Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The influence of a supplier development program on supply chain performance: a mixed methods case study in Finnish forest industry

Author: Jenni Kahri Title: The influence of a supplier development program on supply chain performance: a mixed methods case study in Finnish forest industry Faculty: School of Business and Management Major: Supply Management Year: 2018 Master’s Thesis: Lappeenranta University of Technology 76 pages, 22 figures, 11 tables, 4 equations ja 5 appendices Examiners: Professor Jukka Hallikas D.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) Jyri Vilko
ACCELERATE TERRAIN RENDERING USING PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE

Multiresolution representations are often used in terrain rendering systems to increase system performance. To avoid popping effects, these systems usually utilize geomorphing technique, which may be presented as the bottleneck of the system. With the recent advance of graphics hardware, that is, the programmability, we try to decrease the CPU load by shifting the geomorphing from CPU to GPU. But this doubles the data amount that needs to be transferred through graphics bus. By carefully organizing terrain data in compact format, we can reduce the data amount to about 40% of the original. These techniques help us to accelerate the rendering process about 30% to 100%, compared with standard OpenGL implementation.
Big data technology: developments in current research and emerging landscape

ABSTRACT In this study, big data studies (01/2015–6/2018) are reviewed and several highly cited papers are identified, which indicates a growing interest in the area of big data. The papers and proceedings from international peer-reviewed journals and ranked conferences were reviewed. We employed Principal component analysis and citation and co-citation analysis to identify themes of research emanating from these studies. Citation and co-citation analysis reveals that there is cross-functional nature of big data research, which permeates different business sectors and is influenced by themes in engineering and information management.
Magnetohydrodynamic flow of molybdenum disulfide nanofluid in a channel with shape effects

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the combined effects of thermal radiation and magnetic field of molybdenum disulfide nanofluid in a channel with changing walls. Water is considered as a Newtonian fluid and treated as a base fluid and MoS2 as nanoparticles with different shapes (spherical, cylindrical and laminar). The main structures of partial differential equations are taken in the form of continuity, momentum and energy equations. Design/methodology/approach The governing partial differential equations are converted into a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by applying a suitable similarity transformation and then solved numerically via a three-stage Lobatto III-A formula. Findings All obtained unknown functions are discussed in detail after plotting the numerical results against different arising physical parameters. The validations of numerical results have been taken into account with other works reported in literature and are found to be in an excellent agreement. The study reveals that the Nusselt number increases by increasing the solid volume fraction for different shapes of nanoparticles, and an increase in the values of wall expansion ratio α increases the velocity profile f′(η) from lower wall to the center of the channel and decreases afterwards. Originality/value In this paper, a numerical method was utilized to investigate the influence of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles shapes on MHD flow of nanofluid in a channel. The validity of the literature review cited above ensures that the current study has never been reported before and it is quite new; therefore, in case of validity of the results, a three-stage Lobattoo III-A formula is implemented in Matlab 15 by built in routine “bvp4c,” and it is found to be in an excellent agreement with the literature published before.
IMPROVING FAIRNESS IN AD HOC NETWORKS BASED ON NEIGHBOURS TRANSMISSION RATE

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks face great challenges due to the absence of an infrastructure to manage the network, an access to a single channel by multiple nodes, interference and the limited transmission range by the wireless media. Therefore, achieving fairness in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks is a difficult task. This paper discusses a specific Mobile Ad Hoc Network topology which leads to unfair bandwidth distribution and proposes a novel Neighbouring Transmission Rate Control (NTRC) algorithm, based on monitoring the transmission speed of the neighbouring nodes, which aims to optimise network fairness through identifying and helping starving nodes to increase their transmission rates. The proposed method is tested in a simulation environment and, according to the results; it provides a balanced distribution of network resources amongst the competing nodes. The proposed algorithm achieves 99% fairness according to Jain’s fairness equation as opposed to 33% for the standard MAC protocol.
Agricultural Risk Pricing in Senegal

