Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strategic design of service orientated web-based supply chain infrastructure

The traditional 'make and sell' attitude of industrial manufacturing organisations has now almost entirely given way to customer orientated 'sense and respond' service philosophies to the extent where this has become a major competitive key success factor in a global manufacturing industry. In order to become service orientated, manufacturing industry is increasingly dependent on efficient and effective supply relationships. This trend is compounded by needs for waste avoidance, minimal inventory, cost efficiency and appropriate service to the customer. This paper considers the strategic opportunities for large engineering project firms that have identified a need to establish advantages over their competitors by designing and implementing novel service orientated supply chain strategies, using internet technology. Rather than relying on functional hierarchy and command and control governance where a chain of commitments are poorly connected and difficult to reconfigure, this paper proposes more flexible strategic process designs around a 'state of the art' service based architecture. Complexity reduction is traditionally a philosophy widely used by industrial engineers that thus far has been also applied in attempts to enable efficient supply chain relationships between different manufacturing supply partners. However, in this work, those traditional industrial engineering ideas are challenged. When a supply chain is simplified, it is inevitable that it will not offer optimum performance, especially in terms of customer service because the complex nature of customer requirements is not reflected in its entirety. The architecture developed by the authors and demonstrated here explores ideas of complexity absorption. The architecture is built on the premise that necessary complexity absorption creates an organisation that is strategically superior because it becomes a complex adaptive system that is unique to a group of organisations that constitute a supply chain or supply network. A case study will be presented based on a major industrial gas pipeline procuring organisation that illustrates an application consisting of Manufacturing Portal and Service Orientated Architecture. This model is internet-based, has three main constituents of Web Services, Portal and Client Services and is described in detail in this paper. The authors conclude by discussing the unique competitive advantages that are achievable by designing unique, responsive and adaptive supply chain architecture in this way.
The relationship between the male and female language performance and the level of anxiety among Iranian EFL students

This study tries to investigate the relationship between the male and female language performance and the level of anxiety among Iranian EFL students. The participants of the current study were 26 Iranian EFL students studying English in Islamic Azad University, Larestan, Iran who were selected in terms of the administering of an Oxford Placement Test. Then, the students were given The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale . Finally, they were given an English class test which consisted of 40 multiple-choice items. The researcher calculated the correlation between the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and the performance of both Iranian male and female students on English Class test. The findings indicated that there was a negative correlation between the level of anxiety and the students’ performance on English Class Test scores. Moreover, Iranian male students were more anxious in learning English than female students.
NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM PADDY AND MANGROVE FOREST SOILS AS AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS March , 2016

Denitrification products (N2O and N2) were measured in three flooded soils (paddy soil from Vietnam, PV; mangrove soil from Vietnam, MV; paddy soil from Japan, PJ) with different NO3 concentrations. Closed incubation experiments were conducted in 100 mL bottles for 7 days at 25°C. Each bottle contained 2 g of air-dried soil and 25 mL solution with NO3 concentration (0, 5, or 10 mg N L -1 ) with or without acetylene (C2H2). The N2O+N2 emissions were estimated by the C2H2 inhibition method. Results showed that N2O+N2 emissions for 7 days were positively correlated with those of NO3 removal from solution with C2H2 (R 2 = 0.9872), indicating that most removed NO3 was transformed to N2O and N2 by denitrification. In PJ soil, N2O and N2 emissions were increased significantly (P < 0.05) by the addition of greater NO3 concentrations. However, N2O and N2 emissions from PV and MV soils were increased by addition of 0 to 5 mg N L -1 , but not by 5 to 10 mg N L -1 . At 10 mg N L -1 , N2 emissions for 7 days were greater in PJ soil (pH 7.0) than in PV (pH 5.8) or MV (pH 4.3) soils while N2O emissions were higher in PV and MV soils than in PJ soil. In MV soil, N2O was the main product throughout the experiment. In conclusion, NO3 concentration and soil pH affected N2O and N2 emissions from three flooded soils.
Can the Earth's atmosphere superrotate at slower rotations?

