Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Experimental investigation of the plant sorbents in comparison with Fibroil usable for runoff cleaning from petroleum products

The capability of organic (plant) sorbents: Club-rush and Lesser Bulrush (from the lake shore) for removal of petroleum products (PP) from runoff was investigated. Dynamic process was investigated using filters packed with these materials. The third material analysed, synthetic sorbent Fibroil, was chosen for comparing the results. The laboratory experiments were performed in two stages, with the following being filtrated: tap water with a diesel admixture, road runoff contaminated with PP, and also suspended solids. The significance of this work is due to high runoff filtering rate (~10 m/h) and high PP concentrations in the runoff (>50 mg/L) used in the experiment. In these cases the use of sorbents is limited. Schoenoplectus lacustris and Typha angustifolia fillers are quite efficient (92–98%) in PP removal from runoff at a 10 m/h filtering rate. Use of them for filtration was possible longer than Fibroil, it clogs up quickly. Schoenoplectus lacustris and Typha angustifolia are a natural source for the production of PP sorbents. The results obtained in this experimental work can be used in the design of equipment for the treatment of PP contaminated runoff.
Rebuttal to “ Reply to O ’ Micks Concerning the Geology and Taphonomy of the Homo naledi Site ” and “ Identifying Humans in the Fossil Record : A Further Response to O ’ Micks ”

An ongoing debate about the baraminic status of H. naledi has taken place in a series of recent articles in the creationist literature, which was first determined to be a part of the human holobaramin. Subsequent analyses have tried both to refute and support this idea. As a response to my previous rebuttal to the critique of my previous work suggesting that H. naledi is not a part of the human holobaramin, two papers have been presented arguing that the H. naledi remains could not have been deposited in the Dinaledi Chamber due to the Genesis Flood, but were intentionally buried, that the fossils were not mixed, that the cranial capacity of H. naledi falls within that of human variation, and that an analysis of cranial characters from 24 species including H. naledi show that it is part of the human holobaramin. On closer examination, the argument for intentional burial and homogeneity of fossils does not hold up. The cave system is much too convoluted and narrow to support regular burials of H. naledi individuals when burial in more easily accessible parts of the cave was possible. The three H. naledi skulls are also different in shape, and thus heterogenous. Compared to other known burial sites of modern humans, both remains of macrofauna and human artifacts are missing from the Dinaledi Chamber. Remains in these other sites are much more complete and articulated. H. floresiensis might well be another example of a fossil ape, based on both cranial and post-cranial characteristics (similar to H. naledi), mistaken to be a diminutive archaic human. Therefore, the cranial capacity of H. naledi still remains outside the range of modern humans. Baraminic analyses of one cranial data set and two post-cranial data sets suggest that both H. naledi and H. floresiensis are not part of the human holobaramin, but are rather australopiths.
Predictors of Accessing Substance Abuse Services Among Individuals With Mental Disorders Released From Correctional Custody

Objective: In the context of an increasing correctional population and corresponding rates of mental illness and substance abuse among this population, this study focuses on describing the predictors of substance abuse service utilization for ex-inmates with dual disorders. Our aim is to assess the likelihood and characteristics of ex-inmates with mental disorders who access substance abuse treatment services within 2 years of correctional release. Methods: Using merged administrative data on all ex-inmates with open mental health cases released from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and two county houses of corrections from 2007 to 2009 (N = 2,280) and substance abuse treatment outcome data through 2011, we analyze the influence of demographics, behavioral and mental disorders, and criminal justice variables on entry into substance abuse treatment within 24 months post-release. We also describe primary drug use and services utilized for all the ex-inmates who accessed substance abuse services (n = 1,383). Regression techniques were used to analyze the probability of utilizing substance abuse treatment services by various demographic, behavioral, and criminal involvement characteristics. Results: The prevalence of a history of substance use disorders is high in this population (69%, n = 1,285). Subsequently, at 24 months post release, 61% (n = 1,383) of ex-inmates with open mental health cases utilized substance abuse treatment services. This group was disproportionately female and White, with a preincarceration history of substance abuse and an increased number of previous incarcerations, and was more likely released under correctional supervision. Conclusions: Substance abuse is a chronic relapsing disorder and dual diagnosis is common among individuals with mental disorders involved with the criminal justice system. Their service needs and contacts across substance abuse, mental health, and criminal justice systems highlight individuals caught up in the institutional circuit. Study results point to the need for expanded and targeted dual diagnosis treatment approaches and relapse prevention for ex-inmates with mental disorders post correctional release.
Measurement of ERP-Project Success: Findings from Germany and Austria

The implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have increased rapidly world-wide over the last two decades. ERP projects are long lasting and complex activities, influencing main internal and external operations of organizations. As companies spend an immense investment on these projects, in the beginning managers are focusing on most common success factors to reach the main goal of a proper implementation. For evaluating ERP projects in retrospective, an applicable measurement of the whole implementation and its economic effects is essential. This research paper evaluates the most prominent ERP project success models mentioned in scientific literature and gives an overview of the different approaches. It explores the best fitting model for measuring ERP project success and based on that analysis, the authors created a new model using empirical data. The study was performed on a sample of medium-sized companies located in Austria and Germany, which implemented ERP software between 2012 and 2014. Based on a newly developed questionnaire completed by over 300 companies’ CEOs, factor analysis of the data shows a reduction of dimensions for ERP project success measurement. It indicates that characteristics of success factors can be summoned up to 5 different dimensions, namely project management, user satisfaction, time and budget, ERP system quality and economic value. The results show that some of the dimensions suggested by other authors are coherent and redundant, and therefore an extra measurement of these aspects is misleading. The study is designed to make a contribution to management science literature from the perspective of project management requiring effective success evaluation instruments. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.ee. 27.5. 13208
Block Analysis of a Voltage Supply Chain: Mixed Electromagnetic Modeling and Validation

This paper describes an industry-oriented approach for the analysis of complex electronic systems. The typical constrains of an industry design flow such as limited time, limited computing resources, and the use of standard/commercial software tools are considered. The approach consists in partitioning the system in several functional blocks and studying each block separately. Different numerical techniques are employed, choosing the more appropriate, for characterizing each chain blocks. At the end, all the blocks are cascaded obtaining the overall system performances. The approach is applied to a voltage supply chain mounted on board of the SENTINEL 1-SAR satellite to verify the integrity of the voltage pulse propagating from the source to the high power amplifiers. The final results are validated by hardware measurements.
CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AMONG REHABILITATION INPATIENTS

The influence of circadian preference was examined among 56 morning-oriented rehabilitation inpatients with cognitive (n = 28) and noncognitive (n = 28) impairments. Each individual was tested twice: morning (preferred time) and evening (nonpreferred time); sessions and test batteries were counterbalanced to control for practice effects. Standard measures assessed attention, language, memory, visuospatial, and executive functions. Persons with cognitive impairment showed disproportionate vulnerability to the effects of circadian preference and time of testing, performing more poorly at nonpreferred than preferred times. Substantial effects (eta2 .12 to .48) were found on tests of executive functioning and tasks incorporating similar higher-order demands (e.g., complex figure copy). Results are supported by tympanic temperature changes during a vigilance task, an index of cerebral blood flow in response to cognitive challenge. Cognitive reserve theory is suggested as an explanation for the differential effects. These findings may have implications for inpatient therapeutic interventions and discharge planning.
Responding to user's expectation in the library: innovative Web 2.0 applications at JUIT Library: A case study

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide an insight into the implementation of some of the innovative Web 2.0 applications at Jaypee University of Information Technology with the aim of exploring the expectations of the users and their awareness and usage of such applications.Design/methodology/approach – The study was undertaken at the Learning Resource Centre (LRC), Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. The LRC at JUIT serves its patrons in supplementing their research needs while creating an ambience for teaching, learning and research. The emergence of digital technologies and information and communications technology (ICT) tools in libraries has encouraged the implementation of a wide range of applications, such as digital libraries, video on demand, reference services and database services into library services. The advent of next‐generation web technologies, known as Web 2.0 applications, has prompted a number of other pertinent services to be implemented .
Caries Occurrence in Rats after Bleaching with 10% Carbamide Peroxide in vivo

after treatment (35% hydrogen peroxide) of vital teeth [Hosoya et al., 2003]. Interestingly, in the latter study, the number of S. mutans colonies and enamel surface roughness were not correlated. It is reasonable to suggest that a higher permeability of bleached enamel and an increased number of cariogenic bacteria adhering to bleached enamel surface would promote caries formation. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of bleaching with carbamide peroxide on caries formation in rat molars in vivo.
Patterns using Available Metaheuristic Solvers From ambiguous fitness functions to procedural patterns

