Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CARTESIAN DISCRETISATIONS FOR FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION { CONSISTENT FORCES

Hierarchical Cartesian grids such as those dene d by spacetrees have proven to be useful in lots of simulation scenarios in spite of their frequently supposed diculties concerning the approximation of complicated and changing geometries. One of their most important advantages is the simple, ecient and exible interface they oer. This provides the possibility to embed numerical single-eld simulations into some broader context as it is encountered in a partitioned solution approach to coupled or multi-physics problems in general and to uid-structur e interaction (FSI) in particular. For the latter, a ow solver, a structural solver, and a tool or library performing the data exchange and algorithmic interplay between the rst two components are necessary. A reasonable trade-o between exibility concerning the concrete codes used on the one hand and a satisfying overall eciency on the other hand still remains an open challenge. This paper addresses the generation and exchange of data on the uid side for a par- titioned approach to FSI, focusing on a strictly Cartesian, hierarchical grid. The details concerning the ow solver are discussed in a second contribution (6). We report the de- sign and implementation of the coupling environment and present an elegant and ecient method for the calculation of forces on Cartesian boundaries that realizes one signic ant step to FSI simulations.
Ligand-Based Pharmacophore Modeling and Virtual Screening of RAD9 Inhibitors

Human RAD9 is a key cell-cycle checkpoint protein that participates in DNA repair, activation of multiple cell cycle phase checkpoints, and apoptosis. Aberrant RAD9 expression has been linked to breast, lung, thyroid, skin, and prostate tumorigenesis. Overexpression of RAD9 interacts with BCL-2 proteins and blocks the binding sites of BCL-2 family proteins to interact with chemotherapeutic drugs and leads to drug resistance. Focusing on this interaction, the present study was designed to identify the interaction sites of RAD9 to bind BCL-2 protein and also to inhibit RAD9-BCL-2 interactions by designing novel small molecule inhibitors using pharmacophore modeling and to restore BCL-2 for interacting with anticancer drugs. The bioactive molecules of natural origin act as excellent leads for new drug development. Thus, in the present study, we used the compounds of natural origin like camptothecin, ascididemin, and Dolastatin and also compared them with synthetic molecule NSC15520. The results revealed that camptothecin can act as an effective inhibitor among all the ligands taken and can be used as an RAD9 inhibitor. The amino acids ARG45 and ALA134 of RAD9 protein are interacting commonly with the drugs and BCL-2 protein.
Quality of Cohabiting and Marital Relationships among Young Couples

We investigated the quality of intimate relationship and its dependence on emotional intelligence and the sense of coherence in 36 cohabiting and 35 married young couples. The findings demonstrate that relationship quality perceived by cohabitors was akin to that of marrieds. There were gender differences in that the women perceived the relationship as less satisfying. The findings further demonstrate that both emotional intelligence and coherence were positively associated with the fineness of relationship perceived by both cohabitors and marrieds. A greater emotional engagement of female partners in the union may, however, mitigate the feeling of satisfaction they experience. We conclude that dyadic characteristics evolving from emotional intelligence and coherence are essential for the feeling of satisfaction from the intimate relationship, regardless of its type.
Lean Principles and Engineering Tools in Maintenance Organizations - A Survey Study

This paper presents a questionnaire survey mapping how Lean principles and engineering tools are applied in a maintenance context in Swedish industry, based on a high-level strategic view from 76 respondents representing 71 companies. Results from the study cover different work practices according to Lean principles, to what extent risk assessment tools and software are used, to what degree companies are employing reliability engineers to conduct risk and reliability analysis, and how this relates to the safety of maintenance operations. The results indicate a gap between applying Lean in production and maintenance, and low use of valuable engineering tools.
Determination of the azo dye, sunset yellow, using carbon paste electrode modified with molecularly imprinted polymer

A highly selective voltammetric sensor for sunset yellow is reported. Sunset yellow selective molecular imprinted polymers (MIP) and non-imprinted polymers have been synthesized and used for preparation of carbon paste electrode. The MIP, incorporated in the carbon paste electrode, functions as selective recognition element and pre-concentrator agent for determination of the dye. The sensitivity of the sensor is improved greatly because of the multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The complete removal of the dye from the polymer was confirmed by the infrared spectra and the differential pulse voltammetry. The MWCNTs/MIP/CPE has been characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry and DPV. The MWCNTs/MIP/CPE shows very high recognition ability in comparison to the MWCNTs/NIP/CPE. Under the optimum conditions, the linear relationship between current and concentration was obtained in the range from 8×10 to 1×10 mol L. The detection limit of the sensor is 2.667×10 mol L (S/N=3).
Novel method for extraction of cellulose from agricultural and industrial wastes

