Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sanitary and Nutritional Characterization of Commercial Kwamegi from Pacific Herring Clupea pallasii

The objective of this study was to investigate the sanitary and nutritional requirements for the industrialization of commercial kwamegi from Pacific herring Clupea pallasii (CK-PH). The proximate composition of CK-PH was 46.4-47.2% moisture, 24.7-25.6% crude protein, 23.6-25.2% crude lipid, and 2.5-2.9% ash, which differed significantly from that of commercial kwamegi from the Pacific saury Cololabis saira. According to the volatile basic nitrogen content, heavy metal content, and viable cell and coliform group counts, products K and F (prepared by a general process) maintained their freshness, whereas product T (treated with green tea extract) did not. Products K and F contained five types of biogenic amine: agmatine sulfate (2,596 and 2,067 mg/kg, respectively), putrescine dihydrochloride (8.5 and 8.0 mg/kg, respectively), cadaverine (3.7 and 3.9 mg/kg, respectively), histamine (17.0 and 12.4 mg/kg, respectively), and spermidine (8.7 and 8.0 mg/kg, respectively). Product T contained six amine types: tyramine (12.5 mg/kg), agmatine sulfate (2,723 mg/kg), putrescine dihydrochloride (29.4 mg/kg), cadaverine (321.6 mg/kg), histamine (45.3 mg/kg), and spermidine (13.6 mg/kg). The total amino acid content of product K (22.16/100g) was 5.8% lower than that of product F. The major amino acids of products K and F were aspartic acid, glutamic acid, leucine, and lysine. No difference was found in the fatty acid composition of products K and F. The major fatty acids in products K and F were 18:1n-9, 20:5n-3, and 22:6n-3. Based on the recommended daily dietary allowances for Koreans, the significant minerals in products K and F were calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium.
Effective Permittivity of Biological Tissue: Comparison of Theoretical Model and Experiment

Permittivity of biological tissue is a critical issue for studying the biological effects of electromagnetic fields. Many theories and experiments were performed to measure or explain the permittivity characteristics in biological tissue. In this paper, we investigate the permittivity parameter in biological tissues via theoretical and experimental analysis. Firstly, we analyze the permittivity characteristic in tissue by using theories on composite material. Secondly, typical biological tissues, such as blood, fat, liver, and brain, are measured by HP4275A Multi-Frequency LCR Meter within 10 kHz to 10 MHz. Thirdly, experimental results are compared with the Bottcher-Bordewijk model, the Skipetrov equation, and the Maxwell-Gannett theory. From the theoretical perspective, blood and fat are regarded as the composition of liver and brain because of the high permittivity in blood and the opposite in fat. Volume fraction of blood in liver and brain is analyzed theoretically, and the applicability and the limitation of the models are also discussed. These results benefit further study on local biological effects of electromagnetic fields.
A Charge-Pump Type AC-DC Converter for Remote Power Feeding to a RFID Tag

In RFID (Radio Frequency Identiflcation) tag systems, remote power feeding systems using RF electromagnetic induction are used. To convert an AC voltage provided by power receiving coils, AC-DC converters which supply the electric power to signal processing circuits are needed. In conventional ACDC converters, however, the decrease in the power e‐ciency caused by the threshold voltage of diodeswitches is a serious problem. In this paper, a chargepump type AC-DC converter for RFID tags is proposed. By using novel bootstrap circuits, the proposed converter can avoid the threshold voltage drop caused by diode-switches. Hence the power e‐ciency of the converter is improved efiectively. The validity of the proposed converter is conflrmed through SPICE simulations. The SPICE simulations showed that the power e‐ciency of the proposed converter is more than 85 % and the electric power is about 2mW when an output load is 500 ›. Furthermore, the properties concerning power e‐ciency and ripple voltage are analyzed theoretically.
Industrial structures and dynamics:evidence, interpretations and puzzles

GIOVANNI D O S I , 1 FRANCO MALERBA, ORIETTA MARSILI and LUIGI ORSENIGO 4 ('Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universita degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Via A. Cesalpino 12/14,1-00161 Roma, University of Brescia and CESPRI, Bocconi University, Milan, ^Department of Public Economics, University of Rome, Italy and SPRU, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK and Istituto di Economia Politica, Bocconi University, Via Gobbi 5, 20136 Milan, Italy)
The Effectiveness of PREPARE-ENRICH Program on Subjective Well-Being and Sexual Self-Efficacy of Iranian Couples

