Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Agent-based modelling of EV energy storage systems considering human crowd behavior

Large scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) would significantly increase the overall electricity demand of the power distribution networks. Hence, there is a need for comprehensive planning of charging infrastructure in order to prevent power failures or scenarios where there is a considerable demand-supply mismatch. Accurately predicting the realistic charging demand of energy storage systems (ESS) used in EVs is an essential part of the infrastructure planning. Charging demand of ESS used in EVs is affected by several factors such as driver behavior, location of charging stations and electricity pricing. In order to implement the optimal charging infrastructure, it is important to consider all the crucial factors that affect the charging demand of ESS in EVs. Several studies have modelled and simulated the charging demand of individual as well as group of EVs. However, in many cases the models did not include factors that deal with the social characteristics of EV drivers, while the others did not emphasise on the economic elements. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of above factors on the EV charging demand using a simulation model. Agent-based approach using NetLogo is employed in this study to closely mimic the human crowd behaviour and its influence on the load demand due to charging of ESS used in EVs.
Linear Semiconductor Manufacturing Logistics and the Impact on Cycle Time

Fabs need enhanced flexibility to manufacture smaller lots of wafers to reduce cycle time, inventory and WIP, while maintaining equipment throughput, avoiding cross-contamination and ensuring process integrity and yields. Current equipment has increasing difficulty meeting those demands. This paper describes various factors that could lead to optimized choices for the quantity of wafers in a lot of size smaller than 25 wafers, and shows the potential for decreases in cycle time associated with various equipment configurations and wafer lot sizes.
Ranker enhancement for proximity-based ranking of biomedical texts

Biomedical decision making often requires relevant evidence from the biomedical literature. Retrieval of the evidence calls for a system that receives a natural language query for a biomedical information need and, among the huge amount of texts retrieved for the query, ranks relevant texts higher for further processing. However, state-of-the-art text rankers have weaknesses in dealing with biomedical queries, which often consist of several correlating concepts and prefer those texts that completely talk about the concepts. In this article, we present a technique, Proximity-Based Ranker Enhancer (PRE), to enhance text rankers by term-proximity information. PRE assesses the term frequency (TF) of each term in the text by integrating three types of term proximity to measure the contextual completeness of query terms appearing in nearby areas in the text being ranked. Therefore, PRE may serve as a preprocessor for (or supplement to) those rankers that consider TF in ranking, without the need to change the algorithms and development processes of the rankers. Empirical evaluation shows that PRE significantly improves various kinds of text rankers, and when compared with several state-of-the-art techniques that enhance rankers by term-proximity information, PRE may more stably and significantly enhance the rankers. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Pattern Matching using suffix trays , arrays and trees

Exact pattern matching is used in a wide range of applications in multiple fields of science. Until now the two most widely used data structures for exact pattern matching have been suffix trees and suffix arrays. This thesis examines a newly proposed data structure called suffix tray. The suffix tray has been proposed as an alternative to already known structures build in O(n·|Σ|) time using O(n) space, where n denotes the size of the text and |Σ| denotes the alphabet size. When answering exact pattern matching queries, the suffix tray has a worst case query time of O(m + log(|Σ|)) where m denotes the length of the query string. This is an improvement of the worst case complexities for suffix trees and suffix array, which under the restriction of O(n · |Σ|) time for preprocessing and O(n) space have a worst case complexity of respectively O(m · log(|Σ|)) and O(m+ log(n)). The suffix tray achieves the improved worst case complexity by combining the ideas from suffix trees and suffix array. In this thesis information about suffix trays, suffix arrays and suffix trees are provided, in a depth enabling a reader with a background within computer science to implement the three structures. The three structures have been implemented in Java, and experiments have been performed to see in which extend the theoretical worst case complexities can be seen in practice. The results from these experiments showed that the worst case complexities of the implementations where consistent with the theory. The constants in the asymptotic running times were hereafter approximated for the implementations. The practical relevance of the new suffix tray structure was investigated through comparison with suffix trees and suffix arrays in experiments designed to simulate real life scenarios. These experiments showed that the suffix tray not only are of theoretical relevance but also practical relevance, as the suffix tray was the preferable structure for small query sizes.
Learning professional ethics: Student experiences in a health mentor program

