Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Empirical research on organizational infrastructure model impact to spatial data sharing

There are many factors in various aspects that affect spatial data sharing (SDS), such as organization, personnel, legal system, data use, technique, motives, cost, fairness, power balance and data standards. Early research had mostly dealt with personal experience, which lacked holistic thinking and resolving. In recent years, researchers who believed SDS as a social phenomenon began study using Social Network Analysis and observed the role played by organizational networks during the process of SDS to explain how organizational networks affected SDS. While there exist few studies on SDS between units and persons within an organization, and past research lacked effective methods of message gathering and filtering from the targeted organizations, this study proposed the empirical method and dimensions, unlike before, to understand and promote SDS from various aspects. After observation on organizational process of SDS over a long period, this article gathered empirical data on the behaviours of SDS in Taichung City Government over 17 years and explained the sharing structure model of spatial data in organizational network by Social Network Analysis and Graph Theory. The importance of the connection between the centre node in such structural model and the routine affairs of the organization was elaborated. This study provided the empirical method and scientifically generated results.
Shape optimization of neck myoelectric signal control-type speaking valve

A speaking valve is one of the speech assistance devices, and it is used for speech cannula and tracheal opening retainer user. Conventional speaking valves have one-way valve mechanism, they open when the user breathes in, and they close when user breathes out and produces a voice. This type is very simple and tough, but it has a problem about closeness of the user. This problem is caused by its mechanism what can not be controlled by user's will. Therefore, we proposed a myoelectric control-type speaking valve. This valve can be controlled by the myoelectric signal of sternohyoid muscle. From our previous results, it was clarified that this valve had better performance about easy-to-breath. But, the previous valve was too big and heavy to carry. In this report, we describe the development of compact myoelectric control-type speaking valve system. The new-type speaking valve is enough small to attach the human body, and its opening is larger than that of conventional speaking valve. Furthermore, the shape of flow channel is optimized by FEM analysis. According to the result of this analysis, this valve gets the low flow resistance channel.
Deposited in DRO : 14 October 2015 Version of attached le : Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached

Target tracking complexity within conventional video imagery can be fundamentally attributed to the ambiguity associated with actual 3D scene position of a given tracked object in relation to its observed position in 2D image space. Recent work, within thermal-band infrared imagery, has tackled this challenge head on by returning to classical photogrammetry as a means of recovering the true 3D position of pedestrian targets. A key limitation in such approaches is the assumption of posture – that the observed pedestrian is at full height stance within the scene. Whilst prior work has shown the effects of statistical height variation to be negligible, variations in the posture of the target may still pose a significant source of potential error. Here we present a method that addresses this issue via the use of Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression based pedestrian posture estimation operating on Histogram of Orientated Gradient (HOG) feature descriptors. Within an existing tracking framework, we demonstrate improved target localization that is independent of variations in target posture (i.e. behaviour) and within the statistical error bounds of prior work for pedestrian height posture varying from 0.4-2.4m over a distance to target range of 7-30m.
Carrier heating in disordered organic semiconductors

We propose a semi-implicit model for hopping transport in disordered media with application to organic semiconductors. The results show excellent agreement with both Monte Carlo and standard master-equation calculations. In organic LEDs the applied field would result in heating of the charge carrier population by up to 100 °C above the lattice temperature and is more effective at lower temperatures. We show that the voltage dependence of the mobility in space charge limited LEDs is largely due to carrier heating and not to the previously considered charge density or barrier lowering effects. At the end we look into the effect of accounting for the soft nature of organic materials via the inclusion of polaronic rate binding energy and we find that carrier heating is suppressed at polaron binding energies above 0.1 eV.
SEGMENT SIMILARITY USING 2 D-FOURIER MAGNITUDE COEFFICIENTS

Music segmentation is the task of automatically identifying the different segments of a piece. In this work we present a novel approach to cluster the musical segments based on their acoustic similarity by using 2D-Fourier Magnitude Coefficients (2D-FMCs). These coefficients, computed from a chroma representation, significantly simplify the problem of clustering the different segments since they are key transposition and phase shift invariant. We explore various strategies to obtain the 2D-FMC patches that represent entire segments and apply k-means to label them. Finally, we discuss possible ways of estimating k and compare our competitive results with the current state of the art.
Simplified Control Problems for Multiclass Many-Server Queueing Systems

