Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Group Decision-Making Based on m-Polar Fuzzy Linguistic TOPSIS Method

The fuzzy linguistic approach provides favorable outputs in several areas, whose description is relatively qualitative. The encouragement for the utilization of sentences or words instead of numbers is that linguistic characterizations or classifications are usually less absolute than algebraic or arithmetical ones. In this research article, we animate the m-polar fuzzy (mF) linguistic approach and elaborate it with real life examples and tabular representation to develop the affluence of linguistic variables based on mF approach. As an extension of the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method, we develop an m-polar fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS approach for multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM). It is used to evaluate the best alternative, to get more authentic and comparable results and to handle the real life problems of having multi-polar information in terms of linguistic variables and values. In this approach decision-makers contribute their estimations in the form of linguistic term sets. To show the efficiency and compatibility of the proposed approach, we compare it with the m-polar fuzzy linguistic ELECTRE-I (Elimination and Choice Translating Reality) approach. Finally, we draw a flow chart of our proposed approach as an algorithm and generate a computer programming code.
School governing bodies - the principal's burden or the light of his/her life?

In this article I focus on the relationship between principals and school governing bodies in South Africa. Although the school governing body represents many role players, this article will focus mainly on the role and function of parent representatives in the school governing body. Parents constitute the majority in the governing bodies and therefore have an important role to play in the effective functioning of their children's schools. The uncertainty about the exact functions of the principal and the governing body is the key to the argument. The legislated functions of the governing body do not provide enough clarity on its daily functioning and this sometimes makes it difficult for principals to manage schools effectively. South African Journal of Education Vol.24(4) 2004: 308-312
Electrophoretic mobility of latex nanospheres in electrolytes: Experimental challenges

The electrophoretic mobility of sulfate latex nanospheres (radius 300 ± 10 nm) was measured as a function of ionic strength for different salts. The results were obtained from two similar instruments (Malvern ZetaSizer 3000 HSa and Malvern ZetaSizer Nano) using the same dispersions, in the same conditions. The values predicted from the standard electrokinetic model for constant surface charge were in good agreement with the data over a large range of ionic strength. The influence of the protocol used to fill the cells appears to be of importance between 1–10 mM of added monovalent salt. There, the capillary wall properties seem to influence the electrophoretic measurements, even at fast field reversal (FFR), where electroosmosis should be absent. We found that during a series of measurements with monovalent salts, it was best to fill the cell starting from high ionic strength and decreasing the ionic strength during the series. The measurements with divalent salts were not sensitive to the filling procedure.
Testing algorithms for critical slowing down

We present the preliminary tests on two modifications of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm. Both algorithms are designed to travel much farther in the Hamiltonian phase space for each trajectory and reduce the autocorrelations among physical observables thus tackling the critical slowing down towards the continuum limit. We present a comparison of costs of the new algorithms with the standard HMC evolution for pure gauge fields, studying the autocorrelation times for various quantities including the topological charge.
Remotely Operated Train for Inspection and Measurement in CERN's LHC Tunnel

Personnel access to the LHC tunnel will be restricted to varying extents during the life of the machine due to radiation and cryogenic hazards. For this reason a remotely operated modular inspection train, (TIM) running on the LHC tunnel’s overhead monorail has been developed. In order to be compatible with the LHC personnel access system, a small section train that can pass through small openings at the top of sector doors has now been produced. The basic train can be used for remote visual inspection; additional modules give the capability of carrying out remote measurement of radiation levels, environmental conditions around the tunnel, and even remote measurement of the precise position of machine elements such as collimators. The paper outlines the design, development and operation of the equipment including preparation of the infrastructure. Key features of the trains are described along with future developments and intervention scenarios.
The southern ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum: A strong sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide

Analysis of satellite ocean color, sea surface temperature, and sea ice cover data reveals consistent patterns between biological production, iron availability, and physical forcings in the Southern Ocean. The consistency of these patterns, in conjunction with information on physical conditions during the last glacial maximum (LGM), enables estimates of export production at the LGM. The LGM Southern Ocean experienced increased wind speeds, colder sea surface and atmospheric temperatures, increased deposition of atmospheric dust, and a greatly expanded winter sea ice cover. These variations had strong effects on Southern Ocean ecology and on air‐sea fluxes of CO2. The seasonal ice zone (SIZ) was much larger at the LGM (30 million km2) than at present (19 million km2). The Antarctic Polar Front (PF) likely marked the northern boundary of this expanded SIZ throughout the Southern Ocean, as it does today in the Drake Passage region. A large northward shift in the position of the PF during glacial times is unlikely due to topographic constraints. North of the PF, the increased flux of aeolian dust during glacial times altered phytoplankton species composition and increased export production, and as a result this region was a stronger sink for atmospheric CO2 than in the modern ocean. South of the PF, interactions between the biota and sea ice strongly influence air‐sea gas exchange over seasonal timescales. The combined influence of melting sea ice and increased aeolian dust flux (with its associated iron) increased both primary and export production by phytoplankton over daily‐monthly timescales during austral spring/summer, resulting in a strong flux of CO2 into the ocean. Heavy ice cover would have minimized air‐sea gas exchange over much of the rest of the year. Thus, an increased net flux of CO2 into the ocean is likely during glacial times, even in areas where annual primary production declined. We estimate that export production in the Southern Ocean as a whole was increased by 2.9‐3.6 Gt C yr−1 at the LGM, relative to the modern era. Altered seasonal sea ice dynamics would further increase the net flux of CO2 into the ocean. Thus the Southern Ocean was a strong sink for atmospheric CO2 and contributed substantially to the lowering of atmospheric CO2 levels during the last ice age.
Engine Partial Loads Map for Fuel Economy Analysis Based On 15 Measured Points

In order to reduce dynamometer test costs and time and be able to predict how an engine should work on a fuel economy cycle before an engine control calibration level capable of running full Partial Loads Map test. The method consists in using only 15 measured points to estimate a full Partial Loads Map that has approximately 450 measured points. Considering similar engines was noticed that partial loads behavior is similar and only three parameters might have significant changes: Fuel Flow Rate, Wide Open Throttle (WOT) Torque and Throttle Opening Percentage. Correction of Fuel Flow Rate is the main focus once the Throttle Opening Percentage will only change if the throttle changes and, considering similar engines, is not common to find significant differences on WOT Torque.
Comparative analysis of wind speed short term forecasts for wind farms

Article history: Received: August 2014 Received in the revised form: September 2014 Accepted: October 2014 The purpose of study was verification regarding quality of wind speed forecasts used during designing the wind farm capacity, with AAN [artificial neural network] methods and Brown, Holt, Winters and ARIMA time models. Analysis included results of forecasts for December, namely a month with the biggest wind speed amplitude changes, considering data for period of 2008-2009. Analysis of results confirmed that appropriate linear models and artificial neural methods for the period of wind speed forecast may ensure good results regarding forecasts of wind power output generated by wind farms.
Antibacterial Effect of The Hydroalcoholic Extracts of Four Iranian Medicinal Plants on Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumanii

Acquiring infectious diseases due to resistant infectious agents leads to serious problems such as taking higher doses of antibiotics, additional treatments, lengthened hospital stay, and imposing additional costs. The aim of the current study is to study antibacterial effects of the hydroalcoholic extracts of four Iranian medicinal plants, occurring in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari, on Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumanii . In this experimental study, the hydroalcoholic extracts of the plants were prepared by maceration. To investigate the antibacterial effects, microdilution and determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) were used. DMSO and distilled water were used as solvent. The MIC and MBC of Dianthus orientalis , Ziziphora clinopodioides , Euphorbia sp. , and Acanthophyllum glandulosum Bunge ex Boiss. for S. aureus were derived 4, 0.5, 2, and 2 mg/ml and 16, 8, 8, and 16 mg/ml, respectively. Also the MIC and MBC of plants for A . baumanii were derived 4, 1, 0.5, and 2 mg/ml and 16, 8, 8, and 32 mg/ml, respectively. The greatest antibacterial effect was displayed by Z . clinopodioides on S . aureus. The greatest bactericidal effect on A . baumanii was exerted by the recently identified species, Euphorbia sp. These plants can serve as suitable choices to produce antibiotics to fight treatment-resistant bacteria. Key Words: Minimum inhibitory concentration, Minimum bactericidal concentration, Medicinal plants, Drug resistance
Integrated Storage and Pretreatment of Wheat Straw with different fungi: Impact on ethanol production and storage microflora

Production of ethanol using cellulosic material as feedstock is crucial for sustainable fuel ethanol production.However a production process based on cellulosic biomass involves several energy and cost intensive steps like storage of biomass, pretreatment, hydrolysis and fermentation, where pretreatment is the energy intensive and troublesome step. This project aimed for an integration of storage and pretreatment step, to get more energy efficiency and more ethanol yield. In the present investigation wheat strawwas used as a model and was stored in moist conditions with different fungal species (Pichia anomala, Pichia stipitis, and Anthracophyllum discolor) inoculated separately in mini-silos for 1 month at 15°C and 4°C. Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation was carried out afterthe storage period and ethanol yields were compared with dry wheat straw as a control.A7. 52 % higher ethanol yield (compared to the dry wheat straw) was obtained from wheat straw incubated by P. anomala at 15°C, and 6.87 % higher ethanol yield from P.stipitis inoculated wheat straw incubated at 4°C showed ISP can result in increasing the ethanol yield. Also it was obvious from the study that, the release of sugar from integrated storage and pretreatment (ISP) sample was faster than from the traditional sample. The higher concentration of non-fermentable sugars (eg: xylose, arabinose, mannose etc.) left during fermentation of ISP samples indicate that the ISP process causes more structural damage to the cellulosic substances and produces more sugar release than the control. Moreover P. anomala and P.stipitis showed a biocontrol activity during moist storageby preventing growth of other fungi and enterobacteria in the wheat straw during the one month incubation. In conclusion, ISP acted as an efficient method of storage and resulted in higher ethanol yield.
Sustaining competitive advantage of Malaysian ports: A resource based view perspective

