Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Everything You Wanted to Know About Noninvasive Bloodless Glucose Monitoring

Diabetes is a chronicle disease where the body of a human is irregular to dissolve the blood glucose properly. The diabetes is due to lack of insulin in human body. The continuous monitoring of blood glucose is main important aspect for health care. Most of the successful glucose monitoring devices is based on methodology of pricking of blood from ear lobe or finger. There is requirement to develop the Internet-Medical-Things (IoMT) integrated Healthcare Cyber-Physical System (H-CPS) based Smart Healthcare framework for glucose measurement with purpose of continuous health monitoring. To fulfill the imperatives for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system, there is a need to configure an accurate measurement device. Noninvasive glucose-level monitoring device for clinical test overcomes the problem of frequent pricking for blood samples.
Effective binuclear Pd(II) complexes for Suzuki reactions in water

A series of new ionic binuclear Pd(II) complexes supported by water-soluble bis(α-diimine) ligands were prepared and employed as catalysts for the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki reaction in aqueous media. The binuclear nature of the complexes increased the reaction rate, while electronic and steric modification of the ligand frameworks had a remarkable influence upon the catalytic activity of the palladium complexes. The catalysts were shown to be homogeneous through mercury poisoning experiments and complexes could be recycled more than 10 times without loss of catalytic activity. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries

We analyze an automatically-parsed British Hansard to identify approximately 200 verbs that first appeared in transitive constructions in British English in the 19th and 20th centuries. We use this list of verbs to test two hypotheses about new verb forms. First, we test the hypothesis that rarer verb lemmas are more likely to experience language change compared to more common verb lemmas. As measured by our specific notion of language change, we find that this is true only up to a certain rarity, and extremely rare lemmas are actually less likely to change compared to somewhat rare lemmas. Second, for new transitive verbs, we test the hypothesis that the passive construction is introduced later than its active counterpart. We find some evidence for this hypothesis but show that it is not universally true by exhibiting several verbs whose active and passive usages were introduced simultaneously.
Blending of NR/BR/EPDM by reactive processing for tire sidewall applications. III. Assessment of the blend ozone‐ and fatigue‐resistance in comparison with a conventional NR/BR compound

The NR/BR blend compound formulations for tire sidewall applications contain a set of stabilizers added to prevent degradation mainly due to oxygen, ozone, and heat. 6PPD is the most effective and widely used antiozonant in tire compounds, but is a highly staining material causing a surface discoloration of the tire sidewall. Incorporation of 30 phr EPDM into blends of NR/BR improves the ozone resistance to the required level, without the need of 6PPD. The first two parts of this series have described a reactive processing technique applied to enhance the covulcanization and blend homogeneity, together with their characterization. In the present article, the properties of the NR/BR/EPDM blends prepared by both reactive and straight mixing are tested in comparison with those of equivalent conventional NR/BR compounds. The reactive NR/BR/EPDM blend vulcanizates show excellent tensile strength, elongation at break, tear strength, fatigue-to-failure, and ozone resistance in both static and dynamic conditions. The properties are equivalent or even superior to those of the conventional NR/BR tire sidewall compounds. The simple straight mixed NR/BR/EPDM blend vulcanizates distinctively possess inferior mechanical properties compared to those of the reactive mix.
Decomposition of glycine in high temperature and high pressure water

グリシンの水熱反応に関する研究を，温度260～340°C，圧力30MPaの範囲で行った．グリシン分解による主な生成物は，アミン類，有機酸類および炭酸であることを確認した．これらの生成物から，高温高圧水中におけるグリシンの分解は，脱アミノ反応と脱炭酸反応によって生じていることが示唆された．また，グリシンの分解速度は，実験条件の範囲内において，グリシンの濃度に一次反応として表すことができた．
What Drives Intention to Use Facebook: An Empirical Study of Vietnamese Users

