Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Liberating Legacy System Data with Rails, Intelligent Use of Conflict Data with Automated Class Scheduling Tools.

Academic entitlement has received much attention in both academic and practitioner outlets. It is defined as “the tendency to possess an expectation of academic success without taking personal responsibility for achieving that success” (Chowning & Campbell, 2009 p. 982). The concept evolved from research in the area of generalized entitlement and narcissism resulting in a context-specific measure useful in understanding entitlement beliefs specific to educational environments. The overall goal of this research is to provide an introductory understanding of entitlement beliefs among information systems students and subsequently compare them to the greater population of students in a business college. Data was collected from 529 undergraduate students at a public university in the southeastern United States. A series of nested models were analyzed to better understand the overall structure of the construct and determine the extent of differences in the two populations. Additional demographic factors were examined including age, gender, employment status, and self-reported GPA (overall and within major). For the sample examined in the current study, findings indicated undergraduate information systems students are quite similar in their entitlement beliefs when compared to students in the other disciplines. Additionally, within-major GPA was found to be significantly related academic entitlement among both populations. A discussion of the findings is provided along with general recommendations for future research.
Recreational fishing along the Middle and Eastern Black Sea Turkish coasts: Biological, Social and Economic Aspects

This study investigated biological, social and mainly economic dimensions of recreational fishing (RF) in 8 coastal Middle and Eastern Black Sea provinces of Turkey. In all provinces, a total number of 874 shore-based recreational fishers were interviewed via on-site face-to-face interviews during the fishing activity or at access points being monthly from January to December in 2015. Market value with RF index of added value approaches were used to calculate economic gains and losses from RF. The consistency was observed with the high education levels, high expense and high market value for fishers in the Middle Black Sea provinces; Kastamonu, Samsun, Sinop and Ordu. In all provinces, the harvesting costs stayed far below the average market prices of target species. Also, positive values of RF index were observed in all provinces. The species catch composition in Western and Eastern provinces did not show great differences. Furthermore, even if the habitat type along the Black Sea coast of Turkey did not show great variations, in the Western provinces some certain species including T. trachurus, S. sarda, B. belone, P. saltatrix, M. cephalus were caught in higher amounts. To summarize, RF along the Black Sea coasts of Turkey is an industry creating high economic returns by expenditures, jobs, catch value and further increased indirect economic impact in services sector.
Detection of Acute Childhood Meningitis using PCR in a group of Children at Childs Central Teaching Hospital/Baghdad

Bacterial meningitis is an important cause of death in both developed and developing world. The study was done on 116 patients admitted to child central teaching hospital in Baghdad ,and diagnosed with meningitis depending on CSF findings and PCR results while determination of type of microorganism depend on PCR result . In this study we aimed to assess the patients regarding their numbers ,clinical manifestations , complications and type of bacteria causing the disease . Regarding the results of PCR, streptococcus meningitis at the top of the list for the bacterial causes while no any reported cases with Hemophillus influenza and this could be referred to the program of vaccination applied in Iraq which included the vaccines against both types of bacteria. Results :of 116 patient involved in this study, majority (44%) were below 1 year ,with male predominance (57.8 %). most of the patients symptoms between 1-3 days (56%). all patients presented with fever. The diagnosis depend on the PCR results (57.8%) were negative and (37.9%) showed streptococcal infection . All blood culture were surprisingly negative because majority of included patients received antibiotics in outpatient visits before admission and diagnosis. Patients admitted and followed up to one year for development of complications. Sixteen cases developed complications, (3.4%) of them with subdural effusion and most of complication occur in streptococcal positive PCR results .
Deformation Analysis of the Network Structure Measured by Global Navigation Satellite Systems with a Selection of Cofactors

Gabriel WEISS , Slavomir LABANT , Erik WEISS 3) _________________________ 1) Dr. h. c. prof. Ing. , Ph.D.; Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, TUKE – Technical University of Kosice, Park Komenskeho 19, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic; e-mail: gabriel.weiss@tuke.sk, tel. : +421 55 602 2009 2) Doc. Ing. , Ph.D.; Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, TUKE – Technical University of Kosice, Park Komenskeho 19, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic; e-mail: slavomir.labant@tuke.sk, tel. : +421 55 602 2859 3) Doc. Ing. , Ph.D.; Institute of Geotourism, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, TUKE – Technical University of Kosice, Park Komenskeho 19, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic; e-mail: Erik.Weiss@tuke.sk, tel. : +421 55 602 2332
The changing magnetic field of the Southern African sub-continent: a unique behaviour

