Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Public Transportation Network Design and Frequency Setting: Pareto Optimality through Alternating-Objective Genetic Algorithms

The transportation network design and frequency setting problem concerns the optimization of transportation systems comprising fleets of vehicles serving a set amount of passengers on a predetermined network (e.g., public transport systems). It has been a persistent focus of the transportation planning community while, its NP-hard nature continues to present obstacles in designing efficient, all-encompassing solutions. In this paper, we present a new approach based on an alternating-objective genetic algorithm that aims to find Pareto optimality between user and operator costs. Extensive computational experiments are performed on Mandl’s benchmark test and prove that the results generated by our algorithm are 5–6% improved in comparison to previously published results for Pareto optimality objectives both in regard to user and operator costs. At the same time, the methods presented are computationally inexpensive and easily run on office equipment, thus minimizing the need for expensive server infrastructure and costs. Additionally, we identify a wide variance in the way that similar computational results are reported and, propose a novel way of reporting benchmark results that facilitates comparisons between methods and enables a taxonomy of heuristic approaches to be created. Thus, this paper aims to provide an efficient, easily applicable method for finding Pareto optimality in transportation networks while highlighting specific limitations of existing research both in regards to the methods used and the way they are communicated.
A Conceptual Framework of Forest Therapy as an Innovative Health Approach Combined with Local Health Resort Medicine in Alpine Regions to Increase Mental Health and Well-Being

Introduction: There has been a constant increase in mental health disorders in Western industrialized nations, and the current Covid 19 pandemic is increasingly exacerbating the problem. The health resorts in Germany are well equipped to improve mental, emotional and physical health with their local remedies and procedures to improve the individual health status. Method: The available alpine health resort procedures/interventions as well as the novel forest therapy with their various effects are described in order to develop a novel health resort concept for the treatment of mental-health disorders and well-being. Result: Based on the principles of health resort medicine and the available alpine interventions, a three-week treatment concept has been developed. Different procedures such as climatotherapy, balneotherapy, forest therapy & nature connection, mindfulness practice and physiotherapy have been combined in a healthy manner. Alpine health resorts are particularly well suited because of their excellent health-promoting climate factors. Conclusion: The novel combination of HRM with forest therapy will to lead to stress reduction and an increase in mental health and general well-being. This new approach shows promising benefits for future health resort treatments. Studies on this new approach are needed to confirm the effectiveness of the conceptual framework.
Effect of Phytase Enzyme on Organs Growth Performance and Blood Profile of Broiler

Enzymes which are biological catalyst composed of amino acids with minerals and vitamins. The use of enzymes has many benefits in poultry diets include not only enhanced feed conversion and bird performance but also reduced output of excreta problems of environment. The present research work was conducted to evaluate the effect of phytase enzyme on growth performance and blood profile of broiler. Birds were arbitrarily separated into four groups, i.e. Group A (control) was offered 0 g/kg, 0.05 g/kg (group B), 0.075 g/kg (group C) and 0.025 g/kg (group D) phytase enzyme provided in broiler feed. Parameters which were selected in present research work as, feed intake, live body weight, feed conversion ratio, growth performance and blood profile. Results showed that the maximum chicken body weight was noted in group C and feed intake was minimum in group C, as compared to other groups. Feed conversion ratio was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in group C, followed by other groups the non-significantly variance founded respectively, the highest weight of liver, gizzard, heart, intestine were noted in treated group C comparatively, highest spleen weight was in group B and in group A (control) the minimum weight of spleen was noted and the average blood profile of broiler chicks in different groups, the white blood cells was significantly higher in group D followed by group A, group B and C. Red blood cells was significantly (P < 0.05) better in group C. Haemoglobin was significant differences in different groups of trial. A significant (P < 0.05) difference in Packed cells volume in group A followed by group B, C and D. Total protein in group A was minimum followed by group B, C and D, respectively. From the present study, it was concluded that supplementation of 0.075 g/kg phytase enzyme has a better effect on growth performance and blood profile of broiler.
Event Detection in Wikipedia Edit History Improved by Documents Web Based Automatic Assessment

