Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Processing methodology of global anthropogenic for air quality modeling

The Global Emissions Initiative (GEIA) storages and offers global datasets of emission inventories developed in the last 30 years. One of the most recently updated global datasets covering anthropogenic source emissions is the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). This study applied the NetCDF Command Operator (NCO) software to preprocess the anthropogenic sources included in the CAMS datasets and converted those files as an input in the Sparse Matrix Operator Kerner Emissions (SMOKE) model for future air quality modeling. As a result, six steps were applied to obtain the required file format. The case of the Central coast in Chile was analyzed to compare the global database and the official reports for the on-road transport sector. As a result, some differences were shown in the most populated locations of the domain of analysis. The rest of the zones registered similar values. The methodology exposed in this report could be applied in any other region of the planet for air quality modeling studies. The development of global datasets like CAMS is useful for hemispheric analysis and it could bring an estimation on the mesoscale scale. It represents an opportunity for those locations without official reports of non-updated data.
Discrepancy between Forward and Reverse Seepage Characteristics in a Single Rough Fracture

Under the uniform seepage boundary condition, the forward and reverse seepage flow rates will vary widely. In response to this phenomenon, this paper studies the mechanism of the difference in seepage characteristics between the forward and reverse directions from the fracture profile’s roughness, Darcy and non-Darcy seepage, and distribution of eddy currents. First of all, wavelet transform was used to decompose and reconstruct the single rough fracture for 8 times, and then 9 fracture models with various roughness degrees were constructed. Then, Finite Volume Method was used to simulate the seepage in the original and approximate models of the Reynolds number varying from 0.001 to 1000. The results show that the nonlinear seepage is necessary for the difference between the forward and reverse seepage characteristics of the single rough fracture. The mechanism of the discrepancy between forward and reverse nonlinear seepages is the diverse shapes and distribution of the eddy current generated by the forward and reverse seepage. The secondary roughness provides space for the existence and development of the eddy current. The secondary roughness is the geometric basis of the discrepancy between the forward and reverse seepage characteristics.
Curative Effects of Aqueous and Ethanol Stem Bark Extracts of Vitex doniana on Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Rats

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) constitute the number one cause of mortality at the global level, representing 30% of all global deaths. Therefore, finding ways to reduce deaths due to CVDs remain an important public health goal. Traditional healers in northern Nigeria use the stem bark of Vitex doniana to treat hypertensive patients. This study was aimed to investigate the cardiocurative potential of Vitex doniana on doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity in rats. Methods: Thirty five (35) adult Albino rats weighing 175 ± 25 g were used, of which 30 were induced with cardiotoxicity by intraperitoneal injection of doxorubicin (10 mg/kg) for three consecutive days. Rats were treated by oral administration of Silymarin (100 mg/kg) and Vitex doniana aqueous or ethanol extract (100 mg/kg and 200 mg/kg) for 14 consecutive days and thereafter were sacrificed on the 15th day. Blood, plasma and serum were analyzed for lipid profile and serum markers for cardiotoxicity. Results: Phytochemical analysis of the extracts showed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, steroids, phenols, saponins, terpenoids and glycosides. Oral treatment with Vitex doniana extracts significantly (p<0.05) lowered the elevated levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL but significantly (p<0.05) increased the level of HDL (18.61 ± 0.55 mg/dl to 57.98 ± 0.78 mg/dl). The extracts also significantly (p<0.05) decreased the levels of serum marker enzymes for cardiotoxicity ALT, AST, CK – mb and LDH. Conclusion: The prophylactic cardiocurative use of Vitex doniana stem bark has been confirmed in this study as the extracts exhibited hypolipidemic and cardiocurative effects in dose dependent manner in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity rat model.
Multidimensional Fair Fuzzy Equilibrium Evaluation of Housing Expropriation Compensation from the Perspective of Behavioral Preference: A Case Study from China

With the rapid development of urbanization, substantial land areas and houses are expropriated, which can cause huge numbers of disputes related to expropriation compensation. The root of the disputes is that the associated subjects are affected by various behavioral preferences and make different cognitive fairness judgments based on the same compensation price. However, the existing expropriation compensation strategies based on the market value under the assumption of “the economic man” hypothesis cannot meet the fairness preference demands of the expropriated. Therefore, finding a compensation price that satisfies subjects’ multidimensional fairness preferences, including profit-seeking, loss aversion, and interactive fairness preferences, is necessary. Only in this way can the subjects reach an agreement regarding fair compensation and resolve their disputes. Because of the fuzziness of subjects’ expected revenues, this paper innovatively introduces trigonometric intuitional fuzzy numbers to construct one-dimensional and multidimensional fair fuzzy equilibrium evaluation models. The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is adopted to convert a multidimensional problem into a multiattribute group decision problem, which simplifies the problem of finding multidimensional equilibrium when considering the multidimensional fairness preferences of the two subjects. Real case data are introduced to verify the validity of this method. The research results show that upward revision of the multidimensional fairness preferences based on the market value assists in achieving a fair compensation agreement. Consideration of the influence of the subjects’ multidimensional fairness preferences on the fairness equilibrium is conducive to resolving the disputes, and provides a reference for the settlement of expropriation compensation disputes in developing countries.
Organization Culture and Quality Management System: A Systematic Literature Review

