Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Hybrid KICA-GDA-LSSVM Method Research on Rolling Bearing Fault Feature Extraction and Classification

Rolling element bearings are widely used in high-speed rotating machinery; thus proper monitoring and fault diagnosis procedure to avoid major machine failures is necessary. As feature extraction and classification based on vibration signals are important in condition monitoring technique, and superfluous features may degrade the classification performance, it is needed to extract independent features, so LSSVM (least square support vector machine) based on hybrid KICA-GDA (kernel independent component analysis-generalized discriminate analysis) is presented in this study. A new method named sensitive subband feature set design (SSFD) based on wavelet packet is also presented; using proposed variance differential spectrum method, the sensitive subbands are selected. Firstly, independent features are obtained by KICA; the feature redundancy is reduced. Secondly, feature dimension is reduced by GDA. Finally, the projected feature is classified by LSSVM. The whole paper aims to classify the feature vectors extracted from the time series and magnitude of spectral analysis and to discriminate the state of the rolling element bearings by virtue of multiclass LSSVM. Experimental results from two different fault-seeded bearing tests show good performance of the proposed method.
Nursing education curriculum for improving patient safety

In preparing future nurses who are competent to provide safe care, nursing education has an important role in developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses. This article aims to present important points about the incorporation of patient safety into the nursing education curriculum for improving patient outcomes. It is concluded that policy makers and educators should attend the development of necessary competencies in nurses, bring creativity into the style of patient safety education, and consider the cultural specific aspects of the phenomenon of patient safety during designing nursing education curricula.
Clinical epidemiology and treatment findings of patients with tuberculosis in Babol city, Iran (2009-2013)

Background & Aim: Nowadays tuberculosis (TB) is one of the public health concerns in Iran. The present study aimed to examine the clinical epidemiology and treatment findings of tuberculosis in Babol, Northern Iran. Methods & Materials: This cross-sectional study was carried out on medical records of tuberculosis registry pertained to Health Center of Babol, Mazandaran province, Iran. The investigated variables included demographic characteristics and some clinical patterns. To present the findings the descriptive statistics such as mean (standard deviation, SD) and frequency (and relative frequency) were used. Analytical statistics was applied by using chi-square test and independent samples Student’s t-test. Results: The average age of 200 patients infected with tuberculosis was 47.5 years (SD = 21.4), and 58.5% of the cases were male. In both genders, age groups 18-38 years comprised the greatest percentage. During the 5 years study period, 95% of the patients received treatment protocol 1 (including new cases with positive smear, negative smear, and extra-pulmonary). At the end of treatment, 90.5% were improved or treatment period was completed. The most important clinical symptoms in referring the patients to the therapeutic centers were cough (75.1%) and fever (60.9%). Conclusion: Education and giving information to general population about the most important clinical symptoms of tuberculosis such as fever and cough might be effective in early detection and prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Then effective treatment might decrease the burden of the disease.
Grain Yield Observations Constrain Cropland CO2 Fluxes Over Europe

Carbon exchange over croplands plays an important role in the European carbon cycle over daily to seasonal time scales. A better description of this exchange in terrestrial biosphere models—most of which currently treat crops as unmanaged grasslands—is needed to improve atmospheric CO2 simulations. In the framework we present here, we model gross European cropland CO2 fluxes with a crop growth model constrained by grain yield observations. Our approach follows a two‐step procedure. In the first step, we calculate day‐to‐day crop carbon fluxes and pools with the WOrld FOod STudies (WOFOST) model. A scaling factor of crop growth is optimized regionally by minimizing the final grain carbon pool difference to crop yield observations from the Statistical Office of the European Union. In a second step, we re‐run our WOFOST model for the full European 25 × 25 km gridded domain using the optimized scaling factors. We combine our optimized crop CO2 fluxes with a simple soil respiration model to obtain the net cropland CO2 exchange. We assess our model's ability to represent cropland CO2 exchange using 40 years of observations at seven European FluxNet sites and compare it with carbon fluxes produced by a typical terrestrial biosphere model. We conclude that our new model framework provides a more realistic and strongly observation‐driven estimate of carbon exchange over European croplands. Its products will be made available to the scientific community through the ICOS Carbon Portal and serve as a new cropland component in the CarbonTracker Europe inverse model.
Overnutrition in Adolescents Born Preterm

