Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of greening attitude and buyer power on supplier environmental management strategy

Studies on the appropriate strategies for supplier relationship management vary according to the greening approaches of a firm. The relative power of greening approaches for suppliers remains untapped. This research aims to fill this gap, arguing that firm attitudes toward going green and their dominance in supply chains affect their corresponding environmental management practices. The case study method is utilized. The main objects of study include Taiwanese firms in high-tech industries. Eleven firms were selected for in-depth investigation. Supplier management approaches are investigated from six different perspectives: supplier policy, information sharing/communication, joint action of supplier/buyer, relationship-handling issues, supplier support, and relationship quality. Results show that each case group emphasizes different perspectives. Thus, this study coined four strategies: strategic alliance, arm’s length relationship, partnership, and ongoing relationship.
Collaborative e-Learning framework for creating AR mobile educational activities

This paper introduces an Augmented Reality based framework for e-learning platforms that allows the creation of collaborative courses and activities for mobile devices. The easy-to-use authoring tool is Web3D based and can be integrated with e-learning platforms as another activity. The Augmented Reality content is added to the scenes and a state-machine is built by setting events that trigger a change of scene. The students can download any activity with a mobile device and play it in a multiplayer collaborative mode. The presented framework solves the problem of standard integration of Augmented Reality applications in education offering an authoring tool as a module of e-learning platforms.
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Department of Lung Disease, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250011, People’s Republic of China; Postdoctoral Station, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250355, People’s Republic of China; Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong Academy of Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong 250062, People’s Republic of China; Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250011, People’s Republic of China; Academic Department, China Association of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China; Preventive Treatment Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250001, People’s Republic of China
Niching Surrogate-Assisted Optimization for Simulation-Based Design Optimization of Cylinder Head Water Jacket

Many engineering design problems are associated with computationally expensive simulations for design evaluation, which makes the optimization process a time-consuming effort. In such problems, each candidate design should be selected carefully, even though it means extra algorithmic complexity. This study develops a niching-based surrogateassisted evolutionary algorithm that aims at handling both single-objective and multi-objective computationally expensive problems. A trust-region concept in the optimization context is proposed to control the evaluation error. At the same time, maximizing the information about specific regions of the search space is pursued by proper selection of new candidate solutions. The proposed method is evaluated and compared to a recently developed surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm on multi-objective test problems. Thereafter, a case study involving a multi-objective design optimization of the cylinder head water jacket of a vehicle engine is presented and discussed.
Differential heats of adsorption*

The meaning of the isosteric heat q3t, which follows from its definition and the used thermodynamic models, was discussed and the dependences of gst on the occupancy of the adsorbed layer (at T < Tv) were derived for an adsorbate with both ideal and non-ideal behaviour on an energetically homogeneous adsorbent. With the assumption that the energetic heterogeneity of the surface can be described by a single distribution curve, the general form of the dependence of the integral and differential adsorption heat on the occupancy of the adsorbed layer was derived both without and with the presence of a lateral interaction between the adsorbed molecules at higher occupancies О of the adsorbed layer. The maximum on the qst— О dependence at high values of О is shown to be a consequence of the properties of differential quantities in the adsorption systems with either an energetically heterogeneous surface or the presence of a lateral interaction, or with both these properties.
Effects of Used Engine Oil as Chemical Admixture in Concrete

Present paper emphasizes on the strength properties of concrete using waste engine oil as admixture. Investigation has been carried out for evaluating the workability and strength properties of concrete using waste engine oil as admixture into the concrete structure. This has a positive environmental effect as the cost of safe disposal of waste industrial material is significantly higher and there are strict environmental regulations. The objective to evaluate the effect of used engine oil on properties of fresh and hardened concrete. However, tests considered for study are slump test and compressive strength test. Four different percentages of admixtures (used engine oil) are chosen in the experimentation at 0.6%, 0.8%, 1.0% and 1.2% by weight of cement. Finally it was concluded that workability was enhanced. Compressive strength of concrete was decreased with increase of waste engine oil into the composition. In order to improve the workability of concrete composition, waste engine oil is a good admixture in composition.
A new questionnaire specifically designed for patients affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease The Italian Health Status Questionnaire

