Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ensuring that the Needs of the End User are Effectively Communicated through BIM during the Building Design Stage

The Grangegorman Development Project is the largest single development of 3rd level education accommodation in the history of the Irish State. Planned for completion in 2023, it will relocate all of Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT) activities from their current 39 locations to a single campus. This is a once-off opportunity for DIT and it is therefore critical that the campus is designed to meet end-users’ needs. As part of the strategy to achieve this, it has been specified that all work packages within the campus must use Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the design, construction and the planning of the operation of the buildings. This approach has highlighted the growing importance of BIM in Irish Public Sector projects. To maximize the benefits of BIM, it is vital that the end-users of the campus are fully engaged in the design process and that their needs are fully appreciated. This paper will detail a new process, in which the end-user will operate as an integral part of the design process, as witnessed in the most recent procurement phase of the campus. The data collation methodology will involve the review of existing procedures in place to communicate the needs of the end-users. This will be achieved through interviews and analysis of existing Facilities Management (FM) documents. The findings from this case study suggest that the application of BIM can serve as an enhanced communication tool to improve relations between the design team and the end-user.
Shared reality and the relational underpinnings of system-justifying beliefs

Se piensa que las ideas politicas de las personas reflejan un pensamiento independiente e imparcial, pero la investigacion psicosocial sugiere que las ideologias reflejan procesos motivacionales. En este articulo se integra el sistema de justificacion y teorias de la realidad compartida para sugerir que las ideologias funcionan como unidades preempaquetadas de interpretacion que incluyen motivos humanos basicos para entender el mundo, evitan la amenaza existencial y mantienen las relaciones interpersonales relevantes. Repasamos datos que revelan que los motivos de afiliacion influyen en las creencias ideologicas para integrarlas con las visiones progresistas o conservadoras compartidas dentro de una relacion determinada o de un grupo. Proponemos que dichos motivos pueden llevar a la adopcion de sistemas de justificacion de visiones del mundo. Describimos las implicaciones para las creencias ideologicas dependientes de contexto, el papel que la realidad compartida puede jugar en los conflictos del grupo, asi como las bases del cambio revolucionario.
Calculation and Analysis of Destination Buffer for Multimedia Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Jitter is one of the most important issues for multimedia real time services in future mobile ad hoc networks(MANET). A thorough theoretical analysis of the destination buffer for smoothing the jitter of the real time service in MANET is given. The theoretical results are applied in moderate populated ad hoc networks in our simulation, the simulation results show that by predicting and adjusting destination buffer in our way, Jitter will be alleviated in large part and this will contribute much to the quality of service (QOS) in MANET.
Portfolio Optimization Using Conditional Sharpe Ratio

In this paper we propose a portfolio optimization model that selects the portfolio with the largest worse-case-scenario sharpe ratio with a given confidence level. We highlight the relationship between conditional value-atrisk based sharpe ratio and standard deviation based sharpe ratio proposed in literature. By utilizing the results of Rockafellar and Uryasev [5], we evaluate conditional value- at- risk for each portfolio. Our model is expected to enlarge the application area of practical investment problems for which the original sharpe ratio is not suitable, however should device effective computational methods to solve optimal portfolio selection problems with large number of investment opportunities. Here conditional sharpe ratio is defined as the ratio of expected excess return to the expected shortfall. This optimization considers both risk and return, of which changes will effect the sharpe ratio. That is the fitness function for dynamic portfolio is the objective function of the model.
Effects of floodplain dynamics on richness, abundance, composition and functional diversity of grasshopper assemblages in the Donau-Auen National Park (Austria)

Uberflutungen von an Flussen gelegenen Wiesen sind ein wichtiger Faktor, der die Arthropoden-Gesellschaften formt beziehungsweise stark beeinflusst. Wir untersuchten in welchem Ausmas Heuschrecken-Gesellschaften im Nationalpark Donau-Auen (Niederosterreich) durch jahrliche Uberschwemmungen, im Bezug auf Artenreichtum, Abundanz, Artenzusammensetzung und funktioneller Diversitat beeinflusst werden. Heuschrecken wurden von Juni bis September 2012 auf 12 jahrlich uberfluteten und 13 vor Uberflutungen durch einen Damm geschutzten Wiesen untersucht. Alle akustisch und visuell bestimmten Individuen wurden gezahlt. Ohne Berucksichtigung einer Heuschrecken-Art, die nicht typisch fur Wiesenflachen ist und auch nur mit einem Individuum vertreten war und aller Individuen der Gattung Tetrix, die mit unserer Aufnahmemethode nicht ausreichend erfasst werden konnten, konnten 24 Heuschrecken-Arten nachgewiesen werden. Uberflutung hatte einen negativen Einfluss auf die Abundanz von Heuschrecken. Der Artenreichtum war hingegen auf den beiden Wiesenflachentypen fast identisch. Die Artenzusammensetzung jedoch unterschied sich deutlich zwischen uberfluteten und nicht-uberfluteten Wiesenflachen. Wahrend xerophile Arten signifikant hohere relative Abundanzen auf nicht-uberfluteten Wiesenflachen zeigten, konnte fur hygrophile Arten und Heuschrecken mit keinen deutlichen Habitatpraferenzen kein signifikanter Unterschied festgestellt werden. Weiterhin zeigten sich keine absicherbaren Auswirkungen von Uberflutungen auf die funktionelle Diversitat. Diese Untersuchung zeigt, dass die naturliche Uberschwemmungsdynamik einen deutlichen Einfluss auf die Heuschrecken-Gesellschaften im Nationalpark Donau-Auen hat. Das Aufrechterhalten einer hohen hydrologischen Dynamik ist eine Voraussetzung dafur, dass die existierende Heuschrecken-Fauna und Habitate fur regional bedrohte hygrophile Arten erhalten bleiben.
EPIC 219217635: A Doubly Eclipsing Quadruple System Containing an Evolved Binary

