Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
New Expression For Calculating Magnetic Fields Due To Current Carrying Solid Conductors

A new closed-form expression based on double integral computation is introduced for 3D magnetostatic fields of current-carrying solid conductors whose vector density satisfies the condition that its curl is zero. Such a reduced expression is derived for a toroidal conductor with radial current flow, solved analytically, and used for 3D field computation. For illustration, by applying the same reduction principle, the 3D magnetic fields are computed for cylindrical and rectangular conductors with longitudinal flowing current.
Perceived instructor affective support in relation to academic emotions and motivation in college

The purpose of the present study was to examine the associations among perceived instructor affective support, academic enjoyment, academic hopelessness, behavioural engagement and academic help seeking in college classrooms. A self-report survey was administered to 277 college students enrolled in a teacher training department of a major university in Turkey. Structural equation modelling was used for data analysis. Perceived instructor affective support, either directly and/or indirectly, related to all emotional and motivational variables presented in the structural model. Findings signify the necessity of providing affectively supportive learning environments not only in K12 classrooms but also in college classrooms. The implications for practice and future research as well as the limitations are discussed.
Citizen participation: the case of Israel Project Renewal

Project Renewal made citizen participation in decision‐making its central principle, the core of all the activities performed at the neighborhood level. This paper describes the concept of citizen participation in disadvantaged areas, how it developed in practice, its organizational changes and its new form in Project Renewal neighborhoods in Israel. In addition, it considers which factors contribute to or impede the development of citizen participation and the lessons that have been learned during its 30 years of existence. The citizen participation concept as implemented in Project Renewal indicates significant transformation changes in neighborhood rehabilitation: from the absence of both formal and informal channels of influence to the present stage when it is an integral part of a decision‐making process. The implementation of a resident participation policy enabled inhabitants in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Israel to have their voices heard and to be part of an influential neighborhood body of stakeholders working together to build and manage a sustainable community.
Activating HSP72 in Rodent Skeletal Muscle Increases Mitochondrial Number and Oxidative Capacity and Decreases Insulin Resistance

Induction of heat shock protein (HSP)72 protects against obesity-induced insulin resistance, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here, we show that HSP72 plays a pivotal role in increasing skeletal muscle mitochondrial number and oxidative metabolism. Mice overexpressing HSP72 in skeletal muscle (HSP72Tg) and control wild-type (WT) mice were fed either a chow or high-fat diet (HFD). Despite a similar energy intake when HSP72Tg mice were compared with WT mice, the HFD increased body weight, intramuscular lipid accumulation (triacylglycerol and diacylglycerol but not ceramide), and severe glucose intolerance in WT mice alone. Whole-body VO2, fatty acid oxidation, and endurance running capacity were markedly increased in HSP72Tg mice. Moreover, HSP72Tg mice exhibited an increase in mitochondrial number. In addition, the HSP72 coinducer BGP-15, currently in human clinical trials for type 2 diabetes, also increased mitochondrial number and insulin sensitivity in a rat model of type 2 diabetes. Together, these data identify a novel role for activation of HSP72 in skeletal muscle. Thus, the increased oxidative metabolism associated with activation of HSP72 has potential clinical implications not only for type 2 diabetes but also for other disorders where mitochondrial function is compromised.
Trends in Wind Speed at Wind Turbine Height of 80 m over the Contiguous United States Using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)

AbstractThe trends in wind speed at a typical wind turbine hub height (80 m) are analyzed using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) dataset for 1979–2009. A method, assuming the wind profile in the lower boundary layer as power-law functions of altitude, is developed to invert the power exponent (in the power-law equation) from the NARR data and to compute the following variables at 80 m that are needed for the estimation and interpretation of the trend in wind speed: air density, zonal wind u, meridional wind υ, and wind speed. Statistically significant and positive annual trends are found to be predominant over the contiguous United States, with spring and winter being the two largest contributing seasons. Positive trends in surface wind speed are generally smaller than those at 80 m, with less spatial coverage, reflecting stronger increases in wind speed at altitudes above the 80-m level. Large and positive trends in winds over the southeastern region and high-mountain region are primarily du.
Activating an Inclusive Learning Framework for Formal Adult Education Classrooms: Confronting the Challenges and Proposing Solutions

