Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Market Orientation and Performance Measurement Orientation on the Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

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A revision of Platylobium (Fabaceae: Bossiaeeae)

reconstituted soapy AD, BRI, CANB, HO, MEL and NSW numerous locations Victoria Abstract A revision of the Australian-endemic genus Platylobium Sm. (Fabaceae: Bossiaeeae) is presented. Four new species are described: P. rotundum I.Thomps . , P. infecundum I.Thomps. , P. montanum I.Thomps . , and P. reflexum I.Thomps . , all segregated from P. formosum Sm. Platylobium parviflorum Sm. is returned to species rank. A new subspecies, P. montanum subsp. prostratum I.Thomps. , is also described. Keys to species and distribution maps are presented.
Characterization of sub-THz and mmwave propagation channel for indoor scenarios

This paper presents a radio channel characterization in the frequency band 126-156 GHz. Three indoor scenarios have been characterized: a laboratory, a conference room and an office. Double steering of antennas at the transmitting side and at the receiving side has been performed in order to cover the entire angular range from -180° to 180°. The channel model results obtained from the measured data are provided through the path loss and delay spread and are compared with the ones obtained in lower mm-wave bands.
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities

This paper investigates the role of strategic artifacts in realizing change in two Swedish cities. Drawing from qualitative studies of city development projects we illustrate how ambiguous formulations in vision statements constitute a powerful basis for legitimizing actions. As part of establishing linkages between future-oriented vision statements and concrete actions here and now, we highlight the role of materialization. We provide three examples of how the vision statements studied materialized—into organizational structures, management control systems, and communication efforts—and discuss how such materialization implies that only some parts of broad vision statements are translated into practice.
Cold Sprayed Metallic Coatings on Fibre-Reinforced Composites: A Machine Learning Approach for the Optimization of the Process

Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) is a promising process for producing metallic layers on different substrates, using powders as a feedstock material. The metallic powders are deposited through pressured gas that reaches supersonic velocities. Due to the low heat input required, as the powders remain in solid-state, this technology is particularly suitable to coat thermo-sensitive materials such as composites. Moreover, the absence of melting allows design freedom, allowing to build complex structures on the substrates, layer by layer. In this scenario, machine learning techniques can be crucial to improve the quality and understanding of this manufacturing process. The aim of this work is to predict the deformation and penetration of a particle upon impact using machine learning techniques in order to assess the properties of the coating. A univariate linear regression method was chosen to verify the feasibility of Theory Guided Machine Learning (TGML) techniques to predict the characteristics of the coating. The training dataset was obtained from both experimental data and computational data. It was confirmed that TGML could be a good route to pursue in order to optimize this process.
Estimation Precipitable Water Vapor Using (PWV) The Permanent Single GPS Station in Makasar and Bitung, Indonesia

Meteorological investigations using global positioning systems (GPS) are based on permanent networks that are expensive to develop globally on Earth. In this study, it was confirmed that a single station GPS meteorology was feasible where there was no possibility for the development of a sophisticated, reliable GPS network. In Sulawesi, there are several GPS stations since 2009 GPS stations have been installed in Makassar and Bitung by the Indonesian Geospatial Information Agency, in which meteorological sensors are also installed in the station. GPS data is processed to estimate the total zenith delay (ZTD) of GPS signals in the troposphere. The ZTD estimate is then automatically converted to stored water vapor (PWV) using goGPS software. Two types of validation were applied to the PWV estimation. All of them proved the validity of the GPS results: (1) PWV was measured using radiosondes in Makassar and Bitung with almost the same climate regime, each showing a correlation of 96.5 and 83.0% with GPS PWV time series. (2) a global reanalysis dataset was showing correlations of 60.1 and 75.3%, respectively, with GPS results. This validation shows that a permanent GPS network can be an alternative to get temporally more detailed and accurate meteorological data and lower costs and time-saving operations.
NETWORK MODELS FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF VEHICLES

