Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Stress and Coping Strategies among Medical and Nursing Students at BPKIHS Nepal.

Introduction: Stress can have a significant effect on an adolescent’s long-term physical and mental well-being. Objective: This study aimed at exploring the causes, symptoms of stress and coping strategies among nursing and medical students at BPKIHS, Nepal. Materials and Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among nursing and medical students at BPIKHS. Samples were selected by using systematic random sampling. Total 100 medical and nursing students were selected by systematic random sampling. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic (frequency, mean and SD) and inferential statistics (Independent sample T test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test) Results: Respondents’ age ranged from 16 to 28 years. The most of common reasons of stress as stated by CN (Certificate level in nursing) students were difficulty in understanding classes (94.1%), relationship problems (76.4%), torture from teachers (70.5%), and home sickness (41.2%). Similarly common reasons for stress among B.Sc. nursing were found to be financial problems, family problems and relationship problems among 90 % of respondents and 72 % and 63.6% of respondents said that the reason for their stress were torture from colleagues and from teaches respectively. But most common reasons for their stress among MBBS students were financial problems (66.7%), family problems (65.3%) and difficulty in understanding classes (65.3%). Various ways to cope with the stress as reported by respondents were sharing feelings with friends, preferring music, using sense of humor, spending time in joy and joking, visiting temple, getting enough sleep, managing some time for rest and relax, looking at problems as challenge, and meeting others with similar interest, developing good rapport with all friends and smoking (22%) where are the best ways to cope with stress. Result shows that there is association between the stress and some variables like residence and types of family (p value < 0.05). Conclusion: Students require attending sessions to assist in improving their life and coping with stress.
ROLE OF FOLIAR CONSTITUENTS ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICAL TASAR SILKWORM , ANTHERAEA MYLITTA DRURY REARED ON ITS DIFFERENT FOOD PLANTS IN IN-SITU CONDITIONS ON ONE HOST AND SWITCH OVER SITUATIONS IN NON-DIAPAUSING GENERATION

Proceedings of National Conference on Harmony with Nature in Context of Environmental Issues and Challenges of the 21 Century (HARMONY 2014) November 28 30, 2014, Udaipur, Rajasthan organized by Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur 313 001 (Rajasthan) in association with National Environmentalists Association, India www.neaindia. org P. K. Mishra et al. ROLE OF FOLIAR CONSTITUENTS ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICAL TASAR SILKWORM, ANTHERAEA MYLITTA DRURY REARED ON ITS DIFFERENT FOOD PLANTS IN IN-SITU CONDITIONS ON ONE HOST AND SWITCH OVER SITUATIONS IN NON-DIAPAUSING GENERATION
Depicting movement data with animations for embodied and real-time decision-making: a user study with air traffic control displays and real-time movement data

C H A P T E R O N E 1 I N T R O D U C T I O N 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT AND MOTIVATION -------------------------------------------------------3 RELEVANCE FOR GEOGRAPHY --------------------------------------------------------------------6 RESEARCH WORKFLOW OF THIS THESIS AND EMPIRICAL APPROACH --------------------------7 GENERAL RESEARCH GOALS --------------------------------------------------------------------10 GENERAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------10 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS ---------------------------------------------------------------------11 C H A P T E R T W O 1 2 R E L A T E D W O R K 1 2 FACTORS RELATED TO THE USE, TASK AND MOVEMENT DATA CONTEXT --------------------13 FACTORS RELATED TO THE ANIMATION DESIGN -----------------------------------------------15 Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data ------------------------------------------15 Animation Design and Related Cartographic Rules -------------------------------16 Rate of Change and Path History in Animations: Semi-static versus Continuous Animations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19 FACTORS RELATED TO THE USER ---------------------------------------------------------------21 Perceptual Processes ---------------------------------------------------------------------22 Cognitive Processes -----------------------------------------------------------------------25 Emotional and Affective Processes ----------------------------------------------------31
Integrating GNSS, IMU, and Imagery for Automatic Orthomosaic Generation

The use of orthomosaic images from aerial or satellite data are increasingly common. While current acquisition methods are cost-effective on a national or regional scale, local scale imagery is prohibitively expensive for many target applications. In this paper we present a combined hardware and software solution, developed at the Geospatial Research Centre, which aims to reduce the cost of acquiring and processing imagery and related data in order to produce orthomosaics in a cost-effective manner on a small, local scale. The hardware component consists of a combined GNSS and inertial solution for determining the position and orientation of a sensor, typically a consumer-grade camera such as a digital SLR. The combination of imagery and navigation metadata allows images to be directly geo-referenced by projecting them on to readily available surface models. Refinements to this initial processing are also presented, which account for boresight and lens calibration error; automatically establishing a correspondence between image features for bundle adjustment; and reducing the visual appearance of any residual misalignments in the final mosaic. The use of commodity sensors and automated processing is an important step in reducing the cost of image acquisition and orthomosaic generation. The methods described are illustrated using two sample sequences. The first is a set of visible images captured from a digital SLR, and the second a set of frames extracted from a thermal video sequence. These two sequences demonstrate the range of imagery that can be processed, which can support applications ranging from environmental monitoring and precision agriculture to urban planning and infrastructure maintenance.
Designing HVAC systems using particle swarm optimization

