Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Operational Performance and Lean Healthcare in the Healthcare Sector: Review on the Dimensions and Relationships

Numbers of evidence have shown operational level in the healthcare sector is predicted to make some changes in operational performance that help to improve cost, quality, flexibility, efficiency, effectiveness and other measures of the organization. Further, the implementation of lean healthcare seen as one of the best practices to accelerate productivity growth and facilitated the organizations to eliminate waste. Moreover, it helps to have a better health outcomes, to reach efficiency and optimize resources by improving work processes in the organization. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to discuss the dimensions of operational performance and lean healthcare and hence, to review numerous article on the relationship between lean healthcare and operational performance in the healthcare sector.
Does Tourism Change Tourist Attitudes (Prejudice and Stereotype) towards Local People?

The main goal of this study is to determine whether attitudes (prejudices and stereotypes) of domestic tourists towards South Easterners change after their travel experiences. Additionally, whether the levels of contact with the local people have any effects on changes of attitude was determined to be sub-goals of this study. Within the context of these goals, the attitudes of domestic tourists who have visited the provinces of Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa, which are located in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey, were studied using the post-vacation survey (n;386) technique. Additionally, data was gathered during the course of study from people who have never visited the Southeast to create a comparison group (n; 252). For the purposes of this study, factors analysis, frequency, ANOVA and t-test analyses were applied to the gathered data. As a result of these analyses, significant changes were determined in the attitudes (prejudices, positive attitudes) of people who have undergone experiences of travel. However, it was also revealed that there are no statistically significant differences that are dependent on factors of contact variables, namely the type of travel, the number of overnights stays, and the number of arrivals at the destination.
Updating of digital road map

Japan Digital Road Map Association (JDRMA) started to construct the digital road map database for the whole Japan in 1988. The first database was completed in 1989, and consequently the updating started in 1990. There are two kinds of data sources for updating the JDRMA database. One is the newly issued topographic maps, which include both roads and other features but are not updated every year. The other is the information from the road administrators; it is used to update the road networks. Every year the information of the newly opened or improved roads is collected and used to update the road network in the database. Other information is also used to supplement the two main information sources. Documents of transportation facilities other than roads and information from the users are utilized. The investigation to improve the updating procedure is continued. <<ETX>>
A Psychological Approach to the Scientific Study of Welfare

The main objective of this bibliographic research is to approach theoretically the concept of science in psychology by describing the underlying elements of the psychological trends until the emergence of the welfare construct as the principal axis of analysis. The methodology included a review of literature oriented to gathering relevant information about philosophy of science, psychological trends and the concept of welfare. The data gathering process involved updated printed as well as digital sources that were analyzed systematically. As a result, it can be concluded that the research interest on approaching the psychological welfare comes from Ancient Greece and its most salient thinkers. Nonetheless, this interest has constantly evolved going through various theoretical proposals derived from the humanistic psychological trend up to the salutogenic psychology and with it to the positive psychology, which is a contemporary aspect that has as central object of study the concept of welfare. Such concept is understood as the set of evaluative judgments and emotional reactions with regards to the extent to which life experiences are satisfactory, agreeable and positive.
Requirements Semantics-Driven Aggregated Production for On-Demand Service

Based on the existing technology for assembling service,related approaches including requirements semantic encapsulation,requirements semantic interoperability extending and requirements semantics-driven service customized manufacture are put forward.Large-scale and complex system exhibits adaptive feature,and evolutionary emergence of collective behaviors is its fundamental phenomena.This paper adopts stakeholders-driven requirements semantics acquiring technique for software services and combines with semantic wikis for supporting evolution and semantic annotating of requirements.The approach not only elicits the conventional documentary requirements through collaboration and interactive negotiation mechanism,but also can it process intelligent retrieve,requirements consistency check and reasoning for services requirements entity depending on requirements semantics and requirements element instantiation conducted by underlying requirements ontology of services.By choosing connecting ontologies as semantic carrier for service aggregation,software production will be focused on upper level semantic description rather than concrete service.Theoretical and empirical studying has proven the validity practicability of the proposed method.
Implementation of a modified SVPWM-based three-phase inverter with reduced switches using a single DC source for a grid-connected PV system