ee front matter & 2005 med.2005. 08.024 ing author. Tel. : +39 49 ess: giulio.vidotto@unip Summary The aim of this study was to develop a specific and valid questionnaire for Italian COPD patients, living on the north or the south of Italy—which are two culturally distinct areas. The project consisted in three steps: (1) initial item set generation to identify items relevant to both genders, all ages and both regions; (2) item reduction including tests of regional specificity; (3) tests of internal validity using itemresponse theory using Rasch one-parameter modelling. Ninty-six COPD patients (mean aged 69 yr; 78 Male) completed the original set of 124 items of the Italian Health Status Questionnaire (IHSQ). Item reduction was carried out using an established standardised approach employing classical psychometric test theory. The internal construct validity of the 47 items that survived this process were tested to determine whether they constituted a unidimensional construct ‘‘impaired health due to COPD’’ using Rasch analysis. This showed that the questionnaire had very good psychometric properties, with an excellent Person Separation Index of 0.95 and no evidence of bias due to item–trait interaction (w104 1⁄4 127:1, P 1⁄4 n:s:).
Gas hold-up in three phase co-current bubble columns

Bubble columns are used in a large number of applications in chemical engineering. The important variables that affect the gas holdup, bubble dynamics and flow regime in a bubble column are gas and liquid velocities, liquid viscosity, liquid surface tension, design of the gas distributor, solid concentration and column diameter. Experiments have been performed in a 15 cm diameter co-current slurry bubble column with liquid phase as water and air as the gas phase. Glass beads of mean diameter 35 μm have been used as solid phase. Solid loading up to 9% has been used. The superficial gas velocity varies from 1.0 to 16.28 cm/s and superficial liquid velocity varies from 0 to 12.26 cm/s. Effects of liquid height, liquid velocity, gas velocity and solid concentration over gas holdup for both two and three phase co-current flows have been studied. For batch case the liquid height didn’t affect the gas holdup. The gas holdup increases with increase in gas velocity for both two and three phase co-current columns. For two phase and three phase flow up to 1% solid loading; at low superficial gas velocity i.e. in the homogeneous regime, the increase in liquid velocity doesn’t show any change in the gas holdup. For higher gas velocities i.e. in the heterogeneous regime, increase in liquid velocity decreases the gas holdup rapidly. Above 1% solid loading, liquid velocity effect over gas hold-up is negligible. With increase in solid concentration for co-current bubble column the gas holdup slightly increases or remains constant up to 5% loading; beyond this loading there is a significant decrease in gas holdup © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection under responsibility of the Congress Scientific Committee (Petr Kluson)
An ultrasensitive electrochemical immunosensor platform based on disposableITO electrode modified by 3-CPTMS for early detection of parathyroid hormone

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a polypeptide containing 84 amino acids secreted by cells of the parathyroid glands. Imbalances of parathyroid levels cause medical problems such as osteoporosis, mental disorders, pancreatitis, kidney stones, cancer, and other symptoms. In this study, we aimed to design an ultrasensitive electrochemical immunosensor for PTH detection. Indium tin oxide (ITO) was used as an electrode for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. ITO sheets were modified by using 3-cyanopropyltrimethoxysilane (3-CPTMS) self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) for immobilizing the anti-PTH antibody via covalent interactions. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and EIS methods were applied to characterize immobilization steps. Therefore, 1% was selected for an optimal concentration of silane, 10 ng/mL was selected as an optimal concentration of anti-PTH, and 30 and 45 min were selected as optimal incubation times for anti-PTH and PTH, respectively. PTH antigen was determined in the concentration range from 0.05 fg/mL to 150 fg/mL. To detect the analytical characterization of the 3-CPTMS modified immunosensor, linear range, repeatability, reproducibility, Kramers-Kronig transform, and regeneration studies were performed. Also, the shelf life of the developed biosensor was investigated. Finally, real human serum samples were analyzed with the PTH immunosensor. The results showed that the designed biosensor system has high potential for early detection for medical treatments.
Effects of Starvation on the Frequency of Formation and Width of Growth Increments in Sagittae of Laboratory-Reared Atlantic Menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus Larvae