Many design and operating goals in HVAC systems are optimization problems. For example, building operators want to determine the combination of equipment and set-points that result in the most energy-efficient operating conditions. Similarly, HVAC system designers want to determine the best combination of equipment, components, and operating conditions that provide minimum lifecycle cost. In both problems, the goal is to find an optimal set of system design variables. The purpose of this work is to apply an optimization technique known as particle swarm optimization to the design and operation of HVAC systems. This algorithm is based on the idea of swarms of animals, such as flying birds or insects, searching for food. In these swarms, each member gains knowledge from the whole and in turn contributes its individual knowledge back to the swarm. The result is a very efficient way to find the best available food source. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is well suited to computers with multiple processors and to HVAC problems, because it does not require continuous or well-behaved mathematical functions. Another advantage of the method is that it is remarkably simple to implement. This article illustrates the particle swarm optimization algorithm by applying it to the design of an HVAC piping system.
EQUIVALENT CHARACTERIZATIONS AND STRUCTURE THEOREM OF RIGHT C-wrpp SEMIGROUPS

The aim of this paper is to study the right dual of left C-wrpp semigroup, that is, the strongly wrpp semigroup whose set of idempotents forms a right regular band and the relation ( ) R L ∨ + is a congruence. We call this kind of strongly wrpp semigroups right C-wrpp semigroups. This paper generalizes results of right C-rpp semigroups. Some properties and characterizations of right C-wrpp semigroups are investigated.
Comparison of physico-chemical quality of different strawberry cultivars at three maturity stages

Comparison of physico-chemical quality of strawberry fruit cv. Praratchatan 60, 72 and 80 at 25, 50 and 75% color break was investigated. Strawberry fruit cv. Praratchatan 60 and 72 had prominent numbers of conic-shaped fruit which were 77.78 and 62.22%, respectively, while moderate numbers were found in strawberry fruit cv. Praratchatan 80 (46.67%). Fruit weights and fruit sizes in terms of width, length and thickness were different among three cultivars. Strawberry fruit characteristics and chemical properties also varied among cultivars and color break stages which appeared in the surface color, flesh color, firmness, soluble solids content (SSC), titratable acidity (TA) and vitamin C content. Strawberry fruit cv.Praratchatan 60 had the highest total soluble phenolics (TSP) and antioxidant activity (AA). Besides, AA from crude extracts of three strawberry cultivars notably correlated to their TSP (correlation coefficient (R) of 0.976). Furthermore, strawberry fruit harvested at 75% color break had higher SSC, vitamin C and anthocyanin content while being lower in firmness, TA, TSP and AA compared to those harvested at 25 and 50% color break.
RegionSeeker: Automatically Identifying and Selecting Accelerators From Application Source Code

Embedded systems present stringent and often conflicting requirements. On the one side, the need for high performance within a tight energy budget favors inflexible Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementations; on the other side, a short time-to-market demands programmability. Hybrid architectures such as special-purpose customized processors represent an attractive solution, as they are programmable by software, but use dedicated hardware to accelerate parts of the computation. In such a scenario, the capability of automatically identifying the computation parts to be realized in hardware is highly desirable, in order to reduce design time and effort. This paper aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in this field. We recognize that subgraphs of control flow graphs having a single input control point and a single output control point, that we call regions, are good targets for the synthesis of application specific hardware accelerators. We therefore provide a method to identify them and an LLVM-based toolchain (named RegionSeeker) that, analyzing a software application, automatically selects its most profitable regions given an area constraint. Experimental evidence shows that the accelerators identified by RegionSeeker provide a speedup of up to $4.6\boldsymbol {\times }$ and, on average, approximately 30% higher speedup is achieved compared to state-of-the-art identification techniques.
Performance And Emission Characteristics Of Ci-Di Vcr Engine Using Honne Oil Methyl Ester

The major means of transportation is through CI engine which is run by fossil diesel. In recent years Bio diesel is been extensively researched using various oils for obtaining desired performance and emissions similar to that of diesel. Basically Bio diesel being Biodegradable, environment friendly in nature is best suitable alternative types of source, to meet the future fossil energy crises. The biodiesel derived from Honne oil is considered as one of the promising alternative fuel derived from non-edible sources. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the utilization of this fuel in diesel engine in maximum possible effective way. To find this, an experiment analysis of performance parameter (such as brake power, break specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency and Exhaust Gas temperature) and emission characteristics (NOx, HC, CO. etc.) is obtained for various bio diesel and diesel blends and compared with ordinary diesel at various loads on a modified variable compression ratio CI engine. The results of the investigation shows that the performance and emission characteristics of the engine fuelled with Honne oil methyl ester – diesel blends is comparable to the ordinary diesel.
SNExtractor : A Prototype for Extracting Semantic Networks from Web Documents

