Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estimation of r espiratory r hythm during n ight s leep u sing a b io-radar

An assessment of bio-radiolocation monitoring of respiratory rhythm during sleep is given. Full-night respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP) and bio-radiolocation (BRL) records were collected simultaneously in a sleep laboratory. Polysomnography data from 5 subjects without sleep breathing disorders were used. A multi-frequency bioradar with step frequency modulation was applied. It has 8 operating frequencies ranging from 3.6 to 4.0 GHz. BRL data are recorded in two quadratures. Respiratory cycles were detected in time domain. Obtained data was used for the evaluation of correlation between BRL and RIP respiration rate estimates. Strong correlation between corresponding time series was revealed. BRL method is reliably implemented for estimation of respiratory rhythm and respiratory rate variability during full night sleep.
Reliability based optimization of a hat stiffened panel

This article is the first of its kind that treats hat stiffened panel in reliability based optimization (RBO). This panel is used in aerospace and marine structure. Along RBO, a deterministic optimization of this panel is performed. These optimization methods are based on a polynomial metamodel. Panel optimization aims to maximize its rigidity and minimize its weight. The variables vector contains the panel geometric dimensions. Uniform distributions are associated to geometric variables and materials densities of the panel. The results of these two optimization types are compared to show the influence of inputs uncertainties on the optimum design. RBO is performed using two methods; The first being a combination of Monte-Carlo simulation to propagate uncertainty and NSGA2 to find optimum points. The second uses analytic calculation to propagate uncertainty and bi-objective Normal boundary intersection to find the Pareto front. The latter outperforms the first and produces an exact Pareto front with a better execution time.
Full State antum Circuit Simulation by Using Lossy Data Compression Extended Abstract

In order to evaluate, validate, and rene the design of a new quantum algorithm or a quantum computer, researchers and developers need methods to assess their correctness and delity. is requires the capabilities of simulation for full quantum state amplitudes. However, the number of quantum state amplitudes increases exponentially with the number of qubits, leading to the exponential growth of the memory requirement. In this work, we present our technique to simulate more qubits than previously reported by using lossy data compression. Our empirical data suggests that we can simulate full state quantum circuits up to 63 qubits with 0.8 petabytes memory.
Phylogeny of Japanese Ant Crickets ( Orthoptera : Myrmecophilidae ) : Diversification in Host Specificity and Habitat Use by

Ant crickets (Myrmecophilidae, Orthoptera) are typical ant guests. Although ten species (all belonging to genus Myrmecophilus) have recently been described from Japan, their phylogeny and the extent of host specificity are not known. Here, we reconstruct mtDNA phylogeny of 48 individuals from six species to examine their host specificity, habitat use, and congruence of mtDNA lineages with the morphological species. The cytb phylogeny reveals seven well-supported lineages that in part do not corroborate morphological taxonomy. M. kubotai was split into two distinct mtDNA lineages which differ in their host specificity: one (lineage F) mainly parasitizes Tetramorium tsushimae (Myrmicinae) and the other (lineage E) parasitizes several species of Formicine ants. Five out of the seven Myrmecophilus lineages did not have significant host-specificity, although lineages C and the above mentioned F both preferably parasitized T. tsushimae. Preference for light environment was significant for three cricket lineages. Although ant crickets are not diverse in their morphology, these results demonstrate that they have diversified in host specificity and habitat use.
Evaluation Of Different Crossbreed Beef Bulls Based On Physical And BioChemical Properties Of Semen At BLRI Cattle Research Farm

Development of livestock is a crying need at present because global demand for animal proteins is increasing day by day.A crucial component of efficient calf production is high quality bull semen for successful fertilization and improved herd health. The investigation was aimed to evaluate the bulls for breeding soundness by assessing their fresh semen. 15 different genotypes beef bulls of (pure breed BCB-1, Limousin cross, Charolais cross, Simmental cross and Brahman cross) were examined physically with a special emphasis to the palpation of the scrotum and testicles and rectal palpation of the pelvic genitalia were carried out once every two weeks. Semen quality parameters (SQPs) such as physico-morphological parameters (motility, viability, total sperm abnormality, sperm concentration) vanguard distance travelled by sperm and biochemical parameters [aspartate amino transaminase (AST), alanine amino transaminase (ALT) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP)] were studied in these five genotypes of beef bulls. Semen ejaculates were collected and SQPs analyzed by Hamilton-thorn computer assisted semen analyzer and seminal plasma was separated and preserved at -20 0 C until analysis. Mean value of semen ejaculate volume among five different genotypes of beef bulls varied from 4.25-9.33 ml. Range of mean value of pH among the bulls were 6.56. 85. Highest mean value of sperm concentration 362.76 mil/ml was found in Limuosin cross and highest percent motility (53.48%) was also found in Limousin cross. Among these biochemical parameters of seminal plasma, the highest level of ALT (35.67 ±1.52) U/I was found in Simmental cross and the highest level of AST (51 ±4.12) U/I was found in Charolaisbutthe lowest level of ALT (25.7±2.11)U/I and AST (22.8±2.7)U/I both was found in Limousin cross. The highest level of ALP (2116 ±1.52) U/I in seminal plasma among five different breeds of beef bulls was found in Simmental cross and the lowest level of ALP (987.7±2.36)U/Iwas found in Brahman cross. These three parameters are negatively correlated with semen quality. The mean highest level of LDH was found in Limousin (97.2±3.92)U/I. Thus the semen of Limousin cross was better than others and can be used for crypreservation and artifical insemination which would facilitate the development of the beef bulls kept in BLRI.
Applied technologies OPU-IVF for livestock industry and early pregnancy diagnosis by ultrasonography in cattle

