Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optimization of vertical alignment of highways utilizing discrete dynamic programming and weighted ground line

Earthwork optimization plays an important role for reducing the total cost of highway projects. Weighted Ground Line Method (WGLM) is an earthwork optimization technique based on a hypothetical ground line balancing cut-fill volumes and minimizing the total amount of earthwork. Current form of the method describes only a hypothetical reference line guiding project engineers to locate the optimal roadway for the fixed horizontal alignment. Therefore, there are numerous grade line alternatives available for a given Weighted Ground Line. The aim of this study is to present a method to integrate discrete dynamic programming with WGLM to achieve the best vertical alignment of highways in terms of earthwork optimization.
The ionising cluster of 30 Doradus - II. Spectral classification for 175 stars

We present spectral types for 175 stars in the ionising cluster of 30 Doradus derived from multislit observations of 231 stars. Comparison with published classifications for 70 stars in common with other authors reveals excellent agreement with the exception of a few cases which are discussed in detail. Our new observations raise to 261 the total number of stars in 30 Dor with known spectral types, outside R136. We analyse the spatial distribution of these stars according to their spectral types, and find evidence for mass segregation.
Proteomics identi fi cation of PGAM 1 as a potential therapeutic target for urothelial bladder cancer

a Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China b Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Second West China Hospital, and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China c Department of Pathology, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China d Department of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Service Quality Assessment: A Study of Consumer Satisfaction in Indian Insurance Sector

The service quality has become a highly instrumental co-efficient in the aggressive competitive marketing. For success and survival in today's competitive environment, delivering quality service is of paramount importance for any economic enterprise. The underlying model of SERVQUAL (Parsuraman et al., 1988) with five dimensions is used to evaluate the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction. The present study aims to measure customers' perception and expectation towards life insurance service quality. Data has been collected from 500 customers from the five cities of Uttar Pradesh (progressive State of India). Besides, the study also investigates the relationship between customer expectation and perception of service quality dimensions and customers overall satisfaction of life insurance service quality.
The two-price model revisited. A Minskian-Kaleckian reading of the process of 'financialization'

In Passarella (2011B) a kind of up-grading of Minsky’s economic thought was proposed, in which his ‘financial instability hypothesis’ was inter-bred with inputs from the current heterodox literature. This up-grading was done within a one-good model where capital goods were regarded as a mere portion of firms’ homogeneous output. This simplifying hypothesis did not permit us to include explicitly the ratio of the (demand) price of capital assets to the supply price of capital goods – i.e. the key analytical concept in Minsky’s theory. This paper aims to improve the simplified model provided in Passarella (2011B) by considering explicitly an artificial, pure credit, closed capitalist economy in which production firms are split into two different sectors. The result is a new, although paradoxical, monetary circuit model which allows us to retrieve some of the most disputed results of Minsky’s analysis of economic instability.
Spatial Discrimination with Quantity Competition and High Transportation Costs: a Note

In this paper we extend the analysis of the standard model of spatial discrimination with quantity competition along the linear city to the case in which the unit transportation cost is greater than one. We show that in such a case the unique subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in locations is a dispersed symmetric equilibrium. Moreover, at this equilibrium firms' locations are not monotone in the transportation cost parameter.
LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS : LEADING OR MISLEADING ?

This paper takes a distributed perspective on leadership practice in schools. Drawing upon empirical evidence from two contemporary studies of successful school leadership and the international research base concerning distributed leadership, the paper argues that leadership practice is a distributed entity that is mediated through human interaction. It suggests that leadership activity at the level of the school, rather than the level of the individual, is the appropriate unit of analysis in studying leadership practice. The paper argues that the distributed perspective offers a new and important conceptual lens through which leadership practice in school can be understood and analyzed. It concludes that further research is required to investigate the interface between distributed leadership and school improvement to ensure that this particular perspective on school leadership is not misleading. (Contains 40 references.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
Fragile Landscape: Impact and Consequences of May 2014 Flash-flood Disaster in the Aqaba Area, Southern Jordan

