Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the Efficacy of Mud Injection to Repair ReRepairirRepairSeismic Cracks Title Line 1 Seismic Cracks on Adobe St u tures via Full-Scale Shaking Table Tests on Adobe Structures via Full-Scale Shaking Table Tests Title Line 2 3

A testing program was developed at the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) to evaluate the possibility of repairing adobe buildings damaged by earthquakes by injecting the seismic cracks with mud-based grouts. A full scale adobe housing model was tested at the shaking table to induce cracking representative of seismic damage. The model was then repaired by injecting the cracks with a mud grout, and tested again under the same dynamic motions. The data obtained were used to estimate the model’s global force-displacement response, as well as stiffness and strength before and after each test. The main conclusion is that although repair via mud injection is useful to partially recover the original stiffness and strength of the structure, this method must be combined with other reinforcing technologies to ensure that the repaired structure is stable against further seismic shaking.
ELTA : approach in designing business intelligence solutions in Era of Big Data

In this work we address the main issues of Information Technology (IT) consumerization that are related to security risks, and vulnerabilities of devices used within Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy in particular. We propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behavior influence. In particular, we propose a complementary, less strict, more flexible Information Security policies, based on risk assessment of device vulnerabilities and threats to corporate data and devices, combined with a strategy of influencing security behavior by nudging. We argue that nudging, by taking into account the context of the decision-making environment, and the fact that the employee may be in better position to make a more appropriate decision, may be more suitable than strict policies in situations of uncertainty of security-related decisions. Several examples of nudging are considered for different tested and potential scenarios in security context.
PSEUDOSTATIC SLOPE STABILITY PROCEDURE

Pseudostatic slope stability procedures can be employed in a straightforward manner, and thus, their use in engineering practice is appealing. The magnitude of the seismic coefficient that is applied to the potential sliding mass to represent the destabilizing effect of the earthquake shaking is a critical component of the procedure. It is often selected based on precedence, regulatory design guidance, and engineering judgment. However, the selection of the design value of the seismic coefficient employed in pseudostatic slope stability analysis should be based on the seismic hazard and the amount of seismic displacement that constitutes satisfactory performance for the project. The seismic coefficient should have a rational basis that depends on the seismic hazard and the allowable amount of calculated seismically induced permanent displacement. The recommended pseudostatic slope stability procedure requires that the engineer develops the project-specific allowable level of seismic displacement. The sitedependent seismic demand is characterized by the 5% damped elastic design spectral acceleration at the degraded period of the potential sliding mass as well as other key parameters. The level of uncertainty in the estimates of the seismic demand and displacement can be handled through the use of different percentile estimates of these values. Thus, the engineer can properly incorporate the amount of seismic displacement judged to be allowable and the seismic hazard at the site in the selection of the seismic coefficient.
Waveform inversion of the rupture process of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake based on the near field strong motions and surface rupture data

We inverted the source rupture process of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake based on 49 near field 3 components strong motion velocity records and surface offset data by the non-negative least-squares method and the multiple-time widow technique with a flat-lying layers velocity structure model. The result show that the whole rupture process lasted for 90s, and rupture front propagate rapidly in the northeast direction with average velocity of about 3.1km/s than that in the southwest direction. The rupture result in 3 asperities in Beichuan fault and 2 small asperities in the Pengguan fault, with maximum slip of the 8.2m and 5.2m. The slip duration is longer with maximum time of about 60s in the Yinxiu area of the Beichuan fault. The rupture fronts are very irregular, and rupture paused in some area especially in southeast direction. The total seismic moment of the inversion is 0.99×10Nm.
The determination of the value of contrast enhancement in carotid artery plaques with multi detector computed tomography

Aim: The purpose of the study is to determine the accuracy of carotid artery plaque density measurements using multi detector computed tomography (MDCT) with contrast administration to differentiate symptomatic from asymptomatic plaques. Materials and Methods: Seventy-two patients who did not have calcified plaques were identified retrospectively among patients undergoing neck and brain MDCT due to atherosclerotic carotid artery disease diagnosis or pre-diagnosis. The plaque density measurements were made on the same axial unenhanced and contrast-enhanced sections in large window, using a circular ROI in 1-4 mm² in size. The symptom differentiation of patients was based on neurological examination and radiological findings. The measured density values were compared according to the clinical and laboratory findings and medical histories of the patients. Student t-test was used for statistical analyses. Results: Significant differences (p<0.001) were found between the unenhanced and contrast-enhanced plaque densities, but the same density difference was not observed among symptomatic patients. A significant relationship was shown between the plaque density and localization (p<0.003). In addition, the comparison between the degree of stenosis and symptoms was statistically significant (p<0.001). There was no significant association between the plaque density and symptoms, gender, stenosis side, infarct type, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease and cigarette use. Conclusion: An increased density with MDCT was determined depending on the contrast agent uptake in carotid plaques. However, it was not statistically significant between the symptomatic and the asymptomatic patients groups.
Scalable Interactive Dynamic Graph Clustering on Multicore CPUs