The purpose of this article is to determine the pure premium to be paid by the Senegalese farmer insured at conventional risks. Using the general linear model (GLM), the frequency and severity of different types of risks to farmers were determined. They depend positively on the type of risk and the parameters of the estimated models are all significant. We have shown that the health risks, locusts (wild locusts), wild animals and ducks have higher claims than climatic events (rainfall deficit, floods). Health risks, floods and rainfall deficits are extreme phenomena whose probability of achievement is low. This explains the low premiums of these risks. For better pricing, the insurance company will need to consider the type of risk to which each insured is most exposed and determine the corresponding premium. This segmentation will determine the correct premium.
Do cognitive and affective expressions matter in purchase conversion? A live chat perspective

Live chat, which is embedded in some shopping websites, allows a retailer to communicate with its shoppers directly and respond to their inquiries promptly. We extended the Speech Act Theory (SAT) to this context by developing the Dialog Conversion Model (DCM) that elucidates the characteristics of online dialog between shoppers and retailers. We validated the DCM using quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative analyses of 1,185 communication sessions and related purchase records reflect that shoppers' cognitive, rather than affective, expressions tend to indicate their purchase intentions, and retailers should emphasize cognitive expressions to the extent possible while being strategic in their choice of expressions. Furthermore, the affective expressions (in positive and negative forms) articulated by retailers have a considerable influence on purchase conversion. However, the same is not true for shoppers. Post‐hoc interviews were conducted with shoppers to gain additional insights.
Mining Educational Data to Analyze the Student Motivation Behavior

— The purpose of this research aims to discover the knowledge for analysis student motivation behavior on e-Learning based on Data Mining Techniques, in case of the Information Technology for Communication and Learning Course at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. The data mining techniques was applied in this research including association rules, classification techniques. The results showed that using data mining technique can indicate the important variables that influence the student motivation behavior on e-Learning.
Microbial Community Response to Fumigation in Potato Soils

Microbial Community Response to Fumigation in Potato Soils Trevor Blake Smart Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, BYU Master of Science Soil microorganisms have a variety of beneficial and deleterious effects on plants, impacting such processes as plant growth, soil nutrient cycling, crop yield, disease resistance and tolerance to an array of biotic and abiotic stressors. The disruption of soil microbial community structures, particularly when beneficial soil biota are altered, has been shown to reduce crop yield and leave plants susceptible to disease. Long-term disruption of microbial communities may occur with repeated fumigation, being the application of gaseous pesticides, in agricultural soils. For this reason, we characterized bacterial, fungal, oomycete and nematode populations in paired fumigated and nonfumigated potato fields located in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Minnesota. Samples were taken at three distinct timepoints: one before a fall fumigation event and two others at important stages in potato production, row closure and vine death. Soil biota populations were assessed by targeting the 16S, 18S and ITS1 gene regions. FunGuild, a database capable of guild and trophic assignment of fungal lineages, was used to sort fungal OTUs in different trophic modes. Fungal analyses indicated an increase in relative abundances of saprotrophic fungal populations and a decrease in pathotrophic fungal populations, both during row closure. Principally, the fungal genera of Humicola and Mortierella were responsible for the increase of saprotrophs while Alternaria decreased the most for pathotrophs. Other fungi occupying multiple trophic modes, such as Fusarium, also decreased during row closure. We found that fumigation treatments, in combination with various pesticide and fertilizer applications, alter both alphaand betabacterial soil diversity although certain treatments, i.e. chloropicrin, may alter bacterial populations more than other treatment types such as metamsodium. Nematode populations were likewise distinct at each location with soils from Boardman, OR, Minidoka, ID and Pine Point, MN with these having higher levels of nematodes associated with better soil health, i.e. Dorylaimidae. Conversely, nematodes associated with plant pathogenesis were found in higher relative abundances at Minidoka, ID and Quincy, WA. In this study, we characterize the populations of bacteria, fungi, oomycetes and nematodes with an emphasis on fungal taxa. We found that relative abundances of fungal trophic modes vary temporally. Additionally, we catalogue several other high abundance taxa with seasonal differential abundances whose functional capacity in potatoes remain uncharacterized.
Genetic progress, adaptability and stability of maize cultivars for value of cultivation and use trials