A majority of current work in events extraction assumes the static nature of relationships in constant expertise knowledge bases. However, in collaborative environments, such as Wikipedia, information and systems are extraordinarily dynamic over time. In this work, we introduce a new approach for extracting complex structures of events from Wikipedia. We advocate a new model to represent events by engaging more than one entities that are generalizable to an arbitrary language. The evolution of an event is captured successfully primarily based on analyzing the user edits records in Wikipedia. Our work presents a basis for a singular class of evolution-aware entity-primarily based enrichment algorithms and will extensively increase the quality of entity accessibility and temporal retrieval for Wikipedia. We formalize this problem case and conduct comprehensive experiments on a real dataset of 1.8 million Wikipedia articles in order to show the effectiveness of our proposed answer. Furthermore, we suggest a new event validation automatic method relying on a supervised model to predict the presence of events in a non-annotated corpus. As the extra document source for event validation, we chose the Web due to its ease of accessibility and wide event coverage. Our outcomes display that we are capable of acquiring 70% precision evaluated on a manually annotated corpus. Ultimately, we conduct a comparison of our strategy versus the Current Event Portal of Wikipedia and discover that our proposed WikipEvent along with the usage of Co-References technique may be utilized to provide new and more data on events.
Mechanoelectrical Coupling and Reorganisation of Cardiomyocytes and Fibroblasts under Shear Stress

In this work, I studied the influence of changes such as the abundance of myofibroblasts in fibrotic conditions and the increased shear stress on cellular mechanical properties, morphology, contractility and connectivity. By using co-cultures of cardiomyocytes and myofibroblasts as an in vitro model system for fibrosis I observed that their communication occurs via both electrical and mechanical junctions. Co-cultures with low ratios of cardiomyocytes overexpressed electrical and mechanical junction proteins, Connexin43 (Cx43) and N-Cadherin (N-Cad), respectively, inducing alterations in the electrophysiology of cardiomyocytes: decrease of beating frequency and outbreak of spiral waves. The enhanced expression of N-Cad shows that myofibroblasts may influence the function of cardiomyocytes by applying contractile forces via mechanical junctions. N-Cad in turn is responsible for the transmission of contractile forces between myofibroblasts throughout the fibrotic scar. AFM-based microrheological measurements revealed that viscoelastic properties change under fibrotic conditions. Co-culture was observed to be stiffer than both cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts monocultures and was characterised by a solid-like behaviour at almost all frequencies. Another physiological change that occurs in LVR is the increase of mechanical load on cardiomyocytes, in particular shear stress, which is often neglected in vitro and in silico models. By combining impedance spectroscopy and optical microscopy I have shown that high values of shear stress stimulation lead to an immediate decrease of cell-substrate distances at the flow onset, cell spreading up to 48 hours, and a gradual reorientation of the actin fibers along the direction of the flow that took upto 108 hours. Additionally, beating frequency and cell-cell connectivity of cardiomyocytes increased under shear stress. Furthermore, contraction of cardiomyocytes synchronised in the presence of shear stress. The application of shear stress leads to the increase of beating frequency of co-cultures and induces contractility of fibrotic co-cultures with 9:1 ratio of myofibroblasts and cardiomyocytes, which do not present any activity without flow stimulation. Flow stimulation increased the beating frequency of the cardiomyocytes and myofibroblasts co-cultures similar to the monocultures, and for the first time, I observed contractility in co-cultures with 9:1 ratio of myofibroblasts after shear stimulation, whereas the non-sheared co-cultures did not show any activity. In conclusion this work proves that stimulating cardiomyocytes with high shear stress is a reliable in vitro pathological model to reproduce conditions similar to the in vivo situation. Furthermore, experimental and modelling studies used to understand pathophysiology during LVR should take into account the presence of high shear stress and its influence on mechanoelectrical coupling and cellular morphology.
Synthesis of novel hard/soft ferrite composites particles with improved magnetic properties and exchange coupling

