Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ASSESSMENT OF BIOASSAY TEST OF THE EFFLUENT AND IMPACT OF SELECTED PHYSIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF KOTA SUPER THERMAL POWER PLANT’S EFFLUENT ON KOTA BARRAGE LAKE WATER, KOTA RAJASTHAN INDIA

In this study, the quantitatively assessment of the acute toxicity of effluent and impact of selected physiochemical properties of Kota super thermal power plant’s effluent on Kota barrage lake water, Kota, Rajasthan, India. Determining impact of the pollutants on natural water bodies is a time consuming and uneconomical task if one tries to measure levels of each pollutant in order to determine its impact so acute toxicological impact was determined by bioassay test. For determining the impact, water sampling was carried out judgementally from designated points nearby confluence point of effluent and analysed for physiochemical properties using standard methods of APHA. Impact of selected parameters such as temperature, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolved oxygen (DO), total organic carbon (TOC), chloride and sulphate was studied for twelve months from July 2015 to June 2016. Annual range concentration of physiochemical properties was observed as temperature (23.1-36.1OC), pH ( 6.4-8.1), EC ( 280-357μS/cm),TDS (180-241 mg/1), DO (1.3-7.1 mg/1), TOC (1.6-3.86 mg/1), Chloride (25.5-41 mg/1) and Sulphate (8.88-24.2 mg/1). The impact of effluent on Kota barrage lake water was determined as physiochemical properties were decreasing in following order: DO >TOC > Temperature > Sulphate > Chloride > TDS > EC > pH, with respect the values of coefficient of variation. On calculating the analysis of variation (ANOVA) of parameters, it was concluded at 5% level of significance, samples had come from populations having the same mean. On observation of the bioassay test it was concluded that the Surviving of the fish was 100% for 96 hours, so results was found Satisfactory.
Development of herbal milk using tulsi juice, ginger juice and turmeric powder

Food industries have rather high demand for the products that meet the consumer’s demand for a healthy life style for which functional food fortified with the plant ingredients plays an important role. Tulsi, turmeric and ginger are such important medicinal plants whose medicinal usage has been reported in the Indian and British Pharmacopoeias and in the Ayurvedic system of medicine and day to day life of human beings, also having various health benefits including immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antiarthritis, and anti-bacterial, antioxidant, anti-diabetic and anti-tumor. The present study was anticipated to develop herbal milk with sensorily acceptable levels herbs and assessment for its compositional, physicochemical properties, sensory attributes and microbiological quality. Preliminary trials were conducted to optimize the levels of tulsi, turmeric and ginger in milk. By preliminary trials range of ingredients selected as well as stabilizer selected. It was observed that addition of tulsi juice (25%), ginger juice (3%) and turmeric powder (0.1%) of sterilized herbal milk exhibited best sensory scores and milk without addition of herbs treated as control. Antioxidant, Viscosity, fat and total polyphenols were significantly (P<0.05) higher than the T0 (Control). The chemical composition of the optimized product contained fat 3.59%, total solids 14.96%, protein 3.01%, ash 0.70%, carbohydrates 9.30% and energy 81.55 Kcal/100 ml. The antioxidant and total phenolic content were 50.14% DPPH activity and 96.25 mg GAE/100gm respectively. The herbal milk conforms to the FSSA requirements for ‘flavored sterilized’ milk. The cost of the newly developed herbal milk was Rs 14.17/200 ml.
Alkali Metals Extraction Reactions with the Silicides Li15Si4 and Li3NaSi6: Amorphous Si versus allo-Si

