Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The enigma of quality in Greek higher education : a mixed methods study of introducing quality management into Greek higher education

This study investigated the adoption of quality management in Greek universities as an outcome of organizational processes. It examined a period in the first decade of the 21st century when program evaluation and quality management were heavily debated in Greece. The study recognizes that higher education institutions are complex organizations with multiple levels; moreover, they exist in a multi-level, multi-actor environment. Greece presents an environment that is well known for its difficulty in conducting empirical social science research. Until this dissertation, very few studies have been published concerning Greek higher education in general and quality management in particular. This study furthers our understanding of the forces that stimulate or impede changes in Greek higher education by choosing a multi-level mixed methods research design. This research used several data-gathering techniques, including document analysis, surveys and interviews with a variety of stakeholders, to study quality management at national (macro), institutional (meso), and departmental levels (micro). Greek higher education institutions are state-funded institutions and operate in a legalistic environment, under a plethora of laws and regulations. At the macro level the general consensus was that the Bologna Process was the main reason that drove the Greek Government in 2005 to adopt a quality assurance policy for higher education. At the meso level 8 out of 21 universities voluntarily invited an external review (EUA-IEP), which found that quality management was not a routine practice. Different surveys among institutional leaders and department heads, respectively, confirmed this finding. At the micro level data indicated that ISO standards were applied in 32 cases (laboratories and academic support services) in 7 out of 21 universities. However, in departments quality assurance systems were either nonexistent or in early stages of development. Using concepts from neo-institutional theory (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) along with organizational characteristics, this research shows that coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphic pressures were present, though rarely all at the same time. The lack of coherence among the three isomorphic pressures seems to explain the widespread failure to adopt quality management. Leadership proved to be the crucial intra-organizational factor for change promoting quality management.
Linking Real-Life Situation with Content of School Mathematics at Secondary Level: Exploring Current Practice and Challenge in Bangladesh

Worldwide mathematics is considered as a subject in school curriculum which is intimately connected to students’ daily life. However, it is disheartening that there are some level of disconnection between students’ mathematics learning and the way it is applied to real-world. This study is conducted to explore the current practice and challenges in linking real-life situation with mathematical content at secondary level in Bangladesh, a country in transition from least-developed to developing status. Here multiple case study approach was followed under qualitative framework. Mathematics teachers of Grade 8 and their lessons were selected conveniently to explore how teachers were responding to the issues of practice and challenges in linking real-life situation and eventually promoted mathematical literacy in their lessons. Each teacher was considered as a case. Lesson observations, participant teachers’ interview, FGD with students and document analysis had been used as instruments in the study. Thematic analysis was followed as the data analysis technique. In this paper, we briefly summarized our work in exploring current practice and challenges in Bangladesh in connecting real-world with the world of mathematics. This study finds that teachers emphasize on explaining mathematical concept in ways that make sense to students but practice in specific cases. Occasionally, students struggle with mathematical terminologies while teachers are unaware of it. Moreover, teachers find difficulties to connect some mathematical content with real-life situations because of the nature of content and during the lessons they rely on “teaching textbooks” due to time constraint. Both teachers and students in this study point out that textbook examples and problems are not interesting. Finally, this study finds that Grade 8 mathematics textbook, in limited cases, deals with “real” problems: problems that are typically placed in a “situation”. The present study will thus provide insights to the teachers to improve their practice in order to make mathematics more significant and interesting to the students. This study will also notify the textbook writers to bridge between content and context to increase the effectiveness and quality of mathematics textbook by including more real-life oriented mathematical problems. Along with improved teachers’ practice and quality textbook, this study will eventually provide opportunities for students to be engaged with mathematics in a more meaningful way and to finally develop their mathematical literacy at an expected level.
Evaluation and Analysis of User Satisfaction of Ride-Sharing Service: An Assurance and Empathy in Bangladesh Perspective

The key purpose of the research work is to evaluate and analyze ride-sharing service (RSS) users’ satisfaction, from the assurance and empathy perspective in Bangladesh. Factors applied in the study are adopted from the SERVQUAL dimensions (reliability, responsiveness, assurance, tangibility, and empathy). Data were collected with a structured questionnaire from RSS users from Dhaka city. Study hypotheses were tested with the regression analysis method in SPSS. And the result indicates that ride-sharing services are satisfaction generators from both the assurance and empathy perspectives. The study may provide some insights to the relevant service providers in planning further service offerings and improved services to ensure greater user satisfaction.
Design and build: a survey of construction contractors’ views

