Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resource Efficiency within Current Production

: In times of global warming and the increasing shortage of resources, sustainable production is becoming more and more inevitable. Companies cannot only heighten their competitiveness but also contribute positively to environmental protection through efficient energy and resource consumption. Regarding this, technical solutions are often preferred during production, although organizational and process-related approaches also offer great potential. This project focuses on reducing resource usage, with a special emphasis on the human factor. It is the aspiration to develop a methodology that systematically implements and embeds suitable and individual measures and methods regarding resource efficiency throughout the entire production. The measures and methods established help employees handle resources and energy more sensitively. With this in mind, this paper also deals with the difficulties that can occur during the sensitization of employees and the implementation of these measures and methods. In addition, recommendations are given on how to avoid such difficulties.
Sub-Chronic Effects of MethanolicBenth Bark Extract Of BrideliaFerrugineaon Some Selected Biochemical Indicesin Rats

Recently, there have been growing concerns over the reliance and safety of untested and unregulated plant remedies. Brideliaferruginea is one of the herbal plants commonly used, of which chronic toxicity studies are yet to be examined. Sub-chronic toxicological effects of methanolicbenth bark extract of brideliaferruginea on biochemical indices in rats were evaluated. Three groups of six animals each were used in this study. Group 1 (control)received no treatment. Group 2 and 3 (treated)received calculated doses of 250mg/kg and 500mg/kg of the extract orally for four weeks. All animals were sacrificedusingdiethylether anesthesia 24hours after the last dosing and blood samples taken. Periodic weights and packed cells volume(PCV) were measured, portions of the heart and brain were excised, homogenized and used for bioassays. From our results, we observedsignificant decrease (p 0.05) was observed in heart and brain;reduced glutathione;catalase, also no effect was observed in lipid peroxidation of heart and brain. However, the two doses kept the weight constant for a period of four (4) weeks. Overall, thebark extract of brideliaferrugineamay affect antioxidant and blood status as well as keeping body weight constant. We suggest therefore thatdoses approaching or above 250mg/kg body weight should be avoided by individuals or in herbal preparations.
Global Filtering for the Disjointness Constraint on Fixed Cardinality Sets

Finite set constraints represent a natural choice to model configuration design problems using set cardinality and disjointness, covering or partition constraints over (families of) set variables. Such constraints are available in most setbased constraint languages, often in the form of n-ary decomposable constraints. The corresponding filtering algorithms make use of local bound consistency techniques. In this paper we show that when the set cardinality constraints are handled together with the n-ary constraints, and set variable domains are specified by set intervals, efficient global filtering algorithms can be derived. We consider the particular case of the n-ary disjoint constraint disjoint([X1, . . . ,Xn], [c1, . . . ,cn]) for a family of pairwise disjoint sets Xi of fixed cardinality ci. We present a set of conditions and inference rules to infer Bounds Consistency (BC), together with an efficient global filtering algorithm. We also explain why this level of pruning cannot be achieved with a common FD formulation based on the alldiff constraint, enriched with lexicographic ordering constraints; but is actually equivalent to a dual FD representation based on the Generalized Cardinality Constraint.
Three-dimensional range shifts in biodiversity driven by recent global warming

Three-dimensional range shifts in biodiversity driven by recent global warming 1 2 Peter Haase, Fengqing Li, Andrea Sundermann, Armin W. Lorenz, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Stefan Stoll 3 4 Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum 5 Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany 6 Department of River and Floodplain Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 7 Germany 8 Department of Aquatic Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany 9 10 11 Equally contributing 12 Corresponding author: Fengqing Li 13 Postal address: Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural 14 History Museum Frankfurt, Clamecystrasse 12, 63571 Gelnhausen, Germany 15 E-mail: qflee3@gmail.com 16 Tel: +49 (0)6051 61954-3126 17 Fax: +49 (0)6051 61954-3118 18 19 Running title: Three-dimensional range shifts 20
Design and Analysis of Equivalent Circuit Model Laser VSCEL Parameters Using Photonics

