Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SPEED CONTROL OF A DC MOTOR WITH ADAPTIVE FUZZY PID BASED DISTURBANCE OBSERVER

DC motors are one of the widely used actuators in industrial applications. And its the reliability of DC motor performance becomes an important prerequisite that must be met. Therefore, a control scheme is required to meet the above performance demands, especially in the transient, steady state, and system stability aspects. The main problems in DC motor control system, mainly in terms of speed control, are the event of changes in system parameters and the presence of trouble such as load changes. AFPID scheme plays a role in handling the change of system parameters, while Dob(Disturbance Observer) serves to estimate the occurrence of disturbance. The integrated of AFPID with DOb offers a more stable performance to DC motor has and is more insensitive to disturbance.
Multiscale Superpixel Segmentation With Deep Features for Change Detection

In this paper, a novel change detection technique is proposed based on multiscale superpixel segmentation and stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAE). This approach is designed to achieve superpixel-based change detection, in which the basic analysis unit is between pixel-based and object-based ones. Given two original images, the difference image (DI) is obtained by conventional DI generation methods. Then, we propose a multiscale superpixel segmentation which is guided by the changing degrees estimated from the DI. Different from traditional multiscale superpixel, the proposed multiscale superpixel segmentation is employed in a single map. In the proposed method, SDAE is used to learn the difference representation between bi-temporal superpixels. Bi-temporal superpixels are stacked and fed into SDAE for its pre-training, and then SDAE is fine-tuned according to pseudo labels generated by traditional unsupervised methods. After fine-tuned with back propagation, the SDAE can be used to classify all superpixel pairs into changed or unchanged ones. The experimental results on real remote sensing datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
JWOLF: Java Free French Wordnet Library

The electronic lexical databases WordNets, have become essential for many computer applications, especially in linguistic research. Free French WordNet is an XML lexical database for French language based on Princeton WordNet for the English language and other multilingual resources. So far, research on Free French WordNet has focused on the construction and relevance of lexico-semantic information. However, no effort is made to facilitate the exploitation of this database under the Java language. In this context, this paper proposes our approach for the development of a new Java API based on Java Architecture for XML Binding. This Java API will make it easier for developers to exploit and use Free French WordNet to create applications for natural language processing. In order to assess the usefulness of our API, The API performance has been evaluated in the context of a Browser that we developed to extract semantic and lexical relations connecting synsets contained in this database, such as: the tree of hypernymy, the tree of hyponymy, synonyms, etc. The results showed that our API perfectly meets the needs of programmatically exploitation, exploration and consultation of this database in a Java application.
The Psychology of Collective Action

Personality and social psychology research on motivation for collective action is reviewed and integrated into a model. Integrating individual difference variables into the study of motivation for collective action allows a deeper, more complex understanding of this motivation and can explain why some group members develop group consciousness and become politically active whereas others do not. The personality work effectively identifies correlates of collective action without necessarily providing explanations of motivation. The social psychological work provides convincing motives for collective action but downplays individual difference variables. The integration of these two traditions addresses these gaps and allows for a deeper, more complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of the development of group consciousness and links to collective action. Promising areas for potential future research are discussed.
A Clinical Study of the Use of Savary‑Gilliard Dilators in Corrosive Esophageal Strictures without the Use of Fluoroscopy: A Reality in Resource‑Limited Settings in a Developing Country

