Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Swedish Universities in Transition: From "Mode 1" to what?

This paper aims at analyzing the obstacles to in-depth cooperation between Swedish universities and other parts of society. Social capital is used as a comprehensive concept for the norms, values and relations that exist in the university sector and between this sector and the surrounding society. A working hypothesis is that universities' social capital is adapted by tradition to then Mode 1 production of knowledge, and that a transition to Mode 2 therefore requires a comprehensive change in the universities' social capital. After an introduction, section 2 gives a background in its description of the development of the Swedish university policy, mainly from a national perspective. In section 3 an analysis is made of the reasons why Swedish universities still mainly are dominated by Mode 1 production of knowledge and in section 4, a number of areas that deserve further illumination are given prominence. In both these sections, norms, values and networks are central concepts in the analysis. Together these phenomena form the social capital of the universities and between the universities and other parts of society and the conclusion is that this constitutes an important obstacle to the development of a Mode 2 production of knowledge in Sweden.
The application of immunohistochemistry as a research technique in veterinary medical schools in Nigeria

Immunohistochemistry involves the use of commercially prepared colour labelled antibodies to detect the presence and distribution of specific cellular proteins known as antigens. It is a diagnostic and research technique employed in medicine, but may have limited veterinary medical application in Nigeria. The present paper accessed the level of awareness and application of immunohistochemistry as a research technique among staff of the veterinary medical schools in Nigeria. As at the time of the study, ten veterinary schools were accredited by the Veterinary Council of Nigeria, thus used for the analysis. Respondents to a structured questionnaire from the veterinary schools included laboratory technologists and academic staff of the departments of veterinary anatomy, pathology and public health. Design of the questions progressed from mere awareness to theoretical and practical knowledge of the technique. Although 93.33 % of respondents who are academic staff were aware of the technique, and an equally high percentage of those aware of the technique have varying levels of theoretical knowledge, only 32.65 % of these respondents have practical experience of immunohistochemistry technique. Similarly, among the laboratory technologists who were aware of the technique, only 34.78 % have actively conducted it. Respondents of the veterinary anatomy specialty had the highest percentage of practical knowledge. Results also indicated that there was only one veterinary medical school with a functional immunohistochemistry laboratory in Nigeria. The paper recommended, among other things, the introduction of immunohistochemistry as a practical course in the curriculum of the veterinary schools in Nigeria. Keywords: Immunohistochemistry; Nigerian veterinary schools; NUC
S PEECH R ECOGNITION IN S LOVAK

The inflection of the Slovak language causes a large number of unique word forms, which produces not only a large vocabulary, but also a number of out-ofvocabulary words. Morph-based language models solve this problem by decomposition of inflected word forms into small sub-word units and resolve the general problem of sparsity the training data. In this paper, we present several rule-based and data-driven approaches to the automatic segmentation of words into morphs. These data are later used in the modeling of the Slovak language for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Preliminary results show a significant decrease in the number of out-of-vocabulary words and reduction of resultant language model perplexity.
Korean Mobile Spam Filtering System Considering Characteristics of Text Messages

This paper introduces a mobile spam filtering system that considers the style of short text messages sent to mobile phones for detecting spam. The proposed system not only relies on the occurrence of content words as previously suggested but additionally leverages the style information to reduce critical cases in which legitimate messages containing spam words are mis-classified as spam. Moreover, the accuracy of spam classification is improved by normalizing the messages through the correction of word spacing and spelling errors. Experiment results using real world Korean text messages show that the proposed system is effective for Korean mobile spam filtering.
Hydrogen and renewable energy sources integrated system for greenhouse heating

A research is under development at the Department of Agro- Environmental Sciences of the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” in order to investigate the suitable solutions of a power system based on solar energy (photovoltaic) and hydrogen, integrated with a geothermal heat pump for powering a self sustained heated greenhouse. The electrical energy for heat pump operation is provided by a purpose-built array of solar photovoltaic modules, which supplies also a water electrolyser system controlled by embedded pc; the generated dry hydrogen gas is conserved in suitable pressured storage tank. The hydrogen is used to produce electricity in a fuel cell in order to meet the above mentioned heat pump power demand when the photovoltaic system is inactive during winter night-time or the solar radiation level is insufficient to meet the electrical demand. The present work reports some theoretical and observed data about the electrolyzer operation. Indeed the electrolyzer has required particular attention because during the experimental tests it did not show a stable operation and it was registered a performance not properly consistent with the predicted performance by means of the theoretical study.
Comparison Of Simulated And Actual Product Of Polymer Composite

