Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Combined centralized and distributed resource allocation for green D2D communications

When integrating device-to-device (D2D) communications with densely deployed cellular networks, both energy efficiency (EE) and quality of service (QoS) will be severely degraded by strong intracell and intercell interference. To optimize EE while guaranteeing QoS provisioning, a three-stage energy-efficient resource allocation algorithm is proposed, which combines centralized interference mitigation and distributed power allocation algorithms by exploiting multi-cell cooperations, nonco-operative game, nonlinear fractional programming, and Lagrange dual decomposition. Simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed algorithm achieves a nearly zero infeasibility ratio, and improves EE performance significantly for both cellular and D2D user equipments (UEs) compared to the previous distributed scheme.
Applicability research of smart camera for the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV )

As the commonly used low-end digital cameras are not made for measurement, we need to know accurate inside orientation elements in order to perform three-dimensional measurement using them. To this end, we must go through camera calibration(Jaehong Oh, etc,. 2006). However, The rapid development of digital camera technology made it possible for non-metric digital camera sensors to reach tens of millions pixels. With this opportunity, we began to easily acquire images with non-metric digital cameras and use digital cameras for a variety of purposes in the field of photogrammetry that was carried out only with metric cameras. This research deals with applicability of smart camera for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) application.
Three dimensional numerical study of the propulsion system based on rotating detonation using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

This paper presents the application of modern numerical methods and the technique of Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) to the simulation of Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) in three-dimensional space. The proposed numerical simulation model has been implemented into an in-house code REFLOPS USG. Due to the limitation of computational resources only a large structure of the detonation wave is simulated. However the obtained numerical solution seems to be reasonably accurate in terms of the most important flow parameters of the detonative combustion chamber. A comparison to experimental data is provided either.
Portraying and modelling the Okavango delta , Botswana

The Okavango wetland in Botswana is one of Africa’s and the world’s most pristine inland delta areas. The delta is fed by the Okavango River and its tributaries Cubango and Cuito in Angola that passes through Namibia and spreads out as an alluvial fan (delta) over the Kalahari sand until only a small stream remains (Fig 1). Namibia, one of the driest countries in southern Africa, wants to extract water for its capital Windhoek from the Okavango river, Angola have plans for hydropower production. For Botswana the wetland is a refuge for agriculture and tourism development.
Evaluation of Active Hong Kong Equity Funds Performance

Equity funds are the most popular type of mutual funds. As the “leader” of China's investment and wealth management market, whether it is a specific market sector, a particular stock exchange, foreign or domestic markets, income or growth stocks, high or low risk, there are various types and characteristics of equity funds to match every risk situation and investment objective that investors may have. The development of equity funds has driven the development of China's economy and capital markets. Hong Kong, as one of the most well-developed equity funds system in China, how institutional and individual investors invest in the Hong Kong equity fund market is a topic worth discussing. This paper measures the performance of Hong Kong unit trust funds during the period from 2008 to 2017. We use the Hong Kong tracker fund as the benchmark. The Sharpe-ratio, Jensen’s alpha, Treynor-ratio and single index model are used to evaluate the performance. The empirical results show that the equity funds outperform in the Hong Kong market. Based on the result, a recommendation can be made that investors are better off randomly choosing an active fund rather than a passive fund in general.
July 5-10 , 2015 ; Antwerp , Belgium O-15-6 1 CO 2 conversion in a microwave plasma reactor in the presence of N 2 : modelling and experimental validation

We present a chemical kinetics model for a CO2/N2 microwave plasma, with special emphasis on the vibrational levels of both CO2 and N2. The model results, like CO2 and N2 conversion, and the energy efficiency, are in reasonable agreement with experiments, for different power densities and for N2 fractions in the CO2/N2 gas mixture ranging from 0 till 90%. The observed trends are explained based on the destruction processes of CO2, and on the vibrational distribution functions of CO2.
Fabrication of ZnO Thin Film Sensor for CO 2 Monitoring

The flexible carbon dioxide sensor is a prospective technology for the extensive application of oSAW device. The purpose of this study is to optimize the crystallization of ZnO film for a carbon dioxide sensor by sol-gel technology and inkjet technology. The flexible CO2 sensor composes of a ZnO layer sandwiched in between a flexible sheet, IDT electrode layer, and top sensor layer. The ZnO thin film uses the sol-gel method and spin coating. Triethanolamine adds into ZnO solution to promote the robust of ZnO film. The IDT of the top electrode layer is nano silver by inkjet printing technology. Finally, Triethanolamine film is coated as the CO2 sensor layer. The center operating frequency of this SAW CO2 sensor is measured by the vector network analyzer. The results prove that the significant deviation of frequency resulted from the absorption of CO2 is observed. The characteristics of this CO2 sensor is thin, portable and flexible. The improvement of fabricated parameters will enhance the effect of sensing of this saw CO2 sensor in future.
Spectral Spatial Classification Of Hyper Spectral Image Using Mean Shift Clustering

