Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Implications of developing a tool for sustainability screening of circular economy initiatives

In today’s business environment, the trend towards more product variety and customization is unbroken. Due to this development, the need of agile and reconfigurable production systems emerged to cope with various products and product families. To design and optimize production systems as well as to choose the optimal product matches, product analysis methods are needed. Indeed, most of the known methods aim to analyze a product or one product family on the physical level. Different product families, however, may differ largely in terms of the number and nature of components. This fact impedes an efficient comparison and choice of appropriate product family combinations for the production system. A new methodology is proposed to analyze existing products in view of their functional and physical architecture. The aim is to cluster these products in new assembly oriented product families for the optimization of existing assembly lines and the creation of future reconfigurable assembly systems. Based on Datum Flow Chain, the physical structure of the products is analyzed. Functional subassemblies are identified, and a functional analysis is performed. Moreover, a hybrid functional and physical architecture graph (HyFPAG) is the output which depicts the similarity between product families by providing design support to both, production system planners and product designers. An illustrative example of a nail-clipper is used to explain the proposed methodology. An industrial case study on two product families of steering columns of thyssenkrupp Presta France is then carried out to give a first industrial evaluation of the proposed approach. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 28th CIRP Design Conference 2018.
What about the Post-scarcity Period? the Latent effects of scarcity Promotions

The objective of this study is to measure the latent effects of scarcity promotions on brand attitude and purchase intentions. The experimental design includes the result of the attempt to benefit from scarcity promotion as the manipulated factor. The findings of the study confirm the positive influence of scarcity promotions. However, when consumers fail to benefit from the promotion due to the limited number of products offered, their brand attitude and purchase intention levels deteriorate. In case they make several attempts and still fail, they react even more negatively. Based on these findings, some practical implications are provided.
Recherche efficace de motifs fréquents dans des grilles

La complexite des algorithmes de fouille de graphes generaux est telle qu'ils sont peu utilises en pratique. Cette complexite est due a la fois aux tests d'isomor-phisme et au grand nombre de combinaisons permettant d'etendre un graphe durant le processus de fouille. Dans cet article, nous proposons d'exploiter des representa-tions geometriques regulieres (des grilles) pour recher-cher efficacement des motifs frequents dans un ensemble de grilles. Nous presentons un algorithme appele GRIMA qui, contrairement aux algorithmes generaux, peut passer l'echelle. Nous appliquons cet algorithme a un probleme de classification d'images, pour lesquelles nous proposons une representation par Sac de grilles. Les experimenta-tions montrent l'efficacite de notre algorithme et l'interet d'utiliser une representation structuree pour representer les images.
Conceptualizing Augmented Reality Television for the Living Room

We examine the concept and characteristics of “Augmented Reality Television” (ARTV) using a four-step investigation method consisting of (1) an analysis of commonly-accepted perspectives on Augmented and Mixed Reality systems, (2) a literature survey of previous work on ARTV, (3) relevant connections with other areas of scientific investigation from TVX/IMX, such as Ambient Media, Interactive TV, and 3-D TV, and (4) by proposing a conceptual framework for ARTV called the “Augmented Reality Television Continuum. ” Our work comes at a moment when the excitement and hype about the potential of AR for home entertainment has overlooked rigorous analysis and clear-cut examinations of the concepts involved, which should be the hallmark of any exact science. With this work, our goal is to draw the community’s attention toward fundamentals and first principles of ARTV and to tease out its salient qualities on solid foundations.
Primary nasal pterygium excision with sutureless and glue-free technique of conjunctival autograft

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy and complication of sutureless and glue-free conjunctival autograft for the management of primary pterygium over a period of one year. Methods: Prospective, interventional, hospital-based study. Twenty-four eyes of 24 patients with primary nasal pterygium were graded, and excision was performed by a single surgeon. To prevent recurrence, a free conjunctival autograft was taken from the superior quadrant from the same eye and the bare sclera was covered without the use of sutures or fibrin glue, allowing natural autologous coagulum of the recipient bed to act as a bioadhesive. The eye was patched for 24 hours. Postoperatively, patients were put on topical eye drops (polymixin 0.5%, neomycin 0.5%, and dexamethasone 1%) four times daily for four weeks, and oral antibiotics and methyl prednisolone 3x4 mg per day for 5 days. Patients were followed up postoperatively on day 1, 1 week, 6 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months. They were examined for haemorrhage, wound gape, graft shrinkage, granuloma, graft dehiscence, recurrence, or any other complication. Results: The mean age of the patients was 56.96 ± 11.51 years (range 35-81 years). There were 18 females (75%) and 6 males (25%). The following complications were noted: granuloma in three eyes (12.5 %), overriding graft onto the cornea in three eyes (4.17%), and recurrence in one eye (4.17%). No other complications were noted. Average surgical time was 16 ± 2 minutes. Conclusion: Sutureless and glue-free limbal conjunctival autografting is a treatment modality for primary nasal pterygium with no additional cost and has only one recurrence case in 24 cases.
Control of Gardenia Leaf Spot and Bud Rot Diseases Using Some Natural Plant Oils

