Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Forecasting of Options in the Car Industry Using a Multistrategy Approach

In recent years, car options like air-conditioning, automatic gears, car stereo, power windows, sunroof etc. were getting more and more important for car manufacturers. Especially at those car manufacturers which offer cars individually according to customer requirements, the options affect 30% 40% of the parts by now. Therefore, very detailed planning and forecasting of options becomes more and more important. Because customer behavior concerning the options varies from model to model and from country to country, it seems necessary and reasonable to forecast each option for each model and each country separately. The resulting huge number of data sets requires an automatic forecasting tool that adapts itself to the actual data sets and that requires almost no user interaction. Because depending on the characteristics of a time series the quality of the forecasting results varies a lot, and because "N heads are better than one," the basic idea is m select in a first step the most appropriate forecasting procedures. This selection is done by a decision tree which is generated by using a symbolic machine learning algorithm. Those selected forecasting methods produce different results that are in a second step combined to get a common forecast. In this approach there are integrated univariate time series used in the first step for running the prediction as well as symbolic machine learning algorithms for generating the decision trees as well as multivariate statistical methods and neural networks used in the combination step.
The Problems of Practice: Bricolage as a Metaphor for Teachers’ Work and Learning

In this article the author uses Levi-Strauss’ (1966) metaphor of Bricolage to examine how teachers, not policymakers, make sense of their “problems of practice” in three United States high schools. The article also examines how teachers address these problems of practice. It concludes by underscoring the disconnect between teachers’ and policymakers’ perspectives on the challenges to teacher practice in the US. Finally, implications for practice and research are drawn.
Using First and Second Language Models to Correct Preposition Errors in Second Language Authoring

In this paper, we investigate a novel approach to correcting grammatical and lexical errors in texts written by second language authors. Contrary to previous approaches which tend to use unilingual models of the user's second language (L2), this new approach uses a simple roundtrip Machine Translation method which leverages information about both the author's first (L1) and second languages. We compare the repair rate of this roundtrip translation approach to that of an existing approach based on a unilingual L2 model with shallow syntactic pruning, on a series of preposition choice errors. We find no statistically significant difference between the two approaches, but find that a hybrid combination of both does perform significantly better than either one in isolation. Finally, we illustrate how the translation approach has the potential of repairing very complex errors which would be hard to treat without leveraging knowledge of the author's L1.
Collision Avoidance by the Fusion of Different Beam-width Ultrasonic Sensors

So far, mobile robot equipped with multiple ultrasonic sensors with fixed beam-width has been used in robot navigation. In this paper, we used multiple ultrasonic sensors with different beam-widths in mobile robot navigation. The use of ultrasonic sensor with small beam-width gives good resolution in recognizing environmental condition and we need more sensors to detect obstacles in wide angular region. However, if we use wide beam-width ultrasonic sensors, we can detect surrounding obstacles with a few sensors. By fusing the aspects of ultrasonic sensors with different beam-widths, we can obtain more efficient collision avoidance behavior in robot control. We stacked three kinds of ultrasonic sensors and get distance information from each sensor. Small beam-width sensor can detect environment with high resolution and large beam-width sensor gives information on possible obstacles in robot motion. Using the approach, the robot can navigate through a complex environment.
Adaptive time mismatches identification and correction in polar transmitter architecture

This paper deals with synchronization in EER type of transmitter architecture, illustrated in the context of 3GPP standard. Firstly, we point out the sensitivity of such architecture to delay mismatch between the two signals path. This sensitivity can be observed on EVM and output spectrum performances. To correct this default, two algorithms are studied. Both are based on the comparison between the emitted signal and the digitally generated one but with the difference that the first algorithm needs I/Q demodulation whereas the second one only needs the in-phase component of the transmitted signal. We demonstrate that the quality of the interpolator used is crucial. Implementation details are given. We present simulation results realised with HPADS and draw attention to the enhancement of the transmitter performances using such algorithm.
Numerical Simulation of Scouring Around Bridge Piers ( Case Study : Bridge 524 crosses the Tanana River )