: In this investigation were developed network methods for controlling the movement of road trains on highway with minimum fuel consumption by optimizing the technical and operational parameters.It is made a comparison of different methods for modeling the movement of road train. The methods has been experimented for the Sofia-Plovdiv roads The model can be used to compared alternative routes for optimal management of the movement of vehicles depending on the strategy of the transport company.
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1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, People’s Republic of China; 2Division of Health Management Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, People’s Republic of China Purpose: To identify the population susceptible to reactive hypoglycemia and explain the possible reasons for their susceptibility. Methods: Ninety-four patients were divided into normal weight, overweight and obese groups before a 75-gram prolonged oral glucose tolerance test (POGTT). The incidence of reactive hypoglycemia (blood glucose ≤3.1 mmol/L or 55 mg/dL at points of 0–4 hours) was compared among three groups, and blood glucose and insulin levels were monitored simultaneously from 0 4 hours to assess the level of insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity. Furthermore, the degree of insulin resistance among three groups and within each subgroup (whether hypoglycemia events occurred) was compared. Results: Among the three groups, the incidence of hypoglycemia was significantly different at 3 (P=0.033) and 4 hours (P=0.020). At 4 hours, the incidence of reactive hypoglycemia in the obese group was approximately 3 times that in the normal weight group. The insulin level in obese group at 4 hours was nearly 4 times higher than that in normal group, and the same result also exists in the same subgroup of different groups. In addition, the hypoglycemia subgroup of obese group had higher insulin level than non-hypoglycemia (P=0.000). The homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance index increased with increasing BMI among the three groups (P=0.000), while the Matsuda index decreased (P=0.000). The comparison of the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance index between subgroups in each group showed that the P values were 0.021, 0.038 and 0.085, successively, and the P values for the Matsuda index were 0.019, 0.013 and 0.119, respectively. Conclusion: Obese people has higher rate of reactive hypoglycemia than other groups in POGTT, in which insulin resistance may play an important role. But patients who are evaluated for reactive hypoglycemia need to be observed for at least 3 or 4 hours.
Towards more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of 1 subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia 2

This study investigates the potential of applying stable oxygen isotopes (δ 18 O) from head 29 capsules (HCs) of subfossil chironomids (subfamily Tanypodinae) to reconstruct past 30 temperature changes from south-eastern Australia. The study reports δ 18 O results from 31 Tanypodinae HCs in nine lakes. The relationship between δ 18 O values of Tanypodinae HCs in 32 lakes and summer (February) air temperature is robust (r = 0.84) supporting its potential to be 33 applied as a temperature proxy in the Australian region. The comparison of these results with 34 the δ 18 O values measured on Chironomus spp. HCs from the same lakes reveals differences 35 between the two groups. δ 18 O values of Tanypodinae HCs have a stronger correlation with the 36 δ 18 O of lake water, δ 18 O of precipitation and air temperature as compared with Chironomus 37 δ 18 O values. This suggests that Tanypodinae HCs are superior targets to Chironomus spp. for 38 temperature reconstructions. Our data indicate that the δ 18 O of Tanypodinae HCs could 39 perform as well as the assemblage based chironomid transfer function from the Australian 40 mainland. We recommend analysis of HCs from additional lakes to develop a more robust 41 calibration curve relating Tanypodinae HC δ 18 O to temperature. 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 We explore the potential of and investigate the of 18 HCs two chironomid Finally, compare
Using a 3D version of Pictorial Structures

Multi-view 3D human pose estimation is still a challenging task in uncontrolled environments. Many related approaches are still dependent on silhouettes of the subject obtained by background subtraction. Background subtraction is difficult if the cameras are moving or the background is dynamic. Our solution is to do body part detections both on the foreground and the background, similar to some 2D pose estimation algorithms. We introduce a novel approach to combine 2D body part detections from multiple views to obtain a unified space of detection scores employing the constraints of the 3D space. This combination of detections helps to remove the false positive detection scores suggested by the 2D detectors. We also propose a new human pose estimation algorithm that performs the pose inference directly in the 3D configuration space, taking advantage of the unified detections. This algorithm is a modified version of the well known pictorial structures method and uses distance transform in solving the optimization. Repulsion between joints is also considered in our algorithm which is very helpful for estimating some specific poses. Qualitative results are presented to show the potential strength of our approach.
PPK-Means: Achieving Privacy-Preserving Clustering Over Encrypted Multi-Dimensional Cloud Data

