Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Toward a robot that acquires logical recognition of space

For cooperation between robot and human being, robot should have logical recognition about space. For example, if a robot such as a housekeeping robot can recognize the arrangement structure of the furnitures and the concept of ``a room'', it will be useful information for asking the robot for work. Therefore, we aim for the robot to acquire the relationship between locations while moving. So, expecting that the robot gets the recognition that ``I have gotten out of the room'', we performed an initial stage experiment that a robot leaves the room using knowledge of the relationship between the entrance of the room and the door. This paper describes the insights obtained from this experiment.
Robustesse de la planification de trajectoire d’un drone en environnement 3D

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Robustesse de la planification de trajectoire d’un drone en environnement 3D Kendric Ruiz, Pierre Melchior, Stephane Victor, Serge Chaumette
Association between hyperuricemia and metabolic syndrome: A cross-sectional study in Tibetan adults on the Tibetan plateau

Purpose This study aimed to assess the relationship of serum uric acid with metabolic syndrome and its components in Tibetan adults on the Tibetan plateau. Methods A total of 307 participants were enrolled in this study and biochemical parameters including serum uric acid, fasting plasma glucose, white blood cell, lymphocyte count, mononuclear cells, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, creatinine, and lipid profile were analyzed using standard methods. The IDF criteria were applied to define metabolic syndrome. The association of serum uric acid with metabolic syndrome and its components was evaluated by multivariable logistic regression models. Results The overall prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 17.3% (53/307) with 19.6% (31/158) in females and 14.8% (22/149) in male participants. The prevalence of hyperuricemia was 40.7% (125/307) with significant differences between the male (53.7%,80/149) and female (28.5%,45/158) groups. In regression analysis, we observed that the risk of MetS was higher in participants in the hyperuricemia group (adjusted OR, 4.01; 95% CI, 2.02~7.99) compared with those in the normouricemia group. After adjusting for all confounding factors, a 9% higher risk of MetS could be shown in participants with SUA increased per 10umol/L (adjusted OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.04~1.14). These relationships were not affected by sex or age (p >0.05). After adjusting for the confounding factors, hyperuricemia is positively associated with abdominal obesity (adjusted OR, 2.53; 95% CI, 1.41~4.53), elevated blood pressure (adjusted OR, 2.61; 95% CI, 1.37~4.97), and elevated triglycerides(adjusted OR, 2.47; 95% CI, 1.09~5.57). Conclusions In our study, hyperuricemia is significantly associated with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and part of its components, and these relationships are not affected by sex or age. Given the high prevalence of MetS and hyperuricemia among Tibetan adults, more studies are required to explore the role of SUA in the pathogenesis of MetS.
Interpretation of the nexus between the entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial business opportunities in the healthcare context: a phenomenological study

Since few studies focused exclusively on the entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial agents and their interaction with the business opportunities in the healthcare area, the purpose of this paper is to interpret the intersubjective nature of the interplay between the entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial business opportunities in the context of healthcare entrepreneurship. The paper's methodology is qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology. The samples of sixteen entrepreneurs in the pharmaceutical, medical biotechnology, medical devices and m-health areas of Iran were interviewed using semi-structured questions. Based on the interpretive phenomenological analysis approach, this study explores how healthcare entrepreneurs make sense of their business opportunities. The findings indicated seven spheres of the entrepreneurs' context-based insights, the entrepreneurs' context-based projections, the entrepreneurs' dispositional attributions, the external facilities in macro levels, the external facilities in micro levels, the entrepreneur's environmentally oriented actions and the entrepreneur's presupposition-oriented actions as the nature of the entrepreneurship nexus.
Effect of Pre-Harvest Treatments of Peach Trees on Fruits Quality Characters during Cold Storage

