Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE: SPATIAL PLANNING AND PLACEBRANDING:RETHINKINGRELATIONSANDSYNERGIES The dialogical relationship between spatial planning and place branding: conceptualizing regionalization discourses in Sweden

The aim of this paper is to offer an empirically grounded conceptualization of the dialogical relationship between spatial planning and place branding in the context of regionalization. The analysis displays the discursive nature of such relationship by highlighting the intertwining of spatial planning with place branding as strategic actions devoted to, and included in, regional development processes. The analysis is based on two cases in Sweden. The first is linked to the emergence of the brand ‘Stockholm, the Capital of Scandinavia’, and the other is linked to the emergence of the brand ‘Swedish Lapland’. By combining data collected longitudinally, these cases represent two contrasting examples of dialogical relationships that materialize through two distinct yet somehow similar strategic processes of regionalization. Based on the two cases, the paper presents and discusses an empirically driven, albeit conceptual, model that highlights the dialogical relationship of regionalization as regional strategic policy and points out its spatial and political evolutionary features.
Improving the quality of polycaprolactone nanofibres using glass ionomer label 1

In this study, the electrospinning of polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibres with different solvents and various ratios as well as electrospinning on the poly lactic acid plate are investigated for use on the wounds. Utilising several materials at various concentrations, including dimethylformamide–methylene chloride solvent and methylene chloride and methanol solvent, electrospinning of PCL nanofibres are performed. The results show that the obtained fibres have a large number of beaded fibres when using the dimethylformamide–methylene solvent. However, the beaded fibres reduced for methylene chloride and methanol solvent. After adding the glass ionomer label 1 and ciprofloxacin, the beaded fibres intensively decline and also Young's modulus reaches a maximum value (5.2 MPa). Therefore, the combination of glass ionomer label 1 and ciprofloxacin with the methylene chloride and methanol solvent can provide very interesting results to reduce the number of beaded fibres, which show the combination is very suitable for use in wounds.
Essays on Judgment and Decision Making

Judgment and choice under uncertainty does not occur in a vacuum—instead, it occurs amidst a rich web of social and contextual cues that profoundly shape how individuals navigate their worlds. Each of the essays in this dissertation, while primarily intended as an independent research project, examines how social and contextual factors shape fundamental judgments and choices. The first examines how accountability pressures shape decisions characterized by ambiguity, when the probabilities associated with decision options are vague or unknown. While prior work has shown that accountability amplifies ambiguity aversion, this essay, based on the flexible contingency model, predicts that accountability amplifies ambiguity aversion only under certain conditions. It finds in four experiments that, while accountability amplifies ambiguity aversion when decision makers lack knowledge about the decision domain, accountability actually attenuates ambiguity aversion when decision makers are highly knowledgeable. The second essay examines the influence of observation on decisions involving trade-offs between the values of equality and efficiency. In an extension of the value pluralism model, it finds that observation increases equal (yet inefficient) allocations, even with real financial stakes. Further, it finds that choosing equality is, on average, a politically savvy response to observation— observers trust equal allocators more than efficient allocators. The third essay examines how task flow affects judgments of the ideas and contributions of others. Results from seven experiments with both lay and expert individuals show that committing to one’s own point of view before evaluating a peer’s judgment or choice (relative to the reverse order), leads evaluators to
An improved closed loop hybrid phase shift controller for dual active bridge converter

In this paper, a new closed loop hybrid phase shift control is proposed for dual active bridge (DAB) converter with variable input voltage. The extended phase shift (EPS) control is applied when load gets heavy enough and the secondary side phase shift angle decreases to zero. When this modified DAB converter operates at light loads, the triple phase shift (TPS) modulation method is applied, and the added control freedom is the secondary phase shift angle between the two-secondary side switching legs. The hybrid phase shift control (HPS) scheme is a combination of EPS and TPS modulations, and it provides a very simple closed form implementation for the primary and secondary side phase shift angles. Depending on the application by changing the phase shift angles we can achieve Buck or Boost operation. A characteristic table feedback control method has been used for closed loop operation. By using 1D look up table the proposed DAB converter provides constant 400V for any given input voltage.
Determination and Comparison of Tooth Size and Tooth Size Ration in Normal Occlusion and Different Malocclusion Groups