Background: The use of patient centred approaches to healthcare education is evolving, yet the effectiveness of these approaches in relation to professional ethics education is not well understood. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and learning of health profession students engaged in an ethics module as part of a Health Mentor Program at the University of Toronto. Methods: Students were assigned to interprofessional groups representing seven professional programs and matched with a health mentor. The health mentors, individuals living with chronic health conditions, shared their experiences of the healthcare system through 90 minute semi-structured interviews with the students. Following the interviews, students completed self-reflective papers and engaged in facilitated asynchronous online discussions. Thematic analysis of reflections and discussions was used to uncover pertaining to student experiences and learning regarding professional ethics. Results: Five major themes emerged from the data: (1) Patient autonomy and expertise in care; (2) ethical complexity and its inevitable reality in the clinical practice setting; (3) patient advocacy as an essential component of day-to-day practice; (4) qualities of remarkable clinicians that informed personal ideals for future practice; (5) patients' perspectives on clinician error and how they enabled suggestions for improving future practice. Discussion: The findings of a study in one university context suggest that engagement with the health mentor narratives facilitated students' critical reflection related to their understanding of the principles of healthcare ethics.
Central and peripheral adaptations of the gas transport system to one-leg training.

The role of central and peripheral adaptations in the response to endurance training was examined. Changes in cardiac structure and function, oxygen extraction, and muscle enzyme activities following one-leg training were studied.Eleven subjects (eight females, three males) trained on a cycle ergometer 4 weeks with one leg (leg 1), then 4 weeks with the second leg (leg 2). Cardiovascular responses to exercise with both legs and each leg separately were evaluated at entry (T1), after 4 weeks of training (T2), and after a second 4 weeks of training (T3). Peak oxygen uptake ( peak) during exercise with leg 1 (T1 to T2 increased 19.8% (P < 0.05) and during exercise with leg 2 (T2 to T3 increased 16.9% (P < 0.05). Maximal oxygen uptake with both legs increased 7.9% from T1 to T2 and 9.4% from T2 to T3 (P < 0.05). During exercise at 60% of peak, cardiac output was increased significantly only when the trained leg was exercised. increased 12.2% for leg 1 between T1 and T2 and 13.0% for leg 2 between T2 and T3 (P.
Research on Capacity Performance of TD-LTE System with Different Antenna Schemes

Network capacity performance, especially cell edge user average throughput is compared between 2-path antenna and 8-path antenna schemes in TD-LTE system. Simulation results show that the 8-antenna has about 30% gain. And when the real construction condition is unlimited, 8-antenna scheme is a better choice.
Lightning protection techniques for roof-top PV systems

In this paper, the lightning protection requirements of a typical residential building have been discussed and techniques have been provided to protect the building from both direct and indirect damages of lightning, with special attention to the protection of PV panels placed on the roof. These techniques include the designing challenges and also the type of devices which can be used to reduce the surge current flow and magnetic field. It has been shown that for buildings with roof top PV systems only the avoidance of lightning attachment to unprotected parts of the building is not sufficient. Lightning currents passing through the lightning protection system may still affect the PV power system through inductive coupling. Hence strategic placement of PV systems and shielding of conducting systems wherever possible has been recommended. It has also been envisaged that the impact of lightning on PV systems is directly related to the isokeraunic level of the region and elevation of the building. Several recommendations have been proposed in designing the air termination system for a roof with PV panels in high isokeraunic regions. Finally the building integrated photo voltaic (BIPV) projects which are conducted in Malaysia have been evaluated.
Control of bifurcation in the buck converter using novel resonant parametric perturbation

The Buck converter exhibits interesting nonlinear phenomena which many studies have addressed, and the resonant parametric perturbation is effective to control these nonlinear phenomena. We investigate the control mechanism by using the monodromy matrix derived from the Filippov's method when the perturbation has an appropriate phase shift and the duty ratio is not changed. We find that only one term in the monodromy matrix changes, and as a result of it, the eigenvalues may move into the unit circle with perturbation amplitude much less than existing methods. Along this clue, we make further attempt to decrease the amplitude by increasing the perturbation frequency to be an integer multiple of the converter frequency. The experimental results show effectiveness of the new method.
Hyperspectral analysis of mangrove foliar chemistry using PLSR and support vector regression

Hyperspectral remote sensing enables the large-scale mapping of canopy biochemical properties. This study explored the possibility of retrieving the concentration of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sodium from mangroves in the Berau Delta, Indonesia. The objectives of the study were to (1) assess the accuracy of foliar chemistry retrieval, (2) compare the performance of models based on support vector regression (SVR), i.e. ϵ-SVR, ν-SVR, and least squares SVR (LS-SVR), to models based on partial least squares regression (PLSR), and (3) investigate which spectral transformations are best suited. The results indicated that nitrogen could be successfully modelled at the landscape level (R² = 0.67, root mean square error (RMSE) = 0.17, normalized RMSE (nRMSE) = 15%), whereas estimations of P, K, Ca, Mg, and Na were less encouraging. The developed nitrogen model was applied over the study area to generate a map of foliar N variation, which can be used for studying ecosystem processes in mangroves. While PLSR attained good results directly using all untransformed bands, the highest accuracy for nitrogen modelling was achieved using a combination of LS-SVR and continuum-removed derivative reflectance. All SVR techniques suffered from multicollinearity when using the full spectrum, and the number of independent variables had to be reduced by singling out the most informative wavelength bands. This was achieved by interpreting and visualizing the structure of the PLSR and SVR models.
The inorganic crystal structure data base