to the three-dimensional flow pattern interacting with bed material, the process of local scour around bridge piers is complex. Modeling 3D flow field and scour hole evolution around a bridge pier is more feasible nowadays because the computational cost and computational time have significantly decreased. In order to evaluate local flow and scouring around a bridge pier, a completely three-dimensional numerical model, SSIIM program, was used. The model solves 3-D Navier-Stokes equations and a bed load conservation equation. The model was applied to simulate local flow and scouring around a bridge pier in a large natural river with four piers. Computation for 1 day of flood condition was carried out to predict the maximum local scour depth. The results show that the SSIIM program can be used efficiently for simulating the scouring in natural rivers. The results also showed that among the various turbulence models, the k-ω model gives more reasonable results.
Analyzing the Programmability and the Efficiency of Large-Scale Graph Processing on A Project Report

Graphs are analyzed in many important contexts like page rank, protein -protein interaction networks, and analysis of social networks. Many graphs of interest are difficult t o analyze because of their la rge size, often spanning millions of vertices and billions of edges. We believe that MapReduce has emerged as an enabling technology for large -scale distributed graph processing. Its functional abstraction provides an easy -to-understand model for designing scalable, distributed algorithms. The open -source Hadoop implementation of MapReduce has provided researchers with a powerful tool for tackling large-data problems. In this work, we analyze the programmability and efficiency of implementing large scale g raph algorithms on Hadoop using the MapReduce model. We have taken the problem of finding the minimum spanning tree of a large graph, which is an important building block for many graph algorithms. Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm, comprising of three stages i.e. Find -Min, ConnectComponent and Merge, has been implemented with many variants in each stage. A thorough performance analysis using the Wikipedia Dataset consisting of 8.8 million nodes and 0.9 billion edges, highlighting the most successful combina tion of our techniques , has been carried out. Thus, it has been shown that useful graph operations can be decomposed into MapReduce steps and that the power of the cloud might be brought to large graph problems as well.
Delay abstraction in combinational logic circuits

In this paper we propose a data structure for abstracting the delay information of a combinatorial circuit. The particular abstraction that we are interested in is one that preserves the delays between all pairs of inputs and outputs in the circuit. The proposed graphical data structure is of size proportional to (m+n) in best case, where m and n refer to the number of inputs and outputs of the circuit. In comparison, a delay matrix that stores the maximum delay between each input/output pair has size proportional to m/spl times/n. We present heuristic algorithms for deriving these concise delay networks. Experimental results shows that, in practice, we can obtain concise delay network with the number of edges being a small multiple of (m+n).
Draft Genome Sequence of the Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium Sphingobium sp. Strain Ant17, Isolated from Antarctic Soil

ABSTRACT Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Sphingobium sp. strain Ant17, an aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium that was isolated from Antarctic oil-contaminated soil. An analysis of this genome can lead to insights into the mechanisms of xenobiotic degradation processes at low temperatures and potentially aid in bioremediation applications.
Bimatoprost: a member of a new class of agents, the prostamides, for glaucoma management

Bimatoprost, a synthetic analogue of endogenous prostamides, is in development as a topical ocular hypotensive agent for the treatment of glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Prostamides are a newly discovered class of compounds that have been shown to have potent ocular hypotensive activity in the laboratory. Bimatoprost mimics the endogenous prostamides by lowering intraocular pressure (IOP). Bimatoprost provides outstanding control of IOP throughout the day, and a high percentage of patients receiving bimatoprost achieve the low target pressures important for clinical success. In controlled clinical trials, bimatoprost 0.03% given once daily has displayed efficacy superior to timolol 0.5% given twice daily, the current standard for therapy. Analysis of pooled six month data from two large Phase III trials demonstrated that mean IOP was consistently 2 - 3 mmHg lower with bimatoprost q.d. than with timolol b.i. d. Bimatoprost 0.03% q.d. has also been shown to provide significantly better diurnal IOP control than latanoprost 0.005% q.d. , probably the most efficacious topical medication currently available. Patients receiving bimatoprost q.d. were more likely than timolol or latanoprost patients to achieve low target pressures. In all clinical evaluations, bimatoprost q.d. has been demonstrated to be safe and well-tolerated. Bimatoprost will likely be available for clinical use in 2001 and it has great potential to be superior to all other medications in IOP-lowering efficacy. It is anticipated that bimatoprost will have an important role in therapy for glaucoma and ocular hypertension.
RELATION IDENTIFICATION

