Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RAFT FORMING BUOYANT PH DEPENDENT THIXOTROPIC GELLING SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDWITH GELUCIRE 43/01 AS A POTENTIAL STOMACH SPECIFIC DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FORFAMOTIDINE

Famotidine (FMT) is known as a histamine blocker (H2) that inhibits stomach acid production and it is commonly used in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease and gastric-esophageal reflux disease. It has a short half life (2.5-3.5 hours), low bioavailability (40-45%). It has excellent solubility in acidic pH just reverse in alkaline pH. Therefore an attempt has been made to develop raft buoyant gastro-retentive sustains release delivery system with in situ gelling property which is based on thixotropy behavior. Twelve formulations (Excluding two controlled formulations i.e. F and F*) were designed to contain 40 mg of FMT using Chitosan; CH (cationic polymer), Sodium Alginate; SA (anionic polymer), Gelucire 43/01; G 43/01 (lipid phase) as retardant and adhesive polymers. Emulgel was prepared and evaluated for their physicochemical properties like buoyancy and lag time, cumulative % drug release, drug release kinetics and drug excipient interaction studies by thermal studies and functional group characterization. All formulations showed that with the increase in concentration of the polymer, the gel strength increased, but the % drug release decreased F8>F12>F11>F6>F5>F10>F7>F9>F3>F4>F1>F2>F*>F. Formulations F9, F10, and F12 were found to be optimum. They followed the non-ficikian mechanism of drug release.
QoS Driven Semantic Based Grid Service Composition Using AND/OR Trees

Composition oriented service discovery is an important requirement and research challenge in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), such as in the third generation of Grid. It provides added value services, more rapid application development and improved reusability of existing services. This paper proposes and formulates a composition approach where semantic information is used to determine Grid services dependencies in form of AND/OR tree associated with semantic QoS information, thus transforming the issue of service composition discovery to constrained AND/OR tree search problem. Different constraint forms and QoS aggregation patterns in such trees are analyzed, and some major constrained searching techniques that can be applied to such trees are discussed. Our findings show that AND/OR trees are expressive in addressing QoS – aware semantic Grid service composition and able to employ different discovery searching techniques for that purpose. Keywords-Grid service composition; QoS; AND/OR tree; Semantic Web; Ontology;
Designing a Rule Based Expert Systems for Contact Lenses Patients

Expert systems that bring facts and valuable experiences together and make some deductions possible. Expression of relevant knowledge and experience in these structures may be in a set of rules. Learning problems are valid with expert systems. Therefore, they cannot add new rules and information automatically by themselves. Rules are created by human experts on the way and added upon the system. Classification datasets are collections of data commonly used in machine learning that contain and classify the previously obtained experiences. In this study, rules were obtained by using Part, NNge, Prism rule classifier algorithms, and a knowledge base of expert systems was systematically created to achieve enrichment. Enrichment and rule deduction process needs careful and sensitive attention. A combined methodology and study was revealed during this sensitive process. In this context, studies were conducted on five widely used datasets. It was aimed to reduce the redundant, conflicting, subsumed and circular rules in order to create a consistent and complete knowledge base. In this way, a methodology was developed to establish more powerful and richer contents of knowledge base that have higher quality.
Stock structure of the goldband snapper Pristipomoides multidens (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the waters of northern and western Australia by stable isotope ratio analysis of sagittal otolith carbonate

Measurement of stable isotope ratios ( 18 O/ 16 O and 13 C/ 12 C) in the sagittal otolith carbonate from assemblages of goldband snapper Pristipomoides multidens from waters off northern and western Australia revealed location-specific signatures and indicated that fish from all sites sampled within Australia (Exmouth, Rankin Bank, Broome, Vulcan Shoals, Timor Sea, Arafura Sea), Indonesia (Kupang) and Papua New Guinea (Pommern Bay) were different. The significant differences in the isotopic signatures of P. multidens demonstrated that there is unlikely to be substantial movement of fish among these distinct adult assemblages. The stable isotopic signatures for the fish from the different locations were persistent through time, and therefore it could be concluded that the fish comprise separate stocks for many of the purposes of fisheries management. The ratios of the stable oxygen isotopes in P. multidens were significantly related to sea surface temperatures (r 2 = 0.797). This study has provided further evidence that measurement of the stable isotope ratios in teleost sagittal otolith carbonate can be a valuable tool in the delineation of fishable stocks or fishery management units of adult fish where the range of distribution of the species in question covers waters with different temperature regimes.
Positive and negative behaviours resulting from brand attachment: The moderating effects of attachment styles