Maize breeding programs conduct multi-environment trials every year to assess the performance of new cultivars in pre-releasing tests. The data are combined across sites and seasons to perform a joint analysis in order to obtain information that will help breeders to select the best cultivars for different environments. Beyond this, it is essential to understand the different factors that can hamper the selection and genetic progress (i.e., genetic variability, selection intensity and genotype-by-environment interactions). In this study, the genetic progress (GP) was estimated and the adaptability and stability of 81 maize genotypes were evaluated in a series of trials for the value of cultivation and use (VCU) between the 2010/11 and 2014/15 growing seasons. The genotypes were composed of open-pollinated varieties, topcross hybrids, intervarietal hybrids, and single, double and three-way cross hybrids and were assessed in 117 environments in the central region of Brazil, from which 22 presented environmental stresses. For grain yield, an annual GP of 331.5 kg ha-1 was observed, thus showing efficiency in the selection of superior cultivars. Additionally, it was observed that some low-cost seed cultivars showed yield potential, adaptability and stability estimates that were compatible with commercial hybrids, thus making them quite attractive for cultivation in environments with or without abiotic stresses.
Operational experience with the CMS pixel detector

In the first LHC running period the CMS pixel detector had to face various operational challenges and had to adapt to the rapidly changing beam conditions. In order to maximize the physics potential and the quality of the data, online and offline calibrations were performed on a regular basis. The detector performed excellently with an average hit efficiency above 99% for all layers and disks. In this contribution the operational challenges of the silicon pixel detector in the first LHC run and the current long shutdown are summarized and the expectations for 2015 are discussed.
Bacteria from four phylogroups of thePseudomonas syringaecomplex can cause bacterial canker of apricot

Pseudomonas syringae is described as a species complex, containing P. syringae-related species classified into 13 phylogroups and 23 clades. P. syringae is one of the main pathogens of fruit trees, affecting nut trees, hazelnut and kiwi, pome and stone fruits. Bacterial canker of apricots is an important disease in regions of production with cold winters and conducive soils. In this work, we characterized the bacteria able to induce canker in apricots isolated in different French orchards. Bacteria from four phylogroups were able to induce canker. The pathogenicity to apricot was not linked to the pathogenicity to the three herbaceous species and cherry fruits tested, and was not always related to V er si on p os tp rin t Comment citer ce document : Parisi, L. (Auteur de correspondance), Morgaint, B. , Blanco Garcia, J., Guilbaud, C. , Chandeysson, C. , Bourgeay, J.-F. , Moronvalle, A. , Brun, L. , Brachet, M. L. , Morris, C. E. (2019). Bacteria from four phylogroups of the Pseudomonas syringae complex can cause bacterial canker of apricot. Plant Pathology, 68 (7), 1249–1258. , DOI : 10.1111/ppa.13051 A cc ep te d A rt ic le A cc ep te d A rt ic le This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. hypersensitive reaction on tobacco and ice nucleation activity. Bacteria pathogenic to apricot belong to phylogroups 01, 02, 03 and 07. The bacteria of phylogroups 01a and 07a (P. viridiflava) characterized in this work were not described previously as pathogenic to apricot.
Investigating the Wnt/β-catenin Pathway in Conventional Dendritic cells in Obesity-Induced Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance

5 List of Tables . 11 List of Figures . 12 Abbreviations . 15 Introduction . 21 1.1 Obesity . 21 1.1.1 Aetiology . 21 1.1.2 Pathophysiology . 22 1.1.3 Metabolic syndrome . 23 1.2 Type 2 diabetes mellitus . 24 1.2. 1 Glucose homeostasis . 25 1.2. 2 Insulin resistance . 26 1.2. 3 β-cell dysfunction . 27 1.2. 4 Other pathophysiological mechanisms . 29 1.2. 5 Treatment . 29 1.3 Adipose tissue . 31 1.3. 1 Adipokines . 31 1.3. 2 Adipose tissue homeostasis . 33 1.3. 3 Adipose tissue dysfunction . 34 1.4 Immune cells in adipose tissue . 35 1.4. 1 Myeloid immune populations . 36 1.4. 2 Lymphoid immune populations . 38 1.4. 3 Fat-associated lymphoid clusters . 40 1.5 Dendritic cells . 40 1.5. 1 Function of dendritic cells . 40
Inversion-Based Time-Domain Inverse $Q$ -Filtering for Seismic Resolution Enhancement

Seismic wave will suffer from resolution loss during its propagation in subsurface media, which is caused by the earth filtering effect. Inverse Q-filtering (IQF) is an essential scheme for eliminating earth filtering effect and enhancing temporal resolution. In this letter, IQF is achieved by solving a time-domain inverse problem whose corresponding forward model is established based on the idea of seismic migration, i.e., extrapolating the unfiltered record (the detected signal if there is no earth filtering effect) from surface downward to each time–depth point and then adopting imaging condition to obtain the attenuated record. We express this migration-based forward model as a matrix-vector equation and construct the objective function of inversion-based time-domain IQF (ITIQF). Instead of adopting frequency-domain incomplete amplitude compensation operator for the purpose of antinoise, we propose three transform-domain sparse regularization strategies, including wavelet-based constraint, curvelet-based constraint, and double constraint (a combination of wavelet- and curvelet-based constraints). Solvers of these constrained ITIQF methods are provided according to convex optimization theory. We demonstrate the superior performance of ITIQF scheme via both synthetic and field data examples.
STREAM FISH IN THE ARIPUANÃ RIVER UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE DARDANELOS-ANDORINHAS WATERFALL COMPLEX, STATE OF MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL

The Aripuana River basin is part of one of the most biodiverse hydrographic basins on the planet; however, the lack of information on fish diversity in the basin is notable, particularly upstream to the Dardanelos and Andorinhas waterfalls complex. For this study, we sampled 50 m stretches of 71 streams in the Aripuana River basin, upstream and downstream of the Dardanelos and Andorinhas waterfalls complex. Sampling occurred in the drought period in 2013 and 2014. A total of 11,334 specimens were capture, belonging to five orders, 21 families and 80 species. Among the 80 species, 71 were caught in the downstream and 45 in the upstream region. Overall, there were 36 species in both upstream and downstream samples, 35 exclusive to the downstream segment, and nine were restricted to the upstream region. Despite the low levels of current knowledge, at least 15 endemic fish species could be present in the Aripuana River basin, and four from these 15 species were sampled in this study. Dardanelos and Andorinhas waterfalls complex are important barriers and we found significant differences in fish assemblage between upstream and downstream regions.
Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum) Control in Corn (Zea mays) by Postemergence-Directed Herbicides

Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L. # PANMI) was controlled in corn (Zea mays L. ‘Pioneer 3747’) with postemergence-directed herbicides applied following a standard preplant-incorporated application of butylate [S-ethylbis(2-methylpropyl)carbamothioate] plus dichlormid (2,2-dichloro-N,N-di-2-propenylacetamide) plus cyanazine {2-[[4-chloro-6-(ethylamino)-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2-methylpropanenitrile}. Postemergence-directed applications of ametryn [N-ethyl-N′-(1-methylethyl)-6-(methylthio)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine], cloproxydim {(E,E)-2-[1-[[(3-chloro-2-propenyl)oxy]imino]butyl]-5-[2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one}, butyl ester of fluazifop {(±)-2-[4-[[5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinyl]oxy]phenoxy] propanoic acid}, butyl ester of fluazifop-p {(R)-2-[4-[[5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinyl]oxy]phenoxy] propanoic acid}, glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine], methyl ester of haloxyfop {2-[4-[[3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinyl]oxy]phenoxy]propanoic acid}, and sethoxydim {2-[1-(ethoxyimino)butyl]-5-[2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one} in 40-cm-tall corn gave greater than 90% control of 5- to 15-cm-tall proso millet while causing little or no corn injury at selected rates. Season-long proso millet control was obtained with sethoxydim at rates as low as 56 g ai/ha with no visible corn injury. Unacceptable injury to 40-cm-tall corn occurred with all but the lowest rate of sethoxydim (56 g ai/ha) when a crop oil concentrate was used. Sethoxydim applied as a directed spray at rates up to 110 g ai/ha plus 1.25% (v/v) crop oil concentrate did not injure 60-cm-tall corn.
The Queer Temporality of CandidaHomo Biotechnocultures

