Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
'My Story to Be Told': Explorations in Narrative Documentation with People from Refugee Backgrounds

This paper explores the use of narrative documentation in work with people from refugee backgrounds, specifically in contexts of responding to trauma. It recounts, through an in-depth case study, work with a man from Sierra Leone in which a number of documents were co-created, including letters, documents of skills and knowledge, and rescued speech poetry. Through the lens of narrative documentation, a number of narrative principles and practices are explored, including eliciting responses to trauma, scaffolding, externalising, re-authoring, and outsider-witnessing. This paper is the outcome of a project of co-research and offers insights into how the practice of narrative documentation might be used across language and culture.
Unhiding the Effect of Social Media Marketing Activities & Benefits and Brand Experience on Consumer Based Brand Equity

Customers are increasingly turning to professional social media networks to learn about businesses and make purchasing decisions. The purpose of this study is to get a better understanding of SMM activities customization and word of mouth, brand experience sensory experience and behavioral experience and social media benefits, cognitive and personal integrates and CBBE in the fashion house business environment by revealing whether marketers may impact customers' attitude toward the brand equity. The survey of 274 followers of high-end fashion companies on digital networking was utilized to evaluate the study model using a statistical programmed for the natural sciences. The data show significant mental, personal integrative, and socially integrative advantages, but not hedonic benefits, moderate the SMM–CBBE connection. Furthermore, brand trust, user engagement, and customer satisfaction are all substantially influenced by behavioral and attitudinal consumer engagement. Our studies might be used by luxury fashion management to design SMM tactics that improve Youngsters' overall business journey and customer loyalty evaluations in digital marketing contexts.
Combined and targeted drugs delivery system for colorectal cancer treatment: Conatumumab decorated, reactive oxygen species sensitive irinotecan prodrug and quercetin co-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers

Abstract Purpose Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and this study aimed to develop a conatumumab decorated, irinotecan prodrug and quercetin co-loaded delivery system for combined and targeted colorectal cancer treatment. Methods A conatumumab (C) decorated, irinotecan prodrug (I-p) and quercetin (Q) co-encapsulated NLC (C I-p/Q NLC) was developed. In vitro and in vivo antitumor efficiency of NLC was evaluated on CRC cells and mice xenograft. Results The results showed that the HT-29 cells uptake of C I-p/Q NLC was over 70%. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) sensitive irinotecan prodrug formulation showed improved drug release ability in hypoxic conditions. C I-p/Q NLC showed significantly higher cytotoxicity than non-decorated NLC, single drug-loaded NLC and free drugs. In vivo studies in a CRC-bearing model corroborated the capability of nanoparticles for the inhibition of cancer, leading to a reduction of tumor growth without systemic toxicity. Conclusion The conatumumab decorated, ROS sensitive prodrug contained combination nano-system is a promising platform for CRC therapy.
Implementation of Multicultural Islamic Education Values

This article analyzes and discusses the implementation of values, models, and strategies of multicultural Islamic education in elementary schools using a qualitative approach with multi-site in SD YPPSB 3 and SDN 002 Sangatta. The author collects data through interviews, FGDs, and explores several relevant references, documents, and other relevant data. The findings reveal that: (1) The values of multicultural Islamic education are formulated in the school’s vision and mission through school meetings attended, foundation management, school principals, teachers, and stakeholders, (2) The multicultural Islamic education curriculum development model uses administrative and grassroots models, and (3) Its implementation strategy through curriculum integration in each lesson, extracurricular activities, and habituation in school and daily home environment.
Building organizational resilience with digital transformation

Purpose Uncertain times [e.g. coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)] require service businesses to respond in creative, flexible and resilient ways. This paper aims to develop and test the theoretical relationship between digital transformation and organizational resilience (OR), and the consequences of OR on organizations and employees during turbulent times.Design/methodology/approach A scale development was first conducted with an expert panel. Later, 474 participants who work as employees in small and medium-sized service enterprises were recruited for structural equation modeling (SEM). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and path analysis were conducted to test the relationship between dimensions of digital maturity, dimensions of OR and two consequential variables: organizational performance and employees’ state optimism.Findings Strategic technology investment helps organizations to develop systematic control sustain operations in crises but may not directly contribute to employees’ capabilities of accurately understanding external turmoil, actively seeking available resources and rapidly developing adaptive solutions. Transformation management intensity equips an organization with transformative vision, governance and culture, and such transformative built-in leadership enables the organization to embrace employees with talents and innovativeness and help employees grow their capabilities when facing crises. The dimensions of OR have different influences on the organization and employees.Originality/value This research develops and tests the dimensions and measurement items of OR for the services domain and empirically tested how the dimensions of digital maturity influence the dimensions of OR, and how OR influences the organization’s performance and employees’ state optimism.
Are There Really Foxes: Where Does the Doubt Emerge?