Purpose – Aiming to fulfill the need to consolidate and carry out a critical analysis of the studies developed on Organizational Culture and Quality Management Systems, this study aims to understand the relationship between these concepts through a systematic review of the literature. Design/methodology/approach – This study is descriptive and is predominantly classified as a quantitative approach. Using the systematic literature review technique, publications contained in the Materials Science & Engineering Database, Emerald Insight, OneFile (GALE), Taylor & Francis Online - Journals, ScienceDirect Journals (Elsevier), Elsevier (CrossRef), Directory of databases were analyzed Open Access Journals (DOAJ), MEDLINE / PubMed (NLM), Library & Information Science Collection and Springer (CrossRef) and 22 studies that deal with the topics in an integrated manner were used. Findings – The analysis shows that the Cameron and Quinn (2011) and Hofstede (2003) models are the most used. Regarding the business sectors in which studies were carried out, no research relating to the topics studied in utilities companies had been carried out, with most of the studies (38%) carried out in companies in the industrial sector. Originality/value – With regard to aspects of quality management relating to organizational culture, there is a balance between the hard and soft elements in the literature and that most studies put forward the management levels of companies as the target audience for the data source. Keywords - Organizational Culture, Management System, Quality Management System, Systematic Literature Review.
Joint-Mapping Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Subcarrier Number Modulation

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with subcarrier number modulation (OFDM-SNM) has been recently proposed to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of the traditional OFDM system. In this paper, we propose a joint-mapping OFDM-SNM (JM-OFDM-SNM) scheme to transmit the signal vector with a constant length of information bits by jointly considering the subcarrier activation patterns and constellation symbols. A low-complexity detection scheme based on log-likelihood ratio criterion is proposed to relieve the high computational complexity of the maximum-likelihood detection at the cost of a negligible performance loss. Upper-bounded bit error rate (BER) and lower-bounded achievable rate are both derived in closed-form to evaluate the performance of JM-OFDM-SNM. To suit different application scenarios, we further propose two enhanced schemes, named adaptive JM-OFDM-SNM (AJM-OFDM-SNM) and JM-OFDM with in-phase/quadrature SNM (JM-OFDM-IQ-SNM), where the former adjusts the constellation orders for different numbers of active subcarriers, and the latter extends the indexing to in-phase and quadrature domains. Simulation results corroborate the tightness of the derived BER expression in the high signal-to-noise ratio region and show that (A)JM-OFDM-SNM improves the performance of OFDM-SNM, while both AJM-OFDM-SNM and JM-OFDM-IQ-SNM schemes perform better than JM-OFDM-SNM at the same SE.
Silica based immunoassays for a covalently attached antigen

An immunoassay was developed using a monoclonal antibody and an antigen covalently immobilized on silica, showing that silica is a potentially useful assay substrate. Silica beads prepared from tetraethyl orthosilicate (0.78 pm diameter) and fused quartz slides were thoroughly cleaned and modified with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane. Amine groups on the modified slides and beads were used for carbodiimide mediated coupling to carboxyl groups on a peptide antigen. High surface concentrations of antigen were achieved. Antibody binding to the antigen-modified beads and slides was measured using an iodinated monoclonal antibody. The equilibrium constant for the antibody binding on the beads was ten times higher than on the flat silica, but the maximum amount bound was lower. Immunoassays performed using a second enzyme-labelled antibody to detect the monoclonal antibody bound to the silica permitted detection of the antigen at 10-8 M using the modified beads and at 10 -7 M using the slides.
The in‐vitro biocompatibility of ureido‐pyrimidinone compounds and polymer degradation products

