Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Amdahl's law in the context of heterogeneous many-core systems - a survey

For over 50 years, Amdahl's Law has been the hallmark model for reasoning about performance bounds for homogeneous parallel computing resources. As heterogeneous, many-core parallel resources continue to permeate into the modern server and embedded domains, there has been growing interest in promulgating realistic extensions and assumptions in keeping with newer use cases. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the purviews and insights provided by the extensive body of work related to Amdahl's law to date, focusing on computation speedup. The authors show that a significant portion of these studies has looked into analysing the scalability of the model considering both workload and system heterogeneity in real-world applications. The focus has been to improve the definition and semantic power of the two key parameters in the original model: the parallel fraction (f) and the computation capability improvement index (n). More recently, researchers have shown normal-form and multi-fraction extensions that can account for wider ranges of heterogeneity, validated on many-core systems running realistic workloads. Speedup models from Amdahl's law onwards have seen a wide range of uses, such as the optimisation of system execution, and these uses are even more important with the advent of the heterogeneous many-core era.
The Effects of Leucine or Different Protein Supplements on Muscle Hypertrophy after 12 Weeks of Resistance Training in Untrained Men

Purpose: We sought to determine the effects of L-leucine (LEU) or different protein supplements standardized to LEU (~3.0 g/serving) on changes in body composition, strength, and histological attributes in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Methods: Seventy-five untrained, college-aged males (mean±SE; age=21±1 yr, body mass=79.2±0.3 kg) were assigned to an isocaloric, lipid-, and organoleptically-matched maltodextrin placebo (PLA, n=15), LEU (n=14), whey protein concentrate (WPC, n=17), whey protein hydrolysate (WPH, n=14), or soy protein concentrate (SPC, n=15) group. Participants performed whole-body resistance training three days per week for 12 weeks while consuming supplements twice daily. Skeletal muscle and subcutaneous (SQ) fat biopsies were obtained at baseline (T1) and ~72 h following the last day of training (T39). Tissue samples were analyzed for changes in type I and II fiber cross sectional area (CSA), non-fiber specific satellite cell count, and SQ adipocyte CSA. Results: On average, all supplement groups exhibited similar training volumes and experienced statistically similar increases in total body skeletal muscle mass determined by dual x-ray absorptiometry (+2.2 kg; time p=0.024) and type I and II fiber CSA increases (+394 μm2 and +927 μm2; time p<0.001 and 0.024, respectively). Notably, all groups reported increasing Calorie intakes ~600-800 kcal/d from T1 to T39 (time p<0.001), and all groups consumed at least 1.1 g/kg/d of protein at T1 and 1.3 g/kg/d at T39. There was a
The determinants of legislative speechmaking on salient issues: the analysis of parliamentary debates on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement using structural topic models