This research was carried out during two successive seasons of 2016 and 2017 to study the effect of pre-harvest treatments on peach trees on fruits quality at harvest time and during cold storage at 5±1°C and 80-85% RH. The selected trees for this study were chosen from locally Mit-Ghamer peach trees(cv. Medium Sultani), grown in a private orchard at Fesha-Bana village, Aga Center, Dakahllia governorate, Egypt. The selected trees of peach (cv. Medium Sultani) were sprayed Pre-harvest (1.5 month after full bloom) with one of the followings: tap water (control), 1.5% potassium sulphate (K2SO4), 2% calcium chloride (CaCl2) and the combination of them. The harvested mature fruits were cold stored at 5 ± 1°C and 80-85% relative humidity (RH) for a storage period of 24 days. Some physical and chemical quality characteristics were measured on the intact treated fruits at harvest date and at 6-day-intervals during cold storage up to 24 days. The obtained results showed that the peach fruits sprayed with 1.5% K2SO4 recorded the highest values of firmness, Vitamin C content and TSS% after 6, 12 and 18 days during The cold storage in both seasons. While, peach trees sprayed with 2% CaCl2 gave the highest values of fruit firmness at harvest time and after 24 days of cold storage, and the lowest value of fruits decay incidence%, TSS% and anthocyanin content in fruit skin in all storage periods of both seasons. Applying the combination treatment of 1.5 % K2SO4 and 2% CaCl2 showed the highest values of vitamin C, acidity and total sugars%, anthocyanin and pectic substances contents as well as the lowest value of TSS/acid ratio and weight loss% of fruit at 18 and 24 days of cold storage in both seasons. However, the opposite trends were true for the control treatment. Finally, it can be recommended applying the combination spray of 1.5 % K2SO4 and 2 % CaCl2 on peach trees at pre-harvest (1.5 month after full bloom) to improve maintaining physical and chemical qualities of peach fruits during cold storage up to 24 days.
Aplicação de RAID em sistema de arquivos distribuídos

The focus of this work is the construction of a fault tolerant distributed le system, without compromising performance, that have a minor overhead than the system presented by the traditional data replication method. In order to achieve this goal, inherent characteristics of the concept of the RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 were used, enabling the tests of latencies and throughput of the reading and writing operations with four distinct le sizes, these being 1KB, 100KB, 1MB and 10MB. The gathering and analysis of these data resulted in the conclusion that the system reaches the proposed objective, being that, when run under the parameterizations of RAID 5, the overall perfomance is superior if compared to the other two implemented RAID models.
Existe Relação entre a Corrupção e a Produtividade do Trabalho? Uma Análise por meio das Características Políticas dos Países

O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar a existência de uma relação entre corrupção percebida e produtividade do trabalho. Para tanto, utilizamos variáveis político-institucionais como instrumentos da variável de corrupção percebida, estimando por meio da técnica de Mínimos Quadrados de Dois Estágios os seus efeitos sobre a produtividade do trabalho (proxy para crescimento econômico de longo prazo). Adotamos uma seção transversal de dados internacionais utilizados por Persson e Tabellini (2003), para 85 países avaliados como democracias, e posicionados na década de 1990. Os resultados indicam uma associação negativa entre produtividade do trabalho e corrupção.
Convention Tourism and Sustainability: Exploring Influencing Factors on Delegate Green Behavior That Reduce Environmental Impacts

Despite the steady growth of the convention tourism industry, little is known about the stimulation of delegates’ green behaviors during their convention travel. This research sought to elucidate delegates’ green behavioral intentions by taking the role of green attitudes, social norms, eco-concern, personal moral obligation, and green behaviors in daily life into account. A quantitative approach employing a survey methodology was utilized for the attainment of research goals. Our results revealed that green attitudes, social norms, eco-concern, and personal moral obligation were significant determinants of delegates’ green behavioral intentions. Among these determinants, eco-concern had a salient effect on delegates’ intention to practice conservation behaviors, whereas personal moral obligation had a prominent role in inducing their willingness to sacrifice. Moreover, our results uncovered that green behaviors in daily life were a moderator in maximizing the influence of green attitudes, eco-concern, and personal moral obligation on the intention to practice conservation behaviors and in maximizing the effect of social norms on the willingness to sacrifice.
Pripravljenost slovenskih internetnih uporabnikov za priklop in plačilo za uporabo optičnega omrežja

Pomanjkanje povprasevanja po dostopovnih omrežjih naslednje generacije (NGA) je prisotno tako v EU kot v Sloveniji. V clanku smo proucili dejavnike, ki vplivajo na pripravljenost za priklop ter placilo za uporabo opticnega omrežja, ki spada med tehnolosko najnaprednejsa NGA-omrežja. Rezultati analize za Slovenijo kažejo, da prisotnost studenta/dijaka v gospodinjstvu, zaposlenost ter kakovost storitev pomembno vplivajo na pripravljenost za priklop in dodatno placilo za optiko. Rezultati analize so uporabni za ponudnike sirokopasovnih storitev pri oblikovanju ali prilagoditvi obstojecih paketov za pospesevanje prehoda uporabnikov na opticna omrežja.
Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Culture. Comparison between Western CSR and Islamic CSR: focus on Islamic Reporting Initiative and Islamic Financial Institution.

