Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Leakage temperature dependency aware real-time scheduling for power and thermal optimization

OF THE DISSERTATION LEAKAGE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY AWARE REAL-TIME SCHEDULING FOR POWER AND THERMAL OPTIMIZATION Vivek Chaturvedi Florida International University, 2013 Miami, Florida Professor Gang Quan, Major Professor Catering to society’s demand for high performance computing, billions of transistors are now integrated on IC chips to deliver unprecedented performances. With increasing transistor density, the power consumption/density is growing exponentially. The increasing power consumption directly translates to the high chip temperature, which not only raises the packaging/cooling costs, but also degrades the performance/reliability and life span of the computing systems. Moreover, high chip temperature also greatly increases the leakage power consumption, which is becoming more and more significant with the continuous scaling of the transistor size. As the semiconductor industry continues to evolve, power and thermal challenges have become the most critical challenges in the design of new generations of computing systems. In this dissertation, we addressed the power/thermal issues from the system-level perspective. Specifically, we sought to employ real-time scheduling methods to optimize the power/thermal efficiency of the real-time computing systems, with leakage/temperature dependency taken into consideration. In our research, we first explored the fundamental principles on how to employ dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) techniques to reduce the peak operating temperature when running a real-time application on a single core platform. We further proposed a novel real-time scheduling method, “M-Oscillations” to reduce the peak temperature when scheduling a hard
El ecologismo popular

Hay quien piensa que el ecologismo es un lujo de los ricos, que hay que preocuparse por la naturaleza solamente cuando ya tienes de todo en casa. Pero existe un ecologismo popular. De hecho, hay en el ecologismo diversas corrientes. Hay gente que se llama ecologista radical, en Estados Unidos, y socialmente no es nada radical. Es una tendencia llamada “ecología profunda”, que se preocupa sólo de la naturaleza. Por ejemplo, luchaban y luchan contra la construcción de represas en cañones hermosos que iban por tanto a ser inundados. Incluso alguno dijo que se dejaría morir allí. Me parece bien, me parece admirable. Luchaban solamente por la naturaleza, no por las personas. En Brasil hay en cambio el movimiento popular que se llama “atingidos por barragens”, es decir, los afectados por represas.
Enterprise-Wide Data Modelling: Information Systems in Industry

This book describes modern methods for developing enterprise-wide information systems. The proven "Architecture of Integrated Informations Systems (ARIS)" is used as framework for the development of business process models for industrial companies. For the processes of logistics, product development, information and coordination the ARIS-architecture serves as basis for a description from the functional, organizational, data and process viewpoint. The developed reference models can be used right away to support the introduction of new organizational concepts through the employment of new information processing techniques. A wealth of graphical illustrations enhance the reader's understanding of the material. Examples from standard software systems (SAP/R3) demonstrate the book's down-to-earth practicality.
Examining the Relationships between Organizational Culture, Knowledge Management, and Environmental Responsiveness Capability

Purpose -- The main goal of this paper is to study the effects of organizational culture on environmental responsiveness capability (ERC) both directly and through the mediation of knowledge management in selected Iranian industrial research organizations (IIRO). Furthermore, the effects of four types of organizational culture on ERC and knowledge management in the target population are compared.Design/methodology/approach -- Relationships between the ERC, knowledge management and organizational culture are considered using survey data through the structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. Five-point Likert questionnaire has been used as a tool for measuring variables. Our sample includes 276 members of 13 selected target organizations whose names are not mentioned due to prior agreement.Findings -- Results show that organizational culture has a positive and significant relationship with ERC, both directly and indirectly through the mediation of knowledge management. Additionally, compared with other types of organizational cultures, innovativeness culture has the highest correlation with ERC both directly and through knowledge management as a mediating variable. Furthermore, cooperativeness culture has a direct significant relationship with ERC, whereas consistency and effectiveness cultures indirectly have significant and positive relationships with ERC through knowledge management. Therefore results of this research provide appropriate evidence that ERC can be affected directly by innovativeness culture and knowledge management.Research limitations/implications -- This research was conducted in IIRO with specific set of societal and cultural attitudes, while different countries have different cultures. So, future research can extend this study to other regions of the world with a different set of attitudes and behaviours. However, the current research provides important insights into effects of knowledge management and organizational culture on the degree of organizational responsiveness.Practical implications -- The findings of this research can assist companies to develop their organizational culture to foster KM processes and enable consistent tracking of environmental changes and undertake timely and appropriate responses. Originality/value -- The advantage of this paper compared to other related research is to study on ERC based on cultural and knowledge-related variables. Hence it can extend the literature of ERC and it can be useful for the managers who are dealing with industrial research company.
European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation Predicts Postoperative Complications and Prognosis of Chinese Patients Operated for Acquired Heart Valve Diseases

