Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quantitative function for community structure detection

Detecting community structure is a powerful approach to understanding complex networks. Recently, modularity function Q has been widely used as a measure to identify communities in complex networks. However, optimising Q function has some resolution limitations. In this paper, we present a new quantitative function DQ (degree modularity) that detects community structure based on local connectivity of communities. We first prove that the function DQ can improve the resolution limitations of modularity Q. Furthermore, we experimentally evaluate the performance of the new quantitative function using a variety of real and computer-generated networks and find communities of widely differing sizes can be detected with higher sensitivity and reliability. Also, even in large-scale biological networks, such as protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, we can obtain higher matching rate between the predicted protein modules and the known protein complexes. All the experimental results support the usefulness of the new quantitative function DQ as the measure for community structure detection.
Analisis Model Peramalan Status Kredit Kendaraan Bermotor pada Astra Credit Companies (ACC) Cabang X Periode 2011

In order to increasing revenue, credit and financial institution, especially, automotive financing, gave lower interest rate. This, of course, will impact to the costumer with higher opportunity to have their dream which facilitated by those institutions. Despites to all economic risks and sales targets, credit and financial institutions have to empower their credit monitoring to anticipate earlier of credit defaults. Inspired by Altman’s research in 1968, about predicting bankruptcy of US companies, this research has purpose to determine which variable that significantly to the car loan status at Astra Credit Companies (ACC), and further continue to arrange prediction model of loan status and measure it’s accuracy level. The statistic test shows there are 2 independent variables affect to dependent variable significantly, where model’s accuracy level achieves 100%.
SCREENING IN VITRO AND IN VIVO THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF RHUS CORIARIA EXTRACT AGAINST S. AUREUS

The problem of antibiotic resistance has become increased in recent years. The present study investigated the antibacterial activity of aqueous extract of Rhus coriaria against Staphylococcus aureus in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that S. aureus was multi-drug resistant where it was resistant to nine antimicrobials (AMC, CFM, CTR, DA, OB, MY, ME, NIT, and V) among seventeen used antimicrobials. The aqueous extract of R. coriaria showed a strong effect in inhibition the growth of tested isolate in vitro and in vivo. The MIC was determined where it was 0.025% and was used as curing agent for curing bacterial plasmids. The phytochemical screening showed that R. coriaria contains tannin, phenol, anthraquinon and saponin.
Generation Y Attitudes toward Mobile Advertising: Impacts of Modality and Culture

Mobile phone usage has grown rapidly and is widely used as an advertising channel. Both short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) are typically used for mobile advertising. The goals of this study are to examine the determinants of attitudes toward mobile advertising in an apparel context and subsequent impact on behavior intention and to investigate the effects of modality and culture on attitudes toward apparel mobile advertising. Results indicate that entertainment, informativeness, irritation, and credibility are determinants of attitudes toward apparel mobile advertising, and attitudes can explain behavioral intention at least in part. Perceived entertainment is different between SMS and MMS apparel mobile advertising, and perceived entertainment, informativeness, irritation, and credibility are different between U.S. and Korea participants.
Privacy by design for social networks

This research has established a new privacy framework, privacy model, and privacy architecture to create more transparent privacy for social networking users. The architecture is designed into three levels: Business, Data, and Technology, which is based on The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®). This framework and architecture provides a novel platform for investigating privacy in Social Networks (SNs). This approach mitigates many current SN privacy issues, and leads to a more controlled form of privacy assessment. Ultimately, more privacy will encourage more connections between people across SN services.
Effect of oxygen concentration and free radicals on in vitro development of in vitro-produced bovine embryos.

The effects of free radicals and hypotaurine on the development of bovine embryos produced by in vitro fertilization of in vitro-matured oocytes were examined. Embryos that developed to the 4- to 6-cell stage after in vitro fertilization were cultured without feeder cells in TCM199 medium supplemented with 1% calf serum (CS) under either 5% CO2 in air or 5% O2, 5% CO2 and 90% N2. The percentages of blastocysts (including early, expanding, and hatched stages) that developed under 5% O2 was higher (P < .01) than the percentage of those that developed under 20% O2. The respective percentages in 5% vs 20% O2 concentration were as follows: blastocysts (d 8), 49% vs 17%; expanded blastocysts (d 8), 19% vs 6%; hatched blastocysts (d 10), 16% vs 0%. The development of embryos to blastocysts was suppressed (P < .05) when oxygen radicals were generated in culture medium by 2,2'-azobis(2-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride (AAPH) under both 5% and 20% O2. The addition of hypotaurine permitted the development of embryos to blastocyst stage in medium with AAPH only under 5% O2 (P < .05), but superoxide dismutase (SOD) did not permit the development of embryos to blastocysts. Alternatively, when embryos were cultured in medium without AAPH, the rates of development into blastocysts under 20% O2 increased (P < .05) by the addition of hypotaurine and SOD. However, under 5% O2, the rates of blastocyst formation were not improved by addition of hypotaurine and SOD. Moreover, the cell numbers of blastocysts cultured in medium containing hypotaurine were greater (P < .01) than those of blastocysts cultured in medium without hypotaurine. It is concluded that hypotaurine may exert beneficial effects on in vitro development of bovine embryos under both 20% O2 and 5% O2 of gaseous conditions.
Software Maintenance and Organizational Health and Fitness