This study aims to investigate users’ attitude and intention to use of a social media site in the context of the Facebook platform. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 134 users of Facebook in Vietnam. Collected data were analyzed by using hierarchical regression analysis. This study points out that trustworthiness and perceived usefulness are the direct predictors of intention to use social media sites such as Facebook. Specifically, trustworthiness is found to have the greatest impact on intention to use Facebook, which is followed by perceived usefulness among Vietnamese users. These findings provide evidence about the value of trust and perceived usefulness that can be considered as direct predictors of behavioural intention to use a product or technology. Moreover, remarkable points are recommended for Facebook developers, business managers and the Vietnamese Government in integrating Facebook as well as other online social media platforms and business strategies. As a result, the study can be helpful for future researchers, managers, practitioners and educators in the area of the Vietnamese social media community.
Chemoprotective Effect of Leaf Extracts of Cecropia distachya Huber (Urticaceae) in Mice Submitted to Oxidative Stress Induced by Cyclophosphamide

The use of medicinal plants has been occurring for many years as a result of information that is passed on through successive generations. Interest in the discovery of new and safe antioxidant drugs has increased. The interest in the discovery of new and safe antioxidant drugs has increased, since plants are rich in secondary metabolites. With this purpose, the objective of this work was to evaluate the chemoprotective effects of the embaúba Cecropia distachya Huber using two methanolic fractions (F1 and F2), on oxidative stress induced by cyclophosphamide (75 mg kg) in mice, as well as some phytochemical analyzes such as LC-MS/MS. The flavonoids quercetin-3β-D-glucoside, rutin and luteolin were identified in F1, but only quercetin-3β-D-glucoside and rutin in F2. In the experimental model, the fractions increased the hepatic and cardiac catalase (CAT), reduced glutathione (GSH) of the kidney and the heart. Besides, both fractions increased the levels of red blood cells (RBC), hematocrit (HCT) and hemoglobin (Hb) and decreased white blood cells (WBC). The effects attributed to F1 only were a reduced liver lipoperoxidation (TBARS) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activity, increased platelet count (PLT) and decreased glucose (GLU) concentration. As for F2, only it decreased the frequency of micronucleus in bone marrow cells. In some cases, the fractions were also hepatotoxic. These results demonstrated that both fractions stimulate the antioxidant defenses, being hypoglycemic (F1) and antimutagenic (F2), and, the harmful effects attributed to the fractions may be the association of compounds that were not elucidated in this work.
Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Evidence from Malaysian’s Households (

The growing consumption of fossil energy fuels that is linked with climate change and quality of life has pushed renewable energy development into the centre of debate on energy security. Renewable energy has become a top priority for the governments in most countries due to its distinctive features of a cleaner energy source. Despite Malaysia’s effort to encourage the various forms of renewable energy ( RE ), the total amount of RE is still very low. Moreover, difficulties arise as the energy supply is highly related to the general wellbeing of the individuals and societies. As such, exploring the consumer’s willingness for RE has become vital as this new knowledge can be used by the government to promote long run RE consumption. This study attempts to investigate consumers’ WTP for RE sources and discover other factors of WTP with special attention to Malaysia setting. By employing a contingent valuation method ( CVM ), the findings reveal that the willingness to pay ( WTP ) for RE is significantly related to the proposed bid price and household income. The results also indicate that consumer on average is willing to pay about RM 3.22 ( USD 0.82) per month for the Renewable Energy Fund. This micro-level investigation can be a useful framework in organising information on how consumers are willing to contribute towards the development of RE in Malaysia.
Competitive surface complexation reactions of sulfate and natural organic carbon on soil

