Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing Applications: A Review

This paper provides an overview of collaborative robotics towards manufacturing applications. Over the last decade, the market has seen the introduction of a new category of robots—collaborative robots (or “cobots”)—designed to physically interact with humans in a shared environment, without the typical barriers or protective cages used in traditional robotics systems. Their potential is undisputed, especially regarding their flexible ability to make simple, quick, and cheap layout changes; however, it is necessary to have adequate knowledge of their correct uses and characteristics to obtain the advantages of this form of robotics, which can be a barrier for industry uptake. The paper starts with an introduction of human–robot collaboration, presenting the related standards and modes of operation. An extensive literature review of works published in this area is undertaken, with particular attention to the main industrial cases of application. The paper concludes with an analysis of the future trends in human–robot collaboration as determined by the authors.
Prática fisioterapêutica no tratamento da fibrose cística Physiotherapeutic modalities in the treatment of cystic fibrosis

RESUMO A fibrose cistica (FC), denominada tambem de mucoviscidose, e uma doenca genetica do tipo autossomica recessiva que acomete principalmente criancas e individuos de raca branca. O objetivo deste estudo foi propiciar uma visao sobre a FC, assim como as possiveis formas de tratamento fisioterapeutico. A pesquisa da literatura foi realizada nas bases de dados SciELO e PubMed, no periodo de abril de 2002 a marco de 2013, atraves da selecao de artigos cientificos referentes a FC, utilizando como palavras-chave: “fibrose cistica”, “fisioterapia em fibrose cistica” e “fisioterapia respiratoria”. Por meio desta revisao, pode-se observar que, apesar da complexidade da doenca, a pratica fisioterapeutica, com o uso das tecnicas: tapotagem, vibracao, drenagem postural (DP), huffing, oscilacao oral de alta frequencia (OOAF), drenagem autogena (DA) e o ciclo ativo da respiracao (CAR), apresenta eficacia tanto no tratamento como na manutencao da qualidade de vida dos pacientes com FC.
Designing for Affordability, Application, and Performance: The International Transradial Adjustable Limb Prosthesis

ABSTRACT A multidisciplinary team including engineers, prosthetists, physicians, and amputees has developed a new transradial prosthesis currently being validated. The International Transradial Adjustable Limb (ITAL) comprises an innovative variable-compression, variable-geometry below-elbow interface, a new body-powered prehensor with adjustable pinch force, control harness, and cable. Globally, prosthesis options are increasingly limited by cost and lack of infrastructure required to fit and maintain them. The ITAL was designed for use in harsh environments, with consideration of local technical knowledge and infrastructure available to economically disadvantaged amputees in the United States and developing countries. The relatively low-cost ITAL prostheses restore bimanual capacity to perform strenuous physical labor, enabling amputees to earn a living and be self-reliant. Packaged in kits, units can be taken directly to amputees and fit or serviced within about 1 hour using simple hand tools, without requiring amputees to visit or be transported to a central facility. Ten amputees in Jamaica, United States, Haiti, and Thailand have shown the ITAL to be an appropriate solution, and they now use it for daily activities. Users rate the ITAL’s comfort at approximately 75% that of custom-fabricated prostheses but equivalent in utility. This article outlines key elements of the adjustable prehensor, the transradial interface, and the harness and presents a summary of results from the preliminary evaluation of the ITAL. Future work aims to further increase comfort while refining the aesthetics to address cultural needs.
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Vibration Control of Seat Suspension using H∞ Reliable Control

This paper is concerned with the problem of robust H ∞ reliable load-dependent control design for a class of semi-active seat suspension systems. A four degree-of-freedom human body model is considered in order to investigate the control strategy more precisely. It is assumed that the human body mass resides in an interval and can be measured online. The load-dependent approach is based on a parameter-dependent Lyapunov function. Thus the proposed method is capable of reducing the conservatism and improving the closed-loop performance. Actuator faults are also considered in the controller design process and the resulting control systems are reliable because they provide guaranteed asymptotic stability and H ∞ performance in spite of the possible actuator failures. The usefulness and advantages of the controller design methodology are demonstrated through a design example.
Radioiodtherapie beim differenzierten Schilddrüsenkarzinom