SrFe12O19/Zn0.4Co0. 2Ni0.4Fe2O4 hard/soft ferrite composite particles with 20, 40, 60 and 80 wt. % of soft phase were prepared by one-pot sol-gel auto-combustion and physical mixing methods. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) were used to characterize the structural and magnetic properties of the samples. XRD spectrum revealed the formation of mixed ferrite phases in the composite particles. The hysteresis loops of the samples showed the presence of exchange coupling between the hard and soft ferrites. The composite particles with 20 and 60 wt. % of the soft phase demonstrated the highest Mr/Ms ratio, i.e. 0.29 and 0.28, respectively. In addition, the highest Ms, Mr and Hc were achieved in the composite particles with 40, 60 and 20 wt. % of the soft phase, respectively. Compared to the physical mixing method (PM), the composite particles prepared by the sol-gel auto-combustion method (OP) demonstrated better magnetic properties. The exchange coupling interaction between the hard and soft ferrite phases was similar in both methods. These composite particles exhibited magnetically single phase behaviour, however, the saturation magnetization was lower in the physical mixing pared to that of the one-pot method.
An Efficient Acceleration of Solving Heat and Mass Transfer Equations with the Second Kind Boundary Conditions in Capillary Porous Composite Cylinder Using Programmable Graphics Hardware

With the recent developments in computing technology, increased efforts have gone into simulation of various scientific methods and phenomenon in engineering fields. One such case is the simulation of heat and mass transfer in capillary porous media, which is becoming more and more important in analysing various scenarios in engineering applications. Analysing such heat and mass transfer phenomenon in a given environment requires us to simulate it. This entails simulation of coupled heat mass transfer equations. However, this process of numerical solution of heat and mass transfer equations is very much time consuming. Therefore, this paper aims at utilizing one of the acceleration techniques developed in the graphics community that exploits a graphics processing unit (GPU) which is applied to the numerical solutions of heat and mass transfer equations. The nVidia Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) programming model caters a good method of applying parallel computing to program the graphical processing unit. This paper shows a good improvement in the performance while solving the heat and mass transfer equations for capillary porous composite cylinder with the second kind of boundary conditions numerically running on GPU. This heat and mass transfer simulation is implemented using CUDA platform on nVidia Quadro FX 4800 graphics card. Our experimental results depict the drastic performance improvement when GPU is used to perform heat and mass transfer simulation. GPU can significantly accelerate the performance with a maximum observed speedup of more than 7-fold times. Therefore, the GPU is a good approach to accelerate the heat and mass transfer simulation.
Peran Ambideksteritas Pembelajaran Sebagai Pemediasi Pada Hubungan Kapabilitas Berpikir Desain Terhadap Kapabilitas Inovasi: Studi Pada Perusahaan Startup

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh kapabilitas berpikir desain terhadap ambideksteritas pembelajaran, kemudian menguji pengaruh ambideksteritas pembelajaran terhadap kapabilitas inovasi perusahaan. Penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh ambideksteritas pembelajaran pada kapabilitas berpikir desain dan kapabilitas inovasi perusahaan. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada 164 perusahaan start-up di Yogyakarta, Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) dan Kota lainnya. Hasil temuan penelitian mengkonfirmasi teori pandangan berbasis pengetahuan dan teori pembelajaran organisasi. Secara empiris menunjukkan bahwa kapabilitas berpikir desain berpengaruh positif signifikan pada ambideksteritas pembelajaran, ambideksteritas pembelajaran berpengaruh positif signifikan pada kapabilitas inovasi perusahaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan juga bahwa ambideksteritas pembelajaran memiliki pengaruh mediasi parsial pada kapabilitas berpikir desain dan kapabilitas inovasi perusahaan.
The McGurk Effect In Relation to Musicians' Abilities