Flash-flood disasters are common in the Aqaba area. It always has a significant impact on the city and causes immense damages to lives and the infrastructure (highways, roads and dwelling areas). Before the 1990s several flash-floods of medium and high magnitudes were recorded (i.e., the 1963 and 1966 floods). However, low and medium magnitude floods (6-7 and 20 year return period) have been a recurrent phenomena over the last three decades. The city and the port of Aqaba are considered crucial to the Jordanian economy and cosequently the protection of the city/port from repetitive flooding is important to maintain future urban and economic development. Since the 1960s all formulated development plans for the city and the southern coast have suffered from a remarkable lack of appreciation and awareness regarding environmental hazards, where 90% of the Aqaba area is exposed to flood and sediment hazards. An intensive post-event geomorphic survey was carried out following a flash-flood that struck the Aqaba area on 6-7 th May 2014 to identify the damages that occurred and to recognize the main hydrological characteristics of the flash-flood, the terrain favoring flooding, fluvial processes which initiate large gullies and finally to gain experience regarding natural hazards. Hydrological studies related to previous flooding events indicate that the Aqaba area is exposed to recurrent floods of different magnitudes, associated with high peak discharge, gully erosion, slumping and high sediment load. These caused serious damages to the properties and infrastructure, loss of life and hardship for the people of Aqaba. The resultant large gullies are considered an additional cause of instability and a sediment source which threatened the Aqaba area.
Effects of Dietary Fat Supplementation on Hematology and Growth Trait in Broiler Chickens

| A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary fat supplementation in broiler diet and analyze the effects on blood cholesterol levels and growth traits. A total of 240 broilers, equally divided in four groups A, B, C and D (n=60 chicks in each group) and fed on diet with 3.5%, 4.5%, 5.5% and 6.5% of fat, respectively. The completely randomized block design was used to perform this experiment from day first to 6 week. The results revealed that average feed intake of broiler in groups A, B, C and D was 4527.80, 4378.87, 4335.88 and 4298.76 g/b; average water intake about 17.63, 17.10, 18.38 and 19.39 liter/b; live body weight1926.81, 2182.26, 2228.86 2267.94 g/b; FCR-2.32, 1.99, 1.94 and 1.89; carcass weight-1117.45, 1318.82, 1354.81 and 1387.83 g/b; dressing percentage-58.17, 60.53, 61.21 and 61.29, respectively. The blood cholesterol level was 49.85, 104.45, 81.60 and 95.12 mg/dL; the fat % in muscles was 5.69, 6.09, 7.32 and 7.83 % respectively. The increasing level of fat, the feed consumption was decreased, but water intake was increased and broiler gained more weight as compared to lower dietary fat levels. The FCR improved simultaneously with increasing dietary fat levels (P<0.002). The carcass weight and subsequent dressing percentage increased with increasing fat level, but differences were non-significant (P>0.05) when fat level used beyond 4.5%. The weight of internal edible and non-edible organs increased with increasing dietary fat levels. It was demonstrated that ration containing 6.5% fat fed to broiler for better growth performance and production.
Micro-scale Diversity and Persistence of Genomic Variants of the Yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus in a Natural Woodland Population

Genetic diversity in populations of sister species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. paradoxus, has been described at the global scale, but less at small spatial scales. Fine scale sampling over time captures dynamics in genome distribution, which may not be revealed in large-scaled studies. I investigated the population genomics of a local population to address two questions: is there genomic variation in a S. paradoxus population at a fine spatial scale (centimeters to tens of meters)? Does the distribution of genomic variants persist over time? I sampled 42 S. paradoxus strains from 2014 and 43 strains from 2015 collected from the same 72 microsites around four oak trees within 1km in a mixed hardwood forest in southern Ontario. As well, 6 samples were made from Maple or Beech. I found five differentiated clades coexisting within the sampled area and persistent population structure over the two years of my study.
A method to obtain orientation curves in Euler space for a seccond diffraction process in polycrystals

A method is presented to obtain the orientation curve in the Eulerian space, of crystallites which diffract in one point of a Debye-Scherer ring in a second diffraction process. The incident beam is therefore the reflected beam of a previous diffraction process, and the sample has a general orientation for a pole figure measurement, given as usual by two angles, χ around the sample Y axis, and φ around the sample normal. Two solutions are found for all secondary reflections. The method proposed here was outlined somewhere else for the measurement of pole figures by neutron diffraction [1], and here important improvements are made, especially regarding the mathematical methods.
Title Carrier depletion and grain misorientations on individual grain boundaries of polycrystalline si thin films