Objectives: To determine and compare mesiodistal tooth width and the tooth size ratio in a Bangladeshi population. Materials and methods: The study employed the pretreatment dental casts of 260 Bangladeshi individuals, being 125 males and 135 females (age range, 18 - 24 year, mean age = 20). The records used belong to 100 subjects with class I normal occlusion. Sixty subject with class I malocclusion, including those who showed crowding more than 5 mm and 30 subjects each with class II, class III and 40 subjects with bimaxillary protrusion. Main outcome measure: The mesiodistal dimension recorded was the maximum mesiodistal dimension of each tooth when measurement was affected parallel to the occlusal and labial surfaces. The Bolton anterior ratio and overall ratio were determined. Results and conclusion: Descriptive statistics (Means and standard deviation) and comparison of mesiodistal tooth width of the maxillary and mandibular arch, tooth size ratio in normal occlusion and different malocclusion groups were presented. The results indicated that the mesiodistal tooth width were consistently larger in male subjects, there were no statistical significant differences in the mesiodistal tooth width of normal occlusion and malocclusion groups with exception only in lower fist molar between class I malocclusion and class II. The results also revealed that Bangladeshi samples are quite discrete to Bolton's conventional data, indicating the Bolton analysis for Caucasian samples cannot be applied on Bangladeshi population. Clinical relevance: These measurements will allow clinicians to use specific standards in diagnosis and treatment planning that is most appropriate for their patients.
Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis with gangrene: an autopsy case

Abstract We describe an autopsy case of a 75-year-old female with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) and gangrene due to macrovascular involvement. She was diagnosed with lcSSc complicated with pulmonary arterial hypertension and digital ulcers 9 years before admission. She had recurrent and refractory lower limb ulcers (LLUs), and died because of sepsis caused by gangrene infection. Autopsy findings revealed severely thickened arterial walls of the visceral organs, consistent with vascular involvement of SSc. Systemic vascular involvement in lcSSc may progress in patients with LLUs who harbour several risk factors for vascular involvement.
Preliminary results of Refrapy - an open-source program for seismic refraction data analysis

Refrapy is a multiplatform package of open-source programs developed with Python 3.4 for seismic refraction data processing. The algorithm presented allows the processing of seismic sections, picking of first arrivals of refracted waves and inversion by least squares method to generate a model of velocities up to two layers. The objective of the work was to create an open-source program for refraction data processing. The program was applied for the processing of synthetic and real data. A well established seismic data processing software was used as reference to compare the calculated velocity models. The results presented by our open-source program were compatible with the results of the commercial package used as reference, both for real and synthetic data analysis.
Signature activities of 20S proteasome include degradation of the ubiquitin-tag with the protein under hypoxia

Careful removal of unwanted proteins is necessary for cell survival. The primary constitutive intracellular protease is the 26S proteasome complex, often found in equilibrium with its free catalytic subcomplex– the 20S core particle. Protein degradation by 26S is tightly regulated by prior ubiquitination of substrates, whereas 20S is amenable to substrates with an unstructured segment. Differentiating their contributions to intracellular proteolysis is challenging due to their common catalytic sites. Here, by chemically synthesizing a synoptic set of homogenous ubiquitinated proteins, we ascribe signature features to 20S function and demonstrate a unique property: degrading the ubiquitin-tag along with the target protein. Cryo-EM confirms that a ubiquitinated substrate can induce asymmetric conformational changes to 20S. Mass-spectrometry of intracellular peptidome under hypoxia and in human failing heart identifies the signature properties of 20S in cells. Moreover, the ability of 20S proteasome to clear toxic proteins rapidly, contributes to better survival under these conditions.
Vision - A space for digital learning and exploring pedagogies: Virtual world education

The Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) was established in 2009. Members of the group have written papers for ASCILITE conferences since 2010. Each paper’s intention is to provide an overview on using virtual worlds in higher education, especially the practical aspects of incorporating 3D worlds to enhance student learning. This VWWG’s paper looks at a virtual world as a space for digital learning and exploratory pedagogy – meaning, that the authors perhaps do not perceive virtual worlds as ordinary. However, they do acknowledge that those who do not regularly engage in virtual worlds may see it as new and innovative, perhaps even untested ground, but still with a degree of unfamiliarity. A survey was sent to the members of the VWWG in which the narratives have provided rich data for in depth understanding. The themes focused in the survey were ‘disruptive thinking’, ‘emerging ideas’ and ‘lateral connections’, from the perspective of the respondents’ experiences in the implementation of virtual worlds in education. They discuss the idea of a virtual world used in education as a new treasure, or perhaps it has been in use for some time and now classified as traditional.
PEMANFAATAN PANAS BUANG BOILER MINI MENJADI LISTRIK DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN PELTIER ELEMENT (PE)