The way people navigate through spaces has been studied for quite a while. Different models have been described and validated through empirical studies. This paper explores the use of such models in an ‘inverse design’ (Faucher and Nivet, 2000) process, applying available metaheuristic-solvers. More detailed, it showcases the description of an ambiguous fitness function as base to invent a new circulation pattern. As such technics are time consuming compared to the use of readily available patterns, an attempt is made to analyse and understand the invented circulation patterns, in order to come up with a procedural algorithm that would generate circulation pattern with the same characteristics.
Torque ripple reduction in 12-slot 10-pole fractional slot permanent magnet synchronous motors with non-overlapping windings by implementation of unequal stator teeth widths

This paper describes an optimization of the stator geometry in a way that the torque ripple at particular load is reduced. The principle applied to the torque ripple reduction is based on the synchronous inductance variation suppression, caused by the non-linear steel saturation, which might be significant even in permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) with rotor surface permanent magnets. The design optimization, described in this paper, aims in reducing the armature reaction influence on the local steel saturation in fractional slot permanent magnet synchronous machines (FSPMSM) by rearranging of the stator teeth widths. The optimization was defined by means of magnetic equivalent circuit model (lumped model), and verified with finite element method (FEM).
Approximate analysis of ACRDA MAC protocol with decollision algorithm for satellite uplink access

The Asynchronous Contention Resolution Diversity Aloha with Decollision Algorithm (ACRDA-DA) medium access control (MAC) protocol for satellite uplink access is proposed in this paper. The same two or multiple replica packets from a user are transmitted in two or multiple random non-overlapping virtual slots in a virtual frame. A decollision algorithm is used to decollide up to a maximum number of packets. The major contributions of this paper are the proposed MAC protocol and its approximate performance analysis as well as a closed-form analysis for the original ACRDA MAC protocol at the MAC layer. The throughputs and the maximum normalized throughputs for the two MAC protocols are investigated and compared with the basic asynchronous Pure Aloha MAC protocol. Numerical results show that the proposed ACRDA-DA MAC protocols can outperform the basic ACRDA MAC protocol by about eleven times in terms of the maximum normalized throughput.
Fabrication of the Wireless Systems for Controlling Movements of the Electrical Stimulus Capsule in the Small Intestines

Diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract are becoming more prevalent. New techniques and devices, such as the wireless capsule endoscope and the telemetry capsule, that are able to measure the various signals of the digestive organs (temperature, pH, and pressure), have been developed for the observation of the digestive organs. In these capsule devices, there are no methods of moving and grasping them. In order to make a swift diagnosis and to give proper medication, it is necessary to control the moving speed of the capsule. This paper presents a wireless system for the control of movements of an electrical stimulus capsule. This includes an electrical stimulus capsule which can be swallowed and an external transmitting control system. A receiver, a receiving antenna (small multi-loop), a transmitter, and a transmitting antenna (monopole) were designed and fabricated taking into consideration the MPE, power consumption, system size, signal-to-noise ratio and the modulation method. The wireless system, which was designed and implemented for the control of movements of the electrical stimulus capsule, was verified by in-vitro experiments which were performed on the small intestines of a pig. As a result, we found that when the small intestines are contracted by electrical stimuli, the capsule can move to the opposite direction, which means that the capsule can go up or down in the small intestines.
Use of flow cytometry and SNARF to calibrate and measure intracellular pH in NS0 cells

Two calibration methods have been proposed for determining the relation between the fluorescence ratio of a pH‐sensitive fluorescent indicator and intracellular pH (pHi). The first method uses nigericin to clamp pHi to external pH (pHe) and the second is the null point method. We compared these different calibration methods, solution conditions, and temperatures by using flow cytometry and the fluorescent dye 1,5‐ (and‐6)‐carboxy seminaphtorhodafluor‐1‐acetoxymethyl ester with an NS0 cell line.
Building Trust: The Role of Regulation in Unlocking the Value of Big Data