Temporal information extraction is a popular and interesting research field in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as summarization, question answering (QA) and information extraction. In this paper, we have reported extraction of events and identification of different temporal relations between event-time and even-document creation time (DCT) within the TimeML framework. Our long term plan is to make temporal structure that can be used in the applications like question answering, textual entailment, summarization etc. In our approach, we propose a voted approach for (i) event extraction (ii) event – document creation time (DCT) relation identification (iii) event – time relation identification from the text under the TempEval-2 framework. The contributions of this work are two-fold; initially features are extracted from the training corpus and used to train a CRF and SVM framework. Then, the proposal of a voted approach for event extraction, event-DCT and event-time relation identification by combining the supervised classifiers such as Conditional Random Field (CRF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). In total we generate 20 models, 10 each with CRF and SVM, by varying the available features and/or feature templates. All these 20 models are then combined together into a final system by defining appropriate voting scheme.
The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies

PART ONE: THEORIZING THE FIELD Organizational Theorizing - Michael Reed A Historically Contested Terrain Ecological Approaches to Organizations - Joel A C Baum and Andrew V Shipilov Organizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William Hesterly Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic Analysis Meso Organizational Behavior - D Brent Smith, Benjamin Schneider and Marcus W Dickson Comments on the Third Paradigm Complexity Science and Organization Studies - Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey, Laurent Mirabeau and Nail Oztas Institutions and Institutional Work - Thomas B Lawrence and Roy Suddaby Critical Theory and Postmodernism Approaches to Organizational Studies - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz From the 'Woman's' Point of View' Ten Years Later - Marta B Calas and Linda Smircich Towards a Feminist Organization Studies Data in Organization Studies - Ralph Stablein Making Organization Research Matter - Bent Flyvbjerg Power, Values, and Phronesis Researching Organizations Using Action Research - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham The Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational Studies - Stephen P Turner Representation and Reflexivity - Stewart Clegg and Cynthia Hardy PART TWO: EXPLORING THE ISSUES Leadership in Organizations - Ken W Parry and Alan Bryman Perspectives on Organizational Decision-Making - Susan J Miller and David C Wilson A Decision Perspective on Organizations - Margaret A Neale, Ann E Tenbrunsel, Tiffany Galvin and Max H Bazerman Social Cognition, Behavioral Decision Theory and the Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational Behaviour Diverse Identities in Organizations - Stella M Nkomo and Marcus Stewart Revisiting Metaphors of Organizational Communication - Linda L. Putnam and Suzanne Boys Beyond Contingency - Rita Gunther McGrath From Structure to Structuring in the Design of the Contemporary Organization Organizing for Innovation in the 21st Century - Deborah Dougherty The New Corporate Environmentalism and Green Politics - John Jermier, Linda Forbes, Suzanne Benn and Renato Orsato Green Politics and Critical-Reflective Organizational Systems Globalization - Barbara Parker and Stewart Clegg Emotion and Organizing - Stephen Fineman Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale Gagliardi Organizational Culture - Joanne Martin, Peter J Frost and Olivia A O'Neill Beyond Struggles for Intellectual Dominance Some Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart Clegg Networks and Organizations - Kelley A Porter and Walter W Powell The Effect of Rhetoric on Competitive Advantage: Knowledge, Rhetoric and Resource-Based Theory - John A A Sillince Radical Organizational Change - Royston Greenwood and C R Hinings Seeing Organizations Differently - Peter J Frost, Jane E Dutton, Sally Maitlis, Jacoba M Lilius, Jason M Kanov and Monica C Worline Three Lenses on Compassion
Secondary school reading habit scale: Validity and reliability study / Ortaokul kitap okuma alışkanlığı ölçeği: Geçerlik güvenirlik çalışması