Design and build (D & B) has become a popular mode of procuring construction work. A total of 52 construction firms responsible for 25% of UK construction output for 1991 were surveyed using a structured questionnaire to investigate their current views on this procurement route. The Novation D & B is widely used although not favoured by contractors. The contractors would like consultants to continue to provide them with concept design and specification and would rather support the develop and construct technique. ‘Design and manage’ and ‘design, manage and construct’ are not attractive to clients and resented by contractors. The usage of D & B on private sector projects is ≈21% of work-load from this sector compared to 12% from public sector.
NCCN Distress Thermometer and Problem List for Patients Version 2.2016

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Learning with nearest neighbour classifiers

Premi extraordinari ex-aequo en l'àmbit d'Electrònica i Telecomunicacions. Convocatoria 1999 - 2000 Nearest Neighbour (NN) classifiers are one of the most celebrated algorithms in machine learning. In recent years, interest in these methods has flourished again in several fields (including statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition) since, in spite of their simplicity, they reveal as powerful non-parametric classification systems in real-world problems. The present work is mainly devoted to the development of new learning algorithms for these classifiers and is focused on the following topics:- Development of learning algorithms for crisp and soft k-NN classifiers with large margin- Extension and generalization of Kohonen's LVQ algorithms- Local stabilization techniques for ensembles of NN classifiers- Study of the finite-sample convergence of the on-line LVQ1 and k-means algorithmsBesides, a novel oriented principal component analysis (OPCA) addressed for featureextraction in classification is introduced. The method integrates the feature extraction into the classifier and performs global training to extract those features useful for the classifier. The application of this general technique in the context of NN classifiers derives in a problem of learning their weight metric.
Methodological Development of Mathematical Modeling Techniques in Health Care

The advancement of mathematical model has utilized for simulating the output of medical is a development area over medicine whereas the modeling can be mentioned with several activities namely simulation or decision analysis and predictive modeling. However, the traditional modeling technique utilized in planning of health service, assessment reports and its efficiency, financing about health care and assessment in budget impact, assessment in health economics, surveillance of infectious disease and other health care application. Therefore, the mathematical modelling is performed as a frequent and timely benefit in order to make rapid decision making while facing investigation with several issues like time elapsing, unusual and unethical particularly projected for future. This paper focused in applying the mathematical modeling to accomplish an optimal decision making in healthcare whereas this study discuss about the specific modeling concepts namely decision tree and fuzzified rule tables on evaluation of health economics and better service planning that my replicate the individual experience or patients cohorts.
Translating corporate strategy into project strategy: realizing corporate strategy through project management

Considered the new silver bullet in guiding corporate strategy, Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy, examines how project management tools and principles can be used to effectively advance business strategy. Through case studies from a variety of industries, the authors demonstrate how successful organizations move beyond mission statements and five-year plans to create the processes that are necessary to carry out time-oriented goals and projects. In addition to examining these successes, the authors also identify effective strategy implementation processes, define the relevant terms using the standards of PMIs PMBOK® Guide, outline staff roles and responsibilities, and offer several different models of personnel structure and capabilities that reflect project management principles and methods. Offering a compelling look into yet another way the project management profession is impacting business results, this book is an indispensable tool for business leaders at all levels.
PERANCANGAN ALAT PENGAMAN DAN TRACKING KENDARAAN SEPEDA MOTOR DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN MIKROKONTROLER ATMEGA644PA