Abstract Activating an Inclusive Learning Framework for Formal Adult Education Classrooms: Confronting the Challenges and Proposing Solutions Rami Kamel In this thesis I examine the inter-linked contributions that anti-bias theory, student-centered learning theory, transformative learning theory and inclusive education theory may bring to practitioners of adult education and adult students returning to formal educational institutions. I argue that working from a perspective that is informed by the above theories and their potential applications in the adult education classrooms will benefit adult learners and practitioners alike. Selecting key elements from each of the four theories examined, I try to activate an inclusive learning framework for formal adult educational classrooms. I then try to illustrate the classroom applications using each one of these theories with related examples of their potential impact on curriculum, course planning and content choices, as well as methods to facilitate learning in an inclusive and safe environment for all. The potential benefits for the learning goals of individuals are highlighted as well as the potential for social change and transformation. The role of administrators and researchers in supporting and advancing this endeavour is also discussed.
A Fine-grained Hop-count Based Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

In recent years, many localization algorithms have been proposed for wireless sensor networks, in which the hop-count based localization schemes are attractive due to the advantage of low cost. However, these approaches usually utilize discrete integers to calculate the hop-counts between nodes. Such coarse-grained hop-counts make no distinction among one-hop nodes. More seriously, as the hop-counts between nodes increase, the cumulative deviation of hop-counts would become unacceptable. In order to solve this problem, we propose the concept of fine-grained hop-count. It is a kind of float-type hop-count, which refines the coarse-grained one close to the actual distance between nodes. Based on this idea, we propose a fine-grained hop-count based localization algorithm (AFLA). In AFLA, we first refine the hop-count information to obtain finegrained hop-counts, then use the Apollonius circle method to achieve initial position estimations, and finally further improve the localization precision through confidence spring model (CSM). We conduct the comprehensive simulations to demonstrate that AFLA can achieve 30% higher average accuracy than the existing hop-count based algorithm in most scenarios and converge much faster than the traditional mass-spring model based scheme. Furthermore, AFLA is robust to achieve an approximate 35% accuracy even in noisy environment with a DOI of 0.4. Besides, we also construct a Testbed that consists of 17 MICAz motes to verify the performance of AFLA in real environment.
Many Sources, One Message: Political Blog Links to Online Videos During the 2008 Campaign

Political bloggers occupy a unique and influential position in determining whether an online political video attracts attention from Internet users, journalists, and politicians. Despite the central role that bloggers play in the process of filtering online videos, however, there have been no systematic empirical studies of the kinds of videos that political bloggers choose to link to on their blogs. Using the data derived from 100 randomly selected political blogs during the last 2 months of the 2008 campaign, this article presents evidence that political bloggers are willing to post videos produced by a diverse array of sources, ranging from highly polished advertisements filmed by interest groups to footage recorded by ordinary citizens using cell phone cameras. Perhaps more importantly, the author finds strong support for the hypothesis that political bloggers will avoid posting videos that challenge their ideological predispositions and, instead, link only to those videos that confirm what they already believe to be true. More specifically, the data presented here show that political bloggers rarely engage in cross-ideological linking and have a strong preference for videos that disparage the actions and statements of their highest-profile political opponents. Political bloggers, in other words, engage in the type of ideologically motivated filtering of online videos that presents readers with a decidedly one-sided and negative view of those who do not share their political beliefs.
Outcome of Rehydration of Diarrhea Cases by Oral Route

Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) has been proven to be a simple and valuable method of rehydration in diarrheal disease (DD) and also has an economic impact by reducing the number of admissions to hospital (1-7). However to this day, the use of this method remains limited in many countries (8). In Turkey an important proportion of practitioners continue using parenteral fluid therapy in moderately dehydrated DD cases. For this reason, we believe more studies documenting the efficacy of ORT may help to promote the use of this method of treatment. In this study our experience with ORT in DD cases followed in the University Capa Children’s Hospital in Istanbul is presented.
OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS OF INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS OF ATOMIC POWER STATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS

The paper is devoted to the development of a perspective concept of atomic station power block intelligent automatic control systems synthesis on the basis of mathematical models and numeric methods of vector optimization of systems quality indexes using genetic algorithms. The methods for calculation of direct quality indexes and improved integral quadratic estimates have been created. The step-by-step principle of transition to the domain of system stability has been based. There have also been suggested vector objective functions including stability conditions and taking into consideration quality indexes priorities. The reliable genetic algorithms for vector objective functions optimization have been suggested. Mathematical models in the state space for intelligent automatic control systems of nuclear reactor and steam generator have been worked out. The quality indexes optimization of power block intelligent control systems has been carried out, which allowed to estimate various controller types efficiency.
Thermal reaction norms can surmount evolutionary constraints: comparative evidence across leaf beetle species