This chapter sets out a foundation for the management of software maintenance. The foundation highlights a fundamental for managing software maintenance effectivelyrecognition of the connection between managing change in organizations and the organizations health and fitness. The changes arising as a consequence of software maintenance nearly always impair or improve that health and fitness. The basis for that impact lies in how business rules contribute to the performance of systems, and in how systems contribute to the performance of organizations. An understanding and application of how changes from software maintenance on business rules and systems affect the performance of organizations provides a basis for management action. With that added confidence, managers can reduce impairing their organizations health and fitness and can increase positive action to improve their organizations health and fitness via software maintenance.
Process improvement for problem management: A case study of Basware

Degree Programme in Information Systems Management Author or authors Markus Wennerström Group or year of entry ISM12 Title of report Process improvement for problem management: A case study of Basware Number of report pages and attachment pages 63 + 8 Teacher(s) or supervisor(s) Jarmo Sarkkinen This master’s thesis researches an internal improvement project regarding the problem management process at Basware as a case study. Problem management had been previously implemented at Basware but improvements were needed due to identified knowledge gaps in the current process. The main objectives were to find out how problem management was currently done, how the related incident management and its resolution times can be reduced and how can the effectiveness, i.e. ability to reduce the number of recurring incidents, of problem management be measured. Process development is usually more effective if it is based on an existing framework. Basware’s problem management was highly relying on ITIL’s version of the process so that was used as the basis for the process improvements. Utilization of the known error database, customer communication templates and cleared roles and responsibilities were amongst the improvements made. In order to evaluate the success of the implemented improvements, a set of metrics to measure the success is needed. During this project, key performance indicators, also known as KPIs were defined to enable this. Additionally, operational level agreements as a prerequisite to meet promises made to customers in service level agreements were discussed and several new metrics identified in the process.
A survey of operations management practices in Islamic banks of Bangladesh

The establishment of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. in 1983 was the first step of Islamic banking system in Bangladesh towards achieving the vision of having an Islamic financial system operating side by side with the conventional interest -based system for nation’s socio-economic development goals. Operations Management is a set of activities that creates goods and services through the transformation of inputs into outputs. For Islamic banks, the inputs are the managers, employees, machines, and various facilities, whereas, the outputs are the various services such as Letter of Credit (LC), Mudharaba, Musharaka Contract, etc. The present research is undertaken to conduct a survey on Operations Management practices in various Islamic banks in Bangladesh. The survey involves 37 branches of five Islamic banks in Bangladesh. In particular, the survey focuses on operations strategy, process, technology, layout, location, supply chain, and quality management. The survey findings are expected to provide guidelines to the managers of Islamic banks in designing an effective Operations Management system.
A Novel Level-Shifter Circuit Design For Display Panel Driver

A novel level-shifter circuit for display panel driver is presented. A proposed level-shifter is for the high speed and high-voltage driving capability. In order to achieve this purpose, the proposed level-shifter restricts and separates the Vgs of the output driver's pull-up PMOS and pull-down NMOS with Zener diode. The Zener diode can be replaced by normal diode combination. And a speed-up PMOS transistor is introduced to reduce delay. The control signal of speed-up PMOS was designed by bootstrapping method to minimize the gate to source (Vgs) voltage to avoid Vgs breakdown.
Methodologic diligence is needed to define and validate tumor-size response metrics to predict overall survival in first-line metastatic colorectal cancer.

(TTG)asatumor-sizeresponsemetrictopredictoverallsurvival(OS) in patients with first-line metastatic colorectal cancer treated with irinotecan,fluorouracil,andleucovorinboluswithorwithoutbevacizumab.Longitudinaltumor-sizedatafromatotalof991patientswith a median number of five measurements per patient is presented. A tumor growth inhibition model 2 is fit to individual tumor growth curvesovertimefromwhichdifferenttumor-sizeresponsemetricsare
Core-protected platinum monolayer shell high-stability electrocatalysts for fuel-cell cathodes.