The original study of the McGurk Effect, a perceptual phenomenon caused by contradictory audiovisual stimuli fusing together to create the illusion of a third sound, was carried out by psychologists McGurk and MacDonald in 1976. The results of early experiments displayed that observers used both auditory and visual signals while being spoken to, auditory signals being the sound waves entering their ears, and visual signals being how the speaker moved his face while pronouncing a word. When conflicting signals are given, a third sound is perceived, as the brain is disoriented from the different signals. The idea that musicians have superior audiovisual cortexes have led some to speculate if musicians are as susceptible to the McGurk Effect as non-musicians. To research the susceptibility of musicians to the McGurk Effect, the experiment conducted included a total of 40 subjects, 20 musicians and 20 non-musicians. The subjects were played a control video of a speaker saying “ga” and were then presented with four audiovisually incongruent videos, all containing a speaker mouthing the word “ga” with the audio recording of the speaker saying “ba” dubbed on. Two main 2x2 Chi Square tests and fifteen secondary 2x2 Chi Squares tests were run in total. The two main tests, which compared the amount of McGurk interpretations to either audio or visual interpretations, both produced a p-value of <. 0005. Upon further research, 25.7% of musicians reported a McGurk interpretation, as opposed to 52.2% of non-musicians, which implied that musicians are less susceptible to the McGurk effect.
Do Farm Subsidies Improve Labour Efficiency in Farms in EU Countries?

Purpose: Agricultural support programmes most commonly aim at attaining higher production of raw food materials or supporting processes resulting in agricultural yield. One of the most important challenges is to increase labour productivity, thanks to which working in the agricultural sector may be attractive in comparison with working in the non-agricultural sector. In literature, in the scope of agricultural economy, there is a lack of consistent results concerning the relation between the level of subsidies for operational activity and labour productivity in agriculture. The question arises whether or not subsidies for agriculture help achieve the intended results in the form of an increase in labour productivity. This reasoning gave rise to this study, which aimed at indicating the directions and strength of association between subsidies for operational activity on farms expressed per one employed and the attained labour productivity. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study was carried out for EU countries divided into quartile groups defined according to labour productivity. Data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network for the period 2013-2018 were applied, and for analysis the panel regression method (with random effects) was used. Findings: It was found that together with an increase in labour productivity, the direction and the strength of impact of direct subsidies also altered. On farms of countries with a lower labour productivity, no significant relation was found. However, for the quantile groups Q2 and Q3, an increase in the level of labour productivity resulted in a positive, yet decreasing impact of subsidies. On farms of countries with the lowest labour productivity, a negative impact of subsidies was observed. Practical Implications: The conducted analysis gives reason to state that farms that have attained a high level of development, subsidies do not lead to a further growth of productivity, but only support the maintenance of the same level of farm income. Originality/value: The assessment of whether and under what conditions the subsidies bring the intended effects allows for a change in the directions of support in order to obtain better effects from spending public funds. The research was conducted for a long period of time for a group of all EU countries.
Protocol for a systematic review of the diagnostic test accuracy of tests for IgE‐mediated food allergy

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) is in the process of updating the guidelines on the diagnosis and management of food allergy. The existing guidelines are based on a systematic review of the literature until 30 September 2012. Therefore, a new systematic review must be undertaken to inform the new guidelines. This systematic review aims to assess the accuracy of index tests to support the diagnosis of IgE‐mediated food allergy.
Isolation and Antibiotic-Resistant Pattern of Opportunistic Infectious Microbes from the Infected Sites of Oral Cancer Patients Compared to That of Healthy People Oral Microbiota

