Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Masculine honour beliefs and volunteering to prevent rape versus volunteering to help women who have been raped

ABSTRACT This research examined how masculine honour beliefs (MHB) relate to individuals’ intentions to volunteer for organisations that aim to prevent rape or to provide services to women who have been raped. We predicted both men and those higher in MHB would be more supportive of efforts intended to prevent rape and less supportive of efforts intended to provide support to women who have been raped. Participants (N = 195) were recruited at a large Midwestern university and indicated their willingness to volunteer for ten organisations, three of which addressed either the prevention of rape or the provision of support to women who have been raped. Participants also reported their adherence to individual difference variables, including MHB. Our results supported our hypotheses, suggesting that for both men and those higher in MHB, protecting women from rape, or deterring and preventing rape, appears more important than supporting women who have been raped. This research extends our understanding of how gender roles and MHB relate to perceptions of rape, its prevention, and its consequences. PRACTICE IMPACT STATEMENT This research suggests it may be possible to rally college students to address the issue of rape on their campuses in targeted ways. That is, male students and students with higher levels of MHB may be more willing to participate in efforts to prevent rape on college campuses (where rape is particularly prevalent) than they are to participate in advocacy (e.g. centres for advocacy, campus advocacy groups) or supportive services (e.g. crisis centres).
Optimal control of matrix converter based WECS for performance and stability enhancement at low wind speeds

In this paper, optimal control of new wind energy conversion scheme where four-leg improved matrix converter (MC) is used for performance and stability enhancement, particularly for sites where most of the time low wind speeds prevails, has been explained. The power factor at the interface with the grid is controlled by the MC to ensure purely active power injection into the grid for optimal utilisation of the installed wind turbine capacity. The generation system has fuzzy logic control with vector control in the inner loops. Fuzzy controller tracks the angular frequency with the wind velocity to extract the maximum power and programs the machine flux for performance, stability and efficiency enhancement during light load and low speeds. The complete control system has been developed and analysed using MATLAB/Simulink.
Defense Strategy Selection Model Based on Multistage Evolutionary Game Theory

Evolutionary game theory is widely applied in network attack and defense. The existing network attack and defense analysis methods based on evolutionary games adopt the bounded rationality hypothesis. However, the existing research ignores that both sides of the game get more information about each other with the deepening of the network attack and defense game, which may cause the attacker to crack a certain type of defense strategy, resulting in an invalid defense strategy. The failure of the defense strategy reduces the accuracy and guidance value of existing methods. To solve the above problem, we propose a reward value learning mechanism (RLM). By analyzing previous game information, RLM automatically incentives or punishes the attack and defense reward values for the next stage, which reduces the probability of defense strategy failure. RLM is introduced into the dynamic network attack and defense process under incomplete information, and a multistage evolutionary game model with a learning mechanism is constructed. Based on the above model, we design the optimal defense strategy selection algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the evolutionary game model with RLM has better results in the value of reward and defense success rate than the evolutionary game model without RLM.
Evaluación de la lectura académica en estudiantes que ingresan a la Educación Superior

Se presenta un instrumento original de evaluación de la comprensión lectora, utilizado en la Prueba de Diagnóstico de Habilidades Comunicativas que se aplicó a los estudiantes que ingresaron a una universidad chilena, en el periodo 2017-2020, con el fin de determinar su nivel de comprensión lectora, aplicada a textos académicos, al momento de comenzar los estudios superiores. Esta prueba de diagnóstico se elaboró de acuerdo con un modelo que distingue tres grandes habilidades de lectura, desglosadas en resultados de aprendizaje más específicos, que abarcan desde la localización de información literal hasta evaluación de forma y contenido textual. Los resultados muestran que un grupo importante de los jóvenes evaluados no tiene un nivel satisfactorio de lectura académica y presenta dificultades para responder ítems que evaluaban tareas de lectura implícita de nivel superior, como relaciones entre párrafos, inferencias e interpretación de propósitos comunicativos. Se concluye que son necesarias medidas que fomenten la lectura académica de los estudiantes que ingresan a la educación superior, especialmente la extracción de información no explícita a través de la lectura comprensiva, pues esta habilidad está directamente vinculada al aprendizaje y a la adquisición de las tradiciones discursivas disciplinares.
Validation of multizone IAQ model predictions for tracer gas in a townhouse