Clustering is a fundamental and critical data mining branch that has been widely used in practical applications such as user purchase model analysis, image color segmentation, outlier detection, and so on. With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, more and more encrypted data are converging to cloud computing platforms for enjoying the revolutionary advantages of the cloud computing paradigm, as well as mitigating the deeply concerned data privacy issues. However, traditional data encryption makes existing clustering schemes no more effective, which greatly obstructs effective data utilization and frustrates the wide adoption of cloud computing. In this paper, we focus on solving the clustering problem over encrypted cloud data. In particular, we propose a privacy-preserving k-means clustering technology over encrypted multi-dimensional cloud data by leveraging the scalar-product-preserving encryption primitive, called PPK-means. The proposed technique is able to achieve efficient multi-dimensional data clustering as well to preserve the confidentiality of the outsourced cloud data. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to explore the privacy-preserving multi-dimensional data clustering in the cloud computing environment. Extensive experiments in simulation data-sets and real-life data-sets demonstrate that our proposed PPK-means is secure, efficient, and practical.
Enhancer Mutation Linking C5 Deficiency to an Exonic Splicing

As an important component of the innate immune system, complement provides the initial response to prevent infections by pathogenic microorganisms. Patients with dysfunction of C5 display a propensity for severe recurrent infections. In this study, we present a patient with C5 deﬁciency demonstrated by immunochemical and functional analyses. Direct sequencing of all C5 exons displayed no mutation of obvious functional signiﬁcance, except for an A to G transition in exon 10 predicting an exchange from lysine to arginine. This sequence alteration was present in only one allele of family members with a reduced serum C5 concentration and in both alleles of the patient with almost complete C5 deﬁciency, suggesting that this alteration may be producing the phenotype. Recent ﬁndings indicate that distinct nucleotide sequences, termed exonic splicing enhancers (ESEs), inﬂuence the splicing process. cDNA from all family members harboring the mutated allele showed skipping of exon 10, which resulted in a premature STOP codon, explaining the lack of C5 in the propositus. Sequence analysis of the mutated region revealed the substitution to be located within an ESE, as predicted by the RESCUE-ESE program. The altered ESE sequence is located close to the 5 (cid:1) splicing site and also lowers the predicted strength of the splice site itself. This apparently inconsequential sequence alteration represents a noncanonical splicing mutation altering an ESE. Our ﬁnding sheds a new light on the role of putative silent/conservative mutations in disease-associated genes. The Journal of Immunology, 2005, 174: 4172–4177.
Designing A PSS Reuse Strategy

— The recently-released Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) promises to boost verification reuse by allowing a single description of test intent to be reused across IP block, subsystem, and SoC verification environments, and provides powerful language features to address verification needs across the verification levels and address the specific requirement of verification reuse. However, language features on their own do not guarantee productive reuse of test intent. This paper describes methodology and a planning process to minimize duplicated effort and maximize the reuse benefits of adopting the Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard.
Disturbance Observer-Based Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Control for Nonlinearly Parameterized Systems

This paper aims at the fault-tolerant adaptive control for the nonlinearly parameterized systems with mismatched disturbances. A novel adaptive control scheme is developed in this paper by adding a power integrator technique. The mismatched disturbances are estimated by a designed disturbance observer. A new fault-tolerant control method is proposed to deal with the uncertain actuator faults including actuator stuck. The proposed adaptive controller ensures that the closed-loop system is input-to-state stable. Simulation results for a robotic arm system are given to present the effectiveness of the developed control technique.
Centrifugal Compressor Design for Near-Critical Point Applications

The supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Brayton cycle has been attracting much attention to produce the electricity power, chiefly due to its higher thermal efficiency with the relatively lower temperature at the turbine inlet compared to other common energy conversion cycles. Centrifugal compressor operating conditions in the supercritical Brayton cycle are commonly set in vicinity of the critical point, owing to smaller compressibility factor and eventually lower compressor work. This paper investigates and compares different centrifugal compressor design methodologies in close proximity to the critical point and suggests the most accurate design procedure based on the findings. An in-house mean-line design code, which is based on the individual enthalpy loss models, is compared to stage efficiency correlation design methods. Moreover, modifications are introduced to the skin friction loss calculation to establish an accurate one-dimensional design methodology. Moreover, compressor performance is compared to the experimental measurements.
Study on electromagnetic energy transducer in ambient vibration