Agricultural and industrial wastes are generated in huge quantities in Iraq and other countries. Generally they are not reused or recycled. The aim of this study was to extract cellulose from different agricultural and industrial waste sources as (rice husk, waste office paper and sugar cane) via fast and simple technique. Cellulose amounting (17.4%, 20%, and 18.2%) were extracted fromthese sources respectively. It can be concluded that the ecofriendly procedure employed in this study for extracting different cellulose sources is very efficient for obtaining good yield of cellulose. The powder X-ray diffraction and FT-IRwere used to characterize the extracted cellulose. In terms of crystallinity and structure behaviours, a comparison with standard cellulose was made and the results showed that the extracted material was cellulose.
A Project for Implementation of the Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Programme in Adult Literacy

This project aims to provide an effective methodology and innovative local action in the area of youth and adults education. Justifying in the Brazilian social context and relying on the theory of the Dr. Reuven Feuerstein's mediated learning, a strategy of action will be presented to cognitively improve the performance of young people and adults in the literacy process.
Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children

This study investigated whether the presence of mimetics (sound-symbolic words) in language influences children’s verbal and gestural descriptions by comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers of Japanese and French. Mimetics are present in Japanese, but not French (Kita, 2008). 4 to 6-year-old children described motion and object characteristics to an experimenter during a referential communication task. Verbal descriptions were coded as precise or imprecise and produced with or without mimetics and/or iconic gestures. Mimetics and gestures were used frequently in Japanese, particularly for motion descriptions. Bilinguals patterned like monolinguals, except when speaking Japanese they used more imprecise descriptions and fewer mimetics. This shows that presence of mimetics in language and frequent exposure to them promotes their use in conjunction with gestures.
ANIMATOR IN CULTURAL TOURISM AS A MANAGER OF EXPERIENCE ANIMATOR KULTURNOG TURIZMA KAO MENADER DOIVLJAJA

In accordance with the stipulations of sustainable cultural tourism there is a strong need to create a balance between satisfying the interests and desires of visitors, providing the requirements for the economic and social development of local communities and the need to increase the attraction of a cultural heritage without endangering the resource itself. Starting from the premise that the local community is crucial to the interpretation of cultural heritage in a sustainable tourist offering, it will be shown that it is necessary to create a sustainable system of its interpretation. By doing this we will emphasize the importance of tourist and cultural animation in the creation of this system and how the typology of this interpretation is dependant on the typology of the local community. Due to the nature of the cultural tourism product, which is created at almost the same time it is consumed, during a tourist experience, the development of a new tourism product must be considered not only a controlled process, but also as a cultural synthesis which allows us to transmit knowledge about the specific culture and tourism market and to understand how to keep pace with cultural and ideological changes. Cultural tourism doesn't use only what it can sell. It also demands organization, networking, the continued renewal of material and immaterial culture, promotion and human creativity. It is therefore necessary to state the demand for a new profile of cultural tourism workers, and especially for culturally sensitive managers and marketing experts who understand the influence of a national culture on human interaction, communication and traveling standards. This work points out the special value of animation in cultural tourism as a special form of communication with the tourists. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to bring out the conclusions about the possible implications of personality traits in the development of new products in transmodern cultural tourism.
Influence of autotroph model complexity on simulations of microbial communities in marine mesocosms

Marine mesocosm experiments were conducted using a natural phytoplankton assem- blage from the Tromsheim fjord, Norway, in June 2000. Replicate experiments were conducted at 2 inorganic nitrogen:silicon (N:Si) molar ratios, 4:1 and 1:1. Time course changes in the different groups that comprised the microplanktonic community and inorganic nutrient concentrations were recorded. We sought to simulate these data using 3 alternative mathematical models based on a com- mon framework of functional groups and inter-group interactions following an earlier model. The functional groups incorporated within the model were bacteria, diatoms, dinoflagellates, phyto- flagellates, picophytoplankton, heteroflagellates and larger microzooplankton along with inorganic nutrients, dissolved organic matter and detritus. We modified the autotroph functional group sub- models to achieve different levels of model sophistication in terms of utilisation of nutrients (single (N) or dual (N:Si) inorganic nutrient models) and organism structure (biomass growth made a func- tion or extracellular or intracellular nutrient concentration). We tested the influence of different model formulations on simulations of particulate carbon (C) biomass and its partitioning amongst the microbial groups in the 2 different experimental nutrient regimes. To achieve satisfactory global simulations (both nutrient regimes) with a single-parameter set, it was found necessary to include a dual currency of both inorganic N and Si in the model, and to relate C biomass growth to the intra- cellular rather than extracellular concentration of the nutrient in the least relative supply. Models lacking these 2 features were unable to simulate N and Si and C biomass dynamics of the microbial assemblage in alternative conditions of high and low N:Si ratio.
Comparative Analysis of SFA and DEA Models: An Application to Health System Efficiency in SSA