Zusammenfassung Die Radioiodtherapie des differenzierten Schilddrüsenkarzinoms hat eine 70-jährige Tradition. Sie wird sehr gut toleriert, ist nebenwirkungsarm und trägt einen substanziellen Anteil zur guten Prognose der Erkrankung bei. An den Grundprinzipien der Therapie hat sich nichts geändert. Voraussetzung für den Erfolg ist die gute Aufnahme des Iods in die Schilddrüsenkarzinomzelle und die möglichst lange Retention. In den letzten Jahren sind verschiedene Innovationen zu verzeichnen. Die für die Iodaufnahme für erforderlich gehaltene TSH-Stimulation ist seit einigen Jahren auch mittels rhTSH-Injektionen möglich, wodurch die durch den Schilddrüsenhormonentzug bedingten hypothyreoten Beschwerden vermieden werden können. Eine zuverlässige und vorhersagbar positive (im Sinne einer höheren Läsionsstrahlendosis) Beeinflussung der Iodkinetik ist derzeit jedoch weiterhin nicht bekannt. Die Gabe von Li+ könnte ebenso hilfreich sein wie andere Modalitäten zur Beeinflussung der Iodkinetik, die von der Behandlung gutartiger Schilddrüsenerkrankungen her bekannt sind. Die Identifizierung von Patienten, bei denen eine kurative Radioiodtherapie nicht zu erwarten ist, wird durch die Dosimetrie mit 124I – PET/CT möglich und darüber hinaus mittels der prätherapeutischen Dosimetrie auch die individuelle Festsetzung der 131I-Therapieaktivität. Durch die Einführung der SPECT/CT steht eine Gammakamera-basierte Schnittbilddiagnostik mit anatomischer Korrelation auch mit dem Therapienuklid 131I zur Verfügung, wodurch die Aussagekraft der Post-Therapie-Szintigrafie gesteigert wird.
Mental health epidemiology and services research. Contributions to US health care reform

The United States recently engaged in a two year extensive review of health care policy with a view to reforming the health care delivery system. The availability of research data on total health care service use and costs under different financing and organizational arrangements helped support this review. Although research data were significant in the debate, the other important variables included political idealism or philosophy about the most appropriate role of government in health care; political pragmatism which required responses to constituency groups with a stake in the outcome; and the experience of constituents with government implementation of existing Medicaid and Medicare government health care programs (Regier, 1986). The contributions of both research and political variables to health care reform efforts will be reviewed briefly.
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

The Journal publishes both clinical and research articles relevant to psychiatric nursing. Authors describe critical and timely analyses of the emerging issues and trends in psychiatric nursing, and present innovative models of practice related to mental health care systems. JAPNA, a peer-reviewed journal, not only publishes original research and practice-focused articles, but also features editorials, interviews, briefings, and letters to the editors. The Journal’s expert content provides psychiatric nurses with the newest effective nursing practices, innovative therapeutic approaches, significant information trends, and useful, clinically-focused research in psychiatric-mental health nursing and its related subspecialties.
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS ON IRANIAN TOURISTS TAKING PART IN GUIDED EXCURSIONS, THE CASE OF KUSADASI, TURKEY