Application of multilevel inverters has been an active research area in recent years due to their growing importance in various diversied electrical utilities. A three-phase inverter with a single DC source employing a three-phase transformer for a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system controlled using the modied space vector pulse width modulation technique (MSVPWM) forfteen switches is presented in this paper. An MSVPWM technique is implemented through aeld-programmabl gate array (FPGA) and generates high quality gate pulses to the switches in the inverter. The main advantages of the proposed inverter topology are reduced number of power switches, transformers and minimum total harmonic distortion (THD). The perturb and observe maximum power point algorithm is used to obtain the maximum power from the PV panel at all climatic conditions. The performance of the proposed system is validated through MATLAB/Simulink as well as an FPGA-based prototype model.
When Journalists Go “Below the Line”: Comment Spaces at The Guardian (2006–2017)

ABSTRACT Based on a longitudinal research design (2006–2017), this article analyses how Guardian journalists engage in “below the line” comment spaces; what factors shape this engagement; and how this has evolved over time. The article combines a large-scale quantitative analysis of the total number of comments made (n = 110,263,661) and a manual content analysis of all comments made by 26 journalists (n = 5448) and their broader writing practices with 18 semi-structured interviews conducted in two phases (13 in 2012 and 5 repeated in 2017–18). The results show that there is considerable interest in comment spaces amongst readers, with exponential growth in user commenting. Furthermore, there has been significant engagement below the line by some Guardian journalists, and this is often in the form of direct and sustained reciprocity. Journalist commenting has waned in recent years due to difficulties coping with the volume of comments; changes in editorial emphasis; concerns over incivility and abuse; and a decrease in perceived journalistic benefits of commenting, alongside the rise in importance of Twitter. When journalists comment, they do so in a variety of ways and their comments are often substantive, significantly adding to the story by, for example, defending and explaining their journalism practice.
The value of 'third-wave' therapies in Intellectual Disability services : service user experiences of adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

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Occupational Therapy Role in School-based Practice: Perspectives from Teachers and OTs

ABSTRACT Researchers utilized a survey design to explore perceptions of the school-based occupational therapy (OT) role from both OTs and teachers. Respondents answered questions pertaining to the value of OT input in a variety of school-based occupations. The results indicate continued discrepancies in the understanding and utilization of OT services in the school setting. In addition, the authors consider how to expand the role of the school-based OT.
WebGL-Based Simulation of Bone Removal in Surgical Orthopeadic Procedures

The effective role of virtual reality simulators in surgical operations has been demonstrated during the last decades. The proposed work has been done to give a perspective of the actual orthopeadic surgeries such as a total shoulder arthroplasty with low incidence and visibility of the operation to the surgeon. The research in this thesis is focused on the design and implementation of a web-based graphical feedback for a total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) surgery. For portability of the simulation and powerful 3D programming features, WebGL is being applied. To simulate the reaming process of the shoulder bone, multiple steps has been passed to be able to remove the volumetric amount of bone which was touched by the reamer tool. A fast and accurate collision detection algorithm utilizing Möller –Trumbore raytriangle method was implemented to detect the first collision of the bone and tool mesh objects in order to accelerate the computations for the bone removal process. Once the collision detected, a mesh Boolean operation using CSG method is being invoked to calculate the volumetric amount of bone which is intersected with the tool to be removed. This work involves the user interaction to transform the tool in a Three.js scene for the simulated operation.
Institutional conformance of Halal certification organisation in Halal tourism industry: The cases of Indonesia and Thailand

Th is article discusses the institutional conformance of Halal Certifi cation Organisation (HCO) to the development of Halal Tourism Industry (HTI). It seeks to understand how the HCO, which provides Halal certifi cation for wideranging products in the tourism industry, performs the institutional adjustment towards changes in its surrounding environment. In so doing, this article utilises institutional theory and instrumental qualitative case study approach to examine two notable HCOs in Indonesia and Th ailand, namely Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and the Central Islamic Committee of Th ailand (CICOT) based on Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI). Despite the unchanging organisational forms and structures, the two HCOs have been developing innovative functions and measures to adapt the institutional pressure of HTI. Adapting to the rapid development of HTI, the two HCOs provided Halal certifi cate for Muslim consumers' protection, increased export of goods to a number of Muslim countries, and provided Halal tourism services to augment the competitiveness of respective Halal tourism destination.
Preparedness of School Psychologists to Provide Services for Students Diagnosed with Cancer

vi Chapter 1: Literature Review . 1 Deleterious Effects of Cancer . 2 Academic Deficits.2 Social/Emotional Difficulties.3 Physical Challenges.4 Changed Expectations.5 Available School Interventions.6 Section 504 Plans.6 Individualized Education Plans.7 Homebound Instruction.8 Key Personnel to Facilitate Re-Entry.9 School Faculty's Role.9 Role of the School Psychologist.10 The Current Study.13 Chapter 2: Method . 14 Participants . 14 Materials . 14 Procedure . 15 Chapter 3: Results . 17 Research Question 1 . 17 Research Question 2 . 17
Minimal classification error optimization for a speaker mapping neural network