Okuma, zihinsel ve duyussal gelisime en cok katkisi olan temel dil becerisi olarak ifade edilmektedir. Bu nedenle okuma aliskanliginin, bireyler tarafindan bir gereksinim olarak algilanip omur boyu duzenli olarak surdurulmesi gerekmektedir. Bu calismada ortaokul duzeyindeki ogrencilerin kitap okuma aliskanliklarinin belirlemesine yonelik bir olcegin gelistirilmesi amaclanmistir. Taslak olcek gelistirilme asamasinda, ogretmen adaylarinin goruslerine basvurulduktan ve kitap okuma alisknaligi ile ilgili alan yaizn incelendikten sonra oncul maddeler hazirlanmis ve pilot calisma yapilarak uzmanlarin goruslerine basvurulmustur. 38 maddeden olusan ve 5’li likert tipinde gelistirilen olcek Canakkale Merkezinde yer alan bes farkli orta okulda ogrenim goren 1002 ogrenciye uygulanmistir. Analizler sonucunda Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) degerinin 0.90, Bartlett Test of Sphericity testi anlamlilik degeri ise 0.00 (p<0.05) bulunmustur. Yapilan calisma kapsaminda gelistirilen Ortaokul Kitap Okuma Aliskanligi Olcegi’nin (OKOAO) yapi gecerliligini belirlemek amaciyla acimlayici faktor analizi uygulanmistir. Faktor analizi sonucunda gelistirilen olcegin uc faktorlu (Kitaplarin Becerilere Yansimasi, Kitapla Kurulan Iliski, Kitaplardan Hareketle Anlatima Yonelme) bir yapiya sahip oldugu gorulmustur. Olcegin kendi icerisinde ne kadar tutarli oldugunu tespit etmek amaciyla Cronbach’s Alpha degeri hesaplanmistir. Yapilan analiz sonucunda olcekteki 15 madde icin Cronbach’s Alpha guvenirlik katsayisi . 86 olarak hesaplanmistir. Guvenirlik katsayisnin . 70 ve uzerinde olmasi olcek guvenirligi icin yeterli gorulmektedir. Dolayisiyla bu durum gelistirilen “Ortaokul Kitap Okuma Aliskanligi Olcegi”nin guvenilir bir olcek oldugunun gostergesidir.
Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle

We consider economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and across firms within sectors. Why have “productivity enclaves”, islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyze three sets of factors: First, the poor business climate, which constrains the allocation of production factors between sectors and firms. Second, the complex political economy of business-government relations in Africa’s small economies. Third, the distribution of firm capabilities. The roots of these factors lie in Africa’s geography and its distinctive history, including the legacy of its colonial period on state formation and market structure.
TGF‐β1 attenuated branching morphogenesis of embryonic murine submandibular gland through Smad3 activation

Transforming growth factor‐β1 (TGF‐β1) plays several crucial regulatory roles in multiple physiological and pathological processes. The aim of this work was to investigate the role of TGF‐β1 in branching morphogenesis of salivary gland. We harvested and cultured submandibular salivary glands (SMGs) from murine embryos, which were then treated with exogenous TGF‐β1, or its neutralized antibody, Smad3 inhibitor, or Smad3 small interfering RNA (siRNA). Our results suggested that TGF‐β1 attenuated branching morphogenesis of embryonic murine SMG via Smad3 activation, thus playing a negative regulatory role in salivary gland development.
Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability in Tandem Repeat Sequences is not Predictive of Unique Sequence Instability

