Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estimating Crash Risk

Naturalistic driving research involves the instrumentation of vehicles, including video cameras, for the purpose of precisely recording participants as they normally drive as well as in the seconds leading up to crashes and near-crashes. The results provide new insight into driver behavior and performance that cannot be gained through traditional empirical approaches. Naturalistic driving studies provide context of the overall driving environment, information that is absent from other methods. This article highlights how results from naturalistic driving research have reshaped our understanding of driver behavior and crash risk, including the fact that some findings are contrary to results from other empirical approaches.
Reconstruction of an arson hospital fire

An arson fire in a Swedish psychiatric detention clinic led to the death of two patients and injuries to many more. Rescue personnel were quick to go into the building on fire but had difficulties finding their way due to a very heavy smoke. The reconstruction made, indicates that a too easily ignitable mattress provided heat and radiation enough to ignite a PVC flooring material that then became the main source for fire and smoke. Analysis of soot from the fire site and measurements during the reconstruction show that the fire smoke contained large amounts of irritants that might have had an impact on the tragic outcome. In fact, comparing the toxicity of smoke gases produced during the reconstruction, based on different ‘toxicity indicators’, suggests that irritants in the fire smoke were as dangerous as or even more dangerous than the common asphyxiate type of gases present, CO and HCN.
Reservoir Drought Prediction Using Support Vector Machines

In Taiwan, even though the average annual rainfall is up to 2500 mm, water shortage during the dry season happens sometimes. Especially in recent years, water shortage has seriously affected the agriculture, industry, commerce, and even the essential daily water use. Under the threat of climate change in the future, efficient use of water resources becomes even more challenging. For a comparative study, support vector machine (SVM) and other three models (artificial neural networks, maximum likelihood classifier, Bayesian classifier) were established to predict reservoir drought status in next 10-90 days in Tsengwen Reservoir. (The ten-days time interval was applied in this study as it is the conventional time unit for reservoir operation.) Four features (which are easily obtainable in most reservoir offices), including reservoir storage capacity, inflows, critical limit of operation rule curves, and the number of ten-days in a year, were used as input data to predict drought. The records of years from 1975 to 1999 were selected as training data, and those of years from 2000 to 2010 were selected as testing data. The empirical results showed that SVM outperforms the other three approaches for drought prediction. Unsurprisingly the longer the prediction time period is, the lower the prediction accuracy is. However, the accuracy of predicting next 50 days is about 85% both in training and testing data set by SVM. As a result, we believe that the SVM model has high potential for predicting reservoir drought due to its high prediction accuracy and simple input data.
Full Length Research Article EFFECTS OF PACKAGING MATERIALS AND METHODS ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND FOOD SAFETY OF DUCK SAUSAGE

Utilization of spent duck through sausage preparation and estimating the optimum storage condition throughout the retail chain was the objective of the present study. PET/Poly and laminate of metalized PET/Poly with polyethylene pouches under aerobic and vacuum packaging stored in refrigerator (4±1° C) and freezer (-18±1° C) condition were considered in the experiment. TBA value, pH, Tyrosine value, TPC, TPSC and YMC of the samples increased with the storage period whereas a decreasing trend in case of moisture and all the sensory parameters throughout the storage period was observed. Irrespective of the packaging material, duck sausages were acceptable upto 30 th and 50 th day of refrigerated storage and 4 th and 6 th month of freezer storage in aerobic and vacuum packaging respectively. Freezer temperature enhanced the product quality upto 3 rd and 5 th month against 20 th and 40 th day of refrigerated storage in aerobic and vacuum packaging respectively.
A Review of GPS Cross Correlation Mitigation Techniques

Detection of weak GPS signals is becoming important in many applications of GPS, including E911 positioning and the secondary use of GPS signals for remote sensing applications. Cross correlations caused by the limited dynamic range of GPS Gold Codes represent a significant problem in the observation of weak GPS signals. This paper presents a brief analysis of the cross correlation problem followed by a review of the various cross correlation mitigation techniques that are currently available for GPS signal processing, with particular emphasis on cancellation and subspace-projection techniques. Since much of the cross correlation literature is concerned with cross correlations as they relate to CDMA cellular communications, a comparison between GPS and these other CDMA systems is made. The suitability of these techniques to weak signal and ‘indirect-GPS’ applications is discussed, as are the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Applicability of the methods to removal of autocorrelation sidelobes is also examined.
FROM APPRENTICE TO MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING - AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT

