Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
In-house preparation, development and evaluation of herbal cosmetics face pack using various natural powders

An eco- friendly product has been the primary agenda of 21st century of the global scientists. Herbal cosmetics have growing demand in the global market. The aim of present work is to In-house preparation, development and evaluation of herbal cosmetics face pack using various natural powders for glowing skin by using natural Ingredients. The natural powders used are shade dried commercial turmeric, rice flour, gram flour, rose powder, tomato powder, orange peel powder. Sandalwood powder, milk powder, camphor powder were purchased form local market in the form of dried powder, all powdered natural ingredients were sieved using #120 mesh, weighed accurately and mixed geometrically for uniform preparation and evaluated for parameters including macroscopical, Physiochemical, irritancy, antimicrobial tests along with stability studies. Thus, in this work we formulate herbal face pack by using easily available ingredients. After evaluation, we found good flow properties, free from skin irritation and maintained proper stability storage conditions. Results of this study scientifically verified that herbal face pack having enough potential to give efficient glowing effect on skin. The overall study is useful to substantiate product claims due to its benefits on the human being. Keywords: herbal cosmetics, turmeric, Sandalwood powder, orange peel powder
Students’ Motivation for Attending Varsity Football Matches

It is important to understand what motivates members from a specific community to attend sports events. The objective of this study was to determine the factors that motivate students at a university of technology to attend Varsity Football matches at the university’s main stadium. Twelve items of the fan motivation questionnaire relating to fan attendance at college soccer matches in the USA were adopted in this study. A principal component factor analysis with varimax rotation was performed on Likert scale data gathered from 329 respondents. Items clustered into three factors, namely enjoyment, friendship and relaxation, fandom, and belonging and self-esteem. The instrument used in this study had acceptable validity and reliability. The value of the research results from this study confirms the following: Promotional campaigns to draw students to Varsity Football matches should focus on excitement and emotions because attendance is motivated by the vibe at the stadium and to spend time with their friends. The university should build the brand of the football team. A vibrant crowd at a Varsity Football match provides advantages to the sponsors of the events, it contributes to the image of the university, and it contributes to the viewing experience of the television audience that watches the matches. The results confirm that event sponsors, organisers and host universities should understand the motivational factors that attract fans to attend football matches.
An Analysis of Agricultural Mechanics Safety Practices in Agricultural Science Laboratories.

North Dakota secondary agricultural mechanics instructors were surveyed regarding instructional methods and materials, safety practices, and equipment used in the agricultural mechanics laboratory. Usable responses were received from 69 of 89 instructors via self-administered mailed questionnaires. Findings were consistent with results of similar studies. Instructors were not using recommended safety practices or providing student safety and emergency equipment to the extent warranted by the hazards present in the laboratory. Instructional techniques most commonly used in safety instruction were demonstrations conducted by students and instructors in use of power tools. Most instructors (94.2 percent) required students to pass safety examinations. Instructors used safety manuals and booklets and worksheets most often as instructional materials. Industrial-quality eye protection and welding gloves were the most frequently available safety equipment for student use. The most frequently available safety practices, equipment, or materials were as follows: welding booths with screens/curtains, welding exhaust system, safety guards on all equipment, first aid kits/boxes, fire extinguishers, fire alarms, and marked exits. Inservice programs on safety and identification and teaching of safety topics in preservice and inservice educational programs were recommended. (Contains 12
Adaptive digital calibration of amplifier finite gain effects and C-ratio matching errors for MASH modulators

