Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Yes They Can! Comment on "Can Two-Way Direct Communication Protocols Be Considered Secure?"

An author (arXiv:1709.09262 [quant-ph] (2017), Nanoscale Research Letters (2017) 12:552) has recently questioned the security of two-way quantum key distribution schemes by referring to attack strategies which leave no errors in the (raw) key shared by the legitimate parties. We argue that the article is based on a flawed understanding of the actual workings of a two-way protocol, thus the erroneous conclusions drawn thereof.
PREPARATION OF MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE FROM DISSOLVING CELLULOSE OBTAINED FROM JUTE FIBERS AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE FORMULATION OF FEXOFENADINE HYDROCHLORIDE TABLET DOSAGE FORM

Introduction: The most affordable tablet form is microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), a popular pharmaceutical excipient that is utilized as a filler or binder in immediately compressible tablets. Methods: In the present study, we extracted dissolving cellulose from jute fibers by treatment with 0.1 N hydrochloric acid solution and 20% w/w sodium hydroxide solution at high temperature and pressure. The dissolving cellulose was subjected to acid hydrolysis at 100 0C for 2 h with 2 N hydrochloric acid. The identity of the MCC was confirmed by FT-IR and by determining the degree of polymerization. To evaluate the flow property, we determined the bulk, density, tapped density, Hausner index, Carr’s index and angle of repose. The tableting property of the prepared MCC was evaluated by making fexofenadine hydrochloride tablets. Result and Discussion: The dissolving cellulose contains 94.67% α-cellulose The DP of the MCC was found 191. The powder properties such as bulk density, tapped density, Hausner index and Carr’s index, angle of repose values are comparable with that of standard Avicel PH102. The hardness, friability, disintegration time and % dissolved in 30 minutes were dissolution value of the tablets 5.6 kg, 0.34%, 178.17 sec and 83.89%, respectively. All these values are within the United State Pharmacopoeia range and are comparable with the tablets prepared from Avicel PH102 and marketed fexofenadine tablets.
Effect of the incorporation of dehydrated cassava puree in the texture of pasta doughs

The possibility of replacing wheat with non-conventional flours in the production of pasta still represents a technological challenge. This work aimed to study the effect of replacing wheat flour with dehydrated cassavapuree on the texture of pasta doughs. Formulations were made by substituting 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% wheatflour for dehydrated cassava puree. A control dough was formulated with 100% wheat flour to obtain a reference behavior. The moisture was determined at 105°C. Hardness, cohesiveness, elasticity, consistency, toughness, andextensibility were analyzed with a texturometer. Dehydrated cassava puree caused a drop in moisture content andalso a significant difference in the texture of the substituted doughs. The doughs with dehydrated cassava puree were harder, more cohesive, elastic, consistent, and resistant to elongation than the control, however, they were less extensible. It was concluded that the low moisture presented by the doughs substituted with dehydratedcassava puree is responsible, in part, for the changes in their texture.
Numerical solution of the differential equation for simulation of the rice blast disease

Rice blast disease is one of the diseases that causes damage to rice yield in Thailand. This research aims to simulate the severity of rice blast disease using the EPIRICE model for Khao Dawk Mali 105 that caused by Pyricularia oryzae in Prachin Buri, Thailand, and evaluate the simulation results by comparing with field collection data using root mean square error (RMSE). The epidemiological model consists of a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that describes the dynamic of rice leaf disease. The Euler’s method is used to approximate the solutions of the ODEs. According to the RMSE, the simulation results were good agreement with the field collection data. Therefore, the numerical methods can be the technical tool for solving the severity of rice blast disease. Keywords: EPIRICE model, Khao Dawk Mali 105, Numerical Solution, Pyicularia oryzae , Rice blast disease
THE FACTORS OF SUBJECTIVE FINANCIAL WELL-BEING OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVANTS

