Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EKG İşaretindeki Gürültülerin Temizlenmesi için IIR Tabanlı Sayısal Filtre Tasarımı

Bu calismada, EKG (Electrocardiogram) isaretindeki cesitli gurultuleri ortadan kaldirmak amaciyla IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) tabanli farkli sayisal filtreler kullanilmis ve bu filtrelerin basarim analizleri karsilastirilmistir. EKG isareti kalbin islevlerini yerine getirmesi sonucunda olusan bir sinyaldir. Elektrofizyolojik bilgi tasiyan bu isaret, kalbe ait hastaliklarin teshis edilmesi ya da kalbin durumunun izlenmesi amaciyla kullanilmaktadir. Calismada kullanilan EKG isaretleri MIT-BIH aritmi veri tabani kayitlarindan alinmistir. Yapilan calisma sonucunda, IIR tabanli Butterworth, Chebyshev Tur 1, Chebyshev Tur 2 ve Elliptic sayisal filtreleri kullanilarak EKG isaretindeki gurultuleri gidermek amaclanmistir. Gurultu cesitlerine gore filtreler yapilandirilarak basarim analizleri yapilmistir. Basarimlari yuksek olan filtreler secilmis EKG isaretindeki R tepesi ve QRS algilayici algoritmalarinin on isleme surecinde kullanilabilecek bir sistem onerilmistir. Onerilen sistemin tatmin edici nitelikte bir basarim sagladigi gorulmustur. Basarim analizinde istatistiksel parametreler olarak, Ortalama Karesel Hata (Mean Square Error, MSE), Isaret Gurultu Orani (Signal to Noise Ratio, SNR) ve Tepe Sinyal Gurultu Orani (Peak to Signal Noise Ratio, PSNR) olcutleri kullanilmistir.
Harvesting and Managing Knowledge in Construction

of prescriptive models as a precursor to the more appropriate examination of challenges and alternatives to the planned approach! That leads to the discussion of several emergent models of change and how managers may, advisedly, endeavour to accommodate and deal with change. It might have been helpful to give more attention to the research of Harris and Ogbonna (e.g. 2002) who determine issues in organizational change yielding important (often unanticipated) outcomes. ‘Considering the development of strategic options’ constitutes Chapter 10. It begins with consideration of Ansoff’s matrix, progresses to brief consideration of Porter’s model, use of resources, according to Hamel and Prahalad (1994), the value chain, SWOT, RBV, and core competences. Criteria for judging strategy are discussed and use of scenarios is noted. A more extensive section concerns ‘the importance of context’ in which various bases for formulation and judging strategy are examined. Chapter 11 concerns ‘Implementing the strategy— issues, dilemmas and delivery of strategic outcomes’. The examination of differences between ‘intended’ and ‘realized’ strategy is useful and important. The latter sections address dealing with failure, causes of failure and recovery possibilities. However, the rather brief examination of turbulent markets belies the importance of such an environment for construction organizations. Finally, Chapter 12 ‘Turning theory into practice— some empirical examples of strategy in construction organizations’ is an assembly of perspectives from a wide variety of practitioners, drawn from a very broad spectrum of organizations. As such, the content is highly variable as, it seems, the authors present what they see as important for the topic, rather than following issues from a prescriptive template. The chapter is a nice ending to the volume. The strength of this volume is the discussions of construction—it is worth reading. What is refreshing is the sub-themes of continuous change requiring perspective of emergence due to knowledge limitation and uncertainty—after all, managing must be forward-looking. That leads to a desire to remove the blame and claim ‘culture’, so often a feature of construction; and to educate personnel towards a different mindset—a becoming ontology—in which uncertainty and variability are regarded as natural and normal while certainty and planned outcomes are not!
Exploring Best SHRM Practices-Trust Relationship: An Empirical Approach

