Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Safety of bronchoscopic guided percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in ICU patients in Tabriz City

BACKGROUND Tracheostomy is one of the most frequently performed procedures in intensive care units. The widespread attraction of percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is increasing in modern intensive care units (ICU). Bronchoscopic guidance seems to secure the safety of the technique. Multiple studies done to explain characterize differences in complications and cost-effectiveness of open and percutaneous tracheotomy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the benefits of percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) using the Ciaglia technique with bronchoscopic guidance. METHODS A total of 100 elective percutaneous dilatational tracheostomies using the Ciaglia technique with a little modification were performed under flexible fiber optic bronchoscopic guide. The demographic variables were recorded, the underlying cause for patient’s referred to the center for PDT, and intraoperative as well as early postoperative complications. Patients followed for several days after tracheostomy for early complications. RESULTS No severe complications related to percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy were noticed during and after the procedure. Three patients had bleeding during incision and two led to subcutaneus hematoma. There were no other complications such as infection, emphysema and puncture of posterior wall. CONCLUSIONS We recommended the use of endoscopic guidance bedside percutaneous tracheostomy using the Ciaglia technique with a little modification because it is safe and simple to do without significant complications. PDT with bronchoscopic guidance is a safe and easy procedure that can be done at the bedside setting.
Transformation of Value Chain Governance: The Impact of Food Safety Regime on Fishery Sector of Kerala

Considering the theoretical aspects of Global Value Chain, this study has attempted to empirically validate the concepts by taking up a case study of Kerala in India. While examining the evolution of value chain dynamics, the study has found that different types of coordinations have governed the seafood export chain of Kerala from 1950s onwards. The evolution of Kerala’s seafood industry from mid-1950s to late1960s provides a good example of how a captive form of coordination can evolve towards the inter-firm governance structure. From early-1970s, the value chain governance structure shifted from the captive form to more or less a modular one. The vertical disintegration and division of labour have been observed to be the striking features of the sector from 1970s onwards. Subsequently, a large number of new entrants were attracted to the business until the mid-1990s. In the recent international food safety regulatory regime, the seafood value chain has been completely transformed. Concentration and consolidation are taking place at the processing node of the chain, wherein the number of exporters has come down and professional players are upgrading their positions in the value chain. The pre-processing node of the chain is getting integrated to the processing sector, causing a major transformation of the existing value chain. The study has categorically proved that the international food policies can restructure the entire fish commodity chain of a developing country.
ROUTE AND ACTIVITY LOCATION CHOICE BEHAVIOUR OF DEPARTING PASSENGERS IN TRAIN STATIONS

In the Netherlands, rail passenger transport has grown considerably during the last decades. Although growth has been seen nationwide, it has concentrated at a few of the largest stations in the country (e.g. Amsterdam Central and Utrecht Central station). As a result, these stations are being redeveloped. Furthermore, this growth trend is expected to continue into the future. This also means that (temporary) overcrowding can arise at these stations. These trends have triggered a need for more insights into the behaviour of passengers inside train stations. With these insights, existing stations can be better managed, and redevelopments can be better designed and planned. This paper presents quantitative research results regarding the factors that influence route and activity location choice behaviour of departing passengers at train stations. For this study, SMART Station data has been used. This automated data collection system is based on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and infrared sensors. It generates revealed preference data on passenger routes and activities in train stations. Estimated discrete choice models based on these data show which factors influence the choice of departing passengers for vertical infrastructure facilities (i.e. escalators and stairways; route choice) and the choice of retail outlets in the station building (activity location choice). The factors significantly influencing route choice behaviour of departing passengers are: travel time, walking distance, train stop location alongside the platform and right side orientation of the vertical infrastructure facility which provides access to the platforms. Travel time and walking distance appeared to be highly correlated. To get a better model fit, only the first has been included in the final model, together with train stop location and orientation. Travel time is the most important factor. In the activity location choice model, also four factors turned out to be of significant influence: travel time from station entrance to the retail outlet, total distance (from entrance via outlet to the platform), the requirement to make a detour for a shop visit, and right side orientation. Distance is the most important factor in this model. To the best of our knowledge, before this study there has been no empirical, quantitative evidence of the factors which contribute to route and activity location choices inside a train station. Due to the large amount of revealed preference data which has been collected by Bluetooth/Wi-Fi-sensors, this study can be considered as first of its kind in the field of train passenger route and activity choice behaviour in train stations.
Consumer Socialization in the Western Quick Service Restaurants

