Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Two-Stage Multi-Agent Based Assessment Approach to Enhance Students' Learning Motivation through Negotiated Skills Assessment

In this paper we present an Agent-based evaluation approach in a context of Multi-agent simulation learning systems. Our evaluation model is based on a two stage assessment approach: (1) a Distributed skill evaluation combining agents and fuzzy sets theory; and (2) a Negotiation based evaluation of students’ performance during a training simulation or a Problem-solving process in a Computer-assisted learning system. This paper highlights how this approach deals with the problem of subjective evaluation of students, and shows the impact of Negotiated skills evaluation on reducing the students’ rate of dropout. This approach can also compensate the absence of human expert for assessing training results. Applied to training in plant protection, experiments' results showed first the fuzzy sets based assessment to be similar to the domain expert’s assessment and second the negotiated skills assessment to be effective in assessing students’ abilities and sustaining students’ motivation to continue learning. This evaluation approach allows us to address the problem of subjective assessment and overcome some difficulties encountered in traditional measurement models.
HPLC Fingerprinting of Glucosinolates during Fermentations Assisted by Chemometric Analysis

Glucosinolates, bioactive phytochemicals found in Brassica vegetables proved to be associated with multiple health benefits. Therefore, the food processing of these vegetables need to consider how glucosinolates content can strongly be affected. The HPLC analysis of glucosinolates, from four different Brassica vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, white and red cabbage) was done before and after natural home-made fermentation. Two different lactic fermentations were used, in salt and acetic acid or with salted water. The average content of individual glucosinolates differed among Brassica vegetables. The highest total GLS content was noticed in broccoli, followed by red and white cabbage, and cauliflower (4.93, 3.35, 3.15 and 2.07 μmol/g dw, respectively). After lactic fermentation, the most affected were indole glucosinolates, excepting the white cabbage, where total aliphatic glucosinolates decreased strongly. Among individual glucosinolates, 4-hydroxy-glucobrassicin increased by 27% and 39% during fermentation in salt/acetic acid and with salted water, respectively. This study has shown that individual glucosinolates content decreased substantially after lactic fermentation and as demonstrated by Multivariate Statistical Analysis, glucosinolates profiles can be considered as significant discrimination factors to evaluate the different fermentation processes of Brassica vegetables.
Effect of Permanent Magnet Rotor Design on PMSM Properties

The paper is focused on the permanent magnet location and shape investigation in PMSM. At first, the real PMSM has been modeled by means of FEM which has been verified by experiments. Next step was a creating of two new models with different position of PM: one with surface mounted PM and other one with inset PM. The PM volume and quality have been in all models kept constant . The main goal of this paper is to investigate the influence of the PM design on PMSM properties such as torque ripple, maximum torque, EMF, stator current and winding losses. The investigation has shown, that PM surface design can improve PMSM properties.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANSPARENT FLEXIBLE-SHEAR-BEAM CONTAINER FOR DYNAMIC GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE TESTING

Model containers used in dynamic geotechnical centrifuge testing are designed to reasonably simulate prototype boundary conditions observed in the field. A given container may exert boundary conditions that alter the dynamic response of a soil layer, preventing proper simulation of free-field response. The choice of the container type depends on the problem of interest. Flexible-Shear-Beam (FSB) and laminar containers are commonly used when modeling seismic soil-structure-interaction effects in dry and saturated soils. These containers typically have metallic rings, preventing visual observation of soil particles or the movement of a buried structure during seismic loading. Consequently, many researchers choose rigid containers with transparent side-walls but unrealistic boundary conditions, in order to investigate these types of problems. This paper summarizes the design and construction process of a new FSB-type container with transparent side-walls at the University of Colorado Boulder. Acrylic frames with rubber interface layers were selected for this purpose. The container’s dynamic response was simulated using Abaqus prior to manufacturing and testing of the container under 1-g and increased gravitational acceleration. The dynamic response analyses focused primarily on the influence of rubber properties on the container’s dynamic response and natural frequency. The results of the numerical simulations agreed well with shaking table tests. The new FSB container can adequately simulate freefield response, which may be used for a variety of geotechnical systems while enabling better visualization of the movement of soil particles and buried structures.
THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-HARVEST BORIC ACID APPLICATIONS ON THE ACCUMULATION OF SOME ANTIOXIDANT COMPONENTS IN ALPHONSE LAVALLÉE GRAPE CULTIVAR

The aim of the research was carried out to determine the effects of boric acid (BA) applications on the accumulation of anthocyanins, β-carotene, ascorbic acid and total phenolics in ʻAlphonse Lavalléeʼ grape cultivar. BA was applied to vines with four different concentrations (250, 500, 750 and 1000 mg/L) and at two different periods (at blooming and at blooming+fruit set). At the end of the study, it was determined that the BA applications consist of 250mg/L and 750 mg/L of boric acid concentrations during both blooming and fruit set stages were the most effective applications providing the highest anthocyanins, β-carotene and total phenolics. On the other hand, boric acid applications had no important effects on the ascorbic acid contents in berries.
In vitro biocontrol activity of rhizosphere isolates against wilt causing pathogen of Redgram ( Cajanus cajan )