In the economic realities, organizations are constantly changing forcefully due to the pressure of controlling costs by reducing staffs or by asking employees to deliver more with less. Organizations need employees who are willing to contribute beyond their job description. It is the challenge for the organization to deal with the internal capabilities to cope up with the external turbulence. For some time human resource management is reported to have assumed greater importance within organisations (Legge, 1995; Nankervis and Debrah, 1995).
The Effect of Complex Treatment on Platelet Aggregation Activity in Patients with Grade 3 Arterial Hypertension with Metabolic Syndrome

The combination of arterial hypertension and metabolic syndrome causes a whole complex of disorders in the patients' body, contributing to the risk of developing thrombosis in them. In this regard, it is very important to develop a comprehensive therapy for this patient population, which positively influences the activity of platelets, which is an important factor in the formation of thrombophilia in them. The aim of the work is to establish the intensity of the dynamics of platelet aggregation ability and the state of functional capabilities, the individual mechanisms of their determining in patients with arterial hypertension of the third degree in the metabolic syndrome. 24 patients with arterial hypertension of the 3rd degree, risk 4, including 10 men and 14 women of mature age, were under observation. The control group consisted of 25 clinically healthy people of similar age. The surplus platelet activity observed in the in vitro and in vivo patients is based on an increase in the adhesive and aggregation activity of platelets with a weakening of their ability to disaggregate, largely due to an imbalance in their blood pressure and anti-aggregational compounds. The complex therapy, including amlodipine, valsartan, pioglitazone, hypocaloric diet and dose physical exercise, provided patients with arterial hypertension 3 degrees with metabolic syndrome after 4 months. Stable normalization of initially high platelet activity, significantly reducing their risk of developing thrombosis, despite the non-strict compliance with the non-drug component of treatment after 16 weeks of treatment.
Foreland tectonics in the southern Adriatic Sea

Two major deformation belts occur in the portion of the Adriatic Sea offshore the Gargano Promontory. The NE-SW trending Tremiti Deformation Belt, located north of the Gargano Promontory, originated during the PlioQuaternary, while the E-W-trending South Gargano Deformation Belt, located south of the Gargano Promontory, formed in a time span from Eocene to Early Pliocene. These deformation belts may have originated by tectonic inversion of Mesozoic extensional faults. This inversion tectonics, of Tertiary age, can be related to the evolution of the fold-andthrust belts surrounding the Adriatic Sea. The whole of the study area is, at present, seismically active and represents a preferential site of deformation.
A Miniaturized LPF with Sharp Transition-band Using Semi-circle Resonators

─ In this paper, a miniaturized microstrip low-pass filter (LPF) with sharp transition-band, wide stop-band and negligible insertion-loss in pass-band is proposed using semi-circle and butterfly resonators. The cutoff frequency of the proposed LPF is 1.75 GHz. The proposed LPF presents a wide stop-band from 2.1 to 23.73 GHz (2-14 harmonics) with -20 dB attenuation level. The overall dimension of the proposed filter is 0. 11λg × 0. 1λg. The sharpness of transition-band is 112 dB/GHz, from 1.75 to 2.26 GHz with corresponding attenuation levels of -3 dB and -60 dB, respectively. The insertion-loss in pass-band is less than 0.05 dB. The proposed LPF is simulated, fabricated and measured, which there is a good agreement between the results of simulation and measurement. The LPF has been designed for L-band applications. Index Terms ─ L-band, LPF, open stub, semi-circle resonator, sharp transition-band.
To embed or not to embed (sustainability in the curriculum), that is the question - and do we have a choice?

