Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Depression and Generativity of the Middle Aged: Mediating Effect of Social Support

Purpose: This study aims to examine the mediated effect of social support in the relationship between thedepression and the generativity of the middle aged.Method: The data was collected from a total of 128 middleaged in 40 to 59 years old. The data wereanalyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regressionusing the SPSS 22.0 program.Results: The generativity was shown a negative correlation with depression(r=-.40, p<.001) and a positivecorrelation with social support(r=.68, p<.001). In the relation between depression and generativity, socialsupport was the significant mediating variable.Conclusion: The mediated effect of social support on the relationship between depression and generativityin middle aged were verified and based on it, it will be used as basic data for developing integrated nursingintervention programs to help establish a sense of generativity, a task of middle age development.
Modelling skin temperature of a human exercising in an outdoor environment

Skin temperature monitoring is an important component when estimating thermoregulatory responses due to heat exchange at the skin surface. The aim of this study is to improve the accuracy of mean skin temperature ( ¯ Tsk) predictions in humanthermalcomfortmodels,specificallytheCOMFA(COMfortFormulA)outdoor model, in order to reduce errors in energy budget estimates associated with ¯ Tsk. Field tests were conducted on 12 subjects performing 30 minutes of steadystate physical activity (running or cycling) on two separate occasions. The predicted thermal sensations (PTS) from the COMFA budget model using both actual (measured) and predicted (with model) ¯ Tsk were compared at 5-minute intervals. Results indicate that the model over-predicted ¯ Tsk throughout the exercise
Single camera stereo vision recognization for Parts'pose based on intelligent three coordinate measuring machine

To recognize the poses of parts to be measared by a Coordinate Measuring Machine(CMM) corrcetly and rapidly,a single-camera stereo vision recognization method based on the translation of CMM was proposed,and its principle,pose parameter solution and recognization procedure were studied.According to the double-camera stereo vision principle,an image of the measured part was capured with a CCD camera driven by the CMM along its X axis or Y axis on two different positions correspondly.Thus,the single-camera stereo vision measurement for the part was realized with the proposed matching method on two images with the same feature point,and the 3D coordinates of each feature point in the camera coordinate system were obtained.Then,by using the camera calibration parameters,3D coordinates of each feature point in the machine coordinate system were calculated.Finally,combining with the 3D coordinates of each feature point in the CAD coordinate system for the part,the pose parameters of the part were solved.The recognization system was set up,and an experiment was conducted.The results show that the recognized translation pose parameters of the experiment part txl tyl and tzl are 32.65 mm,-90.23 mm,and 13.27 mm,respectively;and the rotation angle pose parameter AX,AY and AZ are 38°,4° and 5°,respectively.Moreover,the recognization time is 1.818 s.Experiment result shows that the recognization method discussed above is correct and pratical,and meets the measuring requirement in real time.
The Construction of Emergency Logistics and Integrated Transport System Based on “Scenario-Response” Mode

By describing the meanings and characteristics of emergency logistics and integrated transport, as well as the relationship between the two, a multi-objective, multi-stage mathematical optimization model based on “scenario-response” mode is proposed in this article. When factors such as time, cost and accident rate are taken into account, the optimization of integrated transport at different stages of public emergencies can be solved and analyzed using the improved Dijstra algorithm. The results show that this algorithm avoids the limitations of traditional multi-objective optimization methods, and can effectively resolve the multi-objective and multi-stage integrated transport in the optimization of emergency logistics effectively.
Businesses and International Security Events: Case Study of the 2012 G8 Summit in Frederick County, Maryland

Abstract This article examines impacts of an international event on the business community in Frederick County, MD. The 2012 G8 summit drew 14 world leaders to central Maryland for meetings that took place on May 18–19, 2012. The study shows the full spectrum of the event as it unfolded from the point of view of the business owner. In-depth interviews with business owners revealed six themes related to: (1) Information Sources and Use, (2) Business Insurance, (3) Adaptive Response Measures, (4) Business Impacts, (5) Small vs. Large Businesses, and (6) Demonstrators – Thurmont, MD. The article confirms many previous research findings about businesses in disasters. It includes findings in each of the six themes. These include the importance of social networks as information sources and influences on adaptive response actions, the limits of business insurance as an influence on the implementation of adaptive response actions, general preparedness and business size, and the positive personal impact of a peaceful protest on business owners in Thurmont, MD. The study recommends continued emergency management outreach for the development of general business preparedness, particularly among small businesses. In addition, it recommends governments develop specific coordinated information strategy for businesses in large-scale events.
Using the SUS to Help Demonstrate Usability’s Value to Business Goals

