needed to determine the pathomechanism of C1q deposition, we hypothesize that it may be a non-specific marker of increased mesangial trafficking in the setting of glomerular proteinuria.