Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Design for product and service innovation in industry 4.0 in emerging smart society

Within the context of the increasing digitalisation and intertwining cyber and physical dimensions connected by Internet, the paper aims at contributing towards understanding and conceptualising extent and scope of design integration for smart production and services and value generation for smart society including enterprises, customers and end-users. Research on design integration within the industry 4.0 or “internet of things” phenomena from strategic management perspective is still marginalised. Concepts from strategic and innovation management as well as open innovation including design and industry 4.0 perceptions are linked to propose a practice-oriented design integration approach for business practices in developing and exploiting new products or services in industry 4.0 context. The paper proposes conceptual approach to design integration and implementation within product or process development processes leading towards valuable innovations on corporate and societal level. It exemplifies how smart digitalisation and new enabling technologies might generate innovations driven by design as a tool and process. Design’s role is demonstrated by intertwining dimensions of information, knowledge, technology, communication and society with different players and stakeholders, who share production or service inputs and outputs between different stakeholders in an open, distributed and co-existing way at different spatial and temporal scale.
Physical activity as a health factor modifying heart rate variability (HRV)

2], share of LF and HF power [n.u], LF/HF indicator and time analysis factors: RR [ms], HR [1/min], RMSSD [ms]. Results: Statistically significant differences appeared only in the selected time analysis factors (RR, HR), between the group of the training and nontraining persons. Other differences in the evaluated parameters were not statistically significant. Conclusions: Physical activity influences on the HRV growth. HRV measurement may serve for the control of the changes taking place in the AUN under the influence of the physical activity. Новосельска-Свадьба Данута, Зволинска Данута, Ендрисек Марек, Подставки Роберт. Физическая активность как фактор модификатора здоровья вариабельности сердечного ритма (ВСР). Цель: оценка отдельных показателей ВСР в течение двух периодов обучения тренирующихся волейболистов и неподготовленной молодежи. Материал и методы: В исследовании приняли участие 8 ведущих волейболистов в возрасте 20-23 года и 13 необученных лиц в возрасте 19-26 лет. Обследование тренирующихся спортсменов проводилось дважды в начале эксперимента и в конце. С неподготовленной молодежью испытание проводилось один раз. Оценены избранные показатели спектрального анализа: TP [ms2], доля мощности LF и HF [n.u], показатель LF/HF и временные показатели анализа: RR [ms], HR [1/ min], RMSSD [ms]. Результаты: статистически значимые различия наблюдались только в выбранных показателях временного анализа (RR, HR), между группой игроков и нетренирующейся молодежи. Другие различия в исследуемых параметрах не были статистически значимыми. Выводы: Физическая активность влияет на рост ВСР. Измерение ВСР может быть использовано для контроля изменений в вегетативной нервной системе под влиянием физической активности. Новосельска-Свадьба Данута, Зволинска Данута, Ендрисек Марек, Подставки Роберт Фізична активність як фактор модифікатора здоров’я варіабельності серцевого ритму (ВСР). Мета: оцінка окремих показників ВСР протягом двох періодів навчання волейболістів, що тренуються і непідготовленої молоді. Матеріал і методи: У дослідженні взяли участь 8 провідних волейболістів віком 20-23 роки та 13 ненавчених осіб віком 19-26 років. Обстеження спортсменів, що тренуються проводилося двічі на початку експерименту і в кінці. З непідготовленою молоддю випробування проводилося один раз. Оцінено обрані показники спектрального аналізу: TP [ms2], частка потужності LF і HF [nu], показник LF / HF і тимчасові показники аналізу: RR [ms], HR [1 / min], RMSSD [ms]. Результати: статистично значущі відмінності спостерігалися тільки в обраних показниках часового аналізу (RR, HR), між групою гравців і нетренованої молоді. Інші відмінності в досліджуваних параметрах були статистично значущими. Висновки: Фізична активність впливає на зростання ВСР. Вимірювання ВСР може бути використано для контролю змін в вегетативноій нервовій системі під впливом фізичної активності.
Physio-chemical characteristics and bacterial diversity in copper mining wastewater based on 16S rRNA gene analysis

