Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sprawl Developments: Measurement Indicator and Projections in Selected Nigerian Cities

Sprawl development is commonly attributed to the unprecedented rate of urbanization and city spatial growth. Large cities are not necessarily sprawling but are determined by characteristic compactness and connectedness of the metropolitan development and services including infrastructure and amenities. The understanding of the sprawl phenomenon is enhanced by some characteristic measurement of sprawl making use of certain development parameters. This paper therefore highlights an aspect of the measurement of sprawl utilizing the results from remote sensing data sourced from records of satellite images (from various Landsat and Nigeriasat) documented in research literatures. Also, the population census figures for each of the cities were sourced and projected as required for analysis and used in conjunction with their respective urban built-up land coverage. Results reveal varying pattern of relationship between progressions of urban spatial coverage changes and growth of population over a specified period of time. Intrinsic values from the computation such as urban population density and land consumption rate evolve as indicators for sprawl development and measurements.
Quantum Trick Cellular Automata

The present work explores a radically new perspective exploiting the advantages of quantum computation using classical systems. Termed ‘Quantum Tricks’, the essence of the technique is replacing the inherent probabilistic nature of a qubit with a pseudorandom generator, resulting in the implementation of basic Quantum Gates such as the Pauli X, Y, Z, Hadamard and CNOT gates using extremely simple mathematical operations followed by an implementation of entanglement. Following this, a brief overview of the concept of cellular automata and associated rules is presented. Finally, the ‘Quantum Trick Cellular Automata’ (QTCA) concept is formulated, differing from the classical cellular automata in two aspects - presence of superposed states other than 1 and 0, and implementation of above mentioned quantum gates. It is seen that QCTA comprising of CNOT and Entanglement operations give rise to rich, complex and ornamental patterns, characteristic of the underlying chaos. The extreme simplicity of the proposed design coupled with its efficacy in implementing rich patterns using cellular automata concepts form the highlights of the present work.
A Study for Dynamically Adjustmentation for Exploitation Rate using Evaluation of Task Achievement

Until now, in reinforcement learning, a ratio of a random action as known as exploration often has not been adjusted dynamically. However, this ratio will be an index of performance in the reinforcement learning. In this study, agents learn using information from the evaluation of achievement for task of another agent, will be suggested. From this proposed method, the exploration ratio will be adjusted from other agents’ behavior, dynamically. In Human Life, an “atmosphere” will be existed as a communication method. For example, empirically, people will be inﬂuenced by “serious atmosphere,” such as in the situation of working, or take an examination. In this study, this atmosphere as motivation for task achievement of agent will be de-ﬁned. Moreover, in this study, agent’s action decision when another agent will be solved the task, will be focused on. In other words, an agent will be trying to ﬁnd an optimal solution if other agents have been found an optimal solution. In this paper, we propose the action decision based on other agent’s behavior. Moreover, in this study, we discuss effectiveness using the maze problem as an example. In particular, “number of task achievement” and “inﬂuence for task achievement,” and how to achieve the task quantitative will be focused. As a result, we conﬁrmed that the proposed method is well inﬂuenced from other agent’s behavior.
Personality Traits of Float Pool Nurses at King Fahad Hospital in Medina, Saudi Arabia

Nurses play an essential role in providing optimal patient care. However, issues such as nursing shortage, increasing rate of absenteeism affects the quality of nursing care. Creating a solution to address these issues is of paramount importance. Hence, float pool nurses is one of strategies viewed to be used to face these challenges. Furthermore, this research aimed to delve on the personality traits of float pool nurses and unit-based nurses at work and determine if the float pool nurses have different personality traits than unit-based nurses. A quantitative, descriptive design was employed in this study wherein data were collected through a selfadministered 56-item questionnaire distributed to 80 registered nurses (40 float pool nurses and 40 unit-based nurses) in King Fahad Hospital in Medina, Saudi Arabia and the results were: Majority of the responses of both respondents shows a consistent preference of neither accurate nor inaccurate of personality factors (Mean = 2.91), sixty-eight percent or 34 out of 50 personality traits items revealed to be significant. Findings indicate that float pool nurses were open to change, creating new ideas, interested to work in new environment. However, they need more support to understand the new situation. Keywords: Float pool, Float nurses, Floating, Staffing shortage, Alternative staffing
Sonochemical syntheses of a one-dimensional Mg(II) metal-organic framework: a new precursor for preparation of MgO one-dimensional nanostructure