Abstract One of the leitmotifs of the ecophysiological research on ectotherms is the variation and evolution of thermal reaction norms for biological rates. This long‐standing issue is crucial both for our understanding of life‐history diversification and for predicting the phenology of economically important species. A number of properties of the organism's thermal phenotype have been identified as potential constraints on the evolution of the rate–temperature relationship. This comparative study addresses several such constraints by testing whether the actual interspecific variation of thermal reaction norms across nearly hundred leaf beetle species agrees with the expected patterns. The results show that developmental rate and its temperature‐dependent parameters are similar in closely related species and that the variation pattern depends on the taxonomic scale, the thermal reaction norms being mostly parallel for the representatives of distant subclades but intersecting more often farther down the phylogenetic tree. The parallel shift disagrees with the putative ubiquity of a positive slope–threshold relationship, whereby thermal reaction norms should normally intersect, and even more contradicts with the common‐intersection hypothesis. The ability to develop in cooler conditions is not traded off at higher temperatures, which is an exception to the “warmer is better” principle. A comparison of high‐ and low‐quality data indicates that some of these discrepancies with earlier findings may stem from a likely presence of noise in previous analyses, which may have affected the variation patterns observed. Overall, the failure to support the universality of the predicted patterns suggests that the evolution of thermal reaction norms in leaf beetles has largely overcome the hypothesized constraints.
Effects of Resource Availability on Social Exchange Relationships: The Case of Employee Psychological Contract Obligations

Applications of social exchange theory in organizational research have tended to ignore the resource context and its impact on a focal dyadic social exchange. Integrating insights from the social exchange theory and the conservation of resources theory, we examine the role of resource availability in the social exchange of resources. The type of social exchange we focus on is the psychological contract. Specifically, we examine the antecedents and consequence of breach of employee obligations to an employer. We test our predictions using multisource data obtained from employees over three measurement periods in Sample 1 and matched triads (employee, supervisor, and coworker) in Sample 2. We found that family–work conflict (FWC) and breach of employer obligations are positively, while conscientiousness is negatively, related to employees’ perceptions of breach of their obligations. Conscientiousness moderated the FWC–breach relationship: Employees low on conscientiousness have a stronger positive relationship between FWC and breach of employee obligations. Breach of employee obligations is, in turn, negatively related to employee career progression (a job promotion over the following year in Sample 1 and supervisor-rated promotability in Sample 2). Findings highlight the interconnected nature of demands, resources, and obligations and that dyadic social exchange obligations should be examined in the context of other demands.
FEEPVR: First End-to-End Protocol to Secure Ad Hoc Networks with Variable Ranges against Wormhole Attacks

In this paper, we present a very simple and efficient end-to-end algorithm to handle wormhole attacks on ad hoc networks with variable ranges of communication. Most of the existing approaches focus on the prevention of wormholes between neighbors that trust each other. The known end-to-end mechanisms assume that all the nodes of the network have same communication range. To the best of our knowledge this is the first attempt to handle variable ranges of the nodes in an ad hoc network where only the source and the destination are assumed to trust each other. We provide a lower bound on the minimum number of hops on a good route. Any path showing lesser hop-counts is shown to be under attack. Our algorithm requires every node to know its location. With very accurate GPS available, this assumption is not unreasonable. Since our protocol does not require speed or time, we do not need clock synchronization. In the absence of any error in the location, there are no false alarms i.e. no good paths are discarded. We have shown that the effect of error in the location information is negligible and can be ignored most of the times. The storage and computation overhead is low. For a path of length I, it takes only O(l) space and time.
Faceless: High-profile murders and public recognition

This paper reports on the outcome of an investigation into whether or not members of the public would recognise high-profile victims and perpetrators and, if so, whom. The study was based on the premise that prominent media coverage would cause a greater number of perpetrators to be recognised than victims and that those victims who were recognised would be white children. Field research was conducted in a university and in non-university settings, such as fast food outlets, bus stops and shopping centres. All 20 images used were black and white headshots. Most photographs showed one person, but two photographs had two images. A total of 103 people were surveyed. The majority of our sample (78%) were unable to name any victims or perpetrators. These results provide strong evidence to suggest that despite 24-hour rolling news and the prominence of high-profile victims and perpetrators on the front pages of national newspapers, the public fails to remember who these victims and perpetrators are. We discuss why this may be so.
The Missing Link: How Lack of Branding Can Drive to Failures in e-Business and e-Commerce Ventures