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between brand attachment and consumers’ positive and negative behaviours. Furthermore, this study examines the moderating effects of attachment styles on these relationships. ,The study is based on a survey of 432 respondents, and the data are analysed using the structural equation modelling approach. ,This study empirically supports that brand attachment and attachment styles (i.e. anxiety attachment and avoidance attachment) are distinct. Brand attachment influences consumers’ not only positive behaviour (i.e. brand loyalty) but also negative behaviours, such as trash-talking, schadenfreude and anti-brand actions. The findings of the study suggest that only avoidance attachment style moderates the relationships between brand attachment and these consumer behaviours. The link between brand attachment and brand loyalty is attenuated for high-attachment-avoidance consumers. In contrast, the links between brand attachment and trash-talking, schadenfreude and anti-brand actions are strengthened. ,This study assists marketing managers in understanding that a strong brand attachment may result in negative behaviours that can harm a company’s brand image. Thus, building a strong relationship with consumers will not always be beneficial. Companies should be aware of the consequences of building relationships with consumers who have a high level of attachment anxiety and/or avoidance. ,This paper highlights that brand attachment not only influences brand loyalty behaviour but also three negative behaviours: trash-talking, schadenfreude and anti-brand actions. Moreover, the links between brand attachment and negative behaviours are strengthened when consumers have a high level of attachment avoidance.
Management Control Systems and Integrated Reporting: Which Relationships? The Case of the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Ancona

This article explores the contribution that management accountants and management control systems can give to the design and the implementation of an integrated reporting system. In particular, the case of the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Ancona is analysed in the aim of highlighting the role played by the management accountant in promoting the design and implementation of the integrated report in the specific context under investigation. The empirical evidence adds to the extant literature on this issue by showing the relevant role played by management control systems and by management accountants as well and, in particular, how the latter can significantly influence the whole design and implementation process at an organisational, technical, and motivational level.
E-learning adoption in hospitality education: An analysis with special focus on Singapore

This paper explores issues and challenges in the adoption of e-learning in hospitality education, with special reference to Singapore. Hospitality being a ‘high-touch’ profession and many hospitality related skills being largely intangible, there has been significant industry resistance in technology adoption. There has been concerns from multiple stakeholder groups as to how effectively can technologies compensate for the loss of social context of traditional hands-on learning. However, in Singapore, some polytechnic based schools have practically demonstrated the ways by which technology could be meaningfully integrated into hospitality education.
Chromosomal studies after differential staining and fluorescence in situ hybridization using telomeric probe in three Leptodactylus species (Leptodactylidae, Anura)

Abstract Leptodactylus ocellatus, L. knudseni and L. pentadactylus were cyto-genetically analysed following conventional and Ag-NOR staining, C- and R-banding and FISH using the sequence (TTAGGG)n as probe. These species show similar karyotypes with 2n = 22 and Ag-NORs located in the short arm of pair 8. Species-specific C-banding patterns were detected involving centromeric, telomeric and interstitial bands. The comparative study of chromosomes after R-banding allowed the establishment of homeologies among the six largest pairs and the NOR-bearing pair in all species. The sequence (TTAGGG)n was detected in the telomeric regions of the chromosomes and nowhere else.
Respiration of Mediterranean cold-water corals is not affected by ocean acidification as projected for the end of the century

The rise of CO 2 has been identified as a major threat to life in the ocean. About one-third of the anthro-pogenic CO 2 produced in the last 200 yr has been taken up by the ocean, leading to ocean acidification. Surface seawater pH is projected to decrease by about 0.4 units between the pre-industrial revolution and 2100. The branching cold-water corals Madrepora oculata and Lophelia pertusa are important, habitat-forming species in the deep Mediter-ranean Sea. Although previous research has investigated the abundance and distribution of these species, little is known regarding their ecophysiology and potential responses to global environmental change. A previous study indicated that the rate of calcification of these two species remained constant up to 1000 µatm CO 2 , a value that is at the upper end of changes projected to occur by 2100. We examined whether the ability to maintain calcification rates in the face of rising pCO 2 affected the energetic requirements of these corals. Over the course of three months, rates of respiration were measured at a pCO 2 ranging between 350 and 1100 µatm to distinguish between short-term response and longer-term acclimation. Respiration rates ranged from 0.074 to 0.266 µmol O 2 (g skeletal dry weight) −1 h −1 and 0.095 to 0.725 µmol O 2 (g skeletal dry weight) −1 h −1 for L. pertusa and M. oculata, respectively, and were independent of pCO 2. Respiration increased with time likely due to regular feeding, which may have provided an increased energy supply to sustain coral metabolism. Future studies are needed to confirm whether the insensitivity of respiration to increasing pCO 2 is a general feature of deep-sea corals in other regions.
D SLAM with GPGPU computation