This study was conducted to through light on the most important fungi affected gardenia (Gardenia jasmenoides Ellis) plant with leaf spot and bud rot diseases and the effect of some plant essential oils as safe management against these fungi in vitro and in vivo. Isolation trials fro m infected gardenia plant tacken fro m Giza governorate during 2010-2011 gro wing season revealed eleven fungal species related to eleven genera. Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria alternata, Pestalotia langloissii and Cladosporiu m sp. were the most dominant fungi. These four isolates were differed in there pathogenic capabilit ies depending on the infected plant part, B. cinerea was exh ibited the h ighest percentage of rotted buds while A. alternata and P. langloissii were only infected the leaves. A. alternata was exh ibited the highest disease severity. Among twenty plant essential oils tested in vitro, Cu min (Cu minu m cy minum) oil was the most effective one, completely inhibited the mycelial growth of the tested fungi at 500 ppm. Generally spraying gardenia p lant by cu min oil at 2500 ppm. mixed with clove oil at 5000 ppm. concentration was the best treatment that significantly decreased the disease incidence under greenhouse conditions.
Vitamin D Supplementation: Optimal Dose, Real Benefits and Potential Side Effects (A Review)

Vitamin D, is a lipidsoluble vitamin obtained from both exogenous and endogenous sources. Vitamin D3 is found naturally contains vitamin D, but other dietary sources of Vitamin D are from the fortified foods, like milk and cereals, or from nutritional supplements. In recent years, rickets and Osteomalacia are reappearing, not only in temperate zones with limited sunshine but also in sunnier climates such as Australia, the USA, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Research results strongly suggested that 1,25-(OH)2D3 may have a direct action through its receptor in the parathyroid glands, The presence of receptor has led to a study of the possible function of vitamin D in these organs. A good example of a new function described for 1 ,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 is that found in the parathyroid gland, this is also true for the role of vitamin D hormone in skin, the immune system, a possible role in the pancreas, i.e., in the islet cells, and a possible role in female reproduction. Many studies have examined the relationship between Vitamin D levels and cardiovascular disease, metabolic, immune system and cancer risk. With the reemergence of hypovitaminosis D among adults and elderly age group, questions regarding the most appropriate treatment regimen require clarifications. Multiple treatment regimens have been proposed to treat hypo-vitaminosis D in young children and adults, including the daily or weekly, yearly orally and parental routes. New megadoses therapies have been used recently. We would like to highlight the recent evidence regarding their uses and safety.
A Heuristic Approach For Guiding Automated Theory Repair For The ABC Theory Repair System

An algorithm is presented for guiding the process of repair search for faulty theories. This algorithm was designed for the ABC theory repair system. It is based on taking Pareto optimal local choices based on heuristics during the search for the repairs. Heuristics for scoring these choices are presented together with the algorithms describing how to compute them. The efficiency and ability to give preferred repairs of the proposed algorithm is evaluated against examples and shown to reduce the search space and the set of offered repairs for the ABC automated theory repair algorithm while preserving the desired results in most cases. Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people, who helped me to improve this report. My supervisor Alan Bundy and my second supervisor Juan Casanova for excellent supervision; Xue Li for useful comments during group presentations, and quick fixes of the ABC system; Ola Kalisz for proofreading; My fellow students who helped to prepare the dataset for the evaluation. Declaration I declare that this thesis was composed by myself, that the work contained herein is my own except where explicitly stated otherwise in the text, and that this work has not been submitted for any other degree or professional qualification except as specified.
Developing and Evaluating Performance of DNN-built Stroke Rehabilitation Robot in Estimating Functional Tasks