More than skin deep: Platinum monolayers can act as shells for palladium nanoparticles to lead to electrocatalysts with high activities and an ultralow platinum content, but high platinum utilization. The stability derives from the core protecting the shell from dissolution. In fuel-cell tests, no loss of platinum was observed in 200? 000 potential cycles, whereas loss of palladium was significant.
Donor and host B cell‐derived IL‐10 contributes to suppression of graft‐versus‐host disease

Graft‐versus‐host disease (GvHD) is a frequent life‐threatening complication following allogeneic HSC transplantation (HSCT). IL‐10 is a regulatory cytokine with important roles during GvHD, yet its relevant sources, and mode of action, remain incompletely defined in this disease. Using IL‐10‐deficient donor or host mice (BALB/c or C57BL/6, respectively) in a MHC‐mismatched model for acute GvHD, we found a strongly aggravated course of the disease with increased mortality when either donor or host cells could not produce this cytokine. A lack of IL‐10 resulted in increased allogeneic T‐cell responses and enhanced activation of host DCs in spleen and MLNs. Remarkably, IL‐10 was prominently produced by host‐ and donor‐derived CD5intCD1dintTIM‐1int B cells in this disease, and consistent with this, allogeneic HSCT resulted in exacerbated GvHD when mice lacking IL‐10 expression in B cells were used as donor or host, compared with controls. Taken together, this study demonstrates that host and donor B cell‐derived IL‐10 provides a unique mechanism of suppression of acute GvHD, and suggests that DCs are the targets of this B cell‐mediated suppressive effect. These findings open novel therapeutic possibilities based on the use of B cells to increase the feasibility of allogeneic HSCT.
Harmonic current suppression control strategy for hybrid excited vernier PM machines

Recently, a novel hybrid excited vernier permanent magnet machine (HE-VPM) is proposed. The proposed machine is with stator located PMs, and concentrated armature windings. The current waveforms of the armature windings are sinusoidal with DC bias, as the injected DC biased current can weaken or enhance the exciting fields at high/low speed. Due to the characteristics of double salient structure, a massive amount of back-EMF harmonics in phase windings will appear when the machine is operating, and the DC flow path will lead to current waveform distortion in phase windings, result in torque ripple and influence the efficiency of the motor. By analyzing the mathematical equations in dq0-axis, a harmonic current suppression control strategy for HE-VPMs is proposed. The control strategy produces the corresponding voltage compensation in dq-axis, counteract with the back-EMF harmonics to achieve the purpose of eliminating the circulating harmonic current. Finally, the experimental results verified that the proposed control strategy can suppress the harmonic current in phase windings effectively.
Mixtures of Sodium Nitroprusside and Trimethaphan for Induction of Hypotension

A mixture of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and trimethaphan, empirical 1:10 weight ratio, has been advocated to decrease untoward side effects of SNP when used to induce hypotension during anesthesia and operation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of various ratios of mixtures of SNP and trimethaphan on heart rate (HR), renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA), and renal artery blood flow to find the best ratio of SNP and trimethaphan for producing induced hypotension. Five mixtures with different ratios of SNP and trimethaphan, as well as each drug alone, were given intravenously to mongrel dogs in amounts adequate to achieve a stable mean arterial blood pressure of 75 ± 5 mm Hg. Sodium nitroprusside alone significantly increased HR (163% ± 14.5%) and RSNA (222% ± 24%). Trimethaphan alone significantly decreased RSNA (11.6% ± 4.5%). There were significant positive correlations between SNP-to-trimethaphan ratios and percent changes in HR (r2 = 0.301, P < 0.01) and in RSNA (r2 = 0.648, P < 0.01). Renal artery blood flow was well maintained with all ratios. Sodium nitroprusside and trimethaphan interacted synergistically to produce hypotension. However, they antagonize each other in their effects on arterial baroreflex-mediated changes in HR and RSNA. According to linear regression lines, HR changed least with a SNP-to-trimethaphan ratio of 1:5, and RSNA changed least with SNP-to-trimethaphan ratios of 1:2.5 and 1:5. Our results indicate that mixtures of SNP and trimethaphan in ratios of approximately 1:2.5 to 1:5 may produce induced hypotension with stable reflex sympathetic nerve activity.
The extensions of the modal logic K5