This paper fits into the stream of design curriculum development and explores a number of the questions related to shaping the future of design education and designers. The question this research seeks to address is whether sustainability should or can be an integral part of engineering/product design programmes or whether it should/or can be developed as a separate design discipline? The research also briefly addresses the difference between, eco-design and sustainable design.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Complexity , Evolution and Learning : a simple story of heterogeneous expectations and some empirical and experimental validation

This note discusses complexity models in economics. A key feature of these models is that agents have heterogeneous expectations, disciplined by adaptive learning and evolutionary selection. Agents adapt their rules based upon past observations and switch between different forecasting heuristics based upon strategy performance. We discuss how these models match empirical facts as well as laboratory experiments with human subjects and how this approach may tame the “wilderness of bounded rationality”.
Model of Bacterial Conjugation using a Cellular Automaton and Evolutionary Computation

This thesis presents a model based on cellular automata and evolutionary computation, the purpose of the model is to abstract the behaviour and properties of a bacterial colony. In the bacterial colony, each bacterium has a set of properties and interacts with the environment and other bacteria. Depending on environment characteristics, a bacterium can carry out a set of actions (to reproduce itself, transfer plasmids, die). The obtained results show that the application of the correct use of antibiotics (the correct type of antibiotics, at the correct generation, with the correct dosis) may cause the extinction of the bacterial colony; on the opposite, the antibiotic resistance is obtained as emergent property in the bacterial colony if the mechanism of action of antibiotics is not appropriate.
The Relationship of Weather Salience with the Perceptions and Uses of Weather Information in a Nationwide Sample of the United States

AbstractThe authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item instrument designed to measure the ways in which weather is psychologically significant for people. The original measurement model of the WxSQ was confirmed in the present sample. Additional work also was performed to create a WxSQ short form consisting of seven items. The authors then examined the relationship of weather salience with the respondents’ climate zones of residence and several other weather-related attitudes and behaviors that were assessed in the national sample. People residing in continental and temperate climates expressed significantly more weather salience than those living in dry climates. Further, weather salience was significantly and positively related to the following: 1) the frequency with which people sought weather information and forecasts, 2) the frequency of seeking weather information during .
Inulin-type fructans trigger changes in iron concentration and activity of bone metabolism biomarkers in blood plasma of growing pigs

Since the antibiotics as feed additives are banned in European Union, extensive efforts have been made to find the alternatives to regulate intestinal microbiota. Prebiotics seem to be one of the most promising group of substances that may exert such properties (Cheng et al., 2014). Prebiotics are defined as a ‘non-digestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon, thus improving host health’. Inulin type-fructans (ITF), i.e. inulin and fructooligosaccharides fulfil these criteria (Gibson and Roberfoid, 1995). Ingestion of ITF significantly changes the gut microbiota composition, favouring the growth of bifidobacteria and/or lactobacilli (Seifert and Watzl, 2007). These beneficial bacterial groups affect metabolism of the host through e.g., increased short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) formation (Seifert and Waltz, 2007). SCFAs directly contribute to the enhancement of intestinal absorption of Ca, Mg and Fe (Yasuda et al., 2006, 2009; Scholz-Ahrens and Schrezenmeir, 2007). ABSTRACT. The aim of the study was to estimate the influence of dietary supplementation with dried chicory root and native chicory inulin on biochemical profile of blood plasma. In total 24 male piglets were divided into 3 groups (n = 8) and fed unsupplemented cereal-based diet (C diet), diet with 2% of native chicory inulin (T1 diet) or with 4% of dried chicory root (T2 diet). After 40 days of feeding pigs were sacrificed and blood plasma samples were taken for biochemical analysis. Plasma albumin concentration, as well as alkaline phosphatase and alanine aminotransferase activity, were significantly higher in the group of animals fed T2 diet. Plasma γ-glutamyltransferase activity was significantly lower in the pigs fed T2 diet when compared to animals fed C and T1 diets. Significant increase in plasma iron concentration in animals fed T2 diet and slightly increased calcium level in both treatment groups were observed. It can be concluded that dietary fructans and dried chicory root do not affect liver functioning. Feeding growing pigs diet supplemented with dried chicory root significantly improves plasma iron concentration and may increase blood plasma calcium concentration what, in turn, may enhance bone mineralization and growth in young animals. Received: 22 July 2016 Revised: 15 November 2016 Accepted: 30 November 2016
Spectroscopic analysis of the two subgiant branches of the globular cluster NGC1851