Introduction: Oral cancer is the third most prominent type of cancer in Bangladesh. During or after oral cancer treatment, immune-compromised cancer patients may be susceptible to an infection by multi-drug-resistant opportunistic microbes. This study aims to identify the prevalent microorganisms from the infected site of oral cancer patients and observe their antibiotic susceptibility pattern. Materials and Methods: Clinical samples were collected from the infected sites of oral cancer patients and healthy people. The swabs collected were placed on nutrient agar slant, then incubated for 24 hours at 37oC. Bacteria from the slant were inoculated in several selective media (Mannitol Salt Agar Media, KF Streptococcus Agar media, Cetrimide Agar, Eosin Methylene Blue Agar). Several biochemical tests identified opportunistic microorganisms. Finally, the antibiotic susceptibility test was performed by the Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method. Results: The study found that 65.4% of microbes isolated from the patients’ oral cavities were Gram-negative bacteria, and 34.6% were Gram-positive bacteria. Among the patient group isolates (n = 55), the most prevalent organism was Pseudomonas spp. (30; 54.54%). Others were Klebsiella spp. (27; 49.09%), Staphylococcus spp. (24; 43.63%), E. coli (14; 25.45%), Streptococcus spp. (14; 25.45%), Proteus spp. (12; 21.8%) and Enterococcus spp. (6; 10.90%). Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative microbes from the patient group have shown high resistance to the commonly used antibiotics. In the control group (n = 50), the most prevalent organism was Staphylococcus spp. (15; 30%). Other organisms were Streptococcus spp. (6; 12%), Klebsiella spp. (11; 22%), E. coli (3; 6%), Streptococcus spp. (14; 25.45%), Pseudomonas spp. (8; 16%). The microbes of the control group showed less resistance to the antibiotics and rather showed sensitivity to them. Conclusion: The study revealed a high prevalence of multi-drug-resistant opportunistic microbes on immune-compromised oral cancer patients compared to microbes isolated from healthy people’s oral cavity.
A Comparative Study on Weighting Factor Design Techniques for the Model Predictive Control of Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems

During the past decade, the model predictive control (MPC) of power electronics and drives has witnessed significant advancements in both dynamic performance and range of applications. However, researchers still encounter challenges with the optimal design of weighting factors, and this lowers the capabilities derivable from MPC. This study first reviews the different weighting factor design techniques proposed in the literature for power electronics and electrical drives (applied to wind/solar energy conversion, microgrids, grid-connected converters and other high performance converter-based systems). They are grouped under heuristic, offline tuning, sequential, and online optimization methods. Next, the study provides real-time hardware-in-the-loop comparative results for the implementation of four weighting factor design techniques on a grid-connected two-level back-to-back power converter-based permanent magnet synchronous generator wind turbine system. Through these laboratory results, the advantages and limitations of the different weighting factor design methods are highlighted.
A Mathematical Model for Solving Distribution System Problem by Considering Odd-Even Vehicle License Plate Rule

This research discusses the goods distribution system in an urban area by considering an odd-even vehicle license plate rule. This rule enables the vehicles with the even-number plate to pass particular roads on even-number dates and vice versa during specific time intervals determined by the authority. This rule is potentially rising the company’s logistic cost up to 20%. Therefore, a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model is developed to solve the problem. The performance of the model is tested on some numerical examples. Computational results show that the model generates optimal solutions with numerous computational times. The instances of customers located randomly and clustered manner (i.e., mix) are arduous to solve. The average computational time of these instances is 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Kemampuan Pemahaman Matematis Siswa Pada Materi Trigonometri

Pandemi covid-19 menimpa seluruh dunia dan memberikan dampak diseluruh sektor kehidupan, khususnya sektor pendidikan. Pada saat pandemi ini peneliti melakukan penelitian yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui kemampuan pemahaan matematis siswa pada materi trigonometri. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Subjek pada penelitian ini adalah 30 orang siswa pada kelas XI disalah satu SMA Negeri Kabupaten Bandung. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh persentase ketercapaian dari keempat indikator kemampuan pemahaman matematis memperoleh hasil dibawah 50%, hal ini menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan pemahaman matematis pada materi trigonometri dimasa pandemi covid-19 ini masih rendah dan masih perlu ditingkatkan lagi.