Introduction The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are the two major approaches in estimating technical efficiency. However, the two approaches have different underlying assumption and present different efficiency estimates when used in similar situation. In this study we compare the two approaches with an application to health system efficiency across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods The study used cross section data for 45 countries in SSA, sourced from the World Bank world development indicators. Both the DEA and SFA were used to estimate health system efficiency using per capita health expenditure as input while under-five and infant mortality was used as health outcomes. Scatter and Kernel density plots were used to supplement the comparison of estimates from the two models. Results The findings suggest that there exist disparities between estimates from the DEA and SFA models. Estimates from the SFA models were relatively higher than those from the DEA models. However, there was not much difference in the ranking of individual countries in terms of efficiency performance. The findings of the various model specifications show average health system efficiency scores of approximately 0.44 and 0.50 for the DEA specifications while 0.70 and 0.72 was estimated for the SFA specifications Conclusion The efficiency scores suggest that there is room for improvement in terms health system performance. The choice between the two models should be based on the availability of data and the limitations posed by the data requirements of each of the models.
Anti-synchronization and synchronization of T-system

In this paper, we discuss the synchronization and anti-synchronization of two identical chaotic T-systems. The adaptive and nonlinear control schemes are used for the synchronization and anti-synchronization. The stability of these schemes is derived by Lyapunov Stability Theorem. Firstly, the synchronization and anti-synchronization are applied to systems with known parameters, then to systems in which the drive and response systems have one unknown parameter. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed methods.
Antioxidant activity of probiotic lactic acid bacteria isolated from Mongolian airag

This research aimed to determine the antioxidant activity of probiotic lactic acid bacteria isolated from airag. In this study, 42 lactic acid bacteria were isolated from Mongolian airag. All isolates were identified by using morphological, biochemical and physiological methods. The isolated bacteria were studied for antagonistic effects on Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, 22 strains showed antibacterial activity. When we examined their probiotic properties such as bile acid tolerance and gastric acid tolerance, it is shown that only 6 bacterial strains can survive up to 3 hours in a pH 3.0 acid environment and up to 8 hours in 0.3% bile acid environment. Selected probiotic strains were further identified to species by API 50CHL system. Antioxidant activity of probiotic strains were determined by 1,1-diphenyl-2 picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay. While the antioxidant activity in cell free supernatant fluctuated between the range of 26.1-38.4%, the antioxidant activity after 72 hours of fermentation in the whey fraction was between 17.23-55.12%. DOI: http://doi.dx. org/10.5564/mjc.v15i0.327 Mongolian Journal of Chemistry 15 (41), 2014, p73-78
Influence of dietary supplementation of chromium on the carcass traits of crossbred pigs.

This study was conducted to assess the influence of chromium on the carcass traits in crossbred (Large White Yorkshire X Landrace) pigs fed with swill feeding for a period of 5 months. Early-weaned crossbred piglets (n=24) were selected for this study, and the piglets were randomly divided into three equal groups; Group I, II, and III. The piglets were reared by following standard health coverage protocols. The feeds of Group I and II were supplemented with chromium in the form of chromium tripicolinate at 0.1 and 0.2 mg/kg of swill feed respectively, and Group III was kept as control. Carcass weight, carcass length, and bone percentage showed no significant difference among the three groups. However, better dressing percentage was observed in Group I (p
A generalized orthonormal basis for linear dynamical systems

In many areas of signal, system and control theory orthogonal functions play an important role in issues of analysis and design. In this paper, it is shown that there exist orthogonal functions that, in a natural way, are generated by stable linear dynamical systems, and that compose an orthonormal basis for the signal space l/sub 2//sup n/. To this end use is made of balanced realizations of inner transfer functions. The orthogonal functions can be considered as generalizations of, e.g., the Laguerre functions and the pulse functions, related to the use of the delay operator, and give rise to an alternative series expansion of rational transfer functions. It is shown how we can exploit these generalized basis functions to increase the speed of convergence in a series expansion, i.e. to obtain a good approximation by retaining only a finite number of expansion coefficients. <<ETX>>
Impact of Trade Credit on Sales Growth: An Empirical Study Based on Cement Sector of Pakistan