Cascaded sigma-delta (MASH) modulators for higher older oversampled analog-to-digital conversion rely on precise matching of contributions from different quantizers to cancel lower order quantization noise from intermediate delta-sigma stages. This paper studies the effect of analog imperfections in the implementation, such as finite gain of the amplifiers and capacitor ratio mismatch, and presents an adaptive algorithm and implementation architectures for digital correction of such analog imperfections. Behavioral simulations on 1-1-1 oversampled converters demonstrate over 10dB improvements in signal-to-noise and over 20 dB improvements in dynamic range performance.
Gait Training with Wearable Hip-assist Robot Reduce Trunk and Leg Muscle Efforts and Metabolic Energy Consumption in Community Dwelling Elderly Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Wearable types of gait-assist robots have been developed to provide additional advantages such as being easily transportable, producing a more natural gait pattern, and being simple to control. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of intensive gait training with a newly developed wearable hip-assist robot on gait function and cardiopulmonary metabolic energy efficiency in community-dwelling elderly adults. Methods: Total of 27 community-dwelling elderly adults with age-related problems completed in this intervention study (15 experimental group and 12 control group) . The experimental participants received an intensive gait training program with a total of 10 sessions involving five sessions of treadmill and five sessions of over-ground gait training with the wearable hip-assist robot. The control group received gait training without a wearable-hip assist robot. The primary outcomes were gait functions (spatio-temporal parameters and muscle effort). The secondary outcome was cardiopulmonary metabolic energy consumption. Results: Compared to the control group, the experimental group had significantly greater improvements after intervention in spatio-temporal parameters (gait speed, cadence, and stride length) and reduced muscle efforts (trunk and lower extremity) with gait (p < 0.05). In addition, the reduction in oxygen consumption (ml/min/kg) was about 16.31% in the experimental group after intervention. Furthermore, the reduction in the aerobic energy expenditure measurement (Kcal/min) was about 17.36% in the experimental group after intensive gait training with wearable hip-assist robot. All cardiopulmonary metabolic energy consumption parameters in the experimental group were reduced significantly more than in the control group (p < 0.01). Conclusion: The intensive gait training with a wearable hip-assist robot was effective in improving gait function and cardiopulmonary metabolic energy efficiency in community-dwelling elderly adults with age-related problems. Trial registration: NCT02843828, registration date: 07/14/2016 - retrospectively registered
Defining Angle and Spacing of Bendway Weirs

Abstract : The purpose of this Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note is to introduce a standardized, mathematical approach for layout of bendway weirs after the spacing and angle for the weirs have been selected. The Navigation Branch of the Coastal Hydraulics and Laboratory (CHL) at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is conducting research to develop guidance for design of bendway weirs. The research weirs and weir fields influence current direction, magnitude, and lateral flow distribution and also focus on the effect the weirs have on navigation. The final product of the research provides guidance in selecting the spacing, number and angle for bendway weirs based on radius of bend, degree of bend, maximum velocity of currents, width of channel, and the design size tow. The Navigation Systems Research Program under Work Unit 004H84, Effects of Bendway Weirs on Navigation, funded the research. The research was conducted using an undistorted 1:80 scale, model to prototype, semifixed bed navigation model designed specifically for this purpose.
Modeling the Nascent Venture Opportunity Exploitation Process Across Time

The process of opportunity exploitation within both innovative and equilibrium venture opportunities is explored. Different venture opportunities exist, with innovative opportunities and equilibrium opportunities in contrast to each other. Innovative opportunities contain routines and competencies that are significantly different from existing firms. However, equilibrium opportunities contain routines and competencies that slightly differ from existing firms. The venture exploitation process is further explored, and seven hypotheses regarding this process are presented.Data were collected from the Swedish panel study of business startups, and many of the hypotheses were fully or partially supported.The overall findings suggest that innovative exploitation is a longer, more non-linear process when compared to equilibrium exploitation.Over time, the exploitation process appears to become more linear and shorter. Equilibrium opportunity and innovative opportunity are both influenced by utilitarian reinforcement. Innovative opportunity is also influenced by "specialist" strategy and tacit knowledge.The only rejected hypothesis was the opportunity invariance hypothesis.The implications of these findings for an opportunity-based theory of entrepreneurship, for a dynamic resource perspective, for entrepreneurship research design and methods, and for entrepreneurs are discussed. (AKP)
Impact of Consciousness Healing Treatment on Physical, Thermal and Spectroscopic Properties of Copper Chloride