As part of an effort to connect results of human factors testing with the needs of internal business clients, a usability testing program was created for smartphones to establish a link between usability metrics and business indicators of success in the marketplace. In addition to standard usability metrics of effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction (ISO, 1998), a measure of hedonics (Hassenzahl, Beu, and Burmester, 2001) was used. Of particular note was the use of the System Usability Scale (SUS) (Brooke, 1996) to provide a single measure of user satisfaction for all smartphones tested. Data from 54 studies involving 872 participants were analyzed to determine if usability metrics predicted marketplace outcomes. Results show that usability metrics are significantly correlated with indicators of business success and that the SUS accounted for most of usability’s contribution. Discussion of these results, the value of SUS, and implications for usability professionals are discussed.
Negative Emotions Can Interfere with the Inhibitory Effect of Proactive Control on Implicit Stereotypes

In the present study, the gender face pictures were used as priming stimuli, and the weapons recognition paradigm and process separation program were used to explore the influence of emotion and proactive control on implicit gender stereotypes. Study 1 (n=56) explored the processing of proactive control under different conflict levels and its influence on implicit gender stereotypes. The results showed that under high conflict level, the response time was the shortest and the correct rate was the highest. In Study 2 (n=96), emotional variables were added to explore the influence of proactive control on the intervention effect of implicit gender stereotypes under different conflict levels. The results showed that the participants had the longest reaction time and the lowest correct rate among the high conflict levels in negative emotional type. Process dissociation analysis showed that the proactive control mode reflected the change of control processing, rather than the automatic association of stereotypes. These findings showed that the proactive control processing mode appears more in the high conflict level, which helps to weaken the implicit gender stereotype; However, negative emotions can interfere with the proactive control process, and can not optimize cognition, so as to suppress implicit gender stereotypes.
Digital Maximum-Likelihood-Oriented Clock Recovery in Open- Loop Structure and an Analytical Algorithm for the Optimization of the Nonlinearity

In this paper the digital realization for an open-loop timing recovery structure and its performance are presented. At first the digital realization of the non-data-aided Maximum-Likelihood (ML)-estimator is derived, having the same statistical properties as the analogue one. Then, a novel analytical algorithm for the optimization of the nonlinearity (NL) is developed by minimizing the variance of the jitter for an unlimited number of transmitted symbols. Finally, analytical and simulation results of a binary PAM-Nyquist system are presented. It is shown that the optimized performance is close to the Cramer-Rao bound over a wide signal-to-noise range EJN0. Übersicht: In diesem Beitrag wird die digitate Realisierung einer rückkopplungsfreien Taktsynchronisation vorgestellt. Zuerst wird der digitale Maximum-Likelihood-Schätzer mit denselben statistischen Eigenschaften wie die analoge Realisierung hergeleitet. Anschließend wird ein neuartiger, analytischer Algorithmus vorgestellt, welcher die Nichtlinearität hinsichtlich minimaler Jittervarianz bei unbegrenzter Symbolzahl optimiert. Schließlich werden die analytischen und simulierten Ergebnisse eines binären PAM-Nyquistsystems vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, daß sich diese optimierte Anordnung über einen weiten Störabstandsbereich der Cramer-Rao-Grenze nähert. Für die Dokumentation: Digitale Taktrückgewinnung / Open-loop / Optimierung der Nichtlinearität
The effectiveness of serum S100B, TRAIL, and adropin levels in predicting clinical outcome, final infarct core, and stroke subtypes of acute ischemic stroke patients

Abstract Introduction: More than half of all worldwide deaths and disabilities were caused by stroke. Large artery atherosclerosis is identified as a high etiological risk factor because it accounts for 20% of ischemic stroke. Objectives: To identify the significance of TRAIL and adropin release and the relative changes related to S100B levels, as well as the relationship between these biomarkers and the final infarct core, the clinical outcome, and the presence of large artery atherosclerosis in acute stroke patients. Materials and methods: Over a one-year period, demographic, clinical, and neuroimaging findings of 90 consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated. Results: The mean age of participants was 69.28 ± 10 and 39 patients were female. The increased level of S100B and the decreased levels of sTRAIL with adropin were significantly associated with moderate to severe neurologic presentation (p=0.0001, p=0.002, p=0.002, respectively). On the control CT, a large infarct core was significantly associated with decreased serum levels of sTRAIL and adropin (p=0.001 and p=0.000, respectively); however, the levels of S100B were not significantly associated with good ASPECTS score (p=0.684). Disability and an unfavorable outcome were significantly related to the decreased level of sTRAIL and adropin (p=0.001 and p=0.000 for THRIVE score>5, respectively). Decreased sTRAIL and adropin levels and an increased S100B level were correlated with the presence of large artery atherosclerotic etiologic factors (p=0.000, p=0.000, p=0.036, respectively). Conclusion: TRAIL and adropin serum levels were associated with poor clinical outcomes and greater infarcted area in acute ischemic stroke patients.
Public Debt Accumulation in SSA: A Looming Debt Crisis