An inorganic crystal structure data base is described which will, when completed in the next year, contain details of all the 23 OOO published structum of inorganic crystals. This pper describes the structure of the data base, the procedures used to check the data as they are entered, and the program used to access them. Plans for the future development of the data base system include defining search keys on the basis of bonding topologies and crystal structure types as well as plans for providing an integrated crystal structure retrieval system.
Nurses’ Perceptions of the Practice of Restricting a Child for a Clinical Procedure

Restricting a child for a clinical procedure has been linked to negative physical and psychological sequelae. The practice of restriction remains an implicit and unquestioned aspect of care for children during a clinical procedure. In this study we aimed to describe the practice of restricting a child’s movement for a clinical procedure by conducting focus groups with children’s nurses. Data were analyzed using a thematic network analysis framework. The findings show that nurses are likely to restrict children based on particular characteristics of the child; for example, the child’s age. The findings indicate that there is no consistent approach to the practice of restricting a child for a clinical procedure, suggesting tension between nurses and other health care professionals, and nurses and parents, about this practice. The findings suggest the need for wider exploration of the practice of restriction at the organizational level and a need for children’s nurses to feel more empowered to act as advocates for those in their care.
Modelling the Growth Limits (Growth/No Growth Interface) of Escherichia coli as a Function of Temperature, pH, Lactic Acid Concentration, and Water Activity

ABSTRACT The form of a previously developed Bělehrádek type of growth rate model was used to develop a probability model for defining the growth/no growth interface as a function of temperature (10 to 37°C), pH (pH 2.8 to 6.9), lactic acid concentration (0 to 500 mM), and water activity (0.955 to 0.999; NaCl was used as the humectant). Escherichia coli was unable to grow in broth in which the undissociated lactic acid concentration exceeded 11 mM or, with two exceptions, at a pH of 3.9 or less with no lactic acid present. Under experimental conditions at which the pH and the undissociated acid concentrations were the major growth-limiting factors, the growth/no growth interface was essentially independent of temperature at temperatures ranging from 15 to 37°C. The interface between conditions that allowed growth and conditions at which growth did not occur was abrupt. The inhibitory effect of combinations of water activity and pH varied with temperature. Predictions of the model for the growth/no growth interface were consistent with 95% of the experimental data set.
Automatic Facial Expression Recognition Using both Local and Global Information

A novel approach to automatic facial expression recognition from static images is proposed in this paper. First, active appearance model (AAM) is used to locate facial feature points automatically. Then, both local texture information and local shape information in these points are extracted and are combined with global texture information for face presentation. Finally, the linear programming (LP) technique is used for classification. Experimental results demonstrate an average recognition accuracy of 83.6% on the JAFFE database, which shows that the proposed method is promising.
Reasons to Have Sex, Personal Goals, and Sexual Behavior During the Transition to College

Emerging adults (M = 18.99 years, SD = .50) completed cross-sectional questionnaires (N = 943) and targeted follow-up telephone surveys (N = 202) across the transition to college. Gender, personal goals (dating, friendship, academic), and past sexual behavior were examined as predictors of reasons to have and not to have sex. Men rated Self-focused reasons to have sex as more important; women rated Partner-focused reasons to have sex and Ethical reasons not to have sex as more important. Importance of Pregnancy/STD reasons not to have sex did not differ by gender. Before college entrance, sexual history and personal goals predicted endorsement of reasons for/against sex. Personal goals predicted first intercourse during freshman year. Limitations of the study include the single university sample and use of closed-ended self-report measures. Personal goals and reasons for/against sex are associated with sexual behavior and should be addressed in programs designed to promote sexual health among emerging adult college students.
Therapeutic Effects of Policosanol and Omega-3 Fish Oil against Global Brain Ischemia-reperfusion in Mongolian gerbils