ABSTRACT Context: Corrosive compounds are either acids or alkalis, and their ingestion can cause esophageal strictures which may be tortuous and multiple. Aims: The aim of study was to assess therapeutic efficacy and safety of dilatation using Savary‑Gilliard dilators in these patients without the use of fluoroscopy. Settings and Design: A cross‑sectional observational study, conducted for 18 months in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Western India. Subjects and Methods: Ten dysphagic patients who had a history of corrosive ingestion 2 months or more before presentation, who had documented esophageal strictures on endoscopy were included. Barium swallow and endoscopy confirmed the site, length, and number of strictures. Dilatation with Savary‑Gilliard dilators was done without the use of fluoroscopy with the help of guide wire in “rule of threes. ” Patients were followed up immediately and for 12 months. Descriptive statistics, mean, and SD were applied in EPI info version 7 software. Results: The mean age of 29 + 6.5 years and 70% were females. About 80% had dysphagia Grades III and IV. On endoscopy, 40% had strictures at multiple sites and 60% of patients had strictures more than 5 cm in length. 50% strictures were very tight. Number of patients in whom there was the passage of one dilator more than the stricture in the first session were 80%. A mean of 8.28 sessions of dilatation were required. Adequate dysphagia relief was achieved in 8 (80%) patients, while there were 2 failures. A total of 180 dilatations were performed on these 10 patients of corrosive strictures over a period of 12 months. One minor perforation occurred in this study. Conclusions: In resource‑limited settings such as India, dilatation without fluoroscopy can be considered as effective and safe initial management for corrosive strictures.
Sum Rate Fairness Trade-off-based Resource Allocation Technique for MISO NOMA Systems

In this paper, we propose a beamforming design that jointly considers two conflicting performance metrics, namely the sum rate and fairness, for a multiple-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system. Unlike the conventional rate-aware beamforming designs, the proposed approach has the flexibility to assign different weights to the objectives (i.e., sum rate and fairness) according to the network requirements and the channel conditions. In particular, the proposed design is first formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem, and subsequently mapped to a single objective optimization (SOO) problem by exploiting the weighted sum approach combined with a prior articulation method. As the resulting SOO problem is non-convex, we use the sequential convex approximation technique, which introduces multiple slack variables, to solve the overall problem. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance and the effectiveness of the proposed approach along with detailed comparisons with conventional rate-aware-based beamforming designs.
Effects of NAA BA and Sucrose on Shoot Induction and Rapid Micropropagation by Trimming Shoot of Curcuma longa L.

Shoot tips of Curcuma longa L. were used as explants. These explants were cultured on MS medium supplemented with various concentrations of (0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 mg/l) BA and (0, 0.5, and 1 mg/l) NAA. They were significant difference (p≤0.05) in each parameter. Explants which were cultured on MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/l NAA and 2 or 3 mg/l BA gave the highest average number of new shoots ( 2.4, 2.6 shoots, respectively) and number of leaves (5.4 leaves), optimum number of roots (2.6 roots per shoot), and plant height (4.5 cm). MS medium supplemented with only 2 mg/l BA produced the highest average number of shoot (2.6 shoots) and 5.4 leaves per shoot. Explants were trimmed in longitudinal sections (LS) to 2 and 3 sections. At 2 sections gave the highest number of new shoots (4.3 shoots per section). Explants which were cultured on MS medium with 60 gm/l gave the highest average shoots and leaves per bunch, and longest and biggest size of root. Keyword: Curcuma longa L. ; BA; NAA; sucrose; trimming
Object-based Activity Recognition with Heterogeneous Sensors on Wrist

Recent development of wearable technology has opened great opportunities for human performance evaluation applications in various domains. In order to measure the physical activities of an individual, wrist-worn sensors embedded in smart-watches, fitness bands, and clip-on devices can be used to collect various types of data while the subject performs regular daily activities.In this paper we are going to explain how to achieve activities of daily living(ADLs) using a sensor device attached to a users wrist. This device contains a camera, a microphone and an accelerometer. In this experience we will collect the data from the sensors in our device and try to analyse it, in order to recognise the type of the activity. In this way we will be able to recognize ADLs that contain manual use of objects such as making a drink or cooking. Finally, we will be able to say, that the camera plays the major rule in this experience and without it would be difficult to achieve our goal. We will also suggest a method that will protect the privacy of the user, as the camera and the microphone can records part of the users private life.
Voltage Sag Investigation of Microgrid in the presence of SMES and SVC

A Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)-based wind power generation system in microgrid significantly affects the power system operation. This paper describes the behavior of a microgrid with DFIG’s by use of control strategies under voltage sag conditions. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) unit and a Static Var Compensator (SVC) are employed to increase the operation of a wind power generation system based on DFIG during a voltage sag. Comprehensive simulation with the relevant details is performed using MatLab/Simulink software to define the effect of the SMES and SVC units by increasing the efficiency and performance of the system during voltage sag condition in a microgrid and the results are compared. For optimal use of the SMES and SVC units, economic considerations are applied.
Multi-scale habitat models for reintroduced bird populations: a case study of South Island saddlebacks on Motuara Island

Understanding resource selection by animals is important when considering habitat suitability at proposed release sites within threatened species recovery programmes. Multi-scale investigatory approaches are increasingly encouraged, as the patchy distribution of suitable habitats in fragmented landscapes often determines species presence and survival. Habitat models applied to a threatened New Zealand forest passerine, the South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus carunculatus), reintroduced to Ulva Island (Stewart Island) found that at landscape scale breeding pairs' preferences for sites near the coast were driven by micro-scale vegetation structure. We tested these results by examining models of breeding site selection by a reintroduced saddleback population on Motuara Island (Marlborough Sounds) at two scales: (1) micro-scale, for habitat characteristics that may drive breeding site selection, and (2) landscape scale, for variations in micro-scale habitat characteristics that may influence site colonisation in breeding pairs. Results indicated that birds on Motuara Island responded similarly to those on Ulva Island, i.e. birds primarily settled at the margins of coastal scrub and forest and later cohorts moved into larger stands of coastal forest where they established breeding territories. Plant species composition was also important in providing breeding saddleback pairs with adequate food supply and nesting support. However, Motuara Island birds differed in their partitioning of habitat use: preferred habitats were used for nesting while birds were foraging outside territorial boundaries or in shared sites. These differences may be explained because Motuara has a more homogeneous distribution of micro- scale habitats throughout the landscape and a highly bird-populated environment. These results show that resource distribution and abundance across the landscape needs to be accounted for in the modelling of density-bird-habitat relationships. In the search for future release sites, food (invertebrates and fruiting tree species) should be abundant close to available nesting sites, or evenly spread and available throughout the landscape.
The employee-organization relationship: applications for the 21st century

J.N. Cleveland, K.R. Murphy, Series Foreword. L.M. Shore, J.A. -M. Coyle-Shapiro, L.E. Tetrick, Expanding the Boundaries and Challenging the Assumptions of the Employee-Organization Relationship (EOR) Literature. Part 1. New Ways of Thinking about the EOR. B.E. Ashforth, K.M. Rogers, Is the Employee-Organization Relationship Misspecified? The Centrality of Tribes in Experiencing the Organization. M. Schminke, The Employee-Organization Relationship and Ethics: When it Comes to Ethical Behavior, Who is the Organization and Why Does it Matter? D. van Kippenberg, Social Identity-Based Leadership and the Employee-Organization Relationship. J. McLean Parks, F.L. Smith, Resource Commensurability and Ideological Elements of the Exchange Relationship. L.M. Shore, J.A. -M. Coyle-Shapiro, Perceived Organizational Cruelty: An Expansion of the Negative Employee-Organization Relationship Domain. J.L. Pearce, Assumptions in Employee-Organization Relationship Research: A Critical Perspective from the Study of Volunteers. Part 2. Putting the `R' Back in the EOR. D.E. Guest, R. Rodrigues, Can the Organizational Career Survive? An Evaluation within a Social Exchange Perspective. E. Ernst Kossek, M.N. Ruderman, Work-Family Flexibility and the Employment Relationship. D.G. Gallagher, C.E. Connelly, Rethinking the EOR: Insights from the Experiences of Contingent Workers. K.M. Bartol, Y. Dong, Virtual EOR: Linking in to the Challenge of Increasingly Virtual Employee-Organizational Relationships. R. Takeuchi, A Relational Perspective on the Employee-Organization Relationship: A Critique and Proposed Extension. Part 3. Creation, Maintenance and Complexion of the EOR. D.L. Shapiro, M. Fugate, Fostering Anticipatory Justice: A New Option for Enhancing the Employee-Organization Relationship? A.M. Ryan, AOR and EOR: What's the Connection? P.W. Hom, Employee-Organizational Relationships: Their Impact on Push-and-Pull Forces for Staying and Leaving. M. Wang, Y. Zhan, Employee-Organization Relationships in Older Workers. Part 4. Organizational and Strategic Implications. D. Lepak, W.R. Boswell, Strategic HRM and Employee-Organizational Relationship (EOR). L.E. Tetrick, Emotions: The Glue that Holds the Employee-Organization Relationships Together (or Not). D.R. Avery, P.F. McKay, Q.M. Roberson, Managing Diversity Means Managing Differently: A Look at the Role of Racioethnicity in Perceptions of Organizational Support. E. Salas, S.M. Fiore, Why Work Teams Fail in Organizations: Myths and Advice. W.F. Cascio, R.J. Greene, The EOR and the Scholar-Practitioner Divide. L.M. Shore, J.A. -M. Coyle-Shapiro, L.E. Tetrick, What We Have Learned and Recommendations Going Forward.
Inter-consonantal intervals in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic: Accounting for variable epenthesis