As a consequence of the Bologna Process Danish higher educational system has fully adopted the 3+2 system. Access to Master of Science programmes is now granted to either Bachelor of Science or Professional Bachelor degree holders. The latter is known for admitting people with vocational qualifications. Hence, it is now possible for a person to go through apprenticeship, and later entering an Architectural Technology and Construction Management education, and finally, ending with a Master of science degree. Now in its fourth year of allowing MSc students with such background, it is possible to share some of the collected experience. So far it has been a success, but there have been hurdles. Students with vocational background combined with a professional bachelor degree are different from students with a Bachelor of Science background. This applies to the areas of among others: Mathematical skills and practical knowledge. The main success is that candidates have entered the job market with high success. Data has been collected through interviews and surveys with graduates, teachers and coordinators within the new master programme in construction management at Aalborg University in Denmark. This exercise has given insight what distinguishes traditional Master of sciences graduates and these new graduates.
Influence of high substrate doping levels on the threshold voltage and the mobility of deep-submicrometer MOSFETs

The high levels of substrate doping needed in deep-submicrometer MOS devices affect device properties strongly. The authors present a detailed experimental study of high-doping effects on the threshold voltage, which is shown to be affected by the quantum-mechanical splitting of the energy levels in the conduction band. A simple expression to account for these effects is proposed and the consequences for device scaling and design are discussed. Furthermore, the increasing levels of substrate doping and high normal electric fields affect the channel mobility through Coulomb and surface-roughness scattering. Several empirical models for the surface mobility are compared with the characteristics of experimental devices. >
Public Health Challenges in both Developing and Developed Countries: A review

: This paper compares and shows how much more developing countries are more facing public health challenges than developed countries. It presents contributions of the World Health Organization to Public health threats. We also discuss public health challenges that are still rising in both developed and developing countries. Furthermore, this article sheds light on some signs of progress that have been made in public health worldwide by individual countries and/or international organizations. In this review, some solutions and recommendations were suggested to achieve the targeted goals of Healthy people internationally. are per the The a of
A design of safety support maneuvers for automated vehicles cruising around intersections

This paper provides safety support maneuvers for automated vehicles cruising around intersections. The behaviors of vehicles are formulated by a new motion model which can describe typical motion patterns of vehicles cruising around intersections. Based on this motion model, safety support maneuvers are designed as the procedures to generate the inputs for actuators, i.e., suitable acceleration and steering, which achieve the driving motions around intersections, i.e., straight passages, left-turn movements in right handed systems and lane change movements as the preparations of turn movements, with keeping traffic regulations.
Onboarding Vertical Applications on 5G-VINNI Facility

Editor, contributors and authors See last section of this document Confidentiality level For public distribution Suggested readers Designers and developers of vertical industry services and applications. Operations support teams of 5G-VINNI facility sites. Version 1.0 Total number of pages 26 Document DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3695716 5G-VINNI website https://www.5g-vinni.eu/ License This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Periodic Noise Removal in Strain and Natural Images Using 2-D Fast Fourier Transform

4 Abstract - This paper presents a 2-D FFT removal algorithm for reducing the periodic noise in natural and strain images. For the periodic pattern of the artifacts, we apply the 2-D FFT on the strain and natural images to extract and remove the peaks which are corresponding to periodic noise in the frequency domain. Further the mean filter applied to get more effective results. The performance of the proposed method is tested on both natural and strain images. The results of proposed method is compared with the mean filter based periodic noise removal and found that the proposed method significantly improved for the noise removal.
Exploring the feasibility of using tabletop displays for construction design meetings