This paper uses a model of doubting to demonstrate why a long term eradication programme has faced so many complex problems in its implementation. Analysis of a qualitative case study of the Fox Eradication Project in Tasmania identifies aspects of accuracy, source and relevance, demonstrating how the credibility of new triggers is undermined, thereby enabling individuals to maintain their current mental model rather than accepting new knowledge to adapt or amend it. The analysis illustrates how doubt can be managed either through prevention, perturbation or boundary spanning. It is suggested that the process of establishing what is leading to doubt enables a change manager to consider alternative communication and implementation strategies which directly address the alterations of mental models.
IL-6/IFN-γ double knockdown CAR-T cells reduce the release of multiple cytokines from PBMCs in vitro

ABSTRACT CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T (anti-CD19 CAR-T) cells have shown good therapeutic results in the treatment of CD19 + B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma. However, severe side reactions and cytotoxicity are great challenges in the application of anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is the main side effect of CAR-T cell treatment, and interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interferon γ (IFN-γ) are cytokines that play major roles in CRS. Therefore, we investigated double knockdown (KD) of IL-6 and IFN-γ as a potential strategy to manage anti-CD19 CAR-T cell-associated CRS. These improved anti-CD19 CAR-T cells therapy retained the advantages of the original anti-CD19 CAR-T cells and additionally reduced the release of cytokines from CAR-T cells and other immune cells. Moreover, this study presented a novel approach to abrogate CRS through IL-6 and IFN-γ KD, which may potentially inhibit the release of multiple cytokines from CAR-T cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), a model of CRS correlate with in vivo features of the CAR-T therapy, thereby reducing the impact of CRS, improving the safety of CAR-T cell treatment, reducing toxicities, and maintaining the function of CAR-T cells.
Relativno vođenje robota koristeći 3D vizijski sustav

U ovom diplomskom radu obrađena je tehnika vođenja robotske ruke Universal Robot 5 (UR5) pomocu medicinskog optickog sustava za pracenje markera Polaris Vicra i na taj nacin smanjena je njegova pogreska pozicioniranja. Nakon uvodnog poglavlja o vec postojecim robotskim sustavima u medicini, slijede poglavlja koja sadrže: princip rada optickog sustava te kratak opis robotske ruke i njegovog kinematickog modela. Postoje i potpoglavlja u kojima je objasnjena matematicka terminologija i velicine koje ti sustavi koriste. Kao etalon za potrebe mjerenja koristena je kalibracijska ploca. Na pocetku prakticnog dijela diplomskog rada izvrsena su mjerenja kalibracijske ploce na optickom koordinatnom stroju za mjerenje (CMM) kako bi definirali međusobne udaljenosti rupa na ploci. Kasnije su svi drugi rezultati mjerenja uspoređivani sa rezultatima dobivenima na CMM stroju. Sljedeci korak bio je rucno mjerenje kalibracijske ploce sa optickim sustavom u svrhu izracunavanja njegove pogreske mjerenja. Izracunate su pogreske mjerenja za: • položaj samo jednog markera u prostoru; • dva razmaknuta markera u prostoru tj. mjerenje položaja jednog u odnosu na drugi. Ispitano je također utjece li orijentacija markera na tocnost optickog sustava. U svrhu ispitivanja tocnosti pozicioniranja robota, sonda sa markerom pricvrscena je u robotovoj prihvatnici. Rucnim vođenjem robota, vrh sonde pozicioniran je u jednakoj orijentaciji u svaku rupu na kalibracijskoj ploci i ocitavane su paralelno vrijednsti sa robota i sa Polaris-a (obzirom na referentni marker). U okviru diplomskog zadatka izrađen je upravljacki program koji omogucuje relativno vođenje alata robotske ruke na temelju informacija izmjerenih pomocu medicinskog optickog sustava. Program je napisan u programskom jeziku C++. Kao IDE koristio se Visual Studio i dodatna C++ knjižnica Eigen. Programska podrska omogucuje sve funkcionalnosti koje su zadane u diplomskom zadatku. Cijela programska podrska, ukljucujuci komunikaciju između robota i PC-a, matematicki algoritam, razmjenu i tok informacija, objasnjena je u petom poglavlju. U prilogu na kraju diplomskog rada priložene su sve koristene Exel tablice i programski kod koji je koristen.
Study on the Fusion of Oil Painting Art and Digital Media Based on a Visual Sensor