Objective To evaluate the prediction validation of European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation(EuroSCORE) in prolonged intensive care unit(ICU) stay,mortality,and major postoperative complications for Chinese patients operated for acquired heart valve disease.Methods Between January 2004 and January 2006,2 218 consecutive patients treated for acquired heart valve diseases were enrolled in Fu Wai Hospital.All these patients accepted valvular surgery.Both logistic model and additive model were applied to EuroSCORE to evaluate its ability in predicting mortality,prolonged ICU stay and major postoperative complications of patients who had undergone heart valve surgery.An receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC) area was used to test the discrimination of the models.Calibration was assessed by Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic.Results Discriminating abilities of logistic and additive EuroSCORE algorithm were 0.710 and 0.690 respectively for mortality,0.670 and 0.660 for prolonged ICU stay,0.650 and 0.640 for heart failure,0.720 and 0.710 for respiratory failure,0.700 and 0.740 for renal failure,and 0.540 and 0.550 for re-exploration for bleeding.There was significant difference between logistic and additive algorithm in predicting renal failure and heart failure(P0.05). Calibration of logistic and additive algorithm in predicting mortality,prolonged ICU stay and major postoperative complications were not satisfactory.However,logistic algorithm could be used to predict postoperative respiratory failure(P=0.120). Conclusion EuroSCORE is not an accurate predictor in predicting mortality,prolonged ICU stay and major postoperative complications,but the logistic model can be used to predict postoperative respiratory failure in Chinese patients operated for acquired heart valve diseases.
Characterization of the Balm of an Egyptian Mummy from the Seventh Century B.C.

Abstract An analytical procedure for the characterization of plant resins, waxes, bitumen, oils and their degradation products in mummy balms is described. The method is based on the selective extraction of these compounds from 19 samples with CH2Cl2 and, after drying the residue, with n-hexane, followed by a Florisil chromatographic clean-up step of the non-polar extract and by the saponification of an aliquot of dried CH2Cl2 extract. Polar compounds were derivatized with t-butyl-dimethyl silyl trifluoroacetamide (MTBSTF A). Quantitative determinations were obtained by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The procedure, tested on suitable reference materials such as beeswax and plant resins, showed a recovery of about 100% for non-polar compounds. Using this method, pine resins (P. pinea and P. sylvester), mastic resin (Pistacia lentisca and P. terebinthus), sandarac (Tetraclinis articulata), elemi ( Canarium), dammar (Hopea), myrrh (Commiphera) and a pine resin from the second century A.D. were characterized. Identification was based on the characteristic pattern of the diterpenoid and triterpenoid compounds contained in these natural products. Results on Egyptian mummy samples from the seventh century B.C. were obtained and showed that the main components used in the embalming process were mastic resin from the genus Pistacia, an unidentified vegetable oil, beeswax and bitumen. Terpenoids degraded by a thermal treatment were also found; therefore a hot fluid was used for embalming, confirming the practice hypothesized in the Late Period by egyptologists.
Contribution à la compréhension des modes d'actions tribologiques et thermiques des revêtements en usinage. Application au cas du taillage de dentures à la fraise-mère à grande vitesse.

