Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
State-of-Arts Views on Response Control Technologies on Metal Space Structures

Recently various kinds of passive response control techniques are taken into practice for buildings in seismic areas, and they start affecting on the architectural design itself. These trend affects also on spatial structures, and application of such techniques to domes, truss structures, or tension structures are recently increasing. Folllowing previous descussions [1], this paper firstly present the recent varieties of architectural expressions using seismic response controll technologies in buildings. Then, several important progresses in the application of passive control technology for metal spatial structures are introduced by refering recently realized projects, followed by discussions on their response characteristics and easy response evaluation methods.
[Alzheimer's caregiver burden and psychological distress. A neglected association in the assessment of dementias].

INTRODUCTION Caregivers of dementia patients have a high risk of developing mental disorders. Nevertheless, their burden is not routinely assessed during the clinical assessment of the Alzheimer's type dementia patients. This study was designed to evaluate the association between caregiver's burden and psychological distress and to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders among the caregivers. METHODS Cross-sectional study of Alzheimer patients' caregivers (n = 40). The caregiver burden was assessed by the Zarit scale whereas the GHQ-28 was used to evaluate psychological distress. RESULTS The Zarit caregiver burden scale was able to discriminate the psychic distress levels (area under the curve: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.77 0.98). Its sensitivity (93%; 95% CI: 68.0 99.8) and specificity (80%; 95% CI: 59.3 93.2) were good for a cut-off point of 62/63. The estimated prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the caregivers was 20.7% (95% CI: 0.0 60.0%). CONCLUSION The Zarit caregiver burden scale is useful for assessing psychological distress and should be included in any clinical protocol devised to evaluate the needs of patients with dementia.
Sea ice and icing risk for offshore wind turbines

There are two important issues related to wind turbines performances in offshore sites that locate in cold climates: sea ice (flows, driving ice, land-fast ice) and the presence of atmospheric icing (due to water in the air as in-cloud operation, rainfall and sea sprays) which may potentially lead to ice formation on turbines’ structures. Icing of rotor blades and some other wind turbine components have effect on the design of turbines, the safety of O&M personnel and the overall economics of a wind energy project. In offshore conditions ice pack or floating blocks on the sea surface cause additional static and dynamic forces on the turbine structure. The effects of sea ice occur as a mechanical shocks and increased vibrations that may result to additional operational loads. The presence of sea spray, associated with atmospheric icing, determines complex icing phenomena that are highly dependent on the elevation of the turbine rotor over the sea level and on the size and type of wind turbine. Therefore a risk analysis needs to be performed to assess the life reduction and the hazard of ice shedding which is relevant to neighbour turbines and O&M personnel. Ice mitigation systems should comprise cold weather packages, anti-icing/de-icing devices and systems reducing the actions of sea ice. The design of such systems should be integrated in the design of the turbine to assess the economic benefit of their operation in cold climates and to set limits for continuous operation during icing periods. The paper presents a general framing of the icing phenomenon for wind turbines in offshore sites and a procedure for analyzing the risk of ice pieces shedding from the turbines A general scheme of a procedure for the integrated design of ice mitigation systems for wind turbines is also presented and discussed.
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MENTAL PERSEVERANCE AND MENTAL CONCENTRATION AMONG ELITE AND SUB-ELITE WRESTLERS

Sports itself is a stressor and it demands a high level of resolutions, unflagging eagerness and obstinate persistence from its participants. It is believed that athletes having strong mental hardiness, concentration and optimum skill level do have a dominant hand upon the psychological weaker opponents. In sports, right from the motor acquisition stage to the highest competitive performance level, concentration plays an exceptionally vital role. It is a psycho-physiological process, an intense function of mind which is carried out through cognitive abilities and supplemented by emotional and conational factors. This research is an attempt to examine the dimensions of mental toughness and concentration abilities among wrestlers performing at national and international levels. It also attempts to find the interrelationship between these two parameters. The subjects (N=80) were wrestlers performing at two different levels i.e. national (N=40) and international (N=40). The subjects were asked to complete the Mental Toughness Questionnaire and to work on the Concentration Grid Exercise against time. The data was statistically analyzed. The results indicate that the international level wrestlers possessed significantly higher level of mental toughness as compared to the national level wrestlers. Female wrestlers have been found to possess significantly higher level of concentration abilities. No significant correlation was, however, observed between these two parameters.
Investigation Into the Multiple Intelligences of the English Major Postgraduates in a Normal University