The purpose of this survey study was to test the theory of consumer socialization that relates the demographic variables, parent-child relationship, parents' attitudes toward children's play variable, and family consumption patterns in western quick service restaurants (western QSRs). The path analysis indicated that the partial mediator effect of parents' attitudes toward children's play existed between the parents-child relationship and the family consumption patterns. Results of this study provided support for the causal effects of a suggested three-factor solution for parents' attitudes toward children's play in western QSRs. The subsequent data analyses suggested that the demographic variables (gender, age, education, social economic status, and income) and the family consumption patterns have significant relationships.
Investigation of Thermodynamic Properties of Heavy Metals from Melting and Critical Point Properties

A statistical mechanical based equation of state has been employed to calculate the liquid density of lead, mercury, bismuth and lead-bismuth and lead-lithium eutectic alloys. The equation is basically that of Song, Mason and Ihm (Ihm G, Song Y, Mason EA. J. Chem. Phys.1991; 94: 3839) which is modified by Ghatee and Boushehri. Three temperature dependent parameters are required to use this equation of state. The second virial coefficient B2, an effective van der Waals co- volume, b and a correction factor α. B2 is predicted from a corresponding states correlation with two scaling parameters, melting point temperature, Tm and liquid density at melting point, ρm. Liquid densities are predicted from melting point up to several hundred degrees above the melting point. The results are fairly consistent with experiment. In order to evaluate the correlation equation, Tao and Mason equation of state is applied to the above cited liquid metals and liquid density results are compared to the present equation. Obviously, the first equation acts better.
A Rapid Prototyping of FPGA- Based Duobinary Transmitter/Receiver for High Speed Electrical Backplane Transmission

Backplanes communication channels always have a dis torting effect on the signals being passed from transmitter to receiver. Much effort research is being devoted on finding ways to reduce this distortion. This work focuses in rapid prototyping of a duobinary transmitter/receiver using a Field Programmable Gate Array. The transmitter comprises a precoder to prevent error propagation, a binary to duobinary encoder and a transmit filter. The signal is passed through a backplane channel and the channel output is equalized using a Least M ean Square filter. The system is modeled in Simulink and then the hardware description language cod is generated from the model. Initial results show good eye diagram scopes which are plac d t appropriate locations within the model to observe the signal at various points. Key takeaways: This work focuses in rapid prototyping of a duobina ry transmitter/receiver using a Field Programmable Gate Array. The architec tur is modeled in Simulink and then the hardware description language code is generated fro m the model. Author(s) Biography Mr. Ashraf Umar is a graduate student in the Department of Electr ical Engineering, Penn State Harrisburg. He received his Bachelor of Engineering De ree in Electrical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Dr. Aldo Morales has a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering f om SUNY-Buffalo. Dr. Morales was the PI for a 3-year Ben Franklin Techno logy Partners Grant that established the “Center of Excellence in Signal Integrity” at Penn State Harrisburg. He was a co-author for the Best poster paper award at the IEEE International C onference on Consumer Electronics 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Sedig S. Agili has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering f om Marquette University. He was the Co-PI for a 3-year Ben Franklin Technolo gy Partners Grant that established Penn State Harrisburg’s “Center of Excellence in Signal Integr ity. ” He was a co-author for the Best poster paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada. Mike Resso is the Signal Integrity Application Scientist in th e Component Test Division of Agilent Technologies and has over twenty-five years of expe rience in the test and measurement industry. Mike has been awarded one US patent and has twice r eceived the Agilent “Spark of Insight” Award for his contribution to the company. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California. Mr. Marcel ChristophWelpot was an exchange student, from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, who worked at the Signal Integrity Lab at Penn State Harrisburg.
Effect of Preparation Methods on the Composition and Structure of Dietary Fiber from Bamboo Shoot

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different preparation methods on the quality of dietary fiber from bamboo shoot (BDF). Methods: Four methods including water-washing (WT), acid-base treatment (ABT), fermentation (FT) and enzyme treatment (ET) were carried out, and the composition, colour, water absorption index (WAI) and water solubility index (WSI) of BDF were determined as well as the structure characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer. Results: The results showed that the highest contents of SDF, IDF and TDF were obtained with ET, which were 60.36 ± 0.78%, 7.90 ± 0.24%, and 68.26 ± 1.02%, respectively. But the colour of dietary fiber by WT and FT could be protected well. The value of WAI was the highest for ABT, while ET had the highest WSI. The SEM images and infrared spectrometer analysis demonstrated that the preparations of FT and ET could produce porous and uniform dietary fiber with its composition complete. Conclusion: These results suggest that the FT and ET may be the environmental and efficient methods in the industry to preparing high quality of BDF.
Do IS consultants enhance IS competences in SMEs