Introduction: Children born preterm are at higher risk of overnutrition in adolescence, which is manifested by increased body mass index-for-age (BMI-for-age) and increased abdominal fat mass leading to the risk of noncommunicable chronic diseases. Objectives: The aim of this research was to study how prematurity influences overnutrition in a cohort of adolescents born preterm. Methods: The study included 91 adolescents born preterm (ABP) from a cohort and a control group of 91 adolescents born at term (ABT). Body mass index and fat mass were determined for all the subjects. Results: The follow-up of BMI-for-age of the children born preterm showed that the highest proportion of overnutrition was found in the first year (65%) and in adolescence (33%). At this age, no differences were found between the ABP and ABT. Body fat of the ABP was higher than for the ABT (p ≤ 0.01). Both groups’ waist circumference was higher than the normal value at this age. The ratio between BMI and the percentage of fat between ABT and ABP boys was significant at p=0.003. Conclusions: Both ABP and ABT groups had excess weight, which could be due to the fact they grew up in the same environment that promotes unhealthy lifestyles. The ABP boys had excess fat mass leading to the risk of noncommunicable chronic diseases in adulthood.
BYU-EVE: Mixed Initiative Dialog via Structured Knowledge Graph Traversal and Conversational Scaffolding

We present BYU-EVE, an open domain dialogue architecture that combines the strengths of hand-crafted rules, deep learning, and structured knowledge graph traversal in order to create satisfying user experiences. Rather than viewing dialogue as a strict mapping between input and output texts, EVE treats conversations as a collaborative process in which two jointly coordinating agents chart a trajectory through experiential space. A key element of this architecture is the use of conversational scaffolding, a technique which uses a (small) conversational dataset to define a generalized response strategy. We also take the innovative approach of integrating the agent’s self and user models directly within the knowledge graph. This allows EVE to discern topics of shared interest while simultaneously identifying areas of ambiguity or cognitive dissonance.
Performance of Incubator Centres in Kenya: The Pivotal Role of Entrepreneurial Management

Globally, countries are strategically positioning themselves for market leadership due to dynamic business environment. Entrepreneurial spirit is seen as the strategy that will deliver this agenda. This spirit, is believed to be behind the innovative business that revolutionizes the business world. In a dynamic and complex environment, the success of any business is pegged on the entrepreneurial operations of a firm. Entrepreneurial-oriented firms have been proven to be ahead of competition because they are always introduced new products and services and in turn improve their financial results. Scholars believe that learning and development can occur amongst people who actively engage in a common enterprise. This makes learning empowering and productive and thus sustains entrepreneurial orientation. This in turn produces communities of entrepreneurial practice. The role of the entrepreneurial manager is to nurture communities of growth-oriented firms where entrepreneurial learning takes place. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between entrepreneurial management and performance of incubator centres in Kenya. The study used a correlation design because it focused on a causal-effect relationship. The study population was 41 incubator managers in Kenya. After missing data analysis two respondents were expunged leaving 39 respondents. Secondary data was obtained from published sources such as company reports, manuals and research done by other scholars. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to analyze the measurement model and test the hypothesized relationship in this study. Simple linear regression model was used to measure the strength of the relationship between entrepreneurial management and performance incubator centre in Kenya. The joint effect model results indicated that entrepreneurial management had a significant relationship with performance of incubator centre.
From 'snap-shots' to 'moving pictures': Tracing processes using Narrative Sequence Analysis in the evolution of an E-Business

A central focus of IMP research is the process of development and evolution of firms, relations and networks. Narrative Sequence methods, first developed in sociology but not widely known or used in marketing, offer a means of more systematically examining and explaining such processes of change over time. We use these methods to guide our analysis of a particular case study of the evolution of ebusiness in a major Australian financial institution. Narrative sequence methods stem from a desire to move from an analysis of causation in terms interaction among disembodied proximate variables to a focus on the interaction of “events” taking place over time, in which actors act and interact; to go from ‘snap-shots’ highlighting simple correlation between variables, to ‘moving pictures’ in which the timing and order of unfolding events is of central interest. First we review some of the main types of factors shaping the evolution of ebusiness in a firm. Next, we describe the nature of narrative sequence methods before providing an overview of the focal case. We then describe and illustrate some of the ways the case can be analysed using narrative sequence methods and discuss the issues and problems involved.
Daring to be different: a dialogue on the problems of getting qualitative research published.