One of the most fascinating geophysical studies in southern Africa is to track the evolutionary behaviour of the geomagnetic field. As part of a cooperative project between Germany and South Africa, called Inkaba ye Africa, the COMPASS (Comprehensive Magnetic Processes under the African Southern Sub-continent) program aims to study the geomagnetic field in this key region. Observations are supported by global monitoring of the magnetic field from satellites like Orsted, CHAMP and SAC-C in order to better explain and predict the secular variation on a global scale. Comparisons between MAGSAT (1980) and CHAMP (2000 till present) satellite data indicate that the relative decrease of the geomagnetic field is particularly strong in the Southern Atlantic region. This coincides partly with the South Atlantic Anomaly, where the geomagnetic field is significantly weaker (up to 30%) than over the rest of the Earth at equivalent latitudes. It is in this region that the shielding effect of the magnetic field is severely reduced, thus allowing high energy particles of extraterrestrial origin to penetrate deep into the upper atmosphere, reaching altitudes below 100 km. In addition, the orientation of the geomagnetic field in southern Africa is also changing rapidly. In the northwestern part of southern Africa the declination of the magnetic field is propagating eastwards (Tsumeb) and in the southeastern part westwards (Hermanus and Hartebeesthoek). This results in the spatial gradient over the sub-continent to increase with time. This intriguing and complex behaviour of the geomagnetic field over the southern African sub-continent is discussed in the present investigation. Communs geol. Surv. Namibia, 14 (2009), 77-85
A COMPACT MICROSTRIP LOWPASS FILTER WITH SHARP ROLL-OFF RATE AND ULTRA-WIDE STOPBAND EMPLOYING COUPLED POLYGON PATCHES

In this paper, a microstrip lowpass filter with −3 dB cutoff frequency of 1.8 GHz composed of two resonators with different polygon patches and six symmetric suppressing cells is presented. To design the proposed filter, the impact of each microstrip transmission line on the scattering parameters of the employed resonators is separately determined by extracting the equations of the insertion loss (S21) and return loss (S11) on the basis of their equivalent LC circuit. The designed filter is fabricated and measured, and a good agreement between the results of simulation and measurement is obtained. In the whole stopband region, a return loss better than −0.35 dB and an acceptable suppression level of −22 dB from 1.87 to 19.75 GH are achieved. Furthermore, a flat insertion loss in the passband and an acceptable return loss (−19.32 dB) in this band can verify desired in-band performance. The designed lowpass filter has a high figure of merit about 36969.34.
“Magic Math Minute” Videos to Foster Understanding of Early Mathematics Learning

Technological advances afford teacher educators, designers, and researchers the opportunity to use videos as an instructional tool to help parents, caregivers, teachers, and other adults support young children’s mathematical development. We created five Magic Math Minute videos to highlight examples of young children’s mathematical thinking and to show how adults can engage children in mathematics conversations. We intended for these videos to inform adults about the ways children explore mathematics and to foster productive adult-child interactions around mathematics. This article documents how we designed five distinct but related formats of a Magic Math Minute video. It describes the video content, design constraints, three online studies evaluating the videos, and how the results of these studies informed revisions to our design.
Smart home energy management system – a review

ABSTRACT Smart grid is providing new opportunities and techniques for supplying high energy demand of the ever growing energy industry. One-third of the total energy demand comes from the residential sector. A new frontier in this field is the Energy Management Systems being designed for the futuristic smart homes. A smart home is a home that shall be able to decide, control and optimize the operation of its equipments, on its own with minimal interference from its master, a human. One of the major factors for the successful development of a smart home is its ability to manage the energy resources including generation and storage. The recent smart home energy management publications have been reviewed in detail in this paper. The paper also elaborates on different demand response strategies used and the various equipments considered along with renewable energy generation and plug in electric vehicles (EV) employed in smart home energy management process. The literature is categorized based on various factors like tariff, storage, trading, monitoring, etc. affecting the performance of a smart home. These factors are mentioned, discussed and analysed in depth. Objective functions, constraints and communication models involved in smart home energy management models are also surveyed.
A halo-independent lower bound on the dark matter capture rate in the Sun from a direct detection signal

We show that a positive signal in a dark matter (DM) direct detection experiment can be used to place a lower bound on the DM capture rate in the Sun, independent of the DM halo. For a given particle physics model and DM mass we obtain a lower bound on the capture rate independent of the local DM density, velocity distribution, galactic escape velocity, as well as the scattering cross section. We illustrate this lower bound on the capture rate by assuming that upcoming direct detection experiments will soon obtain a significant signal. When comparing the lower bound on the capture rate with limits on the high-energy neutrino flux from the Sun from neutrino telescopes, we can place upper limits on the branching fraction of DM annihilation channels leading to neutrinos. With current data from IceCube and Super-Kamiokande non-trivial limits can be obtained for spin-dependent interactions and direct annihilations into neutrinos. In some cases also annihilations into ττ or b b start getting constrained. For spin-independent interactions current constraints are weak, but they may become interesting for data from future neutrino telescopes.
Ultra-sensitive detection of nitric oxide isotopologues