Rehabilitation robots in clinical settings detect objects and estimate functional tasks for stroke survivors to imitate the role of occupational therapists. Previous efforts used conventional machine learning techniques for object detection, which had numerous limitations: difficulty in detecting objects diverse shapes and inability to use in dynamic settings. This work aims to utilize Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as a method of detecting objects to address the aforementioned problems, and use affordance vectors to estimate functional tasks. This work took two approaches. Estimating objects and task concurrently using a single DNN was the first approach, and second approach was detecting objects first and then estimating tasks based on the detected objects’ affordance vectors. In order to increase the accuracy of object detection, this work conducted transfer learning on the DNN pretrained on COCO dataset so that objects that are highly likely to be encountered in rehab sessions can be more accurately detected. To estimate functional tasks, this work modeled affordance vectors using survey responses of Occupational Therapists (OTs). This work shows 36.6% of accuracy of the robot for estimating the same functional task that OTs would ask the patients in the same given environment, and average of 19.82% error in confidence level on images that two ends gave different results. The work concludes with detailed analysis on comparing the confidence level of robot’s output on each test image and the survey responses of OTs.
Joint Coreset Construction and Quantization for Distributed Machine Learning

Coresets are small, weighted summaries of larger datasets, aiming at providing provable error bounds for machine learning (ML) tasks while significantly reducing the communication and computation costs. To achieve a better trade-off between ML error bounds and costs, we propose the first framework to incorporate quantization techniques into the process of coreset construction. Specifically, we theoretically analyze the ML error bounds caused by a combination of coreset construction and quantization. Based on that, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the ML error under a fixed budget of communication cost. To improve the scalability for large datasets, we identify two proxies of the original objective function, for which efficient algorithms are developed. For the case of data on multiple nodes, we further design a novel algorithm to allocate the communication budget to the nodes while minimizing the overall ML error. Through extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithms for a variety of ML tasks. In particular, our algorithms have achieved more than 90% data reduction with less than 10% degradation in ML performance in most cases.
Towards a strategy for workplace learning: Report to HEFCE by CHERI and KPMG

The study, undertaken between March and November 2005 aimed to inform HEFCE thinking on developing a strategy for workplace learning by: exploring the nature, purposes and outcomes of workplace learning; considering workplace learning within the broader relationships between the worlds of work and learning; exploring emerging changes in higher education which may impact on workplace learning in the future; identifying structural issues that currently enable or inhibit workplace learning, and identify future opportunities.
Recovering planet radial velocity signals in the presence of starspot activity in fully convective stars

J. R. Barnes, et al, 'Recovering planet radial velocity signals in the presence of starspot activity in fully convective stars', MNRAS, Vol. 466 (2): 1733-1740, first published online 10 December 2016. The version of record is availalbe online at doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw3170 © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
A Controlled Trial of Recombinant Human Granulocyte-macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor After Total-body Irradiation, High-dose Chemotherapy, and Autologous Bone-marrow Transplantation for Acute Lymphoblastic-leukemia Or Malignant-lymphoma

Infections during granulocytopenia are major complications of autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Since recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhuGM-CSF) has proved to accelerate bone marrow recovery after cytostatic chemotherapy, we studied its effects on hematopoietic regeneration and on infectious complications after total body irradiation (TBI) and high-dose chemotherapy followed by ABMT. Eighty-one patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in complete remission (CR) or with non- Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in CR or partial remission were randomized in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. They received either rhuGM- CSF 250 micrograms/m2 (Escherichia coli-derived) daily by continuous infusion after ABMT, or placebo. Treatment was continued until the neutrophil counts reached greater than 500/microL for 1 week. The maximum treatment duration was 30 days. Thirty-nine patients in the rhuGM-CSF group and 40 patients in the placebo group were evaluable. The median time needed to reach a neutrophil count of 500/microL was 15 days with rhuGM-CSF and 28 days with placebo (P = .0001). Bacterial infections occurred in 14 (35.9%) of the patients with rhuGM-CSF and in 25 (62.5%) of the patients given the placebo (P = .024). Nine of the 14 bacterial infections in the rhuGM-CSF group and 20 of the 25 infections in the placebo group were diagnosed within the first 10 days after ABMT. Capillary leakage and a reversible fluid retention were seen in five of the rhuGM-CSF-treated patients. Patients treated with rhuGM-CSF had lower serum protein and albumin levels than patients in the placebo group. There was no statistically relevant difference in overall survival between the two groups (P = .47). Relapse occurred in 14 (34%) patients with rhuGM-CSF and in 18 (45%) patients with placebo. We conclude that continuous infusion of rhuGM-CSF after ABMT accelerates the regeneration of granulocytes and reduces the number of bacterial infections.
Comparison of the Vitek Immunodiagnostic Assay System with three immunoassay systems for detection of cytomegalovirus-specific immunoglobulin G