Trade credit management is considered very important in the field of finance for most of the firms. This study throws light on the management of current assets and current liabilities in relation to the trade credit. Trade credit has been a growing source of finance of industrial sector in Pakistan. In this study, the main aim is to analyze the role of trade credit in upgradation of cement sector. To achieve this object, data was taken from the annual financial reports of 17 firms listed cement sector in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The analyses have been carried out by using the data of 8 years, starting from year 2007 to 2014. Apparently not much work has been done to find out the success or failure of the business units selling cement on credit terms under market conditions prevailing in Pakistan. It was interesting to study the relation of trade credit and sales growth with respect to a developing nation like Pakistan. Panel data (fixed effect) model was used for the estimation of results decided on the basis of Hausman test. In addition to use of trade credit as independent variable, control variables (age, size and lagged sales growth) were also added in the model. Findings of the study show that trade credit has very significant positive affect on sales growth of the firms proclaiming the recommendation for the use of trade credit to enhance the revenues.
Model Based Automatic Regulating Time Series for Feedback Control Systems

In this literature, a model based nonlinear digital control scheme is proposed for analyses and designs of stable feedback control systems. It is derived from the converging characteristic of two specified numerical time series. The ratios of neighborhoods of the series are formulated as a function of the output of the plant and the reference input command, and will be converged to be unities after the output has tracked the reference input command. Lead compensations are found by another numerical time series to speed up the system responses on the on-line adjusting manner and matching the reference model. A servo system, a time-delay system, a high order system and a very high order system are used to show effectiveness of the proposed nonlinear digital controller. Comparisons with other conventional methods are also made.
The structural characteristics of innovation ecosystem: a fashion case

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of open innovation mechanism specific to aesthetic innovation. Prior research have drawn its research attention to technological innovation and focussed on the biopharmaceutical and technological sectors as the main research contexts. Thus, to gain a wider picture of the structural characteristics of innovation ecosystem, this paper aims to complement the existing technological-centred literature and provides understanding of aesthetic innovation by focussing on exploring the role of actors and intermediaries in either facilitating or inhibiting innovation in the creative sector. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory study and the qualitative method was employed. With aim to explore aesthetic innovation in the creative sector, this research grounded its context in the UK designer fashion sector, which is part of the creative industries. Data were collected through a series of semi-structured interviews with respondents being purposely selected so as to ensure representativeness. A wider range of participants within the designer fashion sector was covered. Such multiple-sourced data collection approach allowed this research to triangulate data so that research trustworthiness was enhanced. Findings The result suggests the role of a broker in beyond traditionally facilitating knowledge exchange. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the critical role of a broker in shaping the open innovation mechanism when it comes to aesthetic innovation. A broker in fact occupies a strategic position that allows it to negotiate relationships among the connected organisations and thus to govern the interaction mechanism of the innovation ecosystem as a whole. Given the empowered broker in such setting, the relationship between innovation creators and innovation seekers is controlled by a broker, which leads to risk that an innovation creator may not fully appropriate the value that it creates. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this study is its specific context, that is, the UK designer fashion industry. Such focus limits the scope of generalisation particularly its application to the entire creative sector. Thus, it is suggested that future research may consider to explore other creative industries so that the understanding of the open innovation mechanism from a structural perspective applied to aesthetic innovation can be enhanced. Originality/value This paper outlines the structural mechanism of open innovation applied to aesthetic innovation. The result contributes to the literature by complementing the findings derived from technology-centred research. Also, empirical evidence of this study is particularly of value to policy makers in the aspect of creative sector development. The suggested implications provide strategies of innovation ecosystem that could benefit individual actors involved in this open innovation setting and ensure prosper of the sector as a whole.
Customer orientation of frontline employees and organizational commitment

This study investigates the effect of alignment between employee and firm customer orientation (FCO) on the organizational commitment of frontline service employees. Furthermore, the study examines how the size and nature of the discrepancy between employee customer orientation (ECO) and FCO affects organizational commitment. The results suggest that organizational commitment is stronger when employee and FCO are matched than when they are not. Furthermore, organizational commitment is slightly stronger when ECO exceeds FCO than when the reverse is the case. The results suggest that efforts expended by firms in hiring and retaining customer-oriented service workers will be unlikely to yield optimal commitment benefits without simultaneous investments to improve firm-level customer orientation.