Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Location management cost reduction using fuzzy logic in cellular radio network

In cellular network, mobility management has allowed mobile subscribers to move freely across different networks while maintaining its quality of service for a variety of applications. Location management is one of the main tasks of mobility management. The location management cost depends mainly on subscribers' mobility behavior and its performance which is typically measured by the number of location update performed and the number of cells paged. The objective of this research is to propose, validate and evaluate the performance of location update scheme using fuzzy logic technique for cellular radio system. Three metrics: speed, user density and residence time are proposed and used for fuzzy evaluation. The results of using fuzzy logic technique show that location management cost reduction using Fuzzy logic in cellular radio network using fuzzy logic is decreased about 2% and outperforms the conventional mechanism.
Advertising in a Quantified World: A Proposed Model of Consumer Trust, Attitude Toward Personalized Advertising And Outcome Expectancies

Abstract As consumers increasingly integrate quantified self (QS) health and fitness tracking devices into their lives, the data they amass not only offer to help users live healthier lives, but also present opportunities for advertisers to target them with personalized messages based on their health-related behaviors. This survey-based study, utilizing a theoretical foundation of uses and gratifications (U&G) and communication privacy management (CPM), examines perceptions about the expected outcomes of convenient information seeking, personal status, and monetary incentives, in tandem with concerns about information privacy to predict QS health and fitness tracking device use, as well as attitudes about personalized advertising based on these data. Findings from a structural equation model analysis suggest this integrated theoretical approach offers helpful insights to advertisers seeking to leverage consumer data offered by QS health and fitness devices.
Object Classification Based on 3D Point Clouds Covariance Descriptor

We introduce a new covariance descriptor combining object visual (color, gradient, depth, etc.) and geometric information (3D coordinates, normal vectors, Gaussian curvature, etc.) for mobile robot with RGB-D camera to deal with point cloud data. The improved mismatching correction algorithm is applied in the feature point mismatching correction of 3D point cloud, and then this correction algorithm combined with the classification framework for the dictionary learning is applied in the object recognition of 3D point clouds. This descriptor is able to quickly match the feature points of the point clouds in the surrounding environment and realize the function of object classification. Experimental results show that this descriptor has an advantage of the compactness and flexibility compared with the previous descriptor, and greatly reduces the storage space.
REAL TIME OPERATION ON E-BUSINESS CREDIT EVALUATION BASED ON SENTIMENT EXCAVATION

To expand the purchasers find out about the credit of E-trade item merchants and the buy rate of the Etrade clients, E-business credit assessment shows in view of the assessment mining calculation was advanced. Remove the component words and perspectives from the items and client surveys, and after that make utilization of factual and quantitative approach to examine them. Meanwhile, an acknowledge assessment demonstrate for exchange time-recurrence can be set up, which can be utilized to examine the vender's credit of E-business clients. Through the try, this model was checked to have certain practicability and legitimacy in E-business credit assessment.
Openness of technology adoption, top management support and service innovation: a social innovation perspective

Technology has been central and has made service innovations technically feasible and economically viable. Top management support, however, plays an important role in shaping a firm’s service innovation-related strategies and decisions. This study aims to propose a theoretical framework that delineates the relationships among openness of technology adoption, top management support and service innovation within social innovation context. ,This study obtained the data through a survey of 176 information technology (IT) firms in Taiwan; IT managers were selected as the data collection sources. A partial least squares analysis was used to address sophisticated data analysis issues. ,The empirical evidence indicates that openness of technology adoption enhances service innovation within social innovation context. Furthermore, top management support facilitates the relationship between openness of technology adoption and service innovation. ,The openness of technology adoption captures the interactions among top management support in shaping service innovation. Researchers should examine the nature of open technology infrastructure that will foster such service innovation from social innovation perspective. ,The detailed findings offer practical suggestions for firms that are compelling to invest in advanced open technologies, giving opportunities for service innovation, solving social problems and meeting the new societal challenges. Additionally, firms may foster their top management’s positive intention to support service innovation by pre-planned support activities, such as allocating sufficient new service resources and qualified support technicians. ,This study contributes to the evolving literature on the social innovation, service-dominant logic, and contingency theory. This analysis suggests that these perspectives offer a potentially useful view for integrating insights from different literature streams (e.g. openness, social innovation, service innovation, top management support and technology management) by examining them through a different conceptual lens, thus reinforcing existing findings.
Clustering of energy balance-related behaviours and parental education in European preschool children: the ToyBox study