This paper is aimed to analyze the trends and changing environment of Malaysian ports industry and also attempts to discuss the strategies to sustain competitive advantage based on the theoretical perspective Ports cannot rely only on its external resources such as strategic locational advantage, excellent physical infrastructure and good structure of hinterland. The emergence of RBV has expanding the way of sustaining port competitive advantage by extracting and utilizing the firm internal resources. The detailed discussion of the ports and its resources, and analyzed the case using Resources-based view (RBV) of strategy. Finally this paper aimed to develop the Malaysian port competitiveness based on RBV framework.
Hydroxycinnamic acid functional ingredients and their biosynthetic genes in tubers of Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja

Abstract Potato is an ideal candidate for the delivery of functional ingredients due to its high worldwide consumption. The metabolites in cooked tubers of eight diploid potato genotypes from Colombia were explored. Potato tubers were harvested, cooked，lyophilized, and then stored at −80°C. Metabolites were extracted from flesh samples and analyzed using liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry. A total of 294 metabolites were putatively identified, of which 87 metabolites were associated with health-benefiting roles for humans, such as anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties. Two metabolites, chlorogenic acid and N-Feruloyltyramine were detected in high abundance and were mapped on to the potato metabolic pathways to predict the related biosynthetic enzymes: hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA quinate transferase (HQT) and tyramine hydroxycinnamoyl transferase (THT), respectively. The coding genes of these enzymes identified nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) in AC09, AC64, and Russet Burbank, with the highest enzyme stability found in AC09. This is consistent with the highest presence of hydroxycinnamic acids in the AC09 genotype. The metabolites detected at high fold change, their functional ingredient properties, and their enhancement through breeding to improve health of the indigenous communities’ of Colombia are discussed.
The Effect of a Designed Teaching Module Regarding Prevention of Central-Line Associated Blood Stream Infection on ICU Nurses' Knowledge and Practice

Background: The management for intensive care patients need to the insertion of central venous catheter, which has many dangerous complications, one of these complications is central-line associated blood stream infection which affects the patients' health status. Aim of the study: the study aimed to investigate the effect of a designed teaching module regarding prevention of central-line associated blood stream infection on ICU nurses' knowledge and practice through designed teaching module (theoretical & practical for infection control measures). Methodology: A quasi-experimental research design used to achieve the study aim and pre/post-test was used. A convenience sample of 44 nurses working in Intensive Care Units. Two tools were used to collect data, I-Structured Interviewing Questionnaire: consists of two parts Part-A: Socio-demographic questionnaire P workshops which emphasizing on the evidence-based practices about infection control measures in critical settings within the hospitals, these services must be included the recently graduated nurses, the infection control department in hospital should follow up infection control process application in all hospital unities generally and critical unities especially.
Understanding Temperature and Moisture Interactions in the Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation on Agriculture

Growing econometric and statistical evidence points to high temperature as the main driver of large negative effects of climate change on US agriculture. This literature also suggests a limited role for precipitation in overall impacts. This paper shows this finding stems from the widespread use of calendar precipitation variables, which poorly represent water availability for rainfed crops. I rely on a state-of-the art dataset with very high spatial (14km) and temporal (1h) resolution to develop a statistical model and unpack the effects of temperature and drought stress and analyze their interactions. Using a 31-year panel of corn yields covering 70% of US production, I account for nonlinear effects of soil moisture with varying effects throughout the growing season, in addition to nonlinear temperature effects. I show that yield is highly sensitive to soil moisture toward the middle of the season around flowering time. Results show that omission of soil moisture leads to overestimation of the detrimental effects of temperature by 30%. Because climate change affects intra-seasonal soil moisture and temperature patterns differently, this omission also leads to very different impacts on US corn yields, with a much greater role for water resources in overall impacts. Under the medium warming scenario (RCP6), models omitting soil moisture overestimate yield impacts by almost 100%. The approach shows a more complete understanding that climate change impacts on agriculture are likely to be driven by both heat and drought stresses, and that their relative role can vary depending on the climate change scenario and farmer ability to adapt.
Process development for punching extruded PC based materials in cable duct production