We consider scheduling and routing control problems for queueing models with I customer classes and J server pools, each consisting of many statistically identical, exponential servers. Customers require a single service that can be performed by a server from one of the pools; the service rate is μij ≥ 0, which depends on the customer's class i and the server's pool j, and customers can abandon the system while waiting to be served. In the heavy traffic regime of Halfin and Whitt, these problems are formally equivalent to I-dimensional diffusion control problems. We analyze the diffusion control problems is two special cases. First, when the service rates depend only on the pool (μij = μj), the diffusion control problem is shown to be similar to (but distinct from) the diffusion control problem for a single class model, which greatly reduces the complexity of the problem. Second, when the service rates depend only on the class (μij = μi), the diffusion control problem is shown to be equivalent to a diffusion control problem for a single pool model, a problem that has previously been studied. In the first case, we also establish a rigorous relation between the queueing control problem and the diffusion control problem, showing that a policy for the queueing model, based on an ordinary differential equation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman type, is asymptotically optimal.
Le corpus Sequoia : annotation syntaxique et exploitation pour l’adaptation d’analyseur par pont lexical (The Sequoia Corpus : Syntactic Annotation and Use for a Parser Lexical Domain Adaptation Method) [in French]

Nous presentons dans cet article la methodologie de constitution et les caracteristiques du corpus Sequoia, un corpus en francais, syntaxiquement annote d'apres un schema d'annotation tres proche de celui du French Treebank (Abeille et Barrier, 2004), et librement disponible, en constituants et en dependances. Le corpus comporte des phrases de quatre origines : Europarl francais, le journal l'Est Republicain, Wikipedia Fr et des documents de l'Agence Europeenne du Medicament, pour un total de 3204 phrases et 69246 tokens. En outre, nous presentons une application de ce corpus : l'evaluation d'une technique d'adaptation d'analyseurs syntaxiques probabilistes a des domaines et/ou genres autres que ceux du corpus sur lequel ces analyseurs sont entraines. Cette technique utilise des clusters de mots obtenus d'abord par regroupement morphologique a l'aide d'un lexique, puis par regroupement non supervise, et permet une nette amelioration de l'analyse des domaines cibles (le corpus Sequoia), tout en preservant le meme niveau de performance sur le domaine source (le FTB), ce qui fournit un analyseur multi-domaines, a la difference d'autres techniques d'adaptation comme le self-training.
A Role-based Customer review Mining System

With the development of WWW (World Wide Web), more and more people surf on the Web, more and more Web sites provide forum for people to publish their reviews, so there are many reviews on some special topic in many forums. Our system mainly aims at the reviews of customer for some product. The data set comes from forum data or emails or any other form of reviews. The mining result can guide the company's CEO to make science decision for company's products research and market development and the mining result can guide the customers to purchase more satisfying products. Our system mainly adopts data mining technology, natural language processing technology, Web text mining technology and so on. In the realization of our system, we adopt role based concepts and theory, this makes the realization more reasonable and more efficiency and this makes the system function more perfect and more science.
Impact of observers' experience and training on reliability of observations for a manual handling task

Observation reliability (agreement percentage and kappa coefficients) for six experienced ergonomists and six untrained participants was computed. Participants were first tested after a training session and 1 week later after an additional practice session. Two formats were used: free practice and directed exercise. Reliability was tested for 17 variables and 20 sequences using photographic and video supports. The participants were asked to indicate whether they were confident about their answer, to rate this confidence on a scale of 1 to 10, and when the confidence rating was below 8, to provide a reason for this. Experience and additional practices had no clear impact on reliability, which was excellent overall. The main reason given was that the event to be observed took place at the borderline between two classes. The observers' rating on the scale appeared to be tied to the subsequent reliability computed. The use of a confidence scale appeared to be a useful tool for forecasting observation problems.
3 D Object Class Geometry Modeling with Spatial Latent Dirichlet Markov Random Fields ?

This paper presents a novel part-based geometry model for 3D object classes based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). With all object instances of the same category aligned to a canonical pose, the bounding box is discretized to form a 3D space dictionary for LDA. To enhance the spatial coherence of each part during model learning, we extend LDA by strategically constructing a Markov random field (MRF) on the part labels, and adding an extra spatial parameter for each part. We refer to the improved model as spatial latent Dirichlet Markov random fields (SLDMRF). The experimental results demonstrate that SLDMRF exhibits superior semantic interpretation and discriminative ability in model classification to LDA and other related models.
Antecedents of Internet Technology Adoption in an Emerging Economy