Multiple Intelligences Theory (Gardner, 1983) mainly involves seven kinds of intelligence, which are linguistic intelligence, logical mathematical intelligence, special intelligence, bodily/kinesthetic intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence. All the various types of intelligence are respectively independent but interconnected. Various intelligence and intellectual combination result in individuals’ various abilities and ways to think about the problems and to solve the problems. This study is carried out to investigate the overall condition of multiple intelligences of the English major postgraduates in normal university, to find out on which types of intelligences English major postgraduates perform better. A multiple intelligences questionnaire has been administered in order to elicit 133 English major postgraduates’ responses. According to the results, English major postgraduates in normal university perform negatively on multiple intelligences, especially musical intelligence and linguistic intelligence. While among the seven types of intelligences, participants perform best on intrapersonal intelligence. Such result can not only provide inspirations for English postgraduate education, but also deserves both teachers’ and postgraduates’ reflection in the aspect of their teaching or learning styles, the design of teaching activities, course arrangement, etc. as well.
7 Studies on the Gamma Radiation Responses of High Tc Superconductors

The Future applications of new solid state materials, electronic devices and detectors in radiation environments like Fission and Fusion new generation of Nuclear Reactors, as well as astronomical researches, require a well established understanding about the radiation response of all these items. In addition to foregoing applications the Gamma Radiation (┛R) combined effects of energy dependent displacement per atom (dpa) rates and high penetration strength might be attractive for getting a deeper understanding. In particular for high temperature superconductors (HTS) these are interesting for get a better comprehension about their superconducting mechanisms. Quite controversial results have been reported in ┛R damage studies on HTS, especially on regard to the YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) superconducting behavior. On this way, the papers dedicated to study gamma irradiation effects on the HTS properties are characterized for a lack of coincidence in criteria and results. Some authors have observed an improvement of the superconducting properties with dose increment (Boiko et at., 1988; Leyva et al., 1992), some others report exactly the opposite (Vasek et al., 1989; Elkholy et al., 1996), and other studies have not found any dependence (Bohandy et al., 1987; Cooksey et al., 1994). These contradictions have not been completely explained yet; some authors even attribute these behaviors to a “sample effect” (Polyak et al., 1990). However, Belevtsev et al. (Belevtsev et al., 2000) has determined the relationship between the superconducting order parameter ┦2 and the density of oxygen vacancy rate lower bound, expressed in displacement per atom, in order to achieve significant modification of the superconducting behavior. On this ground, by means of the Oen-Holmes-Cahn atom displacement calculation algorithm (Oen & Holmes, 1959; Cahn, 1959), they calculated the incoming gamma quanta total flux inducing a dpa rate of about 0.02. That makes the YBa2Cu3O7−├ superconducting material mean intervacancies distance close to its superconducting coherence length or order parameter ┦2, in which case the superconducting properties will be modified. Consequently, a systematic behavior of HTS material properties upon ┛R must be expected to be observed, where superconducting intrinsic properties (crystal and electronic structures, critical superconducting temperature), as well extrinsic ones (critical
An efficient analytical model to evaluate the first two local buckling modes of finite cracked plate under tension

The analytical approach is presented for both symmetric and anti-symmetric local buckling of the thin-plate in finite sizes and with a center crack under tension. An efficient classical solution based on the principle of minimum total potential energy was provided using only 2 and 1 degrees of freedom for symmetric and anti-symmetric modes and the linear elastic buckling loads are evaluated by the means of Rayleigh-Ritz method. In the pre-buckling state, a correction factor for the peak compressive stress in the finite cracked plates is defined with an empirical formula and used in the analytical solution of the buckling. To verify the analytical approach, a wide range of numerical results by aid of finite element method are provided herein and a comparison between theoretical results with the experimental work of other researchers has been done. Both numerical and experimental results accept the accuracy and validity of the presented analytical model.
Effect of Ascorbic Acid on the Stability of Pigmented the Waste Saffron Flower in Food Product

Wasted saffron flowers (sepals and petals) is one source of antioxidants in it is not no use and be discarded. This study examined the effect of saffron petals synthetic color stability during storage was studied. For this purpose, firstly extracted by ultrasonic extract of saffron petals by solvent (ethanol acidic) to ratio of about 50 with three factors of time (5, 10, 15) and three intensities (20, 60 and 100%) were the best conditions to extract the sound intensity of 100% and took 15 minutes to determined and Then stability of ascorbic acid, 10%, 20% and 30% at 25 and 35°C and 45°C were measured within 5 days. The results are treated as destruction effect of ascorbic acid on the pigment of saffron petals and the destruction increases at higher temperatures and it is worth noting that this course destruction in the presence of ascorbic acid at the temperature of 45°C has reached its maximum.
Loose Legendrian embeddings in high dimensional contact manifolds

We give an $h$--principle type result for a class of Legendrian embeddings in contact manifolds of dimension at least $5$. These Legendrians, referred to as loose, have trivial pseudo-holomorphic invariants. We demonstrate they are classified up to Legendrian isotopy by their smooth isotopy class equipped with an almost complex framing. This result is inherently high dimensional: analogous results in dimension $3$ are false.
Numerical Analysis of Passive Safety of Street Lighting Posts