This thesis aims to reveal the differences in legislative speechmaking determined by the roles, which the members of parliaments (MPs) can play on the parliamentary floor, and the effects of debates stages, by the example of the parliamentary debates on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement in the House of Commons. By adopting the strategic and partisanrhetoric approach to legislative speechmaking and considering that the content of speeches on debates can be shaped by the policy-, officeand vote-seeking motivations imposed by the various roles MPs can play in the British parliaments, this study assumes that cabinet membership, party affiliation, personal preferences, and time effects can produce significant differences in what MPs speak about in the House of Commons during the discussions of such multi-dimensional and salient issues as the Brexit deal. This study considers the sub-components of the Brexit deal, which were discussed in the British parliament, as topics for debates. Deriving from this assumption, the Structural Topic Models (STM) were used to reveal the hidden topic structure of the parliamentary debates on Theresa May’s deal from July 2018 to July 2019 and estimate the effects of the MPs roles and time. To do so, 25559 legislative speeches were collected into a dataset using the web scraping techniques and considered as units of analysis. Moreover, the metadata for each speech was included in the analysis to apply STM and make inferences regarding the possible effects. The topic model was built with 29 topics, which reflected the topic structure of the debates on the Brexit deal, allowed to distinguish the controversial, niche, and procedural topics of discussions in the House of Commons, and to make inference regarding the most salient sub-components of the legislative debates. As a result of the estimation of the effects, the fact that whether MPs are cabinet members or not implied the significant difference in what topics they contribute more in their
BİR DENEYİMİ UNUTULMAZ KILAN UNSURLAR NEDİR? UNUTULMAZ TURİZM DENEYİMİ ÜZERİNE KAVRAMSAL BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Competition in today's global market is increasing day by day, competitive advantage is difficult to achieve. In the world where rapid changes and innovations are experienced, enterprises have to keep up with these developments. Because, the product and service experience that is experienced rather than the final product for today's consumer becomes decisive in the purchasing decision making process. At this point, the creation of experiential environments that are difficult to imitate and substitution, and which are desirable by consumers, capable of responding to their expectations are of great importance in terms of competitive advantage. However, occured developments and changes in the world and in the tourist profile, it also causes changes in the expectations of tourists. Except for satisfying the needs of tourists, the tendency to live memorable experiences such as the search for difference, feeling valued, renewal, new cultures and people recognition, it gives cause for a focus on the elements that make an experience unique and memorable. When the literature is examined, while it is seen that there are many studies on consumer, visitor, tourist and travel experience, the concept of "Memorable Tourism Experience" ranks as pretty new research topic in this field. When the studies in the foreign literature related to this concept are examined, it is possible to state that a literature accumulation is formed, but it is seen that there are pretty limited number of studies in the domestic literature. Hence, the aim of this study is to contribute to the current academic literature by making a comprehensive evaluation of international and national literature and to evaluate the phenomenon of memorable tourism experience that is a new concept in terms of scope and content. In this sense, it is foreseen that mentioned findings and evaluations will guide tourism operators and destination managers in terms of understanding the factors that tourists consider in decision-making processes.
STUDENT SATISFACTION IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION. A LITERATURE REVIEW

The paper performs a systematic literature review as a first step in the development of a PhD thesis on student satisfaction in the context of higher education (HE). Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current literature on the topic and determine a research agenda for the development of the PhD thesis, which is aimed at identifying the most relevant factors affecting student satisfaction in the context of HE. The database considered for this literature review is Scopus and, after refining the search, 229 papers have been considered relevant to the study. This paper is to be considered under the Edulearn topic of Learning Experiences in Higher and Further Education
A Gemini/GMOS study of the bright elliptical galaxy NGC 3613 and its globular cluster system

We present the first photometric study of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the E galaxy NGC 3613 (Mv = -21.5, d = 30.1 Mpc), as well as the surface photometry of the host galaxy, based on Gemini/GMOS images. Being considered the central galaxy of a group, NGC 3613 inhabits a low-density environment although its intrinsic brightness is similar to the expected one for galaxies in the centre of clusters. The following characteristics are obtained for this GCS. The colour distribution is bimodal, with metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) getting slightly bluer with increasing radius. The radial and azimuthal projected distributions show that metal-rich GCs are more concentrated towards the host galaxy and trace its light distribution very precisely, while metal-poor GCs present a more extended and uniform distribution. The GC luminosity function helps validate the adopted distance. The estimated total GC population of Ntot= 2075 +/- 130 leads to a specific frequency Sn=5.2 +/- 0.7, a value within the expected range for GCSs with host galaxies of similar luminosity. The surface photometry of NGC 3613 reveals a three-component profile and a noticeable substructure. Finally, a small sample of ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) candidates are identified in the surroundings of the host galaxy.
Innovation in Schumpeterian-type
Firms: Knowledge Collaboration or
Knowledge Spillover?