ABSTRACT This article weaves together microsocial interactions, evolutionary theories of community and queer understandings of family, kinship and intimacy to grasp some of the complex microbiopolitics of the CandidaHomo ecology. I discuss contemporary scientific understandings of Candida albicans sociality as highly tactile and sensual, bodies constantly in touch with surfaces – chemicals, cells, tissues, prosthetics. I explore the highly contested field of evolutionary theories of social selection, including biogenetic kin selection and its biases about reproduction, intimacy and care. CandidaHomo ecologies are woven through queer kinship that is biological, but not genetic; embodied, but not essentialist. Queer communities, founded on choice and more-than-biological recognition, are considered as an alternative to dominant gene-centric kinship theories. These communities are intimate, performative and more-than-human, emerging from necessity and constantly co-created. However, homonormativity and biogenetic exclusion lurk in the closet of contemporary families of choice. I consider Luce Irigaray’s figuration of eros as a visceral and tactile reorientation of relatedness and care towards CandidaHomo kind, always already formed through impersonal intimacies and caresses. Finally, the artwork Surface Dynamics of Adhesion (2015) is discussed as a material-semiotic resolution and ‘technology’ for making kin, as Donna Haraway might say.
Recidivism of paroled murderers as a factor in the utility of life imprisonment

ABSTRACT When a convicted murderer violently re-offends after being released, a prominent media profile results, intense fear is engendered within the community and vigorous commentary ensues, usually and understandably critical of the offender and the justice system. On the other hand, there is evidence that most murders are opportunistic and singular. In this article, Australian and international recidivism literature is synthesised in the specific context of murderers released to parole. This recidivism data is then analysed and evaluated as a factor in the utility of sentences of life imprisonment without parole for convicted murderers. A comprehensive synthesis, analysis and evaluation of the literature reveals that a small percentage of paroled murderers recidivate by committing a violent offence, and even fewer kill again. Recidivism rates are a significant factor in the measure of the success or otherwise of sentencing and corrections. Accordingly, these findings support the contention that life imprisonment without parole is of limited, if any, utility for the large majority of convicted murderers and for the community.
W-Band LTCC Circularly Polarized Antenna Array With Mixed U-Type Substrate Integrated Waveguide and Ridge Gap Waveguide Feeding Networks

In this letter, a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate integrated 8 × 8 circularly polarized (CP) antenna array is proposed for the wideband and high-gain W-band antenna-in-package application. By introducing the planar L-probe together with the original coupling probe, the E-fields in the substrate-integrated-waveguide (SIW) cavity are changed, and additional E-field components with a 90° phase difference are produced. Then, a CP antenna array is obtained. To reduce the losses in the feeding network, the gap waveguide technology is utilized with the SIW technology, as a mixed feeding network. To validate the proposed CP antenna array design, an 8 × 8 CP antenna array is fabricated by the LTCC technology and measured. Measured results show that the LTCC CP antenna array obtains a gain of 22.3 dBi, and its axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth is from 89 to 98.5 GHz for AR < 3 dB. Besides, good agreements of the radiation patterns between the simulations and measurements are achieved within the operational frequency range.