One of the most important goal in designing of street lighting posts is the fulfillment of requirements of EN 12767 standard which refers to passive safety of road constructions. Lighting posts should reduced overload force when stroked by a passenger car. Experimental investigations involving real posts and cars are relatively expensive, and provide the information about passive safety of existing posts only. In numerical simulations the passive safety of various types of lighting posts might be investigated. Obtained results provide hints about possible modifications necessary to change the level of energy absorption and car passengers safety. The numerical simulation of passenger car - lighting post crash is presented in this paper. The analysis is performed by finite elements method. The dynamic explicit approach is used, which is very effective tool for solving highly non-linear dynamic problems. Original and modified octagonal and conical poles are investigated and the obtained results are compared.
Detection of Diseases using Social Networks and Public Domain Knowledge

This paper describes how information, taken from social media and public domain knowledge, such as Twitter, can be useful in healthcare and public health management - it describes our proposed technique of: i) collecting tweets with the information about the symptoms users suffer from; ii) filtering them; and iii) applying Dempster-Shafer theory, which deals with uncertainty, for associating the most probable disease with the given symptoms. Additionally, location-related information taken fro m the tweets or user profiles, using Twitter API, helps health care analysts and p lanners to identify the regions where the disease could potentially erupt as an epidemic. When this information is superimposed on a geographical map at the local, provincial, national, or global l evel, to create a heat-map, the resulting GIS tool can help public health specialists, we believe, to arrive at better pre-emptive strat egies to tackle such epidemics before they become pandemics, e.g., carry out a selective vaccination program, or a cull of the birds or animals that are the source or vectors of the zoonotic disease, and so on.
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE 3 . 1 Novices and experts in design Cross

In recent years, enabling competencies has become more and more relevant in design education and design practice. Various problem-orientated and project-based learning approaches allow students to develop their key competencies. However, difficulties in assessing these compentencies are rarely discussed. This paper presents a case study that analyses the appropriateness of a five level model of expertise to assess design competencies. The study includes a combination of document analysis and open interviews with undergraduate mechanical engineering students. The document analysis is based on engineering detail drawings that were designed by students within their exam on mechanical design. The following aspects of expertise are analyzed: (1) treatment of knowledge (without reference to context or in context), (2) recognition of relevance (not present or present), (3) assessment of context (analytic or holistic) and (4) making of decision (rational or intuitive). By application of this evaluation scheme central results of the study are presented and discussed.
Latitudinal variations of the convective source and propagation condition of inertio-gravity waves in the tropics

Latitudinal variations of the convective source and vertical propagation condition of inertio-gravity waves (IGWs) in the tropical region (30°S–30°N) are examined using high-resolution Global Cloud Imagery (GCI) and 6-hourly NCEP–NCAR reanalysis data, respectively, for 1 yr (March 1985–February 1986). The convective source is estimated by calculating the deep convective heating (DCH) rate using the brightness temperature of the GCI data. The latitudinal variation of DCH is found to be significant throughout the year. The ratio of the maximum to minimum values of DCH in the annual mean is 3.2 and it is much larger in the June–August (JJA) and December–February (DJF) means. Spectral analyses show that DCH has a dominant period of 1 day, a zonal wavelength of about 1600 km, and a Gaussian-type phase-speed spectrum with a peak at the zero phase speed. The vertical propagation condition of IGWs is determined, in the zonal wavenumber and frequency domain, by two factors: (i) latitude, which determines the Coriolis parameter, and (ii) the basic-state wind structure in the target height range of wave propagation. It was found that the basic-state wind significantly influences the wave propagation condition in the lower stratosphere between 150 and 30 hPa, and accordingly a large portion of the source spectrum is filtered out. This is prominent not only in the latitudes higher than 15° where strong negative shear exists, but also near the equator where strong positive shear associated with the westerly phase of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) filters out large portions of the lowfrequency components of the convective source. There is no simple relationship between the ground-based frequency and latitude; lower latitudes are not always favorable for low-frequency IGWs to be observed in the stratosphere. The basic-state wind in the Tropics, which has seasonal, annual, and interannual variations, plays a major role not only in determining the wave propagation condition in the stratosphere but also in producing convective sources in the troposphere.
Identification and Distribution of Anaerobic Responsive Elements (AREs) in Genes Functional Categorization of Arabidopsis thaliana