This study focuses on the impact of knowledge collaboration and knowledge spillovers on the innovative performance of Schumpeterian-type firms. Building on the innovation and entrepreneurship literatures, it first examines the innovation strategies used by highly-innovative firms, which can involve knowledge spillovers, knowledge collaborations or both. Secondly, it demonstrates how and why the relationship between knowledge flows and innovative performance changes with geographical proximity between knowledge-source and knowledge-recipient firms and across industries. External collaboration may bestow a significant advantage for innovation, such as helping to leverage the lack of knowledge and technology and teaching skills, but at a cost – the involuntary knowledge outflows to external partners. The results have relevant implications for the academic community, national and European policy-makers, and managers in highly-innovative firms who may want to rethink their innovation strategy.
Exploring the Role of ‘Shadowing’ as a Beneficial Preparatory Step for Sensitive Qualitative Research with Children and Young People with Serious Health Conditions

This article aims to explore and record the role of shadowing in preparation for a qualitative study involving children and families with sensitive health issues. The researcher was engaged for a study involving qualitative research involving paediatric patients (those under 18 years old) and their families, but was unfamiliar with a hospital environment and interviewing children and young people (CYP) with a serious health condition. The researcher ‘shadowed’ healthcare professionals (HCPs) at a children’s hospital during their day-to-day work in order to prepare for the research interviewing. From shadowing, the researcher gained: familiarity with a hospital environment, organisational processes, and medical terminology; an understanding of the appropriate ways to refer to patients; confidence and competence in talking to children with serious health conditions; and resilience to becoming upset during interviews while hearing patients’ distressing stories—they became ‘desensitised’. Shadowing can therefore be highly beneficial for researchers undertaking research in unfamiliar contexts, environments, and populations prior to interviewing.
Innovation in Style

While Harrington is best known as a political writer, he began his career as a poet. Chapter 8 argues that he never gave up his literary interests, that his political and literary writings were intertwined, and that his substantive arguments were reflected in the vocabulary and form of his works. Harrington coined new words or adapted old ones to reflect the revolutionary changes of the time. Both his hybrid constitutional vocabulary and Oceana’s composite form can be read as an embodiment of the combination of ancient, English, and modern practices that made up his system, and as a reflection of the idea that his model constitution would reconcile royalists and parliamentarians. Concerned that people find it difficult to understand written constitutional models, Harrington experimented with fiction, dialogue, and visualization to spark his audience’s imagination so that they could ‘experience’, and therefore come to understand and appreciate, his political model.
Why principals leave? Why principals stay?

The purpose of this study was to investigate principal turnover to determine the perceived reasons why principals leave their positions, or why they stay. My study addressed the experiences of those individuals, telling their stories of why they leave their assigned schools, including their needs and stressors, or describing their external supports they perceive causing them to stay. The qualitative study borrowed elements of a narrative study through the interview process. Nine current or former administrators, in two Piedmont North Carolina school districts, were selected for interviews, lasting approximately 90 minutes to two hours in length. All interviews were conducted at the convenience of the school employee in relation to time and location. The participants represented a cross section of experience, levels of schooling, gender and ethnicity. The significance of their experiences as it relates to principal retention and turnover were examined. The major stressors identified were raising achievement scores and lack of support from supervisors. The supports of having effective mentors and instructional coaches, being able to distribute leadership and having valuable college coursework were common among participants. Other major themes included the importance of finding balance in the principalship, the impact of health issues, the rewards of being a school leader and advice they would give to new administrators. Current and future principals, policy makers and school districts can benefit from the data gathered as it relates to the needed skill sets, supports and stressors to promote less turnover in the principalship.
APLICACIÓN INTERACTIVA QUE USA REALIDAD AUMENTADA PARA NIÑOS DE 3 A 5 AÑOS