Qualitative methodologies continue to proliferate in social sciences such as sociology and anthropology. Yet, despite this uptake they currently exist on the margins of entrepreneurship research. Indeed, Rae (2001) criticised entrepreneurship researchers for failing to make fuller use of sophisticated qualitative methodologies in researching at the frontiers of entrepreneurship. This chapter argues that there are valid structural and career orientated reasons why this is so. We argue that qualitative researchers often have to ˜dare to be different. Writing up qualitative research is difficult because a judgement call has to be made whether to tailor the research towards a standard journal article or whether to allow the research to dictate the style and presentation of the finished article. ˜Daring to be different may be a valued entrepreneurial trait and hence should be one that was appreciated by journal editors or reviewers in the field “ alas, it is rarely so. Academic careers and reputations are built upon the reputation of achieving repeated publication in respected journals and by adhering to the conformity of accepted disciplinary peer conventions. Consequentially, this chapter documents the development of a research and publication strategy of one of its authors, suggesting some alternative publication strategies. Furthermore, it is an Impressionistic tale in the style of VanMaanen (1988), written in a dialogic, conversational style with a colleague.
SUBSYSTEMS INTO UAVS

This paper presents the design and implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This architecture tackle with the data exchange different elements onboard the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and the real-time safety-critical operation of In-Flight Awareness Augmentation System (IFA 2 S) and non-safety critical Mission Oriented Sensors Array (MOSA), respectively to take care of flight safety and mission accomplishment. The IFA and MOSA systems implemented and evaluated using the Software-In-The-Loop (SITL) simulation technique. The case study conducted had several critical situations were assessed through the sensors, then a diagnosis was made, and finally, a decision was made as a safety measure.
Research on Statistical Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

What mechanisms underlie human language acquisition? Relevant evidence indicates that language learners, with infants included, have the ability to employ statistical properties of linguistic input to find language structure, such as sound patterns, vocabulary, and grammar. These abilities appear to be both powerful and constrained, so that a certain number of statistical patterns are more easily mastered and employed than others. Implications for the structure of human languages are to be discussed.
The impact of the exports of BRIC countries plus Turkey on the exports of

The BRIC countries (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China) plus Turkey contribute a significant proportion of the exports that originate from developing countries. The varieties imported from the BRIC countries plus Turkey in the textile, creative and leather industries are likely to take precedence over the imported varieties from smaller developing countries as either their production is relatively more efficient in labor-intensive industries or their resources are relatively more abundant. Therefore, the prominence of the exports of the BRIC countries plus Turkey can have implications for smaller developing countries that also specialize in the production of labor-intensive products, such as Pakistan. I study the impact of the exports of the BRIC countries plus Turkey on the exports of Pakistan to the set of importing countries based on their importance as major export destinations of Pakistan for each industry considered and the set of importing countries based on the geographical location of the importing countries as regional and non-regional destinations of the BRIC countries plus Turkey. In this paper, I aim to determine whether the exports from the BRIC countries plus Turkey either complement or substitute exports from Pakistan to the specific set of export destinations.
The Rise of Income Inequality and The Possible Role of Trade in The Process Erasmus School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam Master Thesis

The aim is to analyse the effects of trade on the distribution of income (income inequality); using a fixed effect model for the panel of 14 OECD countries. The GINI coefficient is the dependent variable and trade is the main independent variable. The results give us grounds to assume that importing agricultural products enhances income equality and importing manufactures decreases income equality. Trade as a whole does not have any significant effect on income inequality. In two regressions inflation rate and education spending have inequality decreasing effect.
Determinants of dissemination of environmental information: an empirical survey

The major objective of the present paper is to identify the factors that influence the dissemination of environmental information. In particular, analyst stock recommendation, country level risk, corporate value and environmental performance are surveyed as determinants of the environmental dissemination level. The survey was based on a sample of 92 multinational firms for the period 2009–2013, longer than that used in most past works. The methodology employed on our data is the panel data analysis with fixed effects. As proxies, for the dissemination level of environmental information, two different environmental disclosure indexes are used the Environmental Disclosure Score and Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. According to our findings, the environmental performance in terms of Emission Reduction Initiatives and the country’s risk premium affects in a positive way the dissemination of environmental disclosures while the results regarding the stock analyst recommendation are controversial. Another important finding is that the firm’s value is validated as an insignificant factor for the dissemination level of environmental information. The aforementioned results provide the corporate managers with a tool to attract environmental friendly investors. The novelty on the present manuscript stands on the use of proxies for the environmental performance; namely the first one is based on outcome – objective while the second one refers to the corporate intention, elements that enrich the existing literature in the field of environmental behavior and dissemination of the environmental information of a firm.
The Effect of Choice Order on Off Task Behavior in a Child with Autism