This paper reviews recent technical advances of resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectroscopy and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy, both extremely sensitive techniques for the determination of low nitric oxide (NO) concentrations. Because NO is involved in a multitude of biological functions, labeling and isotope-specific detection are important tools for elucidating chemical pathways. Mass selective REMPI discovers spectroscopic windows for monitoring the most abundant isotopologues such as 14N16O, 15N16O and 14N18O without these species interfering spectroscopically with each other. This has been realized by using the A2Σ+(v′=0)←X2ΠΩ(v″ =0) transition (NO γ-band) in the ultraviolet region around 226 nm. Selected rovibrational transitions are employed for the ultra-sensitive and isotope-specific detection of exhaled NO by LIF. The detection limit for 14N18O has been improved to 0.8 parts per trillion. Furthermore, preliminary results from a study of the A2Σ+(v′ =1)←X2ΠΩ(v″ =0) transition interfering with the B2Π(v′ =1)←X2ΠΩ(v″ =0) transition are presented as an alternative approach for isotopologue selective measurements of 14N18O. From experimental data the rotational constant B=1.10310 cm- 1 and the spin–orbit coupling constant A=33.170 cm- 1 of 14N16O (B2Π(v′ =1)) have been calculated.
The role of domestic policy coalitions in extractive industries' governance: Disentangling the politics of “responsible mining” in the Philippines

Under what conditions do global regulatory norms become domesticated in highly contentious policy areas like oil, gas, and mining sectors? Departing from norm diffusion and environmental politics scholarship, the paper draws from the sociological literature on “ coalition-building ” to explain the partial, uneven adoption of global regulations aimed at setting standards for corporate behavior in the context of large-scale mining. We process trace the variation in coalitional politics in the contemporary Philippine's mining regulatory framework through a within-case comparison of mining policies under Arroyo (2001 – 2010), Aquino (2010 – 2016), and Duterte (2016-present) governments. We argue that the successful inclusion of civil society and mining communities into policy-making processes can substantively contribute toward mining policies that are acceptable to those who face the socio-environmental consequences of resource exploitation. In contrast, highly narrow governing coalitions tend to fuel resistance and enhance political opposition vis-à-vis large-scale mineral extraction.
Tversky and the making of behavioral economics

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A novel UWB reconfigurable filtering antenna design with triple band-notched characteristics by using u-shaped coppers

This paper proposed an UWB antenna with triple reconfigurable notch filters. By presenting there U-shaped coppers in the design, the potential triple interference in UWB applications can be rejected. Six PIN diodes are putted on the coppers to represent the OFF and ON tunable status in order to add reconfigurable characteristics to the UWB antenna. By using this ON and OFF tunable method, the current distribution of the proposed design changes and enables the antenna to have eight operation modes. The results prove that the proposed design can operate over the entire UWB frequency range (3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz) and can filter out the target signals from the WLAN upper band (5.725 to 5.825 GHz), WLAN lower band (5.15 to 5.35 GHz) and X band frequency system (7.9 to 8.4 GHz) in one of the tunable configurations.
Gait Spatiotemporal Signal Analysis for Parkinson’s Disease Detection and Severity Rating

Deep learning models are used to process and fuse raw data of gait-induced ground reaction force (GRF) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and healthy subjects with the aim to categorize PD severity. This is achieved by learning automatically, end-to-end, the spatiotemporal GRF signals, resulting in an effective PD severity classification with mean performance F1-score of 95.5% and F1-score standard errors of 0.28%. Layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) is used to interpret the models’ output and provide insight into which features in the spatiotemporal gait GRF signals are most significant for the models’ predictions. This allows their assignment to gait events, implying that while for the classification of healthy gait the heel strike and body balance are the most indicative gait elements, foot landing and body balance are those most affected in advanced stages of PD. The proposed models are resilient to noise and are computationally efficient for processing and classification of large longitudinal GRF signal datasets, therefore they can be useful for detecting deterioration in the postural balance and rating PD severity.
Channel Characterization and Path Loss Modeling in Indoor Environment at 4.5, 28, and 38 GHz for 5G Cellular Networks