In recent decades, the development of a practical system for calf production using ovum pick-up and in vitro fertilization has contributed to a worldwide increase in the activity of embryo transfer and genetic improvement in cattle industry. According to the latest statistics of the International Embryo Transfer Society, in the year 2013 the half of the total embryos produced (also transferred) for transfer in the world were derived from OPU-IVF. The success of embryo production by OPU-IVF greatly depends on the efficacy of each technology involved, such as the number of healthy oocytes aspirated from the follicles during OPU and the culture conditions during in vitro maturation, IVF and subsequent embryo culture. After the transfer of produced embryos to the recipient cows, an early pregnancy diagnosis is important to save breeding costs for farmers by improving reproductive efficiency. For this purpose, the use of an ultrasonography is beneficial not only for the detection of early pregnancy but also for the determination of fetus sex and twin pregnancy. Compared with rectal palpation, an ultrasonography enables a more accurate evaluation of normality of embryonic/fetal development with less damage to the ovary and uterus. This paper describes an applied protocol for OPU-IVF technology and early pregnancy diagnosis developed to enhance the genetic improvement and reproductive management in cattle.
Method of preparation of mucoadhesive microspheres of Metoprolol tartarate Ionotropic gelation method

The purpose of this research was to prepare and evaluate mucoadhesive microspheres of Metaprolol tartarate an antihypertensive drug for prolonged residence time and sustained drug release. Microspheres were prepared by Ionotropic gelation technique using sodium alginate, HPMC K4M as polymers in varying ratios. The microspheres were evaluated for its percentage yield, drug entrapment efficiency, particle size and shape, in vitro mucoadhesion study and in vitro drug release studies. The mucoadhesive microspheres showed particle size, drug entrapment efficiency and yield in the ranges of 280.14 – 596.16 μm, 55.47 – 88.36 % and 78.16 – 87.06 % respectively. In vitro drug release and mucoadhesion study confirms formulation F13 was the best formulation as it releases 97.96 % at the end of 12 hr. in controlled manner and percentage mucoadhesion of 76.13 % after 10 hr. This confirms the developed Metaprolol tartarate mucoadhesive microspheres are promising drug delivery system for oral sustained administration of Metaprolol tartarate.
Predictively Coordinated Vehicle Acceleration and Lane Selection Using Mixed Integer Programming

Autonomous vehicle technology provides the means to optimize motion planning beyond human capacity. In particular, the problem of navigating multi-lane traffic optimally for trip time, energy efficiency, and collision avoidance presents challenges beyond those of single-lane roadways. For example, the host vehicle must simultaneously track multiple obstacles, the drivable region is non-convex, and automated vehicles must obey social expectations. Furthermore, reactive decision-making may result in becoming stuck in an undesirable traffic position. This paper presents a fundamental approach to these problems using model predictive control with a mixed integer quadratic program at its core. Lateral and longitudinal movements are coordinated to avoid collisions, track a velocity and lane, and minimize acceleration. Vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity provides a preview of surrounding vehicles’ motion. Simulation results show a 79% reduction in congestion-induced travel time and an 80% decrease in congestion-induced fuel consumption compared to a rule-based approach.
A mass-balanced ecosystem model for the Kerguelen Plateau

Ecosystem models are useful tools for making informed management decisions regardingthe potential effects of environmental change and fishing activity on Southern Oceanecosystems. Recent work has successfully updated an existing Ecopath model for theKerguelen exclusive economic zone from an unbalanced to a balanced model state (whereenergy inputs equal outputs). This balanced model details food-web dynamics in theKerguelen Island region using species biomass and diet information. In this paper wepresent this balanced model as well as an evaluation of food-web structure and functionusing tools found in Ecopath. Energy flows in the model suggest that the Kerguelen Islandfood web is smaller and more mature than other sub-Antarctic food webs and the impactsof direct and indirect interactions on functional groups highlighted the importance ofcephalopods in the food web. This model is currently undergoing an expansion to includethe entire northern region of the Kerguelen Plateau.
Serratia marcescens B 4 A chitinase thermostability enhancement by S 390 I QuikChange site directed mutagenesis