Structural and microelectrical properties of grain boundaries (GBs) in polycrystalline Si thin films were investigated by electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) and scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM). The SCM measurements revealed highly nonuniform carrier depletions among the GBs, indicating the variety of electrical properties due to the specific GB structures. The EBSD measurement showed that the films are weakly [001 ]-oriented with small fractions of grains in the [111] and [110] orientations. Comparison of the SCM and EBSD measurements taken on the same film area led to the following observations: (1) L3 GBs do not exhibit carrier depletions and thus do not have charged deep levels; (2) Some L9 GBs exhibit carrier depletions and some do not, indicating that the intrinsic L9 GBs do not have charged deep levels and the carrier depletions are due to impurity gettering at the GBs; (3) No significant relationship between the carrier depletion behavior and the grain misorientationwas found so far on the GBs with random misorientations; (4) The carrier depletion behavior does not depend only on the grain misorientation but also on the facet where the GB is taken.
Spiral Mobility Based on Optimized Clustering for Optimal Data Extraction in WSNs

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have led to tremendous growth in the development of sensor technology and offer numerous applications, such as wildlife monitoring, environment, healthcare, military surveillance and security systems. In terms of performance, the evolutions of WSN routing protocols play a vital role in extending the lifetime of networking operations. Due to the limited resources of power in sensor nodes, the design and implementation of an energy-efficient routing protocol comprise a key challenge for researchers. Before, in the case of a static sink, nodes at farther areas from the sink transmit their sensed data at a longer transmission range and die early, while nearby nodes face lesser transmission costs and stay alive for a longer period. This unbalanced energy distribution creates energy holes in ares far from the sink in WSNs. Mobility-based sink routing protocols are proposed to minimize the sub-optimal energy consumption in WSNs, as the sink mobility covers the sensor field, which alleviates the overall load-balancing among sensor nodes. In order to overcome the energy hole issue while prolonging the network lifetime, it is important to determine the optimal mobility pattern. In this regard, we propose the Spiral Mobility based on Optimized Clustering (SMOC) routing protocol and the Multiple sink-based SMOC (M-SMOC) routing protocol for large-scale WSNs. Performance evaluations of the proposed protocols are compared with various existing routing protocols based on static sink, random mobility and grid mobility. Different numbers of performance parameters are considered for evaluation, such as network lifetime, network stability, packet drop ratio, packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, average energy consumption, network connection time and the impact of different heterogeneity levels. Experimental results show the benefits of the spiral mobility pattern and how it improves the network lifetime and stability period over the existing state-of-the-art routing protocols.
Expert Database System for Converting Unfit Query to Standard SQL Query

This research considers that the database contains a lot of data, which is used by a large number of users with different computer education levels. It is a fact that the DBMS is always strict in query execution that the unfit query for a simple reason would be rejected, this rejection affects communication momentum and user disappointment by not having the desired data. The proposed system aims to prevent rejection of unfit query that is entered by the user through preparing it for optimization it so that it is in a simple correct form which is accepted by the DBMS.
Antimicrobial activity of Acanthephippium bicolor ,

The Kolli hills, a part of Eastern Ghats of India is a treasure of medicinal plants. An attempt is made to gather information about the traditional use of herbs from the local healers. Acanthephippium bicolor Lindley is being used to treat urinary tract infection. Different parts (leaf, bulb and root) are collected in two seasons (summer and winter) and phytochemicals present in them are analyzed. Leaf is found to possess most of the phytochemicals. Hence leaf is selected as study material. Antimicrobial activity of the various solvent extracts (methanol, ethanol, chloroform, acetone, ethyl acetate, benzene and hexane) is screened for both summer and winter samples. Of the 35 organisms studied, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus foecalis, Bacillus cereus, Proteus vulgaris, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Microsporum audouinii, Microsporum fulvum, Candida albicans and Trichophyton rubrum are found to be sensitive to leaf extracts. The Gram-positive bacteria are found to be more sensitive than Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. The inhibition is found to be more in methanol extract. This proves that the bioactive compounds reside in methanolic extract. When the summer and winter samples are compared for their antimicrobial efficacy, there is no significant difference. This proves that there is no impact of season on antimicrobial activity of this plant. This research proves that Acanthephippium bicolor Lindley would be the best herbal medicine for Urinary Tract Infection and leaves can be used as herbal and scientific medicine throughout the year as there is no seasonal impact.
An Inventory of Medicinal Plants used to Treat Gynaecological-Obstetric-Urino-Genital Disorders in South Nandi Sub County in Kenya

This survey aims at identifying plants that may contribute to the identification and development of new drugs.An ethnomedicinal survey was conducted among the communities in Aldai Division, South Nandi Sub County, Kenya. A total of 56 plants were documented with 30 families are included. The majority of species belong to the families namely Euphorbiaceae, Lamiaceae, Apocynaceae and Fabaceae. Over half of all plants recorded are used treat infections, while ¼ for used labour-child birth and copulation disorders. Keywords: Ethnomedicine, gynaecological-obstetric-urinary, medicinal plants, Nandi.
External Control and Internal Control of Defense : trust and partnership for management improvement

