Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hybrid SVM/HMM Method for Tool Wear Intelligence Measure in Cutting Process

A new method of tool wear intelligence measure based on Support Vector Machine(SVM) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) is proposed to monitor tool wear and to predict tool failure. At first, FFT features are extracted from the model signal of the tool in cutting process, then FFT vectors are introduced to SVM-HMM for machine learning and classification. The signal of Tool wear in cutting process is introduced to the HMM-SVM model. The results show that the method is effective. The performance of the proposed method is compared with that of HMM based method, which shows the performance increase in both recall and precision of tool wear.
Obsessive Beliefs in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Background: Some models of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) emphasize the role of dysfunctional beliefs in the etiology and maintenance of this disorder. These beliefs are about the importance of thoughts, overestimation of danger, exaggerated sense of responsibility, extreme need for certainty and perfectionism. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between OCD symptom clusters and obsessive beliefs, in adult OCD patients. Methods: A sample of 55 OCD patients, fulfilled a measure of dysfunctional OCDrelated beliefs (Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44), along with measures of OCD symptom severity (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale), type of OCD symptoms (Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Symptom Check-list), anxiety and depression severity symptoms (Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression) and a questionnaire with socio-demographic and clinical variables. Results: In this study Obsessive beliefs evidenced significant correlations with severity of OCD symptoms, Responsibility/Threat estimation was more related with severity of compulsions, Importance/Control of Thought was associated with severity of anxiety symptoms, and all the obsessive beliefs were related with the severity of depression symptoms. No correlation was found between OCD symptom clusters (symmetry, forbidden thoughts, cleaning and hoarding) and obsessive beliefs. Conclusion: Obsessive beliefs evidenced significant correlations with severity of OCD symptoms, as well as severity of anxiety and depression symptoms. These results highlight the importance of Obsessive beliefs in the genesis and evolution of OCD and reinforce the importance of Cognitive Therapy in the treatment of this pathology.
Great War stories told by the people - Crowdsourced cultural heritage in digital museums

The increasing interest in the centenary of the Great War 1914-1918 motivates the development of a digital library to capture and access valuable cultural heritage artefacts that would otherwise be lost. We will present a prototype to make available the story of the First World War in the local context of a British town, as told by the people today. The core of our prototype is crowdsourced ingest. To this end we apply latest insights from information interaction and access to foster user engagement. Open standards like CIDOC/CRM facilitate the external provision of our data and the integration of external resources. In the demo we will present our current Great War Stories prototype and how researchers from the humanities as well as digital libraries researchers will be able to benefit from and contribute to the project.
Hybrid tractable CSPs which generalize tree structure

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in artificial intelligence. Considerable progress has been made in identifying properties which ensure tractability in such problems, such as the property of being tree-structured. In this paper we introduce the broken-triangle property, which allows us to define a hybrid tractable class for this problem which significantly generalizes the class of problems with tree structure. We show that the broken-triangle property is conservative (i.e., it is preserved under domain reduction and hence under arc consistency operations) and that there is a polynomial-time algorithm to determine an ordering of the variables for which the broken-triangle property holds (or to determine that no such ordering exists). We also present a non-conservative extension of the broken-triangle property which is also sufficient to ensure tractability and can be detected in polynomial time.
5 4 4 ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF TANNINS AND EXTRACTS OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF CONOCARPUS ERECTUS

In this study, the antimicrobial activity of crude extracts of flower, fruit, stem and leaf of Conocarpus erectus and purified tannins were evaluated against three fungi and seven Gram-positive, Gram-negative and acid-fast bacteria. While, by disc diffusion method, extracts of different parts of C.erectus were active only against Saccharomyces cerevisiae, purified tannins were active against Sac. cerevisiae, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium chrysogenum. Disc diffusion method was also used to evaluate the antibacterial activity of the crude methanolic extracts. The extracts had broad spectrum activity and their descending order of activity was flower, fruit, stem and root. Gram-positive bacteria were more sensitive to extracts than other bacteria. Methanol extracts of different parts of C. erectus were fractionated by chloroform, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol and their MICs and MBCs were determined against the tested bacteria. Generally speaking ethyl acetate extracts were more active than other fractionated extracts. The two tested Gram-positive bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis were the most sensitive, Mycobacterium phlei and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were intermediate, and Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and Klebsiella pneumonia were the least sensitive to the extracted fractions. Compared to crude methanol extract, tannins of C. erectus were significantly (p ≤ 0.01) more active than alcohol extracts against the tested bacteria and had 6 to 12 times lower MICs and MBCs. Therefore, it may be concluded that C. erectus extracts have broad spectrum antimicrobial activity and their activity could be attributed, to a great extent, to their contents of tannins.
Enhancing version control with domain-specific semantics

As Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSML) become more widespread, it is now possible for non-computer scientists to design complex systems. Not only do DSMLs make modeling more accessible to domain experts, they also improve their efficiency. Using such models, the problem of their maintenance and evolution arises, with common software engineering issues, such as reversibility and traceability of developments. In this article we present the integration of a collaborative edition process into a model-driven engineering (MDE) simulation platform defining its own DSML, which includes a serialization procedure. Our novel approach defines a collaborative work and version control process. This process uses the concrete textual syntax defined by this DSML, which allows us to use the features of existing Version Control Systems (VCS) to work with serialized models, and helps calculate the differences between two versions of a model, merge versions of these models, and detect merge conflicts.
Cartoon-Texture Image Decomposition Using Blockwise Low-Rank Texture Characterization

Using a novel characterization of texture, we propose an image decomposition technique that can effectively decomposes an image into its cartoon and texture components. The characterization rests on our observation that the texture component enjoys a blockwise low-rank nature with possible overlap and shear, because texture, in general, is globally dissimilar but locally well patterned. More specifically, one can observe that any local block of the texture component consists of only a few individual patterns. Based on this premise, we first introduce a new convex prior, named the block nuclear norm (BNN), leading to a suitable characterization of the texture component. We then formulate a cartoon-texture decomposition model as a convex optimization problem, where the simultaneous estimation of the cartoon and texture components from a given image or degraded observation is executed by minimizing the total variation and BNN. In addition, patterns of texture extending in different directions are extracted separately, which is a special feature of the proposed model and of benefit to texture analysis and other applications. Furthermore, the model can handle various types of degradation occurring in image processing, including blur+missing pixels with several types of noise. By rewriting the problem via variable splitting, the so-called alternating direction method of multipliers becomes applicable, resulting in an efficient algorithmic solution to the problem. Numerical examples illustrate that the proposed model is very selective to patterns of texture, which makes it produce better results than state-of-the-art decomposition models.
Pengaruh Parent Autonomy Support Terhadap School Engagement pada Siswa Kelas IV-VI SD "X" di Kota Bandung

Penelitian mengenai dukungan orang tua dalam bentuk autonomy belum banyak berkembang pada saat ini. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui pengaruh Parent Autonomy Support terhadap School Engagement pada siswa kelas IV-VI SD”X” di Kota Bandung. Terdapat 261 siswa yang berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Kuesioner Parent Autonomy Support disusun oleh Jane Savitri berdasarkan teori Parent Autonomy Support dari Grolnick (2003) dengan reliabilitas sebesar r = 0,714. Kuesioner School Engagement disusun oleh Jane Savitri berdasarkan teori Fredricks, Blumenfeld, dan Paris (2004) kemudian dilakukan perhitungan analisis faktor menggunakan Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) dan diperoleh bahwa alat ukur School Engagement fit/sesuai dengan data empirik. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diperoleh bahwa Parent Autonomy Support berpengaruh signifikan terhadap School Engagement (F = 33,637, ρ = 0,000). Parent Autonomy Support juga berpengaruh signifikan terhadap tiga komponen School Engagement, yaitu behavioral engagement (β = 0,235, ρ = 0,000), emotional engagement (β = 0,305, ρ = 0,000) dan cognitive engagement (β = 0,317, ρ = 0,000) Kesimpulannya adalah terdapat pengaruh Parent Autonomy Support terhadap School Engagement dan komponen-komponen School Engagement. Peneliti mengajukan saran agar pihak sekolah dapat merancang materi parenting untuk menyampaikan informasi mengenai pengaruh Parent Autonomy Support terhadap School Engagement kepada orang tua. Selain itu, perlu dilakukan penelitian mengenai pengaruh Parent Autonomy Support terhadap School Engagement dengan cakupan yang lebih luas.
Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK using a newly constructed data set. The data provide a rare opportunity to evaluate relations between funds' sources of finance and activities. We find that sources of VC funds differ significantly across countries, e.g. banks are particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and pension funds in the UK. VC investment patterns also differ across countries in terms of the stage, sector of financed companies and geographical focus of investments. These differences in investment patterns are related to the variations in funding sources - for example, bank and pension fund backed VC's invest in later stage activities than individual and corporate backed funds. The relations differ across countries; for example, bank backed VC funds in Germany and Japan are as involved in early stage finance as other funds in these countries, whereas they tend to invest in relatively late stage finance in Israel and the UK. We consider the implication of this for the influence of financial systems on relations between finance and activities.
An Ontology-Based Information Management System for Pharmaceutical Product Development