The aim of this paper is to explore the state of the art of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Islamic culture. This topic is interesting not because Corporate Social Responsibility is a new concept, but because some corporate sustainability reporting values developed in Western Countries, as AA1000 or GRI Standard, are not focused in Islamic values and beliefs. In fact, Sustainable Development is not a new concept, but it is embedded in the fundamental codes of conduct in Islamic Societies and Laws through Shari’ah (Aman, 2016). The objectives are: a) literature review of Islamic Corportae Social Responsibility and Shari’ah connection with CSR. In particular, descriptive analysis of Islamic Financial Istitution (IFI), which offer alternatives to the commercial activities that Shari'ah prohibits, to answer to the dichotomy between the need to trade with the West and to follow the commands of Islam (Taman, 2011); b) a qualitative comparative analysis between Islamic CSR (ICSR) and conventional CSR c) a documental analysis (Bowen, 2009) of the Islamic network that implements CSR strategies, policies and practices in Islamic Societies (IRI- Islamic Reporting Initiatives) supported by an ad-hoc interview held with an IRI’s Staff member. The conclusion of this research discusses the perspective of Islamic view in sustainability reporting by incorporating the concept of Tawhid which provides a holistic guidance based on Islamic beliefs, values and concepts (Aman, 2016) and, in specific, the main differences between western and Islamic Corporate Sustainability Reporting perspective. The finding of the paper is to be useful to integrate and develop sustainable strategies for Islamic companies.
Presidential Address: Collateral and Commitment

Optimal dynamic capital structure choice is fundamentally a problem of commitment. In a standard trade‐off setting with shareholder‐debtholder agency conflicts, full commitment counterfactually predicts the firm would rely almost exclusively on debt financing. Conversely, absent commitment a Modigliani‐Miller‐like value irrelevance and policy indeterminacy result holds. Thus, the content of dynamic trade‐off theory must depend on the commitment technology. In this context, collateral is valuable as a low‐cost commitment device. Because ex ante optimal commitments are likely to be suboptimal ex post, observed capital structure dynamics will exhibit hysteresis and depart significantly from standard predictions.
DroidData: Tracking and Monitoring Data Transmission in the Android Operating System

Most of the millions of Android users worldwide use applications from the official Android market (Google Play store) and unregulated alternative markets to get more functionality from their devices. Many of these applications transmit sensitive data stored on the device, either maliciously or accidentally, to outside networks. In this paper, we will study the ways that Android applications transmit data to outside servers and propose a user-friendly application, DroidData, to inform and protect the user from these security risks. We will use tools such as TaintDroid, AppIntent, and Securacy to propose an application that reveals what types of data are being transmitted from apps, the location to which the data is being transmitted, whether the data is being transmitted through a secure channel (such as HTTPS) and whether the user is aware that the information is being transmitted. The application will generate a report that allows the user to block the application that leaks sensitive information. In doing so, we will examine the importance, relevance, and prevalence of these Android Data security issues.
Design of Low Power and Analysis of Various Topologies of SRAM Cell

SRAM cell is CMOS memory which consumes low power. It has less read and write time. There is always a increasing demand for operating different computer and multimedia applications. These applications requires more power and need critical performance level. Memory devices need to include high speed processors in addition to low power on chip memory. During access of memory the power consumed results in considerable amount of total power consumption in microprocessor. Thus it is essential to reduce on chip memory power without effecting data stored in the memory cells. In this paper design of low power memory array and bit cell implementation and analysis of sram cells and comparing performance of different topologies of sram cells 6T, 7T, 8T, 9T, and 10T. The objective of this paper is to reduce average power, leakage power and leakage current with introduction of stack operation towards the pull down network. Hence designing the optimized sram topology with gpdk 180nm technology in cadence of various memory cells for 64 bit i.e. 8x8 from conventional 6T sram with the assertion of stack operation.
Testing Approach for Haskell SQLite Bindings

To make an SQLite database as accessible as possible, it is important that it can be used from several programming languages such as Haskell. Haskell is a purely functional programming language that supports higher-order functions and has a rich type system. In order to use an existing database in Haskell, a binding could be created between the database and the programming language. The binding needs to handle many different type conversions in order to convert the types between Haskell and the database properly. This thesis presents one testing approach on how to find potential bugs in SQLite bindings to the programming language Haskell. The approach uses a predefined sequence of database queries that is constructed in such a way that the correct answer easily can be decided. The approach makes use of two custom made test cases that are created in Haskell. The properties are used together with the testing tool QuickCheck to perform automatic random tests. After the tests are performed, the found bugs are presented. The method we have developed gives an easy way to find bugs in bindings between Haskell programs and SQLite databases.
Phonetics and the Description of Language

