Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bandwidth Enhancement of a Narrowband Rectangular Microstrip Antenna on a Radial Electromagnetic BandGap ( EBG ) Patch Structure

Bandwidth enhancements have been one of the important but tricky niche areas for antennas researchers. There are a bountiful amount of ideas and techniques to accomplish and tackle the problem involved. A creative technique has been explored in enhancing the bandwidth of a rectangular patch antenna by introducing a radial Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure between a narrowband patch antenna and its ground plane. An increment of up to 8% BW has been realized and achieved. This paper present the methodology, simulations and experimental works carried out in accomplishing the objective above. Microwave Office 2006 software has been used to initially simulate and find the optimum design and results.
- Cadherin Methylation Status in Normal Thyroid tissue , Goiter and Papillary thyroid Cancer

Instituição: Hospital São Lucas PUCRS. Porto Alegre / RS – Brasil. Endereço para correspondência: Bernardo Garicochea – Hospital São Lucas PUCRS Departamento de Oncologia 2o andar, sala 228 – Av. Ipiranga 6690 – Porto Alegre / RS – CEP 90610-000 – Telefone: (51) 3320-3319 – Fax: (51) 3339-6039 – E-mail: bgarico@terra.com. br Artigo recebido em 25 de março de 2008. Artigo aceito em 1 de julho de 2008.
A New Method for Channel Estimation in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( OFDM ) Systems Using Reduced Pilots

In this paper, a new method for channel estimation is proposed based on a combination of pilots and pseudo pilots in OFDM system. In the suggested method, only half of the minimum necessary pilots that are required to obtain the minimum mean square error (MSE) of least square (LS) channel estimation is being used with the same efficiency of conventional methods.
THE IPO QUIET PERIOD ANOMALY Name student : F

This paper examines whether abnormal returns surrounding the end of the IPO Quiet Period still occur in U.S. markets, and if so, whether these excess returns vary with market conditions. In addition, the period of time after the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law (April 5, 2012) is examined. Last, there is a cross-sectional analysis on industry differences. First, this research finds that significant abnormal returns did not occur during the examined bear market (9 October 2007 through 9 March 2009), whereas significant abnormal returns did occur during the examined bull market (10 March 2009 through 30 September 2011). As a result, this paper concludes that abnormal returns surrounding the Quiet Period expiration vary with market conditions, although this is inconsistent with market efficiency. Second, there are ambiguous results with respect to the presence of abnormal returns during the post-JOBS Act period (2 July 2012 through 30 June 2015), making any inference inconclusive. Third, the results from the crosssectional analysis on industry differences show that there are no significant differences in abnormal returns surrounding the end of the Quiet Period between relatively uncertain industries (i.e., Information Technology and Pharmaceutical Products industry) and relatively certain industries (i.e., Chemicals, Food Products, and Transportation industry). However, a caveat is that the sample size for relatively certain industries is small in this analysis, leading to problematic statistical inference.
Visual Object Tracking Challenge ( VOT 2013 ) Evaluation Kit

5 Overview and usage instructions 5 5.1 Terminology . 5 5.2 Set up the toolkit . 5 5.3 Downloading . 6 5.4 Platform support . 6 5.5 Directory structure . 6 5.6 Basic configuration . 6 5.7 Perform tracker evaluation . 7 5.8 View and submit the results . 7 5.9 Tips and tricks . 7 5.10 Additional configuration . 7
Relation extraction via one-shot dependency parsing on intersentential, higher-order, and nested relations

Despite the emergence of digitalization, people still interact with institutions via traditional means such as submitting free formatted petitions, orders, or applications. These noisy documents generally consist of complex relations that are nested, higher-order, and intersentential. Most of the current approaches address extraction of only sentence-level and binary relations from grammatically correct text and generally require high-level linguistic features coming from preprocessors such as a parts-of-speech tagger, chunker, or syntactic parser. In this article, we focus on extracting complex relations in order to automate the task of understanding user intentions. We propose a novel language-agnostic and noise-immune approach that does not require preprocessing of input text. Unlike previous literature that uses dependency parsing outputs as input features, we formulate the relation extraction task directly as a one-shot dependency parsing problem. The presented method was evaluated using a representative dataset from the banking domain and obtained 91.84% labeled attachment score (LAS), which provides an improvement of 42.85 percentage points over a rule-based baseline.
Thermal stability of Cryptococcus sp . S-2 carboxymethyl cellulase ( CSCMCase ) having a cellulose binding domain from a fungal exoglucanase : Comparison to recombinant CSCMCase