A study on the comparison of the actual product developed using injection moulding process and simulation results performed using Mold Flow Plastic Insight (MPI) software for automotive composite clutch pedal is presented in this paper. The paper starts with the descriptions of the fabrication process of glass fibre reinforced polyamide composite automotive clutch pedal using injection moulding process. The mould flow analysis was performed to investigate the effects on composite fill time, temperature, pressure, air trap, weld line and fiber orientation. The results showed that the runner length greatly affects the pressure and temperature of the composite material. An actual model of glass fiber reinforced PA 6,6 composite automotive clutch pedal was also fabricated and results showed great consistency with the simulated model in terms of air fill time, air traps and weld line formations. A weight reduction from 647.7g (steel clutch pedal) to 125.8g (fiber reinforced polyamide clutch pedal) was achieved (a reduction of 80.6 %) due to the fact that the density of composite is much lower than that of steel.
Flexible clustering methods for high-dimensional data sets

Finite mixture models assume that a population is a convex combination of densities; therefore, they are well suited for clustering applications. Each cluster is modeled using a density function. One of the most flexible distributions is the generalized hyperbolic distribution (GHD). It can handle skewness and heavy tails, and has many well-known distributions as special or limiting cases. The multiple scaled GHD (MSGHD) and the mixture of coalesced GHDs (CGHD) are even more flexible methods that can detect non-elliptical, and even non-convex, clusters. The drawback of high flexibility is a high parametrization --- especially so for high-dimensional data because the number of parameters is depends on the number of variables. Therefore, the aforementioned methods are not well suited for high-dimensional data clustering. However, the eigen-decomposition of the component scale matrix can naturally be used for dimension reduction obtaining a transformation of the MSGHD and MCGHD that is better suited for high-dimensional data clustering.
Origin and significance of the yellow cathodoluminescence (CL) of quartz

Abstract The origin of yellow cathodoluminescence (CL) in quartz has been investigated by a combination of CL microscopy and spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and spatially resolved trace-element analysis by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). The study shows that the appearance of a ~570 nm (2.17 eV) emission band can be attributed to high oxygen deficiency and local structural disorder in quartz. A proposed luminescence center model implies self-trapped exciton (STE) emission from localized amorphized regions in quartz. Although the high-intensity emission at 570 nm is in general consistent with high concentrations of E′1 defects detected by EPR spectroscopy, CL studies with different electron beam parameters and annealing experiments up to 600 °C show a temperature and irradiation dependence of the luminescence related defects excluding the role of E′1 centers as direct luminescence activators for the 570 nm emission. The evaluation of geochemical data shows that quartz with yellow CL occurs in low-temperature hydrothermal environment (mostly <250 °C) and is related to fast crystallization in an environment with oxygen deficiency.
MODELING OF INTERFACE DEFECT DISTRIBUTION FOR AN n-MOSFETs UNDER HOT-CARRIER STRESSING

We propose to model the evolution of the interface defect density, induced by the hot-carrier-injection, during stress time for n-MOSFET transistor. This interface defect density is modeled by a spatial and temporal gaussian distribution centered close to the extremity of the channel near the drain. The gaussian Parameters (standard deviation and maximum) vary according to the stress. The stress generated defects leads to the degradation of the threshold voltage. The analysis of the threshold voltage evolution with stress time allows us to handle informations on the device performances degradation. The mathematic expression is simple so that the present model is suitable for circuit simulator.
Hypergraph Removal Lemmas via Robust Sharp Threshold Theorems

The classical sharp threshold theorem of Friedgut and Kalai (1996) asserts that any symmetric monotone function $f:\{0,1\}^{n}\to\{0,1\}$ exhibits a sharp threshold phenomenon. This means that the expectation of $f$ with respect to the biased measure $\mu_{p}$ increases rapidly from 0 to 1 as $p$ increases. In this paper we present `robust' versions of the theorem, which assert that it holds also if the function is `almost' monotone, and admits a much weaker notion of symmetry. Unlike the original proof of the theorem which relies on hypercontractivity, our proof relies on a `regularity' lemma (of the class of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma and its generalizations) and on the `invariance principle' of Mossel, O'Donnell, and Oleszkiewicz which allows (under certain conditions) replacing functions on the cube $\{0,1\}^{n}$ with functions on Gaussian random variables. The hypergraph removal lemma of Gowers (2007) and independently of Nagle, R\"odl, Schacht, and Skokan (2006) says that if a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices contains few copies of a fixed hypergraph $H$, then it can be made $H$-free by removing few of its edges. While this settles the `hypergraph removal problem' in the case where $k$ and $H$ are fixed, the result is meaningless when $k$ is large (e.g. $k>\log\log\log n$). Using our robust version of the Friedgut-Kalai Theorem, we obtain a hypergraph removal lemma that holds for $k$ up to linear in $n$ for a large class of hypergraphs. These contain all the hypergraphs such that both their number of edges and the sizes of the intersections of pairs of their edges are upper bounded by some constant.
Title So-called “ dual emission ” for 3 MLCT luminescence in ruthenium complex ions : What is really happening ?