SCOTT BEARDSLEY LUIS ENRIQUEZ FERRY GRIJPINK SERGIO SANDOVAL STEVEN SPITTAELS MALIN STRANDELL-JANSSON McKinsey & Company “Data is a precious thing. ” and “. that’s why I’ve called data the new oil. Because it’s a fuel for innovation, powering and energizing our economy. ”1 These were the words of Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, when speaking about the value of big data earlier in 2013. As Kroes noted, data comprise a fuel we have only just begun to tap. This “new oil” is certainly plentiful. Trillions of bytes of data are generated by companies that capture information about their customers, suppliers, and operations. Networked sensors and software embedded in devices and appliances are further energy generators, as are the growing volumes of media content. These sources of data do not even include the billions of individuals around the world generating the same fuel on their smartphones, personal computers, and laptops. And the volumes of data are exploding. McKinsey recently estimated that the data collected globally will grow from some 2,700 exabytes in 2012 to 40,000 exabytes by 2020.2 To put this into context, a single exabyte of data equals a hundred thousand times all the printed material of the Library of Congress. Definitions of big data vary greatly. Rather than put a number on what qualifies as “big,” McKinsey defines it as datasets so large that typical database software tools are unable to capture, store, manage, and analyze them. Such a definition allows for the fact that the size of datasets regarded as “big” will also grow with the advance of technology.3 Whatever the precise definition, big data is widely acknowledged to create value in four ways. It creates greater transparency by making more and better information available more quickly. It helps organizations create highly specific segmentations, enabling them to tailor products and services more precisely. It helps improve decision-making by providing better tools for analysis. And it supports innovation in the form of new products and services. Big data can create significant value for the whole economy. McKinsey research shows that companies that use big data can deliver productivity and profit gains that are 5 to 6 percent higher than those of competitors. The private sector is not the only beneficiary, however. Big data can also enhance productivity and effectiveness of the public sector and create economic surplus for consumers. For example, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that US healthcare expenditure could be reduced by 8 percent by using big data to drive efficiency and quality. No wonder, then, that governments and political institutions are promoting big data on their agendas and adopting initiatives such as the European Union’s open data directive, which aims to give both citizens and member governments access to a raft of government
BINARY CEPHEIDS: SEPARATIONS AND MASS RATIOS IN 5 M☉ BINARIES

Deriving the distribution of binary parameters for a particular class of stars over the full range of orbital separations usually requires the combination of results from many different observing techniques (radial velocities, interferometry, astrometry, photometry, direct imaging), each with selection biases. However, Cepheids—cool, evolved stars of ∼5 M☉—are a special case because ultraviolet (UV) spectra will immediately reveal any companion star hotter than early type A, regardless of the orbital separation. We have used International Ultraviolet Explorer UV spectra of a complete sample of all 76 Cepheids brighter than V = 8 to create a list of all 18 Cepheids with companions more massive than 2.0 M☉. Orbital periods of many of these binaries are available from radial-velocity studies, or can be estimated for longer-period systems from detected velocity variability. In an imaging survey with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3, we resolved three of the companions (those of η Aql, S Nor, and V659 Cen), allowing us to make estimates of the periods out to the long-period end of the distribution. Combining these separations with orbital data in the literature, we derive an unbiased distribution of binary separations, orbital periods, and mass ratios. The distribution of orbital periods shows that the 5 M☉ binaries have systematically shorter periods than do 1 M☉ stars. Our data also suggest that the distribution of mass ratios depends on both binary separation and system multiplicity. The distribution of mass ratios as a function of orbital separation, however, does not depend on whether a system is a binary or a triple.
Quality of Information Disclosed in Annual Reports of Listed Companies in the Czech Republic

This article examines the periodic information duty of the companies listed on Prague Stock Exchange in relation to the information disclosed within annual reports. The most significant regulatory requirements in force as at December 31, 2013 are identified and divided into several sub-areas - requirements on the financial statements, Report on relations and the Report of the Board of Directors, notes and complementary information and financial position and financial results. The identified requirements are then confronted with actual information disclosed within annual reports of the companies analysed to assess the compliance with the applicable law and IFRS. The main objective of the research is to evaluate the degree to which the listed entities comply with the reporting requirements set by the current legal framework by means of a content analysis using a predefined scoring system. The concluding section summarizes the main findings and suggests further possible research in this area.
A Study on the Effect of Culture and Human and Social Capital on Entrepreneurial Strategies in Family Businesses in Iran

Family businesses are formed and often transferred to new generations in order to achieve both financial and non-financial desired performances. Socioemotional wealth, such as a family’s desire to exercise authority, and enjoyment of family influence, is an important driver of non-financial desires. Family business owners take into account socioemotional gains or losses for the family when considering the relative risks and benefits of various strategic choices. Culture, human capital, and social capital are some of the variables that influence decisions regarding socioemotional gains and losses. Entrepreneurship is also favorable for any economy and the interconnectivity of family businesses and entrepreneurship is of a great importance. To study the effect of the mentioned variables we have studied family business in Iran, a family oriented country with a strong cultural consistency which in many cases influences businesses. This study aims to analyze how culture, human capital, and social capital affect the preservation and development of socioemotional wealth in families and how they affect the firm’s performance.