The effects of seasonal change in temperature on the chemical compositions of water and bacterial diversity in copper mining wastewater reservoir (CMWR) located in Jiangxi province, China, was investigated. Wastewater samples were collected collected in December 2008 and May 2009 from different points of CMWR and analyzed for anions, heavy metals, and microbial community structure using standard procedures. Most of the parameters exceeded the limits set by the Chinese government. However, the concentrations of some selected parameters such as pH, BOD, DO, and DOC and heavy metals were significantly (P=0.05) varied and exhibited a reduction from the inlet to the outlet of CMWR. Bacterial diversity was studied by the combined polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) and cloning approach. The PCR-DGGE profiles showed the presence of 10 common bands in the seasonal samples of the reservoir indicating the high similarities among the bacterial populations existing during the two seasons. Furthermore, the DGGE profiles also evidenced the existence of some unique bands suggesting that the differences in bacterial diversity may be caused by the different environmental conditions. 22 major bands from the DGGE profiles were further reamplified, cloned, and sequenced. The results of sequencing analysis indicated the presence of Rheinheimera sp. , Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans , Afipia sp. and Burkholderia sp. as the dominant bacterial species in the CMWR samples. The Afipia sp. and Burkholderia sp. were found in summer samples only while most of the other species were common in both the seasons. Finally, the Copper mine wastewater was deficient in nutrients but enriched with the bacterial diversity of the extremophiles. Keywords : Copper mining, heavy metals, bacterial diversity, polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE), 16S rRNA
Production and progress work of plates for pipes with strength level of X80 and above

The paper has compiled the actual status for grades X80 and X100 from a point of view of a plate manufacturer. An outlook for a possible extension of feasibility and further development is also given. It can be summarized: 1) plates for gas transporting pipes with strength level of grade X80 are nowadays available up to 25.4 mm and can be produced with the same reliability and reproducibility as lower grades; 2) extension of grade X80 to higher plate thickness even in combination with very low design temperature is practicable; 3) during development stages of grade X100 different approaches has been applied. The current preferred approach to produce plates for pipes with design temperature of 0 °C makes use of a low carbon content in combination with a medium carbon equivalent. So called HACCII process is applied to produce these plates. Plates in thickness up to 20 mm for pipe diameter up to 36 11 (~914 mm) have been produced with adequate properties; 4) further development is required and started to extent grade X100 to higher thickness, higher pipe diameter and lower design temperatures.
Study of thermoelastic growth during martensitic transformations

The possibility of local elastic instabilities is considered in a first‐order structural phase transition, typically a thermoelastic martensitic transformation, with associated interfacial and volumic strain energy. They appear, for instance, as the result of shape change accommodation by simultaneous growth of different crystallographic variants. The treatment is phenomenological and deals with growth in both thermoelastic equilibrium and in nonequilibrium conditions produced by the elastic instability. Scaling of the transformed fraction curves against temperature is predicted only in the case of purely thermoelastic growth. The role of the transformation latent heat on the relaxation kinetics is also considered, and it is shown that it tends to increase the characteristic relaxation times as adiabatic conditions are approached, by keeping the system closer to a constant temperature. The analysis also reveals that the energy dissipated in the relaxation process has a double origin: release of elastic en.
Permutation methods for testing the significance of phosphorylation motifs

Phosphorylation motifs represent common patterns around the phosphorylation site. As the discovery of such kinds of motifs reveals the underlying regulation mechanism and facilitates the prediction of unknown phosphorylation events, some phosphorylation motif discovery methods are proposed. Existing methods include Motif-X, MoDL, and Motif-All. Each of these methods can find a certain number of motifs, however, there are still no theoretically guided measures to select true phosphorylation motifs from false ones. Since it is very expensive and time-consuming to perform the biological validation on all reported motifs, the use of effective statistical methods as a preliminary filter to remove non-significant motifs is actually needed. To solve this problem, we use permutation to calculate p-values of identified motifs and thus their statistical significance can be assessed accurately. We suggest to utilize three permutation methods: the Standard Permutation (SP), the Adaptive Marginal Effect Permutation (AMEP) and the Modified Adaptive Marginal Effect Permutation (MAMEP). We conduct comprehensive experimental studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods. Experimental results on real data and simulation studies show that all permutation methods are capable of removing potential false positives. Particularly, both AMEP and MAMEP are of practical use and can satisfy different requirements of biological researchers.
A 12b 100 MS/s Three-Step Hybrid Pipeline ADC Based on Time-Interleaved SAR ADCs

This work proposes a 12b 100 MS/s 0.11 ￻m CMOS three-step hybrid pipeline ADC for high- speed communication and mobile display systems requiring high resolution, low power, and small size. The first stage based on time-interleaved dual- channel SAR ADCs properly handles the Nyquist-rate input without a dedicated SHA. An input sampling clock for each SAR ADC is synchronized to a reference clock to minimize a sampling-time mismatch between the channels. Only one residue amplifier is employed and shared in the proposed ADC for the first-stage SAR ADCs as well as the MDAC of back-end pipeline stages. The shared amplifier, in particular, reduces performance degradation caused by offset and gain mismatches between two channels of the SAR ADCs. Two separate reference voltages relieve a reference disturbance due to the different operating frequencies of the front-end SAR ADCs and the back-end pipeline stages. The prototype ADC in a 0.11 ￻m CMOS shows the measured DNL and INL within 0.38 LSB and 1.21 LSB, respectively. The ADC occupies an active die area of 1.34 mm 2 and consumes 25.3 mW with a maximum SNDR and SFDR of 60.2 dB and 69.5 dB, respectively, at 1.1 V and 100 MS/s.
Effect of Salts on the Thermal Stability of Physically Crosslinked Gelatin Hydrogels

