Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identifying Local Community’s Empowerment in Developing Sustainable Tourism in Pahawang Island, Pesawaran Regency, Lampung Province

One of the problems on current road infrastructure development in Indonesia is the difficulty of getting road data and information. For example, data and information, which related on sustainable road infrastructure development. Moreover, some of road authorities did not realize that data is important element in the cycle process of road infrastructure development. Inaccurate road data will decrease the quality of road budgeting and programming, on the other hand it will affect the period service of road itself. The good road data could support sustainable road by providing the road value such as historical, current condition, and prediction. Indonesian Road Data Center Operations (IRODCO) is a concept of integrated road database storage. Collaborate data from Indonesian road authority (Ministry of Public Work and Housing, Ministry of Transportation, National Police and Local Government) can be stored, processed and managed to be a value-added information. IRODCO will provide data and information easily and quickly, for supporting the sustainable development of road infrastructure. This paper will explain the background of IRODCO concept, type of road database, the architecture, and how this concept will be implemented in Indonesia, particularly for supporting the sustainable road infrastructure development.
Intimal hyperplasia: slow but deadly

Intimal hyperplasia is the leading cause of long-term failure in coronary artery bypass vein grafting, coronary artery stenting, angioplasty, arteriovenous fistula for dialysis, and allograft transplantation. Intimal hyperplasia is a product of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration through the internal elastic lamina, and deposition of extracellular matrix proteins driven by growth factors in the vasculature. This vascular pathology results in a progressive diminution of the vessel lumen and serves as a site for thrombosis and atherosclerotic lesions. A key cell type in the initiation of intimal hyperplasia is the vascular endothelial cell, which appears to have down-stream effects on the vascular smooth muscle proliferation and migration. Currently, the only means available for prevention of intimal hyperplasia is through inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) with the immunosuppressant rapamycin. mTOR integrates up-stream signals from growth factors such as IL-2 and senses the cellular nutrient and energy levels and redox status. This presentation will discuss the potential means of preserving the vascular endothelial cell and, thereby, reducing the development of intimal hyperplasia in our open-heart surgical patients.
Integrated high frequency linear transducer array for needle biopsy probe

We are developing a high frequency ultrasound imaging array for a needle biopsy probe. The goal of this work is to integrate a 64 channel high frequency linear array fabricated using PMN-PT transducer material alongside a high voltage CMOS ASIC. The ASIC is designed to multiplex the signals from the array to a single cable for synthetic aperture imaging. In this paper we discuss some of the challenges in this development and present initial results. The 64 channel transducer array was first assembled to a single layer flex circuit using gold bumps and silver-loaded epoxy. Pulse/echo data was obtained for this first prototype assembly. In addition to the gold bumped assembly, we have used silver coated glass beads and silver epoxy for assembly, and present initial results for this assembly as well.
The communication process in Telenursing: integrative review.

OBJECTIVE to identify scientific evidence about the communication process in Telenursing and analyze them. METHOD integrative review performed in March 2014. The search strategy, structured with the descriptors "telenursing" and "communication", was implemented in the databases Medline, Bireme, Cinahl, Scopus, Web of Science, Scielo, and Cochrane. RESULTS ten studies were selected after inclusion and exclusion criteria. The main challenges were: the clinical condition of patients, the possibility for inadequate communication to cause misconduct, the absence of visual references in interactions without video, and difficulty understanding nonverbal communication. CONCLUSION distance imposes communicative barriers in all elements: sender, recipient and message; and in both ways of transmission, verbal and nonverbal. The main difficulty is to understand nonverbal communication. To properly behave in this context, nurses must receive specific training to develop abilities and communication skills.
Factors Influencing Brand Switching in Telecommunication Industry among in Sri Lanka: Study based on Undergraduates in Sri Lanka

Abstract Telecommunication industry is an industry which is with fierce competition. This intense competition leads to reduce the market share of mobile service providers in terms of customers. Hence this study is conducted with the purpose of identifying the factors influence the youngsters to move from one brand to another in the telecommunication industry in Sri Lanka. This research was conducted as a cross sectional survey and utilized sample frame was undergraduates of university of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. Including Commerce and Management, Science and Art 300 undergraduates were captured random sampling method from that faculties as sample subjects and the data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire and the validation is tested under Cronbach alpha test. Multiple regression analysis is used as the key analysis tool to this study after satisfying the required assumptions. The core finding of the study is switching cost and services having significant impact on brand switching. While promotion factor does not have significant impact on brand switching. Previous researchers have used various services provided by the mobile service providers as separate independent variables in different conceptual models in many studies. Keywords: Brand switching, Promotions, Switching cost, Telecommunication, Undergraduates
Thalmic Contributions to Attention and Consciousness