Abstract Noda, A. , Kodama, Y. , Cullings, H. M. and Nakamura, N. Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability in Tandem Repeat Sequences is not Predictive of Unique Sequence Instability. Radiat. Res. 167, 526–534 (2007). Tandem repeat sequences, classified as minisatellite sequences or partially duplicated genes, are inherently unstable. Radiation exposure can increase the instability of such repeat sequences, but the biological consequences of this elevated instability are not well characterized. To learn more about the characteristics of the instability at different sequences in the genome, we created mutant HT1080 cells bearing 8.4 kb of partially duplicated allele at the HPRT locus by gene targeting. The cells were then tested to determine whether repeat-sequence instability (assessed by elevated reversion rate caused by loss of one duplicated segment) accompanied increased forward mutation rates at the restored wild-type HPRT allele. After a 4-Gy X irradiation, 32 clones were selected (out of 500 clones, 6%) that showed elevated reversion rates even after many cell generations. These clones also showed general increases in the forward mutation rate, whereas the paired individual mutation rates did not correlate with each other. Furthermore, levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nuclear γ-H2AX foci, which are hallmarks for DNA damage responses, were also generally elevated, although the levels did not correlate with the individual reversion rates. It was concluded that repeat sequence instability is not predictive of unique sequence instability, probably because the instability is generated by multiple mechanisms after radiation exposure.
Health and efficiency : a sociology of health economics

Part 1 Introduction: the National Health Service and the economic community the study and its method the threefold strategy. Part 2 Colonizing the mind - dilemmas in the application of economics? what is economics? common misconceptions about economics avoiding confrontation the ills of the NHS criticism without offence technical judgements and value judgements the dual programme of health economics. Part 3 Quick and dirty - the problems of intervention: rationality and irrationality in the NHS insider problems the pros and cons of working on the outside judgements of success and failure. Part 4 "Fury above prof's kidney call" - health economists in the media: introduction who's right, who's wrong and who decides? the other York - health economics under the microscope. Part 5 Measuring the quality of life - a sociological invention: an opening dialogue discussion of the paper begins measuring the quality of life further implications are explored conclusions are drawn concerning social science and practical action measuring quality of life - a comment by Alan Williams note. Part 6 Clinical budgeting - experimentation in the social sciences: a drama in five acts: act 1 an idea is born in a London cafe act 2 why is clinical budgeting? act 3 the problems of experimentation act 4 Wickings' world act 5 an evaluation meeting notes. Part 7 The rationalized choice - option appraisal and the politics of rational decision-making: politics, appraisal and the politics of appraisal reading "Planning Hospital Services" the final choice which costs? numbers, anomalies and benefits scores a positive conclusion is "Planning Hospital Services" a poor appraisal? a brief lesson notes. Part 8 Summaries, conclusions and readings: summaries and conclusions (with imaginary interruptions) rational affirmation - an economist's reading critical deconstruciton - a sociologist's reading sceptical self-realization - a layperson's reading. Appendix: research materials interviews and transcripts texts recorded events.
Mathematical Literacy: Developing Identities of Inclusion

Why do so many learners, even those who are successful, feel that they are outsiders in the world of mathematics? Taking the central importance of language in the development of mathematical understanding as its starting point, Mathematical Literacy explores students’ experiences of doing mathematics from primary school to university - what they think mathematics is, how it is presented to them, and what they feel about it. Building on a range of theory which focuses on community, knowledge, and identity, the author examines two particular issues: the relationship between language, learning, and mathematical knowledge, and the relationship between identity, equity, and processes of exclusion/inclusion. In this comprehensive and accessible book, the author extends our understanding of the process of gaining mathematical fluency, and provides tools for an exploration of mathematics learning across different groups in different social contexts. Mathematical Literacy’s analysis of how learners develop particular relationships with the subject, and what we might do to promote equity through the development of positive relationships, is of interest across all sectors of education—to researchers, teacher educators, and university educators.