The structural graph clustering algorithm SCAN is a fundamental technique for managing and analyzing graph data. However, its high runtime remains a computational bottleneck, which limits its applicability. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive approach for tackling this problem on multicore CPUs. Our algorithm, called anySCAN, iteratively processes vertices in blocks. The acquired results are merged into an underlying cluster structure consisting of the so-called super-nodes for building clusters. During its runtime, anySCAN can be suspended for examining intermediate results and resumed for finding better results at arbitrary time points, making it an anytime algorithm which is capable of handling very large graphs in an interactive way and under arbitrary time constraints. Moreover, its block processing scheme allows the design of a scalable parallel algorithm on shared memory architectures such as multicore CPUs for speeding up the algorithm further at each iteration. Consequently, anySCAN uniquely is a both interactive and work-efficient parallel algorithm. We further introduce danySCAN an efficient bulk update scheme for anySCAN on dynamic graphs in which the clusters are updated in bulks and in a parallel interactive scheme. Experiments are conducted on very large real graph datasets for demonstrating the performance of anySCAN. They show its ability to acquire very good approximate results early, leading to orders of magnitude speedup compared to SCAN and its variants. Moreover, it scales very well with the number of threads when dealing with both static and dynamic graphs.
Shunt Active Line Conditioner using Notch Adaptive Filter for Unbalanced and/or Distorted PCC Voltage

In this paper, non – ideal Point of Common Coupling (PCC) voltages dealing with 3-phase 3-wire Shunt Active Line Conditioner (SALC) will be presented. The Notch Adaptive Filter (NAF) is developed to control those unbalanced and/or distorted PCC voltage in the distribution system. For the design of SALC, instantaneous power theory is employed which shows best performances evidenced in terms of compensating unbalanced/distorted current of loads even without an ideal voltage circumstance from the simulation results of Matlab / Simpower Sytem tool. KeywordsNotch Adaptive filter, Instantaneous power theory, Total Harmonic distortion, dq-filter.
Study on subway ridership estimation with the consideration of endogeneity 이정정

The objective of this study is to develop a consistent model for predicting subway ridership. Previous studies have focused on the relationship between subway ridership and factors such as socioeconomy and land-use. However, there was a lack of research on the endogenous impacts of alternative transit demand and exogenous trade area. Therefore, this study incorporated the effects of bus ridership and retail properties within 300m radius from 248 subway stations in Seoul in the modeling process. In a methodological aspect, we applied two-stage least squares (2SLS) approach to capturing the endogeneity issue. As a result, bus ridership and attributes for trade area were found to be significant, and the methodological approach for the model development was plausible to estimate subway ridership.
Comparison Between X-ray Computed Microtomography and Classic Petrophysical Technique in the Characterization of Carbonate Rocks

The computed X-ray microtomography technique (microCT) is another tool used to characterize and visualize internal structures. This is a non-invasive and non-destructive technique that allows the visualization of 2D/3D internal structures of objects, which do not need to be submitted to a prep aration method, which is an advantage. microCT has been especially developed for inspecting small structures an d is increasingly present in petrophysical and geological analyses. The motivation for carrying out this w ork comes precisely from the idea of using the microCT technique to benefit the current needs of Brazil. Thu s, the objective of this research was to use X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) on samples carbonate ro cks originating in sedimentary basins and hypersaline lakes to identify structures and establish a parallel with a classic petrophysical technique (thin section). The rationale for this research was that carbonate rocks play an importa nt r le in petroleum geology by acting as reservoir rocks, generators and even hydrocarbon sealants , accounting for about half of the oil and gas reserves known in the world. The study of these carbonate rocks , have become very important in the hydrocarbon exploration scene in Brazil because of the analogy to the reser voir rocks of the pre-salt interval of the Brazilian continental margin’s sedimentary basins. The samples studied are composed of 03 plugs originating in the following locations: Bacia do Irecê and Lagoa Salgada. The microCT images were obtained in a high-energy microtomography system Skyscan / Bruker, mod el 1173. The acquisition parameters 130 kV of voltage, 61uA of current and pixel size about 20 μm. The analyses of microtomographic images allowed the identification of many of the structures that made up the rock samples; o th r structures were not distinguished due to technical limitations. However, the results exposed the μ-CT technique as an appropriate tool to assist conventional petrographic techniques and contribute information on the characterization of carbonate rocks, with the advantages of a non-destructive approach.
lastic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