We have discovered a doubly eclipsing, bound, quadruple star system in the field of K2 Campaign 7. EPIC 219217635 is a stellar image with Kp = 12.7 that contains an eclipsing binary (`EB') with P A = 3.59470 d and a second EB with P B = 0.61825 d. We have obtained followup radial-velocity (`RV') spectroscopy observations, adaptive optics imaging, as well as ground-based photometric observations. From our analysis of all the observations, we derive good estimates for a number of the system parameters. We conclude that (1) both binaries are bound in a quadruple star system; (2) a linear trend to the RV curve of binary A is found over a 2-year interval, corresponding to an acceleration, \dot{γ }= 0.0024 ± 0.0007 cm s -2 ; (3) small irregular variations are seen in the eclipse- timing variations (`ETVs') detected over the same interval; (4) the orbital separation of the quadruple system is probably in the range of 8-25 AU; and (5) the orbital planes of the two binaries must be inclined with respect to each other by at least 25°. In addition, we find that binary B is evolved, and the cooler and currently less massive star has transferred much of its envelope to the currently more massive star. We have also demonstrated that the system is sufficiently bright that the eclipses can be followed using small ground-based telescopes, and that this system may be profitably studied over the next decade when the outer orbit of the quadruple is expected to manifest itself in the ETV and/or RV curves.
Developing and testing items for the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI )

Orientation: A multicultural country like South Africa needs fair cross-cultural psychometric instruments. Research purpose: This article reports on the process of identifying items for, and provides a quantitative evaluation of, the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) items. Motivation for the study: The study intended to develop an indigenous and psychometrically sound personality instrument that adheres to the requirements of South African legislation and excludes cultural bias. Research design, approach and method: The authors used a cross-sectional design. They measured the nine SAPI clusters identified in the qualitative stage of the SAPI project in 11 separate quantitative studies. Convenience sampling yielded 6735 participants. Statistical analysis focused on the construct validity and reliability of items. The authors eliminated items that showed poor performance, based on common psychometric criteria, and selected the best performing items to form part of the final version of the SAPI. Main findings: The authors developed 2573 items from the nine SAPI clusters. Of these, 2268 items were valid and reliable representations of the SAPI facets. Practical/managerial implications: The authors developed a large item pool. It measures personality in South Africa. Researchers can refine it for the SAPI. Furthermore, the project illustrates an approach that researchers can use in projects that aim to develop culturally-informed psychological measures. Contribution/value-add: Personality assessment is important for recruiting, selecting and developing employees. This study contributes to the current knowledge about the early processes researchers follow when they develop a personality instrument that measures personality fairly in different cultural groups, as the SAPI does.
Closing the leadership gaps: Preferred and perceived leadership style among life insurance agents

The success of an insurance organization is very much tied to the effectiv e n e s s of leaders of the insurance companies in managing their human capital. Insurance leaders and managers are cons tantly challenged to do their utmos t to improve th e ir le a d e rs h ip s tyles in order to push performances forward, especia lly d u ring these turbulent economic times . Often, insurance leaders try to carry out various leadership s tyles assuming that their salespeople are accepting of them. However, the gap between an insurance salesperson’s leadership preferences and perceptions could exis t. Based on this assumptio n, this research aspires to find out the leadership gap between an insurance salesperson’s p re fe rre d leadership s tyle and leadership s tyles portrayed by insurance leaders as perceived by insurance s a lespeople, according to the Full-Range Leadership Theory. The identified gap will then be applied into a Preferred-Perceived Analys is (PPA) matrix [a d a p ted from the Importance-Performance Analys is (IPA) matrix] to provide recommendations and sugges t ions for insurance indus try practitioners . Three hundred and three usable samp les of insurance agents were drawn randomly from fo u r ma jor insurance companies in Malays ia. The findings sugges ted that, generally, there were indeed differences between the preferred and perceived leade rs h ip s tyles based on all nine Full-Range Leadership factors and attributes .
DESIGNING AN EFFICIENT PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORK FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF N ONLINEAR PROCESSES OPERATING AT MULTIPLE OPERATING REGIONS