-We propose a novel approach for solving the perceptual grouping problem in vision. Rather than focusing on local features and their consistencies in the image data, our approach aims at extracting the global impression of an image. In existing method image segmentation using the normalized cut. The normalized cut criterion measures both the total dissimilarity between the different groups as well as the total similarity within the groups. We show that an efficient computational technique based on a generalized Eigen value problem can be used to optimize this criterion. In our proposed method mean shift algorithm is used for segmenting the region. It requires low computational complexity and is therefore very feasible for real-time image segmentation processing. It preprocesses an image by using the MS algorithm to form segmented regions that preserve the desirable discontinuity characteristics of the image
The Pennsylvania State University College of the Liberal Arts LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN TEMPERAMENT AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL OUTCOMES IN YOUNG CHILDREN: THE MODERATING ROLE OF RSA REACTIVITY A Thesis in Psychology by

Temperament is an important predictor of socioemotional adjustment, such as externalizing and internalizing disorders (Kagan & Fox, 2006; Rothbart & Bates, 2006; Pérez-Edgar & Fox, 2005). However, there is not a one-to-one correspondence between temperamental predispositions and these outcomes, implying that other factors also contribute to the development of internalizing and externalizing problems. Selfregulation is believed to interact with temperament, and hence, has also been studied as an important predictor for later socio-emotional outcomes (Rothbart, 2011). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a psychophysiological measure of self-regulation (Beauchaine, 2001; Porges, 2007) that has been found to moderate the relation between other types of risk (e.g., parental drinking, marital conflict, domestic violence) and socioemotional disorders (El-Sheikh, 2001; El-Sheikh et al., 2001; Katz, 2007). The primary aim of the present study was to test RSA reactivity as a moderator of the relation between temperament in infancy and externalizing and internalizing problems at kindergarten entry. Results showed that RSA moderated the relation between exuberant and fearful temperament and externalizing behaviors. However, these results were different for boys and girls. The fearful temperament predicted later internalizing problems, but no moderation was present in predicting internalizing problems. These results are discussed in light of recent evidence regarding gender differences in the role of RSA as a protective factor for risk. Finally, this study explores RSA trajectories as moderators of the relations between early temperament and socioemotional problems.
STUDY OF JUNCTION FLOW STRUCTURES WITH DIFFERENT TURBULENCE MODELS

In the present study, we conducted a series of computations to investigate the effects of turbulence models on the the development of horseshoe vortices for flow past a finite wing mounted on a flat plate. The cross section of the wing is a combination of a semi-ellipse at the nose and a NACA0020 airfoil at the tail which join each other at the location of maximum thickness. The Reynolds number is 5  10, based on the chord length of the wing, c. The maximum thickness is 0.235c and the span of the wing is 0.75c. Both the linear and nonlinear models were employed. The former include Spalart-Allmaras model (1-equation model), standard k- model, realizable k- model, and SST k- model (2-equation models) and the latter are the V2-f model and the Reynolds stress model. The results show that different models may lead to significantly different numerical solutions. While some of them are closer to the experimental data, the others differ quite significantly.
Characterization of the Enzymatic Properties of the Yeast Dna2 Helicase/Endonuclease Suggests a New Model for Okazaki Fragment Processing*

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2, which contains single-stranded DNA-specific endonuclease activity, interacts genetically and physically with Fen-1, a structure-specific endonuclease implicated in Okazaki fragment maturation during lagging strand synthesis. In this report, we investigated the properties of the Dna2 helicase/endonuclease activities in search of their in vivo physiological functions in eukaryotes. We found that the Dna2 helicase activity translocates in the 5′ to 3′ direction and uses DNA with free ends as the preferred substrate. Furthermore, the endonucleolytic cleavage activity of Dna2 was markedly stimulated by the presence of an RNA segment at the 5′-end of single-stranded DNA and occurred within the DNA, ensuring the complete removal of the initiator RNA segment on the Okazaki fragment. In addition, we demonstrated that the removal of pre-existing initiator 5′-terminal RNA segments depended on a displacement reaction carried out during the DNA polymerase δ-catalyzed elongation of the upstream Okazaki fragments. These properties indicate that Dna2 is well suited to remove the primer RNA on the Okazaki fragment. Based op this information, we propose a new model in which Dna2 plays a direct role in Okazaki fragment maturation in conjunction with Fen-1.
Long non-coding RNA SNHG 1 promotes cell proliferation and invasion by competitively binding to miR-145 in breast cancer

