Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Product Quality Detection through Manufacturing Process Based on Sequential Patterns Considering Deep Semantic Learning and Process Rules

Companies accumulate a large amount of production process data during product manufacturing. Sequence data from the mining production process can enable a company to evaluate the manufacturing process, to find the key factors affecting product quality, and to improve product quality. However, the production process mainly exists in the form of text. To solve this problem, we propose a novel frequent pattern mining algorithm (EABMC) based on the text context semantics and rules of the manufacturing process to remove redundant sequences and to obtain good mining results. In this algorithm, first, we use embeddings from language models (ELMo ) to improve the process of text similarity matching and to classify similar semantic processes into one class. Then, the manufacturing process unit (MPU) is proposed by extracting the characteristics of manufacturing process data according to the constraints of the manufacturing process and other conditions. The above two steps cause the complex manufacturing process sequence to merge and simplify. Once again, a frequent pattern mining algorithm (CloFAST) is used to explore the important manufacturing process relationships behind a large amount of manufacturing data. In addition, taking the data from a production enterprise in Guizhou Province as an example, the validity of the method is verified. Compared with other methods, this method is shown to have greater mining efficiency and better results and can find out the key factors that affect product quality, especially for text data.
A Survey of Tick Surveillance and Control Practices in the United States

Abstract Tickborne diseases are an increasing public health threat in the United States. Prevention and diagnosis of tickborne diseases are improved by access to current and accurate information on where medically important ticks and their associated human and veterinary pathogens are present, their local abundance or prevalence, and when ticks are actively seeking hosts. The true extent of tick and tickborne pathogen expansion is poorly defined, in part because of a lack of nationally standardized tick surveillance. We surveyed 140 vectorborne disease professionals working in state, county, and local public health and vector control agencies to assess their 1) tick surveillance program objectives, 2) pathogen testing methods, 3) tick control practices, 4) data communication strategies, and 5) barriers to program development and operation. Fewer than half of respondents reported that their jurisdiction was engaged in routine, active tick surveillance, but nearly two-thirds reported engaging in passive tick surveillance. Detection of tick presence was the most commonly stated current surveillance objective (76.2%). Most of the programs currently supporting tick pathogen testing were in the Northeast (70.8%), Upper and Central Midwest (64.3%), and the West (71.4%) regions.The most common pathogens screened for were Rickettsia spp. (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) and bacterial and viral agents transmitted by Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks. Only 12% of respondents indicated their jurisdiction directly conducts or otherwise financially supports tick control. Responses indicated that their ability to expand the capacity of tick surveillance and control programs was impeded by inconsistent funding, limited infrastructure, guidance on best practices, and institutional capacity to perform these functions.
Passenger Satisfaction Evaluation of Public Transportation Using Pythagorean Fuzzy MULTIMOORA Method under Large Group Environment

Passenger satisfaction is an important factor that affects the choice of travel modes for municipalities, especially in big cities. This evaluation is an important task for managers when they are considering improving the competitiveness of the public transportation system. However, passenger satisfaction evaluation is difficult as the information provided by passengers is often vague, imprecise, and uncertain. This paper aims to propose a new method, using Pythagorean fuzzy sets and multi-objective optimization by a ratio analysis plus full multiplicative form method (MULTIMOORA), to evaluate the passenger satisfaction level of the public transportation system under large group environment. The former is employed to represent the satisfaction assessments of rail transit network provided by passengers. The latter is extended and used to determine the passenger satisfaction levels of rail transit lines. In addition, a combination weighting method is suggested to compute the relative weights of evaluation criteria. A case study of the rail transit network in Shanghai is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed passenger satisfaction evaluation method. The result shows that the new method proposed in this study can not only model passengers’ satisfaction evaluation information with more uncertainties, but also determine more reasonable and credible satisfaction levels of rail transit lines.
Knowledge spillover creation in university-based entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the Italian “Contamination Labs”

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the debate on knowledge spillover in the university-based entrepreneurial ecosystem, with the aim to investigate its role for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset in students. Starting from the literature stream on entrepreneurial university and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship, the paper analyses the process of intentional and unintentional knowledge flows among students, industries, and institutions. Through a case study, the Contamination Lab (CLab@Salento) at the University of Salento in Italy, the paper describes the learning processes activated within an educational programme to create an entrepreneurial mindset in students and analyses the different knowledge flows among the stakeholders populating the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. Findings demonstrated the crucial role of CLab@Salento for intentional and unintentional knowledge spillovers, where knowledge contamination processes such as business idea presentation, open innovation challenge, contamination workshop, enterprise projects, business game, and students@abroad are important vehicles for effective knowledge transfer in an entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The Role of ICT in ASEAN-5’s Services Exports: A Panel Study