Supramolecular biomaterials based on ureido-pyrimidinone (UPy) moieties are versatile polymer materials as their function can be tailored to the application. These UPy-materials can be designed into polymer coatings, self-healing polymers, hydrogels and elastomers. The biocompatibility of UPy-based materials and their degradation products is a long-term success requirement for many regenerative medicine and biomedical applications. Earlier research has shown that UPy-based materials and polymers display no immediate toxic effects, but in-depth in-vitro studies on potential UPy-polymer degradation products have not been executed. Owing to their resemblance to naturally occurring purines and pyrimidines, UPy-compounds and their degradation products could poten-tially initiate an immune response or be mutagenic. Accordingly, 11 selected UPy-compounds were synthesized, and their effect on cell viability, wound healing, and their immunogenicity and potential mutagenic potential, were studied. We showed that low molecular weight degradation products of UPy-based biomaterials do not affect cell viability, nor do these interfere with several aspects of endothelial function including proliferation, angiogenic sprouting and cellular migration even in levels exceeding plausibly attainable concentrations. Furthermore, the compounds are neither immunogenic nor mutagenic, showing that UPy-biomaterials exhibit good biocompatibility in vitro, and could in principle be used in humans.
Continuity in Discontinuity: The Recurrent Motif of Cultural Autonomy in the Development of Czech Sociology of Culture

This article analyses the development of the sociology of culture in Czechia. Its focus is on the sociology of the arts and cultural sociology, which, it is argued, are connected through the notion of the relative autonomy of cultural structures. While the Czech sociology of culture may have been rendered less dynamic by the lack of a critical mass of sociologists specialising in this area and by the country’s frequent political upheavals and its isolation from the international circulation of ideas, it has experienced moments of considerable vitality. Three periods in the development of the field are identified here, each of them marked by a movement toward a stronger and more sociologically adequate conceptualisation of cultural autonomy: (1) from the diffuse culturalism of the field’s founding figures to the functionalist theory of the interwar sociologist Inocenc Arnošt Bláha, whose view of the relationship between art and society was influenced by the work of the Prague School of Structuralism; (2) from the cultural reductionism of Marxist-Leninist theory after 1948 to the eclectic sociology of culture and the arts of the late socialist period; (3) from the demise of this transitional form of a sociology of culture in the 1990s to the increasingly internationalised but also heterogeneous landscape of the 2010s, which is constituted by a semi-institutionalised centre of cultural sociology at Brno and small groups or individuals in Prague and other academic locales. The thread of continuity in an otherwise discontinuous historical development is found in the recurrent motif of the relative autonomy of culture which the Czech sociology of culture absorbed through its exposure to art and literary theory.
Application of Markers Assisted Selection for Striga Hermonthica Resistance on Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. [Moench]) is a staple food crop for smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid(ASALs) regions worldwide, feeding over 500 million of the world's most resource-poor. Development of Striga Hermonthica resistant cultivars by conventional breeding is slow and have been hampered by the lack of efficient and reliable screening techniques in breeding programs. Molecular markers that are linked to witchweed resistance can expedite the development of resistant cultivars through the adoption of appropriate marker-assisted selection (MAS) strategies. Marker-assisted selection involves the selection of genotypes carrying a desirable gene(s) via linked markers; through MAS more rapid transfer of traits from donor parents to more elite locally adapted crop cultivars is possible with simple-sequence repeat (SSR) markers which have been initially used to detect polymorphism between the parent cultivars. Although costly to develop relative to some other classes of genetic markers, once developed, analysis by SSR markers is both easy and inexpensive. The highly polymorphic nature (high information content) and other favorable characteristics make them excellent genetic markers for a number of studies including marker-assisted selection and fingerprinting of germplasm collections. In this review, we summarize the molecular markers that are linked to the inheritance trait or low germination stimulant production is one of the recognized mechanisms of witch weed resistance.
Difference in Time of Audible Sound Exposure to Chlorella DPK-01 in Tubular Photobioreactors: A Strategy to Improve Photobioreactor System

The cultivation of Chlorella DPK-01 in tubular photobioreactors (PBRs) with difference in time of audible sound exposure was done. The study aims to evaluate the effect of difference in time of audible sound exposure in tubular PBRs to the growth and lipid percentage of microalgae Chlorella DPK-01. This study was using three groups of Chlorella DPK-01 PBRs. One group was control group and not exposed to any sound (Control-PBR), one group was exposed to audible sound in the light (PBR-A), and another group was exposed to audible sound in the dark (PBR-B). Each group consists of three units of PBR. The audible sound (279.9 Hz sine wave) was played in the light for PBR-A and in the dark for PBR-B. The observation period was 14 days. The growth rate of Chlorella DPK-01 was 47.6% per day (Control-PBR), 0.44 per day (PBR-A), and 0.55 per day (PBR-B) respectively. Meanwhile, the lipid percentage of Chlorella DPK-01 was 16% (Control-PBR), 31% (PBR-A), and 11% (PBR-B) respectively. Therefore, exposing audible sound in the light and in the dark may differently affect the growth and lipid production of Chlorella DPK-01.
Digital advertising policy acceptance by out-of-home advertising firms: a combination of TAM and TOE framework