Copper plays an important role in development, normal functioning, iron absorption and transport, and immune function in human body. It is given in the supplements in the form of copper chloride to avoid the cupper deficiency associated symptoms. This study was designed to analyse the impact of the Trivedi Effect ® -Energy of Consciousness Healing Treatment on copper chloride regarding its physical, thermal, and spectral properties. For this, the copper chloride sample was distributed in two halves, in which one part was termed as control sample and kept untreated. The other part was named as Biofield Energy Treated sample and it received the Trivedi Effect ® -Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely by the renowned Biofield Energy Healer, Mr. Mahendra Kumar Trivedi. Consequently, the control and treated samples were analyzed for any change with the help of PXRD, DSC, TGA/DTG, FT-IR, and UV-Vis analytical techniques. The PXRD analysis of the treated sample showed the significant changes in the crystallite sizes from -8.35% to 30.78% along with 5.27% increase in the average crystallite size compared with the control sample. Similarly, the relative peak intensities of the Biofield Energy Treated sample showed alterations in the range from -38.00% to 527.54%, compared to the control sample. The DSC analysis revealed the increase in melting point of the treated sample (193.10 °C ) by 1.76% compared to the control sample (189.76 °C ) with 13.94% increase in the latent heat of fusion (ΔH). Also, the treated sample showed increase in the decomposition temperature by 3.96% with a significant 35.22% reduction in the enthalpy of decomposition, compared with the control sample. Besides, The TGA/DTG analysis showed the alterations in the weight loss of Biofield Energy Treated sample by -1.03, -24.44, and 2.35% in the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd step, respectively. The T max values of the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd peaks of the Biofield Energy Treated sample were increased by 4.68, 1.88, and 4.06% compared to the control sample. The thermal analysis revealed the increase in thermal stability of the treated sample after the Biofield Energy Treatment. Additionally, the spectral analysis including FT-IR and UV-Vis analysis did not reveal any significant difference between both the samples. The overall study concluded that the Trivedi Effect ® - Energy of Consciousness Healing Treatment may help in developing a different polymorphic form of copper chloride, which might have improved thermal stability and safety profile along with better bioavailability compared to the control sample.
Applying Chemical EOR on the Norne Field C-Segment

The world energy demand will grow and oil will continue to be a major part of the energy consumption. Enhanced Oil Recovery will play a key role in meeting the oil demand by increasing the low oil recovery factors in the world today. Half of the oil is still trapped in the reservoir after the production have ceased. The development of new technology has brought a renewed attention for chemical flooding. It has been recognized as a technically feasible method in the Norwegian Continental Shelf and is expected to become attractive. Norne C-Segment is a good candidate for chemical flooding based on screening, current drainage strategy and high water cut. The objects of this Master Thesis are to find an optimum chemical flooding strategy for the Norne C-Segment to maximise the profit from volume of incremental oil produced. The result of the project is based on Net Present Value calculation. Simulations are run in Eclipse on a simulation model of Norne C-Segment released by Center of Integrated Operations at NTNU and Statoil ASA. The model was not perfect history matched therefore an effort to look at the uncertainties in vertical barriers where done before applying chemicals. The Ile formation was chosen as the target formation because of the highest OIP and high oil saturation. A synthetic model of the target formation was build to optimize the chemical injection scheme. Based on the evaluation of the injection wells C-2H was best suited for chemical flooding. The chemicals applied are polymer, surfactant, alkaline and combinations of two or all of these chemicals. Surfactant and alkaline are primarily used to reduce oil-water Interfacial Tension and minimize the capillary forces that trap residual oil after waterflooding. Polymers are used as a mobility control to improve reservoir contact and flood efficiency. Based on the simulation results and economic evaluation polymer flooding is the best chemical flooding method with a net present value of 406 million USD in 2022. Norne C-Segment Ile formation is favourable for mobility control. Surfactant and alkaline cannot mobilize enough residual oil to pay of the cost of chemicals and is not economical attractive.
MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY INSPECTIONS

Title of Document: MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY INSPECTIONS Fenghua Jin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Yang Tao, Fischell Department of Bioengineering With increased expectations for food products of high quality and safety standards, the need for accurate, fast and objective determination of these characteristics in food products continues to grow. Machine vision as a nondestructive technology, provides an automated and economic way to accomplish these requirements. This research thus explored two applications of using machine vision techniques for food quality and safety inspections. The first application is using a combined X-ray and laser range imaging system to detect bone and other physical contaminants inside poultry meat. For this project, our research focuses on how to calibrate the imaging system. A unique threestep calibration method was developed and results showed that high accuracy has been achieved for the whole system calibration – a root mean square error of 0.20 mm, a standard deviation of 0.20 mm, and a maximum error of 0.48 mm. The second application is separating walnuts’ shells and meat. A backlight imaging system was developed based on our finding that the backlit images of walnut shells and meat showed quite different texture patterns due to their different light transmittance properties. The texture patterns were characterized by several rotation invariant texture analysis methods. The uncorrelated and redundant features were further removed by a support vector machine (SVM) based recursive feature elimination method, with the SVM classifier trained concurrently for separations of walnuts’ shells and meat. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach was very effective and could achieve an overall 99.2% separation accuracy. This high separation accuracy and low instrument cost make the proposed imaging system a great benefit to the walnut processing industry. MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY INSPECTIONS
Requirements for Blog in Web Application