Dual emission is a reality in many, but not all, ruthenium complex ions, even at room temperature and in fluid solution. It requires significantly different ligands and is more obvious in rigid media such as glasses at low temperature and crystalline powders. However, there are not just two unique lifetimes. Rather, there is a continuum of similar but slightly different lifetimes drawn from a bimodal distribution. In some of the cases that do not show dual emission, there still seems to be a continuum within a unimodal distribution. After reviewing a wide range of data, we describe possible interpretations. Most novel, but in our view most attractive, is a major role for ion pairing. If one admits that ions near charge transfer orbitals should have a stabilizing effect, and if one doubts that there would be any unique configuration for ion pairs, then it would seem that a continuous variation of excited state behavior is mandatory. This mechanism accounts for the fact that highly asymmetric substitutions at the 4position of the phen ligand that most affects charge transfer always show dual emission and offer the most exaggerated differences between the two emissions. Other possibilities remain, given the data available at this time.
Effect of Cabergoline on Body Weight, Glycemic Control and Insulin Resistance in Patient with Obesity and Prediabetes

Dopaminergic hypofunction have been involved in the pathogenesis of obesity and impaired glucose homeostasis. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of cabergoline on body weight, glycemic control and insulin resistance in pre-diabetic obese patients. This 12 week prospective control clinical study randomized 44 obese pre-diabetic patients into three groups. Group 1(N=13) the control, group 2 (N=16) received metformin 500mg-850mg BID and group 3 (N=15) received cabergoline 0.25-0.5mg twice weekly. The weight loss was not different among the three groups. Significant glycemic improvement started after 8 week of cabergoline while after 4 week of metformin treatment. At the end of study, cabergoline improved glycemic control and insulin resistance greater than control group. Metformin improved glycemic control greater than cabergoline while the change in insulin resistance was not significant between metformin and cabergoline. We can conclude that cabergoline improve glycemic control and insulin resistance in obese pre-diabetic patients
The Role of Transaction Costs and Risk Premia in the Determination of Climate Change Policy Responses

Transaction costs and risk have generally not been taken into account in assessing the Kyoto mechanisms JI, CDM and emissions trading. However, they can have a significant influence. With regard to the project-based mechanisms, the factor that most determines the influence of transaction costs on the implementation of a project is the size of the particular project. For some projects transaction costs amount up to over 1000 ? /ton C reduced, which proves the necessity of streamlining procedures, as recognised in the Marrakesh Accords. With regard to international emissions trading it will be of high importance to build on experience with past national emissions trading schemes in order to keep transaction costs low. However, international trading schemes of the type envisaged under the Kyoto Protocol are likely to have significant issues that have not been addressed in previous national experience. In addition to transaction costs, we determine country risk premia to account for the fact that projects in different states may induce different levels of risk of default or project failure.
Evidence based education and special education: a possible dialogue

This article presents a critical analysis of the concept of evidence-based practice, promoting a dialogue with special education. It provides a theoretical and methodological framework (Evidence Based Education - EBE) on the research methodologies within the EBE approach, the definition of an EBE model in special education, the research analysis on school integration in Italy in an EBE perspective and the identification of research lines to validate the practices of inclusive education. In conclusion, although there are methodological and practical difficulties in leading an empirical research in the inclusion field, according to EBE parameters, it is possible to consider other models of research, as such as the methodology on the single subject and observation research for further in depth analysis.
Organisational and spatial determinants of the multi-unit firm: Evidence from the French industry

This article aims to analyse the factors that determine the existence of multi-unit firms and that influence the intensity of their organisational fragmentation. More precisely, we identify the firm’s internal characteristics and their spatial, sectoral and competitive environments that are conducive (or not) to the adoption of a multi-unit form of organisation. We test these hypotheses by using a two stage Heckman type model (1979). This model allows us to take into account the determinants of the organisational choice in the intensity of multi-location. Beyond the general model, we seek to highlight that the logics differ according to the location of the firm’s head office (urban, peri-urban or rural) and according to the firm’s industrial profile (horizontal or vertical). These empirical models are based on individual data on all French industrial firms, derived from the annual survey on firms and their establishments conducted by the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). One of our main results is to reveal the role of this complex interaction between industrial and spatial dynamics in organisational choices.
XML compression algorithms benchmark on ARINC 633 data