Abstract Energy balance-related behaviours (EBRB) are established in childhood and seem to persist through to adulthood. A lower parental educational level was associated with unhealthy behavioural patterns. The aim of the study is to identify clusters of EBRB and examine their association with preschool children’s BMI and maternal, paternal and parental education. A subsample of the ToyBox study (n 5387) conducted in six European countries was used. Six behavioural clusters (‘healthy diet and low activity’, ‘active’, ‘healthy lifestyle’, ‘high water and screen time; low fruits and vegetables (F&V) and physical activity (PA)’, ‘unhealthy lifestyle’ and ‘high F&V consumers’) emerged. The healthiest group characterised by high water and F&V consumption and high PA z scores (‘healthy lifestyle’) was more prevalent among preschool children with at least one medium- or higher-educated parent and showed markedly healthier trends for all the included EBRB. In the opposite, the ‘unhealthy lifestyle’ cluster (characterised by high soft drinks and screen time z scores, and low water, F&V and PA z scores) was more prevalent among children with lower parental, paternal and maternal education levels. OR identified that children with lower maternal, paternal and parental education levels were less likely to be allocated in the ‘healthy lifestyle’ cluster and more likely to be allocated in the ‘unhealthy lifestyle’ cluster. The ‘unhealthy lifestyle’ cluster was more prevalent among children with parents in lower parental educational levels and children who were obese. Therefore, parental educational level is one of the key factors that should be considered when developing childhood obesity prevention interventions.
Mutants with Abnormal Visual Pathways: An Explanation of Anomalous Geniculate Laminae

Rats with geniculate laminae that run perpendicular to the lines of projection are described. Earlier reports of laminae parallel to the lines of projection were based on mammalian mutants that may be relatively common. In these mutants, the chiasmatic course of axons arising in a patch of retinal ganglion cells is wrongly specified.
Monitoring of the Treatment Process of Tuberculosis Patients via Mobile Applications

Development of information and communication technologies, mobile technologies, the creation of laptops, netbooks and pocket personal computers, as well as smartphones, new horizons opened up in improving virtual contact between highly qualified doctors of the central hospitals and medical staff of primary health facilities in the outskirts, and remote settlements. Analyzing the problems and barriers in improving tuberculosis (TB) detection indicators, and the further deterioration of the situation with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR) worldwide, TB scientists concluded that the cornerstone is the belated identification of the focus of the infection and the impossibility of monitoring the performance of the outpatient treatment regimen. Insufficient financing and staffing, especially in rural areas, exacerbates the situation. In this review article we tried to analyze the effectiveness of using various mobile applications in monitoring tuberculosis therapy conducted in rural areas. To do this, you can use applications such as WhatsApp, SMS. While the patient is taking tuberculosis medications, a medical officer removes the video on the smartphone and sends it to the central hospital. These video materials are archived. Also an employee can send SMS to the central hospital. The use of this technique allows us to monitor the medical process, actually being at great distances. This method is also effective for patient adherence to treatment.
The cyclic job-shop scheduling problem: The new subclass of the job-shop problem and applying the simulated annealing to solve it

A new approach to the scheduling problem is described in the paper. The approach deals with the problem of planning the cyclic production and proposes to consider such scheduling problem as a cyclic job-shop problem of the order k, where k is the number of reiterations. It was found that planning only one iteration of the loop is less effective than planning the entire cycle. A number of test instances of the job-shop scheduling problem supplied by the Operation Research Library were used at experiments. The Simulated Annealing was applied to solve the instances. The experiments proved that the approach proposed allows increasing efficiency of cyclic scheduling significantly.
Optimal Strategy for the Development of Insurance Business Structures in a Competitive Environment