In the modern world, success of an organization, both in the public and private sectors, is dependent on increased efficiencies and productivity due to investments and acceptance of information technology. This has focused attention on factors that influence individuals’ acceptance and subsequent use of information systems and technology. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is a useful model for managers to assess the likelihood of acceptance of a new technology within an organization. In this paper, we consider organizational culture as an antecedent to the UTAUT model to evaluate factors that influence users’ acceptance and use of the Internet technology. We investigated the role of organizational culture in the adoption of Internet technology in a government agency in an emerging economy, India. We found that organizational culture influences adoption of Internet technology. We also found that the UTAUT is a valid model that can explain technology adoption in an emerging economy.
Achondrogenesis Type IA (Houston-Harris): A Still-Unresolved Molecular Phenotype

Achondrogenesis type IA (Houston-Harris) is an extremely rare lethal chondrodysplasia with a characteristic severe disarrangement of endochondral ossification. The growth plate cartilage completely lacks columnar-zone formation and shows chondrocyte expansion due to intracellular vacuoles. This article on a new case of achondrogenesis type IA confirms these findings and demonstrates, on the ultrastructural level, the retention of fine fibrillar material within the rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER). Molecular analysis in the presented case of achondrogenesis type IA did not reveal mutations in the COL2A1 and SLC26A2 genes, which are known to cause achondrogenesis types IB and type II. Although the extracellular cartilage matrix was severely altered, all of the investigated matrix molecules (collagens, aggrecan, matrilins, cartilage oligomeric protein [COMP]) showed a normal distribution pattern. The only exception was type-X collagen, which was significantly reduced. Overall, our study suggests a disturbance in cartilage matrix assembly in the present case due to the retention of some sort of matrix component within the rER. Presumably, as a consequence of this event, processes of chondrocyte maturation and differentiation and endochondral bone formation are severely affected in this case of achondrogenesis type IA.
A Simple Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithm Considering IEEE Standard C37.118.1-2011 and Protection Requirements

In this paper, a simple synchrophasor estimation algorithm has been proposed considering power system steady state, dynamic conditions, and protection requirements. The new IEEE Standard C37.118. 1-2011 for synchrophasor measurements includes the dynamic performance requirements for the phasor measurement units. It is shown that the proposed method satisfies all the steady state and dynamic requirements of the new IEEE Standard. Presently, synchrophasors are mainly used for wide area monitoring. Increasingly, synchrophasors are being considered for protection applications in smart grids. Protection applications require shorter response times and lower overshoot/undershoot values for estimated phasors during large disturbances. It is shown that the proposed method performs satisfactorily during system faults, which is an important requirement for protection applications. A detailed performance comparison with the existing phasor estimation algorithms has also been presented.
Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic position of the Sicklefin weasel shark Hemigaleus microstoma

Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome of the Sicklefin weasel shark Hemigaleus microstoma was first presented in this study. It was 16 701 bp in length with the typical gene arrangement in vertebrates. A total of 25 bp short intergenic spaces and 33 bp overlaps located in 12 and 9 gene junctions, respectively. The overall nucleotide composition was 31.0% A, 26.4% C, 13.5% G and 29.1% T. Two start (ATG and GTG) and three stop (TAG, AGG and TAA/T) codons were found in the protein-coding genes. The size of 22 tRNA genes ranged from 67 to 75 bp. In the phylogenetic tree, H. microstoma (Hemigaleidae) was placed as sister to Galeocerdo cuvier (Carcharhinidae).
Risk aversion and effort under an incentive pay scheme with multiplicative noise: Theory and experimental evidence

The application of the classical "linear" model of incentive pay to the case when the noise is multiplicative to effort generates two predictions for a given strength of incentives: 1) more risk-averse workers will put in less effort, and 2) setting a performance target will weaken the negative risk aversion--effort link. The data from a real-effort laboratory experiment involving 85 student participants support both these predictions. Implications of the model and empirical findings to the literature on, and practice of, personnel management are discussed.
Spore Photoproduct Lyase: The Known, the Controversial, and the Unknown*

Spore photoproduct lyase (SPL) repairs 5-thyminyl-5,6-dihydrothymine, a thymine dimer that is also called the spore photoproduct (SP), in germinating endospores. SPL is a radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzyme, utilizing the 5′-deoxyadenosyl radical generated by SAM reductive cleavage reaction to revert SP to two thymine residues. Here we review the current progress in SPL mechanistic studies. Protein radicals are known to be involved in SPL catalysis; however, how these radicals are quenched to close the catalytic cycle is under debate.
Lipid Transfer Protein Cross-reactivity Assessed In Vivo and In Vitro in the Offi ce : Pros and Cons