An experiment was conducted in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru, to screen the bacterial isolates from rhizosphere soil of Redgram against the wilt causing pathogen of Redgram under in vitro condition. Forty bacterial isolates were tested in vitro condition for their biocontrol activity against fungal plant pathogen using Dual plate technique and mycelial dry weight reduction assay. The study revealed that bacterial isolates from Redgram rhizosphere found to inhibit the growth of wilt causing Fusarium spp. in the laboratory conditions. The isolates RGB8 (63.33% inhibition in dual plate and 70% inhibition of dry mycelial weight) and RGP7 (60.00% inhibition in dual plate and 65.78% inhibition of dry mycelial weight) found to be effective against the Fusarium wilt pathogen which can be used as bio inoculant against the wilt pathogen.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF JMA OPERATIONAL WAVE FORECASTING SYSTEM

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issues marine information including ocean wave condition. The wave information is important for the safety of voyaging vessels or fishing boats, as well as disaster prevention for coastal residents, mitigation and so on. JMA is responsible for the North Pacific region (0 to 60N in latitude and 100 to 180E in longitude), and wave analysis charts for 00UTC (AWPN) and 24hours wave forecast charts (FWPN) shown as Fig. 1 are produced. Wave charts (AWJP and FWJP) are also produced to provide detailed wave condition for the seas around Japan. The wave charts are disseminated once a day via radio facsimile for voyaging vessels, and also available in the JMA web site†. These wave charts are manually made by the JMA staffs, based on wave model prediction and referring to observations and weather conditions etc. In order to analyze wave condition automatically, an objective analyses system for wave heights has been developed. This system uses optimum interpolation (OI) scheme, and rectifies wave fields using observed data, and is going to be put in operation in this December. JMA has been operating numerical wave models since 1977. The current wave models are the third generation wave model MRI-III, which was originally developed in Meteorological Research Institute of JMA (Ueno and Kohno, 2004), and was
Multivariable Control Strategy Based on a Parameterized NMPC for a Diesel Engine Air Path

In this paper, a multivariable control strategy based on a parameterized Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) approach is proposed for a Diesel engine air path. The aim is to control the level of pollutant emissions by coordinating the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) and the Variable Geometry Turbocharger (VGT) valves simultaneously. The main feature of the proposed controller lies in its compatibility with more elaborated nonlinear representations since it uses the model as a black box predictor. Some experimental results performed on a real world Diesel engine are presented in order to emphasize the efficiency of the controller.
TIINA RISTILÄ DIABETIC RETINOPATHY DETECTION WITH TEXTURE FEATURES

TIINA RISTILÄ: Diabetic retinopathy detection with texture features Tampere University of Technology Master of Science Thesis, 53 pages, 3 Appendix pages August 2017 Master’s Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering Major: Biomeasurements and Bioimaging Examiners: Professor Joni Kämäräinen and Professor Hannu Eskola
Subjectivity in Spanish Discourse: Explicit and Implicit Causal Relations in Different Contexts

Corpus-based studies in various languages have demonstrated that some connectives are used preferentially to express subjective versus objective meanings, for example, omdat vs. want in Dutch. However, Spanish connectives have been understudied from this perspective. Moreover, most of the studies of subjectivity have focused on explicit relations and little is known about the subjectivity of implicit coherence relations. In addition, the role that context plays in the meaning and use of causal relations and their connectives is still under discussion. This study analyzes Spanish causal explicit and implicit relations in different contexts by carrying out manual text analyses, focused on subjectivity. 360 backward relations marked by three prototypical causal connectives and 120 backward implicit relations were extracted from academic and journalistic contexts. The analytical model is based on an integrative approach to subjectivity. Statistical analyses reveal no systematic profiles of Spanish connectives in terms of subjectivity. Furthermore, a significant three-way interaction between SANTANA, SPOOREN, NIEUWENHUIJSEN AND SANDERS 164 subjectivity, context, and linguistic marking is observed. Based on a solid corpus analysis, this study reveals new insights into the expression of subjectivity in Spanish discourse relations.
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ NÚCLEO DE PESQUISAS EM ONCOLOGIA PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ONCOLOGIA E CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS REDUÇÃO DE MIR-218 NO SORO COMO BIOMARCADOR DE PIOR PROGNÓSTICO EM PACIENTES COM CÂNCER GÁSTRICO