The current study aims to investigate the tourist behaviors (bargaining, interacting, shopping and etc.) of Iranians on guided excursions visiting Kusadasi. Firstly, the “twenty typical tourist behavior” scale, developed by Pizam and Sussmann (1995) was utilized, and then a participant observation form was created by adding 16 more items to the scale as a result of acquiring the opinions of some industry professionals. Thereafter, one of the researchers started observing Iranian tourists’ behaviors by joining in guided excursions for Iranian tourists at different occasions in Kusadasi. During those five daily excursions, 174 Iranians were observed in total. In order not to disturb the tourist groups during the participant observations, the researcher, also being a professional tour guide, hung his tour guide ID around his neck during the excursions. With this approach, the researcher aimed to being perceived as an employee of the travel agent by the Iranian tourists. At this research, it was revealed that Iranians showed a low tendency to interact with other tourists, salespeople/ vendors and to buy local products. In addition to this, there were no Iranians leaving any tips unless the tour guides took their attention to the tip box. Besides this, they showed a low tendency to eat or drink during shopping oriented tours. Some delays were also detected during those daily excursions. Thus, it is possible to state that punctuality is not ranked among their priorities. On the other hand, it was revealed that Iranian tourists showed a high tendency to buy clothes in at the shopping malls. According to the findings, LCW, Zara and Koton were, respectively, the clothing brands most preferred by Iranians during the shopping tours. In addition, some of them bought souvenir photographs taken during the site visits. Although there were no Iranian visitors attempting to bargain at the shopping malls, some of them bargained with the vendors at Ephesus, and sales clerks at the leather shop.
META ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOSSTON TEACHING STYLE AND METZLER INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL By

This study aimed to compare the implementation of Mosston teaching style and Metzler instructional models based on research. This study used meta-analysis as a study of a number of research results in similar problems. The main instrument in this research is the researcher himself (Human Instrument) assisted with the documentation guidelines. Data collection technique uses documentary. The population in this study are all the documents of research results on teaching styles and learning models, such as: journal articles and research reports. Samples were taken by incidental sampling technique. Data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study findings indicate that: (1) Mosston teaching styles and Metzler Instructional model studies has the same tendency in the component objectives, design, population/sample, and data collection techniques, (2) Mosston teaching styles and Metzler Instructional model has a different trend in the data analysis component, and research results, and (3) the tendency of Mosston teaching style and that of Metzler Instructional model are different of each other, although if analyzed further the Mosston Practice Style and the Metzler Tactical Games Model are actually interrelated.
Interpretive Structural Modeling based Integrated Model for 3PL adoption in Indian Industries

Third Party Logistics (3PL) is adopted by manufacturing organizations to improve their overall business performance. In recent years Indian manufacturing firms have shown faster rate of 3PL practice adoption. This paper identifies the variables that are critical to 3Pl adoption. The variables are grouped as objectives and drivers, organizational obstacles and benefits of adoption. The study establishes contextual relationship between the variables. This study implements an interpretive structural modeling approach to analyze the mutual relationship between variables. To understand the relative influence of the variable, they are classified into four categories namely autonomous, dependent, linkage and driver. The variables which are most influenced by other variables (dependent variables) and those variables which greatly influence other variables (driver variables) are found with the help of ISM. The aim of this paper is to understand these interrelationships and interdependence and develop a framework. Such a generic framework would provide an insight of important issues while adopting 3PL practices in the Indian context.
A Study on Factors affecting the Exposure to Viral Marketing Messages

w w w . i j m b s . c o m InternatIonal Journal of ManageMent & BusIness studIes 105 Abstract Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands, to millions. The study identifies the Factors affecting the exposure to Viral Marketing Messages. A literature review is done to gain understanding of the subject followed by a focus group to refine the understandings. A questionnaire is prepared based on the basis of the understandings from literature review and focus group, administered and interpreted to identify the Factors affecting the exposure to Viral Marketing Message. A Factor analysis revealed ‘Peer Group Influence’, ‘Access Method’, ‘Source factors’ and ‘tempo spatial factors’ as those that affecting the exposure to Viral Marketing Message. Peer Group Influence means that WOM from peer group, Source factors are the factors attached to the originator and passer of the message, Access Method includes the access methods to get exposed to the message whereas tempo spatial factors are associated with the time and space of where the respondent is.
Role of interleukin 28B gene polymorphism in prediction of response to standard of care therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C patients in Sharkia Governrate, Egypt