This research project was designed to examine the effects of child-choice versus clinician-choice over the ordering of activities during speech-language therapy sessions. The dependent variables included disruptive/inappropriate behavior, non-task related verbal behavior, and redirection to the task. The independent variable was the presentation of choice over the ordering of activities within a therapy session. The subject in this case study was a nine-year-old boy diagnosed with autism. At the beginning of each therapy session either the child or the clinician decided on the ordering of activities. A picture board and picture cards showed the activities that would be completed in each therapy session. Behaviors were then recorded to determine if the amount of off-task behavior varied significantly across the two conditions. Results of the study revealed a significant difference in the amount of disruptive/inappropriate behavior across the two conditions when the child selected the order of activities. No significant differences were found in the number of times the clinician redirected the child or the number of non-task related verbal behaviors. A significant relationship was found between redirecting the child and disruptive behavior and non-task related verbal behavior when the clinician had control over the ordering of therapy activities. There were no similar correlations when the child selected the order of activities. The study provides a foundation to further examine the effect of choice on the ordering of activities on off-task behavior in children. The implications of this study could be extended to various settings.
Intercropped red beet and radish with green bean affected microbial communities and nodulation by indigenous rhizobia.

The impact of intercropping green bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with red beet ( Beta vulgaris L. var. rubra ) and radish ( Raphanus sativus L.), two non-legume plants, on the plants’ yields, as well as the effect on occurrence and enumeration of microorganisms in the rhizosphere was studied. The intercrop efficacy evaluation, using Land equivalent ratio, revealed values above 1.0 for all intercropped treatments. Diversity of rhizobia from green bean nodules under different intercropping and fertilizing conditions was observed. On the basis of morphological and biochemical characteristics, 67 out of 158 isolates from green bean roots were selected as rhizobia (42.4%), confirmed by detection of 780 bp nifH gene fragments in nifH -PCR, and then clustered in 27 phenotype patterns. Production of exopolysaccharide succinoglycan was observed in 23 rhizobial isolates, while 6 were detected to solubilize tricalcium phosphate. Screening of genetic diversity using (GTG) 5 -PCR fingerprinting showed presence of six different patterns on the 92% similarity level.
Return to the Fourth Nile Cataract: Fieldwork on Sherari Island, 2016

Introduction In April 2008, the last spillway gate of the Merowe Dam was closed and the Nile began to rise behind the barrage at the downstream end of the Fourth Nile Cataract. In March 2009, the dam was officially inaugurated. Its reservoir lake flooded some 180km of the river valley up to the downstream tip of Mograt Island. In anticipation of the flooding, this area had seen intensive archae ological exploration from the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s. Twelve international and Sudanese missions, united under the organisational umbrella of the Merowe Dam Archae ological Salvage Project (MDASP), combined their efforts to document as much of the hitherto almost unknown archaeology of the region as possible. Large-scale surveys were conducted and knowledge off the rich occupational history of the area from the Early Stone Age up to the recent past expanded rapidly.1 However, the overall project ended prematurely due to social unrest and protests by the Manasir, the ethnic group which was most affected by the imminent resettlement. Representatives of the Manasir halted archaeological work from 2006 onwards and after spring 2007 the majority of the salvage activities were terminated (Näser and Kleinitz 2012, 278-280). 2 While many Manasir moved into the resettlement areas, others opted to stay by the newly-formed lake (Hänsch 2012). Both the resistance of the Manasir and the results of the archaeological salvage work drew attention to the Fourth Nile Cataract in the mid-2000s, but as is often the case this attention soon died away. As no monitoring of the dam’s impact on the archaeological heritage had been put in place, nothing was known about the fate of the sites after the barrage had gone into operation in 2008. In Febru-
Regional Simulation of Bootstrap Efficiency of Broiler Production in Peninsular Malaysia

Bootstrapping the DEA is one of the current methods of measuring robust efficiency by constructing a confidence interval and measuring the noise (bias) in production. In this study, two estimators: the conventional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and bootstrap simulation with 2,000 bootstrap iterations were applied on a cross sectional data of 296 broiler farms in Peninsular Malaysia. The objective of the study was to measure the robust technical efficiency, production bias and factors motivating technical efficiency in the Northern, Southern, and East-central regions of Peninsular Malaysia. As a regional approach, the study found the existence of both inefficiency and noise in broiler farms across regions of Peninsular Malaysia. Findings show disease infestation and unfavorable temperature as components of noise or exogenous factors or factors beyond farmers’ control in broiler production. The study identified age (+), education (+), experience (+), production system (-), number of poultry farms owne d (-), business status (+) and land tenure status (-) as statistically significant in a meliorating efficiency in broiler production. Result also show that strong statistically significant differences exist in the magnitude of technical efficiency scores between the two estimators across the regions. The study advocate for increase in scale of production as majority of the farmers produce at increasing returns to scale.