Digital media art is a new type of art with rich sensory experience. Nowadays, digitization is flooding many areas of life. Under the sprint of a large amount of information, human beings have once again entered the digital age. This article is aimed at studying the fusion of oil painting art and digital media based on visual sensors, analyzing the application of digital imaging art using sensor technology in various fields, especially in the field of oil painting art, and analyzing the effects of digital media with the support of sensor technology. The artistic characteristics and rich forms of presentation are presented, and then, the key points of digital media design are summarized. This paper proposes to bring advanced sensor technology into the field of art for research, turning boring and difficult technical data into an interesting art form, making human-computer interaction more compact and humane, and creating better works of art, so that more and more people and different fields can enjoy the scientific and technological achievements. The sensor is a kind of bionics in modern science, which enables machinery to perceive the human environment like human or animal sensory organs, through the perception and detection of this environmental change, and writing a certain program, the signal data is converted into electricity or signal, and at the same time transmit these signals to receiving organs or devices, such as device sensors that simulate organs. The art of digital photography requires the intervention of sensor technology to make interaction and virtue more complete. The sensor technology also requires the art of digital photography to provide an external display window, which can better serve mankind and create greater social value. The combination of technology and art makes the presentation of art more distinctive. The experimental results of this paper show that the integration of oil painting art and digital media based on visual sensors has made digital media have an impact on more than 58% of oil painting art works and made many oil painting art works show an unprecedented sense of science and technology, which is important for future oil painting art. The development of the company has positive significance.
A survey of the extraction and applications of causal relations

Abstract Causationin written natural language can express a strong relationship between events and facts. Causation in the written form can be referred to as a causal relation where a cause event entails the occurrence of an effect event. A cause and effect relationship is stronger than a correlation between events, and therefore aggregated causal relations extracted from large corpora can be used in numerous applications such as question-answering and summarisation to produce superior results than traditional approaches. Techniques like logical consequence allow causal relations to be used in niche practical applications such as event prediction which is useful for diverse domains such as security and finance. Until recently, the use of causal relations was a relatively unpopular technique because the causal relation extraction techniques were problematic, and the relations returned were incomplete, error prone or simplistic. The recent adoption of language models and improved relation extractors for natural language such as Transformer-XL (Dai et al. (2019). Transformer-xl: Attentive language models beyond a fixed-length context. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02860) has seen a surge of research interest in the possibilities of using causal relations in practical applications. Until now, there has not been an extensive survey of the practical applications of causal relations; therefore, this survey is intended precisely to demonstrate the potential of causal relations. It is a comprehensive survey of the work on the extraction of causal relations and their applications, while also discussing the nature of causation and its representation in text.
Bioelectric Signal Analysis to Expose Nervous Control of the Human Heart

This thesis describes the development of new methods to infer the nature of nervous control of the human heart using recordings of its electrical behaviour. Malfunctions of this control system are a leading cause of death, and can be triggered by a diverse range of influences including basic physiological factors and one’s emotional state. However, the mechanisms of failure remain poorly understood, partly due to a lack of relevant human data. The principal purpose of the work described in this thesis is to improve the availability of such data. A literature review was conducted, covering the current understanding of electrical activity in the heart and its control by the nervous system, as well as the techniques available to observe that behaviour. A variety of novel techniques were developed and implemented experimentally to demonstrate their utility. Specialised methods for the filtering and subsequent spectral analysis of electrocardiograph (ECG) signals were used to expose differences between psychologically distinct groups in terms of their response to emotional stimuli. Algorithms were developed to automatically process unipolar electrogram recordings with minimal human intervention, enabling the analysis of heterogeneous electrophysiological dynamics, which requires datasets of a size that would otherwise make in-depth analyses intractable. New indices were developed for measuring the timing of localised electrical activation and recovery from unipolar electrograms, in order to overcome the fact that conventional indices are not well suited to dynamic analyses. Experiments using these tools demonstrated that respiration induces heart-rate independent modulation of the ventricles’ electrophysiological behaviour via the autonomic nervous system. By improving the accessibility of human in situ data, the developed tools enable new research methodologies to study interactions between the heart and the nervous system, which may ultimately contribute to the development of new treatments to prevent thousands of deaths in the UK alone each year.
An efficient evolutionary method of assembly sequence planning for shipbuilding industry