Financial well-being has been a subject of interest among policy makers and the public. However, the contributing factors of financial well-being are still inconclusive. This study investigates the relationship between three controllable personal factors and subjective financial well-being among public health employees in Malaysia. The three factors are financial literacy, financial management, and financial behaviour. Data were collected from 100 public health servants through an adapted questionnaire survey. The analysis revealed that financial literacy, financial management and financial behaviour are significant predictors of financial well-being. The implications of this study are also discussed in detail in this paper. This study has expanded the body of knowledge of financial well-being by presenting evidence from public health servants; this niche area has not yet been widely explored in the literature. Abstrak Kesejahteraan kewangan telah menjadi subjek minat di kalangan pembuat dasar dan orang ramai. Walau bagaimanapun, faktor penyumbang kesejahteraan kewangan masih tidak dapat disimpulkan. Kajian ini mengkaji hubungan antara tiga faktor peribadi yang dapat dikawal dan kesejahteraan kewangan subjektif di kalangan pekerja kesihatan awam di Malaysia. Ketiga faktor tersebut adalah celik kewangan, pengurusan kewangan, dan tingkah laku kewangan. Data dikumpulkan dari 100 pegawai kesihatan awam melalui tinjauan soal selidik yang disesuaikan. Analisis menunjukkan bahawa literasi kewangan, pengurusan kewangan dan tingkah laku kewangan adalah peramal kesejahteraan kewangan yang signifikan. Implikasi kajian ini juga dibincangkan secara terperinci dalam makalah ini. Kajian ini telah memperluas pengetahuan kesejahteraan kewangan dengan mengemukakan bukti dari pegawaikesihatan awam; bidang niche ini belum banyak diterokai dalam literatur.
The phruta r package: Increasing access, reproducibility and transparency in phylogenetic analyses

Current practices for assembling phylogenetic trees often recur to sequence data stored in GenBank. However, the molecular and taxonomic make‐up of sequences deposited in GenBank is generally not very clear. phruta, a newly developed r package, is designed to primarily improve access to genetic data stored in GenBank. Functions in phruta further enable users to assemble single‐ and multi‐gene molecular datasets, and run basic phylogenetic tasks, all within r. The structure of the functions implemented in phruta aim to allow users to assemble simple workflows for particular tasks, which are in turn expected to increase reproducibility of relatively simple phylogenies. To support the use of phruta by researchers in different fields with variable levels of coding expertise, this paper presents the first version of salphycon, a shiny web app that aims to increase access to the fundamental functions in the phruta r package.
Optimization of Vehicle Routing with Pickup Based on Multibatch Production

To reduce the inventory cost and ensure product quality while meeting the diverse demands of customers, manufacturers yield products in batches. However, the raw materials required for manufacturing need to be obtained from suppliers in advance, making it necessary to understand beforehand how to best structure the pickup routes so as to reduce the cost of picking up and stocking while also ensuring the supply of raw materials required for each batch of production. To reduce the transportation and inventory costs, therefore, this paper establishes a mixed integer programming model for the joint optimization of multibatch production and vehicle routing problems involving a pickup. Following this, a two-stage hybrid heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve this model. In the first stage, an integrated algorithm, combining the Clarke-Wright (CW) algorithm and the Record to Record (RTR) travel algorithm, was used to solve vehicle routing problem. In the second stage, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm was used to allocate vehicles to each production batch. Multiple sets of numerical experiments were then performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the performance efficiency of the two-stage hybrid heuristic algorithm.
Experimental study of robust output‐based continuous sliding‐modes controllers for Van der Pol oscillator

Robust output tracking control of Van der Pol oscillator is an important practical problem from an application point of view. Output feedback-based robust tracking control strategies are proposed in this work for that purpose. First, a high-order sliding-mode observer is used to estimate the oscillator states from the measurable output and to identify some types of disturbances. Then, five different continuous sliding-modes controllers (Continuous-SMCs) are provided to robustly track a desired time-varying trajectory, exponentially or in a finite time, for the Van der Pol oscillator despite the presence of external disturbances. The closed-loop stability for each Continuous-SMC is given based on input-to-state stability properties. Finally, experimental validations are also provided to show the feasibility of the proposed controllers in real time.
Numerical Investigation of Two Element Camber Morphing Airfoil in Low Reynolds Number Flows