Quantitative imaging of the elastic properties of the subsurface at depth is essential for civil engineering applications and oiland gas-reservoir characterization. A realistic synthetic example provides for an assessment of the potential and limits of 2D elastic full-waveform inversion FWI of wide-aperture seismic data for recovering high-resolution Pand S-wave velocity models of complex onshore structures. FWI of land data is challenging because of the increased nonlinearity introduced by freesurface effects such as the propagation of surface waves in the heterogeneous near-surface. Moreover, the short wavelengths of the shear wavefield require an accurate S-wave velocity starting model if low frequencies are unavailable in the data. We evaluated different multiscale strategies with the aim of mitigating the nonlinearities. Massively parallel full-waveform inversion was implemented in the frequency domain. The numerical optimization relies on a limited-memory quasi-Newton algorithm that
Kalman Consensus Based Multi-Robot SLAM with a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter

This paper addresses a multi-robot SLAM approach based on the Kalman consensus filter (KCF). Under the unknown initial condition, a reference robot designates the initial poses of other robots when the first rendezvous between them occurs. Accordingly, past and current poses and maps of these robots are estimated by an acausal filter and a causal filter. If initialized robots meet again, their current poses are updated using the KCF. Accordingly, their past poses and maps until the most recent rendezvous are also compensated through the acausal filter. In two simulations, the FastSLAM algorithm, which is a special case of Rao-Blackwellized particle filters, was employed for SLAM. The performance of the proposed approach was verified by comparing conventional approaches. 
Sárközy Partitioning 2-edge-colored Ore-type graphs by monochromatic cycles 2014

Consider a graph G on n vertices satisfying the following Ore-type condition: for any two non-adjacent vertices x and y of G, we have deg(x) + deg(y) > 3n/2. We conjecture that if we color the edges of G with 2 colors then the vertex set of G can be partitioned to two vertex disjoint monochromatic cycles of distinct colors. In this paper we prove an asymptotic version of this conjecture. 1 Background, summary of results. In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning the vertices of edge-colored graphs into monochromatic cycles. For simplicity, a colored graph means an edge-colored graph in this paper. In this context it is conventional to accept empty graphs and one-vertex graphs as a cycle (of any color) and also any edge as a cycle (in its color). With this convention one can define the cycle partition number of any colored graph G as the minimum number of vertex disjoint monochromatic cycles needed to cover the vertex set of G. For complete graphs, Erdős, Gyárfás and Pyber posed the following conjecture [7]. Conjecture 1. The cycle partition number of any t-colored complete graph Kn is t. ∗Research supported in part by OTKA Grant No. K104343.
PARENTAL CONTROL AND CONFLICTS IN ADOLESCENCE , A COMPARISON IN 5 COUNTRIES : CANADA , FRANCE , IT ALY . MEXICO AND UNITED-STATES

This study examines different aspects of parental control and how they are related to conflicts in five countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, France, and Italy. The sample comprised 1751 adolescents aged 12 to 15 years and their parents. The data of the present study are based on a self-report questionnaire composed of 4 scales: behavioral control, curfew, disciplinary style, and conflicts. Adolescents were asked how they perceived these dimensions in the case of the mother and the father, and the same questions were asked to the parental couple. MANCOVAs indicate that, after adjusting for diverse confounding variables, there are significant differences by country on the 4 parenting measures. Results of the ANCOVAS on each individual measure lead to significant differences between countries. United States and Canada are both using parental practices marked by reduced requirements, more tolerance, a disciplinary style marked by induction and negotiation and the lowest rate of conflicts. Parents in Mexico and France are characterized by a higher level of control practices, earlier curfew and a disciplinary approach more repressive and coercive. Mexican families appeared to be the most conflictual. Generally Italy is at a middle position. Regression analyses indicated that the control measures are not associated with the presence of conflicts, however coercive disciplinary measures are associated with conflicts in all countries. Results are discussed in light of the ethnocultural perspectives developed in cross-cultural psychology to account for these differences.
Fully-Integrated Wireless ECG SoC for Wearable Sensors