In this study with control group pre-test/post-test design, we aimed to study the effectiveness of PREPARE-ENRICH program developed by Olson (1996) on subjective well-being and sexual self-efficacy of couples. Participants were 30 couples supported by the Department of Social Welfare in Tonekabon County in Mazandaran Province of Iran who were referred to the department during 2014. They were divided into two experimental and control groups each had 15 subjects. The experimental group received PREPARE/ENRICH program once a week for seven weeks each session had 90 minutes, while the control group received no intervention. Then both groups were assessed by Persian version of Ryff scale of psychological well-being (long form) and Vaziri-Lotfi (2010)’s Persian language sexual self-efficacy questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed using statistical tests (mean, standard deviation, and MANCOVA, and ANCOVA) in SPSS v.16 software. After conducting the program, statistical results showed a significant difference between two groups in subjective well-being and sexual self-efficacy (P 0.01) and was successful in improving these factors among Iranian couples.
Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age

1. The 1900s 2. The 1910s 3. The 1920s 4. The 1930s 5. The 1940s 6. The 1950s 7. The 1960s 8. The 1970s 9. The 1980s 10. The 1990s and 2000s
Evaluation of the socio-economic impact of innovative hydrid surgical techniques : methodological developments and application to the IHU Strasbourg

With constant rises in healthcare expenditures, the creation and use of innovative technologies in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is increasingly dependent on our ability to demonstrate their efficiency and evaluate their impacts. To date, as we show throughout this thesis, the economic literature has not provided decision makers and analysts with the adequate tools to perform such evaluations.Our work combines the best aspects of health economics and economics of innovation to establish a common methodological framework for the evaluation of hybrid innovations in MIS. Using the Institute of Image Guided Surgery (IHU Strasbourg) as a base for our investigations, we create the groundwork for a comprehensive cost-benefit evaluation covering the institute’s patient care and R\&D activities.The use of the tools developed in this thesis will allow the IHU, or any other surgical institute, to provide advocacy for these types of activities by demonstrating that the socio-economic impacts of a surgical innovation can possibly outweigh the additional cost it incurs to the healthcare system.
Medieval Persian Texts and Modern Contexts: Mohammad Qazvini and the Modern Reception of Chahār Maqāle (The Four Discourses)

Medieval Persian Texts and Modern Contexts: Mohammad Qazvini and the Modern Reception of Chahār Maqāle (The Four Discourses) Sima Daad Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Leroy F. Searle Department of English and Comparative Literature This five-chapter dissertation engages two conventionally separated fields— Modern Perso-Islamic textual criticism inaugurated by Mohammed Qazvini in the context of early 20 th –century Iran and Orientalist scholarship, and post-modernist literary theory—to examine the significance of Chahār Maqāle for the intellectual discourse of modernity in Iran. Modern Textual Criticism applies its scientific philological research to the historical restoration of texts, ordinarily in a systematic method of excavation, documentation and establishment of the textual history, removal of non-authorial interpolations, avoidance of personal influence, and restoration of an original-authorial text. Post-modernist literary theory provides analytical tools for reading texts and editions within their respective milieux as historical products capable of trans-historical continuity. In particular this dissertation argues that the original and the reproduced versions of the text each reveals nuances of a particular historical moment that are not directly retrievable from antiquity, yet both versions share a continuing concern for recovering elements of Iranian identity, frequently obscured by the effects of a long history of Islamization. By deconstructing the rhetoric, form and structure in Chahār Maqāle in the milieu of its production, this interdisciplinary study explicates several layers of authorial and non-authorial intentionality in the work and argues that Qazvini’s interest in this text was partly due to such textual potentials. Critical discourse analysis of Qazvini’s methodological techniques and critical views in the context of Iranians’ transformation in the modern nation-state era shows that Qazvini’s reception and reconstruction of this text was the convergence of a response to the purist tendency in the modern discourse of Iranian national identity, and the continuum of Iranians’ collective endeavor to grasp Iran as a distinct cultural and political entity. Qazvini’s Perso-Islamic model of identity, discernible from his critical views and methodology, gained momentum in the 1920s through Berlin based journals, and in the 1930s through cultural activities under Rezā Shah’s nationalism agenda. By applying cultural understanding to text and textual criticism, the dissertation also challenges the disciplinary character of current Iranian studies, certain philological premises of traditional textual criticism, and the restricted and problematic view of authorial intentionality in current literary theory.
Compression automatique ou semi-automatique de textes par élagage des constituants effaçables : une approche interactive et indépendante des corpus