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop the method of generating assembly sequences, which can be used in the shipbuilding industry. The method must take into account the assumptions specific for assembly processes of large-size steel ship hulls, among others, a large number of connections, multi-stage and parallel assembly, set priority relations between connections. Design/methodology/approach - The assembly sequence is presented as a directed acyclic graph, whose vertices are mutually uniquely assigned to connections on a hull structure. The minimization of the number of unmet priority precedence of performing connections has been proposed as a criterion of optimization. The genetic algorithm has been proposed as a method to solve problems. Findings - The proposed method allows to model the acyclic assembly process of welded structures and find solutions minimizing the objective function even for very complex problems. Because of this, the method has a chance to be used in shipbuilding. Research limitations/implications - Mathematical formulation of priority assumptions is quite laborious. The possibility of partial automation of this process should be considered. Due to the complexity of the problem, a relatively simplified objective function has been proposed. In assembling a hull, additional criteria should be taken into account. It is the direction of further research. Practical implications - The method can be successfully used in shipbuilding and in planning the production of other steel welded structures, among others, tanks, components of bridges, offshore structures. Examples of calculations were performed on an actual structure of a hull fragment. Originality/value - A new way of coding the acyclic serial-parallel sequence was designed. The proposed method allows to analyse the sequence using the graph theory. Original, two-part crossover and mutation operators for assembling sequence were proposed.
Development of Performance Index for Stormwater Pipeline Infrastructure

With new government regulations and emerging knowledge of the risk to the environment posed by the failure of stormwater pipelines, stormwater infrastructure asset management is becoming increasingly important in the U.S. An essential aspect of asset management practice is the accurate performance assessment of one’s assets. This paper presents a weighted factor framework to determine the performance of stormwater pipes. This paper prepares a list of 50 parameters affecting the performance of stormwater pipelines; the list is based on a review of the literature, existing asset management plans, and feedback from utilities. This list is broken down into essential and preferential parameters. Indeed, not all utilities necessarily possess sufficient resources to collect such a large set of parameters. This study also develops a three-level hierarchical structure of the degradation of stormwater pipeline infrastructure. The structure consists of five failure modules and the essential parameters only. On the basis of the survey results gathered from 10 utilities across the EPA regions, the study combines the essential parameters into a performance index. The index is a scale of 1 to 5, similar to the National Association of Sewer Service Companies’ Pipeline Assessment and Certification Program grading system. Grade 1 implies excellent condition and Grade 5 implies collapse is imminent.
A Formula for the Probability of Successful Packet Transmission in Cognitive Radio Networks

In this article, we derive a closed-form expression for the probability of successful packet transmission (PSPT) over Rayleigh fading channels in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The derived expression is novel, as it does not require prior channel state information. This is achieved by employing a probabilistic model for the packet transmission time, avoiding the less realistic deterministic model that is widely used in the literature. Furthermore, the derived expression allows trading accuracy with computational complexity. Our expression is computationally efficient with linear computational complexity. Simulation results demonstrate high accuracy in evaluating the PSPT, with controllable computational complexity.
Diversity and distribution of Oxytropis DC. (Fabaceae) species in Asian Russia

Abstract Background The dataset providing information on the geographic distribution of Oxytropis species on the territory of Asian Russia is discussed. The data were extracted from different sources including prominent floras and check-lists, Red Data books, published research on congeneric species and authors’ field observations and mainly cover less-studied, remote regions of Russia. The dataset should be of value to applied, basic and theoretical plant biologists and ecologists interested in the Oxytropis species. New information The dataset includes 5172 distribution records for 143 species and 15 subspecies of genus Oxytropis DC. (Fabaceae Lindl.) in Asian Russia. The dataset fills gaps in the distribution of locoweeds in the study area and contains precise coordinates for many of rare and endemic species.
On Line Visual-Grasping System Based on a Gripper with Two Flexible Fingers

Abstract In this work we propose a novel gripper with two flexible fingers combined with a visual object recognition system for its implementation in industrial applications, such as manufacturing, assembly and manipulation, among others. This original system increases the manipulability and flexibility of the robots manipulators and improves the safety of the operations carried out with it. This combined system also makes the manipulation of very fragile or deformable objects possible as result of the flexible characteristic of the gripper fingers. The system is mounted at the end effector of a 6 DOF robot manipulator for object recognition and manipulation tasks. The object recognition software is developed and the force control law for the gripper is designed. Experiments are included to demonstrate the good performance of the system proposed.
Temperature Measurement and Control in a Rapid Thermal Processor

Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) of silicon or other semiconductor materials requires accurate measurement and control of temperature. In a typical RTP cycle, heating of the wafer takes place in seconds, making accurate control of the wafer temperature very critical. Non contact wafer temperature sensing is achieved using an optical pyrometer. Precise temperature control from 400° C to 1350° C is maintained with a closed loop control system consisting of an optical pyrometer and a computer. Sources of errors due to variations in emissivity as a function of wafer temperature, surface conditions and background radiation are discussed. Calibration of the system is achieved by using a thermocouple instrumented wafer.