This paper reports on an acoustic investigation of inter-consonantal intervals in plosive sequences in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic (TLA). TLA permits a wide range of two, three, and four-consonant strings within and across word boundaries. Previous descriptive work has suggested that TLA is characterized by widespread, partly optional vowel epenthesis throughout these sequences. We conducted a production study to investigate the phonetic and phonological properties of inter-consonantal intervals (ICIs) in these sequences, including their durations and voicing characteristics, as well as the voicing of surrounding plosive hold phases. Our aim was to assess the extent of ‘variable epenthesis’ and narrow down the range of possible accounts for it. Unlike many previous studies, we did not rely on native speaker intuitions and made minimal use of manual categorical coding, instead focusing on modelling distributions of continuous acoustic parameters. The central question we address is whether our data contain patterns that can only be explained with reference to phonological vowel insertion—given that variable epenthesis can also be accounted for in terms of vocoid intrusion alone (Hall, 2006). Our study improves our understanding of consonant articulations in Arabic, and of epenthesis and related phenomena.
Heterogeneous Delay Tomography for Wide-Area Mobile Networks

In this paper, we consider network monitoring techniques to estimate communication qualities in wide-area mobile networks, where an enormous number of heterogeneous components such as base stations, routers, and servers are deployed. We assume that average delays of neighboring base stations are comparable, most of servers have small delays, and delays at core routers are negligible. Under these assumptions, we propose Heterogeneous Delay Tomography (HDT) to estimate the average delay at each network component from end-to-end round trip times (RTTs) between mobile terminals and servers. HDT employs a crowdsourcing approach to collecting RTTs, where voluntary mobile users report their empirical RTTs to a data collection center. From the collected RTTs, HDT estimates average delays at base stations in the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT) domain and average delays at servers, by means of Compressed Sensing (CS). In the crowdsourcing approach, the performance of HDT may be degraded when the voluntary mobile users are unevenly distributed. To resolve this problem, we further extend HDT by considering the number of voluntary mobile users. With simulation experiments, we evaluate the performance of HDT. key words: delay tomography, graph Fourier transform (GFT), compressed sensing (CS), crowdsourcing, mobile network
A NEW MIDDLE MIOCENE HEGETOTHERIID (NOTOUNGULATA: TYPOTHERIA) AND A PHYLOGENY OF THE HEGETOTHERIIDAE