The ecological implications of subsurface SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} loading on nutrient cation leaching, acidification, and the destruction of concrete containers used to store low-level radioactive waste, has been thoroughly addressed. Processes favoring SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} adsorption by the subsurface matrix tend to alleviate these adverse ecological conditions and this has been investigated to a lesser extent. In this study, the adsorption of SO{sub 4}{sup 2} onto several soil types with indigenous SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} and organic carbon removed, was measured as a function of pH in the presence and absence of added natural organic matter (NOM). Sulfate adsorption was strongly pH dependent and the presence of >2 mg L{sup -1} NOM resulted in a consistent decrease in sulfate adsorption over the pH range 4.5 to 8. The tendency of these soils to adsorb SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} was related to their large quantity of Fe-oxides and the presence of kaolinite in the <2-{mu}m clay fraction. A surface complexation model based on electrical double layer theory was used to model the adsorption of SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} was related to their large quantity of Fe-oxides and the presence of kaolinite in the <2-{mu}m clay fraction. A surface complexation model based on electrical doublemore » layer theory was used to model the adsorption behavior of sulfate. A single reaction involving the adsorption of SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} onto positive or neutral surface sites (XOH + H{sup +} + SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} = XSO{sub 4}{sup -} + H{sub 2}O) as a inner-sphere complex proved successful in describing the adsorption of sulfate under the experimental conditions. The estimated value of the intrinsic equilibrium constant (K) for the above reaction was of the order 10{sup 10} suggesting strong sulfate adsorption. Estimated K values were found to be unaffected by the presence of added NOM. 57 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs. « less
Developing a Faroese PoS-tagging solution using Icelandic methods

We describe the development of a dedicated, high-accuracy part-of-speech (PoS) tagging solution for Faroese, a North Germanic language with about 50,000 speakers. To achieve this, a state-of-the-art neural PoS tagger for Icelandic, ABLTagger , was trained on a 100,000 word PoS-tagged corpus for Faroese, standardised with methods previously applied to Icelandic corpora. This tagger was supple-mented with a novel Experimental Database of Faroese Inﬂection (EDFM), which contains morphological information on 67,488 Faroese words with about one million inﬂectional forms. This approach produced a PoS-tagging model for Faroese which achieves a 91.40% overall accuracy when evaluated with 10-fold cross validation, which is currently the highest reported accuracy for a dedicated Faroese PoS-tagger. The tagging model, morphological database, proposed revised PoS tagset for Faroese as well as a revised and standardised PoS tagged corpus are all presented as prod-ucts of this project and are made available for use in further research in Faroese language technology.
Quantum Cryptography: Security for the Post-Quantum world

The predictions of quantum computing potential puts the world’s classical cryptography at risk of exploitation. Cryptographic protocols are used extensively on the World Wide Web. The Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) protocol is just one public-key cryptosystem at risk, as it derives its security from the computational hardness of factoring a large integer into two primes - a feat now possible in a fraction of the time over classical means using Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm. Post-quantum cryptography provides a short-term/cost eﬀective plan to counter quantum attacks, with the goal being to develop cryptographic schemes secure against both quantum and classical computers. Society needs to be pre-emptive, as all the while existing cryptographic protocols are at risk of quantum attacks. Quantum cryptography is a long-term/more costly option, providing new cryptographic schemes which exploit the principles of quantum mechanics to enable provably secure distribution of private information. This paper will discuss the current quantum cryptographic techniques both available and in development, such as: quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum networks, delegated quantum computing techniques (BQC and QHE) and quantum random number generators (QRNGS), along with a new classical scheme heralded as a classical QKD-like protocol. This paper is aimed at computer scientists and people in industry who concern themselves with the post-quantum era of security and cryptography.
Relationship of Parenting and Social Support for Working Single Mothers on the Provision of Balanced Nutrition and Nutritional Status of Early Childhood in Coastal Areas