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) exert critical functions in the development and progression of breast cancer (BCa). In this study, we investigated the role of lncRNA SNHG1 in BCa. We found that SNHG1 was overexpressed in BCa tissues and cell lines, and increased SNHG1 expression was closely associated with poor prognosis of BCa patients. Further experiments revealed that knockdown of SNHG1 inhibited BCa cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in vitro, and suppressed BCa xenograft growth in vivo. Through bioinformatic analysis and luciferase reporter assay, we further identified that SNHG1 could bind to miR-145 at predicted binding sites. miR-145 was poorly expressed and negatively correlated with SNHG1 levels in BCa tissues. In summary, these data demonstrate that SNHG1 could act as an “oncogene” for BCa through negative regulation of miR-145.
Adaptive position tracking control of a bldc motor using a recurrent wavelet neural network

An adaptive position tracking control (APTC) system, which is composed of a neural controller and a robust controller, is proposed in this paper. The neural controller uses the recurrent wavelet neural network structure to online mimic an ideal controller, and the robust controller is designed to achieve L2 tracking performance with desired attenuation level. The adaptive laws of APTC system are derived based on the Lyapunov stability theorem and gradient decent method. Finally, the proposed APTC method is applied to a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. Experimental results verify that a favorable tracking response can be achieved by the proposed APTC method even under the change of position command frequency after training of RWNN.
Internal Quality Assurance System, Iso 9001:2015 And Organizational Performance In One Continuum-A Case Study In The Postgraduate State University Of Surabaya

Internal quality assurance system in postgraduate has become a global issue. This research investigated the implementation of internal quality assurance system and ISO 9001:2015in postgraduate programmes State University Of Surabaya. Quantitative methodology was employed using a questionnaire based on a case study research design. The participants (lecturer, student, and education staff) indicated that the internal quality assurance systems and practices in place in the postgraduate Unesa included areas such as the availability of internal quality assurance policy, teaching and learning processes, curriculum design. It was recommended that postgraduate Unesa should have clear policies and associated quality procedures for the assurance of quality and standards of their programmes is internal quality assurance system and ISO 9001:2015. They should commit themselves explicitly to the development of quality culture and quality awareness by the Law Number (No). 12 of 2012 about implementation internal quality assurance system and external quality assurance system. Keywords— Internal quality assurance system, quality procedure, ISO 9001:2015, organization, implementation
Lithospheric-scale seismic interferometry : a comparison of approaches to deal with an irregular source distribution and source-side reverberations

A variety of seismic methods has been developed to image the lithosphere using the responses from distant earthquakes. On the one hand, there are the tomographic methods, that use either surface waves or body waves to obtain a low-resolution velocity-variation distributions. On the other hand, there are methods that use body waves to obtain a re ectivity image. In the later class, especially Receiver Function (RF) methods (Wilson & Aster, 2005), which image converted waves, are popular. RF are successful in obtaining an estimate of the large impedance contrasts, though the resolution is limited due to a few practical limitations. An attractive alternative for RF would be to apply seismic interferometry (SI). Green's function retrieval or SI refers to the principle of generating new seismic responses by crosscorrelating seismic observations at di erent receiver locations. This technique is frequently used for the retrieval of surface waves between seismic stations since pioneering work by Campillo & Paul (2003), but can in principle be used to retrieve a complete Green's function (Wapenaar, 2004), dependent on the distribution of actual sources. When a collection of re ection responses is obtained using SI, one for a virtual source at each station position, a high-resolution re ectivity image can be obtained by using standard exploration-scale processing (Yilmaz et al., 2000) as is shown by Draganov et al. (2009) for an exploration-scale passive dataset. A similar processing sequence could be used for lithospheric imaging. The advantages with respect to RF imaging would be 1) that SI can be applied on the Z-component only (decomposition can be left out), 2) the source-time-function deconvolution may be omitted, 3) free-surface-re ected phases are automatically used, without any model information required and 4) multiple information is suppressed in the stacking process. It was previously realized by a number of researchers (Abe et al., 2007; Fan et al., 2006; Kumar & Bostock, 2006; Schuster et al., 2004) that SI may well be applied to transmission responses from distant earthquakes, detected by broadband seismic stations. Two relevant issues were previously unaddressed, 1) irregular source distribution and 2) source-side reverberations. In this study, we test which SI approach can be used best to deal with an irregular illumination and -at the same timeadequately suppresses artifacts caused by source-side reverberations. For these tests we generate FIG. 1 The Laramie array of broadband stations (green triangles) and the local topology (colormap). The inset in the upper right-hand corner depicts North America and the array location.
thermal injection synthesis of nanocrystalline marcasite iron dichalcogenide