Many small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs) turn to consultants for assistance with IS projects, for example, to help the firm select and implement a new system. Prior studies have shown that consultants have a major influence on IS success for SMEs. However, despite its importance to IS success, relatively little research has focused on the relationship between SMEs and IS consultants and whether this relationship has any impact or influence on the development of IS competences in SMEs. T his study investigates whether consultants compensate for or enhance an SMEs IS competences during a major IS project. A multiple case study approach was adopted involving SMEs who implemented an Accounting Information System (AIS). The case firms provide evidence that SMEs lack many IS skills and abilities. The study identified a number of competences that are compensated or enhanced by consultants. The major finding of this study is that IS consultants help SMEs overcome a lack of IS competences, rat her than help develop IS competences within an SME. Managing the relationship between consultant and SME is crucial for SMEs lacking many IS competences.
I. PENDAHULUAN EIRING berkembangnya teknologi informasi, jumlah aplikasi web yang tersebar di internet semakin meningkat. Salah satu hal yang memacu peningkatan tersebut adalah semakin maraknya perangkat-perangkat lunak yang memudahkan seseorang dalam membuat aplikasi web. Salah satu contoh perangka

Abstrak—Jumlah aplikasi berbasis web semakin bertambah seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi informasi. Dengan bertambahnya jumlah aplikasi web, serangan-serangan yang dilakukan terhadap aplikasi-aplikasi web tersebut juga meningkat. Salah satu jenis serangan yang marak dilakukan terhadap aplikasi web adalah penyisipan malware seperti web shell yang dapat memberikan akses bebas terhadap komputer server kepada penyerang. Dalam makalah ini, dijelaskan implementasi aplikasi yang menerapkan teknik kategorisasi dokumen untuk mendeteksi malware atau kode malicious khususnya jenis web shell dengan teknik kategorisasi dokumen. Proses kategorisasi dokumen meliputi praproses dan tokenisasi kode sumber, pembuatan model classifier Multinomial Naive Bayes dan Decision Tree, dan klasifikasi dokumen menggunakan classifier yang telah dibuat. Uji coba yang dilakukan terhadap 718 file kode sumber PHP menghasilkan tingkat precision dari 72% hingga 83% dan recall 83% hingga 97%.
A hexapodal robot for maintenance operations at a future Mars base

The development of a teleoperated, hexapodal robot suitable for maintenance work at a future Mars base is described. In order to reduce the workload on human engineers at the base, it is desirable that the machine quickly acquire the ability to carry out routine tasks without direct manual control. To function most usefully in a hostile environment, it must do this on the basis of very few training trials and in the presence of considerable sensor and motion noise. A mapless navigation task in which the robot periodically visits a circuit of waypoints around the base is selected from among several potential jobs for the maintenance robot. Simulations are used to show that a simple playback of operator commands corrected using a combination of logged non-magnetic compass and bearing to optical landmarks produces good results, and suggests that the method may be generalisable to other maintenance tasks.
Evaluation of Digital Hearing Aids Using Speech Phonemes

Since the most important input for users of hearing aids is speech, the study of the ways hearing aids amplify and reconstruct speech phonemes is necessary. The present study recorded the forms of five speech phonemes as stimuli and the rate of prescribed gain from the NAL-NL2 and DSLm(i/o) formulas for these phonemes was compared. This was a descriptive-analytical study performed on 16 programmed hearing aids for severe sensory-neural hearing loss in flat, rising and sloping configurations. After fitting the hearing aids to the NAL-NL2 and DSLm(i/o) formulas, their rates of gain for phonemes /a/,/u/,/s/,/s/and /f/ were determined using an Affinity 2.0 analyzer in a 2cc coupler at the 3 levels. The prescribed gain for DSLm(i/o) for the 5 phonemes in flat and rising audiograms for 3 speakers (male, female, female child) and intensity levels was significantly higher than for NAL-NL2 (p <0.05). In the sloping audiogram, the difference of prescribed gain was not significant in middle and high frequencies; however, DSL gained more at low frequencies than NAL-NL2 (p =0.000). The prescribed gain in DSLm(i/o) at all frequencies, especially at low frequencies, was greater than for NAL-NL2.
Effective biclustering on GPU - capabilities and constraints

This article presents the benefits and limitations related to designing a parallel biclustering algorithm on a GPU. A definition of biclustering is provided together with a brief description of the GPU architecture. We then review algorithm strategy patterns, which are helpful in providing efficient implementations on GPU. Finally, we highlight programming aspects of implementing biclustering algorithms in CUDA/OpenCL programming language. Streszczenie. W artykule przedstawiono korzy´ sci i ograniczenia zwi ˛ azane z projektowaniem rownoleglego algorytmu biklasteryzacji, przeznaczonego na GPU. Zaprezentowano definicj ˛ e biklasteryzacji oraz skrotowo opisano architektur ˛ e GPU. Zestawiono popularne wzorce strategii implementacji algorytmow, przydatne w projektowaniu efektywnych rozwi ˛ aza ´ n na GPU. Publikacja zawiera takpraktyczne wskazowki programistyczne, w kon- tek´ scie implementacji algorytmow biklasteryzacji w j ˛ ezyku CUDA/OpenCL. (Efektywna biklasteryzacja z wykorzystaniem GPU - mozliwo ´ sci i ograniczenia)
Satellite-based estimate of the variability of warm cloud properties associated with aerosol and meteorological conditions