This paper discusses recent debt trends and evaluates performance of debt sus- tainability analysis (DSA) conducted in a sample of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 2008 – 16. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses, the ﬁndings suggest the existence of systematic optimism bias in past DSA vintages resulting from optimistic macro-economic projections that underpin the DSAs. As a result, the DSAs for the sample countries analysed projected higher debt carrying capacities, which in most cases led to a faster pace of debt accumulation during this period. Moreover, this was not helped by the fact that average interest rates on new debt commitments were rising faster relative to gross domestic product growth rates, while the necessary ﬁscal adjustment to counter this development remained insufﬁcient. Countercyclical policies supported by ﬁscal buffers that were used to address the impact of the 2008 global ﬁnancial crisis have largely not been reversed despite the erosion of the buffers and a pick-up in growth in some countries. As a result, the overall risk of debt distress in the region has deteriorated in the past decade. Going forward, strengthening analytical/research work on country macroeconomic projections underlying their DSAs, relationship between investment and growth, impact of natural disasters on DSA frameworks and quantifying and monitoring ﬁscal risks would be important pieces of work in leveraging DSA results for ﬁnancing and policy decisions. Other supporting issues to embrace include capacity building to enhance quality of policies, transparency and accountability at institutional level; managing roll over risk; developing and implementing sound debt management strategies. to these questions will help flag potential debt vulnerabilities and provide insight into the plausibility of macroeconomic frameworks used to underpin DSAs. The findings will also provide guidance on whether there is a need for a thorough scrutiny of the process leading to elaboration of assumptions underlying DSAs. For MEFMI and its technical cooperating partners, the findings will highlight areas in which
Development of RF CMOS receiver front -ends for ultra-wideband communications

Development of RF CMOS Receiver Front-Ends for Ultra-Wideband Communications. (May 2008) Xin Guan, B.Eng., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; M.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Cam Nguyen Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology has become one of the hottest topics in wireless communications, for it provides cost-effective, power-efficient, high bandwidth solution for relaying data in the immediate area (up to 10 meters). This work demonstrates two different solutions for the RF front-end designs in the UWB receivers, one is distributed topology, and the other is based on traditional lumped element topology. The distributed amplifier is one of the attractive candidates for UWB Low Noise Amplifier (LNA). The design, analysis and operation of the distributed amplifiers will be presented. A distributed amplifier is designed with Coplanar Waveguide (CPW) transmission lines in 0.25-μm CMOS process for time domain UWB applications. New design techniques and new topologies are developed to enhance the power-efficiency and reduce the chip area. A compact and high performance distributed amplifier with Patterned Grounded Shield (PGS) inductors is developed in 0.25-μm CMOS process. The amplifier has a measurement result of 7.2dB gain, 4.2-6dB noise figure, and less
Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Jordan

We present an updated checklist of ant species known from Jordan. In total we list 58 species and 26 morphospecies identified to genus or species group level. Ten species are recorded from the country for the first time: Aphaenogaster schmitzi Forel, 1910, Camponotus gestroi Emery, 1878, Camponotus rebeccae Forel, 1913, Crematogaster warburgi Menozzi, 1933, Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859), Lepisiota bipartita (Smith, 1861), Monomorium luteum Emery, 1881, Monomorium venustum (Smith, 1858), Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911, and Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon, 1851). We also recognize 26 morphospecies which determination, due to lack of comprehensive taxonomic studies, is unachievable and some of them can represent species new to science. Furthermore, we list doubtful records of ten taxa: Camponotus aethiops (Latreille, 1798), Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793), Cataglyphis livida (André, 1881), Messor concolor Santschi, 1927, Messor meridionalis (André, 1883), Plagiolepis pallescens maura Santschi, 1920, Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798), Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856), Temnothorax luteus (Forel, 1874), and Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758), and discuss their possible affiliation with species of documented and certain presence in Jordan.
Demand Forecasting in Pharmaceutical Industry Using Artificial Intelligence: Neuro-Fuzzy Approach