NGC1851 possibly shows a spread in [Fe/H], but the relation between this spread and the division in the SGB is unknown. We obtained blue (3950-4600 A) intermediate resolution (R~8,000) spectra for 47 stars on the bright and 30 on the faint SGB of NGC 1851 (b-SGB and f-SGB, respectively). The determination of the atmospheric parameters to extremely high internal accuracy leads to small errors when comparing different stars in the cluster. We found that the b-SGB is slightly more metal-poor than the f-SGB, with [Fe/H]=-1.227+/-0.009 and [Fe/H]=-1.162+/- 0.012, respectively. This implies that the f-SGB is only slightly older by ~0.6 Gyr than the b-SGB if the total CNO abundance is constant. There are more C-normal stars in the b-SGB than in the f-SGB. This is consistent with what is found for HB stars, if b-SGB are the progenitors of red HB stars, and f-SGB those of blue HB ones. The abundances of the n-capture elements Sr and Ba have a bimodal distribution, reflecting the separation between f-SGB (Sr and Ba-rich) and b-SGB stars (Sr and Ba-poor). In both groups, there is a clear correlation between [Sr/Fe] and [Ba/Fe], suggesting that there is a real spread in the abundances of n-capture elements. There is some correlation between C and Ba abundances, while the same correlation for Sr is much more dubious. We identified six C-rich stars, which have a moderate overabundance of Sr and Ba and rather low N abundances. This group of stars might be the progenitors of these on the anomalous RGB in the (v, v-y) diagram. These results are discussed within different scenarios for the formation of NGC1851. It is possible that the two populations originated in different regions of an inhomogeneous parent object. However, the striking similarity with M22 calls for a similar evolution for these two clusters. Deriving reliable CNO abundances for the two sequences would be crucial.
The Cloud Application Modelling and Execution Language ( CAMEL )

Cloud computing provides ubiquitous networked access to a shared and virtualised pool of computing capabilities that can be provisioned with minimal management effort [27]. Cloud applications are deployed on cloud infrastructures and delivered as services. The PaaSage project aims to facilitate the modelling and execution of cloud applications by leveraging model-driven engineering (MDE) and by exploiting multiple cloud infrastructures. The Cloud Application Modelling and Execution Language (CAMEL) is the core modelling and execution language developed in the PaaSage project and enables the specification of multiple aspects of cross-cloud applications (i.e., applications deployed across multiple private, public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures). By exploiting models at both designand run-time, and by allowing both direct and programmatic manipulation of models, CAMEL enables the management of self-adaptive cross-cloud applications (i.e., cross-cloud applications that autonomously adapt to changes in the environment, requirements, and usage). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of CAMEL, with emphasis on the integration of heterogeneous domain-specific languages (DSLs) that cover different aspects of self-adaptive cross-cloud applications. Moreover, we provide a real-world running example to illustrate how to specify models in a concrete textual syntax and how to dynamically adapt these models during the application life cycle. Finally, we provide an evaluation of CAMEL’s usability and usefulness, based on the technology acceptance model (TAM).
Application of an Earth-Observation-based building exposure mapping tool for flood damage assessment

Detection and characterization of territorial elements exposed to flood is a key component for flood risk analysis. Land-use description works well for small scales of representation but it becomes too coarse while increasing the scale. “Single-element” characterization is usually achieved through surveys, which become prohibitive as the amount of elements to be characterized increases. Mapping schemes represent a compromise between level of description and efforts for data collection. The basic idea is to determine the statistical distribution of building characteristics inside a homogeneous class starting from a sample area and to apply this distribution to the whole area, realizing a statistical extrapolation. An innovative approach was developed, merging the mapping scheme methodologies developed by the Global Earthquake Model [1] and Blanco–Vogt and Schanze [2], in which homogeneous classes are not development areas but building clusters. The approach was applied to the buildings in the Bisagno River floodplain, Genoa (Italy). Buildings were classified according to a building taxonomy. Once the percentage of basement presence was assigned to each class by surveying a limited subset of the exposed assets, a series of possible basement distributions was simulated to calculate the corresponding damage distributions for a real flood event. The total average damage obtained is very close to the refund claims, with a percentage error lower than 2%.
Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next?