A tacit assumption since the 19th Century has been that the neocortex serves as the "seat of consciousness. " An unexpected challenge to that assumption arose in 1949 with the discovery that high-frequency EEG activation associated with an alert state requires the intactness of the brainstem reticular formation. This discovery became the impetus for nearly three decades of research on what came to be known as the reticular activating system. By the 1970s, however, methodological and philosophical controversies led to the general abandonment of subcortical theories of attention and consciousness, with a return to an almost exclusive focus upon the cortex. With recent advances in the neurosciences the focus is shifting once more, this time to the unique contributions of cortical, thalamic, and brainstem structures in mediating selective attention and perceptual awareness. This paper offers a nontechnical review of the history of these developments up to contemporary interest in the putative role of oscillatory EEG patterns in the integration of perceptual features of experience. It puts forward the thesis that a key to understanding attention and consciousness is an appreciation of the contributions of the thalamus to these cognitive processes.
Low Dose Nicotinamide as an Adjunctive Therapy to Calcium Carbonate for Control of Hyperphosphatemia in Hemodialysis Patients

Abstract Background: Hyperphosphatemia remains a common problem in patients on maintenance dialysis and contributes to the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Current therapies for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia are frequently insufficient to achieve the recommended K/DOQI goal of maintaining serum phosphorus level between 3.5 and 5.5 mg/dl. Niacinamide inhibits intestinal sodium/ phosphorus co transporters and reduces serum phosphorus level in some clinical studies. So, we aimed to evaluate the safety and the efficacy of nicotinamide as adjunctive therapy to calcium carbonate (as calcium based phosphate binder) in hemodialysis patients. Methods: Sixty hemodialysis patients with serum phosphorus level ≥ 5.0 mg/dl were randomly assigned to 8 weeks of the study. Patients were divided into two groups:(group I) (control group): 30 cases calcium carbonate only and (group II) (study group): 30 cases received a combination of calcium carbonate and nicotinamide. Nicotinamide dose was started as 500mg/day and increased on 8th day to 1000 mg/day. Results:In the study group (nicotinamide group): serum phosphorus level fell significantly (p 0.05). Intact parathyroid hormone, uric acid, platelet count, total cholesterol, hemoglobin, ASAT, and ALAT and lipid profile remained insignificantly changed in both groups. Diarrhea, flushing and skin rash were the major adverse effects seen with nicotinamide therapy resulting in early withdrawal of 4 patients from the study. Conclusion: In hemodialysis patients, nicotinamide in single dose of 1000 mg daily can effectively reduce serum phosphorus level when administered with calcium carbonate (as phosphate binder) with less potential side effects reported.
Strategic Timing in Closed-End Fund Portfolio Holdings Disclosure

Using a sample of equity closed-end funds, we document significant portfolio holdings disclosure valuation effects and strategic disclosure timing by portfolio managers. An event study analysis reveals statistically significant positive (negative) abnormal returns associated with early (late) disclosure. We find that the returns of a long-short arbitrage strategy portfolio become statistically significant exactly when the implementation of such a strategy is facilitated by the timely disclosure of portfolio holdings. Our findings support the argument that managers of funds trading at high discounts are more likely to disclose earlier in order to reduce discounts and protect themselves from activist investor attacks. This is despite the documented strong motives for late disclosure stemming from copycatting and front running threats shared with open-end fund managers.
MOS transistors operated in the lateral bipolar mode and their application in CMOS technology

Operation of an MOS transistor as a lateral bipolar is described and analyzed qualitatively. It yields a good bipolar transistor that is fully compatible with any bulk CMOS technology. Experimental results show that high /spl beta/-gain can be achieved and that matching and 1/f noise properties are much better than in MOS operation. Examples of experimental circuits in CMOS technology illustrate the major advantages that this device offers. A multiple current mirror achieves higher accuracy, especially at low currents. An operational transconductance amplifier has an equivalent input noise density below 0.1 /spl mu/V//spl radic/Hz for frequencies as low as 1 Hz and a total current of 10 /spl mu/A. A bandgap reference yields a voltage stable within 3 mV from -40 to +80/spl deg/C after digital adjustment at ambient temperature. Other possible applications are suggested.
Cardiovascular control mechanisms in the conscious state.

CLINICIANS and clinical physiologists would prefer to base an understanding of the function and regulation of the cardiovascular system on observations carried out in man. However, both ethical considerations and limitations in instrumentation mandate the study of laboratory animals, in which appropriate controls and interventions can be introduced. Whereas extremely important hemodynamic information has been obtained from studies of man, most of the knowledge of cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology is based on findings obtained in animal experiments, which have been conducted most frequently on animals in the anesthetized state, often with an open chest. The conclusions derived from these experiments .
Laser photobiomodulation of wound healing: a review of experimental studies in mouse and rat animal models.