Aerodynamic performance of a two-element camber morphing airfoil was investigated at low Reynolds number using the transient SST model in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 and e method in XFLR5. The two-element camber morphing concept was employed to morph the baseline airfoil into another airfoil by altering the orientation of mean-line at 35% of the chord to achieve better aerodynamic efficiency. NACA 0012 was selected as baseline airfoil. NACA 23012 was chosen as the test case as it has the camber-line similar to that of the morphed airfoil and as it has the same thickness as that of the baseline airfoil. The simulations were carried out at chord based Reynolds numbers of 2.5×10 and 3.9×10. The aerodynamic force coefficients, aerodynamic efficiency and the location of the transition point of laminar separation bubble over these airfoils were studied for various angles of attack. It was found that the aerodynamic efficiency of the morphed airfoil was 12% higher than that of the target airfoil at 4° angle of attack for Reynolds number of 3.9×10 and 54% rise in aerodynamic performance was noted as Reynolds number was varied from 2.5×10 to 3.9×10. The morphed airfoil exhibited the nature of low Reynolds number airfoil.
Simulation of 3D Image Reconstruction in Rigid body Motion

3D image reconstruction under rigid body motion is affected by rigid body motion and visual displacement factors, which leads to low quality of 3D image reconstruction and more noise, in order to improve the quality of 3D image reconstruction of rigid body motion. A 3D image reconstruction technique is proposed based on corner detection and edge contour feature extraction in this paper. Region scanning and point scanning are combined to scan rigid body moving object image. The wavelet denoising method is used to reduce the noise of the 3D image. The edge contour feature of the image is extracted. The sparse edge pixel fusion method is used to decompose the feature of the 3D image under the rigid body motion. The irregular triangulation method is used to extract and reconstruct the information features of the rigid body 3D images. The reconstructed feature points are accurately calibrated with the corner detection method to realize the effective reconstruction of the 3D images. The simulation results show that the method has good quality, high SNR of output image and high registration rate of feature points of image reconstruction, and proposed method has good performance of 3D image reconstruction.
Elevated IGF‐1 concentrations in children with low grade glioma: A descriptive analysis in a retrospective national cohort

Children with low grade glioma (LGG) may present with, or develop, elevated concentrations of insulin‐like growth factor 1 (IGF‐1). The prevalence, pathophysiology, or its possible clinical effects are poorly understood. Our aim was to evaluate the prevalence of such elevated IGF‐1 concentrations and to describe its association with linear growth, body mass index (BMI), pituitary outcome, and tumor behavior in a large retrospective national cohort. From a nationwide retrospective cohort of pediatric brain tumor survivors diagnosed between 2002 and 2012, tumor, treatment, endocrine, and auxological data of children with LGG were collected (n = 358). Prevalence and risk factors for elevated IGF‐1 concentrations, as well as the association between having elevated IGF‐1 concentrations and receiving tumor treatment, were explored. IGF‐1 concentrations had only been measured in 45.5% of cases (n = 163/358). In 18.4% of 163 children with available IGF‐1 measurements, IGF‐1 concentrations were found elevated. No association was described between having an elevated IGF‐1 concentration and tumor behavior or height SDS at last moment of follow‐up. Multivariate logistic regression identified posterior pituitary disorder (OR 6.14 95% CI: 2.21–17.09) and BMI SDS at follow‐up (OR 1.56 95% CI: 1.09–2.20) to be significantly associated with elevated IGF‐1 concentrations. In this retrospective cohort of children with LGG, IGF‐1 was found elevated in 18.4% of children with available IGF‐1 measurements. Elevated IGF‐1 seems to be related to hypothalamic dysfunction worsening over time. Larger prospective cohort studies are needed.
Control Strategy Based on Model Reduction and Online Intelligent Calculation for Planar $n$ -Link Underactuated Manipulators