Neural networks have been used for process fault diagnosis. In this work, the cluster analysis is used to design a structurally optimized Probabilistic Neural Network. This network is called the Clustered-Based Design Probabilistic Neural Network (CBDPNN). The CBDPNN is capable of diagnosing the faults of nonlinear processes operating over several regions. The performance and training status of the proposed CBDPNN is compared to a conventional Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) that is trained on the whole operating region. Simulation results indicate that both schemes have the same performance, but, the training of CBDPNN is much easier than the conventional MLP, although it has about 50% more neurons in its hidden layer. Both schemes can reasonably handle an increase in fault deteriorations. However, the training time for CBDPNN is much less than that of MLP. This issue gets severely important when the number of measured variables, along with process faults, increases. Since, for plant-wide fault diagnosis, the reduction in training time is crucial, the advantages of CBDPNN make it more appropriate for fault diagnosis compared to other alternatives for such a case.
Local, Organic, Conventional— Asymmetric Effects of Information and Taste on Label Preferences in an Experimental Auction

We endowed consumers with conventional apples and auctioned local, organic and organic-local apples to elicit consumers’ valuation and the response to two experimental treatments: scientific information and taste. For both labels, which participants valued as partial substitutes, positive WTP is conditional on distrusting the governmental food agencies. Information documenting the inconclusive scientific evidence in favor of organic and local production has little effect; while participants with positive valuation reacted to organoleptic characteristics only when the new information favored the labeled apples. The observed behavior is more consistent with polarization against conventional products, rather than in favor of local and organic.
Museopathy: Exploring the Healing Potential of Handling Museum Objects

To coincide with emerging arts and health practices, University College London Museums & Collections and University College London Hospitals Arts partnered to create a pilot project, entitled “Heritage in Hospitals”, which sought to assess whether handling museum objects has a positive impact on patient wellbeing. Quantitative data from 32 sessions conducted with patients in May through July (inclusive) of 2008 demonstrated, on average, an increase in self-reported measures of life satisfaction and health status after handling museum objects. Constant comparative analysis of the qualitative data collected from the sessions revealed two major recurring themes: “impersonal/educational” and “personal/ reminiscence”. The first theme included instances where handling museum objects allowed patients to access truths about the objects ascertainable solely through touch (such as gauging weight, texture, temperature, and spatial relation to the body), to verify what was seen, to facilitate an intimate and imaginative connection with the museum objects and their origins, to investigate and explore the objects, to permit an interaction with the “rare” and “museum-worthy”, and to assist with aesthetic appreciation. The second theme illustrated the project’s potential to assist with counselling on issues of illness, death, loss and mourning, and to help restore dignity, respect and a sense of identity (particularly among elderly patients) by providing a springboard for reminiscing and the telling of life stories in a highly institutionalized setting. This paper contextualizes the project, explores the implications of the project’s methodology and its findings, and provides questions for future research.
Comparison of soil CO2 emissions between short-rotation coppice poplar stands and arable lands

Abstract: Bioenergy crops are considered to have the potential for climate mitigation and socio-economic benefits owing to their capacity to sequester C and partially replace the consumption of fossil fuels. In this study, the effects on soil respiration of a recent conversion of arable land to high (H) and very high (VH) density short-rotation coppices (SRCs), as well as of agronomic treatments (fertilization with or without irrigation) and lane/row location, were investigated in an alluvial area in Italy. A survey of soil variability was carried out by collecting soil cores (0-60 cm depth) at 67 points to characterize surface and subsurface spatial distributions of pH, organic carbon, nitrogen and carbonates and identify comparable points for monitoring soil respiration. Soil CO2 emissions were monitored over the period April 2010-November 2011 at 27 locations covering the whole study site. The influence of land use (H-SRC, VH-SRC, corn and alfalfa) or treatments on soil respiration was evaluated considering both factors as fixed effects in a linear mixed model. Our results showed that (i) the high variability of soil properties even at small spatial scale has to be considered when selecting points for monitoring soil respiration in the field; (ii) the cumulative soil respiration over the study period at the VH-SRC was lower (1299 ± 30 g C m-2) than in croplands (1600 ±145 g C m-2) and higher along the rows than in the lanes; (iii) no significant differences in soil respiration were found between the H-SRC and corn field; (iv) two years after VH-SRC establishment, agronomic treatments did not appear to influence soil respiration; (v) land-use change affected the vertical soil organic carbon distribution and soil surface temperature, as reflected in soil respiration differences.
Development of Value Added Products based on Eggshell and Sun-Dried Mushrooms for the Vitamin D and Calcium Deficit Population