The current propagation models used for frequency bands less than 6 GHz are not appropriate and cannot be applied for path loss modeling and channel characteristics for frequency bands above 6 GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) bands, due to the difference of signal propagation characteristics between existing frequency bands and mmWave frequency bands. Thus, extensive studies on channel characterization and path loss modeling are required to develop a general and appropriate channel model that can be suitable for a wide range of mmWave frequency bands in its modeling parameter. This paper presents a study of well-known channel models for an indoor environment on the 4.5, 28, and 38 GHz frequency bands. A new path loss model is proposed for the 28 GHz and 38 GHz frequency bands. Measurements for the indoor line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios were taken every meter over a separation distance of 23 m between the TX and RX antenna locations to compare the well-known and the new large-scale generic path loss models. This measurement was conducted in a new wireless communication center WCC block P15a at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM Johor, Malaysia, and the results were analyzed based on the well-known and proposed path loss models for single-frequency and multifrequency models and for directional and omnidirectional path loss models. Results show that the large-scale path loss over distance could be modeled better with good accuracy by using the simple proposed model with one parameter path loss exponent PLE (n) that is physically based to the transmitter power, rather than using the well-known models that have no physical base to the transmitted power, more complications (require more parameters), and lack of anticipation when explaining model parameters. The PLE values for the LOS scenario were 0.92, 0.90, and 1.07 for the V-V, V-H, and V-Omni antenna polarizations, respectively, at the 28 GHz frequency and were 2.30, 2.24, and 2.40 for the V-V, V-H, and V-Omni antenna polarizations, respectively, at the 38 GHz frequency.
Incorporation of TiC Particulates on AISI 4340 Low Alloy Steel Surfaces via Tungsten Inert Gas Arc Melting

Surface cladding utilizes a high energy input to deposit a layer on substrate surfaces providing protection against wear and corrosion. In this work, TiC particulates were incorporated by melting single tracks in powder preplaced onto AISI 4340 low alloy steel surfaces using a Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) torch with a range of processing conditions. The effects of energy input and powder content on the melt geometry, microstructure and hardness were investigated. The highest energy input (1680 J/mm) under the TIG torch produced deeper (1.0 mm) and wider melt pools, associated with increased dilution, compared to that processed at the lowest energy (1008 J/mm). The melt microstructure contained partially melted TiC particulates associated with dendritic, cubic and globular type carbides precipitated upon solidification of TiC dissolved in the melt; TiC accumulated more near to the melt-matrix interface and at the track edges. Addition of 0.4, 0.5 and 1.0 mg/mm2 TiC gave hardness values in the resolidified melt pools between 750 to over 1100Hv, against a base hardness of 300 Hv; hardness values are higher in tracks processed with a greater TiC addition and reduced energy input.
EN MU Inter-rater reliability of a computerized presenting-complaint – linked triage system in an urban emergency department

CJEM • JCMU 323 ABSTRACT Background: Triage reliability studies typically use hypothetical scenarios and weighted kappa scores where agreement within one level is considered satisfactory. But if triage category is used to help define ED case-mix groups for comparative or benchmarking processes, agreement on exact triage level and major system involved is important. Our hypothesis was that a computerized menu that links presenting complaints to preferred triage levels (PC-linked triage) would provide high triage reliability. Objectives: Our objective was to assess inter-rater reliability of PC-linked triage using the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) in a real-time clinical setting, considering agreement on exact triage level and primary body system involved. Methods: On duty triage nurses entered patient presenting complaint and PC-linked triage level as per standard procedure. In a convenience sample of patients, a second nurse, blinded to triage assignment, observed the triage interaction and independently entered presenting complaint and triage level on a dummy terminal. Results: During the study, 15 nurse pairs triaged 266 patients. Study patients matched actual emergency department case mix closely. Triage nurses agreed exactly in 74% of cases and within one level in 94% of cases. The unweighted kappa value was 0.66 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.60–0.73) and the quadratic weighted kappa value was 0.75 (95% CI, 0.68–0.81). Kappa for agreement on major system involved was 0.80 (95% CI, 0.69–0.91). Conclusion: PC-linked triage has high inter-rater reliability in a real-time clinical setting. PC-linked triage may be useful as one factor in defining case-mix groups for benchmarking and comparative purposes. EM ADVANCES • INNOVATIONS EN MU
Transmission Power System Modeling by Using Aggregated Distributed Generation Model Based on a TSO—DSO Data Exchange Scheme

By integrating distributed energy resources (DER, mostly renewable energy sources) in the depth of the distribution network transmission system operators (TSOs), planning and control of transmission systems has been greatly hindered due to the lack of knowledge about the circumstances at the transmission and distribution network’s interface and the lack of coordination with the distribution system operator (DSO). By adopting the Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485 (System Operational Guideline—SOGL) establishing a guideline on electricity transmission system operation, harmonized rules on system operation for TSOs, DSOs and significant grid users (SGUs) are set out, inter alia, in order to provide a clear legal framework for the exchange of necessary data and information between the aforementioned subjects. In this paper, the methodology of DER representation at the interface of the transmission and distributed system is presented, with the indicated interactive data exchange between TSO and DSO, for running and analyzing the operation of the entire power system (PS) in real and extended real time. The proposed methodology was tested on a real model of the Croatian transmission PS and with representative DER in the depth of the distribution network.