The silicides Li15Si4 and Li3NaSi6 were subjected to chemical extraction of the alkali metal component by liquid ammonia and ethanol, respectively, which after washing yielded black powders of amorphous silicon. The investigated reactions are interesting with respect to both the formation of novel Si modifications and the delithiation process in Si anode materials. The products termed a-Si (from Li15Si4) and a-allo-Si (from Li3NaSi6) were characterized by a combination of methodologies (X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, differential thermal analysis, Raman, atomic absorption, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) which revealed (i) a porous microstructure for a-Si built from spherically shaped particles with sizes around 10 nm, (ii) partial surface oxidation of both materials and (iii) the presence of nanocrystalline Si in both materials. The result of the protic oxidation of Li3NaSi6 is at variance with earlier findings reporting the formation of a crystalline bulk allotrope of sil.
The Machines Aren’t Taking Over (Yet): An Empirical Comparison of Traditional, Profiling, and Machine Learning Approaches to Criterion-Related Validation

Recommended Citation Allen, Kristin S. ; Affourtit, Mathijs; and Reddock, Craig M. (2020) "The Machines Aren’t Taking Over (Yet): An Empirical Comparison of Traditional, Profiling, and Machine Learning Approaches to Criterion-Related Validation," Personnel Assessment and Decisions: Vol. 6 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25035/pad.2020. 03.002 Available at: https://scholarworks.bgsu. edu/pad/vol6/iss3/2
How to Care in a Cowboy Culture?

Humanitarian action is a stressful field of work, that can have effects on the mental health and well-being of aid workers. This paper asks how humanitarian organizations can strengthen operational leadership provide better staff care. An organizations' duty of care towards their employees can translate into its staff care strategy. During field missions, operational humanitarian managers work directly with staff under high stress. This paper tries to give an insight into their understanding of staff care and how they implement it in the field, and it tries to understand the challenges they face. The understanding of their role in this included making sure staff are physically secure and feel psychologically safe. The main strategies were creating an open team culture, making staff feel appreciated and motivated, managing the workload and setting up a comfortable living and working environment. The main challenges were a lack of funding and practical training, having no one to talk to about difficult situations, and providing staff care to national staff. The ways in which they experienced support from their organizations varied. The general findings were that staff care needs to be prioritized at the organizational level. Organizations need to provide financial support, appropriate training for leaders and coaching to deal with challenges. This Is especially true when It comes to national staff: Although national staff contribute to the vast majority of the humanitarian workforce, organizationally, staff care for this group of employees remains largely underprioritized. * This Working Paper is a revised version of a master's thesis originally submitted in the Joint European Master's Programme in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA) at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dennis Dijkzeul. Working Paper Vol. 10 No. 2, December 2020 URL: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifhv/documents/workingpapers/wp10_2. pdf How to Care in a Cowboy Culture? Strengthening Humanitarian Operational Leaders’ Capacities for Staff Care in Field Missions
Impact Of High-K Gate Dielectrics On Short Channel Effects Of DG N-Finfet

As the technology is scaled down, short channel effects such as Vt variation, leakage current, gate oxide tunneling become predominant due to the reduction in gate oxide thickness. When the device is scaled down beyond 22 nm technology, the use of SiO2 as gate oxide increases tunneling current, thereby increase in power consumption and reduction in reliability of devices. Equivalent gate oxide thickness can be reduced by using high-k dielectric materials. FinFET(a type of DG-MOSFET) integrated with a high-k gate dielectric is a promising device in the subthreshold region. Simulations were performed using Sentarus TCAD. The parameters such as threshold voltage, OFF current, transconductance were analyzed. Simulation results clearly state that Short Channel Effects have been reasonably controlled by using high-k spacer material. Index terms : FinFET, Short Channel Effects, Effective Oxide Thickness(EOT),High-k gate dielectric, SiO2, HfO2 ——————————◆——————————
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* Harris Schlesinger is Professor of Finance and the Samford Chair of Insurance at the University of Alabama. Part of this article borrows from the author's paper, "Zur Theorie der Versicherungsnachfrage," ("On the Theory of Insurance Demand") which was presented as the opening lecture at the 1994 meeting of the German Association for Insurance Sciences in Hamburg, Germany, and is published in the Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft (1994). This article was written while the author was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, Germany and at IDEI, University of Toulouse, France. The author thanks Dieter Farny for granting permission to use some of the earlier material. The author also thanks Roland Eisen, Christian Gollier, Patricia Rudolph, J.-Matthias Gf. v.d. Schulenburg and an anonymous referee for useful comments.
TMU19 at the NTCIR-15 Micro-activity Retrieval Task