In this paper, we review and implementation of the orbital radiation from the semiconductor laser (VCSEL) described above. At that time, different parts of which this section are: the introduction of laser The VCSEL like the former scheme and the new proposal is made. The new proposal aims we have tried to use the software MATLAB and HSPICE simulator analyst can through the circuit thermal modeling VCSEL characteristics of this semiconductor laser to obtain the equivalent circuit. In this study, we have been able Vissel laser circuit model through numerical parameters and formulations to obtain the necessary plans and charts. This modeling through software analyst Hspice, Matlab've done. as follows : A: Characteristic curve IV B: The power output characteristic curve C: The frequency response characteristic curve In this study, the innovation that has been done is that we've been able to model using HSPICE circuit and VCSEL thermal circuit characteristic curve and get it in quantities and using MATLAB software again these quantities in the case heat acquired and the output of both software analyst to compare and examine the state to the conclusion that the values are equivalent circuit VCSEL.
Parry, Ruth H. and Land, Victoria (2013) Systematically reviewing and synthesizing evidence from conversation

Background: Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very little systematic reviewing of this evidence. Methods: We developed an approach to reviewing evidence from conversation analytic and related discursive research through the following procedures: • reviewing existing systematic review methods and our own prior experience of applying these • clarifying distinctive features of conversation analytic and related discursive work which must be taken into account when reviewing • holding discussions within a review advisory team that included members with expertise in healthcare research, conversation analytic research, and systematic reviewing • attempting and then refining procedures through conducting an actual review which examined evidence about how people talk about difficult future issues including illness progression and dying Results: We produced a step-by-step guide which we describe here in terms of eight stages, and which we illustrate from our ‘Review of Future Talk’. The guide incorporates both established procedures for systematic reviewing, and new techniques designed for working with conversation analytic evidence. Conclusions: The guide is designed to inform systematic reviews of conversation analytic and related discursive evidence on specific domains and topics. Whilst we designed it for reviews that aim at informing healthcare practice and policy, it is flexible and could be used for reviews with other aims, for instance those aiming to underpin research programmes and projects. We advocate systematically reviewing conversation analytic and related discursive findings using this approach in order to translate them into a form that is credible and useful to healthcare practitioners, educators and policy-makers.
MALCOM X: Combining maximum likelihood continuity mapping with Gaussian mixture models

GMMs are among the best speaker recognition algorithms currently available. However, the GMM`s estimate of the probability of the speech signal does not change if the authors randomly shuffle the temporal order of the feature vectors, even though the actual probability of observing the shuffled signal would be dramatically different--probably near zero. A potential way to improve the performance of GMMs is to incorporate temporal information into the estimate of the probability of the data. Doing so could improve speech recognition, speaker recognition, and potentially aid in detecting lies (abnormalities) in speech data. As described in other documents (Hogden, 1996), MALCOM is an algorithm that can be used to estimate the probability of a sequence of categorical data. MALCOM can also be applied to speech (and other real valued sequences) if windows of the speech are first categorized using a technique such as vector quantization (Gray, 1984). However, by quantizing the windows of speech, MALCOM ignores information about the within-category differences of the speech windows. Thus, MALCOM and GMMs complement each other: MALCOM is good at using sequence information whereas GMMs capture within-category differences better than the vector quantization typically used by MALCOM. An extension of MALCOM (MALCOM X) that can be used for estimating the probability of a speech sequence is described here.
Recovering neugebauer colorant reflectances and Ink-spreading curves from printed color images

Spectral reflection prediction models, although effective, are impractical for certain industrial applications such as self-calibrating devices and online monitoring because their calibration requires specific color-constant calibration patches. Using the CMYK Ink-Spreading enhanced Yule-Nielsen-modified Spectral Neugebauer model (IS-YNSN), we propose a method to recover the colorant reflectances (Neugebauer primaries), the ink-spreading curves, and the Yule-Nielsen n-value using only tiles extracted from printed color images. There is no prior knowledge about the reproduction device. Thanks to a set of constraints based on principal component analysis and the relationships between composed Neugebauer primaries and the ink transmittances, good approximations of the Neugebauer primaries are achieved. These approximations are then optimized, yielding an accurately calibrated IS-YNSN model comparable to the one obtained by classical calibrations.
2 Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) improves the computational efficiency of the Metropolis algorithm by reducing its random walk behavior. Riemannian Manifold HMC (RMHMC) further improves HMC’s performance by exploiting the geometric properties of the parameter space. However, the geometric integrator used for RMHMC involves implicit equations that require costly numerical analysis (e.g., fixed-point iteration). In some cases, the computational overhead for solving implicit equations undermines RMHMC’s benefits. To avoid this problem, we propose an explicit geometric integrator that replaces the momentum variable in RMHMC by velocity. We show that the resulting transformation is equivalent to transforming Riemannian Hamilton dynamics to Lagrangian dynamics. Experimental results show that our method improves RMHMC’s overall computational efficiency. All computer programs and data sets are available online (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~babaks/Site/Codes.html) in order to allow replications of the results reported in this paper.
The Inclusion Measure for Community Evaluation and Detection in Unweighted Networks