Le taillage d'engrenages par fraise-mere est le procede le plus utilise pour la generation de dentures, notamment dans l'industrie automobile. Les exigences de productivite obligent les fabricants a augmenter considerablement les vitesses de coupe utilisees, ainsi qu'a supprimer la lubrification a l'huile entiere traditionnellement employee. Une nouvelle generation de fraises-meres a ete developpee sur la base de l'utilisation de substrats en acier rapide fritte fortement allie, associes a de nouvelles familles de revetements, ainsi qu'a des methodes optimisees de tribofinition des fraises-meres. Issu de la famille des depots PVD, le revetement dur et refractaire (Ti,Al)N, en association avec le revetement auto-lubrifiant MoS2 a montre leurs performances techniques et economiques dans ce type d'operation. Une revue des methodes de caracterisation des revetements a egalement permis de resituer l'interet de chacune d'elles aux differents stades de developpement d'une nouvelle couche. Une etude, mettant en œuvre diverses methodes complementaires d'investigations, a permis de caracteriser l'influence thermique et tribologique des revetements sur les modes de formation des copeaux.
Sentiment Analysis of Colloquial Arabic Tweets

User-generated tweets are becoming an integral part of shaping public opinion. That is why Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of tweets is gaining considerable attention as part of web content mining. In natural language, subjectivity refers to aspects of language used to express opinions, including sentiment. In this paper, we present the design and implementation for a novel subjective and sentiment analysis system for Arabic tweets, which combines different recent approaches, including building a new Arabic lexicon. Unlike most related work, our system works on colloquial Arabic instead of Modern Standard Arabic. The conducted performance evaluation experiments show the outperformance of the system compared to related work.
Exploring the Affective Museum Visiting Experience: Adaptive Augmented Reality (A2R) and Cultural Heritage:

Providing engaging interpretation resources for museum and gallery visitors may have a great impact on the overall museum visiting experience all by assisting museums in maintaining long-term relationships with their public. This paper focuses on the ways through which AR can be employed in museum and gallery settings as an interpretation medium. It also introduces a new generation of multimedia guides for the museum visit inspired by the concept of Adaptive Augmented Reality (A2R). Adaptive Augmented Reality (A2R) provides visual and acoustic augmentations that come to supplement the artefact or site viewed by a museum or gallery visitor and monitors the cognitive and affective impact of all interactions of the museum visitor both with the physical and the digital environment. The ultimate goal is to make every museum visit unique, by tailoring an Augmented Reality visit with contents that are susceptible to increase the affective impact of the augmented museum visiting experience and hence encourage int.
Een epidemiologisch onderzoek naar lage-rugpijn

textabstractDe opzet van dit onderzoek was het voorkomen van lage-rugpijn (LRP) in een ongeselecteerde bevolking te onderzoeken, en meer inzicht te krijgen in factoren die invloed uitoefenen op het ontstaan en aanhouden van LRP. Daar het een epidemiologisch onderzoek betreft, zijn de respondenten niet te beschouwen als patienten. Het onderzoek is aangepast aan de omstandigheden en is zeker minder betrouwbaar als een klinisch onderzoek (in de desbetreffende paragrafen wordt hierop ingegaan). Bij epidemiologisch onderzoek gaat het om vergelijking van groepen, zodat onnauwkeurigheden bij het individuele onderzoek tegen elkaar zullen wegvallen, tenzij er systematische fouten worden gemaakt. Voor de respondent heeft dit geen consequenties, in tegenstelling tot de klinische situatie. Aan de hand van de resultaten van dit onderzoek is het mogelijk om door middel van deelonderzoeken op details in te gaan.
MAQAM IN MUSIC AS A CONCEPT, SCALE AND PHENOMENON

Maqam is a melodic material of the Near East, Middle East and Anatolian traditional musics as one of the musical modes in the World. There have been many theoretical studies on maqam-s and maqam music for centuries. Although the manuscript studies until the 20th century examined the maqam-s according to performance in musical works, the studies in the 20th century evaluated and classified them according to Western music theory. However, there is confusion and dilemma between performance and the theory of maqam in these studies. Therefore, this article examined and discussed the features of maqam as a concept, scale and phenomenon within the framework of systematic musicology.
The Rhythm of Strategy : A Corporate Biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia

Contents[-] - 6[-]Preface[-] - 10[-]List of Tables[-] - 12[-]List of Figures[-] - 13[-]Ch1. Introduction[-] - 16[-]Ch. 2: The Birth of a Conglomerate[-] - 40[-]Ch. 3: The Midas Touch[-] - 60[-]Ch. 4: Fire-Fighting[-] - 84[-]Ch. 5: Axis of Opportunity[-] - 106[-]Ch. 6: Evolution of the Salim Group Strategy[-] - 122[-]Ch. 7: Conclusions[-] - 140[-]Annex 1: Sources[-] - 152[-]Annex 2: Time Series Analysis of Business Events[-] - 155[-]Annex 3: Overview of Salim Group Activities[-] - 161[-]Annex 4: Salim Group Executives[-] - 166[-]Notes[-] - 168[-]Glossary[-] - 184[-]Abbreviations[-] - 185[-]References[-] - 186[-]Index[-] - 200
Ecology, competitive advantages, and integrated control of rhododendron: an old ornamental yet emerging invasive weed around the globe.

A dilemma surrounding Rhododendron confers upon this genus unique characters among plants. Great ornamental values (spectacular flowers, species-richness, ease of hybridization and broad geographical range) will continue to make Rhododendrons highly celebrated horticultural plants around the world. Their highly invasive ecophysiology (e.g. shadeand cold-tolerance, great resource use efficiency, allelopathy), life strategy (e.g. plastic physiological, morphological, and behavioral response to varying environments and shifting between generative and vegetative reproduction as primary source of colonization), and difficulty to control also will continue to make this shrub a notorious woody weed world-wide. This chapter focuses on the two most highly problematic Rhododendron species (R. ponticum L. and R. maximum L.) that exert profound impacts on natural ecosystems on both sides of the Atlantic. The broad geographical range and noteworthy similarities in climate, topography, and ecology of Rhododendron species can provide an opportunity to understand the ecology and control of invasive Rhododendron species. Information transfer on the ecology and effective, cost-efficient control of Rhododendron may significantly improve management practices not only for the current Rhododendron-invaded ecosystems but also for other parts of the world where this shrub is becoming an ecological threat.
An application of Lauricella hypergeometric functions to the generalized heat equations

In the recent paper, we give a formal solution of a certain one dimensional time fractional homogeneous conduction heat equation. This equation and its solution impose a rise to new forms of generalized fractional calculus. The new solution involves the Lauricella hypergeometric function of the third type. This type of functions is utilized to explain the probability of thermal transmission in random media. We introduce the analytic form of the thermal distribution related to such Lauricella function.
The influence of cooling rate on the specific volume of isotactic poly(propylene) at elevated pressures

Summary: We used a custom designed dilatometer to measure quantitatively the time evolution of the specific volume of (semi-crystalline) polymers for an unusual combined wide range of cooling rates and elevated pressures, covering processing conditions. For an isotactic poly(propylene), applying the Schneider rate equations for quiescent crystallization, experimental results are compared to numerical predictions. Average cooling rates imposed during crystallization of the material vary from 0.1 to 35 °C · s-1 while pressures range from 20 to 60 MPa. The results show the well-known profound influence of pressure and cooling rate on the specific volume. An increasing cooling rate shifts the crystallization temperature Tc towards lower temperatures, increases the final specific volume, and the transition due to crystallization is more gradual and widespread. For the highest cooling rate applied, the shift in Tc is as much as 30 °C, while the final specific volume increases up to 1.4%. Increasing pressure has an opposite effect on the shift in Tc, while the final specific volume, after pressure release, also increases. Finally, a comparison of numerical predictions with experimental data shows that the crystallization temperature Tc is consistently predicted too low, and that the predictions at high cooling rate are sensitive to (small) variations in model parameters.
First high power pulsed tests of a dressed 325 MHz superconducting single spoke resonator at Fermilab