En el presente articulo, se describe el diseno de una aplicacion para dispositivos moviles con sistema operativo Android, que hace uso de un libro interactivo y de varias tarjetas sueltas para desplegar elementos de realidad aumentada segun corresponda. El objetivo de la aplicacion es mantener entretenidos a los ninos mientras ensena vocabulario, la forma de las vocales y sus correspondientes sonidos a traves de los juegos desarrollados. La aplicacion cuenta con dos juegos principales: el cuentacuentos, que usa el libro interactivo para ir narrando porciones de cada historia a partir de las imagenes incluidas en el libro, y el rompecabezas, que requiere que el nino construya correctamente un rompecabezas de dos piezas para desplegar una imagen 3D de un objeto o animal cuyo nombre comienza con la letra seleccionada. Se evaluo el funcionamiento de la aplicacion y los resultados muestran que es robusta en un 91.63% de las veces, y que funciona bajo diferentes condiciones de iluminacion, rotacion y distancia de los targets. Por otro lado, se llevaron a cabo pruebas de usabilidad, para determinar el atributo de satisfaccion de la aplicacion, y los resultados indicaron que para el 90% de los ninos, la aplicacion fue facil de usar, a todos les agrado usarla, y que prefirieron las actividades del cuentacuentos y del rompecabezas con un 40% cada una. Por otro lado, el diseno de la aplicacion surge como respuesta para reducir el uso indiscriminado de las nuevas tecnologias en infantes.
Use of Twitter in disaster rescue: lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey

ABSTRACT Despite the increasingly prominent role of social media in disaster events, studies analyzing its use in rescue operations remain scanty. Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with unprecedented rainfall and flooding in 2017 and was marked by widespread use of social media for rescue requests. We conducted a survey of 195 Twitter users in Houston and surrounding communities who had requested for rescue during Harvey. The objective was to investigate our targeted group's socioeconomic and flood exposure characteristics, report the effectiveness of Twitter, and highlight lessons learnt and suggestions made for its use in future rescue missions. Survey revealed that those requesting rescue on Twitter were better educated, employed (80%), and homeowners (81%). Majority of them were flooded (87%), but remained satisfied with current location and did not consider moving. Calling relatives and friends for rescue was most responsive and yielded higher assistance-provided rate than using Twitter. Our respondents found Twitter helpful, but identified issues such as not knowing when volunteers received their requests or whether they would send help. They suggested promoting Twitter accounts and hashtags that accept emergency requests. This study provides baseline information and actionable suggestions for first responders, community managers, and resilience practitioners to improve future rescue missions.
Novos aspectos do tratamento da doença de graves

Graves’ disease is the most frequent cause of hyperthyroidism and current treatment options are antithyroid drugs, radioiodine (131I) and surgery. Radiactive iodine is increasingly being used as definitive therapy, because it long has proven to be a safe, cheap and effective treatment. The risk of exacerbation of hyperthyroidism after 131I administration, factors that may predict the response to radioiodine and the dose to be administrated have been discussed in the literature and we comment the controversies in this review. In patients with mild disease, small goiters, children, adolescents and in special situations, as pregnancy, antityhyroid drugs are still the first choice of treatment for most authors. Surgery is rarely employed, and it is indicated only in cases where antithyroid drugs have not been effective and radioiodine is contraindicated or not acceptable by the patients.
A Prospective Investigation to Develop Data-Driven Interventions and Improve Process Efficiency at a Level II Trauma Center