The effects of preparation conditions, such as polymer concentration, annealing temperature, annealing time and pH, on the melting behavior of gelatin gels were investigated. An optimum condition of gel preparation for calorimetric test is obtained. In addition, the influence of salt including salt concentration and salt type on the melting behavior of gelatin gels was explored by DSC and rheometer. It was found that the melting temperature first increased and then decreased with an increase in salt concentration. This result indicates that electrostatic interactions are important for the formation and stability of gelatin gels. Moreover, the melting temperature of polymer gels with different salt addition conforms to the following orders: Na<Ca<Cr. The different trend observed in respect of the storage modulus indicated that the triple helices dominated the gelatin gel strength, and the binding mechanism of Ca may be different from that of Cr.
A calcium dependent protein kinase involves H2O2 mediated guard cell signaling in Arabidopsis.

Drought is a major threat for plant growth and productivity. Plants lose over 90% of water by transpiration through stomatal pores. The cytosolic free Ca2+ elevated in guard cells in response to stress stimuli triggers stomatal closure. The plant-specific calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) play important roles in regulating downstream components of calcium signaling. In this study the biological function of Arabidopsis calcium dependent protein kinase, CPK8, in response to ABA signaling in guard cells was characterized. The plants of TDNA insertion mutant of cpk8 were more sensitive to drought stress than wild-type plants. The GUS staining studies confirmed that CPK8 expressed in leaves, specifically in guard cells. RT-PCR analysis showed that CPK8 expression was induced in response to drought stress. Further, pre-opened cpk8 stomata failed to close in response to H2O2 and Ca2+, which is consistent with the inability of cpk8 plants to reduce water loss upon drought. The drought susceptibility and stomatal impairment in response to H2O2 and Ca2+ of the cpk8 implicated that CPK8 plays a role in cellular environment in the control of H2O2 homeostasis and also as a compulsory molecule in the transduction of H2O2 signal in guard cells in response to drought stress. Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension 16(1): 2013: page 7-14
Interpreting Stationary Wave Nonlinearity in Barotropic Dynamics

Stationary wave nonlinearity describes the self-interaction of stationary waves and is important in maintaining the zonally asymmetric atmospheric general circulation. However, the dynamics of stationary wave nonlinearity, which is often calculated explicitly in stationary wave models, is not well understood. Stationary wave nonlinearity is examined here in the simplified setting of the response to localized topographic forcing in quasigeostrophic barotropic dynamics in the presence and absence of transient eddies. It is shown that stationary wave nonlinearity accounts for most of the difference between the linear and full nonlinear response, particularly if the adjustment of the zonal-mean flow to the stationary waves is taken into account. The separate impact of transient eddy forcing is also quantified. Wave activity analysis shows that stationary wave nonlinearity in this setting is associated with Rossby wave critical layer reflection. A nonlinear stationary wave model, similar to those used in baroclinic stationary wave model studies, is also tested and is shown to capture the basic features of the full nonlinear stationary wave solution.
Interactive comment on “ Tracer study to estimate the transport of cruise altitude aviation emissions in Northern Hemisphere

Comment: The paper discusses the dispersion of emissions of aviation from cruise altitudes in the Northern Hemisphere atmosphere. The paper considers the emissions as given in a data set as provided by FAA and Volpe for the ACCRI project [Wilkerson et al., 2010; Brasseur et al., 2016]. The emissions are treated as passive tracers, without any removal process in the atmosphere. The emission are followed over several seasons (3 months periods), starting from zero initial concentrations. The model considers tracer transport by advection with the resolved wind field of a hemispheric global model and by diffusion from a convective mechanism. I do not know this model and information is given in this paper about this model only in terms of a few references and some resolution information.
A New Method for Hierarchical Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks by Considering the Packet Deadline

Wireless sensor network is one of the most important technologies of the twenty-first century is well known. Sensor networks is the accumulation of a large number of sensor nodes scattered in the environment are treated with wireless communications. The main goal of this network is a network of sensors to collect information about the environment. One of the challenges in sensor networks, routing and transmission of data in networks, which is of high importance, So having a good routing algorithm can help to improve network performance. In this paper, a new method based on a hierarchical structure (clustering) is introduced in terms of three factors that are considered in the route selection discussion: Interference, energy consumption and deadline. In routing, when a packet is to be sent, the cluster heads depending on the stipulated time sends it. The packet which has less deadline will be sent earlier. The packet will be sent to the sink in one hop or multi-hop manner according to its deadline. If cluster head sends the packet in multi-hop manner, the next cluster head should be selected with these features: Less interference, more energy and less distance to sink. Re clustering together on the same timeline is a learning mode when clustering is done to improve the conditions of packet loss. By applying this algorithm significantly improves the energy consumption and number of lost packets. The proposed algorithm is examined and the results are compared with LEACH which is a hierarchy based method. The results illustrate that the proposed method in comparison whit LEACH has better results in terms of network lifetime, number of lost packets, energy consumption and end-to-end delay.
Numerical Inversion Technique for the One and Two-Dimensional L2-Transform Using the Fourier Series and Its Application to Fractional Partial Differential Equations