This paper explores the application of the game theory to the problem of formation of optimal strategy for the development of insurance business structures in a competitive environment and demonstrates a class of optimization models that could be employed for insurance portfolio optimization. The designed game theory model aims to develop the optimal strategy was implemented at the insurance company, which offers various kinds of insurance. A model designed to analyze a set of insurance products will be organized to follow the costs spent by the insurance business on the provision of the insurance services and income received by the insurance company for the provision of the insurance services. The task included the calculation of the company’s optimal insurance portfolio with the aim of receiving a maximum income from the developed insurance products realization. The game model enables to define the percentage ratio of the providing of the insurance services at the insurance business, considering the conditions of the insurance market and behavior of competitors. Performed calculations allow the insurance company’s executives to determine the favorable insurance market conditions for certain types of insurance products and to enhance the decision-making process regarding the reduction or the increase of providing of the insurance services.
Testing the Mechanisms Underlying Improved Distance Judgments in Virtual Environments

Virtual environments (VEs) presented via head-mounted displays are typically perceived as smaller in scale than intended. Visual–motor experience in VEs can reduce this underestimation of distance, though the mechanisms underlying this improved accuracy of distance estimates are unknown. To address this question, we created a mismatch between biomechanical and visual indicators of self-movement within the VE, and assessed the effect on distance and size judgments. Our results suggest that visual–motor feedback influences subsequent distance judgments by recalibrating perceptual–motor relationships, but we found no evidence that perceived size, which was substantially underestimated, changed as a function of this feedback. In contrast to recent studies that suggest that feedback in VEs causes a broad rescaling of virtual space, our results are consistent with a visual–motor recalibration account for much of the improvement in distance judgments following VE experience.
Increased levels of interleukin-1 in bronchoalveolar washings from children with bacterial pulmonary infections.

To investigate its role in pulmonary infections, concentrations of interleukin-1 were measured in 22 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples from 19 children with cystic fibrosis (CF), and in 13 disease controls by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for IL-1 beta and the D10.G4. 1 proliferation assay for IL-1 activity. Significantly higher levels of IL-1 beta and IL-1 activity were found in BALF from patients with bacterial pulmonary infections than in those without such infection. There was no significant difference between the levels in patients with CF and pulmonary infections and those in children with bacterial infections complicating other diseases. High performance liquid chromatography showed that most of the IL-1 beta was associated with a molecular weight peak of 17 to 18 kD. Pulmonary inflammation reflected by the number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the sample correlated significantly with the IL-1 concentration.
Transnasal endoscopic steroid injection: A practical and effective alternative treatment for benign vocal fold disorders

Emerging literature has documented the effectiveness of intralesional steroid injection as an alternative treatment for benign vocal fold disorders. However, clinical application is frequently limited by the associated technical demands for adequate anesthesia and precise needle placement. This study investigated the applicability and effectiveness of the more practical and less technically demanding method of transnasal endoscopic steroid injection (TESI).
Auditor subgroup status and audit quality

ABSTRACT Auditors typically separate into different auditor subgroups within the offices of audit firms. The interaction between informal subgroups significantly affects the audit process and audit quality. In this paper, we examine the effect of auditor subgroup status on audit quality in the context of Chinese culture, and study the moderating effect of positive direct contact on the relationship between group status and audit quality. Based on 50 mergers of Chinese audit firms between 1990 and 2016, we identify 106 auditor subgroups in 53 offices located in China. With this data, we find that the clients’ earnings management of low-status auditor subgroups is significantly higher after mergers compared with that of high-status auditor subgroups. In addition, when there is positive direct contact between auditor subgroups within an office, the deterioration extent of clients’ earnings management of low-status auditor subgroups declines compared with that of high-status auditor subgroups. The results of our analyses indicate that: (1) low-status auditor subgroups have a higher motivation to maintain or improve their position within the office and to safeguard their interests, they are more likely to behave opportunistically, and their audit quality will be worse; and (2) positive direct contact can effectively improve intergroup relationships and mitigate the adverse effects of auditor subgroup status on audit quality. Our research on subgroup status and intergroup contact extends the existing research boundaries of audit quality, and also provides more direct and reliable empirical evidence for the interaction between subgroups within the same office.
Inhibitor development in non-severe haemophilia across Europe