The increasing air traffic at European level and the limitations of the current airport infrastructure make necessary the modernization of the European Air Traffic Management. This need has prompted the creation of SESAR, the technological project that describes the necessary steps to carry out the modernization of the actual European ATM. One of the cornerstones of SESAR is based on the information management of the entire system as a whole. The fact that all information should be shared by all parties involved in the communication makes necessary the use of standards. One of the proposed standards is ARINC 633 which refers to communication between aircraft and its airlines. All these standards use XML for information encoding. XML has been widely adopted due to the many benefits it provides. However, this language has a main drawback: its verbosity. Adding to this problem the fact that the information is sent via satellite links, compression become a key element to make the communication viable. The current report presents a benchmark of different compression techniques applied to files based on ARINC 633 standard. To carry out this benchmark it has been implemented a complete framework which consists of sample file generation, compression, decompression, validation and performance measurement. The measurement of the compression ratio and CPU consumption shows how the use of specific compressors for XML files increase the compression performance compared with general purpose compressors. The comparison also shows that it is possible to take advantage of the use of schemas to achieve a noticeably increase in the compression ratio. XML compression algorithms benchmark on ARINC 633 data | 7
Mobilization of Heavy Metals Induced by Button Mushroom Compost in Sunflower

Button mushroom compost (BMC) was prepared by fermenting the mixture of waste button mushroom bed collected from Boryeong area in South Korea (4): sawdust (8) : pig and fowl manure (1) for 40 days at 30°C. The BMC compromised diverse microorganisms including aerobic bacteria 8.1 × 106 cfu g-1, Gram negative bacteria 1.7 × 10 7 cfu g -1 , genus Bacillus 6.4 × 10 6 cfu g -1 , genus Pseudomonas 1.5 × 10 4 cfu g -1 , actinomycetes 1.0 × 10 4 cfu g -1 , and fungi 3.5 × 10 3 cfu g -1 . BMC was used as a microbial inoculant for estimating the mobilization of heavy metals in soil or plant. When metal solubilization potential of BMC was assessed in a batch experiment, the inoculation of BMC was shown to increase the concentrations of water soluble Co, Pb, Cd, and Zn by 29, 26, 27, and 43% respectively, than those of non-inoculated soils. BMC-assisted growth promotion and metal uptake in sunflower (Helianthus annuus) was also evaluated in a pot experiment. In comparison with non-inoculated seedlings, the inoculation led to increase the growth of H. annuus by 17, 15, 18, and 21% respectively in Co, Pb, Cd, and Zn contaminated soils. Moreover, enhanced accumulation of Co, Pb, Cd, and Zn in the shoot and root systems was observed in inoculated plants, where metal translocation from root to the above-ground tissues was also found to be enhanced by the BMC. The apparent results suggested that the BMC could effectively be employed in enhancing phytoextraction from the soils contaminated with heavy metals such as Co, Pb, Cd, and Zn.
Stygiolobus azoricus gen. nov., sp. nov. Represents a Novel Genus of Anaerobic, Extremely Thermoacid

On the basis of three isolates (strains FC6T [T = type strain], FC4, and RG1) of extremely thermophilic chemolithoautotrophic archaebacteria obtained from solfataric fields on ao Miguel Island, Azores, the new genus Stygiolobus is described. These isolates grow obligately chemolithotrophically by reduction of S0 with H2 (H2-S0 lithotrophy) and are the first strictly anaerobic members of the order Sulfolobales. With a DNA G+C content of 38 mol%, the Stygiolobus isolates resemble Sulfolobus spp. , which, however, are faculatively organotrophic and aerobic S0 oxidizers. The new isolates are also distinct from Acidianus spp. , which resemble Stygiolobus by growing by H2-S0 lithotrophy. However, Acidianus spp. can also grow aerobically by S0 oxidation and have G+C contents of 31 mol%. At this time, only one species of the genus Stygiolobus is known, Stygiolobus azoricus sp. nov.; the type strain of S. azoricus is strain FC6 (= DSM 6296).
Interspecific competition and qualitative competitive asymmetry between two benthic stream fish

The mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdi, and the fantail darter, Etheostoma flallellare, are benthic fish common in small streams over much of eastern North America. Both juveniles and adults of these two species are closely associated in low elevation headwater streams in western Virginia. I explored the effects of competition between juveniles of the two species, and the effects of heterospecific adults on juvenile performance, in a controlled, replicated experiment in artificial streams. Effects of competition were determined for three measures of juvenile performance that can be potentially related to reproductive output, and hence, to population dynamics: survival, growth and relative condition. Juveniles of C. bairdi and E. flabellare competed at densities well within the range observed in their natal streams. Adult E. flabellare had a positive effect on the survival of juvenile C. bairdi, the origin of which is unknown. Adult C. bairdi had no effect on juvenile E. flabellare. The most interesting result was that competition between juveniles of the two species was characterized by a qualitative asymmetry; C. bairdi responded with a reduction in growth, both in total length and mass, while E. flabellare responded with a decrease in relative condition, but no decrease in growth. These differences in response were clearly reflected in mass/length regressions. Unless responding variables can be precisely translated into quantitative effects on population dynamics, such qualitative asymmetries in competitive interactions greatly complicate the determination of competitive symmetry and the possible prediction of competitive outcomes, especially in species where r is difficult to determine directly.