In the scientific quest for insight, theory construction is an important tool. Involved in the evaluation of a certain theory is the notion of explanation. Explanatory goals have been formulated for many fields of inquiry including the study of language. For segmental phonology -— with which we shall be concerned in the present study — concrete proposals as to how such goals might be attained have been explored notably by Chomsky and Halle (1968). What should be meant by an explanatory theory of phonology? It would be unwise to try to give a comprehensive answer that most investigators concerned would find acceptable. Nevertheless, adopting a sufficiently general point of view it seems clear that such a theory would deal with ‘classical’ problems of phonology such as SOUND CHANGE (Passy 1890, Martinet 1968) and with the principles underlying for example, SYSTEMS (vowel and consonant inventories) (Jakobson 1968) and CONTRASTS (Jakob— son et al. 1952, Ladefoged, 1967a, Wang, 1967, Chomsky and Halle 1968, Chapter 7), SYLLABLE STRUCTURES (phonotactic patterns of segments) (Greenberg 1965, Sigurd 1968), or the origins of ‘rules’, ‘rule ordering’, ‘natural classes’, and ‘features’. Is such a phonology at all possible at the present stage? An optimistic answer may be questioned on a number of grounds. Linguists might express doubts because of the enormous task of accounting for the wealth of facts involved, or more importantly, because of limitations of present research strategies. Let us briefly examine the latter motivation, with particular regard to the role that phonetics plays within the influential framework of recent generative phonology (Chomsky and Halle 1968)
Regional integration and inequality comovement: evidence from Europe

ABSTRACT We find strong patterns of income inequality comovement in the eurozone over the past 40 years. The acceleration of this comovement largely echoes with the development of the eurozone and the further economic and political integration among its member economies. Comparison between the eurozone and non-eurozone economies suggests that the economic and political integration may contribute to the synchronization of income inequality fluctuations.
Cyber Security in Smart Grid System

Abstract: The smart grid is an evolution of the electrical grid to respond to these challenges. A smart grid is an energy transmission and distribution network enhanced through digital control, monitoring, and telecommunications capabilities. It provides a real-time, two-way flow of energy and information to all stakeholders in the electricity chain, from the generation plant to the commercial, industrial, and residential end user. This evolution is crucial for integrating both renewable and distributed energy resources and to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the electrical grid and associated services. It will also help in other ways, such as enabling: • Smart and positive energy infrastructures • Increased energy density management during peaks • Real-time pricing to customers • Integrated mobility services • New virtual power plants • Micro grid
Design-Stage Prediction of Project Correctness or Incorrectness

The success of a software development project requires the early objective determination of the project’s correctness or incorrectness and the identification of the most effective solution for project management. However, few studies have been conducted on the reliable quantitative early judgment of correctness or incorrectness. In recent years, the collection and accumulation of actual attribute data from Japanese domestic software development projects have been conducted by the Software Engineering Centre of the Information-Technology Promotion Agency of Japan. In a previous article, we proposed a precise definition of project correctness or incorrectness and identified the important factors in successful projects; we also proposed a quantitative decision-making method for judging project correctness or incorrectness objectively and quantitatively on the basis of discriminant analysis using project completion attribute data. On the basis of the previous results, we propose a quantitative decision-making technique for the early judging of project correctness or incorrectness based on the attribute data of design stage as early stage of development.
A Security Architecture for SCADA Systems

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are attractive targets for attackers, as they offer an avenue to attack critical infrastructure (CI) systems controlled by SCADA systems. Ultimately, an attack on any system exploits some undesired (malicious or accidental) functionality in the components of the system. Unfortunately, it is far from practical to eliminate undesired functionality in every component of a system. The contribution of this paper is a novel architecture for securing SCADA systems that guarantee that “any malicious modification of the deployment configuration or the design configuration of the SCADA system will be detected”—even if undesired functionality may exist in SCADA system components.
Mobile station position and velocity computerbased Estimation using adaptive algorithms and Smart antennas

The increasing demand for mobile communication services without a corresponding increase in radio frequency spectrum allocation motivates the need for new techniques to improve spectrum utilization. An approach that shows real spectrum utilization for substantial capacity enhancement is the use of smart antennas. The smart antennas are capable of automatically forming beams in the direction of the desired signal and steering nulls in the directions of the interfering signals. Another approach that satisfies the demand for quality of services in a mobile communication system is the communication system’s capability to estimate and predict the location of a mobile user. In this paper we present a computer-based system that tracks the position and estimates the velocity of a mobile user, using smart antennas on the base stations. The mobile user is moving in an area where the GSM principles are applied, while the position and velocity estimations’ accuracy are checked using four different adaptive algorithms.