Summary Evidence about inhibitor formation in non-severe haemophilia and the potential role for clotting factor concentrate type is scant. It was the aim of this study to report inhibitor development in non-severe haemophilia patients enrolled in the European Haemophilia Safety Surveillance (EUHASS) study. Inhibitors are reported quarterly and total treated patients annually. Incidence rates and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI) were calculated according to diagnosis and concentrate used. Between 1–10–2008 and 31–12–2012, 68 centres reported on 7,969 patients with non-severe haemophilia A and 1,863 patients with non-severe haemophilia B. For haemophilia A, 37 inhibitors occurred in 8,622 treatment years, resulting in an inhibitor rate of 0.43/100 treatment years (95 % CI 0.30–0.59). Inhibitors occurred at a median age of 35 years, after a median of 38 exposure days (EDs; P25-P75: 20-80); with 72 % occurring within the first 50 EDs. In haemophilia B, one inhibitor was detected in 2,149 treatment years, resulting in an inhibitor rate of 0.05/100 years (95% CI 0.001–0.26). This inhibitor developed at the age of six years, after six EDs. The rate of inhibitors appeared similar across recombinant and plasma derived factor VIII (FVIII) concentrates. Rates for individual concentrates could not be calculated at this stage due to low number of events. In conclusion, inhibitors in non-severe haemophilia occur three times more frequently than in previously treated patients with severe haemophilia at a rate of 0.43/100 patient years (haemophilia A) and 0.05/100 years (haemophilia B). Although the majority of inhibitors developed in the first 50 EDs, inhibitor development continued with increasing exposure to FVIII.
Quantifying the intrinsic amount of fabrication disorder in photonic-crystal waveguides from optical far-field intensity measurements

Residual disorder due to fabrication imperfections has important impact in nanophotonics where it may degrade device performance by increasing radiation loss or spontaneously trap light by Anderson localization. We propose and demonstrate experimentally a method of quantifying the intrinsic amount of disorder in state-of-the-art photonic-crystal waveguides from far-field measurements of the Anderson-localized modes. This is achieved by comparing the spectral range where Anderson localization is observed to numerical simulations, and the method offers sensitivity down to ≃1 nm.
Optimal quantization feedback control with variable discrete quantizer

Networked control systems (NCSs) have been receiving much attention in order to improve control performance in the field of in remote robot operation, surgery and some operations. In the NCSs, it is important to quantize necessary signals for control over a limited network channel for the sake of prevention from transmitting a large amount of data. This paper addresses a quantized feedback control system with a variable discrete quantizer. In the system, both input and a parameter of the quantizer are optimized online with the help of model predictive control (MPC). In our approach, constraints on input/output, the parameter of the quantizer and other physical and/or logical constraints can be explicitly taken into account while guaranteeing optimality. The optimization problem is reduced to a mixed integer quadratic programming. Experimental results are demonstrated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Trends in “Natural” Value-Added Calf Programs at Superior Livestock Video Auction

Objective: This study utilized data from Superior Livestock Video Auction to investigate trends in the use of “natural” value-added calf programs. Study Description: Nine years of data (2010-2018) were evaluated for enrollment trends in all natural programs and non-hormone treated cattle. Multiple regression was used to determine the relative value of calves enrolled in the non-hormone treated cattle program. The Bottom Line: Price advantages for non-hormone treated calves may not be sufficient to justify not using growth-promoting implants on calves.
Responding to the Challenge of True Uncertainty: Stakeholder Sensing and Predictions of Emergent Strategic Issues

We construe a conceptual framework for responding effectively to true uncertainty in the business environment. We drill down to the essential micro-foundational capabilities - sensing and seizing of dynamic capabilities - and link them to classical strategic issue management theory with suggestions on how to operationalize these essential capabilities. By definition true uncertainty represents environmental conditions that are hard to foresee, which can catch the unprepared by surprise while presenting opportunities to the conscious organization. We demonstrate that organizations relying on aggregation of stakeholder sensing and predictions of emergent strategic issues can positively influence the two capabilities and help the firm adapt in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability. Robust measures predicating performance based on information from key stakeholders involved in the firm’s core operations provide faster, more accurate, and updated insights about environmental developments identifying important strategic issues and solutions to them. This provides corporate decision-makers with a proactive tool in the quest for timely and effective strategic responses.