In the paper we present first hand and personal experiences from the lack of branding and how much it can influence the failure of a project or a venture. We do so in terms of present a personal failure story, namely this of the PACE toolkit, a methodology that the author has co-developed at ALTEC Research Programmes Division for valuating intellectual and intangible assets, in parallel with the success story of the business model canvas developed by Alex Osterwalder. We emphasise on the need for e-business and e-commerce professionals and practitioners to more seriously and enthusiastically invest in branding related activities. Involving others such as future potential users or customers as well as investors is a key in the adoption and uptake of our offerings.
Research Statement Ziming Zhao

Cybersecurity is of great importance. Given the ever increasing complexity in attack and camouflage techniques (the technology side) and cybercrime workflow (social and human side), it is imperative to have a holistic view of the today’s security and privacy landscape from the machine, network, human and society perspectives so as to design effective defense and response mechanisms that span multiple layers in our computing systems and can even utilize human and social factors. My research not only includes the security and privacy related problems in computer and communications systems but also touches the security implications of human and social behaviors. I consider myself as a full stack security researcher who works on multiple layers. In particular, my research foci include system and software security, e.g., utilizing hardware primitives to design and implement secure systems for attack mitigations [16, 15, 9, 7, 8, 6]; network and web security, e.g., designing and implementing novel network defense and response systems for the emerging software-defined network and mobile ad-hoc network [22, 21, 3, 5, 2, 10, 13]; cybercrime and threat intelligence analysis, e.g., developing methodologies and systems to understand the structure of underground communities and the economy and ecosystem of cybercrime [17, 19, 11, 14, 23]; usable and user-centric security, e.g., using characteristics of human perception to find vulnerabilities in existing security solutions and design more secure and usable systems [20, 18, 4, 1]. My interdisciplinary research requires expertise in computer architecture, operating system, computer networks, artificial intelligence, and human factors. My research outcomes have appeared in the most prestigious computer and communication security conferences and journals, including including IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY), IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), etc. My research results are also recognized for their academic and practical impacts, as noted by two best paper awards (ITU Kaleidoscope 2016, ACM CODASPY 2014), the 3rd place in SDN Innovation Challenge (Extreme Networks 2015), and top 10 finalist of best applied security paper award (CSAW 2015). Moreover, my research work has been widely covered in popular media including InformationWeek, Slashdot, NakedSecurity, ACM.org, etc.
The Blizzard Challenge 2009

The Blizzard Challenge 2009 was the fifth annual Blizzard Chal- lenge. As in 2008, UK English and Mandarin Chinese were the chosen languages for the 2009 Challenge. The English corpus was the same one used in 2008. The Mandarin corpus was pro- vided by iFLYTEK. As usual, participants with limited resources or limited experience in these languages had the option of using unaligned labels that were provided for both corpora and for the test sentences. An accent-specific pronunciation dictionary was also available for the English speaker. This year, the tasks were organised in the form of 'hubs' and 'spokes' where each hub task involved building a general-purpose voice and each spoke task in- volved building a voice for a specific application. A set of test sentences was released to participants, who were given a limited time in which to synthesise them and submit the synthetic speech. An online listening test was conducted to eval- uate naturalness, intelligibility, degree of similarity to the original speaker and, for one of the spoke tasks, "appropriateness. " Index Terms: Blizzard Challenge, speech synthesis, evaluation, listening test
RNomic identification and evaluation of npcTB_6715, a non‐protein‐coding RNA gene as a potential biomarker for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Technological advances in RNA biology greatly improved transcriptome profiling during the last two decades. Besides the discovery of many small RNAs (sRNA) that are involved in the physiological and pathophysiological regulation of various cellular circuits, it becomes evident that the corresponding RNA genes might also serve as potential biomarkers to monitor the progression of disease and treatment. sRNA gene candidate npcTB_6715 was previously identified via experimental RNomic (unpublished data), and we report its application as potential biomarker for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in patient samples. For proof of principle, we developed a multiplex PCR assay and report its validation with 500 clinical cultures, positive for Mycobacteria. The analysis revealed 98.9% sensitivity, 96.1% specificity, positive and negative predictive values of 98.6% and 96.8%, respectively. These results underscore the diagnostic value of the sRNA gene as diagnostic marker for the specific detection of MTB in clinical samples. Its successful application and the general ease of PCR‐based detection compared to standard bacterial culture techniques might be the first step towards ‘point‐of‐care’ diagnostics of Mycobacteria. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time for the design of diagnostic applications based on sRNA genes, in Mycobacteria.