This study documents the design of an electromagnetic energy transducer, which is used to convert ambient vibration into electrical energy. The response of the designed energy transducer is theoretically and experimentally analysed using a simple equivalent circuit model and magnetic field simulator in low-acceleration environments. For an electromagnetic energy transducer in ambient vibration, an approximate analytical expression is derived for the extracted power across a load. The energy transducer consists of four magnets (NdFeB, N35), two I-shaped magnetic cores, two U-shaped cores made of soft ferrite material, and a coil for induced voltage. The two U-shaped magnetic cores are surrounded by a coil with an approximate 3000 turn. The energy transducer is theoretically modelled using the commercial tool, COMSOL, and is experimentally validated through electrical measurements. The relation between the acceleration of vibration and the maximum average power that can be extracted at the optimal load was also studied. The size of the electromagnetic energy transducer is 43 × 37 × 80 mm 3 . The energy transducer has a maximum average power of 3.24 mW at a frequency of 28 Hz and an acceleration of 0.4 g , and has a maximum average power of 3.83 mW at a frequency of 31 Hz and an acceleration of 0.5 g .
Go Red for Women Pre-Eclampsia Is Associated With Increased Risk of Stroke in the Adult Offspring

Background and Purpose—Women who develop pre-eclampsia in pregnancy are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The offspring from pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia have higher blood pressures during childhood, but little is known about their long-term health. We hypothesized that pre-eclampsia would lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in the offspring. Methods—We traced 6410 babies born in Helsinki, Finland, from 1934 to 1944. We used the mothers’ blood pressure levels and the presence of proteinuria during pregnancy to define pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension without proteinuria according to modern criteria. Results—Two hundred eighty-four of the pregnancies were complicated by pre-eclampsia (120 with nonsevere and 164 with severe disease) and 1592 by gestational hypertension. The crude hazard ratio for all forms of stroke among people whose mothers had pre-eclampsia was 1.9 (1.2 to 3.0; P 0.01); among people whose mothers had gestational hypertension, it was 1.4 (1.0 to 1.8; P 0.03). There was no evidence that these pregnancy disorders were associated with coronary heart disease in the offspring. Pre-eclampsia, in particular severe disease, was associated with a reduced mean head circumference at birth, whereas gestational hypertension was associated with an increased head circumference in relation to body length. Conclusions—People born after pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia or gestational hypertension are at increased risk of stroke. The underlying processes may include a local disorder of the blood vessels of the brain as a consequence of either reduced brain growth or impaired brain growth leading to “brain-sparing” responses in utero. (Stroke. 2009;40:1176-1180.)
OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

The Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative brings together geospatial experts and scientists in a voluntary cooperation between the eight national mapping agencies of the Arctic countries in direct support of the priorities of the Arctic Council and other important stakeholders. The purpose of the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure is to support the Arctic Council and other users and stakeholders in meeting their goals and objectives by using reliable and interoperable geospatial data of the Arctic, accessible via the Arctic SDI Geoportal. Arctic Spatial Data pilot was motivated to support the Arctic SDI and its strategic objectives as described in the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI) Strategic Plan. The plan " contains a high-level overview of the background, organization and philosophy of the Arctic SDI, and it provides a mid-range vision identifying the primary strategic objectives of the Arctic SDI over the five year span from 2015 to 2020 (Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategic Plan, 2015-2020 provides a daily of sea ice characteristics for the 1979 2012 derived from microwave brightness temperatures. Parameters the location of ice ice age, day of melt onset, and status of melt onset. Data are gridded in the km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) and netCDF files.
Using PETTLEP imagery as a simulation technique in nursing: research and guidelines

One of the most valuable skill sets developed in nurse education is the ability to develop the clinical and practical skills learned. This can take various forms such as university-based practice, simulation and direct experience with patients. To this end imagery, a process where all of the senses are used to create or recreate an experience in the mind, could represent simulated practice of clinical skills. Research on imagery has indicated that the technique can be used to assist in the performance of skill based procedures carried out by nurses can be beneficial. However, guidelines are lacking in this area of simulated practice. In this article, we review current research on the topic of imagery in enhancing skilled performance and outline a model that can assist in conducting interventions. Furthermore, we consider how this could be implemented within a nursing environment to produce beneficial performance effects in both pre-registration and registered nurses.
Java Definite Assignment in Isabelle/HOL

In Java the compiler guarantees that each local variable is initialised when we attempt to access it at runtime. This prohibits access to uninitialised memory during execution and is a key ingredient for type safety. We have formalised the definite assignment analysis of the Java compiler in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL and proved it correct.