To detect of the role of IL28B rs12979860 C/T single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the prediction of response to antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Egypt has high prevalence of HCV (predominantly genotype 4) all over the world. Combined PEG -IFN and ribavirin is still the only standard of care treatment in Egypt in spite of its side effects, high costs and low sustained virological response rates. Hence, this provides a compelling reason for the identification of predictors of disease response to treatment. Ninety two chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients, who were submitted to combined pegylated interferon alpha (PEG -IFN) and ribavirin therapy, were enrolled in this study. SNP for rs12979860 was done by realtime PCR technique. Response rate was recorded and compared among patients with different genotypes. The CC genotype of rs12979860 was identified in 26 patients (28.9 %), the CT genotype in 54 cases (60%) and the TT genotype in 10 cases (11.1%). The response rate in CC genotype was 76.9 % (20/26), 40.6 % (22/54) for CT and 40% (4/10) for TT genotypes which was statistically significant (p=0.002). These data suggest that IL28B rs12979860 C/T SNP is an important predictive biomarker for sustained virological response (SVR) in patients with HCV genotype 4.
PARTIAL METRIC ON SPACE OF SUBSETS

This article introduced the concept of the Hausdroff partial metric. By using the Hausdorff partial metric we study the fixed point theory for set-valued mappings on partial metric spaces. Fixed point theorem that has been resulting by Nadler for set-valued mapping will be extended to partial metric spaces and the proof using Ekeland variational principle.
Basis Risk in Index Insurance: Lower Tail Dependence and the Demand for Weather Insurance

For a variety of reasons, agricultural insurance programs use losses against an index (rainfall, area yield) rather than losses against individual yields to make payouts. While this facilitates the supply of insurance, the resulting basis risk reduces the value of insurance and therefore reduces demand for it. Using district crop yields and rainfall data for India, we find that the association between crop yields and rainfall index is characterized by the statistical property of ’tail-dependence’. This implies that the associations between yield losses and index losses are stronger for large deviations than for small deviations. Or, basis risk is least for large deviations of the index. Using simulation we show that value to a risk averse farmer of index-based insurance relative to actuarial cost is highest for insurance against extreme or catastrophic losses (of the index) than for insurance against all losses. ∗Doctoral student, Indian Statistical Institute, 7 SJS sansanwalMarg, NewDelhi 110016, India. Email: digvijaynegi12@gmail.com †Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, 7 SJS sansanwal Marg, New Delhi 110016, India. Email: isid.bharat@gmail.com 1
National Culture and Tax Avoidance of Multinational Corporations

This study tests the role of national culture in tax avoidance by multinational corporations (MNCs). Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions are used to measure cultural differences across countries: uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and power distance. The empirical results of the study imply that MNCs headquartered in countries with low uncertainty avoidance, low individualism, high masculinity, and low power distance engage in a higher level of tax avoidance than MNCs in countries with high uncertainty avoidance, high individualism, low masculinity, and high power distance. In addition, the cultural features of the parent company generally have a stronger influence on group-level tax avoidance than those of its subsidiaries. This study contributes to the literature by presenting empirical evidence of culture as a determinant of tax avoidance by MNCs.
Balancing Environmental Incentives and Fairness in Household Electricity Distribution Tariffs

Adapting energy distribution systems to new patterns of energy generation and usage often creates tensions between environmental and equity objectives by challenging traditional distributional arrangements and associated charging methodologies. We discuss the principles of fairness and efficiency which might be applied to designing tariffs for residential consumers with self-generation opportunities, and identify the main examples of charging methodologies used in practice. Based on this experience, we develop a stylised model to simulate the effects of a wide range of tariff designs on households with diverse energy use profiles and ability to self-generate. We observe a clear trade-off between incentives to self-generate and distributional concerns across tariff scenarios and show how a net metering scheme may aggravate the trade-off.
Other considerations than: how much will universal health coverage cost?