Because of human healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry is considered as one of the most significant industrial sectors. For that reason, demand forecasting in pharmaceutical industry has more complex structure than other sectors. Human factors, seasonal and epidemic diseases, market shares of the competitive products and marketing conditions are considered as main external factors for forecasting pharmaceutical product. Additionally, active ingredients rate is also important factor for forecasting process. The objective of this study is to predict future demands from previous sales quantity with considering effects of the external factors by employing a neuro-fuzzy approach. Because of the biases of the external effects in Artificial Neural Network (ANN) topology, an ANFIS is applied as a neuro fuzzy approach. Given application illustrates the effectiveness of the approach.
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security

ABSTRACT Controversies over ownership have become important issues in heritage practice. This study employs ontological security (OS) theory to explore the series of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) conflicts represented by the Duanwu/Dano (端午) Festival dispute between China and South Korea. Through a grounded theory approach, this article analyzes diverse narrative frames and routines expressed in Chinese official media, individual blogs and commercial WeMedia since the emergence of the 2005 Duanwu/Dano Festival dispute. The materials pinpoint the diversity and complexity of Chinese society’s discursive routines related to ICH-based identity challenges. This article argues that the main reason why ICH has become a controversial field is because different Chinese social groups feel ontologically insecure differently. The ontological security approach also uncovers the complexity of China’s diverse responses far beyond the framework of nationalism that views Chinese society as monolithic and static.
Passive cooling by phase change material usage in construction

This work examines the significance of using phase change material (PCM) in the construction works for conservation of energy. The objective of using PCMs is that the materials help in enhancing thermal performance of buildings as these have the advantage of high storage density with small temperature swing. Among various types of PCM, rice bran distilled fatty acid – grade A (RBDFA), which is a non-paraffin type was selected considering its thermal and physical parameters, particularly its melting point that falls between human comfort temperature range. Two types of investigations, numerical and experimental, were followed in the methodology to identify the thermal performance of building during PCM usage. The results indicated that inclusion of RBDFA in construction gives positive effect in maintaining less temperature variation at indoor. Practical application: Phase change materials are substances capable of storing or releasing thermal energy as latent heat. Phase change material has wide applications in many fields, such as building envelope design to reduce ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) energy consumption in buildings, solar energy utilization, waste heat recovery, thermo-regulated smart textiles, and active and passive cooling of electronic devices.
Gain and noise characteristics of phosphate glass Er 3+ -Yb 3+ co-doped waveguide amplifiers

Under the conditions of the uniform doping and the steady state, simulation is performed for the phosphate glass Er 3+ -Yb 3+ co-doped waveguide amplifier by using a formulized iteration method to solve the rate equations and the propagation equations. In the simulation, we have considered ion-ion interaction mechanisms including upconversion, cross-relaxation, non-radiation relaxation, and energy transduction between Yb 3+ and Er 3+ ions, as well as the amplified spontaneous emission along the positive and negative directions of the waveguide. The gain and noise characteristics of the device are analyzed and discussed, and some useful results are obtained in three kinds of pump schemes, i.e. the forward-, backward- and bidirectional pump schemes. Simulation results show that by selecting proper parameter values, the output gain can be achieved over 10.3 dB, and the noise figure can be controlled below 3 dB.
Structure activity relationship of the myriaporones and biosynthetic study of tedanolide

by Myriam Roy The myriaporones and the tedanolides are two distinct classes of polyketide natural products that exhibit strong structural similarities as well as interesting antitumor activities. Although the latter was isolated in 1984, the complexity of its architecture proved to be a great challenge; the first synthesis was only reported in 2006. Conversely, the myriaporones represent a much simpler target. Isolated from a different source in 1995 by Rinehart et al., the first total synthesis was achieved simultaneously by our group and Cuevas et al. in 2004. Our highly efficient synthesis allowed us to prepare enough material to investigate the mode of action, which is herein disclosed. Additionally, it placed us in excellent position for undertaking a structure-activity relationship study of these compounds. The efforts to identify the pharmacophore of the myriaporones also are presented in this thesis. The most potent compounds in the myriaporone family, namely myriaporone 3 and myriaporone 4, exist in a dynamic equilibrium due to the lability of myriaporone 3’s hemiketal moiety. It is possible that only one of the components of myriaporone 3/4 equilibrium is active. If so, the other component may diminish the activity and destabilize the binding of the biological target. Several analogues were