Le travail s'inscrit dans le domaine du traitement automatique du langage naturel et traite plus specifiquement d'une application de ce dernier au resume automatique de textes. L'originalite de la these consiste a s'attaquer a une variete fort peu exploree, la compression de textes, par une technique non supervisee. Ce travail propose un systeme incremental et interactif d'elagage de l'arbre syntagmatique des phrases, tout en preservant la coherence syntaxique et la conservation du contenu informationnel important. Sur le plan theorique, le travail s'appuie sur la theorie du gouvernement de Noam Chomsky et plus particulierement sur la representation formelle de la theorie X-barre pour aboutir a un fondement theorique important pour un modele computationnel compatible avec la compression syntaxique de phrases. Le travail a donne lieu a un logiciel operationnel, nomme COLIN, qui propose deux modalites : une compression automatique, et une aide au resume sous forme semi-automatique, dirigee par l'interaction avec l'utilisateur. Le logiciel a ete evalue grâce a un protocole complexe par 25 utilisateurs benevoles. Les resultats de l'experience montrent que 1) la notion de resume de reference qui sert aux evaluations classiques est discutable 2) les compressions semi-automatiques ont ete fortement appreciees 3) les compressions totalement automatiques ont egalement obtenu de bons scores de satisfaction. A un taux de compression superieur a 40% tous genres confondus, COLIN fournit un support appreciable en tant qu'aide a la compression de textes, ne depend d'aucun corpus d'apprentissage, et presente une interface convivial.
A snapshot of visual arts education in Tasmanian K-6 classrooms

This paper reports the analysis of a 2013-14 survey of Tasmanian general early childhood and primary teachers regarding their use of the visual arts in their classrooms. The sample for this survey consisted of primary schools in the Department of Education, Catholic and Independent systems in Tasmania, and whilst there is a reported bias in these data due to the optional nature of participation it is possible to draw conclusions based upon the findings. Data indicated that the vast majority of respondents positively valued the visual arts in their practice, they were included at least once per week in their classrooms and the majority of respondents integrated the visual arts with other curriculum areas when taught. Pre-service training, self-efficacy, practicum experience and „valuing‟ of the visual arts all played a role in determining the amount of visual arts taught in classrooms. Finally, these data suggest that school support for the visual arts does affect its inclusion. Those who rated school support as „very well supported‟ or „supported‟ (10, or 24.4%) had a teacher or senior staff member who supported the visual arts, they also had better resources, a better budget, and they enjoyed more collaboration with other staff.
A few aspects concerning the modeling of thermal stability control for a low voltage ZnO varistor

ZnO based varistors are today the most common technical solution for making state of the art surge arresters for all voltage levels, due to some advantages like a high non-linearity coefficient and a high energy absorption capacity. Due to their thermal activated conduction, the control of heat dissipation inside that semiconductor device is crucial for its service. Heat dissipation control could be done only by modeling the thermal and electrical status of the varistor in case of some special and original configurations. The new configuration proposed in this paper consists in a disc varistor with an additional brass mass used for heat extraction and dissipation. This paper presents the finite-element model used for the direct control of heat dissipation, as well as some experimental results.
Validity of automated x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy algorithm to determine the amount of substance and the depth distribution of atoms

The author reports a systematic study of the range of validity of a previously developed algorithm for automated x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis, which takes into account the variation in both peak intensity and the intensity in the background of inelastically scattered electrons. This test was done by first simulating spectra for the Au4d peak with gold atoms distributed in the form of a wide range of nanostructures, which includes overlayers with varying thickness, a 5 A layer of atoms buried at varying depths and a substrate covered with an overlayer of varying thickness. Next, the algorithm was applied to analyze these spectra. The algorithm determines the number of atoms within the outermost 3 λ of the surface. This amount of substance is denoted AOS3λ (where λ is the electron inelastic mean free path). In general the determined AOS3λ is found to be accurate to within ∼10–20% depending on the depth distribution of the atoms. The algorithm also determines a characteristic length L, which wa.
Anisotropic Characteristics of Turbulence Dissipation in Swirling Flow: A Direct Numerical Simulation Study

This study investigates the anisotropic characteristics of turbulent energy dissipation rate in a rotating jet flow via direct numerical simulation. The turbulent energy dissipation tensor, including its eigenvalues in the swirling flows with different rotating velocities, is analyzed to investigate the anisotropic characteristics of turbulence and dissipation. In addition, the probability density function of the eigenvalues of turbulence dissipation tensor is presented. The isotropic subrange of PDF always exists in swirling flows relevant to small-scale vortex structure. Thus, with remarkable large-scale vortex breakdown, the isotropic subrange of PDF is reduced in strongly swirling flows, and anisotropic energy dissipation is proven to exist in the core region of the vortex breakdown. More specifically, strong anisotropic turbulence dissipation occurs concentratively in the vortex breakdown region, whereas nearly isotropic turbulence dissipation occurs dispersively in the peripheral region of the strong swirling flows.
How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?