Abstract. Aerosol–cloud interaction (ACI) is examined using 10 years of data from the MODIS/Terra (morning orbit) and MODIS/Aqua (afternoon orbit) satellites. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) and cloud properties retrieved from both sensors are used to explore in a statistical sense the morning-to-afternoon variation of cloud properties in conditions with low and high AOD, over both land and ocean. The results show that the interaction between aerosol particles and clouds is more complex and of greater uncertainty over land than over ocean. The variation in d(Cloud_X), defined as the mean change in cloud property Cloud_X between the morning and afternoon overpasses in high-AOD conditions minus that in low-AOD conditions, is different over land and ocean. This applies to cloud droplet effective radius (CDR), cloud fraction (CF) and cloud top pressure (CTP), but not to cloud optical thickness (COT) and cloud liquid water path (CWP). Both COT and CWP increase over land and ocean after the time step, irrespective of the AOD. However, the initial AOD conditions can affect the amplitude of variation of COT and CWP. The effects of initial cloud fraction and meteorological conditions on the change in CF under low- and high-AOD conditions after the 3 h time step over land are also explored. Two cases are considered: (1) when the cloud cover increases and (2) when the cloud cover decreases. For both cases, we find that almost all values of d(CF) are positive, indicating that the variations of CF are larger in high AOD than that in low AOD after the 3 h time step. The results also show that a large increase in cloud fraction occurs when scenes experience large AOD and stronger upward motion of air parcels. Furthermore, the increase rate of cloud cover is larger for high AOD with increasing relative humidity (RH) when RH is larger than 20 %. We also find that a smaller increase in cloud fraction occurs when scenes experience larger AOD and larger initial cloud cover. Overall, the analysis of the diurnal variation of cloud properties provides a better understanding of aerosol–cloud interaction over land and ocean.
Multiple Cue Based Vehicle Detection and Tracking for Road Safety

With the rise in accident related fatalities on roads, the researchers around the world are looking for solutions including integrating intelligence to vehicles. One cruicial aspects of it is the robust detection and tracking of other vehicles in the visinity. In this paper, we have proposed a probabilistic way of incorporation of several visual cues in vehicle detection and a particle fLIter based tracking strategy. Visual cues used are, lane markings, symmetry, shadows and edge information. Combination of visual cues provided us with robust results when compared with their individual counterparts. The definition of a region of interest lowers the computational requirements with improved robustness. Experimental results of the algorithm in Sydney urban areas are presented. Index Terms Vehicle Detection, particle fLIter, road safety, tracking, Fuzzy c means clustering, computer vision
A feasible way to increase carbon sequestration by adding dolomite and K-feldspar to soil

Abstract In recent years, many researchers have explored various possible ways to slow down the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration as this process poses a serious threat to mankind’s survival. Mineral weathering is one possible way. Silicate weathering, for example, causes net carbon sequestration and carbonate weathering occurs relatively rapidly. In this study, dolomite and K-feldspar were added to soil to investigate if these minerals can increase carbon sequestration and also improve the available potassium content. The carbon content of amaranth, the organic and inorganic carbon content of the soil, two kinds of enzymes (polyphenol oxidase and urease), and the available potassium content were all tested. The experimental results show that the minerals accelerate the fixation of organic and inorganic carbon in the soil and also promote amaranth growth. Moreover, the available potassium content was increased when K-feldspar was added. Taken together, adding moderate amounts of carbonate and silicate minerals into the soil is found to be an attemptable way of accelerating CO2 fixation and improving the potassium content of soil.
Reasoning, judgment and pragmatics

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Reasoning, judgment and pragmatics Guy Politzer
WAGE LEVELS AND AGENCY PROBLEMS IN PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORTS

This paper seeks to provide theoretical foundations to address the effects of the asymmetric information inherent to contractual relationships between teams and players in professional team sports. Particularly, a Shapiro-Stiglitz efficiency model version along with Rosen’s insight about superstars economics is used to show that in addition to the high demand (i.e. marginal productivity) is necessary to consider a moral hazard problem as a source or as an explanatory factor of the rigidity and inflation that characterize sport superstars wages. The importance attributed to this approach lies in the fact that taking the results of the analysis as a reference, some ways of reinforcing players observance of internal team norms, reducing the costs of supervision and some channels of capping the non-shirking remuneration can be proposed.