We report a hot-injection colloidal method for the synthesis of nanocrystalline (NC) iron diselenide (FeSe2), and iron ditelluride (FeTe2) derived from iron(II) bromide as the iron (Fe) precursor. These highly crystalline iron chalcogenides are synthesized by injecting elemental selenium (Se) or tellurium (Te), complexed with oleylamine, into a reaction flask containing the iron precursor. NC FeSe2 and FeTe2 films have been characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Raman spectroscopy. Both FeSe2 and FeTe2 NC particles exhibit marcasite phase with orthorhombic crystal structure. The as-synthesized NC FeSe2 and FeTe2 show irregular shapes with consistent stoichiometric ratio. In addition, we discuss these iron chalcogenides with regard to their thin film electronic properties including sheet resistance, resistivity, majority carrier type, and their possible device applications.
Cochlear Synaptopathy : A Review of Hidden Hearing Loss

Hearing loss is a common public health problem which will impact communication ability and hence hinge quality of life. Recent studies have found that instead of outer hair cells, the synapses between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers, especially low spontaneous rate nerve fibers, are most vulnerable to the effects of noise, aging, and ototoxic medication. The damage of synapses will cause sound-coding deficits in temporal and intensity processing leading to perceptual hearing difficulties, such as difficulty hearing in noise, tinnitus, hyperacusis, etc., but cannot be detected by current standard hearing diagnostic procedures. This pathology of synaptic loss in the cochlea was termed cochlear syanptopathy, more commonly called hidden hearing loss (HHL). This new finding inspired a line of studies leading to more detailed discoveries from underlying mechanisms to clinical applications, though they have not yet been widely recognized in the clinics. Currently, more people are struggling with HHL and it is occurring at a younger age due to increased recreational noise exposure. Due to a lack of awareness of synaptic dysfunction, no easily accessible diagnostic tools, and no effective treatments, people with HHL in the clinic are either informed of normal hearing sensitivity with no follow up services or referred for auditory processing disorder evaluation. This review provides intensive but condensed information about cochlear synaptopathy including etiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment, with the intention to guide professionals to a better understanding of this disorder, and hence leading to increased public awareness, early diagnosis, and prompt and proper intervention.
Effect of Agglomeration in the Restaurant Industry Completed Research

Although competition can dwindle the sales of a restaurant, it is found that restaurants tend to collocate with their competitors. Despite the associated costs, physical proximity to competitors can lead to positive externalities like increased demand and improved efficiency. We empirically examine the effect of agglomeration in the restaurant industry by understanding how the type and performance of neighboring competitors affect a restaurant. We build a Cox survival model on a dataset of 2,602 restaurants from the city of Phoenix, Arizona obtained from Yelp. The study reveals three major insights: (1) improvement in neighbor performance (footfall and ratings) was detrimental to a restaurant’s survival, (2) collocating with restaurants operating in the same price bracket had a positive influence while neighbors’ food cuisine did not make a difference, and (3) franchises perform better in neighborhoods crowded with other franchises and vice versa for non-affiliated restaurants.
suc1 is an essential gene involved in both the cell cycle and growth in fission yeast

The gene suc1 encodes a product which suppresses certain temperature sensitive mutants of the cell cycle control gene cdc2 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mutants in the suc1 gene or over‐expression of its product leads to delays in mitotic and meiotic nuclear division. Deletion of the suc1 gene is lethal and generates some cells blocked in the cell cycle and others impaired in cellular growth. It is likely that the suc1 gene product binds and forms unstable complexes with the cdc2 protein kinase and with other proteins necessary for the cell cycle and cellular growth. suc1 may have a regulatory role in these processes.
[Clinical observation on cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion for treatment of knee osteoarthritis].

OBJECTIVE To observe clinical therapeutic effect of monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion at Zusanli (ST 36) and Xiyan (EX-LE 5) on knee osteoarthritis. METHODS The patients of monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion group were treated with monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion at Dubi (ST 35), Zusanli (ST 36) and Neixiyan (EX-LE 4) on the affected side, and the medication group with oral administration of Xianling Gubao Capsules. After treatment for 4 weeks, VAS and index of severity of osteoarthritis (ISOA scale) were used for assessment of clinical therapeutic effect. RESULTS After treatment, the arthralgia and the index of severity significantly improved in the two groups (P < 0.01), and the analgesic effect and improvement of ISOA in the monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion group were better than those in the medication group (P < 0.05). The basic clinical cured rate was 80.0% and the effect-producing time was (10.91 +/- 4.17) days in the monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion group, and 53.3% and (12.28 +/- 4.60) days in the medication group, respectively, with a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION Therapeutic effect of monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion on knee osteoarthritis is better than that of oral administration of Xianling Gubao Capsules.