Nanostructure of a MgII metal-organic framework (MOF), {[Mg(HIDC)(H2O)2]ċ1. 5H2O}n (1) (H3IDC= 4,5-imidazoledicarboxylic acid), was synthesized by a sonochemical method and characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, IR spectroscopy, and elemental analyses. The effect of concentration of starting reagents on size and morphology of nanostructured compound 1 has been studied. Calcination of the bulk powder and nanosized compound 1 at 650°C under air atmosphere yields MgO nanostructures. Results show that the size and morphology of the MgO nanoparticles are dependent upon the particles size of compound 1.
Simple treatment of non‐aligned boundaries in a Cartesian grid shallow flow model

A simple method is proposed for treating curved or irregular boundaries in Cartesian grid shallow flow models. It directly evaluates fictional values in ‘ghost’ cells adjacent to boundary cells and requires no interpolation or generation of cut cells. The boundary treatment is implemented in a dynamically adaptive quadtree grid‐based solver of the hyperbolic shallow water equations and validated against several test cases with analytical or alternative numerical solutions. The method is easy to code, accurate, and demonstrably effective in dealing with irregular computational domains in shallow flow simulations. Results are presented for still water in a basin of complicated geometry, steady hydraulic jump in an open channel with a converging sidewall, wind‐induced circulation in a circular shallow lake, and shock wave diffraction in a channel containing a contraction and expansion. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
TOXICOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILING OF ATHIMATHURA CHOORANAM - A SIDDHA FORMULATION INDICATED FOR RESPIRATORY AILMENTS AMONG CHILDREN

Respiratory tract infections seem to be the most common chronic disease in developing countries with bothersome symptoms affecting the quality of life in children causing emergency hospital visits, missed school days and mortality. Athimathura Chooranam is a Siddha classical Polyherbal formulation indicated in Siddha literature for Kanam (Respiratory ailments in Children). This study was aimed to evaluate the Anti-inflammatory, Antipyretic and Antihistaminic activity of the powdered extract of Athimathura chooranam supported by in vivo studies. The Acute oral toxicity and repeated oral toxicity study was performed for the extract of Athimathura chooranam in Wistar albino rats to find the appropriate dosage to be administered. Anti-inflammatory activity of the extract was further assessed using Carrageenan induced hind paw edema and Cotton pellet granuloma and later Antipyretic and Antihistaminic activity was also studied using rat and Guinea pigs respectively. It was observed that the extract was found to be nontoxic at dosage of 2000mg/kg/po in rat and so it can be classified under category-5 of globally harmonized system of classification and labeling of chemicals. It poses antiinflammatory activity at 450 mg/kg/po in both carrageenan induced hind paw edema and Cotton pellet granuloma. The extract had effective antipyretic activity even after 240 min of observation. Athimathura chooranam exhibited anti-histaminic activity at a concentration of World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 7.523 Volume 6, Issue 7, 938-951. Research Article ISSN 2277–7105 Article Received on 30 April 2017, Revised on 20 May 2017, Accepted on 10 June 2017 DOI: 10.20959/wjpr20177-8595 *Corresponding Author
Wide-band heterodyne submillimetre wave spectrometer for planetary atmospheres

We present calculations and measurements on a passive submillimetre wave spectroscopic sounder to gather data on the thermal structure, dynamics and composition of the upper atmosphere of a planet, e.g. the stratosphere of Jupiter, or the entire thickness of the atmosphere of Mars. The instrument will be capable of measuring wind speeds , temperature , pressure , and key constituent concentrations in the stratosphere of the target planet. This instrument consists of a Schottky diode based front end and a digital back-end spectrometer. It differs from previous space-based spectrometers in its combination of wide tunability (520-590 GHz), and rapid frequency switching between widely spaced lines within that range. This will enable near simultaneous observation of multiple lines, which is critical to the reconstruction of atmospheric pressure and density versus altitude profiles. At the same time frequency accuracy must be high to enable wind speeds to be determined directly by measurement of the line's Doppler shift. I. INTRODUCTION
Improved Method for Relation Adaptation to Extract the New Relations Efficiently from Relational Mapping