This paper proposes a new method for predicting user activities at the NTCIR-15 Micro-activity Retrieval Task. Additional concepts from ResNet generated features following with a Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory block helps our neural network paying more attention in the corresponding class. Our model received an upright result on the scoreboard.
Najafi-Tavani, S and Najafi-Tavani, Z and Naudé, P and Oghazi, P and Zey- naloo, E (2018)How collaborative innovation networks affect new product performance: Product innovation capability, process innovation capability, and absorptive capacity. Industrial Marketing Management, 73. pp. 193-

The current literature has investigated the direct relationship between collaborative innovation networks and new product performance, but the results are inconsistent. This research aims to explore the role of product and process innovation capabilities as two distinct mechanisms through which collaborative innovation networks improve new product performance. The study also examines the contingent effects of absorptive capacity on the relationship between collaborative innovation networks and the two innovation capability dimensions (i.e. product and process innovation). Survey data from 258 respondents from the Iranian high and medium technology manufacturing industries indicates the need for caution when developing collaborative innovation networks. We found that the effects of collaborative innovation networks on either product or process innovation capability are significant only in the presence of absorptive capacity. This finding suggests that the level of collaboration with different partners can enhance firms’ innovation capabilities only if the focal firm’s managers have developed the capacity to scan and acquire external knowledge. Our analyses further indicate that in the presence of absorptive capacity, only collaboration with research organizations and 3 | P a g e competitors have a positive effect on product innovation capability. In the case of process innovation capability, collaboration with research organizations and suppliers are the most important factors.
Geodetic and Geophysical Approach of the Gravitational field in Santorini Volcanic Group

Santorini is located in the central part of the Hellenic Volcanic Arc (South Aegean Sea) and is well known for the Late-Bronze-Age “Minoan” eruption that might had been responsible for the decline of the great Minoan civilization on Crete island. Dionysos Satellite Observatory (DSO) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) carried out terrestrial gravity measurements in December 2012 and in September 2014 at selected locations on Thira, Nea Kameni, Palea Kameni, Thirasia, Aspronisi and Christiana islands. Absolute gravity values were calculated using raw gravity data at every station to a combined dataset (2012-2014) and, consequently, complete Bouguer gravity anomaly maps were produced following the appropriate data corrections and reductions. The results were compared with gravity measurements that took place in July 1976 by DSO/NTUA and gravity variations at selected common locations were revealed. Marine gravity data that were collected during the PROTEUS project in November and December 2015 have been graded from University of Oregon and they fill the gravity dataset. An appropriate Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with topographic and bathymetric data was produced for the calculation of new, local scale, quasigeoid and geoid model in Santorini Volcanic Group using the residual terrain approach and the GRAVSOFT package (Forsberg, 1994; Tscherning et al., 1992). Reliability of the model was assessed with geoid heights from independent measurements such as GPS-leveling in known triangulation points.
EFFECT OF POTASSIUM FERTILIZATION AND ORGANIC MATERIALS ON SOME CHARACTERISTIC GROWTH AND NUTRIENTS UPTAKE BY FABA BEAN (VICIA FABA L.) PLANT