The development of pharmaceutical products and processes involves laboratory scale, pilot plant scale and commercial scale manufacturing. Through these steps, data on synthesis routes, material properties, processing steps, and scale up parameters are collected and used. Recent advances in process analytical technologies resulted in a large volume of heterogeneous data, which requires a systematic model of the associated information for optimal use. In addition, software tools are used to support decision-making and process modeling during process development. However, each tool creates and uses information in a specific form, making connection difficult amongst the tools and allowing little interaction with experimental data. In this work, an integrated information management system based on structured information is presented. This system is built to explicitly specify important concepts like physical properties and experiments using ontologies. Based on the developed ontologies, an information access and repository system is developed to allow convenient access to the repository for both the user and software tool. The infrastructure, designed to be accessible from the web, would allow simple search and browse as well as complicated queries, which can only be efficiently answered through the use of semantics in the information. This structure is extended to consider integration with software tools through the definition of an applicationagnostic medium. Such an integrated information infrastructure provides a systematic approach to managing, sharing and reusing information, and is expected to result in considerable reduction in pharmaceutical process development time and better quality assurance.
Human capital: Education and agriculture

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions, and suggests major research gaps in the literature. Although growth in knowledge enables skill acquisition and specialization of labor, which generally raises labor productivity, and technical change, the dominant effect of agriculture has been technical change. A puzzle remains why schooling does not have broader direct impacts in agriculture. Furthermore, as we proxy education or general intellectual achievement by schooling in our empirical research, this has led to biased interpretations of impacts when general intellectual achievement of school graduates changes over time and perhaps in nonlinear ways.
Perceptual and semantic priming in patients with multiple sclerosis: is implicit memory preserved?

Introduction: Neuropsychological studies on people with neuropsychological symptoms (e.g. memory deficits) indicate dissociation consisting of some deficits in explicit (declarative) memory and absence of difficulties in remembering and recalling on the priming procedure. In the few studies so far of nondeclarative memory in the MS group it was shown that priming makes possible recollection of information which cannot be remembered intentionally. It is suggested that there is dependence between the implicit recalling and the clinical factors of MS. The aim of our research was to analyse the effect of priming in MS compared to a control group, defining a relation between effects of reminding and kind of priming, course of MS and duration of disability. Material and methods: In the research work 27 people with clinically probable MS (multiple sclerosis) and 30 people from a control group took part. The level of processing stimulus on the phase of presentation (perceptual versus semantic) and kind of priming (perceptual versus semantic) were manipulated. In that way there were created 4 kinds of experimental tasks. Results: The people suffering from MS, compared with the control group, showed significant difficulties in priming tasks which perform perceptual processing in the learning phase and in the recalling phase, and a comparable level of results in semantic priming. Clinical factors (course of illness and disease duration) did not differentiate the results of the MS group, but patients with PPMS (primary progressive MS) exhibited a deficit in perceptual priming. Conclusions: The results indicate a dissociation in implicit memory: normal semantic priming and pathological perceptual priming. Mechanisms of difficulties in perceptual priming depending on course of MS and methodological aspects of the priming procedure are discussed.
Cultural Conditions in Diversity Management: The Case Study of the Corporation Operating in the Transportation and Logistics Industry

The aim of this paper is to present selected aspects of organi­sational culture and human capital management, and indicate the deter­minants of cultural conditions in diversity management based on the corporation A. A modern enterprise, in order to remain competitive, poses challenges to its employees to encourage their need for learning, explora­tion of knowledge and the change along with the changing environment. In order to achieve the aim of the paper, the following operational objec­tives have been formulated: (1) to discuss the concepts of organisational culture and cultural factors of changes in the organisation on the example of the corporation operating in the transportation and logistics industry; (2) to identify mutual correlations between organisational culture and diversity management; (3) to assess the impact of cultural factors related to the base of diversity management in the corporation A. The analysis is based on the findings from questionnaire surveys, detailed interviews with the top management and source materials collected from the corporation.
The role of cellular and chemical signaling within the nucleus accumbens in value-based decision making behaviors