This study aimed to analyze parenting and social support relationships by working single mothers on balanced nutritious feeding and early childhood nutritional status. This is quantitative research with a cross-sectional design. This research was conducted in the coastal area of the Probolinggo Regency, consisting of 16 sub-districts. The population in this study was 247 single mothers who worked and had 3-year-old children. The sampling technique of this research is simple random sampling. The final sample in this study was 219 people. A short questionnaire measured the sociodemographic data of research respondents (age, last education, and maternal work). Questionnaires measured data on parenting and social support variables. A food recall sheet measured data on balanced nutritious feeding variables to see the food the mother gave to her child within a month. Nutritional status variable data is recorded using the observation sheet. The data analysis technique in this study was logistic regression. The results showed a link between parenting and social support by single mothers who work with balanced nutritious feeding and early childhood nutritional status in coastal areas. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that health education is needed for mothers who have children in early childhood to help them solve the problems they experience when knowing their child is malnourished. Therefore, cross-sectoral cooperation is needed to provide sustainable health education.
Running head: SCOPING REVIEW OF TEAM RESILIENCE 1 RUNNING HEAD: Scoping review of team resilience *Address correspondence to Daniel Gucciardi, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise

Manuscript accepted for publication in Work and Stress: September 24 2018 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article first published online by Taylor & Francis in Work & Stress on 2nd October 2018, available here: http://www.tandfonline. com/doi/full/10.1080/02678373.2018. 1529064 Full Citation: Chapman, M. T. , Lines, R. L. J., Crane, M. , Ducker, K. J., Ntoumanis, N. , Peeling, P., Parker, S. K. , Quested, E. , Temby, P., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C. , & Gucciardi, D. F. (2020). Team resilience: A scoping view of conceptual and empirical work. Work & Stress, 34(1), 57-81. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2018. 1529064 Team Resilience: A Scoping Review of Conceptual and Empirical Work
Diversity of Saprobic Fungi on Magnolia garrettii: Do Collecting Sites and Seasons Affect the Fungal Community?

The diversity of saprobic fungi found on woody litter of Magnolia garrettii collected from Phu Hin Rongkla National Park in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand during the wet and dry seasons, from July 2008 to April 2009, was studied, and the fungal diversity and community was compared with a previous study in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park in Chiang Mai Province. Based on morphological characteristics, 141 taxa were obtained and classified as 40 Ascomycetes, 5 Basidiomycetes, 42 lichens, one unidentified taxon and 53 anamorphic fungi. The number of taxa recovered indicated that Dry season samples supported a more diverse fungal community than samples collected in the wet season, for both collecting sites, although the common genera of fungi obtained during each season were similar. Distinct fungal communities of saprobic fungi collected from each site suggest that site characteristics affect the community composition. Samples from Phu Hin Rongkla National Park provided higher numbers of fungi (especially lichens) than were collected in the previous Doi Suthep-Pui National Park study with few species overlapping in the two sites.
Fast Kernel Error Propagation Analysis in Virtualized Environments

Assessing operating system dependability remains a challenging problem, particularly in monolithic systems. Component interfaces are not well-defined and boundaries are not enforced at runtime. This allows faults in individual components to arbitrarily affect other parts of the system. Software fault injection (SFI) can be used to experimentally assess the resilience of such systems in the presence of faulty components. However, applying SFI to complex, monolithic operating systems poses challenges due to long test latencies and the difficulty of detecting corruptions in the internal state of the operating system.In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages static and dynamic analysis alongside modern operating system and virtual machine features to reduce SFI test latencies for operating system kernel components while enabling efficient and accurate detection of internal state corruptions.We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by applying it to multiple widely used Linux file systems.
IMPROVMENT OFPLANT HEIGHT, HARVEST DATE, AND YIELD OFSIGUPAI ACEH LOCAL RICE BY MUTATION OF GAMMA RAYS IRRADIATION