To provide additional validation data for the multizone airflow and contaminant model, CONTAMW, experiments were performed in an occupied three-storey townhouse in Reston, VA. A tracer gas, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), was manually injected within one room of the house and the concentration of SF6 was then measured in nine rooms. This same process was then recreated in CONTAMW and the resulting predictions were statistically compared to the measured values. A total of 10 experiments were conducted and simulated between May 2000 and June 2001. In four cases, the heating and air-conditioning system fan was operating. SF6 was injected in the recreation room (basement level), the kitchen= dining room (main level) and the master bedroom (upstairs level). A statistical comparison of measurements and predictions was performed per ASTM D5157 (ASTM 1997) for all cases. Comparisons were made for overall zone average concentrations and individual zone transient concentrations. The results for zone average concentrations were very good with many cases meeting most or all of the D5157 criteria. Several cases showed a poor to fair correlation between average measurements and predictions due to discrepancies with a single zonemdashthe main floor bathroommdashbut excluding that zone resulted in these cases meeting or nearly meeting the D5157 criteria. Comparisons of individual zone transient concentrations were mixed with many good to excellent cases but also numerous fair to poor. Zones other than the bathroom had occasional poor comparisons between predictions and measurements but no consistent discrepancies. The predicted SF6 concentration averaged over all zones and cases was within 10% of the average measured concentration.
Small mammal sampling incidents related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) in natural peri–urban areas

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) has recently shown continuous population increases in many countries, leading to a rise in conflicts with human activities, including habituation to people and urban areas. Wild boar can disrupt the sampling of small mammals by reducing the number of potential captures. In this study we analysed whether sampling incidents recorded within a small mammal monitoring programme (SEMICE, www.semice.org) might be related to the density of wild boar in a network of protected parks. Our results suggested a peri–urban effect that was independent of wild boar densities in the protected parks; the number of damaged traps increased (rendering them inoperable for captures) and potentially resulted in underestimates of small mammals due to fewer functioning traps in the study area. We hypothesised that this high rate of damage to traps in a small and localised area in a peri–urban park could be related to wild boar associating human presence with greater opportunities to obtain food items of anthropogenic origin.
Calibration and Validation of the Dynamic Wake Meandering Model for Implementation in an Aeroelastic Code

As the major part of new wind turbines are installed in clusters or wind farms, there is a strong need for reliable and accurate tools for predicting the increased loadings due to wake operation and the associated reduced power production. The dynamic wake meandering (DWM) model has been developed on this background, and the basic physical mechanisms in the wake-i.e., the velocity deficit, the meandering of the deficit, and the added turbulence—are modeled as simply as possible in order to make fast computations. In the present paper, the DWM model is presented in a version suitable for full integration in an aeroelastic model. Calibration and validation of the different parts of the model is carried out by comparisons with actuator disk and actuator line (ACL) computations as well as with inflow measurements on a full-scale 2 MW turbine. It is shown that the load generating part of the increased turbulence in the wake is due almost exclusively to meandering of the velocity deficit, which causes "apparent" turbulence when measuring the flow in a fixed point in the wake. Added turbulence, originating mainly from breakdown of tip vortices and from the shear of the velocity deficit, has only a minor contribution to the total turbulence and with a small length scale in the range of 10-25% of the ambient turbulence length scale. Comparisons of the calibrated DWM model with ACL results for different downstream positions and ambient turbulence levels show good correlation for both wake deficits and turbulence levels. Finally added turbulence characteristics are compared with correlation results from literature.
Influence of Different Beverages on the Color Stability of Nanocomposite Denture Base Materials

Background The effect of beverages on nanocomposite denture base materials is neglected. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the influence of different beverages (coffee, tea, cola, and mineral water) on the color stability of nanoparticles-modified denture base materials (DBMs). Materials and Methods A total of 280 specimens (n = 10/group) were prepared from heat-polymerized acrylic resin modified with different concentrations (3% and 7%) of zirconium dioxide (nano-ZrO2), titanium dioxide (nano-TiO2), and silicon dioxide (nano-SiO2) nanoparticles, while 0% was taken as a control. Color change (∆E) of the specimens was evaluated after simulating 6-month immersion time in four commonly used beverages, coffee, tea, cola, and mineral water, as experimental groups. Color stability was measured using a spectrophotometer, and then values were converted to National Bureau of Standards units (NBS units). The one-way ANOVA test was applied to compare color change (ΔE) results followed by Bonferroni's post hoc test (α = 0.05). Results The results showed that the heat-polymerized acrylic resin modified with different types of nanoparticles showed lower color changes after being immersed in beverage solutions compared to the unmodified group (P < 0.001), so the color stability of heat-polymerized acrylic resin was significantly enhanced by the addition of several nanoparticles; nano-ZrO2 showed the lowest ΔE followed by nano-TiO2 and then nano-SiO2. Regardless of the filler type, 3% concentration showed lower mean ΔE than 7% concentration. Regarding the beverage solutions, the greatest color change was found in the coffee group followed by tea and cola, while water showed the least changes. Conclusion Modification of heat-polymerized acrylic resin with certain amounts of nano-ZrO2, nano-TiO2, and nano-SiO2 may be useful in improving color stability.
Fourier Transformed Finding Propagation Matrix Method of Characteristics of Complex Anisotropic Layered Media .