Blog is a communication tool that plays a key role in a web application. Use of blogs has resulted in a paradigm shift in the way a web application interacts with the customer. During the development of web application, there is a need to elicit and specify the requirements for the blogging functionality. In this study, we present a requirements checklist for the blog, from the perspective of integrating the blog in a web application. We follow the use case based approach for identifying the software requirement for the blog. The requirement checklist helps both the web application and the developer during the requirement elicitation of the blog’s software. The checklist is also useful during the testing phase for the validation and verification of the blog functionality.
Impact on Wind Turbine Systems from Transient Fluctuations in Offshore Utility Grids

Gas turbines in offshore power systems contribute to about 23% of Norway’s total emissions of CO2. One method for reducing these emissions could be the addition of wind turbines to the offshore utility grids. Power from shore is another alternative, but has been proven costly due to long cables and expensive HVDC converter stations. In this thesis work, the behaviours of different wind turbine technologies during transient fluctuations in an offshore utility grid have been studied. For this purpose, a dynamic model for an offshore oil platform was developed. Models of squirrel cage and doubly fed induction generator based turbines were developed as well. None of the modelled generators experienced problems with the disturbances caused by the electromechanical transient fluctuations. Based on the behaviour of the DFIG’s grid side converter, it is believed that the result would be the same for a wind turbine with full frequency conversion. Variable speed wind turbines are expected to remain controllable throughout electromechanical transient fluctuations such as for the simulated case. However, the controllers, converters and equipment have to be designed while bearing these fluctuations in mind. The controllability of the variable speed wind turbines could be used to contribute to voltage control by production and consumption of reactive power. A controller scheme with the purpose of stabilising the voltage at the gas turbine generators’ terminal was developed, but had low impacts on the power system behaviour. A stator flux feed forward term for the speed controller was developed. The term stabilised the power output of the doubly fed induction generator. However, the impact on the power system’s frequency response was minimal, and there is probably no material value of such an addition to the control loop.
On-demand Isolated I/O for Security-sensitive Applications on Commodity Platforms

Today large software systems (i.e., giants) thrive in commodity markets, but are untrustworthy due to their numerous and inevitable software bugs that can be exploited by the adversary. Thus, the best hope of security is that some small, simple, and trustworthy software components (i.e., wimps) can be protected from attacks launched by adversary-controlled giants. However, wimps in isolation typically give up a variety of basic services (e.g., file system, networking, device I/O), trading usefulness and viability with security. Among these basic services, isolated I/O channels remained an unmet challenge over the past three decades. Isolated I/O is a critical security primitive for a myriad of applications (e.g., secure user interface, remote device control). With this primitive, isolated wimps can transfer I/O data to commodity peripheral devices and the data secrecy and authenticity are protected from the co-existing giants. This thesis addresses this challenge by proposing a new security architecture to provide services to isolated wimps. Instead of restructuring the giants or bloating the Trusted Computing Base that underpins wimp-giant isolation (dubbed underlying TCB), this thesis presents a unique on-demand I/O isolation model and a trusted add-on component called wimpy kernel to instantiate this model. In our model, the wimpy kernel dynamically takes control of the devices managed by a commodity OS, connects them to the isolated wimps, and relinquishes controls to the OS when done. This model creates ample opportunities for the wimpy kernel to outsource I/O subsystem functions to the untrusted OS and verify their results. The wimpy kernel further exports device drivers and I/O subsystem code to wimps and mediates the operations of the exported code. These two methodologies help to significantly reduce the size and complexity of the wimpy kernel for high security assurance. Using the popular and complex USB subsystem as a case study, this thesis illustrates the dramatic reduction of the wimpy kernel; i.e., over 99% of the Linux USB code base is removed. In addition, the wimpy kernel also composes with the underlying TCB, by retaining its code size, complexity and security properties.
Determining the Role of Conflict Management Strategies on Organizational Performance: A Mediating Role of Employees' Job Satisfaction

Conflict Management is one of the essential elements in casual and professional life for enhancing an individual's performance and to bring better results in intense organizational pressures. Although studies which explore the effect of these on job satisfaction are very few and therefore there is a need to check the impact of these form of strategies on job satisfaction. Although according to the studies each and every style of conflict management does not relate to job satisfaction and therefore the major need to associate this style with organizational performance. Thus, a quantitative study has been conducted in the commercial banking sector of Pakistan through a closed-ended questionnaire. Analysis was carried out through the help of statistical data analysis software SMART-PLS and the results of the study indicated that each and every style of conflict management does not result in job satisfaction, nor in the betterment of organizational performance. The results imply that a more rigorous approach and innovative strategies in conflict management should be devised and followed by the managers to address the conflicting issues.