Abstract A new species of hegetotheriid notoungulate, Hemihegetotherium trilobus, is described from the middle Miocene (Laventan SALMA) Quebrada Honda Fauna of southern Bolivia. It differs from all previously described hegetotheriines in possessing a distinctly trilobed m3, a character state previously recorded only in pachyrukhine hegetotheriids. It further differs from other species of Hemihegetotherium in having a proportionately larger p2 and in overall size (being smaller than H. achataleptum and larger than H. torresi). A phylogenetic analysis of hegetotheriid genera coded for 26 characters supports referral of this species to Hemihegetotherium, but does not support the monophyly of Hegetotheriinae; the monophyly of Pachyrukhinae (including Prosotherium and Propachyrucos) is strongly supported. The resulting tree suggests that the lack of tibiofibular fusion in Oligocene pachyrukhines is a secondarily derived trait, but additional postcranial data are needed to provide a stronger test of this hypothesis. Hemihegetotherium trilobus is the most abundant ungulate at Quebrada Honda and is the only species of hegetotheriid present. This contrasts with most other South American paleofaunas in which pachyrukhines are more common than hegetotheriines (e.g., Arroyo Chasicó) and/or other small notoungulates are more common than hegetotheriids (e.g., Chucal, Nazareno). Although the absence of pachyrukhines at Quebrada Honda may be due to a lack of suitable habitat, it is also possible that pachyrukhines had not dispersed north to southern Bolivia by the middle Miocene. Further investigations of Quebrada Honda may help discriminate between these two alternatives and should also help clarify the biogeographic histories of other Miocene taxa.
Use of High-Level Synthesis to Generate Hardware from Software

SoCやFPGAの設計は,動作アルゴリズムを設計し (動作設計),それを実現するブロック図レベルのハードウェ ア構成(RTL記述)を設計し(機能設計),それぞれのハー ドウェアブロックをAND,NAND等の論理回路部品で設計 し(詳細論理設計),その回路の論理回路部品をLSIチップ上 の配置位置と配線経路を決定する(レイアウト設計)工程から なっている. かつて数千ゲートの時代は全て人手で行われて きたが,数万ゲート,数十万ゲート,数百万ゲートと回路が 大規模化するに伴い,下流のレイアウト設計から順に自動化 ツールの実用化が始まった. LSIは下流工程に行くほど扱う 部品点数が増大し,人手設計が時間的また能力的に困難とな ソフトウェアプログラムから ハードウェア記述を合成する高位合成技術 プロセッサ以外の汎用プログラム実行機構 Use of High-Level Synthesis to Generate Hardware from Software — Another Alternative General-Purpose Program-Executing Mechanism to the CPU —
Study on JV Virus in Patients with Colon Cancer Type Adenocarcinoma

Introduction: Colorectal cancer is the most repetitious malignancies with high mortality worldwide. JC virus (JCV) is ubiquitous Polyomavirus, with seroprevalence rates ranging from 70% to 90% in adult population. Recently the role of JCV have been reported in many malignant tumors worldwide. The association of JCV was reported in patients with colon and rectum cancers. Thus this study was conducted to evaluate the association of JCV DNA in patients with colon cancer type Adenocarcinoma. Material and Methods: A total of 120 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue blocks samples were collected including 20/40(50%) males, 20/40(50%) females patients with Colorectal Cancer(CRC), and 80 (50% males, 50% females) patients with benign tumor as a control. DNA was extracted for all the samples. Nested PCR was carried out for detection of Vp1/T-Ag junction genome in JCV genome by Nested-PCR assay. Randomly, PCR products of 6 samples were sequenced to analysis the partial JCV DNA. The phylogeny tree was constructed to determine homology identity with other JCV. Results: 4/40(10%) samples of test group and 10/80 (12.5%) of control samples were positive for JCV DNA (P= 0.69). Out of 4 samples positive for JC DNA, 3(7.5%) were males and 1(2.4%) female (P=0.29). The frequency of JCV DNA in age group> 50 years was 4/32(10%), while in age group <50 years was 0/8 (0%) (p= 0.29). Conclusion: prevalence of JCV DNA was among 10% patients with CRC and 12.5% benign tumors (p=0.69). The distribution of JCV DNA was among 7.5% male and 2.5% female (p= 0.29). The frequency of JCV DNA was among 10% cases of age group >50 years and 0% of age group <50 years (P= 0.29). The subsequent T-Ag protein expression might explain the increased risk of colorectal cancer and requires further investigation.