The Vitek Immunodiagnostic Assay System (VIDAS; bioMerieux Vitek Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) was evaluated for its ability to detect anticytomegalovirus immunoglobulin G (IgG) and was compared with the following assay systems: Abbott IMx Cytomegalovirus IgG antibody assay (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Ill.), Whittaker Cytomegelisa II IgG assay (Whittaker Bioproducts, Walkersville, Md.), and Whittaker FIAX Cytomegalovirus IgG assay (Whittaker Bioproducts). Samples were considered positive if at least two of three (IMx, Cytomegelisa II, and FIAX) comparative assays gave positive results; a sample was considered negative if at least two of the three assays were negative. Of the 199 clinical serum samples tested, 194 gave concordant results among the three comparative assays (145 were positive and 49 were negative). The VIDAS results with two samples were persistently equivocal and were therefore excluded from the comparison study. The overall agreement between VIDAS and the established standard was 98.5%. The VIDAS assay yielded one false-positive and two false-negative results. The intra- and interassay precision studies indicate that the VIDAS assay is suitable for clinical use. The VIDAS system is rapid, self-contained, and fully automated and would be useful for screening of cytomegalovirus immune status.
RELATIONSHIP OF PROCRASTINATION WITH LIFE SATISFACTION OF STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Procrastination is a pervasive and widely spread problem among university students. It is the tendency to irrationally delay a task until the deadline. Therefore, the purpose of conducting this research was to find out the relationship of procrastination with life satisfaction of students. The sample of 200 students was derived from PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Two standardized scales “Procrastination Scale” [1] and “Satisfaction with Life Scale” [2] with sound validity and reliability respectively, . 89 and . 87 were employed. Tendency of procrastination and degree of life satisfaction among students was calculated, through frequencies and percentages: whereas, gender difference in procrastination was examined through independent t-test. Moreover, bivariate Pearson correlation „r‟ was applied for finding out the relationship between procrastination and satisfaction with life. The study found that almost half of the university students procrastinate on their work, and there was no significant difference among students on the basis of gender. More than two third of students were satisfied with their life; however, procrastination had a negative correlation with life satisfaction of students that depicts if procrastination get higher the satisfaction with life decreases among students. Therefore, it is concluded that procrastination has a significant relationship with life satisfaction of students. The study may be helpful for the educational professionals to draw their attention on devastating phenomenon of procrastination and to work upon those areas that mediate and moderate the negative relationship between procrastination and life satisfaction of students.
THE FOETAL PLACENTAL CIRCULATION

THE METHOD OF TECHNIQUE The technique employed has been described already (Crawford and Fraser, 1955) and has been followed in this article, with such modifications as have been found necessary in the light of experience. A lobe of placenta is selected, and the artery and vein in relation to it are injected with a 1 per cent solution of red and blue dye respectively. The dye solution oontains a small quantity of 1 per cent sodium bicarbonate solution which assists the penetration of the dye. The lobe is now cut out of the placenta and placed in a small glass container with the maternal surface uppermost. This allows the terminal vessels to float in the digest solution and subsequent examination can be made without disturbing the specimen unduly. Digestion solution is added and the lobe incubated at 37" C. for not more than 24 hours. At the end of this time the container is opened and with great care the digest solution is siphoned from it and replaced with 10 per cent formol-saline. Formol-saline hardens the capillary vessels and makes them more amenable to dissection. The specimen can be examined at once but storage in a refrigerator for considerable periods does no harm provided the l o b is kept moist with formol-saline. 4 PI. 548 By sharp dissection very small pieces of tissue are cut from the surface of the lobe and placed on a glass slide which has been moistened with water. Before proceeding with the mounting of the specimen, it should be examined with a low power objective to ensure that the area is well coloured, both red and blue. Glycerine jelly is dropped on the specimen and a glass cover slip placed over it. Gentle pressure with the point of a fine hypodermic needle is now exerted over the area of tissue under the cover slip. The material will be seen to flatten and gradually spread out. Pressure is continued until it is apparent that no further spreading will take place and also until the jelly is sufficiently hardened to keep the material in its present position. The preparation is now ready for examination. This pressure method of mounting has been found to be much easier and more satisfactory than dissection under direct vision. The placental capillaries are, in life, closely enmeshed with each other and the difficulty in their examination has been to devise a simple method of separating them without causing damage. Pressure does this in a satisfactory fashion and allows individual capillary vessels to be seen in their entire course. The short digestion has also permitted the retention of the syncytial membrane around the capillary and this gives a very satisfying picture of the capillary vessel. The water-soluble dyes (Imperial Chemical Industries) are still employed and are the most satisfactory for the purpose.