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this investigation was to better understand process inefficiencies in a Level II trauma center through the identification and classification of flow disruptions. Data-driven interventions were systematically developed and introduced in an effort to reduce disruptions threatening the optimal delivery of trauma care. METHOD: Medical human factors researchers observed disruptions during resuscitation and imaging in 117 trauma cases. Data was classified using the human factors taxonomy Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-centered Operating Room Design for Threat Window Analysis (RIPCHORD-TWA). Interdisciplinary subject matter experts (SMEs) utilized a human factors intervention matrix (HFIX) to generate targeted interventions designed to address the most detrimental disruptions. A multiple-baseline interrupted time-series (ITS) design was used to gauge the effectiveness of the interventions introduced. RESULTS: Significant differences were found in the frequency of disruptions between the pre-intervention (n=65 cases, 1137 disruptions) and post-intervention phases (n=52 cases, 939 disruptions). Results revealed significant improvements related to ineffective communication (x (1, n=2076) = 24.412, p=0.00, x (1, n=1031) = 9.504, p=0.002, x (1, n=1045) = 12.197, p=0.000); however, similar levels of improvement were not observed in the other targeted areas. CONCLUSION: This study provided a foundation for a data-driven approach to investigating precursor events and process inefficiencies in trauma care. Further, this approach allowed individuals on the front lines to generate specific interventions aimed at A PROSPECTIVE INVESTIGATION AT A LEVEL II TRAUMA CENTER 12 mitigating systemic weaknesses and inefficiencies frequently encountered in their work environment.
Genetic selection of broilers and welfare consequences: a review

SUMMARY The genetic selection of broilers over the past 60 years has focused narrowly and intensely on production traits, namely growth rate and feed efficiency. This has led to significant welfare problems in birds grown for meat, including leg disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and resulting high mortality rates, while the breeder birds are subjected to severe feed restriction. Bone problems such as bacterial chondronecrosis and tibia dyschondroplasia are prevalent, and recent studies have reported the prevalence of birds with moderate to severe gait impairment to be between 5.5 and 48.8%. Worldwide, over 66 billion broilers are slaughtered annually. This huge scale of meat chicken production means that welfare problems are widespread and are likely to increase in severity due to the increasing global human population, increasing demand for meat, and a continued focus on efficiency of production in the agricultural sector. The commercial broiler industry therefore represents some of the most serious animal welfare issues in agriculture. There is an urgent need to address these problems by making welfare traits high priorities in breeding programmes and integrating these with other breeding goals. Many studies recommend the use of slower-growing breeds that do not have the same welfare problems. Addressing these welfare issues is essential to improve bird welfare and for social acceptability and sustainability of the broiler industry worldwide.
Acupuncture as Alternative Medicine

Acupuncture is one of the oldest and best known complementary or alternative therapies available in world. It is originated in china and is the most common treatment used to treat several medical conditions. Acupuncture involves stimulation of body points using needles and variety of techniques. It has been effective in treating Cancer, dental conditions, Infections, Respiratory disorders, Blood disorders, Neurological disorders, urogenital disorders, Psychiatric disorders, Skin diseases. As per the reviews available, during acupuncture application there will be an increase in levels of encephalin, endorphin and serotonin in brain tissue, which in turn results in sedation and recovery of motor functions, due to which they are used in treatment of pain caused due to different medical disorders. In this review I have presented the broad introduction to acupuncture along with its overall applications as an alternative treatment modality and mechanism of action involved in acupuncture.
Menopausal dyslipoproteinemia in breast carcinoma patients: a laboratory analysis

Biosynthesized cholesterol and exogenous cholesterol have been suggested as sources of cholesterol for cells of the body. It has also been proven that if exogenous cholesterol supplementation is retarded; or cholesterol biosynthesis is inhibited, cellular growth can be blocked. This way the cellular growth has been resolutely linked to the availability of cholesterol. Cholesterol has been notorious for its role in carcinogenesis owing to the fact that mammary tissue handles plasma lipids under the influence of sex steroid hormones. Such hormonal influence may increase the uptake of cholesterol by oestrogen dependent tissue like breast, posing it to the augmented risk of carcinogenesis. Based on these phenomena, a link has been established between breast cancer, serum lipids and oestrogen. As some earlier studies have already reported altered serum lipid and lipoprotein cholesterol levels in breast cancer subjects, the possible contribution of plasma lipids through oestrogenic influence on cellular metabolisms of plasma lipids in oestrogen-triggered carcinogenesis cannot be ABSTRACT