The main goal was to improve a state of the art 6D SLAM algorithm with a new GPGPU-based implementation of data registration module. Data registration is based on ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm that is fully implemented in the GPU with NVIDIA FERMI architecture. In our research we focus on mobile robot inspection intervention systems applicable in hazardous environments. The goal is to deliver a complete system capable of being used in real life. In this paper we demonstrate our achievements in the field of on line robot localization and mapping. We demonstrated an experiment in real large environment. We compared two strategies of data alignment – simple ICP and ICP using so called
A DENOISING OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGES

Abstract. Today imaging science has an important development and has many applications in different fields of life. The researched object of imaging science is digital image that can be created by many digital devices. Biomedical image is one of types of digital images. One of the limits of using digital devices to create digital images is noise. Noise reduces the image quality. It appears in almost types of images, including biomedical images too. The type of noise in this case can be considered as combination of Gaussian and Poisson noises. In this paper we propose method to remove noise by using total variation. Our method is developed with the goal to combine two famous models: ROF for removing Gaussian noise and modified ROF for removing Poisson noise. As a result, our proposed method can be also applied to remove Gaussian or Poisson noise separately. The proposed method can be applied in two cases: with given parameters (generated noise for artificial images) or automatically evaluated parameters (unknown noise for real images).
THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A NEW ECO-REFRIGERANT - R404A and DIMETHYLETHER BLEND

Rezumat. Lucrarea prezintă o parte din rezultatele obţinute in cazul analizei termodinamice teoretice a unei instalaţii frigorifice cu comprimare mecanică de vapori (IFV) intr-o treaptă, ce foloseste ca agent frigorific amestecuri aproapeazeotrope pe bază de R404A si dimetileter (DME). Studiul se incadrează in strategia actuală adoptată la nivel mondial referitoare la stabilirea de noi soluţii in vederea eliminării agenţilor frigorifici poluanţi. Se arată că prin amestecarea lui R404A cu DME dezavantajele ce apar atât in cazul funcţionării cu R404A (presiuni de saturaţie mari, sarcină frigorifica specifică masică redusă), cât si in cazul funcţionării cu DME (lucru mecanic specific masic de comprimare ridicat, volum specific masic mare la aspiraţie in compresor, inflamabil si explozibil), se reduc. Stabilirea concentraţiei optime in DME s-a obţinut pe baza unui studiu termodinamic comparativ pentru amestecuri cu concentraţie masică in DME cuprinsă intre (0 ÷ 100)%. Pentru toate aceste amestecuri, la calculul mărimilor de stare in punctele caracteristice ale ciclului termodinamic s-a folosit programul REFPROP. In cazul folosirii unei concentraţii masice de (40 ÷ 55)% in DME, rezultatele scot in evidenţă avantajul substituţiei lui R404A cu noul tip de agent frigorific propus.
Acceptance level of push technology-based on-line shopping widget among Malaysians: application of technology acceptance theory

Nowadays, online shopping information such as new product release, promotion, and other news is mostly retrieved manually by prospective buyers from individual webpage, which is entailed enormous efforts and time-consuming. The tool or method used in this scenario is known as pull-technology. As a solution, this study proposed an online shopping widget which automatically retrieves relevant online information from various sources at single point of time based on the concept of push technology. Hence, the objective of this paper is to investigate the acceptance level of the proposed online shopping widget among Malaysian, through applying technology acceptance theory in questionnaire survey method. The findings of this study imply that the overall acceptance level of Malaysian toward the proposed online shopping widget is considered as low. In addition, the result of this study also suggested that perceived usefulness of the sidebar widget is the strongest antecedent which lead to the intention of use of the online shopping widget. This study has provided a foundation to both practitioners (e.g. software developers) and academicians for understanding of the acceptance level of similar push technology-based online shopping widget, and the characteristics the online shopping widget should incorporated in order to enhance acceptance level among prospective users.
Two Beginning Kindergarten Teachers' Planning for Integrated Literacy Instruction

This study reports the characteristics and strategies of 2 beginning kindergarten teachers' planning for an integrated approach to literacy instruction. Using ethnographic observational and analytic techniques, we describe features and structures of integrated instruction as a planning "problem. " The teachers' problem-solving strategies under the conditions of this task are also examined. Results revealed the multiple and complex nature of integrated instruction as a planning problem. Based on domain and componential analyses, the task appeared to include at least 6 kinds of planning activity and to make multiple demands on the planners' time, specificity of planning, level of pedagogical knowledge, and degree of work. Further analysis indicated a recurring pattern in the teachers' organization of their activities, suggesting a 4-phase planning model. An examination of the teachers' verbal accounts for indicators of mental processes used in their problem solving indicated strategies of the forward-search and problem-reduction type, with the former predominating. Features and structures of integrated instructional planning as a problem type are summarized from the teachers' perspective as novices. We also discuss possible implications for teacher preparation and development and areas for further research.
A Novel Approach for Classification of Underactuated Mechanism in Myoelectric Hand