The external and internal controls have been intensively cooperating for the improvement of the Defense Sector. Overcoming obstacles of institutional and organizational nature, the control agencies are now focusing largely on the issues of the sector performance, while upholding the law. Positive results can be seen in the organizational development of the Defense internal controls and in the supervision of strategic projects of the Brazilian armed forces, including the relative development of nuclear propulsion submarines. The cooperation among control agencies contributes to the creation of an institutional environment suitable for achieving results more efficiently.
A novel assay for evaluation of the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) using a nontoxic probe

A novel and simple method for measuring total antioxidant capacity (TAC) was established. Herein, the new assay is based on generating the deep blue Imipramine (IMI) free radical by oxidising IMI with ammonium tetra vanadate (NH 4 VO 3 ) in acid medium. Once the generated blue IMI radical is scavenged by the antioxidant compounds presenting in the samples, the blue colour of the oxidant disappears. Consequently, dropping in the absorption spectrum at 620 nm which can be detected by the spectrophotometric method. Also, sample throughputs and precision of the assay were enhanced by cooperating the novel analyse with the flow injection analysis (FIA) technique. The linearity of the assay was found to be up to 2,800 mg trolox equivalent L -1 . The developed method was then applied to evaluate TAC in three different fractions of the G . Sootepensis ’s extract. The proposed method was reliable, robust, inexpensive, environmentally friendly and suited for measuring TAC.
A TEM Study of Weakly Overaged Precipitates in AA 6082

New models for modeling the material properties for aluminium alloys that can take into consideration the geometry of the needle shaped precipitates, that can be found in 6xxx alloys are being developed. The background for this thesis is to help find needed experimental data to calibrate and develop these model further. In this thesis the chosen material to study was from an extruded plate of AA6082 aluminium, which is a relevant material in for example the automobile industry. Three different tempered cases has been studied in depth with Transmission Electron Microscopy, tensile tests and hardness curves. A hardness curve was made to find T6 which is the first case. The second case was weakly over aged at 185 ◦C after reaching T6 until it reached ≈ 70% of peak hardness. The third case was over aged at 200 ◦C after reaching T6 until it also reached ≈ 70% peak hardness. It has been made cross section area and length distributions of the precipitates for the three cases using a TEM. The tensile tests were done to relate the contributions of the different particle parameters such as length, cross section area and density to the mechanical properties of the material. It was found in the tensile tests that the over aged materials experienced increased initial work hardening rate as compared to T6. The distributions showed that the material over aged at 200 ◦C had wider and shorter precipitates compared to the material over aged at 185 ◦C. It was also found that the over aged materials has a significantly lower particle density compared to T6.
Modeling identification and simulation of bank to turn unmanned aerial vehicle

This paper presents mathematical modeling, identification and design methods for a subsonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Small signal perturbed aerodynamic models are developed first and used for identification processes and autopilot designs. A simplified 6-DOF simulation model is developed second with trim conditions added back to small signal perturbed aerodynamic models. Simulation comparisons between the simplified and complete 6-DOF models are made with same bank to turn guidance laws. A Tomahawk-like cruise UAV example shows the simplified 6-DOF simulation model gives good approximations to the complete 6-DOF system for developing guidance and control laws. This paper gives better accurate simulation model for pitch angle and angle of attack than previous paper developed by the author.
Belief Revision in the GOAL Agent Programming Language

Agents in a multiagent system may in many cases find themselves in situations where inconsistencies arise. In order to properly deal with these, a good belief revision procedure is required. This paper illustrates the usefulness of such a procedure: a certain belief revision algorithm is considered in order to deal with inconsistencies and, particularly, the issue of inconsistencies, and belief revision is examined in relation to the GOAL agent programming language.
3 A Buy-and-Hold Multi-Day Method ( BHMD )

This paper describes a new method to generate unbiased equal-weighted portfolio daily returns by removing the impacts of bid-ask bounce and non-synchronous trading. For example, for the CRSP daily equal-weighted market index over 1964 to 1993 (EWRETD), the annual bias of the time series generated by our method is 0.05%, considerably smaller than 6% as reported by Canina et al. (1998). In addition, we also discuss the research impact by using both biased and unbiased daily EWRETD on beta, alpha, volatility and event study. The paper concludes that the new method should be applied for future estimation of portfolio daily returns which can be either equal-weighted or value-weighted. JEL classification numbers: G10, G11