A wireless electrocardiogram system-on-chip based on eventdriven system architecture is demonstrated. An analog-toinformation converter enables 10 times reduction in sampling points. A DC-input analog front-end with baseline stabilizer minimizes motion artifacts in wearable applications. Implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS technology, the entire system consumes 2.89 μW under 1.2 V supply when transmitting raw ECG data.
Self-Organized PlatinumNanoparticles on Freestanding Graphene

Peng Xu, Lifeng Dong,* Mehdi Neek-Amal, Matthew L. Ackerman, Jianhua Yu, Steven D. Barber, James Kevin Schoelz, Dejun Qi, Fangfang Xu, ) Paul M. Thibado,* and Francois M. Peeters* Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, United States, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States, Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium, State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 200050, China, and Department of Physics, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Lavizan, Tehran 16788, Iran
Effective Leadership in Higher Education – ten Years later : a contemporary Literature Review

Effective leadership is as essential for institutions of higher education as it is for all organizations. Updating Bryman’s (2007) systematic review, the current study conducts a systematic analysis of the discourse on leadership on the department level. Results show that Bryman’s (2007) original aspects still resonate loudly in the discourse ten years later but they also identify the emergence of a new central concept – ambidexterity – has found its way into the canon of micro-level leadership research. While there is still no one best way to achieve effective leadership in higher education, findings reveal a growing distinction between leadership behaviours and the specific characteristics ascribed to effective leaders. Advancing both the discourse on practical issues of leadership in higher education and the unresolved issue of complexity in higher education management, the current review provides a valuable overview of the current state-of-the-art and opens up broad avenues for future research.
Automotive Security on Abnormal Vehicle Behavior Using Only Fabricated Informative CAN Messages

We present a method for influencing vehicle behaviors using only informative Controller Area Network (CAN) messages that are used to inform vehicle status. Some recent vehicle attack techniques have been shown to have a significant impact on the automotive industry. Almost all previous studies employ active CAN messages that directly induce actions for the attacks, but there have been no studies that explicitly use only the informative CAN messages. This is the first report of using only informative CAN messages in an attack especially targeting a drivingsupport system. Through experiments, we show that abrupt acceleration/deceleration is abnormally induced using informative messages regarding the wheel speed while the cruise control system is activated. We also find that the speed limit control of the cruise control system can be disabled and the parking assist system can be canceled using fabricated informative messages. The experimental results reveal that fabricated informative CAN messages can manipulate the vehicle to yield an improper behavior. We evaluate the effectiveness of some countermeasures by applying them to the attacks and clarify the strength and weakness of each countermeasure. We believe that this study will bring a new perspective to the automotive security toward vehicle system design.
Method of Reservoir Optimal Operation Based on Improved Simulated Annealing Genetic Algorithm

According to the specific circumstances of Wanjiazhai Reservoir, establish a reservoir optimal scheduling nonlinear mathematical model with a maximum generation capacity target, this paper uses an improved simulated annealing genetic algorithm to solve the model. The algorithm is in view of the defects of the traditional simulated annealing genetic algorithm to improve the algorithm from three aspects: introducing the niche technology, using adaptive crossover and mutation strategy, using the elitist strategy during the selection. Through examples are calculated and compared with the traditional simulated annealing genetic algorithm, the improved algorithm effectively overcomes the stagnation phenomenon, to enhance the global search ability. Its optimization performance is better than that of the traditional simulated annealing genetic algorithm. Copyright © 2013 IFSA.
Data Acquisition Systems-Current and future trends

Modern day physics experiments, irrespective of the field, now seem to involve a large number of signals to be acquired and analyzed. The acquired signals may involve multiple parameters, for example in nuclear and particle physics experiments the individual signals may carry information about the energy, time, charge, mass etc of the particle or radiation that is being detected. Advances in electronic and information processing technologies have empowered the physicist to record such events and perform data analysis on the stream of data not only after the experiment is over (off-line) but also to some extent on a real time basis. The challenge for modern data acquisition systems is therefore not only in collecting, without loss (high throughput), the large number of signals, but also to efficiently extract, at high rates the information encoded in the signals. The matter is complicated by the requirements of experiments to deal with signals that occur with vastly different occurrence rates, as well the necessity to sometimes be able to co-relate asynchronous events, or events from detectors that have vastly different efficiencies. In this talk we will look at the various data acquisition systems from an engineers point of view, looking at the several seemingly contradictory requirements and how they have been dealt with till now. We will also consider some of the emerging trends in data acquisition that leverage the power of modern electronic technology that allow for high speed high efficiency data acquisition. We will consider the techniques of trigger-less data acquisition systems, time stamping individual signals, clock synchronization with global positioning systems, etc.