Background: Few studies analyze cross-reactivity between lipid transfer proteins (LTP) from a large spectrum of botanically unrelated plantderived foods using routine diagnostic tests. Objective: To assess the clinical usefulness of currently available in vivo and in vitro tests in LTP-hypersensitive patients. Methods: An in vitro and in vivo study was performed of 15 peach-allergic adults monosensitized to LTP in order to analyze their allergy and hypersensitivity to apple, hazelnut, walnut, peanut, soybean, lentil, maize, celery, carrot, banana, melon, tomato, kiwi, buckwheat, and sunfl ower, poppy, mustard, and sesame seeds. Results: The study revealed that 8, 7, 10, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1, and 1 patients were allergic to apple, hazelnut, walnut, peanut, tomato, kiwi, melon, lentil, and maize, respectively. Immunoglobulin (Ig) E levels for peach were strongly associated with the total number of offending foods other than peach and with levels of IgE specifi c for all the study foods except carrot. Both in vivo and in vitro tests showed excellent sensitivity and negative predictive value, but poor specifi city and positive predictive value. Sensitized but tolerant patients showed lower IgE levels than those with a history of local or systemic symptoms, although the difference between the 3 subsets was not statistically signifi cant. Conclusion: This study confi rms that peach is the primary sensitizer to LTP and that the level of IgE to peach LTP is the main factor associated with cross-reactivity (and clinical allergy) to non-Rosaceae foods. Clinically irrelevant sensitization is common in LTP-hypersensitive patients, and positive in vivo and/or in vitro test results are of little help in detecting potential clinical reactors.
Development of In Situ Permeability Test Using Constant Discharge Method for Sandy Soils

: The post-rain puddles problem that occurs in the first yard of Prambanan Temple are often disturbing visitor activity. A poodle layer and a drainage system has ever built to avoid such a problem, but puddles still didn’t stop appearing after rain. Permeability parameter needs to be determined by using more simple procedure to find exact method of solution. The instrument modelling were proposed according to the development of field permeability testing instrument. This experiment used proposed Constant Discharge method. Constant Discharge method used a tube poured with constant water flow. The procedure were carried out from unsaturated until saturated soil condition. Volumetric water content (θ) were being monitored by soil moisture measurement device. The results were relationship between k and θ which drawn by numerical approach Van Genutchen model. Parameters θr optimum value obtained from the test was at very dry soil. Coefficient of permeability with a density of 19.8 kN/m3 for unsaturated conditions was in range of 3 x 10-6 cm/sec (Sr= 68 %) until 9.98 x 10-4 cm/sec (Sr= 82 %). The equipment and testing procedure developed in this research was quite effective, simple and easy to be implemented on determining field soil permeability coefficient value of sandy soil. Using constant discharge method in proposed permeability test, value of permeability coefficient under unsaturated condition can be obtained without establish soil water characteristic curve.
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy--pharmaceutical applications.

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has become an integral technique in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. This review focuses on the use of solid-state NMR techniques for the characterization of pharmaceutical solids (drug substance and dosage form). These techniques include methods for (1) studying structure and conformation, (2) analyzing molecular motions (relaxation and exchange spectroscopy), (3) assigning resonances (spectral editing and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy), and (4) measuring internuclear distances.
Population subdivision among desert bighorn sheep (Oviscanadensis) ewes revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis

We used behavioural observations and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis to examine demographic and genetic structure within and among home‐range groups of desert bighorn sheep (Oviscanadensis) ewes in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, USA. We identified substantial genetic variation in the first 515 bp of the mtDNA control region and determined that seven haplotypes were distributed in a nonrandom fashion among these ewe subpopulations. Although a significant (P < 0.01) amount of mtDNA variation (33%) was partitioned among home‐range groups, we did not find strong evidence for matrilineal substructuring within these groups. Based on analyses of molecular variance, and comparisons of behavioural associations and distances between centres of activity, we concluded that within a given home‐range group, bighorn sheep ewes generally associate with other ewes based on their availability rather than their matrilineal relationships. Our results also supported the conclusion that multiple ewe subpopulations exist within the Peninsular Ranges, and that these subpopulations are the most basic demographic and genetic units.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACY & LIFE SCIENCES Formulation and evaluation of captropril microspheres by ionic gelation technique

The development of oral sustained or controlled rel ease dosage form of captopril has been an intereste d topic of research for a long period of time. Difficulties en countered on the fact that the drug is freely wat er soluble. Such drug is difficult to be delivered orally in a susta ined or controlled release manner and, Due to its e ffectiveness and intensive use as a drug of choice in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure, numer ous sustained and controlled release formulations of captopril ha ve been made and reported.Captropril microsphere were prepared with a coat consisting of alginate and polymer suc h as HPMC,Sodium alginate,Sodiun Carboxy methyl cellulose, by Ionic cross linking technic using CaCl 2.