A planar structure having arbitrarily located conductor lines immersed in complex anisotropic media presents one with a very general guided wave problem. This problem is solved here by a rigorous formulation technique characterizing each layer by a 6 x 6 tensor and finding the appropriate Fourier transformed Green's function matrix G of 2n x 2n size. From G, a method-of-moments solution for the propagation characteristics follows, including propagation constant eigenvalues and field eigenvectors at all spatial Iocations. The method is very versatile and can handle a huge class of microwave or millimeter-wave integrated circuit or monolithic circuit problems, no matter how simple or complex as long as they possess planar symmetry.
Intelligent Cooperative Collision Avoidance at Overtaking and Lane Changing Maneuver in 6G-V2X Communications

The rapid growth in Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology endeavors increased attention towards road safety in recent days. Particularly, a higher number of road accidents occurs when the AV tries to overtake or change the lane. To cut down the number of accidents and improve traffic reliability, the AV should be capable of making intelligent decisions and communicating those to other AVs. Therefore, in this paper, a Cooperative Collision avoidance scheme for AVs at Overtaking and Lane Changing maneuver (CCAV-OLC) is proposed. The Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) in the CCAV-OLC scheme, processes on the given number of expert demonstrations for automatically acquiring the reward function, and thereby imitating actual human driving strategy and decisions. However, the adaptability of IRL to a high-dimensional AV environment restricts the performance of the CCAV-OLC scheme. To overcome this, the IRL in CCAV-OLC leverages the Gaussian Process (GP) regression model (IRL-GP), which enables data-efficient Bayesian prediction even when the number of demonstrations is very low. After taking intelligent decisions in overtaking and lane changing maneuvers, the AVs cooperatively communicate and exchange the decisions with each other by 6th Generation Vehicle-to-Everything (6G-V2X) communications, which further improves the accuracy and lessens the time taken for making optimal decisions. The experimental results show that the AVs clone the expert's optimal driving strategy and avoid the collisions to a greater extent.
External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus

This work examines the use of reported external points of view (EPVs), with a focus on quotations, in a corpus of UK news coverage of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Forms of external attribution have been shown to be a prominent feature of news discourse (e.g. Juillan, 2011; Semino and Short, 2004) and this has implications for public understanding of health issues. In the case of PrEP, the polarised views found in news coverage (Jaspal and Nerlich, 2017) have implications for the wider support and uptake of the treatment. We report the findings of a corpus-assisted study of quotation, outlining patterns in the prevalence and distribution of quotes across the corpus according to frequently-cited sources and reporting verbs. Drawing on the Appraisal framework (White, 2012), we then provide a closer analysis of three articles covering the same news event to discuss the broader integration of external points of view and the ways in which journalists indicate their dialogistic association with the views they report. We find that forms of speech presentation in quotations are relatively uniform, with journalists favouring — in particular — forms of the reporting verb say , or declining to use a reporting expression at all. This reflects a broader practice in which dialogistic association with quotations is largely unmarked. We find that journalists rely on the content of quotations for inscribed attitude, yet still invoke attitudes towards EPVs through the labelling of their sources, the reporting verbs they use and through the inclusion and positioning of EPVs in the article.
Thoracic surgery in Spain