This paper presents a control strategy based on model reduction and online intelligent calculation for a planar <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${n}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-link underactuated manipulator with a passive first joint (PA<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{n-1}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> for short) to realize its control objective, which is to move its end-point from an initial position to a target position. First, two active links of the planar PA<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{n-1}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> manipulator are chosen to be the active links of a planar virtual passive–active–active (PAA) manipulator, which guarantees that the geometric reachable range of the planar virtual PAA manipulator is the same as that of the planar PA<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{n-1}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> manipulator. The planar PA<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{n-1}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> manipulator is reduced to the planar virtual PAA manipulator by keeping the states of two active links in their initial values and controlling the states of the remaining <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${n-3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> active links to zero. Then, the planar virtual PAA manipulator is equivalent to two planar virtual Acrobots by adopting two-stage control method. Based on two sets of angle constraint relationships corresponding to two planar virtual Acrobots, an online differential evolution algorithm is employed to obtain all link target angles of the planar virtual PAA manipulator. Next, two Lyapunov functions, each of which is constructed based on the active link angle of one planar virtual Acrobot, are used to design controllers to realize the system control objective. Finally, Simulation results of a planar PAA-active manipulator demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.
Redesign Kemasan Keripik Singkong Menggunakan Kansei Engineering

Cassava chips are snacks processed from cassava that is thinly sliced and fried and chip is a snack that is familiar to the public and everyone likes it in the home industry, savory cassava chips cap elang production But in this home industry has several problems, namely how to attract new consumers to buy this savory eagle cap cassava chip product. So one of the efforts that can be done is to innovate the design on the packaging to make it more attractive. The method used in innovating this packaging design is by kansei engineering. The goal to be achieved in this study is to identify the packaging design specifications desired by consumers and provide new packaging design proposals. Some of the stages carried out in this kansei engineering method are by collecting kansei words, validity and reliability tests, factor analysis, determining design elements, conjoint analysis,. From the results of data processing, the results of the packaging design desired by respondents were made of plastic, in the form of a standing pouch, having a distinctive patterned design and a light color.
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF DUCT SYSTEMS ABOVE THE PLANE WAVE CUTOFF FREQUENCY

OF DISSERTATION NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF DUCT SYSTEMS ABOVE THE PLANE WAVE CUTOFF FREQUENCY This research deals with determining the acoustic attenuation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) ductwork. A finite element approach was developed for calculating insertion loss and breakout transmission loss. Procedures for simulating the source and receiving rooms were developed and the effect of structureborne flanking was included. Simulation results have been compared with measurements from the literature and the agreement is very good. With a good model in place, the work was extended in three ways. 1) Since measurements on full-scale equipment are difficult, scale modeling rules were developed and validated. 2) Two different numerical approaches were developed for evaluating the transmission loss of silencers taking into account the effect of higher order modes. 3) A power transfer matrix approach was developed to assess the acoustic performance of several duct components connected in series.
Surrogate Safety Evaluation at Uncontrolled Intersection in Non-Lane Base Traffic Conditions

Every year, road accidents cost billions of dollars and injure millions of people around the world. The current study implements traffic conflict techniques to examine vehicular safety at three-arm uncontrolled intersections. The traffic conflict technique is designed to be proactive, not solely rely on crashes, and require shorter observation time periods to create acceptable safety assessments. Various surrogate safety measures based on spatial and temporal proximity between road users, like Post Encroachment Time (PET), Time to Collision (TTC), Deceleration Rate (DR), etc., are being used to study road safety. The study focused on crossing conflicts by right-turning and through traffic, as they are considered severe among other conflicts. PET and conflicting vehicle speeds in through traffic are used to determine critical conflicts. However, Delta V and Encroachment Time (ET) are taken as surrogate indicators to identify severity levels of through and right turning movements, respectively, using the clustering technique.
The Determinants among Muslim Contributors to Adopt Shariah Funds Decision: Evidence of Employees Provident Fund