Concept of underactuation makes it possible to create such robotic hands that automatically adapt to the shape of the grasped object without using a complex control system or a large number of actuators. In underactuated hand prostheses, depending upon control strategy used, one can get more and more degree of freedoms (DOFs) to make its prosthetic device more versatile and easy to control. In spite of all the great work done by the researchers on underactuated prosthetic hands, no one has given any relationship between the number of motors (or actuators) and the number of degree of freedoms (DOFs). This novel concept named as “Coefficient of UAM” (CoUAM) is “the ratio between numbers of motors to the number of DOFs”. By reviewing various known studies, CoUAM of randomly selected prosthetic hands is calculated separately and analyzed merits/demerits, cost, weight, appearance, ease of controllability and their functionality to make this approach more objective and useful for the future researchers. Hence target of this paper is to assess a Coefficient of UAM (CoUAM) of different types of prostheses available and then classify them into red, green and yellow zones.
Erratum: From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

We have updated and extended our semi-analytic galaxy formation modelling capabilities and applied them simultaneously to the stored halo/subhalo merger trees of the Millennium and Millennium-II simulations. These differ by a factor of 125 in mass resolution, allowing explicit testing of resolution effects on predicted galaxy properties. We have revised the treatments of the transition between the rapid infall and cooling flow regimes of gas accretion, of the sizes of bulges and of gaseous and stellar disks, of supernova feedback, of the transition between central and satellite status as galaxies fall into larger systems, and of gas and star stripping once they become satellites. Plausible values of efficiency and scaling parameters yield an excellent fit not only to the observed abundance of low-redshift galaxies over 5 orders of magnitude in stellar mass and 9 magnitudes in luminosity, but also to the observed abundance of Milky Way satellites. This suggests that reionisation effects may not be needed to solve the “missing satellite” problem except, perhaps, for the faintest objects. The same model matches the observed large-scale clustering of galaxies as a function of stellar mass and colour. The fit remains excellent down to � 30 kpc for massive galaxies. For M∗ < 6×10 10 M⊙, however, the model overpredicts clustering at scales below � 1 Mpc, suggesting that the assumed fluctuation amplitude, σ8 = 0.9, is too high. The observed difference in clustering between active and passive galaxies is matched quite well for all masses. Galaxy distributions within rich clusters agree between the simulations and match those observed, but only if galaxies without dark matter subhalos (so-called orphans) are included. Even at MS-II resolution, schemes which assign galaxies only to resolved dark matter subhalos cannot match observed clusters. Our model predicts a larger passive fraction among low-mass galaxies than is observed, as well as an overabundance of � 10 10 M⊙ galaxies beyond z � 0.6. (The abundance of � 10 11 M⊙ galaxies is matched out to z � 3.) These discrepancies appear to reflect deficiencies in the way star-formation rates are modelled.
Peul, Touabire and Djallonke sheep breeding programmes in Senegal

This paper reports on the plan, design and operational aspects of sheep breeding programmes established in Senegal since the mid 1970s. In the 1950s and early 1960s, a research station in each of the two agro-ecological zones (semi-arid and sub-humid areas), was created with the objective to increase the productivity of local sheep and cattle breeds through the genetic improvement of these livestock. Two sheep breeding programmes based on selection within breed have been implemented in Senegal since 1975. Cross-breeding programmes were also undertaken using exotic European or Moroccan breeds but these experiences were not maintained and unfortunately they are not documented. This report will therefore concentrate on the two selection programmes of Sahelian and Djallonke sheep. Information reported in this paper has been gathered from the annual reports of the Centre de Recherches Zootechniques de Dahra, Senegal and the Centre de Recherches Zootechniques de Kolda. The first breeding programme aimed at improving the Sahelian sheep breeds (Peul and Touabire), was established in northern Senegal in a state-owned research station. A similar programme took place in Southern Senegal with the objective to genetically improve the trypanotolerant Djallonke sheep breed. Both programmes were based on selection within breed. The production systems
Pressure vessel made by free forming using underwater explosion

Explosive forming is one particular forming technique, in which, most commonly, water is used as the pressure transmission medium. In recent years, we have done the development of the method which obtains a necessary form of the metal by the control of underwater shock wave acts on the metal plate, without a metal die. On the other hand, the pressure vessel is required in various fields, but we think that the free forming using the underwater shock wave is advantageous in the production of pressure vessel of a simple spherical, ellipse, parabola shape. In this paper, we will introduce an experiment and several numerical simulations that we carried out for this technical development.