A bstrak Kasus pencurian sepeda motor semakin meningkat akhir – akhir ini. Namun tingkat pengukapan kasus yang berhasil dilakukan oleh pihak kepolisian tergolong minim. Salah satu penyebabnya adalah sulitnya tim penyelidik untuk mecari lokasi kendaraan yang dicuri tersebut berada. Salah satu solusi yang bisa dilakukan adalah dengan memasang pelacak pada sepeda motor kita. Dengan semakin berkembangnya teknologi, perangkat GPS dapat kita gunakan sebagai alat untuk melacak kendaraan kita dari tindak pidana pencurian. Dengan mengaplikasikan GPS pada sepeda motor, kita bisa mengetahui posisi kendaraan tersebut, di belahan bumi manapun motor itu berada. Kemudian ditambah perangkat GSM, posisi kendaraan tersebut dapat dikirimkan menggunakan GPRS. Sehingga jika suatu ketika motor tersebut hilang, kita dapat dengan mudah untuk menemukannya kembali. Pada tugas akhir ini akan dibahas perancangan alat pelacak menggunakan modul GPS NEO 6M dan pengaman menggunakan modul GSM SIM900 untuk kendaraan sepeda motor dengan menggunakan mikrokontroler ATMEGA644PA sebagai pengendalinya. Hasil penelitian ini menyimpulkan modul GPS yang digunakan memiliki selisih sekitar 0,23”-0,25” untuk koordinat lintang dan 0,02”-0,05” untuk koordinat bujur dan alat yang dirancang dapat bekerja sesuai dengan yang diinginkan meskipun terdapat sedikit perbedaan pada posisi awal pelacakan kendaraan. Kata K unci: GPS, GSM, ATMEGA644, keamanan, Sepeda Motor. Abstract Cases of motorcycle theft has increased lately. But the level of completion successful cases done by the police relatively minimal. One reason is the difficulty a team of investigators to look for the location of the stolen vehicle is located. One of the possible solutions is to install a tracker on our motorcycles. With the development of technology, the GPS device can be used as a tool to track our vehicles from criminal act of theft. By applying the GPS on a motorcycle, we can know the position of the vehicle, anywhere in the world that the motor be. Then added a GSM device, the position of the vehicle can be sent using GPRS. So if an when the motor is gone, we can easily to find it again. This final project will discuss the design of a GPS tracking device using NEO module 6M and safety devices using SIM900 GSM module for motorcycle by using ATMEGA644PA microcontroller as controller. The results of this study concluded that used the GPS module has difference of around 0.23 "-0.25" for the coordinates of latitude and 0.02 "-0.05" for the longitude and tools designed to work as expected even though there is little difference at the initial position of the vehicle tracking. Keyword: GPS, GSM, ATMEGA644, motorcycle safety
Offset Test Design and Preliminary Results

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is conducting a research program to investigate the feasibility of a high speed frontal offset deformable barrier (ODB) crash test to improve frontal occupant crash protection. The focus of the program is to reduce debilitating lower extremity injuries in frontal offset collisions. This paper discusses three areas of research in this program: new seating procedure, preliminary results of the new crash test, and an analysis of frontal stiffness characteristics of redesigned vehicles and their ODB test procedure performance. The new seating procedure uses Hybrid III male dummies fitted with Thor-LX/HIII legs (HIII50LX). A particularly challenging problem was the development of a test procedure with repeatable positioning of the Thor-LX/HIII feet with respect to the pedals in some vehicles. inversion/eversion was the primary failure mode of the ankle was. The kinematics and mechanism of this failure are examined. Preliminary data are presented that compare the frontal stiffness characteristics of vehicle models that were redesigned and used in both New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crashworthiness rating programs. The potential impact of this on the compatibility of the light vehicle fleet is discussed.
Polyether based block copolymer membranes for CO2 separation

The work described in this thesis is dedicated to the development of polymeric membrane materials for the separation of CO2 from light gases, and in particular to the separation of CO2 from nitrogen as required in a post-combustion capture conguration for the separation of CO2 from flue gases. An attractive group of materials for this separation are multi-block copolymers containing polyether based soft segments, as they combine a reasonably high CO2 permeability with a suciently high CO2/N2 selectivity. Examples of such polymeric membrane materials are the wellknown, commercially available, block copolymer families PEBAX® and PolyActive®. Their practical use is nonetheless limited as obtained gas permeabilities are too low for an economically viable process. In this thesis two dierent design strategies to tune and signicantly increase the performance of polyether based multi-block copolymer membranes are investigated.
Application of Docking Methods: An Effective In Silico Tool for Drug Design

Using computational approaches we can dock small molecules into the structures of Macromolecular targets and then score their potential complementarity to binding sites is widely used in hit identification and lead optimization techniques. This review seeks to provide the application of docking in structure-based drug design (binding mode prediction, Lead Identification and Lead optimization), and also discussed how to manage errors in docking methodology in order to overcome certain limitations of docking and scoring algorithm.
Memory and archives in community informatics: Assembling and using the records of the U.S. Technology Opportunities Program, 1994-2005

Community informatics as research and practice is fundamental to the informatization of society. How we remember this will inform research, policy, and practice, and memory depends on archives. A project is underway to build and use a major archive of community informatics practice in the US, the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) at the Department of Commerce. TOP awarded USD 230 million to local communities during 1994-2005, and the archive contains physical and electronic information on most of the 600 projects, including a research-ready dataset. We explain the archiving process, with comparison to an earlier smaller archive.
Simultaneous Modeling of Passenger and Cargo Demand at an Airport