Thermostable chitinases are useful for industrial and biotechnological applications. This paper reports the stabilization of chitinase from Serratia marcescens B4A through rational mutagenesis. Changing of Ser 390 to Ile in S. marcescens. The stabilization was enhanced through entropic stabilization by reduction of the loop length and also by increasing of the beta chain length. With this replacement, polar uncharged residue changed to non-polar one and increased the hydrophobic interactions. Furthermore Isoleucine has branched β-carbon that restricts the backbone conformation more than non-branched residues. Finally all of these factors lead to entropic stabilization and thermal stabilization. The results exhibited that the optimal temperature and pH for enzyme activity of native chitinase were not changed by mutagenesis which showed that mutation didn’t affect the original characteristics of the enzyme, the Km values of native and mutant chitinase were different very little, showing that the affinity of enzyme towards the substrate and also the natural flexibility of chitinase did not change by mutation. Besides the Vmax value of the mutant chitinase was decreased, while its pH stability was increased briefly, but its thermal stability was increased remarkably. Mutation made chitinase to tolerate high temperatures up to 90 ° C. In addition its activity was increased at 50 ° C, 60 ° C for 120 min and up to 2 hours of incubation period and the mutant chitinase demonstrated a high level of activity at 60 ° C. These results show that entropic stabilization works well for chitinase and this approach may be generally applicable for stabilization of other proteins.
OLIVE OIL AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTICANCER AGENTS

The aim of this study was to evaluate the variations in quality parameters of olive oil extracted from two different olives varieties(Coratina and Picual) were followed at three different stages of maturity: free fatty acids %, peroxide value, K232, K270 and ΔK were decreased during maturation course. Fatty acids composition of olive oil samples were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC). Oleic acid was the major fatty acid and represented the monounsaturated fatty acid in both oil varieties followed by palmitic acid which represented the major saturated fatty acid. The total polyphenols level in early maturation stages was higher than late maturation stages for both varieties. Coratina olive oil had higher phenols content than Picual olive oil. Salycilic and oleuropein were the major identified phenolic compounds in both olive oils varieties followed by hydroxytyrosoland they were declined through maturation process. The antioxidant activity was evaluated by 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) in olive oils and olive oils phenolic extracts for both varieties. Olive oils and their phenols extracts had a higher antioxidant activity at the early stage of ripeness and this activity decreased with ripening progress. Phenols extracted from both olive oils exhibited an anticancer effect against four human carcinoma cell lines; intestinal, liver, prostate and colon cell lines.
The Effect of Branding on Orientation and Coaching : the Mediating Role of Hotel Culture

The Tourism industry in the Middle East has gone through a myriad of challenges in the last decade mostly attributed to the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring revolutions of 2010 in countries including Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Bahrain, were marred with protests and violence, sending the message that the nations involved were not safe places for visitors. The resulting insecurity restructured the region as susceptible and threatening. This led to a marked reduction in tourist arrivals and revenues, and as a consequence, job losses. Since then, lack of employment in the hospitality sector in Middle East region continues to be a big problem. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the theories of branding image and training, and as such, explore the concepts of branding, hotel culture, orientation and coaching among hotel employees in Northern Cyprus. The questionnaires for the study were distributed to the five-star hotels in Northern Cyprus. The PLS software was used in the analysis of the questionnaires and the study concluded that branding indeed affects hotel culture, coaching and orientation. The study also reached a number of recommendations including aligning the experiences of employees with brand promises, striving to adopt brand-specific leadership conducts, treating employees well and establishing formal systems.
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NiAl-TiB 2 COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Composite materials of nickel aluminide and titanium diboride were fabricated using spark plasma sintering at 1573K. Composition dependence of the bending strength, Vickers hardness and the indentation fracture toughness were investigated. The bending strength of NiAl increased rapidly with the addition of TiB2 up to 20vol% and decreased gradually by the further addition. This composition dependence of the bending strength was explained on the basis of the strengthening mechanisms due to grain refining of the matrix phase and stress transfer from the matrix to the reinforcement particles. The Vickers hardness increased with the amount of TiB2 and the highest value of 1600Hv was obtained for NiAl-78vol%TiB2. By the SEM observation, indentation cracks were observed in the composites containing TiB2 more than 56vol%. The fracture toughness of NiAl-56vol%TiB2 was 22MPa・m , which decreased to 15 MPa・m of NiAl-78vol%TiB2. It is conjectured that the decrease of the fracture toughness is related with the decrease of the bending strength.
Realistic Noisy Text Generation for Fortified NLP