OBJECTIVES This investigation reviewed experimental studies of laser irradiation of wound healing in mice and rats published from 2003 to August 2008, respectively, to assess putative stimulatory effects of this treatment. BACKGROUND Animal models, including rodents, attempt to reflect human wound healing and associated problems such as dehiscence, ischemia, ulceration, infection, and scarring. They have played a key role in furthering understanding of underlying mechanisms involved in impaired wound healing, and in testing new therapeutic strategies including laser irradiation. METHOD Original research papers investigating effects of laser or monochromatic light therapy on wound healing in mice and rats and published from January 2003 to August 2008 were retrieved from library sources, PubMed and Medline databases, reference lists from retrieved papers, and hand searches of relevant journals. Papers were selected for this review with regard to specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Studies were critically reviewed in terms of study design, methodology, and appropriateness of laser irradiation parameters. RESULTS The literature search identified eight studies in mice and 39 in rats. A variety of wound models were investigated, including acute-wound, impaired-healing, and chronic-wound models. Considerable variation was observed in research design, methodology, and irradiation parameters employed, limiting comparison of research findings between studies. Inadequate reporting of key experimental details, or errors in specification and/or calculation of key irradiation parameters was also found. Evidence from the studies reviewed suggested that use of red or infrared wavelength at a range of dosage parameters (median 4.2 J cm(-2)) results in significant benefits in measured parameters of wound healing. Interestingly, coherence does not seem essential to the photobiomodulatory effects of 'laser' phototherapy. CONCLUSION Studies reviewed consistently demonstrated the ability of laser or monochromatic light to photobiomodulate wound healing processes in experimental wounds in rats and mice, and strongly support the case for further controlled research in humans.
Three in‐frame N‐terminally different proteins are produced from the repressor locus of the Streptomyces bacteriophage φC31

The sequence of the repressor locus, c, of the Streptomyces temperate phage, φC31, was shown previously to contain an open reading frame encoding a 74 kDa protein. Further analysis of the transcriptional and translational products of the c gene shows a more complex pattern of expression. A nest of three in‐frame N‐terminally different, C‐terminally identical proteins of 74, 54 and 42 kDa were found to be expressed from a corresponding nest of transcripts. The repressor proteins were produced in Escherichia coli and the 42 kDa protein was purified, verified by N‐terminal sequencing, and used to raise antibody. The antibody cross‐reacted in Western blots with the 74, 54 and 42 kDa proteins expressed in E. coli and Streptomyces lividans and from Streptomyces coelicolorφC31 lysogens. Analysis of transcription of the c gene by S1 mapping and primer extension showed that the nest of transcripts encoding the repressor protein were induced after heat treatment of the cts locus (Sinclair and Bibb, 1989; this paper). Correspondingly, all three of the repressor proteins were induced. In addition to a promoter, cp1, which lies upstream of the 74 kDa open reading frame, the c locus contained at least one internal promoter, cp2, which transcribes DNA encoding the 54 and 42 kDa proteins. Transcripts initiating from cp3 were observed in RNA preparations from S. lividans containing the c gene deleted for cp1 and cp2, but gene fusions using DNA which should contain any putative promoting activity from this region transcriptionally fused to the xylE gene showed very low levels of expression of catechol 2,3 dioxygenase in S. lividans. The 74 kDa protein was not necessary for super‐infection immunity. Data described here and current knowledge of the nature of other‘dual start’genes suggest a model for the regulation of lysis versus lysogeny in φC31.
Evolution of Financial Ecosystem from the CAS and EGT Perspective

In recent years, there is a large amount of literature that studies the theory of business ecosystem, but there is rarely literature on the financial system which plays a critical role in the good running of the enterprise. To fill this gap, the purpose of this paper is to address the evolution of financial ecosystem from an ecological and dynamic perspective. In order to provide a better presentation of the evolutionary process, based on complex adaptive system (CAS) theory and evolutionary game theory (EGT), this paper analyzed the adaptability of financial ecosystem and built an evolutionary game model of financial ecosystem to confirm the point of the view. The results show that the evolution of financial ecosystem is a dynamic adaptive process. Under the assumption of limited rationality, the financial ecosystem gradually finds the optimal strategy through adaptive learning, and finally the evolution reaches an equilibrium stage.
Class-based QoS control scheme by flow management in the Internet router