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline. net © Copyright protected. Unauthorised republication, reproduction, distribution, dissemination and copying of this document in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Available online at www.globalresearchonline. net 179 Vivian Molina Cuevas*, Yazmín Ravelo Calzado, Licet Mena Valdes, Miriam Noa Puig, Yohani Pérez Guerra, Ámbar OyarzábalYera, Maikel Valle Clara, Sonia Jiménez Despaigne. Center of Natural Products, National Centre for Scientific Research, Havana, Cuba. *Corresponding author’s E-mail: vivian.molina@cnic.edu. cu
A simplified high frequency injection method for PMSM sensorless control

This paper presents a simplified HF injection method for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) sensorless control. The discussed HF injection scheme utilizes motor magnetic saliency property which contains the information of the rotor position due to magnet saturation. A high frequency voltage signal is injected into the d-axis winding in order to detect the magnetic saliency and estimate the rotor position. Then filters are used to analyze motor d-axis current and to extract rotor position information. In the proposed method, a band pass filter used in signal processing loop is omitted in order to avoid its phase shift and magnitude decrease. Thus fewer filters are used than those conventional HF injection schemes. The simulation and experimental results are presented based on the analysis of the proposed control strategy.
Managing angina in the elderly: the impact of comorbidities

Older patients with angina represent a patient group with many clinical challenges. Coronary artery disease is particularly common in older patients and the mortality associated with cardiovascular disease is high. Furthermore, diagnosis can be difficult and comorbidities are common. Unfortunately, evidence from clinical trials based on this group of patients is limited and current treatment guidelines do not fully address the needs of elderly patients. Several recent clinical trials have highlighted some of the main considerations one should make when treating comorbidities in elderly patients with coronary artery disease. Different treatment options in the pharmacological management of angina in this age group with comorbidities are also discussed in this review.
A 10-Year Assessment of Hemlock Decline in the Catskill Mountain Region of New York State using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Techniques

ABSTRACT The hemlock woolly adelgid is a serious pest of Eastern and Carolina hemlock in the eastern United States. Successfully managing the hemlock resource in the region depends on careful monitoring of the spread of this invasive pest and the targeted application of management options such as biological control, chemical, or silvicultural treatments. To inform these management activities and test the applicability of a landscape-scale remote sensing effort to monitor hemlock condition, hyperspectral collections, and concurrent ground-truthing in 2001 and 2012 of hemlock condition were compared with field metrics spanning a 10-yr survey in the Catskills region of New York. Fine twig dieback significantly increased from 9 to 15% and live crown ratio significantly decreased from 67 to 56% in 2001 and 2012, respectively. We found a significant shift from 59% “healthy” hemlock in 2001 to only 16% in 2012. However, this shift from healthy to declining classifications was mostly a shift to decline class 2 “early decline”. These results indicate that while there has been significant increase in decline symptoms as measured in both field and remote sensing assessments, a majority of the declining areas identified in the resulting spatial coverages remain in the “early decline” category and widespread mortality has not yet occurred. While this slow decline across the region stands in contrast to many reports of mortality within 10 yr, the results from this work are in line with other long-term monitoring studies and indicate that armed with the spatial information provided here, continued management strategies can be focused on particular areas to help control the further decline of hemlock in the region.
Kinetics of BCR‐ABL fusion transcript levels in chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with STI571 measured by quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction

Abstract: The activated tyrosine kinase, which arises as a result of the balanced t(9,22) translocation in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), is thought to be essential for the development of the leukemic phenotype. Recently, designer drugs have been introduced which specifically inhibit such specific kinases. Among these, STI571 (GlivecTM) has entered clinical trials and shown promising activities in chronic phase (CP), accelerated phase (AP) and blast crisis (BC) as evidenced by significant hematological and cytogenetic responses in CML patients. To evaluate the effect of STI571 at the molecular level we have employed quantitative real‐time PCR (RQ‐PCR) to measure the amount of BCR‐ABL fusion transcript in a series of 19 patients treated with STI571, either in CP(11) or in (AP)(8) of the disease for 3–9 months (median 6 months). Employing this method, which is able to detect at least one BCR‐ABL+ cell in 500 000, in serial blood and bone marrow specimens we found decreases in transcript levels in 10/11 CP patients, but only in 1/8 of the AP patients. When present such decreases were gradual and became evident only after 3 months of STI571 treatment, and their kinetics in blood closely mirrored those seen in parallel marrow samples. Moreover, decreases were between 10‐ and 100‐fold in 11/13 patients, with only two patients reaching residual disease levels below 10−2 (a 900‐fold decrease). Thus, no patient reached PCR negativity. We conclude that the RQ‐PCR method is a highly suitable tool for following the effect of STI571 in CML and that further validation of the method, performed in a prospective manner, will contribute significantly to the elucidation of the proper role of STI571 in CML.