A field experiment carried out at the experimental area of the Elkantera shark, north sinai, Egypt, during season of 2017/2018 to study the effect of four potassium fertilization rates (0, 15, 30 and 45 kg k2O /fed as potassium sulphate (50% K2O) and four treatments of organic materials (without organic, humic, fulvic, compost). humic and fulvic added rate of 30 kg/fed; meanwhile compost added rate of 10 ton/fed, on straw, seeds, pods, either nutrients content and uptake by faba bean in sandy soil. The obtained results showed that application of the potassium fertilization and sources of organic materials added to soil alone or in combination with each other led to significantly increase of dry of straw, seeds, pods (g/plant), plant height, (cm). In addition, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and some micronutrients uptake of seeds in faba bean significantly increase with increasing K fertilization a combined with source of organic materials, the highest values was recorded with the treatments of 45 kg K2O/fed with humic acid. This may be attributed to the influence of potassium addition on K availability in soil; Moreover the effect of potassium in plant metabolism which increases nutrient absorption. Generally, from these results it can be concluded that the application of potassium fertilization rates and organic materials sources improved all growth characteristics and nutrients uptake of faba bean plant.
NEAR-DISK AND ELLIPTICAL DOMAINS IN 2-D WITH SMALL

Abstract. The determination of the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle in 6 a bounded 2-D domain containing small absorbing traps is a fundamental problem with biophysical 7 applications. The average MFPT is the expected capture time assuming a uniform distribution of 8 starting points for the random walk. We develop a hybrid asymptotic-numerical approach to predict 9 optimal configurations of m small stationary circular absorbing traps that minimize the average 10 MFPT in near-disk and elliptical domains. For a general class of near-disk domains, we illustrate 11 through several specific examples how simple, but yet highly accurate, numerical methods can be used 12 to implement the asymptotic theory. From the derivation of a new explicit formula for the Neumann 13 Green’s function and its regular part for the ellipse, a numerical approach based on our asymptotic 14 theory is used to investigate how the spatial distribution of the optimal trap locations changes as the 15 aspect ratio of an ellipse of fixed area is varied. The results from the hybrid theory for the ellipse 16 are compared with full PDE numerical results computed from the closest point method [13]. For 17 long and thin ellipses, it is shown that the optimal trap pattern for m = 2, . , 5 identical traps is 18 collinear along the semi-major axis of the ellipse. For such essentially 1-D patterns, a thin-domain 19 asymptotic analysis is formulated and implemented to accurately predict the optimal locations of 20 collinear trap patterns and the corresponding optimal average MFPT. 21
C2BID: Cluster Change-Based Intrusion Detection

The paper presents a network intrusion detection approach that flags malicious activity without previous knowledge about attacks or training data. The Cluster Change-Based Intrusion Detection approach (C2BID) detects intrusions by monitoring host behavior changes. For that purpose, C2BID defines and extracts features from network data, aggregates hosts with similar behavior using clustering, then analyses how hosts move between clusters along a period of time. This contrasts with previous work in the area that stops at the clustering step. We evaluated C2BID experimentally with two datasets, obtaining better F-Score than previous solutions.
Assessment of black pod disease outbreak in Southwest, Nigeria

Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate Black pod disease (BPD) infection and Cocoa farming in Nigeria. Method and Materials: 12 Stations were mapped out for research from 4 important cocoa-producing States in Southwest, Nigeria. The Stations were monitored periodically for BPD outbreak. Infected cocoa pods and topsoil samples were collected for laboratory analysis. BPD outbreak was recurrent in all the stations (100%). Results: It was immense in August in Station 1 (30.0%), Station 3 (23.0%), Station 11 (16.0%), Station 4 (9.0%), Station 5 (7.0%), and Station 8 (3.0%). Massive cocoa pod destruction was noticed in September in Station 1 (100.0%), Station 3 (96.7%), Station 5 (85.7%), Station 11 (84.3%), and Station 4 (70.0%) with the exception of Station 8 (100% in October). Conclusion: The present study was able to show that BPD outbreak occurred massively between July-September while cocoa pods infection was massive between August-September. Therefore, farmers in Nigeria are advised to apply treatment at the beginning (March) and middle (June) of the raining season to avoid crop lose and minimize fungicide misuse.
Identifying typologies of user-innovators in the co-creation of high- technology product innovation Abstract