The atmospheric phenomenon of superrotation is closely related to the rotation rate. Venus and Titan share this behavior in which the entire atmosphere has a larger angular momentum than the solid body itself. Without considerations regarding its origin and nature, this study aims to verify the transition of the Earth’s atmosphere to a superrotational state.
Three dimensional numerical study on the efficiency of a core-shell InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well nanowire light-emitting diodes

This paper presents the findings of investigating core-shell multiple quantum well nanowire light-emitting diodes (LEDs). A fully self-consistent three dimensional model that solves Poisson and drift-diffusion equations was employed to investigate the current flow and quantum-confined stark effect. The core-shell nanowire LED showed a weaker droop effect than that of conventional planar LEDs because of a larger active area and stronger recombination in nonpolar quantum wells (QWs). The current spreading effect was examined to determine the carrier distribution at the sidewall of core-shell nanowire LEDs. The results revealed that a larger aspect ratio by increasing the nanowire height could increase the nonpolar-active area volume and reduce the droop effect at the same current density. Making the current spreading length exceed a greater nanowire height is critical for using the enhancement of nonpolar QWs effectively, when an appropriate transparent conducting layer might be necessary. In addition, this.
Top-down control by micro- and mesozooplankton on winter dinoflagellate blooms of Heterocapsa rotundata

Winter dinoflagellate blooms in Chesapeake Bay tributaries can account for over 50% of a system’s annual primary production, potentially more than the spring diatom bloom. Research on winter blooms has focused on environmental conditions that result in blooms, but little focus has been given to the potential importance of zooplankton grazers. We investigated the impact of microzooplankton and mesozooplankton (copepods) grazing on the population of winter phytoflagellates in the Choptank River, MD, in 2012 to 2013 and 2013 to 2014. We estimated community microzooplankton and copepod grazing rates on the dominant phytoflagellate species, and measured daily gross primary production (GPP) rates. The chlorophyll a concentration and the abundance of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa rotundata were significantly higher in 2013 to 2014 compared with 2012 to 2013, but average daily GPP was similar between the 2 yr. However, the average percentage of daily GPP removed by grazers in 2013 to 2014 was lower than in 2012 to 2013, despite average environmental conditions and nutrient concentrations not differing between years. We hypothesize that the observed release from grazing pressure is one of the main factors controlling winter dinoflagellate bloom formation in these and other coastal temperate systems.
Architectural Support for Lease-Regulated Secret Data

Contemporary cloud software stack is large and complex, where security vulnerabilities are routinely discovered. Hence, it is hard or even impossible to place trust on such a fragile platform to process some security-critical data. In this paper, we propose an architectural solution that extends processors with cryptographic support and policy enforcement engine to regulate the usage of security-critical data in an untrusted cloud platform. Specifically, we make a specific case of using such a platform for protecting the secrecy of lease-regulated data, which should only be accessed within a predefined amount of times or before a specific date. We further discuss how such protection is necessary in several security-critical usage scenarios.
Ranges and Movements of Montezuma Quail in Southeast Arizona

Historical assumptions about Montezuma quail movements and home ranges at the population level are limited due to the lack of markrecapture studies on this species from which solid conclusions can be derived. Such information is crucial for estimating population sizes, densities, and rate of emigration and immigration throughout the landscape. Our study examined home range size of 29 Montezuma quail and movements of 65 quail in southeast Arizona from 2008–2010. We used radio telemetry to follow radio-tagged birds in 3 study sites that varied in vegetation composition and topography. Mean home range size (MCP) was about was similar (51 ha) to the largest use area (50 ha) described in the literature for this species. The largest MCP home range estimate (206.7 ha) was far larger than what has been reported in the literature. Within a season, the largest mean maximum distance moved between 2 locations was 1,128.4 6 619.5 m and the largest maximum linear distance between 2 locations for an individual was 2,375.5 m. Results from our research should help to address knowledge gaps about Montezuma quail home ranges and movements and provide a baseline to assist management of this species in the future. Citation: Chavarria, P. M. , N. J. Silvy, R. R. Lopez, D. S. Davis, and A. Montoya. 2017. Ranges and movements of Montezuma quail in Southeast Arizona. National Quail Symposium Proceedings 8:359–368.
Export Prices across Firms and Destinations

This paper establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs data on the universe of Chinese trade flows. First, across firms selling a given product, exporters that charge higher prices earn greater revenues in each destination, have bigger worldwide sales, and enter more markets. Second, firms that export more, that enter more markets and that charge higher export prices import more expensive inputs. Third, across destinations within a firm-product, firms set higher prices in richer, larger, bilaterally more distant and overall less remote countries. Fourth, across destinations within a firm-product, firms earn bigger revenues in markets where they set higher prices. Fifth, across firms within a product, exporters with more destinations offer a wider range of export prices. Finally, firms that export more, that enter more markets and that offer a wider range of export prices pay a wider range of input prices and source inputs from more origin countries. We propose that trade models should incorporate two features to rationalize these patterns in the data: more successful exporters use higher-quality inputs to produce higher-quality goods (stylized facts 1 and 2), and firms vary the quality of their products across destinations by using inputs of different quality levels (stylized facts 3, 4, 5 and 6).
Applications of ecological stoichiometry for sustainable acquisition of ecosystem services