Burr and film formation occurring when punching polycarbonate/ acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (PC/ABS) cable ducts is a common problem during manufacturing of cable ducts. However, little knowledge on base materials, their thermal and mechanical behavior as well as their initial processing and finally behavior during cable duct manufacturing is available. Therefore, to improve process reliability and gain knowledge on mechanical and failure behavior necessary initial investigations focus on cable duct usage, different geometric types, polymer materials and the punching process itself. Optical analysis on punched PC/ABS cable duct with burr and film formation and corresponding punch led to definition of the test tool’s geometry for subsequent tests. Since the punching process directly influences burr and film formation, it was necessary to design a demo-tool to observe the burr and film origin. Tensile tests at different test speeds focus on in-situ mechanical behavior using coupons taken from industrial cable ducts made of mineral reinforced polycarbonate (PC) and PC/ABS including further additives that are generally used in industry. First results indicate that higher test speeds appear to reduce the influence of the different admixtures on the elongation behavior of PC based materials.
Supplier Selection for A Textile Company Using The Fuzzy TOPSIS Method

The rapid changes that occur nowadays increase the uncertainties around companies and make the decision process harder. The problems encountered in real life predominantly have complex structures and depend on multiple criteria and alternatives. For that reason, fuzzy and multiple-criteria decision making methods are gaining importance. The aim of this study is to help a textile company, which produces shirt-making fabric, choose the most suitable yarn supplier from a number of alternatives. To solve the company’s problem in choosing the right supplier, the fuzzy TOPSIS method was proposed in order to handle the linguistic variables used by the decision makers. In the study, the criteria determined by the decision makers were taken into consideration and three suppliers were evaluated to identify the most suitable one.
A Migration of Virtual Machine toRemote System

Virtualization allows more than one operating systems to run on the same machine. Migration of virtual machine is an important feature in virtualization. Migration of virtual machine from one physical machine to another physical machine allows achieving load balancing and fault tolerance easily. In past migration was done between the hosts which are in the same configuration. However the achievable downtime in a homogeneous migration is not acceptable. A new system model is proposed for achieving the migration of virtual machine in a heterogeneous environment that removes the page retransmissions and an achievable downtime of the order of milliseconds.
The Dynamic Scheduling of Spray Booth Machine in 4S Auto Maintenance Shop

Theory of constraint point out that the bottleneck is a major factor which restricts the system going toward the target. Therefore, the bottleneck is the key of scheduling process in entire system. In fact, due to the factors of long processing time, high cost and few amounts, spray booth machine become the bottleneck in the whole 4S auto maintenance shop. Through reasonable scheduling of spray booth machine, we can improve system’s efficiency and customer’s satisfaction. First, combining with the real situation, we apply a triplet method to describe the spray booth scheduling problem in 4S maintenance shop. On this basis, a multi-objectives model with multi-constraint is constructed for the scheduling problem. Combining with the real situation, the scheduling model also can be regard as machine in parallel with different speed and machine eligibility restriction and job’s characteristic. And then, we design a two-phased heuristic algorithm based on the dispatching rules and particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve it. Finally, we show the experimental results and compares with usual methods to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method.
Effects of Prebending Radii on Microstructure and Fatigue Performance of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Aluminum Alloy after Creep Age Forming

A series of creep age forming experiments were carried out on 7075 aluminum alloy with different prebending radii at 443 K for 10 h. The hardness, tensile properties and high cycle fatigue performance of the alloy after creep age forming were obtained. In addition, the microstructure and fatigue fracture of the alloy were observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show that with the increase of the prebending radius, the hardness, strength and elongation of the alloy increased; meanwhile, the conditional fatigue limit increased, the size of precipitated phase decreased and the quantity increased, while the width of precipitate free zone decreased.
Predictors and mediating role of forgiveness in the relationship between religious struggle and ment

The two studies portray the predictors and functions of tendency and attitudes toward forgiveness in interpersonal relationships. Study 1 includes the analysis of relationships between personality traits, parental attitudes, religious struggle, tendency and attitudes toward forgiveness. Study 2 embraces the analysis of the mediatory function of tendency and attitudes toward forgiveness in the relationship of religious struggle with mental health. The research showed that the predictors of attitudes toward forgiveness are as follows: high religious guilt, low negative affect toward God and low negative interactions with believers. The predictors of tendency to forgive are as follows: low neuroticism, low protective attitudes of parents and low negative affect toward God. Only tendency to forgive is a significant mediator in the relationship of religious struggle with satisfaction with life, stress, and mental health.