Forecasts for passenger and cargo demands are important parameters for airport planners. Although there are a number of studies for passenger demand in an airport, the number of studies for air cargo is much smaller. Also, these two entities are often dealt with separately in the literature. However, there can be advantages in modeling them simultaneously, especially when time series data are used for estimating the demand models. A seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) framework is followed to jointly model passenger and cargo demand at the Shahjalal International Airport at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Allowing for contemporaneous correlation between the air passenger and air cargo demand models in the SUR approach allows a more efficient and reliable estimate than ordinary least squares and individual cointegration methods. Results of the simultaneous demand modeling are used to forecast passenger and cargo demand at the airport up to 2030.
Design of millimeter-wave MEMS-based reconfigurable front-end circuits using the standard CMOS technology

This paper describes the designs of three reconfigurable CMOS-MEMS front-end components for V-/W-band applications. The suspended MEMS structure is released through post-CMOS micromachining. To achieve circuit reconfigurability, dual-state and multi-state fishbone-beam-drive actuators are proposed herein. The reconfigurable bandstop is fabricated in a 0.35 µm CMOS process with the chip size of 0.765 × 0.98 mm2, showing that the stop-band frequency can be switched from 60 to 50 GHz with 40 V actuation voltage. The measured isolation is better than 38 dB at 60 GHz and 34 dB at 50 GHz, respectively. The bandpass filter-integrated single-pole single-throw switch, using the 0.18 µm CMOS process, demonstrates that insertion loss and return loss are better than 6.2 and 15 dB from 88 to 100 GHz in the on-state, and isolation is better than 21 dB in the off-state with an actuation voltage of 51 V. The chip size is 0.7 × 1.04 mm2. The third component is a reconfigurable slot antenna fabricated in a 0.18 µm CMOS process with the chip size of 1.2 × 1.2 mm2. By utilizing the multi-state actuators, the frequencies of this antenna can be switched to 43, 47, 50.5, 54, 57.5 GHz with return loss better than 20 dB. Those circuits demonstrate good RF performance and are relatively compact by employing several size miniaturizing techniques, thereby enabling a great potential for the future single-chip transceiver.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ACROSS AUSTRALIA'S NON-METROPOLITAN FUNCTIONAL ECONOMIC REGIONS 12

There has been a significant amount of work published which aims to understand the socio-economic performance of Australia's non-metropolitan regions, cities and towns. Significantly much of this work has illustrated the variation in outcomes that characterise different places as they adjust to new and evolving social, economic, demographic and environmental realities. This existing research often focuses on spatial boundaries (regions, cities or towns) that are created for administrative reasons. While this is useful, it is also important to understand the social, economic and other processes as they are occurring in places that make up functional social or economic regions. Addressing the socio-economic outcomes of such functional regions is the focus of this paper. It utilises newly derived functional economic regions for non-metropolitan Australia and census data for 2006 to undertake a multivariate analysis which explores the variation in socio-economic outcomes across these new regions. Importantly, this analysis provides a new understanding of the varied outcomes that characterise Australia's non-metropolitan regions.
800 MHz high-power duplexer using TM dual mode dielectric resonators

A small-size, high-power duplexer in the 800-MHz band has been developed by using whole monoblock TM/sub 110/ dual-mode dielectric resonators. Insertion loss is less than 0.35 dB over a 20-MHz bandwidth in a TX filter and less than 0.47 dB over a 40-MHz bandwidth in a RX filter. Volume is less than 3000 cm/sup 3/, which corresponds to about 20% of the reentrant cavity resonator filter. This duplexer is useful for current and future cellular base stations. <<ETX>>
EMI detection by means of wavelet

This paper proposes a new EMI detection approach. The approach uses a wavelet to analyze various waveforms (generated by CAD or measured by digital oscilloscope) in a particular circuit, identify specialized EMI spectrum distribution in the circuit layout in order to assist removing EMI quickly. An EMI detection application for a DC-DC converter is also offered.
Photography with a microscope

List of plates Abbreviations and symbols Preface Part I. Basic Photomicrography: 1. Introduction to photomicrography 2. The microscope 3. Basic photomicrography 4. Limited-budget photomicrography 5. Presentation and aesthetics Part II. Microscopy: 6. The optical magnifying system 7. The illumination optical system 8. Lamps and filters Part III. Special Optical Techniques: 9. Darkground 10. Phase- and interference-contrast, polarization 11. Fluoresence 12. Infrared and ultraviolet 13. Stereomicroscopy Part IV. Advanced Photomicrography: 14. Camera systems 15. Advanced Photomicrography 16. Coping with low light levels 17. Digital, confocal and video techniques Part V. Materials and Processing: 18. Photographic materials and processing 19. Drawing Part VI. Appendices: A1. Care and maintenance of equipment A2. Troubleshooting A3. Exercises References Index.