The use of satellite tracking for the fundamental and applied study of marine turtles began in the 1980s but has undergone rapid growth in recent years. To provide a background against which to judge the past success and future directions of these research efforts we carried out a com- prehensive review of over 130 scientific papers on the use of this technique in this taxon. We show how satellite tracking has changed over time as well as outlining biases in spatial, species and life- stage coverage. Descriptions of migration routes and other habitats have offered novel insights into the basic life history patterns of some species, highlighted focal areas for conservation and reinforced the multi-national nature of the stakeholders of many populations. In foraging areas, knowledge is growing as to how animals move within dynamic seascapes, thus facilitating our understanding of 3-dimensional habitat use and seasonal patterns of behaviour. More experimental approaches have elucidated navigational capabilities and post-release survival following fisheries interaction and long-term captivity. In addition, through the Internet and other media, satellite tracking appears to have been effective in engaging public attention in many countries. Finally, we discuss why the use of the technique has increased so markedly over time and point out key areas of concern that we feel should be addressed by the community of researchers and donors who focus on sea turtles.
Blended Learning Evaluation In Higher Education Courses

Although traditional learning was a necessity for centuries and distance learning is sometimes the only way for learning for many learners, the last two decades a supplementary mode to the other modes of learning emerged, the e-learning. However, the last few years, blended learning has dominated as the only mode which combines perfectly the advantages of the other modes of learning. The role of educational content in blended learning is crucial. The key factor to success is high quality educational content, appropriate for learning and able to fulfill course educational aims and objectives. Most of the times it is not an easy task to give feedback to instructors about the online educational content. However, some course characteristics and students’ actions may reflect the quality and quantity of the educational content. This study evaluates the use of blended learning in TEI of West Macedonia with the use of structured questionnaires exposed to the learners. The learners express their attitude about how useful the blended learning is and how this blended means facilitates their studies. It proposes two variables Richness and Usefulness, taking into account statistics concerning the courses. These variables aim to help course instructors and administrators review course usage and find course weaknesses.
Myelosuppression and Nephrotoxicity Induced by Cisplatin in Female Rats: The Role of Berberine Nanoparticles

Cisplatin (CDDP) is one of the most effective antineoplastic drugs used in chemotherapy, strategies to protect tissues against cisplatin nephrotoxicity is a clinical interest. This study aimed to evaluate the possible protective effect of berberine nanoparticles (BBR-NPs) against cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in female rats. Intraperitoneal (IP) injection of cisplatin (8 mg/kg) caused significant decrease in RBC, Hb, Hct, WBC and platelets. Also, cisplatin caused disturbances in kidney function as documented by a significant increase in urea, uric acid, creatinine and MDA, with significant decreases in the total protein, albumin, GSH and total thiol.TNF- , caspase-3, IL-2, IL-6 and IL-1were increased in cisplatin treated group. The histopathological changes in cisplatin group include degeneration and desquamation of tubular epithelial cells, hyaline cast formation, inflammatory cell infiltration and tubular dilation. Oral administration of BBR-NPs at a dose 1mg/kg/day for 30 days after cisplatin produced significant decrease in the levels of urea, uric acid, creatinine, TNF- and caspase-3 as well as kidney MDA with a marked increase in total protein, albumin, GSH, total thiol and repairing the histopathological changes. Scanning microscope of RBC showed the protective effect of BBR-NPs against the different changes induced by CDDP. The present study suggested that the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of BBR-NPs may prevent CDDP-induced nephrotoxicity via decreasing the oxidative stress, inhibiting the inflammation and apoptosis.