Department of Marine. Earth. and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University. Box 8208. Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 Present address: Department of Biology. McGill University J205 Ave. Docreur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec. Canada H3A JBJ Effects of Starvation on the Frequency of Formation and Width of Growth Increments in Sagittae of Laboratory-Reared Atlantic Menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus Larvae Abstract. -we investigated increment formation in sagittae of Atlantic menhaden BrellQortia tJlrannus in laboratory experiments, and found that the age of individual larvae can be estimated within ±3 days over the first month of life using counts of growth increments. Sagittae were first observed during embryonic development. The first prominent growth increment was formed at first feeding, and the frequency of increment formation of fed and starved larvae ranged from 0.86 to 0.98 increments per day thereafter. Starvation did not appear to systematically alter the periodicity of increment formation from one increment per day, although it consistently modified the width of growth increments among different age groups of larvae. Microstructural growth patterns in sagittae responded rapidly (days) to changes in feeding: larvae starved for 1-3 days formed narrow, poorly-defined increments compared with fed larvae that formed wide, well-defined increments. Standard length and estimated dry weight of larvae were related to sagittal radius by asymptotic and logistic functions, respectively. Sagittal radius of larvae was related to days after first feeding by a logistic function. Our results for Atlantic menhaden confirm the potential of otoliths in providing information about age, stressful events, and growth history of individual fish larvae.
Gene expression profile of MAP kinase PTC1 mutant

Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is a harmful and cancer-causing mycotoxin generated by Aspergillus flavus. Its mechanism of toxicity has not been fully clarified and further research is required. In this study, we attempted to further clarify aflatoxin B1 toxicity using the results of S. cerevisiae gene expression analysis. In a Ser/Thr phosphatase 2C disruptant (ptc1Δ) with weakened activity of anti-toxic components (cell wall and membrane), the addition of low concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulfate resulted in elevated susceptibility to AFB1. From the microarray results, expression changes in DNA synthesis or repair, sphingolipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, and cell wall-related genes were well detected. Our results indicate that AFB1 causes sphingolipid metabolism disorder, leading to dysfunction in signal secretion and inhibition of efficient glucose metabolism, which supplies the materials for cell wall proteins and cellular components, resulting in repression of the stress response to external toxicants.
Network-Based Clustering for Varying Coefficient Panel Data Models

Abstract In this article, we introduce a novel varying-coefficient panel-data model with locally stationary regressors and unknown group structure, in which the number of groups and the group membership are left unspecified. We develop a triple-localization approach to estimate the unknown subject-specific coefficient functions and then identify the latent group structure via community detection. To improve the efficiency of the first-stage estimator, we further propose a two-stage estimation method that enables the estimator to achieve optimal rates of convergence. In the theoretical part of the article, we derive the asymptotic theory of the resultant estimators. In the empirical part, we present several simulated examples together with an analysis of real data to illustrate the finite-sample performance of the proposed method.
Structural studies of coenzyme Q10 inclusion complex with -cyclodextrin using chemical analyses and molecular modeling

The stability, dispersibility and oral bioavailability of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) are known to be improved upon complexing CoQ10 with -cyclodextrin (-CD). However, the details of the three-dimensional structure of the -CD/CoQ10 complex are not well understood. Therefore, the molecular composition and three-dimensional structure of the complex were investigated using chemical analyses and molecular modeling. The molecular ratio of -CD and CoQ10 in the complex was investigated by NMR as well as by HPLC to determine the -CD/CoQ10 ratio of 2.5. DSC analysis of the -CD/CoQ10 complex indicated formation of the inclusion complex. Three different complex models (-CDx2+CoQ10; -CDx3+CoQ10; -CDx5+CoQ10x2) that correspond to the derived -CD/CoQ10 ratio were also constructed and then molecular mechanics and dynamics calculations were carried out to provide several possible complex structures. Based on the complex structures thus obtained, structural and energetic features of the complexes were examined.
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Ali Asghar Ghorbani Zohreh Sohrabi Shahram Yazdani 3 Salimeh Khalili Azandehi 1Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, CERMS (Center of Educational Research in Medical Sciences), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 2School of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, CERMS (Center of Educational Research in Medical Sciences), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3School of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 4Social Security Organization, Valiasr Regional Hospital, Education & Research Unit, Ghaemshahr, Iran Introduction: Given the social, economic, environmental and internal developments of universities, the necessity for medical universities to move to being third-generation universities has been demonstrated. These universities, along with the requirements of entrepreneurship and commercialization of research, are in need of structural requirements. This study was conducted with the aim to identify and introduce the structural requirements of medical sciences universities in Iran in the transition to the third-generation universities. Materials and Methods: This study was a qualitative approach using a conventional content analysis method. The contributors comprised 16 faculty members working in medical universities in Iran who were purposefully recruited and interviewed face to face in semistructured interviews between October 2018 and March 2019. Results: Two wide classifications containing macro-structural requirements (institutional requirements) and micro-structural requirements (organizational requirements) were developed. Institutional requirements included four subcategories including redefining the university as a holding of knowledge business units, redefining academic units as a strategic business unit (SBU) which refer to the mission of the universities and eliminate bureaucracy, independence, and ‘Competition in recruitment and contracts’ which refer to the administrative requirements of the universities. The organizational requirements included units and offices, centers, and parks that are grouped because of similarities in internal processes. Conclusion: Medical universities need structural requirements to move to third-generation universities and improve infrastructure. These requirements, which develop in a spiral over time, must be appropriate and tailored to the capacity of each university.
Recent Progress in Developing Indonesian Large-Vocabulary Corpora and LVCSR System