In the recently commissioned superconducting RF cavity test facility at Fermilab (SCTF), a 325 MHz, {beta} = 0.22 superconducting single-spoke resonator (SSR1) has been tested for the first time with its input power coupler. Previously, this cavity had been tested CW with a low power, high Q{sub ext} test coupler; first as a bare cavity in the Fermilab Vertical Test Stand and then fully dressed in the SCTF. For the tests described here, the design input coupler with Q{sub ext} {approx} 10{sup 6} was used. Pulsed power was provided by a Toshiba E3740A 2.5 MW klystron.
iOS Applications Testing

Mobile applications conquer the world, but iOS devices hold the major share of tablets market among the corporate workers. This study aims to identify the aspects (i.e. features and/ or limitations) that influence the testing of the native iOS applications. The aspects related to general mobile applications testing are identified through the systematic literature review of academic sources. iOS applications testing aspects are identified through the review of non-academic (multivocal) literature sources. The identified aspects are merged and discussed in detail using the reviewed sources and based on the author’s professional experience in iOS applications testing. The references to the credible sources are provided in order to support the professional experience findings. The study eliminates the gap that exists in the academic world in regards to iOS applications testing. The practitioners are also encouraged to fulfill their iOS applications testing strategies with the identified aspects.
Influence o f dietary bulk agents (silica, cellulose and a natural zeolite) on protein digestibility, growth, feed intake and feed transit time in European seabass ( Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles

— The incorporation of various bulk agents by substitution of an equivalent amount of the basal mixture was studied in terms of protein digestibility, growth performance and body composition in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles. During the growth trial, triplicate groups of 40 seabass (mean initial weight: 7.0 g) were grown in seawater (salinity: 35; tempe­ rature: 18 °C) over 60 days. Fish were hand-fed, three times a day, one of seven experimental diets. Bulk agents tested at 10 or 20 % level of incorporation were silica, cellulose and a natural zeolite (chabamin). Feeding rates were adjusted in proportion to the percent dilution of the control diet without bulk incorporation. The incorporation of the bulk agents, at a 10 and 20 % level, did not affect protein digestibility or growth performance. Dietary bulk incorporation reduced feed efficiency values, particularly at the 20 % incorporation level. Flowever, this reduction was mostly caused by the dietary nutrient dilution of the bulk-incorporated diets, rather than by a negative effect of the bulk agents as dietary ingredients. In comparison to the control treatment, bulk incorporation at 10 and 20 % level did not affect protein retention values. When compared with the control diet, 20 % bulk agent incorporation changed the evacuation profile of faeces and increased faecal egestion time. © Ifremer/Elsevier, Paris Fish nutrition / inert fillers
Adaptive charge sharing method for liquid crystal displays with lower power consumption

Abstract. This paper proposes an adaptive charge sharing (ACS) method for reducing power consumption in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Our ACS method involves calculating the power consumption of all data lines assuming the charge is shared and analyzing the analog characteristics of the data transitions. With conventional CS, charge is shared between data lines only when the polarities of data signals change. Our ACS method selectively shares charge even when no polarity change occurs, but only if CS provides an overall reduction in power consumption. To compare the performance of ACS and conventional CS, we applied the ACS method to common inversion methods, namely, column, two-dot, and Z inversion. Our simulation results demonstrate that the ACS method can effectively reduce power consumption, especially with the column and Z inversion methods. The average power consumption of the ACS method with column and Z inversion was 87.7% and 84.7%, respectively, of the conventional CS power consumption.
Zygosaccharomyces machadoi sp. n., a yeast species isolated from a nest of the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula

A new yeast species, Zygosaccharomyces machadoi, was discovered in garbage pellets of the stingless bee Tetragosnica angustula in Brazil. Analysis of the sequence of the D1/D2 domains of the large-subunit rDNA showed that the new species is related to Zygosaccharomyces rouxii. Z. machadoi probably causes food spoilage in hives of stingless bees. It assimilates only a few carbon sources such that it is difficult to distinguish it from other Zygosaccharomyces species based on conventional physiological tests. The type strain of Z. machadoi is UFMG-J01-63.2T (CBS10264T). Keywords: Zygosaccharomyces machadoi, stingless bees, honey, garbage pellet.