Since 1990s, customer competence has been recognised as a key source of co-creation in new product development (NPD). In high-technology product innovation, this concept is more pivotal since firms cannot achieve fast and successful innovation without collaboration and network. However, how to identify the right customers for collaborative product innovation in high-technology industry context is an unresolved question in both marketing theory and practice. This remaining question may stem from a lack of consensus in how extant research defined the two key considerations in co-creation activities, named as ‘innovation typologies’ and ‘degree of co-creation’. To address the gap and further develop the traditional concepts in NPD, this research is aimed to gain an insight of customers’ behaviour in high-technology industry context. Within the scope of research, this paper will employ ‘user-innovator’ as the main body of knowledge to develop study on their behaviours and competence in various stages of NPD process. Participant observation and in-depth interview techniques will be conducted amongst participants in Robotics project run by researchers in the University of Birmingham and a co-creation process run by IBM. The study is expected to identify clusters of user-innovators from a holistic view, understand their competence in co-creation and gain a broader perspective in approaching innovation attempts. In addition to its originality in literature of cocreation and consumer behaviour, this study will bring valuable contributions in assisting firms to achieve a higher degree of co-creation with customers, including a generation of tacit knowledge which is widely known to be difficult to transform in high-technology context.
Supramolecular order of stilbenoid dendrons: importance of weak interactions

Stilbenoid dendrons with various donor and acceptor groups on the focal unit were synthesised by a Wittig–Horner reaction, starting from an aldehyde functionalised dendron and various substituted phosphonic acid esters. The target molecules are composed of meta-branched arms, two of them with extended conjugation (distyrylbenzene) and three flexible dodecyloxy chains; the focal group consists of a donor or acceptor substituted styryl unit. The cross-conjugation of the arms prevents the strong electronic influence of substituents on the two extended oligophenylenevinylene chromophores. However, intermolecular interactions mediated by the focal unit allow control of the supramolecular stacking into liquid crystal phases. Simple weak acceptors stabilise the formation of columnar phases, whereas the additional propensity to build hydrogen bonds leads to a cubic mesophase. All acceptor substituted materials freeze at low temperature into a glassy state. Soft crystals are then formed upon heating the glassy material. Stilbenoid dendrons are photosensitive and degradation of the supramolecular order proceeds even in the glassy liquid crystal state.
VisMillion and change

The amount of information produced by the immense activities of today’s world has been increasing exponentially. With this increase, the exploration and the analyzes of representations that allow the visualization of this vast amount of information have been growing to follow its evolution. However, with the emergence of real-time Big Data, it has become imperative to simplify its analysis due to the huge amount of information so that the user can interpret the various patterns in the data as it evolves rapidly and can still react to possible variations of data ﬂow trends, always maintaining the context of the information that is represented in the visualization. We propose the VisMillion and Change that focuses on the study of smooth animated transitions between diﬀerent visualization techniques, allowing the analyzes in real-time of large amounts of information comprised in multiple modules positioned side by side, following the concept of graceful degradation. It provides diﬀerent time intervals to each module in which the data ﬂows through, from right to left, and gets aggregated as it evolves in time ensuring a bigger history and a detailed visualization for the most recent data. It is intended to provide a visualization of real-time Big Data and a set of smooth transitions that make it easier to analyze large amounts of information as it crosses over diﬀerent visualization techniques associated to various statistical measures and their matching aggregation levels over time.
Association of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae with ginger rhizosphere in Himachal Pradesh

Seven species of VAM fungi were found associated with ginger rhizosphere in Himachal Pradesh. They included Glomus mosseae, G. caledonicum, G. pulvinatum, Acaulospora laevis, A. scrobiculata, Gigaspora albida and Scutellospora minuta. Among the different VAM fungi species, frequency of Glomus species was maximum. The morphological characters of these VAM fungi are described.