One of the most interesting problems in network analysis is community detection, i.e. the partitioning of nodes into communities, with many edges connecting nodes of the same community and comparatively few edges connecting nodes of different communities. We introduce a new quality measure to evaluate a partitioning of an undirected and unweighted graph into communities that is called inclusion. This quality measure evaluates how well each node is included in its community by considering both its existent and its non-existent edges. We have implemented a strategy that maximizes the inclusion criterion by moving each time a single node to another community. We also considered inclusion as a criterion for evaluating partitions provided by spectral clustering. In our experimental study, the inclusion criterion is compared to the widely used modularity criterion providing improved community detection results without requiring the a priori specification of the number of communities.
Camphor: an attractant for the cupreous polished chafer, Protaetia pryeri pryeri (Janson) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

Adults of cupreous polished chafer Protaetia pryeri pryeri (Janson) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) were attracted by and landed on cotton balls treated with commercially available pet deodorant spray or a topical antipruritic for human skin. When volatiles from the spray and antipruritic were extracted by solid phase microextraction (SPME) and analyzed by GC-MS, camphor was found as a common compound. This compound was not detected in the volatiles of two other commercially available deodorant sprays, neither of which attracted chafers. In the field, P. p. pryeri were attracted to cotton balls treated with 63 μg to 4 mg (1R)-camphor but not to untreated balls. This demonstrated that (1R)-camphor is an attractant for P. p. pryeri. The adaptive significance of the response to camphor by P. p. pryeri is discussed.
Brief communication : Toward the estimation of hydraulic properties of active layers using ground-penetrating radar ( GPR ) and inverse hydrological modeling

Estimation of hydraulic properties of active layers is challenging due to the freeze-thaw effect in space and time. Provided an active layer with an undulating frost table, monitoring of spatial soil water dynamics in the thawed layer could provide significant information for commonly-used inverse estimation of soil hydraulic material properties. In this study, we assess the feasibility to estimate effective soil hydraulic properties using two-dimensional measurements of soil water storage 15 and thawing depth, which can be efficiently derived from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) observations. The results of this study conceptually demonstrate that spatial and temporal observations of soil moisture in the active layer during a rain event are sufficient for inverse estimation of soil hydraulic parameters. The proposed method depends on the lateral water redistribution controlled by the undulating frost table. We suggest that this method could be used for seasonal-scale estimation of soil hydraulic properties. 20
Chest Trauma: An Overview

Traumatic damage is the principal cause of death under the age of 45 in the US. Worldwide 5.8 million people die every year from non/intentional traumatic injuries and violence. Chest trauma is a modern major health problem with a high mortality, even in the trauma center hospitals. It is a life-threatening condition, which often involves other anatomical regions that merit simultaneous diagnosis and treatment. The standard management should be multidisciplinary and preferably initiated at the accident site and maintained through patient transportation, during the arrival to emergency room, during transport to surgery, in the operating room and then in ICU. Early diagnosis and initial assertive management are the key to bring down morbidity and mortality. The anesthesiologist has a vital role in the management of these patients throughout the perioperative period.
IMPROVING INVENTORY EFFICIENCY: A CASE STUDY OF LEAF‐LITTER ANT DIVERSITY IN MADAGASCAR

For most invertebrates, ecologists lack efficient inventory methods for assessing geographic patterns of species richness, complementarity (distinctness), and areas of endemism. I evaluated the efficiency of quantitative inventory methods developed for leaf-litter ants in tropical rain forests in eastern Madagascar. The aim was to maximize the number of species captured per sampling effort in a systematic design subject to standard statistical analysis. I used species and complementarity accumulation curves to evaluate the efficiency of the inventory design based on all ant species sampled and based on four species-rich genera that could potentially act as surrogates for estimating total ant diversity. I evaluated: (1) efficiencies of pitfall and Winkler sifting methods to capture leaf-litter ant assemblages, (2) effects of sample size and spacing on completeness and ranking of species richness, (3) completeness of complementarity values, and (4) four species-rich ant genera that could potentially act as .
Award Number: W81XWH-11-1-0826 TITLE: Home-Based Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Spinal Cord Injury