Supervisory Committee Dr. Melanie Tory, (Department of Computer Science) Supervisor Dr. Margaret-Anne D. Storey, (Department of Computer Science) Departmental Member Dr. Sheryl Staub-French, (Department of Computer Science) Departmental Member We have investigated the feasibility of using digital tabletop displays during design team meetings to improve access to design information. To achieve this goal, we have applied various design guidelines for tabletop interface design and requirements for digital meeting scenarios in order to implement design ideas (in a prototype named Mozaic) that specifically cater to design team meetings. Mozaic intends to improve information retrieval and browsing activities during meetings thereby improving information access through a tile based layout, pop-up menu control and filtered list. We have evaluated the features of Mozaic through an exploratory study on a tabletop display (in comparison to a commonly used desktop software tool, which was also used on the tabletop) to evaluate various design ideas and ferret out design ideas for future iterations of Mozaic. We present the result of this study as observations and user feedback and discuss them in the light of interface development for design meeting situations.
Antibiotic susceptibility and factors involved in virulence and persistence of Acinetobacter baumannii strains

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a medically important pathogen because of the increasing number of infections produced by this organism over the preceding three decades and the global spread of strains with resistance to multiple antibiotic classes. Recently, a particular attention has been drawn to the study of the microbial persistence properties and their correlation with the rate of elimination from the source of infection, as well as the prognosis of the disease progression. Material and methods: There were examined 53 strains of A. baumannii , isolated from patients with trophic ulcers. The bacteriological examination, as well as tests on determining both the persistence factors and the antibiotic susceptibility of the isolated strains were carried out according to the current method. Results: A. baumannii strains were highly resistant to all antibiotics tested, 38 (71.7%) showed multidrug resistance. The studies regarding the persistence factors of A. baumannii strains, revealed that 100% exhibited an antilysosyme activity, 78.0% – anticomplementary activity, 73.6% – produce biofilms, 58.5% – hemolytic activity, 28.3% and 13.2% – lecithinase and plasma coagulation activity, respectively. Conclusions: Isolated strains showed higher level of antimicrobial resistance and multiple persistence factors. The study results proved that treatment of trophic ulcers is still a major problem, requiring rational monitoring and management strategies.
A Statistical Approach for Determining the Technological Value of Cotton Using HVI Fiber Properties

A statistical approach for determining the technological value of a variety of cotton is presented. The approach suggests that the market value of cotton should correspond to its technological value in a particular manufacturing system; that is, the value of a bale of cotton should be determined based on its expected performance in the textile mill and the yarn quality obtained from it. A model relating fiber to yarn properties is a basic requirement for implementing the approach. The procedures used in this approach include developing a multiple regression model relating HVI fiber properties to the desired quality parameter of yarn (skein break factor), determining the percent relative contribution of a fiber property with respect to skein break factor, selecting a reference set of HVI fiber properties, determining a difference factor of the difference in value between fiber properties of a particular variety and the reference set, and finally, developing a premium/discount formula. The main feature of the approach is its flexibility in accommodating different fiber properties and yarns of different counts produced on different spinning systems.
Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics

Information systems (IS)/Information technology(IT) has become an essential part and a major resource of the organization. IS/IT is a major resource that can radically affect the structure of an organisation, the way it serves customers, and the way it helps people in organisations to communicate both internally and externally, and the way an organisation runs its business. Managing information and information systems effectively and efficiently have become an essential part of the life of 21st century managers. This book is about Managing information and information systems and focuses on relationships between information, information systems/information technology, people and business. The impacts, roles, risks, challenges as well as emerging trends of information systems will be an important element of the book. At the same time, many strategic and contemporary uses of information systems such as implementing enterprise planning systems for improving internal operation, adopting customer relationship management systems and supply chain management systems to enhance relations with customers and suppliers/partners respectively, and establishing knowledge management systems for better managing organizational knowledge resources as well as using different information systems for supporting managers’ decision making in all levels will be an integral part of the book. In addition, essential and critical information systems management skills including using information systems for competitive advantages, planning and evaluating information systems, system development & implementing information systems, and managing information systems operations will be a critical part of the book.
The Economic Impact of Murabahah Financing On PT. PNM Mekar Syariah In Increasing The Welfare Of Pre-Prospered Women