The authors prepose a novel optimization technique for speaker mapping neural network training using the minimal classification error criterion. The conventional speaker mapping neural networks were trained under minimal distortion criteria. The minimal classification error optimization technique is applied to train the speaker mapping neural network. The authors describe the speaker mapping neural network and the minimal classification error optimization technique, and formulate and derive the minimal classification optimization technique in the speaker mapping neural network and a novel backpropagation algorithm. Vowel classification experiments are carried out, showing the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Experiments on speaker mapping with five vowels were performed and achieved a classification accuracy of 99.6% for training data and 97.4% for test data. <<ETX>>
Experiences of using Authentic Assessment with English Language Young Learners

This paper brings about the discussion on findings from an interview with young learners about school-based assessment that takes place in their English language classroom. Their ideas, comments and feelings were recorded and analysed. Literature has pointed out that including learners’ views in learning as well as in assessment will yield better learning outcomes. The discussion will be touching on what the young learners’ think about the ‘new’ assessment that takes place in the classroom and how they want it to be carried out. The results of the study show that there are five emerging themes: a) lack of young learners’ involvement in assessment, b) lack of support from the school administration, c) overwhelming documentation d) need for inclusion of parental involvement, and e) presence of self and peer assessments. Insights from the findings can be an eye-opener for the teachers to carry out improved authentic assessment practices in their classrooms in tandem with the ministry’s aspiration to provide formative feedback that places student learning at centre.
Learning production probabilities for musical grammars

While there is a growing body of work proposing grammars for music, there is little work testing analytical grammars in a generative setting. We explore the process of learning production probabilities for musical grammars from musical corpora and test the results using Kulitta, a recently developed framework for automated composition. To do this, we extend a well-known algorithm for learning production probabilities for context-free grammars (CFGs) to support various musical CFGs as well as an additional category of grammars called probabilistic temporal graph grammars.
SHG-Tree: An Efficient Index Structure of Spatial Database

To improve query efficiency of multidimensional spatial database,a new index structure named spatial hypercube grid tree(SHG-Tree)is proposed. By decreasing the occurrence of node split and recombination during insert/delete operations,and avoiding range comparison between query range and candidate entities during query operations,SHG-Tree based index method can efficiently support the common operations over spatial database containing objects with dynamic region. The main contributions include:(1)Proposes two type of SHG-Tree for ndimensional space. The hierarchical structure of SHG-Tree reflects the region overlapping relationship of hypercube grid units with different granularity. (2)Proposes three linearization strategies to present the bounding rectangle of spatial object as a union of variant granularity hypercube grids. (3)Gives the realization of different spatial query operations based on SHG-Tree. (4)Demonstrates the efficiency of SHG-Tree by extensive experiments. Experiments result shows query operation can be limited into ten milliseconds to ensure the real-time of query.
Real-time interactive simulation shows for dam-break flood based on openGL technology

With the computer technology developing,three-dimensional visualization technology has been applied to a variety of research areas;and computer graphics and virtual reality which applied to scientific computation has been a focal point of research.A real-time interactive simulation is established based on the 2-D dam-break models,mixed programming with VC and Fortran and OpenGL technology.This system uses steering computing,computing and shows at the same time,and realizes human-computer interaction.It can provide a scientific effective and immersive visualization way for the dam-break flood routing simulation and analysis.
Experiments with Different Indexing Techniques for Text Retrieval tasks on Gujarati Language using Bag of Words Approach

This paper presents results of various experiments carried out to improve text retrieval of gujarati text documents. Text retrieval involves searching and ranking of text documents for a given set of query terms. We have tested various retrieval models that uses bag-of-words approach. Bag-of-words approach is a traditional approach that is being used till date where the text document is represented as collection of words. Measures like frequency count, inverse document frequency etc. are used to signify and rank relevant documents for user queries. Different ranking models have been used to quantify ranking performance using the metric of mean average precision. Gujarati is a morphologically rich language, we have compared techniques like stop word removal, stemming and frequent case generation against baseline to measure the improvements in information retrieval tasks. Most of the techniques are language dependent and requires development of language specific tools. We used plain unprocessed word index as the baseline, we have seen significant improvements in comparison of MAP values after applying different indexing techniques when compared to the baseline.
User's Guide for SuiteSparseQR, a multifrontal multithreaded sparse QR factorization package (with optional GPU acceleration)