We estimate the effects of childcare enrollment on child outcomes by exploiting a staggered childcare expansion across regions in Japan. We find that childcare improves language development among boys and reduces aggression and the symptoms of ADHD among the children of low-education mothers. Estimates show that the improved child behavior is strongly associated with better parenting quality and maternal wellbeing. Evidence also suggests that promoting positive parenting practices is an important element of an effective childcare program. Our estimates for marginal treatment effects indicate that children who would benefit most from childcare are less likely to attend, implying inefficient allocation.
A 500 SCHOOLS PROJECT: UNCOVERING TEACHERS’ CHALLENGES IN ADMINISTERING THE ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Standardized assessments are becoming a norm internationally. Governments have turned to standardized assessments due to mounting pressure by citizens for accountability, quality education, transparency and increased public confidence in education. In South Africa, the observed learning deficiencies and prolonged performance declines have prompted the Department of Basic Education to resort to standardized testing as an option to respond to the pressing educational problems. The Annual National Assessment (ANA) is a state-mandated standardized tool to measure learners’ competency in selected subjects and to improve the quality of instruction. While standardized tests are generally perceived as being educationally profitable, this paper presents perceptual views of teachers and school principals collected using a qualitative research approach. A focus group method for data collection was opted in which six mathematics teachers in Grade 3 and seven members of School Management Teams participated. The findings of the study revealed that participants believed ANA tests help them neither to achieve competency in learning nor to secure excellence in teaching. In particular, teachers’ views suggested that the ANA testers are more obsessed about valuing the measure rather than measuring the value of educational processes. Hence, the consequential outcome is that teaching and learning activities are geared towards fitting the formats of testing procedures. These findings resonate with existing concerns in the literature.
Fiber-optic surface plasmon resonant sensor with low-index anti-oxidation coating

A multimode fiber-optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor with a MgF2 film as a modulated layer is studied. The fiber-optic SPR sensor is investigated theoretically, specifically the influence of the dielectric protecting layer, using a four-layer model. The sensor is then fabricated with the optimal parameters suggested by the theoretical simulation. The sensor has a high sensitivity in the analyte refractive index (RI) range of 1.33-1.40. The best sensitivity of 4 464 nm/RIU is achieved in the experiment. The use of dielectric film (MgF2) can not only modulate the resonance wavelength of the sensor, but also protect the silver film from oxidation.
Estimation of manpower wastage using cox’s approach

The usage of Cox’s Regression Model is to Estimate the wastage of the organization. In any organization wastage occurs mainly in two forms voluntary or involuntary wastage. Voluntary wastage may be due to an individual’s decision to quit the job or due to voluntary retirement whereas involuntary wastage may happen due to retrenchment, retirement or death of the person etc., In manpower planning, one of the most important variables is completed length of service (CLS) on leaving a job, since it enables us to predict staff turnover. In this paper to analyze and predict the pattern of manpower wastage using Cox’s approach to Exponential-Gamma and ExponentialHalf Log Logistic distribution. A real software industrial data has been used to validate the above models.
Enhanced pulsar and single pulse detection via automated radio frequency interference detection in multipixel feeds

Single pixel feeds on large aperture radio telescopes have the ability to detect weak (∼10 mJy) impulsive bursts of radio emission and sub-mJy radio pulsars. Unfortunately, in large-scale blind surveys, radio frequency interference (RFI) mimics both radio bursts and radio pulsars, greatly reducing the sensitivity to new discoveries as real signals of astronomical origin get lost among the millions of false candidates. In this paper a technique that takes advantage of multipixel feeds to use eigenvector decomposition of common signals is used to greatly facilitate radio burst and pulsar discovery. Since the majority of RFI occurs with zero dispersion, the method was tested on the total power present in the 13 beams of the Parkes multibeam receiver using data from archival intermediate-latitude surveys. The implementation of this method greatly reduced the number of false candidates and led to the discovery of one new rotating radio transient or RRAT, six new pulsars and five new pulses that shared the swept-frequency characteristics similar in nature to the `Lorimer burst'. These five new signals occurred within minutes of 11 previous detections of a similar type. When viewed together, they display temporal characteristics related to integer seconds, with non-random distributions and characteristic ‘gaps’ between them, suggesting they are not from a naturally occurring source. Despite the success in removing RFI, false candidates present in the data that are only visible after integrating in time or at non-zero dispersion remained. It is demonstrated that with some computational penalty, the method can be applied iteratively at all trial dispersions and time resolutions to remove the vast majority of spurious candidates.