: ICT intensive services were found to contribute to the service export growth in developed countries. However, empirical work on the role of ICT in ASEAN’s services export is sparse due mainly to the scarcity of bilateral services trade data. This study uses mirror data from the ASEAN-5’s trading partners from 2000 to 2012 for examining the impact of ICT on the ASEAN-5’s services export. A set of constructed ICT indicators are found to have significant positive network effect on the ASEAN-5’s services export. Thus, the higher the ICT development level in both trading partner countries, the higher their bilateral services exports with each other. But, the positive impact of ICT on the ASEAN-5’s trade in services can be offset by the presence of trade costs. Therefore, policies enhancing trade facilitation should be used in tandem with the development of ICT in order to promote the ASEAN-5’s services export.
Provisions Made for Curriculum Development in Ghana’s 2007 Educational Policy: Any Lessons for Consideration by Stakeholders of Education in the Upper West Region

The issue about curriculum development in the Ghana 2007 educational policy should be of concern to every stakeholder of education in the Wa Municipality. The level of excellence derived from any educational reform rests very much on how well the curriculum satisfies the needs of the pupils and society in general. An evaluation of the curriculum is one of the main approaches to determine whether a curriculum is implemented successfully and its benefits ripped by the pupils and other stakeholders of education whether in the Wa Municipality or the Ghana citizenry. The gap here is that the Wa Municipality has no empirical data to support the extent to which the provisions made for curriculum development has been implemented and achieved. The objective of the current study is to gather the views of stakeholders of education in the Wa Municipality on the subject matter. Analyze the views and arrive at conclusions that will evaluate the provisions listed under curriculum development. Three research questions were set to guide the study. A total sample size of 350 participants was contacted for the study. Purposive sampling strategy alongside the lottery method in simple random sampling and proportional allocation was used to select the sample from the accessible population. The data collection instruments were questionnaires and an interview guide and data were collected by a face-to-face meeting with participants and through correspondence over eight (8) weeks. Data analysis was qualitative with descriptive statistics to support the analysis of close-ended questions. The findings revealed that the provisions made for curriculum development to a large extent were implemented in the schools but, there are little benefits derived from the implementation process because pupils cannot fit into the job market or establish business venture after junior high school which is one of the main goals of the new curriculum under the Ghana 2007 educational policy. The current research has added to knowledge on the implementation of Ghana's 2007 educational policy reforms in the Wa Municipality. The research has revealed the level of success the policy has attained in the Wa Municipality with specific reference to the provisions made for curriculum development. Some members through the research instruments have come to know more about the policy and are ready to implement the provisions made for curriculum development than before.
Theoretical Study of the Electronic Transition Rate Production in Alq3 molecule With Au Metal Interface

The electronic transition rate between a Alq3 molecular and Au metal in different coupling coefficient has examined using simple theoretical picture through Marcus theory for electronic transfer and quantum postulate. The electronic transfer rate contribution is discussion the transfer mechanism, its induced by the transition energy for molecule - metal system. The Alq3 molecule is named ( tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum ) and has chemical structure (C27H18AlN3O3). The rate of electron transfer for Alq3-Au system studies with 2-methyylpyridin, Hexanone, Acetone, Bezonitrile, Propanonitrile, Nitrobenzene and 1,2-ethanediol solvents. It has been shown that electron transtion across the Alq3-Au interface associated with solvent increases with decreases the transition energy and potential at interface
Modeling risk perception using independent and social learning: application to individuals with autism spectrum disorder

ABSTRACT The current study mathematically models key factors influencing Risk Perception (RP) that involves knowledge inferred from present situations and social learning, past information and priming effect. It is a generalized perception-based model and in the present paper, it is applied to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The computational model has been simulated for numerous rounds in two phases to find a quantitative value of the model factors. In the first phase, the model reflected dependency of RP upon recent past events and priming, while second phase revealed that social learning modulates RP, even in ASD. This further proves that peer-interaction plays a crucial role in building perception. Thus, our work provides a mathematical framework to evaluate perception objectively in any situation, such as risky/danger-situations.
Comparative study of 3 tests of cognitive impairment MMSE, AD-8, GPCOG in 200 geriatric cases suspected to have cognitive impairment out of 3750 screened