Abstract Globally, countries have agreed to pursue the progressive realization of universal health coverage (UHC) and there is now a high level of political commitment to providing universal coverage of essential health services while ensuring that individuals are financially protected against high health spending. The aim of this paper is to help policy-makers think through the progressive realization of UHC. First, the pitfalls of applying global normative expenditure targets in estimating the national revenue required for UHC are discussed. Then, several recommendations on estimating national revenue are made by moving beyond the question of how much UHC will cost and focusing instead on the national health-care reforms and policy choices needed to progress towards UHC. In particular, costing exercises are recommended as a tool for comparing different service delivery options and investment in data infrastructure is recommended for improving the information needed to identify the best policies. These recommendations are intended to assist health policy-makers and international and national agencies who are developing country plans for the progressive realization of UHC.
Emerging Therapies for the Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Despite considerable advances in our understanding of the molecular and epigenetic underpinnings of the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), this diverse group of myeloid neoplasms remains a significant clinical challenge. Considerable barriers to timely development of effective therapy include the diverse molecular landscape encountered in MDS patients, the difficulty in translating specific molecular aberration into a clinically meaningful animal model, as well as challenges in patient recruitment into clinical trials. These speak to the need to discover efficacious novel therapeutic targets which would in turn translate into improved patient outcomes in terms of both survival and quality of life. In this review, we outline recently published data pertaining to therapeutic advances in TGF-β pathway inhibition, STAT3, Hedgehog signaling, and additional therapeutic venues being actively explored in MDS.
VZŤAH INTERKULTÚRNEJ KOMPETENCIE A INTERNACIONALIZÁCIE NA PRÍKLADE MALÝCH A STREDNÝCH FIRIEM: EXPERTNÉ HODNOTENIE INTERACTIONS OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND INTERNATIONALIZATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: AN EXPERT EVALUATION

Vzťahu medzi interkultúrnou kompetenciou a internacionalizáciou hospodárskych vzťahov sa v štátoch strednej a východnej Európy doposiaľ nevenovala dostatočná pozornosť. Predkladaný článok si kladie za cieľ vyplniť túto medzeru v literatúre a preskúmať uvedený vzťah na základe odpovedí expertov z litovských malých a stredných podnikov. Výsledky výskumu ukazujú, že v podnikoch vo všeobecnosti existuje nedostatok teoretických aj praktických tréningov interkultúrnych zručností. Interkultúrna kompetencia v ľudskej komunikácii pritom silno závisí od osobnosti jednotlivca. Jej rozvoj má potenciál zvýšiť úspech procesov internacionalizácie a ušetriť firmám tak čas ako aj finančné prostriedky. Kľúčové slová: interkultúrna kompetencia, internacionalizácia, malé a stredné podniky, globalizácia, zahraničné trhy, medzinárodný rozvoj.
Company Characteristics, Corporate Governance and Aggressive Tax Avoidance Practice: A Study of Indonesian Companies

Tax avoidance is a common practice employed by companies to reduce the tax burden. This research aimed to investigate whether company characteristics and corporate governance play a significant role in company’s tax avoidance. This research selected 70 companies in Indonesia as a sample. The company characteristics were proxied by (1) profitability, (2) leverage, (3) age and (4) size. Corporate governance was proxied by (1) the size of the board of commissioners, (2) the proportion of independent commissioners, (3) audit firms and (4) the audit committee. Data were obtained from the companies’ financial statements for the years 2011–2015. Multiple linear regression was used for the analysis. This research showed that several company characteristics proxies, namely age, profit and size, significantly affected tax avoidance practices. Several corporate governance proxies, audit firm, audit quality and size of the board of commissioners, were also found to affect tax avoidance.