Speech-related research in Indonesia has focused mainly on speech synthesizer technologies and natural language processing. More recently, work on collecting Indonesian speech corpora and developing speech recognition systems was initiated. However, most of these systems only recognized a very limited vocabulary. This paper outlines recent progress in developing Indonesian large-vocabulary corpora and a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system. Research on the Indonesian LVCSR has been carried out under the A-STAR (Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research) consortium. Three types of Indonesian large vocabulary data sources were used: daily news, telephone application and basic travel expression (BTEC) tasks, which are available in both text and speech forms. The Indonesian speech recognition engine was trained using clean speech for both the daily news and telephone application tasks, and the performance was evaluated using the BTEC task.
Initial Symptom of Different Developmental Difficulties: Language Delay

Objective: The aim is to evaluate sociodemographic characteristics, differential diagnoses and risk factors of children with language delay. Material and Methods: This retrospective study was included 222 children with language delay referred to a tertiary developmental-behavioral pediatrics clinic. Children were evaluated with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development 2nd Edition and Guide for Monitoring and Child Development. Results: Most of families (78%) firstly admitted to pediatricians. Only 38.7% of the children had expressive language disorder, while 39.6% had cognitive delay and 14% had autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 56.8% of the children did not have book. Book ownership decreased with increasing sibling count and lower parents educational level. Kindergarten/ pre-school education was in only 3.2% of the children. 15.8% of the children did not have any opportunity for peer relationship. Most of the children (82.4%) had daily screen time above 4 hours. Mental Developmental Index scores were lower in children with lack of books, and parents with ≤8 years of education. Conclusion: Serious neurodevelopmental problems including cognitive delay and ASD should be considered in children with language delay. Pediatricians play a central role in early diagnosis, appropriate management and should guide the families about protective factors that affect language development.
Human-Informed Speakers and Interpreters Analysis in the WAW Corpus and an Automatic Method for Calculating Interpreters’ Décalage

This article presents a multi-faceted analysis of a subset of interpreted conference speeches from the WAW corpus for the English-Arabic language pair. We analyze several speakers and interpreters variables via manual annotation and automatic methods. We propose a new automatic method for calculating interpreters’ décalage based on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and automatic alignment of named entities and content words between speaker and interpreter. The method is evaluated by two human annotators who have expertise in interpreting and Interpreting Studies and shows highly satisfactory results, accompanied with a high inter-annotator agreement. We provide insights about the relations of speakers’ variables, interpreters’ variables and décalage and discuss them from Interpreting Studies and interpreting practice point of view. We had interesting findings about interpreters behavior which need to be extended to a large number of conference sessions in our future research.
Effect of Swirl Plates on Volumetric Discharge Rate and Spray Characteristics of Hollow Cone Nozzles

The aim of the study is to determine the effect of orifice diameter, swirl plate and spray pressure on the volumetric flow, discharge coefficient and some spray characteristics of hollow cone nozzles. In the trials, five nozzle discs with 1,0, 1,2, 1,6, 2,0 and 2,4 millimetres orifice diameters and three polyacetal materials with 2 or 3 slots and one stainless steel with 2-slots swirl plate were used. Spray application were made at spray pressures of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 bar. The highest discharge rate at constant pressure was obtained with stainless steel and the lowest blue swirl plates. Although the number of slots was different, the effect of brown and yellow swirl plates on volumetric discharge rate variation was statistically insignificant. The discharge coefficient decreased as the diameter of the nozzle orifice increased. Accordingly, the average discharge coefficient for the 1,0 mm, 1,2, 1,6, 2,0 and 2,4 mm diameter nozzle discs was 0,411, 0,362, 0,285, 0,236 and 0.201, respectively. It was estimated that the droplet diameter in the range of 2-12 bar in the hollow cone nozzles varied between 76,3-219,0 μm and it was determined that mostly very fine and partially fine and medium sized droplets were produced.