Natural language processing (NLP) systems, especially neural models, are typically trained on carefully controlled clean data. However, in the real world, text is often noisy, which causes NLP systems to perform poorly. One way to alleviate this problem is to train NLP systems on noisy data, but real noisy training data is difficult to obtain and synthetic noise is often very unrealistic. In this project, we propose a VAE model for generating realistic human-like noise that can be used to make NLP systems more robust to noisy real world data. We evaluate the noise generated by our model on how human-like it is and how much it improves downstream NLP tasks. The preliminary improvements achieved by our model and by our baseline models suggest that this is a promising area of research. We further identify several ways to improve our proposed model for future publication.
Purification of CD 4 1 T Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Donor lymphocyte infusions (DLIs) are used for adoptive immunotherapy to prevent or treat relapse and infectious complications after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Unmanipulated DLIs are associated with a risk of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), probably related to CD8 T cell activity. We investigated an automated clinical-scale human-CD4-cell purification method to deplete CD8 cells. Twenty-four stem cell recipients received a total of 24 leukapheresis products being enriched for CD4 cells using magnetic associated cell sorting (MACS) with an automated device (CliniMACS ) before DLIs. MACS resulted in a mean CD4 cell count of 16 10/kg bw corresponding to 3.4-fold CD4 cell enrichment. Mean yield and purity of CD45CD3CD4CD147AADwere 74%6 23% and 82%6 11%, respectively. Median initial dose of DLIs was 1.1 10 CD4/kg. During a median follow-up of 25 months, 7 (30%) patients experienced GVHD (acute II-IV: n 5 4, 17%; acute III-IV: n 5 2, 8%; chronic limited: n 5 2, 8%; chronic extensive: n 5 1, 4%). Thirteen of 21 further evaluable patients (62%) showed measurable clinical response, 2 patients with therapy refractory infectious complications (HSV) showed remarkable immunologic improvement. Automated enrichment of CD4 by magnetic cell sorting provides an efficient and rapid method for processing donor lymphocytes. Additional studies should further investigate this approach in terms of efficacy and the risk of GVHD.
The Process Movement . A Critical Review

The recently (re)popularized process movement has its more or less evident progenitors in the quality movement and in the time-based movement. Altogether, an emphasis on horizontal processes that cut across traditional organizational functions could be argued to be common to all of these approaches. Compared with traditional post-war conceptualizations, processual approaches represent fundamentally different perspectives on organizations and strategy. Nowadays, managers are gradually beginning to perceive their organizations as portfolios of dynamic processes rather than static, vertically driven hierarchies. However, there is no consensus on how to approach business processes and related concepts either theoretically or in practice. One could argue that the discussion related to business processes, reengineering efforts, and the process organization still is at a quite premature stage. The major concepts and methodology related to the ”process movement” clearly need to be further developed and refined. Unless alternative, more versatile approaches are created, the entire process idea will soon be labeled a passing fashion, a buzz word from the beginning of the 1990s. Moreover, we also need a better understanding of the meaning of business processes in contemporary interorganizational business. Are they really worth all the attention they have been receiving in the 1990s? Thus, there is an obvious need for a revisionist summary of the central tenets of the so called process movement. The purpose of this article is to aim at filling that gap by critically discussing the background, central concepts and ideology behind the process-oriented perspective.
Market Orientation Culture : Its Position , Definition And Measurement For Service Firms In Zimbabwe

While marketers are debating on whether marketing should be viewed as both a philosophy of doing business or a set of functional tasks, there is an urgent need for understanding the market orientation culture by service firms and other marketers. Though many of these service firms and marketers are generally aspiring to fully adopt the market orientation culture they seem to be failing to achieve this position partly due to some misconceptions and lack of fundamental knowledge of its dimensions. Some questions asked include whether market orientation culture is the same as marketing concept, or the marketing mix and the customer orientation culture. This conceptual paper provides an explanation of the evolution of marketing concept, the elements of the market orientation culture, definition of market orientation culture and proposed scale for measuring market orientation culture for a service firm.
A Study on the Influence Factors of Short-Term International Capital Flows — The Evidence from Emerging Markets

This paper conducts an empirical analysis based on the balanced panel data of 18 emerging market economies between Q1, 2005 and Q3, 2017 to identify the influence factors of short-term international capital and discuss their time-varying characteristics. The system GMM model shows that short-term international capital is negatively correlated with the VIX (Volatility Index) and US real GDP growth rate, and is positively correlated with the appreciation of emerging markets’ currencies. The TVP-VAR model shows that short-term international capital has positive impulse response to its own changes, appearing “herd effect”, and has the largest impulse response to US GDP growth, VIX, US dollar appreciation and itself within two quarters, which are all consistent with the variability of itself. What’s more, the VIX exhibits obvious time-varying characteristics. The financial crisis expands the influence of VIX and the US GDP growth rate, and the first round of QE amplifies the influence of VIX.