Traditionally, the web contains different semantic relations. The information extraction focuses on pre-specified request from small set of text. The main task of information retrieval is to extract or organize the information items as well as representation and access storage of items. There are various methods available for relation extraction presented by different authors. The main step we are focusing is supervised relation extraction. The method we propose for relation extraction for adapting new relation with supervised relation extraction system. It is based on three major concepts called domain adaptation, relation extraction and transfer learning. Our proposed method uses combination of under-sampling majority class and oversampling minority class. This paper shows that combination of these two methods improves the classifier performance. We evaluate proposed method for relation extraction using different dataset which contains entities for different relation. Using this method we are going to improve the precision, recall, F-score rate of relations which helps to improve the accuracy of relation those are novel or newly adapted. To overcome challenges in relation extraction that novel entities and relations constantly appear on the web as it contains both structured and unstructured text on the web. Our experimental result shows that the proposed method achieves F-score rate of 69.18. Moreover, it outperforms the numerous methods to adapt new relation efficiently.
Still in Search for Answers: A Critical Survey On the Circuit Breaker Regulation

Following the 1987 stock market crash, there has been much discussion in policy circles about the use of circuit breakers in financial markets. Proponents argue that circuit breakers reduce overreac-tions, while skeptics suggest that it harms the price discovery process. As yet, investors know very little about the effects of such breakers on price dynamics, and the few relevant empirical studies that do exist produced very ambiguous results. This paper critically surveys studies conducted on circuit breakers and offers possible reasons for the inconclusiveness of the findings in existing literature. various exchange
Maintenance Management Performance - An Overview towards Evaluating Malaysian Palm Oil Mill

Deficient maintenance management can severely affect competitiveness of an organization by reducing throughput, increasing inventory, and leading to poor performance. Performance cannot be managed without measurement: it provides the required information to the management for effective decision making; and is used by industries to assess progress against set goals and objectives in a quantifiable way for effectiveness and efficiency. For the palm oil mills to stay competitive, it is imperative that they elevate the maintenance management role; from a cost center to the strategic partner in business. This paper highlights how measuring maintenance performance helps us identify the factors causing poor performance, and provides an opportunity to improve company’s profits.
In vitro usage of various non-organic compounds to subdue acidogenic value and enhance the fermentation of alfalfa hay based diets by mixed rumen microbiota

Batch cultures of mixed rumen microorganisms were used in a randomized complete block design to study the effects of alfalfa hay-to-concentrate ratio and various non-organic buffering compounds on Acidogenic Value (AV), in vitro dry matter disappearance (IVDMD), medium pH, and AV: IVDMD ratio. Alfalfa hay was included in the experimental diets as: 80% (F80), 60% (F60), 40% (F40), and 20% (F20) on a dry matter (DM) basis. Buffering compounds were added to the experimental diets as: Sodium bicarbonate [SB; 5 or 10 mg.g-1 DM], magnesium oxide (MgO; 5 or 10 mg.g-1 DM), sodium bentonite (bentonite;10 or 20 mg.g-1 DM), Acid Buf® (5, 10 or 20 mg.g-1 DM), Acid Buf + SB in a 3:4 ratio (11 or 16.5 mg.g-1 DM), Acid Buf + SB + MgO in a 3:4:1 ratio (12.5 or 18.75 mg.g-1 DM), and Herod’s Buffer (5, 10 or 20 mg.g-1 DM); keeping one group as control (no supplementation). After 24 h incubation, no significant differences observed in medium pH among SB, MgO, bentonite and the control, but Herod’s Buffer, Acid Buf, Acid Buf + SB, and Acid Buf + SB + MgO kept it up (P≤ 0.05). The lowest AV and AV: IVDMD ratios were observed when SB was used in the cultures (P≤ 0.05). Herod’s buffer IVDMD was the lowest (P≤ 0.05). The results indicated that the diet containing Acid Buf and SB had a relatively low AV and AV: IVDMD, and could maintain a relatively high rumen fluid pH compared with those of the others. Key words: Acidogenic value, in vitro dry matter disappearance, buffers.
Investigation of the Influence of Dimensions of Psychological Empowerment on Employees' Organizational Commitment