Objective: To determine the utility of home-based, unsupervised transcutaneous partial pressure of carbon dioxide (tc-PCO2) monitoring/oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry (SpO2) for detecting nocturnal hypoventilation (NH) in individuals with neuromuscular disorders. Design: Retrospective case series analyzed consecutively. Setting: Multidisciplinary neuromuscular respiratory failure (NMRF) clinic at an academic institution. Participants: Subjects (NZ35, 68.6% men; mean age, 46.9y) with spinal cord injury (45.7%) or other neuromuscular disorders underwent overnight tests with tc-PCO2/SpO2 monitoring. Fifteen (42.9%) were using nocturnal ventilatory support, either bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) or tracheostomy ventilation (TV). Interventions: A respiratory therapist brought a calibrated tc-PCO2/SpO2 monitor to the patient’s home and provided instructions for data collection during the subject’s normal sleep period. Forced vital capacity (FVC), body mass index (BMI), and exhaled end-tidal PCO2 (ETPCO2) were recorded at a clinic visit before monitoring. Main Outcome Measures: Detection of NH (tc-PCO2 50mmHg for 5% of monitoring time). Data were also analyzed to determine whether nocturnal oxygen desaturation (SpO2 88% for 5% of monitoring time), FVC, BMI, or daytime ET-PCO2 could predict the presence of NH. Results: NH was detected in 18 subjects (51.4%), including 53.3% of those using BiPAP or TV. NH was detected in 43.8% of ventilatorindependent subjects with normal daytime ET-PCO2 (present for 49.4% 31.5% [mean SD] of the study period), and in 75% of subjects with an elevated daytime ET-PCO2 (present for 92.3% 8.7% of the study period). Oxygen desaturation, BMI, and FVC were poor predictors of NH. Only 3 attempted monitoring studies failed to produce acceptable results. Conclusions: Home-based, unsupervised monitoring with tc-PCO2/SpO2 is a useful method for diagnosing NH in NMRF. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2013;94:46-52 a 2013 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Neuromuscular respiratory failure (NMRF) is often managed with noninvasive ventilation (NIV) to forestall progression of hypercapnia and to relieve dyspnea. Because nocturnal hypoventilation Presented as an abstract to the American College of Chest Physicians, October 24, 2011,
Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor testing of aero-optic phenomena

Missile interceptor seeker windows undergo significant heating and stress during supersonic flight. These effects lead to window and flow field distortions that can significantly degrade the image quality on the seeker. We have applied a ShackHartmann wavefront sensor for measuring these effects in ground test. The Shack-Hartmann sensor measured the near-field intensity and phase distribution. Because these distributions are linear, relative (or flow on/flow off) measurements can be made where test instrumentation errors can be subtracted out. The image quality, or point spread function, can be computed from these near field measurements. This allows for measurement of the aero-optic quantities that are a simulation of flight conditions, and an accurate prediction of sensor end-to-end performance. In making point spread function predictions, it is first necessary to establish that the near-field measurements have sufficient accuracy and resolution. To this end a laboratory experiment was constructed that allows direct comparison between measured point spread function and wavefront sensor based predictions. Excellent results were observed with strong, high spatial frequency aberrations. The wavefront sensor was then applied to make measurements in supersonic flow. Tests have been conducted of simulated seeker windows at Mach 7 and 8 conditions, and time-resolved wavefront sensor measurements have been made in some conditions. While early results have significant facility induced vibration in some conditions. Nevertheless, aero-thermal window heating has been observed in low stress conditions.
Growth performance, nutrient digestibility and blood parameters of fattening lambs fed diet replacing corn with orange pulp

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of replacing corn with orange pulp (OP) on growth performance, rumen fermentation, nutrient digestibility and blood parameters of fattening lambs. Twenty male lambs were placed in individual pens and fed with four levels of replacement of corn by OP (0, 33, 66, 100%) during 60 days. Average daily gain (ADG) showed a quadratic effect (p<0.007) with the increasing levels of replacement. Inclusion of 33 and 66% of OP in the diet significantly increased dry matter intake (DMI) compared to control group (p<0.01). Ruminal ammonia-N concentration showed a linear decrease (p<0.002). Ruminal fluid pH increased linearly with the increasing replacement of corn by OP (p<0.001). Acetate concentration showed a linear increase (p<0.001). Plasma total protein showed a linear increase (p<0.002). Organic matter, crude protein and neutral detergent fiber showed a quadratic effect with the level of replacement. The results of the present study showed that replacement of corn by OP improves DMI of fattening lambs, leading to an enhancement in ADG at the replacement level of 40.3%. Also, total replacement of corn by OP did not have any adverse effect on growth performance, rumen fermentation, nutrient digestibility and blood parameters.