Thermoelektrik adalah Teknologi yang bekerja dengan mengkonversi energi panas menjadi energi listrik secara langsung. Pembangkit Thermoelektrik bekerja berdasarkan efek seebeck dimana jika terdapat dua buah material atau lempeng logam yang tersambung pada lingkungan dengan suhu yang berbeda maka akan menimbulkan aliran arus listrik didalam material tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memanfaatkan panas buangan menjadi aliran listrik dengan menggunakan silencer knalpot, 2 buah elemen Peltier TEG SP1848 21745 SA, dan boiler mini sebagai sumber panas pengujian alat. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa dengan 2 buah elemen Peltier TEG SP1848 21745 SA yang disusun secara pararel menghasilkan arus maksimum 35,7 mA dan temperatur berbanding lurus dengan aliran arus listrik dan dapat dinyatakan dalam analogi aliran listrik Hukum Ohm II dimana . Metode Penelitian yang dilakukan dengan metode eksperimental. Pengujian dilakukan di Workshop Politeknik Kelapa Sawit Citra Widya Edukasi dengan waktu pengujian selama 10 menit dan pengambilan data setiap 1 menit.
Prevalence of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus species isolated from urine samples in a tertiary care hospital, Western India

Background: Enterococci have emerged as an important cause of nosocomial infections, and antibiotic resistance Enterococcus is a major obstacle for treatment. Objective: The present study was carried out to determine the species of Enterococci isolated from urine samples and to determine its multidrug-resistant pattern. Materials and Methods: Enterococcus spp. were isolated and identified from urine samples between February 2014 and June 2015 by the standard biochemical tests. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method as per the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines. Result: Among the 156 isolates, Enterococcus faecium constituted the predominant isolate. They were found to be susceptible to linezolid and vancomycin with least sensitive to ampicillin and ciprofloxacin. Conclusion: Routine speciation and in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Enterococcus in urine samples are emphasized due to the prevalence of a wide variety of Enterococcus species and also appearance of high-resistant strains.
Locally Private High-Dimensional Crowdsourced Data Release Based on Copula Functions

With the increasing popularity of crowdsourcing services, high-dimensional crowdsourced data provides a wealth of knowledge. Nonetheless, unprecedented privacy threats to participants have emerged, due to complex correlations among multiple attributes and the vulnerabilities of untrusted crowdsourcing servers. Differential privacy-based paradigms have been proposed to release privacy-preserving datasets with statistical approximation. Nonetheless, most existing schemes are limited when facing highly correlated attributes, and cannot prevent privacy threats from untrusted crowdsourcing servers. To address this issue, we propose two novel solutions, namely LoCop and DR_LoCop, which guarantee local differential privacy based on the randomized response technique while synthesizing and releasing high-dimensional crowdsourced data with high data utility. Particularly, LoCop leverages copula theory to synthesize high-dimensional crowdsourced data via univariate marginal distribution and attribute dependence. Univariate marginal distribution is estimated by the Lasso-based regression algorithm from aggregated privacy-preserving bit strings. Dependencies among attributes are modeled as multivariate Gaussian copula. Based on LoCop, the enhanced solution DR_LoCop not only takes advantage of C-vine copula to reflect conditional dependencies among high-dimensional attributes, but also achieves dimension reduction. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our solutions substantially outperform the state-of-the-art techniques in terms of both data utility and computational overhead.
Non-Soviet Perspectives on the Great Famine: A Comparative Analysis of British, Italian, Polish, and German Sources

Abstract The present contribution analyzes systematically diplomatic reports written by German, Italian, British, and Polish representatives in the Soviet Union at the time of the Great Famine. Based on both published documents and unpublished archival sources, the article examines comparatively the perception of the Great Famine in these four countries. After providing a short overview of the diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the four countries at the time of the famine, this article examines how German, Italian, British, and Polish diplomats explained three key issues for understanding the Great Famine: (1) the role of the conflicts between state and peasantry in unleashing the famine; (2) the issue of whether the Soviet government intentionally caused the famine; and (3) the role of intentions in the development of the famine and the relationship between the nationalities policy of the Soviet government and the famine.
Numerical investigation of temperature distribution in blast furnace hearth

Erosion of the Blast Furnace hearth affects the life of the Blast Furnace. High temperature across the molten iron and hearth makes it difficult to measure temperature in real life. Temperature prediction inside the hearth is a complex process as it involves conjugate heat transfer. A CFD model is developed for analysing the temperature distribution across slag, molten iron and hearth. It is essential for estimating the life of Blast Furnace and the wear rate of hearth. Three different cases are analysed and the temperature profiles are plotted. The CFD results are validated with the published experimental results in the literature. Only temperature effects are considered and natural convection effect is neglected for the analysis of hearth.
Blood glucose regulation in type II diabetic patients