The present research aims to investigate the influence of employees’ psychological dimensions on their organizational commitment in branches of Refah Bank in Tehran Province. Questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. The questionnaires were distributed randomly among 264 employees. Structural equations modeling technique was used for data analysis and hypotheses tests. The results showed that all dimensions of employees 'empowerment is effective on their organizational commitment and sense of significance has the strongest influence and having selection right has the weakest influence onemployees’ organizational commitment.
Does Mobile Technology Matter? A Student Centric Perspective

Based on a student-centric perspective, this study seeks to understand how mobile technology influences students learning experiences. Our research motivation is driven by the i ncreasing attention paid to mobile technology in the research and business community. Set in a public university setting, our investigation seeks to shed light on how teaching and learning could be reshaped by mobile technology, most specifically, emerging tablet PCs. The findings, based on two MIS (Management Information Systems) courses, one graduate and the other undergraduate, suggest that overall students perceived the mobility of tablet PC positively. In addition, graduate students expressed a higher degree of learning satisfaction and greater expectation of future technology usage than undergraduate students. Indeed, mobile technology seems to matter to students learning in general. The finding is particularly relevant when considering how to incorporate mobile technology into teaching practice as such technology-driven teaching practice is increasingly being expected in the contemporary networked society. Additional insights for managers, technology vendors, and college instructors are also discussed.
Formation of massive globular clusters with heavy element abundance spread in the Galactic building blocks

A growing number of recent observations have revealed that the Galactic globular cluster (GC) ω Cen is not the only GC that shows abundance spread in heavy elements (e.g. Fe). In order to understand the origin of the Galactic GCs with heavy element abundance spread (HEAS), we investigate the formation processes of massive GCs (MGCs) with masses larger than 106 M⊙ in gas-rich dwarf galaxies interacting and merging with the very young Galaxy. We find that massive and compact stellar clumps with masses larger than 106 M⊙, which can be regarded as progenitors of MGCs, can form from massive gas clumps that are developed through merging of gaseous regions initially at different radii and thus with different metallicities. Therefore, it is inevitable that MGCs formed in dwarfs have HEAS. The abundance spread in each individual MGC depends on the radial metallicity gradient of the host dwarf such that it can be larger for the steeper metallicity gradient. For example, MGCs formed in a dwarf with a central metallicity of [Fe/H] =−1.1 and the radial gradient of ∼−0.2 dex kpc−1 can have the abundance spread of Δ[Fe/H] ∼ 0.2. The simulated MGCs appear to be significantly flattened owing to their dissipative formation from gas discs of their host dwarfs. Based on these results, we discuss possibly diverse formation mechanisms for the Galactic GCs such as M22, M54, NGC 2419, ω Cen and Terzan 5.
Exome Sequencing in Mendelian Disorders

More than 7,000 rare Mendelian diseases have been reported, but less than half of all rare monogenic disorders has been discovered. In addition, the majority of mutations that are known to cause Mende- lian disorders are located in protein-coding regions. Therefore, exome sequencing is an efficient strategy to selectively sequence the coding regions of the human genome to identify novel genes associated with rare genetic disorders. The exome represents all of the exons in the human genome, " " constituting about 1.5% of the human genome. Exome sequencing is carried out by targeted capture and intense parallel sequencing. After the first report of successful exome sequencing for the identification of causal genes and mutations in Freeman Sheldon syndrome, exome sequencing has become a standard approach to identify genes in rare Mendelian disorders. Exome sequencing is also used to search the causal genes and variants in complex diseases. The successful use of exome sequencing in Mendelian disorders and complex diseases will facilitate the development of personalized genomic medicine.
Diagrams for perverse sheaves on isotropic Grassmannians and the supergroup SOSP(m|2n)