Algorithms for extracting entities and relations from the Web heavily rely on semi-structured data sources or large-scale Web pages. It is difficult to extend these techniques to arbitrary Web documents in different domains. In this demonstration, we present SNExtractor, a prototype system for extracting semantic networks from documents related to any hot topics on the Web. Given a user query, it provides a comprehensive overview of relevant documents, including entities, a semantic network and a timeline summary. In the following, we will present internal mechanisms of SNExtractor and its application in the education domain.
MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGIES AND SLIDING MODE CONTROL STRATEGIES

The field of power electronics can be defined to be dedicated to the development of devices that convert one type of power to another. There are four type of power conversions: AC-AC, DC-AC, AC-DC and DC-DC. An inverter circuit is used to convert to DC-AC at desired output voltage and frequency. This conversion can be achieved by transistors, SCRs, MOSFETs, and IGBTs. For low and medium power outputs transistorized inverters are suitable, but for high power outputs SCR’s use is advisable. One of the biggest problems in power quality aspects is the harmonic contents in the electrical systems. Generally, harmonics are of two types: [51], [65], [70], 1) Voltage harmonics. 2) Current harmonics. Current harmonics are usually generated by harmonics contained in voltage supply and depend on the type of load such as resistive, capacitive and inductive load. Both harmonics can be generated by either the source or the load side. Harmonics generated by load are caused by nonlinear operation of devices, including power converters, arc-furnaces, gas discharge lighting devices etc. Load harmonics can cause the overheating of the magnetic cores of transformer and motors. On the other hand, source harmonics are mainly generated by power supply with non-sinusoidal voltage waveform. Voltage and current source harmonics imply power losses, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and pulsating torque in AC motor drives. [2], [28],[93] Multilevel inverters have been attracting in favor of researchers, academia as well as industry in the recent decade for high-power and medium-voltage energy control. In addition, they can synthesize switched waveforms with lower levels of harmonic distortion than an equivalently rated two-level converter. The multilevel concept is used to decrease the harmonic distortion in the output waveform without decreasing the inverter power output. This paper presents the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutralpoint clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multilevel with separate dc sources.This paper also presents the most relevant modulation methods developed for this family of converters: multilevel sinusoidal pulse-width modulation, multilevel selective harmonic elimination, and space-vector modulation. [86] Authors strongly believe that this survey article will be very much useful to the researchers for finding out the relevant references in the field of topologies and modulation strategies of multilevel inverter. To summarize many multilevel converter topologies proposed during last decade have been reviewed.
Design of a Low Noise Amplifier in 0 . 18 μ m SiGe BiCMOS Technology

A 60GHz LNA with a three stage single ended is designed in 0. 18μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The LC resonance is used in the inter stage matching to reduce the transmission loss,by adding a parallel capacitor between two poles to reduce the effect of parasitic.From the simulation results,we can draw a conclusion that:S21 and the Noise Figure are achieved 21.6dB and 5.5dB respectively, in operating frequency of 60 GHz, both input and output return losses S11 and S22 are below -10dB from 55GHz to 65 GHz,the pow consumption only 12.8mw with supply voltage of 3.3V.
Face Detection and Tracking for Activity Recognition

In this paper we present an approach to human activity recognition in an indoor environments. It combines Adaboost face detection with standard tracking methods – continuously adaptive mean-shift (CAMShift) and Kalman filtering. The output results are used to describe simple events of human activities in video using Finite State Machine. The system has been tested on several video sequences and we provide a summary of results.
IS GRIT ENOUGH ? 1 Is Grit Enough ? Personal Control is Necessary for Grit to Produce Increased Engagement and Performance

The personality trait grit has been linked to myriad positive consequences (Duckworth, 2016); however, little work has examined its potential limitations. We propose that grit will predict increased task engagement and performance when people have control over their outcomes, but not when they lack such control. In two studies (total N = 307), participants completed a cognitive task. We measured participants’ grit and manipulated whether they possessed control over the attainment of a desired outcome (i.e., entry into a drawing for a monetary prize). When participants had control over their drawing entry, those higher (vs. lower) in grit exhibited greater engagement, as indicated by cardiovascular (Study 1) and self-reported (Study 2) measures, as well as better performance (Study 2). In contrast, when participants lacked such control, grit was not associated with engagement or performance. The current work illustrates the importance of contextual factors in allowing grit to positively impact behavior.
Estimating the Untapped Cooling Power of Green Walls as Evaporative Coolers for Buildings