The Cryptococcus sp. S-2 carboxymethyl cellulase gene (CSCMCase) containing 1023 nucleotides and fused to a cellulose-binding domain (CBD) which originated from cellobiohydrolase I of Trichoderma reesei (CSCMCase-CBD) was cloned and expressed in the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris. The fusion of CBD to CSCMCase resulted in a greatly enhanced binding toward cellulose for CSCMCase-CBD compared with that for CSCMCase. This was useful for enzyme purification and enzyme immobilization. Furthermore, the recombinant CSCMCase-CBD showed high thermal stability after incubating at 90 o C for 3 h, whereas the recombinant CSCMCase rapidly lost its activity after incubating at 90 o C for 1 h.
Lymphoedema – literature reviev

Review of literature relating to the lymphoedema and diagnostic as well as therapeutic possibilities is the subject of this paper. Lymphoedema being agglomeration of high-protein substances in stromal spaces is the chronic disease and handicaps physical and mental sphere of the patients. Disturbances of lymph flow in lymphatic vessel are being the main reason of the formation of lymphoedema. Inappropriately treatment of lympoedema leads to its fixation, destruction of lymphatic vessel, intensification disease symptoms, skin changes (hyperkeratosis and papillomatosis) and break continuity of the skin. In the paper the authors presented the classification of the lymphoedema as well as characterization of reasons of its formation. There were discussed the most frequent preservative, surgical and pharmacological methods of the treatment of primary and secondary lymphoedema.
Physical Properties of recycled Latex Glove / Epoxidized natural Rubber Blend : Effect of natural graft Starch

Natural rubber glove (GNR) constitutes a considerable part of thermosetting waste in the environment in terms of volume. The present work aims the study of natural rubber glove / epoxidized natural rubber (GNR/ENR) blend. The effect of the natural rubber (NR) graft cassava starch (NS) on the physical properties of GNR/ENR was investigated. Since GNR and ENR are immiscible a method has been devised to improve compatibility. This grafted blend was subsequently blended with more of NR during mill compounding. Morphological studies using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed better dispersion of GNR in the compatibilized blend. By this technique, the physical and thermal properties of the blend were found to be either at par with or better than that of virgin silica filled NR compound.
Sains Humanika Validity and Reliability of Green Skills Instrument

Green Skills (GS) are the skills based on strong sustainability development from the aspects of technical, value knowledge and attitude that are needed by the workforce in developing economy and environment in the business, industry and society. The objective of this research was to validate the GS instrument. This research adopted the survey research method. Cluster random sampling and simple random sampling methods were utilised in selecting a total of 446 Secondary school students who enrolled the subject of Design all over Peninsular Malaysia. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analyses were used to determine validity and reliability in measurement model. Measurement model was fitted the data and was accepted base on suitability index (fit indices), that has been achieved namely CMIN χ=595.204, with degrees of freedom (df) 132, CMIN/df=4.509 (≤5.0), incremental fit CFI & IFI (≤0.9), and absolute fit RMSEA=0.8(≤0.8). The instrument has been proven to be a good instrument and passed the psychometrics standards. The research findings showed there were a total of 10 elements must be present in the students. The research implicated that GS Model can be used as guidance in cultivating GS in the learning process. This GS Model is expected to cultivate a balanced environment from the aspects of attitude, knowledge and values that are needed in the students. This GS Model also can be used as the basis in developing curriculum as an added-value in training design. Furthermore, it can be used as a module in learning process that gives importance to environmental awareness among students
Quality of life of people liiing with HIV / AIDS : Efects of illness percepton and coping strategies

This study aims to investigate the quality of life (QOL) predictors of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), from the perspective of Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model, in which the influence of the illness perception on QOL is mediated by coping strategies. Ninety-five PLWHA answered to the instruments Brief IPQ, Brief Cope and WHOQOL-HIV BREF concerning, respectively, illness perception, coping strategies and QOL. The results indicate that illness perception has direct and indirect effects in QOL, mediated by coping strategies. The more HIV is perceived as threatening, the worse is the perception of QOL of PLWHA; however, the increased use of acceptance, distraction and instrumental support coping strategies and the less use of behavioral disengagement and positive reinterpretation could mitigate this negative effect.
SOLUBLE SILICON-BASED DISEASE MANAGEMENT OF FLORICULTURAL CROPS By SOPHIA KAMENIDOU