Background: Dementia is a progressive decline in cognition, function, behavior and activities of daily living. Many assessment scales are used in screening for cognitive impairment, making diagnosis of dementia and for follow-up. Assessment scales in the domains of cognition, function, behavior, quality of life, depression in dementia, care giver burden and dementia severity are used. There are many tools used to assess cognitive function. Methods: Authors performed the 3 object recall, 3 name recall tests, and included care-giver’s opinion about the patient’s cognitive state as the primary screening test for cognitive impairment. After this, we tested it the patient (in whom any of the above three were impaired) with the MMSE, AD8 and GPCOG instruments. Results: The result were compared of each of the preliminary screening test to each of these three standard tools by applying statistical test (chi square). Conclusions: The screening tests and care giver's opinion about patient's condition (that take 2-3 minutes) have been shown to correlate with MMSE (8 minutes), AD8 (6 minutes), GPCOG (6-9 minutes). This saves the doctor’s, patient’s and caregiver’s time. The screening can be done by trained health worker, thus sparing the geriatrician to do more advanced patient related work.
The processes of learning and doing writing in macrosocial spaces: understanding how international STEM graduate students deploy spatial repertoires

ABSTRACT Analyzing a segment of data from a larger study, this article discusses how international graduate students in the STEM fields deploy macrosocial spatial repertoires as they go about learning and doing graduate-level writing. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach to theme-building analysis of interviews and drawing on relevant scholarship from Applied Linguistics and Writing Studies, it illustrates how the process of learning and doing graduate-level writing required these multilingual students an increasing ability to traverse and engage myriad physical, disciplinary/intellectual, and social and cultural spaces. It concludes by highlighting the benefits of understanding how these students utilize many and expansive spatial repertoires for enhancing writing and communication support for the students.
Comparing the spectral properties of the laser-induced acoustic responses from blood and cancer cells in vitro

Background ― The treatment of the cancer, especially in more aggressive metastatic forms is more effective at early disease stage. However, existing diagnostic techniques are not sensitive enough for early cancer detection. An alternative, perspective diagnostic approach can be based on photoacoustic (PA) method of irradiation of cancer cells in biotissue, blood and lymph by laser pulses. The fast thermal expansion of heated zones into cells associated with intrinsic or artificial PA contrast agents leads to generation of acoustic waves detected with ultrasound transducers. In particular, melanoma cells with melanin as a PA marker are darker than normal red blood cells and, therefore, produce greater acoustic responses. This technique can theoretically detect even a single cancer cell in the tissue and blood background; however, a robust algorithm of automated response detection is yet to be developed. Objective ― The main aim is to develop the approach for data pre-analysis that can improve the sensitivity and noise resistance of the automated in individual cancer cell detection algorithm, based on estimation of the amplitude of the acoustic responses. Methods ― Acoustic responses were obtained from a round polyurethane tube with human blood, or solution of the mouse melanoma cells in 10 mol/L concentration. In control experiments the laser was blocked by an opaque film. Many (up to 1000) acoustic responses were obtained from normal blood cells and pigmented cancer cells. Spectral analysis of the acoustic responses was used to find the spectral ranges that provide valuable diagnostic information with the sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. Results ― It was estimated that relevant diagnostics information in the acoustic responses is limited to the 0-12 MHz frequency band. Application of the 8th order low-pass Butterwort filter with 12 MHz cut-off frequency improved the signal-to-noise ratio from 21.14±10.39 to 110.81±56.94 for the cancer-related responses, and from 1.04±0.1 to 2.23±0.33 for the normal blood responses. Conclusions ― Adoption of low-pass filtering during the pre-analysis of acoustic responses results in better sensitivity of automated cancer cells detection algorithm
Female adult puncture-induced plant volatiles promote mating success of the pea leafminer via enhancing vibrational signals

Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) synergize with the sex pheromones of herbivorous insects to facilitate mate location. However, the synergism of HIPVs and acoustic signals for sexual communication remains unknown. Here, we investigated the synergy between HIPVs and vibrational duets for sexual communication and mating in the pea leafminer (Liriomyza huidobrensis). Our results indicated that adult leafminers do not produce species-specific pheromone, and female-puncture-induced plant volatiles facilitate the attraction of both sexes to host plant leaves and sexual encounters. Insect-derived cues do not participate in mate locations. Both sexes do not produce qualitatively different cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs), and CHCs from females cannot elicit the antennal and behavioural responses of males. By contrast, induced green leaf volatiles, terpenoids and oximes elicit dramatic antennal responses in both sexes. Electrophysiological and behavioural tests consistently showed that the volatiles (Z)-3-hexenol and (Z)-3-hexenyl-acetate elicited the most intense gas chromatographic-electroantennographic responses, and attracted males and females. Remarkably, these volatiles significantly promoted the occurrence of vibrational duets between the sexes, thereby increasing the mating success of leafminers. Therefore, the synergism of HIPVs and vibrational signals largely promoted the mating success of leafminers, suggesting an alternative control strategy through precision trapping for non-pheromone-producing insects. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Biotic signalling sheds light on smart pest management’.
Intracellular reactive oxygen species scavenging effect of fucosterol isolated from the brown alga Sargassum crassifolium in Vietnam