Limited studies have been conducted on the impact of green walls on the energy performance of buildings. A majority of studies have focused on green walls as shading systems and few studies have considered the free cooling provided by green wall transpiration. In this study we have combined the εNTU and FAO-56 models to estimate the performance of vining green walls as evaporative coolers in six different climates. The proposed model provides a methodology to design and size the system as a function of canopy geometry, plant biophysical traits, and environmental variables. The results show that the plant biophysical traits and the design of the support structure of green walls are crucial factors in produced cooling power. The largest cooling power of 190 W/m2 and the lowest cooling power of 30 W/m2 were estimated for the hot and dry, and cool and dry climates, respectively.
Chapter 18 Polyploidization and Sex Chromosome Evolution in Amphibians

Genome duplication, including polyploid speciation and spontaneous polyploidy in diploid species, occurs more frequently in amphibians than mammals. One possible explanation is that some amphibians, unlike almost all mammals, have young sex chromosomes that carry a similar suite of genes (apart from the genetic trigger for sex determination). These species potentially can experience genome duplication without disrupting dosage stoichiometry between interacting proteins encoded by genes on the sex chromosomes and autosomal chromosomes. To explore this possibility, we performed a permutation aimed at testing whether amphibian species that experienced polyploid speciation or spontaneous polyploidy have younger sex chromosomes than other amphibians. While the most conservative permutation was not significant, the frog genera Xenopus and Leiopelma provide anecdotal support for a negative correlation between the age of sex chromosomes and a species’ propensity to undergo genome duplication. This study also points to more frequent turnover of sex chromosomes than previously proposed, and suggests a lack of statistical support for male versus female heterogamy in the most recent common ancestors of frogs, salamanders, and amphibians in general. Future advances in genomics undoubtedly will further illuminate the relationship between amphibian sex chromosome degeneration and genome duplication. B. J. Evans (&) Department of Biology, McMaster University, Life Sciences Building Room 328, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada e-mail: evansb@mcmaster.ca R. Alexander Pyron Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, 2023 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA J. J. Wiens Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA P. S. Soltis and D. E. Soltis (eds.), Polyploidy and Genome Evolution, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31442-1_18, ! Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 385 CO RR EC TE D PR OO F
MATHEMATICAL FORMALIZATION OF CERTAIN PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORT LOGISTICS

Юхименко Б. І. , Малютіна С. В. Математична формалізація деяких задач транспортної логістики. В роботі показано місце транспортної логістики в загальних логістичних проблемах. Дан перелік основних завдань, що підлягають формалізації та вирішенню методами оптимізації. Наведена деяка задача транспортування вантажів, як задача лінійного програмування. Більш пильна увага приділена вирішенню задачі визначення маршрутів доставки вантажів. Дан новий підхід вирішення задачі, що приводиться до моделі задачі про комівояжера із симетричною матрицею витрат. Ключові слова: транспортна логістика, оптимізація, математична модель, маршрутизація, симетрична матриця витрат
Elongate Dinosaur Tracks

Elongate marks made by bipedal dinosaurs include tail impressions, foot slides, toe drags, and footprints with full or partial metatarsal impressions. This paper focuses on dinosaur trackways composed largely or entirely of metatarsal footprints, suggesting that some bipedal dinosaurs, at least at times, walked in a plantigrade or quasi-plantigrade manner. Numerous elongate dinosaur tracks with apparent metatarsal impressions occur in the Paluxy Riverbed, near Glen Rose, Texas. These tracks vary somewhat in size, shape, and clarity, but are typically 55 to 70 cm long (including the metatarsal segment), and 25 to 40 cm wide (across the digits). In many cases the digit impressions on such tracks are indistinct, due to mud collapse, erosion, or a combination of factors--causing some to resemble giant human footprints, for which they have been mistaken by some creationists and local residents. Some metatarsal tracks may have been made by dinosaurs whose anatomy was especially adapted to plantigrady. However, many metatarsal tracks may have been made occasionally by a wide variety of bipedal dinosaurs, perhaps during behaviors in which they walked low to the ground, as during foraging or prey stalking. Most elongate tracks near Glen Rose appear to have been made by moderate sized theropods, although metatarsal tracks at other sites throughout the world include theropod and ornithopod forms of varying size and shape.
Structural Characterization of Combustion Synthesized Gd 2 O 3 Nanopowder by Using Glycerin as Fuel

Combustion synthesis were accomplished to synthesize pure Gd2O3 phosphor by using glycerin as fuel. To investigate the luminescence behavior, excitation and emission spectra have been recorded. The prepared phosphor sample was characterized by using XRD, FTIR, SEM and TEM. From the XRD data, using the Scherer’s formula the calculated average crystallite size of pure Gd2O3 phosphor is around 8nm. The TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) and SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) results agree with the XRD results.