Silicon (Si) supplementation benefits soilless production of floricultural crops by improving horticultural traits and enhancing resistance to biotic stresses, such as diseases. One of the most prevalent and important diseases in greenhouse floriculture is powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Golovinomyces cichoracearum (DC.) V.P. Gelyuta. The goal of this study was to assess powdery mildew suppression in greenhouse-produced zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq.) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) grown in peat-based soilless media supplemented with various forms of soluble Si and in combination with halfor full-rate applications of myclobutanil. Supplemental Si was provided through substrate incorporation of potassium silicate at 140 g·m Si, substrate incorporation of calcium silicate at 200 g·m Si, five weekly substrate drenches of soluble potassium silicate at 50 mg·L Si, or five weekly foliar applications of sodium silicate at 50 mg·L Si. Powdery mildew incidences and severity ratings were recorded one, two, and three weeks after inoculation of lower and upper leaves. Myclobutanil treatments suppressed powdery mildew in zinnia for one week and in sunflower for three weeks.
Notes on “Noun Phrase Structure” in Tagalog1

This paper presents some observations on the syntax and semantics of the Tagalog phrase marking particles ang, ng, and sa. While there is some evidence for the widely held view that the phrase marking particles form a kind of paradigm in that they are at least in partial complementary distribution, they diUer signiVcantly in their distributional characteristics. Consequently, it will be argued that sa heads prepositional phrases, while ang and ng head higher-level phrases (i. e. phrases where PPs occur as complements or adjuncts). These phrases may be considered DPs, although they diUer in a number of regards from DPs in European languages. Because of these diUerences, their status as determiners may be open to questions, but there can be little doubt that ang and ng provide examples par excellence for functional elements displaying (syntactic) head characteristics. Analyzing ang and ng as determiners raises the issue of how they relate to other elements which are usually considered determiners, in particular demonstratives. This problem is taken up in the second main part of the article. It is proposed that demonstratives may in fact occur in two diUerent phrase-structural positions, i. e. , they occur both as alternate heads instead of ang and ng and as their complements. 1 This paper was originally presented at the special panel session Noun Phrase Structures: Functional Elements and Reference Tracking at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics 2006 in Palawan/Philippines. It has been updated slightly, but no attempt has been made to cover more recent developments in the analysis of phrase structure in general, and noun phrase structure in particular.I am grateful to the organisers of the panel, Simon Musgrave and Michael Ewing, for inviting me to this panel. I would also like to thank Jan Strunk for very helpful comments on a pre-conference version of this paper. And I owe very special thanks to Dan Kaufman for detailed, rigorous and challenging comments on a written draft which have helped to clarify some issues and prevented some lapses. Unfortunately, it was not possible to deal with all the challenges in suXcient detail here, a task I therefore will have to leave for the future. Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite & Rainer Osswald (eds.). 2015. Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Düsseldorf: dup. 315 Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Johannesburg DRONE-BASED DELIVERY OF CLINICAL SPECIMENS IN A RURAL ENVIRONMENT : A FEASIBILITY STUDY

A framework is developed for the implementation of an autonomous drone-based delivery system. The concept stems from the need for more efficient methods of clinical transport in underdeveloped regions. A case study of a region in Mpumalanga investigates the requirements of the delivery system and scale of the intended solution. The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is used to determine that a region with 19 request points can be serviced by a single drone with a 30 minute flight range and 2 4 kg payload capacity. A notional region containing 20 clinics and one laboratory is used to simulate scenarios with dynamic request points using a reward-based inspection algorithm. Delivery routes are optimised based on global conditions. An evaluation of the inspection algorithm resulted in the drones averaging 103.53 km in 139.21 minutes. A framework is thus developed which allows for a theoretical scenario analysis for future implementations. The specimen turnaround time from clinic to laboratory is assessed using 120 scenarios of varying wind speed and request generation rates. In wind conditions similar to that observed in Mpumalanga (5 25 km/h), the drone averaged 93.94 minutes per request. At a request rate of two requests per hour the drone delivered an average of 180 samples generated in the first nine hours of simulation. At a request rate of one request every 6 hours the drone averaged 29 samples. Future work could include an in depth study of seasonal request rates and weather pattern data in order to influence the path of the drone for a further optimised approach as well as the development of more advanced optimisation algorithms.
Sains Humanika Human Capital Dynamics of Regional Growth in Nigeria : Dynamic Panel Data Approach

This paper investigates the human capital factors that contribute to the growth of the Nigerian regional growth rates. In particular, it is to determine whether the leading role of human capital factors in other economies could explain the regional growth processes dynamics in Nigeria. If these factors are not applicable, other possible explanations are to be identified for the country’s regional economic growth dynamics profile. Nigerian regional cross sectional data of financial, physical and human capital accumulation were utilized to run a growth accounting regression captured by an aggregate production function. The study uses panel data (cross sectional and time series data) from 1998 to 2008 and employed three (3) panel data models to estimate the dynamics and contribution of human capital factors. The results showed that the initial human capital stock has an influence on the GDP per capita growth rate. Similarly, the Southern regions that had a head start in school attendance have higher thresholds or secondary schools are significant; higher levels of schooling (secondary school) have significant impact on the GDP per capita growth rate. On the other hand, the Northern regions have lower technical frontier; as only the primary school have significant impact on the GDP per capita growth. However the federal financial allocation from the federation accounts was found to be significant across all regions with the exception of the South-South regions, and positive investment in physical assets of education. Thus it implies that regional differences should be taken into account when planning developmental processes.
THE DYNAMIC OF DROUGHT TOLERANCE RICE , MR 219-4 TO THE Xanthomonas oryzae INFECTION