Recently, liquid biopsy has emerged as a promising tool for the identification of potential diagnosis, prognosis and/or predictive biomarkers in blood of patients with many different diseases, including cancer. MicroRNAs are among that potential biomarkers, and when deregulated, could contribute to the development of various types of cancer, such as gastric cancer. The literature demonstrates an association of miR-218 expression as a potential tumor suppressor associated with gastric cancer progression. However, only one previous study in Asiatic population evaluated the expression of circulating miR-218 in the serum of patients vs control. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of miR-218 in the serum of patients with gastric cancer and its correlation with clinical-pathological characteristics. Samples were collected from 302 patients and 120 healthy subjects for analysis of mirR-218 expression by Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction. The results demonstrated decreased expression of miR-218 in the serum of patients with gastric cancer in association with health subjects. In addition, the reduction of miR-218 expression was significantly associated with tumor invasion, presence of lymph node metastases, Lauren’s diffuse type, advanced stages of cancer, indicating worse prognosis. Therefore, corroborating with findings from the literature, theses results suggest the potential use of miR-218 in serum as a prognostic biomarker in gastric cancer patients.
Impact of Performance Degradation and Capital Subsidy on the Revenue of Rooftop PV System

Offering capital subsidy is one of the most recognized techniques to promote solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for investors. Most of the nations have offered subsidies to the investors, who are willing to invest and develop the PV systems (system peak capacities ranging from small-scale wattage to large-scale multi-megawatt). This paper tries to investigate the influence of subsidy on the revenue generated by a PV plant. For a clear understanding of the subsidy influence, two PV system cases (the first one is without capital subsidy, and the second one is with 15 % capital subsidy) are considered. The revenue generated by the PV plant is estimated considering the approved grid feed-in tariff rates set by the Electricity Regulatory Commission separately for each case depending on the PV plant capacity. Another known fact is that there exists performance degradation in the PV plant to a maximum extent throughout its lifetime. Hence during the evaluation of revenue, the energy degradation over the PV plant lifetime, i.e., 25 years is considered. Focused results for analyzing the system include energy yield for the first year, energy yields for the rest 24 years of life considering degradation, yield factor, capacity factor, revenue generation, and payback periods. With the analysis of the parameters as mentioned earlier, the revenue benefits of PV systems with and without capital subsidy is discussed, and relevant conclusions were made. KeywordsSolar photovoltaic system, rooftop solar, PV performance, capital subsidy, energy yields, degradation rate, energy economics, payback periods, grid feed-in tariff.
Glomerular filtration rate evaluation and its comparison with international standard values in a large population-based study

1Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2Khorasan Razavi Province Health Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3Complementary and Chinese Medicine, Persian and Complementary Medicine Faculty, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4Department of Health Network Development and Health Promotion, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 5Epidemiology and Zoonosis Division, Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran and Uro-Oncology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 6Environmental Health Engineering, Khorasan Razavi Province Health Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Fissure structure analysis to unravel groundwater inflow problem in gold mining site of Pongkor area , West Java , Indonesia

Hydrogeology of Pongkor area, West Java, Indonesia is characterised by fractured aquifer system. The aquifer consists of volcanic rocks of tertiary period, namely Cimapag formation. It is fractured with orientations axis of the fracture patterns are northwest – southeast and northeast – southwest. Pongkor area is drained by two main surface streams, called River Cikaniki and river Cimaja, normally flowing northward direction. In the study area, there is such a vein structure known as Vein Ciurug containing gold ore deposits. The vein is exploited by subsurface tunnelling system. During expansion of the mining activity, some ramps were needed to be constructed. When a ramp at the altitude of +484 m above sea level was expanded, before reaching the vein, the drilling penetrated a saturated zone, causing groundwater inflow with a relatively massive rate. Further, static groundwater flow flooded the opening ramp down with water level of +499 m above sea level, resulted in disruption of mining activities at the ramps under the elevation 500 m above sea level. This study is to analyse the source of groundwater inflow and set a recommendation to solve the problem. Fissure structure analysis to unravel groundwater inflow problem 149
Effects of Occupational Licensing for Nurse Practitioners on Prescription Use and Quality

In the United States, healthcare provider shortages prevent patients from accessing high-quality primary care services, a challenge exacerbated by increasing demand for medical services. With the aim of improving access to care, states have passed laws allowing nurse practitioners to perform services that were previously restricted or required physician oversight, such as writing prescriptions. There is little evidence on how these “scope of practice” (SOP) laws impact healthcare utilization and quality. Using a difference-in-differences design that exploits temporal and across-state variation in SOP laws and individual-level data from the 2002 to 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, I study the effects of these laws on detailed measures of prescription use and quality. I find that expanded prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners reduces the number of prescriptions filled per year by 8% and the number of unique medications received by 9%. The declines in use are particularly large among patients with coronary heart disease, resulting from providers consolidating patients’ prescriptions. Importantly, clinically-accepted measures of medication quality are either unaffected or improve. These results indicate that expanding prescriptive authority for non-physician providers may reduce prescription use without jeopardizing medication quality.
Productive and economic response to partial replacement of cracked maize ears with ground maize or molasses in supplements for dual-purpose cows