Abstract By employing a combination of the extended technology acceptance model and the technology-organization-environment framework, this study examines influential factors in the acceptance of digital advertising policy by Korean out of home (OOH) adverting firms undergoing digital transformation. To this end, by employing unique data from a national survey of 1,001 Korean OOH advertising firms, this study examines such firms’ acceptance of digital advertising policy. The results of a hierarchical regression analysis reveal that two key variables—perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use—from the extended technology acceptance model positively influence policy acceptance. The findings also suggest that factors from the technology-organization-environment framework, such as organizational innovativeness and perceived burden of cost in the organizational context, and perceived industry pressure in the environmental context affect policy acceptance. The results of this study demonstrate that the combined model is useful in explaining OOH firms’ decision such as policy acceptance in digital transformation process. The main findings of this study have policy and managerial implications for other countries in digital transformation process.
Yes! We are girls with disabilities and Yes! We can represent ourselves in policy dialogue

abstract This paper is located within a critical feminist disability studies theoretical framework. It aims to illuminate the significant contribution made by girls with disabilities during the process of drawing up the National Disability Policy for Zimbabwe. A purposive sampling approach was used to select participants, and focus group and plenary discussions were held to generate data, with a thematic analysis approach used to analyse data. Several themes were constructed, but the focus of this paper is on themes that arose from focus group discussions with girls with disabilities: 1) living arrangements; 2) access to physical infrastructure and information; 3) music and sport; 4) education; 5) health and 6) disaster risk management. Findings show that girls with disabilities can make a significant contribution to national policy-making processes; hence there is a need to initiate strategies that create space for them to lead or participate in national policy dialogue.
COMPARISON OF SOME EFFECT SIZE MEASURES IN SIMPLE AND MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

It is very important that the results of the statistical analysis are understandable. Therefore, while reporting the results of statistical analysis, some effect size measures should be given along with the P-value. In this study, some effect size measure (R 2 (Eta-Squared), R ε2 (Epsilon-Squared) and R ω2 (Omega-Squared ) ) were compared in terms of their performance (bias) in simple and multiple linear regression models. For this purpose, Monte Carlo simulation technique was used. Results of simulation runs showed that very small sample sizes caused the predictions of all three effect size measures to deviate significantly. On the other hand, deviations of all three effect size measures gradually decreased due to increased sample sizes. However, the R ε2 and R ω2 estimates were quite unbiased when compared to R 2 regardless of experimental conditions. Thus, it could be concluded that reporting R ε 2 or R ω 2 is more appropriate to evaluate the practical significance along with P-values in simple and multiple linear regression models.
What drives the adoption and consumption of green hotel products and services? A systematic literature review of past achievement and future promises

Area of Marketing and Strategy, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Rohtak, India Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa Department of Management, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Faculty of Social Sciences, The Norwegian School of Hotel Management, Stavanger, Norway Department of Management, School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Discharge Behavior and Morphological Characteristics of Suspended Water-Drop on Shed Edge during Rain Flashover of Polluted Large-Diameter Post Insulator

Rain is one of the dominant meteorological factors threatening the outdoor insulation performance of ultra-high voltage (UHV) power stations. Discharge occurring on the polluted surface of post insulators in rain has always been a major concern of power stations. Previous studies have shown that suspended water droplets on the shed edge play an important role in the rain flashover process. In this work, artificial contamination rain flashover tests were carried out in a laboratory on a UHV DC (Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current) large-diameter composite post insulator, which had a rod diameter of 625 mm and alternating sheds (105 mm and 75 mm for larger and smaller shed overhang, respectively). The discharge mechanism was analyzed base on the observation of discharge phenomenon of suspended water-drops on the shed edge. Moreover, simulation models by COMSOL Multiphysics were established to investigate the electric field around sheds and suspended water-drops, as well as the shape change of water droplets on the insulation surface, especially at the edge of the shed. Results show that the shape parameters of water-droplets changed continuously under the combined action of gravity, surface tension, and capillary tension. Suspended water-droplets on the shed edge showed a great influence on the electric field distribution, and the resulting discharge lead to the bridging between sheds. This work paves a new way to revealing the contamination rain flashover mechanism on post insulators and provides critical knowledge for power stations on preventing flashover accidents.
A survey of numerical linear algebra methods utilizing mixed-precision arithmetic

The efficient utilization of mixed-precision numerical linear algebra algorithms can offer attractive acceleration to scientific computing applications. Especially with the hardware integration of low-precision special-function units designed for machine learning applications, the traditional numerical algorithms community urgently needs to reconsider the floating point formats used in the distinct operations to efficiently leverage the available compute power. In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of mixed-precision numerical linear algebra routines, including the underlying concepts, theoretical background, and experimental results for both dense and sparse linear algebra problems.