In this manuscript, we briefly report on the Spanish health care system and the current situation of Thoracic Surgery in the country. Our surgical speciality is approached in terms of national spread of thoracic units, education, technological development, and other relevant aspects. Thoracic Surgery national workforce is also reviewed and compared to sister specialities. Prospects and authors’ recommendations for development are included. Total cost of public health care expenditure in Spain represents 9% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the National Health System is included in the top ten more efficient systems in the World. Thoracic Surgery in Spain is an independent medical speciality. The access to training in accredited hospitals is uniformly regulated all around the country and represents the official and only route to certified medical specialization. 0.5 certified specialists in Thoracic Surgery per 100,000 habitants are working in the country, half of them being female in the age subset of 30–39. Currently, more than half of all anatomical resection in the country are performed via VATS. Seven centres are currently accredited by the Ministry of Health for lung transplantation, and the current rate of lung transplants is 7.1 per million of population. To note is the success of the non-heart-beating donors program developed in recent years. Three national professional and scientific societies are gathering most Spanish thoracic surgeons and promoting cooperative multidisciplinary studies on lung cancer and surgical techniques such are video-assisted and robotic lung resection. Implementing a national database of thoracic surgical procedures would be advisable to promote continuous clinical quality improvements.
Research on OS fingerprinting Method for Real-time Traffic Analysis System

The Internet has become an essential part in our modern life by providing useful information. So, the volume of Internet traffic has been increasing rapidly, which emphasizes the importance of network traffic analysis for effective network operation and management. Signature based analysis have been commonly used, but it is shown that the increase of signatures due to the increase of applications causes the performance degradation of real-time traffic analysis on high-speed network links. In this paper, we propose OS fingerprinting method for real-time traffic analysis. The previous problems can be solved by utilizing the OS information. The OS fingerprinting method for real-time traffic analysis, proposed in this paper, conducts under passive mode, and improves the limitation of a previous method such as low completeness and accuracy. In this paper, we enlarged an input data to improve completeness, and used the User-Agent field in HTTP packet to extract various OS signatures. Also, we changed an input data from packet to flow to improve accuracy.
Embedded Water-based Surface Heating Part 1: Hybrid 3D Numerical Model

A numerical simulation tool that assesses the transient operation of embedded water based surface heating systems is developed. Embedded surface heating systems and especially floor heating systems are, by far, the most common heat supply system in newly built residential buildings in, for example, Scandinavia and central Europe. The thermal system operation is influenced by the transient interaction between embedded elements, zones, construction elements, systems, gains, and weather. Thus, an integrated modeling principle, based on the International Building Physics Toolbox in Simulink©, is applied where the embedded surface heating model is represented by a module. The integrated tool is suitable for thermal system analysis of whole buildings. In particular, the embedded surface heating model simultaneously calculates the transient heat conduction that occurs within the embedded element, based on the finite control volume method, and the fluid temperature decline based on a local quasi steady state assumption. The numerical model, which represents a section plane of the embedded construction, is verified against a commercial 2D heat transfer software in the case of a typical floor heating application.
Verification of Hybrid Structural Test Technique by Shaking Table Test of a Linear 2-Dimensional Frame Model

This paper deals with the hybrid structural test technique which has been introduced and studied currently in Korea. In this study, a Mini-MOST system which was developed as a part of NEES research was modified and improved to reduce the total simulation time to half of the original system. Using the proposed system together with the 2 dimensional small steel frame specimen, the validity and efficiency of the hybrid test technique is investigated. Even though the hybrid test has been developed as an alternative to the shaking table test and has been studied and applied for a long time in several countries, no attempt has been made to compare it directly with the shaking table test. Therefore, in this study, the hybrid test results are compared with those of the shaking table test as well as with a numerical simulation for the verification of hybrid test. From the comparison and analysis of the test results, it is concluded that the hybrid test can simulate the actual seismic behavior of structural systems very accurately and it can be a good alternative to the shaking table test.
Micromachined e-plane filter for w-band operation

In this paper we describe the realization and electrical performance of a micromachined E-plane filter for operation at a central frequency of 90 GHz. The micro-machining technique employed here for the filter fabrication is based on the use of an ultra-thick photoresist, the EPON SU-8, which gives precise control of 2D and 3D structures at the 1-100 micrometers level. In the work described her, the E-plane ladder was micromachined and mounted in a conventional metal waveguide for electrical characterization purposes. The results show that the performance of the micromachined filter is comparable to its metal counterpart, with the additional advantages of a much lighter structure, greater ease of fabrication and at lower cost.
Model of Blast Furnace Hearth Drainage

The hearth plays an important role in the operation of the ironmaking blast furnace (BF). A simplified simulation model of the hearth based on the general principles of liquid drainage has been extended to make the model more practical and comprehensive. The tap rates of the liquids are determined by production and taphole conditions, including taphole diameter and length, and the tap‐end conditions are iteratively calculated to yield a quasi‐stationary tap cycle. The model, which considers both a sitting and a (partially) floating dead man, is illustrated with the use of a set of examples, where the effect of variables on the drainage behavior is studied. The model is finally validated by applying it to short‐term data from an industrial BF.