We describe diagrammatically a positively graded Koszul algebra \mathbb{D}_k such that the category of finite dimensional \mathbb{D}_k-modules is equivalent to the category of perverse sheaves on the isotropic Grassmannian of type D_k constructible with respect to the Schubert stratification. The connection is given by an explicit isomorphism to the endomorphism algebra of a projective generator described in by Braden. The algebra is obtained by a "folding" procedure from the generalized Khovanov arc algebras. We relate this algebra to the category of finite dimensional representations of the orthosymplectic supergroups. The proposed equivalence of categories gives a concrete description of the categories of finite dimensional SOSP(m|2n)-modules.
Disjoint set data structure for morphological area operators

Morphological openings and closings are basic operators in mathematical morphology. Morphological area openings and area closings have the same functions as standard morphological openings and closings but avoid distorting object boundaries. The conventional implementation of morphological area operators is based on the heap data structure. A new methodology for implementing morphological area operators, which relies on the disjoint set data structure, is proposed in this paper. The computational complexity of our method is O(N) where N is the image size, and not related to the area parameter. Experiments show that the new implementation of grayscale area operators runs faster than the conventional implementations. The computational complexity of binary area operators is also studied in this paper.
Synthesis and antifungal activities of 4-[5-(2-cyclopropylaminopyrimidin-4-yl)-4-arylthiazol-5-yl]piperidine derivatives on Phytophthora capsici

Fungicidal activities against phytopathogenic fungi of diarylthiazole compound of 4-[5-(2-cyclopropylaminopyrimidin-4-yl)-4-(4-fluorophenyl)thiazol-5-yl]-1-methylpiperidine (I) have been determined to be excellent and compound I was used as the leading compounds in this study. Furthermore, the compound was synthesized by reacting them with five functional groups, 4-fluoro-3-methylphenyl, 4-fluoro-3-chlorophenyl, 4-chloro-2-fluorophenyl, 4-bromo-3-methylphenyl and 2,4-dichlorophenyl groups instead of 4-fluorophenyl group. Also, 2-amino-, 2-(Nethoxycarbonyl) piperidin-4-yl-, and 2-piperidin-4-yl-thiazole were introduced as the leads instead of 2-Nmethylpiperidine-4-yl-thiazol of compound I. Ⅷ-1~Ⅷ-5 and ⅩⅢ-1~ⅩⅤ-5 compounds were newly synthesized and their structures were confirmed by ¹H-NMR-spectrum. The fungicidal activities of all the synthesized compounds against Phytophthora capsici were examined using the whole plant method. Among the Ⅷ-1~Ⅷ-5 and ⅩⅢ-1~ⅩⅤ-5 chemicals, ⅩⅣ-3 showed the most potent antifungal activity in vivo. While the EC? and EC? values of the commercial fungicide dimethomorph and I were 4.26±0.02, 14.72±0.05 and 1.01±0.11, 6.31±0.09 mM, those of 4-[5-(2-cyclopropylaminopyrimidin-4-yl)-4-(4-chloro-2-fluorophenyl)thiazol-5-yl]-1-methylpiperidine (ⅩⅣ-3) was 0.98±0.21 and 5.85±0.05 mM. Therefore, ⅩⅣ-3 can be considered as a viable candidate for the control of plant diseases caused by P. capsici, and further studies will be conducted on the mode of action ⅩⅣ-3.
TESTING AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL SYSTEMS

The complex system can be represented as hierarchy of simpler components. On the one hand different levels of hierarchy have an advantage for more deeply research of properties of the complex system. On the other hand a flexible model and method of testing and diagnosing of the complex system need to be developed. Moreover, international IEEE testability standards should be applied.The research presented in the current paper offers approach of testing of complex digital system based on hierarchy scaling during diagnosis experiment. Several models of testing are proposed. Main principles of testing system organization are given. The result of the work is significant time reduction of test and diagnostic of system overall.