Our purpose is to delineate the extensions (normal and otherwise) of the propositional modal logic K5. We associate with each logic extending K5 a finitary index, in such a way that properties of the logics (for example, inclusion, normality, and tabularity) become effectively decidable properties of the indices. In addition we obtain explicit finite axiomatizations of all the extensions of K5 and an abstract characterization of the lattice of such extensions. This paper refines and extends the Ph.D. thesis [2] of the first-named author, who wishes to acknowledge his debt to Brian F. Chellas for his considerable efforts in directing the research culminating in [2] and [3]. We also thank W. J. Blok and Gregory Cherlin for observations which greatly simplified the proofs of Theorem 3 and Corollary 10. By a logic we mean a set of formulas in the countably infinite set Var of propositional variables and the connectives ⊥, →, and □ (other connectives being used abbreviatively) which contains all the classical tautologies and is closed under detachment and substitution. A logic is classical if it is also closed under RE (from A↔B infer □A ↔□B) and normal if it is classical and contains □ ⊤ and □ (P → q) → (□p → □q). A logic is quasi-classical if it contains a classical logic and quasi-normal if it contains a normal logic. Thus a quasi-normal logic is normal if and only if it is classical, and if and only if it is closed under RN (from A infer □A).
The Relationship between the Domestic Investment and Base Lending Rate Towards Economic Freedom

There are many factors that determining the economic freedom of the country. The main purpose of this study is to observe the relationship between the domestic investment and base lending rate towards economic freedom. To analyse economic freedom, it must be include the most recent information on each year to see how the changes in government of the country’s policy affect economic freedom. As to conduct the study, the collected data will be taken from historical returns of the countries economic. The dependent variables will be the economic freedom while the independent will be domestic investment and base lending rate of the country itself.
Methionine sulfoxide reductase A is a stereospecific methionine oxidase

Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of methionine residues is reversible, this covalent modification could also function as a mechanism for cellular regulation, provided there exists a stereospecific methionine oxidase. We show that MsrA itself is a stereospecific methionine oxidase, producing S-methionine sulfoxide as its product. MsrA catalyzes its own autooxidation as well as oxidation of free methionine and methionine residues in peptides and proteins. When functioning as a reductase, MsrA fully reverses the oxidations which it catalyzes.
Support vector machine for diagnosis of inductioi motors: A comparative analysis in terms of the quantity and the signal processing tool used to build the feature space

The use of advanced diagnosis techniques for induction motor (IM) faults relies on the use of automated classifiers, such as those based on support vector machines (SVMs), which are able to assess the condition of the machine using a set of relevant features extracted either from the time domain or from the frequency domain machines signals. But the performance of such systems depends on two main factors: the quantity that is used to obtain the machine's condition, and the signal processing tool used for extract the features set. In this paper, a combination of the most used quantities and signal processing tools is used for diagnosis a set of machines with broken bars, fed from the mains and from variable speed drives, using the same SVM. In this way, the most efficient combination can be chosen, from the point of view of the performance of the automatic classifier system.
On Incentives for Sustainable Investments

There is a trend among institutional investors to split their assets between index-managers and specialists. The specialist mandates are typically delegated to specialist asset managers, who are assumed to generate "alpha", take on large risks and whose remuneration is performance based. In this paper, we will study how the optimal behavior of the specialist manager will depend on the remuneration structure.
Aging better.

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing aging better as the reading material.
The detection of inter-turn short circuits in the stator windings of operating motors

This paper develops a winding-function-based method for modeling polyphase cage induction motors with inter-turn short circuits in the machine stator winding. Analytical consideration which sheds light on some components of the stator current spectra of both healthy and faulty machines is developed. It is shown that, as a result of the nature of the cage rotor, no new frequency components of the line current spectra can appear as a consequence of the fault. Only a rise in some of the frequency components which already exist in the line current spectra of a healthy machine can be observed. An experimental setup comprising a 3 kW delta-connected motor loaded by a generator was used to validate this approach. The experimental results obtained clearly validate the analytical and simulation results.
Optimal Initial Public O¤ering design with aftermarket trading

We characterize the optimal pricing and allocation of shares in the presence of distinct adverse selection problems. Some investors have private information at the time of the IPO and sell their shares in the after-market upon facing liquidity needs. Others learn their private interest in the after-market, and sell their shares strategically. The optimal mechanism trades-o¤ informational rents and rents to strategic traders. Flipping facilitates truthful information revelation. When liquidity needs are likely, it is optimal to allocate all shares to investors informed at the IPO stage. Otherwise, some shares are allocated to those who trade strategically in the after-market.
SICT Skills and Internet Usage by Undergraduates of Library and Information Science Schools in Delta and Edo States, Nigeria

The study examined ICT skills and internet usage of undergraduates of Library and Information Science Departments in Delta and Edo States. The descriptive design was employed for the study. The sample consists of 238 undergraduates. The questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents. Findings revealed that there was no significant relationship between the ICT skills possessed by undergraduates ofLIS Departments in Delta and Edo states and their internet usage. However, the undergraduates possessed ICT skills and adequately make use of the Internet. The findings also revealed that the most popular way of acquiring ICT skills by the undergraduates was self-taught with manuals and handbook, through courses of study at the university and friends.