The evolution of biota had been tightly linked with formation of atmospheric di-oxygen (O2). Since the shift from anaerobic to aerobic life results in reprogramming gene expression through the regulatory interactions between transcription factors and their target sequences, the anaerobic responsive elements (AREs). The purpose of this study is to consider AREs; the most frequent and divergent motif in comparison to eighty four plant cis-regulatory elements, in order to clarify their biological function in Arabidopsis thaliana. A genome wide survey revealed the frequency, occurrence number and positional state of each anaerobic element in Arabidopsis genome. The evidence was obtained that among all AREs, TTCCCTGTT, (A/C/G)AAAAACAAA and AGCAGC in silico discovered elements, are noteworthy responsive elements in Arabidopsis. In addition to, our data suggest that the evolutionary process of anaerobic responsive elements may have been directed toward gradual decrease in occurrence numbers of AREs and gradual increase of their ineffectiveness in Arabidopsis genome. We also classified Arabidopsis genes according to existence of ARE elements in promoter regions of them to seven main groups including expression, primary metabolism, secondary metabolism, signaling, growth and development, stress and misc.Anaerobic Response Element, Cis-Regulatory Element, Gene Expression, Positional Significant Element
Reflexões sobre assessoria fonoaudiológica na escola

The present study assumes that the phonoaudiological practice at school is determined by different profiles, among them the promotion of health. The aim of this study is to find out about which are the actions of the speech therapists related to the school support toward the promotion of health. Three speech therapists were interviewed. The data analysis showed different actions linked to different working profiles. The results lead to the conclusion that there is only one proposal attached to the notion of health promotion.
DEFINING, PROVING AND MODELLING: A BACKGROUND FOR THE ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL THINKING

This paper is a part of the large study that explores what 16-18 year old students have learnt with respect to defining, proving and modelling, considered as metaconcepts that constitute a background to the advanced mathematical thinking. In particular, we focus on the characterization of students’ justifications and its persistence (or not) when making decisions related to tasks that involve those metaconcepts. Through the study, we have identified different types of considerations that underlie students’ justifications. Our results have shown how students that maintain different types of considerations do not react in the same way to the same mathematical situations.
Enhanced surface structuring by ultrafast XUV/NIR dual action

Materials processing utilizing ultrashort near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses with duration in the range of tens to hundreds of femtoseconds (1 fs=10−15 s) has attracted a great deal of interest in the scientific and industrial world recently. Unfortunately, a number of materials that often exhibit great technological and scientific importance are transparent in NIR, making it very difficult to process them by laser radiation in this spectral range. Here, we present a new method for the efficient structuring of the surface of materials by applying femtosecond NIR laser pulses simultaneously with a weak extreme ultraviolet (XUV) beam, which leads to very strong radiation–matter interaction, bringing a dramatic increase in the surface processing speed. A laser system providing 5 mJ, 820 nm, 32 fs, 10 Hz pulses was used to generate high-order harmonics with the strongest spectral line at 21 nm and with a conversion efficiency of ∼5%. The two beams were focused on the samples by using an off-axis paraboloidal multilayer mirror. As an example, we present the results of the surface nanostructuring of thin films of amorphous carbon and poly(methyl methacrylate) deposited on bulk substrates. We discuss the physical mechanisms that lead to the laser-induced periodic surface structures when our method is used.
Insulin Resistance and Hypersecretion in Obesity

Insulin resistance and insulin hypersecretion are established features of obesity. Their prevalence, however, has only been inferred from plasma insulin concentrations. We measured insulin sensitivity (as the whole-body insulin-mediated glucose uptake) and fasting posthepatic insulin delivery rate (IDR) with the use of the euglycemic insulin clamp technique in a large group of obese subjects in the database of the European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (1,146 nondiabetic, normotensive Caucasian men and women aged 18–85 yr, with a body mass index (BMI) ranging from 15 to 55 kg·m 2 2 ). Insulin resistance, defined as the lowest decile of insulin sensitivity in the lean subgroup (608 subjects with BMI # 25 kg·m 2 2 ), was present in 26% of the obese subgroup (538 subjects with a mean BMI of 29 kg·m 2 2 ). Insulin sensitivity declined linearly with BMI at an ageand sex-adjusted rate of 1.2 m mol·min 2 1 ·kg FFM 2 1 per BMI unit (95% confidence intervals 5 1.0–1.4). Insulin hypersecretion, defined as the upper decile of IDR, was significantly ( P , 0.0001) more prevalent (38%) than insulin resistance in the obese group. In the whole dataset, IDR rose as a function of both BMI and insulin resistance in a nonlinear fashion. Neither the waist circumference nor the waistto-hip ratio, indices of body fat distribution, was related to insulin sensitivity after adjustment for age, gender, and BMI; both, however, were positively associated ( P , 0.001) with insulin hypersecretion, particularly in women. In nondiabetic, normotensive obese subjects, the prevalence of insulin resistance is relatively low, and is exceeded by the prevalence of insulin hypersecretion, particularly in women with central obesity. In the obese with preserved insulin sensitivity, risk for diabetes, cardiovascular risk, and response to treatment may be different than in insulin resistant obesity. ( J. Clin. Invest. 1997. 100:1166–1173.)