Type II diabetes is the most pervasive diabetic disorder, characterized by insulin resistance, β -cell failure in secreting insulin and impaired regulatory effects of the liver on glucose concentration. Although in the initial steps of the disease, it can be controlled by lifestyle management, but most of the patients eventually require oral diabetic drugs and insulin therapy. The target for the blood glucose regulation is a certain range rather than a single value and even in this range, it is more desirable to keep the blood glucose close to the lower bound. Due to ethical issues and physiological restrictions, the number of experiments that can be performed on a real subject is limited. Mathematical modeling of glucose metabolism in the diabetic patient is a safe alternative to provide sufficient and reliable information on the medical status of the patient. In this thesis, dynamic model of type II diabetes has been expanded by incorporation of the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model of different types of insulin and oral drug to study the impact of several treatment regimens. The most efficient treatment has been then selected amongst all possible multiple daily injection regimens according to the patient 's individualized response. In this thesis, the feedback control strategy is applied in this thesis to determine the proper insulin dosage continuously infused through insulin pump to regulate the blood glucose level. The logarithm of blood glucose concentration has been used as the controlled variable to reduce the nonlinearity of the glucoseinsulin interactions. Also, the proportional-integral controller has been modified by scheduling gains calculated by a fuzzy inference system.
Chorioamnionitis and Five-Year Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Preterm Infants

Background: Chorioamnionitis, a risk factor for preterm delivery, has been suggested to be associated with suboptimal neurological development in premature infants. Objective: To evaluate the association between chorioamnionitis and neurodevelopment in preterm infants at 5 years of age. Methods Very low birth weight and very low gestational age infants (n = 197) were recruited. Placental samples (n = 117) were evaluated for histological chorioamnionitis. Fetal histological chorioamnionitis was analyzed as a subgroup. The diagnosis of clinical chorioamnionitis was derived from medical records. Neurodevelopmental impairments were evaluated at 2 years of age, and cognitive development (n = 188) and neuropsychological performance (n = 193) were evaluated at 5 years of age. Results: There were no associations between histological or clinical chorioamnionitis and neurodevelopmental impairments at 2 years of age. Clinical chorioamnionitis and fetal histological chorioamnionitis were not associated with cognitive development or neuropsychological performance, but histological chorioamnionitis was associated with poorer cognitive outcome (regression coefficient = -7.22, 95% CI: -14.31 to -0.13) and weaker memory and learning functions (regression coefficient = -1.29, 95% CI: -2.40 to -0.18) at 5 years of age. Conclusion: Our study findings do not support clinical chorioamnionitis having a major independent role in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental problems in very preterm infants. Histological chorioamnionitis was associated with slightly less optimal performance at 5 years of age, but further studies are needed to verify the clinical significance of these findings.
Minimum spanning tree reconstruction using autoencoders

Minimum spanning trees are widely used graph structures used to find relationships between data organized in a graph. This work proposes a new approach based on neural networks, in particular, autoencoders, to extrapolate this tree from the dissimilarity representation of the data, seen as a noisy version of the minimum spanning tree. After many tests done on different network, the final results confirm the validity of the idea.
A Universally Composable Key Exchange Protocol for Advanced Metering Infrastructure in the Energy Internet

The increasing adoption of multiway communications in the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) of the energy Internet, which is known as the Internet-based smart grid, raises a new question about the security of customers’ sensitive data and how the data can be protected from growing cyber attacks such as side-channel and false data injection attacks. The dynamic nature of remote connect/disconnect of components in the AMI also brings new types of security threats. To achieve secure multiway communications and remote connect/disconnect of components, the AMI requires a key exchange protocol (KEP) that meets a number of its security requirements such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, identification, authentication, and access control. In this context, in this article we present a KEP that uses an ideal crypto functionality and an ideal AMI key exchange functionality based on universal composability, which allows modular design and analysis of cryptographic protocols. The former functionality enables AMI components or users to perform authenticated cryptographic operations, while the later functionality enables the users to meet the AMI security requirements before generating a shared secret session key, which can be used in an ideal manner. We carry out experiments to validate the performance of our protocol, and the results show that our protocol offers better performance benefits compared to the existing related protocols and is suitable for the Energy Internet. We further demonstrate the usefulness of our ideal functionalities as a security reinforcement for a widely used KEP, namely the Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman.
The Impact of Interest Coverage Ratio on Value Relevance of Reported Earnings: Evidence from South Korea

This study examined the usefulness of the cash-based interest coverage ratio (CICR). It also verified the usefulness of accrual-based interest coverage ratio (AICR), which is used as a criterion for exiting insolvent companies. This paper analyzed whether the value relevance of earnings to stock price differs according to various interest coverage ratios. The CICR is measured by dividing the cash generated from operations by the interest payments. AICR is measured by operating income divided by interest expenses. The research model for the hypothesis test of this study is based on the Ohlson model, which has been used for the test of stock value relevance in many previous studies. As a result of the empirical analysis, the CICR is used as useful information by the investors in the capital market. CICR is used as useful information in the capital market as an indicator of sustainability of profits. This study suggests that supervisors and financial institutions can make rational decision-making if they consider AICR and CICR as criteria for exiting insolvent companies. The contribution of this study was to suggest that the CICR can be a useful indicator for determining whether a company is insolvent due to its relatively low forecast error and high predictability.