El propósito fue evaluar el efecto del remplazo parcial de mazorca de maíz quebrado con maíz molido (MM) o con melaza de caña de azúcar (MCA) en suplementos para vacas de doble propósito. Dieciocho (18) vacas multíparas (414 ± 13 kg de peso vivo, y 106 ± 32 días en lactación) se asignaron al azar a los tratamientos: 1) suplemento testigo (ST) 87% de mazorca de maíz quebrado (MMQ), 11% pasta de soya y 2% urea; 2) reemplazo de 20% de MMQ con 20% maíz molido (MM); 3) reemplazo de 18% de MMQ por melaza (MCA). Cada vaca recibió 5 kg/día en base materia seca (MS) de suplemento, mientras que sus becerros recibieron 1.8 kg/día base MS del suplemento testigo. El experimento duró 11 semanas y los datos se registraron una vez por semana. Se utilizó un modelo mixto de SAS en un diseño completamente aleatorio. Se determinaron márgenes netos de ganancia de leche y carne (kilos de becerro destetado) mediante presupuestos parciales. No hubo diferencias (P>0.05) entre los tratamientos sobre la composición de la leche, la condición corporal ni el aumento de peso diario de las vacas y terneros. Sin embargo, en comparación con el MM, el ST mostró mayor (9.0 %, P<0.05) ingesta de materia seca, y MCA mostró mayor producción de leche (18.6 %, P<0.05). No existieron diferencias significativas (P>0.05) en las demás variables de respuesta. Los márgenes combinados de ganancias netas (ventas de leche y terneros), fueron 9 % mayores para el tratamiento con MCA en comparación con el resto de los suplementos.
Does the global fragmentation of R & D activities pay back ? The home region perspective

R&D activities are increasingly fragmented across borders and offshored in emerging economies. This trend questions the innovation performance of advanced country regions. However, the effects of the global R&D fragmentation on the knowledge production of the investing home regions are still unexplored. We aim to fill this gap and investigate under what conditions synergic effects between different value-added R&D activities globally offshored on the knowledge production of the OECD investing home region rise. To this end, we estimate a regional knowledge production function and apply a direct complementarity test. Our results suggest that synergies materialize when each R&D activity is offshored optimally rather than randomly.
Valuation of Participating Inflation Annuities with Stochastic Mortality , Interest and Inflation rates

In this paper, we evaluate a common annuity instrument present in the brazilian market, and maybe also in others high inflation markets: the participating guaranteed inflation annuity. Besides the monthly income, this sort of annuity pays the policyholder from time to time (for example: every 5 years) the positive difference between the reserve accrued by a specified fixed income fund return plus the portfolio observed “mortality return”, and the reserve evaluated using a fixed interest rate plus a predetermined “mortality return” based on an annuity table. The monthly income grows according to the inflation rate. The actuarial factor used to calculate the initial income is based on the predetermined table and the fixed interest rate. The model makes use of multi-factor CIR and Vasicek frameworks for the term structures of interest and inflation rates, respectively. For the mortality rate modelling, we used the Lee-Carter approach estimated with brazilian population data. All experiments were carried out with Monte Carlo simulation with descriptive sampling. The results indicate a significant difference in the annuity value whether the way the excess of return is paid to the policyholder and the frequency this happens. JEL Classification: G13, G22, G23, C22 Insurance branch codes: IB10, IM10, IE22, IE51
Interactive comment on “ Limited angle tomography of mesoscale gravity waves by the infrared limb-sounder GLORIA ” by Isabell Krisch et al

P2L23: You have described the FAT imaging volume as a cylinder, which is to be expected given the circular flight pattern described previously. You then go on to describe the LAT imaging region as simply a ‘3-D volume. ’ I suggest this imaging region, its shape, and dimensions require more of an explanation. In the conclusion (P17L11), you refer to the FAT volume is ‘cubic. ’ Is this a contradiction?
Bidirectional gaze guiding and indexing in human-robot interaction through a situated architecture

In this body of work, I present a situated and interactive agent perception system that can index into its world and, through a bidirectional exchange of referential gesture, direct its internal indexing system toward both well-known objects as well as simple visuo-spatial indexing in the world. The architecture presented incorporates a novel method for synthetic human-robot joint attention, an internal and automatic crowdsourcing system that provides opportunistic and lifelong robotic socio-visual learning, supports the bidirectional process of following referential behavior; and generates referential behavior useful for directing the gaze of human peers. This document critically probes questions in human-robot interaction around our understanding of gaze manipulation and memory imprinting on human partners in similar architectures and makes recommendations that may improve human-robot peer-to-peer learning.