In this paper, we use a computational algorithm for the inversion of the one and two-dimensional L2-transform based on the Bromwich's integral and the Fourier series. The new inversion formula can evaluate the inverse of the L2-transform with considerable accuracy over a wide range of values of the independent variable and can be devised for the functions which are not Laplace transformable and have damping motion in small interval near origin.
CARRIER TRANSPORT MECHANISM OF CdSe x S 1-x /Si HETEROJUNCTION

n-type CdSexS1-x thin films of 500nm thickness with various Se content (0, 0.4, 0.8 ,& 1) were deposited on monocrystalline p-type Si (111) substrate at room temperature with rate equals to 9.25 A/sec by thermal evaporation technique. The effect of compound concentration (Se content) on the electrical properties of CdSexS1-x/Si heterostructure diodes was studied. The capacitance- voltage characteristic at frequency equal to 1 MHz revealed that these diodes are abrupt type, and the capacitance increases with increase Se content, while the width of depletion layer decreases. The current-voltage measurement for CdSexS1-x/Si diodes shows that the forward current at dark condition varies approximately exponentially with applied voltage and the mechanism of transport current coincide with diffusion- tunneling model. The ideality factor decreases , while the tunneling constant increases with increasing Se content. The I-V measurements under illumination shows that the photocurrent increases with increasing Se content.
THE IMPACT OF AGE ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

In the last thirty years the link between firm age and performance has fascinated a lot of scholars. In fact, since 1990 there has been a major attention on management studies on this topic. But the debate on this theme have produced mixed results, which resulted in extensive economics discussion, albeit without a systemic vision. The firm age literature has not yet developed a paradigm. Starting to a simple question: “age benefits performance? ”, the purpose of this paper is to present a systematic review of the existing literature. The critical examination of the relation between firm age and performance provides new insights for executives.
Characterization of Bacteriocins Produced by Lactobacillus brevis NM 24 and L.fermentum NM 332 Isolated from Green Olives in Iran

The aim of the study was to isolate and characterize bacteriocin producing Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) from local olive samples and to exploit their potential as biopreservative. The two lactobacillus strains namely L.brevis NM 24 and L.fermentum NM 332, exhibiting wide spectrum of activity against closely related strain were selected and screened for their bacteriocin producing ability. Cell free supernatant fluid collected from both the isolates was sensitive to the action to proteolytic enzymes, and complete loss of their antagonistic activity was seen. Several gram positive and gram negative pathogens such as Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus were inhibited by the inhibitory action of bacteriocins in study. The bacteriocinogenic potential in these strains appeared non-inducible and no increase in their titer was observed after exposure to different concentrations of Mitomycin C and UV light.The concentrated crude bacteriocin samples subjected to ammonium sulphate precipitation resulted in an increased activity and high protein yield. During ultrafiltration studies, bacteriocin NM 332 produced by L.fermentum NM 332, was able to pass through the cellulose membranes with 10 KDa and 30KDa molecular weight cut off indicating the presence of a small protein molecule. By non-denaturing gel a band of approximately 8 KDa for L.fermentum NM 332 and band corresponding to 37 KDa in L.brevis NM 24 was seen. Physicochemical characterization of the partially purified bacteriocin samples indicated heat (121°C for 60 min) and acidic pH stability (pH 2-6) of bacteriocin NM 24. Exposure to surfactants resulted in a significant increase in the bacteriocin titer of both the strains, except for Tween 20 which resulted in complete loss of activity. None of the strains showed presence of plasmids indicating chromosomal associated genes responsible for bacteriocin production. The bactericidal activity displayed by the bacteriocins in study was maintained during storage at -20 °C for more than three years.
Feeding by a larval fish community: impact on zooplankton

We studied patterns in the diurnal fluctuations in gut fullness in 11 species of larval fish in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. From these data and empirical information on prey selection, we estimated the daily consumption rate of microzooplankton by the entire larval fish com- munity for the period May to September in 1985 and 1986. In general, <0.1% of the available prey were consumed by larval fish per day, which is considerably less than the P/B ratio typical for tem- perate copepods found in this region. We conclude that larval fish are unlikely to exert significant grazing pressure on their prey and that density-dependent growth is unlikely to occur during this phase of the life cycle in fish species that use coastal Newfoundland waters as spawning or nursery areas.