With the Internet transforming into multimedia and high-speed, the various traffic requiring different qualities of service (QoS) will co-exist in the network. Also, classified service based on Diff-Serv (differentiated service), MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) and so on, have come into wide use. In today's environment of the Internet, it is necessary for the routers to perform the control mechanism to guarantee various QoS. We propose the buffer management scheme of the Internet router with class-based priority control, focusing on per-flow queueing, and evaluate the performance. We aim at the realization of differentiated services and the dissolution of the buffer occupation by specific flow.
Short-Term Multi-Step Ahead Forecasting of Railway Passenger Flows During Special Events With Machine Learning Methods

Forecasting of public travel demand is of great importance to public transport management. It is a very challenging task that relies on many kinds of dependencies, such as temporal, spatial or exogenous factors (e.g., weather, event, service breakdown, .). This paper investigates the short-term multi-step ahead forecasting (t+1, ., t+8) of passenger demand aggregated by time step of 15 minutes.The forecasting is performed with smartcard data on a railway public transport network. Predicted flows could permit to optimize resource allocation, propose the best trip planning to passengers and better understand passenger flows during special events. We propose a state of the art deep learning approach, namely the gated recurrent unit (GRU), recurrent neural network, to tackle the short-term forecasting problem. We compared it to a well-known machine learning model namely Random Forest and long-term forecasting models. The experiments are conducted on a real 2-year smart card dataset provided by the transport organization authority of Ile-de-France (Ile-de-France Mobilites). The dataset depicts the passenger demand of 30 stations of the main Paris business district named La Defense, which corresponds to different transportation modes such as train (suburban railway service), metro, RER (Regional Express Network) and tramway. The evaluation of the models focuses on their performances in the presence of specific events through two subsets of data extracted from the whole dataset. These special periods correspond to transport network service anomaly periods such as service breakdown and special days period in term of passenger flow patterns such as public holiday.
Differential Expression and Turnover of the Tomato Polyphenol Oxidase Gene Family during Vegetative and Reproductive Development

Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are encoded by a highly conserved, seven-member gene family clustered within a 165-kb locus on chromosome 8 of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Using gene-specific probes capable of differentiating between PPO A/C, PPO B, PPO D, and PPO E/F, we examined the spatial and temporal expression of this gene family during vegetative and reproductive development. RNA blots and in situ hybridization using these probes showed that although PPO expression is primarily confined to early stages of development, the steady-state mRNA levels of these genes are subject to complex patterns of spatial and temporal regulation in vegetative and reproductive organs. Young tomato leaves and flowers possess the most abundant PPO transcripts. PPO B is the most abundant in young leaves, whereas in the inflorescence PPO B and E/F transcripts are dominant. Differential expression of PPOs is also observed in various trichome types. PPO A/C are specifically expressed in type I and type IV trichomes. In contrast, PPO D is only expressed in type VI trichomes. Type I, IV, and VI trichomes possess PPO E/F transcripts. Immunolocalization verified the translational activity of PPOs identified by in situ hybridization and suggested cell-type-specific, developmentally programmed PPO turnover. In addition, immunolocalization demonstrated the accumulation of PPO in specific idioblast cells of stems, leaves, and fruits.
Employees’ psychological empowerment and performance: how customer feedback substitutes for leadership

Purpose Relying on the theories of substitutes for leadership and psychological empowerment, this study aims to explore how perceptions of customer positive feedback can substitute for managers’ transformational leadership in driving frontline employees’ psychological empowerment and, in turn, task performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the research hypotheses with frontline employees working in 17 equipment rental stores. Employees completed a questionnaire about customer positive feedback, transformational leadership and psychological empowerment, and supervisors completed a separate questionnaire about employees’ task performance. A total of 178 employee-supervisor dyads formed the final sample of the study. Findings The results provided support for our hypotheses. Psychological empowerment fully mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and task performance. Moreover, customer positive feedback moderated the indirect relationship between transformational leadership and task performance such that it was significant and positive only when customer feedback was low. Originality/value This paper contributes to the service marketing literature by showing that customer positive feedback can substitute for managers’ leadership in helping frontline employees feeling more in control of their work and psychologically empowered. Another useful contribution for practitioners is that customers may have a positive impact on frontline employees’ motivation state, which past research has little explored.
A Review paper on CPU Scheduling in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is a new paradigm in which computing is delivered as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to consumers as a utility over networks. Cloud computing is capable to provide massive computing or storage resources without the need to invest money or face the trouble to build or maintain such huge resources. Consumers only need to pay for using the services just like they do in case of other day to day utility services such as water, gas, electricity, etc. Scheduling algorithms are used for dispatching user tasks or jobs to a particular resource or data. Scheduling is a challenging job in the cloud because the capability and availability of resources vary dynamically. In this paper we provide review of various scheduling techniques used in cloud computing environment.