The main problem that the authors study in this study is how the economic impact of murabahah financing on PT. The general objective to be achieved in this research is to find out how the economic impact of murabahah financing on PT. This research is a qualitative field research. This research is descriptive and emphasizes the analysis side. Process and meaning are highlighted in qualitative research on the theoretical basis that is used as a guide to focus on research in accordance with the facts on the ground. The data collection method in this study is by observation and interviews. The results of the study found that in general present PT. PNM Mekar Syariah in Banuhampu District and unsecured murabahah financing distributed by PT. PNM Mekar Syariah has a positive but not significant impact on improving the welfare of underprivileged women in Banuhampu sub-district from an economic perspective.
Design of monofilar and bifilar Archimedean spiral resonators for metamaterial applications

Archimedean spiral resonators as the unit inclusion for a metamaterial structure is studied. These inclusions are very compact, which make them a good candidate for practical metamaterial applications. Equivalent circuit models and analytical design formulas are derived for monofilar and bifilar spiral resonators. The circuit parameters and resonance frequencies are directly predicted by the geometry of the spiral and dielectric substrate/resonator configuration. Numerical simulations on both bulk and planar designs show that the predicted resonance frequencies are accurate enough for a preliminary design. Finally, complementary spiral structures, that is, spiral-shaped apertures in the ground plane, are considered. Loading two transmission lines with a complementary monofilar and a complementary bifilar spiral resonator, two planar band rejection structures are built. Measured results for two prototypes present a good accuracy.
A Computer Vision Measurement System for Linear Deformation of Line Heating

Line heating is an important technique for processing hyperboloidal outside plate of ship hull. To realize the automation of the line heating, the deformation rule in line heating should be researched. In this paper, the computer vision measurement technique is applied to find out the disciplinarian of linear deformation in line heating. The principle of computer vision measurement is firstly introduced in this paper. The emphases are the images collection, camera calibration, edge detection, and 3D data reconstruction. Then some key techniques for ensuring the measurement precision are presented. At last, the result of experiments is given. The experiments showed that the measurement system was valid for measuring the linear deformation of line heating.
P-Sets and the Reduction-Identification of F-Information Camouflage

P-sets is a set pair composed of internal P-set and outer P-set, which has the dynamic characteristic. The generation concept, camouflage measure theorem and reduction theorem of F- information camouflage are given, and next the reduction-identification criterion and identification method of F-information camouflage. Using the above theory results, the application of the identification-reduction of F-information camouflage.
Motion-Tracked Binaural Sound

A new method is presented for capturing, recording, and reproducing spatial sound that provides a vivid sense of realism. The method generalizes binaural recording, preserving the information needed for dynamic head-motion cues. These dynamic cues greatly reduce the need for customization to the listener. During either capture or recording, the sound field in the vicinity of the head is sampled with a microphone array. During reproduction, a head tracker is used to determine the microphones that are closest to the positions of the listener's ears. Interpolation procedures are used to produce the headphone signals. The properties of different methods for interpolating the microphone signals are presented and analyzed.
Design and fabrication of traveling wave electroabsorption modulator

Semiconductor electroabsorption modulator (EAM) is a promising alternative to lithium niobate modulator for digital and analog fiber optic links due to its inherent small size, high modulation efficiency, and potential of monolithic integration with other electronic and optoelectronic components. For high-speed application, the bandwidth of the lumped element EAM is known to be RC-time limited. To achieve an ultra large bandwidth in lumped element EAM, the modulation efficiency has to be greatly sacrificed. This is especially critical in analog operation where RF link loss and noise figure must be minimized. To overcome the RC bandwidth limit and to avoid significantly compromising the modulation efficiency, the traveling wave electroabsorption modulator has been proposed and experimentally investigated by several authors.
Representation of Government Concerning the Draft of Criminal Code in The Jakarta Post: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This study was purposely done to investigate the representation of the government in The Jakarta Post. Therefore, the research objective of this study is to reveal the representation of the government related to the draft of Criminal Code in The Jakarta Post by using Fairclough three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional model including textual analysis, discourse practice, and social practice were the stages for the researchers to analyze the news. The qualitative descriptive approach was employed by the researchers as the research method. The findings of this current study showed that The Jakarta Post was on the protesters’ side and it negatively represented the government. This research can be a meaningful insight for future researchers who want to conduct a study under a critical discourse analysis theory, for readers to become more aware of reading news, and for journalists to become more aware as well in writing news.