Sargassum is a widely distributed marine brown algal genus in Vietnam and has been considered a source of diverse bioactive metabolites. In this study, S. crassifolium collected from South Central region of Vietnam was chemically studied and bioactively evaluated. Fucosterol was isolated and identified from the methanolic extract of the alga by means of chemical fractionation and spectral analysis and showed no cytotoxic effect in Hep-G2 cells at the observed concentrations. In vitro assay for intracellular reactive oxygen species by dichlorofluorescein method revealed a potent scavenging effect of the isolated compound. Accordingly, the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species induced by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was reduced by 71.66% with the treatment of fucosterol at 10 µg. ml-1. The results indicated the ability of algal fucosterol in diffusing into cells and preventing the production of different ROS compounds and further suggested the therapeutic potential against diseases caused by oxidative stress of natural metabolites from S. crassifolium in Vietnam.
Examination of horses for antibody to two mycoplasmas.

Little is known about the importance of mycoplasmas in equine respiratory disease, and this project was undertaken to investigate the occurrence of mycoplasma antibody in horses. Two mycoplasmas, M. equirhinis and an unnamed species, N3, were selected from 13 strains recently isolated from the nasopharynx of horses. Immunization of rabbits and horses resulted in the development of specific antibody. Complement-fixation (CF) was found to be more sensitive than metabolic-inhibition and growth-inhibition for the detection of antibody in equine hyperimmune sera, and this method was used for the survey of antibody in other horses. Six ponies were chosen which were apparently free of mycoplasmas, without CF antibody to M. equirhinis and with low levels to N3. Two were inoculated intranasally with M. equirhinis, two with N3 and two remained as controls. N3 was not recovered from any pony, but within five days M. equirhinis was recovered from every animal, indicating that it had spread naturally from the inoculated ponies to the others. After six weeks it became difficult to isolate the organisms, and levels of CF antibody rose first in the nasal secretions and later in the sera. After several weeks antibody declined to indetectable levels. No clinical signs of infection were seen. In a survey of 817 sera taken over one year from 85 racehorses in seven stables, every horse was found to have CF antibody to M. equirhinis and N3 at some time during the sampling period. In five stables most horses had no M. equirhinis antibody when they entered the stable, but within two months they invariably developed significant titres, implying that they had been infected. When compared with a survey of 256 sera from 81 horses completed two years previously, it appeared that antibody to both mycoplasmas was more prevalent in the recent survey.
Molecular characterization and phylogenetic studies of a virulent newcastle disease virus detected in indigenous chickens in plateau state, Nigeria

A study of Newcastle disease virus (NDVs) using molecular characterization in indigenous chickens in Plateau State was carried out. The birds were obtained from three geographical locations in Plateau State. Three ribonucleic acids (RNAs) of Newcastle disease viruses (NDVs) obtained from normal indigenous chickens, which were never vaccinated against Newcastle disease (ND) were characterized. These RNAs were named Lc 3, Lc 4 and Lc5, respectively. These three samples were genotypically analyzed using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with primers specific to the viral fusion (F) protein gene. The deduced amino acid sequences at the F0 of these three RNA between positions 112 and 117 were all the same. The three NDV RNA had phenylalanine (F) residue at position 117, confirming their high virulence to indigenous chicken in Plateau State, Nigeria. The existence of virulent NDVs in circulation in indigenous chicken could be a serious threat to commercial chicken. The fragment of the deduced amino acid sequences were compared phylogenetically and were all found to belong to the genotype 5 g. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported genotype Vg strains that possess the sequences of 112R-R-Q-K-R-F117 within the F0 protein in indigenous chickens in Plateau State, Nigeria. They also grouped/clustered together with a Niger Republic strain (FJ772475 chicken-2602-605-Niger-2008, FJ772481chicken-2602-625-Niger-2008), and another strain from Cameroon (FJ772484chicken-3490-147-cameroon-2008). This study presents for the first time to the best of our knowledge report of not only the presence of the velogenic strain, but has gone ahead to establish the amino acid sequences, and the phylogenic ancestral history of these novel Nigerian NDV isolates, and their accession numbers as well as their relatedness to already established isolates. The information obtained in this study could be useful for improving the knowledge on the epidemiology, spread, efficiency of prevention/control strategies currently in place in Nigeria and indeed the West African sub-region.