Human activities have differentially altered biogeochemical cycling at local, regional and global scales. We propose that a stoichiometric approach, examining the fluxes of multiple elements and the ratio between them, may be a useful tool for better understanding human effects on ecosystem processes and services. The different scale of impacts of the elements carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus and the different nature of their biogeochemical cycles, imply a large variation of their stoichiometric ratios in space and time and thus divergent impacts on biota. In this paper, we examine the effects of anthropogenic perturbations on nutrient ratios in ecosystems in two examples and one case study. Altered stoichiometry in agricultural systems (example 1) can affect not only crop yield and quality but also the interactions between plants and their pollinators, pests and pathogens. Human activities have also altered stoichiometry in coastal ecosystems (example 2). Increased N loading has especially lead to increased N:P and reduced Si:N ratios, with detrimental effects on ecosystem services derived from coastal pelagic food webs, such as fish yield and water quality. The terrestrial–aquatic linkage in stoichiometric alterations is illustrated with a case study, the Mississippi River watershed, where anthropogenic activities have caused stoichiometric changes that have propagated through the watershed into the northern Gulf of Mexico. Coupled with altered stoichiometric nutrient inputs are the inherent differences in variation and sensitivity of different ecosystems to anthropogenic disturbance. Furthermore, the connections among the components of a watershed may result in downstream cascades of disrupted functioning. Applying a multiple element perspective to understanding and addressing societal needs is a new direction for both ecological stoichiometry and sustainability.
A SURVEY OF MITIGATING ROUTING MISBEHAVIOR IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

The operation of MANETs does not depend on preexisting infrastructure or base stations. Network nodes in MANETs are free to move randomly. Therefore, the network topology of a MANET may change rapidly and unpredictably. This paper presents the existing methods to detect misbehavior in MANETs. Routing protocols used in such type of networks generally based on the assumption that, all participating nodes will be fully cooperative. But, due to the open structure node misbehavior may exist and packet loss occurs. Among them one type of misbehavior is that some nodes will take part in routing establishment processes but they do not respond to forward data packets and simply dismiss the packets. This paper surveys the methods can be used for the misbehavior detection of MANET.
A COMPARISON OF SOME METHODS TO ANALYZE REPEATED MEASURES ORDINAL CATEGORICAL DATA

Recent advances in statistical software made possible by the rapid development of computer technology in the past decade have made many new procedures available to data analysts. We focus in this paper on methods for ordinal categorical data with repeated measures that can be implemented using SAS. These procedures are illustrated using data from an animal health experiment. The responses, measured as severity of symptoms on an ordinal scale, are recorded for test animals over time. The experiment was designed to estimate treatment and time effects on the severity of symptoms. The data were analyzed with various approaches using PROC MIXED, PROC NLMIXED, PROC GENMOD, and the GLIMMIX macro. In this paper, we compare the strengths and weaknesses of these different methods.
Tri-band MIMO Antenna for WLAN, WiMAX and Defence System & Radio Astronomy Applications

In this paper, an efficacious and impermeable undeviating MIMO consist of 70 x 50 x 0.4 mm3 is used for WLAN, defence system & radio astronomy and WiMAX applications. To keep in order abandoning the reactive connection between the antennas, a neutralizing line is connected between the two symmetrical radiating elements. Another technique to reducing isolation (mutual coupling) between the antennas, four small slits of small size are etched onto to the ground plane. This has resulted in the proposed antenna giving a good bandwidth at the three resonant frequencies of (3.2–3.7 GHz) for Wireless LAN, (5.1–5.6 GHz) WiMAX and (6.7–7.5 GHz) defence system & radio astronomy applications with |S11|< -10 dB and mutual coupling |S12|< -20 dB for the entire operating band. The simulation results and measured results demonstrate that tri-band MIMO antenna is more acceptable for the design in portable device applications.
ALART: a novel lidar system for vegetation height retrieval from space

We propose a multi-kHz Single-Photon Counting (SPC) space LIDAR, exploiting low energy pulses with high repetition frequency (PRF). The high PRF allows one to overcome the low signal limitations, as many return shots can be collected from nearly the same scattering area. The ALART space instrument exhibits a multi-beam design, providing height retrieval over a wide area and terrain slope measurements. This novel technique, working with low SNRs, allows multiple beam generation with a single laser, limiting mass and power consumption. As the receiver has a certain probability to detect multiple photons from different levels of canopy, a histogram is constructed and used to retrieve the properties of the target tree, by means of a modal decomposition of the reconstructed waveform. A field demonstrator of the ALART space instrument is currently being developed by a European consortium led by cosine | measurement systems and funded by ESA under the TRP program. The demonstrator requirements have been derived to be representative of the target instrument and it will be tested in an equipped tower in woodland areas in the Netherlands. The employed detectors are state-of-the-art CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) matrices with 1024 pixels. Each pixel is independently equipped with an integrated Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC), achieving a timing accuracy that is much lower than the SPAD dead time, resulting in a distance resolution in the centimeter range. The instrument emits nanosecond laser pulses with energy on the order of several μJ, at a PRF of ~ 10 kHz, and projects on ground a three-beams pattern. An extensive field measurement campaign will validate the employed technologies and algorithms for vegetation height retrieval.
A VEHICLE CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR STOP-AND-GO CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM

This paper describes a vehicle speed & vehicle-to-vehicle distance control algorithm for vehicle stopand-go cruise control. So first, a complete dynamic model of car has been simulated that consists of an SI engine, automatic transmission. The vehicle longitudinal control scheme consists of a speed control algorithm and a distance control algorithm and throttle-brake control law. A desired acceleration for the vehicle has been designed using linear quadratic optimal control theory. It has been shown that the proposed control law provides good performance.
Mapping of the oil window in the Eagle Ford shale play of southwest Texas using thermal modeling and log overlay analysis

The Eagle Ford formation in South Texas has been an established hydrocarbon play since 2008. The Eagle Ford is considered an unconventional resource because it is a source, reservoir, and seal. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have enabled this play. As drilling and production continue the limits of this play are being defined. The area between dry gas and wet gas/condensate has been known for some time since the initial production started in dry gas and moved up-dip. After the oil window was discovered, the contact between wet gas/condensate started to become more defined. Now companies are beginning to delineate the boundary between the oil window and immature areas. This study uses geohistory and thermal modeling software to define the boundary where the oil window ends and the immature area begins. Vitrinite reflectance values from modeling were calibrated to published vitrinite reflectance data. Then the models were used to estimate vitrinite reflectance values for other wells with only depth information. Vitrinite reflectance maps created by this technique are comparable to published maps in the study area. Total Organic Carbon (TOC) was also calculated for the study area using a well log overlay analysis technique. TOC varies stratigraphically throughout the study area, but the lower Eagle Ford typically has higher TOC than the upper Eagle Ford. Well log overlay analysis is a useful tool in evaluating the initial petroleum potential of unconventional prospects when data availability is limited. This research has provided a technique to investigate areas of unconventional production potential.
Effect of Applied Potassium and Manganese on Yield and Uptake of Nutrients by Clusterbean (Cyanosis teragonoloba)

The influence of potassium and magnesium on growth, yield and uptake of nutrients in clusterbean crop Cv. Bundelkhand 1 was assessed from a pot experiment on a sandy loam soil in Kharif season of 200708. The levels of potassium and Mn significantly affected the green foliage, dry matter yield and nutrient content, uptake of NPK and Mn by clusterbean at both the cuttings. The treatment which received 60 kg of K2O ha -1 and 10 kg of MnCl2 ha -1 recorded the highest green foliage, dry matter yield, nutrient content, uptake of NPK and Mn over control. The results clearly indicated that appropriate level of major and micro nutrient combination could affect morpho-physiological, biochemical attributes, yield and yield components in clusterbean.
Psychological Aspects in lifelike synthetic agents: Towards to the Personality Markup Language (A Brief Survey)

This paper describes how human psychological aspects have been used in lifelike synthetic agents in order to provide believability during the human-computer interaction. We describe a brief survey of applications where Affective Computing Scientists have applied psychological aspects, like Emotion and Personality. Based on those aspects we describe the effort done by Affective Computing scientists in order to create a Markup Language to express and standardize Emotions. Because they have not yet concentrated their effort on Personality, here, we propose a starting point to create a Markup Language to express Personality.
Thermal instability of a horizontal fluid layer subject to absorption of incoming radiation and surface heat exchange

The paper reports on the investigation of the thermoconvective instability in littoral waters subjected to the daytime heating due to the absorption of solar radiation. A quasi-static approximation is adopted to form an ordinary differential eigenvalue problem for the growth rate of disturbance. The direct absorption of the incoming radiation by a water body governed by Beer’s law forms a vertical temperature stratification exponentially decaying from the water surface. The residual radiation reaching the bottom bathymetry is absorbed and re-emitted as a boundary flux, forming a potentially unstable thermal stratification adjacent to the bottom. The heat exchange between the water surface and the ambient causes surface cooling, which also creates a potentially unstable thermal stratification below the water surface. Consequently, the stably stratified layer in the central part is sandwiched by the two unstably stratified layers adjacent to the bounding surfaces. It is found that the surface and bottom instabilities behave independently and the wave number is larger for the surface instability than that for the bottom instability. Further, increasing the water depth and the surface heat exchange coefficient promotes the transition from the bottom instability dominance to the surface instability dominance.