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a primary source of food for more than half of the world’s population. Despite its importance, rice production struggles with various pathogenic attacks particularly by Xanthomonas oryzae that causes bacterial blight. Overcoming this issues is of utmost priority especially when the use of drought-tolerant varieties to secure production in erratic climate is on the rise. Thus it is important to comprehend the pathogenicity of this proteobacteria towards rice. Consequently this study was conducted to determine the pathology of X. oryzae infection on drought tolerance rice variety namely MR219-4 grown under normal conditions. 16-days old seedlings were infected with the pathogen and subsequently the morphological traits, total oil content and the variance between total oil, biomass (except for day 20) and dry weight of the infected and non infected plants were assessed in three developmental phases; seedlings, vegetative and reproductive. The results showed that plant height, root length, biomass and total oil content did not significantly differ between the infected and the control plants. However, variance analysis shows that bacterial infection caused a deterministic toward stochastic response in total oil/biomass variance over growth stages. Thus indicating that the population dynamic of MR219-4 defence mechanism to the infection is deterministic during the seedling stages and becoming stochastic during the vegetative phase paddy.
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest

Species-rich ecosystems as tropical forests are extremely vulnerable to anthropogenic destruction. Most tropical plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds. However, patterns of mutualistic interactions have rarely been explored, and seed dispersal networks are still poorly studied in Africa. Here, we examine how forest edges’ (FE) seed dispersal networks differ from the mature forest (MF) at a West African sub-humid tropical forest within the National Park of Cantanhez (Guinea-Bissau). Additionally, we explore species’ roles within the network. MF had higher fruit availability, more frugivore visitors, and plant–frugivore interactions. Network structure was quite similar between habitats, showing signs of redundancy, and some robustness to species’ extinction. FE was more nested, modular, and specialized, whereas MF had higher connectance, interaction evenness, and robustness to extinction. Most species were generalists, but large-bodied frugivores prevailed at MF. FE showed a higher vulnerability, mostly to the loss of trees. Trees are key, keeping the structure of both networks. Large-bodied frugivores and fruiting-tree species that work as network connectors should thus be the focus of active conservation management in these forests. Only viable populations of these species will ensure a good performance of the seed dispersal network, promoting the natural regeneration of the ecosystem.
The Performance Evaluation of a 3 D Torus Network Using Partial Link-Sharing Method in NoC Router

The high performance network-on-chip (NoC) router using minimal hardware resources to minimize the layout area is very essential for NoC design. In this paper, we have proposed a memory sharing method of a wormhole routed NoC architecture to alleviate the area overhead of a NoC router. In the proposed method, a memory is shared by multiple physical links by using a multi-port memory. In this paper, we have proposed a partial link-sharing method and evaluated the communication performance using the proposed method. It is revealed that the resulted communication performance by the proposed methods is higher than that of the conventional method, and the progress ratio of the 3D-torus network is higher than that of 2D-torus network. It is shown that the improvement of communication performance using partial link sharing method is achieved with slightly increase of hardware cost. key words: interconnection network, network-on-chip (NoC), router, multiport memory
Client ’ s Economic Importance and Audit Quality : Evidence from a Partner Level Analysis in the United States of America

This study investigates the association between the economic importance of a client to an individual engagement partner and audit quality, in particular the likelihood of issuing a going concern opinion to a client in financial distress. In addition, this study examines the association between the engagement partner’s risk averseness towards former Arthur Andersen clients who are considered to possess unique audit and litigation risk arising from damaged reputation and the underlying client’s economic importance. I find no significant association between the economic importance of a client and the partner’s likeliness to issue a going concern opinion. Rather, the results support the reputation protection theory taking the market-based view that high litigation risk and accompanying reputational concerns safeguard against possible economic bonding, which could impair audit quality. Also, I do not find support that engagement partners report more conservatively when auditing former Arthur Andersen clients and are thus less influenced by the economic importance of the client. Rather, the results suggest that the long time period since the demise of Arthur Andersen has reversed any possible conservatism towards former clients of the latter audit firm.