The objective of the study was to develop a low cost calcium and vitamin D supplement from the combination of chicken eggshell and sun-dried mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus). Chicken eggshell can be an excellent source of calcium. Sun-dried mushrooms are a richer source of vitamin D as they contain ergosterol which gets converted to active form of vitamin D by action of UV rays of sun. The chicken eggshell and sun-dried white button mushroom powder was prepared. The calcium, vitamin D, B1, B6, C and B12 content was estimated in the developed supplement by laboratory analysis. The supplement prepared was subjected to sensory analysis to check its acceptability by incorporating it to six commonly consumed Indian food preparations items (dal curry, chapatti, parantha, curd, nankhatai and milk) as per the dosage in one serving i.e. 1 g eggshell powder: 1 g sun-dried mushrooms, keeping in mind the upper limits of intake. Results infer that the prepared supplement can be best accepted in baked food products like nankhatai etc. The shelf life of the developed supplement was found out to be for 6 months. The calcium and vitamin D supplement prepared can be promoted in the community to utilize the maximum benefits of low cost natural sources of calcium and vitamin D in comparison with traditional richer sources available in the market. Developed value added product also be used during emergencies and disasters to meet nutritional requirements of the deficit population.
Wound healing activity of Leucas hirta

The wound healing efficacy of aqueous and methanolic leaf extracts of Leucas hirta was evaluated in excision, incision and dead space wound models. The parameters studied include rate of wound contraction, period of complete epithelialization, tensile strength of incision wound and granulation tissue, granulation tissue dry weight, hydroxyproline content and histological studies of granulation tissue. Among the two extracts studied, methanol leaf extract was found to possess significant wound healing activity followed by aqueous extract, which was evidenced by decrease in the period of epithelialization, increase in the rate of wound contraction, skin breaking strength, granulation tissue dry weight, hydroxyproline content and breaking strength of granulation tissue. Histopathological study of the granulation tissue evidenced increased collagenation when compared to control group of animals.
Off-axis afterglow light curves and images from 2D hydrodynamic simulations of double-sided GRB jets in a stratified external medium

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are narrow, and thus typically point away from us. They are initially ultra-relativistic, causing their prompt $\gamma$-ray and early afterglow emission to be beamed away from us. However, as the jet gradually decelerates its beaming cone widens and eventually reaches our line of sight and the afterglow emission may be detected. Such orphan afterglows were not clearly detected so far. Nevertheless, they should be detected in upcoming optical or radio surveys, and it would be challenging to clearly distinguish between them and other types of transients. Therefore, we perform detailed, realistic calculations of the expected afterglow emission from GRB jets viewed at different angles from the jet's symmetry axis. The dynamics are calculated using 2D relativistic hydrodynamics simulations of jets propagating into different power-law external density profiles, $\rho_{\rm ext}\propto{}R^{-k}$ for $k=0,\,1,\,1.5,\,2$, ranging from a uniform ISM-like medium ($k=0$) to a stratified steady stellar-wind like profile ($k=2$). We calculate radio, optical and X-ray lightcurves, and the evolution of the radio afterglow image size, shape and flux centroid. This may help identify misaligned relativistic jets, whether initially ultra-relativistic and producing a GRB for observers within their beam, or (possibly intrinsically more common) moderately relativistic, in either (i) nearby supernovae Ib/c (some of which are associated with long duration GRBs), or (ii) in binary neutron star mergers, which may produce short duration GRBs, and may also be detected in gravitational waves (e.g. GW$\,$170827/GRB$\,$170817A with a weak prompt $\gamma$-ray emission may harbor an off-axis jet).
Evidence for Structural Alignment during Similarity Judgments.

Abstract : Similarity plays a central role in cognitive theories. Much research has been devoted to understanding what makes a pair of objects similar. This research has demonstrated that the similarity of a pair increases with its commonalities and decreases with its differences. These common and distinctive elements can take the form of parts of objects, relations between parts on properties of whole objects. Previous work has been unable to reconcile this variety of information within a single framework. We suggest that structural alignment, like that proposed to mediate analogical reasoning, provides a sufficiently powerful process for determining the commonalities and differences of complex representations. The main prediction of this approach is that similarity comparisons focus subjects on the global commonalities a pair. A second prediction is that salient local similarities temper the preference for a global alignment. We test these hypotheses in four experiments using the one shot mapping technique, which places local and global similarities in opposition. The results support the predictions of the structural alignment view, and highlight the importance of the binding between relations and their arguments for similarity. Similarity, structural alignment, analogical mapping.