Malaysia is one of the world's Islamic financial centres and it is working hard to enhance Shariah governance in the Islamic financial sectors. Shariah Savings introduced on 8th August 2016 is an initiative by the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) allowing investors to determine whether or not their funds should be handled and invested according to Shariah principles. Despite the effort by the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) to promote investment in the Sharia Compliant saving, the Muslim of EPF members' is still low. Hence, increasing EPF Muslim members' investment is a major challenge. Thus, this study aimed to fulfil this gap by examining the Planned Behaviour Theory with additional variables (religiosity, investment knowledge, and risk propensity) mediated by awareness towards investment decisions among EPF Muslim contributors in Malaysia. Questionnaire surveys were utilized in a quantitative research strategy to collect data. Using purposive sampling procedures, data was collected from 295 Muslim members who stick with EPF conventional savings and analyze by using the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM)
Distributions of bacteriohopanepolyols in lakes and coastal lagoons of the Azores Archipelago

Abstract. Bacteriohopanepolyols (BHPs) are a diverse class of lipids produced by bacteria across a wide range of environments. In this study, we aim to further identify BHPs related to ecological niches and/or specific bacteria by characterizing the distribution of BHPs in suspended particulate matter (SPM) of the water column and in sediments in a range of lakes and coastal lagoons from the Azores Archipelago, as well as in a co-culture enriched for methanotrophs. Sediment samples from Azorean lakes with low-oxygen conditions during the summer months (i.e., Azul, Verde, Funda, and Negra) contain relatively high abundances of BHPs that are typically associated with methane-oxidizing (methanotrophic) bacteria (i.e., aminotetrol, aminopentol, and methylcarbamate-aminopentol), as well as the ethenolamine-BHPs (i.e., ethenolamine-BHpentol and ethenolamine-BHhexol) and the N-formylated aminoBHPs. Both ethenolamine-BHPs and N-formylated aminoBHPs were also detected in a methanotroph–methylotroph co-culture that was enriched from a lake. In the SPM of all water columns, bacteriohopanetetrol (BHT), BHT cyclitol ether, and aminotriol are the dominant BHPs. In SPM from Lake Funda, nucleoside BHPs (i.e., Me-adenosylhopaneHG-diMe (where HG refers to head group), N1-methylinosylhopane, 2Me-N1-inosylhopane, and Me-N1-inosylhopane) are present in low abundance or absent under oxic conditions but increase in concentration near the chemocline, suggesting potential in situ production of these nucleoside BHPs rather than an allochthonous origin. In contrast, sediments from shallow, well-mixed lakes (i.e., Empadadas, São Jorge, and Lomba) contain higher abundances of adenosylhopane and N1-methylinosylhopane, which likely originate from bacteria living in nearby soils. Based on our current results we revised the existing Rsoil index, which was previously used to infer terrestrial inputs to aquatic environments, to exclude any potential nucleosides produced in the lake water column (Rsoil-lake). In the coastal lagoons, Cubres East and Cubres West, methoxylated BHTs were detected, and higher abundances of ethenolamine-BHT were observed. This study highlights the diversity of BHPs in lakes and coastal lagoons and their potential as taxonomic markers for bacteria associated with certain ecological niches, which can be preserved in sedimentary records.
Exact Solution and Attractor Mechanism for Non-BPS Black Holes: the D2-D6 System

The extremal, spherically symmetric black hole solution to 4D supergravity is obtained, which is a non-BPS configuration carrying D2-D6 charges with general complex moduli. Rather than solving the equations of motion directly, we assume the form of the solutions and then find that the assumption satisfies the equations of motion and the constraint. Our solution is manifestly dual to the solution presented in arXiv:0710.4967.