To promote survival, organisms must evaluate the costs and benefits of different courses of action. However an organism’s environment is not static. Instead, the availability of resources and the cues that signal these resources are always changing, such that organisms must update cue-outcome associations and adjust behaviors accordingly. Dopamine transmission within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) has been implicated in cueoutcome learning and value-based decision making. Further, this circuitry is necessary for adapting behaviors when the value of future outcomes change. Here, we evaluated how the mesolimbic dopamine system encodes changes in reward value as animals learn to shift behavior from lower value to higher value options. We monitored dopamine concentration in the NAc core on a rapid time scale using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) during a delay discounting task. Rats (n=7 with 8 recording locations) were trained to associate distinct visual cues with responses that predicted smaller immediate or larger delayed rewards. Importantly, the delay to large reward increased during the session, thus devaluing the large reward. Animals were able to successfully discriminate between the cues and adjust their behavior accordingly; the rats showed decreased responding on the larger delayed lever as the delays to reward increased. Reward predictive cues evoked increases in phasic dopamine concentrations that scaled with the value of the reward, such that there was higher dopamine
Using quizzes to assess and enhance learning of English as a foreign language

This article addresses the testing effect, which refers to the increase in learning that results from taking tests (Halamish & Bjork, 2011; Karpicke & Roediger, 2008; Roediger, Agarwal, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2011). The aim was to find out, with a Pretest/Posttest design, whether quizzes can be an effective tool for learning in an EFL environment due to the repeated testing. There are numerous publications dealing with the use of quizzes with concepts from different disciplines (Balter, Enstrom, & Klingenberg, 2013; McDaniel, Wildman, & Anderson, 2012); however, this research takes it a step further because it is the first time that the effect of quizzes has been experimentally verified with English modal expressions and verbs. The outcome of this research benefits foreign language teachers and supports the long-term learning with quizzes in a foreign language.
Ion permeation in normal and batrachotoxin-modified Na+ channels in the squid giant axon

Na+ permeation through normal and batrachotoxin (BTX)-modified squid axon Na+ channels was characterized. Unmodified and toxin-modified Na+ channels were studied simultaneously in outside-out membrane patches using the cut-open axon technique. Current-voltage relations for both normal and BTX-modified channels were measured over a wide range of Na+ concentrations and voltages. Channel conductance as a function of Na+ concentration curves showed that within the range 0.015-1 M Na+ the normal channel conductance is 1.7-2.5-fold larger than the BTX-modified conductance. These relations cannot be fitted by a simple Langmuir isotherm. Channel conductance at low concentrations was larger than expected from a Michaelis-Menten behavior. The deviations from the simple case were accounted for by fixed negative charges located in the vicinity of the channel entrances. Fixed negative charges near the pore mouths would have the effect of increasing the local Na+ concentration. The results are discussed in terms of energy profiles with three barriers and two sites, taking into consideration the effect of the fixed negative charges. Either single- or multi-ion pore models can account for all the permeation data obtained in both symmetric and asymmetric conditions. In a temperature range of 5-15 degrees C, the estimated Q10 for the conductance of the BTX-modified Na+ channel was 1.53. BTX appears not to change the Na+ channel ion selectively (for the conditions used) or the surface charge located near the channel entrances.
Periodic Synthesized Transmission Lines With 2-D Routing Capability and Its Applications to Power Divider and Couplers Using Integrated Passive Device Process

A novel periodic synthesized transmission line, comprising periodic unit cells and specially treated corner cells, is proposed and realized using integrated passive device technology. The key innovation is the square unit cell, formed by an asteriated strip overlapped with a capacitive pad. It enables 2-D layout routing since any two of the four arms of the unit cell can serve as the input/output ports. To account for the discontinuity effect at bends, the corner cells are developed independently as a pure lumped T-network to reduce the undesired signal reflection at junctions. Quarter-wavelength synthesized lines are jointed together as miniaturized on-chip couplers. The experimental results demonstrate the compactness of the on-chip components, in addition to their good electrical responses. The uniqueness of the design concept is clearly validated.
Cerebrospinal Fluid B Cells Correlate with Early Brain Inflammation in Multiple Sclerosis

Background There is accumulating evidence from immunological, pathological and therapeutic studies that B cells are key components in the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis (MS). Methodology/Principal Findings In this prospective study we have for the first time investigated the differences in the inflammatory response between relapsing and progressive MS by comparing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell profiles from patients at the onset of the disease (clinically isolated syndrome, CIS), relapsing-remitting (RR) and chronic progressive (CP) MS by flow cytometry. As controls we have used patients with other neurological diseases. We have found a statistically significant accumulation of CSF mature B cells (CD19+CD138−) and plasma blasts (CD19+CD138+) in CIS and RRMS. Both B cell populations were, however, not significantly increased in CPMS. Further, this accumulation of B cells correlated with acute brain inflammation measured by magnetic resonance imaging and with inflammatory CSF parameters such as the number of CSF leukocytes, intrathecal immunoglobulin M and G synthesis and intrathecal production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 and the B cell chemokine CxCL-13. Conclusions Our data support an important role of CSF B cells in acute brain inflammation in CIS and RRMS.