This research aims to evaluate the M1 mutant rice plants from local Aceh variety that have been improved through Gamma Rays Irradiation 200-400Gy. The implementation of the research was carried out systematically, which is in line with the following methods: (1) evaluation of genotypes and phenotypes on the findings of new mutant lines which include yield potential test, (2) test for drought and high temperature resistance, and (3) test the main resistance to disease, so that better M1 line were obtained. With high productivity and quality, the assembly of this new variety is expected to help improve food security and independence by multiplying the yield and income of farmers that adopt it. This mutant line had the following advantages: high productivity>7 tons/ha; adaptive to extreme climates (drought and high temperatures); saving production facilities/agroinput; early maturing/fast harvest (100-110 days), large tillers/panicles, more resistant to pests and diseases; and high quality. The results will enrich the source of new genetic diversity in order to anticipate the threat of global climate changes, environmental damage, and the threat of future food crises. Therefore, the superior Aromatic Super Rice can be used more effectively and efficiently to encourage the rice seed industry in the future.
Developing a model of speech production using the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) and the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA)

Only a few approaches exist that are capable of combining the symbolic linguistic part of speech production with the phonetic sensory-motor part. The latter is especially difficult to model due to the need for a concrete articulatory-acoustic model that is controlled by a motor module activating a temporally well synchronized set of speech articulator movement units (SAMUs) based on the output of the phonological-linguistic module [1]. In addition, a stream of realistic somatosensory (tactile as well as proprioceptive) and auditive feedback signals is needed. The generation of realistic feedback signals requires a high-level articulatory-acoustic model of an artificial vocal tract as part of the whole production model [1]. In this conference contribution we will explain how a comprehensive symbolic-linguistic and sensory-motor model of speech production can be established using the well-established Neural Engineering Framework (NEF, [2, 3]) for designing large scale neural models [3, 4]. This approach profits from its combination with the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA, [3, 4]), which enables us to define and to process neural signals representing symbolic cognitive linguistic units like words, lemmas, and phonological forms of syllables as well as sensory-motor units like SAMUs [1]. Our biologically inspired neural speech production model has already been applied to medical research questions [5, 6, 7, 8] as well as to basic linguistic research questions concerning the feedback mechanisms involved in the production and repair of word production errors [9] but is expanded now by a motor module as well as by lower level auditory and somatosensory feedback mechanisms.
An Intelligent System for Mineral Prospecting Using Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Approach

— Intelligent mineral prospecting with hyperspectral data involves reduction of high dimension spectral data to low dimension data that can be used for classification. In this work we used a metaheuristic method and fuzzy c-means clustering to obtain low dimension cluster center coordinates that are then used for classification using either unsupervised or supervised learning. The Unsupervised learning approach involves Kohonen self-organizing maps (SOM) which is used to obtain classes of mineral present in the data without recognizing the particular mineral. The inclusion of known labeled sample data involves the supervised learning approach, which include Adaptive Neurofuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) that learn to recognize particular minerals. R Programming language is used for implementation of the system.
Study of the frequency of the sound waves emitted by the typical Colombian vallenato music instrument: The Guacharaca

Este artículo presenta un análisis de la frecuencia sonora emitida por el instrumento de la música Vallenata Colombiana, la Guacharaca. Se realiza una descripción de las ondas sonoras, relacionándolas con la estructura y material del instrumento. El análisis se llevó a cabo con estudiantes de undécimo grado del CASD Simon Bolivar en Valledupar, Colombia. La eficacia de la estrategia didáctica se analizó utilizando la ganancia normalizada Hake, observando una muy buena apropiación de los temas de parte de los estudiantes.
Post-Correcting OCR Errors Using Neural Machine Translation

OCR errors are an enormous problem for the digitisation of, especially, historical texts. To explore new strategies to fix this problem, this Bachelor thesis focuses on post-correcting OCR errors using character-based neural machine translation (NMT). First, I compare the performance of NMT to previously tested approaches with character-based statistical machine translation (SMT). Furthermore, I analyse how OCR post-correction with NMT can profit from using additional information. This is investigated in different ways: both by employing well-known NMT approaches and testing novel ideas. My findings show that SMT and NMT can benefit from each other for OCR post-correction. Moreover, I discover that the data on which the MT systems are trained has a large influence on which methods work best. Finally, I show that a combination of my experiments can outperform other OCR post-correction approaches in the task of error correction and perform comparatively in error detection.