SuiteSparseQR is an implementation of the multifrontal sparse QR factorization method. Parallelism is exploited both in the BLAS and across dierent frontal matrices using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks, a shared-memory programming model for modern multicore architectures. It can obtain a substantial fraction of the theoretical peak performance of a multicore computer. The package is written in C++ with user interfaces for MATLAB, C, and C++. Both real and complex sparse matrices are supported.
What Drives Consumer’s Intention to use Online Property Websites: A Conceptual Model

The real estate market in Malaysia is growing as the nation grows more prosperous. There were 376,583 transactions recorded in Malaysia in 2010 with an aggregate worth RM107.44 billion (Construction Industry Development ,2016). This study intends to inspect the factors that drive consumer’s intention to use online property website. Previous literature does not include in-depth analyses such as consumer behavior. Hence, this conceptual paper proposes a model the key constructs that determine consumers’ intention to use online property website based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model. The proposed model integrates the S-O-R model with atmospheric cues from websites such as informativeness, effectiveness and entertainment. The results of the study provide significant insights the phenomenon of using online property ads and factors that influence consumers’ intention regarding online property websites. Recommendations for future research are also presented.
A Method for Image Mosaic of Textile Printing Fabric Based on SIFT Feature Matching

Image mosaic is the technique to stitch a series of overlapped pictures into a bigger one. The quality of image mosaic mainly depends on the precision of image registration. In the process of image mosaic the features should be acquired and matched accurately. Recently, SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) feature matching algorithm is becoming the focus of the image mosaic. In this paper focuses on the point matching of the textile fabric by SIFT. As is known to all, in the detection of textile fabrics, the image acquisition is the key, Based on this, this article through the SIFT algorithm for textile printing image stitching, get a picture of a wide range of complete image. Introduction SIFT[1] (scale invariant feature transform) is a method proposed by Lowe in 2004 based on the scale space, it is an image local feature description operator can keep invariance when zoom, rotation and affine transformation of the image, it can be used to extract the scale invariant feature from different perspectives images for image matching and object recognition. Therefore, the algorithm that based on SIFT characteristics has been widely used in many areas such as image mosaic[2], image registration and so on nowadays. The work of this paper is to apply the SIFT algorithm to the textile printing cloth image mosaic. SIFT Algorithm The SIFT algorithm mainly has the following steps: Step1: Construct Scale Space. SIFT algorithm is based on the theory of image scale space, image scale space function is ) , , (  y x L , the input image is ) , ( y x I , the image ) , ( y x I and a scale variable Gauss function ) , , (  y x G ,through the convolution operation to get the scale space[3]. ) , ( ) , , ( ) , , ( y x I y x G y x L     2 ) ( 2 2 / 2 1 ) , , ( 2 2    y x e y x G     is the scale parameter, corresponding to the variance of Gauss kernel function, the smaller the value, the smaller the image is smoothed and the corresponding scale is smaller. Relationship between the scale and the image is large scale corresponding to the general features of the image, small scale corresponding to image details. Step2: Constructing the Gauss Differential Scale Space. In order to detect stable feature points in scale space, when detecting feature points, SIFT algorithm make the adjacent two scale images to subtract each other, and get the DOG (Difference of Gauss) image, i.e. 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016) © 2016. The authors – Published by Atlantis Press 0953 ) 1 1 ( 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 / ) (
Design and analysis of bioinformatics algorithms on an FPGA platform

VII Publications . IX Introduction . 1 1.1 Overview . 1 1.1.1 Cell/BE . 5 1.1.2 GPU . 6 1.1.3 FPGA . 6 1.2 Objectives . 9 1.3 Contribution . 11 1.4 Organization . 13 FPGA and Its Applications in Bioinformatics . 15 2.1 FPGA technology . 15 2.2 Sequence analysis using FPGA . 20 2.3 Evolutionary biology using FPGAs . 21 2.4 Gene expression analysis using FPGAs . 22 2.5 Protein structure prediction using FPGAs . 22 2.6 Summary . 23 Genome Search and its Implementation . 25 3.1 Background . 25 3.2 Pair-wise alignment basics . 27 3.3 FASTA and BLAST . 31 3.4 NCBI BLASTN profiling . 35 3.5 Previous work . 38 3.5. 1 Software programs for sequence alignment . 38 3.5. 2 Heterogeneous systems for sequence alignment . 41 3.6 Summary . 48